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VOL. xiii. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 17, 1904. NO.47 Parker Nol His s The Formal Speech of Notification Made by Congressman Champ Clark. MANY DEMtOCRATS AHEND Amid the Thunders of Applause the Candidate Hears the Call of Democracy and the People. At Esophus, N. Y., where he lives, Judge Alton B. Parker on last Wed nesday received formal notiication of h's nomination for the Presidency of the United States as the candidate of the Democratic party, and in accept Ing gave public expression for the first time of his views on the issues of the campaign. The notification was brought to him by Representatives Camp Clark, of Missouri, as chairman of a committee representing every State and Territory in the Union. Mr. Clark, in a brief speech informed the candidate of his nomination, and presented to him a formal communication signed by the committee. Standing bear headed, during a brief lull In the rain storm which had lasted since soon after daylight, Judge Par ker accepted the nomination and set forth his views in a speech that evck ed frequent and hearty applause. He spoke for a little more than half an hour. The ceremony was held on the lawn at Rosemount, under the trees at the north of the house, and was attended by upwards of 600 persons, the larger number of whom came from New York City with the notification committee on the steamer Sagamore. The Com pany included many Democrats of na tional prominence, as well a, a large and represeatative delegation from Tammany Hall. There would have been a gala da~y gathering from Kingston and vicinity where perhaps the Judge is best known, but the rain had been so heavy and so continuous that few local peo ple ventured forth. It was at first decided to hold the ceremonies on the Sagamore, owing toj the storm, but the protest of those who wanted Judge Parker notifled at his own house was so vigorous that at the last moment the little platform erect-, ed on the Parker lawn was hastily dec orated with flags and the cert monihs were held there according to the orig inal plan. During mcst of the tiime occupied by Champ Clark's speech the rain was falling in a steady drizzle, but it stop ped entirely just as Judge Parker t e gan his address, and held off until he inished. Representative Clark w~as~ speaking and Judge Parker was standing bare headed without shelter when a man in the crowd called: "Somebody hold an umbrella over Judge Parker." A number were immediat~ly titered but the Judge refused them with a! courteous wave of the hand. "Justice' for all, special privileges for none," said Mr. Clark, and the spectators showed their appreciaticn of the sally by a shout of laughter. While Judge Parker -was speaking there was no need of shelter. The rain stopped and not a breath of air stir red. In the stillness, every word could be heard distinctly to the farthest bor ders of the crowd. It Is long years since Judge Parker has beed heard in a political speech, and to most of his hearers he was at solutely new in this capacity. Toey beard him with a keen interest, not unmixed with curiosity. The address was delivered in the clearest tones, in a voice seldom raised above the c >nver sational pitch, but per fectly audible, nevertheless. His enunciation was Ciis tinct and his delivery exceeding'y de liberate. He used few gestures, mak ing his emphasis almost entirely with his voice. He adhered to the text of his written address, with th'e wording of which he appeared perfectly famil iar, though he held a copy in his hand and followed it somewhat closely .with his eyes while speaking. The speech was heard with closest attention and applause frequently punctuated it. The candidate's audi ence awoke to a high pitch of enthusi asm when he spoke of so called mili tarism and imperialism. "Ours is a world power," said he, "and as such it must be maintained, but I deny that it is at all recently that the United Statt s has attained that eminence." When he enunciated this principle there came a burst of cheers that caused the speaker to wait a few minutes before he continued, ils pledge notjto accept a second term if he was elected aroused instant in terest, which increased to marked en thusiasm when the speaker went on to explain his position. Then the crowd seemed to yield to the force of his rea soing and at the end of a particularly telling period toward the close of the speech, it gave the candidate the greatest' demonstra ion of the after noon. It looked as thoughr every man, woman and child in the throng sur rounding the platform had a smahl America Ilag and as they cheered the waving flags almost concealed the oc cupants of the stand. Tue speaker waited for the applause to subside and then made his few concluding re marks, finishing his address at six minutes before three. He began L-2 address at 2.1S P. M 111000 ifi*ed of ~omination HE WAS SMOOTH. A Mac.