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VOL. XV. MANNING, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9 A PARFI SAN FIGHT Being Made Against the South by the Repub!icans. TEXT OF RABID MEASURES. They Demand an Investigatlon of Ccnditions. Hopkins, However, Thinks His Betl Wiil Pass The radical element among the house Republicans who favor cutting down the representa ion from the southern States in whinh the franchise is ab ridged, suffered defeat Thursday be causs a number of their co'leagues re fused to st with them. The issue was precipitated quite unoexpectedly. The leaders had decreed that the re apportionment bill should be taken up Thursday, bat before it could be called, as a matter of privilege, Mr. Olmstead of Pennsylvania offered a resolution re citing the alleged abridgm'rt of the suffrage in Louisiana. Mississippi, South Carolina and North Carolina, and directing the committee on eensus to investigate and report the facts to the house in order that a onnsti-u tional basis of representation could bz established for these States. CREATEDA STIR The resolu:ion created a sensaion. It was a surprise even to several of the R 'publican lfaders. The leaders of the 1) -mocratic side sought in vain to heal off the resolu:ion with poin's of order. but the speaker ruled against them They then began a filibuster, openly avowing that they would fight to the bitter end every proposition lo )king to the reduction of representation from the southern States. OUR REPUBLICAN ALLIES. Several of the Republicans were se eretly in sympathy with them and their indiff rence to the fate of the O.mstead resolution in the end gave the opposition the victory of today. Many of them quietly paired with ab sent Democrats, leaving their absent colleagues not paired. As a result, when the question of o nsideration was raised agsinqt the resolution, it was defeated 8183 Although the vote was a strict party vote, two Republi cans, Landis of Indiana, and Mann of Illinois, answered present but did not vote. THE ABSENTEES. But the story of the defeat is found in the absentees on both sides who were not paired. Thirty two Republi cans were absent and not paired against 16 of the opp sition. Those ab, sent and not paired were: Republi eans-Boutelle of Maine, Brosius, Brown Barkett, Calderhead, Clark of New Hampshire, Dahle, Samuel Daven port, Dick, Fowler, Gardner of New Jersey, Hawley, Hoffecker, Knox, Lorimer, L )udenslager, McCleary, Met ealf, Miler, Mondell, Morgan, Need han, O:jen, Parker, Price, Russell, Showalter, Smith of lilinoi4, Sprague, Stevens of Minnesota, Wadsworth and Wanger. D mocrats-Barber of Pen ns~lvania, Bradley of N,:w York, Brewer, Caldwell, Cathings, Gaston, Gayle, Glynn, Levy, May, Meekinson, Sbeppard, Stahligs, Wil-on of Sauth Caronina, and Zeigler. Silver Republi can-Wilson of Idaho. TAKEN BY SURPRISE. The Oimstead resolution was offered immediately after the reading of the journal. A fiurry ensued on the Dem> eratic side. Mr Richardson of Tennes see, the minority leadt r, interrupted the reading to ask whether the resolu tion req aired unanimous consent "It noes not," rep-ed the speaker. "It is of-:red as a matter of privileg i." "I make thre point tha., the resolution dees not constitute a matter of privi lege," said Mr. Rtohardsoa. "The reading has not proceeded far enough to determine that point," re sponaed the speaker. NO QUORUM PRESENiT. Mr. Underwood of Alabama im ne diately mads the point that there was no quorum present. The speakerglanced about the house. Evidently there was no quorum pres enr.. 'The cha r will cont," he said The house was _counted and when the speaker announeed 111 preseat-not a quorum-Mr. Underwood immediately moved an ad journment. The ayes and nays were demanded and obtained upon this motion. During the roil cal: there were hurried conautations on both sides of the house. Many of the Republicans were taten as much by surprise as the Democrats. Tne latter decided to fiaibuster to the last ditch. The motion to adj eura was lost 68 to 69; answering pres.ent but n-ot vet ing 14; noted present 2; total 179. The speaker included himself in order to make uptbe quarum. When the read ing of the resolution was concluded Mr. Richardson insisted that the reso lution was not privileged. He argued that the resolution should go to a comn mi ttee. Mr. Olmstead in reply argued that under the constitution, matters affeot ing the reapportionment of represent arives were of the highest oonstitu tional privilege and cited an elaborate opinion of Speaker Keifer, in the forty seventh congress, in support of his position. MATERS OF PRIVILEGE. Speaker Randall, he said, had also held that an apportionment bill was a matter of the highest privilege. His resolution, he contended, seeking as is did to determine the constitutional basis of representation, was equally privileged. The house, he arened, eould not act intelligently unless it was advised in what States and to what extent the suffrage of citizens of the United States had been abridge2d. Mr. Olmstead said the resolution touched the dignity of the house itself. If the suffrage had been abridged in certain States then members were un justly and unconstitutionlally holding seats upon this floor and this consui tuted an invasion of the dignity of the house. The matter dealt with by the resolu tien might also affect the eleotion