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| The Bamberg Herald. _ j ESTABLISHED 1S91. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. JULY 18.1901. 0NE DOLLAR PER YEAR. J|| ?? J WITH PIERCING RAYS Old Sol Gets In Some Herculean Licks Throughout the South. RECORD-BREAKING TORRIDITY Table of Temperatures Recorded Thursday In the Principal Southern Cities?Country Swelters. Old Sol, the king of heat, got in his "work in all sections of the south ? ? Thursday and numerous records for kl?.k *x/vma ^???>/\ *T*^rA f/\fel1v o n r* i K ? _ iu&u icuiyaanuc ncic luiau; <?uu*uil&ted. The following table gives the highest point reached by the thermometer in the principal southern cities: - Birmingham 103 Nashville 103 Louisville 103 St Louis 104 'Little Rock 101 Memphis IOC Montgomery 100 ~ ? * AA Augusta IUU > Savannah . 96 Atlanta 96 Mobile 96 , Knoxville 96 Vicksburg 96 ^ Charleston 92 Kansas Still Leads. Government stations in Kansas report as follows regarding their maximum temperatures during the day: Kansas City, 103; Baker, 102; Concordia, 102; Dodge City, 98; Dresden, 106; Fort Scott, 108; Hays City, 106; " . Macksville, 101; Manhattan, 106; McPherson, 107; Osage City, 106; Wichita, 102; Topeka, 102. The wind blew at the rate of fourteen miles an hour from the southwest, but it was so dry that it had a blighting effect cn the crops and corn is in much worse condition than Wednesday. Rreports indicate tbat in no county in the state are the crops damaged less than 50 per cent In many cpuntiss much more than 50 per cent %; would be necessary to cover tbe estimated damage. It is generally conceded tbat this is the worst drouth since 1S60 In Kansas, but it will not ? entail nearly so much suffering as in ~ past years. * Record Broken at Springfield. Thursday was the hottest day with one exception on record in Springfield, JIL, since the United States weather 'v bureau was established there twenty .years ago. Government thermometers registered 102, and street thermometers as high as 107 in the shade. Temperature 103 at Tcxarkana. At Texarkana, Ark., the mercury reg istered 103 in the shade, the hottest of the season, and one prostration resultcd. The crops are in a very bad condiV # tion and cotton has at last begun to1 s show signs of suffering. At Little Rock tbe maximum temperature was 101, being the highest recorded so far this summer. The Arkansas river is unusually low. Lack of moisture continues to endanger crops In many parts of the state. v Hottest In Twenty Years. Princeton, Ind.,. reports the hottest day in twenty years. The thermometer reached 102 1-2, which was within half a degree of the highest' known. ^^^Crops are suffering from drouth and Many horses have died. ^fl^^^^Afater Famine Is Feared. B^^^^HBaximum temperature for LinBS^^^^Bthe southern half of Nebraska degrees Thursday to 101. continues, however, and increasing. At Beaver City jH^^^^Bthe nineteenth successive day temperature has been 100 or ^H^Bj^^Fear of a water famine exists HU^Biny towns. MRS. DAVIS QUITE ILL. ^^HBe of Former President of Confed^^^^ eracy Stricken at Portland, Me. ^^^Hlispatches state that Mrs. Jefferson ^H^avls, widow of the former president of the confederacy, is quite ill at tne Columbia hotel, Portland, Me., where .! she arrived a few days ago to spend the summer. WHEELER ASKS FOR TROOPS. A./ ^ General is Anxious to Make Fete Day at Newport a Big Success. General Joseph Wheeler, marshal of the coming fete day parade at Newport, R. I., has sent to Governor Crane, of Massachusetts, a request that the ? Second and Nintu Massachusetts regi ments be sent to take part in tbe parade. Gej^ral Wheeler is anxious for the presele of these two regiments served with him in the Santiago rahipaign. It is thought there will be 3,000 men-in line, including the men from the north Atlantic squadron, naval apprentices, naval brigade, local and state militia. MOB DEMANDS VENGEANCE. Clamor For Lives of Three Black Brutes Who Assaulted White Girl. A crowd of 2,f>00 excited men and boys surrounded the Jail in Kansas City Friday night, clamoring for vengeance against three negroes who criminally assaulted Miss Grace Davis Wednesday night after knocking her escort, Vernie Newton, insensible. Eigh* men, two of whom have beeD identified, are held at the jail. , GOVERNOR ASKED TO ACT. Italian Consul at Vicksburg Asks Protection For His Countrymen. National Piazza, Italian vice consul at Vicksburg. Thursday received information of the lynching of two or more Italians at Avon, a small station in Washington county, Mississippi. A mob of fifty or men are alleged to have been hunting the Italians through the nwaraps. Piazza has asked the governor to afford his countrymen protect tion. jSRSS - A fe.: THE "ONLY WISE SOLUTION" Noted Mississippi Ex-Chief Justice Delivers Sensational Address on the Race Problem. At the Millsaps Normal school In Jackson, Miss., ex-Chief Justice J. A. P. Campbell, of the state supreme court, and one of Mississippi's most distinguished citizens, delivered an address on the "only Wise Solution of the Race Problem," which has created a tremendous sensation. Judge Campbell in his address took ultra ground. In the first place he boldly advocated the abolition of the common school education for the negro race, claiming *y it had done no good whatever, ancPhad been productive of much evil. The younger generation had imbibed just enough smata 5 z* ?A Ar O K- I it'nug 01 itrctiLiiug IVJ jtciiuci lutm vn* solutely worthless and to attract them to the towns, where they became loafers and criminal characters, dangerous to the community. The immense appropriations which are being spent every year in the southern states for the common school education of the negro, he says, are worse than lasted, and are making more dangorous a problem already complicated in the extreme. 