>n Hotel Man Up Against t] Real Article. A dispatch from Macon, Ga., to t Augusta Chronicle says Propriet Ben. L. Rendricks, of the Park hott Wednesday morning swore out a wa rant in the city court for W. N Craig, one of his guests, who has d parted for parts unknown and w! has not paid the proprietor his bill f, lodging since last Wednesdal. From what can be judged Craig Lne of the smoothest citizens th: ever visited the Central City. I came to this place last WednesdE and said that he wos an expei chaffeur representing the New Yoi Safety Steam Power company, at that he intended to give a free e: bibition for the benefit of the peop who ride in these parts. He did n< have his machine and said that would arrive in a few days. He toc particular pains to have a number persons about the hotel hear hi telephoning to the freight departmei of the Southern railway and askit them to change the route of his racir auto which had been billed throug mistake by way of New Orleans. He ais,) hurriedly opened a letter i the ho:el Wednesday in the presen of Mr. Hendricks and others, fro, which he produced a check for $98.6 This he asked the hLtel man to casl But Mr. Hendricks was wise. E telegraphed about the New Yo, Safety Steam Power company and w, told by one bank that no such estal lishment was known. Craig, however, was able to b->rro a few dollars on the strength of tt check. Later, however, he gave draft on the concern. The wires we used and nothing satisfactory wa learned. In the meantime thinj were getting so warm on the track ( Craig that he disappeared Tuesda night some time or early Wednesda morning. The police of the variot cities and towns of the state ha% been notified to look out for Craig. As -Judge Parker spoke his closin words the band struck up 'Tte St Spangled Banner," and from the dec of the yacht Sapphire in the river b low a numbE r of bombs were fired I salute. These bursting in the air, ri leased parachutes from which we] suspended the national colors. LatV there were whistle salutes from tt steamer Sagamore, Jobn Pierce' yacl Sapphire and August Belmont's yachi The Scout, which brought form( Senator David B. Hill from Hyd Park. After the ceremony all crowded u eagerly to shake the candidate's ban and to congratulate him upon h. spech. The reception was continued on th veranda until after 4 o'clock when tt company broke up and the visitors re turned to their boats and trains. Congressman Clark, in his notities tion speech, in part: "Your long and corspicut-us caree as a jur ist in one of the high st cour1 i'i the world-the period which yo have spent in expoundirg c~nstitt tions and statutes-cause your cjur trymen to believe that more exalte poition to which they are ab->ut 1 call you, you will cirry with you the prfound respect for the e nstitutic and the laws which with you Las bi cme a confirmed mental habit at upon which depends the perpetuity< our system of government. "Into your bands the great histor: party of costitutio al governmet hs commit'.ed its st andard with abit ing faith in your courage, your intei rity, your honor, your capacity at your patriotism, believing that und< your leadership we will achieve a sij nal victory, hoping that your admini: tration will be such a fortunate, sue a happy ep-ch in our annals as to mar the beginning of a long era of Demi cratic ascendency and that ycu wi so discharge the duties of your hig otice as to rank in history with ti greatest and best-beloved of Ameri can presidents. "The convention, according to Der ocratic custom, appointed a comnmitti -of which it did me the honor1 make me chairman for which I a deeply grateful -to convey to you o ficial information of your selection the Democratic nominee for presidei o the United States." Judge Parker's specoh in full will i found in another column. Crazed b~y Griet. At Olive Springs, Miss., frant with grief over the death of her hu band, Mrs. Annie Milk r McCari saturated her own hair and clctbii vith kerosene oil Wednesday and si Iherelf on fire in the public squar Spectators, horritied by the aw f spectacle, tried to aid her, bat si Ifought them off desperately, thoui she uttered no word, not even a moi to show her sufferings. Finally thw Imen with blankets surnounded h and extinguihhed the Ilames. Ti woman, unconscious fell to the grout and died in an hour. Mrs. McCari conducted the principal hotel in ti city, and when her husband, Attc ney W. H. McCargo, died several da: ago the shock unsettled her reaso The climax came in her fear ful act self-destruction. Wi Keep Them Busy. The 2001,000 workmren in P'ennls2 vaia who have been laid off, the :k 000 strikers in the New England mi: and the 30,000 working men who a out on account of the little ditfeienc with the beef trust will provide sui cent ground for prosperity taikers keep a'l the star Republican spe binders busy this year. Cotton is Hurt. Th'le fsrmers in many Sections of t State are complaining oJf too mu ran, particularly Colleton county, a unless there is a bold up in the tai the planters say their crop will be: riously damaged. Already the cott crop has suffered from too much a 'waher WINTHROP COLLEGE. List of the Young ladies Who Won Scholarships. HE LIST DOES NOT INCLUDE he Names or Those to Whom Fun1 Schoiarships Have Been Awarded Before the Late Examination. On July 8, 546 young women, at the trious county seats in South Caro na, applied for a scholarship in inthrop and stood the entrance ex :nination for admission: the results this examination have just been termined. The successful applicants ill be at once notified. Those interested are in all sections the State and, of course, they are 3xicus; some have been successful, hers must try again. The list is not complete and in the )unties of Anderson, Edgefield, New ,rry and York the