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su~ 14A -- NO~ 28 VOL. \\1 ANNING, S. C, W EDNE:SDAY. SEPTEMBER2610 t N VI CTS ES(?CE D C Mu pa"s, Ma darer of C s, One -t T hem. vv.H COLLNS THhO HtR S-.wad S'eeI P iscn Do.r F rm :s Hir'g-s ar d Sc:M z h State F rs-r W:s. Their trgr.ui.y. T1, e Coluumbia S a'e, c'. Fari, says: At least cne of the mest rced eoen viet in the Sta:e p:is: here hs cec&d iia makitg his escape :d ga out he was ecoianild by aut h-r et sou.e note. The teen wcre D C. Mur hy. :he white wan who was cot-victed .,r assas irs:iou of Ceu'ty Trea un r pes o' Orar g.burg saure years :l IT .' CP 'l: ' I .. t.r 'v 1.,,. T wot u.en re sulp uhu, Ve a' .d the pri-t Gr u d d:. u I' d ',c . , of the :ison grounds about 11 V clock Vk d m-sdar th 1_t. T re was no ink line ,' the acur:eroe uvtil yectercay D 'ing and t'erIf'e, the men had a LonA start n tr:emr.pursu; rs. The escape ws as ingei ui as i: was daring. It is but eidemt that ris nrs atteu~pt to saw out of the mas stve rock and stcel caes ir which they are kept at the "'ate 'r bu: ce at.d awhile tlheyt d; it PI e r aion f p'ats e nceived for Enth. E1ry sup, rintendent ras had to endurc t:e u-Er;e of pri.oners sawirg their way , of pri on, and the insarce ycsa r day was merely Supt. Griffith's doe of the same medicine that other super intendents have bad to take from time to tiu e. There was brain behind the scheme and that it was carried out sue cesstuily shows that the prisoners were no odinary men. The last instance of "sawing out" was that of "R d," the fatrous mulatto burglar, some years ago. His deed still stands at the head of the list for bril liancy of conception and t secution. He aceomplished over an over again in the course of his c eape what nine men out of ten would have unbesitatingly de clared absolutely impossible. When he heard of the latest case yesterday he smiled and said he had no desire to re peat his attunpt to escape, for he had only two ;< a's more to serve, and had been treated so gocd that he believed he wcuid come back again. He is now foreman of the carpenter shops. The latest escape is not unlike thet of 'Red" in some particulars. The convicts were abo;t three weeks ag transferred from the new to the old main building, the former being now in course, of reconstruction. Ail the cells (f this building open on steel pi azzas running around the entire build-" ing. The cells are merely holes in the thick granite walls, the occupants be ing kept secure by massive iron barred doors opening oa the piazzas. These doors are hunt on heavy iron dror hinges, are locked with individual locks from the outside, and besid-s have on the top an inverted V shaped piece of iron fastened so as to project outward and fall under a steel slide that of itself locks every cell when dreppid. Murphy and Collins in some way, either from the carpeter shop or the niill, obtained jack saw. With this powerful little instrument they comn plctely severed the massive iron pin of the top hinge of the door at its base. They evidently prized the door up enough to give the jak saw entrance This done they could ;ull the door in ward sofflieatly to twist it around and make an aperture large enough to crawl thro~ugh. They had evidently planned the whole tHng eut. They had other nattrials for the Ie~t of the escape work, as will e seen. That they wcre perfectly coufdent of gettirg away may be seen fremn the inscriptions left on the walls of the cell, written on the whitewash in large letters with a piece of charcoal. On the rightt of the door was this: "God will celiver; peace and good will to all men." On the opposite facing was this: 'Out for South Ameriec--W. H. CAl lins, D. C. Murphy, Goodby, for we are tone " O 2 the wail inside the cell was this: "In God we trust;Ged be with you till we meet again. Their cell was the third from the end of the third tier at the southeast carner of the building. Just to the north of t b cell not 50 feet away is a guard post, artd ehc eric lights burned all along the side of the builditng. 'T'e guard stays at this post save at in'ervais wnen he marches around the buileing Gotting their ceil docr open Murph3 and Collins no doubt waitedi until the guard had passed around the corner of the build ing. Convicts in anjoining celle say they beard some one on the gangway but thought it was the guard. The n~en had no trouble in reaching the ground. Then by reason ot the ma terial in tie yard they could dodge across safe:; to the west wall nearte engine rom and mM!'. BKtween these two is one 0f the wall s:s.' Le ad ing up to it is a vertical ladder from which they couhi swing themselves to the wall. Finger prints showed tha: they did this. Then they went along the outside of the "port" and walked the wall to the e'rgine roam roof Hent. again they displayed their fore' tight. WMile 1.l ther~ p:o' on the out side they cane car t cinug caught the yard. Hie he ar soe tin 'ti at~d thinkin-g it strange he mounted the ladder to the 'poeat." The escaring men moust have been only a few feet away. Hearitng nothing more andi soe itrg nothing he we-it on to the mU! and punched his time eleek. Reaching the shadow or the roof of the traine roo.m the two men proceeded to nmake a rope. They had tyken a number of sto"kings from. th'. mill ae-l out of the-e they e nstrueted the rop~e, :ting the stoeig togetne2r a n knen. In the fot of the last stoec ing they droprped a six inch bolt to keep the kuut aruund the guy wire, to ,which they tied it, from diapirg- Then they went down the ruje which was only be ' e f t & distance. No clue u% he oi*ni beyond this point w .