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VOL. XIX. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1905. NO. 51. TREATY StGNED. Church Bells Peal Forth the Joy ful News of Peace. THEY SHAKE HANDS, As the Treaty is Signed Russia's En voys Extend the Hand of Friend ship Wiich is Grasped by the Jspan's Representative. A Secret Conference. A dispatch from Ports ronth, N. H., says the treaty of Portsmouth was signed shortly before 4 o-cicek Tues day afternoon in the conference room of the navy general store at the navy yard. The firing of a national salute of 19 guns was the signal which told people of Portsmouth, Kittery and Newcastle that the peace of Ports mouth was an accomplished fact and the church tells in the three towns were soon pealing forth r joyful re frain. For 47 minutes those outside the conference room anxkusly awaited the signal. Suddenly an orderly dashed to the entrance of the peace building and waived his hand to the gunner a few feet away and the opening shot of the salute rang out on the clear air of the soft September afternoon proclaiming peace between Russia and Japan. Up to the mcment of signing the treaty, no word had broken the silence of the conference room. Throwing his pen aside, Mr. Witte without a word reached across the table and grasped Baron Komura's hand. His confreres1 followed and the Rssian and Japan ese delegates remained for a moment in silence, their right hands tightly clasped across the conference table. The war was over-Russia and Japan were once more friends. This simple.ceremony rang true and 1 deeply impressed the attaches and sec retarles of the two missions, who, with the invited witnesses, had form ed a large circle around the delegates sitting at the table. Baron de Rosen was the first to break the silence. Rising from his seat the ambassador, looking Baron Komura and Mr. Takahira straight in the eye, said a few words which one a had only to hear to know that they E came from his heart. He began by saying that he wished on behalf of e Mr. Witte, Russia's first plenipoten tiary, and in his own name to say a few words. "We have signed," continued the t ambassador, "an act which will have S forever a place in the annals of his- f tory. As negotiators on behal fof the empire of Russia, as well as the em_ pire of Japan, we may with tranquil ! conscience say that we have done all y that was in our power in order to i bring about the peace for which the whole civilized world was longing. We t earnestly hope that friendly relations between the aawo empires will hence- e forth be firmly established and we trust that his excellency, Baron Ko- t mura, as minister of foreign affairs, and one of the leading statesmen of a his country, will apply to the strength- e ening of these relations the wide ex- - perience and wise statesmanship he r so conspicuously displayed during these. negotiations which have now been so y auspiciously concluded." Baron Komura replied that he shar- s ed entirely the views of Baron de a Rosen. The treaty of Portsmcuth a which they had just signed, he said, was in the interest of humanity and civilization and he was happy to be lieve that it would bring about a firm, lasting peace between- the two neighboring empires. He begged to assure the Russian plenipotentiaries that it would be his duty as well as his pleasure to do everything in his power to make the treaty in fact what it professes to be in words--a treaty 3 of peace at d amity. t At the c~nclusion of Baron Ko- r mura's remarks Mr. Witte arcse and said he desired to see Baron de Rosen and the Japanese pienipoteutaries alone for a few minutes. The four re- t tired to the Russian office and weret coseted for een minutes. What trans- 1 pired in that dual conference of thec peacemakers, the world may never know. The plenipotentiaries have re-. fused to discuss it even to their secre taries. 1 The entire Russian mission, headed by Mr. Witte, attended a thanksgiv- ] ing servics celebrated in Christ Epis copal church both by American and Russian clergymen. Reentering the< hotel, one of the chief members of the Japanese mission said: "The treaty signed Tuesday may be the most Im portant historical feature of the twentieth century." What the Treaty Stipulates. The following is the treaty as final ly agreed upon: Article 1 stipulates for the re-estab lishment of peace and friendship be tween the sovereigns of th~e two em pires, and between the subjects of Rus sia and Japan, respectively. Article 2. The Emuperor of Russia recognizes the preponderent Interest from nolitical, military and economi cal points of view cf Japan. in Korea and stipulates that Russia will not op pose any measures for its government, protection or control that Japan will deem nt cessary to take In Korea in cor junction with the Lorean gcvern ment, but Russian subjects and Rus sian enterprises are to enjoy the same status as subjects and enterprises of other countries. Article 3. It is mutually agreed that the territory cf Manchuria be simultareously evacuated by both the Russian and Japanese troops. Both countries are cor carned in this evacua tion, their situations being absolutely identical. All rights acquired by pri vate persons and companies shall re main lntz ct. Article 4. Rights possessed by Rus sia in conformity with the lease by Russa of Port Arthur and Dalny to gether with the lands and waters ad. jacent shall pass over in their entirety to Japan, but the properties and rights of Ru.san subjaets