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4* . The Bamberg Herald. f . ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1,1900. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. M LIVES ARE LOST IN EXPLOSIONS I ??? A Disastrous Accident Occurs In J the Heart of New York City. CAUSED BY DRUG STORE FIRE Exploding Chemicals Wreck Buildings and Many Victims Are Buried Under Burning Debris. A New York special says: The long list of fire horrors that have occurred in and around the city of New York, a v list that includes the Royal hotel fire, the Park Place disaster and the Windsor and Hoboken fires, was added to Monday by a fire and explosion that shook the lower end of Manhattan like an earthquake, hurled a seven-storv building into the air and set fire to ; * two blocks of buildings, with a loss of life that only the efforts of hundreds of men who were rushed to the work of digging away the ruins as soon as the fire was extinguished will reveal. The big building of Tarrant & Co., makers of medicinal specialties, standing at the northwest corner of Green wicb and Warren streets, and filled / with chemicals, took fire in some way that may never be known, at about a quarter after 12 o'clock Monday afternoon. It was sixteen minutes after noon that a citizen rushed into the x. house of fire engine 29, on Chambers street, near Greeuwicb, and shouted that Tarrant's drug house was oa fire. He had seen a volume of black smoke coming from the third story window. An alarm was turned in. y. Soon afterwards second and third alarms were turned in. Oae fire com-pany had just arrived when a terrific explosion occurred and threw the entire engine's crew down the stairway. The firemen, realizing the danger of their position, rushed out of the building to the street. The explosion had filled the street in front with a shower of falHng glass and small debris, which sent the crowd, which had already gathered on the opposite sidewalks, A fleeing for safely. Captain Devanney, of the company, ordered his crew back into the building again. The were dragging the line Xo the doorway a second time when another explosion, more terrific than the first came, and the whole crew was hurled across Greenwich street. ^ - In the meantime the other engines that bad responded to the alarm had c$llected, and the firemen were rescuing people from snrronnding buildings. Firemen had already taken many girls down the only fire escape upon - the building, and more persons bad been carried down the escapes of the Home Made restauraut, next door, and the buildings adjoiniug upon Warren street. The second explosion ojcurred about * five minutes after the first. . From the accounts of witnesses, the building seemed to leap into the air, ft and in a moment massses of brick wall, timbers and stone were falling into the streets. The force of the ex: plosion tore away the walls of the big H * commission store house fronting on Washington street, and caused them to collapse. . - . ^ ^ - ...v Across Warren street to the oppo ^itc buildings the flames leaped, set, ting them all afire at once, the force of the explosion demolishing windows . and all wooden structures about the houses. In a moment Warren street , was choked up with a mass of debris 'and the whole place was aflame. - The great explosion was followed by half a dozen more scarcely less intense, and by a countless number of smaller' ones. By this time the fire apparatus was arriving from every di* reotiou, and a fifth alarm sent out, foi* lowed by a general call for ambulances. The explosion* and fire together had Vnow assumed the proportions of a great catastrophe, and it was at first thought that hundreds of lives had been lost. Throngs of people were " rushing abont the nearby streets, j many of them panic-stricken, fleeing from the fire. ADMINISTRATION NOT INDORSE*, Negro Methodists of Tennessee Go Against President McKinlejr. At Saturday's session of tiie Airican Methodist Episcopal conference of Tennessee, in Chattanooga, the committee on ibe "state of the union" reported a resolution indorsing the na< tional administration, especially the gold standard and the foreign policy of the president. The resolution raised h storm of objections and a heated discussion followed. The trend of the discussion was that the negro had nothing to gain from a-further affiliation with the Republican or aDy other parly. The resolution was then oted down by a decided majority. Hobson is at Home. Richmond Pearson Hobson is now at bis home in Greensboro, Ala., enjoying a vacation. His eyes are said to be improving and he fears no fur*' '-? ?l.tfrnm tliOm VUCX UUUU1C 4iV?