+ i-u " ! - evi n to fiad ant thing n it,'t wbieh directi-.n the men -: 'ut of marchin ha .. - ti. di g of the j .ck * -i y: n The, nav i i lh them for the i-urpo e of t:" r'. e ouse i .st WVedzes'.ay ia:"a- d - curi-tg c'zens' lotbing \i du viara-4 were kent out in al dir- e :ior l', utsday in the hope of ge' ir k of the men, but no trail -ud bb: fo.ur~d. Suterion ndiero G-i 'npr. a:'y ert tele -awls to aimo't e :road station in the State in -:: e :uthoi tis to wok out for eu. tie als prupil v tffred rc or the cap-ure of the fellows and placard, are already being distrib unk irl e-ry oiree'ion Murhy L: onoe before trei to e, p. w a while he was under -en tence 4'. dath atsd his effrt faild. Since then though he ha; been e re u Rached and has behaved so well that he has ftr some time been an in pve enr i the uiil. ;.tius a, o worked in the mill, The S"i, n ii:ias s>. he is a smar: and ".. r::. .: : :,hz:h young he is a ~rw is kun a;! over the c-r r 'y g ve him The principal i it 'o lvw ar,d eneurirg the pian of esca' e worked so successfully. He is said to have come originally from Flor-uee county. iurphy's guilt ha ong been ooubted. The erviction was uroi cireuuistantiai evidence. The ele ment <.f doubt was so strong that Gov. Elierbe unhesitatiugly commuted the enerieC cI death to life imprisonment, If he really did kill Treasurer Copes he itil undoabtedly, if not caught at onee, get funds with which to take him sdf and Csliins out of the country, traveling by night, for none of the money stolen by 'reasurer Copes' as sas-in has ever been accounted for. REWARDS AND DESCRIPrIONS. In ciering a reward of $200 for the capture and delivery at the prison of Murphy and $100 for the capture and d'iivery of Collins, the prison author ities in a circular give these descrip tio'ns o'f the men: No 14344.-D. C. Murphy (white.) was trif.d and conv:c ed of murder in Orangeburg county, and sentenced to hang. Sentence commuted to life im prisonment in the penitentiary March 26, 1S97. He iz' 36 years old; 5 feet 8 } inches high; dark brown hair; hazi eyes and fair complexion; small scar left side of upper lip, long, sharp nose; two upper and two lower teeth out. No. 13S4S -W. H. Collins (white,) was tried and convicted of burglary and compound iarzeny at the July term of ceur: in Pickens county, 1895, and sen tenc:d to li'e imprisonment in the pen itentiar. He is 24 years old; 5 feet 8 or 9 inches htuh; brown hair; bale eyes; complexion fair; two scars left index finger; eagle anchor and crown on left arm below elbow; United States flag anti two hands clasped and cross on left forearm in India ink. Circulars giving these descriptions and offering these rewards have been sent broadcast by the prison officials Supt Griffith is specially anxious to re capture the men and the rewards will be promptly paid. Cutlook in East Good. Senator Jones, Chairman National Democratic party, jast before leaving New York for Unicago Wednesday, said: "The situation in the east is very favorrble for the election of Mr. Bryan It has improved wonderfully since I last was here. The situation in this State is excellent so far as the election of Mr. Bryan and the State ticket is c~ncerne d. The situation in the St ates of Connecticut and New Jersey exceed the expectations I had before this, my last visit, and I am hopeful that Mr, Bryan will carry these States. I am sure that he will carry West Virginia and M1aryland and I might say that Delaware can safely be placed in the Democratic column." Senator Jones does not expect to return te New York bedore elecetion day. The sub-committee will have lull charge of the csmpaign in the east. According to information given out at headiq:aratrs, ex Secretary of State' Oiney will speak before the lraquois club of Chicago soon for Bryan. Romantic Little Story. Wednesday morning M1r. C. S. Bend, ofLeach postoffice, Columbia County, Ga., met by appointment a lady from 31ebile, Ala., and about whese visit there hangs some out of the way inci d&nts. Eight years ago M1r. Bond, who is quite wealthy and childless, through a brother-in-la w who resides in M1ont gomery, Ala., adopted by law a beau tiful~ 3 year-cold boy, named Edgar. The lad has grown into a beautltul child of 11 years, very bright and intelligent, and the lady Mr. Bond met is the mother of thc child who, after a lapse of so matry years, yielded to her ma ternal ic-ve and is visiting her son. Tne :ady, since the boy's adoption, has mar ried a 31r. Ames, who is clerk of the city courncil of Mlohile, Ala. Feeling secure in his legal elaim upon the child M1r. Bond was so well pleased at having the mother to visit him that he drove 20 miles to meet her and convey her to his home. Afraid to Trust Them. Althougi Gen. 31acArthur would fain have a few more regiments where with to soothe the 'N acified" Filipinos, it is to be obscrved that Corbin no iorger suggests the fermation of "na tive' rgituents in our colonial pos sessions. The natives thus far em ployed appear to hava turned up miss ing and unacunted for Their arms accompanied them The "native" is a pniverse and cantankerous p~rson, whom it is unsafe to trust with a Krag-Jorgernsen or any similar agent tf civilz ition. The Farmer and Mills ''e August a Chronicle says it is rather unfortunate for 'er section that the farmers can't reacive the highest possi ble pric for their cotton without crip pling the ctton mills; or that our mills have to Close down in order tn drag dav the price <f the farmners' cotton. A dlai and Teddy. AdaiE Steveson, who, by