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%iuo ?' h }gym.'- ? " ' 1 ' I 1 / yy ' wM I .x ,, ] I I .. 7.7 xrc jJ ,. dt A ( f-i r r \ ta9' tit V \'y ".., r. 1. .ti\1N(I. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1900 Welccred by G a. Cr. we Ev-y P;=c,. A NEWSPAPER -ONORED. Fearless cyan T;-ran z N- w Jirs.y "i:h a Fv Sq ed Ou: cf the Wate - N ! ~K~ Din th e ra-tt e y B- as has been sMr .kyin e inr WXes 1-n New Jerses and N- !- " 'E^.r's erowds. H 'din Tt.ur-diy morninig. lie was C'C'o the Du-wocrx eity comtut::': Philhdeiuhis. \' hen be arrivea a . Broad rtrt'ct s' a:tion f the iN r. vania railroad be sa- &rreted ty A ~ . r . n'.ple thy j in m-d the b i train floor so completely that there was scarcei) room f.r his party to Make 's way to the s:rect. The streets sur reunCdin th- sation W :e 't erowde. with thou-ar d o.f 1 euri~us to se the Democraie d At 11 o'c:k ))ltli: n way uri v . to, the ciee of the sai :- Ti s He was met by Col. A K 31-: lue, the veteran editr of that paper, anid <seorted to a baieeny on the tecond floor of the, building. Thousands of people crowded ih:: streets and cheesed him. Mr. Bryan was introduced by Col McClure, and spoke in part as follo ws: "I am glad to be able to stop a mo ment in this city, and I am more de lighted to speak to you from the buiid ing where this paper is so intel:igently edited for American as against Euro pean ideae. I telieve the only reason cur principles are not as strong in the east as in the west is because tue east has not the same opportunity as the west. Our party is not the party of the few, but the party of the masses It seeks no special privileges for s-me, but equal rights for all The Demo cratic party is making a canvass on a platform that takes its position on every question. but the Repuhlican party is conducting a campaign on a platform that corecals every issue. It d'.s not reveal its position because it knows thas if it makes its principles plain the opponents wiil repudiate them. Just remember. when that pirty met here in the early days of our fore fathers the Declaration (f Indepen dence was its platfo m. But when it met here this year the Declaration of Independence was ignored altogether The Republican party stands for d:s postism in the Phiiiippinea. The Repub lican party has no remedy for any evils that confronts the farmers I-i stead, it congratulates the farmer on good rains, the lab-ring man on his juil dinner pail, as if he were all stomach. I wart you to know that the full dinner pail argument does not moet a response from those who carry the dinner pail. They want something more; they want relief from taxes and from government by injunction; they want reprcsentation in the president s cabinet; they want settlement of dis putes by arbitrati in; they want la ;s that make it an offens-e to organize the trusts. 1Ireommended that ycu read the articles by that dia:inguished P'enrn sylvania Democrat, <x Gov Pattison, who has just returned from Puerto Re-o and you will find that the Puerto Ricans can write a complaint that will rival the complaint our people h'd against hingland before the Revolu tion." SPEAKs AT TRENrON. Mr. Bryan made two speeches at Tren ton, N. J., Tnursday, the hrst in Tay lor opera house and the second a: an open air meeting He was s.plendidly received at both places. Re-ponding to the opera house meeting, where the Democratio clubs of the State were holding their annual convention, M1r. Bryan said: "The Republiec~n party cays every thing is all right; that ths farmer is happy; that the laboring man has a full dinner pail, ar3 that nobody ought to complain of present conditions Our reply is all right. Let every man who is satisfied widh his conditions, who be lieves he is enjoing his fair share of earth's blessings and the government's protection. who thinks that things are all right Tote the Republican ticket. 1 am perfectly ::onrent to draw the line and le'. all those who think that there is no necessity for better things vote the Re publican ticket if I can have the votes of all those who believe things can be male better by better laws." Mr. Bryan denounced private mo nopoly as both dangerous ar's contrary to the moral laws. He adced: "The trust magnate who usese a mro nopoly as a means for extortion is upon the same moral plane as a highway man who goes out at night with his club and brains men anu takes their money away from them; when dhe Republican party permits the monopoly o exist it amends the comimandmerit and makes it read: 'Thou shalt not steal-on a smial aie.' The trust is wrong from an economic standpoint, for ii you will examine you will find that the first thing that the trust does when it gets control of an in dustry is to rairse tee prices. Then the conumers suiff.r. Tne next thing is r shut down the factories to reduce pro duction, because a high price lessen the demand, arnd then the trust throw on to the labcring man who is idle. waiting for a job, the expenses of keep ing up the high p-rices. "It is wrong economicaHb for anothe] reason.