are to be safeguarded and respected. Article 5. The governments of Russia and Japan engage themselves reciprocally not so put any obstacles to the general measures (which shall be alike fcr all nations,) that China may take for the development of the commerce and industry of Manchuria. Article 6. The Manchurian rail way shall be operated jointly between Russia and Japan. Tae branch lines shall be employed only for commercial and industrial purposes. In view of Russia keeping her branch line with all rights acquired by her convention with China for the construction of that railway. Japan acquires the mines in connection with such branch line which falls to her: however, the rights of private parties or private en terprises are to be respected. Both parties to this treaty remain absolute ly free to undertake what they doem fit on expropriated ground. Article 7. Russia and Japan en gage themselves to make a cmnjunc tion of the two branch lines which they own at Kouarg Tcheng. Article 8. It is agreed that the branch lnes of the Manchurian rail way shall be worked with a view to ssure commercial treaff between them without obstruction. Article 9. Russia cedes to Japan the southern part of Sakhalin Lland Ls far north as the filtieth degree of iorth latitude, together with the is andi dependling thereon. The right >f free navigation is assured in the Bays of La Perouse and Tartare. Article 10. This article recites the ituation of Russian subjects of the outhern part ouf Sakhalin Island and tipu!ates that the Rssian colonists here shall be free and shall have the ight to remain without changing ;heir nationality. Parcontra, the rapanese government shall have the ight to force Russian convicts to eave the territory which is ceded to ier. Article 11. Russia engages herself o Japanese subjects the right to ish in the Rumsian territorial waters f the sea of Japan, sea of Okhotsk 6nd Behring sea. Article 12. The two high contract ng parties engage themselves to re ew the commercial treaty existIng etween the two governments prior to he war in all its vigor with slikht nodifications in details and with a nost favored nation clause. Article 13. Russia and Japan re iprocally engage to res~iLute their >risoners of war on paying the real ost of keeping the same, such claim or cost to be supported by documents. Article 14. This peace treaty shall e drawn up in two languages, French nd English, the French text being vidence for the Russians and the Daglish text for the Japanese. In ase of a diffimulty of interpretation he French dochment Is to be the na levidence. Article 15. Ratification of this reaty shall be countertigned by the overeigns of the two States within Ifty days after its signature. The 'rench and American embassies shall e intermediaries between the Japa ese and Russian governments to an ounce by telegraph the the ratifica ion of the treaty. T wo additional articles are agreedC o as follows. C Article 1. The evacution of Man- C huria by both armies shall be comn lete within eighteen months from he signing of the treaty, beginning1 ith the retirement of the troops of] e first line. At the expiration of ~ igateen months the two parties will8 nly be able to leave as guards for the ailway fifteen soldiers per Kilometer.C Article 2. The boundary which imits the parts owned respectively by ~ ussIa and Japan in Sakhalin Island ~ ball be definitely marked oft' on the C pot by a special limitographic comn- C 2ssion. PELL FIVE STOEIES. C Attle Boy Suips Down Fire Escape, Lands in Mud. At N~ew York Frank Wagner, three ears ald, stood on the fire escapie on a he ifth floor of N~o. 1883 First ave- t ue yesterday afternoon and with C ear-filled eyes, saw pretty little -raoe Kraus playing with her dolls in 1 he yard next door. Frank wanted o "play doll house," but his mother i old him he must stay up stairs. She C omprcmised by letting him watch I dis little chum from above. Frank leaned against the railing I f the fire escape and had a vision of he time when he would be grown up ad could play when and where he ied. The little girl looked up and 1 miled. It was a very inviting smile 1 hd it was Frank's undoing. Hei limbed to the top of the railing,slip-] ,ed and fell He landed in a mud pile waist deep, I ithin a few feet of the girl and her lollies. Mrs. Wagner, whe saw her 1 on disappear over the railing, shriek id and ran to the yard expecting to see the mangled form of her child, ut instead she saw her boy calmly omoving the mud from his Sunday ress, and the veracious neighbors even'assert that his first words were, "Gracie, me come down to play with lolles." Apparently the child was entirely I unhurt, and an ambulance doctor tould find not a mark upon the boy's body. As a matter of precaution the child was taken to Harlem Hospital to watch for symptoms of internal injury. When he heard that af ter ali he was not to play with Grace and her dolls, Frank cried bitterly. The. world seemed very gloomy to him. Vessels Ashore. The steamship Aragon and the barge Saxon, being towed by the Aragon, both lumber laden, from Georgetown to New York, were caught in a severe storm Sunday night and the hawser became entangled in the steamer's propeller. This left the Aragon and the Saxon helpless and both vessels were driven hard ashore Wednesday night on the Virginia cas1t, two miles south of False Cape. It is reported that the barge Saxon was floating, but the steamer Aragon is still hard aboard the Aragon PLAIN TALK. Senator