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The Bamberg Herald. 1 * * i _, 1 ? ? ? ?- ' " " 1 1 ^ 1 I ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 4.1901. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. ~||j HUNDREDS SUCCUMB Fearfa! Work cf Heat Wave !b Crowded Cities of the North. r " VICTIMS DROP ON EVERY HAND Blistering Rays of Old Sol Send Mer cury Skyward and Past Records of Torrldity Are Completely Wiped Out. Monday was the hottest July 1st on record, at New York, at 3:10 p. m. the thermometer at the weather office reached 93 degrees, one degree hotter than Sunday. The records show that on only two days in the last thirty years has a higher temperature been% reached. These were July 9. 1876, and July 3, 1898. On these days the thermometer reached 99 degrees. The suffering in the city, particularly in the crowded tenement house district, was most intense. As the day grew the deaths and prostrations increased. and, although provision was made In all the hospitals for this emergency, the authorities were scarcely able to cope" with the great tax made on their resources. Between 2 a. ra. and midnight there f were reported fifty-seven deaths and 141 prostrations in the boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx. For the previous twenty-four hours twenty-one deaths and thirty-six prostrations had been reported in Brooklyn. If the heat was killing to mankind, It was worse on the horses. They dropped right and left.^ At one time there were eight dead horses lying on Broadway between Twenty-third and Fortysecond streets. There were fourteen horses prostrated in the vicinity of Madison Square alone. The rush of the crowds to the parks and to the nearby seashore resorts ^ Monday night was unprecedented in the history of the city. At 2 o'clock Tuesday morning the death record for the twenty-four hours ending at that time in Greater New York was eighty-seven; the prostrations 183. For the previous five days, covering the heated term, the total g; ~ deaths in the same territory were 136. At Newark the mercury touched 100 at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. This was the maximum. The reported deaths were fourteen in and about Newark. At Philadelphia. Philadelphia and vicinity experienced the highest temperature recorded in that city Monday, the government y > thermometer on the top of the post office building, 170 feet from the street, B&zS registering 102 ^degrees even. At UWU ICUl^iHVUig iU uiv nvMVMV* bureau in the Auditorium tower was 93 and on the streets over 100. A severe thunder storm at 1 o'clock brought relief and the mercury dropped 20 degrees. >. MAJORITY REPORT POPULAR. Alabama Suffrage Provisions Not Like ly to Be Changed. The suffrage scheme of the majority of the committee of the Alabama convention meets with favor among the ? delegates generally. No one has come out in open advocacy of the minority report, though it has some supporters The committee entertains no doubt of its ability to pass that section prac tically unchanged. GOMEZ EN ROUTE NORTH. Noted Cuban General Will Have Con ference With President McKinley. General Maximo Gomez arrived at Tampa, Fla.. Thursday evening from Havana, and is en route to New York. He left immediately for that city. General Gomez appears to be in the best of health and as vigorous as a man many years his junior. He talked freely, but was very reticent concerning vital Cuban matters with which he is supposed to have much to do. Cramp's shipyard the prostrations were so numerous that the 5,000 men employed there were relieved from further 'duty at noon. At Baldwin's locomotive works, the Mid vale Steel Works and numerous * other places, - scores of heat sufferers had to quit. Reports from all sections of the state x show that the temperature was exceedingly high; in some places the record was broken and in other places it was - equaled. TJp to midnight fourteen deaths were ^ported and upwards of N 100 persons were treated at hospitals for heat exhaustion. Sped Broken at Cincinnati. The spell of torrid heat which had beep in sway at Cincinnati during the past week and which left death and prostration in its wake was broken Monday evening by a squall. The storm came suddenly from the southeast, and for a time the wind blew at a rate of sixty miles an hour. This was followed by a thunder shower, and the thermometer dropped to 75. The P maximum/temperature during the day was 96 at the government station and 99 on the street- There were five deaths from heat. This makes seventeen deaths since the hot spell began. There were numerous prostrations during the day and about twelve are now at the city hospital in a serious condition. Fourteen Dead at Baltimore. According to weather bureau reports Baltimore was the hottest city in the United States Monday. The weather bureau thermometer recorded 80 degrees at 5 a. m., and from that hour the mercury steadily mounted upward until 102 was reached at noon. Up to midnight fourteen deaths and twenty-eight prostrations had been reported. Five at Chicago. Five persons dropped dead on the streets in Chicago Monday