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THE FORT MILL TIMES ^ V OL. XVII. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1908. NO. 29. SOUTH CAROLII* News of Interest Gleaned f ron Arranged For I PREPARATIONS TOR STATE ] FAIR. ? The Chamber of Commerce Has Many J Details. I Columbia, Special.?The Chamber of Commerce is progressing rapidly with preparations for fair week. The contract for wiring; for street light- I ing has been awarded to the Perry 1 Elect lie company. The arrangements i as to street lighting will be different 1 this year in that the material put up 1 will be the property of the Chamber I of Commerce and not rented as has i been the custom in the past. The Johnny Jones shows, which will have the street attractions, carry thir own electric lighting plant and they are under contract with the Chamber of Commerce to present ( 4L_ 4-..H . ! ... i -- men mi rii|iui'iiv 01 Mollis :i:iu ill! I equal number of lights will he in- i stalled sit the side shows bv tlie 1 Chamber of Comineree in addition to 1 the ones used by the carnival. < Fun. But Not Rowdyism. s TIu Johnny .7. ./ones Carnival <mm- 1 pany has arranged for the street shows Police will not permit < the sale of whips, rubber halls. < oti^ fett\ etc., and will rigidly enforce the ordinance, against the practice of throwing these things around the 1 city. Kvory show that will he presented is represented as a high class attraction and no objectionublc shows will he ottered. The Chamber of Commerce v ill not grrnt concessions to any one except with the express understanding that there can he none of the objectionable features. The idea of the committee having this matter in charge is that the fair shall be full of life and ginger with rowdiness eliminated. Old Nicholas Malehcr, a veteran of many fairs, will have charge of the water supply. Barrels will be placed at the corners on Main street aiul ice water can be hail by all desiring it. The barrels have been scalded and painted and are in readiness to till the functions required 1 of them. The city lias granted the rise of the water. ("apt. K.J. Person. Jr., who can be found at the B.-C. Klectric company. Hirer ooors i nun ino transitu- stations, in charge of the information bureau, ami has perfected arrange-' ments for handling the crowds. Mr. Person in addition to his experience and ability, is a West Point graduate and ex-artnv officer and by reason of hi> military training, lining well versed in matters of discipline.1 is thought to lie an ideal man for the position he holds. The Jonnv J. Jones Carnival company has nine shows and is the best ? carnival that has ever exhibited in * Columbia. The management has just secured a new show, "A Trip from New York to the North Pole." which \ is an entirely new production and will probably show for the tirst time with the carnival when they open their engagement in Columbia. They have an animal show that is pronounced the best ever seen in Columbia, and a new trainer, who is now in charge of the animals, has few superiors in the animal business, and is no doubt the best with any carnival company. This company is also under contract to secure six other high class shows and they must he st< liar attractions. The hand with the carnival was in Columbia last vcar and gave thorough i satisfaction. It consists of 1f> pieces and is an all-Italian hand. Tt will j give street concerts in the afternoon ami night. Two merry-go-rounds will j be here, which, with the Ferris wheel. | will make things look natural. Three, free attractions will lie given 011 Main j street. A balloon ascension with a | Itesourccr. of tHe State, rjov. Ansel lias appointed Messrs E. J. Watson and A. C. Moore, of Columbia, Karl Sloan of Charleston and ,T. E. Si n ine of Greenville as a committee to prepare a statement of v facts, fiirures and tables on the reI sources of this State. These facts i will be presented at the Southern | Commercial eomTcss, which meets in . , Washington in December. \ \ In Receiver? Hands. In the case of Tompkins & Toinp\ kins vs. Edgefield Manufacturing company of Edgefield. Judge I'riteh??.i ii... c.