'There can never be harmony between the races in the south," declared Judge Campbell emphatically, "until there is a universal recognition of the known fact in nature that the Caucasian is the superior of the negro race, and will insist on its natural precedence and the authority which such superiority gives witnin reasonable bounds. Common school education for the negro causes him to forget this fact, and leads to dangerous desires and aspirations for social equality on his part which can never possibly be realized. He becomes discontented, dangerous, sullen and intractable, losing his sole claim to consideration, which is that ordinarily he is a good worker. "TV. rofiKii tn mnfcp this common school appropriation for negro education would require a change in our state constitution, but,. I am convinced, would not be obnoxious to any provision of the federal constitution In fact, the United States supreme court has expressly decided that education is a gratuity and not a matter of right to , be demanded equally by the races. "But, since there seems to be an opinion in many quarters that we owe the negroes education, I would be In , favor of selecting a number of the best specimens of the .race and educating them well at the expense of the state, as the government educates at West j Point. These could then be turned loose as missionaries among the race. They would be proud of their superior position, superior education and grate- i ful to the state which thus set them , above their race, and would therefore be fit leaders and advisers for the race. The same principle of fealty which causes a West Pointer to adhere to the government would cause these . men set apart for this special purpose , to stand for the best interests of the state, and to give their race the wise I counsel which their superior education j and position would make fitting." ITALIANS ASSASSINATED. . Refused to Dec?.mp When Ordered and Mob Fills Them With Bullets. Two Italians were killed and another , was seriously wounded at Erwin, , Miss., a small station some thirty miles south of Greenville on the Riverside division of the Yaoo and Mississippi Valley railroad some time Wednesday night. They ail came from Cefalu, Sicity. The three had been living near Glen Allen, but on account of some trouble were ordered to leave the community by the citizens. This they refused to do. The Italians in the county are considerably wrought up over the matter, but no further trouble is anticipated. Governor Longino was notified of the occurrence, while the Italian consul at New Orleans was also apprised of the killing. Kittridge Is Now Senator. Thursday Governor Herried, of South Dakota, appointed A. B. Kittridge to fill the unexpired term of the late United States Senator Kyle. FINE AND IMPRISONMENT. * Strike Leaders Hit Hard In Contempt of Court Case at York, Pa. In the county court at York, Pa., Thursday Judge Stewart rendered his opinion in contempt cases growing out of the molders' strike, in which George W. Test, corresponding representative of the Iron Molders' Union of North America, and others were adjudged guilty for violating the court's injunction restraining them from picketing and otherwise interfering with the York Manufacturing Company. Test and leaders of the strike were sentenced to pay a fine of $260 and costs and undergo imprisonment of thirty days. PUT OFF AT BUFFALO. Georgia Pen Pushers Reach Their Destination In Fine Shape. A special from Buffalo, N. Y., says: The Georgia editorial party, composed of the Georgia press and weekly associations, were safely "put off at Buffalo" Thursday evcniEg. All are well and in the best of good humor. They will bo the guests of the Lincoln hotel while in the city. CONDUCTOR SHOT TO OEATH. His Negro Slayer Jumps From Car and Also Meets Death. On an excursion train returning to Spartanburg, S. C., from Charlotte, N. C., Sunday night. W. Dexter Kirby, conductor on the electric railway, was shot and instantly killed by a negro, Wallace Hayiies. The murderer jumped off tjie train and was instantly killed. Kirby was trying to stop a fight at the time between Haynes and another negro. I SOUTH CAROLINA 4 \ STATE NEWS ITERS. j rsMs)cs)(s>(Nxcs?racvj> Will Be Ready For Occupancy. President Hartzog announces that the new dormitory buildings fo Clemson college will be ready for occupancy when the college meets, and