result is not yet aown. The delay comes from vari is causes. The Act of the Legisla ire under which these scholarships e now awarded is a new one and Lrious limitations not before in force >w apply; sickness, lack of informa on as to details, both contribute to ie delay in these cases and as scon as >ssible the uncertainty will be ided. The following is the list as It now ands. This list does not include Lmes of those to whom full scholar tips have been awarded before, but ly those who have secured them by is last examination. The number lowing the name of county indi tes the number of scholarships va nt in that county when this exami tion was offered-the term "one mr" following any name indicates tat the award in this case is for one r only and that this scholarship ill be open for competition by ex nination again next year; this condi on is determined by the average ade in examination: Abbeville, (1) Eliza L. Mabry, Abbe le. Aiken, (3) Sarah M. Le;ley, Lang F; Erhel Coleman, one year, Earle; phelia Langston, (one year.) Lang Anderson, (4) report not complete. Bamberg, (1) Linnie Riley, (one ar.) Bamberg. Barnwell, (1) Blanche Baxley, Black le. Beaufort, (1) Alma Ohlandt, one ar, Beaufort. Berkeley, (3) Pearle Gilmore, Holly ill; Edra Barre, Pinopolis; EJith :iver, one year, Pinopolis. Ct-a:leston, (4) Ethel M. Lofton, ne year,) M.Clellanville; Sallie W. ntb, one year, Mount Pleasant. Cherokee, (1) Rena Wessinger, Gaff Chester, (1) Evelyn Albright, Ches r. Chesterfield, no vacancy. Clarendon, (2) Sallie B. Anderson, e year, Summerton; Sadie E. Tis le, one year, Manning. Colleton, (3) Bessie Barnwell, lams Run; Caroline E. Caldwell, one an, Walterboro; Mary E. Ackerman, e year, Cottageville. Darlngton, (3) Margaret Lawvrence, arlingt on; Fiorence A. Burn, Socie Hill; Emma Rogers, Society Hill. Dorchester, (1) Margaret Plnckney, immer ville. Fairfield, no vacancy.. Forence, (I) Jesie L. Wilson, one ar, Florence. Georgetwon, (2) Mildred L. Beaty, Le year, Georgetown; Annie Z. Vis tski, one year, Georgetown. Greenvilie, (1) Margaret J. Bailey, e year, Greenville. Greenwood, (I) Annie L. Tarrant, reen woc d. Hamptoa, (I) Arrie Lawton, one La, Garnett. Hor ry, (2) Sue Martin, one year, ynway. Kershaw, no vacancy. Lancaster, no vacancy. Laurens, (1) Dorothy L. Cromer, inton. Lexington, (3) Mary Eva Hite, Ltesburg; Eunice R. Wes-inger, Lex gton; Mary Barr, Leesville. Lee, no vacancy. Marion, (2) Vallie Bethea, Latta; ate Manheim, Marion. Marlboro, (2) Cora Belle Rogers, nnnettsville; Elizabeth G. Evans, te year, Kollock. ~New berry, report not complete. Ocones, no vacancy. Orangeburg. (3) Fann!e C. Walling, ort Motte; Julia G. Dibb'e, Orange rg; Justine E. Sanders, Orange 2rg. Pickens, (2) Mamie Ballentine, Eas y: Isadora Williams, Easley. Richland, (3) Mary Reynolds, Co mbia; Mamie Squier, Columbia: arie B. Duke, Columbia. Saluda, (2) M~aude Crouch, Bates rg~; Elise C. Rudd, one year, Saluda. Spartanburg, (I) Mamle C. Pearson, roodruff. Sumter, no vacancy. Union, (2) Mary Flynn, Union; Mary homas, Union. Williamsburg, Floride M. Harper, ingstrEe. York, (2) report not complete. The board of trustees has been very reul in its actition under the new t. At the cost of much work it as examined carefully all applications id the affidavits in support of them torder to see that no scholarship is warded except in full comformity to ne provisions of the Act. The importance of these scholarships the successful applicants Is very reat. Succes here ieally makes a ung woman independent. This holarship, with four dollars per an ua additional, will enable her to se ire a c.ollege education and special aining for teaching. its value is the reater because, awarded as it is, the holarship stands as the reward for ard and faithful work already done; ,is not of grace. Visitors from other sections com ent on this feature of Winthrop and )nsder it as bone of the mist far ~achig steps ever taken by a State to cure a supply of trained teachers for s public schools. It Is the special jission of Winthrop to supply the ver-growing demand for teachers; if ie demands can be met. The number oif applicants this year [conntinued on pae 4.] MYSTERIOUS MURDER Of an Unknown White Woman in the City of Columbia. FOUND IN BED BADLY BEATEN. Two Mysterlous Men Involved. No body Found Who Knows Any of the Trio. Preserved Their Identity. A white woman was found gasping her last lying on a bed at a litt'e three-room cottage on Plain street be tween Palaski and Huger Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock with a stab wound into the brain through the top of her. head near the forehead. She was blue-black from wounds inflicted on her limbs and trunk and it was evident tl-at she had been struck 50 or more severe blows. Several bloody cloths were found behind the screen in the fire place, another bloody cloth was found on the sofa in front of the screen and still another In a closet. A bloody sheet, from which attempts had been made lo wash out blood stains, was found wadded in a ball under the sofa, and the sofa was wet and blood-stained. In a washstand in the adjoining room was found a chi mes soaked with b'ood. In the fire place was found the two ends of a broken broom, and sticks with which the woman had evidently been beaten were found l)ing about the room. In a bureau drawer were found a re volver and a razor. All