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• -I ■ • ' . : V* ' - • 1 1 mmzm K" ■' 1 yoL xvm. BABNWKLL, S. 0„ THUBfiDAY, JUNE 8 1005. NO. 40. A CLOSE GALL. One Hondred and Ten Convicts in Penitentiary Poisoned. PAMS GREEN USED. i; ■•■who U Wat Pat la fcM WWI .WldAJBl Coavicta Ate for Diaaer. Parti* dca af the PoUoa Uaed Hare Beea Discovered ia aad Aboat the Kitchea. f The State of Thursday said there has been a lot of lllneas among the convicts at the penitentiary within the last 24 hoars and It is known that tbo 110 or more who were made sick suddenly had partaken cf green vega tables oeokad in a large pot. None of the 800 conviots was affected except the ones who ate of the cabbage thus prepared, and it ia believed that the pdaonlng was not dae to any mischiev ous intent. Col. D. J. Griffith, super intendent of the penlt* ntiary, stated that nearly all of the alck had left the aflraaary with ti e tkoeptloo cf a few bo were not well anyway, end there no casual ties of a serious na ture. The convicts who were made alck ate of cabbage cooked in a pot whiob . bad not teen ustd for some time,, al though the cooks declared that they cleaned the vessel thoroughly. It is customary to put a little soda Into the vegetables to fsd litate the oock log| and it is possible that the action of the soda on the iron of the pot form ed a chemical change which nauseated the prisoners who ate of the vegeta bles prepared therein. The nausea appeared so soon after the- dinner meal that all of the din ner had not teen cleared away, and acme of the vegetables were sent to Dr. W. 8. Burney, the State chemist, who was asked to make a careful analysis His report bad not been made Wednesday night. It is hardly pro liable that the omvicts engaged In -«fatheriDg the v< getables and in pre TO OUT THE RKWAED. A Williamsburg Kan Ewers Away the Liberty of a Negro. A ROUTED ARMY n I1UU1LU nillTI I •Ibbe brigade on the extreme left was almost wiped out. Had Btldertng re* Japs Aad Russians Pictured On The March And In Battle. Peculiar Gaae Brought to Attention j of Gov. Heyward la u Petition for Pardon. The State says Gov. Heyward has been asked to pardon a WilUamtbarg man who has served severnl years of: sentence after having bsen convicted unjustly, It seems. Tha negro was frightened Into making a confession by a white man who wanted the re ward of 8300. John Harrison was convicted of bavlcg killed Alfred Singletary and wu sent to the penitentiary for lift) Now o me several sffldanto who testify l ist Harrieon was at the store of J M. Brown, 13 mita away, at the time of the killing. - Mr. F. Barron Grier, who represented Solicit r Wil-on at the trial, declares the n<gro deserving of a pardon. Judge Gary Interpose* no objection alih ugh the esse is no; fresh in his msmory. But the singular part about this case is that one Gao. W Arms tried to swear away the liberty of the ac cased because s reward of 1300 had been offered. It is probable that Arms will be indicted on his own evi dence against himself. His affidavit Ifl SS follows: “George W. Arms, who being duly sworn, says that be remembers the trial and conviction of John Harrison for murder, with a recommendation fot mercy at the court of genera see ftions for said county and State, and that be is now aware of the fact that the said Harr turn Is conlined in the State prison for tbs remainder of hi* natural Ufa. “That at the time of tbe trial of the said Harrison thlsdrp tuent work ed at the jiU, and it was to him that tbe said Harrison made his confession acknowledging the murder of Single tary; this deponent desires to state how said confession was obtained in order that justice may be done. Prior to ,the trial of Harrlsion be was in caret rated in tbe jail at Kingstre*; this deponent, In order to get evidence on which to convict said Harrison appeared at night at the cell door of tne aald Harrison sad then and there with tbe use of a chain tried to soars the said Hairlson Into s confession. After working this scheme for several nights the said Harrison complained to thh* deponent of ihe occurrence and this d( ponent told tbe said Harrison MUKDEN CAMPAIGN. poised Kuroki two or three days at] iJie Hunho the Russian reserves might na^e been able to tarn the tide et! Mukden Good generalship and good fortune made history otherwise. Ku- ropatkln had hiftrled his reserves from | Mukden east to Foshan as the Jap anese had planned that he should, and then hurried them back to Mukden, but only too late. The Japanese cen tre army from KurokTs left Was posh ing past Mukden to the north and Quess tne men were unnerTea or strain of long fighting, bat tbs rlans captured earlier in tbe.wif themselves with the dignity of The Csptnre of Two Whole Regimests of Russians, at One Time. Some Rus sians Sadly Frightened when •s?; , r ttvynscw;*..