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e AMD EN UME XVII. CAMDKN, S. C., FRIDAY, Al'(iUsT 3. llMHi. NO. 30. WfHf.ll HANGED III DESffil ISLAND Sheriff Adopted Ruse to Avoid Mob. TWO WHITE WOMEN in Alabama Fought t?? Ik Litr While Son Sought 'Corpus?*AVi|l lie l<'.vam lasanity, Md. --- William Lee, a assaulted i wo women in ine on June 10 last, has handed on ii desert. isl jjlej' Bound. The hanging 3d by Sheriff Brown, of >unty, and was effected In ^event the negro from be by a mob. ice Lee was captured, lr the commission of his lad been confined in the ^cUy jail because of the ?e would be lynched if ;to the scene of his crime, was convicted and sen leath., Then a difficulty law provides that the Mice must be executed in ^vhere the crime was com f the Sheriff resorted to a spirited aboard a State samboat and placed in ^Sheriff Brown. On the fas a gallows, which could a moment's notice. Ex negro to be brought back _lty seat for execution, a ?ed in Princess Anne, and, a rumor which reached [destroyed the gallows at false. Sheriff Drown was gpnd his prisoner in the >d of the town, so the had sailed from Haiti led at the desert island, jikeu ashore, the gallows and tb<> condemned man the boat Lee made a con le Sheriff, admitting that |ty of assaulting Mrs. Lil -and Miss Frances Powell sss Anne. Mrs. Barnes* 18 on the boat, the Sheriff Ited his request to see the id, and Lee begged for his ^ever forgive you, even if replied Barnes impres Prom Gallows by Fight. | lam. Ala.?When Sheriff j ?Cullman County, accom- I ts'everal deputies, entered ! ire to secure John Will 'aged man condemned to fctae murder of State Sena >, who was sentenced to at Cullman, Williams Lion of iron pipe. Which rfa loose from the sewer in the cell, and tlireat 111 the first man who at ? enter. Finally a quan lmonia was secured and fthe prisoner through the funics of' the drug over und the officers were able him. llstance, however, caused |iiy that the officers missed which they expected to b to Cullman. This gave ined man's son. Frank, a writ of habeas cor t^lre inlo Williams' sanity, [served td^stay the execu FIIOIjI) DDDGEI) tax. i( FI raised at ?!80,000.000 Dues on $105,000,000. ?Marshall Field's execu asked to pay $2,800,000 greatest tax ever lpvied 'individual. ird of Review fixed the [[property at $ 1.10,0o0,000. state ik worm about fi/0, taking the total taxable es jOOO.OOO. jfger portion of the assess >r back taxes. The board >ack seven years.*'For the >f these seven years Field on $2,500,000 personal Htnnually and last year on $ 1 7,000.000 In all. The declared that Field escaped fon $105,000,000 more. >OI>ELI< found dead. Itopsy, Medical Examiners to -Evidence of Foul Piny. ptowp, Mass.?"No evidence lay" was the report of the camiuers after they had an autopsy upon the body finzola. M. Goodell, daughter f M.. Goodell, who dibap Wli.her home on July fi. and was found In Uppe> irslciam; found no marks of the body. This finding Ileal examiners Is accepted Ing the theory of the girl's ?he accidentally fell out tat and was drowned. iTi*?lrp at Snn Francisco, te of froight handlers at ?C*l.i" increased the freight at Han Francisco. The will bo appealed to to re -up. Wostinghouse Acctisert. meeting of the Westing ctric and Manufacturing in Pittsbihg, minority accused President Geo. of using the company's ivate enterprises. ?I1 ion in RhmU. is said to have broken i the Baltic provinces of tere is much lawlessness and the administration of is reported paralyzed. WIDOW GETS SAGE MILLIONS Each Blood Nephew and Niece Bequeathed Sum of $25,000. .Not a Out to Charity?Mi'i. Sage's l'oiiune "Absolutely and For? , v< r ?Will is Dated IUOI. New York City. ? Not a cent of 11 iiKKt'lI Sage's money goes to eliar i t y! fly the teriub of the will llled iu th#* Surrogate's Court of this county, Mrs. Sago, the widow, corned Into ab solute control of the immense for tune amassed by the late financier. The only specific bequests besides are one of $10,000 to Mr. Sage's sis tor, Mrs. Chapln, who is now