aiso tnai 110 more young mgii wismag to enter the college need apply, as ever}* room Is already filled by those who have been early in securing places. * * Anent Chai^ston Naval Station. A Washington dispatch says: The board of naval officers, headed by Rear Admiral Hetiry C. Taylor, which was charged with formulating plans for the new naval station at Olongapo, in Suolg Bay, P. I., and at Charleston, S. C., has completed its labors and its report is now at the navy department. * * * Meeting Was Strictly Private. A secret conference has been held in Greenville In which a dozen leading manufacturers met Senator McLaurin at a private house. Except that the political situation was canvassed, nothing is known of the obiects of the meeting, as none of the participants have anything to say. * * Constable LaFar a Hustler. Chief Constable LaFar, who has accomplished the wonderful record of having whipped the blind tigers in Charleston, is still administering severe punishment, and there is consternation in the ranks of the outlaw element. By simply striking hard at the tigers he has knockea them out of business and by keeping up the warfare the thirsty public is experiencing more or less difficulty in buying drinks. * * Grand Rally at Union. A political meeting on a very big scale is planned to be held in Union August 8th and 9th. The adjoining counties of York, Fairfield, Chester, Spartanburg, Laurens, Cherokee and Newberry are invited to participate. The committee has not yet heard from the speakers invited to address the people on purely national questions, but there will be no scarcity of material. Nineteen speakers have been invited, including Senators Tillman and McLaurin, Governor McSweeney, former Governor John Gary Evans, State Chairman Jones, William Jennings Bryan, former * Congressman George Johnson, former Congressman John J. Hemphill, Congressmen Latimer and Talbert, former Congressmen Storey and Wilson. * * * Tillman Witnesses a Raid. Senator Tillman, accompanied by his wife and daughter, passed through Charleston a few days ago en route to McClellanville, where they will spend a week fishing. The senator arrived by the Southern railway and just as he was leaving the station his carriage was blocked by a crowd of people who had gathered on a corner to watch a blind tiger raid. The constables had just completed a raid and all of the beer and liquor and bar fixtures, cash registers, and, in fact, everything owned in the place, had been piled in the street, waiting for a patrol wagon. The sight was a vivid reminder to Senator Tillman of what had been done in the stirring days when he was governor. When it became known that Senator Tillman was in the carriage the bar stuff was moved out of the way and the police drove the crowd back so that the carriage could pass. Senator * Tillman sat far back on the seat and paid no heed to the curiojus blind tiger habitues who watched him. * * Blue Ridge Road Sold at Auction. The Blue Ridge railroad was sold at auction at Anderson last Monday and bought by Fairfax Harrison, of Washington, and B. L. Abney, of Columbia, for $100,000. Both are Southern railway officials, but the road will be reorganized as a separate system they declare. The property consists of thirty-three miles of completed railroad in South Carolina, together with rolling stock, right of way and franchises in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia, seventeen miles in completed roadbed in Georgia, seventy-four miles right of way in North Carolina, formerly owned by the Tennessee River Railroad Company, Blue Ridge in Georgia and Tennessee River in North Carolina, and one thousand acres of land across Stumphouse mountain in South Carolina. The old Blue Ridge has interesting ante-bellum history, having been built in 1858 to Walhalla, when the war interrupted the extension across the mountains. The tunnel through Stumphouse mountain is a marvel of engineering skill, it lacking only a quarter of a mile being complete, and as it stands, is over a mile in length through solid rock. This was the dream of John C. Calhoun to connect the west with tidewater through coal fields and mineral lands of Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas. If the Blue Ridge route is fully utilized it will be one of the most picturesque roads in the south. It has been j in bankruptcy thirty years. It was j bought by Governor k. iv. scou m 1872, who failed to pay, afterward leased by the Southern and a receiver appointed in 1S92. The Southern holds a mortgage for two and a half millions. It is rumored that the purchasers will make the line from Charleston and Columbia to Walhalla instead of Greenville, thus shortening the distance to Atlanta. j * * . To Test Revenue Bond Script. A Columbia dispatch says: After waiting the lifetime of a generation, Mr. Wesley, the holder of more than a million dollars of revenue bond script Issued by South Carolina, will get the case in the United btatc-s court fairly upon its merits. Many plans have been devised, but all have heretofore failed. In December. 