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John L, McLaurin and Ex-Sonator - ? J, L, (VI. Irby the Starters. ? f % mjy* w, u # ? . THEY CAME VERY NEAR MIXING. Irl?y Applies Very Uard N'iiiiicb to Mo .** lawu-lu- Candidates lltiVO So It'Hi1 Signed t li o IMcdgo. ' Tho first mooting of tho compaign for tho Oomooratio noiuinntion for Uni tod States Senator to lil) tho plaeo now occupied by John Ij. McLaurin, by ap pointment from Governor Kllorbo, was hold ut Sumter Monday, and pvovod aonHiuionul in tho oxtremo. It opened, quietly in tho opera house, which was only comfortably filled. County Chairman I'nrdy introdncod ? Senator McLaurin as tho tirnt spoakor. The Senator's addross was cqhsorvativo. He paid tribute to tho memory of Sena tor Earlo, and gavo an account of his ,awn political slowartyfitip. Mr. Mo Laiyin was warmly received, and sat down with tho pleasing assurance of haying. niado a good impression. Then tho storm broke. Jjjx-United States Senator John I j. M. Irby was i n trodncod, and for throo-quarters of an . hour was onactod as exciting scones as perhaps have ever boon witnossod at a campaign meeting in this, or any other Sato. Things looked serious time and again. At one time Irby and McTiau rin were only prevented from clinching by tho intorforQiuio of thoso on tho stftgo. li'by in his cppeooh applied the sever est- langnago ty MoT.aurm, and lie came to tho front.. When Irby rose, tho ehoors for Mo Ijaurin wero deafening. He mado an opening sally, iWoLnurin made an apt aside, and' tho cheering was such that Irby, despite repoatod efforts, conldnot go on. Thou, wlion Chairman I'nrdy quieted tho crowd, ho started out again by oharging the crowd with trying to howl him down. Ho said lio know That it was all fixod up in this hot-bod of Ilaskollitfm and Conservatism. Pretty noon he said ho did not care how many of these city heilobjnen tVied to prevent liiin from speaking. Chairman I'urdy advanced then and said that it was their desire to givo <"? lrbv a respectful hearing, and ho asked that he would not repeat that insulting language. If ho could not bo roRpect f Ml, they ditV hot want to hoar him. Tho committee Avas not responsible for tho outbursts of feeling/' Irby replied "that they had insulted him first. Irby wont on then and characterized MoLaiU?in' as a ring-streakod, stripod and-specklcd politician, ilo charged him with dishonoBty and with being guilty of tioason and ti^aehery. Ho said that tho foulest conspiracy that over existed in this State was now '' in force and McLaurin was tho bone lloiary. Filial^', MoLauriu, who had turned pale, jumped up and faced him, saying: "Irby, lot's have an understanding right hero. We have known each other sonlo time. You can't accuso mo of dishonesty. You can't insult me in that, way." The two men faced each other. Irby repeated what he had said, and added: ''1 say further that if you hit mo you'll be hit back. " At this juncture, Lditor Appolt rushod up to Irby and told him ho would have a reply. Charles Eman uel rushod in and said to Irby: "No -ono but a coward would talk that way. " i ... . Irby replied that no ono but ft coward would insult a guest, Mr. I'urdv and others got tho men quieted, the house being in en-uproar. . Wlion Irby finish ed, MoL>?urin denounced tho* ehargo that ho was in a.combiuo as absolutely .false. Irby retorted that ho '4vould provo it. Irby said that ho is in tho fight to succeed MoLnurin, and that, ho will - make an active campaign, and stay in tl^e raco, .until tho ond. So tho "piedgo polls" closo with five candidates in tho raco: John L. Me ? Laurin, John Ij. M. Irby, John T. Duncan, John Gary Evans and S. <>. Maytlold. ? Tho Monck'n Corner -MoctliiK. The second of tho Honatorinl cam paign meetings was pitched on a very different koy from the gathering rit Sumter. Thore wore only two speakers, Senator MoLaurin and fonnor Senator Jrby. Tho throo other candidates, former Governor Evans, State Senator Mayfleld ahd Mr. John T. Dunoanworo A not present'; Col. I^by was quite indisposed on ao ?? count of the heat and fipoko briefly. Mv. MoLaurin spoke for ovor an hour, with tho approval of tho audiouce. There were absolutely no' offensive i>ersonali tiea between tho two candidates. What there was of critioisw wag political and "acceptable. y Col. Irby said that thero had boon ohango ju^the political" sentiments siucfc lww, nud that now, as then, he ii -.