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VOL. XIII. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 7,1904. NO.50 A GREAT BATTLE Being Fought Between the Japs and Rusnans at Liao-Yang. BOTH SIDES HAVE LAEGE ARMIES And the Struggle Will be to a Finish and May End the War Between The Countries. A dispatch cn Tuesday from tte Asscciated Press says heaviest battle of the war is raging today around Liao-Yarg. Following the rear guard action which Kuropatkin has fought in his retirement from Anpiog and Anshanshan, he has either tilected or been forced to give battle and is meet ing the attack of the csmbin( d armies of Kuroki, Nodzu and Oku. Dispatch(s from the battlefield show that at dawn the Japanese opened a terrific artillery fire, directed mainly against the Russian center and right After four hours (,f galling shrapnel fire the cannonading slackened and at 9 o'clock the Japanese general ad vance began. An Associated Press dispatch sent from Liao-Yang at 6.49 that evening shows that the battle was increasing in intensity, the Japa nese pressing forward until at one point their advance developed into a iand-fight, the Russians repelling them with the bayonet. The associated Press dispatches and the Russian official- reports indicate that the Russians occupy a semi-cir cle of about nine miles in length, pro tecting Liao-Yang, the center and right of this line receiving the brunt of the fighting up to last advices. S far reports do not indicate the trerd I of the acticn, but reports to the Rus sian war office say the battle will ex tend over several days. The combined fcrces engaged are es I timated at between 300,000 and 400, 000 of all arms. TERRIFIC ARTITLERY FIRE. A dispatch from ILao Yang says from five o'clock Tuesday morning up to nine o'clock there has been an incessant stower of shrapnel. The sound of cannonading is coming from the south, where the Japanese evi dently have numerous guns. Deadly shell are burning everywhere, their white smoak being distinctly traceable against the dark follage on the mogn tain sides. The Japanese are searching the whole country side with their fire, se ,ecting certain squares of territory on which for a few moments they mass a hail of shot and shell from all their guns. They then pass to another square, thus working the wt ole ield, with mathematical precision, from right to left. In this way the enire 1 Russian front has been systematically searched in the first four hours of the cannonading. Then'commenced the general Japan ese advance along the whole line. At this hour, ten o'clock, the Japanes artillery fire has somewhat slackend, -but their infantry is steadily pushing forwad. The Russians have been holding their ground gallantly and their losses are small considering the terrible nature of the Japanese tire. GHOSTLY HEAPS OF DEAD. Tuesday night the Japanese search-i lights showed ghastly heaps of dead, like magic lantern pictures. The Jap anese soon were reinforced the attack ed furiously, but again were repulsed. The Novi Krai soberly asserts that the Japanese troops were forced forward by their own shrapnel fire, the guns< having been placed bebind them to prevent a retreat. The Zarodoutni presented to the Japanese a high stone wall of Chinese] constructed and the fact that one de tachment succeeded in scaling it is ac- 1 counted marvelous. Daylight foufid the belligerents in that quarter engaged in an artillery< duel. General Gorbatowsky personally directed the Russian fire, although he had been six days and six nights with-1 out sleep. He suffered considerably] from the Japanese artillery, and Gen eral Gorbatowsky ordered the meni into the damaged trenches. The next glimpse the Russians had of the Jap anese was at 10 o'clock. August 24th, when the battery on the mules was seen in Mo Tien. The Russians opened1 tire on this battery and dispersed it. At noon of the 24 two Japanese col umns were observed, one be hind Su gar Head hill and the other near the railroad bridge, but they retired when the Russian artillery made an attack1 on them.1 THE BATTLE GOEs ON. The second day's battle commenced at dawn on Wednesday. The Rus sians made repeated bayonet advances on the road directly s~uth of Liao Yang, where the Japanese approached from Sanquaiship at Tao, shelling the positions in the Russian lines until 4 in the afternoon, when the engage ment which was general throughout the south and sout'rwest norowed to the main lines. The Japants3 ad vance on the southeast was by way of the Feng Wang Cheng road. Immediately in front of Chiaofan tun the Japanese stubbornly attempt ed to occupy a round-topped hill, which was literally shav-ed by Russian shells, making repeated attempts the entire day where apparently it was impossible for anything to live. The cannonading continued from tbis point to the vicinity of Wangpaotai until Wednesday evening without apparent advantage to either side. The Japa nese dropped shells within two er three miles of the ra ilrn ad stat'on and in the plain of Wentshui mountain, which is the most importanlt eminence *around Liao Yang, but the Japanese abandoned aggression there on ac count of the resistance they met. It is plain that the Japanese are no longer enjoying the superiority in artillery which stood them in such good stead in the earlier months of the war. It was then hill fighting, and the Japanese mountain batteries in which arms the Russians were defi cient told with deadly effect. Now the contest is in a comparative'y open country where