1S90, Mr. William H. Lyles, of Columbia, who has been Mr. Wesley's attorney, tendered to the treasurer of Fairflem, in payment of $15.16 taxes on a tract of land he owned. cash to the amount of $13.1G and $2 in the revenue script, l.ie treasurer refused to receive ihe tender on account of the script and in due time thf> Inrnl wac cnld fnr tavAS find OUT chased ^y a North Carolinian. Action is now being brought in the United States court against the owner by Mr. Lyles to recover possession. . This is just where Mr. Wesley has been trying to get for twenty-nine years. It win now be decided whether tne script is a valid obligation of the state. It is believed by many South Carolinians that it is. There is $1,800,000 now outstanding. To get this case in the courts Mr. Wesley years ago purchased from the state che agricultural hall in Columbia, paying $5,000 cash and tendering the balance in bond scjip. Governor Tillman immediately seized the building. attempting to foreclose the mortgage. After a long fight the state lost, and the valuable property went to Wesley. It was sacrificed rather than risk getting the scrip in court on its merits. Mr. Wesley seems to have advanced money to the radicals in the early seventies cn this scrip, he acting in good faith in the matter. ? * * Another Federal Appointment Planned The story is going the rounds that Senator McLaurin has planned another federal appointment for this state, which will aid him in his race for reelection next year. It was announced a few days ago on the best authority that J. W. McCullough. of Greenvirr), would be appointed United States marshal at the end of Marshal Melton's term, and this seems to settle the rumors about the place going to other candidates. McOollough is a democrat. a member of the celebrated family of that name, and has big Influence politically in his home county at Greenville. Of late years he has been out of active politics, but has kept in touch with the situation. He is said to be in sympathy with the McLaurin movement and this accounts for his probable appointment. Melton's term does not expire until early next year, but it is said that tne appointment will be announced in advance of that time. TWENTY ARE DEAD. List of Fatalities Resulting From Railway Horror Is Being Increased. A Kansas City dispatch says: Up to 11 o'clock Thursday two more victims of Wednesday's collision on the Alton railroad near Norton have sue cumbed to their injuries, making a total dead of 20. Mrs. J. A. Adsit, wife of Dr. Adsit, of Hoopeston, 111., died at 5:30 a. m. at St Joseph's hospital, and Mrs. Hilda Hayslip, of Chicago, died an hour later at University hospital. Others of the wounded are still in a precarious condition and may die at any moment DAIRYMEN CLOSELY WATCHED. Atlanta Sanitary Department Determined to Stop Sale of Impure Milk. The Atlanta sanitary department is making it warm for the dairymen who sell milk in the city. Nearly every day cases are made against dairymen whose milk docs not come up to the standard required by city ordinance. The inspector secures samples of milk from wagons or at stores, when it is least expected, and the samples are analyzed. If the analysis shows that there is not enough cream in the milk and too much water, a case is made. Under the. milk ordinance the minimum fine that can be imposed by the recorder is $1.0.75. NINETEEN STATES SWELTERED. Hot Wave Was Still In Evidence In Various Sections Sunday. Reports to the weather bureau at Washington showed that the hot weather continued Sunday in nineteen states and territories of the great corn belt, the Ohio valley and the various portions of the south. The states affected include Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri. Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska. South Dakota. North Dakota, Colorado and Michigan OIL MILL CHANGES HANDS. Big Chemical Company Purchases Mc Bride Property at Newnan, Ga. The Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co., which purchased the plant of the Coweta Fertilizer Company at Newnan, Ga., last year has now purchased the Robert M^Bride oil mill situated there. The oil mill has been operated by W. C. McBride, and has been one of the most thrh'ing enterprises of the city. The Chemical company paid the sum or $G2,500 for the mill. VOTING BY SHOPS. Ranks of Striking Machinists at Cin cinnati Are Dwindling. The report that the machinists' strike was broken at Cincinnati was confirmed Sunday when the men of the Fay-Egan shops voted to go to work in a body, 'these men were un decided Saturday. The strike has not been declared off. out the strikers have decided to vote by shops, and in this way almost all have voted to resume work. TO TEST CONSTITUTION. Louisiana Franchise Law Will Run Gauntlet of the Courts. ' The foundation was laid at New Orleans Thursday for a suit to test the validity of the provisions in the new constitution of Louisiana and similar provisions in the constitutions of other southern states disfranchising negro voters, and especially to test the constitutionality of the grandfather clause. TO WATERY GRAVES Six Members of Happy Excursion Party