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ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 16.1900. OXE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
"IMPERIALISM
Bryan and Stevei
Of Their IN
At Indianapolis, Ind., Wednesday, j
William J. Bryan and Adlai E. Steventon
were formally notified of their J
nomination by the Democratic party
for president and vice president reipectively.
Military park, where the exercises
vrere held, was a seething mass of
humanity, 25,000 people crowding
into the open space to btar the notih-:
cation and acceptance speeches.
The greatest enthusiasm prevailed
despite the hot weather, and the lead-j
era of the party wei e given a magnifi-I
eent reception. I
Hon. Vim. J. Bryan.
Hon. William J. Bryan, in accepting
the Democratic nomination for presiVA/?A?
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follows:
"I shall, at an early day and in a
i more formal manner, accept the nornination
which yon tender, and I shall
at that time discuss the various questions
covered by the Democratic platform.
It may not be out of place,
however, to submit a few observations
at this time upon the general character
of the contest before us, and upon the
question whioh is declared to be of
paramount importance in this campaign.
"When I say that the contest of
1900 is a contest between Democracy
on one hand and plutocracy on the
other, I do not meau to say that all
our opponents have deliberately chosen
to give to organized wealth a predomiaating
influence in the affairs of the
government, bat I do assert that ou
the important issnes of the day the
Bepublican party is dominated by
those inflnences which constantly tend
to elevate pecuniary considerations
and ignore human rights."
"The Democratic party is not making
war upon the honest acqnisition of
reports from General McArthnr sho^rs
that the sickness in the army in the
Philippines is 8 per cent, which*was
considered a remarkably good showing.
wealth; it has no desire to discourage
industry, economy and thrift On the
contrary, it gives to every citizen the
greatest possible stimulus to honest
toil, when it promises him protection
in the enjoyment of the proceeds of
his labor. Property rights are most
secure when human rights are respected.
Democracy strives for a civilization
in whioh every member of society
will share according to his merits.
The most striking sentences of Mr.
Bryan's speech were the following:
"If elected president, I shall convene
congress in extraordinary session
as soon as I am inaugurated, and recommend
an immediate declaration of
the nation's purpose.
"First, Toestr^lish a stable form
of government in the Philippine;
islands, just as we are now establish-1
* ing a stable form of governmea t in the
island of Cuba;
"Second, To give independence to
the Filipinos, just as we promised to
give independence to the Cubans;
"Third, To protect the Filipinos
from outside interference while they
work out their destiny, just as we
\ have protected the republics of Central
* and South America, and are, by the i
wjr Monroe doctrine, pledged to protect
Cuba.
"The Republicans shall not be permitted
to evade the stupendous issue
of imperialism.
"We cannot repudiate the prinoiple
of eelf-government in the Philippines
without weakening that principle at
' home.
"The advocates of imperialism in
this country dare not say a word in
behalf of the Boers.
"The Democratic party does not oppose
expansion when expansion en- !
larges the area of the republic.
"If we have an imperial policy we
must have a large standing army.
"The Republican party has accepted
the European idea and planted itself
gpon ground taken by George III.
"History furnishes no example of
turpitude baser than ours if we sub*;
ftitute our yoke for the Spanish yoke. :
"A war of conquest is as unwise as
It is unrighteous."
RESTRICTIONS ABROGATED.
China Reconsider* anil Will Allow Cipher
Messages an Open Door.
A Washington special says: Minister
Wu Wednesday morning received an
edict under date of August 5, in which
the Chinese government permits the
powers to hold open and free communication
with their ministers. This
includes the sending of cipher messages.
Condemned Murderer Escapes*
Nathan Caruthers, a murderer, convicted
and sentenced to be hanged,
escaped from jail at Memphis, Tenn.,
Wednesday morning. He assaulted
the jailer at the breakfast hour, dashid
from the prison and made away.
Eight Per Ccfnt Sick.
Seeretarv Root states that the latest
[" THE ISSUE
nson are Notified
fomination.
Hon. James D. Richardson, chairman
of the notification committee,
made a brilliant speech in announcing
to the candidates the honor conferred
upon them at Kansas City.
Mr. Bryan spoke on the question of
imperialism, entirely ignoring silver,
trnsts and other issues of the campaign.
This fact was the sensational
feature of the day.
Mr. Stevenson covered the several
issues, but made scant reference to
silver, confining his remarks on the
subject to the statement that the party
had reaffirmed the demand for bimetallism.
Hod. Adlia E. Stevenson.
Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson, in accepting
the Democratic nomination for
vice president, 6aid in part:
"I am profoundly grateful for the
honor conferred upon me by my selection
by the national Demooratic convention
as its candidate for the high
office of vice president of the United
Siatei. For the complimentary manuer
in which such action has been officially
made known to me, I express
to you, Mr. Chairman, and to your
honored associates of the committee,
my sincere thanks.
