University of South Carolina Libraries
pj I? VOL. XII. DEADLY EXPLOSR Twelve-Inch Gun Bursts W ith Fatal Results. I ??? ^ ? ? INVESTIGATION BOARD AFPOINTLl). Tha Damage to the Vessel of 5uch a Character a-; to Necessitate Putting Her Out of Commission. Vrishington. Spc< iai.?Th ciphot" tlisj received by the Navy Depnrtin> nt, regarding the explosion on the Iowa off Pensaeola was on Friday deciphered. It was from Admiral Higcirison and said: "Iowa's breach-loading 12-inch gun burst in front oT trunnions, throe killed, four wounded." Then followed the names given in previous dispatch. The Department expects fuller particulats. Another dispatch was received as follows: "Puree!!. landsman. Keile. seaman. F. T. Perry, ordinary seaman, killed in Iowa, will be buried at navy yard at Pcnsacola." t'.cmuc of the meagre details of the rxpp shn which Admiral Higirinson's dispatch contained. oiilcials ai the Na y Department can only speculate an t;- its cause. An investigation hoard lias already hern appointed. Pear Admiral O'Neill, chief of the I u:? au of ordnance, has already issued ?rdi rs for the transportation to New Y i s of a new 12-inch gun which is in ,i- 1k> Washington navy yard, and i: w.11 placed on lite Iowa when that ve.-e l omes to New York for repairs. Admiral O'Neill said: : .i> gun which burst was designed in and manufactured at the naval c\:: fa tory. January 1. 1905. The gun ha . b?en lired 123 times. Yesterday's ac. 1 nt j? die iirst tiiat lias ever hapI .! (o any of tlie large calibre guns he navy, except in the ca.-e of n> U .mm on the Kcareage. tin no re ? f hi li was injured by a premature i xi.'.cvsi >11 of a shell two years an n A lir.mc, tube was inserted in thai gun an.: it is in use at the proving grounds No reason can yet ho assigned fo the -u ident. As yet 1 do not know what kind of powder was used, or details as to the location of the shell. While ihe a > .den: may have been due tn the prelum u re explosion of the shell in the Ik.re, such a contingency is unlikely, as -lu lis have on several occasions broken up in bores cf guns without any other injury than the defacing of the bore. So I r.\! a. the bureau is advised, all the ' >* a's rj-ini h shells as fitted with 1 ? overs, with a view to preventing siMe p etnaturcs explosi >n duo to t a *i 11 of the powder gasscs." ' : > huroau of navigation has sent l>'.grams of sympathy to the families ' -ho men killed and wounded in the vd' -i n. Acting Secretary Darling - at the following dispatch of sympaih> to Rear Admiral lliggins.u. . iiuandcr of the North Atlantic licet, at :'?':i?acola: " Pi -ase convey to t'.r> officers and inert of the lleet sincere sympathy of t:.< Department in the less of their comrades by the unfortunate accident board t*he Iowa. (.Signed) "1>A RUNG." .illhough it had been intended that I: Iowa should be repaired at the New V-uk yard, the damage done by the explosion will probably make it necessary t put the vessel out of commission. The damage to the battleship Iowa canned by the premature explosion of a shell in the forward port 12-inch gun has developed to be more serious than was thought when the first examinat:< a vis mad" and as a consequence "he 1ig ship has been ordered to the N w York navy yard to go out of commission. She steamed down to the i < r.s.-icola navy yar d, where she is fiti ng >ut with supplies and coal preparatory to sailing soon as possible fop the North, it is known that three <ii ks including the upper deck in the fv.tward part of th" ship, will have to Ik entirely removed and rebuilt. It is f<'tired that the steel supports under the 12-inrh port turret are sprung to such an extent that they will have to be rer. ove:i. though this cannot yet he atatp sltively. The gun itself is a hope1 s wreck. Although the gun which hirst went into numcv'iess pieces the e:< J of tno gun is as smooth as if it ? a I jr. t l ien turned out of a 3hip, and exivpr that it is about 12 feet shorter than the st -.