the way. ne-er shot a man in the back or "busted" a bronco, is drawing greater crowds to listan to hissober words of wisdom than all the red lights, tin horns and rough riders are drawing for Teddy the Stren A(REAF SEEC. Bryan iX!ivers a 3 dy B ow To Trus s. THE REIGN CF MONOPOLY. The N: xt President Sp ka to an Enthusi ,sr.c Audiznce f De.cc'.i's :it St. L-u-s. Dr: an's speech at St. L ui- Saturday n cht was one of tr., fe.:tures of the estrp,ign. It wa- an'.i-trust th~roud. out. A nous soa " .. e things F said are: The lament cf DI vid over A, balni is one of the most p:thc:i -tps e of the O'.d Testament. T h- f :r: th>. the son was in rebei;ion ait cvi as we as paren t: avirh. -ity dii rot hake the fadher' ,e- . d the 'anxious gt-rt, ' : the y ,ues n-a n, Absalom, "erfe?" lime , i:, t.:e :neiory of alt who study t'e 1: oC :t . treat Hlebrew Ling At'.d. S.:th iner: st which David ftlt i his :-.-n. A.)alorm. has its parallei is ti tmore tia'i it) t(00 - 000 families w'hichc mk-up th; A eri can pt opie. No lar-uage can describe a mother's le, or over-tate the ab'idin. interest which the father Iecls in the welfare of his child. Fro:n the time when the mothers life hanr ic the 1auac:et at the boy's birth ut::il tho iea- h of the parents there ii scarc.ly a wdl ing hour when the ..on is not prcseit :n their thoughts and plans It is to this paren tal devotion. so universally ree gnized. that I desire to appeal on this occa sion. APPEAL TO PARENTAL DEVOTION. I would call the attention ot every father and mother to pre-ent political and industrial conditions. I wcu'd a-k thcm to ana!yze these conditions, in vestigate their causes and their ten dencies. I would prt ss upon them this question: "Is the young man, Absa lom. safe?" Are you s &tisaed with the possibilities and the probabilities which now open before your s.n? Is he safe when foreign or domestic financiers are allowed to determine the monetary system under which he iive=? Is he safe when national banks con trol the volume of money which he does business? Is he safe when the bond holding class detcr.iines the size of the national debt upon which he must help to pay interest? Is he safe when by means of taxes laid almost entirely upon ou umption he is compeiled to contribute according to his wants rath(r than according to his possessions? Is he sae when corxporate interests itflaence as they do today the selection of those who are to represe'it him in the senate of the U ited States? If he is a wage-earner, and you do not know i o v so :n he may be, even if he is not now, is he safe when he is liable to be deprived of trial by jury, through the 3 stem known as government by in junction? Is he safe, if a laboring men, when he is denied the protection of arbitri ton and compelled to subnit to such hours and terms as a c orporate employer may propose? THE REIGN OF MONOPOLY. But Idesire to call special attention to the growth of the trusts, and to ask you whether your son is safe under the reign of private monopoly? If you can not leave him a fortune, you can leave him bomething more valuable than money, viz , the freedom to employ his own brain and his own hands for the advancement of his own welfare. When there is industrial irtdependence, each citizen is stimulated to earnest ende-a vr by the hope of bciog able to pronit by his own genius, his own energy his own industry and his own virtue But when private monopoly reaches its full development each branch of indus try will be controlled by one, or a fe w men, and the fruits of monopoly, like the divine right of rule, will be kept within the possession of a few from generation, to generation, while the real iroducers of wealth will be condemned to perpetua1 clerkship or servitude. When private monopoly reaches its full developtuent. Sour son will buy the fioished product at the price which monopoly fixes; he wi1 seli raw material at the price which monopoly fixes; and, if he works for wages, he will work for such comnpensa tion and upon such conditions as mo nopoly may determine. Charles R. Fiint, of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing company, in a speech delive'red in Boston on the 25th of May, 1899, outlined the trust pro gram with great frankness In speak ing of ine advantages to be derived from the trust system he said: OUTLINE OF lTs 1 PROGRAM. "Raw material bought in large g ian tities is secured at lower prices.' When, for instonce, one man buys all the wool, the price of wool will be low erd and all who p-reduce wool will sell at the price fixed by thbe trust. A large prop-rtion of our people are en.:aged in the prod uction of various kiinds of raw material, and they are thus placed at the mroy of the cotu-inations. The second advantage is thlat t hose plants which are beat equipped and most advantageously situated1 are run continuously and in preferenea of those ls, favored." This means that factories ecn be closed in the smallhr towns and busi nes concentrated in the largte e-nters. It means also that whenever :i tre is a surplus on hand, part of the !aet'ries can he closed, and the hatr-o e main taing prices throan up n the war'e workers. There are already scattered throughout the land idle plants, whieh stand as silent monuments to the cv ts of the tru-t system. Tne next advantage mnentioned is that "in ea-:e of local ~trikes and fires. the work goes on elsew hee, thus pre venting serious loss.' This means tha: a monopoly can ab soutely control its workingmen, for if a strike occurs in a factory in one state, the factory can be close down indefi nitely while the enmployes are starved into submission, and, as the trust can do the work in some other factory with out serious loss, it is qjuite indepen e of the empioy and cin absolu tely prcelb:he the tcr:1, . endii 9n Upon wlich they s".all 1.