-..I*. tru??.. blue, reformer." He wanted it understood that he proposed conducting his campaign as he saw best He spoke at length of his 'iSjKJ . vioe t<J tho roform movement," anfl urg ed thai hehad alway# been a friend to the poor *hd toiling masses. He had - tUton the portion that no man with a . F.bite face should .be diafraaohisedby ? ? the constitutional eooventlonofwhieh; he ifaa a member, His views were #n totonltwd by others and brought him _oppo?Jtfon. Laterjm he WM opposed -m m iPVjs to the National Demo i ve entered the race bat for tk>n. Ho did npt believa that tivea were goifljr tp .1 iDM M : frr? ? r^? fp ?was several times applauded, Whou Senator Mol.rturin got uj> to apeak, ()o|, Jjrby asked to bo excused, but Mr. MpT^aurin asked him to remain a moment, aiul thou Mr. Mol.aurm said ho was delighted to meetCttl, Irby oj? tho plane of to- day.' a speech, and that if thay tioUm kooi? ' ft tip, and ho would do hiH part, there would ho ii?** loroat atul benefit in tho campaign, llo Bftlu ho would bo tho last man to rob Col. Trby of what ho had dorio for re form or tho people, but that now tho tight was oit other and national issues, and ho was right on thoRo, and Col. Trby thought ho wan right in hia opin ions. Ho had alnaVdono his share of tho work for roform w hen it took light ing, Ho wan today as staunch a ro formor as over. Jfo had formed no com bine with Mr. (toiualos. Tho Croon villoNowa favored Col. Irby more than any other candidate, and it wan time for Col. Irbv to repudiate t ho assist ance of Gold Bug Editor Hall. The roa'. and striking merits of Mo Laurin's speech was in hia exposition of hia taritV viowa, and ho took it up in pocket book mannor no na to moot hia audience, which was deeply interoatod iu hia fight for a duty on yellow pine, crorta tioa and rico. Mr. Moliaurin made a magnificent logical presonta tion of his views, which ho urgod wore iu tho intoreat of tho pocket booka and rosourooa of tho South. iloaaid ho was 'ho eloaoly in touch with t hia district that he would not Toao twenty- live votea in Homo count iea, and said hia appoint ment to tho Sonato was unsolicited, and whilo Ellorbo may nulko miatakoft, t here was no 'nobler or more incorrupt ible man in 8011th Carolina. (Ap plauao.) '* ? PALMKTl'O PISNCICLINOS. Tho State ^Sponaary at St. Stophon'H, Horkeley county, has boon robbed of about ij-i'-i worth of liquors. Tho Stale Teachers' Association oloBed its annual session last Week at Paris Mountain, Uroonvillo county. It waa a most profitable session iji ovory roRpcct. - hv Capt. Geo. B. Nowcomb, roadmastor for tho Northoaatorn Railroad Company, died at Lano'a, from sunstroke. Hia remains were taken to Petersburg, Va. , for interment. Tho oftor of the city council of Au dorson of #100 reward for the arrest and delivory to tho city authorities of one Chris or Christie Harris or Harrison, a ne^ro boy charged with criminal assault with intent to rape, has boen increased by the city council to $250. The mayor of Anderson has written to tho Oovor uor requesting him to oiler an addi tional reward of for hia approhen Bion. * ; ? A white man got on tho train at Branohvillo last- woek bound for Au gusta and took a soat. Ben Brittle, a nogro who bad temporarily vaoated it, fitepped up and tfitid: "This seat is oc cupied." Tho other replied that tlmr? wore plenty of\ othors he oould tako. Brittle attempted tonso forpe, ^hen tho whito;ui?n shot him through the body juaCoVerHho heart. The slayer (n tho oonfuaion among the i-asoengers stepped o/T, disappearing in tW da?n??8. No ono knew him. ? Atlanta Constitution. HOT AND DRV WKISK. J. W. Bauer's AVookly Weather Crop Bulletin. The South Carolina weekly crop bul letin for the wook ending July 0th, eayB, iu part: Although tho wook was exceedingly hot and in places dry, yet on tho wholo correspondents pronounce it,a/avorabU> ono for tho farmer. >iyitli -\itntfty oxcop tioua principally oU account ol' lack of rain, and extreme heat. 1 The groatost need of rain exists in the upper Savannah valley, tho oxtromo northwestern and northeastern 001111 Nties, and in scattered soctions olsowhoro, but sinoo reports oloaod cplito heavy rains havo fallon ovor portiona of tho State, but whethor tho rains oovorod those portions most iu need of it, is not 1 known. - - Cotton is blooming over tlio ontiro State and although tho stalk and weed oontintte- smnll, is fruiting -heavily. Cotton wna damaged by hail in Clareur don. Dorchester Aiken countiey, while from Berke?