both the Russians field guns and the Russian cavalry can come into more effective use. HEAVEY LOSSES. A Russian correspondent says: ''The Japanese all day etra I carried on the tight with an energy approiching desperation, but the 1 Russians were buoyed up in the be lief that a point had been reached' where there would be no more retreat- I ing and the Japanese attacks were. - met with shouts and hurrahs from the trenches and the rifle pits. "Five times the Japanese hurled themselves against the line, but each time they were repulsed at the point t of the bayonet. t "There were atout 1,000 guns in action on each side, but we have more guns emplaced than have the Japa utse. C c "The losses cannot be computed, but they have been ;reat everywhere, especially among the artillerymen. a For instarce, in the First artillery a brig ide every officer was either killed P or wounded, and some of the guns were silenced absolutely, owing to the death of all the gun crews. "The spirits of the men are of the biighest at all points." r t THE JAPS REPULSED. Lieutenant-General Sakharoff on Ihe conclusion of Wednesday's sixteen ours fighting arcund Liao-Yang, has elegraphed the general staff as fol- 3 ows: "From 5 o'clcck in the morning 2ntil 9 o'block Wednesday night the apanese forces attacked our frontal 3osit:ons before Liao Yang and on he left bank of the Taitse river. Both :heir artillery and rifle fire were in t :ense. Their main eff rts wei e di- C ected against our center positions Lmd left flink, but the numerous at acks were repulsed along the whole ne. Our troops made several coun- C er attacks culminatirg in bayonet t ighting. Many positioi s which had -F >een oscupied by the Japanese were w retaken at 4 o'ckcok in the afternoon. t< During the heavy artillery attack our d >atteries did very effective work. Ibout 4 o'clock in the afternoon the S memy was otserved attempting to urn our right flank with considera- G )le foroes, but several battalions of eserves advanced and after a fierce B mgagement checked the Japanese E ind compelled them to retire. The )attle continued after dark and only s mded at 9 o'clock. The spirit of our xoops is exzellent and the men are re- a oiced over the news of the heroic be ravior of the garrison at Port Arthur, B he repulsing of the Japanese attacks ipon it which has been communicated vj o them. Our casualties have been I onsiderable, reachirg 3,000. The L rapanese losses must have been . ieavy.'' G MEN AND CANNON CAPTURED. Further dispatches from Liao Yang V :onfirm the report of the capture of E6 Japanese guns, which were brouight P p to the railroad station where Gen. uropatkin's train was standing. E A dispatch from Mukden Wednes lay afternoon says it is rep~rted there 0 ihat Gen. Samsonoff has captured two Eapanese battal ons. C THE RUSSIANS FALL BACK. Thursday's news from the seat of var closed with the receipt of two dis >atches, giving information of a most S ignificant character as bearing on he domination of Manchuria at the 1 ,lose of the present campaign. The first came from The Asscciated . ress correspondent at St. Petersburg, iled there at 10:15 p. mn., Thursday, I g aid said that General Kuropatkin had| ithdrawn his whole army to the l g ight bank of the Ta tse riv. r, so as to neet General Kure.ki's flanking mnove nent. The inference that was drawn m rum this dispatch was, that Liao rang had been evacuatead. that city si ying on the left bank of the river. Noihlng to confirm this was re ~eived until severs 1 hours later, when dispatch from The Associated Pr.ss ~orrt spondent at St. Petersi urg dat- B d September 2, and timed 1.26 a. in., rday morning, said that "the news B if the evscaation of Liaoyang and he withdraw al of the Russian army o o the right bank of tue Taitse river," iad caused intense excitemer: and lisappointmnent. Lite Thursday night, the corres >ondent of the Associated Press ob ained an opinion from the war de- L )artment that the withdrawal to the ight bank of the Taitse river became i iecessary so that the Russians a ould ye able to repel the battle in that di-.s i ecsion and that General Kuropatkin's novement was the carrying out of a C well defined idea, rather than a re- E reat. The same dispatch points out with a notab'e lack of comment that s he Japants: took advantage ol eneral Kuropatkin's withdrawal toL >cupy the city of Liaoyang. The second dispatch, which may 2ave a significant bearing on the sit-. iation, is that tiled at Mukden at 9 27 >. mn., Thursday, stating that the s rain service between Mukden andE Giaoyar g was interrupted. This may nean ti e cutting of railroad comimu icai ion, wh ch would depr.ve Gen. Europatkin of an oppcrtunity to re-b reat to his mocre northern base at Rukden . As pointed tut in the St. N Peten~ burg dispatch, the Mukden cor -spondent dos not mentic~n whether y he telegraphic communicitions are g >pen. THE BATT1~LE GJOEs ON. The lack of definite information E from the seat of war contituts up to this (Saturday) morning and nothing t further regarding the situation at Liao Yang is known beyond the factt that Kuropatkia has withdrawn the c main portion of his forces to the' I north, er right bank of the Taitse river and that, acrding to the latest advices, the action is still in progress. There is disinclination in St. Pt ters burg to believe that Lao Yang has ii been abandoned, and at the sime e time it is declared that the position e Kuropatkin now occupies is the oneq he had prepared and fortified and t where be has all along