dead, and provision that each of Ills nephews and nieces, of whom thore are about u score, shall receive $25, 000, or about $650,000. Apart from these comparatively trifling bequests the entire fortune is willed to the widow "to have and to hold the same absolutely and forever." The will names Mrs. Sage an exe cutrix and Dr. John P. Munn, Charles W. Osborne and Aluiou Goodwin ex ecutors. Mr. Goodwin has since died. A gentleman who has been in close touch with the business affairs of Mr, Sage, who desired that his name be not uBed, said that the value of the estate whs between $70,000,000 and $80,000,000. Of this amount, he I said, about fl'.0,000,000 was in loans and the rest in real estate and securi ties. This wa? corroborated by Charles l W. Osborne, manager for Mr. Sage, who is one of the executors. The fact that no bequests to char- ' itable or ed ucational institutions were made by Mr. Sage did not surprise any of his friends or business asso- I ciates. On the contrary, the will was just what all who knew the family had expected, because it was general ly, supposed that Mr. Sage would leave everything to his wifri^vlth the understanding thafVhhe would attend to the work of giving away. "The will is a credit to the old man," said a friend down town. "He was not interested in charities. His wife is and is qualified to do the right thing at the right time, and Mr. Sage did well t?l> leave to her the fortune and the credit of distributing it. The will is not miserly, it merely flhows that Mr. Sage wasn't bidding for post mortem eulogies." The will is dated February 11, 1901, and was drawn up by Almon Goodwin, of tho firm of Goodwin, Vanderpoel & Thompson. It is wit nessed by Kd ward Townsend and Richard.W. Freedinan. Talk of a contest will now prob ably dissolve into thin air. It was mostly based on a guess that the will to be filed was of very recent dato. It is not likely that any one will ifet , up the proposition that Russell Sage , was not in full possession of his' nien | tal faculties five years ago. j Mr. Sage in his will specifically i cuts off the bequest of any person | who "objects to the probate of tho ; will or directly or indirectly con ! tests the same." PULAJANHS FALL IN BATTLE. General Wood Reports Clash in (ho Yisayas?One American Wounded. Washington. ID. C.?General Wood, in command of thePhillpvines, cablod the War Department that another tight had occurred between the Twenty-fourth Regiment of United States Infantry and the constabulary and 360 Pulajanes. General Wood says that the Information is from the Department of tho Visayas. In the engagement tho eije.iny's loss was 150. while the American loss was only one constabulary sergeant I wounded, indicating tho utter rout of | the rebels. General Wood adds that I thoro is no occasion for anxiety. The Twenty-fourth Regiment of In I fautry is a negro organization apd ' the fact that it* was successful over I the Pulajanes is expected to have a ' very good efTect, because of the fact that the natives have heretofore i looked with disdain upon tho negro I regiments and have discounted their | fightinrfe ability. Wood's dispatch also tells of tho Leyte Island clash: "Sudden outbreak Pulajanes oc curred Island Leyte a fow days since. Two constabulary detachments de feated. Loss twelve in one instance and thirteen in other, with arms. One constabulary lieutenant killed." 12 i PRISON FOR Al'TOMOBl LISTS. (V. W. Bryant, Convicted of Reckless Driving, Appeals Case, i Yonkers, N. Y.?Geo. W. Bryant, ? of Manhattan, was sentenced to a two months' term in the Kings Coun ty Penitentiary and to pay a.fine of $50 byldty Judge Joseph II. Beall. Bryant's, chauffcur was sentenced to a two months' term in the peniten tiary. Both'were arrested on July I after having collided with a trap owned by Mrs. S. M. Odell, a resident of this city. Mrs. A. llewison. her daughter, . and forinor Supervisor Thomas A. Browne, who were driving a pair of horses, were injured. Bryant was released on appeal, as his chauffeur has been. He" 