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I's'-i VOL. XXVII. BARNWELL, S. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1904. NO 25 -r THE FALL OF COTTON. Cotton Pricei Drop Thirtoon Dollfcn oo tho Bale CAUSED GREAT SXCITXXXET. Dowufkll of HuIIt, the New York Leader of Rail Foreee. <' Had to Suapend Baal n eaa. ' Danie! J. Sully, th* cotton operator who has for 15 months been the big gest figure in the cotton ma kets of the world, and who has “bullad” cotton from 7 -cents it pound to over 17, an nounced h's inability to make good his engagements on the New York cotton excliange Friday. Within a lew .moments cotton fell nearly 913 a bale froth the highest figuree of the day. Scenes such as followed the an nouncement of the failure it has,been the privilege of few brokers Jo witness before. Traders in the street have • witnessed stock panics in previous years; corners have been broken and many crashes have been recorded, but none has been accompanied by such frenzy and confusion. While t! ere had been no premoni tion of the impending crash no morn ing of the session had witnessed a more demoralized > market. In less than 10 minutes after the opening , half a cent had been taken-oll—ihe price of cotton. Prices went up and two and three minutes. May opened at 15.2f)Lafid sold down to 14.75 in less than 15 minutes, while July, opening at 15.22, went down to 14.86. To ward the end of the first half hour early sellers started to cover and there was-* rapid advance. There was noth ing in the news to account for the ex citement. IV seemed merely a re newal of bear operations and the catch ing of further stop orders.. Shortly after the afternoon session, however, there was a lull in the pit and about five minutes after 2 o’clock the annuncement of the suspension was made by Superintendent King, who read from the rostrum this no tice: _ “We regret that we are unable to meet our engagements and therefore will have to suspend 7 *: * Daniel J. Sully & Co.” QUIET WAS OXINOUS. For a few seconds there was an ominous quiet over the floor as though the news had stunned all within hear ing of the announcement. Then with one impulse a mighty shout went up from the bears,~they who had been fighting Sully and the bull clique for -• montlis. Hats were thrown into the air to fall where they would, a moment later to be trampled upon by the stam pede for the pit. Coats were torn by ■frantic brokers in their Tnad-efforts to unload their holdings, and' chairs and camp stools were dashed into the pit, •At) emphasize some w ild broker'a offer # to sell. Messengers soon were rushing in and ©ut»of the building with orders to sell or buy; telephone booths were besieged and telegraph offices were t flooded with dispatches. Outside the cotton excliange ap- ~ pearano s gaw little indication of tbe pahdemonium within until the mes sengers began rt-rush between the ex change and th s brokers' ofll^s. Noon the news reac led the stock; produce and coPee exchanges, and traders on these markets hastened to the scene of the panic. Crowds availed the en trance Vo the visitors’ gallery, but a double guard v^as placed at the doors and admittance was refused to all but Ihjuse accompanied by members. —It was estimated that snmething like three-quarters of a mi.lion bales of cotton were traded in during tbe 20 injnutes of the panic tba7 followed tbe announcement, and that of "this upwards of half a million oaUs rep resented “forced liquidation,” or tbe selling out of men whose margins have teen nearly or quite wiped out^= As the market slumped 250 points during tills pefb»d tfre lQM fatUng this element amounted to something over 91,000.000. THEN MARKET STEADIER. The market steadied after about 20 minutes and tlifctf there was' a sudden upward sboot of about an even bun dred points. This sharp rise brought about by the buying of broken and speculators who saw that tbe market . had slumped too far and would react 1 Just as it did. Part of the excitement on the floor of tbe exchange was caus ed by tbe scramble of broken who wanted Just such bargains and lad to fight to get in the ring to get them. The buj tug t u .h was Almost as excit ing and Just as noisy, If not more so, is the panic. * The announcement of Sullj’s sus pension was put on the ticken every where within a few momenta after It was made and there was somewhat of a flurry on the floorftof the New York stock exchange after tbe news reached there. Mr. Sully is a member of that exchanges having purchased a two or three months ago. Stocks went off from half a point to a point and one-half on tbe fear that tbe failure might bring a rush of stock selling only mo- waa dence, R. I., one of thf. members of the firm, sent out a messisge by hia secretary which read: “No statement of any kind or de scription. Mr. Sully directs me to say, will be given out from tbla office Friday. Possibly a statement will be ready early Saturday morning. 