* Kooserelt Takes a Kest. Completing over 1,100 miles of iravel and having made over fifty speeches, Governor Roosevelt finished the first week of his New York state campaign in Binghamptou Saturday night NEW STEAM>HIP COMPANY. Six Steamers to In?;a;e tn Southern Lumber Trade Along Atlantic Coast. r The steamer Wacammaw, the first of a fleet of six steamers to be put in operation by the Atlantic Coast Steamship Company for the lumber trade ou the Atlantic coast, between George tewn, S. C-, and northern ports as fat as Boston, arrived at New York Thursday from Toledo, Ohio. Tha Atlantic Coast Steamship Company is a new organization with a capital stock oi SI,00J.0)0,which wiii engage ih carryt. ing lumber from Georgetown to northern seaboard cities. W- ' S i ' ; V "*" * . - . * BATTLE WITH BOLOMEN Small Force of Americans Forced to Retreat After Fierce Fight With Filipinos. The war department Friday received a dispatch from General McArthur giving an accout of a fight in which a small detachment of the American troops attacked a mnch superior force 1 of Filipinos. The dispatch follows: ) "Manila, October 26.?Adjutant General; "Washington: October 24th First Lieutenant Fibigger, forty men, company H, Thirty-third regiment, uniiea omits imauuj vwiuu Second Lieutenant Grayson Yheidt, sixty men, troop L, Third cavalry, attacked insurgents fourteen miles east of Tarvican, Ilocosa province, Luzon; developed strong position occupied by about 600 riflemen, 1,000 bolomen, under command of Juan Yillamor, subordinate of Timos. "Desperate Cght ensued, which was most creditable to force engaged, though uuder heavy pressure aud overwhelming numbers, cur troops were compelled to return to Tarvican, which was accomplished in a tactical and orderly manner. Their loss, moderate estimate, over 150. Our loss, killed: First Lieutenant George L. Fibigger, Charles A. Lindenberg, William F. Wilson, Alfred L. John| son, Guy E. McClintock. "Wounded, eight; missing, nine. "Thirty-six horses missing; some known to be killed." COUSTY COUKT ILLEGAL^ The Georgia Scprrms Tribunal Ilenders a Startiiug Decision. The supreme court of Georgia, Friday, handed down a decision in the case of Dave Murray vs. the state,, larceny from the honse, which in effect declares the county court of Washings ton county to be illegal and its jndgments of no effect. X UO I'UUl t B UCVIBIUU 10 a.' lauov oiu> ? ? ing, in view of the many complications that it involves. The court was established iu 1895, but the supreme court holds that the court is illegal because it was sought to be established under the general act of 1872, authorizing the establishment of connty courts upon recommendation of the grand jury, but that Washington county was excepted from that act by a subsequent local act. Since its establishment judgments involving many thousands of dollars have been rendered in this court, and hundreds of people have served or are now serving sentences in the cbaingang irfposed by the said court. The effect of the supreme court's decision, " therefore, may be to cause the release of all persons now serving sentences imposed by the county court of Washington and to invite a renewal of litigation over civil cases already decided by a court which had no legal existence. ATTACKED BY LIONS. Young Woman Animal Tamer Hut Fright 1 PatvA sistance upon the part of the garrison, which consisted of a detachment of Capetown Highlanders. The latter suffered severely, losing thirty-four out of tifty-two men. BEWAKK OF MVII.OOA iS.'> Georgia'# Comjitrollt-r General 'Va ns i Agaiu&t Hojn* Insurnnc-" Comp wii*#. t Comptroller Genera! Wright of Georgia has sounded a warning against 1 irresponsible insurance companies? insurance organ iz it ioirs which are known to underwriters as "wildcats.'* A number of these companies have s receu'ly invaled Georgia with iheir literature and ofif-r low rates of itisart a icv. When it corner to payment of 'osses bowvever, tin companies are .not in evidence for they have neither capital nor assets. "V I Z < ' * t . .'t V : IQ1 AXpVnDUUO All On the midway of the Spartanbnrg, S. C,, carnival Friday a spectator threw a lighted match near a can of gasoline, which exploded. The can was near the cage in which Madam Clio, otherwise known as "The Lion QaeeD," was doing her tnrn with four large lions belonging to the Frank P. Bostic Carnival company. The straw on the ground and the tent caught fire. The lions became frenzied and attacked the young woman. The spectators were terror stricken . by the situation, and those who did sot fly in panic could offer no assist-. ance. The floor of the cage caught Are and there.wits.danger of the lions breaking out, but Madam Clio displayed remarkable slrengt&nnd courage., With an iron bar she beat back the lions. . Her arms and shoulders were* cruelly torn by their claws, and her clothfiSgstripped as well as burned by the fire, but she kept the lions under control, issuing orders for extinguishing the fire, until help came, and the roaring beasts were gotten into another cage. Reported Capture of Schrciber. Couusel for the Elizabethpcrt bank, of Elizabethport, N. J., was iuformed by telegraph Friday'from New Brunswick that a man who answers the description of William Schreibcr, who t. nnr. kaon roouea iuo imu& ut ciw^uw, u<?u taken into custody there. JOHN SHERMA.V.S WILL. Estate la Valued at 82,500,000?Three Small PuMic Bequests. The will of the late John Sherman was filed for probate at Mansfield, 0., Friday afternoon. The document disposes of an estate vnlned at $2,500,000. It is dated at Washington, December 22, 1890. Mrs. Mary Sherman MoCallum is given $100,000. After other bequests are paid she, with five others, the late senator's nephews, get the residue, making her share, it is estimated, $500,000. The public bequests are: $3,000 to Oberlin college. $5,000 to Kenyon college, $800,000 given to the senator's brothers and other relatives. ONLY EIGHTEEN ESCAPED. Boers Capture Jacobsdul and Nearly Annihilate British Garrison. A special from Capetown says: The Boers have captured Jacobsdal, southwest of Kimberlv. after a stubborn re LEADERS SUICIDING Powers May Ba Cheated Out oi Revenge Oa