The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 31, 1900, Image 1
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ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG, S. C.. THURSDAY, MAYKJ1, 1900. , ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. 'fA
A GRAND SIGH!
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NO CLOUDS TO HAR T1
OF EARTH'S I
iWI ELATED
Thousands of Snccessfnl Photographs
Taken of Phenomenon and Vast Oct3
lay of Government and Edcca*
tional Institntions Well
Expended.
The eclipse of the sun ^Monday was
a phenomenal visible
throughout North America, Europe
and Africa, but total only in some
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parts of Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia,
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Virginia in the United States.
It was an event of first imDortance.
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not only to astronomers but to the
world at large. It was unprecedented
in more than one respect. Its path of
totality instead of extending through
sparsely settled regions or rnnning
over vast expanses of water, crossed
six states in a populous portion of (
the country, all of the region being
easily accessible by rail or water.
It has been eleven years since a similar
event was witnessed, but the ad- (
vancement of astronomical science '
and tho marvelous improvements in 1
telescopes, photography and electrical (
appliances insurod more complete observations
than ever before known. ]
The United States government and all
great educational institutions made 1
elaborate and costly preparations to ]
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get me oesi poKsxuxe uuservauuus,
and millions of dollars were expended
in this way.
While great interest attached to the
eclipse itself, the object of the astronomers
composing the "eclipse expeditions"
from all parts of the country
was not stone to observe the passing
of the moon before the sun, but the
study of the corona. This particular
branch of the many phenomena generally
attending an eclipse has always
been an unsolvable problem. It is the
belief of many astronomers that the
corona is a product of the sun and has
nothing to do with the earth or moon,
as formerly suspected.
Generally speaking, the observations
taken by the astronomers Monday
were confined to three separate lines
of work?the old method of telescopic
observation, viewing of the
eclipse with the naked eye and the
photographing of the phenomena of
the eclipse. The path of totality be'
gan at the Pacific ocean, just west of
Mexico. It passed eastward across
Mexico, and entering the United States
near New Orleans, proceeded in a
1 northerly direction until it left the
continent close to Norfolk, Ta. .
The higher altitudes gave reasonable
assurance also of clearer atmosphere
and at tlys season of the year
; less olouds are generally found, especially
- in Alabama, Georgia and j c
North Carolina. While the eclipsej s
was visible all over the country, it j
was only within a path of about 55! t
miles in width, extending from New j e
Orleans to Norfolk that the obstruc- t
tion was complete. It will be readily i
seen, therefore, that a difference of c
five miles in this belt made a differ- v
enee of one-fifth in the matter of time o
in which the obstruction could be wit- e
nessed and a position near the central a
line of totality increased in geometri- s
cal proportion to the stupendous grandeur
of the phenomenon. s
* Then.it crossed the Atlantic, touch- f
ed Portugal, and afterward passed t
across northern Africa, leaving the 1:
earth finally near the northern end of t
the Red Sea. In this country the 1
cities of New Orleans, Mobile, Mont- t
gomery, Raleigh, and Norfolk were in e
tike totality path. Besides these cities
. the path of darkness included thirty t
other towns, which are large enough n
to have their names on the map. Few t
if any observatory parties were located a
at the large cities for the reason that f:
they lacked the altitude, and an unob- t
etrncted view for any distance was not I
to be found. C
At Barnesville, Ga., where the government
observing station was located, p
the weather was very good, and the a
* conditions under which the observa- q
tions were made were good. The program
was carried out without inter- c
ruption, without accident or delay, a
Twenty photographs were secured on a
the five cameras mounted on the polar t
" axis, and four photographs with the I
large photoheliograph. The trans- 1
parency of the sky was good and the 1
steadiness of the air was excellent; \
in fact, is was unusually good. As
far as known the observations were t
entirely successful. i:
tEye observations of the solar prom- t
inences and also the corona were 1
. made, and also observations of the
shadow bands both by eye and by e
photography. Professor H. C. Lord s
also made entirely successful obser- v
vations, and although of such a char- n
acter as to mako exceedingly sharp a
To Change^Marriage Law..
A London dispatch says: In the /
house of lords Lord Strathcona moved !
the second reading of the colonial bill
permitting the marriage of a man and \
his deceased wife's sister. The bill g
passed its second reading amid cheers ^
bya vote of 116 to 13. i
British Near Johannesburg. i
Monday Lord Roberts announced t
his arrival at Klip river, eighteen t
miles from Johannesburg. j.
CHANGE OF VENUE
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Is Desired For Negro Moran Charged j
With Criminal Assault.
. There is a strong probability that t
Jack Moran, the negro who is badly
wanted by a mob in rloyu. county, i <;
Ga., and who now occupies a ceil in ^
the Atlanta jail, will not be brought to i
trial in the county where his crime was c
committed. The chances are that c
Judge W. M. Henry, of the Kome circuit,
who has conferred with Governor
Candler, will grant a chaDge of venue
and that the trial will be held in At- (
Iantfe 5
r WAS ECLIPSE
IE GAZE OF niLLIONS
NHABITANTS.
work necessary at critical moments,
he seems to have succeeded admirably.
