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for'f mill times. VOL. XIV. FORT MILL, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2,1905. NO. 19. II IK_ New Orleans Fast in the Monster, Y MANY NEW CASES DEVELOP DAILY c Twenty-Six New Cases Are Reportec and Number of Deaths Grows, but the Men of Science Still Think th< Situation Not Beyond Control?All But Two of New Cases Italians. xsew urleans, (Special.)?New cases imported up to 6 p. m. Sunday, 27. Total cases to date, 283. Death to-day, 3. Deaths to date, 57. New foci, 4. Total foci, 41. Of the deaths, one occurred at the Emergency Hospital and was one ol the cases transferred there. That instr tut ion now has 19 cases under treat ment and discharged its first patient as cured. The State board of health divided the State into districts, comprising half a dozen parishes each, with a medical inspector in charge of each and will immediately investigate al rumors of yellow fever cases whict come to light outside of New Orleans and that part of the State which k now included in the city for quarautini purposes. There is no foundation for the re port of the case near llorgan City an< that the body and house had beer burned. It. has been thoroughly investi gated. Although the unotllcial reports made public showed a larger numbei of yellow fever deaths than Friday when there were only two, and th< appearance of a number of new cases the men of science who are warring against the yellow fever plague endec last week's labors confident that tli< situation was still well in hand, ant with no immediate prospects of becom ing alarming. Saturday's official repori of Friday's progress of the disease shows that the entire quarter above v^anai sweet was tree from a singk new case, and that the fever was onlj spre.\ding in the poorer habitations o! the down town quarter, with new cases Isolated except in the heart of the French Market quarter. VICTIMS MOSTLY ITALIANS. The health authorities continue tc hold also that the plague remains ar Italian infection, all but two of the 2t eases reported being of that national ity. Almost without exception since tin beginning of the fever, those who havt fallen victims to the disease have beer of the poorer classes of the population many of them not long residents o! the United States, and, therefore, un acclimated. For several years the planters ol Louisiana have been replacing the ne groes with Italian labor, and there has been a steady llow of immigratior from Sicily and other parts of Italy tt Louisiana. Many of Uie immigrant! have remained in New Orleans, find ing employment in the peddling o fruit or in the work of unloading ves sols at the fruit wharves. It was amon> these that the fever first appeared, am to their laek of acclimation and th< inadequacy of their treatment hat been largely due the heavy mortality that has characterized the present vis itation of the scourge. Friday's death: have been principally of Italians. It two or more cases in the last tw< days deaths have been reported o persons who were only reported th< day previously us having taken tin lever. There have been concenle< cases, which the emergency officers WiMl the as.Os.1 :inr?> nf enwnnro lim-< disclosed. The first death in the Emergene; Hospital occurred. The hospital wa opened Friday with 1.1 eases, and ai equal number was added Friday. Inti the hospital are sent the worst casei c? unfortunates found without com forts or medicinal attendance in thel homes. Young Man Drank Poison. Fredericksburg. Special. ? Charll Mltehel, a young man who came her recently from Richmond and has beei employed on an ice wagon, attempte< suicide by drinking laudanum, lie wa carried to the mayor's office, wher Drs. Darney and Chewning rclieve< him. Ho was then committed to jai and is now in a normal condition. Johann Hoch Respited. Chicago. Special. ? Johann Hoch "Bluebeard" and confessed bigamist sentenced to bo hanged Friday foi poisoning one of his wives, was grant Ied a reprieve until August 2pth bj Governor Deneen. The stay of exe cut ion followed hours of anxiety or the part or Hoch, who had never giver up hope, and was allowed by the Gov ernor only after the latter had beer assured that the necessary sum to ap peaf the case had been raised. Tin amount.. $500. was given by an altor | noy and friend of Horh'g counsel. Th< attorney declared he was actostec purely by humsinitarlan motives. I 6 ?s i Grip of That Malignant ellow Fever COMMITTEE REPORTS. I