'Will carry the case to the highest courts if necessary. TIhi Business Outlook. Bradstreet's Review says: Trade, industrial and crop reports generally continue highly optimistic. SAND SINKS INTO LAKH. f Thirty-seven Acres Disap|M*a^ and Farmers Arc Afraid, h .. Sheboygan, Wis. ?. Thirty-seven acres of qj&ltivated laifd on the bor der of Long Lake in Pond 4a Lac County saak and now is covered with deep water. The sinkage ts sup posed to be due do slight earthquake ?hock. * Farmers in the neighborhood are alarmed and afraid to go near to iu vestigate. BOLO HIGHWAY ROP.BERY BY THREE YEGGMEN Boston Merchant Beaten, Shot and Robbed. TWO THIEVES ARE CAUGHT riiinl Man Msiupcs Willi H-Oii and Valuable Pu|M?rs?Panic in I In' Stircts at Midila)' as tho Revolv ers Flash. Boston, Mass. ?- Patrolman Her man Shield is a cripple for life and Thomas Jlickey, of Wakefield, a coal merchant, lies seriously wounded at tho Relief Hospital, the victims'of a trio of robberp. or "Yeggmen," as they aro known to the Massachusetts police, who, in broad daylight, held up. robbed and shot lilckey in his office at Charlestown and engaged in a street battle with the police, in which Shield was maimed by bullets tired by tho desperadoes. So bold a crime has not occurred In Boston for years, and tho police directed every effort to tho capture of the third of tho criminals, tho other two having been arrested us the climax of the struggle with the authorities. Hiekey was robbed of 9200 in^cash and valuable papers, and money which is said to have been a part of this was found upon the two men taken into custody, who are George W. Kverson, twenty seven years of i^g^, of New York City, and Fred Sifachotti, thirty years of age, of Bridgeport, Conn. The po lice have a good description of the missing robber. Mickey was alone in the office of his coal wharf, at No. 12 5 Cambridge street, bending over his desk writing when three men entered the place. Almost before he could move the coal man was covered by a revolver by one of the men thought to be Kver soii, who said: "We want your money and wo want it quick! Now, don't give us any bother!" At this moment the other two strangers caught the merchant from behind. Mickey swung around and managed to give one of the men a blow which knocked him to the lloor. I The man in front fired, and blood be gan to run from Mickey's head, but | although a bullet had punctured his left ear and the back of his neck Hickey continued to fight until the man in front, having pocketed his re volver, helped his companions to overpower the merchant. The men went through Mickey's pockets and got all of his cash. The small crowd which had assembled at the sound of I tho revolver shot, scattered quickly at tho sight of Everson's revolver, which the man flourished as tho trio pushed their way down the street. Patrolmen Brady and Crowley ap j peared and took up tho pursuit. The I increasing crowd slunk back against the buildings and into side streets as Kverson at sight of the two patrol men again turned and fired repeated ly. Both the patrolmen resorted to shooting, but all bullets went wild. Tho robbers were taken to tho sta tion and shortly afterward were transported to tho relief hospital, to which Mr. Mickey and Patrolman Shield previously had been carried. This was done so that the wounded men might formally identify their an sallants. It was announced at the hospital thnt Kverson and Bacchettl had been identified. A BILIjION* JBl'SH KT/K OF WHKAT. Biggest Yield That IIiih Kver Been in j Prospect on This Continent. Chicago. ? There is no question I now that there will be an abundant j yield of wheat. The reports of the j prevalence ^of black rust in tho Northwest, while t-ue to- a certain extent, were exaggerated. The pros ent promise Is for an enormous yield, j Only) a calamity can change the re sult/ and there are no unfavorable ponditions yet. If the crop matures . 