-e ' complete the moto : ')-. te w:ro op posed the nn'nagers wil to arbitra tion,. because. : r a ." :A 7y e.,c :. r . :r" ~ c"'":a ,he trust wi. Lye v a vanta&e and the elo;io5 es wily be ;.Criecly powerless. Anoth' r sdvantaree eited by Mr Flint is that "there is n. niultiplic itio: of the means of distributi)n and a beter force of salesmen will take the plae: of a l:Irzp number." TRUSTS FORMED CND'ER 31 KINLEY. Th A"l merican Ag:ri. uatural C:":tmtia l Com'pany incorporase: under 'h,: i.-we of Cneicu i Ev. 1899 has ar. authorized esptial of $.) 4 0 o0 10, common stock, and half prefer(d. 1: a:quired twenty two of th, iar>ces fer tilizing cone r' s in t;e countr-. The Amenica:; Bicyle 1: ', mianyc in corporat(ed in y 3,, in \c * .j;'rs:.y, with $ .u10 00i? of common stock and $1 ,00.Ut preferred, c n solidsted fr!rty ?our of the la;rz"st ti c AI corc-r:- l 1h U nited S:atej The American Hide and Leather So:mpar.,neorpira'ei io New .ergey in Av. 1S:)1. wth auho:rzcd eapi tal cf r5jq>', 00. , h Cl Coml.:n stock and half pruferred. covtru.; about sevey-fivC ter cent of the!uirleath cr o(utpu' t f the c tn:r. T:,e Amriersnr Lie-seed 0il Com^pan, incorr'.-ated in N:w Jer ey in c ber. 1S18. with a e a4i:al tcek cf $33. 5u0 0tO. half c-mmne _t 'ek sed er prcfcrreda, cono;dLated elee l.arge le .eed oil companics, and cear is ver eighty five per cent cf te iitsted old lr.operties in th U Staes. The American Scel eH oopn Company, incorporated in New Jersey in April. 1S99 co-selidated nine large el and iron companies i1 0ho o iPe l vania, capital stock $19 0)0,"'0 com mon, and $14 000,000 pr ierc. The Auerican S.ip Buildiro Cen: pany. ine'rrorated iu Nev Jersey in March. 1599, with an autLorized capi tal of $30 00 000 haif c-)mmonf sroe . and hait preferred, consolidatcd "all ship building, atd kindred interes:s on the great lakt s.' American Steel and Wire Company. incorporated in N-w Jersey in January. 1899, with $5') 000,000 common stock, and $40 000,000 preferred, control about eighty per cent of the nail and wire product of the United States. The American Thread Company, in cornorated in New Jersey in March, 1598, with a capital stock of $12,000, 000, half common and half preferred, consolidated fourteen large thread com panies in New York and New England. American Tin Plate Company, in co-rorated in New Jersey in Deember, 1895, with $30,000,000 common stock, and $20,000,000 preferred, consolidated about ninety-five per cent of the tin plate mills in the United States. The Anieriaan Window G!a-s Com pany, incorporated in Pennsylvania, S-ptember. 1599, with $13 000,000 com mon stock and Sf0 000 preferred, consolida.ted window glass plants in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey ar.d Indianna, controlling about e;ghty five ptr cent of the output of the United States. American Woolen Company, incor porated in New .Jersey in March, 1899, with nearly $30,000,000 common stock and $20 000.000 preferred, consolidated a number of mills in Rhode Island, Masachnsetts at~d other phces. The American Writing Paper Com pany, incorporated in New Jersey Jane, 1899, with $25 000.000 capital, half ecinmon stock and half preferred, consolaiated numiereus mills, produaing over revet~ty-six per cent of the output of the Uuited States. The Continental Tobacca Company, ineor. ora-ed in New Jersey in Novem ber, 189S, wi~ : a capital ,f $100,000.0i M, half commzotn stock and 1 alf preferrd. "Acquired ali the leading plug tobac o companies iu the Uriittd States, and also purchased the plug tobacco busi ns, of the American Tobacco Company in whowt tTe~rcet it was form-d" GIANT FEDERAL sIEEL TnU-STS. The Federei Steel Ceimpaty, incor praed ia New Jersey in S:ptenaber, 1898. with an anthorized e.spital of $200 000 000(, half common stock and iail preferred, consolidated the Lilinoi' Steel Company, the Minnesota Iron Company, the Duluth & Iron Range Ry , the Eigin, Jaliet & Eastern Ry., and several other companies. It owns five docks on the great laes~ and a wa jority of the stea'?ers and bargres us. d for trans-oa icc ores. The lrmernatioral P.aper Company, incorporated in January, 1S9S, (-tate not giver2) with an authorized capital of $20,000,000 ecnimon aod $25 000.000 preierred stock, consolidated twenty fivt pulp and paper mills, nmanufactur in accut cighty per cent. ot the news paper. The Na ional Biscuit Comrany, in corrorated in New Jersey liu February, 19S. wit h $30 000) 000 eemmon stock a~d $25 000,000 preferrt d, consolidated the leading cracker emit'-nies and nl trols in all one hundred and sixteen plants. The National Salt Company, ino'r porated in New Jersey in Mhtch, 1599, with $7.000.00'0 of commnon stc author~zea, ans $7,UU).000 prefered, prduces about moce:S tice per cent. ot the total output of the e. uctry. The Netonal TPube Com;.iany. incor ertcin New d r-ev, ini dune. 1S::' i as a capit.a sockt o ::;0- 00))h0 put .f th 1 U ii a 3 0 Phe Raicer im.. obufacturity~ Compiany, ineopora' in New Jersey in Jinuiry, 12iX, owis practcally. all the cu;ital s Oek of the \lenajical Rubber Company, the P erle s- Ru:2ber Comanly and the 1ud ia Bubler Cun pay a.