of a president of the United States, a mat high privilege. Mr. Olmstead was will ing to rest his case upon the plain mardate of the constitution. Mr. Richardson made a brief re sponse to Mr Olmstead. He conceded that an apportionment bill was privi-. leged, but contended that the resolu ti.'n itself was simply one of inquiry to asertain facts which might or might not be true. - The resolution clearly recites that in certain States suffrage, has been abridged without reduction of repre sentation," interposed Mr Olmstead. "rhe 'whereas' makes such a alle gatin," replied Mr. Richardson, "bat the resolution is simply one of in quiry." "How can we apportion constitution ally," asked Mr. Mahon of Pennsylva nia, "if we do not know the fact? How can we ascertain the trath of the allegation that hundreds of thousands of citizens are dit-franchised?" "An investigation can be mad-," re plied Mr Rt'hardson, "but it m.zt be made in the regular way." THE SPEAKERS RUtLING The spearker then announced that the qu stion was clearly settled by Section 2 of Article 14 of the constitd tion, which ho directed the clerk to read It related to the redustion of representation in States where the nffrage was abridged. The resolution and its pramble, said the speaker, al leged that cetain conditions existed which the constitution expressly pro hibited and it must be passed upon by a higher rute than those of the house -the constitution of the United States. He said he never expected to pass upon a question more simple. He overruled the point of order. Mr. Underwood immediately raised the q-i"stion of ensiderauon against the resolution. On a rising vote it stood a) es 69 noes 70 The ayes and noes were demanded and ordered. The speaker announced the vote 81 to con bider the resolution, 83 against and 5 oresent but not voting-not a quorum He directed a call of the house, pend tng which Mr Underwood again moved an adj.urnment The rising vote resulted ayes 72, noes 54, but Mr. Olmstead demanded the a3 es and noes, which were ordered. The motion to adj.ourn was carried 77 to 75 and accordingly at 2 o'clock the house acj >urned. THE MATTER REFERRED. The house Friday had another spirit ed struggle over the Olmstead resolu tinn to investigate the abridgment of suffrage in certain southern states with a view to reapportionment upon the actual basis of suffrage. It was finally referred to-the sensus cot nittee, where the opposition desired it t)> go origin ally. S.rme of the Republican leaders wer. not in sympathy with the reto u tio..aund gave their support to the refer ence on condition that that would be the final onteme. Farmed Out a Jail. A dispatch from Parkersburg W. Va, says "John M. Backley, the new jailer, who took charge of the Wood county bastile on the first of the year, paid Sheriff elect Dudley $3,000 for the pri vilege of assuming complete control of that ijstution for the next four vears. Jailer Buckley will pay all the expenses of the establishmen-, and will be enti tled to all the receipts, official and other wise. This practice of ''faming ous" the jail is no new thing in this cuasy, and had its origa in a peculiar custom which ba a obtained here for many years. Thre jail is a roomy buidiog, and by right of long established precedent, its keeper is permitted to conduct it on a half-prison and half-tavern basis Re is generally a country-man. with numberless friends from the rural dis tricts, who patronize his establishment in preference to the regular hostelries, and during sessions of court and other "big das s" in town the yi is crowded with throngs of willing as well asunwill ing guests. Will B. Punished. gollowing at an interval of one day close upon his announcement that the Chinese emperor had decreed the as eptauce of -the Pekin agreement, Min iter Co-ger cabled the state depart ment under date of Pekin, Jan. 1, that the next step had been taken, and that the ministers had been notidied formal v not only that the agreement was ac eted by the Chinese government but that that government felt able to guar antee a performance of the conditions imposed. The Chinese goveroment's guarantee of its ability to perform the act s calle d for by the agreement is now expected 'to be followed by the prompt arrest and2 punishment of the Boxer leade-s and sympathizers who were narted in the decree of Sept. 25th, as follows; Prince Uhwan, Prince Yih, secendary Priece Tsai L en, and Tsar Ying, Pn one T an, Duke Tsar Lan. and the presideet of the censorate, Ying Nien, assistant grand secretary of the oivil board, and Chao Stiu (hiao. Got the Wrong One. A New Haven, Conn , dispatch says the report of the coroner's inquest in the Rathbun poisoning mystery was made public Wednesday. It finds that the death of William Rathbun was caused by poison put into the cvffee of a boarder John F. Hart, by Maria Ann Rathbtun, wife of William. Thre intes ion of Mrs. Rathbun was to secure the death of Hart, with whom she is de cared to have had illicit relations. Jsalousy because of Hart's neglect of her and his attentions during the last few months to another woman, is as ribed in the coroner's report as the mo tive for Mrs. Rathbun's alleged act. The poison was put into Hart's dinner pail and Rathbun drank some of the coffee when Hart declared it had a pe eliar taste and barned his stomach. Both men were afterwards takes siek bas Hart resovered. Will