Orientals, MINISTER WU RECEIVES CABLEGRAM It Announces the Death of Kanjr Y1 and Yu listen AVho Were Identified With the Boxers. The Chinese minister at Washing ton has received a dispatch 6tatinj that Kang Yi, a member of the cabi net with Yung Lu and one of the anti foreign leaders, whose puuishmenl was demanded by the powers, is dead also that Yn Ksien, the late governoi of Shan Si, who is said to have beer responsible for the death of many mis sionaries, ha# committed suicide Minister Wu regards this act as th< result of the disfavor which the high officials receive from the throne. Th< text is as follows: "Cablegram from Viceroy Chang T Tung, dated October 2oth, states tha governor of Sbaii Si has reported tha Kang Yi died on October 18th; tha Yu HsieD, late governor of Shansi, ha committed suicide by swallowiug golc leaf, aud Prince Tuan has not beei permitted to accomrauy the court. "cablegram, dated October 21th from Director General Sheng, statci that an imperial decree lias been issuet directing Prince Ching and Earl Li t< fix and submit for appiovai the severa penalties to be iuilicted on thos< princes aud ininisteis thattinght to bi junished. He adds that Kaug Yi ha died of sickness, and that Prince Tuai and Prince Chwang have not been al lowed to accompany the court to Shan si." The death of Kang Yi is an impor tant event, as he is one of the ring leaders whoso punishment v.as de manded by the powers. Ho held th< position of assistant grand secretary aud president of the civil board, ant also was one of the six Chinese states men making up the privy council, o cabinet, which is the body nearest th throne. Although the dispatch to Mr Wu says only that Kang Yi "died" 01 the 18th iDstanf, it is thought tha this "death" was the natural result o the disgrace which has overtaken thi anti-foreign and boxer element. Governor Yu's method of suicide by swallowing gold leaf, in uniqne ii China, It is a means by which higl personages take their life, the gol< leaf being representative of their higl station. The leaf forms a congeale< ball in canals of the body and bring death from suffocation. Minister Wu's advices received Fri day also show that Prince Tuan ha been visited with severe censure fron the throne, and to such an extent tha it would be no surprise if he followe< the course of Kang Yi and Yu. H has been prevented from accompany ing the imperial court to Sinan-Fu and remains at Shansi, cut off fron further inflaence on the throne. It i: expected that he will be bauished which to a prince of the blood ii worse than decapitation, aud undei the Chinese idea of propriety, suicidt is likely to be his end. SEXSATIOXAL BILL Introduced Jn the Georgia Senate Fo Heavier Punishment of Itavlshers. Senator Hardaway, of Thirty-sixtl district, exploded a bomb in th< Georgia senate chamber Friday morn ing by introducing a bill to amend th< ! law* for the punishment of assault j upon women. The bill caused a sen sation. When Clerk Han6ell read the docu ment and read the words developinj the nnique idea of Mr. Hardawa; there was for a moment doubtfa silence, then every man's eye sough his neighbor's and there succeeded ai excited though orderly little buzz. Mr. Hardaway's idea is to apply 01 unusual correction to the evil. Lawyers among the legislators sa; that he has undertaken what, unde our law, is an impossibility without i constitutional amendment, for the con stitution prohibits the legielature fron imposing what it calls ''cruel and un usual punishment." The bill wa referred. WAS A FABRICATION. i Report of Lynching of Tvro Negroei I Flke County, Georgia, a Fake. Report comes from Milner, Ga., the some one has evidently imposed cn press correspondent in regard to 1h lynching of two negroes a lew night ago at Liberty Hill. That place is just five miles fror Milner, in the eastern portion of Pik county, and diligent inquiry fails t verify the truth of the report. Th people of the Liberty Hill communit are law-abiding and would not resot to lynching on small provocation. A j injustice has been done them perhap j through some mistake, i I HINGING IN SOUTH CAROLINA. i At Last Morawit Negro Confessed an Saved Another's Neck. Warby Wine, a negro, was hange at Orangeburg, S. C., Friday for th murder of C, J. Pauiling, near Foi Mo tte. Governor McSweeuey commuted tb sentence of Major Green, the colore man who was to have been hanged fc the same murder. Wine confessed couple of days ago and exonerate Green. Killed Her Three Children. Ne8r Huuterville, X. ('., Wedne.' 1 day night Connie Caldwell, a negr i womau, wife of Clem Caldwell, abov So years of age, killed her three chi | dreu by cutting their throats with razor and then committed suicide i J like manner. Tennessee Strike Called Off. i Differences which led to a strike < 300 miners employed by the Orooke | Fork Coal and Coke compauy iu Tei nsssee have beeu adjusted and the ine wiil return to work at oqoe. j FOR HARBORS AND RIVERS. Improvements Recommended In the South By Chief Engineer Wilson In His Report. A Washington special says: The important subject of coast defense is the i first consideration iu the annual report of General J. M. Wilson, chief of engineers. Generally spcakiug he re1 ports most gratifying progress in the execution of the various projects during the last fiscal year. Because the report included the fiscal year only, the A/ f 1? n .1 A r (1^ A rial* DllUjCV/V U1 IUV 11COU ULiiUti Ul 111W V4UI j veston defenses by the September hurricane is left for treatment in a subsequent report. The estimates above 82."),000 for the t river and harbor work next year in the ; south are as follows: r Inland waterway from Chiucoteagne bay, Virginia, to Delaware bay, 860,1 000; Patapsco river and channel to Baltimore, $522,362. Harbor,southeast Baltimore,$80,000. 