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K ? | The Bamberg Herald. ;_% I ESrABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. JULY 18.1901. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. If |; ANOTHER HOT WAVE >. Practically the Entire Country Sweltered in Sunday's Seat. PREVIOUS RECORDS EXCEEDED mk ? Prayers Ascend In Kansas and Mls% souri Churches?Farmers Plow* Ing Up Corn and Sowing Grasses. M at Saturday was an exceedinly hot day in Kansas. The mercury ranged from 106 to 109. Farmers are beginning to plow the early ruined corn fields and sow them in wheat and alfalfa to make pasture fields for the stock m the fall and winter, but the Kansas river, running through Topeka, is so dry that ptoon crracc ic prna-in? in the renter of ^ the river bed. Most of the streams of the state, except the larger ones, have gone dry, and there is a poor prospect for stock water. The weather bureau at Washington issued the following bulletin Sunday night: "Practically the entire country was covered by hot wave today, except the immediate Pacific coast and in the states of Iowa, Missouri and Illinois nearly all previous records were exceeded. The maximum temperature line of 100 degrees encircles the en tire great corn belt. At Davenport and Bubuque, Iowa, and at Springfield, 111.. the maximum temperature of 106 degrees were 2 degrees above the hignest previous record, while at St. Louis the maximum of 106 has been equaled but once before, on August 12, 1881. At Chicago the maximum of 102 degrees equals the previous high record of July 10th of the present year. In the states of Iowa, Missouri and Kansas the duration of the present heated term Is without precedent, there having been practically no interruption to temperature of S0*or over since June 18th, a period of thirty-four days. On eighteen days of this period the maximum temperature at Kansas City was 100 or more. . * "There are as yet no indications of Irv any relief from the abnormal heat. \o ^ rain has fallen in the corn belt for the "past three days, and none is in sight. It is, of course, probable that scatterV ' ed local thunderstorms, which are always accompaniments of protracted periods of heat, may fall at times, but C no hope can be entertained at this time'Tof any general rains or permanent relief." 7 Hottest at Omaha Since 1894. With the exception of July 26, 1894, on which day the temperature reached 105 degrees, Sunday has been the , hottest day Omaha, Neb., has experiV enced in twenty-seven years. The maximum was 104 8-10. There was not a , .trace of rain anywhere in the vicinity and what little wind there was came p;,- from the south and instead of being a ?' relief added to the discomfort Three Deaths at Kansas City. The heat at Kansas City broke all records, the temperature at 4 p. m. be77 V ing 104. Thermometers on the street 7 .".sit 11 o'clock Sunday night recorded 93. In Kansas City, Kans, three deaths - from heat were reported during the day. * Prayers for rain were offered in nearly all the churches in Kansas City K? " and generally throughout Kansas. Goes to 103 at St. Louis. 7 x On the day (Sunday) that Governor -7 Dockery designated for fasting and > : praying to God that the present -? l-A 1?1.4.. V_ V?1? M.VonMi.! uruugiil III lg II I, ue uiuivca ill luioovuii, ;- v all records for hot weather in St. Louis were broken, the weather bureau thermometer on the custom house register^ 4ng 108 degrees. On the streets and in exposed * places the mercury went many degrees higher. The record broken was that of 106, made in the early fed , eighties. This was the second proclamation of - * the character ever made in the history of Missouri. In 1875, a time of drought and grasshopper pest, Governor p Charles H. Hardin called upon the people of the state to pray for relief. This call was also generally obse/ved. Chicago Records 103. All heat records since the establishment of the weather bureau in Chicago thirty years ago, were broken, the government thermometer registering 103 degrees. Down on the street it was from 3 to 5 degrees hotter, and, to add to the suffering, a hot, snifling wind , C like a blast frpm a furnace, blew all day from the southwest. From 5 o'clock in the morning, when the thermometer registered 77, a gradual rise followed until at 4:30 Sunday afternoon the top notch had been reached. Prostrations were numerous and police ambulances were kept busy taking care of persons who were overcome on the streets. .106 at Decatur III. ^"^At-DeeaturAIll., it was the hottest day ever .kno^n. The government thermometer registered 106. r AFTER NEGRO LABORERS. VJjC . ."