from heat, and fifteen others were so badly overcome that they had to be removed to hospitals. A number of prostrated are in a serious condition and may die. At SINGLE BOLT KILL ELEVEN. : Chicago Youngsters Sought Refuge From Heat and Fell Victim# to Deadly Lightning Stroke. Crowded together in a little zinclined stanty under a north shore pier of Lake Michigan ten boys and young men and one old man met instant death by lightning at Chicago Monday. They had left their fish lines and sought shelter from the fierce thunder storm that deluged the northern part of the city about 1 o'clock. Ten minutes later their bodies lay with twisted and tangled limbs, "like a nest o? snakes." as the men who found them said. Twelve-year-old Willie Anderson was uninjured, but he lay many long minutes before he could be drawn out from the heap of bodies. The are all from the families of comparatively poor people, and comprised two men who were fishing and seeking relief from the heat of the day, joined by a number of boys who had come to wade and swim on the beach. There were thirteen men and boys 011 the pier. They rushed for the only available shelter and crowded themselves in through the little trap door in the top of the babin until they were packed almost to a point of suffocation. Then came the thunderbolt. Percy Keane, a small boy watching from the water station, thought he heard a scream as the bolt struck. Mindless of the storm, he rushed across the beach. At the pier he heard a cry: "Help! Get me out!" He looked into the cabin, and in dismay saw the twisted bodies. Young Percy, crying, pulled at the dead men's arms and legs to get them away. He saw Willie Anderson's head and part of his body, but he could not pull him out, nor could he pull the heavy bodies from on top of him. Then young Keane telephoned to the police, who succeeded, after a great deal of difficulty, in reviving young Anderson and recovering the dead bodies of the others. CONSOLIDATION OF RAILROADS. New Savannah, Florida and Western Company to increase Capital Stock. A great consolidation of railroads with a capital stock of $25,0u0,000 has been perfected of the roads in southern Georgia, northern Florida and eastern Alabama. The Savannah, Florida and Western Railway Company is the designation of the new company, and the principal stockholder in the new corporation is said to be tne old Savannah, Florida and Western Railway Company. Application was filed in the secretary of state's office at Atlanta Monday morning to increase the capital stock of the company from its present capital to $25,000,000. The cause assigned in the application for this increase of capital stock is said to be the absorbtion of the followng roads: The Charleston and Savannah, the Brunswick and Western, the Alabama Midland. the Silver Springs, Ocala and Gulf and the Tampa and Thonotasosa. It is said that this combination of roads makes a complete link from Charleston, S. C., along the coast cities and across the southern part of Georgia to Tampa, extending also over into Alabama. SENATOR KYLE DEAD. Succumbs to Heart Trouble At His Home In Aberdeen, South Dakota. Senator Kyle died Monday night at his home in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He was stricken about ten days ago. His trouble was of malarial origin and resulted in a functional affection of the heart. Senator Kyle was elected to the state 4 senate as an Independent in 1890; was elected to the United States senate to succeed Gideon C. Moody; took his seat March 4, 1891; was reelected in 1897. DETROIT IN GREAT LUCK. Carnegie Will Contribute $750,000 For Building Library in that City. George W. Radford, member of the Detroit public library board, has received a letter from Andrew Carnegie stating tnat Mr. Carnegie will contrib ute $750,000 toward the erection of a new library building in that city. Reunion of Thirtieth Georgia. The annual reunion of the Thirtieth Georgia regiment, confederate veterans, will be held at Forest Station, on the Central railroad, on the 26th of July. All of the members of the regiment are earnestly requested to be present. The railroads are expected to give reduced rates. Three Die In Boston. Heat casualties in Boston were numerous, with three deaths at the hospitals and six critical cases. Elsewhere tnere were deaths at Concord, N. H., Andover and Lowell. The worst feature is the great increase in infant mortality in the cities. OLD LADY IS SUSPICIOUS. Empress Dowager Fears Trap and Refuses to Return to Pekln. A Shanghai special says: Marquis Tseng has received a dispatch from Sian Fu to the effect that the empress dowager, fearing a trap to capture her. declines to return to Pekin and has notified the grand council that the future capital will be Kai Feng Fu, in the province of Honan. DEADLY HEAT IN GOTHAM. Eight Fatalities and Fifty Prostrations Reported Friday In New York. New Yorkers experienced the hottest weather of the year last Friday, the official thermometer registering 92 degrees at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, while street thermometers ran up as high as 100 with the humidity 04 per cent In Greater New York eight death: and fifty prostrations from the heat were reported up to midnight. tNjfMfMrvjrMCNjrsieviij SOUTH CAROLINA I \ STATE NEWS ITEMS. \ ? C\KMrsJCN>?MCNirsKS> ? To Sue For Back Taxes. Florence, Darlington and Chesterfield counties have decided to bring suit against the Atlantic Coast Line railroad for back taxes on the Cheraw and Darlington road from 1888 to 1898. The Coast Line claims the road was exempt. * * * Only Eight Signers Left. Captain John H. Kinsler, one of Richland's most distinguished citizens, died at him home at Lever the past week. Captain Kinsler was born May 4. 