3 Potomac river, Washington,$200,000 Potomac, below Washington, $80,1 400. i, Rappahannock river, Virginia, $25,000. i James river, Virginia, $390,000. t Norfolk harbor,Virginia, 856,700. t Waterway from Norfolk, Va., to the t sounds of North Carolina, $29,870. s Pamlico and Tar rivers, North Car\ olina, $32,500. v ! Cape Fear river, above Wilmington, N. C., 825,000. -" " i t 1.1 , < ape i? ear river, at ana oeiow vvu3 raingtou, N. C., $200,000. ] Winyah bay, South Carolina, $525,3 000. ] Santee river, South Carolina, $38,9 000. a Congaree river, South Carolina, Co9 lunibia to Graubv, $50,000. a Charleston harbor, $50,000. Savannah harbor, Georgia, $50,000. Savannah river, Georgia, $100,000. Doboy bar, Georgia, $30,000. Altamaha river, Georgia, $2G,000. Ocmulgee river, Georgia, $40,000. Cumberland sound, Georgia and 9 Florida, $400,000. j St. Johns, river, Florida, $400,000. 1 St. Johns river, at Orange mills . flats Florida, $40,009. r Key West harbor, Florida, S100.000. e Sarasota river, Florida, $37,500. T.-impa bay, Florida, $137,000. 2 Rillsboro "bay, Florida, $175,000, t Apalachicola bay, Florida, $41,000. f Flint river, Georgia, $300,000. 9 Chattahoochee river, Georgia and Alabama, below Columbus, $80,000. ^ Pensacola harbor, Florida, $180,000. a Coosa river, between Rome. Ga., a and the East Tennessee, Virginia aud I Georgia railroad, $450,000. a Coosa river, between the East Ten1 nessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad s bridge and Wetumpka, $35,000. Mobile harbor, Alabama, $350,000. - Black Warrior river, Alabama, $53,s 676. a Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, t $255,000. i Tombigbee river, from its mouth to e Demopolis, $200,000. , ON CHARGE OF FJlHI.ZZLhHE.Yl. 1 s Albert Howell. Sr., Is Placed on Trial In Atlanta, Oa , Court. 5 The case of Albert Howell, Sr., inr dieted for alleged embezzlement of ^ $30,816 from the Atlanta and West Poiut railway, was takeu up in Atlanta Monday morning. The defendant filed through his attorneys a demurrer, to the indictment. The first paragraph alleges that the charge of conspiracy between Mr. i Howell and Thomas J. Hunter is e barred by the statute of limitations . and should be strickcu. The second paragraph says that the 0 oourt in the indictment does not with 3 sufficient particularity set out the sum - charged to be embezzled within the statute of limitations, the indictment - alleging the embezzlement of a certain j sum, part of which was without the y statute of limitations. 1 Judge Candler overruled the object tion and ordered the trial to proceed, a Some difficulty was experienced in getting a jnry, each side being exl ceedingly careful in regard to qualifications. y Mr. Howell did not appear to be in r as good health as usual. He pleaded a not guilty. It will be remembered that Thomas a J. Hunter, co-jointly indicted with - Mr. Howell, was sentenced to five s years' imprisonment on April 27th, 1900. AS A TRIBUTE TO SHERMAN Republican C&mpaicn Work Iu Ohio Wai n Stopped Thursday. The Republican campaign in Ohio ^ was at a standstill Thursday as a triba ute of respect to the memory of Hon. B John Sherman, whose funeral occurred at Mansfield in the afternoon. n The order of Secretary Dick, of the e Republican state executive committee 0 is regarded as unique in the political Q annals of Oh o, but all meetings were j either declared off or postponed, and .j the political opponents of the parly n had the field to themselves for the day. ,8 The state offices in the capitol building were closed during the afternoon. VIGOROUS KICK COMING. People of D*ni*U Antilles Object tm 1 aland* Stains Sold to United States. ^ According to dispatches intense adq verse feeliug has been raised at St. -? Ti>^vrtoo T>anii?h West Indies, bv the renewal of the report that Denmark '? intends to sell the Danish Antilles to the United State*. A meeting of the ,r colonial council has beeu convoked at ? St. Croix for the purpose of makiDg a 11 formal protest VASSAK C*IRLS MASOUKItARE. Tliey Arc Kicgetl Up to lCrprenent Haniia, O Itoo.cvelt ami Dfjiew. it A dispatch from Poughkeepsie, N. - J., says: The usual mock presidential a election at Vassar will take place some n night this week. Saturday night the Republican ra'iy was held. There was gi eat enthusiasm. Studeuts made up to represent Mark Hunua, Roosevelt jf and Dewey made stirring speeches. ,(3 Music was .furnished hv a band of j. twenty giris in lull continental cosl?i tniD' 8, whose instruments werecoi&bs, cymbals and ?]r:ims. t 71 j CANDLER SWORN IN i | Georgia's Governor Takes Oath of Office For Second Term. i j CEREMONIES BRIEF BUT IMPRESSIVE ! ' i i ' ; InauffnJul Address Short nml to the Point. . Oath AVas Adralniitered Bjr Chief Justice Simmons. i i I In the presence of the general as- j j sembly of tLe state of Georgia, the . i justices of the supreme court and state j I i official?, Governor Allen JL>. Gaudier . tdok the oath of office as chief execu- j : tive for the second time Saturday i morning. The ceremony of the