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-It r """ VOLUME XVII. ? 'f -.V W? eAMOEN eHR0NfeLB. CAMDKN, S. C., FRIDAY, Al t; IIS F M. liHKi. , x\(). 34. PALMETTO CROP BULLETIN Condition of South Carolina Crops For Week Ending Monday, Aug. 20 1900, as Given Out by th?< De partment. The Miushinc was much below nor mal, having been oik* char day iu the interior; on theVoast from two ty six days wore clear. The temperature* averaged slightly above normal and was remarkably equable, with unusually ?mall diJfer ? in lii*? 4aily*Wmpto?lun>? J mux |he mountai^i^to the coast. The high est maximum temperature was 97 de grees at Hluckville on the 13th. There jwus very li'.tle variation in the ni^ht temperatures throu^htout the week; ilie extreme minimum was (i."> decrees At (ireenville on the llitli. The ?precipitation was copious over the greater portion ol' the State, but y/Ua much below normal in a few lo calities, most ol' which were in tjie 'mi era counties. The greatest local anioiti.t was 3.3U inches at Catawba. 'K^tfrly all the north central counties had excessive amounts on one or mora daysMha? caused Hoods on the smaller -?trfftmK. Many thunderstorms occur red in the western lydf ol' the State ?Md some ol them were accompanied by high winds. Narrow Escapo From Pcath. 7 special from Spartanburg says: C. Williams, .Jr., William If. rles, of Columbia and Mr. Tuton -Qreenvillji, while touring the jnouii |ins in an 'automobile, had a narrow jape from death a few days a;-r?), ?n their lar<?u machine tumbled Jt'_ a If)-foot ledijc. The fact that machine landed rijjht side up ae Jfilts for the minor injuries and \es which the occupants sustain finsl ead of perhaps fatal injuries. : machine was a complete wreck. Survey of Hey ward County. ceil. Special.- The commissioners jinted in the new county matter jpnere. Messrs.. T,. W. Keese, if. A. jhrnn and T. (!. Croft, Jr., heinf jjsent. Owing to sickness, Mr. H. fCassells was unable to attend tha It in p. The *1 rvey has been pom Bed and blue prints of the survey Jre handeft to the commissioners. (jpnrgo \T. Jackson appeared in Ehalf of tluv^ promoters of the hew gtut^v and requested thnt the com |ssion ?rant fpermission to cbanjre damndrn'M's--set forth in their pe Eion to thcrirovernor. / ' Scl^l Whiskey at Church. IAndevsoiV Special.-?Thei\v'are no fcb:olo}jiikm 114.bL'. ni;?K> shooting fray, that occurred at "felliloli church ^hielv seven negroes were shot. Phc deputies went to the scene with istructions to arrest any of the par jipants in the shooting, but none >ut i?i appearencc. The deputies re timed and state that they have gatb hCi! eviuenec and the names of several more negroes who jook part iti the shooting and they Will make arrests later on. One nc |jrO was caught selling liquor at the ghurch and Magistrate Jaekson gave ?im 30 da, ? or $100 and the negro is )h the gang. The wounded negroes ire still jiving, hut two or three of hem are in a seriofts condition. Good Work For Sumter Firm. iSumter, Special.?The -Sumter Kail lay and Mill Supply Company has lured contracts for furnishing to je United States government a eon Jdcul le amount of supplies to be ? d in constructing t ha, navy yard id dry dock at <'harlesTon, ajid has jftn asked t'> make bids on supplies >r government work at Savannah. Jolumbia and i'cnsacoia. This whole le firm, which deals largely in nil iinds of piping, mill supplies, and neral hardware, has recently moved to its ik;w stone warehouse on South "arvin street. It is gratifying to lumter .^people to know that a Sum mer firm,,is.extending its trade terri tory to different Southern States. 1*? Nurserymen in Convention. Lookout Mountain. Special.?The Southern ^Nurserymen's Association, met iy convention here, with represen tatives from all the States south of Mason and teuton's line present. It will (Mvntiuue, ami will discuss many important questions of, interest to fruit . -growers and nurserymen. President Orlrtn<l,ov* Harrison, of Ber lin,. Md., opened the session with a short l?Vk* in which he outlined the objedtf of thp^ association aiid called U|>on Till present to giviotheir )>e?t ef forts to the furtherance of^the.so - Oeor~c ICcmiy A rented, j Charleston, S|*>eial.?Goorge Ken -l*y, -ono of the three coinvicts who mur tred