"Deeply impressed with a sense of
the responsibility assumed by such
candidacy, I accept the nomination so
generously tendered me. Should the
action of the convention meet the approval
of the people in November, it
will be my earnest endeavor to die
charge with ndelity the duties 01 tne
great office.
"Imperialism means a permanent
departure from all the traditions of the
past; from the high idealB of the
founders ,of the republic. It abrogates
the holding of our great court
that the declaration of independence
is the spirit of the government?the
constitution but its form and letter.
"Imperialism knows nothing of limitations
of power. Its rule is outside
the constitution. It means the establishment
by the American republic of
the colonial methods of European
monarchies. It means the right to
hold alien peoples as subjects. It enthrones
force as the controlling agency
in government. It means the empire,
"As a necessary corrollary to imperialism
will come the immense standing
army. The dead hand of militarism
will be felt in the.new world, as it is in
the old.
"In the light of history, can it be
possible that the American people will
consent to the permanent establishment
of a large standing army, and
its consequent continuing and ever
increasing burden of taxation?
"Only those who believe that our
own country has outgrown the doctrines
of the fathers are in sympathy
with England's attempt to establish
monarchy upon the ruins of republics.
"The baleful but logical result of
the tariff law condemned by our platform
is seen in the sudden growth of
giaut monopolies, combinations in re
straint of lawful trade and trusts mora
threatening than foreign fo? to the existence
of popular government.
"The ills resulting from unjust legislation,
and from unwise administration
of the government, must find
their remedy in the all-potent ballot.
To it we now make our solemn appeal."
A paramount incident in the nomination
of Stevenson at Kansas City,
which was inadvertently omitted from
these colums in the hurried and brie!
chronicling cf the event, was the initial
part taken by the Georgia delegation
in launching the boon for the Illinois
man. It is well-known that the
Georgians, led by Hon.Boykin Wright,
were first in bringing Mr. Stevenson
to the front and preventing a stampede
to Hill. The nominating speech was
made by a member of the Georgia
delegation?Mr. Hutcherson?and the
first seconding speech was also delivered
by a Georgian.
SAM ROBINSON INDICTED.
Grand Jarjr at Marietta Binds Over Al|
lrged Assailant of Mrs. Inser.
At Marietta, Ga., Wednesday, th<
i grand jury indicted Sam Robinson,
colored, now in the Tower at Atlanta,
chargiug him with assaulting Mrs, Inj
zer, near Mclver's. The descriptior
; given by Mrs. Inzer of the clothes hei
assailant wore exactly tallies wit!
I those found on Sam Robinson wheE
he was arrested.
AN "EXPERT" TESTIFIES.
Defense In the Powers Ca?e at George
t??wn Puts Up Star Witness.
The defense in the Powers case a
ri-?nrr?<itriTvii T-f *- cm-onrr nnfl of iti
v-vv.^vvv MU, W ? star
claims Wednesday afternoon ii
the shape of Surveyor Coolman an<
his chart of the grounds. It "was in
tended to prove by his figures tha
the bullet which killed Goebel couh
not have been fired from the sill o
the window of the secretary of state'i
office? if it took the course claimed fo:
it by the prosecution.
TRAIN SMASHES BUS.
Frightful Accident on a Peni
sylvania Railroad?Eleven
Lives Crushed Out.
Eleven persons were instantly kille
and a dozeen others, several of" who
will die, were seriously injure
Sunday night in a grade crossing a
cident three miles east of Slatingto:
Pa., by a passenger train on the L
high and New England railroad cias
ing into an omnibus containing twent
five persons. All the dead and injure
were in the omnibus and but three e
eaped uninjured.
The accident occurred about
o'clock. The omnibus driven by a m?
named Peters, was returning to SI
tiugton, from a funeral the occupan
had been attending at Cherriersvill
Plia nr>?r?Vi TiAlrmced to Henrv Bitter.
* **w"" O ?r
Slatington. and the dead and injure
were nearly all relatives of ?oph
Schoeffner, at whose obsequies the
had been present. The train was
special and consisted of an engine ar
one car.
At the point at which the collisic
occurred there is a sharp curve in tl
road and the omnibus came along at
good rate of speed, the occupants u
conscious of any impending dange
As the bus swung around the curdie
engine and car came in sight,
was too late to stop either the omc
bus or the train, and as the driver
the former whipped up the fourhors
to cross the track ahead of the trai
the latter crashed into its middle.
The occupants were thrown in t
directions, bruised and bleeding. Tl
eleven dead were killed outright. Ph
sicians aud a special train vere se
for and the injured were taken
South Bethlehem.
No watchman is employed to wai
teams or pedestrians of any approac'
ing train and those living in the vici
ity state that it is impossible to he
an approaching train.
