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XIk \A S C WEDNESDAY J9 XXI. ~MANNING. S. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 0 91 TERRIBLE HEAT. Six Hundred Dea'hs and M Jfy Prostratiors HO3P;TALS FILLED Tents Baling Ejected on H-spi"J Orcunds H-rses Are Fal-g, ard Autcm'biies Are Used as Ambulances Rainstorms Wednesday, with con sequent fail in temperature, were a Godsend to the bulk of sweltering hu manity in New York. As soon as the. last storm of the afternoon had passed over, the temperature immediately be gan to ascerd. The wind which blew during the storm also commenced to abate very rapidly, until it assumed the proportions of a slight breeze only. These atmospheric condition-, coupled with the very considerable .umidity which came as an aftermath of the downfall of water from the eleuds, made the sufferir g almost as intense as it was when the thermc meter had reg istered several degrees higher. Most of the hospitals are already crowded to their u:m'st capacity, and many of them have erected tents on their grounds for the ase:mmoda-icn of the heat victims. The death rate has increasel with such rapidity that the morgue is being taxed as it nev-r was before, and every available foot of that institution is now occupied by corpses. Hospital attend ants are collapsing under the extraor dinary straia to which they have been subjected and were it not for.the volun teers who have come to their aid the situation would be g aat'y aggravated by enforced neglect of heat patients. Although the ambulance service has been augmented by the addition of automobiles which have been loaned for the purpose, it is greatly inade quate. The horses used have been most carefully nursed along to preserve their stamina, but notwithstanding this many of them have given out. Their pleces are being filled from outside sources, and so great is the Ec ireity of available animals, because of the combination of heat and the grin with which,. New York horses are afB'cted, that it has been necessary to send to other cities to set a fresh supply. When the first downpour of rain struck the city Wednesday it was ac companied by thunder and a fair sized gale, which soon reduced the tempera ture 15 degrees. The humidity made the air so sultry, however, that the great reduction was not perceptible to the extent which most people would imagine. The wind and lightning which ac companied the rain did considerable damage in the city, especially out to ward Harlem. Many trees, awnings and buildings were irjared, but up to 10 o'clock no ca:uilties had been re ported. There were 89 deaths and 107 cases of heat prostration in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx during the hours between 2 a. in., and 10.30 p. in., Wednesday. At 12:30 o'clock this (Thursday) morning it was estimated that the total deaths from the heat in the last six days in Greater New York was 600. During Tuesday night and Wednes day the deaths in Newark directly -at tributed to the heat, numbered 51, the highest number of the spell. In Ho boken there were 19) deaths. Patterson, which had been comparatively free froan deaths, ran its number up to 116 for the 24 hours ending Wednesday night. Jersey City escaped with 2, New Brunswick ecored 4 fatalities and Elizabeth 6. A dezen other places contrnbuted one each to the total so that the grand total for New Jersey will-be in the neighborhood of 100 for . the day. The highest temperature was 94 at - 12:30 p. in. At 8 o'ctoek Wednesday night it was 80) degrees. Bryan Has Not Changed. William J. Bryan while in Roanoke, Va., last week delivered a short speech *on the stadion platform. Mr. Bryan said the questions that several years ago dominated the Chicago platform he had stood for because he believed in - them. He had not changt d h~s mind when the K-nsas City platform was en larged to suit certain conditions. .The Democratic party was all right when it came to additions, but not in subtrae tion. No backward step would be taken but whether it did or did not it would be the same with him. He had said the question was not whether they should win but whether they should do what was right. He would do the right and abide the consequences. The Demo crats' duty was to advocate principles. The result would be beyond the party. If the blood was bad and a boil came they would keep coming until soo. e thing was taken to cleanse the blood. He said in conclusion. "I am fight ing on, not so much to win, for I would -ther die fighting for right than win 'ing for something else." -Race Riot. Reports reached Denver, Colorado Thursday of . a seri-ens race riot which has just broken out in the mountains of Campbell country bet ween negro and white miners. The trouble started at a negro dance where a fight was in progress ness Lafollette, a mining town. Tihe town marshal was sent for and tried to arrest the negroes with a posse of five men. The ne groes opened fire on the officers and the of Mers returned to town. About 20 returned to the scene and opened -u the negro cabin. Tnere were i negroes in the house. They . the fire but soon made a break woods. In the running fight towed three negroes are said to sen fatily shot and a number of awounded Aother Russian Bank Fails. In consequence of the failure of the Kharkoff commercial bank, the com mercial bank of Elkaterioesiff suspend ed payment Friday. It! liabilities are 1,250,000 roubles. AN APPEAL 'O AMERICANS. Gen Pearsons Issues an Address in Behalf of the Boers. Gen. Pesrsons, spacial agent of the Ber ge; rnment, who conducted legal proceeii gs at New 0:icas to prevent the shipping of mules to S: ath Afria, has issued the following address to tihe Amicn people, the title being "A itemmt i Facts; a Qaeiion and an AL'<a. -te bur'' ers of South