--board gun. it is hardly n ti cable that an explosion occurred. \CCOr i inn to t lironnril <*f .k*. ? -< ?l--1 ?WT . - v. wiuo I im CAIJIIMICU ;;vr, it was good for at least another year >;f P'.vvlrp, and reports that t.ie car. had been condemned are without :lation. Wind Chaplain Dead. Washington. Special.?The Rev. Wa, Henry Milburn, the venerable blind chaplain of the United Stntt? Senate, died in Santa Barbara, Cal., Fridiy. Word to this effect was received here tonight by Col. Randnll, the scrgeaitat-arma of the Senate. The decerned was a native of Philadelphia, whtre he was born In 1823. When he was fve years of age, a playfellow accident*ly struck him In the loft eye with a pi?ce of glass. For two years he was c<nfin9d to a dark room under mcdbal treatment and subsequently became olally-blind. I OR! F SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL A 50.000 Spindle Addition. It is announced that the Pulton liag and Cotton .Mills of Atlanta. (Ja., will build an addition to be equipped with fit),000 spindles. This extension of the plant will cost from $250,000 to $300,000. and arrangements are now being uiadc to begin the work of construetic n soon. The company has at present bi.000 ring spindles and 1 352 looms, using steam-power, li.-, product is light sheetings, seamless bags, burlap, cutten and jute twines and batting, and has been known on the market for some y nrs. The company's present capitalization Is $250,001). A 5,000 Spindle Addition. The Norrls Cotton Mills Co.. Cateechee. 13. C.. has decided to add 5.000 spindles, with looms and other complementary machinery to suit. This enlargement will require the expenditure of probably about $100,000, and iiiiuivmaie arrangememg will ue niaue to effect the betterments. The 1). A. Tompkins Co. of Charlotte, N. C.. has been engaged as engineer In charge. The Noriis plant at present has 13.248 ring spindles and 3T?2 looms, uses water and electric power, and inane, factures sheetings. Its present capitalization Is $200,000. To Add 3.000 boindles. Tile Opelika Cotton Mills of Opelika. Ala., has increased its capital stock $30.00. making $130,000 in all. for the purpose of enlarging the plant. An additional building will be constructed. work to begin at or.ee, and .5.000 a Mitinjial spindles will be installed. There will then remain space for installation of 2.000 spindles more. Contract for the new machinery has 1-een signed. At present there are 7.400 ring spindles in the plant, and line counts of yarns Is the product. Industrial Miscellany. The big dry-kiln at Corbett's mills. New Moultrie, (la., owned by Aycock Bros., was destroyed by fire o:i the 3rd inst. The loss is estimated at $3,000, with no insurance. The \V. 11. Smaii Spoke Manufacturing Co. will build a liardwoo 1 saw iu:m -.vim capacity or nu.U'JO root or .lumber per (lay on tract of 1,200 acres of timber land near Corinth, Miss. Savannah trade bodies have endorsed I the project for an inland waterway connecting the Chesapeake bay with Beaufort inlet. North Carolina, and their secretaries will co-operate in assembling statistics showing how the project will benefit Savannah's trade. The Board of Trade and Cotton Exchange of Meridian, Miss., in a desire to promote the common good of all tho commercial and industrial interests of the Stale, have invited the commercial bodies of Mississippi to a convention to lie held at Meridian on May 26. It is designed to form a federation of the ; commercial organizations in a union 1 of i f/crts and energies for the dcvel- j opnient of Mississippi's resources and the encouragement of the migration to the Stata of men and money. Textile Notes. Messrs. D. K. Norris, J. T. Gassawayand P. B. Morgan of Central. 5. C.,* and Q. A. Bobbins of Charlotte, N. C? have Incorporated the lsaqucena Mills of Central, S. C.. with cipltal stock of $200,000. to build plant. This enterprise is identical with the Norris Central Mills, mentioned March 26 as to be incorporated. The projectors changed the title. Details as to the plant have not as yet been decided. I.ouisvillo (Ky.) Cotton Mills Co. lias engaged Messrs. C. It. Makepeace 6. Co., Projvidence, It. I? as engineers | ill I'hnrffo r.f ? 