chambers of the revolver were loaded and there was nothing to show that it had been recently fired. The razor was new, had brobably never been used. In the room where the body was found a pint bottle with about a gill of whiskey left in it was discovered. WHO IS MAUD ALLEN? In the bureau drawer were found a number of receipts from Maxwell & Taylor, Main street furniture dealers, made out in the name of Maud Allen. A note addressed to Mr. H. H. Whitt, Brookland, who owns the house, was found on the bureau. Nearly every word in the note is misspelled. It was evidently written Thursaay morning by the murdered woman, though the signature is torn away. It asks him to see her "Thursday afternoon or Thursday night." But the police, af ter four hours' hard work Thursday night in conjunction with the coro ner, failed altogether to identify the woman. The only pirson who could be found Thursday night who had ever seen the woman was a negro woman named Mary Wylie, who lives just in the rear of the premises and whose two small boys have been acting as errand boy s for the occupants of the house. The Wylie woman last saw Maud Allen alive early Thursday morning, when she chatted with her in the yard of the premises where the body was afterwards found. The Allen woman had never complained of being ill treated, and she was then in appar ently her usual cheerful frame of minti. The Wylie woman shortly af terwar] went to work in another por tion of the city and did not again see the Allen wdman until she was called in wbien she reached home to look at her dead body. MYSTERIOUs "MAN OF THE HOUSE." The renter of the premises is a white man, whose identity is also a deep mystery'. He rented the place about thrEe weeks ago after a careful inquiry as to the orderliness of the neighborhood. He dces not seem to have given anybody his name, and the nearest the police are able to arrive at his occupation is by a statement from the Wylie woman to the effect that on one occasion the Allen woman admit ted that the renter of the premises made his living by gambling. The Wylie woman says that she made application to the Allen woman to do her cooking or her washing, but that all propositions of this kind were refused with the explanation that the man of the house objected to colored people coming about. This mysterious "man of the house,'' however, frequently made use of the Wylie woman's 10-year-old boy Wille, to whom he was very gener ous. Upon this boy the police have to depend for all the evidence of value they are able to get started so far. He say s that this man first sent him for a pint of whiskey, which he brought to him about 11 o'clock. TWO UNKXOWN MEN CONCERNED. Just after dinner, between 2 and :3 o'clock, probably, the boy was sitting on the front steps just after having run an errand. He beard loud curs ing and noises which indicated a fight on the inside and fearing injury to himself left and ran home. A short time after that the man app:ared at the door and calling to him had him bring two pitchers of water. About half an hour after that he was again summoned to the door and told to go to the nearest 'phone and call for a physician to come at once. This time the boy was given 10 cents. In about 15 minntes he was called again and told to 'phone again for a physician: he was given 25 cents this time. Just before Dr. S. M. Deal arrived in response to the call the renter of the premises walked leisurely out of the front door and another unknown man walked out of the rear door. They came in sight of each other on Huger street. The man who came out the rear door hurried'on down to ward the river bridge, while the other man went back into the house, re maining there but a minute and hur rying out and disappearing in the same direction as the other man. Coroner Green expects to hold the Inquest Friday, but there Is nc prospect of evidence being deduced that day to fix the crime on any. body and unless such evidence is forth coming it will be useless to hold the inquest. The body was Thursday night re moved to Van Metre's morgue. The woman's features were coarse and her face tells of dissipation. She was apparently between 25 and 30 years old. Her hair is auburn. She weighs about 125 pounds. The woman from the red light district with whom she is said to have recently lived was brought into the room Thursday night adgiven a good look at the bd.She said that she had seen the BRYAN'S GREAT SPEECH. The Charlotte News Mak s a Pre diction About Bryan. Allen White, the famous Kansas journalist, writing for Collier's Week 'ly has this to say of Bryan's great speech before the Democratic conven tion: "It must be considered one of the e I memorable orations of this prosy unor atorical day. It has been said that sjme words are so momentous that they become deeds. Bryan's were such. v As he talked, the purple shadows of I r' Lzhe coming day were seen through - the windows, and before he closed the a e-' 0: dawn was gray about him. He stcod d :r there surrendering his power, that v had come to his youth so suddenly. He had carried the banner of social o: Democracy in America further than a: e any other man had carried it. It is o not free silver that Bryan stands for, and heknew it, in the breaking day, e4 k when his party told him to stand b d aside. He believes that his idea k (whether he defnes it clearly or not 