Tillman Wants State Board of Control to Resign. SPEAKS AT TIRZ 1H. The Senior Senator Calls Upon the Gov ernor to Exercise His Power, and Remove the State Board. Sen ator Brice Agreed With Senator Tilman. The Rock Hill correspondent of The State says Tirzih, the scene of many and glorious tilts in this politi cal arena, was again the battleground Tdursday, and fully 2,500 people were gathered to witness the combat. A giant picnic, the kind that has made Ti zah famous, bad been arranged and perfect weaiher, with the excellent gold Hill band, made the occasion a succes:. In response to a numerously signed invitation to talk dispensary md reply to charges made at a recent prohibition meeting in Yorkville, Sen %tor Tillman was present. Senator Brice was on hand to represent the mnti-dispensary side of the question. enator Tillman was in fine furm and ipoke for two hours. Senator Brica nade a vigor,.u3speech. Inquiry among epresentative men in the audience 'ailed to show that sentiment againts he dispensary had been changed, th.e eneral opinion being that the county would vote the institution out. Senator Tillman made much the ame speech that he has made else where, the only new feature of im ortance being a demand that the rovernor exercise his power and re ove the members of the State dis ensary board at once. A "hands up" rote being called for, it was seen that ke crowd was with him on that pro )Csition. Senator Brice was, under the ar angement, the first spzaker. He vig ously denounced the whole dispen ary system, maintaining that it was mdemocratie, that it makes every cit zen whether he will or nor a partner n the liquor business, that it digni Ics the sale of liquor and makes it opular, respectable and reputable, hat it attempts to make the sale and Iringing of liquor a permanent and tIed institution by fastening it on to ine of our mcst cherished institutions, iur public school system, that it h.s creased murder 70 per cent. and as ault and battery 40 per cent., that it s a commcn cbeat and swindle, a nare, a delusion, and fraud, and a rast lake of pitch that defiles and dlackens every one who touches It. It s a deadly vampire that hovers with ts black and hellish wings over every ome in South Carolina. It Is a whit d sepulchre, beautiful whithout but 1 ll of dead men's bones and all in leanness. Mr. Brice stated that the ispensary system could never be I leansed. He said: "I shall never vote s your senator to purify any such I ack law as the dispensary, and I will ght it to the last ditch. The only law will support Is one to kill." His peech was well received. He spoke for 1 n hour. At its conclusion Chairman Vilborn adjourned the meeting for inner.t Senator Tillman spoke for two Lours, devoting much of his time to r. Brice, the Yorkville Enquirer and I thers whom he alleged had Impugn- I d his character. His line of argument rns that the sale of liquor cannot be I topped, that men will nave it in spite f prohibitory law, that its illegal ale would mean more harm than its al lawfully, and that as long as It ould not be kept out it should be sold 1 . the least harmful way. He declar d he was as much of an advocate cf he dispensary as ever, and that he rould always stand for the system as rotected and hedged about when he ,pproved it as governor and undertook o enforce it. He said as originally esigned It decreased drunkenness and ave no opportunity for stealing. The gisature had later so charged the asw and put such men in charge as to -ive thieves every chance. The legis ture was directly responsible. If the tispensary law had been carried out n good faith by a governor-and I I wont say legislature, for God have nercy on any laws the legislature en .cts-if supported by that large ele ent believing it wrong to sell liquor t all, coupled with honest administra ion by the executive offlers, by this ime the whole State might have gone nto prohibition. He saidhe had only .8 months In which to administer the lispensary law and look out for hieves. "God knows I did not know south Carolina had such a brood of hem, but who put them there?" He spoke of the effect cf the Brice aw in cutting out 30,000 votes by set dng the matter by qualified voters d declared it fair tnat every man rave a chance to vote. He wanted to ee a race next year between a prohi itionist, a clean dispensary man and ~ossibly a blind tiger man for gover or. Four blind tiger men had already iminated a candidate but three cut f the four had been in the United 3tates courts. The fight Is to be on aquor or no hequir and he deprecated1 aurrying the vote before next year ehen the whole peuple cou'. expres:.s their opinions. Speaking of the election about to some c-ft in York county Senator Till man said he hoped the dispensa would be voted out. The p:ople woula then get a taste of the evils of pro nibiton which would drive them sooner or later to ask for old rrethocs of handling the liquor question. Sena tor Tillman averred that no man had a right to criticise his motives. HL would answer to his God for his Chris tianity. He had been assailed for stating that he could find two allu sins in the Bible speaking favorably of liquor to one against it. He drew out three typewritten pages of such verses and asked that The Enquirer print them after examining their cor retness He criticised Seator Brice W.LL WAR ACAIN. )r. Seaman Thinks the Peace Treaty is But a Truce. .INA TO TAKE PART 'he Wonderful Awakening of the Ancient Empire. Great Armies Being