Swept Down by Waves. BATHERS WASHED OUT TO SEA Five Women and Girls and One Man Were the Unfortunate Victims. Trapped By the Incoming Tide. A Savannah, Ga., special says: The twelfth annual excursion of the Hebrew Gaemahl Hasad, commonly known as the H. G. R., had a tragic ending Sunday, six members of the party being drowned. The H. G. H. is a popular society with the orthodox Utiuuui auv; iuu>tuuuu t->^~> ? ? scmble in Columbus and make up a state ticket. Ten met met Sunday morning in Cleveland and decided that a bolt should be made, and that a new party could enter the jQeld of Ohio pol itics. The attendance at the conference it was stated, was larger and represented a greater area in the state than was expected by those wno called the meeting. A formal statement of principles was submitted to the conference, and was aaopted. This will be printed and sent throughout the state to those who are known to be faithful to the Nebraskan. A convention was decided upon to be neid at the Great Southern hotel on the last day of July. TROOPS GUARD MURDERER. Florida Governor Protects Colored Prisoner In Jail at Lake City. Governor Jennings, of Florida, called , out company H, state troops. Friday night to protect T. J. Hampton, colored, confined in Columbia county jail at Lake City for the murder of two white men at Fort White. This was on advice of the sherifT, who was informed that a mob of several hundred was preparing to move toward Lake City from the southern part of the county for the purpose of lynching Hampton. A cordon of sixty soldiers was immediately thrown around the jail and the nrisoner in tr.e meantime quietlv taken elsewlieit?. Mining Strike In Northwest. The biggest strike in many years among the miners of the northwest Is on at Rossland, Wash., and 1,200 miners are idle. The strike affects the Leroi and other mines owned by British companies. The trouble started through the locking out of union smelter men. Christian Converts Slaughtered. The reported uprising on the island of Quelpart, off the Korean coast, and the killing of several hundred Christian converts is confirmed in mall press advices reaching the Japanese legation at Washington. PRAYED FOR RAIN. All Church Denominations Join In Supplication to the Most High. At all the churches in Jefferson City, Mo., prayers were made for rain. At the Roman Catholic churches prayers were said at each mass Sunday, while the Methodist, Baptist. Christian and Presbyterian congregations united in a union service at the Presbyterian church, and prayers for rain were of , lerea. BODY OF PIGTAIL BOILED. Unique Process to Get Bullets Out of Dead Chinaman's Corpse. At San Jose, Cal., Friday night, cue body of Lee Wing, a Chinese who was murdered last March Dy highbinders, was boiled In an iron cauldron by order of the county authorities. This process was considered necessary in order to obtain the sixteen bullets which were fired into the m^n. They 1 will be used as evidence in the trial of Look Lee, alleged to be one of the assassin*. jews, cnieny irom rtussia. auu rmauu, being of a benevolent character. One of its features is an annual excursion for the members and their families. The excursion was to Daufuskie island, twenty miles down the Savannah river on the South Carolina side. The beach at Daufuskie is a poor one, and it has been largely given up as a resort. This accounts in part for the accident. 'lhe day passed pleasantly enough until between 3 and 4 o clock in the afternoon, by which time the excursionists were scattered all about the island. A party of twelve or fourteen, mostly women and children, decider to go in bathing on the sea side of tho island. Between the shore and tho deep water there is a wash or sluice, then a shoal and then a fairly good shelving'beach. The tide was out when the party noticed that the incoming tide had covered the shoal and decided to return. They were all right until thev reached the sluice, where the wa ter was running like a mill race. Almost the entire party was caught and a struggle for life began. Some managed to get back on the shoal and a few got across the danger spot, but six?five women anu girls end one man?were caught by the tide and carried down. Their screams attracted those on shore and the alarm was given. There were no boats on that side, and by the time word reached the other side of u.c islands and the boats were gotten out It was too late. BRYAN'S FRIENDS AROUSED. Ohio Democrats Who Remain Faithful to Nebraskan Will Hold State Convention. On July 31st the oaio democrats who believe in Bryan, the issues which he represents, and which the recent .1 A?n,.nnHnn icrnr?rf>rl will as STRIKE FUND WAS EXHAUSTED Machinists at Cincinnati Deprived of Support Decide to Return to Work At Old Terms. s The machinists' strike in Cincinnati, which was organized May 20th, and which involved from 5,000 to 7,000 employees, has been practically declared off. A secret mass meeting of strikers was held Friday at which a formal report was made that it had been found impossible to procure assistance in money from the headquarters in wq oh in frtnn As