The Crop Estimate Board Find That . Hyde, with Holmes Prompting Him, Made the Figures Lower Than the I Facts at Hand Warranted. Washington. Special.?Assistant Secretary Hays made the following report to Secretary Wilson on the acreage of ! cotton In the Southern States In 1905, as compared with that planted in 1904: The crop estimating board of the Department of Agriculture has considered the report issued by the Bureau of Statistics on June 2, relative to the acreage planted in cotton in the South! em States in 1905, as compared with ' that planted in 1904, and has con eluded: First: That a new estimate should be made on acreage planted, and that the figures in Mr. Hyde's hands when I making his estimate should be used as , the basis. ^ Second: That Mr. Hyde, with Mr. Holmes at his elbow, prompting him, j made the estimate lower than the facts l at his hand from the reports from the , seven classes of reporters employed by trie bureau wui ranted. ' Third: The board finds upon careful consideration of the reports of all classes of correspondents and agents, " j that the acreage planted in cotton this 1 year, including the entire season. 1 should have been estimated at S5.1 per * cent of that planted last year, equivlalent to a reduction in planted acre5 age as compared with last year of r 14.99 per cent, (instead of 11.4 per . cent.) or 4,731,000 acres?the estimate i of the total acreage planted this year . being 20,999,000 acres, t The estimated percentage of the de1 crease in each of the cotton-growing i States is as follows: Virginia 18; North i i urounu 10; bouui c>aroiiiui 11; ueur gia 14; Florida 12: Alabama 11; Mist sissippi 16; Louisiana 17; Texas 16; Arkansas 19; Tennessee 13; Missouri ; 15; Oklahoma 15; Indian Territory 11. ; The averages were made for each r State by each of the four members of C the board, and the comparatively small 5 disagreements were harmonized almost , wholly by averaging, and the above results are fully agreed to by each and every member of the board. Respectfully submitted, > VICTOR OLMSTED. 1 STEPHEN D. FESSENDEN, 1 GEORGE K. HOLMES. \V. W. LONG. i Crop Estimating Board. 5 The above findings and report male 1 under my supervision have my entire , approval. W. M. HAYS, t Assistant Secretary in Charge Bureau Statistics. Approved: JAMES WILSON. [ Secretary of Agriculture. s Fall Trade Outlook Good. * New York, Special. ? Brad street 5 :ays: "Crop reports and fall trade advices f are more unanimously favorable than at any preceding time at this season. J "Confidence in the crop situation is 3 reflected by good Jail orders and a s volume of wholesale and retail trade '* certainly in excess of a year ago and ^ fully equal to the average at this seaj son. Special activity is noted in cot> I ton goods, which are in eager demand f at high prices, with scarcity of desira' ble makes widely reported. ' ] "Reports from the clothing lines and ; from lumber, hardware and the build' imr mnlorlnl lltmo nt*rk (vnnettnllo I ...?iv.ia> iiiiv n nil- (siruviailj SOI IBc factory. A heavy movement of winter wheat has helped collections and dey veloped a little more activity in flour 3 million In the Southwest. Tho iron 1 trade shows some quietness after the 3 exceptional activity in pig iron noted 3 last week. "Business failures for the week endr ing July 27 numbered 195. against 174 in the like week of 1904." An Error in the Revised Cotton Report a Washington, Special.?In tho revised u cotton report issued Thursday by the ^ Department of Agriculture nu error 1 was committed in the second paras graph which made it appear that the ajJuno estimate by Mr. Hyde was made . I "lower" than tho facts at hand warI ...1 I niirii. in lin-i, ii was niaiio "higher." The erroneous statement huu oeen corrected by the department. Telegraphic Briefs. All of the (lead of the Bennington . have been identified; they number f>8. r The Charleston board of health has decided that the yellow fever situation is not sufficiently serious to require ' quarantining against any point. President Castro is extensively fortifying the Venezuelan coast and may 1 import Japanese gunners. He contem" plates visiting his neighbor republics 1 to propose an allegiance. j V. T. Sanford, who killed George . Wright, in Rome, Ga.. says he will be > able to prove that Wright and Mrs. I Sanford stayed at an Atlantic hotel several times as man and wife. i TEXTILE HSJE INTEREST Notes About Cotton Mills and Other Southern Industries. The Columbia