University of South Carolina Libraries
VOLUME XVI. CAMDEN, S. C.. FRIDAY, DIX KMIUOR 8. iyo.'>. NO. 48. Inakiag Body Organizes and Gets to Work JAMS DEMOCRATIC LEADER tT Cauuon 1a Re elected and gs of l*?t Congress Are Adopt ter Humorous Speech in Op* itiOD by Mr. Williams. jMfton, Special --O-onivroRs eon yith little of the pomp and other do\s. The h<> much fnss mid flowers ?t<nl with the idea of the cicnial , yj' things entertained by the jilfllexnien. iienee, the forma I - llio ojKMiing session lias become lewlinl ltiWJ spectacnlar ufFiiir. yer, mueh lino raiment in the >jt>s relieved the sombre asptvl of oot, where flowers were bare, lie event proved as interest ing in respects as of yore. > following eaue.ns nominal ions <>lect?d : j-t ? Alexander McDowell, I'enn i-ia. ' / ^ ?peanl-at-Arms ? Hen ry ( 'assoin. uosin. orkeeper ? F. Ii. Lvon, New York. Pinaster ? Joseph ( '. MeKlroy, jplain ? Rev. "Henry X. Condcn. igan. grilles of the Fifty -eighth Con , including the standing orders ng (o the consideration of pen and claim bills on Fridays, on u of Mr. Dalzell, of I'ennsyl , were ordered continued d'.irinii ifty-n i ntli Congress. This reso i will be offered by Mr. Dalzell. the House is or*?;uit/.ed next ?toy ry lit t U' besides I lie organization e House will bo accomplished the !T(-c!< of I ho session, although it is bio lhat c morion cv appropiia iu4 - U??/ 1'analTtu Canal may ho ij this iast of 1 1 f j s week. i'ntii ?onimittees arc afiointcd, suoii a ivould have to he considered hv jnimtn /??? umlaw u c canal (in at iocs whether I ho <>m u-y appropriation will |>o rushed i?:h this week or ,yo over until the following. Williams Minority Loader. i.-iiin^toii, Special. ? For two > Saturday the Democrat ic mem os' the I louse oi' I?epres:'n(at ives >>cil party policies and procedure a view to solidifx ini; the miuor nd acting liana on ions Iv upon all 'r- o|" a partisan character that come liet>>re the Ibmse.-. John |K; W illiams was unanimously a as the nominee J'or Speaker this action of the caucus makes the minority lender tor ;the e:i '< undress to succeed himself. hshington, Special. ? "The Amer pcoplo havc selected the Speaker^ c House for the fifty-ninth Con-: ; it only remains for us to lfCQTy choice. I will not Cail for a tor Inomiiiation, but ?simply nanic |>h <i. Cannon, of Illinois." [c statement made hy Chairman urn Saturday to the Republican furs of the House of Representa "was received by hearty cheers. f\li". Cannon was immediately de 1 the nominee for Speaker. Wil I'. Hepburn, of Iowa, was re '<1 chairman of the caucus for essimi and Henry C. Tioudenslag t' New Jersey, secretary. Mr. "ii sprang a surprise on his as tes hy pulling out of his pocket Rewritten sjH-ech, which he read beginning to end. Cannon said he would stand Ins associates in upholding the ifs of the Republican party, un |vv h ifli all the people have pros 1. Referring to railway lcgisla he said that "by the operation Hupetitivo forces, that matters of rohce between the corporations, arricr, and the peoplo they serve, ?1 be adjusted to all. rhe. concensus of opinion of the lc, however, is that Congress has (xnverr, by amendment to tho Jaw, provide better Comedies for real ex exlstiug, so that the producer (?'maimer can find a more speedy less cxpensivo remedy than we have. In this opinion. I, for one, 11 r. The burden is upon ifaongress. '>ur party, having power^is pri l.\ responsible. i'. Cannon urged that justice be hot U to corporation and people, ii conclusion referred to the desir <.V of- a short session. veral^New Seniors Sworn In. ^ton, Special ? In the Senate vera I new Senators were including Mr. F.rnhler, ot credentials of Scnn of Florida, were pre ____ tor Mai lory. Seiin litthnnd Morgan were appoint a committee tt> wail upon the ident, twxether with a similar nit tee from the house. Rotttfid Dapew Has Resigned. Kew York, Special. ? A rumor has lard circulation Ihrtt . Chaunccy M. 'P?w had reaiffned from the United Itc* Senate. When questioned oon jninjf tho rumor, the Bcnntor said, [.an* tired of making denials of tm P*?nnt quaiitions, ami am res?olvo4 It talk further to newspapcra. I i.