-V Representatives of Steel Trust Want Negroes to Take Strikers' Places, t - Two men from Pittsburg are in New ??fTgans to get negro labor to take the ' * -r >r> otnol millc !\ place OI ClIC SUincio 1U mv t> v-y.. I of the United States Steel ^orpora? tion. They secured fifty men^dFriday ' and had reports from similar agtf^s in Anniston and Bessemer, Ala., that they had secured forty men. TIE MILL TO RESUME. Demand of Cotton Growers Necessitates Reopening of Idle Factory. The old cotton tie mill oi the American Steel and Wire Company in Cleveland, O.. will resume operations with m a moderate force. Denials are given h the statement that the works are to be us^d as an aid to the American Stoel Hoop Company because of the stride, a great demand for cotton ties bei*g the real reason for the resumption of the mill. w * ... RsL' P'*?r " k : 6** ;! APOLOGY IS MADE TO ITALY. | United States Sends Note of Regret For Lynching of the Italians In Mississippi. A Washington special says: The acting secretary of state Monday sent I a communication to Mr. Carignani, the ! charge of the Italian embassy, expressing the regret of this government at the lynching of two Italians recently in Mississippi, and informing him that efforts were being made to bring the perpetrators to Justice. Attention was directed to the fact that it had not been established officially mat the men lynched were Italian subjects. The same information as that contained in the note to the Italian charge was forwarded to Mr. Iddings. the charge of the United States embassy at Rome, with instructions to lay it be fore the Italian i.oreign office. Governor Longino, of Mississippi, has advised the Italian consul at Vicksburg of the steps he has taken to apprehend the guilty persons. The letter details the active steps the government has taken to apprehend those guilty of tne outrage. The governor, who has been to the scene of the affair, is apprehensive of considerable difficulty in locating the guilty parties, as he states that the crime was committed at midnight by masked men, who departed quickly and quietly, leaving no trace of their movej ments. Governor Longino left Jackson, Miss., Monday night for Greenville, wnere he will consult with the criminal judge touching the assassination of the Italians at Erwin, and a special term of court will doubtless be speedily called. E. Calvalli, the Italian consul at New Orleans, is said now to be at Erwin, making in investigation. SOUTHRN PROGRESS. The New Industries Reported in the South During the Past Week. The more important of the new indnctrips rpnnrtpd for the Dast Week include a $20,000 bridge company at Seabreeze, Fla.; a $5,000 canning factory at Durham, N. C.; a $100,000 cigar factory at Tampa, Fla.; a coal mining company at Newcomb, Tenn.; a collar and harness factory at Hickory, N. C.; a $110,000 cotton compress at Helena, Ark.; a cotton compress at Houston, Tex.; a $25,000 compress at Paris, Tex.; a $100,000 copper mining company at Little, Rock, Ark.; cotton gins at Goodwater, Ala., and Emory and Wilmer, Tex.; a $100,000 cotton mill at Aberdeen, Miss.; a $100,000 cotton mill at Graham, N. C.; electric light plants at Tryon, N. C., and Culpepper, Va.; a furniture factory at Fort Smith, Ark.; a $25,000 furniture factory at Hickory, ft. C.; gas works at Birmingham, Ala.; grist mills at Eulaula, Ala., Coffintpn, Ga., and West Nashville, Tenn.; $30,000 hardware companies at Statesville, N. C., and San Antonio, Tex.; ice factories at Ashburn and Douglas, Ga., Hopkinsville, Ky., and Kentwood, La.; a $100,000 lumber company at Pensacola, Fla.; a $30,000 lumber company at Plaquemine, La.; a $125,000 lumber company at Woodlawn, N. C., and a $50,000 lumber company at Mineral Wells, Tex.; a $25,000 land company at Douglas, Ga.; $5,000 machine shops at Clarendon, Tex.; marble works at Statesville, N. C.; a $30,000 mining company at Harrison, Ark.; a $50,000 mining and mineral company at Waxahachie, Tex.; $200,000 motor works at New Orleans, La.; a $100,000 oil company at Hunsville, Ala.; a $200,000 oil company at Beaumont, Tex., and another with capital of $500,000; $300,000 o^i company at El Paso, Tex.; a $30,000 oil company at Fort Worth, Tex.; a $250,000 oil company at Paris, Tex.; oil and gas companies at Flemingsburg, Ky., and La Porte, Tex.; an oil mill at Laurens, C. C.; a $30,000 oil mill at Sulphur Springs, Tex.; an $84,000 oil and cotton company at Wharton, Tex.; a pottery at O'Quinn, Tex.; a $25,000 quarrying company at Sheffield, Ala.; $50,000 rice mills at New Orleans, La., and Bay City, Tex,; roofing works at Nashville, Tenn.; a $50,000 sash, door and blind factory at Nashville, Tenn.; saw mills at Spring Hill, Fla, and Coffinton, Ga.; a stave factory at Quiggstown, Ky.; a trunk factory at Macon, Ga.; a $20,000 wagon factory at Winterville, N. C., and a woodworking plant at Athens, Tenn. ?Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) TAMPA'S STRIKE TROUBLES. International Cigar Makers Take Places of Za Resistencia Workers. More than one hundred International Cigarmakers broke the La Resistencia strike at the factory of Cuesta, Rey & Co., at Tampa, Fla., Monday. The La Resistencia struck because the house opened a branch in Jacksonville. The Internationals commenced work Monday morning under a heavy guard of deputy sheriffs. The general strike, which is now threatened, will affect more than 4,000 people. THE DEADLY OIL CAN. Mother and Three Children Dead and Husband Not Expected to Live. A whole family was burned in a Pittsburg. Pa., tenement fire shortly before 8 o'clock Monday morning. The mother and three children are dead, and the husband is badly burned and is now at the hospital. The explosion of an oil can used in starting a fire in the stove was the cause of the accident. RECRUITS ARE INITIATED. Steel Workers at NIcKeesport Join Ranks of Amalgamated Association. The important event of the strike history of Sunday was the organization of the workers at McKeepsport, Pa The word from there is that after long and arduous work Assistant Secretary Tighe, of the Amalgamated Association, succeeded in organizing 125 men of the National Tube Works Company j At the meeting twenty-five skilled men j from each of the departments were initiated * | HOSTS OF EPWORTH LEAGUERS' Gather at 'Frisco In Fifth International | Convention?President McKinley Sends Message of Greeting. The fifth International convention of | the Epworth League was opened at San Francisco, Cal., Thursday under the most auspicious conditions. The weather was ideal and the attendance equalled the most sanguine expectations. The scene at the Mechanics' pavilion, where the main exercises of the day were held, was one not soon to be forgotten. Every vantage place in the auditorium and galleries was occupied by enthusiastic delegates and every unsightly inch of wall was hid by tasteful decorations. Thunderous volumes of harmonious tones from human throats and the vibratory accompaniment of the monster Stanford organ inspired a feeling of reverential admiration and homage that entered into the full possession of participants , and on-lookers. The railroads had vir- j tually fulfilled their promises and, de- ! spite many annoying delays, landed the last of the eastern delegates in time for the introductory ceremonies. The great army of invasion, with 30,- j 000 men and women in rank and file, had been provided for without the least trouble and in a manner most gratifying to all. During the forenoon the streets leading to the Mechanics' pavilion, the headquarters of the league, were thronged with thousands of delegates wearing the badges of the order, and long before the hour fixed for the preliminary proceedings the vast structure, which will accommodate 15,000 persons, was practically filled. The Alhambra theater and Metropolitan Temple, where simultaneous meetings were held, wi:l each hold 2,500 people and provision has been made for any possible overflow in churches. President McKinley wired the following message: " I have much pleasure in sending to the International Epworth League convention, assembled at San Francisco, my hearty congratulations upon the good work the great body of Christiai men and women which it represents has accomplished in the past, and my earnest wish that even greater success will crown the future efforts of the league." Vice President Roosevelt wired: "Heartiest greetings, and may good luck attend the Epworth League in its efforts for social and civic righteousness." Other communications were from Governors McMillan, of Tennessee; Shaw, of Iowa; Dublin, of Indiana; Yates, of Illinois; Bliss, of Michigan; Dockery, of Missouri; Stanley, of Kansas, and Van Sant, of Minnesota. All ? J ?-1*1* fViAcm from were receiveu wuu i-uccio, muov McKinley and Roosevelt arousing the audience to much enthusiasm. HANNAH TALKS EXPANSION. In a Speech at Buffalo Show He Comes Out Strong For Foreign Trade. At the exercises in Buffalo Thursday with which the Ohio building was turned over to the exposition, Senator Hanna spoke on "Commercial Relations of the American Continent." He said the men who conceived the idea of holding the exposition, just when the United States is taking the lead in industrial enterprises, deserved great praise. "Let us make trade extension a great movement," he said in conclusion, "and let this Pan-American exposition be the beginning; let us see that nothing stands between us and closer relationship with South American