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VOL. XVIII. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. A RCNO.26 AN OHIO MOB Shot a Negro to Death, Then Hanged Him and Shot Again. cis NEGRO KILLED A POLICEMAN. th Le The Jail Was Stormed by 19 the Mob. Who Took Their Victim Out and Shot At Him to Death. Richard Dixon, a negro, was shot I to death at Springfield Ohio, Monday night by a moJ, for the killing of Policeman Caarles Collis, who died Monday from wounds received at the hands of Dixon on Sunday. Collis had gone to Dixon's room on Ge the negro's request. Dixon said his go mistress had is clothes in her posses- the sion. CAlis accompanied D.xon to the th room and in ;: short time the man and woman en.tazed in a quarrel which sor resulted in Dixion sbooting the wo- leg man, who is variously known as Anna in or Mamie C: rbin, in the left breast, le just over the heart. She fell uncon- ter scious at ti e first shot and Collis by jumped towa -ds the negrn to prevent wh his escape from the room. Dixon wa then fired four balls into Collis, the n last of whic-i penetrated his abdo- int men. Dixon went immediately to po- sail lice headquarters and gave himself son up. He was taken to jail. leg As soon as Collis' death became haa known talk of lynching the negro was cos1 heard and Monday night a crowd be- rec gan to gather about the jail. cha wit THE NEGRO SHOT TO DEATH. of t At 11 o'clock the negro was taken Of ; from the jail and shot to death in the Cle1 jail yard and the body was taken from Col there to the corner of Main street and mix Fountain avenue and hung to a tele- tive graph pole where the mob spent the wh next half hour riddling the body with ven bullets from several hundred revol- S vers. The mob forced an entrance to met the jail by butting in the east doors go with a railroad iron. At 10.30 o'clock tens the mob melted rapidly-and it was ing1 the- general opinion that no more at- app tempts would be made to force an en- ing trance. Small groups of men, how- :cha ever, could be seen in the shadows of pric the court house. two adjacent livery or s stables and several dwelling houses. tioD At 10.45 o'clock tbe police were sat- fert isfied that there was nothing more to S rear and they, with other oteials and Tha newspaper men, passed freely in and ize out of the jail. Shortly before 11 fuse o'clock a diversion was made by a ness small crowd moving from the east hav' doors around to the south entrance. the The police followed and a bluff was they made at jostling them off the steps SO t1 leading up to the sonth entrance- two The crowd at this point kept growing, thi while yells of "hold the police," take "smash the doors," "lynch the nig- ed. ger" were made, interspersed with re- und volver shots. be s All this time the party with the be u heavy railroad iron was beating at the tees east door whIch soon yeiided to the tent battering ram as did the inner lattice Si iron east door, and overpowered the wit] sheriff;turnkey and handful of deputies here and began the assault on the iron A turnstile leading to the cells. The A.J police from the south door were called inside to keep the mob from the cells and in five minutes the south door A had shared the fate of the east one. says XOB OF TWENTYFIVE HUNDPRED. tu In an incredible short tirne the jail and was filled with. a mob of 250 men with of all the entrances and yard gates birt blocked by fully 2,500 men, thus mak- wifE ing it impossible for the militia to 12 have prevented access to the negro, tar' had it been On the scene. The heavy ide~ iron partition leading to the cells re- mnse sisted the m ib effectually until cold fort chisels and s'edge hammers arxived, intc which were only two or three mihutes A later in arriving. The padlock to the riag turnstile was iroken and the mob soon reat filled the corr: Sors leading to the cells. ,his Seeing that ft rther resistance was use- ig less and to at oid the killing of inno- iwar cent prisoners the authorities consent-|j the ed to the der iand of the mob for the ihere right man. Ile was dragged from his, b e cell to the ja 1 door and thence down I stat the stone ste >s to a court in the jail Iwro yard, Fearir g an attempt on part of ics the police tc rescue him the leaders ja xx formed a hoil >w square. a r NINE s lOTs IN Is BODY. bey Las Some one k 2ocked the negro to thebo ground and tli se near to him fell back dirn four of five fe st. Tne shcs were fir-.e ed inte his p straste body, and satisfi- and ed that he was dead, a dezen men chil grabbcd the lifeless body and with a iHe' triumphant cheer the mob surgedly mnto Columbia street and marched to! Fountain ave aue one of the principle streets of the town. From here they marched south tobu the int arsection of Main street, and a r rope was t ied zround Dixon's neck. lift T wo me n cli mbed the pole~ an-i threw cool the rope over the topmost cross-arm and drew the nody about 18 feet above pra the street. They then descended and and their work was greeted with a cheer. sidE The fusillade then begun and for 30 picl minutes the body was kept swaying tra< back and forth from the force of the assi rain of bullets which has poured in on ig it. Frequently the arms wtould fly up Tbi convulsively when a muscle was is 5, struck, and thle mob went fairly wild of t with delight. ing Throughout it all perfect order was dau maintained and every one seemed in the best of humor, joking with his' nearest neighbor while reloading his 'j revolver. Jai Wanted to Lynch Him. gol A special from Murpheysboro, Ill., Thb says that seventy-five Carbondale cit- put izens attempted Thursday morning to the take a negro from jail to