-.i i * ? i it una in iih- irurrai nmn Mind'* I fit1 | temporary receivership permanent j and appointed J. I). Allen special i master. Il was ordered that the re- ; eeivers be ant homed to make a I promise of the l,onis Clilehrist $10,-' 000 claim against the Kdjrelield Mannfnotnrrinj; company by the entry ??f a verdict tor $1,000. The receivers were also directed to pay claims n?frrcgatinK $1,100. Military Elect Officers and Adjourn. Atlanta, (la., Special.-- The seventeenth annual convention of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United .states came to an end after Washington had been chosen as the next place of meeting. Hear Admiral IVesslv M. Kixey, surgeon general* Vniled States navy, was elected presr idr.nl.; Surgeon Charles I'oindexler Wcrtenbacker, Norfolk, Ya.. was elected vice president, v > I . V JA NEWS ITEMS i All Sections of the State and Busy Readers parachute drop will be given once a iluy. This is a most spectacular act. Au aeral trapeze act will be given hviee a day. A hair-rr.ising bicycle net, looping the loop and .jumping the trap. will be given once a day. Special Trains for State Fair. The transportation departments of lie Southern and Seaboard Air bine roads have arranged for the fair week crowds. Announcements have been made of special trains on all lines of both roads and. in addition, [be regular passenger trains will all carry several extra coaches. For the Southern railway Mr. .1. L. Meek, the assistant general passenger ugent of that line, has sent rgt the following letter to all oflieials: "Gentlemen: Our transportation department has arranged for extra coaches to be handled on regular trains between Anirimia ami ('olintt bin, October 20. 27. 2S. and 20, also between Allendale and Columbia, Charlotte an<l Columbia, Spartanburg unci Columbia. Greenville and Colurabia and Charleston and Columbia, to protect overflow travel on account r>f the above occasion. "In addition to regular train service. we have arranged t or spec lal train service. October 27. and 2V> red 20, to be operated from Winnslmro to Columbia and to return from Columbia to Charlotte; between Spartanburg and Columbia. October 2^ and 20; between Anderson. Helton. Abbeville and Columbia. October ,2S and 20; between Allendale and Columbia. October 2S and 20. and between Hranehvillc and Ccdumbia. October 2S, 20 and .">0." Assistant (Jeneral Passenger Agent. A special train will be run Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from Hranehvillc. leaving there at 7.1a a. m. and arriving here at 0.-10. Special trains will he run from Allendale 'Wednesday and Thursday, leaving there at 7 a. m. and arriving here at 10.lf> o'clock. Special trains will he run Wednesday and Thursday from Anderson, leaving there at a.20 a. m. and arriving here at 11 o'clock. Heturning these trains will leave at 7 o'clock in the evening arriving nt Anderson at midnight. Special trains will |>e run from Spartanburg on Wednesday and Thursday, leaving there at 15.00 a. m. and arriving here at 10.00. Keturning these trains will leave Columbia at 7.00 p. m. and arrive at Spnrtnnlmrg nt 11.00 p. m. Special trains will lie run I'lom Winnsboro Wednesdav, Thursday and Friday, leaving there at 7.00 a. in. and arriving here at 0 o'clock. All of these trains slop at every station sum arc in a.union to the two and (live." daily on every line mentioned above. The Seaboard Air Line will operate special trains from Hamlet. N. on Wednesday and Thursday. The trains will leave Hamlet at i> a. in. and arrive in Columbia at J1.4A. Returning the trains will leave Columbia at .">.30 in the afternoon. Speeials will also be operated from Fairfax .? 