^ there are repoijit* of too much rain. Complaints of shedding, and that tho plant has stopped growing, were rocoivod from Clarendon, Orangeburg and IOdgefleld, and of grassy condition of fields from Barnwell, Fairfield, Berkeley, York, Bamburg, Hampton. Floronoe, Now berry, Choster and Clarendon. How over, favorable reports preponderate greatlv those to tho contrary. Hea Island cotton continues in splendid condition, growing and fruiting woll. Early tobacco is being cut and cured but its quality is not as good as tile later planting promises to bo. Hail damaged this oro)> slightly in Florence. ltioe is growing woll generally al though tho llolds are quite grassy/ and caterpillars continue troublesome in plaoes, but the fields are being fioodod. Sweet potato slips are still ueing sot out and tho crop is doing well gener ally. Melpns.are ripeuing and being ship ped but tho crop is a small ono in acre age,, yield and generally in size of the felons. Only a few reportthis "crop up to an average. ? Feas are doing woll with generally good stands. Are still being sown for forage. Cane ia tasaelling. Army . Worms in grasain Charleston connty, Gardens falling. Special reports on the present condi tion and probab! e yield: tlf early oom w?r* reoeived, ; and indicate a more promising outlook than heretofore, bat AC-* *? ? iivvvauvw1 oh the weather for the ?e*i for weeke. JPhe stalks are smaller than osua), and ju*e tawwBing l<rw, but hare a healthy ootor generally. Thesttndsare irreg ular, da# to poor germination of some seed and to the ravages of worms, -thejwfctiariPE Any who wishes to die #nd fa afraid to kill himself fa advised to rig * ' ?elf- up ** 'a boojf agent, fnvado ^ ? 9 '-l " VfSSrk fciiff" itMwiHnifa t** Tho Great Struggle is Now Qn in Earnest, MINERS ARE STILL AT WORK Aim! t ho Operator Suy Tlioydnn Hum To I'rcveut Unlawful Interference, ,Tho striko order of tho national ex ecutive board of tho United Mine NVorkora of America lias boon oboyod by from 10,000 to 15,000 of tho 21,000 minors of tho Pittsburg district. Tho groat struggle is now on in o^tnost, and tho developments of tho next few days will dotormino tho success or fail nro of tho light for a uniform mining rato. Whilo it is estimated that at loast two-thirds of tho minora liav? thrown down thoir picks, enough mon aro still at work, however, to sorioualy impair tho chances, unless thoy ran ultimately bo brought out. This, tho president Hays with coufldenco, will bo done. Tho operutorH, on tho othor hand, state that thoy cannot continue to run, UN ITU I) STAT KM PKOTKCTTON. A very important stephaA boon taken at Cincinnati in connection with tho local coal minora' atriko, which puts the power of tho Unitod (States against a,ll violence or unlawful acts in at least a portion of tho territory in Ohio. An ordor of tho Unitod Btatos Circuit Court for the^outhorn district of Ohio, feastorn division, was made by Judge Taft, on a showing mado by M. T. Jior riok and Kobprt Hliokonndorfor, ro rocoivors of tho Whcoling & Tjako Erio jtailroad Company, and of tho Whool ing & Pittsburg Coal Com pany, where by tho United Htates marshal is direct ed to protect thoir miners at work, and to proven t unlawful intorforonoo with tho operation of thoir railroad. I CiOVKItN'SlRNT CROP UlCI'OKT. Conditions 1 ti flic Southern States Not. ko Favorable on Accouut of 1 1 oat. , Tlio Unitoil States Woathor Bureau, in its roporiVof crop conditions for tho wpi'k ended .Inly fiili says: In tho States of tho Central Vnlioy, Lako rogion and Now Englaud, tho week ouding July 5th has boon very favora ble to crops, tho higlior tomporaturo boing ospocinlly favorable to corn. In the Southern StatoB tho conditions lmvo been loss favorable, tho cxcossivo hoat and absence of rainfall proving injuri ous to most crops. On tho Paeifto const tho week has been very favorable. In tho principal corn States for tho central valleys corn has made rapid growth, but in tho Southern States it is suffering for rain, in some sections se riously. Excessive rains in Missouri have retarded cultivation, and tho crop is still backward in Minnosota. In Texas, whilo tho lato plant is suft'ering from" drought, taken all in all, it is doing very woll. Cotton is rieodihg rain ovor the great er part of tho cotton bolt, moro par ticularly tho Southern portion. Tho crop is gonorally elonn and fruiting well. A marked improvmont is repOtrod from Mississippi, North Carolina and parts of Florida. Tho bulk of the winlor whoat crop is now harvested south of the fortieth par allel, about the latitude ?6f tho central portions of Ohio, Indiana aud Illinois. Excostfivo rains have retarded