0 - Mr. Hadley later was quoted as stat ing that the firm would pay its debts in full and the suspension was due to the Impossibility of meeting demands for large sums of money due tbe Sully firm from European sources, sums that the quick slump In tbe market made payable too quickly for them to be able to meet. Mr. Sully left his office at 4 o’clock VARIOUS RIPLANATXOMS. All sorts of explanations were made for tbe suspension. One of the reasons given was that the New Orleans bull party had sold cotton while Sully was bulling It in the confidence that they were supporting him. Another was that Sully, following in-the market, had sold their T long cotton without advising with him- From two well Informed sources came a denial that there was any treachery from New Orleans. A cotton operator with New Orleans connections said that the bull party there was still bullish on cotton. Another account, that came from one of the, six or seven best knpwo cotton operators in this country, was that tbe bear party had made a deliberate and well planned attack to overwhelm Sully and bad succeded. Tbe tears, according to this au thority, had figured out th^ weakness if Sully’s position due to’Tmmenss holdings of spot and contract cotton and of bis operation^on tt^e Liverpool market, and planned and| attack on tbe market that would carry It down Just far enough to make it impossible for Sully to meet his margin calls, knowing that bis failure would send tbe market so much lower that they could cover at figures to recoup them. No definite Idea of Sully's •commit ments in tne cotton market could ha got from the Other houses in the cot- ton trade. One estimate was that he was "long” of 300,000 bales of May cotton alone. A good authority stat ed that be did not believe that Sully was "long’’ of mere than that in tbe whole market, and a conservative estimate made in another source was 400,000 bale*. - r The loss by Sally’s failure in case be cannot settle, it was stated Friday, was divided up among nearly all the brokers on tbe exchange. One esti mate was that Sully’s owiugs after a settlement under the rule of the ex change would not exceed half a million dollars. What Sully has personally lost or what his backers have lost in market operations Is not Included in this figure. WhaV Sully will owe will be found by>4educLlng the average quotations of cotton today from the figure to which his accounts were margined down to the call. This will be de^ termined Saturday of course. KO orhKR FAILURES. There were Bo other announce ments of failures and leading men In JAPS AT CHEMULPO. Russians Estreating Across Yalu _ River Before Advance. AOEE GOES TO SEOUL Japanese to Take Control of Ad- mlnlatnatlon of Oorean Af- • — faire. Von Stack el- berg's Report. The correspondent of The London Dally Mall at Chefoo, who his Just visited Qbinampo, Corea, says: "On the way to Chemulpo we pass^ ed a constant succeslon of Japanese transports. Three thousand Japanese landed at Chemulpo at the end of last VBSflt. 11 ' •" •' • * The correspondent adds that the Russians are retreating across the Yalu liver before the advance of tbe Japanese outposts. ; . The Dally Mali’s Wei Hal Wei cor respondent learns that Viscount Aoke, formerly Japan se minister to Ger many, Is going to Seoul to establish practically a Japanese administration for Corea. Under date of March 17 the Chefoo correspondent of The Standard reports that provision trains are arriving hourly at Fort Aifthur, the railway be ing Intact. The Daily Telegraph’sToklo corres pondent, tabling March 17, asserts Rufalan fleet baa returned to Port Arthur. 