planned to make his sec-nd stand instead of directly in and around Liao Yang with the river at his back, as has been believed, it is thought by Russian experts that in attacking~ Kuropatkin's present defenses the Japanese are facing an almost im possi ble attack, especially with their forces divided by the river. Advices reaching Toklo say that the Taitse is flooded and cannot be forded, and therefore as pointed out s in the Asscciated Press dispatches s from St. Petersburg, "the river itselfr becomes an important factor in the I general scheme of Russian defense."d nisatches from both Russians and Ii apanese sources indicate that tn roops on toth sides are jaded an veary after the many days fighting .nd it Is pointed out that in consE tuence a temporary lull in the activ truggle would not be surprising. lispatch received at Tokio says tha ,reat fires are raging at Liao Yang 'believed to result from the Japanes belling or from the efforts of Russian o destroy their stores preparatory t he evacuation of Liao Yang with th ,dditional hope of injuring the cit; s a future Japanese base." Opinion prevails in the Japanes apital that the Russian casualties ii he recent fighting will reach 30,00 rhile the Russian losses of Aug. 2 nd Sept. I are given in official report s 5,000 killed or wounded. The re ort from Marshal Oyama that h ras engaged on Thursday with th, tussian cantre would indicate that a ast a portion of Kuropatkin's arm, ras still on the south bank of th, iver. It is not yet definitely state bat the Japanese have occupie4 ,iao Yang. THE CLMSON SCHOLARSHIPS. aines of Those Who Won Them i the Several Counties. The State board of education me riday night to pass upon the recom endations of the county boards as t be appointment of beneficiaries al lemson cOllege. All but one of th4 iembers of the board were present. 'he beneliciaries were appointed ac )rding to the suggestion of the coun T boards, there being no contests ollowing is the list of 124 young met ho will thus be helped by the Stat ) get an education in the agriculturi partment at Clemson: Abbeville--J. T. McLane, GO. S pabr, G. C. McElvy. Aiken-Geo. Weathersbee, W. A annt, Edmond Weeks, Milton Tyler. Anderson-W. B. Aull, Eugen rown, E. J. Burris, T. S. Banister ,aymond Clardy. Bamberg-Chas. W. Rice, M. L andifer. Barnwell-W. F. Odom, L. Rich rdson, W. R. Woodward. Beaufort-R. G. Richardson, S. I, ond, C. A. Sanders. Berkeley-M. M. Platt, J. G. Ste. 2ns, J. P. Harry. Charleston--T. L. Ogier, Jr., D. Bissell, T. D. Eason, E. D. Cle Lents, C. W. Neyle, J. L. Eason, C. Wigfall, L. E. May. Florence-J. E. Johnson, F. B. Tise, J. A. Bethea. Cherokee-W. W. Belue, James r'd-nore. Chester-R. B. Lowery, D. S. :ollis, Harper Sanders. Chesterfield-Claude E. McLean, dus Newman. Clarendon-H. H. Huggins. J. E. lark, D. J. Holladay. Colleton-B. Ackerman, H. K. rickland, Geo. Warren. Dt rzhestf r-E. J. Thornhill. Elgefieli-W. 0. Scott, W. H. >tt. Darlington-T. E Stokes, H. P. ,uckey, E. R. Wheeler. Fairfield-J. L. Ware, Leonard rare, Wy ie Yarborough. Newberry-S. F. Gallman, W. J. E ely, C. L. Cannon. Georgetown-R. L. Allstin, Harold .an. Greenville -J. D. Goldsmith, W. A. arton, W. H. Stevens, Frank Fiem. ing, C. E. Baldwin. Greenwood-W. H. Maynard, S. H. 2erard, L. 0. Watson. Hampton-T. H. Hamilton, Jr., r B Dowling. H rry-A. J. Baker, F. L. Martin. Kershaw-T. J. Ancrum, Joe: ough. Lancaster-S. E. Bailes, G. A. obertso:1. Laurens-H. H. Fuller, F. W. isp, Ben Reaves. Lee-W. N. Wells, C. A. McLen >nl. Lexington-F. A. Lown, S. Wessin. r, C. E. Jones. Marion-J. C. Clark, W. A. Mace, .B. Dew. Marlboro-O car Roper, B. H. Coy gton, Jr., W. A. Thomas. O,.onee-H. W. Moore, G. N. Dick >n. Orangeburg-W. H. Rumfif, F. J. rider, Marion Funches,Adam Cherry, .H. Brunson. Pickens-J. O. Fields, F. M. Garri )fl. Richland- Marion L) kes, Cai rol) aBorde, Jno. T. Weston, Crawford oung. Saluda-Cromwell Whittle, San Spartanburg-J. H. Mc~lain, W. .Wingo, C. C. Johnson, Beltor zell, S. J. Ezell, R. H. Pike. Sumter -G. M. Truluck, J. B. ~yan, C. L. Williams'n. Union-W. P. L. Ghee, H. 0. WIl urn. Williamsburg--Thos. Epps, B. M [ontgomery, W. J. Brockinston. Yorkville-W. J. Roach, T. G [ope, L. B. Brandon, E. A. Craw >rd. Lost the Bet. A dispatch from New York say! ,awrence D'Orsay, on the stage ries1 own as the Earl of Pawtucket. re ured Thursday from a visit to Bng Ld on the Minnehaha, oif the Atlan ic Transport line, and witn hin ame a story of the loss of $500 on olitical bet. D'Orsay is an admire: f President Roosevelt and found asenger of his own mind in Georg' .Adams, of Brooklyn. Both wer' ud in their assertions that not .nl.1 toosevelt would be elected, but tha1 yen the trend of sentiment on board f the steamship was favorable to him owsendi Cushman, of this city cok exception to their arguments ir be smoking ro:)m arnd offered t< rager $500 that a canvass of the pas engers would result in Judge Parker' avor. The bet was mace. Twenty ne voters were discovere d by a can ass, and eleven of them declared tha 'arker w as their standard-bar el hile the remaining ten stood f( toosevelt. Nine People Killed. An official from Richmond, Que. ates that in a collision between pas enger trains on the Grand Trun1 ailway near Richmond, Qu.,e nini leople were killed and two have since ied of their injuries. The number o nireri s not krnow. e WILL CRUSH JAPAN. Opinion of an Impartial English Cor eI i respondent in the Field. t ' WHY THE RUSSIANS RETREAT. S D They Have Immnense Armies at Muk e den and Harbin to Which Points They Are Lead ing the Japan ese. G. H. Kingswell, a war correspond at of the London Express, who has just returned to London, t aving trav eled overland from the seat of war across 700 miles of the great Mongoli an desert and the Trans-Siberian rail way, is quoted as follows in the col umns of that newspaper: "You may call me a pro-Russian if you please, but remember that I am the only Englishman who, in perfect impartial frame of mind, has lived with both the combatants, and has returned to England unmuzzled and free to tell the truth. "It is thought in this country that because Kuropatkin's advance army in Manchuria has rE ceived some heavy blows in detail, Kuropatkin and his men will shortly be wiped off the face - of the earth by an immensely superior force. 