Raised and Drilled by European In structors. Power of the Japanese Surgeon. There has been added to Mark wain's another disordant note In the borus of praise of the peace of Ports iouth, says The New York Sun. It as been sounded by Dr. Louis L. eaman, who has just got home from visit to Manchuria, where he saw oth the Japanese aLd Russian armies t the front. He had something to ty Wednesday at his home, Twenty ghth street and Fifth avenua, not aly atout peace, but of the awaken g and mo-ernizing of the Cainese npire. "The so called peace of Ports icuth," said Dr. Seaman, "will, in y opinion, come to be regarded as ae of the great mistakes of the cen iry. That which is called peace will e, in my opinion, only a prolonged rmistice. I have been fairly netr le firing line cf both the Japanese d Russian armies and I believe I ow something of the temper of the ien who have fought this war. I now something of the spirit of the ouse of Romanoff, of its nobles and ie Russian people. I have a more Ltmate acquaintance with the tem r of the people of Japan, and I tell )u that the so called peace of Ports Louth is welcomed neither in St. etersburg nor Tokio. "There are several good reasons hy the peace treaty which is now be g written can only be a prolonged -mistice. In the first place, Russia -she is still one of the great nations the earth-will never consent to be ttled up and will never be satisfied atil she has regained the prestige d the territory which she has lost this war. "Furthermore, and I fear it is not erally known to my coiintrymen, assia is a most fertile territory. cre on acre and mile on mile of the ,il of the empire needs only to be ckled in order to bring f arth rict trvests. With the Black sea closed id an uncertain way thrcugh the ardanelles to the sea and with only poor water way to the Baitic, Russia ust have an cutlet for her commerce the future. She will go where she n or where she may. She will find r way to the Persian gulf and if cessary, through China and over the ttlefilds which she has so recently at and upon which she has left her ad. The great empire by the frczen a will not stand still. "And while the Russlans are get og ready the Japanese will grow ore cnd more restive. Do you sup ise Nega's veterans, the men who llowed wherever Oru led or the sol ers of the splendid army of the mias rf al Kuroki can forget, for instance, at they won by their valor all of thalin Island only to have their aperor, the elder statesmen and the enipotentiaries of peace give half of back to the Rusdians whom they rashed? Do you suppose that the en who fought with Togo will fcr t that the battleships which only caped the mereiiess fire of their ins in a fog and f,::und shelter mn the Lrtor of Mania have been given back ider the terms of peace to the Rus ms? -The big white soldiers of Rus i and the little brown men of Japan 11 come together again and the roll the war drums will be heard in the ist. Then will be fought to a finish at last final battle for supremacy, ich, for the good of mankind and .e welfare of Russia and Japan, ould have been fought now by the mies of Ofama and Linevitch in orthern Manchuria. "But however that may be, both belligerents and the world in gen al are reckoning today in the Etst Ethout China. So-ne day, and it Is it far distant, Chios, with its mill ut millione, will be the power in the mient. We can no longer speak of 8 rousing from the sleep of ages of 1na. She has already awakened, Ld yet the world knows little of it a my trip home I met Dr. Tong, no has beesn sent by the Chinese avernment to negotiate a new treaty ith the United States. I talked to m of his country and his people, and 'en I, who know something of China have been there nine times) was nazed at the story he told. So nazed, in fact, was I a ked him to duce to writing and in the form of a Lter to me the substance of what he 1,d said. "Here is the letter. In it he speaks the o'rdial relations that have al ays e:'sted bet ween Cnina and the nit States, and reminds me that, le Chinese people, from the days of >nigis, have been a people of peace, ho have been taught, more than iythng -else; to revere t-he works id the spirits of their ancestors. A inaman who dies leaving no son is ~garded as a 1.>st soul, because he aes behind him no one to venerate in. Yet there is an. old Chinese lage that it is better for a maa to ave no son ithan to leave a son who acomes a sol her. "In spite of this an:d in spite of the iousands of years of tradition and ie wall behind which they have lived 'r. Tong writes to me that the edict as gone forth that a school for mod n and Western educaion shall be ~tablished in every district in China; at there shall be a -high school In lery prefecture, and that-there shall a a college or university in every ovi~ce. The teachers in these in ritutonls sha~ll be either Chinamen Lught abroad or Americans or uropeans. "But that is not al'. From what r. Toag told me it looks very cu.:h if China herself were preparing to re her part in tie wrs or the fut are. An army of 40,000 men is t< be raised by order of the Empress in each of the twenty-three provinces 0' the empir-, and these armies, also by Imperial eaict, are to be offileered anc drilled by Americ3ns or Earopans, or by Chinamen. who have learned thoroughly as the Japanese have learned, the best methods of the ar mies of the Western world. "These things Dr. Ting told me, but it was not all, and in my opinibn not the most interesting. of