1 If this is correct, the correspondent adds, It Is evident from Rear Admiral V&ron von Stackelterg's report that the Russian cruisers which left Valdivostok returned to that port without Ah attempt having been made to unite tbe fleets, or If an attempt was made it was unsuccessful. Tbe Chefoo correspondent of the Paris edition of the New York Her ald, cabling under Thursday’s date, asserts that a portion of ttn Russian fleet made several cruis s within a radius of 50 miles of Port Arthur without finding any trace of the tbe cotton market declared that there need be no fear of trouble. In stock exchange circles the fail ure of Sully was at first taken as a sure sign of the collapse of tbe cotton boom. Later there was some appre hension lest the failure might bring down *. ■tring trf hnnklng InStltulOBS in the South. Mr. Sully’• suspension was an nounced on the stock exchange but not until shortly before the olase of the market. It was announced oni* train with bis tbe coffee exchange also. The cotton bulls recently went Into that market and caused an activity there that cor responded to the activity In cotton. Tbe coffee market slumped and rose with the cotton market lakt month, but it was significant that the an nouncement of Sully’a suspension caused only a slight break in oonffee.” ^ BULLY'S CAKUR. ’ Daniel J. Sully became a factor in tlie cotton market in January of 1903, whan ha 11 p hnU gmvement. He established a cotton house of his own last year, under the name of Daniel J.‘Sully & Co., but when his operations In cotton became so suc cessful, the cotton market having been pushed up above 17 cents a pound early this year, he widened tbe scope of his firm’s business, bought a teat on the New York stock exchange, went into the coffee exchange, got a membership on the Chicago Board of Trade, and it was said made' connec- tlqns with other prominent exchangee throughout the country. The members of-the firm were Daniel J. Solly, Col. 8. F. Morse of Huston, Tex., Walter S. Crandall and Edwin Hadley, Jr. Recently Wm. R. Fagan, manager of the firm’s New Orleans office, was taken loto the firm. A Valuable Gift. Andrew Carnegie has notified Pres ident Johnson of Wlnthrop that be will give f20,000 for $ library building on the college campus. President Johnson has been several years plan ning to rise funds for a big library at tin college, and as pleasant as the gift k» to hla long cherished hopes It probably does not corns In the nature of a complete surprise to him. The snot site for tbe new building has not selected, it le said, but it he given A prominent piece In tbe aLtbA cunpiuSr A deel •tentloo he ve been enemy. * Tbe foregoing dispatches are tbe only additional Items of news appear ing in the Lend m newspapers Friday morning, within tbe eiceptjlon of vague rumors of alleged movements of tbe opposing forces in the vicinity of the Yalu river. KUROPATKIN'S COMINtJ.' The first headquarters of tbe Man churian army after Gen. KuropatkhTs arrival will be at Liao Yang, tbe gen eral having selected puint instead of Mukden, from whence to direct the operator s. Liao Yang is 10 miles west of the railroad, being connected with tbe main road by a Hue which will be completed by the time Gen. Kuropatklq arrh te, and has many ad vantages over Mukden, being a point whence both the telegraph line and the Pekin road ^p to tbe Yalu river. Liao Yang ,oomL lands "both tbe roads over which troopi will he sent accord ing to neofssiti s. Liao Yang als > has tbe advantage of being nearer to tbe frontier of China in tbe event of punitive measures being required against tbe Obin- s\ While, the Ru sians are mobilizing for tbe purpose of workibg out an of fensive military oroblem they will be prepared to move heavy- foreee In any direction to meet the Japanese, wbtse command of tbe sea gives them great freedom Iq selecting their points of attack Gen. Kiropatkln will live on Oaff and be prepared- to move immediately wherever his presence is requiied. Great precanti ms are being taken to guard against surprises. Tbe Japa nese have alwayti shown a p efer< nee for night attacks, and most rigorous orders have been issued to keep up a continuous advance of scouting par ties and to have heavy pickets out at night. up. Four 1 of the crew were saved. Viceroy Alexleff in a dispatch con firms previous accounts of damage to Port Arthur by the bombardment of tbe lOtb, but says tbe story of a fire In Port Arthur is a base