lynch him. rea The sheriff frustrated their plan, and ear arrested four prominent citizens. .shr Sheriff Thorpe was apprised of the fab mob-s departure for Carbondale, and, with a deputy, waited on the second fioor of the jail. When the mob ap proached the jail they were covered Ste with guns from the: windows above, W. and hurriedly dispersed. Vaughan is oth charged with criminal assault, his vich son tim being a Carbondale school teach- ser er. 1wit AN INDEPENDENT ACT Reference to the Purchase of Com niercial Fertilizers. To remind purchasers of commer 1 fertilizer of their privileges under e law we reproduce an act of the gislature, approved February 19, )0. If there has been any acts, Lending or abrogating these statutes have failed to see them. Act, To Provide a means whereby ny purchaser, in This State, of tny commercial fertilizers or Ma iures, may have the same analyz d by Clemson Agricultural and dechanical College, free of costs, nd to provide a penalty for deliv ring fertilizers or manures short in ngredients appearing on sack or essel holding same. ection 1. Be it enacted by the neral Assembly of the State of ith Carolina: That from and after passage of this Act, any citizen of s State who shall purchase any ameicial fertilizers or manures, dll have the same analyzed by Clem Agricultural and Mechanical Col e by taking a sample of same with ten days of receipt thereof from at st ten per cent. of such fertilizers the presence of at least two disin ested witnesses. One to be chosen the purchaser and one by the seller o shall certify that such sample . > taken from such fertilizers or ma -es, which certificate, with the iple, shall be sealed by a third dis -rested party in the presence of t I witnesses, and directed to Clem Agricultural and Mechanical Col- r ection 2. The said college shall e the said sample analyzed free of 0 , and within three months after a C riving the sample, supply the pur- 1 sers of such fertilizers or manures h a certificate giving the per cent. he different fertilizing ingredients s game, signed by the Chemist of nson Agricultural and Mechanical a ege, which certificates shall be ad- s sable as evidence in all suits rela to such fertilizers or manures d ther the same be instituted by e dor or purchaser of same. ection 3. That any vendor of eom cial fertilizers or manures whose Is or wares fall short to the ex of ten per cent. in any fertilizing -edient guaranteed by the analysis S aring on the sack or vessel hold same, when delivered to the pur er, shall forfeit one-half the sale 0 e thereof, to be recovered by suit h et up as a counter-claim to an ac- g for the purchase price of such d lizers or manures. -ction 4. Be it further enacted: t if any seller or vendor of ferti- T s or commercial manures shall re- tl , decline or neglect to chose a wit- et , as provided in Section 1, after ti ng been notified or requested by d; purchaser so to do, then he or ri shall have forfeited their rights I i do, and the purchaser shall select bl witnesses, who shall select the b d witness, who shall proceed to l samples as hereinbefore provid All samples of fertilizers drawn si er the provision of this Act shall it u'ject to such other rules as may n rescribed by the Board of Trus- r~ of Clemson College not inconsis n pwith the~provisions of this Act. d ~ction 5. All Acts inconsistent t i this act be, and the -same are rt by repealed. ). 1900..n A Berlin Tragedy-.t dispatch from Berlin, Germany, I Lieut Carl Beseke, (retired,) t< r a long and steady decay of for-.i c Wednesday took his last money c gave a splendid dinner in honor is nineteen-year-old daughter's al hday. Beseke then poisoned his jt< ,daughter, two sons, respectively o1 md 16 years old, cadets at a mili- w academy, and himself, with syan- si of potassium, which he seemingly ri rted in the mouth of each, in the : of a pill, after they had gone ql a drunken sleep. e fter a brilliant career and mar- v< e with an heiress, Beseke had f hed the end of his fortune and goods were to be sold by the sher-'c He won the iron cross during the n of 1870-71 with France, married s daughter of a rich hotel-keeper, iby having to leave the service, as a married out of his castle, and t ted a newspaper. The lieutenant al te well, but the paper was not suc- i ful, and he became sales agent for ianufacturer and then manager of iap-making enterpris3. Hie lived , >nd his means for thirty years. i t night the Beseke family had a f at the Iroquois. At 10 o'clock aer was ordered in from a caterer. i eke was especially gay and tender,y pressed his wife and his threer dren to drink lots of champagne-.i died holding his wife's hand tight- d A Horrible Death.c .t Atlanta, Ga.. from the effects of!a ns Miss Fannie Alexander died a3 rible death. Miss Alexander wasi ng a coffee pot from a stove in the'e ing room, when her clothing t ted. She ran, screaming and ' rig, into a sleeping apartment fell in a charred mass at the bed- , of her sick mother. She was ed up by neighbors, who were at- c ted by her screams, and medical stance summoned, but after suffer- n agonies for twelve hours she died e irsday morning. Mrs. Alexander t 1 a critical condition, as a result he shock at the time of the burn- a and the news of the death of her s gter.____.______11 The Koreans. 