The photographs will probably be
developed in Washington.
Everything was in readiness weeks
ago at Thomaston, Ga., where the
Lick- observatory expedition bad a
splendid site. Astropomer-in-charge,
Professor W. W. Campbell, brought
A/itAn^^A inefvnmanfc
ocvciai luuo ouicu nnb tuoiiuiucuvc
all the "way from Mount Hamilton,
Cal., and was the first astronomer to
reach the coveted shadow path. He
was assisted by a splendid corps of
assistants.
The eclipse as viewed at that point
was a perfect success, both from an
astronomic and popular standpoint.
What results have been accomplished
will not be known until the fortythree
photographs taken during the
period of totality have been developed.
At Siloam, Ga., the observations
were a complete success. The sky
was clear at this point and the full
program of the eleven photograph exposures
was carried out. The corona
appeared strikingly like that of the
eclipse in India in 1898.
In South Carolina the day was
cloudless and the special agents of
the government were afforded a splenlid
opportunity to study the phenomena
of the eclipse. Representatives of
;he government weather burea?made
extensive observations at Newberry.
The South Carolina college was at
Little Mountain, the University of
Virginia at Winnsboro and other bureaus
and institutions had observation
earties at 29 points in the belt of toality
in the state.
In Columbia the stars came out and
or 89 seconds the sun's light was obtcured.
There was an unnatural greensh
halo over the surrounding country
ind the temperature fell 10 degrees.
At "Rn+crora tv-tllocra AolinRA station at
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S. C., twenty photographs
)f the sun were secured during the
totality with different cameras and unler
varying times of exposure.
Observations of the eclipse for the
weather bureau were taken at the
ruskegee Normal and Industrial institute
at Tuskegee, Ala. A perfect
crescent with decided diminution of
light was visible at 7:13, and totality
jhsued at 7:38, its length being one
ninute and 15 seconds. At the instant
of totality a cold wave seemed to
pass over the earth and stars were
plainly visible.
The day was anything bnt one of
-est to those who represented the Harrard
and Blue Hill observatories, the
Massachusetts Institute of Technol>iy,
St. Louis university, St. Xavier
iniversity and Creighton observatory,
Dmaha, Neb., all stationed at Washngton,
Ga.
A clqar sky and ideal weather' pre-ailed
at the hour it was most wanted
md splendid results followed.
AS VIEWED ABROAD.
At Ovar, Portugal, the weather was
ilear, and the English expedition observed
the eclipse satisfactorily.
At Tripoli the eclipse expedition,
mder Professor Todd, of Amherst
iollege, completed successful observaions
with twenty telescopes, includng
a twenty-four-inch telescope. The
orona was for fifty-two seconds and
rafc an exact duplicate of that of Janiary,
1889, completely confirming'the
leven years' period of corona variation
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X xne sun spots. xue wcaiuu wao
plendid.
The conditions in London for aberrations
of the sun's eclipse were
air. The day was somewhat cloudy,
>ut at 2:47 p. m. the sun shone out
>rightly and the circular shadow over
he disc was remarkably clear cut.
?he sun was intermittently obscured,
?ut the observer had ample opportutity
to obtain valuable results.
Intense interest was displayed in
he solar eclipse in Madrid, Spain. A
tumber of excursion trains were run
o Argamavilla, Elshe, Navalmoral
,nd ' Plazencia, where astronomers
rom ill countries of Europe assem>led.
M. Flammarion reported from
''ranee and Joseph Norman Kockyer,
Treat Britain.
Bright sunshine and a cloudless sky
>re vailed everywhere. The British
.stronomers assembled took photographs
every ten seconds.
The eclipse was observed at Algiers
inder fine conditions. The sky was
rlmost cloudless and the atmosphere
Imost transparent. Observing paries
were present from England,
France, Germany, Italy and Switzerand,
the largest being the British,
is totality approached the effect was
reird.
"When the last ray of sunlight faded
he corona instantly shone forth, unisually
large and brillhnt, extending
o Mercury, shining with intense white
aster two degrees away.
The shape of the corona was almost
xactly that of the eclipse of 1878 as
een in the United States; namely, two
ringfe, one shooting almost vertically
ipward and the other downward, both
lmost exactly on a solar equator.
COURT GRANTS APPEAL. '
Atlanta Street Railway Contention
Before Judge Pardee.
In the United States court at Atlana,
Ga., Monday, Judge Newman
granted the appeal of the Atlanta Railway
and Power Company, better
mown as the Consolidated, from his
ecent decision authorizing the Colins
Park and Belt Railroad Company
o condemn certain portions of its
racks under the franchise granted the
atter corporation by the city.
"RAPID TRANSIT COMPANY"
s New Name Secured By Atlanta
Street Railway Corporation.
By an amendment to the charter of
he Collins Park and Belt railway of
Ulauta, Ga., granted by Secretary of
state Phil Cook, the name of that cor>oration
is changed to the Rapid
transit Company, and henceforth the
:ompany will be known by its new ,
sharter name.