^'W nothing: nor will I affirm ?fctoiR.5 I bare learned a lesson J) PLAN FOR TAX EQUALIZATION Comptroller General of South Caro lina Taking Active Steps to Wipe Out Injustice of Present T?x As Hessment System. t'ojinubiu, Special. < ompl roller (iencrul Jones means business in the step# lie lias taken 'oward Melting the tax assessment of probity. leal as well as |K>rsoiialf in this State on a market value basis, instead "I on an uneven pretense ol a t>0 per cent, basis. The circular letter of instruc tions which lie sen I out last Week to county auditors, assessing hoards and county equalizing hoards directing that the law he strictly observed with the beginning of the new year and that property he as-csscd at its true market value, will lie followed this week by a cull for a convention of county auditors to meet with the comptroller general has taken lias caused much talk throughout the State and has set properly holders to think ing. Of course it is a sort of revolu tionary measure, and while the justice and the sense of it lias appealed to many j^ood business men and biti prop erty holders regardless of the fact much of (his sort of property will ho affected, still the thiuu has not been generally understood and thee.' is a fear also that the purpose of the comptroller general to equalize the property throughout the Stale more nearly will not be sucesslul under the de, nirturc he is making on account of the great proficiency and skill indi viduals and communities have acquir ed by long" practice and expel ience in the mailer of tax-doduiug^i "The erroneous idea a peal's to have taken hold in various parts of the State,'' Mr. Jones said, '"llial this is a scheme to iuerease the taxes. Such is not the case. My object is to get property equalized in this State and stop this shameful tax dodging There are some notorious exceptions, but generally speaking the cotton niil!s and other big proper! v holders are hc iriu? assessed on a genuine <?" per cent, basis, and nnall propert\ is being as sessed at from to ! MO pi r cent. Only so much money is needed to run (lie Stale and many county oliicials and the higher the assessment the .greater the yield of money on a I'.ivon levy, but the levy may he easdy chaifjed. In ol her words, i! t'u ? nvM'SrMcni is doubled throughout the Stale -the levies for State. count \ and city |".tr poses may be cut in half. The inequality and injustice of the taxation of properly in th?s State has been a shame and a d:vura<v tor de cades. S. C. Baptists. The South Carolina Jhtplisi conven tion !ias boon asked to endorse com pulsory education arrd I ho establish ment of ii reformatory for .-youthful criminals in a memorial In the Legis lature. The request coincs in the form of a petition from < iranitcviile, one ot the oldest centers of common school education in the State, though it is one of the chief cotton mill centres. The petition was referred to 'a committee which will report be lore adjournment is had. This Section of the State is al so the. chief hope of Representative Toole, of Aiken, of succeeding with his ten-hour labor bill, which he pushes session after session with a plodding patience and persistency that at least evinces the determination and faith of the man. Another matter that attracted the attention and engaged the thought of the convention was the masterly hand ling of the delicate subject, "Do the Scriptures Teach a Divine ('all to the Ministry?" by the Kev. ('. C. Brown, of Sumter. l|e argued with force and great logic llint they do. He was opposed with an able presen tation of the other side of the question by the Kev. Dr. A. ('. Osborne. The convention has elected these of ficers for the coming year: < '. A Smith, president: William 11. I-vles and the Kev. J. T. lliers, vice-presi dents; the Kev. Dr. I'. Irvin, secre tary; the Rev. V. I. Masters, assistant secretary; the Rev. .1. I *. \ ass. treas urer. The report of the trustees of the Connie Maxwell orphanage showed IS.} orphans being cared for in a splen did way, the financial report indicat ing that the institution has a slromr hold on the alTection of the KaptisH of the State. $16,000,000 Appropriation Bill. Washington. Special. -A hill to provide appropriation o| $l(i,()l)(),0(l() for the Panama Canal Commission, to he, immediately available lor the pur |x>se of lif|ui<latiu<> th?> cost <T the work of construction, has been j>?