01 le is immaterial) is important to the ti t welfare of his country. Probably he a: t is wrong; but as he stood there sadly v k appealing to his party for his old n ,J cause, wbich he knew was a lost cause, ti M he seemed bidding farewell-a long tl t farewell-to all the power and glory p, that has teen the breath of his ei nostrils. He has lived cleanly, and has acted fairly and squarely accord- st ing to his lights. He is the idol of n; that party, of his branch of his party, si which stood for his ideas. These oi men live in the middle west. Thous- tl ands of them came many bund:ed ft miles to see him surrender, and he e( :e quit like a gentlemen with his colors ci t dying. M The editor of The News Is not what y, m-ght be called a Bryan Democrat tl though we are all plain Democrats yj w now, and is at the farthest removed w e from Populism. But we desire to ai a make a prediction that may be con- ti e veniently remembered if it comes m s true, to this Effect: s If Parker is elected be will probably vi be reelected for the second term. What the country needs today is a le man of the Parker type and he will 0 i personally grow more popular instead le e of less as was the fate of his last Democratic predecessor in that high otfice. But Parker is not the type of yE a man that is called a "reformer." g Eight years from now it is not im- vi r possible that the trust issue, involv k ing the transportation issue, will y( have become the over-shadowing one. n Say what one pleases about govern- H ment ownership of railroad and tele- 0 e graph lines, when the question nar r rows to this, whether they shall own (o e the government or the government Si t them, the people will be quick enough to decide, and to decide right. In n r brief, we should not be surprised to e see as opposing candidates in 1912 a te chisened Roosevelt and an older P Bryan corrronting each other, and that the lsmocratic p'atform of that or S day will contain such a radical plank d against the trusts, and the tyranny e and discrimination of the railroads, A e as that the people will look to Bryan ya ~to carry out their will. At any rate, or those who have been preaching his - funeral are a little premature.-Char- D lotte News. t3 sA Woman Scalped. Si U Before the horrified gaze of hun -dreds of society women and men in - evening dresa, dining on the broad y dverandas of the Park Cas'n'j, in the 0 mellow rays of Japanese lanterns, and or Sas the orchestra played the scalp of a n Miss Mary Dougherty, of No. 316 ~North street, Rcchester, N. Y., was~ 0r d torn from her head by the crank shaft )of the big red gasolene automobile G from which she had just alighted, eC about six o'clock We dnesday night. p IThe hiow of blood, crimsoning the soil, -and her shrieks, caused a dozen wo- CI men to faint and all the guests were dthrown into a panic. While she was, rwrithing on the gravel walk her screams, with those of her sister and c1 a woman friend who we rein the auto h mobile, were echoed by the women in B: k the Casino's fashionable throng. le SMany cabs were called for, and a 11 score of private equipages drove away b with their passengels, while the un- K e fortunate woman, carried into the - main building of the Casino, was be- B~ ing attended by Dr. Lathrop, of the or 'Presbyterian Hospital. - A F~raud Uncovered. n A fraud order was issued today by F - the postotlice department against Prof.1 Ls R. E. Dutton and his "School of b t Science," at Lincoln, Neb. Mr. Dut ton professes to have the powers of eChrist and claims to have a pecular l force simply wonderful to mankind, i In his advertising matter, that the department says is bringing him in a c fojrtune, he announced that for $5 "he b -would awaken the great soul of the o functions of your tive special senses and to develope psychic faculties in tten days and make you a wonderful . hypnctist witfi power to travel in ispirit to any home and trace up lest eand stolen articles, tind buried treas hurs and read the very life history of nany person from the cradle to the e grave." c rCured Lockjaw. A d r.Carles W. Mercer, a young h o pysiianattached to the stafI of the a ~eC:ty Hospital, Richmond, Va., justri -succeeded in cu-ing a case of lockjaw, a sTue patient was Charles Hlollman, a ti .one-legged' man. While traveling in ia cattle car he was injured by a nail t< penetrating the stump of his leg. He g was tiken to the hospital with his yi jaws tightly locd. Dr. Mercer s< - operned the wouud, cleaned and caute- n - rized it. lie then administt red hiypo- Ic Is der mically at interval lIght doses of t e tetanus anitoxin, which wrought a s comnplete cure, I h.IHard Fighting. 1A junk which has arrived at Che pco, having left Port Arthur on Aug- n ust 8, brings confirmation of previous c reports of severe tighting day and r e night. One .Japanese shell struck the s corner of a building in Port Arthur ii iand killed or vwounded :200 people. s Fifteeni six-inch shells fell at one spot e eon the water front in one day, but It n hurt no onue. It is roughly estimated et that the Japanese are from tive to - eight miles from~ Port Arthur. ,.