1823. He was a large planter and took great interest in j blic affairs, but never sought office, "n 1860 he j was elected by the convention of the J people and his signature is on the ordij nance of secession. His death leaves alive but eight signers of that momen' r? Amim onf IVIUO UV?.UIUVUI> * * * Companies Leave Greenville. Six fire insurance companies have withdrawn from Greenville and other companies are expected to follow suit. The reason given for the withdrawal is the heavy losses in Greenville hy the companies named. Prominent agents estimate the amount of property uncovered by the withdrawal of policies is at least $125,000. All property in the withdrawal companies has been re-insured in other companies. *% Insurance Companies Rroapep, The annual insurance report of the comptroller general has been issued. It shows that under the authority of the comptroller 129 companies transacted business in this state last year. These include fiFt, life, accident apd mortgage. Th? companies received premiums amounting to $2,545,537, and paid losses amounting to $931,309, or about 36 1-2 per cent of the gross premiums. Under a recent law, these companies pay license fees and a certain per cent on their premiums. There was collected from this source $25,875, I the comptroller recommends that instead of the present license the com* panies be required to pay 2 per cent on their gross premiums. * * * To Test Validity of Vote. A petition has been submitted to the state suprem ecourt by the city Council of Charleston, requesting a special sitting of the court to determine the validity of the recent vote on the constitutional amendment, by which the city was allowed to increase its bond^ ^ J *1.4 iM ?**A4AM ATrnlAm eu ueui lu L/uiiu a natci vruiiva s;o^iu. There was a clerical error in printing the ballots and the point is raised that : this vitiated the vote, Since the decisJ ion of the supreme court in the case j of Pieper against the city council, i which neld that council could not make a water contract extending into another administration, the plan for securing a water supply from Goose creek has been killed. Council has already prepared a contract with the American Pipe Company, of Philadeb phia, by which the latter had agreed to build the water system, the city to pay |42,000 annually for public purposes. This contract is now off. It is stated by council that no other plan Is before that body at present looking to another water contract and there is no hope of securing the much needed system. This condition is demoralizing and has had a depressing effect on business generally. According to the statement of those in authority, the petition referred to was submitted to the supreme court at the request of the city of Florence, which is working on a water supply contract. * * * Sightless Tigers Undaunted. A Charleston dispatch says: The action of the grand jury in refusing to return a true bill against local dealers charged with violating the dispensary law has practically guaranteed Klln/l h'orfiro nf PViorlaofAn Qoroinol ft VilliU w A. VtlWilVOWVU trouble of any kind and will allow the tigers to operate without fear of be ing punished. Nearly one hundred cases were presented to the grand jury and only one true bill was returned. This was the first of the kind rendered within the past four years. The feeling in the city is so overwhelmingly opposed to the law that it has been im I possible to convict and the courts are powerless to break up the unlawful traffic. According to careful estimates, there are more than five hundred places in the city where liquor is sold. This list includes the more elaborate bars, the corner shops and dives and the grocery establishments which supply customers with liquor in the bulk. Deal ere have been raided time and again and the only punishment is the loss of the beer and liquor seized. Where Charleston suffers most is in the loss of revenues. The blind tigers* supply four-fifths of the liquor used, and only a small part of it is bought first from dispensaries. The tigers have been urged to buy their stoek from the dispensary, for in this way the city would be directly benefited, as it receives a big share o. dispensary profits. Wholesale blind tigers, however, keep the retailers supplied with i a stock soid at a rate cheaper than ; the dispensary, and while the tigers , are allowed to thrive the city gets i practically nothing from the business, i Since the last term of court the tij gers have become