-e pared and Will be introduced in the House, probably Monday, on the open ing day of the lifty-uinth Congress. The bill stipulates that money shall be refunded through the sale of bonds provided by the Spooner act ami these bonds to be taxable at a rate of one half of one j>er cent., when deposited I to seen re the circulation on the same | basis as government twos. No Decision Was Given. Baltimore, Special. ? Jack Johnson ami Yfmnt: Peter Jackson, both of whom are credited to California, met in a twelve round fiirlii before t lie Eureka atlilectic club. At it* con clusion no decision was given. Johnson had undertaken to knock Jackson out within the twelve rounds or the smaller end of the receipts, lie failed to do so. .J.;' South Carolina Institution Will Not Be Exempt U. S. SUPREME COURE'S OPINION Pretense That the Institution is Con ducted as a Branch of the Police Power of the State ia But Thinly ] Diggulsed, Says tho Court in Affirm- j ing the Action of the Court of Claims on Petition for Ilccovcry cf ! $20,000 Paid Since 1893. ? ? ashinglon. Special. - Tin* Su premo c.im i of t ho r,<itod Males de cided dun the . national government may propefly tax the Stale liquor <lis- I !><Minaii??s of Soinli Carolina. Tho op- ' inion was delivered In .justice Brewer I in the case <i| | In; State ol South Carolina i h?; I'nited Stales. ThU notion was instituted l?y the State of South ( arolinft to reeover ?$20,000 paid to the revenue officers of the national govern melflf^'on account of the sale of liquors by tin* State nnd county dispensaries under the dispen sary law. The Stale look the posi tion that as th<' dispensaries sold liquors without profit they should not be taxed by the yovcrninenl. but the t<i\ hns been collected since 1S0.'{. Ibis is said have boenV the liist case in which the State unites in one undertaking the exercisc of iii> police power together with (lie prosecution ol a commercial business. The CoillI of < lainis <lisinissed the |>otitiou on tho ground I hat (lie exercise of police power was but thinly disguise*). hold ing that (he real purpose was money making and this decision was affirmed. COUNTING VOTES AS CAST. ? Upon Argument by Alton B. Parker | Justice Amend Rules That lie is Estopped From Questionening Va lidity of Any Ballots Counted by Election Inspectors, and Recount Begins. ' X? w \ork, Special.- The recount of ballot s in five ballot hovos used iu I New \ ork 's mayoralty election con ies: wa>> ordered to be it n Friday I by Just ice AiucikI iu the Supremo | ( Vuirt. I he original order to opt n those five boxes was granted a few days ago. ?Jul sice Amend, iu ordering the roeounl (o begin, modified his original order | so as |o limit the canvassing tlx' ; candidates for mayor, comptrollei | and president oL' lite board of alder men, and also to eliminate from the recount the void and protested b illots. Counsel for \V. K. Hearst, Mayor Mel 'lellan and Assistante Corporation Counsel Bulls engaged in a heated ar gument before the boxes rfore opened. | Alton 15. Parker, ' for Mayor Model- ' Ian, and Mr. Butts contended that the court had no right to make a re-can vass of the voles or to reconsider the result, but could compel the election inspectors correct fy to state the result they reached on elect ioijinijfht. " Vou mean. I hen," said Austin (?. Fox, for Mr. Hearst, ''that you do not want tho true vote ascertained, and thai if a vole for Hearst has been counted for McClellan you don 'I want it known?" a '"I mean," retorted Mr. Butts, "that 1 want (he true vote ascertain ed accordant to law." "And how may that be done?" in j quired Mr. Fox. ''By quo warranto proceedings," was the reply. "And such proceedings can only be undertaken after January," comment ed Mr. Fox. "I see." Mr. Parker disclosed that the court had no right to throw out any ballot which had been counled by the elec tion inspectors. Justice Amend ruled that he is estopped from questioning the validity of the ballots and they | must lie counted as cast. I ho first ballot box was (hen open ed by inspectors in (he court room and the recount was begun, with the rep resentatives of the newspapers occu pying the seats intended for jury men. The o poncing of four ballot boxes and the recount iug of the ballots was finished Saturday night before Judge Amend. The no I results was a gain of scvyi^ecn votes in (be four dis tricts for Hearst, ami of these being gained in three districts. Ifenrv M Youngo, of counsel for Mr. Hearst, said : "The results thus far have shown that the inspectors miscounted the split ballots, to (ho gain of MeClol lan and the loss of Mr. Hearst. If it turns out in /Other 'dist riots as it has in those examined Air. Heart is elected "on the recount. " Mexico's Vice President. Mexico City, Special. ? Vice Presi dent Corral continues jcravcly ill with typhus fever. His physicians lu?