Squeeze Farmers. A formation of a trust of sixty con erns manufactures of plows and eulti vating machinery is said to have been completed by Cearles &. Flint, one cf the most auccessful organisers of trusts in the United States. Ex Judge Wil liam A _ Vincent, according to news from South Band, Ind., has secured sixty written options on the largest plow and cultivating concerns in the States of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, New York and Mihigan. A conference is to be held in New York this week, when Judge Vincent will present his options, and action taken. It is said the espital teak will be W3A000.80e. DISPENSARY SALES. They Reach About Two-and-a Half Million Dollars FOR PAST ELEVEN MONTHS. What Was Dane by Each of the Retail Dispensaries in the State. The P.0fi's. The statement of the gross and net profits of each dispensary in the State during the eleven months ending No vember 30 last, has been issued. The gross sales for the period indicated amounted to the enormous sum of $3 421 840 22, nearly two and a half mil lions of dollars. On this the State's profit was $176,012 18, and the net profits, divided equally between the towns and ci-ies of the State, covering al-o the beer dispensaries, reach $298, 166 28 making the total pr.fits for the eleven months on the State's big ligor business, $474 178 46 The net profits from beer dispen aries to towns and oundes ag,regate $27,469.81. From the ten dispensaries in Char leston county the net profits to that county and city are $12 305 26. Columbia has four dispensaries ex clu-nive of the beer privileges. From these four the net pr fits sot n? to the county and city are $22 738 79. Greenville with its two dispensaries nets the city and county the sum of $10,130.42, and Spartanbu:rg's two dis pensaries net the city and county $11, 382 03. It should be borne in mind that all these figures refer only to the eleven months ending November 30, and do not include the heavy holiday business done during the month of Decemoer. Here is the official statement, show ing in the first column the enormous sales at each of the 94 regular dispen saries in the State, and the net profits equally divided between towns and cities-in the last column: Dispensaries. Gross Net Sales. Profits. Abbeville..... $ 34,140 91 $5,895 39 Adams Run... 8 665 66 802 73 Aiken ........ 3531961 455364 Allendale .... 17 662 17 3,476 94 Anderson...... 60 001 89 8.489 14 Bamberg ...... 19,844 75 3 473 10 Barnwell...... 27,069 65 5,519 25 Beaufort...... 26 467 10 3 796 29. Bishopville.... 23.477 15 3,930 98 Blacksburg.... 8 4112.31 975 55 Blakville.. .. 16.684 83 2 765 69 Branchville.... 9,726 73 1,715'0U Brunson....... 5 53.90 989 3' Camden....... 43 886 49 8,051 7') Chapin........ 7.02(142 175 45 Cheraw ....... 24.664 65 3 520 20 Chester ....... 49,022 67 7 602 12 Charleston Von Santen.. 26 496 40 2,108 34 Carpenter ... 16,864 25 1 096 64 Stothart .... 17 140 15 856.45 Myer....... 16 921 80 986 91 Maiatedt ... 18,642.45 1,123 31 Merritt..... .15 1)81 55 570 73 Honour .... 20 278 30 1 396 14 Stoopalbein 27,503 30 1,825 88 Roche ... 10 944 10 1.162 24 Percival ... 26,187.70 2,168 62 Columbia Bul man. 41 803 24 5 884 72 Cooper...... 37 433 55 4 994 90 Lynch.......445970)0 6,18765 Price ........40166 0)5 5,671.52 Davile .... 668 45 119 4" Drigton..49;164 50 9,t;00 u6 Denmark.. . ....8874 79 1 368 70 Dillon........ 31123 79 4 638 82 Edgibld...... 23 8443') 3.038 81 Ehrbardt.......6,68 55 '847 0)8 E ioree...... ..10,8116 1,6131 F'airfax........8,135 35 1 388 12 E~utaville... 14 343 15 2 447 28 F'iorence.. .....4335.25 7 815.97 F rt Motte. 7 787 4t. 845 65 Gaffney........ 2557136 367199 eorgetown . 58 734 139 10 181 54 ireeeville 7,198 0)6 1,101.31 Greeville Hll .. .... .. 46890 60 7 263 76 8rug gs ... 22 164 15 2 686 66 ampton ... . 7 170 87 1.242 86 Jackonboro .. 11 522 46 1 373 13 Kershaw.. .... 2'.773 05 3 435 23 Kingstree.. 18.659 72 3,330 04 Lanster ... 14 182 65 4 -401 b6 Laurens.. .. .. . 40 5539 6 959 86 Lexington... 9.151 45 1,103 61 Livingston .. 7,275. 19 1,063 1)2 Lodge...... ...2 9.>7 26 269 74 Lray......... 4234)00 621 85 Mlaning....... 30 065 1)0 5,205 1 Marion .. ..31 056 40 4.621 93 Mayevile ... 11 136 89 1 403.38 Monk's Corner 8 661 70 1,558 1)4 L ultrieville . 3 470) 74 10$ 4$ Munt Pieasant 10 645.10 941 82 New erry . .. 38 605 35 7,605 20 Nichols.. ...... 1 407 20 1601 33 Olar.......... 52590) 72782 Orageburg ...40 835 22 6 651 70 P 'endleton ... 8 755 40 742 13 Pickens. ...... 6216 82 693 01 Part Royal. 6 742 65 636 62 dsntowees. 15 556.38 1,266.106 Ridgeway .... 7.216.80 720 40 Ridgeland ... 6 623 07 886 51 Saida.... .... 11,924 13 1,517 32 Saily ... .......5 70)9 11 828 56 Seneca.. .. 12 484 04 1,661 0 Scotia ... ......3.912.011 514 1)4 Spaanburg W ston .... 43.09939 6056 98 Brown... ... 4645.35 5.32o ('5 Spiingleld.. 6 751 63 1 02 88 St. George... 8645 63 1 28[07 St. Matthews 15 t002.47 2 213 14 St.Stephens. 3735 22 479 71 Summerville. 19 714 20 2,107 42 Sumter .. ...... 57,891 51 9,683 33 Timmosrille 20.079 50) 3 482 99 Toddville .... 9,3)0 40) 1,089 1)8 aion .. .... ... 37.48" 25 6 473 93 Varnville.... ...4 371 23 611 23 Wagner.,..... .. 6 730 55 924 46 Wahalla . ..... .8.41 15 1 231 31 Walterboro ... 17 449 68 3,2"4 69 Williton ... 7 97$ 60 1 273 1)5 Winsbore.. 21,293 35 2 608 81 Total...$2,421840 22 $270,159.60 Net profits and coun-. ties from beer dis pen B e rs for fiscal year end ime lov. 30. 