bolder and mere is i no telling to what extent the illegal ; business will grow before the opening ; of the exposition in December. # * * New Trial Denied. In the court of general sessions at Columbia Monday morning a motion for a new trial was made in the case of Col. William A. Xeal. former superintendent ot the state prison, convicted on Saturday of failure to turn ovei public moneys to his successsor. Judge Gary very promptly refused the motion. One of the grounds for the motion for a new trial was that Judge Gary's rulings during the trial were prejudicial to the constitutional rights of the defendant and were not fair and impar tial in the exposition of the law. The court theft sentenced Colonel Neal tc pay a fine of $1,000 and serve four monthss in Richland county jail, and notice of appeal was promptly given by the colonel's counsel. In passing sentence Judge Gary told the defendant that he would regard the jury's recommendation to mercy and would not inflict upon him the indiginty of going to the prison over which he had presided, and the wearine of stripes. The court then fixed bond for Colonel Neal pending the appeal in the sum of $2,000. It is understood that Colonel Neal will be able to give it. The other case against Colonel Neal for breach of trust has been withdrawn. * ? * Can State Be Made to Pay? A Washington dispatch says: The state of South Carolina, acting through the governor and attorney general, has initiated proceedings before the commissioner of internal revenue to test the question wnetlier the state can be legally required to take out special tax stamps as wholesale and retail liquor dealers under their state dispensary laws, and has made a demand qpon the commissioner for a refupd of all such taxes hitherto paid, amounting to $4,916. While this sum is not large, it is realized that the principle at issue is of great and far reaching importance. The one question involved is whether the internal revenue laws of the United States apply to the dispensary system of 9outh Carolina so as to entitle the collector to demapd the payment of these taxes. POPE LEO SERIOUSLY \L\.. Physician Is In Constant Attendance and Vatican Officials are Anxious. A dispatch to The Petit Bleu (Paris) from Rome announces the pope to be seriously ill and says that Df, Lapponi. his attending physician, dees not leave the pontiff's bedside. Vatican officials are anxious Five Years For Barker, Thomas G. Barker, convicted in the Hudson county court at Jersey City last week of felonious assauR upon Rev. John Keller, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment in tha state penitentiary, KING EDDIE'S CORONATION. Date For Quaint Ceremonial Is Announced For Next June. A London special says: The royal proclamation announcing that the coronation of King Edward is to take place in June next, the exact day not yet being determined upon, was read Friday morning at est. James palace. Temple Bar and the Royal Exchange, with all the quaint, medieval scenes which marked the occasion of the proclaiming of the accession of the king. The ceremonial was unheralded, sc the crush was not so great m on the previous occasion GEN. SHAFTER RETIRED. Four Volunteer Regiments Muttered Out at San Francisco. A San Francisco special says: Two important military events occurred at Presidio Sunday, the retirement of Major General W. R. Shatter and the mustering out of four volunteer regiments. General Shatter formally transferred the command of the department of California to General Young. In the afternoon the Forty-fourth, Forty-ninth. Forty-eighth and Thirtyeighth volunteer regiments were mustered out, The services of eight paymasters were required. Over $1,000,000 was disbursed. PORTO RICAN FRANCHISES. Charters For a Number of Enterprises Arc Received In Washington. The government has received some of the franchises granted by the Porto Rican legislature. Under the Forakei law these franchises must be passed on by the president before they be come effective. One of the most im portant concerns is the railway that is to make the circuit of the island. MISS MORhiSON APPEALS. Sentenced For Five Years For Murder of Mrs. 01 in Castle. At Eldorado, Kans., Saturday, Miss Jessie Morrison, who was eonvicted of the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle, and given a sentence of five years in the state penitentiary at Lansing, through her attorneys served notice in court that they desired to file a motion for a new trial. Judge Aikman set the hearing for Saturday next. SUICIDED IN TREE TOP. Negro Climbs High to Shuffle Off His Mortal Coil. The body of Samuel Turner, a negro physician, was found Saturday morning hanging to the topmost branch of the largest tree In Floral park, at South and Ormsby streets. Louisville. Ky. Great difficulty was met in cutting down the negro's body, as it hung fifty feet above the ground. 