- It discourages itnvet.tiv genius, for if all men who have skii in one occupation are nucr one man. then they hang up-on him. It is th< hope of indePendencee it is the hopu that you can some day be your owi master that stimulates people to high est endeavor; and when you take thiu hope out of the h uman breast and plan despair in its place you start downwar<: toward the level of the dark ages. An< it is bad for the laboring man, for if laboring en ae genius and skill, and his employer does not recognize hit skill and genius, another employer will. But when there is buit one employer, then genius is at a discount, and a son in-law will do as well as a genius." Referring to his remedies for tht itt. Mr. Bryvan said: l ea y be.: pt mte - r)o icri f 1&. i \: eii n z . d in t i s ^tteb .p r r irt. imrstate *o* f . t ! aV di U j liave a L av a ' ~ f .- : t :t u la *r-c i new L vr . a~ r4' su s:: y ivery pr va'e m o ; i "rtae e'tw - ree I i wt--: 'r. fhut th(ee ctrir ations ede o the '' Sate. for if th' e '-Lions" -r- ulo' the Peoie of h ee -a-c upo"'*n them alO!me. Ian w ilir to leare :he peocple to tight i out -.h thaeir Io.-ca eerortino and let t liv a. fo as te y.- have r thine for tbe .c.OrportionD to est B it wh n a oop.ratin leaves a .e and tene yin- r r t , :s 1 -. c n o 4 r 4t S.: a t t er ef tr Cloinig his peech Mir. Bh an. made an earnest appeal for camp ain work until the elose of the earpaign, and tked his suporters not to bet on re suiW, saying in part: Iforu have any money to spre put it in the emnpaign fur dic tead of bet tieg with it. Do ot 'ry to biat tie Rtpubicans at their game. Wnen you bet you bet Stour money; when a tru-t mante bets he b. ts other people's ioner. A newspaper friend of mine rave sonme good advice thc other day. ie trld th7 Democrats that if they would put their money in the campaign fund they would get satisfaction enoiueh out of su.c~ss to make them willig to spend thm noney that way; and if w lost it wa no gratoeation to give the Re;ubicans D ecratie money a; well an a victory in this cm paign We cannot go to the great cor parations and ak them to contribute becsuse we do not intend that they should make it back out of the people. We have got to make a people's fight, and you who are interested in this fight ouiht to nupport the fight, not only with your votes, but with your work and with the money that you can spsre. Mr Bryan's cu'deor meeting in Trenton was a tremendous success, both in point of attendance and en thubiasm on the part tf the crowd. He spoke standing in his carriage and said: am willing to risk the issues of this campaign in the hands of the Axmerican people. If tomorrow morn ing the voters were permitted to go to the polls and write on their ballots their opinions on the questien bifore the country. with ao one to intimidate, 1 have no doubt that we would carry this coiun try by a popular maj ,rity sue as no ticket has ever received in the Uanind Sates. The only question to nay mind is. what effect will be pro dued by the coercion that is now beig attempted by those who stand at the head of. great corporations. went to Auburn, N. Y, the other da.- and I learned that the head of a large manu facturing establishment has threatened to close his works in case I was elected I do not know how many threats like that will be made. I do not know what cifect such threats will have, but I am gog to give to you laborne men an answer to such a threat. Whenever your employer tells you th at you will lose your job if y ou vote for me, you tell him that if the country is half as prosperous as he says, it is expected you ought to be able to find another job very sovn; but if there is no place for a man to, work if he losses the job he now has, there is-no prosperity in this ceuntry to boast about. "I ask you when will you be stronger to fight this battle than you are now? If after all this period of boasted pros perity you have not laid up enough money to stand an idleness of a week. don't you think you had better vote for some party that will give you a bet ter chance than that to lay up some thing for a rainy day?" A& TRIUMPHANT MARCH. A dispatch from Jersey City says: "The first day of Mr. Bryan's tour of New Jersey which closed here w'' six meetings Friday night. may be dn scribed as a mad rush. From the time he entered Washington Park, opposite Philadelphia, until he closed his ]ast meeting here he had made 15 speeches. the average of their duration was grea ter than usual. He spoke in suces sion at Washington Park, Riverside, Burlington, Trenton (twice,) Prineeton Junction, New Brunswick, Elizibeth, Marion and Jersey City (six times.) His journey through the State was a surprise to those accompanying Mr. Bryan, if not to him, for in few States, if any, has he had larger or more de monstartive audiences His meeting at Washinoton Park was almost a re cord breaker in both of these respects. a.,d his nmeeti~gs in Trenton and his receptioa in this city were only second to the Washington Park meeting in r.umbers sad in feelirng display ed. .Prob.ably no candidate for the iresi dency was ever so much jostled about and at~shed around in ons day's time as Mr. Bryan wvas today. At most stopping places the police found it im possible to protect him from the hun dreds, not to say thousands, of persons who tbronged his path~vay and tol lowed him wherever he went." "I have addressed a great many meetings of college boys, but I never bad a nicer meeting than this in mly life " This is what Mr. Bryan said to a number of the Pineeton college boys who had followed him to his train from his mee.ting place at Princeton Ju~nction this afternoon. The meetinz was one of the most orderly that Mr. Bryan has had in his whole emnipaign tour. There was rnot an interruption from be ginning to endi. When M1r. Bryan ar rived he was greeted with the college yell, ~n-d there was a similar demon stration mad e upon his departure. lii: address there was entirely to the stu cents A liui)hILB Chu lE. Mys t y t A Ycurg Ladle's Death Solved. FOUR FIENDISH BRUTES. Ex-rordmnary Record of Revolt ing B- utaiity. This Girl But One of Many Victirns. Late Wednesday right Gcorge Kerr, Wat r Me Allister, William Death and Andre.v Cambeil were arrested by the police, cf Patterson, N. J , se.aused of havirg caused the death of Jennie B sweieter, the ycu-g woman whose body was found last Fiiday on the out .kirts of Paterson. Developments .hoa. that the circun:stance surround ire the young woman' death from one of ibe most remaritanic and revolting cri.