-Judge. Par] de oro iof a us re -he be- A BIG NAVAL BATTI ,at eir Between the Russians and Japane ar- Port Arthur Pleets. er >te be- SEVERAL SHIPS WRE DISABLEI )ld The Japanese Claim that the Russia g Ships Suffered Heavy Dam ages, but Their Da m M, ages Were Slight. Admiral Togo has reported as fol er- lows: "On August 10Lh our combinei at fcet attacked the enemy's fleet nea Guan Rock. -The Russian vessel es were emerging from Port Arthur try La ing to go south. We pursued th led enemy eastward. Severe fighting last Led ed from 1 o'clock Wednesday after ik noon until sundown. Toward thi lee close the enemy's fire weakened re m markably. His formation becami rs confused and then his ships scattered he The Russian cruisers Askold and No ch vik and several torpedo boat destroy os era fled to the southward. Other o Not the enemy's ships retreated separatel: toward Port Arthur. hs "We pursued them and it appear he that we inflicted considerab!e damage hs We found life buoys and other article i belonging to the Russian battleshi ar Czarevitch fl ating at sea. The Czare 'e vitch prob:tbly was sunk. We havi received no reports from the torpedi boats and the torpedo boat destroyer X which were engaged in the attacks o gh the ships of the enemy. The Russiai i vessels, with the exception of the As in kold and the Novik, the Czarevitcl e and the cruiser Pallada, appear t have returned.to Port Arthur. On 'd damage was slight. Oar fightinj ri' power has not been impaired." Is. THE RUSSIANS ESCAPE. of The Russian protected cruiser Ask. n- old arrived at Woosung Thursda he with her fifth funnel gone close to thi rt- deck, all of the funnels riddled witt all shell holes, one gun on the port sid dismounted and several large shel holes al.ove the water line. One lieu , tenant and 11 men had been kille 'an and 50 men wounded. er- A dispatch from Shanghai says s. Russian torpedo boat destroyer arriveo fg there Thursday. It is reported tha d' four Rassian battleships are off th as Saddle islands, about 70 miles south ch east of this port. d The Saddle islands are about 554 rm miles from Port Arthur, which plac ms the Russian squadron left at 7 a. m. en Wednesday, Aug. 10. RUSSIAN SHIPs IN PORT. i. A dispatch from Cheboo says lat ds reports from Tsingchou says that the Ld Russian warships there are the bat ras tlesbip Czarevitch, the protecte ng cruisers Pallada and Novik and thre off torpedo boat destroyers. - The Czara >m vitch, which is badly damaged, is he :rt lug repaired with German assistance ral it is alleged. A report has also beei ng received to the efdct that Admira * Withoft was killed in the naval battli off Round island last Wedne. day. A strong detachment of Japanes a warships is reported to have sailed or senth for the purpose of interceptinj orteVadvso fleet, which itisb on lieved has not yet effected a junctioi iwith the vessels reported to have bee. Spurchased by Russia from the Argen htine government.. TheE UA sUNK. A dispatch to Reuter's Telegran acompany from St. Petersburg say , that the Japanese armored cruise 4n Kasuga (formerly Argentine warshi: en Rivadavia) was sunk with all on boar< during the engagement off Port A] 'or thur on Wednesday last. A message has just been received a hCheffo saying that the Russian cruise Novik escaped from Tsingchou at th k expiration of the time limit of 2 hours set upon her remaining thert No. fighting at sea has yet been re ported. DETAILS OF THE BATTLE. Viceroy Alexieff, In a dispatch t en the Emuperor, 'gives the following rt iod port from Capt. Matousevitch, th nd late Rear Admiral Withoft's chief c ,nd staff, under date of August 12: eir "At dawn of August 10 our Por are Arthur squadron began to make fc S., the open sea and emerged from th are port at 9 o'clock. The squadron cot tog Isisted of six battle ships, the cruiser [n Askold, Diana, Pallada and Novi: WO and eight torpedo boats. The Japar ing ese opposed us with the followin Lhe force: A first detachment, consistin en of the battle ships Asabi, Mikasa .eir Taji, Nashima and 'the cruisers Nif of shin and Kasuga; a second detackl dl merat, consisting of the cruisers Yakt urs mo Kasagi, Chitose and Takasago an ave a third detachment, consisting of th cruisers Akitsushima, Irsumo, Matst shima, Itsukushima. and Hashidit a and the battleshp Chin Yen, wit ec about thirty torpedo boats. lay "Our squadron manoeuvered to gal ere a passage through the line of tbn 'he enemy's ships. Meantime the Japanes of torpedo boats were laying floatin .id mines In the way of our squadror as- thus rendering evolutions very difi r~en cult. ere "At 1 P. M., our squadron, afte red orty minutes' fighting, succeeded I 'he effecting a passage, and shaped 11 he course towards Shantung. The enem.1 in following at full speed, caught up wit in. us slowly, and at 5 o'clcck fightin ex- again began and continued for som ere hours without either side obtainin he any advantage. "In the battle the commander c our squadron was killed and the cai iad tain of the battle ship Czarevitch wa ow wounded and lost consciousness. A. at most at the same time the engine gea led of the Czarevitch was damaged an ver she was obliged to stop for forty mit 1 utes. This forced the other ships t ok- manoeuvre around her. The comman t7- of the sqiuadron devolved upon Rea >a- Admiral Prince Ouktomsky, and tbn bhe command of the Czarevitch upon thn ect second in command. me cniud npg . VISITS THE PRESIDET. A Scantily Clad Delegation of F pinos Call on Him. Picturesquely, but not quite a quately garbed, a party of eight M Igorrote chiefs, constituting a par the Philippine exhibit