1 ne unus ual method of suicide caused the report of a lynching. Turner had complained of the heat and said "he meant to move." GORMAN A CANDIDATE. Noted Maryland Statesman Will Stand For Re-election to Senate. The candidacy of former Senator Arthur P. Gorman for re-election to the United States senate by the Maryland legislature, which is to be chosen this fall, was formally announced Thursday at a dinner given in his honor at the country home of Joseph Friedenwald. one of Mr. Gorman's most ardent admirers. BIG BANK SUSPENDS Seventh National at New York Forced to Close Its Doors. COMPTROLLER NOW IN CHARGE Owes New York Clearing House Over Half a Million?Statement Issued By- President Thomas. The Seventh National bank at New York was closed at 10:45 Thursday when the following notice was posted on Its doors: "This bank is in the hands of the comptroller of the currency. "FOREST RAYNOR. "National Bank Examiner." At the same time William N. Cromwell, the bank's attorney, gave out the following statement: "In justice to the depositors and stockholders of the Seventh National bank, William Nelson Cromwell, the bank's attorney, has advised the bank to suspend payment." This action was taken after a protracted conference in the directors' room of the bank, which was participated in by the new president, Edward L. Thomas, ex-President William H, Kimball, Edwin Gould, Lorenzo Sample, who is one of the directors, and several other members of the board. History of the Bank. The Seventh National bank waa oilginally the old Seventh Ward bank, and was established in 1833. For a long time control of the institution waa held by John McAnerney, a southerner, who waa president of the bank. In May, 1899, First Assistant Postmaster General Perry S. Heath practically acquired a controlling interest in the stack of the Seveptb, and on July 4th William H. Kimball resigned as national bank examiner to become vice president of the Seventh, several changes hi the directorate being made at the same time. Josiah Quiney, of Boston, was one of the directors elected then. On August 2, 1899, Mr. McAnerney resigned the presidency and Vice President Kimball was chosen in his stead. Fletcher S, Heath was elected vice president, The officers and directors are as follows: E. K. Thomas, president; Fletcher S. Heath, vice president; George W. Adams, cashier. Directors: George W. Adams, Eugene Bissell, Thomas M. Boyd, Fletcher 8. IWath, Perry S. Heath, E. Hewitt, William H. Kimball, Alexander McDonald, Guy G. Major, William P. Orr, Josiah Quipcy, Frank H. Ray, John A. Sullivan, W, H. Taylor, Samuel Thomas. William Nelson Cromwell, special counsel for the bank, gave out a statement from President Thomas, and added that he was engaged in preparing a plan for reorganization of affairs of the bank, and that it was believed a satisfactory plan would be presented at an early date. The statement given out by Mr, Cromwell follows: "Edward R, Thomas, president of the Seventh National bank, stated that the difficulties of the bank were due solely to the making by the previous executive officers of large advances to Messrs. Marquand & Co., and that the security thereon was of an unmarketaable character, although of considerable intrinsic value. That upon the urgent application of the board, he and his associate, Edwin H. Gould, had furnished financial assistance upon ad' equate securities and upon the assurance that the obligations of Marquand & Co. would be made good by this morning. That the first named had, however, failed to fulfill expectations * m ^ ???1 J oAmO and while he ana Mr. uouiu aua sumc ot the directors were willing to furnish further financial aid, it was not deemed by them as just, either to the depositors, stockholders or the public to invite deposits and credit until the affairs of the bank were again placed upon an absolutely safe basis. "That for this purpose reasonable time was necessary and to prevent unfair preference or advantages, the board determined, with the advice of counsel, to suspend operations for the present." EVEN THE GUARD SLEPT. Detectives Capture Obstreperous Min ers Who Acted as Bushwhackers. During Sunday night Detective T. L. Felts, assisted by John Justice, deputy United States marshal, and a posse of six men, went to the Kentueky side of Tug river, near Thacker. W. Va.. and captured the nine persons who are charged with terrorizing the miners for the past ten days by shooting at all who could not give the proper strikers' sign. The men were surprised in their sleep with their Winchesters under their pillows. Even their guard was captured, asleep en duty. GOMPERS FELL FROM CAR. Well Known Labor Leader Confined tc Hie Bed In Washington. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, is lying dangerously ill at his home in Wash ington, suffering from concussion of the brain and a Dossible fracture of the skull. He was injured Thursday night as he alighted from a car on which h? had been taking his two children for an outing. Alabama Tax Rate Limited. The Alabama constitutional convention spent the entire day Monday debating the proposition to reduce the maximum limit of taxation from 75 cents on the $100 to 66 centi on the $100. The section making the reduction finally passed by a vote of 66 to 32. Three Deaths at Cleveland. Three deaths occurred at Cleveland. 