'Now, the Ideas of the Russian cificers in command of Kuropatkin's army are vastly different from this. They know what you do not know that, far from teing outnumbered, they outnumber the Japanese. But they have carefully and deliberately concealed this fact. What is more, with perhaps a few exceptions, no actual Russians have taken part In the fighting. The advance army which is now at Liao Yang consists of Finns, Polks and Siberians and Buri ats. All these troops are of a vastly inferior quality to the actual Rus sians, and they will simply cripple the Japanese as much as they can be fore the real campaign with Russian troops begins. "Over here the talk of luring the Japanese.has bEcome an old tale to be laughed at. But I, who have seen the amazing and colossal preparations that have secretly been made to get the Japanese up north, cannot laugh at it myself. "I have it on the word of an Eng lishman who had to assist in their transport that upward of 310,000 Rus sian troops crcssed the Baikal lake be tween February 8 and July 20. "It is said here that the Russians cannot send troops down to Manchuria at a greater rate than 800 a day. But I have traveled up the Trans-Siberian line, and sat by the side of the Baikal lake, and watched the Russian trans port system working easily and well, and know this to be utter nonsense. With my own eyes during the time I was there I was able to account for an average of 4,100 troops crcssing the Baikal lake daily. . "You wonder what has become of them. Well, at Harbin, for instance, there is a monster army. It was im possible, of course, to gauge the exact numbers, but I should say there are at kast 150,000 men there, and all these men, be it rememtered, quite fresh and unfatigued, are in excellent health and excellent spirits. When the Japa nese reach them-for they do not in tend to take them south-the Japs themselves will be war-worn and weary with marching. "On the way from Harbin to China I saw a submarine on a specially con structed car en route to Vladivostok. At Harbin I was allowed to go any where I pleased and see everything I wished, with the result that I was astonished at the immensity of the army gathered there, the excellent physique of the men and their splen did moral. Later I went south and met 200 Japanese prisoners going north on their way to Tomsk. They were traveling in the same vans used by the Russian troops, and were being fed on the same rations. I also saw the empress' hospital train, an in finitely finer and better equipped one than any I saw in South Africa. "Above Mukden I fell in with a party of Boers wrho had offered their services to the Russian government as scouts. But they told me system of scouting there was very different from scouting In South Africa. If the Russians lost a man they sent a company; if the company were des troyed thiey sent a regiment; if the regiment were turned back they sent forward a brigade; and it the brigade could not manage the business they ordered up a division. On going back to Harbin I had an extremely pleasant and instructive time with many of the Russian citicers there. They were perfectly charming to us, but did not disguise the fact--nor did the soldiers -that they hate d England with a bitter hatred. They frankly said that after they had finished with the Japa nerse it would be our turn next. "Speaking of the war they admit ted that their artillery was very In ferior to the Japanese; in fact, that their field guns were too heavy and could only fire one shot to every five of those of the Japs. But they are rectifying this, and I myself saw 25 new batteries of ten guns each on the way to the east. The guns were of a modern pattern that looked to me like Krupps. "Another weak point seems to me the much-wanted Cossacks. Armed Iwith a futile carbine and a heavy sword they are simply food for powder. A handful of Boers would romp around them. "They are physically fine men, but t hey are not civilized; they cannot even speak Russian. They are to my mind quite untit for modern warfare. I"Moreover, as they are paid so much a day and get no rations, they are ter riblh looters, and have done great Sharm by scaring away the Chinese -who could provide food. I"The Russian otlcials are at last b fnding this out, and are now trying to check the evil. But wait until the regular Russian cavalry, which has not yet appeared on the scene, gets into action3. "Every where, too, gigantic prepara tions are being made to feed the army c which is pouring to relentlessly and stea'ily into Manchuria. Every a where huge depots of clothes and food r were in course of construction, and evrywhere sidings were being built with the utmost possible speed. It was by the Baikal lake that I