the strike benefit fund is ?hausted, the strikers were advised to return to work. Already about 600 have applied for re-instatement, and many more will do so. No official statement was made by the leaders of the strikers, and they all refused to be quoted, saying that they do not care to do anything that might Affect the injunction proceedings against them. The strikers failing to receive funds from Washington, sent an agent to Washington to try to secure money. His report was presented at Friday's meeting, aud it was upon this that fhe action, which virtually ends the strike, was taken. It is said, however, that the decision to return to work was not unanimous, and that some men will still hold out A meeting of the shop committeemen of striking machinists from the various concerns affected was held Friday night, rfter which a statement was given out emphatically denying the report that the strike had been railed off. It was learned that while It was left discretionary with the men in I number of shops to return without any odium being involved as deserting II 1 -?1 - ^ ?.5 t tne siriKe, seven iirms were yien.cu uui on which the nght is to be prosecuted. Should any of these shops attempt to transfer their work to those in which men returned the men have igreed to refuse to handle It. There were approximately 3,500 ma hinists involved in the strike here and of these the strikers say about 10 ncr cent have already returned. The shops affected by the decision of the inicn to continue the fight employ about 1,100.men. STRIKERS LOSE FIGHT. The Machinists Gain Nothing By Walk-Out at Newport News. According to advices the big strike of machinists at Newport News has ended without any concessions being gained by the men who went out. President O'Connell, of the International Association, said that the defeat of the strikers at the Newport News ship3*ards would have no affect on the general strike of the machinists. "We never had any hope that the Newport News men would win," he said. "They did not go out until two weeks after they were ordered out and tney nave Deen constantly voung on the question of returning to work. We were not ready to expend our funds on men not ready to carry on the fignt. There were only 300 machinists out against 6,000 other employees remaining at work Their return to work may have an effect on some ot the small shipyards in this section of the country. On the Pacific coast, however, between 6,000 and 7,000 men are out, practically all in San Francisco, and these will not be affected. The general strike of the machinists has now simmered down to a question of endurance of the two sides. We have no revocation of the strike order lm eontemplation. There are 8,000 machinists still out throughout the country." President O'Connell admitted that the collapse of the strike at Cincinnati was likely to have considerable effect on the / neral strike, as Cincinnati has been regarded as the most important point among the cities involved in the strike. President O'Connell reiterated that there is no intention to call off the general strike and declared that the order would fight it out to the end. IMPORTED MEN AT WORK. Southern Shops at Columbia Outwits Striking Machinists. With tho aid of a mounted squad of policemen, the Southern railway was able Friday to outwit the striking machinists and landed four men in the railway shops at Columbia, S. C. The train bearing the non-union men was heavily guarded. The police stood guard at the station and the car was sent past the band of jeering strikers. This was the first batch of new men the company got in without interference from the strikers. MRS. BONINE INDICTED. Washington Woman Must Answer For Murder of Census Clerk Ayres. The grand ury at Washington, D. C., after several weeks' Investigation, has returned an indictment for murder against Mrs. Ida Bonine for the alleged killing of James S. Ayres, the young census clerk. BOER LEADER SURPRISED. Steyn's Brother Captured By Britons, n... O. l_l : If DUl oic/n nimacii b9t>a|/6ji The London war office has received the following dispatch from Lord Kitchener, dated at Pretoria: "Broad wood's brigade surprised Reitz, capturing Steyn's brother and others. Stevn himself escaped in his shirt sleeves, with one other man oniy. The so-called 'Orange ltiver government' and papers were raptured." Baltimore Strikers Give Up Contest. Friday about two hundred machinists at Baltimore gave up the fight for a nine hour working day and decided to apply for reinstatement in the shops of the Maryland Steel Company at the old terms. Chiii's President Dead. Senor Federio Errazuriz, president of Chili, who had been in feeble health for more than a year, is dead. He was elected president June 25, 1896, for a term of five years, which began September 18, 1S9G, STRIKE ORDER IS EFFECTIVE' Steel Workers Cause Shut Down of! Many Big Plants of World's Greatest Trust. Reports received in Pittsburg, Pa., Monday from all sources connected with the great strike of the steel workers indicate that the members of the Amalgamated Association had matters well in hand and that the strike order was being generally obeyed. Reports from various points where the American Tin Plato Company, the American Steel -ffoop and the American Sheet Steel Company are located told of a shutting down of these plants. In many cases the plants had been shut J 1? *u~ efHlro nrHer which UUWI1 UJ IUC in 01 auwv V <.?, affected the sheet steel and the steel hoop companies only. The last orber brought out all of the union plants of Ine American Tin Pla.e Company with the single exception of the new m..