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PlSpPfefA - ' |. The Bamberg Herald. _f gp ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 16.1901. OXE DOLLAR PER YEAR. %JH 1 ? ? ? . ' **r i i f prrTkPPT VV7VI TV I STEAMER GOES DOWN v I - ^ k : I CtV City of Padncah Strike a Snag > In Mississippi River. ONLY SEVEN ON BOARD ESCAPEj At Least Twenty-five of the Crew, the j Majority of Whom Were Negro Roustabouts, Went Down to Watery Graves. A special from Carbondale, 111., says: The steamer City of Paducah was sunk near Brunkhorst landing, sfbout four miles north of Grand Tow * 'vj*1 er, at 12 o'clock Sunday night. Between twenty-five and fifty people were drowned, only seven escaping with their lives. The City of Paducah left St. Louis Sunday morning on a downward trip and stopped at most of the landings and loaded freight Between 11 and 12 o'clock Miss Fannie Block, who, in company with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Block, was going from St. Louis to Evansville, Ind., was aroused from sleep by a sudden jar. She asked her mother if her berth had broken down, and no sooner had the words passed UCI upo mau nav? iuouvu >uw vuv i apartments and they were compelled j to act quickly to save their lives. With four others they escaped to the -I- Ilinois shore by holding on to drift wood and swimming. The seven saved are Hebrews. Rev. Mr. Block is a Jewish rabbi. The seven survivors of the catastrophe made their way down the river bank-to Grand Tower and aroused Mrs. Baronowsky, at.the Tremont hotel, where they were given lodging until Monday morning. They lost all their clothes and valuables and had nothing but their underwear and -blankets about them. Among the drowned were about twenty-five negro roustaboats. Frank White, whose home is in Kansas City, told the following story of the disaster: T -got on the boat at Landing 76 to go to Cairo. The boat stopped at Lake Ditch landing and took on several sacks of corn. We landed again V at Brunkhorst, which is only a few miles from Lake Ditch, and took on corn. At both places about seventeen sacks were loaded. After the corn at ? Brunkhorst had been placed on board the boat started down stream and just as she put off struck a snag, tearing a hie' hole in her. 'The crew then tried to place the stern of the boat toward the river and" while turning her around she sank. She is about thirty feet from shore and her cabin and pilot house are above water. I jumped into a skiff and made to shore. "I don't know how many were aboard, but I think there were about * twenty-five drowned. Among them were two engineers, one white woman and about fifteen negroes. "There was great confusion, and it ?:v - may be that more were drowned." The bodies of the two passengers have been recovered. First Mate Tobias Royal, of St Louis, says only * * about twelve passengers w ere on board and all were saved except two. The body of Dr. J. W. Bell, of Bell's landing, Tennessee, was taken* out of his stateroom. The remains of a young woman, on which was a visiting card reading: "Mrs. Mary L. Allen, St Louis, Mo.? were recovered from her stateroom. Two friends traveling with the drowned woman, who started back to St. Louis on the steamer City of Clifton, .said that the young lady was engaged to marry Dr. C. A. Meredith, of St Louis. Several hundred - dollars' worth of jewelry was found on her body. It is supposed that most of the missing deck hands, who were on the lower deck, were washed down the river. The boat lies down about 100 feet from the Illinois shore, the forepart of the hurricane deck being under water. She appears to be a total wreck. Threaten to Shut Down. The New York Builders' Association issued a statement Monday regarding its decision to shut down operations on Thursday unless the blicklayers' union call off all strikes in tne meantime. f; % CHINESE WANT REDUCTION. Government Is Appalled at Amount of Indemnity Demanded. Dr. Morrison, wiring to The London Times from Pekin, May 10th, says:' "The Chinese plenipotentiaries are drafting a reply to the ministers of the powers expressing astonishment at the amount of indemnity demanded and urging a reduction on the ground of the empire's financial difficulties, but undertaking, if the full amount isexacted, to pay in thirty annual installments of 15,000,000 taels from the likin, sait tax and native customs. feke . i PORTO RICAN GOODS SEIZED. Customs Collector Pounces Upon the Island's Exhibit at Buffalo. The exhibit of Porto Rico, which arrived at the Pan-American grounds at Buffalo. N. Y., Monday, was seized by Collector of Customs Henry W. Brendel. The material was brought from Porto Rico on an army transport and was unloaded in the navy yard at Brooklyn, thus escaping inspection at ; any customs office. ? | DEUTSCHLAND A HUSTLER. jyPsV-/" I Big Hamburg-American Liner Makes Record Never Before Equalled. The Hamburg-American steamship j Deutschland, which arrived in port at i New York Thursday, made five hun- i dred and eighty-seven knots, or 676.61 i statute miles, from noon on May 8th j to noon Thursday. An hourly average speed of 24.53 knots was maintained throughout the whole twenty-four hours. This is a record that