-s ich has evLr ,, en brought to l - - this e.u.try the police havt thse live per-"r. m; er les, concerned is th.e .:tie-, is eu_ v . FKom sta'. I -.t a:1 k: eS :d: tL?. y have been a-e t' a tate theC --'S- Cf te cir: 1' a3.Ouea ~n uutl she tuet h r deaih at.d t;e tiaceis o.f rer hoy afterwari are abo fa:riy wvt1l known. Snortly after S oc'b:ck M-iss B as chieter pa-d Krt's drug store at P.terors. and n:ar it wet Anirew Cambell. There w:i short eo:v sation and then the pair waiked cown 3ain street. So:uewnere en route they were j -ined by G' erre Vs alter Mac Alister and Win. Death. The four citered Christopher Saai's saloon. Here driaiss were served. Finaily one of the men telephoned- to the Erie depot for a cab, aac August Sehultors responded. T*his cabman hat been the main source of the police's information and has given a detailed story of what oceurred. IL was in the neighborhood of 10 o'clock when the four men lifted the partly unconscious girl into Schulter's rig. It is alleged that after the hack man had been ealled, one of the men asked for another r'unds of drinks, and into that served to the girl was poured the contents of a vial, containing a species of "knock cut" drops. The men directed the driver to take them to a road house, but they found the place had closed and repeated rappings produced no results. The party then btarted back to the city. In a lonely spot the hack was stopped and the girl lifted out of it t.nd laid upon a blanket by the roadside. In what folhoved, the hackmian and one of the four, it is said, had no part. The story is too revolting to describe. The hackman claims that },e did not leave his seat on the cab. He :s una::le to say whether the girl was alive or dead when she was iltted back into the cab. He remembers that he was told to drive down beside the liver bank. Here the girl, apparently lifeless, was lifted out of the cab and her head and face bathed vi h river water, After a long time spent in trying to revive her the men held a cjnsultation. Thcir victim was again lifted into the cab and the hacknman was ordered to drive like mad to Dr. Wiley's house. Dr. Wiley was not at home and the party hurried to the residence of Dr. Townsend, on Paterson street. The physician was aroused and told to come down stairs at once and give immediate attention to a woman who had been injured. He was told not to wait to dress. He slipped on a bath robe and went out to the carriage door. He felt of the girl's pulse and then stopped back, s.aying his services were not need ed as the girl was dead. One of the men cursea the doctor for a fool and comaded him to revive her. Tne dctor turned and started back into the house. The doctor wa~s offered any amount of money if he would try, but he persiste-d it was-useless for him to try as death had come long before. The ca~riage then drove a~vay. There was a eon sulat ion among the men. One wanted to take the body to the girl s home and leave it there. The other three refused to consider thins and in sisted upon dropping the body upon the roadway. it was finally resolved to drive out into Bergen county, by way of the Thirty-third street bridge. When the bridge was reached the driver was again ordered to stop. Tne pur pose soon developed. When the triple attack upon the unconscious and per haps dead girl was made, a portion of her clothing had been torn off. When the party left the scene of the crime one man had a portion of thre clothing in a pocket of his coat and another had the remaincaer of thle gar m~ent. When the stop was made at the river bank to bathe the giri S face and head, her cjOms and ber pins ha~d been removed. These were in McA.is ter's packet. The two portions or the garment and the combs and hair pins were dropped from the bridge into the Passac rnyer. The carriage was then driven a short distance along the road into Bergen county. The spot was de cided upon as a go-ed place to drop the corpe. The body was dragged out of the carriage, bat just then a wagon was heardi approachi-.g and one of the mn huried the body back into the cab, acliaiming: "For God's sake drive on; here comues a carnae. Te cab went on until the dark s;ot near Alyear mili was reached. McAlis te caught the girl by the feet and dragged them outward. Another of the mee iifted the shoulders and as the hips reached the sill MoAlister dropped he feet and the two men held the body upright for a moment and then let go. The girl's body fcll backward, the head striking the rock which crushed the skull This circuntane which threw 1the Bergin county authorities off the sent, wa-s not fo-reseen by the men disposing of the body. The hackman Ireceived~ ten doliars icor his nigiht's work. This was paid by McAlister. Walter C.McAlister is a member of the firm of James iMcAlister & Co., throwsters. George