11 the same days, leaving Fairfax at 7 oVloek a. 111.. rent nil time, or S o'clock eastern time, and arrive in Columbia at 0.30. Returning the train will leave Columbia at .">.30 p. m.. central time, or 0.30, eastern time. The tickets are good 011 all trains and go 011 sale 011 October 24 to 'JO and limited to return until November 2d. State News Items. At Rntesburg the fourth anual fair of the Tri-Countv Fair association was held last week under fa^* vornble circumstances. All roads in the three counties led to Rntesburg fair, and every effort possible was mnde to prevent disappointment to any attendant. Two Hangings in South Carolina. Columbia, S. Special?Lawrence Hampton, colored, was hanged at Greenwood Friday for the murder of Hubert White, also eolored, in 15)0(5. Hampton confessed his crime and said that hv was prepared to die. At Barnwell, Klliot Greene, eolored. was hanged l'or the nmrder of Oliver Emails, also colored, in February last, lie confessed his crime. Items of State Interest. Orangeburg's Main street will be paved with nitrified brick, the eitv council hnviu: decided that this is the best material for the purpose. Helton, Special. - The concrete standpipe for the waterworks i. in course of construction and when completed will be 100 feet high with a capacity of lot),000 gallons of water. Work is being rnpidlv pushed ?>n the new graded school building by tlie Vaughn Contracting company. It ,..:n i ii > miii ii.iir .-in nmnpni improvements and will ho somethinir of which tin* patrons of tin* town and community will he pioud. It will cost 000. Killing ir. Greenville. Greenville, Special. Fred Ruby, an Englishman, engineer of the merry-go-round of the" Johhny Jones Carnival eonipanv. was shot and killed here. Jesse Harris is in jail charged with the eriir.e. There was r.o quarrel and no reason is known. Harris had been drinking. AUGUST FLOOD BUBLETIN i I Interesting Figures Given on Precip- 1 itatioc During That Month. In the monthly weather bulletin on conditions in August, just issued. Section Director Bauer gives some inter- 1 esting figures on the rainfall, especially at the time of the great flood. The report says: ( "The average precipitation was i D.ll inches, which is 4.5U inches 1 above the normal. The greatest local 1 monthly amount was 151.52 inches, at Greenville; the least was 11.16 inches, at Veiuassee. The greatest 24-hour fall was 11.05 inches, at Anderson, on the 24th-25th. The average number of days with rain was 1(1, ranging | from six days at Hlairs and .Tackscn- i boro to 15 days at Ktlingham and NVinthrop eollege. "Excessive Precipitation.?At Anderson on the 24th-2Gth, 14..">1 inches in .44 hours; at Blairs on the 24th2lith. S.G4 inches in GO hours; at Calhoun Falls on the 23(l-2(ith, 51.G2 inches in (5.4 hours; at Canulen (1) on the 251li-2Gth. 0.0") inches in 24 hours; at < htawha on the 24d-2Gth, 10.12 inches in Go hours; at Che raw on the 24th-2(ith, (5.54 inches in G'2 hours; at Clemson Collpge on the 2.4th, 2.S1 inches in 24 hours; at Columbia on the 10th. .4.15 inches in 0 hours; at Conway on the 2Gth, 2.S.4 inches in 14 hours; at Dillon on the 10th, 3.C9 inches in 24 hours ;nt Creenville on the 23d-2Gth, 1(5.04 incites in 7S hours; at Greenwood on the 24th-2Gth, 7.0(5 inches in (if hours; at Jachsonhoro on tin* 20th, 4.00 inches in 24 hours; at Kingstree on the 27. 2.(50 inches in about 14 hours; at Libertv on the 21th-2Gth. 11.12 inches in 24 hours; at Little Mountain on the 10th. .4.21 inches in 24 hours; at Mt. Holly, X. (\, on the 2.4d-2Gth. 11.10 inches in 5S hours; at Pclzer on the 241h-2(5th. 5.14 inches in 27 hours; at St. George on the 20th, 2.GO inches in 4 hours; at Saluda on the titli 2.GO inches in 24 hours; at Santuc on the 24<l-25th, 10.S4 inches in 58 hours; at Spartan Inirp on tin- 24th-2(ith, 9.99 inches in ' 72 hours; at Fcrpuson on tin' 2t>th. 2.59 inclu's in 24 liours; at Waltirboro 011 the l!)th, 2.A1 inches in 1(1 lours; at Winnsboro on the 24th1""ith, 7.S"> inches in IS hours: at Winihrop eollepe on tho 24th-2.)tb, 7.10 inches in 4S hours. Rcpcrt on Tobacco. Columbia. Special.?Commissioner Watson has received a summary of the tobacco situation in this tSate, prepared specially for the depnitment by llarlwell M. Aver, as billows; ''Amount produced in 190S, 24.0(50,000 to 2A.000.000 pounds. "Of this 7.7 per cent is bouplit by th.e American Tobacco Company and the Imperial Company. The former's trrades consist of ciparette and prauulators (for smokinp) and wrappers for American trade. "The latter company's prudes consist of cipnrette and plup tohaccos. which are