has never before been equalled by any vessel. ?c^>rvjjxir\jrjrorsJtN?i| < I SOUTH CAROLINA \ i i STATE NEWS ITEMS. \ j vcsjrNjrsirorsicMr\>r>>i j Bids ealied For. A Charleston dispatch says: The , erection cT the army barracks on Sul- ) livan's island win oegm as soon as j the contracts can be awarded. Bids for the construction of the buildings have been called for and when these are opened the approval of the war department will be secured so that , work will not be longer delayed. When j tfie new barracks and dwellings for , officers have been completed the post } will be one of the most important on j the south Atlantic coast, and the quar- , ters will be as commodious and handsome as is possible to make. There will be all modern conveniences for the soldiers. The grounds are being put into shape and the old buildings . recently sold are being hauled away j to make room for the new ones. ? ] ^ Port Royal Naval Station. A Washington special says: The sole proposal for fhe completion of i the work of dredging a channel oppo- ( site the Port Royal naval station, South Carolina, bids for which were ( open to submission up to 1 o'clock at the bureau of yards and docks, navy ' department Monday, was P. Sanford Ross, of Jersey City. N. J., who offered o complete the work at $2.20 per cu- ( oic yard for earth and rock dredged and deposited on the station and $1.25 per, cubic yard for earth ore rock j Knf tori Ui CUfiCU, UUI uuv. * * * Perfecting the Titles. < Titles to the property recently purchased by the United States for the < naval station site at Chicora park are being perfected, and it is expected that these will be delivered to the navy department within the next few weeks. District Attorney Lathrop is 1 attending to the work for the govern- i ment The official report in Charles- f ton is that work on the station will begin early in July, and when once started all possible speed will be J made to have the station completed at 1 the earliest possible time. The dry f dock will probably be built first, as t there is need for this by the navy de- t partment. The city has already trans- ] ferred its part of the land needed, and the titles to the Lawton property, sold a few weeks ago. are being prepared for delivery. In business circles the building of the naval station is ac- < cepted as a strong indication of re- i newed prosperity for the city. i * * * < Good Water is Wanted. A special committee which is rep- 1 resenting the Charleston city council in its efforts to secure a new water supply for the city will hold a meeting to act on a proposition to secure 1 an ample supply of good water from j Ten Mile Hill. According to an esti- j mate made by an Atlanta firm, tne i springs around the hill, which is ten i miles distant from Charleston, have < a dkily supply of more than 5,090,000 gallons. The water has been tested and found pure, and the estimated supply is amply sufficient for the needs of the city. For two years the city has been working on a scheme to bring water from the Edisto river, a distance of thirty miles, but the great cost of such an undertaking has interfered with the plans. It is said that there is a possibility of the last proposition being accepted, in which , event the city will get the new supply within one year's time. ? i * * Negro Proved His Innocence. Willie Wilson, colored, was acquitted of the charge of murder at Orangeburg last Monday. Three months ago hundreds of men in that county? perhaps some of those who tried him { ?were trying to lynch him. One evening while Mr .and Mrs. J. H. W. Hydrick were driving on a public road ! some months ago, their buggy was i driven into from the rear; they were 1 thrown out and Mr. Hydrick so badly injured that he died. Wilson, a negro, claimed his horse was running away 1 and unmanageable, but others declared he was drunk. To escape the lynchers he was hustled out of the Orange- 1 burg jail and transferred to the peni- 1 tentiary. Deputies with Winchesters - 1 guarded him during the trial, it being feared an attempt might be made to kill him. . * * * Promising Coal Vein Found. A few days ago D. S. Bell, who lives , thirty miles from Greenville, Beets Spring township, Spartanburg county. , exhibited in Greenville samples of i what he supposed to be coal. He sub- , ID11I6Q me samples iaj , largely interested in coal properties in Kentucky, who pronounced them to j be coal of superior quality. Bell said that so far as he could judge the vein , of coal is three or four feet thick. Some of the samples were imbedded in white flint rock. He has leased the land where he dug out the samples and will continue his investigations. If he finds the vein continues and indications of coal deeper are discovered he will organize a company to de- ! velop the property. He believes he has struck it rich. * * * Builds Road for Employees. The Atlantic Coast Lumber Company. with headquarters at Georgetown. is building a railroad from a . point just across the river from Georgetown to Pawley's island, a seashore resort. This is largely to ac- < commodate employees of the company who work in the malarial section all the summer, and last year many whites from the north died. With