Kerr is a member of the J. P. Donleavy Paint company. Andrea' Campbell is a bookkeeper, em ployed at the Hand Srect Silk mill. Wn. A. Death is a young marn who was mairled five weeks ago. The men ireplicated in the crime wre held without bail aster a hearing beor Bncoder Senior today. Judge Kerr, brother of one of the prisoners, is married to a sister of Masor Flinch eliffe, the millionaire brewer of Pater son. He is also a relative of John Johnson, Democratic nominee for Con gress in the Paterson district. The fu neral of the girl was held this afternoon. To avoid a crowd it was announced that the services had been postponed by the coroner. It is claimed at Paterson to night that the affair is only one of a se ries of crimes in which mill girls of that city have been victims, but this is the fir:t rase known in which any of the girls have lost their lives BRYAN'SHaRD JOB Whet He Will Have to Overcome to Win. To more clearly i"u: rat. the task before Mr. Bryan who- h he n.ust au complish to be elected, we give t;e1ow the popular vote of the important so called doubtful states showing McKin ley a ajorities of 1896, many of which Mr. Bryan must overcome this year to be elected president: Califo-ia - MeK' oley ................146 688 Br, an...... .............144 766 McKinley nojority..........1,922 Dehnre 3rar: .. . .... .. 16 615 McKinley maj ri;y..........3,837 l1l1rroi~ M. Kinley .......... . 67.1 Bryan .......... .. . 464 523 McKinley majority ... ....142,607 Indiana McKinley ................ 323 753 Bry. n............... ... 305 573 M Kinley majority ......18,181 Kentucky McKinlev.. .............218.171 Bryan....................217 890 McKinley maj ,rity ............281 Maryland - MlcKinley ................ 136 978 Bryan .... .... ..........104 746 McKinley majority..........32,232 Michian McKinley .................293.582 Bryan ...... ..........237.2t8 McKinley majority ........ 5G,314 New Jersey McKinley ........ .....221.367 Bryan ....... ..... ..133,675 McKinley majority . ...... 87,692 New York McKinley............. 819,838 Bryan ..:.............551,369 McKinley majority.........268,469 Ohio McKinley ................525.991 Bryan........ ........477.497 McKinley majority.. .. ... 48,494 West Virginia McKinley............... 104,414 Bryan ....................92,927 McKinley majority....... ..11,437 Wisconsin MceKinley . ... ..... .....268 135 Bryan................. 165,523 MCKinley majority... .. ..102,612 Possession of the Presidency. The length of possession ef the presidency since the organization of American political parties has been as follow:: Federalist-From 1789 to 1801, twelve years under Washington and John Adams. Democratic-From 1801l to 1825, twentyfour years under Jefferson, Mladison and M1onroe. C'aliiion-From 1825 to 1S29, four yerars, urader John Qaiincy Adams. Demoratic-From 1829 to 1841, twelve years under Jackson and Van Buren. Whig-From 1811 to 1845, four years under William Henry Harrison. Democratic-From 1845 to 1849, four years under Polk. Whig -From 1819 to 1853. four years under Taylor. D.amoeratie-From 1853 to 1861, eight years, under Pierce and Builh anan. Republican-From 18631 to 1855, tweoty-f our years. under Lincoln, Grant, H ayes and Garfield . Demoeratic-From 1885 to 1889, four years under Cleveland. Republican-From 1889 to 1893, four years, under Harrison. Democratie-From 1893 to 1897, four years under Cleveland. Republican-From 1897 to 1901, four years under M1eKinley. It will be seen that the country has alternated in party control every four years since 1855 Under that rule Bryan should be elected this year. All Settled. Every editor has receired them, says the Newspaper M1aker. The postmas ter sends them to the editor. The post master is not the blame. For instance, there was a man by the name of, well sxv, Timt Short, who sent us three no ties to stop his paper; he didn't want it any longer. We wondered what was the matter. Upon investigating the subscription book we found out That 'rim was stiort $10 He had never paid a cent and stopped the paper as a matter of economy-to us. He didn't want us to lose any more by him. A few days afterwards Short vs at church and his melodious tenor rang out loud and strong in that stiting old song, "Jesus Paid it all." He might have been mistaken, but his earnestness im pressed us. So the next day we sent him a receipt in full and begged his pardon for not knowir'g he had made an assignment of liabilities to the Lord.' _______ Good Advice. The Baltimore Sun has this to say to young men, about to cast their first vote: "if they went the golden gate of opportunity kept open for them selves they must vote for William J. Bryan and a Democratic congress. The trusts, whose sole aim is to own and con trol all the business of the country, will vote solidly for M1r. M1cKinley. Young men eager for a fair chance in life ought to need no further enlighten ment as to where thieir own interests CLOSING CROP YEAR. Interesting Facts About a Re markeble Season. DIRECTOR BAUER SUMMARY. The Facts and Figures for The Month of September Was Also Rematkable. Direetrr Bauer A the South Carolina section of the Liitedi States weather l:'1roau ciwate and crop service, has is u- tde -l iiw'ng interesting review of the crop )ear mr this State, and u. 1., uic:win for September: A Siiur livIEw. The year of 1900 has been a note worthy one in South Carolina, in the matters of rainfall and temperature, and their influence