Stcllo and escaped from the ion . J?inayfl stcakndo-. nu ?y, was brought into the city I in jail. lie was arrested ill* Saturday right. Good ?ad WiUoit are attlt at largo. "'>? ' 'wr. ( wSBuSB&S&r ASSAULTED BY A WHITE M,.N White Woman Attacked by Young \) White Man. ?i ? Aiken, Special.?A young white mail by tho name of Pince Barton vras brought here ami placed in jail charged with committing an assault upon Mr*. Muttie Bryant, who is said to be? a divorced woman ??f Granitevillo. According to Mrs. Bryant, she had never seen Ba?'ton prior to Saturady night. She says Barton enme to her honsr while she was at a neighbor's. Some of the people in her house called her homo, saying that Barton was a nice young ntan. She agreed to accompany him to An ice cream festival. Mrs. Bryant savs that shortly after leav ing tho house Barton made an attack upon her, throwing her to the ground. She resisted as best she could, and screamed for help. Some people nearby .ran to her assistance, but Barton fled before they arrived. Mrs. Bryant's clothes were badly torn, and she was bitten on the face ana arm. She has been confined to her room all day. Barton was cap/3f t ured some time afterwards in Graiteville and brought here. Barton is about 24 years old and is a mill hand. When seen at tin jail Burton said he was not responsible for his action; that he was drunk and therefore didn't know what he was doing. He claimed that Mrs. Bryant threw her arms around hj*?,~ " .jf(er that he re membered nothing. lie asserted that he knew nothing of the assault and declared that if he jjot out of this trouble he would "cut out" liquor. Constable Howard made the arrest. There is no excitement'or threats of violence. Lynching by One Man. Columbia, Siberia 1.? A Special to The State from Florence says: A Her an all-night chase, \Y. L. Marshall shot and killed Lewis (Jray, a negro, for improper proposals to his wife... The negro went to Marshall's house, during his absence. On being in formed of the a flair Marshall armed himself ami started in pursuit of the negro. While he was resting at a store at Kffyngham, Florence county, the negro walked in. lie was recog nized and shot to death. Was "Justfiable Homicide." Florence, Special.?As a result of the coroner's inquest over the dead body (i?- 4be* ^logrqljouis Gregg, tlio with Mr. BrooksVMcCall acting /(a foreman, handed Wa verdict that ^deceased had ?come so his death as the result of a gun ahKt wound ifrlthc hand^/of W. L. Marshall anj/ that it-Was a justifiable homicuTe. Noth ing new developed during the course of tlio lncju^st oxcopt tiinl tli** brute had actually laid hands on Mar shall 's wife, and offered her a sum of money if she would submit to his proposals. She then screamed and called for her mother, who was inside the house, and the negro fled. Sheriff Burch was present during the inquest, but did not take Marshall into actual custody for-the reason that he show ed a disposition not to disappear, and .the further fact; that several of the rnost substantial men of the com munity assured him that they would be responsible for Marshall's appear ing in Florence Monday morning to give bond. Sheriff Burch says he is willing to be responsible for the prisoner. Would Excommunicato Lynchers. Spartanburg, Special.?The Spar tanburg Baptist Association at its meeting with Friendship church pass ed strong resolutions denouncing lyn chings and placed the denomination on record as advocating the excommuni cation from the Church of members who may be known to participte in lvchingrs. * Killed Over a Card Game. Aorkville, Special.?Three negroes were engaged in gambling in a house in the yard of Dr. W. G. White, of this place, .and became involved in a row. As a result of that rffw omj of them, Ben ' Walker, is dead. Threa pistol balls were fired into him by one of the other negroes. One is supposed to have passed through his heart, another entered the brain at the edge of the'hair, above the left eye, and the third went into the thrqat, either of which would neces sarily have proved fatal. Weil-Known South Carolina Planter Murdered. * Beaufort, 8. C.f Special.?George M. Hanrey; a well-known planter of the Bluff ton section, was murdered Sunday night, at the plantation home of hia s6n on LawHfc!