fabrication. CROBBING THE YALU. Dispatches from Seoul, dated March 17, say that the Japanese authorities have been advised that tbe Rust lan cavalry In northern*O rea has partly recrossed tbe Yalu river and that & Cossack battery has also withdrawn. A small Russian .force still occupies Chong Jr WHEN THE ICE WILL THAW. London dispatches of th ; 17th say that inquiries made at Lloyds elicited tbe sUtement that the New Chwang agent prooably meant that the river a^New^Cawang will be free of ice be tween March 25 and 30 and *' * munlCi. tkn with Port Arthur by sea will then be reopenedv PORT ARTHUR’S'BrARlUBON' The Charleston Post ot last Wed nesday says L. Ivey, alias “WHUan Smith,” allai "A. M. Arnold,” who is believed to l ea notorious safe cracker, was commlUcd to Jail this afternoon, charged wi .h breaking open tbe safe f th “ ter, pending a fuller investlgatlo i " into A letter from Port Arthur says that the garr’s'm there consists of 2,500 men. Ai, is quiet, and the military bands play twice a week in the pubic square. BUILDING A RAILWAY. A message from Seoul, dated the 17th, says five thousand engineers are now employod in the building of the mllitary\Tailroad from Seoul to Wtju. Only a few miles have been completed. Civilians ate working on the railroad from Seoul toEusan. T 'is road can not be completed before.n< xt October. KUROPATKIN'S PUOGliBtS. kin telegraphs that he has passed 1 Ar ttie accus Omsk, and he adds that by Friday there will be 230,000 Russian troops concentrated between Harbin and Port Arthur. ’ X WORK OF GERMAN NATIVES. Women Cut to Pieces and Parts ol Bodies Nailed to Buildings. Letters from German Southwest Africa have arrived at Berlin, giving details of tbe ghastly treatment of German settlers, 113 of whom were killed outright or tortured to death In the district of Okahadja alone. Women outraged and dismembered and with pieces of their bodies nailed to the doors of houses, and boys muti lated and left to die slowly, were fre quent spectacles. Tbe extraordinary columns on coming in sight of a farm bouse would see tbe heads of its form- er occupants fastened to tbe roof. These sights.appear to have excited the rage of the soldiers. The letters express longtngA'fb^tevengt and a de termination, as one writer 83^ ’^ kill everything black.” That ca|p|)j| some papers to urge the goverilmept to. telegraph Instructions to Colonel Leutwein, the governor of German Southwest Africa, that he-order the soldiers to restrain themselves -and conduct tbe war In a ci vinzed^eanh^r. Colonel Leutwein himself c0mes4n for criticism, as it is alleged that be left insufficient numbers of troops in the exposed districts and was misled by the temper of the natives, having f *e- quently bad at his own table chiefs who ate now in tebellion and who ure wearing decorations and swords of honor, bestowed on them by the gov ernment in behalf of the emperor. The Tageblatt Intimates that Colonel Leutwein will be recalled. BOLD CRACKSMAN. vuroiCAim. Federal Authorities Accuse Elm cf Bobbing Postoffice. MEMBERS OFJtHAT WILD BAND. L. Ivey, With Several Aliasen, Believ ed to Have Been One of the Gang that It >bt>ed Many Place* In this state. Mr, Spight, of Mlastaelpph Dteo the Race Problem. - • > In the bouse Wednesday, during the qjscusslQo of tbe post office appro priation bill, Mr, Splgbt, of Missis sippi very ably disnusad tbe race qus- tlon. He s\ld be desired to vindicate tbe South from tbe charge of barbar ism. In tbe South, be slid, tbe ne gro bad teen dented tbe i ight to vote and to bold office, but not the right to work for an bonrst living, as be bad teen done in tbe Nor hern states We some times kill t tern for out rageous crimes,” he said, "but never because they want to werk.” As for lyncbtegs, be said, tba T , sometimes they have unnecessarily occurred in the South. He referred to tbe Wil mington, Del., lynching last year THE STATE Ivey W^avrested last night-by and to the subsequent attacks on tbe United State! Marshal John D. Adams on King street. The arrest was made on a bench warrant, supplemented by another warrant Issued by Commis sioner J. Waties Waring, on affidavits by tbe marshal on information and be lief, charging Ivey with being either Bill Murphy or August DeFord, members of tbe noted gang of safe robbers, four of whom were rent to the Atlanta penitentiary