0., Monday from heat and eighteen prostrations. HE URGES A REVOLT Herbert, of Alabama, Says Lwry Citizen Shonld Bj Sovereign. "YELLOW DOfi"THEORY WRONG Secretary of the Navy Under Cleveland Delivers Unique Address Before the Alabama Bar Association. Ex-Secretary H. A. Herbert addressed the Alabama Bar Association at Montgomery Friday on the subject of the "Duties and Responsibilities of the American Lawyer in the Twentieth Century." The constitutional conven ion adjourned in honor of his address, ind the address was delivered to b?th oodies in the state capitol. He declared that "the country had entered upon the most critical period if its existence. In the time of nationil exultation and exaltation, we must not be over-confldent. It is easy flor a Jew people of the same general chartc-feer to agFee. The country is no longer small or homogeneous. For selfgovernment to be successful, citizens must be alive to the increasing ardujusness of self-control. Great cities are multiplying; vast masses of manufactures are aggregated. The telegraph and press bring the whole country under the same exciting conditions that compel mobs of civilized men to do the work of barbarians. "New complexities are arising. Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska and the Philippines demand solution. Shall we return them or abandon them? Shall we govern thein or let them govern us? "Two perils assailed us prior to 1850 in the days of our infancy. The Hartford convention threatened disruption and South Carolina attempted nullification. Since 1850 four crises have been - * Al -'? passea?me civn wdi^ i ccuuovi uwiuu^ attempted impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the Hays-Tllden contest. "Reconstruction gave the ballot to the negro, and this led to ballot box frauds in the south, where the balot had always been sacred. Fraud stalks through the land like a pestilence in the night. The line is imaginary between counting out the negro because his vote is cast for the wrong candidate, and counting out the white man because his vote is obnoxious. Honest elections are the only salvation of the country < Let all educated men proclaim aloud that except upon the basis of honest elections the natural outcome of republican government is discontent, unrest, instability and Anally revolution." The speaker turned t? the remedy and declared it to be greater independence of thought and action, less slavish adherence to parties. The "yellow dog" theory of politics will not do. Worthy men must not surrender their power in party and state to tricksters. Every citizen must be a sovereign to act. The power of the independent press of the north and south was dwelt upon at length and its influence for good to tb9 south In the past twenty-five years was described. The Civic Federation la Chicago ana the Academy of Political Science of Philadelphia were lauded. Colonel Herbert declared: > "We are in need of freer thought and freer action in the south. The time haa come when no man should support the nominees of his party unless the platform and the man are such ns he approves. If no party puts out a > platform and nominees which a man approves he should reject them all. Let the parties understand that clauses put into platforms to catch votes will drive away intelligence." Colonel Herbert specially emphasizprf thp erowine readiness to party re volt among the Alabama newspapers, and commended those which refused to stand by the party in 1896. He particularly urged activity in party primaries and nominations, so as to prevent the necessity of revolt at the election. Hot After Bank Directors. At Leipzig, Germany, Friday Dr. Gentzlch, another director of the Leipziger bank, was arrested at the in stance of the public prosecutor. HOT TIMES COMING. , Philadelphia Citizens Rebel Againet ; Misrule and Will Wage War. What promises to be a fierce local political war was inaugurated at Phil| adelphia Thursday night, when 5,000 citizens in town meeting nominated District Attorney P. F. Rothermel, Jr., to be a candidate for the office of district attorney against the candidacy of John Weaver, who was nominated for that office last week by the republican organization of the city. The speakers of the evening severely arraigned the present city administration and the state officials. JACOB BEACH ACQUITTED. Case Was So Weak that Defense Offered No Testimony. | Jacob L. Beach was acquitted of embezzlement after three days' trial at Brunswick, Ga. The defence offered no evidence, and although it holds a certificate from a brokerage firm showing the ownership of bonds Beach was alleged to have embezzled, thev did not present it. MINISTERS ONLY REPRIMANDED. Outcome of Sensational Contempt of Court Affair In Denver, Col. Judge Palmer, of the district court at Denver, Col.. Alonday reprimanded and discharged Rev. M. A. nader, pastor of Grace Methoaist Episcopal church. Rev. W. H. Talmadge, state superintendent of the anti-saloon league, and Secretary Walter D. Wynkoop. of the Christian Endeavor Society, who were charged with contempt of court for criticising the issuance of an injunction against raiding saloons. OUR PLETHORIC TREASURY. ] Government Surplus For Past Fiscal Yoar Will Reach Aggregate of Seventy-six Millions. ^ The comparative statement of the government receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ended last Saturday will show an excess of receipts j over disbursements of approximately $rc.0?;0,00i). This is ?i !y about $4,000,000 below p the estiniate made by congress at the beginning of the last session in December. 