A peculiar feature of the accide
was that the horses drawing the bi
ercaped unhurt.
THREATENED RACE WAR.
Two White Men Killed By Negroes <
the Public Hichvar.
News reached Sylvania, Ga., Sundi
of a colored race war in the upper pa
of Screven county, twenty miles nor
of town, which, though already seriou
threatens to grow more so.
Saturday night, about 9 o'clock, ]
F. Harrington and Milton Mears, t\
white men, were driving in a bugg
They met two negroes named Alexa
der and in parsing their buggy whee
collided. Words ensued and the n
groes drew pistols and shot the whi
men to death.
Captain Jessie T. Wade., living nea
organized a party and went to captu
the negroes. As he reached the
home the party was fired upon ai
Capt.Wade was seriously wounded. T1
attempt at capture was temporari
abandoned.
'The negroes are quartered on tl
plantations bordering on the Sava
nah river swamps. It is claimed thi
are planning to resist arrest and the
number is being increased. In tl
section where the tragedy occurri
there are only about twenty-five whi
families and a hundred negroes.
STILL UNDER SIEGE.
Additional Message From Conger Read
Washington Through McWade.
TViq f/-dlrnrincr cnmmnnic.J
ing an additional message from Mini
ter Conger was made pnblic Saturd;
morning by the state department:
Canton, August 11.?Secretary
State, Washington?Conger, date A
gust 10, Tsinan, answering my ni(
says that the legations are und
by the imperial soldiery. The situ
tion is desperate. The losses of t'
legations is 60 killed and about 1
wounded. There is some sicknet
nerertheless the general health co
tinues good. He concludes: 'Whatev
may be the outcome, we will hold <
indefinitely.* McWadb."
| More Missions Destroyed.
The United States codsuI general
, Hong Kong, Mr. Wildman, has i
ceived a telegram from the Americ
Baptist mission at Swato, province
Kwang Tang, saying that three mc
chapels have been demolished ai
that there has been much looting
mission property.
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NON-UNION PRINTERS WIX.
Georgia Supreme Court Declares Uni
Label Ordinance Illegal and Void.
i The union label ordinance, pass
p by the Atlanta city council some tir
ago, which required that all the ci
printing should bear the union lab<
has been declared ultra vires ai
illegal by the supreme court of Gee
gia. The court also held that 6ucl
procedure would tend to encoura
1 monopoly and defeat competition.
The non-union printers of the ci
1 fought the movement, when it w
k adopted by the council. The case w
1 first carried to the superior court
them and afterwards to the suprei
x>urt by the union printers.
RIDS ARE REJECTED.
The Navy Department Fails to Award J
vaor Plate Contract.
? The navy department Saturday aft
? noon decided to reject all bids for i
> mor plate presented to the departmei
It is stated that new advertisemeri
1 will be issued as soon as possible, a
the contractors will be given anoth
1 chance to put their bids into su
[ shape as will be acceptable to the gc
eminent.
Working Sight and Day.
The Union Metallic Cartridge co
~ pany at Bridgeport, Conn., is worki
night and day to fill orders from s<
' eral governments for ammunitic
3 Besides the big orders for Krag a
* munition the company has a contri
* for field artillery ammunition to
' for the United States government.
1 Orders Kural Delirery ScrTicc.
{ The postoffice department has <
3 dered that rural delivery service
r established on August 15th at Henm
ay, Okla., and New Boston, Tex.
.
RUSSIANS FIRE
" ON AMERICANS
id
m
^ Mistaken For Chinese and Many
I] Were Killed or Wounded.
e
j: the' error a deplorable one
id
s~
Sir Claude ilacDonald Again Sets
5 Forth Fearful Condition
in of Affairs in Pekin.
ats
e- A special cable dispatch to the New
York Evening World of Monday,
dated Che Foo, August 9th, via Shang1
.
jy nai, says:
* A terrible mistake occurred at the
^ taking of Yang Tsun. Russian artillery
opened fire on the American troops.
>n Before the mistake was discovered
i? many American soldiers had been
a killed or wounded by the Russian
a- shells.
r- The Fourteenth took part in the aft*
^? tack on the Chinese trenches. As the
It Chinese fled the regiment entered
d- and occupied one of the Chinese poof
sitions.
68 The Russian battery, it seems, did
D? not notice the movement. It opened
Are on the position and planted
ill shells among the American troops.
The Russian < were quickly notified,
7- and ceased their fire,
ot Commenting upon this occurrence,
to The London Standard says:
"It is melancholy to learn that the
'n losses of the Americans, who seem tc
I1" have borne themselves with conspicun"
ous gallantry, were increased by a
ar deplorable error, in consequence ol
which one of their regiments waa
pounded by Russian and British can118
non. The incident emphasizes the
necessity of that close co-operation
which is not easily obtainable withoul
a single commander and a general
staff."