countries." INSANE FROM JEALOUSY. After Murdering Family, Fuerhelm Applied Torch and Suicided. The coroner's investigation of the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fuerhelm and their child, whose nodies were found in the ruins of their home at Glenwood, la., which burned Tuesday night shows that Fuerhelm was driven insane by heat and jealousy, decapitated his wife and her son by a former husband with an ax, cut the throat of his four year old child, burned the house and barn and then shot himself after banging his marriage certificate on the fence PACKING PLANT BURNED. With It Seven Million Pounds of Meat Was Lost?Damage Is $650,000. The packing plant of Jacob Dold & Sons, at Wichita, Kas., was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday. There were four large buildings. It is estimated that 7,000,000 pounds of meat in process of preparation were destroyed. The loss is $650,000, with insurance about $400,000. One wall fell injuring four men, but not fatally. Three hundred and fifty men are thrown out. of work, ine fire originated in the lard house, supposedly from spontaneous combustion. CHARLESTON BAKERS RE OUT. Employers Refused to Sign a New Scale of Wages. A strike in every bakery in Charleston where union labor was employed occurred last Sunday. The men refused to work because the owners of the bakeries refused to sign an agreement regulating a new scale of wages. Efforts to seek a settlement by arbitration have failed and orders have j been sent to other cities for new men. NON-UNIONISM INDOKSfcD. New Foe Faces Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. The first week of the steel strike ended Saturday in the Pittsburg district with two big meetings, one indorsing non-unionism, the other condemning it. The first was held at Van dergrift, where the sentiment of tho workers at Vandergrift, Lee>Jiburg Apollo and Saltsburg plants of tho American Sheet Steel Company was expressed in speeches and resolutionst COMPROMISE BARRED Millionaire Morgan Says Tmst Will Concede Nothing. DENIES RUMOR OF SETTLEMENT Battle Between Labor and Capital Must Be Fought Out to Bitter End?Both Sides Are Firm. A New York special says: J. P. Morgan gave positive denial Friday to rumors that the steel strike had been set' tied. He made this statement to the Associated Press: "There is not a word of truth in it There has been no settlement and there can be no compromise on such a question. The position of the operating companies is perfectly simple and well understood and, so far as I am concerned, has my unqualified approval." Mr. Warner Arms, vice president of the American Tin Plate Company, made the following statement Friday to a representative of the Associated Press: "Mr. Shaffer wants these companies to sign for all the non-union mills. A wage agreement is a contract entered into voluntarily between two or more persons representing certain interests. Mr. Shaffer has no right to ask these companies to sign an agreement with him for persons he does not represent. These companies are not antagonistic to labor and have proved it by entering into wage agreements in the past with Mr. Shaffer for those that he represented. This year the American Tin Plate Company entered into an agreement for one year from July 1st. but Mr. Shaffer violated that agreement by calling out the men on a sympathetic strike when they had no grievances." No Change In Situation. A Pittsburg dispatch says: The .strike situation cannot be termed materially changed. Many rumors are in the air to the effect that a settlement of the trouble is imminent, but none of these reports have been verified. At the offices of the Carnegie company and at the headquarters of the manufacturers the usual silence is preserved. President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association, expresses his entire satisfaction with the progress of the battle, and says the workers have gained steadily, while the manufacturers have lost continually since the strike began. He says up to the present the Amalgamated Association forces contemplate no change in their programme, being fully satisfied with the showing their people have made. President Shaffer says the advance in wages offered the tube mill workers at McKeesport Friday, while seemingly large, will not bring the pay up to the union scale. Commencing in a day or two, weekly bulletins will be issued from Amalga mated headquarters to give the workers and strikers official news of the exact condition of strike affairs. From the storm center at Wellsville, 0., comes word that the striking mill men in that vicinity spent an uneasy, restless day. The American Sheet Steel Company has many of the town's