this sixteen mile railroad they can sleep in the sand hills lapped by the waves and return to work every morning. * * * A "Babe in the Woods." A child about a week old was found in the woods near Fair Forest, a small town six miles from Spartanburg, last Monday afternoon. A young man and woman, strangers in the town, were aniSt .... ... seen to leave the baby near the road, i They drove rapidly toward the city. ! Early in the afternoon a man of the I same description, young, handsome ind well dressed, hired a turnout and Irove off with the woman, carrying a bundle in her lap. They went toward Pair Forest. Later the same man came nto town hurriedly and asked for a lotary public, saying a couple at the Southern depot wanted to get married. Two notaries refused and the stranger lurried away, saying he had to catch ;he Abbeville train. After the afterioon trains had all gone messengers ?ame from Fair Forest with the story ibout the baby rescued. The couple irrived in Spartanburg some days be"ore and registered as Gus Shaw and ivife, Abbeville. Two days after their irrival a baby was born. Dr. F. L. Potts being the attending physician, rbe parties are unknown here. * * * Reunion Largely Attended. The reunion of Confederate veterms at Columbia the past week was largely attended. Columbia made ?reat preparations for the entertainment of her guests, many social features having been arranged in their honor. Abbeville was represented by Miss Mary Hemphill, sponsor of Camp Secession, and her two maids of honor. Miss Rachel Hemphill and Miss Florence Henry, and by Mrs. L. H. Russell. Mrs. S. G. Thomson and Miss Antoinette Thomson. Among the veterans attending were Judge Lym, General Hemphill, Mr. 2. W. Kendell, Mr. W. W. Edwards, Mr. Obediah Cann, Mr. J. C. Gillabeau. Mr. George White, Mr. W. A. Templeton, Mr. Ft B. Speed, Mr. C. V. Hammond, Mr. Wyatt Aiken. SAVANNAH WINS UNIQUE CASE. Sity Can Levy Tax on Its Own Property When Same is Leased. In the United States supreme court Monday an opinion was handed down n the case of Wells vs. the city of Savannah, Ga., involving the question of ;be city's right to tax its own property vhen leased to another party. The supreme court of the state of Georgia leld in favor of the city's contention or this right, and Monday's opinion ipholds that decision on the ground :hat the lease in this case amounted to practically a sale. Currency for Jacksonville. The treasury department has or tiered an increase in me amount ut shipments of currency from New York to New Orleans from $250,000 a day to $500,000. This is on account of the iemand for currency by Jacksonville, Fla., made necessary on account of the fire. Indemnity Aggregates $337,000,000. Information has been received ' at Washington confirming the dispatch from Pekin regarding the amount of Indemnity to be demanded. The total has now been reduced from something like half a billion dollars to $337,000,300. WILL ERECT HONOR TABLET. Memorial Shaft to Massachusetts Dead for Andereonville. At the meeting of the executive council at Boston, Mass., Wednesday, plans were approved for the monumental tablet to be erected at Andersonviile next fall to mark the sps>t where 767 soldiers of Massachusetts lost their lives in the union cause. This memorial was authorized by the legislature last year, when an appropriation of $3,000 was made. The memorial will be constructed entirely cf Quincy granite. NEWS FROM MANILA. Cc-lonel Astilla, Insurgent Governor, Surrenders with Officers and Men A Manila special of Wednesday says:: Colonel Astilla, the insurgent ^nvprnnr of Infanta nrovince, has sur rendered with ten officers, ISO men, 170 rifles and ten cannon. The United States Philippine commission has decided to establish an insular government printing plant. Provost General Davis is preparing recommendations to submit to the commission for a separate scheme c! city government in Manila. FINALE IN ROBERTS' CASE Utah State Supreme Court Strikes Sensational Charges from Docket. A special from Salt Lake, Utah, states that the case against Brigham H. Roberts, who was elected to congress three years ago and expelled after invstigation of charges of polygamy brought against him, was stricken from the docket of the state supreme court, the point being raised that the indictment was defective. It is probable that this is the end of this celebrated case. FARMER DRIVEN FROM HOME. Irate Neighbors Force Peterman to Seek Refuge in Charleston. M. Peterman. a farmer living near Monck's Corner, S. C., who claims to have been driven away from home by whitecaps, has moved to Charleston. He has written to Governor McSweeuey that the man left to attend to his property has also been warned to j leave. It seems that Peterman had j frr.nhle with his neighbors, the Thorn- i leys, and an injunction was issued by | Judge Aldrich requiring the neighbors : to stop trespassing on his property. This brought or. the first actual clash ci' arms. PORTO RICAN FUNDS STOLEN. Two Postal Officials of Island are Under Arrest for Embezzlement. A dispatch from Ponce, Porto Rico, j says: Carlos and Ramon Julia, re- i spectively postmaster and assistant I postmaster at Juana Diaz, have been arrested on