Failure of Stock Brokers.
ThoJailure of Seymour, Johnson &
:o., waB announced on the New York
Jtock and Cotton Exchanges Monday. 1
DEWEY'S BOUNTY
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Is Cut In Half By the Decision
of the United States Supreme
Court.
Monday the TTnited States supreme
court decided Admiral Dewey's bounty
claim against the admiral's contention.
The effect is to deprive the admiral
and the men engaged with him
at Manila of half the amount claimed
by them.
Justice Harlan rendered the opinion
of the court, which turned on
whether the words "superiority" or
"lmer.ioriiy in me Muiuie nun iciciertce
to support of the enemy's vessels
by land batteries, mines and torpedoes.
"We cannot do that," said Justice
Harlan, "without going far beyond
the obvioxis import of the words employed
by congress. There is undoubtedly
some force in the suggestion
that in rewarding officers and
sailors who have sunk or destroyed
the enemy's vessels in a naval engagement,
that the difficulties of every kind
with which they were actually confronted
should be taken into Consideration.
Bnt that is a matter which
we cannot suppose was overlooked by
congresE; and we are m>t at liberty to
hold'that it proceeded upon the broad
basis suggested when it is expressly
declared that the amount of its bounty
shall depend upon the question
whether the euemy's vessel?not the
enemy's vessel and the land batteries,
etc., by which it was supported, was
pf inferior or equal or superior force."
Upon the question of policy the
court said:
"All genuine Americans? recall with
delight and pride the marvelous
achievements of our navy in the memorable
engagement at Manila. Bnt
this court cannot permit considerations
of that character to induce it to
depart from the established rules for
the interpretation of statutes."
The original claim of Admiral Dewey
and his sailors was about $400,000.
The court of claims reduced it to$200,000.
That decision is sustained by
the court's decision. The admiral's
personal claim is reduced from ?20,000
to abont $10,000.
Chief Justice Fuller and Justices
White and McKenna dissented.
Ex-Secretary Herbert, counsel for
Dewey and his men, filed a petition
for a rehearing.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
The Various New Industries Established
the Past Week.
The more important of the new
industries reported the past week include
coal mines in Alabama, Texas
and West Virginia; cotton mills in
Georgia and Texas; cottonseed oil
mills in Alabama, Mississippi. North
Carolina, Tennessee and Texas; an
electric light and power plant in Georgia;
an olectrical machinery manufactory
in Virginia; flouring mills in
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and
North Carolina;' a foundry and machine
shop in West Virginia; a furniture
factory in Mississippi; gold mines
and granite quarries in North Carolina;
a harness and a $250,000 ice factory
in Georgia; a knitting mill in Virginia;
a loom equipment manufactory in
South Carolina; lumber mills in Florida,
Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee,
Texas and West Virginia; a mining
prospecting company in Texas, an office
supplies manufactory in Virginia;
rice mills in Georgia and Texas; a
roofing manufactory in Alabama; a
shoe factory in Georgia; a soap factory
in Mississippi; spoke and handle
works in Kentucky; stave and heading
works in West Virginia; a tannery in
Georgia; telephone exchanges in Tennessee
and West Virginia; a tobacco
factory in Kentucky; wagon works in
Virginia.?Tradesman (Chattanooga,
Tenn.)
invAvrc IM wmpc
flade By Standard Oil Company In
Kentucky and Georgia.
An increase of 10 per cent in the
wages of a certain class of employees
has been announced by the Standard
Oil Company, of Kentucky. It is estimated
that about 1,000 men will be
benefited by this advance and many of
the Atlanta, Ga., employees will come
in for their share.
The advance was decided upon recently
at a meeting of the board of
directors of the company, but it was
not until a few days ago that news of
the increase was made known.
"SECRET UNDERSTANDING/'
Senator Willington flakes Significant
Reference In Senate Speech.
In the course of a speech in favor of
the adoption of a resolution expressing
the senate's sympathy for the
Boers, Monday, Mr. Wellington, of
Maryland, referred to a secret understanding
existing between the United
States and Great Britian.
When Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts,
demanded proof that such an understanding
existed, Mr. Wellington said
that in the circumstances it was difficult
to present tangible proof, but he
believed the proof could be found in
the secret archives of the state department.
CERTIFICATE OF MAG1NNIS,
Would-Be Successor of Clark, Presented
In the Senate.
Friday, Senator Carter, of Montana,
presented in the senate the certificate
of Governor Smith appointing Hon.
Martin Maginnis senator to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the resignation of
Senator Clark and to which Mr. Clark
also had been appoiqted by Lieutenant
Governor Spriggs in the absence
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of the governor. In accordance war.
a request made by Senator Carter the
certificate was laid on the table.
(I FOR CAMPAIGN EXPENSES.
New Yorker Gives $100,000 To Democratic
Committee With Proviso.
James J. Coogan, president of the
borough of Manhattan, and a leader in
Tammany hall, has contributed $100,000
to the Democratic national committee
with the stipulation that the gift
be recinded if William J. Bryan is not
renominated. The committee will be
allowed to make use of this fund as it
may see fit;
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ION BOER SOIL
BRITOHS MARCH
Roberts Leads His Army
Into the Transvaal.