* ~ Cornered. One Hondred Thonsaad Prisoners. Doobtlem tho men were unnerved by the ttrift" Siberians bote soldiers. Whether the Buropoen troop* who hair* been sent to the eest are tbe beet quality of tbe Russian army there is no means of judging, but certainly they have not compared favorably in physique or fighting qual ities with the Siberians, particularly the east Siber'an sharpslnoters. That is tbe opinion of the Japanese offloeis. Tha total of prisoners taken that day wss nearly 4,000. They were a fierce and savage looking crowd, aU wearing big black or white sheepskin hats, COTTON LETTER. iff Theodore H. Price, With Vifaresj Pointing to a Email Crop. VIOLENT DE1TH Hie Report, Oovertac the Ootton Belt, | Ohowa a Dcoraaaa of SOA Par Oaat. Over Laet Fear. | Of A Man Who Had Prevkwsly Killed Two Men. — Kuroki’s left division was marching till farther north protecting its right I many in dirty fur ooats, meat of them lank. Having lost ths Hunho the Rus-| heavily TMrded, all unwashed for paring them could have been so mall dons as to want to poison tb< ir fallow prisoners, but if there was any thing of tbe kind done it will not be difficult to find the ones guilty. Capt. Griffith “iiehf very much relitv.d after all is over because rone of tbe prisoner* failed to respond Immediately t« treat ment and all will be If well as usual | that be bad lest oonfe>s as Bounds be in a day or two ▲BfXNIC IN THE POT. Tbe Slate tf Friday says there wss linlbie-4i> the dinner that poisoned tbe convicts. Dr. W. B. Burney, tbe Stats ohsmlst, has not made bis form 8) xeport of the analysis undertaken at the request of Capt. D J. Griffith, superlot* ndent of the penitentlar but he raid informally Thursday night that he had discovered the presence of arsenic in considerable quantity in the •ample sent him for ex»mlnation. Supt. Griffith and Capt. W. W. Adams flpptftin of the guard, made a an in- j^^vestlgatlcn Weonescay and Thursday Hind they btv* arrived at tbe conclu ^gicn that the poi*on was put into the cabbage with malice, and the psrfcy guilty of the crime has tseu spotted. As It wss stated Tburtday the con victs were Bickered by eating of din ner of cabbage ccoked in a large pot. Thinking that net even a convict shtuld be so inhumanly depraved as to seel to poislcn tis fellrvr convicts in such a manner, Capt Gr filth was disposed at first to bell've it, possible that there might have been some obemlcal change brought about by rea boo of the fact that the cabbages were and tf at rods had been used to fariH tat* the prooes of cooking. THE POISON POUND. Thursday experiments were made with the sample pot and with ot^er pots. It wss found that In no esse did the cabbage show any signs of poison from tbe use of soda in the cooking Butin a perfectly clean pot used dally some of the green poison on tbe window added. Tbe color imparted to the heard was the ghost of Singletary. Even with this pressure being brought to bear upon tne feelings of said Har rison, be still. maintained his Inno cence. Finding that this procedure would not work the results wished, this deponent then appeared at the cell doer ol the said Harrison covered with a white sheet and demanded then and there that he make his con f. salon, and it was upon this action tbe said confseslon was made Thi* deponent was a witness in the said case against Harrison on bis trial and told his confession in court, and he now hoseftly believes that Harri son being an ignorant negro and be ing scared, made this confession through fear and under duress and by being worked upon by the various’ methods set forth in this affidavit. After the making of this confest>loo it was scattered and talked about through the entire county and worked considerable feeling against Harrison on his trial. “The reason