harvest ing in Missoui', and caused further da i dago to grain m shook. Good prog ress in harvesting has boon mado in. NobiHiska and northern Indiana, aud harvesting will soon bogiu in Nebraska. Tho crop is maturing on tho North racific coast and in California, whero , harvesting is progressing rapidly. The grain is shrunken less than was antici pated. Spring wheat continues to nuiko fa vorable progress and is now bonding woll over tho southern portions of tho spring wheat region.) In Oregon the best crop for years is promised. Tobacco has contiuod to improve gen erally, but is still in poor condition in Kentucky. A marked improvement is reported from Ohio, aud tWerop is do ing welkin Missouri, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Transplanting*, has been completed in New England and Now York, and cutting is in progress in tho Carol inns. 11IG TKOLLKY DKAL IN AFRICA Americans Granted Large Conces sions In .lohiiaiiufsbiirK. At Oakland, Cal.; Honry A. Putters has recoivod word that his syndicate had l>een deolared a concession oover ing tlio entire electric st root railways of Johnaunesburg, wliioh throws the entire electric street railway S3'stem of South Africa into the hands of the Put ters syndicate. Americans heavily interested are: J. K. Waterman, formerly general freight manager of tho Colorado Midland Pail w?y 6f Denver; John Hays Hammond, of the Jameson raid conspiracy: Henry Butters and his brother, Charles Put ters. ~~ Against Any Sort of Fusion. At Nashville, Tenn. , the National conference of UiO ' middle-of-the-road Populists met /fnesd ay, several hund red delegates lxins in at ie n dea ctr. - Tiw conference was called to order by Mil ton V of Texas, an*^l is strongly against any sort of fusion. KILLED IN A CHURCH PANIC. LTgM ? log 8 1 ri ten- lin Priest *n?1 Causes a Panic. While high mass was being cele brated in the Catholic chnrch at Jon-' <H?i*res, in the Lake St. John district, QueW, .track tfa* aitar, op NEWS ITEMS. Southern Politic?. It is rumored that Geo. W. Yand#* bilt will build a $100,000 hospital at Aahovillo, N. C, Thoro is talk of the Virginia Prohibi tionists holding a Htatn convention at Lynchburg August 20t)\. ( lovornmont engineers nay an immo diato appropriation of $500,000 is need ed for Cumberland Sound, Fla. A cloudburst in tho vicinity of Hen derson, K.v. , washed away about a milO' and a half of railroad traek. Tho Federal and State officiate will unite to protect the Florida coast from Importation of infectious diseases. The Socialists of Virginia hftve nomi nated .1. .1. Quant/. for Governor and It. T. Maycanbor for ldeutonant-Uov ornor. At Villa Kidgo, Mo., Erastua Brown, a young negro, was lynched by a mob of IKK) persona for an aasuult noon Mrs. A??io Foerving, a f&flner'B wife. \V. A. A lion, James Allen, Iiiqdsoy Allen, .Mook Tuuatill, Ana llarr and Porter Avorill were instantly killed by a boiler explosion on tho farm of W. A. Allen, near Hartaville, Tenn. Tho Grand View, ono of tho loading hotola at. Tallulah Falls, (la., has been burned. Miss llattio Hlggins and her mother, of Atlanta, boarly escapod with their lives from tho burnihg structure. Loan, $25,000. A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo., saj's farm labor is scarce, and at many of tho railroad stations farmors await incoming trains, hoping to find men. Tramps are refusing offers of $1.50 a day and ovon $2 to work in tho floldfl. At Tampa, Fla. . James Davis, col ored, entered tho nouno of Mrs. Kipard Knowlcs, white, and assaulted her. lie was frightoned away by hor Bcroains and flod without hat, coat or shoos, lie wbb captured and jailod without any de monstration of violence. Woat Robinson and Johu Proahlor, two enthusiastic wheelmen, havo reachod Atlanta, Gft., aftor having rid den from Orange, N. JIF on a tandoim'' Thoy made tho distance of about ^","000 miles In ten days, avoragiuffttbrfut 100 miloH a day. The TonneBBoo lOxpOBition which is attracting so mu^ch attention through out tho country, and which is boing at tended by thousands from both tho Northern and Southern States, is beautifully illustrated in tho July number of the Oriolo, whioli is pub lished monthly by the Baltimoro Steam Packet Company. The illustrations woro sont tho Oriolo specially by tho board of managors of tho exposition. Tho same numbor also contains mnps of the famous James river route of tho iialtimoro Steam Paoket Company bo* twoen Baltimore and lUchmondf'and a largo amount of other information of value to the general p\iblio