Africs who 1-vC mirn:aired tae war with Great Britain these two years fait, have in treir stru k' a his ory strikingly par a'lei with 3 cur own. "Driven by English oppression they went into the wiuerness and redeemed from the wild beasts and the savage a country for themselves and there planted a civiliz3uifn and established a free gocernment. In the course o time, English cupidity threatened them. They withstood the demand. Raids were made upon their territory. Iroeps and mur:i:ions of war massed upon their border and insuiting de mands made of them. The appeal to arms followed. Hundreds of thou sands of British soldiers from all parts of the world were massed on the soil of these two little reputlics contain ing fewer inhabitants than any Sct e of your American union and yet they remain uncnqucred and will so re main if the American people will com pel their government to :veep faith. "By the law of your land-a treaty solemnly entered into and to which ycu c.mpelled the assent of the Brit ish government it is declared that the ports of the United States shall not be mare the base of warlike operations against a nation with whom the Uni ted States are at peace- The attention of your courts and your president has been formally called to the operations ,f a body of English army officers with headquarters at New Orleans. From many parts of the United States there army officers gather horses and mules for their armies and at New Orleans load them on ships and take them to their armies in South Africa With out these munitions of war the war on the South African republics would almost instantly end. When these re publics went to war with their oppres sor, they did Dot believe that they went to war with you; they had faith in your promise of fair play, and can hold and establish their freedom" and keep their country if you keep faith. "Today the army supplies that you permit to~ leave your ports are used hiefly to continue torturing and slay ing women and children. Te reve lations forced to be made in the Eng lish parliament within the past few weeks have not only 'shocked and staggered humanity,' but have shamed it as well. "How much of the sin and shame shall become your own and what will you do about it? "On this natal day of your great re public will you not turn your thoughts from purely selfish patriotism and in emulation of your Washington let your hearts go out to the people who, as your ancestors did, Eeek to unfurl and to uphold the flag of liberty and to o so just as your forefathers did who egaged in t he straggle with the same eemy. - "The appeal is made to the liberty oving people of America. Whien I ame here I came fearing that the people were hostile as their govern ent has been unfriendly to the Boers I fid, indeed, that the contrary is rue. The h iars of t -e American eople go out to these South Africans o grandly strugeling with the .enor ous power of Eogland, to maintain heir right to keep and to rule the and they redenmed-but you havo not mpressed the federal administration with your will. The president does nt enforce the treaties and his sub rdinates despise the m. Tne English government is at the ed of its resourc s. Tne Boers have won as against them. If the American people will stop the shipment of sup phes from American ports to Brirsh rmies, the war wiil end and the Wey ler like atrocities at Bloemfontein and Pretoria-the murder of women and hildren-will end. 'So in behalf of those sturdy burgh ers in arms who will part with life rather than liberty, in behalf of those omen and little ones who dying of starvation and in prison yet cheer heir bravo ones in the field, in the ame of your own history and tradi tions and principles and for your own akes, at this season, I make bold to pray you to keep the faith and the law nmaie by yoursdlves ani compel your government to be American in the traditional and gler~ous sense." A Shocking Tragedy. Raymond Albers. a 14 year-old lad, of Al'oany, N. Y., Friday evening shot ard killed Emanuel Koehler, a boy of 12, and then hanged himself. The boys were playmates and according to statements of neighbors they had quar relled some days ago. Albers is the son of Albert Albers, a well known painter, and Koehler is the son of Rev. John T. Koehler, a minister of the gos pel. The shooting teok place at 6$ o'clock Friday evening. Young Koeh ler was standing on a fence in the rear of Albers' house. He was with his 8 year-old brother. Theodore Eoehler, who was the only one who saw the shooting. The little fellow told his father Friday night that the two boya had some words and that Albers raised a riffe that he had and, pointing it at his brother, shot him. The boy says that Albers, when he saw Kochler fall from the fence said: "I am sorry I did it." The riffe used was a 22 flobert rifle. The ball struck Koehler in the left breast and passed through his heart. H died almost instantly. When Al bers saw what he had done he ran int the house and told his mother. The neighborhood was quickly alarmed with the news, and during the excitement Albers had ran away. It was not until the arrival of the police that a search was made for him. He was found in the cellar of his home, suspended by the neck from the end of a rope tied to a beam of the flbor above. When he learned that Koehler was dead, Albers went to the cellar and taking a piece of rope, tied it to a beam and stauding on a cask fastened it about his nek. He then jimped from the cask and was suspended in mid-air when found. When cut down he was still alive, but he ded a few moments later. ]REVENUE TAXES. Ocvernor arid Att.rney Gene' H ive lnitkted Proceedings. BEFORE U. S. COMMSV{ONE The- Q fstion is Who ther ,the :na ral Rsvenue Laws of the U S. Apply to Ou- Dis pensary System. The