on crop prcduction. The temperature during February was unusually cld, but after that month and up to August it differed but slightly from the normal for the same period. During August and the great er part of September it was continously high, at times higher than ever before known, and too high for the normal develoi menr.t of field crops. In those months. the heat and dryness of the air, giving it an unnsually large ab sorptive capacity. together with the scant rainfall, al-o increased the se verity of the drouth. Te average rainfil during April (5.41) was with one exception the heav iest on record for that month; during May it was slightly defieient, but ow irg to the amount of mo'gture in the ground, crops did not suffer from the deficiency; during June the rainfall was again very heavy (6 94), and aver age greater tban ever before recorded for the month. Coming at the time when field crops are usually cultivated to promote their growth and to clear them of weeds, which work was greatly impeded, its effects on crops was un favorable, but as the following July had only moderate rains, crops were again I ut into good, clean condition. August had the least rainfall on record for that month -(2 13), and during the second week of August crops fai ed rapidly under the combined influence of the abnormally high temperature and lack of moisture, with subsequent weather conditions adverse to their recovery until most of the crops had reached maturity. The weather conditions were so ab normal during portions of the year that it is highly improbable that there will soon be a repetition as disastrous to agricultural interests. Those crops that reached maturity before August, such as the various cereals, most of the fruits, and tobacco, were fully up to, or above, their normal yields, while those that came to maturity subse quently, such as corn, cotton, peas, cane, and s weet potatoes (excepting river rice which was a large crop), were very poor. CLIMATDLOGY FOR SEP.LEMBER. Temperature, in Degrees Farenheit -The mean temperature for Septem ber, 1900, was 77 1 degrees, which is 5.9 above the normal. The highest local mean was 79.9 at Beaufort, and the lowest local mean was 73 0 at Hol land. The highest temperature for he month was 10C degrees at Cheraw (1), Columbia and Santuc on the 13:h, at Temperance on the 14th, and at Yorkville on the 12th; the lowest tem perature for the month was 45 at Hol land and Walhalla on the 17th, mak. ing the State range 55 degrees. The greatest local monthly range was 53 at Santuc, and the least local monthly range was 29 at Charleston. The mean of the daily maximum temperatures was 88.0. and of the daily minimum temtneraturcs was 66 2. Yrecipitation, in Inches-The State aver age precipitation for September. 1900,. was 2 83 inches, which is 1 30 below normat The greatest local amount was 6 15 inches at Trial, and the least lheal amount was 1.08 inches at Temperance. The greatest 24-hour ly fall was 3.60 inches at Liberty on on the 14th. The average number of days with rain, fo.r 50 stations, was 5. ranging from 1 at Effingham and Winnsboro to 11 at Betufort. Excessive Rtains-Allendale. 1st, 3 40 in 4 hours 30) minutes; Batesburg, 16 h, 2.03 in 8 hours; Beaufort. 15th, 2 50 in 24 hours; Fiorenee, 14 15th. 1.83 in 2 hours 5 minutes; Liberty, 14, 3.60 in 24 hours; Little Mountain, 14 15th, 3.43 in 24 hours; Summerville, 1:h 3 04 in 24 hours; Trial, 15:.h, 3 - 31 in 15 hours and 30 minutes; Wal halla, 13-14th, 3 00 in 24 hours. Weather-The average numnber of clear days was 19 of partly cloudy days 8, and of cloudy days 3 Winds-The prevailing direction of the wind was from the northeast at 19 satons; from the east at 9 station.; from the southeast, south and west at 4 stations each, from the southwest at 2 stations, and from the northwest at 1 station, Higrh Winds-Beaufort and Charles tion 6:h, Shaw's Fort. 13th. Kills Her Children. A negro woman named Carry Cald wil, whio iivu in the nor hern part of Meklenburg. coanty, N. C. Wed. nsday moriing killed her three chil dren and committed suicide. The wo man cut cach of the children's throat with a razor and then drew the same instiument across hcr own throat, from effects of which she died some hours later. At the time of the crime her huband was away from home. The woman's brother was at the house and she sent him on an errand to the barn aud when he returned he fou~nd the three children dead and the woman gasping from a gash which she had in flicted in her own throat. A physician was Eummoned at once, but too late to save her life. The children were aged 6, 4 and 2 years, and their mother about 35. The cause of the woman's act is supposed to have been insanity. The coroner held an inqueat over the four bodies. ______ This Settles It. The women can vote in Colorado, and they say Wolcott shall not go back to the United States Senate. Wolcott may as well bow gracefully to the inev it ale, which is not the unexpected. A RECORD BREAKER. Steals Seven Hundred Thousand from Few York Bank. C. L. Alvord, note teller of the First National bank, of New York is a de faulter to the amount of $700,000. Alvord has not yet been apprehended. He had been an employe of the bank for over twenty years. The First Na tional is oce of the largest banking in stitutions in the city and its president is George F. Baker, who is also presi dent of the Asto National bank and a financial adviser of the Astor family. The bank is located at No. 