1 he people of Korea are neither anese nor Chainese. They are Mon an and have a polysyllable lan ge, with a phonetic alphabet. a y have a recorded history, of dis- a ed authenticity, which claims for ~ m a continuous existence as a Ko a people of about 5,000 years, the ~ ier part of which, of course, is 2uded in the mists of tradition and le. t a A Fatal Fight. n a fight near Valden, Miss., A aron!I wart and his son on one side andt W. Hill and two sons on the er, on Wednesday, Hill and onet were killed and his other son was ' ously wounded.' They fought:t h pistols about a boundary line. A WILD MOB. The Homes of Negroes Burnt in Ohio by White Men. ANOTHER NIGHT OF TURMOIL. Governor Herrick Was Very Slow in Ordering Troops to The Rescue of the Colored People. A dispatch from Springfield, 0., ays intense excitement prevails here Lt an early hour Wednesday morning which not even the presence of seven ompanies of national guard can allay. Lhis excitement is shared by all the usiness men and property owners of the city, the fear that some negroes vill attempt to avenge the burning of he levee districts by firing the down own business houses or their homes n the residence district. So far the egroes have not tried to make good heir threats to dynamite the county ail to "even up" with Sheriff Rout ahn for permitting the negro mur lerer Dickson to be taken by the mob donday night without the she! ding of Mlood to save him. Not a fourth of he business district of the city is ender patrol by either militia or police ad it looks as if a close guard would gave to be kept for several days to revent further incendiarism. It is hought, however, that the troops .ow on hand will be able to save the restern levee district in West Vashington street, which the leaders penly dec'ared they would set fire to s soon as the work in the eastern half f the street was completed. There is .ttle or no disorder, the mob of 2,000 ien standing quietly watching the pread of the flames in the neighbor ood of Spring and Gallagher streets, nd apparently ready to help if it ould show signs of spreading beyond e confines they originally set for it. When the leaders of the mob passed own off of East High street early last vening to begin the work of burning 1e levee residences, Father John ogan, assistant pastor of St. Rap ael's church, got down on his knees a the sidewalk and implored them to asist in their work as they might art a fire they would not be able to )ntrol. The incendiarists paused ily a moment, a few of them cursed im and then went quickly' on to be in their task. So far the fire loss >es not exceed $30,000. DETAILS OF NIGHT OF TRIAL. Threats throughout the day and hursday evening to burn the levee, ie negro district of the city, confirm I Mayor G. J. Bowlus in his behalf iat more trouble was brewing Thurs ty night and he asked Governor Her ck for troops. Two companies from ayton and one each from Miamis irg, Urbana and Columbus, have sen promised to reinforce the two cal companies. Many of the negroes of the city were irely and moody Thursday night, and I was realized that only a spark was I .eded to set off the magazine of a ce war. At 9:30 o'clock Thursday ghtthe crowd gathered in the levee strict numbered 1,500 and one or yo revolver shots had been fired at ~ndom. By 9:30 o'clock a crowd of 2,0001 en had assembled along the Big Four ilroad tracks almost blockading rashington street which is known as : ie levee from Fountain avenue. Two Lmdred negroes were clustered >gether just west of Fountain avenue, tthe levee district near the place lled Honkytonk. The negroes were unusually quiet id seemed to be waiting for a start >be made by the white men. The :her crowd was boisterous and there' ere frequent yells and several pistol iots heard, although no one has been ~ported injured so far. At 11:20 the threat of the mob, fre-I ently made through the day and renhg, was finally made good and a )lume of flame was seen to shoot up 'om the rear of a place occupied by Les" Thomas, a saloon keeper. Pre iding the firing of the building, the ob at a distance of a hundred feet, ot at the front of the bumlding for a lf hour, but it is not known whether ay of the occupants had remained in 1e building and: if they did whether a fatalities resulted from the shoot ig. The fire spread both ways from homas' place. I It is understood that the negro >pulation -is highly incensed at Sher I Routzahn for not using greater rce in protecting Dixon. Sheriti outzahn had been warned that the iant the torch was applied in fashington street he had better re ove his family from the jail as that istitution was to be immediately vnamited. Throughout thie day there has been* vague unrest in every (quarter of the: ty. The body of the lynched negro as taken from the telegraph pole at oclock Thursday morning and placed ia little undertaking shop. Through 'e forenoon fully 15,000 people saw he body and stood about the city in coups. The police and officials were orried, but did not seem to know hat was best to do. At noon the undertaking office was osed. The crowds did not disperse, ad nobody seemed to be working. At ightfall there were reports of threat ed trouble-flying thick and fast and be crowds in the streets grew larger. t was rumored that the negroes would ttempt to burn the city and the in irance 'men appealed to Mayor Bow s to protect them. The police were i a state bordering on panic after eir horrible experience at the jail he night before. The company of militia from Xenia rrived at 1:30 (Wednesday morning)' nd were immediately sent towards te levee by a circuitous route. Company NI. of the Fourth regiment, f Xenia, and Company. D. of the hird regiment, of Urbana, are now icketed along the Big Four railway racks facing the burning district long East Washington street. There re 225 enlisted men in each. At 12:45 o'clock three cars attached o the eastbound Big Four train arought Compa:iies G and K, of D~ay on, and Company H,. of Miamisburg. They were stationed at various points