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? ? * i > ? i7. WOTWH - V jr ? > ' ? -. i ,, i ?.- ?-?? : ???" " ? ? " 1 J ~ ?OLUME XVIII, ? CAMDEN, S. O., FRIDAY, NOV KM B1CK 8.11107. no 44. SOUTH CAROLINA TTEMS N*wsy Hems Gathered from the Different Sectiem af South Carolina. Fair Society Officials. (Columbia, Special.?The South I Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical i aociety met iu, annual sessiou last! week in the rooms of tho Y. M. C. A. Mr. J. 0. Mobley of Fair ' field was elootwl president to succeed ? ^ Mr. 0. A. Guignard. The vice presi dents now holding office were unani- j 1 mouBly reflected as followa: A. T. Brnithe, First congressional /? ? d ? *?Wl*dVfri^ j-inrd congrea 'Watte Poiirti' le y ; J?'j? I>. lS. l L district, " *?y 8""; f ^onal district; Con :' 'r?ss"'s?r* ~ . LaMottb, the prosent, treasurer e??urrzraitf*? w-? font f! following member!,ip, p?z s? (Allege- w p - Ti .HarPor? Olemgon rjAJ ' ' ' Harris Lauren*; J U md wecwd elected to ?cmujittcc ? ,TH executive committee?W O n;.? ' * * *& ??": ' Ar,n'n * ^fifd, Lexington; C. S kin T? i I)ar,inSton; B. H. Boy Ion- J t l1: Tadet Staokhou8e, Dil - ? ' I)oug'o?, Union; I?. I Mau-i ; ' Sl!!ntci:; J? A. Banks, St. Mat-' ?JS; R,0T,mid Singleton. Acton. , Messrs J O. Mobley, ]%ell Jones,'< f are ?L r r" nud 1 IL Whartoti roittee g members of the com ??-. vT.',e sa,ar|C8 of the secretary, assis-' - ^ and Measurer were Son . secretary from $600 to 1 ** Ti'-n ?ar' ^'le ft8s*atant secretory - *150 |? ,$.100; the treasurer II > f* to $300. v^l W0 Alio Ofico or tiic assistant-secretary j ^ was made "elective mid he will hero- ! ntter maiii%n a bureau of informs 1 J? J{ the^ir grounds, durfug tie. f ;. . '' ?*? f ant(,y was reelected to this office without opposition At the meeting of the executive committee whicll followed itomedinte xu , ? n s n r7eP?esentative of tlie . a,tncLc4l(' associntu n of the Univer sity of South Carolina' appeared 5c~ [ foro the committee and requested i',V "?,mI ^ft0 ?* $30 charged to nlj ^ ^A^ragtion8 at tho fair be remitted . ' ??? casc ?' intercollegiate K track meet which is to Do held for the first time. It was pointed out .tM? was a new feature end thai encouragement of this sport would ;; -develop into an annual event. The request waft' granted along wfcb 32 free admissions for the officials ahd . --.contestants in tho meet. ?" - ? The meeting was largely attended and there was much interst in tho work, the society reporting a healthv ? .condition .? to fininoos. Tl? president pro tejn. and the ^ .general superintendent will be elct ? ed at a meeting to be. held later. Resolutions were Adopted Vhanking the retiring presidentjfor tbe\B'cient work lie ^jas done during the three !1. years of his tenure. The ex-officio members are: J. B. Humbert, Princeton; R. A. Love, Chester; D. P. Duncan* Column bia; gliomas J. Moore, Moore; T. J. Cunningham. Chester; W. D. Evans, ^ Choraw; Ii. P. Hamer, Jr., Hauer. .Tho Synod in Seaaion. i> ? ? * . V Anderson, Special.?This |own has had the pleasure of enUftaining the, ^ ^ Synod during the past week. It wag ; fruly a great body of men, and the p^dtfihrations were iinteresting at all timea. .' Much work for the great - church represented was done. - Place For R. ^ MerrkJc. Greenville, Special.?It i*. learned hew oft good authority that JL Q. Merrick has been appointed ehief of " thief division of the federal eons tab ? ula*yHo succeed E. A. Aiken, former ly of North Carolina, who has re* esotly been transfcrr^dl to Weat Vir-1 ginia for <^?ty. The appointment will _ . >_c<r|crivc Nov. Merriek M * na of WTalb?