CLIMAX NEARLY REACHED
Redcoats Are In Neighborhood of J<r
hannesbnrg, the Burgher Metropolis,
and Pretoria, the Capital.
When Lord Roberts wrote hia first i
dispatch on Transvaal territory Sunday,
shortly beforo 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, he was fifty-one miles from
Johannesburg and seventy-seven from
Pretoria. His immensely superior
forces had passed the Vaal river, their
last great obstacle, at three points.
The Vaal forms a curve of eighty
miles from Pary's on the west to Zand
Drift'on the east. The concave of the
curve is toward the Free State. Thus
Lord Roberts, advancing along the
railway, as in a position to strike any
part of the crescent by shorter lines
than those by which the Boers could
re-enforce the threatened points. The
Boers retreated almost without a show
of defense.
General French and General Hamilton
apparently did not fire a shot.
Of Lord Roberts' immediate force
eleven men, belonging to the Eighth
mounted infantry, were the first to
ford the river. They came upon a
Boer patrol looting at- Viljoen's Drift
and skirmish lasting ten minutes
followed. Two hundred Boers tried
feebly to hold the Veredeniging colliery,
but they were dislodged.
Tbe Boer rear guard is at Meyerton,
ten miles south of Verec^pniging.
Their main body is moving toward the
Klip river hills, that cover the south
side of Johannesburg.
While Lord Roberts' 30,000 infantry,
20,000 horses and 150 guns are
moving on Johannesbui^ and Pretoria,
through a parched and deserted
country, the situation at the Transvaal
capital as it was last Friday, is thus
described by an observer, who sent his
message by private nana to Liourenzo
Marques Saturday:
"The situation, both from a military
and a political point of view, has become
very critical. President Kruger
Thurssday admitted that matters are .
very grave. The Boer determination
is to trust everything to a last stand
on the Gats Babd mountains, to the
north of Potchefstroom, where 3,000
kaflirs are digging trenches. To that
point every available man and gun
have been sent.
"The whole of the western border
of the Transvaal from end to end is
defenseless and General Baden-Powell
can march in when he likes. Lord
Roberts, on the other hand, will encounter
the greatest resistance. The
Boer endeavor is to lure the British
into appearing to threaten Johannesburg
with attack, an excuse thus being
given them for the destruction of
property. The Transvaal government
will not dare destroy the mines and
property without an excuse. Much
dynamite has been sent down the line
and 160,000 cases lie ready at Zuurfontein,
near Johannesburg.
"General Louis Botha and General
Lucas Meyer have pleaded for the
preservation of property. Both are
large landed proprietors and fear confiscation,
but they have not received
satisfactory replies from PresidentKruger.
"Meanwhile many French and German
adventurers have come forward
with schemes and inventions for blowing
up the British troops. Some of
these have received a tacit permission
to experiment. One German invention
is for use on a railway, where it
lies perfectly concealed until the
weight of a passing train explodes the
charge.
President Kruger's proclamation to
the burghers asking their vote for and
against continuing the war is understood
to say that they can quit now
with the prospect of retaining their
farms or continue to the bitter end.
Rumors are current in Lord Roberts'
t a 1 > f am 4-xn n r??
aimj luav iuu i^ucio aiaicuu iDIU* i
render.
DUELISTS feXTlNCT.
Captain Page, "Last of the Line,"
Dies In Richmond, Va.
Captain Page McCarty, the celebrated
editor and dnelist, died Friday
evening at the retreat for the sick in
Richmond, Va., after many days illness.
Captain Page McCar?y was the last
of the famous southern duelists. He
was in May, 1873, one of the principals
in an affair that was romantic as
well as fatal. He killed John Mordecai,
a prominent lawyer, and was
himself terribly wounded. The lady
who was at that time the belle of the
south was the innocent cause of this
duel.
PAPERS OF INDICTMENT
In the Neely Affair Sent From Washington
to New York.
Papers were sent from Washington
to New York which charge Neeley, the
alleged defaulting postal employee,
with the embezzlement of a sum approximating
8400,000 through conversion
into cash of the $400,000 worth
of "surcharged" Cuban postage
stamps which were ordered destroyed i
and so certified by Neeley.
Campaign Against Smallpox.
The state board of health of North
Carolina will begin an especially active
campaign against smallpox. It finds
from reports that the disease has in- J
creased 400 per cent in North Carolina
daring the past twelve months.
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Reading Matter For Soldiers.
Mrs. Greenleaf, wife of Colonel C. ;
R. Greenleaf, United States army, has (
succeeded in opening an American
library in Manila, for t^e use of the
American soldiers, sailors and citizens j
in Manila. {
CNjrsir^iCNJfNjrx3ror\j?
I SOUTH CAROLINA \
I STATE NEWS ITEMS, i
CMCSlCMCSJCMCMfSJrsl^
Scop? of Charleston Exposition.