* in Monessen, which is stin running. At the Amalgamated Association headquarters i- was said that the figures given out Saturday night regarding the number of men who would be actually idle in the mills of the three companies had been proven correct. This number is placed at 74,000.' The strike, although one of the greatest that has been declared in recent years, will affect Pittsburg but slightly. The huge steel strike 200,000 men, roundly speaking, are thrown out of work. They were employed as follows: American Tin Plate company.. 25,000 American Steel & Wire Co 24,000 American Sheet Steel Company. 22,000 American Steel Hoop Company. 14,000 American Bridge Company 14,000 National Steel Company 8,000 Federal Steel Company 20,000 National Tube Company 20,000 Carnegie Company 50,000 Total 199,000 80UTHERN PROGRESS. New Industries Reported in the South During the Past Week. The more important of the new industries reported for the past week include a canning factory at Ocala, Fla.; coal mining companies at Stevenson. Ala., Hubbardsville, Ky., and Phllippi, W. va.; a $1,000,000 coal and coke company at Clarksburg, W. Va.; two $100,000 coal mining companies at Elk horn, W. Va.; a $2,000,000 coal mining and development company at Parkersburg, W. Va.; a $500,000 coal storage plant at New Orleans, La.; a cold storage plant at Staunton, Va.; a $100,000 cctton compress at Little Rock, AFk.; a $2&,000 compress at Ackerman, Miss.; cotton gins at Shiloh, N. C., and Belton, Texas; a cotton mill at Graham, N. C.; an $85,000 distillery at Columbia S. C.; a $30,000 eiectric light and power plant at Temple, Texas; $35,000 extract works at Charleston W. Va.; a fertilizer factory at Columbia, S. C.; a ^.25-barrel flouring mill at Ashwood, Tenn.; a $25,000 furniture factory at North Wilkesboro, N. C.; a $100,000 hardware company at Pine Bluff, Ark.; a harness factory at Griffin, Ga.; ice factories at Brooksvllte/ Fla., Stateville, N. C., and San Antonio and 8tephenville, Tex.; a $100,000 lumber company at Waldron, Arky* a $50,000 lumber company at Fitzgerald. Ga.; a $25,000 lumber company at Scarboro, Ga.; a $100,000 lumber company at Mancnester, N. C.; a $25,000 lumber and planing mill company at Hattiesburg, Miss.; a $25,000 marble company at Statesville, N. C.; a $275,000 mining company at F^yetteviile, N. C.; a $500,000 mining company at Del Rio, Texas; a $250,000 oil company at Somerset, Ky.; a $250,000 oil company at Alvin, Texas; a $300,000 oil company at Beaumont, Texas; a $300,000 oil company at El Paso, Texas; oil and gas company at Russell*, ville, .Ala., and Somerset, Ky.; a $50,000 oil, gas and mining company at Lexington, Ky.; a $300,000 oil, asphaltum and mining company at Wheeling, W. Va.; a $50,000 oil mill at LaGr&nge, Texas; a $2,000,000 oil refining and asphaltum company at Beaumont, Texas; a planing mill-at Burke, S. C.; a saw mill at Wilmer, Ala.; sewer pipe works at Bethlehem, Ga.; a stave factory at Trenton, Tenn.; a telephone company at Glasgow, Ky., and a $300,000 tin plate mill at Clarksville, W. Va. ?Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) MORE STRIKERS RETURN. Long Contest Is Now Practically Ended at Cincinnati. Two thousand machinists, who have been on strike at Cincinnati since May 20th, returned to work Monday. This practically ends the strike in that city. The strike managers had announced their intention of concentrating their attack upon certain plants, while permitting men to work elsewhere for the purpose of obtaining funds. At one of the plants designated, however, 600 employees formed in line and marched in a body to their work, thus destroying the strongest hope of the strike leaders. BRITONS MAKE ANOTHER HAUL. Boer Laager captured ana i mny-une Prisoners Are Taken. Advices from Cape Coloney state that Colonel Scobell's column surprised and captured Scheeper's laager at Cambdeboo, July 14th, taking thirtyone prisoners and capturing a quantity of ammunition and stores. Scheeper, with the bulk of his commando, escaped. There were no British casualties. Most of the prisoners are rebels. DEADLY VOLCANIC OUTBURST. Hundreds of Lives Are Lost in Java From Sudden Eruption of Mt. Kloe. Oriental advices give details of a terrible destruction of human life which occurred in northern Java by a sudden and terrific outburst of the volcano Kloe. All the coffee plantations and other estates for forty miles around were destroyed by showers of ashes and stones, together with great -.treams of lava and mud. Hundreds .t natives and a numeer of European! perjsfcedi SHOWERS A RELIEF f Portions of the Drouth-Stricken