person ally checked the rate at which the troops were pouring in, and marked th! last section of the railway around. the lake in the last stages of construc tion. When this Is finished, the 20, 000 soldiers who have been working on it will be released and sent down to the front. "From what I have seen in Harbin and further south I have returned con vinced that in actual fact the war Is only just beginning. "Make no mistake. The Russians are simply hanging back. They are slow, but they are sure. All along the 6,000 miles of line I saw camps and troops-countless troops-drilled and prepared for war. "I have seen the Japanese troops, and I have seen the Russian trcops, and I have seen the numbers of both, and the work of both." The Open Door. The Washington Star, the official i imperial gazette, "points with pride" 4 to the fact that there are in the em ploy of the federal government no less than 4,610 negroes, drawing an nually salaries aggregatirg $2,858,734. The Star would have the negro voters 1 clear as to the maintenance of the 3 principle of the "open door." It do:s 8 not, however, go on to point out that I even the best of these positions held t by negroes are no more than depart- t mental clerksliips and other minor places. The "open door" leads to nothing better than these subordinate I jobs, the cream of the federal patron- 1 age being rtserved for the white friends of the administration. The posts of the important ministers abroad have never yet been yielded to a member of the black race. We are for equity in ths matter and if Mr. Roosevelt'is elected we can conceive 1 of no more fitting appointment in the 1 cabinet than that of the eminent negro, Booker Washington. Let us a have justice.-The State. t Eighteenth Anniversary. How many of our readers recalled t last Wednesday night the fact that eighteen years ago the earth trembled. The great earthquake was on; terror seized the people; the citizens camp ed in the streets; the buildings shook like houses of cards, and down Charleston way the destruction was t terrific. Eighteen years have passed t and it is a safe guess that few, very c few, people recalled the anniversary. Many harrowing catastrophes have happened since the seismic disturb- s ance, but probably none struck terror I to the hearts of brave men as did I that great convulsion of nature. The e people don't want any more shakes e like that of August 31, 1886, that's certain. Fatal Wreck. The westbound imperial limited express on the Canadian Pacific rail road was wrecked Friday night, colliding with a freight train at Sintaluta, N. W. T., due to an open switch which is supposed to have been left open by one of the crew of the freight train. Five women passengers in the tourist car were killed and four other pacsengers, the porter and en- C gineer were injured. The vice regal t party, Lord and Lady Minto, were on the train en route to the Pacitic coast but escaped unhurt and resumed their journey. Baried at Last. The State says the body of Maude Allen was buriel Friday. In addition to the amouunt furnished by the cour.- ~ ty, $5 or $6 was raised by subscriptioni and Undertaker Van Metre made no charges, so that a lot was purchased for the interment. Since the woman I was so brutally killed three weeks ago C the body has been left at Van Metre's morgue in the hope that someone ~ would identify the woman. But the ~ secret of her name and her life were I buried with her, perhaps forever. 1 Killed by Train.( Walter J. Moore was struck and In- i stantly killed by the northbound s Southern passenger train near Reck e Hill about 6 o'clock Thursday evening. t He lived -about three miles south of. a town and was walking home along the j tracks. He was warned of the ap proach of the train and remarked that he would leave the track In time but failed to do so. He was about 45g years of age and a widower. He was t the only son of Capt. W. L. Moore2 and was highly esteemed. In Great Demand. The State say sthe demands for Mr. Bryan for campaign purposes in in-t diana exceed the combined -calls for1 all the other Democratic orators. He is scheduled already for six spEeches there and the requests continue to ccme in from every county. This will probably serve to open the eyest of those who have from time to time pronounced Mr. Bryan a "dead one."c Mr. Bryan is today the most popular campaign orator in the Democratic party. Woman's Eye Shot Out. A dispatch from Spartanburg toe The State says Tom Cheek and Willr Brown, farmers of the Enoree section, had a quarrel Wednesday afternoon returning from Laureos in a wagon. Later while Brown and his wife weret unloading the wagon In their yarda Cheek iired on them with a shotgun.c Brown escaped with a slight wound but several shots hit Mrs. Brown, one penetrating her right eye, making necessary its extraction. Her condi-f tion is regarded as critical.c Precitous Load into River. I A dispatch from Mazatlan says four pack mules loaded with $40,000 worth of gold bullion from the Guadalupe de los Reyes mines fell from the mountain roid into a swift river neart that place and were swept out to sea with their precious burden. Thei bullion was being taken to Mazatlanj for shipment to San Francisco. Ita has not been recovered. 