o prevent ingressof either negroes or bers would permit, will forestall any efforts to burn the immediate business district. At that, however, there is grave danger of the tire starting in the great outlying districts. among the factories or dwelling houses and ten times the number of -troops now on hand would be entirely insufficient to prevent incendiarism. The tire in East Washington street has burned out exactly the district the mob should go. and there is now no danger of it spreading either fur ther east or west or to the north where the fashionable East High street district, including St. Raphael's Catholic church was for a while in imminent danger from the spread of the flames. Charles Jackson, aged 11), a negro, flourished a big revolver in the pre sence of a small crowd of whites in Primrose alley and within two minutes a mob of several hundred surrounded him and he was hidden by the police to save his life. He was held at: headquarters all night, the police fearing to remove him to the county jail. DISPENSARY APPOINTMENT. A Large Number Held Over and Few Changes Are Made. The new state liquor commissioner, t W. 0. Tatum, of Orangeburg, Tues- t day announced his appointment for1 the term. There are a number of changes and transfers, but several j men aie retained, and the result will f be somewhat of a surprise to those c who thought that the new commis- 1 sioner, would make a clean sweep. Mr. G. H. Charles is retainee as clerk i of the board of director. Mr charles e has served in this office a long time o and is fully up to its duties. The book keepers, Messrs. M. Ii. Mobley, B. A. t Hawkins and W. M. Eder, all remain, g as does Mr. T. W. Collins as inv)ice f bookkeeper in the commissionser's | vice. Mr. C. J. Lynch, former ship ping clerk, is displaced by Mr. L. L. t Baker, and Mr. J. H. Claffy, of Or- u ngeburg, is made superintend, :nt. Both of these men have been disp~en- s ;ers, the former in Batesburg. Mr. p r. E. Dickson, former superinten- r lent, has been made contrabant clerk, t :isplacing Mr. W. W. Harris. Mr. c Dickson has been in the dispensary a aumber of years. Mr. W. J. Powers j 1 ontinues in office as shipping clerk, E ut Mr. Thomas Reasoner is displaced t 'y Mr. W. H. Sondley, a new appoint- C nent. C Mr. J. E. Ehrhardt retains his po ;ition as assistant superintendent. as| oes Miss E. P. Barrigan as stEno- Is rapher to the commissioner. The c nspectors, Messrs. W. J. NicCartha, .. H. Dean and C. L. Brown have 0 >een retained, but J. C. Richards, of t [ershaw, formerly a member of the S egislature is appointed in place of N. a: a. Stausel. No appointment has been nade yet. for the inspectorship now xcupied 'y Z. T. Searson. g A new office has been created by c( Jommissioner Tatum, that of stock P >ookkeeper, and this place is to be illed by J. T. Parks, of Orangeburg, t he editor of the Orangeburg Patriot. S ['his otliice is made 'because of the. P mormoas amount of stock handled. s1 A Good Man Gone. d The Columbia State says "it was b yut a week ago that many friendse vere called upon to mourn the death >f Mrs. O. A. Darby, and now comes p ~he announcement of the death ofj'T hat faithful servant of the South re larolina conference, iRev. 0. A. Darby TI >f Sumter county. It was feared that b he blow caused by the death of his T vife had affected him very greatly, h nd while the news of Dr. D~arby's f eath was not expected it did not reate such a shock as it would other- al ise. The Statte Wednesday night h; eceived a telegram from Mr. E. D). pl ;mith of Lynchburg stating: "Rev. l ). A. D~arby died suddenly Wednes- f lay afternoon at 7 o'clock. His wife lied suddenly just ten days ago. H~e b2 vas in apparently good health up to he time of his death. Funeral at r Washington Street church at noon riday" S Senator Tillmian Sick. C A dispatch from Washington says 'C enator Tillman of South Carolina is ery ill with a serious throat trouble. E ~Iis friends are much concerned as it ia s impossible for him to swallow and tlittle liquid nourishment is all that b 3e can take. A thorough examinationFg as made of the Senator's throat Vedesday and disclosed the fact thatb tnl abscess had formed on the left ~ocsil. It is slid to be a very small z >ne and the physicians believe it can >e relieved without great difliculty. a: in operation will be performed Thurs lay morning. A fter that several daysa )f complete rest will be necessary by which time the phsicians hope the broat agaiu will be in its nor~nal ~ondition. The statement was made n Lt the senator's house Wednesday 2ight that his condition is not de ng rous and that he has only a 'eryC light fever. R(adiumi Goes Up. -- al L. D). Gardner, importer of radium, with i.flices Ia the Temple Court a uilding, gives out the startling news ~hat the price of radium has increased ~4,200,000 a pound in two days. The ~ommercial rate last week was $8,400, )00. now it is $12,600,000. Mr. Gard 1er belives the rate will be even Fh 2igher. "By April 1," he says, it will be al -nost impossible to buy ra lum at any figure. We now get all l adium from Europe, this c:)untry aving been unable to extract it so;F ar. Tbe increase in price will stim ilate American prospectors. In Tiah 13 Jolorado, Texas and other Western, tates, pitch-blended, carnotile, fer- 10I usonite and uranite have b~ten dis >overed, b)ut 'I have not neard that radium has been extracted from these ai rticles." Don't Blame Her. At New York, Mrs. Eva A bernathy, who, according to her hisband,, isI anly 26 y-:ars old, was put in the psy hopathic ward at Bellevua Hospitall last nigt t. She lives at 126 WestE Thirty-first .street. Her husband, a porter, said