State of South Carolina, acti through the governor and attorney ge eral, have initiated procecdings befc the commissioner of internal reven to test the question whether the Sta can be legally required to take e special tax stamps as wholesale and r tail liquor dealers under their Sta dispensary laws, and has mrde a e mand upon the commissioner for a r fund of all snch taxes hitherto pai amounting to $4 916. While this su is not large it is realized that tl principle at issue is of great and f reaching importance. The one questi< involved is, whether the intern revenue laws of the United States a ply to the dispensary system of Su Carolina so as to entitle the collec'.cr demand the -payment of these taxe The entire dispensary system of Sou Carolina is managed by a board of con missiohers consisting of three person selected by the State legislature wit Columbia as its headquarters. Th State dispensary distributes the su plies to the county dispensaries an hese in turn are managed by coun dispensers or agents, all being and the board of State commissioner Under the law no liquor can be sold night nor to be drank on the premis of the dispensary. The liquors sold a the property of the State and the profi accrue to the State. The salaries of a the officials of the dispensaries are fixe by law and do not depend upon tb amount of their sales. In the brief filed with the commi sioner of internal revenue on behalf the State it is contended that there nothing in the laws of the Unite States authorizing the collection of i ternal revenue taxes which even in pliedly, authorizes the imposition of tax against a State or its instrumenta ities of the State government would I to that extent unconstitutional. It is contended further that the pro: erty of a State and the means and il strumentalities employed by it to carr its laws into operation cannot be taxe by the federal government and a opinion of the late Judge Cooley on th question is quoted. If any interne reenue law of the United States re quire the agents of the State ani cour y dispensaries of South Carolina eac to pay a tax to-tne United Sates befci beitg permitted to exercise the dutit of their office, it is contended that t: law is unconstitutional and void, i this particular, because the tax whic it imposes is purely and simply a ta upon the instrumentalities by whic he State, through its laws, seeks 1 inimize the evils of the liquor trafi ithin its borders. The federal go' ermient it is held cannot constitution lly interfere with the administratio f these laws by requiring a special ta tamp to be paid by its officials as ondition precedent to the exercise< teir duties. Commissioner Yerkes has the claii for refund of taxes by the State South Carolina under consideratio ut has rendered no opinion yet. Whi t is true thst this dispensary sy ste ay be designated a State agency, an its maintenance upheld as constitutio l under the police power resident i all sovereignties, yet the commission< is inclined to the opinion that it is ni uch a necessary State agencv, or such 2eefal function of the State goveri nent as will exempt it from feder axation. There ar3 certain agetc! sbsolutely essential to the life of State, such as the maintenace of court executive officials, collection of taxi for the payment of necessary 8 ate c penses and it may be afmittod that ti ational government can at no time at n no way, directly or indirectly, les a tax upon these .necessary Sta gencies; otherwise the national go' ermient might tax them out of exis nce. But, the government conteznd when the State performs a work at ssames direction of an agency whic has been and can be performed by i citizens in their individual capacity, new aspect arise~s. If it is unconstit1 tional to require the local agents en plyed under the dispensary system 4 South Carolina to pay the governmei the sums required for retail and whol sale liquor dealers' stamps, then th same State and all other States, tU omnmissioner points out could take col trol not only of the sale, but of tU manufacture of whiskey, beer and t bacco.. and if so then the qgaestic would arise, could the government les ny tax upon the products of plan under atd operated by the State at used for these purposes? If so, whi the States might tnereby be able to pt all of their governmental expenses tl general govermnt, it is said wou lose an internal revenue income of son $2)0,000,000 per year. It is ue derstood that if the commi sioner's decision is against th~e Stat as seems probable, the case eventual will go to the supreme court of tU United States. Fifteen Killed by Lightning. Crowded together in a little shani under a North Shore pier, in Chical last Monday 10 boys and young m< and one other man mst instant dea' by lightning today. They had le their fish lines and sought shelter fro the fierce that derstorm that delugi the northern part of the city about lock. Ten minutes later their bodi lay with twisted and taneled limbs lii a nest of snakes as the men who foux them said. Twelve soughtshelter at one escaped. T welve year old Will Anderson was injured ar.d he lay mar minutes before he could be drawn o from under the heap of dead bodie The dead are all members of famnili of comparatively poor people and eor prised a party of men seeking relt from the heat of the day, secompanit by a number of boys who had come a and swim on the beash. CAROLINIANS IN DEMAND. Young men Wanted for the United al States Navy. A special from Washington saps: The converted Sp-nis^ gun'-oat Alva r do v i leave N..rfolk Satnrday for R \ erne, N. C., where headqaarte:s l be etabli:hed and a rather exten $;Le pn . mugra ed for recruiting ou: g me or tn south for the navy. r- After tt: h war the need f -i'er- b:c-n.: 'o trent that Admir' C : ina ::l, chief of the bun.au o: av:at?u, sent recruiting parties into t: i.:rwr. enisting lusty farmer brys io-se a se re. The plan ha' workea so well that s x snips--the Hartford, Ig Lcester, Baffalo, Dixie, Alliance and M1hicsar.re now engaged in training noutg m a for the naval service. re Aamiral Crowninshield is now turn- r :e irg his at:entibn to the syuth, as he 1 te has been aevi ed by letters from that ( t section 1hat No:th Carolina and other l so-:ern S:at;s are fertile districts for r e- obsicing young men for sea service. 