1 Hundreds Homeless. Forest fires have destroyed the hamlet of Little Bay, N. F., and 300 1 families are homeless. Two mens have been drowned. The steamert Prosper has embarked the women and children. The men are fighting the lames In an effort to prevent thee destructive fires from covering a widert area. The government is providingr food, shelter and other assistance tod the destitute. WHAT SENATOR TILLXAN SAYS About the Effort to Make the Brice Bill an Issue. The Spartanburg Journal says Sena or B. R. Tillman, "the father of the lispensary law," arrived in the city rhursday morning from Washington, m route to Clemsn College to attend , meeting of the board of trustees. As soon as the train stopped the enator alighted from the train and ieeking the shade of a box car, he call ,d for a paper and newsboys were soon ,rying New York and Atlanta papers, >ut the senator wanted a Columbia aper and as these had not arrived he )egan to talk with the reporters who ere at the depot. The senator delivered some hot shot nto the movement now on foot hroughout the state to have the 3rice bill amended and restored to ts original shape so that loc il option dections can be held in counties de. iring them. "What do I think of the move nent" repeated the senator as he was liscussing several topics at the same iime with the reporters. "I'll tell ou, what I think about it," and the enators voice bespoke the hidden eeling back of his statement.. "I hink It is like an underhanded at empt at assassination-that's what think of it." "Why the Idea of aking the dispensary pay for run Ong the thing and keeping down >lind tigers, when the dispensary it elf has been put out." "I believe" said the senator-" no, will say it straight-no honest man ould support such a measure as far s I can figure it out." "I know that I may be bitting a undred fellows in the legislature, ut I can't help it "My opinion vhat are you talking about. It's not , mere cpinion. I am the father of he dispeasary law, I' believe, and Lave had a little acquaintance with t and its origin. They would have be dispensary run out of a county ,nd then make the dispensary system ay forkeeping out their blind tigers .nd seeing that the law is upheld." "No sir, it is not right." The sen ,tor holds that if a county wants the Fisgensary put out, it should not look o the dispensary system for protec ,ion against the blind tigers, which lenat:,r Tillman says would spring Lp, and furthermord he does not re ard it as an honest business propo ition, as he intimates above, in say ng that no honest man would sup ort such a movement as far as he an see it. The senator's train pulled ut while he was talking and the re orter had no time to ask the senator rhat he would regard as a satisfac ory arrangement for counties which ight vote down the dispensary in >rder to have the prohibition law up teld and violations of it punished ac ording to law. As he said gcoibye he called a news oy and gave him a nickel. "I pro ais-d to buy a paper from him awhile go" said the senator, "but I got the aper from another boy, when that rain came in." "I think these boys ught to be encouraged" concluded he senator. Senator Tillman left Vashington Thursday night and was n his way to Clemson College where te will attend a meeting of the board f trustees. Dropped Three Stories. At Chicago two people were killed nd six seriously injured by the fall g of an elevator in the store of ears, Roebuck & Co., Friday after oon. The passenger elevator, ordi arily used in the building, was out f repair, and the freight elevator was sed during the day by the customers nd employes. While a load of pas engers was being carried up the cable arted, allowing the elevator with its >ad of t-n people to fall three stories. ~he conductor of the elevator, Philip aldwell, was instantly killed, and irs. Kate Rayne, 40 years old, was o babiy hurt that she died Friday veniog in the hospital. Six others of he people who were in the elevator t the time of the accident were in red but not fatally. Suicide by Rattler's Bite. Alfred Thurston, a snake, frog and 'lass eater out of a job, appeared in he barrcom of the New Hotel in fagara Fa~s Thursday morning. le had a huge diamond back rattle nake with him in a box. He took ut the snake and placed its head in ti mouth. The snake bit him in the ongue and the man died seven hours ster In agony. Surgeons could do othing for him, and it was suppcsed t first by the police that the fellow id the rash trick on a barroom bet, ut the men who were present declare he act was a deliberate suicide. Thurston's home was in New York ity. A Peculiar Case. A dispatch from Weimer, Texas, ays: While incarcenated in jail, )scar Lee Tucker, a seventeen-year d negro, under arrest for attempted ape, was mysteriously lynched. The *licials are unable to determine just rhen or how the act was committed. he cage had not been broken into, ut Tucker had a forty fcot rope , ound his neck and his head was rawn up to a hole in the cell about ight inches in width and not over our feet from the floor, ussd to pass ood through to the prisoners. His et were tied close to his body with ords. There is no clue to the per >etrators. Shocking Accident. A dispatch from Anderson to The iews and Courier says Lizzie, the sIx earold daughter of Lewis Abercrom le, was run over by her father's ragon Wednesday morning and died n a few minutes from internal in uries. She was on her way to school ,nd when she climbed down from he wagon at Sunset Forest, three iles west of the city, the mules umped and she was thrown under the wheels of the heavily loaded wagon. er home was in Centreville town hip, six miles west of Anderson on he Portman road. JUDGE Parker has courteously de lined the invitation extended to him y Charleston to be present