|la end baa bean locate? ---Wafer the pastr}8 montha as deputy 1wfpao Elector,^ Mrleston, slated ** *- - promotion Laurens Man Killed Brother. Laurens, Special.?A moat regret table frateroide occurred in .tbia county. Frank Jerry died at hia father's home, near Madden'a, as the result of two blows on hU head, in flioted by hie younger brother, John C. Jerry, in a fight between the two Thursday afternoon in the baekyord of their father, Joseph Jerry, a Well to do German farmer. The fatal en couutor ,waa witnessed by the afed mother and Andrew Jerry, another brother. v According to Andrew's statement he and Prank were in the garden, at worlf wften,John Jerry rode up in the yard and asked Frank to corno out, stating that ho had a letter containing some statements which he, John, wanted explained. John then proceeded to read tlie letter arid Frank broke in with the remark tyat the objectionable languagc_was p^iio, a fabrication concocted by John him self and started at his brother with a hoe, Andrew caught Frank and I prevented him from striking John, tearing himself away from Andrew, Frank mode at Jobtt again, when I John drew his pistol and struok ! Frfnk two blows on the head, knock j ing him down. John then mounted his horse and left, . Recovering , from the stunning blows, Frank arose and followed John coming in the direction*of tfie city. A mile from home, Finnic was foiled in a ditch by a passerby and , tlifc wounded man was placed a wagon j and carried back to his father's. He w?9 in'a verv weakened condition and lost consciousness shortly after night ! fall, A doctor was summoned and the. man lingered until morning. The in quest was held and a ? vordict was : rCndsrid in - accdrdanc^ with tbe (above facts,>?John Jerry,- Iiif broth er's slayer, is at the county jail, hay ing >beeu^ arrested at his home, five .jnilos be'low the city, by the deputy sheriff. Wfien arrested he claimed l^that he did not*know th'at his> brother i He stated to a correspondent'that | he greatly regretted the affair, but j he'*simply had to defend himself and ? had no idea that it would result sa j seriously, Ile'say&. tfre l&tte? wasriol ! wriften by I^ank Jerry, but by a. cit i izen of Laurens. V' the lottor was re ceived Thursday land purported to place in John'Jerry ^ possession same - derogatory; statapieut-anada hy hia brother. He declined .to say what the character of the alleged, statoractit was. John Jerry is 33 ycn?* of age and has a:wife and one child. The deccased' wa^ 47 and a widwwr, with two grown children. ~ ^ Seven Well Veins of Gold round 1* Greenville<foim*y, * 0.' Greenville, 8peeial^-Sevenfc rich veins ot gold haye been discovered on a faqa* abont one mile from Foun tain Inn, in this county; and about eighteen . miles ?rom ,this city/ The annouuet^te was made , by Dr. Gewfte *it..Xee, a geological --expert and mineralogist *ho spont three daja in examining the metal. The veins ar$? thought to be about sixty feet deep, and the mine will be the richest in the State and probably In the South. Zircom* monatite, kao lin and rttino weiro-aloo fonnd on the property. The deposits extend over 270 acres, all of which belong to two well-known citizens of the county. <A stock company will be formed at once to mine the metal. Tke State Yair Closes. .v; ? '?* ^Colnmbia, Special.?One of the Vest Stato Jtaire ever held in South Carolina wag terminated Here last w^ek. In point of attendance and exhibits it was. all that could be de Bired. Th<^management is bein*eoh gratolsted freely on the snecees ol the event ?,i. ? / Catawba Indian Pottery, Columbia, BpeciaJ,?In tha art de partment ia -a very fine display of lM32f'-X2?w^h?- mx in York county. the ware & 4x*xm> terlstic'elf Indian wbifc audia unique and beantifuL Mrs. I. I PLAN f! tBHl UtLltl 0 ^ ??