1 te Folorin this suggestion the navy de- c e- p:artment wll now seek to make enlist- r e rrents at various points in the south. i, One party is proceeding by land from c m Port Royal and will visit the following e . suthern cities: Spartanburg, Colum ar bis and Greenville, S. C.; Augusta and a in Atlanta, Ga.; Charlotte, Durham and t al Grc nsboro, N. C. , p The Alvarado which started Saturday a :h will visit all thoprirc'pal cities along to the southern districts of Nor.h Care- t s. lina as well as the b3-ways and smaller i .h settlements. 2- In announcing the trips, the follow- d 13 ing official comment is made as an in- d .h ducement to those likely to enlist: b s "There never was a. time wh. n op- s > portunity for advancement of worthy, t ,d qualided men is as favcrable as it is at t ;y present, due to the increase in the en- b >r listed force of the navy, and the con- t s. scqient demand for more petty officers 1 it in all branches. It takes time to gain b s the sea habit ard learn the intricate n -e duties of a petty officer and the ladder o t can only be climbed by men who are 11 willing to apply themselves and gradu- i< d ally but steadily gain advancement. G e "Beys between 15 and 17 will be en i listed as apprentices until they reach a i- their majority an: young men between t. >f 18 and 25 as iandsmen for training for e is four year- ; the former will be sent to I d the training station for apprentices at p 1- Newport, R. I,, and the latter to the d t- training station for landsmen at Port b a Rosal, S. C. After six months at the I 1- the station, if qualified for transfer, tl s they will be sent on board of a cruising h vessel to complete their training afloat. V >- The recruiting party will also enlist s t- seamen, 'who have had four years' sea y experience and ordinary seamen who a d t ave had two years' sea experience. I n Tne former must be between 21 and 35, ri .s and the latter between 13 and 30,ship- c . wrights (carpenters), machinists, fore- ' men and coal passers will also be enlist- t] ed but applicants for these positions G h must furnizh proof that they know the e trade and have experience and satisfan- ti s tory recommendations as having work- ii e ed in the trade. n "All applicants must bring with fi i them testimonials from people in their a x immediate districts as to their moral and d h general standing in the community and n o all under 21 years of age must furnish b .e written consent of parents." ai - GENI G0EEZ TO THE PUBLIC. b X Came to Ames ica to Embrace His Dear 11 Friend, Estrado Palmer. Gen. Mtaximo G-omez, while in New e n York last week gave out the following a if statement. tl i, "In response to the request of the b e press for me to mtke a statement in 1< n regard to Cuba, a1 I have to say is a: d thaL the accep~ance of the Platt amend t-ment by the Cuban constituational n convention has already defined the r political siluation of Cuba, and as the ? .:Cubans are all anxious to e'stablish self o: a govern ment, they are all working to- n Sward thiis en d. Tlhere is not one who el d does not ditr to see the ig float free, ti s a fbkg which rperssenta so maah. suffer- o: a mug ar~d so many sacrifices forifreedom's n , sae The whole world has known this ri s many years. h ~"The sole object of my visit has n e been my great desire to em~brace my C d old, true and loyal friend, Tomas Es- TI y trada Palma, whom I have not been C :e able to see sinc-3 peace wa s established w and of course, to pay a visit to Presi- T t- dent MleKinley, to whom we Cubans T s owe so much, and also to p.y my re- it d spects to decretary Root. t! h "TIhus i, not my first visit to this al :s city, of which I have many pleasant w a and also atd recollections, for I have 81 z- once silently and unknown trod the n s- taroughiares of a free country with ts f thc only ardent hope of helping to tl at breat the coains tha; enslaved Cubs. tl y Today every thing is changed. On s< is again setting foot in this free land I ec e feel happy, for in America I see t< i- frend, who having shed his blood side it b by side with us for ,freedom has earned o >eternal gratitude and established the el n mutual obligation between the two a y peoples to msintain the peace and in- ij s dpendenc of the island of Cuba. tl d '"(Signed) M. Gom: z." ri y Bryan's Sentiment. p eO The observances of Independence Day ~ d in Ncv York was moe than usuahjy ~ e quiet this year. Tammany Hall held a its regular Independence Day celebra- ~ S tion at which the Declaration of Inde- t , pendence was read and speeches made g y by Governor Jennings of Florida and e be other leaders of the Dcmocratic party. a The following letter of regret from s5 Win. J. Bryan, dated Washinton, D. C., June 29, was read: y"I congratulate Tammany upon the o fidelity it has shown in celebrating b :n each returning anniversary of the sign- s .h ing of the Declaration of Independence. 