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SITUATION 0P FOREIGNERS IN PEKIN IS
tt_ DESPERATE.
^ The British consul at Canton, sayt
^ The London Daily Telegraph's corre[S,
spondent there, has received the following
message, dated August 6th,
from Sir Claude MacDonald, British
minister in Pekin:
nl "Our situation hero is desperate.
(ls In ten days our food supply will'be al
e_ an end. Unless we are relieved a gem
te eral massaore is probable.
"The Chinese offer to esoort us tc
,r Tien Tsin, but remembering CawnTq
pore, we refused the offer. There ar<
sir over 200 European women and chil
1(| dren in this legation."
he The Shanghai correspondent of Th<
]y Daily Express, wiring Monday, says.
"The allies at noon Saturday were
he within twenty miles of Pekin."
n_ As General Chaffee's report, which
By is the only authentic news received al
>ir Washington regarding the advance,
he located the international forces about
B(j forty miles from Pekin on Friday, it
te seems probable that the Shanghai report
is optimistic. It is scarcely likely
that the allies could advance twenty
miles in as many hours.
A Yang Tsun dispatch dated Augusl
16 7th <rivinfr details recflrdinc the oan
? ?, O"?o ?o? o f
ture of that place, says:
is- "The Russians and French held th<
ay left, the British the left center, the
Americans the right center and the Jaof
panese the extreme right. The British
u- and Americans advanced on the vil58
lag? at a rapid rate for 5,000 yardt
er under a severe shell and rifle fire. The
;a- Russians opened and the British-Amer
he ican advance became a race for posi
00 tions, culminating in a brilliani
58j charge. The heaviest loss of the daj
n- was sustained by the Americans, the
er Fourteenth infantry, having nine
on killed, sixty-two wounded and several
missing. The Bengal Lancers unsuccessfully
attempted to eut off the
Chinese retreat."
at British Offer Money to China.
:e" The British government, according
an to the Shanghai correspondent of Tht
London Times, has offered to lent
re ?75,000 at 4} per cent to the viceroj
Q(* of Wu Chwang, province of Hu Pee,
?" on the Yang Tse Kiang, for the payment
of provincial troops.
REFUSES TO SIGN WRIT.
O*
Jadff* Lacombe Make* a Decision Favored
able to C. F. W. Xeelej.
ne Judge Lacombe, of the United
States circuit court at New York,
j Monday, refused to sign the writ o;
)r_ extradition of Charles F. W. Neelej
on account the action of Judge Wal
lace in granting an appeal to the su
? preme court in the habeas corpus pro
. -ceedings, but indicated that he die
; g not think Judge Wallace understood
ag the real situation of the case, and h(
i believed if it went to the Buprem<
^court in its present shape the application
for a writ of habeas corpus would
be denied.
JAIL DKLAHEKS LAUUHl.
*r" All But Six of the Marianne, Fla., Escape
Are Captured.
er- All but six of the Marianna, Fla.
ir- jail breakers, whose escape was chron
at. icled some day3 ago, have been cap
its tared and lodged in jail at Pensacola
nd Among them are Raymond West, ne
ler gro murderer, and the most desperat
ch of the gang, and Dallas Miller, wh
>v planned the escape. Miller was cap
tured about three miles south c
Sneads, Fla.
m" FAMOUS CLAIM DECIDED.
ng
3V" General Land Office Settles River Islam
)n. Contest In Kansas City.
m* Commissioner Hermann of the gen
eral land office, in the homestead en
fill try contest of John H. Menstng, fo
valuable land now within the corporal
limits of Kansas City, Mo., but for
merly an island in the Missouri river
or- has decided in favor of the Mensini
be heirs, permitting their entry for al
68- land within the Mender bound&r;
lines of the island.
\ SOUTH CAROLINA I
j STATE NEWS ITEMS. |
Keep Missionaries Out of China, Says
Senator Tillman.
Senator Tillman lias made public
his views on the China question. He
is unalterably opposed, he says, to
missionaries going to China to teach
religion, favors convening congress at
1 this crisis and will support an alliance
with Great Britain and Japan to prevent
partition. He says:
"I would support a policy looking
to the maintenance of the integrity of
the Chinese empire, and to that end
would be willing to see England,
Japan and the United States form an
offensive and defensive alliance to
guarantee the integrity of the Chinese
empire with equal opportunities of
trade with all Christendom.
"In regard to the missionaries and
the future effort to force the Chinese
> to aid them and protect them, I am
utterly opposed. We do not admit
the Chinese, even to work, and the
i idea of their sending missionaries
i here to preach is as preposterous to
us as our sending missionaries to
them. If the Christiaa religion cannot
conquer an entrance to the Chinese
i people on its merits through persua1
sion, I see no warrant in Christianity
forcing it on them at the point of the
bayonet; that religion is the religion
of love and not of force."