The scope of the South Carolina Interstate
and West Indian exposition is
briefly shown in the following items:
1. Agriculture, cotton, tobacco, food
and its accessories.
2. Manufactures.
3. Machinery of all kiuds, including
agricultnral implements.
4. Transportation exhibits: Railway,
ships, vehicles, automobiles, bicycles
aud electrical appliances.
5. Liberal arts: Engineering, public
ttorks, constructive architecture.
6. Forestry and forest products.
7. Horticulture and floriculture.
8. Phosphate rock and its products.
9. Mines: Geology and minerals.
10. Fish, fisheries, fish products
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and apparatus ior nsning.
11. Livestock.
12. Graphic arts: Typography, lithography,
steel and copper plate printing,
drawing, bookbinding, etc.
13. Fine arts: Painting, sculpture
and decoration,14:.
Education: Special exhibits
from Clemson college and other state
institutions.
15. Hygiene.
16. Woman's department.
17. Children's department.
18. Military.
19. Negro department.
20. United States government exhibit.
21. County exhibits.
22. Good roads: Sections of roads,
road machinery, broad-tired vehicles.
23. Exhibits from Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippines.
One of the main buildings will be a
"cotton palace," and in this will be
shown the prodncts of the cotton seed,
the machiner^ used in its manufacture
and improvements of the century.
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Board of Health Wrathy.
The entire board of health of Union
has resigned as the result of the clash
between the local authorities and the
cotton mill people about smallpox.
Resolutions were passed denouncing
the author of the circular signed by
T. C. DuncaD, president of the cotton
mills, so far as reference is made to the
board, as "cowardly and a slanderous
liar?cowardly, in that he confessed to
each of us that his circular was a
bltfff, and slanderous in that he sought
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lalseiy to injure us ior me uggraiiui/.ement
of his interests."
The board charges Governor McSweeney
with failure to co-operate
and meet the issue bravely and in a
manly way, and denounces Dr. Evans,
head of the state board, for professional
discourtesy in practically placing
Dr. Duncan in charge of the vaccination.
They charge the governor
with being more interested in re-election
than the enforcement of law and
order, and says: "Whereas, we realise
Duncan representing a million and
a naif dollars in corporated capital, is
a more potent factor in politics than
the board of health."
They further charge Dnncan with
violating the law by interfering with
the board of health in the legal discharge
of its duties and delaying, hindering
and interfering with imperative
vaccination.
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Club Chartered.
A charter has been issued to the
Business Men's Club, of Orangeburg.
The corporators named are: James
M. Oliver, Otto W. Spahr and O. B.
Bosinger. The association is for business
and social purposes.
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Coroner Appointed For Charleston.
Governor McSweeney announced a
few days ago that, in accordance with
the recommendation of Charleston delegation
he would appoint W. E. Duffus
coroner for Charleston county, to fill
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OUt me uutjipueu. icim <ji luoiaio \juioner
Rivers. Governor McSweeney
was pleased to appoint Mr. Duffus,
especially because he was not a candidate
for the place for the; approaching
primary.
Campaign Fund.
In his speech to the Democratic
convention Senator Tillman urged
that abont the most that this state
could do for the success of the Democratic
nominees, as this state was perfectly
safe, was to contribute to the
campaign fund.
The National Democratic committee
at the instance of the state committee
has appointed Colonel U. R. Brooks,
of Columbia, as chief in charge of the
campaign fund in this state.
Col. Brooks has selected and named
workers for each of the Congressional
districts, and announces the following '
appointments: First Congressional
district, Prof. C. J. Owens, Orange- 1
burg; 2d Congressional district, A. F.
Brooker, Columbia; 3d Congressional
district, G. W. Speer, Lowndesville; 1
4th Congressional district, James
Evans, Jr., Columbia; 5th Congres- 1
sional district, H. W. Dixon, Colum- :
bia; 6th Congressional district, D. H.
Traxler, Timmonsville; 7th Congressional
district, Dr. O. R. Lowman, 1
OrancrAhnrcr. '
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The national committee announces
that it will assure all contributors that
the fund raised will be judiciously and
carefully used and that the donors will
be gratefully remembered at headquarters.
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Alleged Emigrant Agent Flogged.
Amos McLaughlin, an itenerant upholsterer,
visited Edgefield and, suspected
of being an emigrant agent, a
gang of cotton mill hands enticed the
man into the basement of the mill, and t
tying him, gave him a terrible flog- i
ging. After vainly trying to get a c
legal investigation of his case, he left 1
the town. (
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BTeeting of Wholesale Grocers.
The ninth annnal convention of the
3outhern Wholesale Grocers' Associa- t
tion met in Charleston the past week. 1
Every southern state was represented, s
The most important matter at the first
Jay's session was the election of a
president, and J. A. Van Hoose, of
Birmingham, Ala., was elected by acclamation.
f
E. G. Leigh, Jr., president and E. ^
E. Hooker, secretary, both of Rich- g
raond, declined re-election. Retiring ?
President Leigh made an extended re- '
port, dealing with various important
reports which required careful consideration.
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King's Daughters Go On Record.