'tho railroads', will ho taxed to tholr utmost capacity to handle the grain. yhe United States and Canada have the promise of nearly a billion bushels of wheat. No such outlook has ever been in prospect, on the American continent. It should be a great year for manufacturers, rail roads, retailers and farmers. MYERS. 11.\ LK Ml), 1)I1C rot;FT 11 KB Found in Bivcr Clasped in Arms Af ter Announcing siiicidr Plan. Philadelphia. ? Clasped in each other's arms, caeh wearing tho oth er's picture, the bodies of Gustavo Kathke, agrrl nineteen, and Eiia Tviii ler. ag.-u eighteen, were found float ihg in the Delaware River. Tho youthful lovers, after seeking the consent of tho girl's parents to their marriage, made their suicide agree ment, boldly announced it and car ried It out. The girl penned a., note announc ing to her mother the determination to die. Ilnilronds Arc Prosperous. Prosperity . of the railroads Is shown oot only by reports indicating an increasejpf earnings of more than one par rent, compared with last year, but also in continued heavy buying of rails and rolling stock. Their .olttcials seem, to entertaiu no fear that rocent legislation will bo disastrous. Itaisln Crop Short. It is estimated that the sultana raisin crop o* Smyrna will be only 50 to CO per cent, of last year's on account of destructive hail ana wet weather. Wo lluy More of France Than Kver. Kxports from France to the United States for the year ending June 30 n reached the record breaking total of $107,240,54 7, au increase of $18, 823,473 over the previous years. FISHERMEN DROWN OFF NEW JERSEY COAS1 t Boats Crowded With Pleasure Seekers Run For Shelter. HEROISM OF THE UFESAVERS Men How Through Hough Sea ?m| i'lolt I,, Those r?i?g|?K |rt rt'ck, Trniikfemiig ,H (o ya,.,? Violet to Avoid Swanipin^. Anglesea, N. J. - -iciKht men were drowned here by the capsizing of (wo yachts on the Hereford Inlet bar one mile oft shorer T1*. yachts were com l?R In from the ffehlnjc banks, and were crowded with fishermen, most of whom were from Philadelphia Seven lost their ltvu? from the a?.xil lary .sloop yacht Nora, whirl* plies for hire, and one front the Alvln >i., a small sloop, owned by R. i?. Mail man, a lawyer, of Pottsvllie. Hal I man was entertaining twelve frlendH on tho craft, which was turned completely over by a terrific NN UVt'. Bodies of tin; following persons were r?covered: Frederick Fisher *>i.. I h ladelplila; Herbert llainmeu' do* b ? ' V U,V"">r Ph"?: p i o. ,in ,,,)Kar,>'- Haverford, ??., J. Starkey. Philadelphia. Jerry man ' Ph,llMl#,??hla; unknown The body of Samuel Lodner, of Woodbury, N. j., was not found. when ,r.Uv8 W?r? brt'aki?? over It 0,U .c^"1" in. and in ' f waH rld'"K <>!' the crest of billow When a gust of wind threw her on her beam ends. Instantly a wave s rained the craft, and the mast snapped close to the deck. The Nora ' turned turtle and all on board were caught under the yacht. r'!!"1} ft'nan w?? ?aved was due to ?iptain Henry s. Ludlum. of the Hereford Inlet life saving station who assembled a volunteer crew and' put out to the rescue. It was lialf an hour, however be A.'r.hSr ,7""""" ?i>?i. All th.1t time a genre of n,,.? wito making a desperate struggle for life rhey were gathered around the over ?une(l yacht, and were constantly i iti t*'1'r away by tho seas. Tho buttle was marked by many heroic deeds. One of those was the saving of the one boy hi the fishing party iIuKhta bv BWCPt "Wuy when i . ? . n,ou and dragged to !lo/nn ? ? N'?ra- Thel1 J,alf a dozen men, gathering around, suc -eded in pushing the half-insensible . tho water until ho bo ace downward across the keel. He was held there until he was taken off ?>> Iridium and his crow The lifeboat arrived In the nick c f vh!'? ? Mlr ,nen lacked up when floating away from the Nora. Th?