largest merchants back of it in its fight against the workmen, the merchants fearing that if the present trouble goes along much further the Wellsville plant will be moved across the line into Pennsylvania. Grocers, clothing men and others are trying to show the strikers that they are wrong and foolish in keeping up the fight. Ex-Senator Pugh Improving. Former Senator Pugh, of Alabama, who has been critically ill in Washington, has improved considerably. His physician now believes the senator has a god chance of recovery. Lives of Boers Are Saved. Advices from Cape Town state that Lord Kitchener has commuted the sentence of death passed on thirty-four Boer prisoners to penal servitude for life at Bermuda. SWUNG TO TELEPHONE POLE. Citizens of Cleveland, Miss., Witness Grewsome Work of Lynchers. Jesse Phillips, the negro who shot and killed Lucius Reed, a plantation manager in Cleveland, Miss., a week ago, was captured in the swamps near that city at 10 o'clock Saturday night and lynched by a crowd of unknown men. About a mile from the town a mob intercepted the captors and. taking the negro from them, hurried him to the spot where Reed was killed and hanged him to a telephone pole. So quietly was the negro hanged that the majority of the citizens did not know when the lynching occurred. SALT TRUST CUTS PRICES. Unique Method Employed to Down Competition By Small Dealers. The salt trust, known as the Michigan Salt Association, has reduced the price of the commodity from 70 cents to 45 cents a barrel. A large surplus of salt has been accumulated by the trust, and by the disposal of this at a reduced price the competition of small er dealers, It is thought, will be greatly curtailed. Bu6lne?e Men Take a Hand. Commercial organizations in Charleston, S. C., are now taking an interest | in the machinists' strike, and have api proached 1-resident Spencer, seeking | to pave the way to a conference between the strikers and the officials of the road. Appropriation For State Fair. At a special meeting of the Savannah, Ga., city council Monday that body decided to appropriate $2,500 to the state fair to be held in that city this fall. ^ar MRS. KRUOER PASSES AWAY, j < 4 Ghock on Receipt of News Almost Prostrates Her Exiled Husband In Far Away Holland. ^ Advices from Pretoria state that Mrs. Kruger, the wife of the former president of the South Africa republic, died Saturday of pneumonia, after jJ an illness of three days. She was sixty-seven years old. ? Mrs. Kruger's long separation from her husband, combined with the death, of her favorite daughter, Mrs. Smith a few days ago, had completely broken her spirit. Mr. Eloff and many other members of the Kruger family were at her bedside when she passed away. News Broken to Kruger. "Owing to the Sunday telegraph 0 hours in Holland." says a dispatch tc b The London Daily Mail from Hilver- t< sum, "Mr. Kruger was not informed of g his wife's death until the evening. The news was broken to him by Dr. Hey' o ' mans and Secretary Boeschoten. Mr. " 1 Kruger, who had just returned from h Hilversum church, burst into tears and * asked to be left alone. He exclaimed: * " 'She was a good wife. We quarreled only once, and that was six months ^ after we were married.' * | "He prayed for a long time and then ^ rslept calmly, his Bible beside his bed. ! The Transvaal and Orange Free State flags flying above the white villa were * draped and half masted." * s JONES DREW KNIFE. t Ex-Governor and Delegate In Alabama a Convention Defies Chairman. In the Alabama convention Saturday ! ex-Governor Jones appealed from v the decision of the chair on the ques- 8 tion of an ordinance forbidding state e ' officials the use of free passes. * j President Knox directed Jones to K take his seat until the question could I be stated. * > | Jones refused and asked if the ap! peal was going to be put. He declared * lie was the peer of the chair. Knox ! np-nin nrdprpd him to his chair. Jones ? _0? refused again until the chair had deI cided on his right to appeal, j The president directed the sergeantI at-arrcs to eject Mr. Jones, who said there was no necessity for any heat. The chair insisted on his being seated and directed the sergeant-at-arms to 'c remove him from the hall. Jones drew i his knife, opened it and passionately j exclaimed: "If he attempts it, it will ( be done over my dead body." The greatest excitement prevailed at this juncture. The governor finally . sat down and the chair put the appeal ^ and was overwhelmingly sustained. Mutual explanations followed and good feeling was restored. REVENUE MEN AMBUSHED. Desperate Tennessee Moonshiners Fire Deadly Voliey Into Posse. Seven revenue officers were am- ( bushed early