this deponent tried to get evidt^poe to oonvtct said Harrison was to try and get the reward of 8300 which had bien offered by tbe gjver nor for proof to convict.” The governor has written the fol lowing Utter to Solicitor Wilson in regard to the case: - I have before me a petition asking for the pardoo of John Harrison, who was convicted In the court of general sessions of Williamsburg county in 1895 of murder with recommendation to mercy. “In the record you will note that there Is ait affidavit from George W. Arms, wherein he states that the said John Harrison was convicted upon s w-bbage was the same as that observed I confession obtained from him while in the dinner that made the con viol* working In tbe Jvil, by means that •kk Convicts ate volunUlrly with no scared the defendant Into a coni had ’ effects resulting from the greens sion, assigning the reason that dep oonfes bad effects resulting frqm the green* 1 sion, assigning me reason mat depm- cooked with soda Of course none 1 of U nt tried to get the evidence in order them would try the mess cooked with to secure the reward of 8300 offered by tbe governor for proof to convict And the deponent further alleging that he honestly believed that the said Harrison, being an Ignorant ne | gro, and being soared, made this con fession through fear and under duress, being worked upon by tbe vailiu* methods set forth in th • petit! m. ‘Tf tne effect of the guilty oonfes Paris green. Paris green contaius arsenic. There for* It Is probable that tbe dinner wss poisoned with malice aforethought. There has been Paris green in the sup room at tbe psr ittntiary and some of It tad been used s few weeks ago to kill bugs on tte Irish potatoes. Tours day Cant Gr ffltb found traces of the ^ _ neen polsen on the window sill of the sion were obUined in such a manner SinVroom and in one of the gut and by such means as are alleged by ten near the kitchen was found mors deponent, It is manifest that such is Sun Quantity of a spoonful!. Taking not conducive to Justice. And while in connection with the feet that 1 appreciate tha fact that you Dr Buraev has found arsenic In the not the prosecuting atto LieronitTueX it would appear case-being m at Uie time-a. sollc. Setone or more of the convicts may tor of that circuit 1 respwfully re ifound guilty of a diabolio attempt | quest that you Investigate the t wholesale murder. — The naval conflict in which the Bus- Jan fleet was distroyed has been va riously distir guished as the battle of n Straits and the battle of Tin Island. A/^SlKl Togo telegraphs toTuktothat' Is naval battle fought from the afterlAon of Mai 27 to Hay i vicinity of Qkjno laiand and re fects ast forth in the petition, and the affi davit which I herewith return to you. “I enclose complete record In order that you may note that an alibi Is urged as a reason for the pardon.” is called the naval battle of » That settles t*. Mioee Did U. United States Minister Grlsoom, who Is stationed at Toklo, In his re port calls /attention to tbe fact tha Japanese torpedo operations Headquarters of Gen Kurokrs Arrnv, near Tlebllng, March 25.—The first realisation of tbe Immensity of tbe Js panese forces was brought home to th* observer when the two central armlet roiled across the Shaho on the morn ing of the 8th of March In the wake > f the retreating Rut'siana. Htthero during the battle parts of two or tore* hrigalesof infantry, with a few batta lions of reserves, a d z n or more bat terles, with pack trains and fiel'l h s pttals, were all that one person toold see in the mountainous country of ih« great armies engaged. But when tin whole array moved northward with it- impediments following it wss an 1m press!ve hoefc. Linking from the heights where the Russian bitteries had been, one could *ee many khaki- colored provsdons for miles on either hand, emerging frm tbe valleys and pass* s where tbe Japanese had b-en corc ntrating since October, stream ing aoro-s tbe dry bed of the river and the narrow channels of ice and wind ing away among toe hare hills anr sandy plains northward. It was a bus ine*s like army, swathed in dark blue and kr akl with no spectacular show o’ gold braid, nor brass, and hardly a touch of oolnr except the scarlet blank ets worn over tne sUolders. M<*t of tbe ranks were boys yet, but