all shipped to F.npland. "We have a very small per cent of twist and plnp tobaccos prown in < nr State. We have about 20 per cent, of a crop of semi-bripht strips that are shipped t<> European markets, mainly to Kngland l>y indendent havers. The remainder, 5 per cent of the crop, consists of scrap tobaccos that are mnnufnetiired b vthe Ameriean trade into smoking tobaccos. The independents buy from ten to fifteen per cent, of the crop of wrappers t ^ American trade, principally shipped West. This is as near the information as we can irive it. as all tobacco are manufactured in Virginia and the West. "What per cent of our {Trades and kinds <:oes into the different outputs we cannVtt {jive von.'? Edisto County is on the Way. Columbia, Special. ?CSovernor Ansel Saturday issued a proclamation for an election on the question of the formation of Kdisto county to be held December 15. There has been considerable contest over this matter, the nera n film proposed eountv being formed out of portions of Lexington. Aiken and Orangeburg. Killed by Fell Frcm Tree. M< nek's Cornri, Special.?Air. f!co. Minis, a well known mechanic, met with an neeident which resulted in his deatli a few hours later. lie was lit a baptizing at Canal Bridge and had olitrbrd np a tree to get some herries for the children, when a limb broke and he fell a distance of .10 feet. Dr. \Y. K. Kishbourne was hastily summoned, who used all medical skill to revive him, but without avail. His death is very much regretted. Abe Dill Shot to Death. Cireenville, Special.? Abe Dill. . wfdl known and highly respected farmer of Saluda township, this county, was shot and almost instantly killed Saturday by Posey Barton, according to a report received in t' is city. Ihirton is said to be at large. Mo cause has been assigned for '1: 11in >. No particulars of the killing could ho obtained. <111111 I- I 1 I 1 I I I t I I 1 H I OUR. SCHOOLS | By Prof. William H. Hash. V University of South Carolina. 4* Paper Number Siz. I Change of Teachers.?The frequent change of teachers is a constant break ami clog in the progress of the schools. It robs them of anything ilka an unbroken course of work ami fixedness of policy. Every new teacher introduces some new feature into the work of the school?perhaps a good feature in itself, yet no better than what it displaces. It requires readjustment to install anything new. and the time and friction are a loss, unless I lie change is decidedly for better, (icnerally speaking, our best schools nre those which have the fewest changes in the teaching, force. It re a i . - quires ai icast one fun session for a teacher to become acquainted with his patrons. By becoming acquainted with patrons for more than mere social knowledge of them. I mean an appreciation of the tastes and their ideals and their ambitions, and a knowledge of their peculiarities, if you please. I'ntil lie understands these he is not in a position to serve them ami to lead them, and a teacher who can not lead is of but little force. Not until after a teacher has taught from four to six years in a community is he prepared to give it his best services. Yet how few teachers remain in one school three years. Some places change teachers every year siniplv because they ha e acquired the habit of doing so. Like any Other bail habit, this one grows upon people. The trustees and the patrons frequently realize that their school is far inferior to some other school, an 1 rush to tin- conclusion that they need a change of teachers, when the truth is that they have alreadv injured their school by ton many changes. llave any of my readers ever seen a pupil, or an entire class set to work in the same place, in arithmetic for instance, at the beginning of each of three successive sessions -each time bv a new teacher? Is it probable that this would have been done by any one reasonable teacher teaching the schorl the three sessions? This evil of change reigns in the town and country schools alike. T have in mind one town in this State which had six principals in eight veal's. Change was the only remedy it knew, and it believed in heroic doses. A great many uiral schools rarelv have the same teacher two years in succession. Many of these .hanges, in both town and countrv schools, are due to the neighborhood jealousies and quarrels already discussed. Many a community lias its chronic critics of the schools, who are dyspeptic by nature and sour by habit. A teacher never satisfies them longer than one year. They know all about schools. mill fliMir MU M -.1 ?J 1 1 ? ? ...... ...... ? .in tit ii mr |UIIUU?MI> ?