State says: Mr. J. A. Clarkson, of Hopkins, brought to the city some cpeciments of cotton which appear to have been withered by lightning or to have been scalded by the sun. But the cause of this blight is the presence of myriads of small white moths which in a week destroyed a patch of five acres belonging to a negro. The moths were first noticed on a pokeberry bush which they soon destoryed. and from there they spread over the cotton field. Another patch of one acre has also been ruined. Mr. Clarkson. being the magistrate of that place, was appealed to. and he brought ?F?.uucuo *->i int; rumen cotton 10 lir city. Mr. J. W. Bauer, section director, upon seeing the cotton stalks, state3 tliat the matter should he referred to Dr. Charles E. Chamblis3, of Clenison College, the State entomologist. Mr. Clarkson will meet at the station any representative of the government or of Clemson College who will make an examination. The stockholders of the Lumberton Cotton Mills, of Lumberton, N. C.. held their annual meeting last week. They found the reports of the management satisfactory, and a 2 per cent, quarterly dividend was declared. The company is now preparing the site and building materials for its addition, to be erected. As previously stated, this addition will be one story high, 78x267 feet, to contain 6240 spindles, and its cost will be about $100,000. Contracts for the machinery have been placed with the leading New England machinery builders. A cotton waste mill is the largest industry planned for Spartanburg and is the outcome of the visit of Messrs. Corr, Ayers and Hoffman, well known Boston and Philadelphia capitalists and mill factors to that city. Tin party inspected several available sites for the proposed factory and expressed themselves as being highly pleased with the place. The building of the mill will likely be the result of their visit. The plant will he something new In the cotton mill industry for this section and the estimated cost is $200,0<H). Its products are ~opo, twine and various other articles that can be made from cotton waste. The Dixie Cotton Mills, Lagrange, Oft holfl ito nnnMol -,J?* NV.U .vo Miiuuai U1 Uirt'C* tors and stockholders last week. The report of the management for the year's business ending June 30 was found to be satisfactory. Besides charging a large part of the earnings to the purchase of machinery installed during the year, an amount was set aside to pay the 3 per cent semiannual dividend on October 1, and $10,00(1 was added to the surplus fund. At the annual meeting at Ware Shoals of the stockholders of the Ware Shoals Manufacturing Company, ol Laurens, S. C., the following directors were elected: J. O. C. Fleming, N. B Dial, of Laurens, J. T. Johnson, Spar tnnburg, Benjamin B. Riegel, John S Riegcl, George E. Rfcgel, Howard Riegel, E. W. Sparks. New York. Sub sequently the board re-elected Mr Dial president and Benjamin B. Rie gel treasurer. A charter has been granted the Po mona Manufacturing Company, ol Greensboro, capital stock, $250,000, tc make yarns, cotton goods, etc. among the stockholders being J. E Serice, J. E. Southerland and W. P Southerland, of Greenville, S. C.: A. T Wing, of Palmer, Miss.; Lee H. Battle Greensboro, and several others from that town. * TEXTILE NOTES. (From the .Manufacturers' Record.) Tre Hamer (8. C.) Cotton Mils has declared an annual dividend of I! per cent. Tre Clover (S. C.) Cotton Mr...ufu > turlng Co. has declared its usual annual dividend of 10 per cent. It is reported that the Chinnahee Cotton Mills of Talladega. Ala., will double i s present equipment of .1108 ring spindles. It is reported that Messrs. T?"il'inm J H. Kllgour, Charles T. Miller and A. i P. Keizer, of Dallas, Texas, will establish a t ilk mil! to employ about ; persona. Their intention is said to l>e to erect a three-story building G0\15u feet in size, to arconimodato the necessary silk-throwing machinery. The Hoard of Trade, Pino Bluff. Ark., is corresponding with several Northern capitalist ! who contemplate building a cotton factory in Pine Blu IT. The Malee (NT. C.) Knitting Mills was destroyed by fire during the past week. The company has not decided whether it will or will not robuild the plant. According to reports the Jess was $10,000. A HORRIBLE DEATH ; Young Man Swallowed Alive By a Hungry Shark WAS CAUGHT NEAR BEAUFORT, N,C, Sutton Davis, 16 Years Old, Carried Away by a Large Shark, Which Attacked the Boy While He Was Wad..Ing in the Water