|><.> for the* West nnd rely on liis great vitnljty. There is nincli public anx jot y ' regard ing his condition. Sultan's Proposals Not Accepted. X'ondon, By Cable. ? A dispatch from Paris states that it is reported in French government circles that the imwers,' after examining * the latest Turkish proposals, dccidcd tharthey am uiuuit&faetory and therefore the international fleet will not bo order ed home. It is ataUiLMiat unless the Sultan complete! vjback^ down before Monday the Islands ofl Lemnoe and Imbros will be teiescd/ - ' (wants to be a county slat Plan to Form New County From Lau ren*, Greenville and Spartanburg Territory. La u tv i is, Special.? For several months ||u> citizens of Fountain Inn and vicinity have been axitatiij# the creation of a new county, the territory to he taken from the counties of < ireenville, Laurens, ami Spartanburg with Fountain Inn as the county rest. To f?w | he required area. 400 square miles, for the formation of a new count y , it is proposed to take ISO square miles from tlreeuvillw county, ISO from Laurens and 40 from Spar tanburg. Fountain inn is located on the (iTvenville and Laurens railroad, just across the line in (li*eenville enmity and has a population of 1,000 souls, a cotton mill, bank, a number of mereuntilc establishments, splendid schools ami churches, and is surround ed by one of the llnest farming sec lions in the entire Piedmmit belt. A commiUee composed of seven of the leading eiti/ens of the place has the matter in hand. Mr. .lohn K. I Icllams, of Dials, this county, has been euS^a^ed to make the survey, which will be beyun next Monday. It will probably require a little more that) a month to complete the survey. The Cherokee Farmers. ? (JatVney, Special. ? The Cherokee County Cotton Association met Sat urday in the court house here. Tin; most important action to be taken by the association was the election of ? ? 1 T i - ccrs for the coming year and the elec tion of delegates to the Stale conven tion in Columbia. Messrs. IL < Sar ratt. W. Shiii Lipscomb and A. F. <io fortli well! elc.cted delegates to tin' State convention to be held in Colum bia in January. The following ollicers were elected for next year: President, IL S. Sana it ; vice-presideul, W. Sain l.ipsfomb; secretary, Milton Yassey, treasurer, .1. V. Sarat t. The associa tion is now in a tlourishin^' eomlition and at this time is experiencing a wonderful growth. The interest now ? bcinji' maufestcd in it and its work can probably be acounlcd for as hav ing' been ureal ly helped by the speech es of Messrs. F. 1). Smith and llarvie Jordan, who spoke to a great assem blage in the court house here recent ly. At n meeting of the directors of the National banit in tile oflice of the pres ident recently Jlie regular seiui-an-' mud dividend L'per ceyt. was dc cla red payable to the shareholders January 1st. Fifteen Hundred Bales Held in East ern York. V Rock llill. Special. ? The Fanners' Association of Eastern Yoik held its annual meeting- in the rooms of the Cemmcreial C'lul ? Saturday afternoon with good at tendance and splendid en thusiasm. The firs!