>f perfectinn. If any tearlier finds one tif these children anything hut a paragon, straight wav there is trouble. To listen to these disgruntled fathers and mothers with their tales of woe requires patience and grace. Tn their eves there is hut one rentedv eh an ire teaehers. Not two months ago T heard a man not far front sixty years of aire declare that he intended to "break up" the only school in his district, unless tho trustees dismissed the present teacher . It had never orrured to him that perhaps the trustees were in the right. Such a man is in a small way an anarltc'sf. Tn some instances fault finding1 and dissatisfaction are unwittingly encouraged by the hoard of trustees The hoard, either ignorant of its function or disposed to dodge an onpleasant duty, asks the patrons to elect the teacher. Such a course is an invitation to division and the disappointment consequent to defeat, and will inevitably bring about discord. What is the hoard appointed for. if not to manage the school by lessoning the occasions for discord? A good many towns make it a titii to employ only young inexperienced teaehers, and at the end of each vear drop those who have failed keeping the more successful ones until they have become really service able, then let them go because tin trustees and the people are unv.illMl if to IhlV for (ttwial lonolnm* a* . , - , ,?>> i-;1 value. Snnv places boast that their schools are the gatewy to the pro:no''(in of their teachers. This may be 1 credit to the school, and a discredi' to the people. It is not creditable, if the people are simply let tin}? efficient teachers pass out from their schools in exchange for crude, inexperience, because the latter is cheap. A few town school boards are vivcn to the indefensible habit of advertising every year for applicants 'or position in the school, when the hoard does not intend to fleet a sing! new teacher. The king who marched his army up the bill, then marched it down again, did no more childish hing than these boards do. Tl" bing is not oldv indefensible, but i' s hurtful to the school, unjust to tin "Pcheis ai"' d:sboue?t to possible np 'l'ppttf C paadvertisement convey to every teacher ir. that school, no matter how efficient she may be? When the teachers ask for its meaning, they are told that it is onlv a matter r>f form nnd that they need not be concerned, ("treat b><; prown business men plavin<r like children! Tlien what about the innocent stranpers who make lena fide applications in answer to what they suppose is a bona fide advert izcmcrit, onlv to be informed that it is ji mere form? What teacher with any repard for ethics would ap ply for one of these plnees. if he knew thnt no vacancy existed and that the incumbent expected reelection? Is the board playing a panic in diplomacy? Does it intend to see if it can secure better teachers, but if not, re-elect the incumbent? Such panic would be dishonorable. If a school board wishes to change teachers for anv legitimate reason, it lias a perfect legal and moral right to do so. But the change should be made in a manly straightforward manner. Lot the board franklv tell the teacher not to ask for re-election, declare a vacancy, then advertise for applications?if that is the best way to secure teachers. Teachers themselves must bear their part of the responsibility for so many changes. There are some teachers who ought not to expect any school to keep them longer than one year. The captious (sometimes miscalled spirited.) the eccentric, the frivolous, the giddy, and the ignorant ones may expect to float about like driftwood. Then there are some teachers who have an incurable mania for becoming birds of