South Carolina's Flrit Bale.
The first bale of the new cotton crop
of this state was produced by L. W.
Youmans, of Barnwell county. Its
weight was 560 pounds.
i
i Completing the State Home.
The contraot for completing the
, state house will be signed, a repre;
sentattve of the Pittsburg contractors
i being in Columbia for the purpose.
I THa wrvrlr rnnut "ha nnm'nleted bv De
, cember, 1901, and the contractor will
L be liable to a dailj fine of $100 for
every day over contract time.
I
Commemorative of Last Flfht.
There wae a celebration at Shiloh
1 chnroh, ten miles from Piedmont, in
Anderson county the past week, comi
memorative of the last fight between
organized bodies of the contending'
sides in the civil war, at least the last
fight between such organized bodies
east of the Mississippi river,
i On May 1, 1865, a company of South
Carolina Arsenal Cadets, under Captain
J. P. Thomas, and a squad of
[ militia returning to Anderson county
to disband, were met by a company of
federal cavalry. Of course, it was after
) the surrender of Lee, but neither of
the confederate organizations mentioni
ed had either surrendered or been paroled,
although they were part of the
confederate army, and when the fed(
erals showed fight, the boys deployed
into the woods and a sharp skirmish
j ensued, the blue coats finally fleeing
leaving more than one man on the
ground.
The celebration was prepared by a
committee appointed months ago and
' was a big affair. Several thousand
' people gathered from the adjoining
counties, and there was an immense
basket pionic. Colonel John P. Thom?
as, who commanded the cadets, was
r\t 4lio nAnaainn A snftftoh i
was also made by Captain Ellison A.
^ Smyth. I
It is proposed to erect a monument
on the spot.
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. Faraon Score* Charleston.
News comes from Charleston that
t F4r some time the Rev. Arthur
. Crane, pastor of the First Baptist
, church, has been pounding the erring
} citizens of the metropolis and telling
things in the pulpit that many be.
lieved best unsaid. Rev. Crane did
t the Parkhurst act, and before he dep
livered his first sensational sermon he
, got two of his deacons to show him the
j wild places in the city. He visited the
I resorts and then dropped in at the
. gambling houses and saw the little
j ivory ball spinning while the men
stood by and played. He took in
everything and then he told about it
at his church.
\ After his first attack on the city,
i Rev. Crane got scant courtesy from
I the press. The News and Courier
r ignored him altogether, and he has
, hammered the paper in thediope that
it would take note of his work.
So far as Rev. Crane has gone he
has predicted the utter failure and collapse
of the' Charleston exposition because,
he charges, that every other
. house in Charleston is a place where
liquor is sold.
. After the newspapers refused to
give him unlimited space Rev. Crane
established a sheet of his own, wheref
in his sermons have have been printed.
Family of Ofllce Holders.
A Columbia special says: With four
I dispensary and one prohibition candil
date for governor, Senator Tillman
> has gone so far as to espouse the cause
' of one of the dispensary men and opposes
the re-election of Governor Mc^
Sweeney. "A politician," he says,
"would not mix in state quarrels in
his own party, but I claim to be a
statesman, not a politician."
While openly lighting Uolonei ttoyt,
, the prohibitionist, Senator Tillman is
pulling for Frank B. Gary, the presf
ent speaker of the house of represen.
tatives. With a clean record and evidence
of personal speed, Mr. Gary
L finds himself heavily handicapped in
this race by the astonishing record of
e his family as officeholders. He is be0
ing attacked on this line and it will be
a heavy weight even for the combined
,{ strength of himself and Seator Tillman
to carry. Here is a summary:
Mr. Gary is hin^elf a member of
the house and speaker; Ernest Gary,
a brother, was promoted from member
1 of the house to circuit judge, a position
he now fills; Eugeue B. Gary, a
- brother, was likewise advanced from
. member of the house to associate jusr
tice of the supreme court, where he
e now is; John Gary Evans, first cousin,
. was a member of the house, theu pro,
moted to the senate, then made goverI
nor, and finally ran against Earle and
1 then McLaurin for United States senY
ate; John Gary Watts, another of the
house of Gary, was assistant adjutant
and inspector general, then adjutant
general of the state; W. D. Evans,
another of the blood, a member of the
railroad commission; Barney B.
Evans, of the same line, is a candidate
for railroad commissioner; H. H.
Evans, another of the honse of Gary,
was promoted from the legislature to
be a member of the state board of
control; W. Boyd Evans, of the same
blood, was the last governor's private
secretary and was since made state
agent to collect war claims.
A recapitulation shows that in the
last six years the Gary family has
held something like a "lead pipe
cinch" on offices, Nine of them have
in that time held fourteen offices and j
are either now candidates or have contended
for seven more.
Summer Schools.