last year to serve five years for robbing banks and postofhees in tbe upper part of South Carolina. At the time of the trial here last April, Murphy and DeFord, who bad avoided arrest In Columbia, when tbelr pals were bagited, were In tbe result of the accused, Thomas No land, William McKinley, Ed Dugan apcl "Dutch” Howard, who were on trial, bad been acquitted Murphy and DeFord were to be delivered to tbe court by their attorney, a lawyer of Columbia, but the- men having been found guilty, tbe Identity of Murphy and DeFord and their presence in Charleston were kept secret. When the effects of the gang which had teen seized in Columbia were turned over to tbe men such parts of tbe clothing and other matter belonging to Murphy and DeFord were delivered to tbe agent of the fugitives, who boldly accompanied tbe convicted members of tbe gang to Columbia and then Murphy and DeFordslcst no time in making themselves scarce. The examination today before Com-’ missloner Waring, at which Poftofflce Inspectors Pulsifer and Moorer tesre present, revt a’ed the fact that the scriptions did not fully fit Ivey, with tbe approval of District Attorney Jpbp G. Capers, tbe charge was dis missed. Ivey was not, however, a free man, with this procedure, tor be was Imme diately rearrested on a warrant sworn ut by Inspector Eulsifer for being mplicated in tbe cracking and robbery of tbe safe of tbe Mullins postoffioe ast November. The case was inves tigated at some length, and It was finally decided to commit Ivey to JaU, ibe inspectors hope toweeure. The bearing was held in the private office of Marshal Adams, In t le post- office building. It was des red tc protograph. Ivey and this was done b} ’hotographer DoYling; while fcfiecast Gen. Kuropatkin is now near Ciipsk, Siberia. He la making very fast time, averaging milea per- day, being sidetracked to get him to Mukden on March 26. FBAR CHIKESB TROUBLE. A dispatch from New Chwapg under date of March 17 says: The Patriar chal Gen. Llnevitcb, who was ac companied by Gen. Kondratonovltcb after a survey on the 16tli of New Chwang and its defenses, which had been prepared for Its Inspection, re turned to his command at Liao Yang. He also visited Kal Chou and Jwtnte affecting the protection of the gulf coast and the holding of the weak zone along the main Hoe of railway , opposite New Chwang. Although dis claiming any apprehension of the Japanese landing bert, tbe authorities are satisfied to have foreigners under stand that tbe Russians are prepared for apy local emergency and the arri val of an additional battery of artil lery and also 160 scouts recently 'is Big nifleant of coming events. It Is apparent that both civil and military strategists and the diplomats at Mukden apprehend a collision with tbe Chinese, probably fearing that the increasing number of their small bands of scouts operating between tbe Liao River and the Great Wall are the instruments for their entangle ment In a conflict, particularly as this zone is in the nature of a no-man's land .o^t account of having been aban account id ter the powers and also because the Chinese Jurisdiction Is- Incompe tent. Rnastans able to. Judge profete to regard Gen. Ma’s attitude as dan to tbe peace ot Russia and DaSTBOTKB DSSTROTKD fromObsfOo, under date Htahbed In Spartanburg. Mr. E. R. Woodslde, second h&hd n tbe weave room of the Saxon m il, Spartanburg, was seriously stabted Thursday afternoon by Will Berry, a former employe of the weave room, but who at tbe time of the dlfflcu typing to tear Im sorreet name, had no buninetf In thfe "toill. Berry was drinklog at tbe time h; entered the room Lnd was ordered out by Mr. Woodside. A parley of hot words en sued, after which was a personal en counter, n which Barry stabbed Woodside in three places -the L»ft from bis partly bidden position •n th lij«acloualv as if room, and exposed the camera an<rnr_™7?rir" „ tripod. The government authorities think ,hat they tnve a noted cracksman. Ivey „gay£ Jt)8 name last night ae Arnold, but he admitted Wednesday that this wrs not his real no*,e, but simply assuned, on faccount of his profession of gambling, and not desir- He was asked for bis place of residence, which he gave at s< veral places. Pittsburg was declare*—to be tho last that - he' put up at. He gave the name? of'a! shoulder, arm and stomach, Inflicting ungly"wounds. Berry then escaped. Mr. Woodside has been employed in tbe Saxon mill for some time past. Sheriff White and others are on tbe lookout for Berry. gambling house in that city, and said that .he ran the roulette game and liQ0k..