1900 $ 27,469.81 Pa y m e n t of old so counts due towns and coun ties.. .... 536 87 Total.. ..$2.421,840 22 $298,166 28 States prof. for 11 months.. $176,012 18 Grand total profis.... $474.17846 Here is a statement of the net profits to towns and counties from the bier dispensaries' sales during the eleven months throughout the State: Aiken ...... . ......... 214.50 leaufort................. 180 15 B;shopville..... .......... 5U 55 Charleston Roessler........... ..8,828 56 Wohlers................ 1,1 60.7 U Terry ................. 44155 Columbia Naoy.................. 227470 Giffin .................. 3,31535 Flanagan................ 11 25 Miinnaugh.... .. ..... . . 3.0u Darlington ............... 335 19 Dillon............. ...... 41 3 Goff cey............ ..... 396 U0 tieorgetown............... 842 00 Greenville Richardson ............ 253 15 Payne..... .. ... . .. 946 95 Laurens......... ...... 326 25 Orangeburg .............. 551.45 Spartanburg Beck:r.................. 22350 Houseman ............ 1,289 15 Sumter................. ..45:45 Union ................... 505 50 $22,633 30 Charleston (Germania Brew Co ). . ................ 4.836 51 Total...............$27,469.81 TRE COST OF VOYAGRS. Exper ses of Notable Trips of Some Noted Cruisers. Some time ago Senator Morgan in tioduced a resolution calling upon the navy department for information as to the difference in the money cost of a voyage by a naval vessel from New York to Manila by way of the Straits of Magellan or the Sues canal and the proposed Nicaragua canal. In reply the secretary of the navy has sent to the senate a lot of tables showing the cost of voyages made by different ships, but they are accompanied by no explana tions and are not intelligible to the or diaary reader. This and other com munications show that naval officers are not efficient in furnishing infor mation as they are in fighting and sail ing ships, bus a patient examination of the tables discloses some interesting information. The distance from New York to Manila Dy way of the Suez canal is 12 706 miles. and by way of the Straits of Magellan 19,832 miles. When the Nicaragua canal is built the voyage via Honolulu and Guam will be short ened to 12,260 miles. There seems to be a great difference between the cost of sailing vessels, some being more economical than oth ers. This depends largely upon the cap tain and more upon the engineer. The same rule applies to a ship that applies to a kitchen. One cook can serve the same fan.ily with the same kind of food at much less cost than another. It is also a question of economy and skill. There is a difference in ships also, but conmparatively little. An examination of the tables shows that it cost the Oregon, under Capt. Clark, $98 253 to make her famous voy age of 14,064 miles from dan Francisco to Key West during the war. She was pushed to her utmost speed, as you will remember, but she bal the best ofocap tains and the most careful and skilfut of engineers. She was stripped fur fghting. Sne fooled away no time, bat tended strickly to business. Oa the oher hand, it oat Admiral Dewey $155335 to bring the O:ympia home from Manila, a distance of 12 749 miles, athough she had only about half the crew and half the tonnage of the Ore gan. But that was a picnic. She came along slowly, stopped at various places and had a good time. These figures in c~ude coal, wages of the men, subsist ence and all or ner expenses. It cost the Oregon $140,734 to go from Ne w York to Manila a aistance of 19.832 miles by way of the .8traits of Magellan, ionluin and other ports en route. The same diff rence will be found in the smaller vessels. The Nashville and the .Helena are about the same size, and went to Ma nla about the same time, the voyage being approximately 12 000 miles, 3 et it cst $44 262 for the Hielena and only $29,520 tor the Nashville. The Buffblo is twice as large and has twice the crew of the New Orleans, yet it cost the for mer $42,767 and the latter $46,594 to make the same voyage, it cost the Buffalo 20 per eent. more to return from Manila than to make the outward voyage. This was due to the captains and rhe engineers. The Princeton and the Marietta are about the same siz-1,000 tons each and both made the same voy age, 11,800 miles. to Manila, it cost the Marietta $23,317 and the Princeton $27,499. T1here is an even greater ce.ntrast be tween the cost of running the Brooklyn and the Olympia. The later, a cruiser of 5, 870 tons, spent- $155 335 on'a voyage from Manila to New Y ork, while the Brooklyn, with 9,215 tons and a crew larger in the same proportion, cost $59 392 for the same voyage through the Suez canal. A Gas Pipe Bomb. The Chicago Record says: Detec tive Sergeant McLaughlin located a gas pipe bomb in one of the niches of the ir Salle street tunnel shortly before midniht The bomb was taken by the policemran to (Xentral station, and theoce carried to the lake front and ex ploded. The police suspect the bomb was placed there by a diseharzed em. plyset the company. A Terrible Mistake. William Rutledge shot and killed George Bass, a 14 year-old lad at the former's home one mile west ojf Colum bus, Ga , about dark Wednesday. Young Biass playfully put a sack over his head and went to the Ratledge home to frighten some children, when Rutledge, not knowing who he was, kt and killed him. T HE