at Davis' Shore. Beaufort, N. C., Special.?A most horrible and shocking occurrence took place at Davis' Shore, about ten miles east of Beaufort, Saturday afternoon, when Sutton Davis, a 16-year-old lad, while wading and playing in the water, was suddenly attacked and eaten by a very large shark. Young Davis was in water about waist, deep when suddenly the shark approached him, throw him in the air, caught him as he struck the water, pulled hiin under and disappeared in the deep water with the boy. Thorough search has been made, but no particle of his body has been found. Those who were with the boy were terribly frightened and could not help him. The occurrence has thrown a feeling of horror over our town. The citizens and the guests of the community, particularly the children, have enjoyed the fine dives and invigorating swimming matches which they daily participated in. A large number of sharks have been noticed in the waters here for two weeks, but no one felt much anxiety on account of the presence of the terrible monsters. A large quantity of fat-backs have been caught this month and a quantity of refuse matter has been thrown back into the water from the factories, and sharks have come in to feast on it. It is the first time a person has been molested by a shark in these waters in nearly 50 years. Five Killed by Lightning. | ?ew York, Special.?During a tbuuI des storm of terrific intensity which passed over New York Sunday afternoon five persons were struck by lightning and instantly killed and nine were seriously injured at the Parkway Baths, Coney Island. At the same time five men were killed and three were prostrated at Gravesend Beach. Those killed: George Dunwoodle, of Buffalo. Jacob Frankel, Manhattan. Robert F. VVasch, Bronx Borough. ' Charles Bennerle, Brooklyn. Henry Ransweiler. Brooklyn. Frank Bennerle, Brooklyn. J The injured: David Wilts, James J. Dunne, Tina Christiansen, Harry Krohn. Clara Theil, Mary I-. Curley, Isaac Raff and wife, Amelia Schone, William Ransweiler, John Apple, Daniel McCauley, 1 all of Brooklyn. Express Office Robbed. s Palatka, Fla., (Special.)?The safe ; of the Southern Express Company ! here was opened by burglars between 3 and 4 o'clock Sunday morning and currency to the amount ?f about $2,000 was taken. Mr. Graves, the agent, who sleeps in the office, was bound hand I and foot by the robbers and his keys secured. The safe was opened by combination. The cash drawer was ritled. ' one of the keys taken from Graves I unlocking it. Checks, money orders and | everything but the cash were cast ! aside. Aged Man Hanged. Butte, Mont., Special.? Miles Fuller ' j was hanged for the murder of Henry J. . i Gallahan, October 24. 11*04. Fuller is j over 70 years of age, and he presented a pathetic figure as he walked from the ' i jail to the gallows. He has attempted ? I to commit suicide several times, and i | three death watches were placed over him. By Wire and Cable. English doctors had an unexpected entertainment when they visited l)r. Prugen in the course of a trip to ; Paris. When he had shown them his ; museum he ushered them into his opI erating room, where he performed | fight important operations, including | one for appendicitis, in two hours and a half. An ico factory for Southern Pines is projected. The treaty signed bv 12 Enronean i countries intended to suppress the j white slave traffic has gone into efI feet. For attempting to bring a strike to a peaceful ending, George Prescott, walking delegate for the National Teamsters' Union, was shot, probably fatally. The four men who were thought to have been drowned late Saturday by the sinking of the yacht Narkeeta in the Delaware Hay, near Lewes, Del., have arrived at Bower's Beach, a few miles from Lewes. Thirteen Savannah druggists have been arrested and bound over to court for selling cocaine. Buddy Ryan won from George Peterson in the twentieth round of their fight Seven persons were killed nnd 54 injured so far this year by automobiles in Chicago. Figures show an appaltng increase over last year's record of one killed and seventy-three injured. Fred. E. Carlton, suspected of murder and other crimes and held in New York, has been found to have married a widow in Troy, Ala., whom he robbed and deserted. Several hiisinpc? mnn >>* ? .... i .MVM V? A. II ? I l^UU, Ala., have acquired control of the Blue Springs Mill at Oxford, Ala., and this week they put the plant in operation. It is equipped with 2500 ring spindles and 80 looms. L. J. Cochran is superintendent. It is stated that the Fountain Inn Manufacturing Co., of Fountain Inn, S. C., will add 4 500 spindles to Its present equipment of 5500 spindles, in- ' creasing the total spindles to 10,000. The company will also add 00 72-inch looms. Contracts for the maehi'VTV are said to have been awarded. ' Cincinnati Knquircr: Noah Minnich , accidentally shot his daughter Flossie. IS years old. at his home in Westville. 