> had held on until all their k'length was gone, and then with Help almost at hand they were lifted >>' a wave and swept toward land to R omingly inevitable death. All four wore unconscious when dragged into the boat, and they lay in a heap until other rescues bad been effected I he waves were so high on the bar ? J. Was wi,h Kroat difficulty that : ' !,m ASrferoci tho ,,feboat to the >acht. After several vain attempts he succeeded in running close to the hen hrn craft on the lee side, and then began the work or taking in the overHfho" Klft,een hart Pulled over the gunwale when a now dlffl wL?y ,),e,senie<1 The lifeboat n^0,Verb,,rd0"cd and In immi nent danger of being swamped, yet there were ten men still in the water ? 1\* *Was fl,!ed w,th ,Par ?est tho attempt at rescue might end In a soconu auu k*ester tragedy, whep ? saw tho sio?>p yacht Violet cornier out Then. with the ten men holding to the gunwales, Ludlum slowly steered the lifeboat toward the yacht, i wo of tho men wero torn away by JlZ, ,hut they were rescued a^ain with boat hooks. The Violet was splendidly handled by Captain ?IHey and tw, youths. She Is only twenty-two feet over all, but with r?'Vera reefs managed to stand up In h" storm. Taking advantage of n ul l? the -vlnd. the lifeboat was ashed to the side of the Violet, and then as both boats rose and fell elgn.een men were stowed away in ?'?> yacht The lines were cut. and .bile the violet ran to an anchorage I-ii<11 iiin drove the lifeboat toward the pier. I houi;ar.ds of persons watched the , rescue from the shore, among whom I was Mayor Weaver, of Philadelphia. i\\ssi:N(;i<;/t stivIMHk sunk. Tin* Vnlnitinr (iocs Down in Clu-boy Kttn Kivor?Woman Di'imni'il. Cheboygan, Mich. ? Miss Kmnm Schmidt, aged twenty-three, daugh ter-of Frederick Schmidt, a wealthy resident of Ann Arbor, wai drowped wl.en the Inland Route steamer Val eu^ne woffit down in the Cheboygan River, after striking a deadhoad, which pierced her hull. The steamer had forty passengers aboard, hound for Toplnabee. The tug Merchant, which was! near by, hurried l>? the rescue and took all the passengers and crew on board with the exception of Miss Schmidt, ?vho returned for her valise. The body was recovered a few hours later. Miss Schmidt, was going to Dodge's Point, on Mullet t Lake, with hvr orother and sister. Sharft Fighting iu llubsia. There was sharp fighting at Polta va, Russia, where a battalion of the SevHki Regiment mutinied and at tacked the prison in which political prisoners were confined. The entiro garrison was called out, and after a long action defeated the mutineers. Frame's Big lludget. France's military budget has put the republic in peril, and the demand for reduction Is strong, says M. J. Comely, in cable dispatches. WASHINGTON. Naval ofli.'cis do not take kindly to tho notion of turbines for war ships, all hough there has been no of ficial decision on tin' question. Samuel (lotnpers sent out from from Washington an appeal to labor nu'ii for campaign funds, which will net $'J .000.000 if all contribute a a asked New steamboat Inspection regula tions provide thai masters of passen ger barges must take out a licence from the Government. Postmaster Harnes has forbidden clerks to discuss religion or poll'ics during office hours Ol'lt A1M>ITKI> IM.ANDS. The lOxocutivo Council of San Juan, P H , has granted a franchise to Carlos Conde to build a 400 foot pier accessible t?> all ships, to cost $ 1 & 0,000. K Lonsdale, a private in the Six teenth Infantry, was drowned In the Paslg ltlver, near Manila He fell overboard from a launch while on his way to Camp MoKlnley. The eighth anniversary of the landing of United States troops was observed throughout I'orto Uleo on a larger scale than heretofore There was a special demonstration at I'once. The warm season this year in Man ila, 1'. I , has been one of the hottest that has been experienced in a num ber of years. For weeks at a time the temperature during the day baa been between 90 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit. DOM KSTIC. Tho fiaekwar of llaroda. bailing for Europe, said h?* did not see out! beautiful woman In America. F II. llarrlinan was forced to abandon his canipnUtt to net control ?