all that he said. You remember that follow 'ng the Bixer rebellion in China the United States exacted from the Chin ese government an indemnity of $0, 000,000. It has been proposed that we should return this indemnity to Cnina. Dr. Tong spoke of this pro prosition and amazed me by saying that China would appreelate it if the United States did such a thing. On the contrary, he said, the think which China would like best would be for the United States to invest that twenty millicn of dollars in its own government bonds and with the Income provide scholarships at various American colleges and universities for the free education of Chinese students who in the years that are to come shall be the solifers and states men and tradasnen of China. "If the Fl.wery Kingdom isn't al ready sitting up and taking notice, then I don't know what a real wide awake one is." Dr. Seamen was asked about the methods of the medical corps of the greatest and best of any army in the world- Tne history of the world's wars shows that practically five sold iers have died of preventable disease where one has died from bullets. In the war of the rebellion about 602,000 lives were lost, and of this number 102.000 were killed on the firing line or died from the results of wounds. balance died from disease, most cases of wbich could have been prevented with proper care. "The surgeons of the Jaganese army received something more than a half million well men. The medical men directed their entire attention after the war began to keeping that army well. To accomplish this the army surgeons did that which had never before been heard of in any war of the world. They went forward with the first screen of scouts thrown out. They were away in advance o! the main army. With lightning-like rapidity they examined every well and every stream of water over which the army would traveL Over one well they would place a placard with thbi legend: "This water must not be drunk except after boling." Over another well they would place anoth er placard which read: "Tais water must not be used for any purpose ex 3ept for bathing." "Except in battle the surgeon in the Japanese army is the great mogul His orders are obeyed implicitly, and when a Japanese soldier is warned not to drink this or not to drink that be would no more think of disregard ng the mandate of the army surgeon &han he would think .of disregarding the command of his general-in-chief. "Tae result was that the men who won the v:ctories for Japan were as well nigh physically perfect as it was possible for men to be. It had to be so. Had the death rates in other wars prevailed in this one the Japan ase army would 'have been wiped out. I'herefore In the main, preventable i3ease was prevented, and the sold ters of Japan were not murdered In the cause of war." must Not Kiss. A Denver dispatch to the Wash ng Post says: Private J. F. Merritt, company F, Second Infantry, Is ;pending thirty days in the guard rouse for kissing his sweetheart on the mililtary reservation at Fort Log in. Miss Daisy Hilton Is the kissee. The two were standing on the lawn tear the offcial quarters, when Lieut. Samuel Herron, officer of the day, saw them kiss. "If you do that again P'll have you :ourt martialedt," he declared. "PIl go you," retorted the private, at the same time planting another kiss on Miss Hilton's lips. Lieut. Herron not only arrested bfm, but preferred charges, and at a mummary ccurt martial Merritt plead ad guilty. "Have you anything to say?" ask Id the court. "Only that," replied Merritt, "I bhink Lieut. Herron war kind of sweet on the girl himself and he wants me out of the way." Beat His Mother. John Trimble, of Augusta county, Va., severaly beat his mother, Mrs. F. M. Trimble, Sunday with a pitch fork because the bread servedi for breakfast had too much soda in It. After brutally beating his aged mother over the head and body, he turned upon a little girl of the neigh borhood, who came to the old lady's assistance. After his cowardly act, ohn left his mother lying on the gcund and fled to the woods. The youoger son andi another boy, Hazry Humphreys, declare that the old man urged his son, John to kill his mother since he had started it. The old man sood by and saw the attack and fail Bd to go no her assistance. They live ou a nice farm and are substantial people, and the neighborhood Is much aroused. Kinled, by.cootton. A very sad accident occured near Vances on M~onday week ago, which re sulted In the death of Arthur, the five-year-old son of Mr. Julius A. Mur ray: Mr. Murray's children were play iug in his cotton on about two bales of newly gathered seed cotton. T o; had dug a hole in the midst of the pile of cotton, down to the fdoor, when Ar thur got down into It, probably to make the hole larger, when the cotton fell. on him, suffocating him. He was gotten out as speedily as possible, and everything possible done to save him. All proved unavaIling. More Graft. A dispatch from San Francisco says State Senator Henry Dunkers, serving a term in prison for attempting to bribe during the last session of legis lature, has made a full confession, giv ing tine names of twelve other sena tors who received money, also the names of bribers and amounts paid. A wholesale prosecution is promised hbj the district attorney EJLVEN CENTS Fixed as the Minimum Price for the Cotton Crop. President Smith, of the South Caro lina Association, Wanted It Fix ed at Ten and a Half Cents. "Your committee, realizing the