in- i | angnration was brief and interesting, ; j the senate and house convening in the ; hall of representatives in joint session ' : at noon for the purpose of hearing the ! ! inaugural address and witnessing the i j ceremony. Governor Candler spoke but flfleeu j minutes. He reviewed the pi ogress of ! Georgia along industrial and govc-rn| mental lines and referred to its greatj ness not only in territory, but in the ; integrity aud uprightness of its people, j He advised the general assembly to deal lightiy with that class of citizens j which had been impoverished by re| cent shrinkage in Talues. He would j not levy upon them a single dollar of | taxes not absolutely essential to the ! running expenses of the state. ! During the address and the inaugu; ration the gallery aud floor of the i house were crowded with visitors and j Governor Candler received an enthnsii astic reception as he came in the hall i aud later when in* rod need by Presij dent Howel! of the senate. The president of the senate au| nounced that the resolution under I which the joint session had convened would be read. "It gives the chair great pleasure," said President Howell in presenting the governor, "to introduce Governor Allen D. Candler. He needs no presentation to this assembly, for he was known to the people of Georgia before he was elevated to the chief magistracy of the state. His popularity with tho peopie is attested by the ! nearly 70,000 msj .rity received by him | less than a month sg> in his second i election to the governorship. It gives i me great pleasure to present the gov' eruor-elect, Hon. Allen D. Candler, of | Hall." The scene was an enthusiastic one [ as Governor Candler rose to deliver i his inaugural address. At its conclnI siou the presiding officer annotmced that the governor-elect would be sworn in by the chief justice of the state. Chief Justice Simmon3. of the supreme couTt, stepped forward and in a clear voice recited the oath nnder which the governor agrees to defend the constitution of the United States. Governor Candler then delivered to Secretary of State Cook the great seel of the state with the injunction: "I commit the great seal of the state of | Georgia into your baudp, feeling asi snred that its use will not be abused." j This ended the ceremony aud the joint | session of the assemb'y was dissolved. POISONED BY GAS. ! IV??11 Known G??or?la Leelslntor Fonml In Dying Condition at Hoarding House. M. B. Walker, a representative in the Georgia legislature from Crawford county, was found iD a dying condition in his boarding house in Atlanta as the result of gas poisoning. The well known representative was found in his room in an almost lifeless condition ! and the apartmeut filled with stifling gas from a jet which had apparently , been turned on for hours. The explanation of how the gas was turned on cannot be made clear, for no one was with the legislator when he retired. The most natural presumption is I that Mr. Walker was unused to gas light in bis room and that he must have blown the light out instead of j turning it off when he retired for the ! night. Republicans Parade In Chicago. For sii hours aud a half Saturday working men from every brauch of industiyiu Chicago, lawyers, merchants, railroad men, financiers, marched through the down towu streets of the city in the parade of Repnblicau voters i which was planned as the culmination ! of the national compaign in Chicago. PKOHlIUTIOXIVrS CAUCUS. Concensus of Opinion Is Th.it No Bill | Wilt Go Uffore Georghi Legislature. i An Atlanta, Ga., special says: As a j result of the brief cancus of prohibi! tionists held in room 24 at the state| house Thursday afternoon it is proba! ble that no state prohibition measure will be introduced at the present ses' siou of the legislature, i In the course of the discussion it ; developed that a majority of the leadi ere present did not believe that a j measure as drastic as the Willingham ; bill would have the slightest chance of passing both branches of the legislature. No bill was outlined or sng j gested. I CAME EN LAW NOT OPPOSED. j ; Presbyterian Synod of Missouri Refutes To Condemn President* i A. resolution offered before the ! Presbyterian synod of Missouri, biti terly comdcmuing President McKiu| ley and adinitii-.trab'on generally for ! its attitude on the liquor question as ! expressed in the canteen law aad euI joining tbe voters of Mis'onri to vote for the candidate of the prohibition party, was defeated by a vote of 26 to 13. , THE TRANSVAAL OBLITERATED. . South African Kfpublir Ha* Bpcmi Proclaimed Part of British Umpire. Advices from Pretoria state that the i Transvaal has been proclaimed a part ; of the British empire. The proclama| tion was issued Friday and was attended with impressive ceremonies, i The royal standard was hoisted in the raaiu square of the city, the grenadiers I presented arms, massed bands played ! the national anthem, Sir Alfred Miluer i read the proclamation and 6,200 troops, i representing Great Britain and her j colonies inarched past. BOXERS STILL ACTIVE I l "Drive Oat the Foreign Deviis," J Is Burden of Th-ir Cry. i i THEY DECREE WAR TO THE DEATH j ! 