-?? .. ? , A Plan^for a System of Credit - Currency Outlined A SCHEME TO OBVIATE PANICS Pemaneat Belief From the Monetary I Stringency, Declares the Chairman Hi Ike Banking *b4 Currency Ooju* j mifctee of the House, Can Be Ob tained Only by That Bnactmeafc He Points Out the Cause of the Present Stringenoy and < Outlines - the Real Situation. New York, Special.?'That poiuw nent relief from the present mone tary stringency can ' only be had through a system of credit currency adequate to meetythe requirements of trade and redeemable in gold coin wae the opinion expressed by Repre sentative Charles N. Fowler, of New Jersey, chairman of the banking and currency oommittee of the House,! wbioh will, at the coming .session of Congress,. endeavor to have a law passed providing for credit currency issued by tbe national banks. XJntil suoh permanent relief is made pos sible by legislative enactment, Mr. Fowler asserted, the situation must be met by the issuance of clearing ; house certificates, cashiers' chcckb and due bills of business houses and manufacturers. *.;"Ther jinaerlying business condi tion*,'' be said to tbe Aesoeialod Press, "are essentially sound as eyi-* deuced by the increased earnings of the. railroads and the fact that tho value of our agricultural products this year are $500,000,000 more than last year (which was the highest year in our history), and are bringing to our jjeople about $7,000,000,000. Hut public confidence /has been greatly ehaken and credit seriously aft^eted, therefore, every patriotic citixcn from the President down, should 4o all io (his power to restore that confidence which is essential to national pros perity. Cause of Stringency. ? "TJie cfiuse of th^QUrrenoy strin geuuy la iijst there is scattered broad cast throughout the country, at the mines, in the wheats corn and cotton fields,' in the prieket#of the people or locked up about $1,300,000,000 of the reserve money of the United States most of which under a proper eondi? tion would be in the banks, serving ??e.reserve.' Temporary relief will be through the forced use of Iturreyt credit; ft) tlye form of clearing' house : certificates, cashiers' checks and due I hills of | business and manufacture^ ? during the next 90 days. The perma* fnentcure must come through, a sys tem of credit currency expanding and i eontracting with the ordinary de i mnnds of the smaller trade, precisely as checks and drafts do in the broad ?r field of commerce. " ; "We have now proceeded far en : ough into the present financial crisis *? ??? i* pretty clear perspective oi the real situation. The Beal Situation. * "Fiwt?the condition is-how gen etral, reaching every nook and comer jaf the country. "Second?If the gold certificates the United States notes and silver certificates, or the reserve money which the banks of*the country have sent into^the'wheat fields of the West the Weet and Southwest, into the cot ton fields of the South and into the country districts of All. Sections to settle np the year's business, I say? if these reserves now scattered broad > eatt jgy#rUnd . wore in the banks where ^hey properly belong?there would have been too money panic thin | Ml.' ; ? " 1 f ;; . ''The proof of this assertion is con clusive. During the past four month* [there hAB.bc&n sent from-the banks Into the country district approxi mately $300,000,000 of currency. Of this amount * l^,00p400?;^j|pproxi matefy nowv in the* banks, would serve as a basis of more than $l,250< 000400 orejifthor Joans, anA the .pres ent crisis would have been- e.verW. Tibia result could have been accom plished without increasing the liabili ties of the banks of the country to the extent of one single cent, r -: Lays Dowrf Challenge. "I challenge any man'to contro ilis statement and submit7 tW wte absolutely conclusive the asMertion it the bajiktf ?5e>0#0>' "l eaanenf TWfc tfca sta ^SSftfthT tipl iredit* the backs would affected In any'degree we^ whatever, and the nolo credits and as the reserves 10 quired for both forms wf cerdiU, should bo tho same, there could have beon no ehango whatover in the situa tion, The bank debt is the same, the amount of the 'reserve is the name. It lias becu only a matter of book-keep ing. An issue of current credit 'ade quate to meet the requirements of trade and currently redeemed in (fold coin is a principle followed b\ every civilized country in tho world except our own. World's Banking Power. " Matk thfti The banking powei of the United States iu 1890 wan about $5,000,000,000 and now ex ceeds $10,&H),000,000?or equal to the^ entire btfllttfcg powfr of tho world iu 1800, which Mulhall placed at $15,085,000,000. Today the bank ing power of the entire world, out ?iae of the United States is only $21,. 