** 4ala*4??Ha wa? shot in the head and bis son found the feody on returning home. Wil liam Bennett, a negro, is in jail charg ed with the crime. He' denies twit CHARACTERISTIC VIEWS IN VALPARAISO, CHILEAN SEAPORT DEVASTATED BY EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE Valparaiso, capital of the province of Valparaiso, in tho principal city on tho South American west coast. It is Chile's fortified seaport and has a population of about one hundred and tlfty thousand, having grown from six thousand In 1820. it Ik one of the most progressive cities o? South America. It Is connected by rail with San tiago. the capital, sixty-eight miles distant. Paralleling the Chilean coast of twenty-three hundred miles is tho suuie mountain chain which lies at the back of the State of California, and through which the earth's tre mors ran which so completely trans formed San Francisco. There aro two sections of Valpar aiso, one devoted to commercial ac tivity and the other to domestic life, that noi't nt #1*4* w f *?/?nl 1 itnr t lw? l/u,t v ? "v water, on which immense ware houses and spacious docks and quays are Jiullt, having been in the early days of Valparaiso the centro of itn thrift. As Valparaiso began to grow there ^as a gradual movement lack from th<l shore front, until to-day the slopes leading to the heights are oc cupied by magnificent residences, the homes of the big merchants of the city, all built to endure, and forming oug of the show sights of the Chiloan amy. Of course, the street"? In tho old quarter are crooked and narrow, but the enterprise which struck the city three decades ago *a seen In the regu lar, wide and perfectly equipped,thor oughfares in the Almendral. In a southorn direction from the city run tho Nuevo Malecoh and Gran Abe nida, Joining out in tho country in what is known as one of tho best thoroughfares in the world. Valparaiso's harbor 1? protected on NAME5 UNDERLINED AWTOriBWNO KFJ^RTED DESTROYED, Vfc'illl>!8T!MfT VWITBD HY EAitTlIQ LAKE loons which have been known to Bailors of : **. nations for over lifty ycais. They called the "Fore top, "Maii'loin" and "Mlzzentop," respectively, a id ai ?? still frequested by the crows of sailing ships in ftle harbor. Valparaiso is one of the few remaining ports where sailing f'Ups can be seen In any numbers. The majority of then are engaged in the nitrate carrying trade. The town is situated in what seis mologists term the "earthquake Arlca, o'>o of the seaport towns, <yn May 5. I-'rohf^Ked and sovero shocks were experienced at VaUllvia A^vil 2 I. { Thorn is about $<>0,000,000 of for eign capital, mostly Gorman ami flril IhIi, invested In vurious industries in Chile. A fow years ago the capital was principally British, hut now thn (Icrmans predominate. The Valpa raiso electric street railway system was constructed by a German com first to open up the nit i nto tratio In Chile, and made several million dol lars hy It. 'i'he Chilean Government own# and operates the railroads, which are be in K extended in all directions. The most Important lino In course of con st ruction Is tho Trans-Andean llall road, which will, when completed,ena ble persons to travel from Valparaiso passengers to travel from Valparaiso to Huoiios Ay res In forty-eight hours THE PORT OF VALPARAISO. three sides by steep hills, wjilch rise ? a height o- 1700 feet, and are ter raced by rows of wooden houses. The finer buildings of brick and stone, are situated below 011 the level, which is practically all made ground. The harbor Is ope?? to- exposure frotn the north, and is a dangerous anchorage for vessels at all seasons of the year. In ordinary weather there is always a heavy surf, and when a storm occurs vessels are fre quently torn adrift from their an chorage and dashed to pieces on the beach. The Chilean Congress recent ly decided to have a breakwater con structed to protect the shipping at a cost of $20,000,000. There are several wharves on the water frontxwhere ships of small ton nage can go along.i'de, but the larger steamers have to anchor in the bay OIIU UIO\<U??l (|V MUU ? I ? w. . kt V1QUV by lighters. The principal steamship line to Valparaiso is the Pacific Mall Steam Navigation Company, which operates a service from Liverpool via the Straits of Magellan and a coast