LIQUOR SOLO By the State Dispensary Duririg the Last Quarter OF THE PAST YEAR Showing the Profits and the Amount Set LAside For the General School Fund. The report of the legislative commit tee charged with the examination of the affairs of the State dispensary showing results for the quarter ending Novem ber 3C, hat been handed to the gover nor. The committee i" composed of Senator J T. Hay and Representatives W. H 6hirpe and John G Mobley The committee states that all stock and supplies were actually exhibited, count ed and valued. The committee al-o says: "The bookkeeping of this insti tution has alr a-iy been alluded to in a former report; we reiterate tha- it could be no better. The commissioter is a ine business man as is shown by his ex cellent management of this great insti tatien. The board of directors are har monious and have made for she year a remarkably good showing. All the employes are to be congratulated for their zealous work." Here is the re port. RECEIPTS. Balance in State Treasury Aug. 31, 1900 .......142,503.53 Sept. receip's..$16634 31 Oct.. receipts... 222,527 75 Nov. receipts.. 182,123 14 Total receipts for quarter...... $565,285.20 Total...... $707,788.73 DISUPEtatNas. Sept. disbursements ..$133.154 62 03. disbursements....... 183 959 66 Nov. disbursements ...... 246,853 59 Total disbursements for quarter....... .....$563,966 86 Batance in Sate Treasury Nov. 30, 1900.......... 143,820 87 Total ...... ......... $707,788 73 ASSETS. Cash in State Treasury Nov. 30, 1900............$143,820 86 Teams and wagons (inven tory Nov. 30, 1900).... 64 00 Supplies (inventory Nov 30, 19U0)...... ........ 49,169 32 Machinery and offiee fixtures (inventory Nov. 30, 1900) 3,088 51 Cootrabrand (tnventory Nov . 30, 1900).............. 151 50 Real estate .......... ..36,980 82 erchanaise in hands of dis pensers Nov. 30, 1900 .. 300,628 92 Merchandise (inventory of stock at State dispensary Nov. 30,1900).......... 184,729 35 Personal accounts due State for emoty barrels, alcohol, beer, d- .... ......... 346072 Total assets......... 722,094 00 .LIABILITIES. Bhool fund...........$590,392 13 Personal due by State for supplies, whiskies, wines, beer, alcohol etc. .....131,701 87 Total liabilities .......$722,094 00 The statement of the profit and loss account for the quarter reads thus: PEOFITS. Gross profits on merchan dise sold during quarter.. $173,087 71 Contrabrand seizures......508 50 Permit fets ....... 12 00 State's (one half) share of profits on beer sold by the Germania Brewing Co Charleston, during quar ter .... ...... .......189860 Total gross profits ..- . . .$175,506 81 LOSSES. Sur plies - Botues, corks, lanels, wire, tin foil, lead, seals, boxes, nails, seal ing was, etc., etc., used duringgaarrter....... $ 49, 922 33 Insurance premiums ... , 429 30 Breakage and leakage . .. 88 67 Labor (pay rolha).-.-.-..-.-.. 5,780 42 Experase Account-Salaries, expenses of inspec~ors, per d em and mileage of members of State board of directors and legislative examining committee, of. fioe supplies, lights, tele grams, postage, stock feed ice, ;rinting, revenue stamps, telephone rent, etc........ .......... 7,667 99 Constabulary... ........11,339 83 Freight and express charges 23,596 00 Balauce due by ex dispen sers, now in process of set tlement, passed to profit and loss account........8,593 66 Loss by robbery at King. stree dispensary on the night of Sept. 8, 1900.. 127 57 Loss by robbery at 8cotia dispensary on ti-e night of October 12, 1900.... ...7374 Worthless champagne at Union dispensary condem ned and destroyed by county board of control.. 45 83 Total expenses..... ..$105,671 34 Net profits on sales for the quarter, passed to the eredit of the school fund. 69,835 27 Total ................175,506 81 Killed His Wife. D. D. Davia,.hving in the suburbs of Brunswick, Ga., shot and killed his wfe at a late hour Thursday night, mis taking her : r a burglar. Thieves had been giving the neighborhood much annoyance and Davis muddenly~ awaken d by his wife's movements fired a load of buckshot into her body as -she was passing the back door of their house. 1.he unfortunate affair falls unusually heavy, as a large number of children are left motherlesa. Insane Over Religion. John Greenwood and tiro daughters, of Surrey county, N. C., became vio letly insane a few days ago on account, it is supposed of religion excitement. One of the girls died. The others are n a hospital in atriht jaakets. KIDNAPPERS ARRESTED. The Men Who Stole Young Cudahy in the Toils. A special to The Journal from Chad ron, Neb., says: Pat Crowe, the sup posed abductor of young Elward Cudahy, has been captured near the State line between Nebraaka and South Dakota. Three detectives follow'ng Crowe's trail came upon him on the Pine Ridge reservation, near Oelrichs, South Dakota, and captured him after a wild chase. Crowe was driving a team and buckboard. He whipped the horses and tried to outran the horse men, who soon brought him to a hait with their six-shooters. ANOTHER ARREST. J. J. Crowe, brother of Pat Crowe, whom the police believe to be a princi pal in the abduction, was take.. into cnstsdy in Council Bluffs. Early this afternoon a posse of de tectives with search warrants and com plaints charged abduction ransacked the promises adj scent to J J. Crowe's saloon in the hope of discovering Pat Crowe in his place of concealment. They