/ business taken up was the election of ollieers, .those chosen beiuu: Mr. F. C. Whitner, presi dent, and Mr. 10. E. Pong. secretary and treasurer. Messrs. John Steele, M. ft. Williams and I). B. Leslie were chosen delegates tj? the county con vention to he held in Yorkville next Saturday and Mr. F. 11. Barber was elected a member of the county exe cutive committee. It was reported that pledges to hold cotton for the 1") cent mark had been signed until about 1,500 bales had been so pledged. The warehouse at Rock Hill now contains almost 900 bales. Al 15 cents }>er pound the value of cotton hold in this community approximates $1 12, 500. Oldest and Youngest. Chester, Special. ? Chester jail has now among; its inmates perhaps the oldest and youngest prisoners in the State ? a woman 75 years old ami a boy less than 0 years; botii are charg ed with the highest crime known to law ? murder. Death of Mr. J. S. Amos. Spartanburg;, Special ? Jos. S. Amos a prominent and esteemed citizen died at his home in this city of pneumonia. His widow and nine children survive him. The deceased was a native of the county and had lived in the city for the past 1(5 years. He was active ly engaged in business and was identi fied with the church work Barn and Live Stock Burned. Yorkville", Special ? The large three story barn of (Menu & Allison al their model farm on Fishing Creek, four miles east of Yorkville, was destroyed by lire about II o'clock Saturday night. The manager-antl others pass ed there an hour previous but saw no sig^js of lire. The origin is un knwn. Six mules, 1 horse, 40 head of cattle, 28 hogs, .">00 bushels of corn, two years' supply of forage, a tine lot of agricultural machinery and imple ments were burned. The loss is esti mated at $7,000 or $8,000 with insur ance of .$500 on building only. Y. W. C. A. Convention. * v Charleston, Special.? -Another busjjJ dep v:as held at the convention of^the Young Women's Christian association of South t?nd N< vth Carolina. The sum of $1,400 was pledged by dele gates tor sjiecial work, and a num ber ??f other matters were^d imposed, of relating to the extenfti >t: of the work and other routing affairs. "The Kiblc hour" and the Several special address es were given close at ten tin* . MB I IMPS IIIE HACK I Express ol Jersey Central Railroad | Wrecked Near Mauch Chunk, Pa. HtttOISM OF TRAIN BHAKtMAN V Walk* Two Mile* Willi HotU Amu Urok. | Ait til Notify Nfm?lt HltuitUTowrrtuiia of (he Ar?'i<l?ut ? I'iwiijfA ?? <ll? Olive* Wlirrl Cuimnil III* < >ti to !.???? lh? 'I rtH'k on ? Curt*. Scranton. Pa. Two trainmen wort* killed iiiid eighteen i?as>tM)>;<ki'ri wore hurt, only two or thorn serioiuly, iu the wreck of the Philadelphia flyer on the tVntral U nil road of Now Jersey nt>a r Stony Tln? train plunged over an cinhanUment late ai uiulit, tho locomotive anil oiu> oar going into Hip rlviM', am! at tlrsl It \\;ik kii|?|iosci1 (hat ilu> list ??f I'liNiialtios would roach a hundred. Tho most seriously itijurod are a man whose (high was broken and n boy with >? fractured skull. When the (rain jumped the (rack the locomotive, and (wo ears crashed down n thirty-foot embankment. Tho locomotive und tho combination car foil into tho river and the l'tiUman car landed on end on the brink of (he stream. As the train went over (he embank ment two telegraph poles were torn down and the wires broken, cutting oil' all eoimmtnfcMtion. II was a l'our mile walk to the nearest telegraph station on the other side oj' the river, at Penn Haven Junction/ The reunite place where the wreck occurred, the broken wires and the excitement (lint followed the order for the doctors caused wild rumors that (lie entire train had been hurled into the river and that HO or lOO had been killed. Not until 1 1 o'clock iik (lie morning was the extent of the wreck ascer tained. The dead are Clarence Detro. of Ash ley, an engineer, who was ruling on the locomotive of (lie (rain ami re turning to his work at Bethlehem affter spending (lie day with 1 1 is family at Ashley, ami Fireman John l.eibert, of .Mattch Chunk. Some of (he injured'yire: Engineer Will, is, was badly scalded and bruised; Philip lteilly, a baggagoinaMer; Calvin Swisher, a newsboy, and Thomas Sny der a conductor. The locomotive, while running about thirty miles an hour, jumped tho track, evidently owing to a broken Mange on one of (he driving wheels. It plunged across (he west hound track. The train left WiiKes-Barre at (5.30 o'clock at night, and the first news of the accident was obtained when a brakeman. bleeding ami half dead, staggered into tin* signal operator's tower at I'enn Ilnvpn Junction. He had walked two mil< * with hotli arms broken. The operator telegraphed to Maneli Chunk and a wrecking- crew and hospital car were immediately sent, with three physicians and nil the help