toe» were toughened by a vear of campaign log into bardy veterans. They plod ed oo silently, as usual with no sh ow of rejoicing over victory, without con fusion or excited officers. Japanese do minion over Manobu r la was spreading at the rate of two miles an hour. By cue river banks were fields of kaoliang which had stood unharvested since fall between the lines of hostile cannon, and through these were swarming men, women and chlldfeh, reiplhg andsiiai.k mg their crops. The coinamaa frit ters away no time gaping at victorious armies when a few dollars are to b; gathered. For 10 days from that morning the who e o uutry within the eros of* the fighting was covered with a midst of fine dust stirred up by the. feet of more than a million men and animals. Itnever settled for a minute, it chock ed the throat and'blinded the eyes, lifted under clothing, made food grit ty aod turned all water into mud. The flames from burning bouses and stacks of grain showed through it in the night like tbe moon through fog. The sand storms, which began on the second day of the pursuit and continued at intervals for a week, cam? from the north directly into tbe faces of the Japanese and made the discomfort and Hardship worse There was a great o mtraat between the Country south of the Shaho and north of it. The vil lages toward Mukden were larger and more prosperous, with better buildings, and the picturesque temples and tombs surrounded by groves of dark green firs made a welcome panorama to the eyeaof tbe men from beautiful Japan, who had spent months among the dreary and monotonous hills Uhlnese families gathered in front of their houses and gre-ted the Japanese with shouts. Doubtless they were equally ready to acclaim the Russians, and denounce the Japanese when it was politic. Outside the large towns Chi nese officials wearing tbtlr robes of office and buttons on their caps, with banners and soldiers In gaudy uni ft rms, received tbe Japanese generals, and Gen. Kuroki and bis staff rode iuto the village where bis- hea quar ters Are now through a double file of villagers kneeling on both sides of the road. THE BUr SIAN RETREAT. The brginnlng of tne R isslan re treat from the Stiabo wan orderly and they left a clean field. None of their portable effects worth taking^had been abandonei, except hundreds of stacks of tin oases In the trenches and huts, containing cartridges. Toward evening of that day Gen Kuroki’s troops'overtook their rear guards eight or nine miles north of ths Shaho and from that time the re treat became a scramble for safety. At the various supply stations huge piles of grain were fired aod sm ulcered for days. Toe pursuit outluued all through tbe night of the eighth and the right division of Kuroai’a army came to the branch line of railroad running from Mukden to the mines at f usbun. On the morning of the 9bO the sand storm began, which threw both sides into confusion and made or deriy retreat or pursuit on a large scale impossible. AU tbe telegraph wires connecting ‘ the different divisions were blown down bo that eaon contingent proceed ed largely on its own respoDsibltlty-. The left division crossed the Hunno under cover of tbe thick dost clouds without a battle. Apparently the Rus sian commander was afraid to risk a defense on such a day even in the elaborate works, whlyh made th* Hanbo the most fi sian central army left Mukden to Us fate and continued Its now disorderly retreat to Tiehllng. That all their lead were left where they fell show ed what the retreat had become. On obe morning of the 10th, the left di vision again enoountered the Russian rear guard In considerable force north east of Mukden and as the Russians attempted to make a stud they were beaten In two eog • gements, and in the afternoon th; division arrived at tbe town of Sana, 10 miles beyond Muk den, and nn the main road from Muk den to Tiehllng. XARCHED DAT AND NIOBT. Until toe 10th the army bad been pushed forward day and night in the face of every difficulty to draw tbe at tention of the Russians from Mukden, the men were nearly exhausted by their forc<d march. The military roads from Fushun toTiehlirg wound along tbe plains among sharp hills md the division followed this to got to the north of Mukden while Gen. Linevitoh took most of his men dl- eotly north