2 Wall street and has a capital of $500,000 and a sur plus of $5,000,00. The bank rave out the following statement late Wed nesday: "The note teller, who has been in the employ of the First National bank for many years is a defaulter to a large amount. His operations have con tinued for a considerable period, and have been skilfully concealed through a manipulation of his balance book The discovery was made by one of the bank's employes a few days after the completion of an examination of the bink by the United States examiner. During the continuance of his pecula tions periodical examinations have been made by several distinct corps of er aminers representing the comptrollers department, all expert accounts; and the bank has also had frequent exami nations; neither of which;has developed any irregularity. The aggregate of the false entries amounting to $700,000 has been charged off on the books of the bank out of the reserve fund, with out diminishing the surplus and profi s of the bank as reported in its last pub lished statement. It is expected that she shortage will be materially reduced by a substantial sum, of which there is fair prospect of recovery." Alvord was capable and experienced, and the discovery of his defalcations made after he was gone, was a com plete surprise to everybody. - The loss of money is hardly disturbing the bank, which is one of the strongest in the city. Alvord is about 50 years old and has a wife and three children. His home was at Mount Vernon and he was respected there as well as in the street. His habits were good. It is believed that he lost money in stock speculations, and that some of the money can be recovered. He disap peared about a week or ten days ago. The crime has been known long enough to the officers now to enable them to say with some assurance that Alvord did his work alone. No one else is under suspicion. A statement made by the bank of Sept. 5th showed: Capital $500,000; surplus $5,000,000; undivided yrofits $4,114,250; deposits $39 997 895; demand loans and cash on hand $23,379,276;time loans$5,654,610; and stocks and bonds $20,110,409. In the statement the bank's total resources were placed at $52,663,294 Beyond the facts contained in the of ficial statement the bank's vice presi dent, Frank L. Hine, absolutely re fused to say a word. President Geo. F. Baker when asked regarding the matter said that the statement given out by the vice president contained all ho had to say in regard to the defalca tion. When asked if Alvord had been apprehended, the vice president said: "I don't think he has." At the local ffice of the detective agency which sually has charge of bank eases. it was said that officials of that company had heard nothing of the defalcation as yet and $hat they had not at the time been assigned to the case. It has not yet developed how the note teller was able to put his hands on so much money, but one of the direc tors is reported to have said that Al vord was enabled to take such a large sum because as note teller he was in harge of the mail. This he opened every morning and he had ample op portunity to abstract notcs, drafts and hecks as well as money. Of course, he had to be especially skilful to make is accounts balance. This director admitted that he was at a loss to ac ount for the failure of the bank ex aminers to discover Alvord's irnegulari ties at their last examination. AN APPEAL TO VOTERS. ["airman .Tones Issues an Address Asking All to Vote. Along the line of the letter recently received from National Democratic Chairman Jones, the South Carolina Democratic Chairman has issued the following to the voters of the State: To the Democratic Voters of South Carolina: in view of the present ap-.thy which seems to exist among the DJemocrats of this State as to voting at the general election, I feel it to be my daty as your chairman to address you in this public manner and urge that you all come out on November Gth and cast your votes for the Democratic ticket from presi dent to coroner. Our people have got ten into the way of thinking that when they have east their votes in the pri mary there is no furthe- use to vote. But this is a very dangerous policy t, pursue and may result in great harm to ou: State. Our State and county ticket are safe, as the Republeanis have put up no oppositio2 at all. The Republicans have an electoral ticket in the field composed mostly of negroes, and have a candidate in every congressional district in this State hop ing to have their candidates seated by a Republicans house Let every Demo cratic voter come out and vote for the Democratic nominees in his district and eet them by such an overwhclm ing majority that no& even a Republi can house would dare unseat them or even consider a contest. The D.2mocrats of the nation have given you one of the grandest, purest and most brilliant men this county has ever produced, and the Democrats of this State have given you seven of your best men as candidates for congress, and I cannot believe that you will not come out and vote for them. We have heard of late varions threats on all sides that our represenit!ionl in con gress would be reduced by a Rerubli can congress on account of our small vote in the general election. Now, fellow Democrats, do not allow this serious charge to be made against you. Wilie Jones, Rtate Chairman Ex. Coin. TILLMAN STINGS. He is Making Sharp and Imprudent Speeches in Illinois Senator Tillman, has been making some