had the necessary papers for the arrest of both Pat and his brothers. Early in the day the police department had been given info:mation thit either Pat Crowe was making his hiding plies in his brother's saloon or the brother knew more than ho would divulge about the kidnapping and the letter that has been recentty written to Mr. Cudaby threatening the death of his son if the reward for the arrest of the kidnappers were not withdrawn. A diligent search disclosed no trace of Pat Crowe, but the officers came upon the brother asleep in a rear room. They hastily awakened him and took away two huge bull-dog pistols which he car ried in his pockets. The man was first taken to the Council Bluffs station by Detective Weir of the [owa department, and then he was conducted across the river for an examination by Chief Dona hue. When the information that Pat Crowe might be found in. the saloon was given to Chief Donahue he detailed five detectives to make the arrests. HOW Si(ART THEY WEREl The detectives separated before reaching Crowe's place, and concealing their faces in the high collars of their overcoats, strolled one at a time over the sidewalk in front of the saloon. The building was quickly surrounded. When the detectives opened the doors of the saloon and the adjoining rooms, the inmates were taken by sarprise but there was no show of resistance. A woman of the house hold attempted to run to the room where Crowe lay asleep but the officers blocked the way and entered first, so quiet had been the en try of the officers that Crowe had not been awakened. He was aroused disarmed at the same time. In his rear pockets two huge revolvers were found, one in each hip pocket. Crowe rubbed his eyes as if he were dased. "What do you want?" he demanded. "We're looking for you and Pat," was the response. "We want Pat most but if we can't find him, we want to ak you a few questions.''" Crowe took the situation complacent ly. "I'll do anything I can for you, gentlemen," he said, 'but I'll tell you right now. I can't do or tell much. While two of the detectives stood guard over Crow. until he put on heavy clothing for out of doors, the rest care fully examined the premises. Crows's saloon is in the rear of an islola ed cluster of buildings on the outskirts f the city. Crowe was escorted to the Council Banfs police station by Detec tive Weir, who made the arrest. As Crows consented readily to accompany he Omaha detective to the jail on the N. braska side for an examination he was only registered on the Council lBiffs jail book and then allowed to go with the detectives. On the ook he was charged with being a fugi ive from jeastice, arrested on co.mplaiat. f the O.uaha detectives. The police here know nothing of the Pat Crows at Oelrich, 8. D., and dis credit the report. Crows was closely questioned by the police but denied any knowledge of his orothers whereabouts or that he had anthing to do with the kidnapping. The pol13e expect to secure somo valna ole information abiut Pat Urowe and his recent doings. - Phosphate Royalty. The forthcoming annual report of the State Pnosphate commissioner, Cot. . W. Vance, will contain considerable statistical and other information about both the phosphate industry and the fertilizer business. A general state ment will be presented, for instance, showing the amount of royalty received by year from the phosphate mining on the coast, since the State opened the beds. This will show that the royalty the State has received from crude rook has reached the enormous sum of $3, 241,402 06. The smallest amount ofiroy aiy paid in any one year was in 1870 when it was $1,989 50. The larirest amount received was in 1887 $37,1l50. Since then there has been a considerable decline ow ing to the necess&y of reduoing the royalty per ton and to the rap idly developing competition as new de posits are discovered and opened up in other countries. The royalty this year will be less than last. The report will also show the development of the ferti lier business in a forcible manner. From the time the privilege tax on fer tilizrs was provided for this tax has yielded the State $760.696.18. The smallest amount received in any one year was in 1887, the total for ata year being $24.246.56. The largest amount received has been during the year 1900 just closed, it being $73.589 34. show ing the great quantity of l ertilisers the farmers of this State are now using. Brutal Footpads. William W. Mitchell, a young far mer, was returning home from Washing. tn Pa., Thursday night, when at a lonely spot he was assailed by two negroes. Oae struck him in the head with a club, while the other sl.ashed hi with a razor, making a dangerous wound over his heart. He wasarendered unconscious and his clothes riled of his money. He is ina seriens condition. The hks aapnd. CLOSE OF THE CENTURY. Wonderful Growth of the World's Population and Business. This is a time when the statistician and compiler revel in opportunity. They are preparing facts, figures and comparisons relating to the nineteenth century and show some astonishing re sults, for a hundred years is a short time in the world's history. When the closing century opened the population of the world was put down at 640,000, 000. Now it is placed at a billion and a half, the increase bing about 150 per cent.; a fact that should silence the pessimistic philosophers who have seen