31 in later Cong, r Has Keen Authorized Bj ; This Government to Begin Negotiations For Peace nt Once, . According to a Washington special i of Thursday Minister Conger has been J authorized by this government to be- j gm negotiations at once with the Chi- i nese envoys on the basis of the points in the German and French notes upon which all the powers are agreed. Upon these point3 where divergence of views has been found to exist, the government of the powers themselves will negotiate with a view to reaching i a further understanding. It is understood that the ministerial representatives at Pekin of other powers have similar instructions, but whether they have or not, Mr. Conger l is not to be restrained. The Berlin statement that Germany has agreed to j Japan's proposul that peace negotiations with China shall for the present be entrusted to the foreign represeut1 atives at Pt-kiu is regarded as an indij cation that Germany has takei^ similar ' action on the case of Minister Mumm | Von Schwartzenstein. } The state department received noI tice Thursday from the British of the I terms of the arrangement reached bej tween Gr^at Britain and Germany as to China. Now that both governments have been heard from formally, the state department will turn its atj tention to the preparation of the an: swer. BOX LPS POST NOTICES. I i A cable dispatch from Hong KoDg j j says: Advices from Lien Chan, on I North river, are to the effect that Amer. j ican mission property there is threatj cned with destruction by boxers, who j have posted the following proclnma; matiou: | "We have organized to protect our ; country and homes and we rely upon i cue another to support tho order to drive out the foreign devils. They are mad. Their folly passes description. They are usurpers of cur land, j They disturb our borders, i "In all the provinces and preftc tares chapels have been opened; aud our people are deceived, ripped open and disembowled while the foreigners grow fat on the revenues of China, insultiug our officials and merchants, aud seizing our temples and palaces. "The emperor is indulgent and perj mits this. Who can foretell the intentions of these foreign devils. " Day by day they act more outrageously. When we behold the present conditions of affairs our hearts are bruised with grief. Therefore we have organized our strength to destroy the devouring wolf throughout the empire." i The boxers took the American PresI byteriaD mission buildings, but have ! not destroyed them, j Rebellion is spreading along East j river and North river, in the prov[ inces of Kwangsi. It is supposed to be aimed at the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty, but the reports are so contradictory that it is next to impossible to form a lucid impression. In Canton the Chinese officials are taking the insurrection so lightly that foreigners believe it will be very difficult to suppress. The governor of Hong Kong has been informed that 4,000 villagers in the Samtochuok-Kwaishin district were attacked by rebels at Pengkok. The villagers were defeated and 2,000 of them killed. The rebels, who lost 400 killed, burned two villages containing 3,000 houses. A force of 2,000 troops went to tbo assistance of the | villagers and engiged the rebels on j October 22d. No details of the resulf have been received. The Chinese officials have placarded the Shetom district, offering several hundred dollars reward for tho heads of tho fonr foreigners who are supposed to be leading the rebels. The rice crop has failed in Kwaugsi province and robbers are pillaging. Rebellion and famine ihere are cer* tain. LI MAY BE LYING. Gcrmnn Foreign Office Sn ijvct* That Du f> Is Peine: Practiced. I A Berlin dispatch says: Discussing the present stage of the relation I etweeu the Chinese government aDd the powers, a high official of the German foreign office has made the following statement: "Before Li flung Chang can be accepted as a negotiator by the powers, his credentials must, of course, be examined. Ho far Earl Li on various occasions has refused to exhibit them. When Dr. Murnm von Schwartzetslieu was in Shanghai he requested Earl Li to show them. 'Ihe Chinese states man replied evasively." JC'ioiw 1YEKK 1MUBKlif Chattanooga LawyerB Make < liarees of a Highly Se::S:ilio:? il Nature. A sensation was sprung in the eir! cuit contt at Chatt u:ooga Wednesday i morning by attorneys charging that j they had proof that ctrtaiu jurymen } had accepted bribes in certain ca?es , recently Tiifld. 'ibvsc members of the I jury will be openly charged with reI ceiving bribe.- for returning verdicts I in motions for setting aside verdicts I in two damage snir.s tried last week. i OUT OF RECEIVER'S HANDS. ! The Black Diamond C?>al Company Will Now B? lieorjcaolzed. Af iTnovviiio 'iVn?i.. Fridav. the ; H k U.UVAM1U) A v*.? 7 0 . i Black piamoad Coal Company was i takeu out of the bauds of Receiver T. | H. Heald and restord to the original company and the preferred creditors, the only creditors save the bondholders. The company will issue iirst preferred b per cent stock to the creditors for their accounts. This was approved l?y creditors and the court. The re-orgauizatjou \yi|i be perfected m {i lew days. MO 11 LYNCHES 1 WO. J Jainen Greer ami Jumea Callahan Meet | Vlnl. nt Death In l'llce County, Ga. A Matcn, Ga., special says: Near j the village of Liberty Hill in Piko county, Monday .James Greer and i James Callaway, two negro men,while 1 cut on a hnuting expedition passed a farm house, and fired their gnn? into . it, to ihe great fright of a young woman, the daughter of the house, who c was there alone, her parents having e been called away from the place. 