unusually strong statistical position of cotton, we recommend a minimum price of 11 cents, basis middling up lands, at the home market through out the cotton belt. E. D. Smith, chairmar; H. Y. Brooke, secretary." This Is the action taken by the Asheville Conference and sent out to the cotton growers of the South who are members of the Southern Cotton Association and other farmeris who feel like aiding in keeping up the price of cotton. It is the call sent out by the executive committee of the Southern Cotton association to the farmers of the south to hold their cot ton for 11 cents. If the farmers will comply with the call and hold for 11 cents they will get it. A dispatch frozn Asbev1le to The State says the committee's report was not announced until after 10 o'clock and it had been awaited with Intense interest by the 100 or more growers and buyers at the hotel. It did not give entire satisfaction, bat is a com promise, Mr. Smith contended for a minimum of 10i cents now, with a later an nouncement of a higher minimum. He was overruled dispite his eloquence and was compelled to accept 11 cents. There were members of the commit tee who held out for 12 cents as a mAinimum and others wanted to put it even higher. All of this was thrashed out in se cret session and when the report was presented to the open meeting 1 was adopted without a word and the com mnit-ee took up other business relating to the proposed amendments to the oonstitution. Eleven cents for cotton at the home market is equivalent toll 1-4 or more at the ports. The October quotation Thursday was around 10 37-100. So that the committee has called upon the producers to hold for an advance of ibout 63 points. Tne most aggressive and Influential man in the association is E. D. Smith He has borne the burden of debate ir, this meeting has been a positive force for conservatism. He has argued valiantly for a safe and careful stand as to the minimum of price and has aad to contend against the unreason ing demands of rampant bulls who wanted to paa the price away up and defy the world, flesh and devil. While many cotton growers are aaxious to benefit themselves and their fellow faimers have taken this ex treme position conscientiously, it is a fact that emissaries of eastern specu lators have had an influence in im pressing a bullish sentiment upon the gathering here at Kenilworth Inn. For more reasons than one a demand for a high holding price by the com mittee would have suited Wall street Smith has contended that a reason ible minimum should be set in crder to protect tue producer who Is forced to sell. He was chairman of the com mnittee on price, composed of one from each State, and the fight in this com mittee was waged all afternoon. Af ter supper the report was made to the whole executive committee In secret session and the fight was thers re newed and lasted for several hours. It was 10 15 o'clock when the commit tee came out and announced ths re sult of its deliberations.. There was a lengthy debate on the advisability of establishing a news 'paper as an organ of the association. A committee previously appointed to re port on this matter did not make a report and it was finally decided to give the committee more time. There is wide difference of opinion on the subject and at times the debate was warm. Of the South Carolina men present, Mr. E. D. Smith favors the proposition and Mr. Hyatt opposes It. kir. Hyatt's speech last night in op position was generally complimented. The question of finance also came up this morning and Mr. Hyatt's res olution to raise $15,000 In 90 days for expenses was adopted. It was stated during the discussion that South Car olina had done better than any other State in regard to finances and the State is one of the most thoroughly organized. The report of the commite tee ou statistics was submitted. The committee consisted of State Senator J. A. Brown of North Carolina; J. McMartin of Mississippi and W. L. Peak of Georgia, with Secretary Rich ard Cheatham. They had reports from 15,000 correspondents throughout the south, including State, county and township correspondents. All of these reports they had canvassed and com piled and after questioning men from each State had made allowances for the Individual bias of the correspon dents, whether bullish, bearish or conservative. From these reports the committee concluded that the condi tion of the present crop to date is 713 3 10 per cent, of last year's crop and that the yield will be 7,588,133 bales. By States the report in full follows: Staa Yield. Condition. Alabama-..-.-...1,031,639 714 Arkansas ......-619,466 '70 Florida-.........54,019 69 Georgia.'.......1,361,180 78 Indian Territory. 365,522 78 Lousiana........656,952 58 North Carolina... 530,064 77 Oklahoma.......307,602 86 South Carolina... 791,697 '73 Tennessee.......242,202 75 Tmxs..........2,382,762 74 Mississippi....1,204,978 '70 Miscellaneous.... 