1 Saturday. Mr. Minnich was shooting 1 sparrows and a bullet hit a nail on a wire fence and glanced and was im- . bedded in the leg of his daughter, who was on a step-ladder picking cherries. ' Her condition is serious. Chairman Paul Morten has appoint- i el William A. Day as comptroller of j the Equitable in the stead of T. D. . Jordan, whom lie summarily removed, because he refused to furnish some farts which were needed in the inves- : ligation now in progress into the ma- i cliinery ? i the corporation. s Thnmns F. Ttynn tins made no ngreemcnt, it is raid, to scdl the Equitable i Life Assurance Society stock bouglit i by him within two years lor $2,600,000 ; and 4 per cent, interest. Mr. Milliard Pegeus, son of Major 1\. | M. Pegeus, of Cheraw, S. C., killed a rattlesnake oil tin ir plantation during the past week. The snake had 11* rutties and a button. Mr. Pegeus was passing through a field and his dog "bavnd" the snake, and as Mr. Pegeus canu up the snake was coiled ready , i a strike. This is the largest rut tie ( snake reported from this section for th.-.Hi t 'vnntv v< ire Twenty New Cases of Fever. t New Orleans, Special.?There has been no material change in the fever t situation. Two more deaths were re- t ported. There is absolutely no record of the number of cases under . treatment at the present time, but ( it is believed to be about twenty. 1 Physicians are reporting promptly all 1 i ases of fever, and immediate steps e are being takers to prevent mosquito " infection, so that the prospects of restricting the infection is considered ' right. . Senator Mitchell Sentenced. r Portland. Ore., Special. ? United States Senator Mitchell, convicted of (, using his office in the United State; !j Senate to further the law practice of . the firm of Mitchell & Tanner, of ' this city, was sentenced to pay a fine c of $1,000 and to six months penal * servitude. Pending a review of the case by the Supreme Court of the United States, execution of the sentence will he deferred. Meantime 1 Mitchell will be placed under bail to ' the amount of $2,000. LABOR WORLD. n A serious strike of farm laborers has 1< broken out in Hungary. The 271 British trade unions have an (l aggregate membership of f?7">,f?12. The strike movement at Limoges, i France, was reported to be spreading : | rapidly. ^ When two unions voted to surrender j tlie Chicago teamsters' strike came to j, an end. t] The number of fatal accidents to p British seamen reported in May. 190.1, a was i!?. The net effect of all the changes in fi British wages during May was a do :< crease of fOoOO per week, v\ I Miring the live completed months of ! 1 !?>"?. 177.147 seamen were shipped at ? ; certain selected British ports. ^ Two thousand woodworkers em- " ! ployed by various firms throughout Chicago struck l'or an Increase ol' two J cents an hour in wages. Owing to the depression in the Col- v ony only ."is; nominated immigrants? : w | mainly women and children?were introduced into Natal. S. A., in 190-1. ? The average number of laborers out- ''' ployed at ail the docks and principal '' 1 wharves of London. Kngland, during J'( i the four weeks ended May -7 was 1'-,Oil. f1 t< A convention of stationary engin- w eers, held at Santa Barbara. Cnl., has | deeideil to work for a State license law I which would license engineers and provide for a further in^ivet'on of both rs. Siv hundred boilermnkers, ship fillers and apprentices went on strike recent- i ... j ly from the yards of the John Robins i Shipbuilding Company and the Hoi tort t( "White Shipbuilding and Repair Com- si i pany, Rrookljui, N. Y. a. Owing to an extreme drought all i( field work in Andalusia has been sus- , ( ponded for a considerable time, and crops are threatened with total do- a struction. The cost of necessities of s\ life has risen to exorbitant figures. s; \v In IIra7.il tlio black bean Is as im- di portant an article of food aa the pota- ci to is in Europe. ft I INDEMNITY WANTED High Japanese Official Declares Thai Russia Must