8 ft trust that at this time when the o: Republican leaders are denying the it sd universal app'.ication of the self evi- a 1 dent truths set forth in the declara- I s tion, special emphasis will be given r :e to the assert ion that governments de- a Id rive their jrust powers from the consent c g Iof the governed., p "In response to your request for a a y~ sentiment appropriate for the occa- t , 'Liberty is not safe without a written ~cnstttion, and a constitution to be ~.of value must be strong enough to controt every public servant and broad C d enough to include within its protec 0 lion every person who acknowledges i alleian to the flag.'" CALLS ON 'KINLEY. Gen. Gomez, Cuba's Grand Oid Hero Calls on the Pr sident. JUST A VISIT OF COURTESY 3en Leo Pays His Respects to the Savior of Cuba ard Ta ks Ab ut Him Gen Gomez and party arrived at the var department at 10 30 Wednesday. d.fer a short conference with the see -etary of war they went to the White 3ouse to see the president. While kn. Gomez was at the war department te met Gen. Miles. Although the com nander of the United States army has >een several times in Cuba. he and the ommandcr of the Cuban Army never net before. S.cretary Riot escorted en. Gomez to the White House at 11 'clock this forenoon. The Cuban gen ral was accompanied by his son and enor Gonzales, the pr'vate secretary ,f Gen. Wood. The President received he party very cordially in the Red arlor. The interview lasted about half n hour and at its conclusion Gen. Gomez reiterated through his interpre er, that his mission to this country is a no way political. He came here to isit his old friend, Senor Palma, and esired before returning to see Presi ent McKinley, for whom he has a very igh regard, and to express to him per onally the deep gratitude he felt for he assistance of the United States in he Cuban struggle. No political topics, le said, had been touched upon during he interview, which was purely social. 'he president invited Gan. Gomez to e his guest it dinner Wednesay eve ing, when he will meet the members f the cabinet now in the city. Secretary Root remained with Pres lent McKinley for a short time after 'ran. Gomez had departed. When he sft the White House he said there was bsolutely no Dolitical significance in he visit of Gen. Gomez. The gen ra, he said had never before met resident McKinley and the call was rely one of courtesy, as Gen. Gamez id not feel that he could not return ome without seeing President Me Einley and paving his respects and anking him for what this country as done for Cuba. After the dinner ednesday night Gin G me z and his )n returned to New York. Gen. Fitzhurh Lee was among those rho called on Gen. Gomez at his hotel. 'he visit recalled that interesting pe tod when Gen. Lee was the American Dnsul general at Habana, and Gomez 'as leading the Cuban contingent in he field. When asked for his view of en. Gomez, Gen Lee said: "I am one of taose of the opinion at if it had not been for Gomez's idomitable persistence the Cubans ould not have held out until aid came r them from the United States. It ,as not so much as a fighter that he istinguished himself for there was not nch fighting to do on a large scale, ut he held on in spite of all discour gements and with rugged honesty re Lted the efforts of the Spaniards- to rib him or his generals. He even wued an order that any officer seek rg to corrupt the Cuban gennals be hot, and while I was at Habana one of he Spanish officers who sought to stablish relations with a Cuban officer etully suffered dbath when he fell into ze hands of Gomez's followers. It was is sentimental perseverance in a for >rn hope which distinguished Gomez ad which won Cuba her independence. Strikers Cause Riot. News reached Denver, Col., late 7ednesday afternoon of aii outbreak Ethe striking miners of the Smuggler ine near Teliuride in the southwest rn ps~rt of the Srtate. The informa on was to the effeel that the post Eae had been blown up with dyna iite and 15 hbd been killed in the ot. All wires leading to Telluride ave been cut by the miners. Tae ews of the riot came from Ouray, olorado, across the mountains from elluride and w~as telephoned into aray from the Camp Bird mine, hich is between Oarsy and Telluride. he Camp Bird is the property of homas Walsh, a resident of Wash gton. It is said that miners from ie Liberty Bell, Tom Boy, Revenue ad Camp Bird mines have joined wih 'Ith the Smuggler strikers and that 30 men now surround the Smuggler ine. The dispatch from Oaray stated ie shooting was still going on when ie dispatch was sent. The strike at ie Smuggler mine has been on for yme time and only recently a citizens ammittee was appointed at Telluride >try to effect a settlement of the dif srences betweena the minere and the wners of the property. The sheriff of ie countyin which Telluride is located 'ired Gov. Orman for troops to assist supressing the rioters. A call for e militia to assemble at their armo e at 8 o'clock Thursday night was sued from the ad jutant general's de artment and directed to the companies SDver and Pueblo. At 10:45 'hursday nsight Gov. Orman received message from Sheriff Dowtain, of 'ulleride, saying that the strikers had iken focible possession of the Smug ler Union mine and had run all the ployes over the range. The mes ige said that the latter made no re Estance. Ends His Own Life. Another director of the Leipziger ank, Karl Felix Schaeffer, committed aicide by shooting himself Friday. chaeffer was also a member of the firm Berger & Voigt. This firm declares is not affected by Schaeffer's death, s he sold his share of the business 'hursday on favorable terms. It is ported that an examination of the counts of the Cassel Grain Drying erpan, which assigned Friday disclos i a deficit of 14,500,000 marks, There re serious rumors that securities were nice pledged and that the directors we a large shin to the company. Caused a Panic. Ihe Kharkoff Commercial bank of dessa, Rassia, has failed with a deficit stimated a 5,000,000 roubles. The ilure has caused a financial panic in outh Russia. CONDITION OF THE