50,050 '75 There was no report on acreage, but the previous report shows 18 per cent. reduction. Gets a Good Job. Former Judge Alton B. Parker will succeed Professor Collins as chief counsel for the Brooklyn Rapid Tran sit Company at an annual salary of $100,000, according to an announce ment Tirursdag. Professor Collins has retired, and the firm of Collins & Sheehan, which has acted for years in aa advisory capacity to the company, will be known as Sheehan & Parker. William F. Snaeehan was one of Par ker's strongest supporters In the re cnn preidential campaign. for saying he would not vote for dis pensary cleaning, ar d endeavored to make the point that if he were against measures looking to the betterment of the State he was a poor servant and ought to be asked to reign. He was not supposed to be the master but the servant of the people. Senator Tillman was particularly explicit in sayin;T that he had come to Tirzah not to tell the people what they should do but to give them the bene fit of his advice and experience. They were free to act according to their consciences and should give the issue prayerful, earnest consideration. If all acted as he did there would be no liquor drinking at all, but as some were going to drink whether or no, the evil should be minimized and the people s*'ould get the benefits fron. the money spent. Senator Brice replied br!efly, saying again that he was oppased to the whole dispensary business, that the issue was liquor or no liquor and not Tillman or BrIce. He hopEd the peo ple would bear the real issue in mind. There was much lighter and ap. lause throughout the spealng, esp-scially at Mr. Tillman's repeated b assaults upon Mr. Brice and The Ea- S quirer and his criticisms of those who a called themselves Christians and sat b in judgment upon others. a The cro vd was orderly and listened s attentively to all that was said, many e standing throughout. It was evident 0 that Mr. Tillman has many friends if iere and it was the opinion of many e that the meeting was due more - to friendship to him than to an expres- 1 ion upon the dispensary question 3 rhe senator stated that he had heard 0 hat as he was born, politically, ;at t rirzah he was to be buried here today, b ut there were few evidences that a a iman funeral was desired. His de. t mand that the governor take charge a )f the dispensary situation in the k ame of the people drew hearty ap- I plause. Senator Brice declared him- k elf as also oeing in favor of this ac. b ,ion on the part-of the governor. A ROUGH VOYAGE P' he British Steamer Tropic Puts Into P Charleston Harbor. A dispatch from Charleston to The i tate says the British steamship a Iopic, 2,340 tons, Capt. Barber, ar- o 1yed in that port Wednesday af ter a b oyage that had lasted nearly three U a conths and which was filled with ex ltement. The second mate, purser nd 15 seamen are missing. Sailing 9( rom Valparaiso, Chile, June 21, the R ropic met with .ad weather at once A nd on June 28, while ff Patu and ic bout 15 miles from C.>nstitucion the ti okout reported "breakers ahead" d before the ship cruld be got abcut at he had gone hard agreund not over D 00 yards from the beach. High seas a ere running and it was realized that m oething must be done. of The second mate, purser and 15 sea- ca en put out in the first life boat for h( 'onstitucion but never returned. All n( dight the seas dashed over the Tropic b: .nd the 20 men on board huddled in jo he cabins and momentarily expected dc e end. Morning brought hope in the se Ight of men on shore-but there emned no way to get to the ship. No si ~oat could live in the breakers arnd nom wimmer could make the shore. A p appy thought came to the captain tc nd with a quickly made kite a cord di ~as carried by the wind to shore, and te ext a line and then a hawser reached g: e land. Over this the men went ge shore. Still hoping that tugs or yes- g ls might come from Constitucion p] he waited. I When no help came and the storm et bated somewhat, the vessel remain- m g In apparently unadamaged condi- g ion the crew retuened In ball boats es d jettisoned shout 200 tons of cargo, gi is so lighting her that she fi )ated at h cigh tide and the fires being started, ur iled for Talcahuano, where a naval si ourt of Inquiry was held and captain si ,nd crew exmnerated. The report of a he court was signed by the British a onsul at Talcahuano and others and B ras ample in praises of the pluck and it nergy oft the master and crew, while w] pressing regret at the loss of the ~17 th cien. The grounding Is accredited to sb deviation of the ship's compasses ar .nd the prevalence of a strong inset N rrent off Putu, in latitude 35.09 :uta and longitude 72 20 west-.t Toe Tropic was 28 days overdue and er cable from Valparaiso to the mari , ime register, dated June 29. said that n he would be a total wreck; a later ; able from London told that she was 0 ated. Captain and crew show evi- se aras of the train and were glad to C: each port for fresh food and rest. ai Crushed by a Car. 0 In N~ew York in attempting to in- W ict punishment on a motorman Tues- g *ay night an angry crowd in Clinton W treet caused the death of a little h :irl, who otherwise would have escap d with few slight bruises. In the ( lbs that followed several persons were ~adly hurt and police reserves had a lard fight to disperse the mob. The ~ ie~tim of the accident was Anna l crinshock, two years old. With er father and another man, she was ol eing led across the street when a rowded northbound car rolled the irl under the fer~der, where she lay t rying, but apparently uninjured. Be 'ore the motormaan could step from0 ,he platform and lift the fender, the rowd made a rush for him and in a be scramble he was forced agaInst a he controller, turning it around andC utting a full current on. Instantly he car shot forward a distance of h wo hundred feet and the child's body ras ground to pieces. The sight ot te mangled body added fury to the b nob, and the m'otorman ass dragged rom the car and nearly beaten to leath. Tvphoid