The convention of the southeastern
brauch of the King's Daughters, held
f.t Darlington, has pledged the efforts
of the order "to wipe out that foul
blot" on the proud histories of this
and adjacent states, the employment
of child labor in factories." The next
legislature will be attended by officers
of the society, who will work to this
end. The danghters of the King also
decided to build in Charleston the
"Hospital of the Sons and Daughters
of the King."
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General Hampton Too Feeble.
General Wade Hampton was too feeble
to attend the Confederate reunion
at Louisville. He is now confined to
his home and his physician stated that
it would be impossible for him to at
tempt the journey. General Hampton
has broken mnch recently. His eighty*
first birthday was passed some months
ago.
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Applies For Charter.
The Glenn-Lowery * cotton mill of
Whitraeyer has applied for a charter.
The capital stock is $300,000. The
promoters are William Coleman, of
Charlotte, and W. C. Childs and W.
A. Clark, of Columbia.
The Greenwood Insurance Company
was also incorporated. The capital
stock is $100,000.
CENTURY FUND
Of One flillion Dollars To Be Raised
By the Southern Presbyterians.
Tk? assembly of the southern Pres5byterian
church has decided unanimously
to raise a fund of $1,000,000?
a twentieth century fund?with which
to endow the educational institutions
of the church.
The decision was reached Friday
evening at the conclusion of perhaps
the most enthusiastic session the as*
sembly has held since it convened in
Atlanta, Ga., and as an aftermath to
an appeal by Dr. J. F. Cannon, of St.
Louis.
The address of the former moderator,
Dr. Cannon, was powerful and
clear cut; decisive in its demand for
progress; caustic in its reply to timid
questioning, and sternly denunciatory
in its arraignment of institutions of
learning which are "colorless'' when
it comes to religion. The address of
Dr. Cannon made in reply to a criticism
of the twentieth centnry movement,
and coming extemporaneously
as the occasion demanded it, may be
regarded in its logic, power and appeal
as the distinct feature of the assembly.
The Presbyterian church of the
6*uth is pledged to the rasing of $1,(X
0,000 for education, and with its
accustomed conservatism the assembly
has allowed five years for the work to
be completed. Before adjournment
was taken a committee of pastors to
take control of the fund was appointed
and everything necessary to undertaking
the big task has been arranged,
The central committee consists of a
chairman, Dr. W. W. Moore, of Union
seminary, and a vice chairman,
Dr. Charles R. Hemphill, of Kentucky,
with one minister and one elder or
deacon from each synod of the church.
The representation of each synod on
the committee was settled previously
by each synodical delegation retiring
and choosing its minister and elder or
deacon.
ENVOYS ISSUE STATEMENT.
Transvaal Representatives Promise to
Vl?!t Viir)nit? CitlM.
The following statement was issued
at Washington Friday by the Boer envoys,
who are at present in that oity:
'Messrs. F&cher, Wessels and Wolmarans,
who are representing the
Sonth African republics in this country,
have received many pressing invitations
from most of the large cities of
the United States to visit them, but
owing to the short time tbey have to
spend in this oountry it will not be
possiblatlo accept all of the invitations
received. It is their intention to return
as soon as circumstances permit
to their country, staying in Europe
sufficient time to carry out their instructions,
but before leaving they
have concluded to yield to the great
demand on the part of the American
people to spend a few more days in
AmeHca, and they have concluded first
of all to visit Baltimore, Philadelphia,
Providence and Boston during next
week.
"After visiting these cities they are
in hopes of being able to spare the
time to extend their visit to several
cities in the middle states, timely notification
of which will be given to the
committees who have honored them
with invitations. The common councils
and mayors of a number of cities
are urging them by resolutions to
make them a visit, and it may be possible
that their stay in this country
may be prolonged a few days in order
to meet their wishes.
"Thfl finvovs reoret exceedinelv that
they cannot meet the great numbers
of people who are so anxious to greet
them, as they would like to do. They
express themselves as grateful for the
many expressions of sympathy heard
ipon all sides for the cause that is so
lear to them, and they trust that the
'act that they cannot visit all who wish
:hem to do so will in no way interfere
vith the full and free expression of
jympathy and good will on their part."
Pleases the Cubans.
President McKinley has received
he fallowing dispatch dated Manzalillo,
Cuba, May 24, 1900: "The city
:oncil applauds the noble course taken
>y yon; government in hoisting the
3uban flag at Paris. Ckspedxs."
McKinley Congratulates Victoria.
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.rresiaeni .w.c.a.iniej', luruu^a oecreary
Hay, Rent a message of congratuations
to Queen Victoria on the occaion
of her birthday Thursday.
% Sugar Advanced Ten Points.
A New York dispatch says: All
crades of refined sugar have been adranced
10 points by the American 8u;ar
Befining company. The inde>endent
refiners later followed the adance.
STRIKE SITUATION
In St. Louis Still In Acute Stage.
. Governor Stevens' Life Has
Been Threatened.
Thursday was the 17th day of the
strike inaugurated by the employes of
the St. Louis Transit Company, with
a settlement apparently further away
than ever, neither side to the controversy
seeming willing to advanoe any
proposition to end it.