hot speeches in Illinois. At Joliet the other day he said: "I am not here to make any appolo gies for South Carolina. We are giv ing to the negro just snch a share in the Government of our State as he is capable of exercising-and that is d little. We were forced to do some wrong-, perhaps, in dealing with this uuestion, and I admit it. There were more colored people in South Carolina than there were whites and we were forced to get down the shotgun when they attempted to have these blacks dictate to us w'hat form of government we should have. You men of the North would not have stood it one year. "How many men are there in this audience who believe that there is a black man living good enough to make laws for a white man? If you people want to see biack heels on white necks then you try it on yourselves first he fo-re you attempt to force it on us There is not a colored man living that shruid dictate to the white citizens of this country. s we occasionally lynch a nigger down our way. The only difference between our way and yours up here is that when one of those niggers ravishes a wife or daughter we hunt him down until we are sure of the right man and then we shoot him down as you would a rattlesnake or a wolf. That's our way. Up here you people get excited, as you did at Akron, Ohio, and kill a couple of intocent spectators and burn up a couple of millions of dollars' prop erty. Some of you make a lot of noise about our not giving the black man a fair trial' down our way. Why don't we let the Courts try the case? Be cause we men of the South are not white-livered enough to permit our wives and daughters to go before the Court and publicly rehearse the details of the crime; that's why. And we are going to keep right on doing just as we have done as long as we have any shot guns iefr. What do we want of 'any more black men in this country when we cannot treat decently those we already have here? "The Republican party now wants to have free citizens here and subjects on the other side of the sea. We will not have it, and unless you people vote it down next month we will be forced some day to shoot it down with our rifles. Let's kill the snake in the egg before it is hatched out." Tillman said he did not want it un derstood that he hated the negro. As a matter of fact, he said, he had colored servants in his family, and he trustcd them with his keys and his r:ivate business. They were gentlemen, he declared, and worthy of resp-set. But he did not think the illiterats and the ignorant negro should have any voice in the Government. At their Old Game. A dispatch from Chicago to the Atlanta Journal says "as the end of the campaign comes nearer the Republicans appear to grow more desperate about the condition of affairs in Indiana. They have exerted every influence possible, save one, to check the Democratic move ment in that state and have failed. They now realize that there is only one means by which they can turn the state into the McKinley column. That is by the "judicious" use of money just be foie and on election day. Being de termnined to cheat the Democrats out of a victory in the Hoosier State a great slice of the Republican campaign fund has been sent to Senator Charles Fair banks, at Indianapolis, and is on deposit in a natinal bank at that place to be spent after November 1. It is asserted this found amounts to $200,000). The old Dutley scheme of voting blocks of five will be p-zt in force and it is ex pected by Hanna and Payne that In diana will be "saved" in spite of the will of the honest vo era of the state.,, Where is Your Food Raised? The Savannah News says that a resi dent of that city went out to buy some groceries the other day and on his list were butter eggs, flour, Irish potatoes, onions, canned goods etc. The grocer was asked where the articles in question were produced. The butter, he said, came from New York, the eggs from Tennessee, the cheese from New York, the flour from Minnesota. the rotatoes from Canada, the onions from New Jer sey and the canned peas from Maryland. In the list named there is not an article that could not be raised in any county in Geo-gia and in quantities to supply the demands. We depend tco touch upon cotton and what it will buy and not upon the great resources left us. Too Much For Hanna. The Democrats are laughing about the perplxity of Mark Hanna when ques tioned by a Bryan follower at Hans. Omaha meeting Saturday night. Ques tion were fired at Mark incessantly and he managed to reply to all of them in his fashion until this one came from the mouth of an enthusiast in the crowd. "Why did McKinley give rogland a slice of Alaska?" Hianna reflected an instant and finding no excuse to offer said: "That's tco much for me." It set the cro wd wild and seeing that they, had Mark cornered the questione rs al owed him to proceed A Good Showing. Darlington county is furnishing an example of profitabie farming on no small scale. It is reported the coun tys farmers will sell nearly 3,000,000 pounds of tobacco this season at good prices. One farmer has- realized $300 from one acre, while another got $1,500 from a ten acre field. When the far mers learn that 'this can be done in many sections of the south the English man may have to pay 12 or even 15 ents for American cotton. The Purely Business View. We have spent upwards of $200,000 000 in the Philippines, eacrificed the lives of 3,000 American boys and ruin ed the health of 18,000) others, and all for what? For the privilege of selling to the Philippines the beggarly amount of $1,080,149 worth of American goods. The value of the goods we have sold them since the battle of Manila would not pay for the powder we have burn ed over there. 