as well as travel era. All About the North. On tho 5th flvo pooplo woro killod in Chicago by firowork*. Arthur Oaidinor. of Chicago, broke the world's ono mile bicyolo handicap record, Uiis timo boing 2:05A. At Chicago, Pittsburg and other Northern cities many deaths and pros trations aro reported from the intouso heat. At lioadvillo, Col. , tho Fourth was appropriately inaugurated by a severe snow storm. The ground was covorod to a dopth of ono incly Congressman Edward Peao Coko, of Chicago, waB found dead in nis room at tho Cochran Jiotol, Washington, from a clot on tho heart. Tho jury in tho conspiracy oase of tho AmericA Tobacco Company, on trial in No? York, haB failed to agree. Ten woro for conviction and two for no quit tal. \ ^ Tho Grand j jodgfr-of the Honovolont and Protective Order pf 'Elks mot in Minneapolis. Tho report bIiows the present membership to bo 95,000, an increase of 7,000 in one year. Three heavily loaded olootric cars woro returning from a firoworks display near Pittsburg, Pa. Tho forward car jumped tho track" and tho two follow ing crashed into tho wrock. Four peo plo woro fatally injured and twenty others hurt. Miscellaneous. Novoii hundred and sixty soldiers woro roturned from Havana, Cuba, to Spain Juno 80th,. who were on tho in valid liftt. Many of tho passongera and crew of tho steamer City of 1'aris, Panama for Hon Francisco, dioa of yellow fever on tho' voyage, ~ Yellow fover in reported by tho Ma rine IfoBftilul at Washington to be at Vera Cruiz, Me^jco, and to bo epidemio at Panama, Columbia. ... A aoveranoe of - fraternal relations among Jtoyal Aroh' Masons of Virginia and Ponns.vlnania has been ordered by tho authorities of tho former. Extensivo floods is reported fronrj Franc e. Considerable damage to prop erty, nnd it ia believed that many lives have been lost. The town of Auoh is practically j nu n dated. The suspension of work in the steel mills, with Use addition of thecoming big ?5*1 strike, will be the biggest au? pension of bitainesa atone time for ^reara pMi A special from Managua, Nioarauga, ?ia Galveston, Tex. , say a the recent V heavy ?w? have excavated '< a deep' canyon through the town of Mn vagal pa, at the foot of the volcano, Ometepe, destroying a number of honaea. ? wf" WMhlngtoiTVchofa, Col. W. " J. Calhoun has decided to decline the poaitkm -of* oonn,Uolfer of the tr^aawy. . The fleerata ry of Mm Interior will die tribute #1,101,000 among the Ht0t agri* cultural collegee. 52. A bilf haa bean introduced Ia Cm > the FSfliCooiiafawonpfn gainffldida. tlM ToMmaater General lajrn ha i - Til Id \VOKIi?> ON' HUSltfKSS, Mt^nsra. W, CI. l>?n Clo.'a >Vt*?Kiy Hoport of Truiis^ctloug. Messrs. H. O. I >un Co. '? Weekly ijoview of Trade for tho wook ending Saturday, tfuly ltd, saya: Midsummer vacations have oomiuouoed iu many works, with a dootoAse of orders usual at t hia season. This customary vaoa , tion is on Hod a striko where ' Agree* inonts regarding wages for tlto coming year have not been readied, And 1 1 ?<? extensive tdrilio of tho Amalgamated J i on Workers announced *1 rtly 1 is of Huh ii At u to, but tho striko of ooa! miners in Illinois and other Centval Western Htatos is not, And may prov* costly, hi some iron and ootton work* wages have boon reduced, owing to low prions, ono ootton mill in Virginia closing because the reduction wah nothioooptod. Willi a bottor demand the employers will nook agreement. 'I'lio hituation la distinctly *>f a midsunilnor cliAVAoter, Large hopes aro bnilt on the prospective demaud after tho tarilV bill lius passed, but tho pressure in tho mar ket of largo importing stocks mAydofor ft. The gonej'Al belief is tlmt Aiomoval of uncertAinty will in Any oasjj inoroftso business. Ninoe much of the futuro doponds on crops tho brightening prospects Are of the highest imporlAnco. .Mst i mat oh by portions usually most passim istid now fur exceed any made a month ago, on tho promiso 01 551), 000, 000 bushels of wheat, of lower condition, but ft largely in eroftsod aorcftgo of corn. Cotton pros pects aro brighter as tho oron Appears to bo rather early, rather than later in tho regions which were not j flooded. Tho movement of whoat in sniall. Wostorn receipts for tho wook being only I , V ?