- ws~L a-.o eers i&e prcrut of ac, ire the..:r...a...at..s' of the cn"cern ki. a a- Ie .Aerleac ilj ev e. C im1a . :uh zed capital I ck ,0.00 J00I. half common and halt preferred. fie Staidard Rop: & Twine Coma p'ny, in 'orpormd i New Jertey N .r-r"b'r's 1-', wh a espital stock o $;' Ott.000, couil-dated t.senty Tra lmoi B.a atd Paper Com,'any, incorporared in New dJersey ia Febru ary. ]S999, with $16.)"T0.000 comtnon stck a 11 lI.)'oO 0 prferred, con solidia, d v -r u-, pal: s. doing ninety per cent, f ' he p.p bagt b.iness ot the Un ted N.m:5. Urnis'd Suates Cast Tren Pipe and Foundry Compjany. incorporated in New Jersey in 31arch:, 1S9Y, with an author ized c.aia o 0,00 half com mou stoak and half preferred, consoli riated the principal cast iron pipe com par"'s of the Uuited S ates. U aited Staten E3v lope Company, iecorporated in Maine in 1598, with an autuheriz-'d capital of $1,000.000 and I 004000 prfrr d. cor solidated ten comparnie, ard c"n:rols ninety per cent. of the output of commercial en ve'opes in the United States. The bock mentioned also gives eta tisties in regard to several trusts organ z d pri r to 1396 among which are the Amierican Cotton Oa Co., the Ameri can S"'. r Refining Company, the .imnri - Tobacco Company, the Dia m d Mateh to;pacy, the National Li ( 'may. arnd the S.andard Oil A BLJ00'Y FIGH r ' eve. Americans Killed and Wounded. A drveih from Manila says there .:;s beer a distinct increase of insurgent aggreEsion, particularly near Manila, " alono the railroad and in the provinces of Lagura, Mo.ong, Balucan and i'ampanga, culminating Monday in an eragerent near Siniloau. at the east enz of Lagnna de Bay, in which de taebment of the Fifteentai and Thirty seventh United States infantry regi men:.a 90 sien ali told, met a thousand aurints armetd with rifl s and en tre ached-u The A ri an loss was 12 killed, in. ludio: Cart. David D Mitchell and decond Lieut. George A. Cooper, both of the Ftftccnth infantry, 26 wounded ! and 5 missiog, who are probably dead The enemy had been pursued for several Ther are rumcrs of attacks on the ra' -'ad and of trouble in Manila Re-Jf ugce are arrivitg from Laguna, M.r,ng and Pamanga provinces Thr niauves Of Manila are restless, and mny are leaiieg the city. The hostile demonstrations are particularly marked alorng the railroad and along the shores of Laguna de Bay. The insurgents have attacked garrisons and outposts! In some cases they have charged towns, fleeing when pursued. The Manila mail escort of 30 men was attacke.d at Cabugao Lake, a two hours' fight ensuing. Cabugao was also attacked, the telegraph office there be ing destroyed. The insurgents have burned the village of Rosario. They have been catting the telegraph wires and railroad at certain points. Armed insurgents have developed in the districts of San Jose, San Meteo and Mariquina. In the province of Nueva Eeija ration wagons with an es. cort of 12 men were attacked and the wagons burned. Five members of the escort are still missing. A dispatch from Caba describes several attacks upon American garrison near the capi tol. BRYAN HITS HARD. Mark Hanna is Tied up in a Very Hard Knot. Bryan made a tour c-f Kansas last week. The first stop was at Leaven worth. Bryan spoke for a half hour from the rear plat- form of the car. 31r. Bry an's a:tention was call'ed to a speech made as Delphi, Ind., by Sen ator Hianna, chairman of the Republi can national committee, in which the senator was quoted as saying that he was ready to debate 'imperialism" with 31r. Bryan or any other demo rat. In reply to the question whether he would accept a challenge from Mr. Hlanna. 31r. Bryan said: "I know noth oug of the mauter except what appears itt the paper. No challenge has been received, and I would not accept it if it were. Wnile I would be glad to de bate publbe qiestions with the Repub ican candiuate for the presidency, I wo-uAd not be willing to debate with one whose responsibility is less than aty own. If 1 am teeced I shall be pre:.ilent. If the Recpublican commit tee wilt certify that Mr. Hanna is to be p-esioent in case of Republican sue ees, I shall wiiiingty meet him in joint debate." Mr. Bryan was also asked if he had anything to say in reply to M1r. Han nAa ch-argo that he was influenced by siister jLjtives in securing the ratidi eationl of the treaty with Spain. To this he reuhled: "I have given my resns for be lieving it better to ratify the treaty and ueelare the nation's policy by reso intion, and the voters have an oppor tuaity to pa-s j-igdment upon my rea sons. I must confess, however, that .r. Hlanna is an expert when he dis cused sinister motives, but I can stand his criticism if Senator Hoar can endure his praise.' Iu Lis address 31r. Bryan referred to a re port mide by Senator Hlanna, and said: "I read in the morning paper a Speeh made by Mr Hanna yesterday in wriih he said there are no trusts. Whe a l usedl to want humorous read ing 1. wou:d go to those books which eastained a cuilection of the writings .f htumo~rists. Bat now when I wait to r al so.aething funny I road Mr. ianua's seriot~s campaign speeches. Taere art no trast; can yon expect the R ubsop;.r~y todetotetr e ::tr e sys uhnre arc no trusts?' Another Syndicste. Ano:htr syndieate~ leen chartered to exrp'oit the Phnilippine islands. The charter issues from West Virginia, the home Lf Elkins and bears the Elkins earm.uks. It is called the Pnilippine LrA~ lmprayv,.mnt company and is expet'ed to grab everything above or biosi. high wattr mark. The mills of the trust godis are grinding. Want the Boxers. L e rding to Assistant Secretary of the TCreasury Taylor, the Republican eargas will rt peal the Chinese exlu ion act and permit the Boxers to fbod te c:uotry which cheap labor. This w hile 150,0i.0 