that could be gathered. Some of the eighteen injured, pas sengers were taken to tin- yptlroad's hospital at Bethlehem, l'a. The engineer and ih'cman were, pinned in the wreck of the locomo tive and crushed (o <Ua(h. An upset stove set the ears on lire. The pas sengers who were unhurt look all the wounded out of the wreck and then fought the flames. By the tlmo the ?wreckers arrived tho tire was ynder control and tho wounded passengers were being eared for on the bank of the stream. Many persons rut: by broken glass and bruised by the crashing timbers refused to go to the hospital and left on a special train that was sent to carry the passengers on their way. > Two physicians were among the un injured on the wrecked train and they did the best they could without the aid of bandages to dress the wounds of their iess, fortunate fellow passen gers. The flyer had left White Haven twenty minutes lato and was running at a good rate of speed toward Mnueh Chunk, but It was said that no at tempt was being made to make up the lost time. The wreck occurred on n stretch of level double track in a cut on the mountainside. There are sev eral curves there and the mad has a rule against f^s* running. On tho op posite side of the river" are the tracks of tho Lehigh Valley road. Traffic on the main line of thi\ Cen tral of New Jersey was laid up for some time, and trains were^sent ov#r the tracks of the Lehigh Valley, con nection being made at Penn Haven Junction. RICCKST n.\W?Ki;S Fort TOW. tinmonso Cables to Pull Drydoek to Philippine#. Trenton. N. J. ? ' Tho John A. Koeb ling's Sons' Company, of this city, com pleted the largest towing cables ever made, and which are t?? l?e mod to haul the drydoek Dewey from Spar rows' Point, Md.. to Olangapo. in the Philippines. The specially built ha writs each contain l!l!2 wires, divided into six strands of ."7 wires each, twisted around a hemp eore. and are two inches in diameter, 12<m) feet long, weigh ah6ut 7300 pounds each, arid are the most powerful ever built. V. of Cal. Huys Library. Tho Ilaneroft library has been bought for $230,000 by the University of Cali fornia. Itus?ian Police Strike. The pollee were reported 1o liave. ' Struck at (Irodno, Russia. Memorial Tablet Unveiled. i A memorial tablet presented l>y tho HHilo Company of Associates was nn? vetkaJrvith elaborate ceremony at the, Bub-TFfcasury Ituildlng in Netr York City. - * . ? ? ' I Hebrews Celebrate. ^ In *CarnrgIe Hall, New York City, there was hlld a meeting in commem oration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the nettlement of He i brews in the United States. iUHNEERS LOSE BATTLE | j Whole Fleet of Rebels at Sebastopol Reported Surrendered. HED FLAG WAS HAULED DOWN ??.? <?PfUl|, UT t#u Shl|ii l or. an.1 ArUII#rr>-l)a inocr i?, Vow* ??.? He?r Lota ol |.||. Kwil-fr ?r|. ??? BaKIIdk K?r Two I *??*? BH"f4n rni.l M??u. S<. Petersburg, IttHsIa Xohflstopol WJU I III. ficelle of u <if>N|icriit(? buttle Ihtfweon t Ik* luminous sailors an.) the troops in (i),. foru oll h|,oro. During the buttle the i own himI (he forts were honihurded h.v the ?r the cruiser OuhakoO', which whs soon ? hurning wreck on Admiralty Point ',H ,"?i 'Id.lled wish shells aiw, ?s flaunting red design of revolution hauled down. Many or the crew of the oiWuiknfr were killed or wounded. According to om> report, tlio burrueks <>' the mutineers were carried by storm afior ,|?. mutinous thvt. which - mi Id to have numbered ton vessels, had surrendered, and the whole posi tion* was again in the hands of the X^Iine rr'ldt l ti!? eouu,wiml o1 (Jeneral Owing to the iiiterrtiidiou of the U-zrnvU. detail, of the hat tie were uo,.'1 t 1,111 correspondents uo.o ii,for.n..,| h.v the Naval Cenoral ! I'M t tie was begun hy the J loops on shore. Who opened lire on the H.hakoft which was d.llantlv dis playing the red flap', Tlie eou.niamier of the Oichakotr, Lieutenant Kchmi.lt. im.nedlatelv a<^ boU.'i t '"'Maying ' with both l atter os. one trained <>n the town .md the Other on the Fort Alexander hat lories on the north shore "i.le-.le eamp to Ad nli*l < . irenlus,. chief of the Nnv-il ? on era I Staff, informed ? correspond ent that the latest dispatches received . 1'. !,S,'>po1 s,1?