at the St. Lc exposition, Tuesday paid their spects to President Roosevelt at White House. The exchanges tween the chiefs and the presid were informal, but happy in tl tone. Through Antero, a bright 15 ye old Igorrute boy, who acted as int preter, the Moro datos and Igorr, chiefs expressed their pleasure at ing received by the president and t him that he might depend upon tb loyalty to the American governme President Roosevelt, after shak hands with each one of his lit brown visitors, replied that he l glad of the opportunity to greet the to welcome them to the national ca tal and to assure them that the Am ican government desired to prom, their welfare, prosperity and ccnte ment. As the president's kindly expi sions were interpreted to them by I tero, the datos and chiefs nod their heads in approval and smi their thanks. The reception t( place in the president's private ofi and adjoining the cabinet roo While it was in progress, the memb of the cabinet arrived to attend I regular semi-weekly meeting. E3 in turn was presented to the FilipiF who paid them the highest resp known to their people. Before 1 conclusion of the rEception, the chiE through Antero, presented to 1 president some handsome native gif including curiously carved metal pipes, a beautifully embellished spi and two shields, one of closely wol native grass and the other of w( covered with hide. After they left the executive offi the Filipinos were shown throu the lower apartments of the Wb House. The Moros were garbed native costume of brilliantly coloi Japanese silk blouse and tightly : ting trousers, all elaborately figuri and wore turbans of the same mate al twistEd loosely about their hea The Igorrotes wore complete suits spotless white duck, relieved by ori tal scarfs of brillIant colors. 'I visitors were taken to the war depa ment and driven in car. iages to public buildings. * Acetylene Explosion. At Charleston the ac tylene I plant used for lightning the Gerir Artillery ball, exploded Tuesday aft noon, seriously injuring Nicholas I choff, keeper of the hall. Mrs. Bisch< and their son, Clarence, were injurl The entire plant was demolished was the small frame house in wh' the tanks and generators were locato Bischoff was standing on the platfo pouring carbide in tanks, which l beiag banded him by his son, wl the explosion occurred. Bischoff v hurled against the side of the Ai lery hall building, his face and hai being badly cut and his hair burz from his head. Clarence Bisehoff v blown out of the doorway, escapi with bruises on his face. Mrs. Bise received a slight gash on her arm fri a fragment of the plant. The rep made by the explosion heard seve blocks and the adjoining buildi shook, sio great was the concussion. Suited Him Exactly. At Washington the police fount negro boy late last night who had b] enough watermelon to satisfy him some time to come. He was Jimr Harrington, eleven yt ars old, the of an emnploye in the Southern ri way yards at Columbia, S. C. L: Thursday week he was playing in t yards, and noticed a trainload of v termelons on a side track. climbed up into a car and 'v "hunting around for a cracked on he said, to break open and eat wt an employe drew the door shut a lozked him in. He was afraid make an outcry and,kept still. I three days and nights the lad subsi ed on watermelons until the ti reached the freight yards in Wai ington. When the car was opet the boy appeared and the police t< im in charge. A dispatch was se to his father and he was started hon ward at once. Had a Rough Time. Their throats parched for ele' days, which they spent without ft or water, exhausted, emaciated a nearly dead, Peter Gradley i Charles Canley, picked up from tb dory by the schooner Hydrangea, w brought into North Sidney, N. Wednesday. When found they w forty mikls off Miquelou. L- st in a while fishing near their smack, the drama, the men drifted for nearly t weeks, now burned by the blister sun, now chilled by heavy mist, wind drove them 200 miles, and wi found they were unable to lift tI: hands. Their appearance was that dead men, and it was not until kin bands had worked over them for ho that their worn and weary bodies g signs of life. Frightened by Explosion. By the explosion of a stick of dy mite under a car of the Tazewell El tic company, at Tazewell, Tues< afternoon a dozen or more people w placed in jeopardy of their lives. '] dynamite was put into the liange the track by unknown persons when the explosion occurred the i sengers, numbering about half a do: ladies and about as many men, w panic stricken, but no one was inju beyond being severely shocked. '] car was so badly damaged that 1 passengers had to be transferred hacks and taken bastily to the tra The affair caused a good deal of citement in the neighborhood. Th is no clue to the perpetrators of crie woman somewhere but that she I never lived here and she did not ki her name. Inquiry by the police practically all the other resorts fai to discover any one who had e known a woman named Maud Allei Mr. Witt is well known in Bro land, where he owns much propei He is also well known in Columl He could not be reached over 'phone last night after his indi connection with the mystery beca tnn-ohimhi State, er's reat Speech Accepting the Nomina e tion of the Demo= crats for the Presidency. SRESPECT OF THlE L-AW - Is the Keynote of the Speech. What He