at the atification meeting in that city. He eclares that he will make no speeches Ining the campaign. THE WEATHER AND THE CRO0 Weekly Summary of Conditio Throughout the State. The following is Section Direct Bauer's weekly crop bulletin: The week ending 8 a. m., Augu 29th, had a mean temperature of degrees, which is about 3 below nc mal, due to moderately hot weath the first four days and abnormal cool weather during the last thre The extremes were a minimum about 50 in the western counties 1 the 28th, and a maximum of 99 three places on the 23rd and 24t The sunshine was about rormal, 2 though a number of places report too much cloudiness of crop,, th having had general cloudiness the ei tire week. A wind storm doing son damage to trees and crops occurred Ozonee county, and a hail storm th did little damage in Marlboro count Local high winds did some damage a few other places, but were confin to very smalL areas. The precipitation averaged abo the nomal for the week, and was e cessive locally in the western, eas ern and southern counties. The: was least precipitation in the centr (ounties. A number of places report( the heaviest rainfall of the season ( the 26th. The weekly amoun ranged about half an Inch to rear: four Inches. In many places the: has been too much rain for cottoj while in a few, the wt ek's rainfa was needcd and was beneficial on a crops. Farm work made rapid progre early in the week, but general ral: during the latter part brought it to standstill. Favorable reports on crrn contim from all sections, espccially en lal corn which is an exceptionally fir crop and which is practically mad Fodder pulling made rapid progres but considerable was damaged by tt frequent rains. There was no marked change in t condition of cotton, .although whx changes took 'place were general] Io ward deterioration, owing to conth ned shedding and to further spread ( rust, both apparently due to excessil moisture. In a few localities bc worms have done considerable dam age. In places over the whole Stat and al'ijost generally over the westei counties and on clay tnd red land the plants continue to bloom and fru freelv. Eirly in the week, under ti stimulus of the high temperatu then prevailing, early varieties of co ton opened rapidly in the easter southern and central counties and coi siderable was picked in those Eection while in the western counties the: are as yet aw open bolls, and com parativel: yew full grown ones. Pic] ing will t general next week in ti eastern! ulf of the State. Sea islar cotton maintained its very promisir condition. Early rice is ripening fast, and cu ting has begun; late rice is headir nicely. The rice crop is very promi ing in the Georgetown district. Thel has been too much rain for peas, bt sweet potatoes and gardens as well : truck generally are doing well. Ha ing is under way, but made slow pri gress owing to the frequent raini The hay crop will be heavy wit favorable weather-for saving it. MORE SETTLEES. Second Colony Located In Sout 'earolina During Last Week. A dispatch from Columbia sa: Wednesday afternoon the signature were affixed to the papers for ti second colony to be established in th state at once. The colony will be located In ti county of Alken, six miles from tb city of Aiken and about seven< eight miles from the towns of Trer ton, Johnston and Graniteville. TI property Is located on the line of ti Southern and the Trenton-AIke: branch of the Southern runs throng the lot. This colony will be about twice ti size In acreage of the colony to be 14 cated in Lexington, and of course is much larger proposition. The lan is n fine quaiity, it being a rollir country, and the drainage and ti health features are perfect. It: particularly adapted to the growin of truck and fruit which the Scand navians, who will be used In this cas also,twill devote themselves to. OnJ a small proportion of this land is no under cultivation. Under the terms of the agreemer signed the settlement of the propert must begin within two months, an one-fifth of the total acreage must ] settled within one year of the date < the signing of the contract. Commissioner Watson says thal considering the available local ms: kets referred to above, the nearnei of the city of Augusta and the tv principal tourist hotels in the stati as well as the advantage of locatiot affording facilities for reaching th Eastern truck markets in, has eve: reason to believe that this colony, ui less some unforseen trouble arise, destined to be one of the most mod colonies of the Southern states. Died After Being Elected. A dispatch from Anderson says ] F. Banister died at 5 o'clock Thur day morning, one day after his rn election as county coroner. TI governor will be asked to appont coroner to serve out his term, whic expires January 1 and to order election to choose his successo Banister defeated W. Y. Miller by handsome majority, although uaab: from iliness to make a personal cal vass. Mrs. Banister and eight chi dren survive. The deceased was fo ty-eight years old and died from co: sumption. County executive con mitte has ordered primary Septen er 13, same day as second count primary, to elect new coroner. Admits His Guilt. Rev. L. P. Martin, an evangells arrested at Rloanoke, Va. last Sunda is badly wanted by the governmer for raising money orders. Marti Thursday evening admitted his guil He will be held here until a feder: judge in Pennsylvania issues an ordi fr his removal to that State. I|PRIMARY ELECTION. The Biggest Vote Ever Cast in the State Before. or STATE OFFICERS HI-ELECTED. 