Epidemic. D Nantilake, a suburb of Wilkesbarre, b ?i.,lis in the throes of a typhoid fey- el r epidemic. It is claimed there are of ow over a hundred cas3s. At a neeting of the school board Tuesday e it was decided to close the schools In o' efinitely. Dr. Dodson, county coro- P: or, sa.id he feared the school hou~ses s! will have to be used as hospitals. te Tree deaths have been reported to- E day. Handbills have been pcsted ad vising citizens as to sarainary precau- D tions and to boll water for drinking : :noses. t MANY KILLED An Earthquake Destroys Eigh teen Towns in Italy. DOES GREAT DAMAGE. Nearly Four Hundred People Are Report ed Killed and a Great Number Iwjar ed. The Whole Community is Very Much Depressed, and the People Need Help. A dispatch from Bome says all Italy Is suffering from terrible depression because of the news from the south, where one of the worst earthquakes ever experienaed occurred Friday. Al thcush the earthqoake was felt an over Calabria and to a certain extent In Sicily, the worst news came from Pizzo and Monteleone and from 18 villages which are said to have been completely destroyed. According to the latest news receiv ed 370 personst have been killed and a great number injured. It is as yet im possible to even estimate the property looses. The shook was felt at 2.55 o'clock Friday morning. It lasted for 18 seconds atCatannro and soon there. siter was felt at Messina, Bggio Piscopio, Triplarno, Sammaro, Cessan Iti, Naida, Ouvadi and other points' Scenes of indescribable terror en. sued. Women aroused from their sleep rshed half clothed Into the street - sreaming with fear, carrying their >abies and dragging along their other :hildren and calling for help on the nadonna and the saints. The men es iaped Into the open with their fami les, all calling on their favorite saints !or protection. The cafes were taken by asault by rhe strangely garbed crowd, but as laylight broke without a repetition of he earthquake the crowd gradually nelted away until by 8 o'clcc' the treets bad almost assumed their cer nal appearance except In the ruined rillages where the inhabitants had no aomes to go to. The general confusion was added to )y dreadful cries from the jails where he prisoners were beside themselves with fright and in some cases mutini d, but fortunately all the prisoners were kept within bounds. Troops, en .ineers and doctors have been hurried o the scenes of the disaster to assist n the work of rescue and salvage. The ninistry of the interior sent 34,O000 or the relief of the destitute and Min ster of Public Works Ferraris left for Jalabria, SHO0TING AT SALUO. ;snator Blease Shoots Joe Ben Cole man, His Brother-in-Law. A special dispatch to The State. ~rom Saluda says an unexpected and erhaps a fatal tragedy occurred on ~he streets of abat town Friday night rhen State Senator E. S. Blesse, a ember of the firm of Able & Blesse, hot Joe Ben Coleman. The shooting occurred at or near ~he corner of Smith Brothers' store. 'lve or six shots were fired and Colei an's body showed four wounds. One ound Is in the hand, another on the ight shoulder, while the two others ~enetrated the body. The latter two wounds are of a very ~erous nature and In the opinion of ~he physicians either of them is suffi ient to produce death. Tue wounded nan was carried to the Wheeler hotel here he is receiving every attention. :mmedately after the shooting Mr. lease went to the sheriff and surren lered and is now In jail. The State says the news of the hooting affray was received in Co!nm la by friends of Mr. Blease, who were ~hocked by the Information. They ~ould tell nothing of the causes lead ng up to the affair and so for asknown ~he two men were on the best of terms wnd were considered good friends. Eagene Blesse and Joe Ben Coleman narried sisters, the daugaters of Mr. rames Herbert. Mrs. Blease was Miss saluda Herbert and Mrs. Coleman was diss Maude Herbert. Mr. Blease is erving his first term In the Statie sen toe. He Is a brother of the senator kom LNewberry. Lovers Kinled. While enroute from Atlantic City 10 Philadelphia Wednesday in an au iomobile, Nell Wolfe, secretary and reasurer of an automobile company f Philadelphia. and Miss Marl. amill, daughter of a wealthy Ger nantown shoddy manufacturer, were hrown from an automobile, on a ridge over the West Jersey and Sea hore railroad, near Atico, N. Y., and mrled 30 feet to the tracks below. iss Hamill was almost instantly kill. d and Mr. Wolfe died soon after. The ar was driven by F. G. Plumimer. He was taken Into custody and arraigned efore Prosecutor Loyd, at Camden, W. J., who discharged him after hear ~ng his statement. The accident v a ble to defective steering gear. Mr. Wolfe and EMss Hmill were to have seen married in Decen.ber. Fired at Crowd. Enraged because none of the young omen In a dancing pavilion at South . ech, Staten Island, would darce ith him, but preferred the soldiers rom Fort Wad aworth, an unknown talian today challenged any soldier n the pavilion to fight. One of the olders promptly accepted the chal enge, and with the Italian, stiarted ao leave the ball, when the latter pened fire Into the c:owd of dancers. )ue bullet struck Edwar d Carson, of taten Island, In the forehead, In licing a wound which will cause lath. Another man was 'woanded In he thigh. The Italian escaped. Atlanta HIas One Vase. Dr. J. P. KennEdy, city health offi 3r of Atlanta, Saturday announced ffiially that one case of yellow fever Li e veloped there.