the charg of embezzlement. Inspector Smith, on April 27. found that the post office at Juana Diaz should have a balance of $952. No cash was on hand. The bondsmen of the prisoners will reimburse the government in full. IRISH PAPER SEIZED i Contained Scathing Denunciation I Of His Royal Nibs, Edward. EPITHETS LAY1SHLY EMPLOYED | Polluted Hero, Bald-Headed Roue and < Genteel Perjurer Were Some of the Choice Expressions Used By Editor. Advices from Dublin state that the police of Cork, Limerick and other towns of Ireland seized all the copies of William O'Brien's weekly paper, "The Irish People," found at the news dealers Friday. The offending article, j it now appears, was an abusive attack j on King Edward. It was as follows: . "Down upon-his knees before an old , and baldheaded roue, lover of every r woman of fair features who has ap- ( peared in English society for forty ? years, including titled dames and as < yet untitled actresses?the English gentleman perjurer of a historic divorce case, the polluted hero of one ] of the malodorous scenes in Zola's ] rotten novel, 'Nana,' the center of a ] score of the most disgraceful scandals ] of the most contemptible type, down < in front of this English king, whose i latest public performance was to stig- ( matize on his solemn oath the whole 1 Catholic world as superstitious idola- i tors, knelt the English-born cardinal < prince of the church with a document i that might have been presented to a 1 Legree in a southern plantation fifty | years ago, but not by an Uncle Tom, ( poor but contented, of Harriet Beecher Stowe's great story, would have < seen his black skin stripped off inch 1 by inch rather than put his mark to 1 a document like that signed and pre- < sented by Cardinal Vaughan and the 1 duke of Norfolk on his solemn oath. i "We do not believe he attached the < slightest solemnity to the perform- ? ance. But the fact remains?this old * and worn out descendant of a race of ' scoundrels and practical professors of 1 hideous immorality asseverated that 3 the most of the sacred doctrines of the Catholic faith were idolatrous and su- ' perstitious. He has not yet recanted. '' He has not said a word to indicate he ' did not thoroughly approve of the , terms of the oath framed in the days of Titus. The oath of a perjurer is no \ less vile than that of the reigning king; but, on bended knees, the prince of the church knelt before this unut- , terably abominable person. Let us i console ourselves with the fact that the presentees were English Catholics, . who are repudiated by the only really ^ Catholic nation now in existence. The ( loyalists represented England only, . and if the English Catholics choose onl/nnmloMoro thomeplvPS SllDfirSti tious idolators, it is 110 fault of ours." The police of London are suppressing copies of the paper forwarded before the office in Dublin was seized. Dillon Denounces Seizure. A London special says: At the conclusion of the questions in the house of commons John Dillon (nationalist), moved the adjournment of the house in order to call attention to the seizure of The Irish People. Mr. Dillon complained that the action of^the authorities was grossly illegal. He said he was not concerned to defend the violence of the attack, but any seizure should have been done through the courts. Far more violent attacks on Queen Victoria had beenmade in the English papers without being seized. The present action was a blow at the liberty of the press. The motion for an adjournment was defeated by a vote of 252 to 64. The morning papers of London are unanimous in denouncing the scandalous attack of The Irish People upon the king; but serious doubts are raised as to the wisdom of Mr. Wyndham's action in seizing the paper? first, because the seizure was illegal, it being a case for prosecution; second, because to the delight of the Irish members it has given worldwide publicity to Mr. O'Brien's hitherto little known paper and will be, the nationalists claim, worth thousands of dollars to them from American sympathizers. HEAVY BATTERY FOR BUFFALO. Uncle Sam's Artillery wni uive txnibition Drills at the Exposition. A Dispatch from Norfolk, Va., says: Battery B, Seventh United States heavy artillery, left Fort Monroe Saturday afternoon by the Chesapeake line and Baltimore for the Buffalo exposition. There the battery will give exhibition drills in the handling of heavy field artillery. Building Seven New Railroads. The secretary of the North Carolina corporation commission announces that work is now in progress on seven railways in that state. GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT. Great Interest Aroused Over Coming Meeting at Jackson, Miss. A great deal of interest is being aroused over Mississippi in the good roads movement, and the agitation of the rmestion will result in much good. Since the governor's proclamation a number of towns and business leagues j have elected delegates to the good j roads convention that is to be held in Jackson on the 14th and 15th of June. I Free Delivery for Jackson. Rural free delivery service will be established to commence June 1st at Hoschton, Jackscn county. Georgia, with one carrier. The route is 25 