The Transit Comparty has resumed
service on nearly all of its lines. Nonunion
men continue to come in from
other cities, and as they arrive the
company puts them to work. Word
was received from Cleveland that
forty-two ex-employes of the Big
Consolidated street car system had
been sent to take the places of strikers.
Thns far no general sympathy strike
among the labor anions has been call*
ed, as bad been expected there would
be. Different trades and labor organizations
are showing their sympathy
with the strikers by contributing to
their support and passing rules fining
members for riding on the street cars.
Union labor has brought the World's
Fair question into the strike question.
At a mass meeting held Wednesday
night a resolution was passed to the
effect that all union labor throughout
the United States be asked to instruct
their representatives to oppose the
passage of the World's Fair appropriation
bill unless the St. Louis Transit
company settles the strike satisfactorily
to its former employes.
Since the strike began 200 arrests of
persons alleged to have violated the law
in its connection have been made, 25
warrants have been issued, ten indictments
reported by the grand jury and
the remainder of the cases have been
taken to the police and United States
courts, where many of them are still
pending.
Governor Stephens was in the city
Thursday for a conference with the police
authorities on the strike situation.
To a reporter the Governor said:
"I am satisfied that the trouble
along the street car lines and the
whole spirit of anarchy which is pre
Tailing in the city of St.* Louie at
present is being fomented and extended
by the machination* of a certain coterie
of Democratic politicians whc
hope by their coarse to in some manner
make gains in the approaching
party primaries. This element is securing
speakers to meetings held tc
express sympathy for the strikers all
over the city and materially encourage
disorder.
"These persons are responsible foi
many of the outrages of the past feu
days. It is as a result of their movements
that I have received many letters
threatening my life should I continue
to do my duty aud provide officers
to keep the peace.
"I desire to say farther that if as
governor of Missouri with all the
power vested in that office I cannot put
an end to the disgraceful condition
that has prevailed in St. Louis I shall
employ every iota of that power.
"The siot and disorder of every unawfal
kind mast oease."
A statement compiled Thursday
shows that since the strike began three
persons have been sho* aud killed, 16
wounded by bullets and 13 otherwise
injured.
UNCERTAIN HEALTH
Will Prevent firs. Davis* Presence at
the Confederate Reunion.
A Louisville dispatch says: Judge
H. W. Bruce, the chairman of the conMtmmiHdA
ftf /V?n ATA in
TUUI4VU WIUMI???W w. m m ? - ?
reunion, has received the following
letter from Mrs. Davis, widow of Jefferson
Davis:
Your kind invitation on the part of
the United Confederate Veterans has
been received, and I regret to say that
my health is so uncertain that I can
not possibly have the pleasure of being
with you, great as it would be to
me. However, the date set for it has
given me comfort, in the assurance
it conveys that my husband's
friends and comrades desire to
hold him in affectionate and reverend
memory. I wish with all my heart I
could go to meet our friends, but in
all events I send my loving sympathy,
and our two children will be present
with you?my daughter, Mrs. L A.
Hayes, and my grand-daughter, Miss
Varina Hayes. With affectionate messages
to our veterans, I am very cordially
yours,
Mrs. V. Juffeson Davis.
MORE FRAUDS INTIMATED.
Official From Cuba Says Cultoms Department
la Rotten."
A Washington special says: The
exposure of the frauds and corruption
in the postal service in Cuba is only
the beginning of a series of explosions
that will probably shake every depart
1 ?j :i:i ?.i. A
HIC?lib U11UOT UllilMftJ XU1Q AU IUO MMUU?
Now cornea the direct information
from an official of the customs service,
who has just returned to Washington
from Havana, that the customs service
in the island is honeyoombed with
fraud of the most flagrant kind and
that the peculations of high officials in
this department will eclipse those by
the Bathborne, Neely, Beeves gang.
ROBBER WAS NABBED.
Ready to Loot Bank But the Cashier
Held Him Up.
Will Adams, a desperado, attempted
to rob the Tracy City, Tenn., bank, '
which has a vault enclosed in armor
plate a quarter of an inch thick.
He entered the bank bnilding and
concealed himself, awaiting the arrival
of the cashier, with the intention of
hnldincr him nn when the Safe WaS
opened. He tu surprised and captured
by the caahier and constable.
China Called To Time.
The diplomatic corps at Peking,
have decided to ask the Tsung Li Ya?
men (Chinese foreign office) to define
explicitly the measures which the government
intends to take in dealing
with "boxers."
Outlaws Kill Sheriffs, "
A special from Thompson's Springs,
Utah, says that two sheriffs were killed
in a battle with outlaws fifty miles
east of that place.4 Posses are on the
way to the scene. ?
FAILED FOR SUM I
OF $13,000,000
________ m
Firm of Price, HcConnldc -M
& Co. Have Suspended. ||?