\> bushels against 2,041, 71i> last year, and Atlantic exports !?,0tll, 17W, flour included, against 2, 10 v, 172 l?nt year, but a strong oftbrt to lift prices /ailed, and tho olono is 1^ cents lower for the week, with corn half a cont lower. Cotton rose ji, with email sales.' ' The - iron and stool industry hulls at. midsummer, Although the do inaud for finished^ jy-ounots still in creases and disappointment is duo only to tho faot that tho increase is not yet 'enough ,1q keep all nulls at work and thus to bring bottor prices, which now average slightly lower than over boforo, though not 1 por cont. below those of March, 1805. Tho export trado is in oroftslng, and a largo order for Indift has just boon taken at a price said to be $6 bolow .British bids. Coko pro duction is increasing again, as more iron furnaces aro going into blast, and an addition of 25 cents lias.bbon order ed in anthracito coal. Tin' is higher, with lArger consumption, and copper at 10J for Lake, with heavy exports, whilo load has advanced to it. 0 cents. Ainer oan makers aro celling tin plate largely at $i<.20 for full weight against .$8.81' for foroign. f ,? Textile mauufaoturCrs aro waiting and cotton mills ourtailing production, with largo stooka on hand, and prices soaroely changed, whilo woolen mills are gradually incroasing work with better ordors. and prioos inolino to ad vanco a elmclo. Enormous buying of wool, 256,000,000 pounds this year, against 102,000,000 last yoar, reflects Speculation mainly, ana some larger lots have been sola throe to flvo timos Binco arrival. Price?\are soinewhut stronger jit. seaboard'" markets, and so high in the interior that dealings in ^lomostics are restricted, amounting for two months to loss than 21,000,000 pounds, against 55,000,000 pounds foreign. Kailuros for tho wook have boon 211 in the United Htatos, attain nt 257 laRt year, and 80 in Canada, against 2# last year. Change In Freight Transportation. An Important olmngo . in tlio freight transportation sorvice between New York, Philadelphia and tho South hat* boon mado by traffic agreement ar ranged between ^the Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company and tho Baltimoro Steam Paokot Company by which a through freight \lipe^ ha? boon formed for handling goods to all points reaohod by tho Seaboard Air Line and ilH eonneotions. The Balti more A Phihidolphia Steamboat ComV pany maintains a dally sorvice from Now York and Philadelphia to Balti moro by way of tho Delewareand Ohen apoako canal and Chosapeako Hay. The freight will bo carriod from Balti moro to Portsmouth, Va. , the tide water terminus of tjie Seaboard Air Lino, by tho steamers of tho Old Bay Line, ahd thence transforrod by rail to its destination. Tho now T^mo will give added facilities to Philadelphia merchants for doing business in the South, and it will receive a large pat ronage on account of tho shortness of of the routo, and the quick dispatch oS freight whioh it enables. Tlio Vessels Wo Built Lsat Yenr. During tho fiscal year ended Juno 80th, there woro built in tho United States and officially numbered 729 ves sels,- pf 177,01.!} gross tons, comparod with 7>}!) vossejs of 9Q3.077 tons for tho provious year. Tho deoroase is almost wljolly]in wooden tonnage, which for .18$7 amounts to 04,040 ton*, comitared wi|h 04V7W) tons for 1890. Of tho total construction 847 vessels of 118,000 tons were *te*Q) vessels,- oom pared with HSW of 184fd^,i<5n8 for the previous yoar. Steel steamers built on the great lakes number/ 1(5, with Ml, 800 tone, compared with Zifot 50,030 tons for the previous year. J ISequeathed $76,000. ?It hie been fonnd by the board of trwUaefc-W-ib* -Mary -Bald witt -tiemi naryr at gtaimton, Va., that the will of the late principal. Miss Mary Julia ^Baldwin, had endowed the aemlnan with a bequest of 979,000. '? F' A . ? Asiant ished at Machine. ------ .maebine has been fin land. Tha machine, ished at Leeds, England. The machine, which ia to .be used for attaching cotton belting, weighs five and-* quarter tons, 1 ladlAM Die VieiilMiklif. Five Indiana are dead aaA several others are expected to dia at Malonb's Point, .Hisarai tha reeult etf as^eive drinking of pain-killer, half (fa tod ?iw .soakdsisf aloobol. To Him Is Hoforreti tho third Issuoj As to Whether THERE WAS FRAUD IN THE \ The Kxecutton Of the T^eene of ? ti ?