1s the game worth the cndle? TEDDY WAS MAD. He Said Shouters for Bryan Were Disraputable. QUESTIONS FIRED AT HIM That He Feared More Than Mau ser Bullets for He Dodged 'Em Every One. They Were Stumpers. Gov. Riosevelt's third day of cam paigning New York State embraced several features not heretofdre marked in his reception at other places. At Rome a huge crowd gathered in the public square, and the governor ad dressed them from the balcony to which he was driven from the train. Two crowds of small boys followed his car riage, those on one side shouting, "Hurrah for Bryan," while those on the other side tried to drown their cheers with counter cheers for McKin ley. While the governor was speaking a crowd of juveniles who had gathered immediately beneath the governor kept trying to annoy him by their boister ous conduct. The governor finally re ferred to them, saying: "It is perfectly characteristic that those who are afraid to hear the truth should try to drown it by noise, and that those who are afraid to talk them selves should send children of imma ture age to veil for them." The boys continued their cries of "Hurrah for Bryan," "What the mat ter with Bryan?" "He's all right," and again the governor said: "One thing, if Mr. Bryan should cone here again I ask that every Re publican give him a respectful hearing," which remark was loudly applauded. Continuing, when the applause ceased, he said: "Because the man or boy who takes the opposite course shows himself either to be or about to be a thoroughly disreputable citizen." The governor said it was eminently proper that the advocates of Mr. Bry an should .seek by disorder to prevent free speech and called attention to the disorder as being an object lesson of greater value than he could teach. Some men in the crowd tried to ask the governor a list of prepared ques tions in printed form. He never heard them because the noise was too great in the men's vicinity, but several of the circulars were flung into the carri age which the governor occupied on his return from the platform. He said to the Associated Press reporter that he would not discuss them and that the majority of them were for the attorney general to make answer to if he desired. Here are the questions: 1. Why did you not prosecute the canal thieves as you promised when you were a candidate for governor? 2. Why did you not commence action before the claims were barred? 3. Why dont you have summons is sued against the ice trust? The only way to commence an action is by sum mons. None has ever been served. 4. Why don't you remove the mayor of New York for his connection with the ice trust? 5. You have been only 36 hours at the capitol attending to business as governor since June 1. Do you think it honest to take full pay during that time? 6. Don't you think a candidate for vice president should find courteous language to express his thoughts and not call his questioners "hoodlums," "hoboes," and "drunks," and without any knowledge on the subject accuse them of "working their mouths," "standing against the flag," and lack ing in patriotism"? 7. Why not give out for publication Mayor Van Wyck's answer in which it is claimed members of your State ad ministation and Senator Platt are charged with being particeps criminis in the ice trust scandal? Died in Harness. While addressing the Virginia Pres byterian synord at New Port News Wednesday Rev. Dr. Craig of Atlanta, Ga., suddenly fell to the floor and in sa few moments expired. Heart disease was the cause of death. Dr. 3raig was well known in the Prebyterian church throughout the south and held the office of secretary of the board of home missions of the southern general assem bly. His wife and daughter were at tending the synod with him. Two Lynched. A dispatch from Macon, Ga., says a story reaches there of an extraordinary lynching near Wellston, Houston county. Last week a negro was lynched at that place for assault on white woman. Sunday another negro as sanited a girl of his own race. The man was captured and negroes of the vicinity asked the white citizens to let them have him. This was complied with and the negro was lynched in the woods. Lee's Name. The New Port Herald says: "It was to be expected that fanatics would howl at the announcement that R bert E Lee's name would find a place in the Hall of Fame. Let them howL L e's name was known to undying famne long before this particular hall was thought of, and its inscription upon a tablet in that hall will not add to its fame, as nothing the fanatics can say will detract from it." The Herald is right. ________ A Hopeful Sign. Senotar Jones is hig ily elated over the enormous increase in registration in Greater New York. He says it in dicates that the city will roll up a tremendous mnajorty for Bryan and Stevenson and that the Republican vote of the state will not equal that of the city. The increase of nearly 70,000 in the Greater City is regarded as omi nous by the Republican leaders. Would Elect Him. The New York Journal makes an analysis of the vote in Greater New York. According to the analysis Bry an wculd have 30,000 majority in Brooklyn and 75,000 majori:y in New York. This would give Bryan New vor a elect him President.