1 1 ' ... .u> i|iiuiciiiviiia ami mi I <1 it inns of ^nachlnery. referred to last weok. All (contracts for machinery have practically been awarded. Messrs. 1). X. Murphy & Bio. of Louisville are about conrploting plans for the new building, Which will lie 100x00 feet in size. Woodrufi' (S. C.) Cotton Mills' addition, now; in course of construc tion, will be equipped with 10,500 spindles and .'194 looms, as was announced some weeks agot The company will have space in t.ais new building for 22,000 more spindles, which it hopes to install during the next few years. Con-, tract has been placed for machinery required u<t present. Messrs, iA. C. Vclasko and C. Q. Culin of S yracuse. N. C.. are conferring with the Business Men's League of Florence". Ala., with a view of buildLug a hosiery mill in that city. Mr. Yelasko la i mann^i r of the Oak Knitting Co. a t Syracuse, New York. A. K. C.lark, now engaged in cotton manufacturing at Augusta. Ga.. con"templates ^establishing :i plant of 5000 spindles afnd 150 looms at Jackson. Miss. The Spr'ay (N. C.) Yv'oolen Mills is having pla'ns prepared by O. A. Robbins A Co*, of Charlotte, N. C., for a four-aet w<bolenmill. A compi'iny has been organized to build cotte ?n mill at Pauline, S. C. E. D. Forest of Fair Forest. S. C., is reported as president. H. B. N1 eal of McDonough, Ga.. is organizing company to build cotton mill at Ni -al. Ga. lie owns a waterpower whi (ch it is proposed to develop in connect ion with the mill. Messrs. B. Frank Mebane, \V. \Y. Walker a: id J. S. Patterson, all of Spray. N. C.. have incorporated the Rhode l.sl: aod Co. to manufacture cotton. wool and other textiles. The capital stock is $125,000. r litv i'i^ * MI ORT MILL, S. C., WEL 10 PERSONS KILLED. A Path of Desolation Cut Across a Prosperous Farming Section. LITTLE ALABAMA TOWN RAZED. Besides Those Killed Outright. Three or Four Were Fatally and a Score Seriously Injured. Birmingham, Ala.. Special.?Without a word of warning the little hamlet of Hopewell, forty miles north of this city and one mile from Ilanceville, was swept away early Wednesday morning by a cyclone, which cut a path | oi (i solation across a prosperous farming section of Blount county. Ten persons were killed, three or four fatally and a score seriously injured. The I dead: Nathan Griflln. .James Grflin. Henry McCoy and three children; C. C. Oden, a prominent planter. Heiter Oden. Miss Thelnia Oden. Mrs. C. C. Oden. The injured: A son and niece of Nathan Griffin, Mrs. Griffin. Mrs. Nora Oden. Mrs. Henry McCoy and two children; It. G. Quick. Dink Quick, family of McCoy, seven persons; Mrs. Holstin Horton, Miss Inc. Horton, ltiehard Griffin. It is believed that several of the injured will die. The storm traveled in a 1 northeasterly direction wrecking everything in its path. One of the first houses struck was that of Nathan Griflln. the house was demolished and Mr. Griffin and his son. .lames, were killed. Mrs. Griffin was so badly injured that she died later. Another son and nh ce of Mr. Griffin made a miraculous < scape by running from the house before the demolition was complete and saving their lives. They were injured. but all recover. The house of John McCoy was then next wrecked, but he and his family escaped with severe bruises. The home of Hvnry McCoy, son of J elm McCoy, received the worst impact of the storm. His wife was severely injured, two of his children are still unconscious and may die. and he and his babe and two other children are dead. The storm then struck the hnuan ?f C. C. Oden. Trees in the yard were twisted into gnarled shapes and even the vegetables in the garden were torn up by their roots. Mr. Oden was killed out right, as were his three daughters. aged 15, 12 and 9 years, respectively. Mrs. Oden received injuries front which she died later. The honte of Mr. Henry Wharton was next attacked by the storm and it was wrecked but Mrs. Wharton was not badly injured. Then canto the honte of It. (I. Quick, it