passage. I once knew a teacher to resign imr work to go elsewhere on the ground that she had been in her present position three years. Then there is that class of restless mortals who have mure nmliic!n? ill.lll ilMIIllV. They apply every time tliey hear nf a vacancy. and if they hear of no vacancy. they ask wlien the next one is to tie. They tell you very frankly that thev are worth a groat deal more than thev are getting, and that they are prostituting the profession when they work for so little. Once more, there is that foxv diplomat of a teacher who seeks a place in March, accepts it in June, and holds it until about two weeks before the school is to open, then telegraphs the board that she has accepted elsewhere (at two dollars a no nth more salary.) I She calls this resigning; in law and common sense it is a violation of contract. Such conduct un lev ordinary circumstances is reprehensible, and wholly unworthy of an honest man or woman. | Southern Aero pianist Falls With Machine, But Escapes Injury. Chattanooga, Tenn., Special.?In an attempt at (light in an aeroplane Friday, G. M. Mallory, of this city, the inventor, fell lifty feet with his machine ,but escaped with a few slight bruises. Mallory*s aeroplane was partially wrecked. The inventor announced that he would rebuild his machine and try it again. This is the tirst attempt at aerial (light in the South. Hunters Find Man's Dead Body. Lenoir, X. Special.?While out 'possum hunting in King's Creek township, this county, a party of m< n and boys came up on the dead body of a mn? Saturday night, which proved to be that of one Hunk Sanders, who lived in the neighborhood. For | several days the man had been missing, but no one thought be had died, lie was a pretty well-to-do farmer. | a good citizen, and for many yea mi had been a magistrate in that community. The deceased was about 4.1 years of age. The coroner's jury returned a verdict to the effect that he died from natural causes. The Power of a Rockefeller. ]'t ipo V \' V*I\AMUI ?TI?A IW4 master General has just issued nn order putting out of existenee the Herring postoflice and turning the business of the oftiee over to the postmaster at Ray Pond, seven miles distant. This is an office on the private property of William Rockefeller. who objected to having people cross his grounds to get to the ofk.ee. The people are very indignant at the closing of their office at the behest of Rockefeller and are getting i:p petit;ons of protest. Virginia's First Electrocution. Richmond, V:i., Special.?The electric chair was the substitute hanging at the execution Tuesday of Henry Smith, a negro rapist, who was electrocuted at 7 dO Tuesday morning. The law forbids the publication of details. The prisoner died in thirty seconds. He was convicted of an unspeakable crime. Reforms in Cotton Futures. New Orleans La., Special.?With instructions to make reforms in the cotton futures contract of the New Orleans cotton exchange, a committee was appointed b yrnembern of the exchange. The commit tec will confer with farmers, brokers and cotton spinners throughout the South and will also investigate the action of directors of the exchange in eliminating stained cotton below middling as tencl"rable grades on future con t raets. (FRENCH CHALK FOR SPOT9. If a Klrl is away from a cleaner's and she finds one of her best frocks spotted with grease. she can try the slmplo remedy of French chalk an l a hot iron. The chalk Is spread thickly over the r.pot until all the grease Is absorbed. Then a piece of blotting paper Is put over it, and a , warm, not hot, iron is held over it to draw the grease Into the paper. Rub off the chalk with a soft silk or muslin rag and the spot will probably have disappeared.- -Public Ledger. Prison records show that more fe-nnio i ;is ncrs have previous records ;lr?t tbcm than males. ROOSEVELT TO GO ABROAD The London Times Learns That the President Will Lecture at Oxford and Receive a Degree After His African Trip ? Will Also Visit Paris. London. P.y Cable?The Times is informed that President Roosevelt will visit Kngland after his African trip early iti 1910. lie will deliver the Romanes lecture at Oxford, and, on the oeasion of the university com memorntion. will receive the honorary degree of I). ('. 