952,000,000, and of this amount 20 per oont. or more than $1,000,000,000 is in cashiers' checks .or current eredits. That is, credit currencv yet while tho United States hai throe-eevenths of the banking powei of the entire woiW, it has not oih single dollar of. current bank credit, although the othok* four-sevenths <xl the world's banking power ha* the advantage of $4,000,000,000 currenl credits or credit eurreney. "On the samo basis we arc en titled to have $3,000,000,000 of' cur rent credit or credit cuiYency. "If' this principle were ? b roadb ed op tod in this country as it should bo, our bank reserves might be in creased by nn average of 9.92 per cent, to about 20 per cent, and our banking liabilities remain practical ly the same. v The Caabier'e Check. ? 'fCijn anV one give a single reoson why we should use a check book eredits to order a.nd not use a cur rent credit of the sfimO bnnk upon which to draw our checks Ib not tho cashier's check just\i>s gf?od af our check upon the sanies, bank, in deed far better?when protected?as it frhould he bvta guarantee fund de posited with tlie United States gov ernment, many more times ample to insure redemption in gold coin. "Tf the banking institutions of the cotmiry oould ezobange $1,000,000r 000 Of cashiers' ohee&s for $1,000, '^00,000 of reserve money now float ing around in the mines, wheat, corn ??nd cotton fields and-this-$1,000,000, 000 wore added to the $1,000,000,000 in the banks on July 1st, 1007, oUt banks liabilities would bo increased only about 8 per cent, while our-re serve would be increased 100 pe* oent.; it would be 20 por cent, and tliis end alone is sufficient to justify the fwloption of the principle of cur ! wot eNrdite in Ibis CQuntry.'J^f THE MARKETS Prevailing Prices of Cotton, Gfain and Produce Charlotte, H. a, Cotton Market. 'These figure* represdfet the prices paid to wagons: Onod middling 101-2' | Htiict middling ,. .10.3-8 Middling .;. . ,101 <4 General Cotton Market. ! Atlanta, steady ...... ......10 5-8 Galveston, quiet ... i. ? 11,1-2 Now Orleans, steady \. .10 7 8 Mobile,; steady .-5...,. 1111-16 Savannah, easy .... ....... <10 5-8 Charleston. steady .. .... . JlO 5-8 Wilmington, steady .10 3-4 Norfolk, steady ....10 3-4 Baltimore, nominal.. 111-4 New York, steady .11.10 Boston, quiet ^.\1.10 ?Philadelphia, steady .7. 711.3"' Houston, quiet ...-.777711 Augusta, quet and steady ... .113-4 Memphis, quiet ^ .. . .111-^ St. Louis, quiet <. .11 3-3 Little^Rock, quiet 10 5-8 a \ ?.?~ % Charlotte, K. O., Prodxico Market. ' s ? . l[cny-per head . 3?5 EEickene?spring.... ,? .20 Dueks.. .... . . . ." ' Eggs 22 Butter .. .15 Rye ? ? ?? ? ? v? (,orn .......... .. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? f Cotton seed .. ... .....v.30 Oats?Feed ..*.00 ?? Baltimore Produce Market. Baaltiore, Nov. 4.?Flour doll, changed. Wheat, very quiet; spot cotract 10$ 1-4 to 1031-2; . Southern by sample 98. Corn quiet And easier; spot mixed 67 3-4; Jfc. 2 whitt <?3-4. -easier; No. 2 mixed 56 to 551-3. Ryeea?y;No* 2Weetern^&v mestie 97 asked. Hotter firm, unchanged; fancy ino ? ?- ?' creacoery 30 to ?; store paeka* Brief News BY WtRE WASHINGTON. The new $4,000,000 untoh station was formally opened when the Pltts buig express over the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad pulled Into the Btatlon. j "J. W. J.' T(Minister to fiuaie- i mala, returned to Wasblnyton on sick leave to And that Americana In fjiiate mala had preferred charges ugalnat | him. /Powdered eggs and canned pot a- i to<*n will bo included in the food suiii pliea of the Atlantic fleet during iu coming trip to the Pacific. The President discussed with Rep resentative Tavlor, of Alabama, the spread of prohibition in the South. President Roosevelt