went to pieces and he and his two children were injured. but there were no fatalities there. Little ltoek. Ark., Special.?Specials? to The Arkansas? Gazette front several towns in White and Cleburne counties. Ark., tell of a tornado which swept through that sertivm Tuesday night, leaving death smd destruction in its wake. The major portion of the country through which the storm ploughed its way is remote front railroad, telegraph or telephone lines. The dead are: Jim Leggitt. Little Hod; Joe Leggitt, Little Ited; Tom King and wife. Little Red; 3 King i miuit-ii, young lany scnooi leacnt r, who was hoarding at King's; A. C. Williams, near Heber. The injured are: Infant child of the King family; Mrs. A. C. Williams, near Heber, not expected to live; Buck Neeley, Searcy: Albert Keoler, Elbert Derritt, Walker Pollard. Little Red; two of the Pollard family near Albion; Mrs. llovcrton and child, Pangbnrg, not expected to live; Miss Hurkhoustn. Little Red. leg broken and skull fractured; Walter Muller Pangburn, leg broken; Mrs. Henry Wells, injured internally, fatally; unknown woman, Pangburn, both legs broken; Tom Houston, near Heber, both arms broken; unknown man at Bradford. A special from Heber says: "In the tornado which swept across this section last night A. C. Williams, living ten miles south of llcber. w.i? killed. He was 70 years of age. and lived with his wife on top of one of the mountains south of this town. His house was caught tip by the wind and thrown down the mountain side, ho being killed and his wife badly injured. At Pangburn six residences were blown down. A large church near Pangburn was blown half a mile." Forty-three residences and sixteen barns destroyed and other wreckage is the record of the damage reported up to 8 o'clock. Mr. Stevenson Wounded. Bloomington, 111., Special.?Adlal 12. Stevenson, former Vice President of the United States, lost his hair and moustache and received painful burns on his face, head and hands Wcijjj-sday, while trying to extinguish a fire in his home. The fire started in a bedroom. When Mr. Stevenson rushed into the room the curtains were in a blaze. Without calling aid he attacked the flames. In a moment the hair on his head went tip in a pr.ff of smoke. The fire then seized his moustache t>im' blistered his face. Then Mr. Stevensvm j railed for help. He retreated before the flames eaught his clothing. The ' loss to the houac was $1,000. r xj INESDAY.'A.VRIL 15,1 MORO BOMBARDED. Eleven American Wounded in the Battle. PERSHING'S FORCES TAKE BACOLOD. The noros Were iMroiijjIy Fortified and Defended the IMa.ce Desperately. Manila. By Cable.?The investment of Bacolod which was captured by Captain Pershing's forces, after a ll^ht in which a hundred Moros were killed, occupied three days. The tlnal assault was made at noon Wednesday. Desperate flKhtiifft took place inside the forts. Seven cannon were captured tinu eiuvmi Americans were wounded, a few of them seriously. It is probable that all the Americans will .ecovcr. The column approached Hacolod early on Monday and found new forts, which ha?l been a year under construction. Hying battle tings. The Moros did not wait to be attacked, but tired a volley, which wounded two Americans. Captain Pershing then decided to bombard the fortification, and Gatley's batteries took up positions and shelled the forts and works until Wednesday morning, the infantry and cavalry supporting the attack. Many of the Moros left the forts on Monday and Tuesday nights, and escaped in boats on the lake. The assault on Wednesday was carefully prepared. The column carried forward a bamboo bridge, on which the troops crossed the moat under lire and afterwards scaled the walls. The lighting inside the forts was most desperate. Sixty dead Moros were found inside the walls and -10 were killed in the trenches. The whereabouts of the Sultan of llacoloa is not known, lie is believed to have escaped Monday night. Murder at Buffalo. Hnffola. Special.?A shooting affair in which a U-ycar-old boy was killed and a woman