77 Railroad Commissioner Garris Do- - er feated and Earle and Mobley ly Will Run Over for'the e Position. All the State officers from Governor it Heyward dowz' were re-elected Tues day without opposition. The railroad commissionership~ was d the one State cffice contested. For thiE Mr. John G. Mobley of Fairfield leads, Mr. John H. Earle of Green ville is second and the incumbent, Mr. C. W. Garris of Bamberg, is third in a field of six. t In the c:ntested races for congress 7 in the Third and Fifth districts Messrs. Wyatt Aiken of Abbeville and D. E. Fini of York easily defeated their oppoents, MesrS. J. H. Mc Calla of Abbeville and T. Y. Williams of Lancaster. In the Sixth district Mr. Ragsdale leads. Mr. Ellerbe follows, but as Mr. Norton has 2,333 and Mr. Dargan 1,828 it is anybody's raceuntilthelast ballot in the second primary Is count tsed. Ly In the Second district the race will be between Messrs. Mayfield and Pat terson. The former has 4,359, and-. the latter 4,349. This is too cos to be comfortable for either. Two thous- - and and seventeen votes are reported. for Mr. Williams. In the race for solicitorships in the Second and Seventh circuits Messrs Davis and Sease, the incumbents, win in a canter over their opponents. In the Fifth ercultthe second ra e will be between Messrs. Timmerm - and Rembert, Mr. Timmerman, how ever, having distanced all of his com Le , petitors. e There appears to have been supreme indifference in tabulating and collect ing the vote' for railroad commissoiner in many of the counties and heroic -E $ efforts failed to secure the desired re ports. The returns are incompete, : but the totals available, with then difference In the cpunties in working . on the vote, stands: John G. Mobley...........14,148 John H.Earle,...........11,481 C. W. Garris.................10,907 it e W. Boyd Evans............. 8,93 Harry J. Gignlliat......... 766 James Ca6sler............6,714 Total vote...............59856 These figures indicate a lead for s Major Earle, with his chances favor able, for the second primary with Mr Mobley, although in at least 30,000 unreported votes in this race the sec ond place may go to Mr. Garris, though Marjor Erle has a lead. 9 gARML AND XOBLEY. The News and Courier presents the g official returns from practically every county in the State. These returns have -been verified by the county offi it cials, but their absolute accuracy can not be insisted upon on account of >accidents in transmission and copying, but the returns presented are remark hably complete. *It has been a toss up as to who would be In the second primary with Mr. Mobley for railroad commissinner, but the final figures, if correctly re- - ceived, indicate that Major Earle has h been settled for that honor. - The vote as tabulated gives Major Earle 21,271 and Mr. Garris 20,400, or a is difference of less than a thousand, In as favor of Mr. Earle. e Thursday morning It was indicate&d that the votes of Greenville and Spar tanburg would decide theclosecontest, and they did. When Greenville re eported 4,008 votes for Major Earle ~r and then Spartanburg gave him 2,291 .and Laurens 1,125 and Anderson 1,248, * .eMr. Garris needed some counties that voted in the thousands, and in his 1column of thousandls there are only -- b two-Colleton and Orangeburg. THE CONGE~ssMEN. eIn the 6th Congressional district th eaiestanding of Mr. Bagsdale and Mr. Ellerbe Is very close. They dhave, no doubt, already started in gtheir campaign prelimina~ry to a see eond primary. There are just about one hundred votes different between gthe two leaders in this Congressional .race, as the cfficial record, which is published elsewhere, will show. yPerhaps the livest contest In the State was In the 2d Congresssional district, and in that race Mr. Mayfield Lt and Mr. Patterson have run neck and Sneck, and they will have to make a d race in the second primary. Mr. eWillis, who, It was thought, would ~fget into the second primary, failed to reach that point, and the second race will be to see who can get the'2,853 votes that have gone to Mr. Williams Sand atrthe same time hold their origi o nal strength. In the 5th district, as expected, Mr. 'Finley won an easy victory. S The candidates renominated with yout opposition have such abundant .reason for rejoicing that they are not is worried about the votes and no special el effcort was made to get them, but a table is presented showing the vote of Governor Heyward and his executive family, all of whom are renominated without opposition. The vote shows the largest total that has ever been cast in the primary in the State-the aggregate running a considerably over 100,000 votes. The hhigh-water mark in previous primaries - has been 90,000. r. Deserts the Republicans. a Henry R. Wolcott, who was the e Republican candidate for Gove or of Colorado in 1898 and who is a ~ohr of former Senator Edward 0. Wolcott, -has declared for Parker and Davis. The New York American says in an nlouncing this at the Hotel Wolcott he said: "I regard Parker as safe and sane. I believe Roosevelt to be eccen tric and a menace to the business in terests of the country. While I shall support Parker for President, I shall do all I can to re-elect Peabody, the ~'Republican candidate for Governor of Lt Colorado." Mr. Wolcott is a multi n millionaire mine owner. He is tress LI- urer of the Colorado Mining and 11 Smelting Company and a director in er the Equitable Life and other great fInancin1 institutions.