1 The young woman was prostrated with terror but was not injured by the ^ shots. The meu of the neighborhood undertook a sec:ch aud found both Green and Callahan. One of them, under pressure, it is said, stated that T th(y bad a grudge against the farmer and had fired into the house hoping to kill him. The negroes were, during 8 the ear'y hours of the nigh*, carried into the woods. They were then placed on horseback, ropes tied about their necks and fastened to the limb of a * tree. The horses were started and the negroes left dangling. 1)1 Kl) IN PCLl'IT. c " a Kev. Dr. John N err ton Crmjr Succumbs at I j om oi ajuij. ( "When 1 die I want to be at my t post of duty in the Master's work; I i want to die in harness." < These words wore spoken Wednesday l>y Rev. Dr. John Newton Craig, / of Atlanta, in conversation with a friend between the sessions of the 1 Presbyterian synod of Virginia, t West Virginia aud Maryland, which is 1 now in convention at the First church I in Newport News, Va. His wish waa ' gratified. He died in harness. I The morniDg session, attended by an audience which filled the chnrch, was brought to an nnexpected and tragic < close by the sndden death of Dr. Craig, 1 just as he was concluding one of the ' most remarkable speeches ever heard 1 from this prominent and popular 1 diviue. WltOXG'-DOERS IX ARMT. , -i Annual 11< port of Court martial* By Genual Letb'er, Juil?e Advocate General. General Leiber, judge advocate general of the army, in his annual report , to the secretary of war, says there were 6,680 trials by general conrtmar- j tials during the past fiscal year, of which number thirty-five were commissioned officers officers, four cadets, 6,618 enlisted men and twenty-three civilians serving with the army. Of the commissioned officers, twenty-five, and of the enlisted men, 6,0*20, were convicted. A total of 2,588 men were 1 sentenced to dishonorable discharge. : Six deaih sentences were imposed, all of which were commuted by the presi- ' dent. * ( COLOR LIKE JX CUBA. Very Bitter Feellnjr 8al<l to ExUt Between i ^ w lures aim umrju. A Santiago dispatch says: The departure of the provincial delegates to participate in the proceedings of the forthcoming constitutional convention at Havana caused an immense.demonstration Wednesday afternoon. It is estimated that they were escorted to the wharf by upwards of 12,000 persons, of whom nine-tenths were colored people. The political parties are drawing the color line very closely,and this is causing bitter feoling between ! the races. TEnTIXU solidity of soil. Government Officer ,Si nt To Inspect Slt^s , For Naval Stations. Under direction of ,the navy department, Lieutenant Chambers, United States navy department, has began a series cf borings at Charleston, S. C., to determine the character of the uo , derlying soil where the government expects to establish a naval station. The idea has been to move the naval station now at Port Royal to Charles- * ton if it is found that all the conditions are favorable. Carter Hearing Postponed. The hearing of the habeas corpus case of Oberlin M. Carter, ex-captain of engineers, against Warden McCiaugbrey, of the federal prison, through whioh the ex-captain expects to gain his freedom, has been postponed at Leavenworth until November 9th. Pefauller .\lTord Elniles Po'.ice. A New York dispatch says: Cornelius L. Alvord, the defaulting teller of the First National bank in the sum of $700,0)0, had not been arrested up to Wednesday neon, and it was said no lans had )<Aen received of bim. CLEVELAND IS SLATED. For President of Wastvlugton and Lee University to Succeed Wilson. According to a dispatch from Norfolk, Va., the presidency of Washington and Lee university made vacant by the death of William L. Wilson, will be offered /o ex-President Grover I Cleveland. A committee from the i university will, in a few days, go to Princeton and formally extend the offer. Bryan Again In tiotham. A New York special says: "William Jennings Bryan's second coming to this oity was the occasion Saturday night of one of the greatest political demonstrations of the campaign. ** NASHVILLE BETS RELIC. iccirM Gun that Fired Flret Shot In Spanlsh-Amerlcan Wnr. The gun from which the first shot i in the Spanish-American war was fired | has reached Nashville, Tenn., whioh is I to be its permanent home. It is a ; Hotchkiss rapid fire one-pounder, and j comes from the gnnboat Nashville, ' whioh sent a shot over the bow of the J Spanish merchant vessel Buena Ven! tara. KRUtfER WILL APPEAL. ! Transvaal President to Ask Powers to In tervenc in sonm wnn. | The Transvaal agencv announces | that Mr. Kruger will arrive at Marj seillea on the Dutch craiser Gelj derland November 11th or November j 12th. He will proceed to The Hague I without stopping at Paris, und after expressing his thanks to Queen Wilhelmina for Dutch hospitality on board the cruiser, ho will appeal to the powers to intervene in the South African settlement ou the basis of articled of The Hague convention. irsJiN*rN^? _ | SOUTH CAROLINA % f STATE NEWS ITEMS, i 1 ; C -'M Candidate Iu Each District. The Repnbl'cans in Sonth Carolina iave exerted themselves this year and .;.-i lominated a candidate for congress in very district. These nominations are j?