miners arc starving in the Unitcd States. Workingmen of A merican, what do you think of the propcsition? Is it not time to stop and Twelve Thousand Perished. Gotv. Sayers, of Texas, says reliable estimates now place the number of pOle drowned at Galveston at twelve tuandmi east. COTTON GROWERS' C= nverntion to Meet in C:-um bia October 31 PRESIDENT WILBORN'S CALL. Outline et the Plan Set Forth in th, Call to the Farm ers nt South C.ar on'. Below will be found the call for the Cotton Growers' convention. which wil be held- in Colu'ii dirinz fair week: Th. Cotton Growert' a-sociation is hereby called to meet in Columbia on October 31st at 8.301 p. in. A State convention of cotton growers met at Greenwood, Sept 12th. 1900. It was then decided after due deliberation to perfect a State organization and of ficers were duly elected fcr one year until Sept. 1Sth, lic1. It was decided to compactly organize each county in this State with a view of getting the more accurate report of the ginning and rarkt ting of the cot ton and to iaterchaoge v.evs and iri formation from a" I he cotton States, for the purpose of obtaining fair and just prices for onr cotton and cttot seed products. Upon my sugg-stion an adjournment of the Cotton Growers' convention at Greenwood was had to meet in Columbia during fair week at my cll; therefore, I name October 31st, at 8:30 p. m., as the time for the con vention to meet in city the of Colu-n bia at the county court bouse. Let each county be furl; represented by delegations. The number of dele gates is not to be restricted. All coun ties are urged to organizi at once by electng a president, one vice president. secretary and treasurer aLd advising board or executive committee. The constitution and by-laws of the State of Georgia have been adopted as far as they apply to South Carolina. PLANS. Bonded warehouses to be established at all local markets wherever required by the banks and members of the as sociation. Warehouse receipts to be issued and negotiated at nearest bank-as collat eral security for money borrowers. Each producer shall control the in dividual sale; if he desires to dispose of his cotton before minimum price fixed by the association is offered by the buyer he shall be at perfect liberty to do so. A fair and jast price for cotton and cotton seed can be fixed and main tained in open markets in the south by united concert of action, by holding back the surplus crop, if any there be, and marketing- the crop during the twelve months of the year to meet the demands of the mills in all parts of the world. Ginners throughout the cotton belts will be supplied with postal cards ad: dressed to headquarters of the State bureau, with request that each Satur day night the number of bales ginned that week will be forwarded. The secretaries of the county organi zations will be in close touch with the producers and careful estimates made on existing crop condisions will be sent weekly to the board. The cotton grower has the crop bet ter in hand today than he has had for 30 years, and he is warned that he has no reason to become unduly alarmed over the report that the mills are clos ing down to depress a fair price of cot ton. You are reminded that when cot ton sold as high as 30 cents a pound it was manufsctured. Let us org i~nize, let us work, watch and con tinuei to labor. All parties interested in growing, marketing, ginning and handling of the crop are invited to send delegates [The bankers, merchants and we.rehousemnen are irvited to participate in the con vention. J. C. Wilborn. Cotton Growers. The Columbia State says. Presiden Wilborn of the South Carolina Cotton Growers' association has been in the upper portion of the State organizing the several counties has returned to the city.. Mr. Wilborn finds that much interest isbeing taken in the org.n ization of the growers. He says the meeting in Anderson county was an enthusiastic one. Mr. Wilborn has de termined, in view of the interest being manifested in the nmovement, to call a convention of the cottan growers of the State to be held in this city during fair week. It is to be held on Wed nesday night of fair week and it is thought that there will be a fine atten dance frotn all quarters of the State. The call will be issued in a fe w days. What will be accomplished remains to be seen. A Great Gathering. One hundred thousand Democratic uo members from every state in the union will gather at Indianapolis Oct. , compaie notts and retura home to light the fires of Jeffersnian princi ples upon every hill top in the land. Democracy has no money wherewith to corrupt voters and debauch the ballet box, but it has what is mozre potent thac niney --an army of twvo maiiion workers who can neither be stifled nor bought.