BILLED COnON HiRKET
Coatrolled Mack Soatkera Stat at
Staple Teek a Tumble Wkea FaS- |
an Vas Aaataacei -|||
Price, McOormick k Co., one of the
largest brokerage houses in New York |j
citj, failed Thursday with liability*
estimated at $18,000,000, The firm is
a member of the Stock, Cotton and
Produce Exchanges and of the Chicago M
Stock Exchange, and has branch offioes
in abont thirty cities thronghont the |
The failure is ascribed to thaiaet
that the firm was long on cotton in the - S
face of a fast falling market A notion^ ;
on the doors of the offices of the eossf^
pany referred all inquiries to Wittfiui^| :
J. Curtis and William N. Cromwell, M assignees.
Mr. Cromwell said late|
Thursday afternoon that it was inpe||fi
sible to make any statement at that I
hour concerning the -condition of
firm; that its business is very extendedand
corers several branch agenicdee^iV-f|
The total liabilities, he said, are afatif&l $j?
$13,000,000, nearly all of which werfi J
secured. He added that a statement > B
would be submitted to the credited si^ ?- j
the earliest possible date.
The firm is composed of Theodore MM
Price, William G. McOormick, B? x
M. Stewart-Wortley and Walter W^'- B
Price, with George Crocker, of
Francisco, a special partner on ?& &|| 1"^
1 yeetment of $5,000,000. Mr. MeCteEgj : -M
mick is of the veil known Chieig^| -?||
family of agricultural implement fame?-and
Mr. Stewart-Wortleyia a son-itt-^; ^
lav of Bear Admiral Schley. The A&Mf*0.
was organized January 2,1877* : i |
Following the annoonoemrmt nl^^m ^
failure the cotton market beoam#f^^
stricken, and broke 10 to 13 points. '
The extent of decline from the highest;!
price when the bull movement cnlmi- $ jgs
nated has befen 122 points.
the day the market became more quie*^ '?
and recovered from the depreeaion. |||
Assignees William J. Oartis and "
William Kelson Cromwell madatij^
following announcement regarding tfcyjS . ;;
"To the Creditors of Prioe, MbGefc^i .
mick A Co.: Price, McCormick k Cow ; '
have been compelled to tempctag^j^
suspend payment We ask and advis# i
1 that creditors holding the stoqD$||
bonds and other collateral to Ioaa?j|
and already well margined, hold the ?
loans nntil reasonable opportunity bi^ offered
the assignees to deal with4|?
same, that unnecessary losses thty4|m
Price, McCormick k Co. had^^MH :||?
extended wire service, and at tii?||M j|S
were credited as doing folly aa la^<^8'': l^
business as any firm on the exnhaityi^a igajjjj
Much of the business of theton.^BMr^lg
in the cotton exchange at first, and fttj^
senior member and organizer wgflS |^
formerly of the firm of Bnbbard, Prion *k
Co. At that time the older firm h*?;
a large southern business. The preempt!
firm controlled mnch of the sonfiMjBBB ' :
stock business, and has been FWSfi?
ive at times in stocks favored by eonS^j
era operators, although its
trade have been far less in volume
I UMU in . - .-JIIEM.
obtained through its wire senriot toll
Price, McCormick & Co. i&re sev^.-:
eral branches, in New England. A.-..-;'
W. Hogin, of Hogin k Co., Jfem^lh^ | ?|
Tenn., correspondents of PrinvX?*; p
Cormick k Co., said that feis limyv J|
wonld lose but little by reason of the 1-j.
Quite a stir was caused in cotton #
circles in Waco, Texas, when the fafl^>;'
nre was announced. A member of the
firm operating on the cotton exchtogs^C
and who is in a position to know, ssys^j
that no one on the leased wire in v
Texas was caught by the failure, It
is estimated that the losses
San Francisco in cotton and iftsiplj
through the failure of Price, McCor*v
mick k Co. will be dose to the half \
FAILED SECOND TIME.
ilacon Finn Found It Impossible to
'Weather the Storm." V-.?|gj8
Talbott k Palmer, commission '
chants at Macon, Ga., posted the aa~ ; p
nouncement Thursday morning of jftlSBH
To none did the announcement of
failure bring greater surprise than to * i
Trustee L. S. Worsham, who stated
he knew nothing of the matter and |?
-V.IU ?nnransr?^ fnr it.
A short time ago the firm felled for
$50,000, but the business had bees
taken np again, as the members of the ;-|f
firm announced that they could re? &|
trieve all losses if leniency was shown* '
TO BUILD BRANCH LINE. ^
Southern Olves Out the Contract For
Road In Alabama.
The Southern railway hais decided to
forthwith commence the work of J
construction of theEnsley Southern,
a branch railroad to ran between
Eosley, near Birmingham, and Parrish
I Junction, in Walker eonnty.
[ The new road will penetrate a country
rich in coal and iron ore and will '
bring it into closfe contact with the
blast furnaces of the Birmingham v J
TWO JCONVENTIONS CALLED
Rv RmhaExecutive Committee
The Kentucky Democratic state executive
committee in session at Frankfort
Thursday issued, cells for two
state conventions. The first will be
held at Lonievftle, June 18th, for the v ^