Saturday, supposedly by < moonshiners, about six miles from ] Monterey, in Putnam county, Tennes- < see. One man was killed and one bad- ] ly wounded. ,? A posse of six, led by Deputy Collec- j tor Bell, w?s creeping along a steep j hillside above an illicit still, when they received orders to throw up their ^ hands. They had barely located the speaker forty feet below when a vol- ' ley was poured in upon them. ] Deputy Marshal Thomas Price was instantly killed and Posseman C. McKey was badly wounded. The officers i returned the fire, but th? moonshiners < made the place so hot that Collector 1 Bell and the survivors retired and car- | ried McKey with them. ] Collector Bell has gathered another i posse and started out to recover the < body of Price. Every deputy collector ! and deputy marshal in the district has i been summoned to join in the raid, i which is contemplated. The moonshiners have boasted that they would not be taken alive, and as they are well armed and fortified in the mountains, a serious conflict is expected. Commissioner Yerkes, of the internal revenue bureau at Washington, has received a telegram from Collector Nunn, at Nashville, Tenn., informing him of the attack. He has telegraphed the collector directing that everything possible be done to recover the body of Marshal Price and to capture and punish the moonshiners. BIG SALMON TRUST. Company Organized With Large Capi- 1 tal to Deal in Fish. The Pacific Packing and Navigation Company, the salmon combine, to deal 1 in salmon and other fish, was incorpo- J rated at Trenton. N. J., Saturday after- i noon. The authorized capital is $25,- < 000.000, divided into $12,500,00 7 per cent preferred stock and $12,500,000 ' common stock. < Ten Die From Heat In Chicago. Ten dead, one man driven insane i anu five prostrations showed the result ' of Sunday's sweltering heat in Chi- i cago. 1 ( ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS. I That Is Number of Silver Certificates of 1899 Ready For Issue. The treasury employees who place | the seals and numbers on notes of the < United States Monday reached the < number of 100,000,000 on the $1 silver certificates of the series of 1S99. The * numbers will not go any higher, as '< the printers have been instructed to < turn back to No. 1 of letter A. < BETS MUST STAND. Money Lost on Horse Races Cannot Be Recovered at Law. At Indianapolis Thursday Federal Judge Baker ruled that betting on the futurity price of commodities is not betting on a game under the Indiana law, and money so lost cannot be recovered. Election bets cannot be recovered. The ruling was in a suit to recover money from the Odell Commission Company, of Cincinnati. SAMPSON IS BRAZEN! idmits Reading Proofs of Book Which SInrs Hero Schley. iSSUMES ALL RESPONSIBILITY ecretary Long Is Tired of the Whole Controversy?Lieutenant WainWright Answers an Inquiry. Referring to Maclay's naval history, rhich has beon criticised on account f statements considered objectionale, Rear Admiral Sampson, in an inerview at Boston, Mass., Monday, aid: "In one way, possibly, I was responIble for the statements made in the Istory. I was commander in chief of he squadron, and was responsible so ar as reading the proofs goes. If the istorian has taken facts from my ofcial reports to the navy uepartment. hat is all well and good. I stand by rst reports and official communicaions. "I would welcome an investigation of his whole matter by congress or by he navry department," he said, "but I ee no hope of its being taken up. "Schley's first statement regarding he battle of Santiago,'' continued the .dmiral, "was moderately correct. The nterviews given out some time afterwards were not at all correct. They were entirely different from his first .ccounts and were written in a differ:nt spirit, I think. An interview pur>orting to have come from Admiral Schley published, I believe, on January 1th, was entirely incorrect. Soon afer this statement appeared in print le came aboard my ship and told me hat he had been incorrectly quoted. The reporter to whom the interview vas granted was a triend of mine, and le afterwards told me that he had pubished Schley's words precisely as they lad been spoken." Wainwright Answers Inquiry. Commander Wainwright, commandmt of the United States naval acadeny, under the date of July 20th, has nade the following reply to tne navy lepartment's inquiry concerning the lse of Maclay's history: "Having seen so much in the papers n regard to the third volume of Macay's naval history, and having received also an official letter from you >n the subject, I think it right to put rou in possession of a full knowledge )f the case as existing at the naval icademy. "There