__________ Sound Adve The London Spectator coma~enting upon the cotton prices. says: "WXith all the talk of ecruers, there seems no doubt whatever that the cause is quite real-a deficiency in the supplIy of raw matrial." The Spectator expressaa the opinion that the Lancashire trade has been "rather eisily deceived" and urges it to "take effectual steps in the future to ascertain early and accurately the true character of the cotton crop in the Uoited States." Galveston a Wreck. A. J. Youens, inspector for the Gal veston board of underwriters, is foot ing up the losses. He has finished the district east of Twent-fifth street and finds that in the territory of total de ruction east of that street 1 649 houses were destroyed. His diagram shows that from five to seven blocks of the district ly ing along the Gulf of Mexico and west of Forty-second street was WITH FIRE AD SWORD. Chinese Drowned or Hunted and Shot Like Rabbits. Concerning the massacre of 5 000 Chinese at Biagovestchensk by Rus sians, The Evening Post contains an ac count from G Frederick Wright, one of the faculty of Oerlin, O , college, who was erroneously repcrted killed at Pekin. The letter is written from Stretensk, Siberia, under date of Aug. 6. As soon as the Russian troops we :t down the river on transports. July 14. the fort at Argun begun without wain ing to fire noon rassing steamboat9, and on th. 15h fire way opened upon lagoccstehensk and some Russian villagers were burned opo;-ite the fort The actual injury infiitd by the Chinese w-is slighit, but the terror ceused by it was indeleribable, and it drove the cossacks into a frenzy of rage. The peaceable Chinese to the number of 3.000 or 4 000 in the city were expelled in great haste,, and be ing forced upon rafts entirely inade quate, were most of them dr.wned iu attempting to cress the riv:r. The stream was fairly black with their bo dies. Three days after hundreds of the corpses were e ;untc in the wa'er. Mr. Wright says: "In our ride through the coun're to mach the city ou 'oursty. the 19.h, we Qaw as many as 30 viiages and hamlkts of the Chinese in fi.mes One of iemn was a city of S,000 r 10.00 inhabitan:s We estimated that we saw the dwellings of 20.000 peceable Chinese in flimes thst awful day, while parties of Cas sacks were scouring the fields to find Chinese and shooting them down at sight. What became of the women and children no one knew; there was ap parently no way for them to escape to a place of fafety. Oa our way up the river for 50:) wiles above the city (vcry Chinese hamlet was a chirred mass of ruins. The large village .f Matcha was still smoking and we were told that 4 000 Chinese had been killed. The wholesale destruction, both of property and of life, was thought to be a mili tary necessity. Peace between the Russians and Chinese has come to an end. Years cannot wipe out the enmi ty engendered." Our Dead Soldiers. Col. Wm. S. Patten of the quarter master's department, has completed arrangements for the free transportation to the United States of the remains of soldiers and civilians who lost their lives and were buried in the island pos sessions of the Unittd States and China. According to the present plans of the department a burial corps will take passage on the transport Hancock, scheduled to leave San Francisco, October 1 for the Philippines. Col. Patten says that the trevailing con ditions in China will scarcely render practicable any disintorments in that country earlier than next spring. All the remains recovered are to be given honorable burial in the United States, at places selected by the next of kin. In all cases where not otherwise ordered the interment will be made in the national cemeteries with preferences for the cemetery at the Presidio at San Francisco and the Arlington cemetery near Washington. The approximate number of rtmains to be exhumed is 1,331, distributed in the following places: Honolulu-36 enlisted men of the ar my; 1 marine. Guam-.Eight men of the Davy. China--Two offies of the army, 58 enlisted men of the army and 37 of the navy. Philippines-Seventeen officers of the arms; 1,150 enlisted men of the army and 28 men of the navy. The State Fair. The time for the holding of the last State fair of the century, which all hands resolved last year should be the greatest in the history of the society, is rapidly approaching, says The State. This will be the :32.i annual fair and it is to be held Osiober 29 to November 2, inclusive. This means that the fair is less than two months distant, and there is no titne to be wasted. This year premiums have been greatly ia creased, anhounting to over $7,000, and the race purses have been doublcd. $2000 being offiered. Premium lists and entry blanks will be furnished on application t> the secretary, Col Thomas WV. Holloway, at Pomaria, S. C. Entries must be made in person or by letter to Colonel Holloway at Poma ra on or before Oatober 10; after that date at his cffice in Colum~bia, until Sturday, Oatober 27, at which time the entry books close. Colonel Holl way writes that he is daily in receipt of entries. The largest number so far reeived from ene exhibitor is from a man in ('hester, wbo wants 20 stalls for cattle aod 10 for horses. and from a man in Faidfield, who wants 41 cattle stalls an d 4 horse stalls. Lost His Fortune. The vicissitudes of fortune particu larly in American lif e are again strik ingly illustrated in the caae uf D). J. Mackey, who i'ed a petition in bank ruptcy in the federal court at Evans ville, ltd , last week, the liabAiiics being placed at $577,765. with no ass te to speak of apjareutly. Mackey not ~any years ago w as a r.ored king, an'i owed or controlled three or four ri! roads in that part cof t:e cMuntry, in cludir g P'eoria. lDeca-.ur and Ehar:svale. He is now a workman in a pinpr mill at And rson, Ied . and penriiess. Is it better to have had and lost, or never to have bad at all? Abusing~lney. Natu-a'ly enough, Mr. Olney's an nounced detcrmination to support the Dmnratie tickel has made him a target for the abuse of Republican sheets which three wceks ago wer: Pe lavering him with adulation. The circumstance merely shoss5 that the Democrat who would retain the aippro bation of Republican newspar ers must keep his D mocracy to himself. The moment he lines up with h~s party ne become utterly lost and damned be Sond redemption-. The Difference The