COTTON CROP. Lowest Average in This State Since the War. The monthly report of the statistician of the Department of Agriculture at Washington will show the average con dition of cotton on June 25 to have been 81 1, compared with 81.5 on the 20th of tbe preceding month; 75 8 on .iuly 1, 19C0, and a yearly average of 86.3. The condition of 81 1 is, with exception of the July condition report ed last year, the lowest recorded condi tion reported for this season. The con dition in the principal States reported is as follows: Nort! Carolina 77, South Carolina 70, Georgia 72, Florida 78, .Alabama 80. Mississippi 86, Louisiana 84, Texas 86, Arkansas 84, Tennessee 85, Oklahoma 91, Indiaa Territory 88 An improvement is noted during June of two points in Texas, three points in Arkansas, Oklahoma and In dian Territory; four in Alabama, Mis sis:ippi and Louisiana and seven in Tennessee. On the other h ind there was a decline of eight points in Georgia and Florida, and ten in North Carolina and South Carolina. With the exception of Mississippi, where the reported average condition is one pont. above the mean averages re ported to July 1 in that State for the last ten years, not only was the condi tion recorded, with the exception of last year, for the cotton region as a whole at this season, but in Georgia and South Carolina it was the lowest during a period of thirty five years, while in North Carolina it was the low est, with one exception, during the same period. Excessive rains, followed by heavy growth of grass and woods, caused much damage in Alabama, Gerogia, South Carolina and North Carolina, while in Louisiana and Texas the growth was retarded by the drought. The gravity of the situation is great ly increased in North and South Caro lina and Georgia, and to some extent in other States by the scarcity of labor. A Wealthy Negro. Probably the wealthiest colored man in America is a guest of his childten in Reidsville, N. C. He was born a slave in Henry county sixty-four years ago. By ownership his name would be Ed ward Abingdon, but he preferred that of his slave father and took the name of Edward Dillard. "Dr." Edward Dillard . as his friends style him, he having been a successful druggistin Chicago for sev eral years. He made his escape from slavery in 1863, going to Pittsburg, whore he made $2.50 a day shoveling pig iron and lived on 60 cents a day until he had saved up $1,400, when he bought a horse and cart and began the peddling of coal, working in the day and studying in the night. He then went to Chicago and opened a drug store, employing a capable drug clerk, whose duties were to wait on custo mers and teach the proprietor the druggists' trade. His establishment was burned in the great Caicago fire, but he was saved from loss and made a little better off by an insuranea of $10,000. He again opened up in the drug business, but soon sold out~ for $2,000 cash. He then went to Australia and embarked in the cattle busi ness-raising, buying and shipping cat tle. He would buy and ship as many as 5,000 head a month to Ljiverpool, making large profits on each shipment. He had purchased years before, a piece of suburban real estate now in the heart of the city of Chicago, and for which he has recently refused an offer of more than $200,000. -He also owns a valuable estate in Australia. The other day he deposited with a Darville bank two drafts on the Mel bourne, Australia, bank for $37,03J0. When he took his departure a little more than thirty-seven years ago he lft behind him a son and a daugather. His mission to this country was to find them. He readily found both living in Ridsville, and they are to receive a goodly share of his fortune. Mr. Dil lard says he will not return to Austra lia, but will dispose of his holdings thera and henceforth live and die in his native state. He is an unassuming and well mannered colored man and speaks of his old owners and their rela tives with veneration as "Marster" or "Mistiss." He says that the greatest fault of his race is: "'fhey de not know the value of a dollar; they will rot save up. They can make it, but will spend it," Dr. Ddlard is easily worth between a quarter and a half mil lion of dollars. Lynched for the Usual Crime. A negro named Jim Bailey was lynch ed near Smithfield, N C., last week for assaulting a white girl. Wedneaday at noon Maud Strickland. the 14 year old daughter of a farmer living near Smith field, went to the field to carry dinner to her father. When returning she saw a negro in the path ahead. Her little sister was with her. The negro. told the sister to go on or he would kill her. He caught &laud, choked her and outraged her. Her little sister ran back to her father and told him what had happen ed. Strickland and his two brothers found that the negro was Jim Bailey and that he was at work in the field. They tried to capture him. Bailey was armed with hoe and hatchet and escaped. Later he met two negroes Who disarmed him. Strickland and Charles Powell seized Baiey and put him in a buggy to carry him to Smithfield to deliver him to Sheriff Ellington. While on their way a mob met them four miles from town, took the negro ftom them and hrung him to a tree. Powell went on to Smith field and told the sheriff of the lynch ing. The sheriff and coroner .;ent out at midnight and brought the body to Smithfield. It is said the lynching oc urrd about 10 o'clock Tuesday night. It is also said that Bailey used a knife upon his victim. Regiments About Completed. Acting Adjutant General Ward at Washington has received reports from the officers engaaged in recuiting the five new infantry regiments and the five new cavalry zegiments authornzed by the army recorganizition act, show ing that the regiments are all practically recruited exe pt the 