through the mjunta!ns with the Japanese right army pursu ing. Several times tne Japanese had *narp brushes with the rear guard but ■no important aotion until the 14;h, when tbeay approached the targe of hgh aterp hills a yen miles aouti east of Tiehllng which was strategically tne strongest defense of the city. Caere was a broad level plain in front .f the bills and no avenue of approach 'of an attoOking force except to eross ^fatts plain under such covers as oculd be found in the gudies aod behind oo* oaslooal ridges. Consequently it was d' cned to attempt the night attack vlth the b»onet once more, and thus the first Ud* of trenches below tbe Sills was gained For the general advance In tbe morning of the 14th two battalions were assigned for tbe frontal attack, one for a diversion on the right and the large* force of eight, on the left. A direct charge upon the main trenches was tmpoesl hie because ths slope before them was almost too steep to be sealed even with no resistance. A lower hill to the west and in front was vulnerable on Its west flank and after an artillery engagement tbe main Jxxiy occupied this Night stopped the fighting and before morning the Russians had re tired in baste leavirg 200 dead, while the Japanese ban 809 casualties. The last stand of the Russians before Tieh- ilng was on a chain of hills 3,000 me- tree southeast of She dtr-equipped elaborately with a long chain of trenches and well constructed gun positions.while they held 24 hours. Voile the general of division was re oonnoiterlt g the positions on the af ternoon of the 16th another Japanese brigade from the south began to en gage one of the Russian batteries This partly exposed the Russian flank to the enemy and 36 Japanese guns were concentrated in a bombardment of that position. Darkness again In* terrupted the work after an hour’s bombardment and again the Russians retreated, abandoning without seri ous resistance their most valuable de pot between Mukden and Harbin, which was their strongest military po sition as well. Gen. Kuropetkin bad oeen there In Mis special train until the afternoon of the 15th, It said. When the first Japanese oom pany entered the settlement at 1 in the mom log theyeaptured the sta tion manter and twoother tffloers who had b ;en left with orders to apply the torch at the last moment, but only s few buildings were burned and there were valuable stores of munitions un damaged. N> A DRAMATIC ENCOUNTER. No more dramatic encounter oo ourred during this eventful week than the capture of tbe Fifth and Nine teenth regiments of Russian r fla*b/ Kuroki’s Mt division on the morning of the Ilth. * In the panto whion pre vailed at Mukden then these two regt meats left at 3 in the m »rning with no general command lag them, and a mixed crowd of s ildlers from other or- gahiitlons and followers attaching themselves to the retreat. When the two forces discovered one another they quickly formed into fighting line aod tne Russians came on with the effiodr* In front of the ranks to out their wav through. Tne contact was so sadden that there was no confusion at first, in wmoh the Japanese gene ral and hit staff with two foreign at taches came under the fire of the Jap anees rifles and guns. Tha fight was short and decisive. Toe Rumiaoa could mot stand in the open fields un der tfcfc Shrapnel and soon scattered likesti*6p whlle many parties waved towels and handkerchiefs, to surren der. Toe Japanese had only 200 oaa- days. Among tne officers were ral old men, one of them, a veteran of the Rosso-Turkiah war, with a white beard hanging to hts waist, who gave his age as 72 Tbe nrxt morning they went down the road In a big cloud of dost—a long and picturesque procession of dejected looking Moujlks, with their officers riding in Ohlnsas carts, and Jeering Mmeburians run ning along the fltr.ki—to Join the army of Rusdami in Japan whiob now number nearly 100.000. A CATXRPILL4R PLAGUE A Train IStrppnd by MalMtndee oi the Creeping insects. Sometime ago some sections cf Gedrgla were visited Ut a plague of caterplllera, which became almrst un bearable. For several days reports had been going Into Savannah of the ravages of the insects within a few miles of the olty. Finally a represen tative of the Augusta Chronicle visit ed the stricken section and was as tounded