mortally wounded, an attempted murder, two suicides ami two "? f t/mi llto o ? ? * - " ,?i nun uic mill may IX'SUll I Utally. occurred in this city. Joseph Kwaitkowski, 51 years old, a representative Polish citizen, is locked up at police headquarters, charged with shooting his landlady anil killing his own 9-year-old hoy. Kwaitkowski formerly conducted an extensive hardness in one of the markets of the city. 1 i is wife died a trout a year ago, leaving two children. Since tire death of his wife, business difficulties drove him to drink. For the last four months he liar, lived in rooms at 190 Coit street. The owner of the house, Mrs. Tekla Wiuski, her husband and the children, occupied the rear part of the building. The children of the two families were constantly quarreling. Sunday night Kwaitkowski returned home and found the children in the usual turmoil. Mr. Wolinski informed him that he would have to move, whereupon Kwaitkowski drew a revolver and began firing, hacking out of the house as he did so. Mrs. Wolinski followed the infuriated Pole and grappled with him. He pointed the revolver at her breast and fired. She fell to the ground, mortally wounded. Kwaitkowski fired several more shots, one of them striking his own 9-yearold son. Peter, killing him instantly, i A large crowd quickly gathered and I Kwaitkowski retreated int., tl,?? 1,' locking and barricading the door behind him. Then began a lively exchange of shots through the windows between the policemen who had gathered. and Kwaitkowski which continued until the latter exhausted his ammunition when the officers battered down the .lc?>r and captured him. George Denning, 55 years old. had been separated from his wife for some time. He called upon her ami tried to induce her to resume martial relations. She refused. He drew a revolver and fired. She fell to the lloor in a faint, and believing that he had killed her. Denning ran away. His body was found later in the evening in a Salvation Army lodging house. He had taken poison. Two (turned to De'tlb. Indianapolis. Special.?Nathan Morris. one of the lust kn 'wn attorneys . f Indiana, and Prank Haas, the 12-year ol'l son of I)r. Jos. Unas, were Iturnc.l to doatli Sunday, and Mrs. Jos. Haas, Miss Hello Haas. Miss Rose Haas. Louis Haas and Grace Lemon, a governess, were injured more or less seriously. The residence of Dr. Jos. Haas was nearly burned to the ground. IXmands of Textile Workers. Philadelphia, Special.?Union textile workers of this city assembled in convention Sunday, for the purpose of formulating demands to be presented to the operators. The convention adjourned at night after adopting a resolution demanding a 55-hour week, dating from June 1. leaving the wag"* question for future consideration. Time and half time will he asked for all work done in excess of the 53 hours. A committee was apponited to present the demands to the manufacturers wno will also be informed that a strike will follow their refusal to accept the proposition. riME 1)03. i One of the greatest pugilists that Aifterica ever produced. John Dwyer, of Brooklyn, quit his regular occupation to enter the counting room. He died within a year from tuberculosis. The explanation in this case was simple enough. The immense lungs, which were necessarily an advantage in the prize ring, fell into disuse in th" counting room. Disuse meant degeneration. and .i .i in- .1 in a lark of resistance, of which tubercle bacillus was not slow to take advantage. Virginia Debt Paid. Washington. Special.?Senat r Daniel. of Virginia, has hecn advised by the Comptroller of the Tiv#sury that an otlleiai decision has been reached and a settlement by offsetting of the claims?made of the long-standing claims of the Cnited States anil the State of Virginia against each other. The claims amounted to nearly $L\000,000 each. Ily the terms of the settlement Virginia will receive a check for $"?. and some interest-bearing Virlginia State bends that have been held by the United States. The bonds, it is said, will amount to over half