>!' the Illinois Central, ami on terms that leave Stuyvesant Fish socure. John C. Ilatoly, a Chicago capital ist, was appointed receiver for Zion City; Dowle and Vollva were both ousted hy Federal Judge Landis and an election was ordered to 1111 the of fice of spiritual head of the church. It was announced In Chicago that the fees of the doctors who attended Marshall Field 'In his last illness would amount to $r?i),nou. Chicago's Corporation Counsel charged that |3,000,000 of the Field estate's stocks and bonds have been transferred to New York to escape taxation. Mrs. Mary (letschell, of Sprlng fleld, Mass., asserted that her sister, Mrs. Vinton, died of drugs surrep titiously administered and not from Injuries due to a fall. New Yofk City's Assay Office must move in part to Philadelphia while the now building for the ofllce is being erected. Harry Thaw's mother and her counsel, Mr. Olcott, In New York City, have decided to bring civil pro ceedings to have her son declared In sane, The Brooklyn trolleys have killed thirty-nine persons within the last two months. The City Hall of San Francisco, which cost $7,000,000, was formally declared unsafe at the meeting of the ?oard of Public Works. Stockholders of the Westlnghouse Electric and Manufacturing Com pany, at l'ittsburg, charged George Westlnghouse, president of the com pany, with launching private ven tures with the company's funds. The committee in charge of the Bryan reception made public a letter from Mr, Bryan forbidding the recep tion of money from questionable sources to pay the expense of the de monstration. Mrs. Augustus Hartje was assault ed In Pittsburg at the closo of thfl day's session In the famous divorce trial there. It was charged In a mandamus suit that E. H. llarrlinan had hidden millions of surplus assets of the We!Is-Farjo Cort>pany. I'OltKHJX. An anti-Jewish rising was reported from Odessa; a ^strict censorship over all news of disorder is being maintained. The Groat Northern Hotel. Leeds, Fug., was destroyed by tire. The to tal loss was $7f?0,()00. Public protest has caused a change In the naval program of the British liberal government, which will not retrench in construction to the ox tent first planned. The big Russian strike hung tire; ;i patent argument against it was the fear that famine would follow the tying up of the railroads. Princoi Fugeiie Mural was killed by the overturning of his automobile while on his way from Munich to Carlsbad. There was a general recovery In prices on the European exchanges, a more hopeful view being taken to the situation in Russia. Political discontent continues In Persia, and the people are demand ing reforms; five thousand refugees are under the protection of the Brit ish Legation at Teheran. Bryan made a great speech at the House of Lords luncheon of tho In terparliamentary Union, arguing that a noble life ls'Ajetter than death on the battlefield. The Interparliamentary Union. In London, adopted resolutions relating to tho limitation of contraband of war. Spanish newspapers express Irrita tion over the Intervention of the United Siaiea in Uic Coiitfa! Ameri can dispute. A cloudburst interrupted the Mont Cents line, killed fifteen persons and did enormous damage on the Franco Italian border The electoral delegates elected Pedro Monte President of the Bo puhlic of Chile for five years. ' f//e PALME I 10 CROP BULLE1 IN Condition of South Carolina Crops I'oi Week touting Monday, July 30, 1900, iu> Uivou Out by t Ju? lkj* partuient. I.ike tli?* preceding mn?, i iic evjrrenl week lui> had an excess ?>!' clouAinesn an.I a marked deticioncy in sunshine, ill hoiltfll 111 pill'tS of lilt* S l ;lt r f.lil'ie were one or two eleai da>'>. 'I'lu' temperatures wcic unreason ably low during most ?? f the week. The daily maximum toii?