1... which Oxford already has best owed upon Ktnperor William. According t?> The Times President Roosevelt also will visit Paris and deliver an address at the Sorboune. Neither the dates nor the subjects of the lectures are vet known. TIip Times further states that according to the present plans Mrs. Roosevelt will join the President at Khartoum on the journey northward. Alleged Lynchers Dismissed. Washington. Special.?On motion of Solicitor General Hovt the Supreme Court of the I'uited States ordered the discharge from custody of seventeen of the twenty-seven defendants in the proceeding charging Sheriff .Tames F. Shipp, of Hamilton county. Tennessee, and twentysix others with contempt of the Supreme Court because of the lynching in 1!M>."? of a negro named F.d Johnson after the court had taken cognizance of his case. Most of the dismissals were based on the failure of the testimony to identify the defendants with the crime. Following are the names of those who protil by the court's order: l'aul P<t?l, T. It. Taylor, William Heeler. John Jones, Marion Perkins, C. A. Raker, Claude Powell. Charles ,T. Powell. A. J. Cartwright. K. F. Cartwright. John Yarliell. Joseph Clark, Fred Fran ley, Paul or "Sheenie" Warner, Alfred Hammond, William Marquette and Cieorge Brown. In the case of Pool it was stated that he had disappeared from Chattanooga immediately after the lynching and had never since been heard of. The court also ordered the publication of the testimony in the ease taken by Commissioner Maher. Status of Foreign Missions Shown in American Board's Meeting. New York. Special. Reading of reports showing the work done at home and abroad during the year and the appointment of commit tec* nnd nominalionn ami business, took up 111?? first dav of flic ninetv-nintii annual convent inn of tlio American hoard of commissioners for foreign missions in Ttrooklvn. Frank 11. Wiggins, treasurer of the hoard, submitted a report showing the linaneial condition at th" close of the fiscal year. The general maintenance of missions, it appears from the report, involved an expenditure of $SS1.2">4, or $!i,07~? more than during the previous year. The income of the hoard during the same period was $337,001). Mr. Wiggins' figures showed that the indebtedness was $70,801. Declines Call to Washington. Washington, Special.?(living as n controlling reasons that his work ir Kostoft. Mass., is unfinished. Rev. Dr Alexander Mann, rector ?>f Trinitx Episcopal church, of that city, has declined the position of bishop of Washington to succeed the late Rt. Rev Henry Y. Satterlee. Dr. Mann's declination was communicated in a letter received from him. Another convention will he railed to fill the va enncv. Gets Life Sentence for Killing Wo man. Opelika. Ala., Special.?The iur; in the trial of T'hland Culpepper charged with the murder of Marv El vin Hader. who was shot and kil!e< near Phoenix City several weeks ago by a bullet believed to have been in tended for her father, returned a ver diet of gn'ltv. Clnpepper was sen tenccd to life imprisonment. Wed r.t 102; Died at 110. Seneca Falls, X. Y.. imperial. Mr1 Chariot le Becker ^ dead hero. SI was 110 yea is old. Her father. Go-' frev lien!-, was a. volunteer ;n tl Colonial army and nerved v.n.il t! colonics were free. She remember' t!ie year l'C.'l, when no urain eon' he raided end it sold for So bushel. In dime IftO't. Mis. Prainn* 'as married to S nn" 1 Becker, 1 'drd I'm-hand. t!1" other two h":' end. He was t! en d and M : -r l1"' S! e ha 1 l?nt one ehi' vhildl died i'l infnni V. The Peril:; cf Aeronauts. Rerlin, By Cable.?A report reeeiv ed from Heligoland says the bnllooi Costilla, one of the competitors in til international race fell into the Nort! sea near that eitv nnd both aeronaut were rescued with difficulty. Fou other balloons nre still missinir an little doubt remains that they hsv fallen either into the North Sea or th Baltic, nnd that the aeronauts nr drowned. DEMOCRATIC FUNDS , M Committee Publishes Amount