The state summer school for ooiored
teachers opened at Benedict college on
the 15th inst. The teaohers are whitte,
v m
the faculty being composed 01 superintendents
of public schools in several
cities of the state. The Richland
Teachers' school was opened on the
same day. Prof. W. M. Clyde, Prof.
Wallace and Miss Graham will compose
the faculty.
The Cotton Warehouse Scheme.
Reference has already been made to
the proposed Cotton Growers' Convention
to be held in September for the
purpose of regulating the marketing
of cotton so as to increase the price.
The warehouse feature of the plan is
thus described:
The warehouses are to be be situated
at some central point accessible to all
the farmers of the community, and on
a rai road with side track facilities.
They are to be bonded institutions,
which is a guarantee that the cotton
is safe, and will be forthcoming
promptly on demand upon the surrender
of the warehouse certificate.
The cotton is'to be stored for the convenience
and economy of the farmer.
The cotton receipt, showing the date
it was signed, the mark, the weight,
and grade, is issued for the same.
Beidg amply covered by insurance,
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bj the bonded feature, the ware house
receipt becomes immediately negotiable.
The next step is to organize the
ginners into an association, with an
executive board, each ginner promising
to furnish to that body each week
a report giving in substance the condition
of the cotton ginned, whether
the cotton is backward or forward, and
the number of bales ginned each week.
These reports are to be condensed and
the total number of bales ginned weekly
will be furnished each ginner. The
ginner will post it in a conspicuous
place in the warehouse, where the
farmers can judge for themselves
whether it is wise to sell or hold.
These associations to be inaugurated
in each cotton state.
PERFUME POISONER
Trios to Pat an End to the Chinos# Minuter
at Paris.
A special dispatch from Paris to The
J New York Evening Telegram, says:
"An artful attempt at poisoning by
the use of perfume, which recalls memories
of Luoretia Borgia, is exciting all
the gossips of Paris.
"Thursday the Chinese minister,
Yukeng, received a letter. It was
signed 'Julie Czerwinska,' and contained
some dried, flowers which the
writer asked the minister to accept.
The secretary to the legation, Armani
di Parma, opened the letter and was
immediately overcome by the deadly
odor emanating from the flowers. He
fell in a faint and was with great difficultv
revived.
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MERCY 18 REFUSED.
Georgia Prison Commission Turns Down
Application For Clemeacj.
The Georgia state prison commission
Thursday refused to recommend to
life sentence James L. Baker, of Atlanta,
and Dillard Herndon, of Wilkes
county, both of whom were under
sentence of death for murder.
The action of the commission leaves
the men without the shadow of hope
unless the governor interferes in their
behalf, and as it is not Governor
Candler's custom to make recommendations
against the decisions of the
commission, it is likely that both the
men will be hanged on the date named
by the courts.
Guarded By Military.
Guarded by 100 picked military
men, Sam Bobinson, the negro charged
with assaulting Mrs. George Inzer,
was taken from the Atlanta jail and
carried to Marietta. Ga., Fridaymorn
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Tho Prince of "Wales has been made
a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Samuel W. Trombley, dean of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives,
is seventy-eight years old.
Former Mayor Josiah Quincy, of
Boston, will hereafter reside in London,
retaining American citizenship.
The Czar and Czarina received the
Rev. Dr. T. De Witt Talmage at the
Peterlioff Palace in St. Petersburg.
President Loubet of France, according
to rumor, will pay a visit to St.
Petersburg, Russia, early in the falL
The Pope has written a Latin hymn
in memory of all the martyrs who
I have died in advancing the clvillzaj
tion of the world.
Judge William A. Hojt, of Kentucky,
I who lias been appointed Chief Justice
| of Porto Rico, is one of the best known
i lawyers in his State.
Prince Sheng, the Chinese director
I of telesrranhs, is said to be one of tho
j best telegraphic experts in the East and
I has had a long, practical experience.
I The new provost marshal of Manila,
Brigadier-General Bell, began his career
as a soldier in 18G2 as a lieutenant
of the Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunters.
Henrik Ibsen Intends, should his
health permit,to pay a visit in Septemt
ber to Orkney and Shetland, where
several relatives of his are reported
to reside.
Former Governor William Marvin,
; of Florida, now ?a resident of New
i York State, has sent his portrait to
Tallahassee, where It is now displayed
in the executive chamber. He is ninety-two
years old.
The Due d'Acos, Spanish Minister
at Washington, who sharply refused
an invitation to the Dewey celebration
at Chicago, has accepted an in|
vitation to the G. A. B. encampment
| <0 be held in Chicago.
HEAT'S FATAL WORK
i
Hundreds of Lives Cut Short In
Big Cities of the North.
NEW YORK CITY LEADS THE RECORD
Intensity of Hot Were Equals Any Ever
Experienced Heretofore For the
Month of August.