1900. at which time the secretary estimated the receipts from customs would be about $245,000,000. The receipts from internal revenue sources were estimated last December at $300,- t 000,000, while the final figures will g show over $307,000,000. The receipts c from miscellaneous sources were estimated at $34,000,000. These will also show a considerable increase. r The expenditures for the year will be 37,000,000 in excess of the estimates. During the fiscal year 1900 the surplus revenues amounted to nearly 324,000,000, while the surplus for the present year will reach $76,000,000, and possibly a still higher figure. Tn view of the fact that the revenue reduction bill passed at the last seasoion of congress went into operation Monday, treasury officials estimate that the loss from this source will be about $40,000,000. It is not expected, however, that the net reduction from this source will reach that amount, as the officials look forward to a year of Jven greater prosperity than the one just closing. If this expectation is realized the officials believe that the revenues from internal sources alone will be greater than $30,000,000 below the figures of the present year. It is also confidently expected that the receipts from customs will materially increase during the coming twelve months, so that, notwithstanding the reduction made in the last revenue bill, the total receipts from all sources may even reach or exceed those of the fiscal year 1901. TWO REP0RT8 8UBMITTED. Suffrage Question Brought Up In Alabama Constitutional Convention. Chairman Coleman, of the commit tee on suffrage, made a report of the committee to the Alabama constitutional convention Saturday morning. The reading of the article met with considerable applause. A minority report was submitted as to a single section?the grandfather clause?which is signed by Frank S. White, of Jefferson; Captain S. H. Dent, of Barbour; ex-Governor William C. Oates, of Montgomery, and General George P. Harrison. of Lee. The principal features of the majority report as as follows: A registration board for each county to consist of three persons, to be appointed by the governor. Any person denied right of registration may appeal to city or circuit court. All qualified voters must be able to read and write any article of constitution of United States. If unable to read, must own by self or wife 40 acres of land in state, or other real estate to value of $300. Any person offering to sell his vote or buy vote of another shall be disfranchised. Poll tax upon each male between 21 and 45 years of age to be $1.50. FOURS, THREES AND TWOS. Tennessee Couple Married Five Years Have Ten Little Prattlers. Mrs. W. H. Burnett, of Jasper, Tenn.. wife of the head miller of the Jasper. Tenn., flouring mills, has just given birth to four children, all of whom are doing well. Pfcjuis to the advent of these babies, M^^^fcnett gave birth to triplets, and then twins. The couple has been married five years and ten children now adorn their home. Alleged Train Wreckers Caught. Five negroes who have given flcti* tious names were arrested at Connellsville, Pa., charged with the wrecking of the Southwestern express near Greensboro Saturday, in which a number of passengers were hurt. 1 ( TEN YEARS FOR MRS. KENNEDY. Husband Slayer Given Long Term. Case Will Be Appealed. At Kansas City Saturday Mrs. Lulu Prince-Kennedy was formally sentenc . ed by Judge Wofford to serve ten years in the state penitentiary for the i murder of her husband, Philip Keane- i dy, in the corridor of the Ridge build- < ing January last. She heard the sen- i tence without the slightest display of emotion. i After the sentence leading counsel i for Mrs. Kennedy stated that he ex i pected to appeal the case te the su- i preme court. 1 ? j NEW COUNT BEING TAKEN. Pensacola Health Authorities Inaugurate New Census Work. ' Under direction of the Pensacola. Fla., board of health, the sanitary Inspectors began to take a census of the 8 city In connection with their other im- 1 portant business, and as the first ^ week's figures and results make a most 1 remarkable showing, and so far as c healthfulness is concerned the most ^ satisfactory conditions obtain. 11 ii Trade of New Orleans Port. The imports for New Orleans for the fiscal year just closed are $20,683,910, p as against $17,390,811. making the to tal trade of the port $171,771,533 as against $132,146,762 last year, an in crease of 30 per cent. a Total List Is Thirty-six. 9The total number of dead bodies b t'ound to date as a result of the Poca 11 hontas flood in West Virginia is thirty b one. Five other persons are missing making the total list c. drowned thir- n ty-six. fi ? '* ? ?? 