>?ed that the >NWiakofr whs on tiro /and badly rid I minimi 1,3 VPVO,u Unitary colors ! "l0?,! /,own- 1,m' lM> "as unable to lion' ' or luol'? definite informa <0 a more detailed report ol \ ed from another source and pur wrung ? - A, In, hull", the battle began at :i o'clock in the ? i ternoon. when Lieutenant Schmidt not receiving a reply to the demands tw nf'l1 urs' opened lire from a Hoot of ten ships, to Which the north ern batterins of Fort Alexander or t tllcr.v posted oil the shore and several \ cssels which remained loyal replied. During the naval battle (be sailors ;;?<>-<,'.ei,e.i i.? the bracks ii.]o<l their position with inachlno guns and rifle against the attack .'"f'-n'ry. After an engagement lasting tuo and a half hours, with tho Otchakoflf riddled and on tiro Mn.l tho cruiser Dnieper and another vessel sunk, -Lieutenant. Schmidt, who had been badly wounded, surrendered tho ontiro squadron. The mutinous sail ors on shore surronderodiMo tho Ilrest and Hlelostok regiments. According to this report tho I'antolej. inon (formerly tho Knlaz Potomkino) Mas Injured below tho waterllno and a toipedo boat was ashore on tho rocks. No details of tho cnsTtaifles hv of tlhi. damage suite re*" hv the town/were ob tainable by thoVvdmlralty.ybut owing o tho confined. kSuc^i \ylilch the ac on *jl,s f0UK,li 11 ?P<'racd improbable damage " t'st'a,)0(, without Leuvy i he demands of tho mutineers are Raid to have included besides tho llf. teen proposals dealing with service condition g the oonvoeatlon of a con stituent assembly and the completo realization of tho liberties promised b> the imperial manifesto. Viee-Adnilial Chuknln was In com. ?maud of the loyal ships, which In eluded tho I'atelelmon (ex-Kninz lu tein kin), and made a vlgo^ods demon stration. (Jeneral Melior (iakomolsklo commander of the ...... Seventh Army J^orps. with 21,000 Infantry and av was In command ashore. When the battle began the. batteries on the north side, which were sup posed to be loyal Instead of firing upon tho mutineers joined cause with them and directed their lire on the cltv and on the south side batteries. The Brest Kogiment theroui>oii charged the north batteries with fixed bayonets and the guns were soon turned upon the rebel ships and the barracks. According to the Li's took, the con spiracy which let! to the mutiny wrnt on under the noses of the oflieors and even Minister of Marine HlrllofT who was at Sebastopol a fortnight ago, sus pected nothing. Tho sailors waited until they wor> assured of support from tho troops, most of whom, how ever. refused to go over to tho muti neers when the time came. During the first throe days tho mu tineers were orderly. They sent dele gates to the shopkeepers requesting tlieijl not to close, as tliere would be no disorder and asking the inhabitants not to leave the city. They also sent out patrols with Instructions to arrest the roughs who wore seeking to take advantage of the situation. In all their demonstrations the mutineers sang the National Hymn to show that the only traitors were those who re fused to satisfy their demands. J Father Oapon Heard From. Father <4 upon, who Is hiding 1n St. Peterahurg, UuhmIa, in an interview aaid that the rcvolutlonao' leaders wore making tho tactical mistake which he did, of preaching an anncd rebel lkm: To Elevate tier Krabassle* It was formnily annonneed at Toklp that it had beeu decided to elevate ti)C - Japanese at ? l^onitou. Washington, Paris, IterJIn and St. Petersburg to embassies. Senator Barton Sentenced. . Senator Burton was sentenced at Washington,' D. CM to six months In jail and fined $2300, the sontence also debarring liim from holding ACS.; HEAVY SIORMS AT 8EA Ships on the Ocean and Great Lakes. Wrecked by the Waves. MANY LIVES REPORTED LO^T Mffl I!*ik<' <><??? I>UW|| Oft" tMiln )(??('?!? Cr*? ill' \T rmik ?t ( hutlmui Km-Irfnch hhl|> Ki iik* W lll? All on Honi'it III Ilia Him|iliurui?Tlir?