Section Blessed With Rain. M TORRID WAVE IS ON A DECLINE || Benefit to Crops, However, Is of Small Value and a Further Downpour Is Only Assur* < a nee of Safety. A special Monday from Kansas City, Mo., states that a portion of the : J drought-stricken southwest has been . relieved by rain during the day. Great good has already resulted to crops, ' and, as there as prospects of a further hpiipvpd thousands uunuiaii) ib am wvw. -w ?. ^ upon thousands of dollars will be sared farmers on stock and crops. Nevertheless, much greater quantities of rain must come beiore a lasting benefit is done. In the portions of central and western Missouri, western Kansas and the territories, still untouched by rain, conditions remained unchanged for Monday, the temperature ranging from 98 to 106, the latter at Hutchinson, Kas. The rain which fell at the end of a V|| drought of from four to eight weeks' duration covered southwestern Missouri and portions of one-third of Kansas, taking in the southeastern corner of the Sunflower State from Riley and . ^ Dickinson counties uown to the Oklahoma line. The first break came Sunday night, when fairly good rains fell i ^ in Barton and Green counties, Missouri, and on the Oklahoma border in Kansas; in Cowley and Chautauqua %?Jj counties and along the Union Pacific -j| road in Riley county. Tnese rains, v-? whi.e good, were not sufficient to place ^ the burned crops out of danger. Monday morning a heavy rain fell in the ^Jg vicinity of Joplin, Mo., and, traveling west, covered portions of Montgomery,. r.'i Butler and Sedgwick counties, Kansas, g Around Joplin there was a heavy fall for ten minutes. At 10:30 o'clock a M soaking rain tell in Cherokee county, v5|3 across tne line in Kansas, preceded by ;||j| hail, benefiting pastures and small grains Immensely and bringing relief . to crushing plants In the zinc mining "Jlj district. During the afternoon a heavy rain fell In the vicinity of Coffeyvllle, E1-. dorado and Wichita, Kas. At Coffeyvllle the people held a jubilee on the streets during the rain. Two conn- . ^ ties west from Kansas City, in Jefferson county, Kansas, a fui. inch of ; Jj rain fell in the afternoon, 'while in m Kansas City a temperature of 101 prevailed and hardly a cloud was visible. "MISTAKE," SAYS BRYAN. ^ Nebraskan Sarcastically Comments on ' -M Action of Democratic Convention. In an extended comment on the platr ^ form adopted by the Ohio democratic IM convention, W. J. Bryan criticises the convention for its failure to reaffirm ^ the Kansas City platform, and for what he regards as the weakness of : some of the planks it did adopt Mr. Bryan insists that the convention made a mistake in making himself (Bryan) an issue, and says: . T-oBj "Mr. Bryan is not a candidate for : any office, and a mention of him might have been construed by some as an indorsement of him for office. The vote should have been upon the naked prop- ' 8| osition to indorse the platform of last year, and then no one could have excused his abandonment of democratic ;?| . principles by pleading his dislike for Sfr.^ryan." Referring to the platform, he con- * tmues; "The, convention not only failed, but refused ^to Indorse or reaffirm the Kan sas City platform, and from the manher in which tli-e ^Qld element has re- v-jsj joiced oyer this f^pre of. thsjynvention, one would suppose that th^malp object of the convention was not to % write a new platform, but to repudiate ^ the one upon whicn the last national -5 campaign was fought The gold pa- /-?? pers assume that the convention re- fM fused to adopt the Kansas City plat- $5 form because it contained a silver plank. If so, it would have been more - |!j courageous to have declared openly for the gold standard. If the gold ^ standard is good, it ought to have been v indorsed; if bad, It ought to have been r abandoned. To ignore the subejet en- ~ tirely was inexcusable. "The money question is not yet out ^ of politics. Every session of congress will have to deal with it Republicans V, declare that it is dead, but they keep working at it" ? Mr. Bryan comments on parts of the vplatform, especially those referring to U state and municipal affairs. He in- J dorses the nominees of the convention and urges their support Lightning Destroyed Factory. rni- - Mntrtp vnrVfi nnp at X utr uaiuu^i iuviu< the largest factories of its kind in New Orleans, was struck by lightning Monday nijrht and completely destroyed. Loss, $200,000. . ^ *-11 Strike at Newark Ended. The strike of the machinists in^jewark, N. J? which has been pi^?ged for many weeks, came to an ^FMonday. All the men returned ufpork at ' / the terms offered by the bosses. ' |j| LOUISIANA NAvAL MILITIA V - X Makes Pop Call at Pensaroia, Fla., ^ and Receives* Royal Welcome. The United States ship Stranger*- ;?fa3 having on board fifty men and officers of the Louisiana naval militia, also Governor W. W. Heard, of Louisiana, arrived at Pensacola, Fla., on annual cruise Sunday. Mayor Jones and a party of distinguished officials and citizens made an official visit to the vessel Monday morning and a reception vu tendered in the evening.