> N. t\ It. li. to tlioSoutlirrn ft. It. ?The ? It^mri Could liPrtiio. A ftpeoUl from flreensboro, N. 0. , to tho Charlotto Obnorvor, of Juno 80th, nays : "Tho deoroo in tho eano of tho Mouthorn Itailway vs. tho Nortli Caro lina Hail road ot aln. , whh handed down today by Judgo Hlmonton and riled horo by tho .clerk of tho court. Tho tloor eo goea over tho ovidonce, and 1h contained in eighteen typewritten pftLfOH. To the three qucstiona: "1st., an to whether tho North Carolina liailroad fould U>ft?o; < t h I , w??h tho loane oxeeut ed in conformity with tlio requirements of tho charter? Hrd, wart the loa?0 exe cuted bona ride, without fraud and malpi aetlco?" Judgo Himouton an swers: i- irat, tho North Carolina ftailroad had the right to lease. Second, t he loaso wan executed in oon formity with the roquiromonts of tho oharter. Unnl, an to whothor there was fraud, the qiiostion 1m referred to Hon. Kerr Craigo, as tqieoial mawler, to tako teativ niony and report. State Attorney ( lenoral 'A. V. Walser, Governor L>. I/. HubsoII and the new board of director* aro given <10 days to lilo Vstiinony. The eomplalnani and tho old board of directors aro given an additional <10 days to lilo testimony, af ter which Attorney General Waleo'r and Governor l\tn\*ell are givon twenty days to reply. Tho special master ehall thou report to the court a? noon an potisiblo. I n tho montitimo tho routraining ordor romaiiiH in force. TWO HAD OOljLlAIONg. Throe Killed mid Twenty or Thirty Injured. Threo persons wore killed outright and twenty or thirty injurod in a roar ond collision on tho Chioago & North western oarly on tho morning of Jun? VOth, at \Vo?t Chicago, thirty milos out from Chioago, on tho (lalena division. Tho killed aro: Mrs. John Godding, of Appleton, Wis.; Miss 11. Shiftman, of Apploton, Win: ; iui unidontiflod man. supposed to ho r tramp. Tho injurou passengers nuinbor twenty or thirty. All wore Christiag Endeavor delo f [at.es who loft Ohioago en route for San 'r^noisco. Tho trains were sootiona foitr and flvo of tho Christian Endeavor special sont out m nine soojtions. Beo tiou live ran into section four, whioh loft Chicago flftoon minuted ahead. No. -I oarrioa tho Wisconsin dologatos twenty-fivo hundred strong. No. 4 had to stop whore tho Krooport linodivorgos from the main lino. No. ft oatne up bo/ hind at a^roat ft poml and the shock of tho collision wan terriilo. TIIK VANDAMA wheok. A dispatoh froinJ.- J. Xurnor. gou eral manager of -the Vandalia Hailrond lino, datod 'i'orro Haute, Ind. , says one of the Christian Endeavor excursion . trains was wrecked at Went Terro ?llaute. The disnatoh says nobody was injured except three postal dorks, and their injuries are not serious. It is learned that It. T. Sherman, of In dianapolis, a< mail p^erk on tho St. Louis train, was kiilod and that \V. P. Conn, of Indianapolis, baggage-mastor on the west- bound train, was fatally injured. Sam Parkinson, mail olerk, and Frank Owens, fireman, were fatally injured. OHIO DBMOOHATH NOMINATE. Sllvof IlepubllcanH, I'opullatfl and Prohibitionists Will Also Put Out a Ticket. At Columbus, O., on June 80th, the following Demooratio State tioket wee nominated: For Governor? Horaco L. Chapman; Lieutenant ^Governor? Mel ville D. Bhawj Supreme Court Judge? J. P. Spriggs; Attorney Genoral ? W? II. Doro; Stato Treasurer? Jamos A. Wilson: Beard of Public Works? Peter II. Dogan; Hchool Commissioner ? By ron H. Hurd. The couvontion wan one of the most memorable political associations in the history of Ohio. Everything was for freo silvor, and .every epoakor drew cheers by some montion of Bryan. A motion was made to eudorso W. J. Uryiu* for the presidential nomination in 1000. Tlireo oheera for Bryan wero then given. The eilvor Itotiuhlicans held a oon-; feronce and oxpresaod groat indigna tion. Thoy said it was truo that thoy had announced that thoy did not want a piaco on the State ticket, but the an nouncemont was not made until they were told that they could not have it. They appointed a State committee to call a State convention to nominate a separate tioket. The Popujiiits also agreed that they weald hold ' a State convention and have a separate tioket. The Prohibitionists will nave at least two separate tickets, so , there will be six State tickets in the field. ..... llloyo^es Come Down. Th? Pope Manufacturing Company, the oldest' bicycle* bnildern hi ihit ooantry, And who make high grad? -nrheeht. of whtalTihe price baebeea heretofore held it $100, annonnoe thai after July 1st their 1897 standard will ' be sold at #75. ii^ ? ' Slekocii Raffia* fa Ctaba. There lie 1,500. tick soldiers la thtl hospitals ?V WfHfPMMIYf WWVf^J ? ? I niokaeea prevails at theentire province of Beds end other nuniug facilities han forwarded from HajaM r^TIw 'Rajeilah ?hwWra, t>< ^ siiov. I'.w ok .U'hv :? i). A (Trophic Account of it TcfrldO Hailstorm. It I,. ( ?