| ,s follows: first district?W. W. Beckett, ne* v| ;ro preacher. Second district?J. B. Odom,white. Third district?A. C. Merrick, white. Fourth district?S. T. Poinier, rbite. Fifth district?Tohn F. Jones, white. ftirth diwfriot Pnhftrt flUfirt. Dft* Seventh district?Alexander Dantz- \Jli The only serious fight is being made r|| >y Beckett, who is opposing Colonel irVilliam Elliott in the First Beckett *-^8 las been doing some active chnvassng. Ei Congressman Robert Smalls, ^ collector of the port of Beanfort, haav , ^ i!so been working for Beckett. In r.ew of probable contests State Demo- ^ sratic Chairman Jones baa issued an &J| tddress to the Democratic voters ng that they turn out in force election ^ Delayed Faneral Can tea Salt. Mrs. Jnlia M. Love baa filed suit 'or $5,000 damage against the Charleson and Bavaaoah Railroad Company. [n iier complaint she alleges that her' lnsband, Charles H.Love, died in ^ -harleston on July 20', 1899, and that :'i9 body was prepared for burial. Jjj t'-je interment was to be in Savannah. '.I ' Ihe body was carried to the Savannah M Jepot and put aboard a train, but before the train ptarted the casket mm ^ faken off, tlie company refusing to p haul it until another train left later She says the faneral arrangement^;-.^ -, ^ were disarranged and thai she suffered^ ^ from the delay. In the answer filed i --13 for the railroad it is stated that Loe^|f| ?fj iied of typhoid fever and that coffin did not show a permit from the ;j biard of health as required by law. ' The company wired to Savannah and J| got "the permit, holding the body until. ; M this was received. When tha fras granted the body was moved on Mill llaorgaslud* A charter has been issued to the Qc- . ?| tararo Mills Company, of Marlboro -|| coanty. The capital stock of the mill T ' If is to be $30,000. The officers of the J 4; mill are: Messrs. J. W. Mitchell, ; ?|| Tames 3. Woodward and C. W. Worth, J > directors, and C. W. Worth, president,M ^ and James 8. Woodward, secretary .vjjS and treasnrer. This is the Bed Bank W Mill property, which has b&n ganized. The mill is to be iffljmvsi^ ^ and operated under the new manage- 'v Vrepmrluv For Eziioaliiou l>*y. ^ Colonel Arerill was in Columbia a day or two ago looking after the inter-:^ || eits of the exposition and particularly;^ :;| arranging for "Exposition Day." He J ^ arranged with Superintendent Love, ofjl ' r| the fair, for a very desirable locallos^sm ^ in the main building, on the fair |j grounds, where Architect Gilbert's | |a beantifnl preliminary plans *w||' M sketches of the exposition ground#^ 'M and buildings, that attracted so interest and favorable comment lity? fig Charleston, will be exhibited. T1Mgi | will be so placel as -to show to erm || visitor to the fail that Charlestonian# ^: M in inviting the people of the state >f1|j| join with them in the exposition are-; || not asking their participation and co- : m operation in an ordinary exposition, ; ^ bat in one that will be a lasting moon' . . -M ment to Sonth Carolina energy and en- "-fi Bank Chartered. .>y|; A commission for a charter has been .? I issued to the ''Cambridge Bank," of M Ninety Six.' The corporators named^: ^ are: J. P. Phillips, E. M. Lipscomb,M A. S. Osborne. J. K. Hnrst and Elfi- M A. Smyth. The capital stock of m tin bank is to be $40,000. : ji - ~r;:$ Many Charleston Caeee. 1 Governor McSweeney has received .-3 L'~ -K Uavn* Qnrt vlK A Ixmi iwl 19 UUUgLL iuajv* tie police of Charleston, in which itia siown that Chief of Police Boyle re-> || porta forty-one new cases having been' made ont for the conrt which ia toon % to meet in Charleston. 'M Sues For Fire Cents With Costs. ^ A suit,"which ia meant to teat the le- % | gal right of the Charleston Con solids- || ted Bailway, Gas and Electric Company || to charge ten" cents' fare on the ferry ^ | line to and from Mount Pleasant, was jg filed in the conrt of ooxnwon pleat at | Charleston a day or two ago. W. T. ,v^ -M Bettfson is named as the plaintiff in M the action and only five oenta' damage | is asked. In the bill of complaint $ Mr. Bettison states that he is a reas* || dint of Monnt Pleasant and has hit o | business in Charleston, which makes it necessary for him tq travel back and M forth daily. He alleges that on October f J 6 he tendered an agent of the Consoli- ' ^ dated the sum of five cents for passage || to Mount Pleasant and that this was./ refused. He charges that the present a "M rates are unreasonable, unlawful and'- v unjust. He asks damages to the extent" ^ | of five cents, with costs. -^^9 Superintendent Sands Keaigns. J Superintendent J. H. Sands of the M . Southern railway at Charleston, has.'^aH resigned and will be succeeded by A. ; : Gordon Jones, the Southern's present if superintendent st Macon. Mr. Sends was formerly general manager of the'rjjffl:. " * " J Whan ha Infi JNonoii a Liu nvotviu. T_ , that road he accepted service oo the ^|| South Carolina and Georgia, of which he was general manager when the property was absorbed by the South- ^ era railway, something more than a year ago. Mr. Saads has been with tbe Southern ever since. ' Palmetto Ck>l<l Mlue? Chartered. :?I A charter hart been jssued to thf . fa million-dollar Palmetto"Gold Mining J Company. The officers of tbe compa . J I ny are: Thomas R. Pax ton, president; * Jos. O. Stillson, treasnrer; Lucius C: ^ Embree, secretary. The directors are; r Thomas R. Paxton, .T<>s. O. Stillson, || Lonis A. Cannon, Iienry C. Haw,;; J? Harry Kurtz, Wiu. M. (Jorlwrtt asc |i Lucius C. Embree. -Is ' v7:jflnl