a million dollars. Killed by Falling Cannon. Mobile. Ala., Special.?While superintending tin* removal of a six-pounder ( gun from the wharf to the I nitcd ] States barracks here Saturday. John i it. limns, aged 25*. an electrical en- < ginecr. was instantly killed by the gun. which broke from its fastenings and ' passed over his boilv. The remains will ] be interred in the National Cemetery here. Burns was from New York city* 1 Urigham Young Dead. Salt Lake City. Utah. Special.? ' Urigham Voting, president of the Conn- i cil of Twol\ Apostles of Mormon | Chttrcli died in the city Saturday night. , ...v., .. i mi, iiiiiim. Ill- was DOIII at Kirtland, O.. .11 1830. ami was the cldcrcst son t?f President Brighatn ' Toung. j ] Tappa! unnock. Special.?Alt-x John- I . son. colored, of this place, was drowned I t in the Rappahannock river, near Port j Royal, lie was out in a skift'. whirl) 1 was upset by the high winds, and 1 though an expert swinuncr, did not ( succeed in reaching the shore. ( ? Broke the Record. Pensacola. Fla., Special.?World's I records are being smashed here with 1 frequency by the ships of the North Atlantic licet. The Illinois lowered all I records for accuracy with 13-inch guns f and the Iowa took the record with six- j pounders. The vessel was firing the < guns of this size in the gulf Wedres- 1 day afternoon when the gunners fired ' 30 shots in succession each falling true ' a at a range of 1.700 yards. Three gun t1 crews participated. 1 I t Thirty Killed; Hany Wounded. | Berlin. By Cable. \ dispatch to The t Local Anzeiger fr m St. Petersburg dated Wednesday says that 30 p.- rsuns 11 have been killed and thai 100 were in- ' jured during labor disturbances near j t Nijini-Novgorod. The disturbance or- j j. curred at a large factory near Nijini- t Novgorod. The authorities were un- < al)lc to restore order. Troops were 1 called out and artillery was brought up an.i urea point blank into the midst of t the rioters, killing thirty men and wounding a hundred. v n Government Forces Whipped. Willemstadt, By Cable.?News hus ^ been received here that the Venezuelan a revolutionists have defeated the forces ' of the government near Caracas and ! K captured two cannon and a large a quantity of ammunition. They have V also captured the city of Barqulsmeto, which is the key to the western part '? of Venezuela, taking many prisopers. Heavy fighting, undecisive as yet. has . taken place at Coro. ' w o Telegraphic Briefs. ti Republicans carried Cincinnati and Democrats won in CI -veland at the municipal (lection. Michigan Ueniildican-( < !. ted their State ticket by from 35.-j t'CO (d 40,000 plurality. Pro.ddent Itoo: . volt continued his ^ lour of South Dakota and made a " ; peech at Sioux Kalis on the work tho 1 Government is doing for farmers and ' wage-earners. 1 Twenty-two monuments on the hat- j tlefield of Shiloh were presented to tho ( nation by the State of Indiana and j dedicated. From Bugler to General. The career of llrigadler General Ed- ' ward M. Hayes (familiarly known as i "Jack" Ilayes), who has Just been \ promoted from the colonelry of the i Thirteenth Infantry, is unique in the annals of our army. Ho enlisted in the army as a boy In 1855 as bugler in the company in which Fltzhugh I.ee was lieutenant. When the war began he enlisted as a private and rame out an officer. With the reorganization of the army in 1808 he obtained a commission, since which time he has made a most brilliant record, first on the plains and lately in tho Philippines. 