Foot the Bills THE VIEWS OF BARON KOMURA Confident That Peace Will Be Su^ cessfully Negotiated at the Coming Conference ? The War is Costing Japan $1,000,000 a Day, But She Does Not Desire Peace at Any Price. New York. Special.?That Japan will demand an indemnity of Russia in tho negotiations for peace, and that war will be declared at an end at tho conclusion of the negotiations at Portsmouth. N. II.. next month. Is tho belief of LJnron Honiara, head of tho Japanese peace delegation, who arrivod here today, as voiced by Ainiar Sato, who is the official spokesman for tho Baron on this mission. Mr. Sato in an interview said: "I am confident that peace will b? successfully negotiated by the appointid delegations. The Japanese will be guided by moderation, and no excessive demands will he made, hut tho sentiment in Japan and Russia is Tor peace, and in the interest of humanity md prosperity there must ho peace. rery great. (In both sides the loss in ncn has been 570.000. Russia losing 170.000 of these. The war is costing lapan $1,000,000 a day. and there is a 'oeling that there ought to be an inlemnlty." Asked as to the probability of an arnntice, Mr. Sato said that probably ivouhl he among the tirst quest ions the plenipotentiaries would consider. Baling th'? form of the negotiations rtt previous treaty negotiations, Japan will make the demands for Russia's consideration, he said. The peace terms, while held inviolate jy those who know their text, wore ormulatcd by the Emperor of Japan: ind his council. Mr. Sato was aske?l f in the flush of victory the Japanese* people would not feel entitled to more* han any treaty would allow, and hq? eplicd: "The Japanese are not so gentle o abide by any decision we may raake^. nit theh pay great respect to tho ollr es of President Roost vcIt and his ;>t^inve done a great deal to einph:w;.?<% h need of peace." Of the future of China. Mr. Sato laid: If the central government could vork in harmony with I he district or" provincial governments. China would )f*orne a great power, hut at present. niiL Ett-iiis n? nnpossinnic. Japan's attitude toward China was nost friendly, said Mr. Sato, and while naintaining no moral Monroe Doctrine >vor the empire, she felt that it was nore or less under Japan's protection, I'his protection, hy way of illustration, >!r. Sato said, was "not so stron?.: over 'hin t as that of the United States over "oath America." Mr. Sato said that while a desire for leace was the sentiment of Japan, it vas not a desire for peace at any irice. "Japan is in a very prosperous ondition at present," he said, "and, he war taxes do not fall heavily upon he peoule yet. There has already beenubscribed $2f?O.OOP.OUO to a new inlerinl loan, and our prosperity is further ndicated in the success of our foreign, aans." Tlie question was put to Mr. Sn'.o as t> any possibility of conflict with the* 'nited States in the future, as suggesed by some of the American press at he outbreak of the war, and Mr. Maa asked what ?ould bring about - te.lv conflict. When it was suggested l out apan might covet the Philippine I fluids. he laughed heartily, and iv d liat Japan v.'ouu not haw; the I'm ipines as a gift, even tht .iph a Lamm ceompanied tin- gift. Huron Komuro and his party arrived rem Chicago and proceeded at 01100 i the Waldorf-Astoria, where they 'ill he quartered until his departure* ii i-wriMuinnii. i nere was no iiemnstration beyond the presence of a w Japanese merchants and ni em hers f th Nippon Club. Accused of i:r*i? :z'em rif. Richmond. Vs.. Special.-?A Cordons ille. Va., ?; <": in 1 says that J. W. t ood, who ua-i president of the Bunk f Orange, which failed for S.'.b t'OO anil nid 1"? ci nts on ti e dollar, was nrrrxt1 on a train at (loi uonsvil'.e and taken ? Oronop . cha.rrc ! with embvv/lini; $f>.tO of tin ?; ali'v. funds. A warrant w?us Iso 1- I ' d ibe special says for New n Lc.. .. a b: '.be. of J. W. I.ock ood. ??tric!< Hcpes for New Trial. ., v; . > .. S;:c. i3!.- llic notice or ay of execution of the death penalty z the order granted by Judge O'Brien. * Lawyer Albert T. Patrick, under ntenee of death for the murder of the ?e<l millionaire, William M. Hire, was lit served i:ntil Wednesday on the lawrr, who is confined in the death house i Sing Sing prison. Patrick laughed hen the notice was given him and lid: "I knew it would come. It !s only hat I expected.' lie expressed eonflpnee that in a short time he would scire a new trial and ultimately his cedom. ?