miles ! long, covering an area of 25 square | miles, with a population to be served I of 500. Panicky in London. Great panic prevailed in London Thursday afternoon in American securities. Down, down, down went I Americans and traders were paralyzed witn panic. MRS. M'KINLEY IS ILL President's Itinerary Is Changed Somewhat as a Result. JVELY ROW OVER PRECEDENCE )hio Party and Governor Nash's Crowd Make a Big How! Over Alleged Slight Accorded Them. The sudden illness of Mrs. McKinley ias caused an unexpected change in :he itinerary of President McKinley. ^Ie arrived in San Francisco Sunday ifternoon several hours ahead of the lime scheduled. The state of Mrs. McXinley's health was such that the president decided to leave Delmonte with his wife for the home of Henry r. Scott, In San Francisco, where she could have complete rest and where a specialist could be consulted, if necessary. Ohio Party Discomfitted. The Ohio party en route to San Francisco to see the launching of the cattleship Ohio, enjoyed a sojourn at Del Monte, Cal., Saturday. The Ohio party and Governor Nash's partyclashed over a question of precedence, md harmony is wanting. The people )f California have been very cordial, cut naturally President McKinley has eceived the most attention, and Governor Nash and party, who are travelng on a separate train, have been a ittle in the background. At Los Angeles it was all McKinley, and the Dhio senatorial party felt slighted The chagrin of the party experienced over its alleged mistreatment at Los Angeles became more intense as :he time passed and broke out into cpen revolt at conferences in the Ho:el Delmonte. The special cars bearing the Ohio congressmen were at:ached to the Ohio special at Los Angeles. This seemed to add to the ill .'eeling of the governor's party, who complained tnat they had been an annexed section to the president's party, ind now were given third place. The congressmen seemed equally iissatisfied with the new arrangement, md finally it was decided that the congressmen should travel as they had done before reaching Los Angeles, rhe cars of the congressmen were accordingly take# off the Ohio special at Delmonte, and they left for San Francisco at noon Saturday, while Gover" * J i.- O M nor iNasn anu parij ien o.l {, p. m. San Francisco. Then Colonel J. B. Ellison and Willis G. Bowland, ^ho have charge of all arrangements for Governor Nash and the Ohio special, met a committee from San Jose and notified Chairman Minor that they would not visit San Jose as an annex of any other party. T?t was then decided that the special would go from San Francisco to San Jose Sunday night. It was also specified that the Ohio special would leave San Jose before tne presidential train arrived. WANT DOLE REMOVED. Hawaiian Legislature and Governor of island at Loggerheads. Advices from Honolulu state that the first territorial legislature of Hawaii came to an end on the evening of April 30th, according to Governor Dole, and on the next night, according to the majority of both houses. The legislature ended its existence at loggerheads with the governor and without having passed a single important measure to which the home rulers were committed except the county government act, which the governor killed by a pocket veto. The last act of the house on the evening of the 30th was to pass a concurrent resolution containing a memorial to President McKinley asking for the removal of Governor Dole. He is charged with having hindered the work of the session by his hostility toward the legislature, withholding information ana reports that were called for, and refusing to co-operate with the law-makers. President McKinley is I asked in the resolution to use his influence in behalf 01 an extra session of the legislature to transact general legislation which General Dole refuses to grant PAYING TELLER SHORT. Prominent Bank Official In New Orleans Detected in Wrong-Doing. Samuel Flower, paying teller of the A^.jernia National bank, was arrested in New Orleans Saturday by United States Marshal Fontell and charged with a shortage of $38,000. The Fidelity and Depos-- Company, of Baltimore, is on Flower's bond for $25,000. Flower is a cousin of the late Mayor Flower and comes from one of the most prominent families in the state. He is a son of the late ex-United States sub-Treasurer Samuel Flower, of New Orleans. His bond for $10,000 was promptly signed when he was arraigned in the United States court. BAPTISTS AT NEW ORLEANS. The Preliminary Session of Southern Convention Is Held. The opening session of the convention of the Southern Baptists was held Tknrcrlnv in PrPQhvtPfiail A 11U1 owes. V 1U Uiv A Ai uv A . church in New Orleans, a fair attendance being present. The Baptist Young People's Union was in charge of the programme. The meetings will last until next Monday. Fully 2,000 delegates are in the city. Governor Odell Vetoes Bill. Governor Odell. of New York, has vetoed the employers liability bill. He says the measure is not in the interest of labor and is too drastically in favor of the corporation. "Swiped" Everything in Sight. Besides the $350,0i j it owes the depositors. the Cuyahoga Savings and Banking Company at