at the ait nation. The cater plllers bad become a plague as de struotiv* as any thait ever vialted the west or committed depredation In Biblical Hbbsi Tbe peats actually overran a ohureh and made It oofit for use. The streams were so badly covered with them that when It was decided to have a baptizing on* Sunday; brush- brooms had to be employed to dean off the surface of the water. Two ne gro families have been ran out of their homes by tbe great horde cf hungry, hairy things, and Rlobard Dotson, who lived at Pooler, bad to pot his entire family of twelve at work to keep them from overrunning his home. These are hard bat tine stories of the plague. The residents shout Pooler mr rounded their homes with ditches to keep the conquering army book. Oo the turpentine farms of Judge F. 8 Lathrop, chairman of the board of county commissioners of Chatham Ooanty, work was at a standstill. AU the turpentine boxes that had the least gum In them had to be dipped and thrown away, as the caterpillars had crawled into them, stuck there and died. At WlUis Station, on the Seaboard railway, a freight train was stalled by the caterpillars. Tbe dead Insects caused such a stench-that tbe people passing that way were made siok. ' ALLXGXD Y0T1 FRAUDS. The following ia Mr. Theodore H. Price's cotton crop report for the month of May, Issued from New York: Herewith I submit my monthly re port on tbe cotton crop, made up from 348 replies to a postal card inquiry which oompriBed the following lions: What is the precentsge of increase or decrease in cotton acreage in your section as compared with last year? What percentage of the total con templated area has been planted upon the date of your reply? ft* Is the crop with you earlier or later than the normal, and hew many days? Expressed in percentage, what is the present condition o f tbe crop in rour section, assuming 100 per cent, to be the standard of normal or reason abft perfect development at this sea son 9 This is ons of the most extensive rqutriesever made by me. R-piles lave bran received from 3,386 towns n 806 cotton producing counties. The total number of cotton producing counties, aomdlng to tbe last Osnsu* returns, is 822 so that the entire belt may beregarued as having been effec tively covered. Tbe average date of my replies Is May 19th, and tbe statement of con dition does not, therefore, refl nt the heavy damage caused hv the excessive rains inTexti oo May 21*1. Tor this reason tbe Government re port, which Is made up from repUSa as of tbe date of May 25tb, may per haps show s lower condition than that given by my corresp indents. Last year tbe condition as reported by my oorrespoodeme on the 20th of each month during the growing sea son averaged wltnin 4 points of that reported by the Government, and the average of my correspondents’ crop estimates published bv ms on th* 3d of November was 12,177 603, or within 14 903 bales of the estimate-of the Agricultural Department published a month later. The details of my report, Stats by State, wlU be found below. Ttm indicated, decrease in acreage, as compared with last year through out tbe entire belt, la 17 3 per cent. , 1%$ condition of the crop, assum ing 100 p*r dent, to he the standard of noimal or reasonably perfect de velop mentat this season, 70.8 per oent. Of the total contemplated area, my correspondents report that there had been planted op to May 19th 79 per cent. *■ Oa the average the crop is reported later than the normal by 17 days summary. State. Replies. Decrease Condition 1 BAD CAKEEB ENDED la the Street tf Meeifomirr, Ala., fcy His Censta, Whom Hs Had Threateaed far Ksfastav “ Him Money. Judge Francis a Randolph, one of the best known men in Alabama, was shot and instantly killed Saturday af ternoon by John Randolph, a second oou In, In front of tbd latter's oOaa on South Perry street Montgomery, Ala. There are several rumors as to the cause of the tragedy, ths one given most credence being that Judge Ran dolph had demanded a loan of money from hie slayer with the aroompsay- ng threat that unless ths loan was forthcoming violence would ensue Toe "two men met Saturday after noon and It is said that Judge Ran dolph repeated his threats. John Randolph presented a single-barrelled reprating shotgun and Judge Ran dolph attempted to draw a