&.turnjut.limcSAt.other games. negro tettlemeht. This never occurred in the South, he gatth "When the guilty wretch has paid the,.penalty of his awful crime, that is an end of it,” he continued; “the mob is satisfied and does not wreak indiscriminate vengeance upon tbe innocent because' they belong to the same race as tbe criminal.” He said that unlike tbe people of the North, tbe people of the South "don’t go out with a torch In one hand a gun in the other, and, pointing the gun at defenseless women and children, and sboot them as they flee for their lives.” He said this had occurred ,in New York City In 1900, and he referred to a number of lynch- logs which had occurred in the North, Including those at Danville, 111,, and Springfield, 0., and 'said “such race prejudioe finds no place in Southern hearts.” or POSED TO MOB—BUT. Mr. Sprlght continued: "So* farts I am concerned, I am opposed to mob violence as a general proposition. I do not think that lynchings for any other crime t han the nameless one against womanhood ought ever to oc cur. In all others the courts of the country are ample and generally, with m. swift to punish. , ‘‘But, la the one class of crime# so brutal and destructive of all that Is dear to an enlightened people, no one with a spark of manhood in Ute doubt that instant death to the per petrator -.hoeM follow upon the moot talnment of tbe guilty facts. The poor suffering woman who has ba tbe victim of the devlliah lost of brute, white or bisok, should hot be pelled to appear In court and re peat before a Jury the horrible details of the outrage.” Mr. Spight recited that the burn ing at the etakoof "such brntes” was not confined to the South, bob had occurred in the North as well KNOCKED OUT. . y . . The Government Wins a Victory in the Securities Cate. COURT Declare* That the Big Railroad Combination Is a Violation of \ the Anti-Tract Law# of the Country. The opinion of tbe Supreme Court of tbe United States In tbe case of the Northern Securities Company against the Un;ted States, involving tbe merger of tbe Northern Pad tic and Great Nortnern Railway Oompa- rX nlee was handed down last week lo7? favor of tbe government. The opin ion was read by Justice Harlan. The opinion of the United StetteCtroalt CoUrt for Minnesota Is affirmed. The effect is to sustain tbe contention of the character in question. Justice Harlan said that in tbe merger of the two roads tbe stockholders disappeared and reappeared In tbe Securities in tbe Company, the two thus practical ly becoming consolidated In tbe bold ing company, tbe principal object be ing to prevent competition. "No scheme could more effectively come within the proscription of the anti trust law and is within the meaning of the act. ” Justice Harlin read the opinion of the court- He first explained tbe question at Issue, being the enforce ment of tbe anti-trust act* in which congress declares Illegal contracts or combinations In restraint trade and providing penalties. "Now what Is the case as presented by tbe plead ings? Are defendants properly charged with monopolising or attempting to monopollxe fault between stettePt;^, In our opinion,” he said, “tbe evi dence folly sustains the charge that the Northern Securities Company was organised as a bolding corporation or. eogfadlan of more than nine-tenths of the stoek ^ ^ tv. and three held by one ownership. The holding company dtmdiialed the roads for the exclusive bteteltaf' “III so I Mr. SplghJrspoke of the attempt certain white persons Input tbs neg oh s social equality with and referring to Booker Washington White House toJtete anti-trust teg .. pool to promote tbe Hite&ste, one system against the other, pending incriminating evident e which velt, sahLthat “thiaOM htelhBathad ^ , .w- done more to Inflame the passions of ^ the negro and give him a perverted idea of his importance and bis near * toc * 01 approach to social equality than any thing that had been done for tbs test ten years.’’, BOOKER SHOULD HAVE DBCLIMKD Harlin quoted various c was being investigated, so mddenlj and quickly that Ivey did net know ot