Cuyahoga, O.. is also raid to be liable on about $200,000 ol notes on which its name was indorsed by President R. N. Pollock. CLAMOR FOR WORK Citizens of Jacksonville Unnsed To Hard Labor Se.king Jobs. MANY NEGROES REFUSE TO HELP Industrial Differences Will Henceforth Be Settled By Arbitration and .. Conciliation?Peace Will Be Paramount. A Jacksonvile special says: The militia guarding the vast amounts of stinnlies which are notirine in on everv train fear trouble with the negroes. Many of the colored people refuse to do any work for the city and yet claim they are entitled to their share of the provisions sent into the city. The work of clearing up the streets and reconstructing Jacksonville goes on under a blistering sun. The first train from the New York Evening Journal arrived in the city Wednesday in charge of Mr. Williams and committee. The contents were immediately turned over to J. R. Parrott, chairman of the commissary committee. It was made up of two cars of Irish potatoes and one of general groceries. The Journal committee is co-operating actively with the relief committee in every way. The executive committee of the relief association met and decided to put up at once commodious tents, where work will be provided for women and girls who earned their living by sewing. They will be set to work making garments for the destitute and will be paid for the work. Sewing machines have been ordered by Chairman Telfair Stockton and the employment bureau and quarters for the women will be opened at once. At the meeting of the relief committee Wednesday morning it was reported that hundreds of men totally unused to manual labor were entirely destitute. The committee will endeavor to provide for them by establishing clerkships. It is thought that many bodies are yet in the river. Captain Spencer, inspector of steam vessels, is arranging to make a systematic search for these bodies. The captains of vessels in the river during the fire report that many were rescued while struggling in the water. The body of Mrs. Solon Robinson, who had been missing since the fire, was found during the day in the ruins of her home. Nothing was left but a few bones, fragments of clothing and bits of the jewelry she was wearing. They were found in the hallway, and it was evident that she endeavored to secape, was overcome by smoke and heat and fell in a faint Mrs. Robinson was he widow of Solon Robinson, for twenty years agricultural editor of The New York Tribune, was about sixty-five years old and a native of Indiana. Masons Respond Liberally. H. A. Burt, Alabama state organizer for the Mason's Annuity, has just returned from Jacksonvile, where he has been since the morning before the great fire, and he tells of the noble response that the Masons of the United States are making to the call for help issued by Grand Master James Carnell, of the grand lodge of Florida. The full meaning of the wide-spread suffering in the city was realized Wednesday when it was announced in one of the meetings that a great numbe?r of men who had never been used to manual labor were clamoring for work. Among them were clwks, collectors, bookkeepers and even professional tKroo vniirKJ- nhvsirians esDecial 1A I CU; til A W J V MMQ ^ ly declaring their condition destitute, as they had lost their wardrobes, libraries, office fixtures and everything in the fire. The department of labor has undertaken to give clerical employment to all of these applicants. Over $500,000 worth cf insurance has already been paid by the adjusters and the people are commencing the erection of temporary places of business and dwellings. A new Windsor hotel is to be erected at the cost of $300,000, and work clearing away the debris for the laying of the foundation has already commenced. The Gardner building, of eight stories, will also be erected at once on the old site. TO NOTIFY CHINA. Celestial Government Will Be Informed as to Amount of Indemnity. Advices from Pekin state that the foreign ministers have decided to address a collective note to the Chinese government informing it that a joint indemnity of 450,000,000 taels would be demanded, and asking what methods of payment is proposed. A reply is expected at the end of the week, which will probably propose to meet the indemnty by raising the customs tariff. The ministers were unable to agree as to the desirability of opening the whole empire to trade and residence. FIGHT IN JURY ROOM. Free-For-AII Scrap Attends Deliberation of Legal ^Arbiters. At Munice, Ind., Wednesday night while trying to come to a conclusion as to the guilt or innocence or Henry Warrenal, on trial for causing a disturbance on an electric car, the jury came to blows and the locked jury room had to be broken open before the free-for-all fight which waged furiously inside could be stopped. CLARA SUPPORTING KAUFMAN. Applicant for Charleston Post Office Being Helped by Red Cross. Colonel A. C. Kaufman, a prominent and public spirited citizen of Charles-1 ton, S. C., seems to have the inside track in the fight for the post office in that city. A unique feature of the colonel's campaign is his support from the women. Miss Clara Barton, of ! the Fed Cross Association, a warm