( lilo on Superior. linstou, .Mass. -Tho foundering of (In- new steel rnii-KO I ?elu v\ unn? and the loss of four persons on board, Includ ing Captain .lohu H. Munsey ami hiv I will-, wj^n reported hero hy the ttif I S<ranton. wlili h had boon towing llto 1 tela wanna from Now York Clly. The barge wont doyn in a heavy soil fil S.ao o'cloek ;it itiff lit nl)ont eight * miles cast by son t b from Mlnots Light, Those lost woro Captain Mnnsoy muh wife anil the engineer ami the Cuojy^ff the barge. One of the crow of tho Delawanmt was saved. So ipiiokly ?t ill lhe barge founder after the snapping of (ho hawsers Unit tlio crow of tho tug bad absolutely no time to render aid, Tlio rescued sailor was found clinging to a i fragment of a broken boat, and al? n lit si u ni'onsoious. On board tile tug tlio man revived j xntlieient ly to inform Captain Pierce of the t in; that the r>olawanna was thrown on her beam ends by a terrltlc son. and the ? ater Hooded1 into the bold. She sank. almost -'instantly, snapping mo tow line us she plunged. Cr?w I'l'iim Wrrrk, Chatbain. .Muss. ? The schooner Charles 1'. Soars of Calais, Me.. Cap tain Kd wtird A I wood, s.ent aground at Chatham liar late at night, and prob ably will be a tot. 11 loss. The captain ami crew of four men were taken o!Y by the life saving crew. Wi'crkrd In ?hn Hocfiliorus. Marseilles, France. A dispatch from Constantinople reports thai the steam ship Holeldieu, belonging to this port, has been wrecked in the Bosplioru* and that all the member.* of her crew, numbering twenty-two, are believed to have been drowned. The lioleldleu was an iron steam ship of :ioi' I tons kiosk feet long. I foot beam and 'J-i feet deep. She was built ai Liverpool in 1SSI, ami was owned by A. Artuad, of Marseilles*. Tliino IMm hm Noo\t Hrri?U?. j Miini ii, .Minn. -a message from j'ort tAnlmr. Ontario, hh.vh the Canadian steamship Monk* Haven ot' the Al goma Central Lino wont ashonv at IMe Island near Purl Arthur. The crew was saved, but the vessel is a loss. 'I'lii' II. IV Nye got into Two liar liors in the night, badly battered. Iler cargo ot' llnx, valued at $'J4t),tX)U( was damaged about fifty per cent. Three men lost their lives In the ?wreck of the scow CSeorgo Herbert at Two Islands. They were Ole Miller. Oeorge Oisen aiul Olo Nelson, alt ot Uuluth. When the scow wowt on the rock* William Illeks and Charles Johnson saved themselves by jumping to shore. The other three larked courage, ond as the^acow broke shouted their Inst giuxTlw and disappeared. Hkks QUil "Johnson were cared for by fishermen. Oclrlc l4;??Co?t*<|. New York City.?' The first of the great tleet of trans-Atlantic steamships to enter New York harbor Ice-clad w?# the giant Ccrtrlc of the White Star Line, which docked hero in the tnorn ing. ? '* / Av The whole hull of the big ha#r wat eiicased In a glittering coat of white. . and her bows were crusted thick with' ice where the heavy sens encountered , during the last day's run had swept repeatedly. The Cedrlc k<>1 in about twenty hour? late, due to the heavy head winds against which she hod to force her way during the entire trip. W?nt l)??u Willi N|n?lf?n, Ashland, Wis.? The steel steamer Ira II. Owen, with a crew of uineteen. i? now known to have gone down on Lake Superior in the great storm. Its com mander was Captain Joseph Mulligan, of Itnffalo, N. Y. The Owen was Inst, sighted about forty miles off the" Apostle Islands, when It seemed to be in a bnd way. Then the snow shut It from View. Captain Chamberlain, of the steamer Kir William Siemens, 'reported Uiat ten miles enst of Outer Island by passed a mass of wreckage, Including; life preservers marked Ira H. Owen. Four vessels were rejx?rted. Includ ing the Owen. a .tug Maxwell and scow with ten men are Jost. The* steamer Western Slar was wrecked - at 4>ntonak'on and the Vega at Fox Inland. ITALIAN CATIIKDH AL DAMAGED. ^ Shaken l>y Earthquake Tlint Was Felt Throughout Italy. Ilomo. Italy.? A slight shock of earth, nuake miih recorded In all of the Ob servatories of the kingdom. ? ??? It wok felt especially throughout the euKtoru. central anil southern parts of th(> country, but caused little damage except to the Cathedral of Arlano dl Puglia, whlelr suffered considerably* No lives were lost. Midshipman Dismissed. Midshipman Joseph It. Williams ttm dismissed from the United State* Naval Academy at Annapolis. Md., for unsatisfactory conduct. English Duehest Mobbed. While the Duchess of 1M ward's daughter. chnrcb armr tents to ? - ? - the unemployed to Loud??. ? mob, jeered and hooted, crylnfc their charity.** . ; Bankin Th e Controller at Washington, p. C, ri that, by order American NailOlMir ; UAMfesrttt*