of Money Received ALSO DISBURSEMENTS TO DATE Official Exhibit of Funds Collected by the Democratic National Campaign Committee. New York, Special.?The Demo. ratic national committee through Treasurer Herman Kidder gave out 111 extended statement of the contriJutions to the Democratic national ampaign fund up to and including October 9th, showing sums of and >ver $100. The statement also shows receipts and disbursements as folows: Received from contributors of $100 ind over, $90,712.12:1. Received from contributors under pi 00. $1 15.555.22. Amount left over from Denver contention fund. $42,500.00. Ti.t ..1 .si io Amount disbursed, $223,002.38. Balance nil linnd. $22,004.07. The statement which is signed by National Chairman Mack and Treasurer Kidder says that 843 subscribers gave $100 or more, and the smaller hi ins were from 23 cents up. It adds: "The number of contributors to he national campaign fund is estirtatcd at about 30,000 people and ihout $100,000 of the whole amount 'ontrihuted came from the Demoerate newspapers throughout the United States. The Congressional Fund. Chicago, Special,?The Democratio congressional campaign committee undo public the list of contributions of $100 or over. They appregate fl.744, while smaller contributions aring the total up to approximately fjo.ooo. James Lloyd, chairman of the longressional committee, states that n order to complete the work the committee is in urgent need of at least $13,000. The announcement continups: "The Democratic national congressional committee received prior to 'he Denver convention in contributions of $100 and over, the sum of f3,300. It has received in sums of PI00 and over in addition to the above .unount for which it makes specific report on account- of the action of he Denver convention in regprd to the publicity of campaign funds, the following amounts: "Congressman K. C. Davey, Louisiana, $100; D. K. Finley, South Carolina. $100; E. \V. Saunders. Virginia, $100; Morris Sheppard. Texas, $170; Jack Dealt Texas, $100; ,T. (L Me.Menry, Pennsylvania. $100; C IT. Weisse. Wisconsin. $110; .T. J. Rus' sell, Missouri, $218; Thomas Hackney. Missouri, $100; John M. Roode, Texas, $100; D. W. Hamilton, Iowa, $100; Champ Clark. Missouri, $220; ft. M. Hitchcock, Nebraska. $100; C. V. Fornes, New York, $100; T. T). VT* 1 1 rx mcnois, fcnnsyivnnia, $100; Henry T. Rainoy, Illinois, $100; Francis B. 1 Harrison, Now York, $200; Lincoln 1 Dixon, Tmliana, $100; D. L. I>. Hran "or. Rlioile Is'nnd. $100; H. D. Flood, Yireinin, $100; Rufns TIardv, Toxas, ' ~100; United States Senator W. .1. Stone. Missouri, $100; Hernia nRid dor. Now York, $2-10; \Y. fj. Conrad, " Montana. $2.10; and Dojnoorntic. r:n tiona! oonirnittoo. $2,000. There lias boon $.2.0$0 additional received from " individuals and committees for frankaide literature. English Balloon Ma-y Be Winner. Berlin, 1'v Fable.?Seventeen of ilie > balloons which competed in the internationnl race have landed. Four are still missincr and it is feared have 1 been driven seaward. The English i. Banshee landed farthest from Berlin coiny approximate!v three hundred - miles. She will he the winner unless - rn" of the missinir balloons has yone a further distance. Gcis 20 Years For Murder. Reading, l'a., Special. Abraham Rosenthal, of 1*1 dkuh-lphin, who was convicted a month a.r of the murder of Lewis B. Clawson, n wealthy shirt manufaeturere, was denied a new trial in court and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. He appeared as if stunned for a time, but quickly reeovered his < ? n unsure. Clawson, who was litis'el!:1" brotlirr-in law, was mnreded in his nfTi-e last February. Rosenthal fled and was raptured in Oklal nrt a. Rosenthal is ibout 30 years ol !. Bids for Savannah City Bonds Opened. n Savannah, fin.. Special, f'.ids were ? opened for $2,010,000 of city of Sah vnnnali bonds, bearinjr interest at 1 4 1-2 per rent, and maturing? in 19.19. Thirty four bidders subscribed for d *27.209.000 worth of bonds. The ? a vnrd of tiio issues v. ill be made this < < eek. The Mutual l.ife Insurance i 'nwnane of New York will probably .rot $1,000,000 of the bonds.