signs and portents that the human rasa is gradually approaching extin guishment. Bat it is the showing made by an accepted authority in the movement of commerce that bewilders concep tion and staggers the imagination. A hundred years ago the world's inter change of commercial commodities ag greated a bilion anda half. Now the an nual total is twenty billions. The com mercial trade is more than six times pir capita now than then, practically all the applications of steam and electrici ty to the uses of the world's traffic hav ing been made within the interval. The average output of gold for the first half of the century was fifty millions, and last year it was twenty times that amount. The world's shipping is fifteen times greater than in 1880, while, as the re sult of inventions then unknown, we have narly half a millon miles of rail roads, nearly a million miles of tele graphs, and 168,000 miles of submarine cables. To the agencies of transporta tion and communication must be added the telephone, the electric railway sys tems, and the marked improvement in all features of the mail service. 0 e of the most remarkable fasts in this whole review is the phenome nal development of the country. Then it was the exprimental state and fo ing the grim problem of existence. Ii was rich only in raw materiel and un developed rescources. It had yet to fight a second war with England, to deal with the native savages, and final ly to pass through the great struggle that made possible a complete union of states. Now we are doing more than a tenth of the world's foreign trade. We are producing a quarter of all the gold. We surpass all other nations in railroad facilities, we are relied upon for the bu:k of food supplies, foreign markets are clamoring for our coal, iron and steel, the products of our fatories are selling abroad bejond all precedent, and the general prosperity of our peo ple is unapproached by that of any other people. In the irresistibie strut gle for commercial supremacy we have the incalculable advantage of owning the richest base of supplies. Death of Dr. Baer. - Dr. Herman Baer, of Charleston, died of appoplexy Wednesday night. He was in his seventy first year. Dr. Baer was a native of Gemany, coming to this country in 1848. In his youth he was a school teacher, having taught in both the Preston and Hampton fami lies. Though a Hebrew by birth he t was one of the most prominent laymen of the Methodist charch of this state. He was for several years chairman of the ways and means committee of the city council. Dr. Baer was possessed of an ample private fortune. 1n the business life of the city he was the Ben ior member of a wholesale drug com pany. He was a man of wide culture and a valued contributor to daily and weekly publications.-The State. Failures Last Year. There were 9,913 failures with liabilities of $127 184.705 and assets of $60,119895 reported to Bra.dstreets in 19u0, a gain of 2 8 per cent. in number over 1899, and an increase of 6 per cent. or about twice the forper percen tage in liabilities, but assets only eq all ed those of the preceding year. An in. creased number of failures is noted in the middle, western, north western and southern States. The increbed in the South is 8 per cent. As regardb lia bilities, perhaps the best of the statis tics, the heaviest gain is in the north west, 68 per cent., while the middle States gain 45 per cent., the southern States 38 per cent and western only 1 3 per cent. Killed by Footpads. A dispatch from New Orleans says Dr. James Gibbons, one of the ambu lance students of tae Charity hospital and a nephew of Cardinal Gibbons, died Wednesday of wounds received Tuesday night. He was on his way bomne at midnight when two men at tempted to rob him. Before he ecould comply with the demand to hold up his hands he was shot in the groin. Dr. Gibbons pursued the men who ran not knowing he was wounded, but the loss of blood caused him to desist. .A cousin, discovering his plight, took him to t se hospital. No trace of the mur derers have yes been founi although Dr. Gibbons gave a fair description of them before he died. Hanna's Haul. The enormity of Mr. Hanna's pro pose' en;~suridy grab is clearly set tea;m ume figures from the New York World. For $9,000.000 a year, the amount proposed to be paid in sub sidies to already prosperoas steamship lines usder the pretense that it will "promote the foreign commerce of the Uited 8:ates," the government could borrow $450,000,000 at the present rate of interest on its bonds. With $450, 00,000 the government could build a lees of steamships that would more than double the sonage of our osean going merchant marine and turn them ver, free of cost, to private steamship ompanies for operation. Lost in the Mountains. Win. H. Bodwell, a New York news paper artist, is believed to have perished in the White Mountains. News was received here tonight from Berlin, N. H, that a searching party had been er ganied and started out Friday after Several Killed. Five trainmen were killed and one badly injured in a head-on collision oe tween two freight trains on the Yasce ad Mississippi Valley railroad at Mel tn, Miss., Wednesday night. Both nines and several oars waro damol A FINE SHOWING Made by the Penitentiary Authori tes for Last Year. RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES, Supt Orffith and the Board Feel Proud of