has been no proposition to idopt this third volume as a textbook >r reference book, either from the head )f the department of English, the academic board, or any person within my inowledge. There is no intention here sf requiring the cadets to study the iiistory of such recent events as the Spanish-American war, and their time s too limited to require them to study i lull volume on any one war. "Maclay's naval history was adopted svith the consent of the department in 1899, when the English course here was extended far beyond its former limits. Long Is Tired of Discussion. Secretary Long Monday afternoon indicated to the newspaper men who called upon him that he did not desire to discuss further the revival of the Sampson-Schley controversy. He said, however, that he had received a letter from Mr. Maclay in which the author of the naval history of the United States agreed to his (the secretary's) statement that only the third chapter Df his book (that relating to mobiliza tion) had been placed in the secreta ry's hands before the publication o! his work. Admiral Schley Is Silent. Admiral Schley was seen Monday night at the Great Neck, L. I., where he is at present stopping. He declared he would have nothing to say at the present time, no matter what was saic by others indorsing Maclay's history He added that later, when others hac said all they wanted to he might issue a statement, but that this was uncer tain. "NOTHING TO ARBITRATE." Officials of Steel Trust Say Demand ol Strikers Is Only Sentftnental One. The following official statement, ac cording to The New York Journal and Advertiser, has been given out by a member of the firm of J. P. Morgar & Co.: "The United States Steel corpora tion will not consent to any arbitrator of the present difficulty. There is nothing to arbitrate. The company stands willing to agree to the demands Df the men as to wages and hours. Ii there is any other question at issue It is merely a sentimental one raised by the Amalgamated Association." COMPTROLLER REYNOLDS DEAD, Prominent Floridian Passes Away at His Home In Tallahassee. William H. Reynolds, comptroller of :he state of Florida, died at his resilience in Tallahassee at 2 o'clock Frilay morning, aged fifty-eight years. He lad been president of the state senate -L - * xl mil was secretary ot me cousuiuuuuil convention in 1885. He was elected comptroller in 1W6. He was a native Df Georgia. KENTUCKY VERITABLE FURNACE All Official and Unofficial Record) Were Smashed Monday. All weather reports in official or un official records were beaten in Ken tuckv Monday. At 2 p. m. the ther mometer registered 105.2 at Louis ville. The- humidity was correspond ingly lowered, however, and no fatal ities occurred. Prostrations were nu rnerous. Grapes, growing grain and gardeni are killed. People are eating cannei goods. - - - . ? o--. r?>.: i^'. ' REWARD OFFERED FOR MOB. Governor of Mississippi Anxious to Make Amends For Murder of Italians. 1 A Washington special says: Mr. Ca raignini, the Italian charge, called upon Acting Secretary of State Hill Saturday to prepare a note as to the | progress being made into the investigation of the killing of the Italians at Erwin, Miss., recently. The charge has not yet been able to secure evidence to establish the nationality of the men. although the Italian authorities originally reported otherwise, and unless this shall be forthcoming and it shall be shown that they were not neutralized to the United States there will be no further proceedings in the case as far as the state department is concerned. Governor Offers Rewards. P-nvarmr T-nrrrlnn nf M ISSiSSiDDi. Saturday afternoon offered $100 reward for the arrest and conviction of each of the murderers of Glovanna and vincenzo Serio and the wounding or Salvator Liberto by a mob at Erwin, Miss. The governor received a letter from Secretary Hay inclosing a copy of a note from the Italian charge d'affairs. in which Secretary Hay asked to be advised whether the persons killed were Italians subjects or had been naturalized. Replying to Secretary Hay Saturday, Governor Longino states that his private advices are that none of. the Italians named above were naturalized American citizens, but that he will make official inquiry and report later. The governor advises Secretary Hay that he went in person to Washington county the second day after the unfortunate occurrence, where he learned from the sheriff that the Italian consulate at Vicksburg had asked for protection for these Italian subjects. The governor found that the sheriff, promptly upon the receipt of his telegram, visited the scene of the murder, but he was unable to ascertain the names of the guilty parties. The