(i m i *1 >ol I , ii large farmer of tlye Hot hoi ueig hborhood, York eounty,wafc in Yorkvillo I n.H t Kuturday muV gave graphic account of u terriUe hailstorm, \\ h'ioh devastated his section rt low days ago. " The ntorm," said Mr. Campbell, "came up very HiidVtouly. I was out in it I'ditmi ii.il d( the time, i'H'I tho lU'Hl ' thing ! noticed was a great <*|? i? ?? lc of a black cloud with iv at range headlight likoglow in front It wn.-i approaching so rapidly and looHitig so threatening Hint I thought it would bo it good idea to make for a tenant house. Hpvernl ot j tlio farm hands had miii for thd inuiw* 1 place ii ml by tlio t i nit) wo wore well nil dor shelter tin* Htorm broke in all it;* fury. ( H ull tlio situations I have evol* boon it was tlio most s.curry. 'I hero wan . ik*I much wnt or. It was principally a j shower of ice. Tin* roof of tlio tenant Iiouho was good, I >u t in lesa than two minutes tho Itail luul beaten ott tlio boards unci wan polling us no unuierci fullv tlmt wo wo in forced to crowd un der hods for shelter. Tlio whole thing, I suppose, I Aft tod llvo ininntoH. "When I wont out and took a look at I ho landscape, " con tinuod Mr. Campbell, "tlio Hoo.no inndo mo nick. Where a Iittlo while before I had it hundred acres of an lino wheat as i? I ovor raised in the county, and "norua and acroH of cotton and corn, tluiro wild nothing but a barren ivasto, whito in spots with layora of ico Tlio crops with the exception of a few m mttl I skips wore completely annihilated. In fact most of the land lookod as if it had just, boon prepared for Hewing wheat or as if u pou. crop had boon turned under. "Next day I decided that porhaps nomo of tlio wheat that had not boon' beaten into the ground might bo saved and put tho negroes to work with iv couple of horno raltos raking it up, and along with the wheat they raked np lliii ty-uoven dead rabbits, together with an alnioHt countless nunyjor of Hinull birds of dilloreut kindH." Continuing, Mr. Campbell Haul that a large inunber of ohiokoOS had boon killed about his yard and aim Oat ovory glasH had boon 'broken out of his (I welling house. Tho track of the storm was about, half a mile in width and aofrie three milos long. iSeveral other farmoi'K bosidoa Mr. Campbell, including Representative Ij. j K. Armstrong, sustained heavy dam J age. ? Atlanta Constitution, UlllLOIMO AN l> I/O AN FAIMIRKS. Four J'otitpvlllo Associations <?? to the Wall. Four building and loan ABBooiationH, whoso estimated a&8ota and liabilities f each foot up over a million and a qunr tor of dollara bavo gono to tho wall in Louisville, Ky., finding it impossible - to oonduot buninoBS under tbo decent doolelon of the Court of Appoals in ro fard to tlie legal ralo. of interoBt. 'resident Fred Ho Mix said that, bo fore the constitutionality of tbo lawfl, under which thebuilding And loan as sociations operated wore attacked, they Vere prospering, but sinco tbo Appel late Court bad decided tbat till interest olmrged or collected over 0 percent* constituted usury, tbat it was impossi blo?to carry on buBitcMH only at a losr, livery sueh. corporation -in the8taU* t hat did bnsinoBB would go under, At tho ofiicoe of all tho building and loan companies in the Btato the greatest ?u eaKine?a nrovaila and stockholders are,, hourly giving notico of withdrawals, It is the general opinion among local fin- ' anoiers that the building ana loan buei ness has suffered its doath blow in Ken tucky *nd thousands, perhaps millions of dollara, will bo lost to the sharohohl- . ers in these ihsiilutions. ^ TIIW STRIKK IN TRNl^HEIR.. Two M iind rod Thousand Hen Idle In the Jclllco IMst^fot. The situation in the East^JfaBfieBnoo and Bonihern Kentuoky ooal mining fields is rapidly becoming vary serious. There are 200,000 idle men in the Jel lioo district Midyear ly the same num bor along the line of the Cinoitmatt Houthern llailroad. These men struck on May 1, and have done no work since. Few o^ tbem had any money saved up and th\majority are now suf fering for the necessities of life. All efforts to settle the strike hare proved unavailing and it is now admitted that none of the minos cau be operated for several months. The strikers have so far /made noyttempts at violence, but as the suffering among them increases, . it is feared /that some trouble will como. / A ORNteBAIi 8TMKI OB^KRIO. ' A general strike of miper# of the United Mine Workers of AxAeriea has been ordered for July 4th by the na tional eieeoljve board, Whose - head quarters are in Colnmbus, O. , and also . by the distriot offloiSla at ??' meeting haldreoentljr. SPKCIAii i>AY8