'titV2 IRON WORKERS OUT i <o Agreement Reached on Wage - Jjl Scale For Ensning Year. || :IFTY THOUSAND ARE AFFECTED M 'resident of Amalgamated Association Warns Companies That Con* flict Will Be Memorable One. TVia Wnt /innfa.Ar/ia onmmlHAA nt he Amalgamated Association of Iron, *j||j Jteel and Tin Workers and the Amerian Sheet Steel Company, in session at 'ittsburg Saturday, was unable to .??1 each an agreement on the wage scale ga or the ensuing year and adjourned 11lally after a session of less tnan tweny minutes. The Amalgamated Association offldais asked that the scale be signed for ill the union mills, and th^ manufacurers presented a counter proposition lot only refusing to sign for all the inion mills, but stipulating that two i|| ilants that were included *ast year be ;xerapt from this scale this year. The . /WIS inference then broke up and Presi- ||| lent Shaffer at once issued a strike '%* >rder. The strike will involve all the . inion sheet mills in the country antf; ^ . ibout twenty thousand skilled workMonday morning President Shaffer ssued a second order calling out all mion employees of the various mills )i the American Steel Hoop Company, mown as the hoop trust It is estima- . ed that 15,000 men will be subject to '--jSt. he call, which, in connection with the " |jj3 >ig strike of the American Sheet 8teel Company, ordered by President Shafer on Saturday, will affect 50,000 men. 'resident Shaffer said Sunday night: "The impression that only the mills : the American Sheet Steel Company ,|pfi ire affected by the decision of Satur? -\^|g iay is a mistake. The workmen of all '$gB nills in the American Steel Company ire interested and will oe officially no* ifled tomorrow morning that the scale : las not betn signed and they will quit * vork. To the well organized mills this lotice will not be necessary, as the nen will have watched the situation . vlfe? sarefully, but what Is known as open nills, where union men have been al- . owed to work side by side with the ion-union, is where we have to more. . Union men must walk out of these ' ;'--M >pen mills In the hoop trust "The open mills to be notified are % >ne at Hollidaysburg, Pa., three at Pittsburg and one at Honessen. The organized mills, which will close on }ur call, are the upper and lower mills' it Youngstown, O., Pomeroy, O., Sha on, Pa., Girard, Pa., Warren, Pa., Ureenville, Pa. This, ! believe, will aring the number of men affected up to 50,000. "It is a matter of regret that the is* ^-^9 sue has been forced, but it now looks v is though it will be a fight to the J* leath. The Amalgamated Association .'Jg is not unprepared for it We have not a ad a general strike for many years, ' and in that time we have not been idle. 13 We have funds and will use them. Right here I want to correct an Im- ' pression which has been given out that no benefits will be paid strikers - 'jgB until two months have elapsed. The ':^Jj Amalgamated Association will begin at once to take care of its people." Mr. Shaffer concluded by saying: "I will say now what I said to Mr.. Smith, general manager of the Sheet Steel Company, in the conference. I ' said if it is to be a strike we will make j it one to be remembered. The officials now dealing with us have but little idea of the extent to which this strike ~0 will go once It is on." v Milts Shutting Down. In order to take inventory, the mills in Young8toW^and in the Mahoning^ valley ef the^ge|^3lic Iron and Steel "?g|| Company will cl'^for^ two^weeki^T^ The mills here and at other points in 4J? the Mahoning and Shenango valleys, which are ownea by the American Steel Hoop Company, will remain idle ':J%M pending f- settlement of the scale question. HELD FOR DEBRAY MURDER. Four Negroes wtii bo i riea For mii? ^ ing of Mlar.ta Policeman. The coroner's jury in the DeBray ;,?|| murder case, at Atlanta, Ga., after a brief session Friday morning, returned, '%3m a verdict holding Tom Hammond as the murderer and Ike Hammond, Os- > ^ car Hammond and Jim Erwin as accesBorles to the crime. The verdict was formulated within a very few minutes after the last wit- -M aess had been examined and the ses- * -'vj slon was in the nature of a summing up of all the evdence in the investiga- - ? tfon, new and old. As thus presented, & very formidable case was made * MURDERER MILLER HANGED. Death of Policemen Avenged?Negro Swung From Same Scaffold. At Birmingnam, Ala., Frank Miller, ?8 t safe robber and murderer of Police- && nan J. W. Adams, was hanged, and Llonzo Williams, a negro convict, who .f: nurdered Bob Callahan, a fellow prisiner, at Pratt Mines penitentiary, was I tanged from the same gallows an hour . ( ater. Interest all centered in the hangng of Miller. BURNED BY BLACKMAtUfi|^^^^H 'antler's Wife Meets Because Money Was Not A Topeka, Kans., dispatch lorribly burned ancfdying is gony was the fate of Mrs. W. G. on, wife of a Cowley county farmer, ecause her husband refused to depoe> $5,000 in a place named by unknown 'In lackmailers. The tragedy happened Saturday ^ ight in an obscure settlement away rom post office and telegraph stations, v - -i .3