revolver, whereupon John Randolph fired two shots In quick succession, one enter ing the heart aod the other tbe neek. Either would have proved fatal. ^ A vast crowd, estimated at 1,900 penone, at onoa surrounded the aosns of the tragedy and medioal aid was summoned, but wen e physician ar rived Judge Randolph was dead. His slayer was arrested and placed in tha bounty jail, where many friends called daring tbe afternoon and Isoderod any asslstaroa needed. Judge Francis 0. Randolph had killed two men, one in Alabama aad another in Colombia, to which ooun* try he fled from this state. Fbr tha bomlotd* in Alabama ha was asqalt ted, bat In Colombia be was ami tan sad to death. Ha was in oloai meat there for several years, dal which time his friends bars aad Fowr Men Arrested fbr Making Oclsuog highly sucoemful in the-late~ battle line of dsfense, perhaps sod a maj rity of the large Russian | 0 wn tmstiIs were sunk as a result mines. his msn were in a panto. Prubatdy was tbs deelstv* day of tilt baa* uallies while dead and wounded Rus sians were all over the field. Daring to* rest of tbe day tbe Japan*** were occupied hunting for Russians In all the sorfoonding country. They bed broken up Into small parties, were fleeing in every direction, boom toying to get baek to Mukden, others to find _ roads of neoape northward, and many twl I hiding in tbe ravinss and in Chinese bonsse. However brave they were la fighting, when cornered mss of tbesDeelvcs hardly of sun of A False Election Returns. Three managers of election, M. L Vox, George Bnsbee and J. A. Arm Htrong, and a partisan, named T. D. Mitchell, were arrested - Wednesday morning in the town of Bnxkland, across the Oongaree river from Colum bia, charged with fraud against the State election laws sod with conspir acy on the ground that they made false returns in tbe recant election held there for the choice of an inten- dfnt. Busbee has turned State's evidenos, hut Is too sick to be locked up The others sr* behind the bars. Candidate Gunnells, who was counted out toy three votes, alleges that he bolds affl davits from 117 out of the 151 voters who participated In the election de claring that they voted tor him. Fox Is a grocery man and alleged blind tiger, Busbee Is a oottoo mill opera tlve. Armstrong is s mill operative and clerk and Mitchell was a witnean for the defence In the Jim Tillman murder trial. Intended G. B. McCombs, In whose interest the alleged frauds were com milled, escaped after an exciting chase at 2 o’clock Wednesday morn ing, near Cayoe. Learning that war rants were out he and Fox skipped together. They were overtaken by a party of three special deputies. When Fox and MoOombs were beaded off suddenly, they showed fight. Mo Combs reached for his revolver. Fox then grabbed D. puty Mayen and a» the latter was throwing him to tne ground MoOomb* escaped, Just as the other deputies came up Before Fox grabbed him Mayen find twice at McCotob* without eiLot. Voelkereum Wm Hilled. Rear Admiral Yoe kersam, com mender of the battleship squadron of tbs Russian fleet, wu killed the lint day of tbe battl*,'*Hay 27, In tbe con Ding tower of bis flagatnp, the battle •hip Oelabya, on* of the vessels sunk Iby the JapuM. It wag YoeUcsnsm’s squadron, according to a report, whiob fired on tbe British trawlen in the North sea, mistaking them for Japan ese torpedo boats. Acreage per cent. N. Carolina 616 20.6 79.4 S, Carolina 735 15.2 76.3 Georgia 1,194 14.5 83.5 B lor Ida 59 - 17 80.5 Alabama 854 12.2 _ 838 Mississippi 978 19.2 66.8 Louisiana 324 19.5 62.6 Texas 1,483 18.2 588 Arkansas 522 21.9 62.8 Tennessee 262 18.1 61.4 In Teiritory 160 18.8 74.9 Oklahoma 133 23.1 83.7 Missouri 14 159 82.8 Virginia 15 24.5 89 Total 7,346 17.3 avg 70.8 av la Opeu Revolt. The Russian army in Manohorla said to be la a bad state. According to dispatch from St. Petersburg the tooopa an in open nvolt and oacnot ba depended upon to do mneb fighting The newspf Bo* given as then The outlook, as suggested by these guns, Is of the gravest import to tbe trade. The aggregate reduction and acreage as compared With tbe Government's figures of lut year of the same date, indicate an initial contraction In tha producing capacky of tbe cotton area planted, or to be, planted, of 29 5 par o nt. Admitting hat the crop of 19U4-5 wa* 