|>erutuics wore generally between S'J and SS d? groos except on one, and in pianos two days w lien I hoy rose to '.Ml degrees, or ubovu, ovor practicallv (ho entire State. The highest maximum temper ature was 08 degrees at Hlnckville on tho 27th and tlio lowest tniniuunii torn poraturo was (>() degrees at How man on tho 'Jtith. Tho average teuipera t ii ro lor tho week was about lour de grees below normal. i Thoro wore I rotjuont . and koiiio heavy showors during tho wook. Tho, rainl'all was quite evenly distributed and was generally in excess of tlit' week's normal amount in all parts of the State. A few localities only bad loss than the normal rainfall. Tho soil everywhere is saturated. Low lands ami swamps have much surface water on theni. Kxoopt over small areas in the western and north central counties where the week's rainfall was loss than an inch, tho weekly amount ranged from one inch to over live inches, with a maxi mum amount of f>. hi inches at t'lem son College. Dost motive hailstorms occurred in a few of the western and central coun ties, and high winds, accompanying thunderstorms did much damage lo oallv in the central counties. Ronnion at Saluda. S| in I. On J?|v -JS, 1 Si M i, (III' OOlUOrstolIC III (||C colli ) liollSl' for Saluda county#was laid here and Sat urday marked the tenth anniversary ?>l tliat event. 'rid, day has been H'Kularly celebrated, some)inn's in one way, sometimes in another. Saturday there was a reunion of the old soldiers of the county and this, together with the sessions of the district eonfereirf-e, brought a large crowd to this town. The nutnher of those who followed l>ee and .Jackson and Hampton and Mutler in the dark days arc growing fewer each year. There were about a hundred here Saturday and they were made to enjoy themselvos. The town was turned oyer to them. Kind nesses were shown 'tfhem. They were m fact made much of by their soil* and daughters who cherish their glor ious deeds of valor on the field of bat tle as a rich heritage and whose empty, sleeves and missing limbs are regard ed as badges of highest honor. The \ eteians, with la'.rkin Wire, a private in Company K, Fourteenth South ( arolina regiment, in command, were formed in a line on the public square, where addresses oti the incidents of the war were made by Veterans W. S. Wightman, K. l\ Sample, Sr., ami others. A free hnrbeeift dinner was served to every veteran present. This they enjoyed to their heart's content. In the afternoon they gathered in squads under the shade of the oaks and "fought all their battles o'er." 25 Men Engaged in a Terrible Fight. fJreeiiville, Special.?Kd. and Joe Manning, youny white men living near Lowndcsville, in Abbeville county, went across \the Savnnnah river into Ml her ton county, Georgia, Sunday to a negro ^baseball game, lliree negroes were killed, but no one seems to know just how the light be tfun. Kd. Manning was shot and will die. Pistols and ball bats were used as weapons ami 25 men', white and b'ack. fought for half an hour like demons. Injured by Explosion. Chester, Special. Albert Sample, the (i-ycar-ohl sou id' Mr. S. N. Sam ple ot the Nicholson hotel, was seri ously injured by an explosion in the rooms of a bottling establishment l-'ri day. lie was taken to n Charlotte hospital lor treatment, hut it is fear ed lliat the sight of one of his eves is seriously and perhaps permauanlly Chester Farmer's Institute. < hosier, Social.?-Farmers in the eastern part of the county have for the past several days manifested a lively interest in the holding of a 1'armors' Institute. They have com pleted arrangements for one to bo hold at Rich burg, August I. The speakers will include I'ryfessors Mor rison, Shanklin and some other mem bers of the faculty of Clcmson col lege. The sturdy farmers of that see- | tion believe they can get bettor results from occasions like this than can be realized by running wild over a politi cal campaign. ? ! / Minister Dies Suddonly. (Jroenville, Special.?Hov. ,1. I,. Vass, a baptist minister of this city, after filling an appointment at a coun try church Sunday, Vent to tl?e home of a friend to upend the night, and died suddenly about midnight. He was a man of considerable prominence in church circles and has a sou who holds a professorship in Furman University. " ? a Occurrences of Jnlerest from All Over South Carolina - ? MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS ? ? A. Batch of Lite Paragraphs Cover ing a Wide Range- What ia Going: On in Our State. General Cotton Market. (iidviMlou, steady 11 Ne? Orleans, steady .,10 3-4 Mobile, in/nuual. . . , ,. ,,..10 Savannah, easy 10 11-lti < harlcston, nominal .... .. ....? Wilmington, nominal ? Norfolk, *1 fatly f .ll I-tt Baltimore, nominal 11 1-4 New York, *|iiiet lO.OtJ hii^-tou. -jjuiet 10.00 v Philadelphia, steady ,11.1 1 (ousted, <|iti<*1 10 7-S Augusta, *|iiiet II I - in Memphis, 10 jj?1 St. Louis, steady 10 1.V1H Cincinnati ? Louisville, Jlrm 11 Charlotte Cotton Market. These prieen represent the prices paid to wagons: Good middling C".. 1 1.40 Strict middling .r .11.40 Middling f 11.40 Good iniudling, tinged i..l! Stains.... 0(??10 Arrests Probable in the Hobnrn Cane. I'nioi:, Special.?-The whipping and shooting of Mrs. Hariii. Hohnrn is now brii ?* oflicinfly investigated, and though arrets have not already hee i iiiad< , it is pi*ot"\hle th.'y will be in :i few days. The whereabouts of Mia woman are j:Iso being followed close ly now, and il is thought that in a short time she will bo located, and n signed Matement of the affair se en red from her. The following spc ?ial from a West Springs correspond ent has been received '' Magistrate I,. P. Bogan *>f Bogansville township went into the Coleraine section Thurs day to investigate the whipping of Mrs. Harriet Ilohurn and her two small children. He would have gone to the secene sooner, but it beitv^ over the line in Glenn Springs township, Spartanburg county, he knew it to be out of his territory. Several daya ago, however, he was instructed by Solicitor Sense to investigate the mat The Chickamauga Trip. (}ov. Hcywai'4,has written the fol lowing instructions to members of his staff: "We will leave here vin Southern at 12:10 on Wednesday, Au gust 8. C?|. Hunt of the Southern Railway will meet us in Columbia and will have block ticket, from Colunfi- ? bin to Lytic, On., and return. "You will firing with you your blue dress uniform, including cap, sabre, belt and gloves, and if you haven't the regulation, gloves Gen. Frost can get them for you here, if you will notify him. Accommodation has been se cured at Lookout Inn, Lookout Monn~. tain, at $3.00 per day. Please wire me upon receipt of this letter, wheth er 1 can depend upon your going in? order that I may know just how many to make arrangements' for." Ficbiiioiii Of o6?utuOut, Spartanburg, Special*-?At a meet ing of the directors of the Beanmmtt - Manufacturing company, Mr. D. 1^ Jennings of this city was elected pres ident to till the vacancy caused t>y the death of Mr. J. II. Sloan, who was the ofganfaer of the mill. Mr. .C. Fr- Reynolds. of Now York wp ftddorf to llif directorate to fill tho vacancy on the board. Mr. Jennings has for some time been the treasurer and gen ernI manager of the mills and is well qualified for the position to which lie lias been elected. He is a young man and is tohroughly familiar with the manufacturing business. The Heaumont mills are capitalized at $200,000 and operate 10,300* spindles and 2~>2 automatic looms. The pro ducts of the plant are One sheetings, white and colored carpet warps and twine. Georgetown Officer Wounded by Ne gro. a Georgetown, Special.?Deputy Mar shal John M. Jlarrclson was shot by a negro, John Mitchell, whom he was attempting to arrest.,.'"Harrelson is at the infirmary andvhis condition in serious. The ball from a 3S-calibro pistol penetrated his abdomen just ahove the right thigh. Drs. Sawyer, DesPortes and Gaillard have the case hi hand. Mitchell succeeded in mak ing his escape in the darkness, but every effort is being tnade to capture him. New Enterprises. A commission was issued to tbo corporators of the Hank of Hickory ' Grove. The capitalisation is to be $12,000. Corporators are J? N. Me n;jit j, ?. Wi!ker?oD,- D. J. Smifh an<t W. T. Slaughter. ' The Cowjjaus Matmf,artuctnjr c<w? pany, which was inooCpAfMCtt. hi with a eapttalixaiion of ?f00,00?, has raised the amount of to $120,000, ? - ? ?' ?? S . . ?',v