Thirty persons died in New York
City and vicinity Saturday from heat
prostrations and three from falling
from fire escapes on which they had
crowded to get relief from the heat
All it all, it was the hottest continnons
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w earner new Aor* una ever experienced.
The local forecaster said that
it surpassed the heat record of 1896.
The thermometer reached ninety-five
at 2 p. m., and registered the same
figures an hour later. This was the
official record in the bureau, high
above the street, and ia several degrees
cooler than the temperature on the
streets.
While ninety-five was reached on
the seventh and ninth days of August
there was a higher range Saturday and
the thermometer hardly wavered below
the highest figures for many hours.
Death afwr death resulted. The fact
that it was a half holiday enabled
nlllnv to escape the heat of offices and
factories.*
On Friday eleven persons died from
the excessive heat. The greatest suffering
was endured by the thickly populated
east side. In these neighborhoods
numerous families occupy a sin-,
gle apartment and many of tbem sleep
on the pavements to get a little fresh
air.
RECOBD BBOKEN AT PHILADELPHIA.
The temperature at Philadelphia
Saturday broke all reoords for August,
when at 3 o'clock in the afternoon
the government thermometer on
top of the postoffice building registered
100.6 degrees. This was within 1
degree of the highest temperature
ever officially recorded in the city.
Five deaths and twenty prostrations
occurred Friday. The maximum temncrntnrn
was 97.
FATALITIES Rl CHICAGO.
Six deaths in Chicago were dne to
the heat Saturday. It was the eighth
day of the torrid spell and there were
twenty-five prostrations, three of
which will prove fatal.
Nine deaths and fifteen prostrations
was the record for Friday. The maximum
temperature was 95 degrees.
The heat of Sunday resulted in seventeen
deaths in Philadelphia and
scores of prostrations. After a week
of almost unprecedented hot weather
a wind and electric storm Sunday
night caused a fall of 24 degrees in the
temperature.
NOT YELLOW FEVER.
Drs. Porter and White Make Statement
as to Illness at Tampa,
Florida.
Drs. Porter and White issued their
valedictory to the people of Tampa,
Florida, in the recent "scare" Saturday
night in the following signed
statement:
"The house to house inspection indicated
in the last statement to the
public has this day been completed.
Ocular examination has been made of
all febrile disorders and many others
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by either the united states neaiui
authority, Dr. J. H. White, surgeon
of the marine hospital service, or state
health officer, and often times by both
co-jointly with- negative results as to
doubt or suspicions of yellow fever
existing in Tampa in any of those sick
| or seen. Wigal's agglutination test
of the blood of Baker and Parker
made in the laboratory of the marine
hospital servioe at Washington gave a
reaction positive in both specimens,
thus confirming the diagnosis made at
first of typhoid fever in Parker and
suspected in case of Baker."
Dr. Porter, as state health officer,
addressed the following order:
"The quarantine restrictions on
travel to and from Tampa will be re*
moved at midnight this date."
Bailroad and steamer lines resumed
1 their regular schedules Sunday morning
and the cordon of special guards
about the city was called in.
WALUERSEE TO LEAD!
German Flel<l Marshal to Command Allied
Forces In China.
The Cologne Gazette's Berlin correspondent
is the first to announce,
from an anthoritative source that Field:
Marshal Count von Waldersee lias
been appointed commander-in-chief of
the allied troops in China.
The German foreign office in confirming
the report to tha correspondent
of the Associated Press said this
i referred only to the temporary command
of the German forces in China
and that the question as to whether
he would command all the international
forces had not been settled.
MORE NOTIFICATIONS COXINti.
Monetary Leicnc and People'# Party
Hare Santa Date For Bryan.
William J. Bryan will receive notification
of his nomination for president
by the Monetary Leagne at
Topeka, on Angnst 23d, the date of
the People's party notification exercises.
Judge Backer, who is chairman
of the nomination committee appointed
by the Monetary League's
national committee, notified Mr,
Bryan of this plan by wire Monday
and Mr. Bryan assented to the arrangement^
HART PLEADS FOR RELIEF.
"The Sooner We Can Be Got Ont of Thla,
the Better," Says He.
"The sooner we can begot ont of
this, the better, for it is inconvenient
for the Chinese government and unsafe
for ourselves," reads a message
received Snnday evening from Sir
Bobert Hart, dated Pekin, August 5,
and sent in cipher to the Chinese Maritime
customs office in London.
ROBBERS DIE GAME
Corraled
In a Mud House, One
Is Shot and the Other
Burned to Death.
Three miles east of Good land, Kan.,
Friday morning the two men who
robbed a Union Pacific train in Col- 0
orado on Angnst 5th and killed a - ^
passenger, were snrronnded by looal
officers. A fierce exchange of shots
ensued, daring which one of the robbers
was shot and killed. J. B. Biggs,
owner of the Commercial hotel of ' 'jM
Goodland, and George Collins, members
of the posse, were severely
wounded and another of the panning
party, name unknown, was wounded -0
slightly.