that she had been made ti insane by the care of their thirteen p hildren, all of whom are alive. She o: tas made threats, he said, to kill her- y POSTOFFICES OWNED By Senators and Representatives Who Are Involved in Scandal. EONEY VALUE OF "INFLUENCE." notber Chapter in Last Summer's Postoflice Investigation. Dif ferent Forms of Crooked Business LetOut. Another chapter in the postoffice nvestigation of last summer was re .ealed Thursday when Chairman )verstreet of the house committee cn ostottices and post roads laid before he house of representatives a closely )rinted document of 218 pages re ounting the instances on file in the ostofflce department in which mem ers of the senate and house of repre entatives have used their "influence" vith otlicials of the postoffce depart nent, with more or less success, to se ure increases in tie salaries of post nasters, add itianal clerk hire and ad 'antageous leases for buildings for >ostotlice purposes. The report was made by the unani nous vote of the members of Mr. )verstreet's committee, in response o a resolution calling for the informa ion. introduce.d by Representative lay of Virginia. As the information ccompanies the report, the commit ee recommended that the resolution iy on the table. Three cases are set orth in which members of congress wn buildings which are leased to the overnment for pastotmce purposes. he members involved are J. W. Vadsworth of New York: J. D. Bow rstock, of Kansas, and Geo. L. Lilley f Connecticut. The history of 161 cases is given in be report wherein members of con ress figure in getting authorization r clerk hire in excess of th. amount de cnfi.e in question was en' itled to. [any of these increast(s w ore only iporary, and have been d scontin ed. Among those whose "I fluence" emed good with the post office de artment are Senator Clay :tnd Rer sentative Griggs of Georg;a; Sent r Pitchard secured an increase for terk hire of Greenville, N. C., fror2 70 to $1.50 per annum. which on Dec. 1903, was discontinued altogether. re also secured an increase from $4') > $150 for Wake Forest, N. C., whic 3 as reduced to the former amount ct. 1, 1903. Senator McLaurin appears for an icrease in South Carolina. Repre mntatives Brownlow and Gibson se ired several increases in Tennessee hich have been reduced since. Si:: it of 11 cases in Virginia are down > the credi:, of Representative Swan >n, while Park Agnew's name als> ppears f >r ethers in this State. There are accounts of 177 instarce; !. the repor ; where members of con ress have niade recommendations in 1 nnection with leases of buildings for >stomce pt rpcses. Senator Overman is the owner of fe building in which the postotlice at dlisbury, N. C., is located. The re >rt says that on taking his seat as a nited States senator he offered to irrender the lease, but the offer was aclined by the government, it being tid that the lease was not invalidat I by his election as senator. The report files in the postoffce de Lrtment indicate that the offce at1 uskagee, Ala., is owned by the Rep sentative Thompson of Alabama. he report gives the correspondence etween Beavers and Representative] hompson at his successful efforts to 3.ve the rent allowance increased] om *240 to $300 annually. The following names of senators 3d members appear in the report as! wving made representations to the >stoflice department concerning the, ases of premises for postoffces and] r allowances for rent, fuel and light. Alabama -Representativees Bank sad and Clayton, Senator Pettus. Connecticut-Representatives Hien-1 Hill-and Lilly. I Georgia-Representative Griggs. Illinois-Representatives G. W. nith, Marsh, Graff, Mann, Senator allom, ex-Senator Mason, Speaker innon. Indiana-Representatives Watson, emenway, Cromer, O)verstreet, Brick: 3d C. B. Landis. wa-Representatives Connor, Hep irn, Hull, Cousins, Thomas, Hau en and Senator D)olliver. Kansas-Representatives Calder- ~ sad. Curtis an:1 Bowersack. Louisianna-Representatives Brea ale, Ransdell and Senator McEnery. 1 Maine-Representatives Burieigh 3d Allen. Maryland-Representatives Jackson ] 3d Pearrie. Massachusetts - IR e p r-e sentatives overing and Greene. Michigan-representatives Gard tr. Smitb, F'ordney, Hamilton, ishop, Win. A . Smith and Darragh. Minnesota-Representatives Mc-] leary and '.Jarney.] Nebraska-Ilepresentative Burkett, New .Jersey-Representati' IHowe: 3d Gardner. New Yort--Representativ -s Alei 2der, Breeland, Ketcham, ha ermar, Tadsworth. Pa.yne and Litt~ i or. North Car oliaa-Senator Uvermar. North Dakota~- R e p r e s .entative palding. Ohio-Reoresentatives Yan Vooi s, Skiles and Grosvenor. Pennsylva'bia - Rt e p r e s e ntativt s ragner, Bates. Evans, Achesen, Sit y, .Daizell .md Butler. South Carolina - R e p'resentatives indley. South Dakota -R ep r es entative urke. Tennessee-Representatives Browr - w. Texas-Representative Bu rleson. Vermont - Representatives Foste r 3d Haskins. Virginia-Representative Swansor. 5 Washingt..n-Representative Custl an.i West Virginia - Rt e p resentatives I ughes and Dayton. I Wisconsir - Representatives Mino, 1 enkins, Cooper, Davidson, B3abcock , sch and Brown.