requested Sen ator Bouruo, of Oregon, In jemphatic terms to cease bin third term propa ganda in the West. War Department otllclalB discussed tho subject of fortifying the Philip pines. As the reBult of an extended eou* ference in the office of Secretary Straus between immigration officials and representatives of transatlantic steamship lines, a committee was ap pointed to consider immigration problems. The.JJllnols Colllory Company, of Chicago, filed a complaint with tho^1 Intorstate Commerce Commission charging the Illinois Central Railroad with discriminating against it in the distribution of coal cars. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Secretary Taft, In a speech in Ma nila, said the Americans must aid the Filipinos In their work of building up the islands. Cuban agriculturists, political par ties and newspapers Joined lp a de ptiand on Governor Maroon that the Cuban Treasury lend them $f>,000, 000 to harvest the next crop, governor Maroon decided to ap point an agricultural commission for Cuba, at the Buggest ion "of tho Agrar ian League. Secretary Taft had a conference with Senor Osrnena, President of the Philippine AssemJiljv fttul jjxprrssod gratification at IHo motterttto attitude of tho body. The Cuban Attorney Genera' is ex pected to show on the trial of the al leged conspirators that the plot in cluded assassination of Americans In Cuba. The anti-American feeling in Ha vana !s grovrlcs. The authorities have doubled the guard over the nrmy storehouses and other American prop erty. The Stars and Stripes was hissed at the National. Theatre, ^apd Maurice Raymond, a prestidigitator, was fined |50 because ho remonstrat ed with tho audience for doing so. DOMESTIC. ^ Robert M. Dubose, secretaryi-of the University of the Boutb, died ln^Se wanee, Tenn. At Shelbyville, Ky., the National Tobacco Growers' Association unani mously adopted the.raising of a crop of burly tobacco next year. LesUe M. Shaw and other financiers approved President Roosevelt's sug gestion for Federal control of trust companies. / Mrs. Charles Nahlen, who had been despondent over her husband's death twelve year* ago, was found dead In a gas-fllled room in Chicago. Car! Bundsehuv manager of the Elks' Club, at Knoxvllle, Tenn., was 'shot and killed by HolUe Westmore land, a porter; at the club. ' T. E. Mcnonald, superintendent of the United States Express Conrirrnry; officially announced that the amount of money stolen from his company at the night depot in Milwaukee, Wis., was $18,600. _ An infant of W. H. Banetf, an? em ploye of a factory at Matoeka, W. Va? is only elsht months old but weJfcns 110 pounds. The babe at birth was of normal weight, but now* weighs -almost as much as Hs mother. The yacht Kingdom, 'with about sixty members of the Holy Gnost and Us-Colony at Shlloh on board, and a crew of twenty, sailed from South Freeport, Me., for Jerusalem. ifontrol of the coastwise steamship combination has been- tak^n? away from Charles W. Morse and the .old managers placed in charge. ^ FOREIGN. The'steamer City of Grand Rapid* was completely destroyed by fire at' her dock at Tobermoray,' Ontario. The crew were rescued. -Gen, M&xlmoffflkyrbead of the In terior Department Prison Bur-eau, was assassinated by 9 young woman at St. Petersburg, Russia. % The imperial Bank of Germaby raised Its. rate on* per cept. - Richard Croker's fllty Rhodora won the principal race at Newmarket. England. The Finnish Diet'voted the-appro priation to the Ruialair Govern**# 'of 94,000,000 in payment for exemp tion from military service. ' M Pikott; Russia; bank robbers tacked seven men who were escorting a cashier who was carrying .1-300 rablss, murdered .the whole party aid' decamped with the money. A teWgram from Totaan, Morocco, south nil m Wave of Prohibition Spreading Ail Over the Country. * Knoxvillo "Dry" WUU it Whoop?? Ther*? in Now Not ? Licensed galoon iu the Tt niufsxvc Oily. Knoxville, Tenn.r-Thll city went "dry" ut DMtnlght. There Is now uot one saloon in Knoxville, and In all the fitato the licensed suloon exists in only four cljtlea?Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga and Lafolette. Th* wavo of prohibition is spreading all over the South, the people expressing themselves with a rtnauloxfty and de cision that leaves no doubt as to their feelings against the saloon. The saloons here havo been closing ?' intervals ever since dark. - Their stocks hud practically been sold out' at 6 p. in., und as fast as the last drop qf wet goods was disposed of the tpaloous put up their shutters f^r good. Citizens of all classes have fo several days been stocking up their homes, as have the clubs, tho mem bers of which have been provided with private lockers, and tho salen have L on unprecedented. Tho death of tho liquor traffic was marked at night by much roysterlng, and the o'ntlre police force and every deputy sheriff and constable of the county was ou duty, alort for possible trouble on tho most eventful night in tho history of tno city, No seMous trou-' ble 4as reported. Prohibition was procured here un der the Pendleton law, "which permits the reincorporation of local govern ments with the Bnloon out. Tho method of destroying the saloon was through the adoption o> new charters, iu which liquor selling is xorbldden. The rumors that the liquor interests would make an effort to thwart th a opeyxtIouh ?>f the law and of the nev chanter are found to bo untrue. Most of tho saloonkeepers announced dur* lug tho afternoon that theV would close at 10 p. m., und they did ao. Knoxville Is thus without a licensed saloon for the first time in more than 100 years. ' Early city records show tlmt liquor was sold- In taverns in; lis)5, and it was probably sold to tho Indians, on the banks"of the Tjen-' nesfeeo Elver, prior to that, time. ICnoxvllle voted on the question oC saloons on March 11 last,, and pro hibition won by nearly 200G majority. Tho election wae the most exciting ovor lielfll hore, women and children taking a vory active part, _7 TJhei't were more than 100 saloons in opera? tlon. In the sister State of Kentucky, 110 of the 119 counties are,dry. llristol's Twenty-five Saloons Closed?, Bristol, Tenn.?The last of tho twenty-live saloons which Bristol had only a few months ago closed, when thirteen establishments Went out of oxlBtenoe. All trains have b"?en crowded with passengers fraitt East Tennessee and Bouthwe&LyVlrilnl*. who have carried away package* oil whlskj-v?whUa the -da 11 y shipment* have crowded the express cars. ,;4?;) VrohihlMon For AU of Alabama. '> Montgomery, Ala.?Flushed wl their triumph in obtaining prohibit! for Birmingham, other Alabaro* " and several counties. the lit era are preparing to demani _ coming legislature a lif t the people to vote for conattt prohibition. Tho now move ? nounced by Dr,,.W, B.. Cri and'-with tho present people toward the llfttwr t a foregone conclusion that liquor will receive Us death blow. It lias also been definite!? that the Legislature wli! bo pass a general prohibition the anti-liquor forces feeling s can be passed without trouble,, Oeoj-acla goes dry on January t, on which date Ashevllle, N. 0., will also eliminate IU aaloons. * Illinois Attorney Sue* For Injunction Against Public School Authorities. Kankakee. 111/?Charging that football 1ft price-fighting,& R. Moore, an attorj^y, ftleda-biliin the <Ji rcu It Tfourt to? anlnjnnctlon restraining High School studfMfa from playing the game, i :? Moore dodflint F. N. tracy. SuperlntendHpRjPubn^ Schools, and U W. SmithTHlgh ?flpWF^rlnclpal, hare aided and abetted prlza-f.ghUi.'K among students; that the- game of football not only injures, but demor alise* the student body;., that the members of the team use profanity ou the field; and .that the game Is "degrading,; un-Ameflcan, un-Chris? tlan and^aclvlllsed." KANSAS HAS MONEY TO LRN1). Stat* Bank OonamlssioBer Says Re* w'"v Jh?m Required. jBSabllnQ. -Royce, State Igsiafc Optomlssloner, said that ??ery one of the 74X banks In Kan "ftae jj3t?rrrtOf 'fifty per cent, - ore ... than the law requires. Such t deposits have been made in the months that It has been im? to lead the money as fast as te the State banks of mat S3 was foirty-^b# i total deposits, repre* ??,?00, being more than which the law require* ----- ?