scrvlce between Valparaiso and Pan ma. The town section of the City of . . . paraiso 1: called the Almendral. In ft the principal business Rouses, the Park, and the Plaza Victoria are situated. T.ie streets are broad, r^g Sotomayor Square on Water Front. _ ular, and well built. One of the fin est new stone houses In this section Is the flve-afpry "building erected and owned by tho Mercurlo newspaper. Tho terraces' on which the wooden houses nre situated aro reached from the lower : ectlon of the city by means of electric elevators. To the northwest of the Almen dral is tho quarter known as the Puj. erto, in which the public buitdings, warehouses, and docks are situated. The streets in this older section o: the "?ty are narrow and crooked and the majority of the buildings old in -'-ucture and design. Tho "Puerto" has three famous sa Isn't It the Truth? "Say, |>aw," queried little Tommy Tortdlos. "who are the ctty aathtfrl Uea?" ? "The city authorities, my pon," re plied Toddles, Sr., "are offlelals who claim to have no authority when th?r* dear public /ants something done." -^ChtcaEO Nm. - Few Diamond Weddings. Only ons couple In 11,000 lira*to -oelebrate their diamond wadding. belt," and has always been subject to shakes more or less severe. Several shocks have been felt In Chile this year, and have caused -considerable alarm to the inhabitants. At one A HI KD'S-IS YE VIEW OF V AM'AUAISO. | pany, but It la now owned by a local concern. .About 20,000 personsare employed lti Chile by British companies in the extraction and preparation of nitrate and bring Chile two weeks nearer to l?uropo. It Is expected that tho lino will be opened toward the en it of 1908. Another railway is being built from tho Peruvian frontier to the Straits of Magellan, with branch lin?s to coast ports, mining districts and Agricultural centroH. Chile has been visited by severe earthquakes about every sixty years. In tho last severe earthquake, In 1835, tho Isle of Santa Maria was up lifted in three different localities, eight, nine and ten feet, but all thlr land subsided a few weeks after' ward. the same tlmo two great wav?#">olle(Vover the towp of Talca hutmo. , ^ Valparaiso's chief manufactures are cotton goods, machinery and Iron goods. Much mlneYsl water Is bot tled there, while the sugar refineries and the brewing and d!st!!Hnjj inter ests are largo. From the city are ex ported nitrate, In which millions are invented, grain, wool, leather, euano, saltpetre and copper, although this mineral has tmt been, developed to its fullest extent. Valpavalso suffered a disastrous earthquake In 18f>5, It was bombard ed by the Spanish in 18GG and suf fered from a terrific tidal wave on June 30, 1809, which wrecked railroad and did a great deal of 4&m ago in other directions. / Chile throw off the yoke/of Spain in the early part of the/lflneteenth century. It consists of twenty-four provinces and territories and con in'nn :;90,X29 squaro miles. CALLE BLANCO. IN VALPAKAISO. town, Rancagtia, there were thirty [ distinct shocks on the night of March | 27, and a violent shock was felt at | of soda for export. The late Colonel North, who was railed tho "Nitrate Klnn" In ICnulnnd. vnt '>n"? r?' ? GENERAL VIEW OK COMillCKCl Aw V^ufAKAlSO LOOKING TOWARD THE BAY?RES IDENTIAL PORTION 8HOWN ON HILL THE RIGHT. * Who's Homier. An Indiaha woman litis just died at the ripe old age of 112. It is un fortunate, If true, that she has left no written record of the Indiana poeta and novelists ahe had met.? Chicago Inter-Ocean. Wat All of Ufa. The young bam to learn to lire; the old, to die. It la difficult to de cide which la the mere disagreeable proceaa.?London TrVth. Profound Olwcrvotlon of a Traveler. If .a man had lo wait half as long for his dinner at homo us ho do^s at tho swell city ctxfo ho would do things thut would give tho neighbors some thing to talk about for weolie.? Washington (Kan.) Register. Mrs. Rath Allen Smith, of Put-* ney, Vt., who la In her 1024 year,' distinct./ recalls the departure of. tier brothers to the war ot 111). King Carried Joy to NvwcMtle. King Edward didn't carry coals to Newcastle on his recent visit, but he CArrled Joy. Heretofore Newcastle's chief magistrate* have been plain mayors; henceforth they are to be lord mayors. ? >* Prince a ad Pan per.. Moat any man can make % TOO! Ot hlmoolt It Is where he wants a& ?l* ?