- i A supplemnenth1 list is appended to 3 2e report i:icluding the names of Rhe resentatives Burnett and Thompson I Alabama and Representatives W. T. Kitchen and Small of North Caro nn. 1 DAMAGE BY FLOODS. Many Families are Rendered Home less Much Money Lost. The city of Wilkesbarre and the Wyoming valley in Pennsylvania, was in a turmoil Wednesday. The mighty flow of water spread cut north and south west, making the north branch of the Susquehanna river a vast, mad dened, coursing lake, sweeping in its path whatever there was to invade, and the scene was more terrifying than on Tuesday. At Plymouth the entire business section of the town is under water. Only a few business houses escap ed the flood, and as a result the merchants ha ve lost thousands of dol lars worth of goods. The ice is gorged there and the water backed up no rapidly Wednesday afternoon to leave their homes, and are now living on the upper flocrs. Over a million dollars worth of prop erty has been destroyed in the Wyom ing valley anc over two thousand fam ilies rendered homeless. Though the river is falling at Wilkesbarre Wed nesday night, towns in the vicinity of Bloomsburg are experiencing the worst flood in their history. Three span: of the great steel bridge erected by the state at Catawissa were .swept f om their piers early in the afternoon and carried four hun dred yards by the ice and Wednes day evening the two remaining spans collapsed. Mill street. at Danville, the busi ness thoroughfare of that city, was under water Wednesday night for its whole legth more than a mile. The ice moved at Danville early in the afternoon and carried the great cov .red river brigde from its piers. The water works of Danville are under water and the city is without electric Light and gas. Two hundred families gave been forced to leave their homes. Congressman Croft Dead. A dispatch from Washinkton dated \Iarch 9, says: "Representative Neorge W. Croft of the Second con gressional district of South Carolina s critically ill at his home here and t 1ope of his recovery has been aban- t loned. He is suffering from. blood oisoning'with complications of storm Lch trouble and heart failure due to 1 >rotracted illness. Heart stimulants Lnd saline solution are being admin- e stered, but they are giving only in lifferent relief, and his death is be ieved to be but a question of a few C iours. Mr. Croft's brother, a physi- t ,ian of Aiken, S. C., is with him. Mr. 3roft's illness dates back about eight veeks when he suffered an inflamma- c ion of the right hand, due, it is be- 3 ieved, primarily to a splinter which f vas removed from the pr.lm after he C iad been sick several days. For a ime the inflammation decreased and dr. Croft apparently was better: ater, however, it again became acute t mnd spread with greater virulence a han before, the whole right forearm t >eing affected. Mr. Croft is 57 years f age, Is a well known lawyer of t south Carolina and was leading coun- 1 el for the defense in the Tillman trial C ast year." He died Thursday. C s Insane Man's Freak. At 'Valdosta, Ga., a negro named a rohn Wesley Stevens was adjudged in- .i ane and will be sent to the asylum. t {e had been terrorizing the negroes I ;round Clayatteville and Olympia.and 1 vas arrested Saturday and started to i he city on the train. When some a istance this side of Olympia he umped head-foremost through the S ar window and took to the woods. v~ Ie was found Sunday in a lake, wad- t ng around in water up to his neck. c Je was finally arrested again and i >rought here for trial. The negro y ias some lucid moments, though he a uffers perin'die spells, caused by hay- c ng his-head crushed under a wagon i rheel some time ago. a A Big Plant. The Secretary of State Tuesday , ssued a comn-ission to the Pope Clay ~ ?roduct Company of Aiken which will iave a capitalization of $700,000.1 Che corporators are J. C. Mosser and . C. Murphy of Harrisburg, Pa. This oncern is backed by Andrew Carnegie ,nd will manufacture aluminum from he kaolin with which Aiken abounds. rhe manufacture of pottery, glass ,nd fire brick also will be conducted. rhe clay of St uth Carolina is attract ng great attl ention now, a $100,000 oncern havin; been chartered recent y to make pa nt out of the3 inexhaust ble ochre bed.; near Columbia. A Railway Massacre. The southbound limited express, on t he Alabama Great Southern, run- e ing sixty miles an hour, collided 5 ead-on, with a north-bound Southern c iailway freight near Kewanee, Miss, c arly Tucsiay. According to reports eceived there, no passengers were 1; :illed, but - five railway employees g ost their lives, several were injured t .nd parts of both trains were burned. It rhe dead are: Engineer P. P. Larkin, I 'ireman Henry Banks, colored; i sobinson Riggs, mail clerk; D. D %icholson, mail clerk; Express Messen :er J. H. Hinds. Both roads use the amne track near Kewanee. The ex iress train was three hours late. -J r opion ofChna. I United States Commercial AgentJ1 1. T. Greener, at Viadivostock, has o ransmitted to the departme3nt of ammerce~ and labor the following V rom a Chinese publication *n the ensus of China: "According to the lF ast census taken in-China, by imnpe- 1i ial order, in view reassessing taxes, he total number of inhabitants 0 ,mounted to 426,447,325 souls. The S 8 Chinese provinces proper had 407, c '37,305; Manchuria, 8,500,000: Mon- d ~olia, 3,354,000; Tibet. 6,430,000 and t hinese Turkestan, 426,000 inhabi- t ants." _______ Poisoned by Mail. A dispatch from Des Yoines, Iowa. t ays sending poisoned caady to RenalE Kelson of Pierre, South Dakota, re- j ulted in her death.- Gcvernor Cum ius has announced that under the b owa laws, sending poison through he mail is an extradible o1fense. He i ays no penalty is provi led in Iowa Ia or the offense, and he .cnows of no 1i: vay in which Mrs. Sterman Die,~ moder arrest at Boone, charged with'3 nurdering Miss Nelson, can be prose- Ic uted. She probably will be released. I ' he was jealous of husband's' atten- v .ins to victim. 