The second robber barricaded him*elf
in a kitchen, which was fired^by
the posse nnmbering fifty men, au
armed with Winchesters, and the robber
was burned .to death.
The Union Pacific Kansas City,Denver
train was robbed between Limon
Junction and Hugo, Colo., ninety
miles east of Denver. Many persona
were relieved of their money and valuables.
and W.J.Fav. an aged man who
resisted, was killed by one of the rob* Jj|
The robbers dropped off the train at ,- Jjj
Hugo and escaped. It was later leers*
ed they went to the ranch of D. XL
Bartholomew, three miles ost from . -M
Goodland and one hundred milee overland
from Hugo, and asked for food ^
and lodging for frfew days.
They saia they did not want to go
to town as their clothea were raggoa,." /-^9
Thursday night a boy whom they sent
to Goodland to get the Denver papers, |j
reported the circumstances. From the ; /?
boy's description the men wore believed
to be the Hugo robbers, and s s|||
posse went at once to take them In charge
with the result stated.
FULL TICKET liXEI
Uy L?m Star State Democrats la Otavsa t *
tion At Waoo.
The Texas Democratic state oonTon*
tion, after a two days' session, nominated
a fall stale ticket Friday and
adjourned sine die. The tioket ia:
Governor?Joseph D. Bayers.
Lieutenant Governor J. K. BrownAttorney
General?Thomas 8. Smith.
Lead Commissioner?Charles Be- Sjj
Comptroller?B, M. Love.
Superintendent of Public Instrnetion?J.
8. Kendall.
Chief Justioe Snpreme Court?B. 8.
Associate Justices?A. L. Williams
Jfthn V. H>ndaraoA.
Railroad Commissioner?L.J. Stoisr.
HONEY ORDERS ON CHINA* J
Soldier* ot Vtv tad?. ' ''k
The poa toffioe department announces.. vJ|
the completion of arrangements herobj
remittance may be made to the "fi
troops operating in China or those,/\
who will hereafter be sent to that k>A
money order office has been eetablished
at military postal station
No. 1, China, and intending remitters
may safely purchase money orders
drawn as above and their payment
will be provided for notwithstanding ;
the troops maybe 'ocated at rations^ *
points in China. For this serties the
domestic rate is charged, namely 80
cents for 1100. being the same rate ae - 'M,
for the issue of orders op load points
in the United States. |?9
XOXUXEKT IS CXTEHJtft
Tribute of the Women ot Myil?U, lntS
Carolina* to Confederate Dead.
A work begun daring the lifetime of
the late Mrs. Lucy Holoomb Pickens
was consummated at Edgefield, 8. C., '
Thursday when a monument to tho
confederate dead from the oounty wse
unveiled in the presence of 3,000
There were three speakers?Qui el - ' j:
M. C. Butler, Oongreesmaa J. W? ;
Tolbert and ex-Governor John O*
Shepard. The women of Edgefield ^
have been working to secure fundi-for i v
this monument for many years.
Waldersee Is Acceptable.
It is authoritatively stated that tho
United States government will accept
Count Waldersee (German) aa tho
commander of the international forces
in China if the necessity exists at the
time of his arrival in that eoantry,
BRY1X USES PHOXOGRAPH. ~ '0
Part* of Hi* Spooch of Acocptaaca Is
Talked lata the Xachiao.
At Chicago Monday Mr. Bryan ?located
himself with a phonograph and -^j
delivered over again parts of the speech - J|
of Acceptance he made at Indianapolis, Mv. -Those
seotions in which the-candidate '>4?
promised to call an extra session of
congress to deal with the Philippine
problem and the closing peroration
were the principal parts of the speeoh "A
that went into the phonograph. It.ia
expected that the Bryan speech, ea
ground out by the phonograph, will
play an important part in the campaign.
STILL AT OUTS.
A Nashville special says: The efforts
which here been mslrfng
some weeks to yetch up the differences
between in* .bftAB add UW1rmOV Motions
of Tmbmim Republicans rt- ^
suited in absolute failure in a conference
Thursday, and it new looks liko
both factions will maintain thair party
organisations and keep two electoral v ^
ana stats ticket* in the field.
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SUMNER REACHES NAGASAKI.
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Transport With Battalion of 15th Intent*?
Will Soon Arrlro at Takn.
The war department xeeoiysd ttm&f
fallowing dispatch from General Barry
"Nagasaki, August 12.?Adjutant
General, Washington: Transport Sumner
arrived this port on the 10th. No
casnaltfos occurred. Health of oeiaa- ^mH
znand excellent. Will proceed to Taku '