Their R-port. The Facts and Figures. The books of the State penitentiary have been closed for the year of 1900 amid the a:oounts have been blanced. The report is now in course of prepa ration and in a short time will be in the hands of the S ate printer. The figures indicate that the penitentiary under the capable management of Capt. D. J. Griffith will make perhaps the best showing of any of the Slate institutions. Capt. Griffith and the board of diree tors were Thursday receiving congratu lations from those advised of the re suits of the year's operations, and particulariy in regard to the permanent improvements made. Including amounts spent for perma nent improvements this year the insti tution will show a net earning of $36, 483 67, which takes no aeccuat of the amount of corn and other produats from the farms during the past year used at the institution for mainten ance. The year opened with $9 886 67 on hand. The total receipts for the year were $65,926.36 in actual casb. The total disbursements were $71.879 91, leaving a cash balance on Dec. -31 last of $3,933 12. to which amount should be added the estimated value of 328 bales of cotton on hand-$3,120-and $2 962 due for convIet hire and oats, making a total of $20,915 12. To this also should be added the following dis bursements for permanent improve ments, making the net profi-s first given: New prison building. $9 449. 55 of the contract price of $14 649; re formatory, $1 009; artesian wells, $1, 220; barn, $2,000; gravel roof-on hoesiery mi, $450; new boiler, etc., $1,100; re covering guards' qarters, $110; mowers, binders, mules, etc., $1,142. The total aeceipta were actually there fore $82,008 36. The population report will show that there were 801 prisoners in coninmeant at he close of the year 1899. From! the courts since that date 216 were re ceived; 11 were recaptured, making a total of 1,058. There were 187 dis sharges, 24 pardons, 23 escaped, 28 died and 1 tilled while trying to escape leaving in the prison on Dc. 31. 1900, 795 prisoners. It is hoped that the new prison build ing will be ready for the use of the paisoners by Feb. 1. The work is pro greasing well.-The State. Weird Tragedy of The Sea. Ever since last Wednesday, when Thomas Carlson and Charles Peterson, cod fishermen, put off to sea from Sea isle City, N. J. to examine their trawls and never returned, a sharp lookout has been kept upon ocean and beach for some trace of the lest ones. With strong marine glasses Samuel Shick was closely scanning the expanse of blue this after noon, when he caught sight of a dak.. object bobbing up and down to the motion of the waves. Closer study con vinced Shick that the object was an overturned boat, and he quickly noti- - led Captain John Cole, of the lifesav ing station. A life-boat was qiietl~y manned, and the overturned boat, which flated about two miles from shore, was soon reached. It proved to be the lost fishermen's skiff, with the anchor eable ou. The life-savers proceeded to haul in the cable, and they were amas ed to find the bodies of both Carl son and Peterson caught in it, The ghastdy barden was towed ashore, How the fishermen met so strange a death is a weird mystery of the sea. When they started out last Wednesday afternoon friends endeavored to keep. them ashore, as both were considerably under the influence of liquor and in no condition to manage their skiff. They. ignored advice however, and went on to their doom. Wise Words for Young Ken, We never look upon a bright young. man entering upa life without a feel ing of profound sympathy for him; for we know that it is by no means certain, whether he will reach the eni of his ourse in safety. No matter how well le has been trained, nor how high his aim may be, he is bound to meet with temptations that will test his charae tr to thg very foundations of it. L tak ing in expe'riece, and in the practical wisdom which nothing but experience can bring, he will often be at a disad vantage in fighting the enemies of his soul; and sometimes he will be likely to go down before an onset which he is not prepared to meet. Nothing can save him from such a estastrophe except the fixed determination to obey God at all hazards and -de-:Phaegs Whenevet he drops down from this high level to a position of more prudentual expedienoy he is in danger of being lost. f any young man should chance to read hese words, we seg him to ponder their meaning, and to aak himself whe:her they do not hold some lesson that may se ofproit tohim. Clemson College. The Manufacturer's Reord says: "Dharing its last session Clemson col lege, aush Carolina, had 461i students lteen more mnariculated for the pre ient session, while applications for ad missions of three hundred others were refused because of lack of facilities for them. The popularity of the institution is attributed by President Hartzog in bnnual report to the liberal terms for tudents, to the demand of the times for industrial training, and to conse inent demand for graduates, this in some lines being greater than, the sup ply. This showing of success is gratify ing to all workers for the extension of technical training in the South, and it should eneourage South Carolina legis lators to increase liberality toward the institution that is so creditably fitting the young men of the state to take their places in the industrial proceaiol of thair country."