1 COTTOI PRODUCTION. Some Thoughtful Remarks on the Subject from Southern Field. The Southern Field says the South in times past has grown too much cot bon, grown it unadvisedly, as well, in the case of hundreds and thousands of individual farmers and planters, with )ut intelligent cultivation. Always the great money crop and the one ,asiest to market, as well as the one about which so many, especially the aegro farmers, know most, men have )een kept raising it to their own Setriment. The trouble was not that :he world's production of cotton was too large, but that the whole atten :ion was given to cotton, season in eason out, while the farmer had to pend money. for hay and other feed or his stock and for all thathis family ised, instead of raising on a portion of lis farm the farm produce and forage which he needed, thus making the sotton crop cost much more than it )ught, while the land was being im )overished by the non-rotation of :rops. With cotton his only crop, mnd a cash outlay necessary for all pro isions and forage, the smaller farmer ad to market as soon as the crop was nade, with the result that the lowest )rices resulted. Disaster necessarily )ften followed, especially in the years >f general panic and depression, when he demand for cotton declined. The ast few years. however, have been )etter for cotton growers. Two years lave been rich ones for him, and all he indications are that they must sontinue so. The time has arrived when more ,otton must be grown to supply the orld's demands. The yield of cotton ias not increased of late in ratio to .he increased demand and consump ion. Two years of short crops have nade this especially evident, and peo )le ae heard speculating as to the upply of the future. Several things lave co-operated in bringing about his change. One of the influences is he great development of the textile adustry in the Southern States, which tas made a home demand for raw cot on, at the same time the manufac urers have been extending the markets or their products,- thus diminishing he amount available for export, essening the supply of foreign mills, rhich have not been able to find one lsewhere. Undoubtedly, too, recent dvances in textile manufacturing, by vhich new uses have been found for otton, have had much influence upon he demand for the staple. The continued non-rotation of crops as destroyed for a time a good deal of otton land and thus cut down the ield. The awakening 'of Southern armers to the value of a diversity of rops has reduced the cotton acreage. 'he scarcity of labor, caused in great easure by the leaving of the farms y both whites and negroes for the Dwns, the factories, the mills, mines nd other work, has helped to lessen he acreage and decrease the yield. 'he result of all this has been to put he price of raw cotton where it be 2gs and make' the cultivation of it ne of the most profitable of all kinds f agriculture, and also to cause wiie pread discussion as to the future sup ly of cotton, as well as regards the bility of the South to greatly increase is yield. The poorest crop of cotton he South has had for years, that of 903, from the high prices, meant at mast 8500, 000,000 to her people, mak zg it the most important of all gricultural crops. The question as to the ability of the outh to produce the cotton of the rorld, or the most of it, bears directly pon the question of the value of the rop to the producer. The South will zcrease the acreage in cotton this ear very materially. This will natur 1y follow the great profits from the rop of last year. Much land which as been devoted to other crops will gain be put in cotton, but this will ot make such a great difference as at rst may be thought. Many farmers ho have learned to diversify crops ave seen the profit in the practice nd will not abandon it. Many have aft the cotton fields for good. To in rease the cotton crop to its proper ize two things there must be, a great r care in cultivation and an influx of otton growers, small cotton farmers, r of cotton field laborers. The pre ent situation .alakes a fine opening or the intelligent farmer from the forth or Europe. It adds greatly to be opportunity in the South for good irmers. These should be farmers rho will not make cotton their whole rop, depending entirely upon it and ending their money out of the coun ry for their food, their forage and en for their srock, but farmers who rill diversify their labors and make otton simply one of their many pro ucts. There is no derth of good cotton. mds in the South, nor of lands for eneral farming purposes. Some cot on lands have run down until often ey fail to yield profitably, just as )akota wheat fields have run down rom continuous crops of wheat. The outh is not a one-crop country; on3 he contrary, it is the best country in he world for diversified crops. The ld cotton lands in most cases simply eed a rotation of crops and the right id of farming to make them yield, 2stead of 200 lbs., from 500 to 800 r more pounds per acre. There are millions of acres too hich have never had a plow on them. hen it is remembered that farm nds in the South are cheaper than any other section of the country, it1 ill be seen what an opportunity is pen to the immigrant from other tates. The Northern man can raise~ tton successfully; and while he is oing it he can sell his extra produce other cotton planters who follow e one crop. Commencing Early. The New York A merican says spec tors in .Justice Truax's part of the upreme Court were amazed yester ay when Mrs. Bertha McCallum testi ed in her-sait. for the annuimnent of er marriage l ast summer to Percy [c~allum. TI e Justice drew a lorrg reath as he looked at her--a child in ppearancZe. S ae testified that after ving with he~r husband for three1 reeks she returned to her parents, [r. and