14 000 000 bales, tbe present indications punr to j vllie f »r their a crop of 29.fr per cent. te«, or 9 8TO; -’ t ttt« ft tad ‘ 000 bales, a sumlng that the- condi tions hereafter are as p lenomenally and unusually favorable u tbe grow log and picking season of last year proved to be. Tola is hardly prob able, a 9 The deterioration in the crop con ditlon, u reported by the Govern ment bjt»e*-n the first of June sod t> e first of October lut year wu only 2 par oent., the leaeton JgQjrd for the put ten years, the average de terioration during tbe tunmer and autumn for th* previous nine years having been 20 per oent. Toe indicated acreage for the oun ing season ia 2 674,000 acres less that, that planted two years ago, and which produced a commercial crop of only 10 066,000 bales. The oonuttt n u reported by my correspondents la 2.8 per cent, lower, than tne condition reported by tiTe G vernment In 1903. Only 79 per cent, cf tbe arts ha* been planted and the crop Is 17 days later loan the normal, wbereu lut year’s crop wu generally admitted to be two weeks earlier toan the normal. Spinners’ takings for the current aeon will proabiy reach, if they do not •exceed, 12,600,000 bales, and tbe present rate of consumption undobted ly calls fer another ere p of 12,000,000 bairn or over to adequately supply tne worWa demarift Their* seesoa to be no pro* pact of any such production, but a possibility on the other hand of a crop not over 10,500,000 and possib ly toss than 10,000,000 bales. * . Theodore H. Price. to have the muted. Judge Rmdolph finally ob tained his liberty and returned •> Montgomery. Soon afterwards be wu tried on thirteen charts* of em bezzlement, alleged to have been eoaa- mitted daring hts incambeoey u paa bate judge of Montgomery ooanty. Since bis re tarn here be has bean drinking freely and It ia alleged that on several qocasioofibe bu threatened tbe lives of Montgomery dtisaos. A few weeks ago. Judge Rtodolph was an nnsuooemful candioat* for tbe Montgomery D>m otatto mayoralty nomination. Theaapnmesonrtof toe state s me time ago affirmed a decision of tbe lower courts denying eross bills from Judge Randolph and his wife, both petitioning for divorce. In ad- | ditlon to bar, ba ia survived by a mn and four daughters. Their Bwsgy Bwsmed. A dispatch from Spartanburg says Chief Grady and several of the toem constables bad e lively time of it on a raid in the Dark Corner Monday night. Arriving- GowansvlUe, tbeir vehicles broke do*d, and they seemed anot her and pitted forward in their quest of Illicit distilleries. Tbeir raid carried ih into tbe lonely, oafre* quented sections of corner, and they ♦ere fired on several times, but with out results. Their search proved fruitless, and, returning to Gov ■j --- w..«ai burned up by the irate moonshiners. Tnelr bones bad not been molested and the men seouied another carriage and canoe on homo Raiding Bltad Tu At Charleston the “sLOial dub,*’ chartered blind tigers, continne to be raided by the consiab es and much ex citement pre va Is among tbe proprie tors and members, especially at this season of tbs year, when oold bear to considered to be so very especially with the of oomf .rtable quarters, etoetotoftas, etc. Tha raid of one dab Wednesday night netted 24 gallons of high grads «hiskey and nearly 1,000 bottles of export beer. Tne renewed activity of tbe ccostable* is said to ba dm to specixl instructions from Columbia to get after tbe violators of tbe law. Raaataa Loapra. Rough estimate* nude of the Roe* ■ On 1 »aa« in tbe battle f >ugbt In tta era of J pan exclusive of nearly 4,008 pris ners, vary from seven to nine th naand. It ia thought that tbe majority perished. Calculating the complements of tbs sunken sad sep ta red ehlpe at upwards of 8sa ttwos* and, seven thoosand men reaaata oa- I accounted for. It to poribl* that ths •dreamedsom of tha of ths crews of the torn for* tnossts ships. Many bodlsshave fiasa was had ashore on the islands aad oa tbe shore of tits neighboring eoam under the soeoe of the betUa «Ute. Aaked lor si An enterprising Atlsnta finn, ! ap ‘ cording toons of the Atlanta papers, advertised among its sttraotioaa ‘ everything the bride-to-be would need” nod an Augusta tody wrote lasted lofai Robert 0. Dai of Baltimore, banft and ran off tof B. Noyce, a' it, Md - '* -