personal friend of Colonel Kaufman, I is using powerful influence in his behalf. f SECRETS ON MARKET Stenographer of Insofar Office Tries to Sell Neely Papers. WAS TRAPPED AND BOUNCED I Correspondence Was Offered the Attorney of Neely for $200?Secretary Root Was Quickly Apprised of the Fact. A Washington special says: An attempt to sell the confidential communications between the attorney general and the secretary of war in the Neely case was unearthed Saturday by OK tnf WTill-m fho c^rAt cprviVp VUi^l TT VI vuv OVViVV wv? f 4VV* Information had been obtained from John D. Lindsey, counsel for Neely, in New York, who had received a letter signed by John B. Dickinson, offering him copies of the correspondence. Mr. Lindsey turned the matter over to the attorney general and the latter placed the case in the hands of Chief Wilkie. An officer was stationed at the general delivery window of the local post office and when a man presented himsell and asked for mail for John B. Dick euson he was followed. He went tc the insular division of the war depart ment. Shortly afterwards a conference was held between the secretary of war, So licitor General Richards, of the de partment of justice; Colonel Edwards chief of the insular bureau, and Chiel Wilkie. It was discovered that th< man representing himself as Johr Dickenson was William Davis, stenog rapher to Colonel Edwards, a positior which he has held for a year past. He at one time was private secretary tc ex-Congressman Brumm, of Pennsyl vania, Williams volunteered to turn the correspondence that he had attempted to sell to Lindsay over to the Washing ton officials. As the sale of this cor respondence had not been completed no charge was made against Williams but he was summarily dismissed bj the secretary of war. The papers which Williams desired to sell to Mr. Lindsey consisted of the draft of an opinion of the attornej general upon questions submitted bj Mr. Lindsey relative to requisition tes timony in the Neely case and was sub mitted to Secretary Root for consider ation and observation. Thre also waj a letter from Secretary Root to the at torney general These papers Wil liams offered for $200. WOULD-BE SMASHERS SLUGGED Wichita Saloon Keeper Uses His Fisti on a Trio of Young Ladies At Wichita, Kas., Saturday after ? TTTi A nnii Daat\1oi I noon VYI LIU 11 ii XVIlfiUlC, nuuo i uuj,iVH ! and Jasmine Wilhoit, three younj girls, the latter a daughter of Luc] Wilhoit, the colleague of Mrs. Nation attempted to smash the Summit sa loon. They entered with rocks and th< barkeeper did not know an attack waj threatened until the glass began t< crash about his ears. Fred Wolfe, the proprietor, knocke< the girls down with his fists an< pitched them into the street. Mis: Wilhoit's brother came to their de fense and Wolfe struck him, making i long gash on his face, from whicl the blood flowed freely. In the mele the wrist of Miss Peoples was broken The police arrested the girls and lodg ed them in the city jail. Mrs. Carrie Nation arrived in th< city Saturday after an exciting Jay a Harper. There was a circus in towi and she organized a raid on saloons but was arrested before she could d< any smashing. She was released oi promising that she would take th next train out of town, which she did ' Fi/E WOMEN DROWNED. Unfortunate Victims Represent Threi Generations of One Family. A dispatch from Houghton, Mich says: By the burning of the passer ger steamer Bon Voyage Friday ever ing five members of the Altman fam ily, grandmother, mother and thre daughters, lost their lives. They wer drowned while trying to escape fron the boat. TWO BLOWN TO ATOMS. Boiler of a Planing Mill Explodes Witl Disastrous Results. The boiler or Mcuume cc wcnoi planing mill, near Georgetown, S. C. exploded Saturday morning, demolish ing tne building and killing R. B Brunson and Thomas Scott, fatall: wounding Ellerbe McDuffie and se riously injuring three other men. DeWet Crosses into Transvaal. General DeWet, according to a dis patch to The London Daily Mail fron Pretoria, has resumed operations an< is reported to have crossed into th< Transvaal wiui 2,000 men. KITCHENER REPORTS CAPTURES Twenty-eight Boers Killed and Man} Prisoners are Taken. Lord Kitchener reports to the Lon don war office under date of Victoria "Since May 5th twenty-eight Boer: have been killed, six wounded and 13< taken prisoners and 183 surrendered Nine thousand rounds of ammunition in thirty wagons,100 horses and larg< quantities of grain and stock hav< been captured." HE POISONED WELLS. Mob of Oklahoma Cattlemen Lynch j Suspected Farmer. J. L. Chandler, an old resident farm er of Ioland. Day county. Oklahoma was taken from his home Friday nigh presumably by cattlemen and lynched For some time there has been trou ble between the farmers and the cat tlemen and during the past few week a ereat manv cattle have died fror I poisoned water. Chandler was sus pected and lynched as a warning t others. The identity of the lyncher is not known. WALL MKLEi Willi i Battle of Money Kiags Creates j| Tremeadoas Stock Flirry. ^ > FIGHT FOR NORTHERN PACIFIC J Fortunes of Many Unlucky Speculators Jk Were Swept Away In the Crash. - * Sixty Per Cent Was Bid r"t M for