Re.publicans v'rtuously accuse Mr. Bryan of beirg an imperialist. Ihey chargz that he dominates his party. This is a crime which at least cann0o b laid at the door of McKinley, Hie uivm but to obey-the trusts. STRIKERS KILLEv. Deputy Sheriffs Fire into Men, Women and Children. A LITTLE GIRL IS KILLED. The Sheriffs, Who Did the Killing, Chased Into a Hcuse and Telephoned for Troops. A strike of the coal miners in the mines Pennsylvania and other States ! lAve been in progress for several days. Nearly two hundred thousand miners are out, and they are becoming turbe lznt. A sheriffs posse fired into a crowd of them near Shenandoah, Pa., Friday afternoon, killing two and wounding seven other persons. One of the via tims was a litte girl, who wasshotdown by an oicer. Sherif Thoe and Deputies O'Donnell and B-enneman were called to Shenan doah Fiday to suppress the mobs that +hreatened mine workers and colliery roperry. At quitting time three heriffs and a small posse whom the . :hhcr~ff had summoned on the ground went to the Indian Ridge colliery of the Reading company to escort the -corkion min to their homes. The col iery is located a short distance east of Shenandoah. The workmen left for home shortly after 4 o'clock. They walked up the middle of East Centre street and reached the Lehigh Valley railroad sta tion. Here had gathered a large crowd of Poles, Slave and Hans, men, women and children, who lined both sides of he street. A shot rang out from a 'saloon. This was followed by a shower of stones. Many of the crowd had picked up stones and sticks and were acting in a threatening manner. Seeing this the sheriff, who had pre viously cautioned his men to keep cool and not use their fire arms, commanded them to fire. The order was obeyed with terrible results. The crowd pur sued the sheriff and his posse to the Ferguson house,where they took refuge. Sheriff Toole shortly afteaward tele phoned to Harrisburg and asked that a detachment of troops be sent to Shen andoah, whsch was promptly done by the State authorities. Supt. Boyd, inside Foreman Foley and Breaker Bosses James and Wm. Mitchell of Indian Ridge colliery at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon were returning home from work when they were met at the Lehigh station by the mob with stick and stones. The mine dficials drew revolvers and fired. The mob be came furious after one of -itsinumber was shot, and attempted to close in on the officials. They ran up Lloyd street to O'Harn's stable, where they were imprisoned for two hours. The~mob threatened to burn the stable, but Sheriff Toole with 20 deputies, arrived and dispersed them and the mine offi cials returned to their homes. The New Game Law. The real sportsmen are anxious ly awaiting the opening of the hunting season, but the pot hunters is badly in the soup this year. As the season was favorable for them no doubt there will be plenty of portridges this year. The hunting season opens on Novein be , and there will be arush for the fields on that day. 'The new game law, which prohibits the sale of partridges, etc., will play havoc with the "pot hunters." Any person offering par tridges for sale will be liable -to a fine and imprisonment. The now law will be in force for fire years, and it is in tended to put a stop to the wholesale slaughter of birds by people who slay them for the market. The pot hunters have weeded out the coveys to a great extent, and the law will have the effect of checking-the indiscriminate slaughter and sale of birds. The genuine sports m~en are well pleased with the new law, and they say if the law is enforced birds will be plentiful for years to come. It will be a risky proceeding for any per son to sell birds, as the sporting men of the state are more determined than iver that the game laws shall be en lorced. A state association was formed ast year for the purpose of protecting the game, and the organization will prosecute any person caught violating the game laws of the state. Press Association. The Scuth 2Carolina Press Association met at Harris Springs last week and had a most enjoyable time. After transacting routine business and accept ing an invitation to meet at Glenn Springs. The Association elected the tollowing offiners for the next year: President, E. H,. Aull, Newberry, First vice president, Jos L. Stoppel bein, Spartanburg, S. C. Second vice president, Jas. L. Sims, Oangcarg, S. C. Seretary, C has. C. Langston, Ander son, S. C. Treaarer, August Kohn, Columbia,. S. G. Cbplain, W. P. Jacobs, Clinton, S. C. Exeutive Committeemen-M. - B. )1oSweney, of Hampton; Hartwell M. Ayer, of Fiorence; Jame~s A. Hoyt, of Greenville. Delegates to the National Editorial Association-President Eibert H. Aull, of Newb.rry; August Kohn, of The News and Cjourier; Col. James- T. Bacon, of Egefield. Not the First. This is not Galveston's first inunda tion. according to the New York World. Ia 1S97. when it was a village, the Gulf and the bay joined and buried it udr water ten feet deep for ~ev cal hours. Ic 1867 it was almosten tirely sub uscrged, the water being six Lect dectin M1ecbanic street, the busi ue-s higaway. In 1571 it was visited twico and was completely flooded each timne. In 1873, again in 1875and aai in 1S86 Gulf and bay met over it. The storn of 1S75 tore off and bore away one end of the island. Forty Were Drowned. A dispatch from Athens to Lloyds, giving fuirt her details of the disaster to the Egyptiaa ma~il steamer Charkieh, now a shore on the island of Andros, one off the Syelades, says that forty of . a ssengrs and were were drowned.