<aat Job and doesn't care lor dit expense that bo ?eta some womtft to j bW?hiss.?Pnc*. - ^ President of Cuba Proposes y Terms U> Insurgents ?? 0 ? ? - ?? WOULD HOLD LEADERS AWHILE While InHisting That the Cuban Gov ernment Will Never Compromise With Any Form of Disorder, Pro vincial Officials Are Instructed to Permit all Repentant Rebels, OhiefH Included, to Return to Their Homes in Peace Complete Pardon Guaranteed to All Who Surrender ?All-Night Fight in Town of Beju cal, Havana Province. Havanna, CkCa*-^Ty Cable -General Montalvo, aetiryffeecrctary of the In torior, has issurd an order, under the direction of President Palma, in struoting the government officials in tho province* of Pinar del Kio, Ha vanna, Matanzas, and Santa (Mara, to allow all insurgents who repent of their errors to go free to their homos excepting the insurgents who are prig oners in tho hands of government forces and the captured oomirfaiidera. of inn urgent bands, who will b*? de tained until the government deter nrines whether they are tn^be allowed their freedom or arc to be tried by th? courts. All chiefs of insurgent bunds who surrender themselves to the govern ment forces, or who surrender with tlffcliF-followers and their arms will urtso bo allowed to return to their famalies. Finally, to all who surren der tho government guarantees they will no%er bo disturbed in any man-, ^ ? ner as a result of the part they have taken in the uprising. No Truce With Disorder. President Phlnia is not disposed to employ any other method than that of arms for the re -eat ab I i shrnet\t of noace. He declared energetically that Tho government would absolutely never cori^oronjisc' with any form of tho'disturbance of order. ,t , A party of insurgents commanded by Co. Sanchez entered the town of Hejueal, province of Havana, at., 11 o'clock Monday night, fortified them selves and fought all night against an attacking forco of government re cruits and rural guards without other results than three 'of the defenders of the palace and one rui'ul guard being killed. 4 Three Captured Spanish Ships Sold For $103. Washington, Special.?Three Span ish ships captured by Admiral Dewey. ? in Manila Bay, May 1, 1B98, Weirr^? sold by the Navy Department ?or $103. Those ships w6yt- Advertised at,several Asiatic ports, tne total cost of advertising being $28, and 4hc Navy Department is well satis fied that the bids were sufficient to cover the expense o? advertising. ? The three ships are the Albay, Man- ' ilieno and Mindanao. They have been stripped of everything movable and are simply old hulks practically useless for any purpose of the navy, - * ' Shoets Rival and Takes Poison. Chittenden, Vt., 'Special.?John Caseiday was probably fatally shot by Darnel Barnard. Forty-two buck shot were taken from Cassidy's body. Barnard was captured. After his arrest he swallowed a quantity of iodine in an attempt to commit sui 1 cide. Trouble over a woman is be? lieved to have caused the shooting. A. Reprieve Granted. Kansas City, Special?Governor Folk granted a reprieve'llfl Octobcr 26 to Agwa Myers, awniting ex ecution for the murder of her hus band. No action was tnkon in the-, case of Frank Hotttnan, Mrs. Myer's accomplice. Both Were sentenced'to be hanged Sept. Mrd. The respite wos granted to allow an appeal, to . the United States Supreme Coul't. Resign Superintendency of V. M. Lexington, ^ a.. Special.?At a spe cial meeting of the board of visitors here the superintendent'! General Scott Shipp, presenter! his resigna tion to take effect at the pleasure of the board. The board appointed five members to consider .the resignation and -make a report at a meeting in June, 11)07. General Shipp was made superintendent on the retirement in 1890 of General ^ Smith. General Shipp has been connected, with- the school for 50 years, having entered - - as a cadet. He commanded- the ea- Q dets. in the famous charge at the bal-v? tic of Newmarket. ' International Trust. Chiengo^JSpeeial.-^ special to Um .... Tribune from San Franeiseo ? Japan has entered into a with the Diamond Match Co. an international trwft in the two- eontinents match and May' wilt be taken ioto tfce. l?lJ V " ? \ u ? -z ; WmmBffis,