Mrs. Max Weiss. because he guld not support her. Mr. and Mrs. eiss testified that their daughter rould not be sixteen until April 9. nte Tmua reserved decision. MARES GOOD START. New Russian Commander at Port Arthur Uses New Tactics. ATTACKS THE JAPANESE FLEET And Sinks One Torpedo Boat andt Loses One Torpedo Boat Destroyer. The J a p s Were Surprised. The Russian torpedo boat flotilla left Port Arthur at broad day light Thurday morning and attacked the Japanese fleet. One Japanese torpedo boat was sunk and one Russian tor pedo boat destroyer, the Bezposht chadni, was sunk. Admiral Maka roff inaugurated his assumption of the. command of the Russian fleet at Port Arthur by a complete. change of tac tics. As soon as he appeared he or dered the removal of the battleship Retvizan, which was stranded at the mouth of the harbor and barred the channel at certain stages of the tide, making the egress of battleships im possible. Thursday morning he di rected a sortie of the torpedo boat,' flotilla, supported by part of the Bus sian squadron, against the Japanese. WHAT ALEXIEFF SAYS. Viceroy Alexieff has sent the follow ing message to the-emperor: '"In the fight between our torpedo boats and the Japanese cruisers on March 10 Capt. Mattoussevich, Ensign Alexandroff and Mechanical Engineer Blinoff received slight wounds, and Ensign Zaeff was severely wounded in the head, losing his right eye. The commandant at Port Arthur reporte the following details df thE bolmbard-. ment of the fortress on March 10: 'A soon as the enemy opened fire our ba teries replied. Six of the enemys ships remained behind the Liao Tishin promontory and opened fire on the' fortress over that shelter. They ceased bombarding at 1.15 p. m. The enemy fired about 200 projectiles. - One shell from battery No. 15, on Electric Cliff, damaged a Japanese cruiser seriously. "The resultsof the. bombardment were insignificant; sir soldiers were wounded. Three inhab itants of the town were killed and one. was seriously wounded. Accord ing to Gen:-Stoessel's report the offi ers and soldiers in the shore batteries displayed exemplary courage and,fired their guns in perfect order." A MORE DELAILED REPORT. "Admiral Makaroff, 'commandin the feet, reports from Port Arthur under date of March 10 as follows: "Six torpedo boats whicht went oo%' to sea the night of March 10, four them being under the general con, nand of Capt. Mattousevitch, ed ountered the enemy's torpedo boats 'ollowed by cruisers. A . hot a'ction mnsued in which the torpedo boat lestroyer Vlastini discharged a white lead torpedo and sunk one oft the mnemy's torpedo boats. Oa the., way, Sack the torpedo boat 'destroyer.: 3tereguschtchi, commanded by Lieut. 3Brgueiet,.. sustained damages; her mgine was distbled and-she began to rounder. By 8 o'clock in the morning ive of our-*torpedo bost destroyers 2ad returned. When the critical position of the Stereguschtchl became evident, I hoisted my flag on the sruiser Novik and sent the cruiser Boyarin to the rescue. But as five f the enemy's cruiserssurrounded our lestroyer and as their battleship. iquadran was apprjoaching, I did not succeed in saving the Stereguschtchi, wvhich foundered. Part of the crew w'as made prisoners and part was frowned. "On the ships which participated in the night attack, one officer was eriously -and three others were'slighi, ly wounded; two soldiers were killed and 18 were wounded. At 9 o'clock 14 af the enemy's ships assembled before Port Arthur and a bombardment was begun with the heavy guns of their battleship squadron at long range. I'his ulasted until 1 o'clock in the Liternoon. It is estimated that the snemy fired 154 12-inch shells. The lamage to our vessels was insigniti ~ant, and they are again ready for oattle. Ouir losses were one officer ;lightly wounded and one soldier kill d and four soldiers wounded. The llumination of the seaast night by ~he searchlishts mounted at our bare ~eries was most satisfactory and sei ~ral ti~nes isolated shots from our >atteries forced the enemy's torpedo - aoats to retire. "With the announce nent of the bombardment at dawin - ~he guras of the fortress replied to the - ~nemy's fire. "The-crew on board all ~he ships engaged gave proof of re narkable coolness in action. 'Below lecks the work of the day followed its >rdinary course in spite of the shells ailing between the vessels and cover-* ng them with fragments. "A born ardment at such a distance must be ~onsidered ineffective, but the .Tapan ~se cruisers Takasigo is reported to iave been seen to suffer serious dam Lge, the extent of which, however, it ras Impossible to ascertain at a dis ~ance of five miles. Many shells were ired at a range of 7 1-2 miles." - - Section Hands Killed. - At Harrisburg, Pa.., four unidenti led men were burned to death in a ox car containing gasoline, which saught fire near Harrisburg Wednes lay. T wo others bacely escaped with 5heir lives. The men were employed Ls section hands. One man lighted iis pipe near the cask of gasoline rhich exploded. She Must Work. A court at Coshocton, 0., has en oined a woman who is suing her hus >and for divorce from abandoning her iousehold duties, ordering that she nust make his bed and cook-his meals Luring the pendenc7, of the action. ['his would seem to be, carrying gov rnment by injunction to the limit. Murder and Suicide. At Trenchtown, N. J., Miss Mary Tyker, pretty youn:; school teacher, s dying, and Paul Weaver. eighteen rears old is dead, as the -result of his usane jealousy which led him Wednes lay night to make a murderous attack m the girl with a pistol, and when ursued by a posse of his neighbors ie took his own life.