13;h cavalry, which is reported to be 389 men short. It is expected that all these troops will be sent to the Philippines for the relief of an equal number of regular troops who have been there two years or more and whare to be brought home. ANOTHER BANK FAILS In Buffalo Because of Its Connectlo With City National. The Niagara bank of Buffalo, a Stat institution, has closed its doors. Th followieg no:ice has been posted on th doors: I have closed and taken possessioi of this bank. (Signed) F. D. Kilburn. Superintendent of Banks. The Niagara bank was organize. September 15, 1891. It had a capita of $100,000. The officers are: Presi dent, P. H. Griffin; vice president, M M Darke; cashier, Wm. T. Hayes The chairman of the clearing hous committee, S. M. Clement, said Thur day morning: "It should be distinctly understoo. that the closing of the Niagara ban 'Lu-sday has been brought about sole ly by reason of its close connection wit the City National bank, its presiden having been vice president of the Cit: National bank, and that no other na tional bank here is anyway affected. "As the meeting of the clearin: house committee Wednesday at th close of Wednesday's business, th Niagara bank was the only bank tha applied for any assistance and arrange ments were made to give the assistane asked for, pending the report Wednes day morning by the banking depart ment as to the solvency of the bank. Mr Kilburn, the superintendent of the banks on his arrival in town Thurs day morning became satisfied that th bank could not get throagh with the assistance asked for and accordingly directed that the bank be closed in or der to best protect all interested." The bank superintendent was seoi in the Niagara bank and asked why the bank was closed. He said: "1 have. closed this bank because think it insolvent. The main reasoy for the failure is the failure of the City National bank. This bank is in volved t an extent not to be an nounced, but I $o not deem it safe to permit this one to continue business any linger. As to whether this bank has been in trouble heretofore I have nothing to say." Two White Men Stabbed. At Fleetwood, park Ohio, Friday, John and Albert Slaughter, white wer probably fatally stabbed by 1Luthe Page and Abner Owens, colored. Chas Martin and Riley Slaughter were beat en with clubs. The trouble occurred over an attack on a small white boy bI a colored man. A small sized riot fol lowed. Finally the colored men were arrested and placed in the county jail, After midnight an attempt was made to organize a mob to lynch the prison ers. A crowd gathered at the tunnel on Olive street, but no one volunteered to lead the assault on the jail. If the attack had been made a bloody battle undoubtedly would have occurred as 50 armed men were on guard duty around the jail where their friends were imprisoned. Page and Owens were se cretly arraigned this afternoon, in the county jail. Arrangements were made to remove them to Portsmouth jail for safety immediately, as the authorities feared trouble Saturday night. The re= moval of Owens and Page, the negre assailants of the Slaughter boys, to jail .t Portsmouth has averted a crisis a4 leetwood park. The two men were aturday taken to a train in a closed arriage guarded by offiers, and halted square from the depot. O0ficers formed cordon about the prisoners as thea ere led tothe train in 'irons. Not : ozen people were aware of the transien efore the train arrived. Biley and artin Slaughter, brothers of tht ounded men, had started for the depoi but the train had pulled out a minutE efore they arrived. The officers dis mi d the negroes Saturday afternot and arrested one who flourished a re volver. Negroes were congregating ani penly displaying arms. Increases Postage. A special from Washington says: The cabinet was in session about two houra Friday and devoted the entire ime to minor matters. Postmastei ieneral Smith explained how the reve Dues of the postal service were being et at a pomnt far below what they ttier wise would bes but for the fact that under the present classification a largE lass of periodicals were being handled at the rate of one cent a pound, whicb was a great financial loss to the serv e. It was his purpose to modify the regulations so as to compel this clash f publications to pay eight cents a pound instead of one as now. ThesE ew regulations, it is said, will be is. sued in few days. Secretary Hitchoc= stated that the proclamation opening to settle isent tce Wichita, Kiowa and o. anche lands in 0:dahoma would be iven to the press for publi~ oation at an early date. The date or the opening will not be announced until that time. Hotel Burned. Information received at the general inces of the Hot Springs company ihmond, Va., shows the loss of the somestead hotel Wednesday night by Ire was complete. The fire started in :he bakery shortly before midnight. he blas3 spread rapidly by reason ol :he poor facilities of the fire department. he guests were promptly notified and ~saped, many in their night clothes nost of them losing their jewels and rnks. There were several narrow es. apes. Many prominent and wealthy nuests were in the hotel at the time. Theloss5 is about $300,000, largely 3overed by insurance. Wealthy cot* waers are doing everything to assist iose burned out. The Homestead will oe rebuilt at once It was one of the handsomest and most attractive hotels a the south, and was for years the ummer or winter home of many prom~ nent people from all the country. The !irginia house and the bath bouse, to tether with the cottage, remain unin Private Bank Fails. Sturges bank, of Mansfield 0 , a pri. rate institution, closed its doors, fol Lowing the filing of a deed of assign nent by Banker Sturges to Attorney R. B. Dirlam. Sturges owned .lumber works, real estate and a controlling in Lerest in the Mansfield Machine works, he. latter capitalized at $300,000. Wednesday afternoon A. Peck was ap. pointed receiver for the Mansfield Ma ohine works. Sturges was a close friend of the late John Sherman. BOLD ROBBJdUl. Train Held Up by One Man and Robbsd by Three. SECURES $83,000. Eivolvers, Rifles and Dynamite Used Freely Wounds Sev eral and Makes Their Escape. The Great Northern trans-continental train No. 3, leaving St. Paul Minn., Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock, was held up at Wagner, Mont., 196 miles east of 1 Great Falls, at 320 Wednesday after t noon by three masked men who blew open the express car and wrecked the through safe with dynamite, securing $83,000. The robbery, in daylight, was one of 3 the boldest that has ever oceuredin the 3 west. t One of the robbers boarded the "blind baggage car at Hindale, a station 3 about 20 miles east of Wagner. He ap peared to be a common hobo, but when the conductor discovered him at a .stop almost immediately afterward he drew a heavy Colt's revolver and ordered him to return to the rear of the train ou penalty of instant death. The hobo then climbed over the locomotive ten der, and at the point of his revolver compelled the engineer and fireman to stop the train at a ravine a few miles east of Wagner, where his confederates, two in number, both masked, lay in wait. The hobo then compelled the fireman. and engineer to abandon the engine and firing began on both sides of the train as it came to a stop. Passengers on the train began to look out of the windows and a brakeman alighted on one side of the train while the traveling auditor, Douglas, alighted on the opposite side. Both instantly became the target of Winchesters :in the hands of the robbers and were wounded. A passenger on the tourist coach who was looking out of the win dow was struck by a stray bullet and seriously injured and two other pea sengers were shot but neither were se riously injured. To wreck the door of the express car with dynamite, with which both the confederates who appeared from the ravine were liberally suppled, was the work of an instant. The expreuaman was compelled to leave the car at the point of a rifle, and the through safe was immediately dynamited. The first charge did not break it open, and four others in quick succession were nees mary before it was forced. The robbers hurriedly gathered in its contents, con sisting of specie shipments, drafts, coin and valuable negotiable paper, and re treated, keeping the train crew and passengers off at the point of their rifies. All three disappeared in the ravine, and were seen later, one mounted on a bay horse, one upon a white horse. one upon a buckskin heading southward st a furious gait, the booty being plainly visible in a sack thrown across the sad die bows of the rider upon the buck skin horse. As the hobo climbed over the ten der to the locomotive cab, he drew on a mask rendering it almost impossible to secure a good description. Easch of his confederates was masked and the only information obtainable regarding them is that one was evidently a half breed. This was the robber upon the buck skin horse. The gang headed for the Little Rookies range, lying across the Milk river in an almost inaccessible country, consisting mainly of bad lands. Posses were immediately organ ized in pursuit, one by a sheriff who happened to te a passenger on. the train. Married to Save the Pig. In order to save the life of a pig Hi ram Johnson and Miss Matilda Parkin son, Wilkesbarre Pa., were married last week by Alderman Conehan, of Wilkes barre, whose reputation as a Solomon is thereby enhanced. Miss Parkinson ap pealed to him the other day for jus tice. She said that Hiram Johnson, who owned a farm next to here at Hud son, had stolen the pig from her. She also said that they had known each other for years and were always good friends. When the 'squire sent for Johnson he said the pig was his and he could prove it. As neither would yield Alderman Conehan had the hearing Thursday. - Each arrived with several witnesseswho swie the pig belonged to one or the other, and, as the evidence of each side was of equal weight, the alderm'an made a decision worthy of his reputa tin. He said the pig should be killed and then divided equally. Both Miss Parkinson and Johnson objected strenu ously that the pig was not old enough to kill, and besides it was a dear little - pig, etc. There was no settlement in sight, and the 'squire suggested smiling ly: "Why don't you marry and keep the pig in the family? You are old enough." Each is over 50. Tae sug gestion pleased them. They went into a corner, talked it over, and came out hand-in-hand and blushing. The alder man married them and they took the pig home. Sad Picnic Ending. There was quite a sad ending to the otherwise pleasant gathering of citizens of McCormick S. C. at Searl's Mill to hold an old fashioned Fourth of July pinic. The two little boys of Mrs.P. F. Creighton, aged respectively 9 to 11, had gone in bathing some little dis tance do in the river away from the crowd. They waded out over their depths, and when Dr. Manley Brown, who was the first to discover them, cme upon the scene, they were just sinking for the third time. He called for assistance and immediately sprang into the water. A large crowd quickly gathered and they soon succeeded in finding the younger one of the beo but the elder one was not found unti it was too late to save him. The sym pathy of the entire community goes out to the bereaved mother, who now suffers this second bereavement so soon having quite recently lost herlhusband. The dead boy was just reaching that . stage in life when he could be of some assistance to his mother.