Says About.the Trusts, Tarif f and Other Things. In formally accepting the nomina tion of the Democratic party as its candidate fcr President, Judge Parker, replying to the speech of Chairman Clark, of the notification committe, g spoke as follows: > Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Cammittee: I have resigned the office - of Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals - of this State in order that I may ao cept the responsibility that the great' Convention.you represent has put upon me, without possible prejudice to the Court to which I had the honor to be - long, or to the eminent members of i the judiciary of this State, of whom I y may now say as a private citizen I am justly proud. At the very threshold of this re sponse and before dealing with other subjects I must, in justice to myself and to relieve my sense of gratitude, express my profound appreciation of the confidence reposed in me by the Convention. After nominating me and subsequently receiving a commu nication declaring that I regarded the a gold standard as firmly and irrevocably 1 established, a matter concerning - which I felt it incumbent upon me to I make known myattitude so that here after no man could justly say that his support had been secured through ln direction or mistake, the Convention reiterated its determination that I should be the standard-bearerof tJe party in the present, contest. Tins mark of trust and confidence I shall ever esteem as the highest honor that could be conferred upon me-an honor that, whatever may be the fate of the campaign, the future can in no degree lessen or impair. THE ADMtRABLE PLATFORM upon which the party appeals to the country for its confidence and support clearly states the principles which - were so well condensed in the first.in I auguraladdress of President Jefferson, * and points out with force and direct . ness the course to be pursued through -their propr application in order to in sure neeed reforms in both the legis lative and ad ministrative departments of the Government. Whilenhesitat, ing in its promise to correct abuses and to right wrongs wherever they ap pear or however caused; to investigate athe administrative departmentsof the Igovernment, the conduct of whose offi cials has createdscandal, and to punish those who have been guilty of a breach of their trust; to oppose the granting of special privileges by which the few Smay profit at the expense of the man -to practice-economy in the expeni ture of the moneys of the people, and to that end to return once more to the i methods of the founders of the Repub a lic by observing in disbursing the pub lic funds the care and caution a- pru dent individual observes with respect Sio his own; still the spirit of the plat Sform assures.~ -CONSERVATIVE, INSTEAD OF SAsH action; the protection of the innocent as well as the punishment of the guil t ty; the encouragement of industry, r economy and thrift; the protection of a property and a guarantee of the en Sforcement for the benefit of all of man's inalineable rights, among which as said in the Declaration of Indepen dence, are "life, liberty and the pur suit of happiness." Liberty, as under stood in this country, means not only 0 the right of freedom from actual ser-, Svitude, imprisonment or rastraint, but e the right of one to use his faculties in i all lawful ways, to live and work where he will and to pursue any lawful trade orbiness. These essential rights of i ielbryand property are not only r guaranteed to the citizen by the Con e stitution of each of the several States, -but the States are by the fourteenth s amendment to the Constitution of the SUnited States forbidden to deprive any person of any one of them without due process of law. LIMITATIONS OF POWER. SOccasionally, by reason of unneces -sary or impatient agitation for re forms, or because the limitations -placed upon the departments of Gov ernent by the Constitution are dis regarded by officials desiring toaccom plish that which to them seems good, whether the power exists in them or enot, it becomes desirable to call atten a tion to the fact that the people, in whom all power resides, have seen'fit, a through the medium of the Constitu e tion, to limit the governmental pow ers conferred adto say to aepart e ments created by it; "Thus far shalt thou go and no farther." To secure ' the ends sought the people have by [the Constitution separated and dis-. tributed among the three depart r ments of Government--the executive, a legislative and juidicial-certain pow ers and it is the duty of those adminis tering each department so to act as to 'peevrather than to destroy, the b ecyof the co-ordinate branches of g the Government, and thus secure the e exercise of all the powers conferred by g the people. THOMAS JEFFERsON 'f in a letter to William C. Jarvis, touch Sing the perpetuity of our institutions, s written many years after he had re -tired to private life, said: "If the r three powers of our Government main Stain their mutual independence of each other it may last long, but not so if either can assume the authority of 0 the other." It must be confessed i that in the course of our history exe r cutives have employed powers not be e longing to them; statutes have been e passed that were expressly forbidden by the Constitution, and statutes have Luontinued on page 4.3J