Money. A New York special says: Bitter | stress developed in Wall street by the second hour of trading on the stock J exchange Thursday. The violence of J the commotion had spent much of its force, at least for the time being, when n the chairman's gavel fell announcing jfl the close of the day's proceedings. The casualties were great and the field of battle was strewn with the..,.VJS ' wounded and maybe with the dying. But of actual fatalities none was re1 corded of importance during the day During the height of the panic rumors " of insolvencies were handed about |0| 1 more quickly than they could be f ported. But no confirmations could he [ had of the intimations of financial i ,;M wreck. Those against whom the ru- .0 > mors pointed refused even to Bhow , 1 any signs of distress and professed themselves ready to meet all bbliga: tions. In more than one instance the answer to these rumors was for a rep- . |l| resentative of the house to go upon -S 4 , the stock exchange and place loans to ? ' a large amount, as indicating the j| i abundance of resources at hand. l The banks have been so well pro tected by recent extensions of the ;y$| i margins exacted in the market value jp } of collateral over the amount of loans > placed that they had little to fear -/' |||| ch<~ir+ of an nhsnlnto wininur ont ot market values. The shrinkage of col- VjKj > lateral made it necessary for the ;s-?| [ banks in many cases to exact, addl- JB tional collateral during the day and |" :1 - this addd much to the distress for a.-~|M I time, i But in the late dealings the V , principal banks in the financial dis- fl r trict agreed to form a pool and'raise a 1 fund to loan the money rate down to <:';B I 6 per cent on the stock exchange. The > bid for money had been run up to 00 JgH r per cent and was threatening to keep r | alive tl\e panic. The dozen banks | I . I quickly came td an-agreement to raise . $16,000,000, with implied wfllingnflsa^^^P . to increase the sum if necessary. } There were heavy loans placed also z . by the individual banks, ranging in S . some cases to $25,000,000 and $30,000,- -fl 000. Through the early part of the -> day bankers exacted the market rata for loans. But with the' growing need. - al to suppress the panic they offered the ; ;jl 5 rate down to 6 per cent. r a The stock which caused the collapse w was the Northern Pacific corner, with -J out dispute. % The importance attaohed to the : 1 [ Northern Pacific episode was made j ' clear by the eagerness of all classes . J ' to learn all developments concerning J ^ it and the immediate effect of any an- ;-J * nouncement regarding it upon the J M 3 stock market The upward shoot to v|91 5 $1,000 a share was the effective cause ' of the greatest demoralization in jhe .SaT ^ market. The announcement later in -M the day of ^he measures for the re- ^ ralnnu hi I lit! Ul"\UC OUVi Ulgb uuu . ,1. . ^ the price of the stock to 300 allayed * the demoralization almost immedK JSj 3 The struggle of the financial giants, which broke the most remarkable v'* movement that American stocks ever j had, dates back but a fortnight. B. 7|?E e H. Harriman and Ills associates, so 1 they relate the story in the street,' die- 3 covered that brokers representing i '' P. Morgan & Co. were buying Union J & Pacific. Harriman at once began in- | 1 creasing his own holdings, buying e a market that rapidly advanced, and ' when sure of control submitted a prop- osition for some basis of agreement as to the control of the Burlington, just acquired by the Great Northern and e Northern Pacific. That offer was ., j On Monday last there began i- sational movement in Northern i- cific and the public got the first intii mation of the battle for supremacy. e Street & Norton took all of the stock e they could get, seemingly without re- |g| a gard to price. Much of the stocked to them was for short account an<t^? could not be delivered. It develop??^. 7 finally that there were three large terests in the property, two seeking its ' , management and the third a specula- . tive profit. # ? . A statistical reviw of the transac5 tions in the stock market Thursday jl " shows that at low water markoj^^^B prices forty-one principal '* shrunk the tremendotn^^H^^^^^^^B 7 $698,388,407. sM ever, largely offset^^^^^^^^^^^^H of the Next Meeting in Columbia/^^^^^H ' I The next meeting of the Southern^^H 1 Educational Association will he held * in Columbia, S. C., during the coining 3 Christmas holidays. " g Mckinley gets degree. Title of Doctor of Laws Will Be Conferred By HarvardUniverfity. The board of ovej^tt| Boston to doctor laws The degree be June. President Lincoln, clined to state 5 From another soufCfc it that it was 26 to 3 WONT FIGHT THE TRU8T^ * ' |jj| 1 Moline Plow Company Decides to i Out to the Combine. 1 The Moline, 111., Plow Company, t owning the second largest plow fac- 1 I. tory in the world, has given an option t. to New York capitalists which, if 1 l closed within the limit of sixty days, -1 s will bring this concern into the |50,-v -' $ a 000,000 plow combine. The company employs 1,000 men and the option is 0 for upward of $5,00^000. The company g has opposed the trust, but will sail ^ rather than fight it.