lt until ti e president he had been tbe gov ernor of New York. He was,” he con tinued, “sorry that Washington dtif not have more senss and self-respect than to accept the Invitation. It would have been Infinitely to his credit had he declined. The more the ne groes are put on a social equality, 0 he vigorously asserted, “the more l J dangerous becomes their xwltion and the surer death by violence will over take, them sooner or later.” ♦wo | Securities Company was Ja ofasteeand wss Justice Involving Urn that from them It that afi whether •enable, and ptohi tew. and that laid down to “XT' Murdered for Hi* Money. A special from Urumlyah, Persia, says: An investigation of the death of tbe Rev. Dr. Benjamin Labaree, tbe American missionary, shows that Dr. Labaree, whose is superintendent of the American mission here, was re turning from Kola to Urumlyah on horse-back, acoompank d by a servant, when both were found dead by the road side. Their bodies had teen stripped and multilated and bad numerous stabs. The horses and ef fects of the travelers were missing Dr. Labaree leaves a widow and four children. Steps have been taken to discover the assassins. 7'. Want* to Stand Trial. A white man, giving his name as G. W. Valehtine, walked into tbe po lice station at Winston, N. C., Friday and said that daring the winter of 1902, . while playing teller at one of the biranch offices of the Colonial bank In New York city, be absconded with several hundred dollars and has been a fugitive from JusUoe ever slnoe. He mys be wants to return to New York and stand trial. The Fidelity Casual ty company which weet on made good his shortage. Bank Dynamited. Safe Mowers dynamite the safes of tbe Rank of Pasco at Dade City, Fla., Thursday night and almost wrecket the building. The chargee of dyna mite were so heavy that the large brick building was cnOcpd from roof m and every one of tba- plete window! was bio to oat f There is such a place as be named, but it remilns to be ascertained whether lvey was connected with the house.. This is not Ivey's first visit to Char leston, according to tbe statementafi of the government officers. He Wg* here a short time ago, and then he left the city, paying for bis room at a down-town restaurant and lodging house in advance and leaving inatruc- tions that hla effects were not to be disturbed. When he left the place he carried out no baggage, and when be returned to Charleston a few days ago he came In without s grip Qt trank which the offleera think a suspicious act in Itself. The officers did not re spect bis wish not Jo have his effects disturbed. They examined his effects, but it is not known if they found anything in the way of Incriminating papers, tools, etc. They dld find sev eral fine tailor-made suits, different styles of good shoe*, some of which are said never to have been worn.. A package of diamonds, whose va lue has not been estimated, was found in the care of the proprietor the lodging house and restaurant. On Ivey’s person was found Wed nesday night 4 sleeping car ticket reading from Detroit to Pittsburg, Nothing else of any moment It Is said, was found. Ivey appears very cool and ool ed. He dentes that be has com any wrong, and appears perf< willing for an Investigations himself. He has not yet counsel. •--i , Fall* Dead In Chicago. General H- H. Thomas, who wm re* cently ousted as federal t p the port of Chicago, dropi Friday. -Heart be the cause. The al ThomM from office a few ago, was one of the most pictnreeque incldeatekndwn in politics here. 8eat- cldenteknd' ed trader the folds of a United States Mg, General Thomis remained at his. desk, refusing to give way, until dis possessed by tbe actual errivnLef his successor. The death of General Thomas was as dramatic as his re moval. He had served In the civil war, but had never made an application for a pension, while In receipt Income. Th arsdar^aftyJheffeoWB ef forts to eecqye raMEi be was In te appUest! gsged Wood* m . _ „ * Bhewttte theaetton aft teid; "I mm weartheiytaB on tear i to deserve theSf^Jfttef J lag WI kin me, and relief. ting for Georgia lag Itaci the honor, will then ate I have violated the tew, think that 1 have commit teoraDy ipeaWng,” . - Thn and a | in lest] deal of -*■* ■■yr 4. oom~ Killed by Pa Two people were J wounded by an expi morning which his Sriffiy: find. or