---'?fe 4v\. MM. BATTLE IH Mutineers Seize Russian Destroy* er and Shell Forts and Town. OVERWHELMED AND EEACHED The fcikory Crvw Fight Against Four WaiNlifj -?Naval Kullstc<l WU?n iuuI lU'ttklcuU of tUtt City tiho* Down. Vladivostok.?A fierce naval bat tle occurred in this harbor betwoqp the mutlnoua crew of a Russian de~ atroyor and* their lo?.al comrade*. The mutineers finally worp Bubdiied,, but not before a number of nx ?.* bad been killed or wounded. The mutinous b.oat was the Skory, and she gave light to the' gunboat Mnndchuiv the -destroyer* CvobovoI* Smely and Berdity and the garrison of ono of tho harbor fprts, panned by the Twelfth Regiment (if Artil lery. Tho l&kory soon was over> Whelmed and had to bo beached to eavo her from sinking, f This was not accomplished, however, before . guns had da?o considerable damage, and several officers and inon. of the other ships had b??u killed or wounded. . Ai ?' Tho crew of tye $kory word In cited by agitators. Including? uoine Jews, who had managed tp fet on board twd take charge of the' de- *? ntroyer. ' 8he steamed out Into the harbor with the red flag flylhtfr and at once-opened Are on the town and forts. A gunboat and' thrap destroy ers went out to engage her, and with the aid of tho forts? soon had the fikory riddled and helpleAst She then turned, ran through the surf and was beached. Those of the crow who had not been killed or wounded by gunfire were arrested by soldiers as they made their Why tolahd. . - Among the men killed are Cuj>taln Kuroach, commands? of tho torpedo boat Kavy, and Meutehant 'Stoer; commander of the Bkovy; lieutenant Vasslllef, commanding the Serdlty, was wounded. Several ..persona in VladtYostok were IrtHed i^y the Bholls" from the 8kory. - *' The town-ha* been oectare4% In a' stato of siege. i ? " ? * V/i, ENGUTiF^bffff' jfcf/LNDSI^tDB. iCaraidgh Destroyed With More Than J.1alt - ;-ot Hole . . oyerwheM^^*?d completely Tho Miesar ?ltftt r'kat'ttt^^iFfehe ^ Bokhara, IhmM*** . stroyed by a landslide ihat followed! : tho earthquake of OotOber 2J; cording to the latest reports a majori Miii ?Jmty of the In ha! tflOst their lives.' ; ports of the cai ?edr-thc daath-, as high as .Jtf/000. about 2500 dwdferjt, ? lason to believe thai.*' foe burled W? 'Mho survived the f ovfcruor *>f Karat* ?*>? p.-:' - ?? ' ratagh is remotely (?m full week for.. , rom there, but accor W#et*t who ha# cot enormous section of Mountain, which pr .otrar the town, broke dered down Upon ihe almost completely bu Efforts are being ma communication witty- thp-> And learn the .actual elate.; and to send In such retif&j required. AFTER 228 ?> ? Violation of Rate Law Complaint Piled Witlj Washington,-D. antl twonty-three railroad alT~the Important railroad United States, are ntfttftfe as defe ante in a complaint filed witfl the In- ; tcrstate Commerce Commission, in which violations of thev railroad rfttov net are alleged. The conn" are the Johnston & Urj Goorta Company and the Dry Goods Company.corpori ing business under the sas, with headquarters at* that State. ... , They allege that the defe: roads have Imposed unjhe reasonable cpmmodtfiy rat-e^1 monts of Cotton place goodsv New York and Wichita.-W-P INDICT RAILWAY OFFICI^I** ' 7 Cleveland Man Chnrged With Trying to Influence UitncAseou Cleveland, Ohio.-^-The Grand Jn*y returned an indictment against John T. Stanley, Vice-Presided i?d CK^v. nral Manager of tho Clsveland ?Ieo? r!c Railway Company, dbargin* Mm "Hh eudeavorlng to ln&fcenco * ^ uess. The specific allocation is that ley endeavored toinflueufce i' mony of two wltnt*ssa In ih* nation bythe Grand illegal registration ?f.vpte,r#r- - ; <