1 ' / NO. 4. FOUND TRUE BILL. The Slayer of Editor Gonzales Appeared in CourtTHE TRIAL WAS POSTPONED: ucxause 01 Absence of Two Witnesses the Hearing of the Case Went Over Until June Term of Court. Columbia. S. 0., Special.?.lames IT. Tillman, who is charged with the killinn of N. (?. Gonzales, the editor oC The Columbia State in January, was taken to the Criminal Court here Wednesday for the purpose of havinK him plead to the indictment returned, against him last Monday for murder and carrying concealed weapons or unlawful arms, as they are termed Itt Lhis State. The arraignment was not had. however, and the proceedings which it was thought would he of a purely formal charaet< r turned out tc> he highly sensational. The trial of the defendant had been set for next Monday, and both sides had caused the report to be circulated that they were ready for trial. Much to the surprise the spectators and lawyers here, he defense availed themselves of the ipportunity presented to secure a continuance on the ground that it had men impossible to secure the attenJuicc of two material witnesses. (Papain J. A. White and Miss Julia 1 to per. Tillman, the defendant, was brought nto court short 1> before the proccednir? M'l'l-I' mmm.ii".".! II.. in- ?uis ari'iim>anicd by his uncle, Senator Bin Tillnan. who appeared to be very much, iiore deeply coiicerneil about the proceedings than the prisoner himself. Distinguished counsel appeared on. jotli sides. The people were reprcm nt?*d by Col. Amlrew Crawford and Solicitor (Commonwealth's Attorney) I. W. William Thurmond and the demise by Congressman Ueorge W. Jroft, who was at one time the defenmt's law partner, and Patrick II.Ncl ion. The prosecuting officer opened the iroceedings with a request for an aruigumcnt. Counsel for the defense inerrupted to enter a motion for a coninuancc v>n the ground of the absence >f the two witnesses already mentionid. They presented affidavits from the vitnesscs which in a measure indicated what they would testify to. The iroseoutlon promptly announced that t was entir |y willing to accept these tffhlavits and strenuously objected to my further delay in the ease. The mint wjm made that the defense bad tad ample time to prepare for the rial ''mi the affidavits were all that vas eeessary in the defendant's bolalt so far as the witnesses in quesiou were concerned. The prosecution urged that a rute lad been made recently to prevent continuances under such clreumstanes as those sitown in tliis case hut he court ruled against them and iranted a continuance until the June erm on an affidavit of defendant's ounsol stating that it had been imKjssible to get witnesses in time for his term. The solicitor th< n urged liat. the defendant he arraigned at this ime, but Judge Klugh declined to need e to this request and the prisoner ins remanded and the ease continued mtiI the June term of court. May Cotton Up. New York. Special.-- The rise in roton which 1 egnn almost four month* go was continue! when May touched 0.10 and July 9.99. new high records or the present movement. The maret opened active and strong all round, hut the shorts were almost the uyers of May. the bull element hold:ig off and taking only so much as was. ecessary to strengthen tlieir position, idvances tended from 1 to 7 points, hut he hulk of the trading was in May and uly. Offerings of July cotton at 9.98 ,'ere liberal and sales at that figure tere moderately large. By 11 'clock May sold off to 10.33 and July o 9.93. May close.I 10.29 hid; 10.30 askd; July 9.90 bid, 9.91 asked. Telegraphic Briefs. There has been renewed on the New for!; cotton exchange the agitation for l system of deliveri s of <-otl m in ear? ying out contracts; made oti the floor >f t lie New York cotton exchange at a uunhcr of Southern ports instead of 'Jew York only as at present. A com>any has liecn selected to work in favor >f the plan to which there is considerible opposition. A London dispatch says: "Mrs, Mabel Townsend, formerly of the Alcazar Theatre, San Francisco, shot herself with a revolver on the doorstep of her residence In Great Lltchfleld street. Sin* was dead when taken to the hospital. Mrs. Townsend is sahl to have been suffering from religious mania." An Indianapolis dispatch says: "The national executive hoard of the United Mine Workers met hero at which it was understood recommendations would he made for bringing all the miners of the country Into the organization before the next annual convention. There are probably 150,000 men about the mines who do not belong to the organization.'' J