crime was committed under cover of darkness and the murderers fled, leaving no trace of their identity. The neonle nf Greenville, the coun ty site of Washington, where the murder occurred, met in mass meeting and by resolution deplored and condemned the action of the guilty parties and requested a special term of the circuit court in order that the stain may be wiped out by the' punishment of the criminals. The governor transmits a copy of these resolutions to Secretary Hay, whom he assures, and through him the Italian government, that eve.T effort will be made to apprehend and punish the guilty parties. MORE CENSUS FIGURES. Statistics of Sohool, Militia and Voting Age In Georgia and Florida. The census office at Washington issued a statement Saturday giving the , the statistics of the school, militia and , voting population of the state of Flor, ida and Georgia as follows: , School Age?Florida, 197,600; Georgia, 885,725. Males of Militia Age?Florida, 114,500; Georgia, 409,186. Males of Voting Age?Florida, 139.! 601; Georgia, 500,752. The school children are as follows: Florida?Foreign born, 3,668; colored. 87,063; males, 98,820; females, 9?., 780. , Georgia?Foreign born, 1,154; col, ored, 427,841; males, 439,450; females, ! 446,275. The foreign and colored males of . militia age are as follows: Florida?Foreign bora, 7,934; color[ ed. 53,723, of which 53,546 are negroes. Georgia?Foreign born, 3,827; col ored 185,058, of which 184,907 are ne. groes. The foreign born and colored of votp ing age are classified as follows: Florida?Foreign born, 11,736; colored 61,417. Georgia?Foreign born, 7,012; col? ored, 223,304. 1 > - All Records Are Smashed. I Saturday's temperature of 103 breaks all previous records in the I history of the local weather bureau at ; Lacrosse. Wis. Thermometers in many . places showed 110. Numerous prostrations are reported. JOINT RAIDING RESUMED. p Seven Women at Eldorado, Kansas, Rout Sunday Beer Sellers. At Eldorado, Kans., Sunday seven [ women, headed by Mrs. H. T. Grover, , president of the local Woman's Chris( tian Temperance Union, entered a "joint" run by a man named Busch, in a tent in the center of town, and demolished a tub full of bottled beer. They took samples of the liquor to the ! sheriff, who later ordered the "joifitist" to quit business. Five hundred ! people gathered while the raid was in , progress. A "jolntist" in another part , of town loaded his stock into a wagon and disappeared. 1 NEGROES RESENT LYNCHING. Running Fight Occurs at Cleveland, Miss., Between Whites and Blacks. As an aftermath of the lynching in Cleveland, Miss., negroes undertook to terrorize the people, but were given a warm reception by the whites, who got wind of the movement and were on the alert. A running fight took place, the negroes being routed and three of their number shot. FAMINE IN JERUSALEM. 5 Inhabitants of Holy City Suffer Through Insufficiency of Rain. "Death and famine threatens the . Holy City," says the Jerusalem corre - spondent of The London Standard In i- a communication dated July 6th, "on . account of the scanty water supply, [- due to insufficient rains of last winter. I- ' The sultan has granted permission to the municipality to bring water from s the pools of Solomon through iron i ( pipes into the city along the line of Solofflon's stone aqueduct _ PACIFICATION A Military Rale Re-Established In Three Philippine Provinces. CIVIL COMMISSION POWERLESS " | This Move Places General Chaffee In Higher Authority Than That Exercised by Governor Taft. 'j? . . A Manila special says: The United /jl States civil commission announced Thursday that after three monuis of a provincial form of government In " <yd the islands of Cebu and Bohol and the province of Batangas, Luzon, control of these districts, owing to their incomplete pacification, has been re- -/jS turned to the military authorities, it having been proved that the communities are backward and undeserving of .yjjg civil administration. The provisional and civil officials continue thely functions, but are now under the authority of General Chaffee instead of that of Civil Governor Taft, as heretofore. General Chaffee has the power arbitrarily to remove from office any or alt -SB provisional or civil officers and to abrogate any section of the laws pro- JJ mulgated in these provinces. The residents of the island of Cebn have protested, but without success, .?<3 against the return of that island to military control. Several towns in Cebu are still besieged by the insur- ..^3 gents. The insurrection on the island of Bohol has been renewed and Insurgent sentiment in the province of Batangas is strong. General Chaffee has ordered a bat* talion of the Thirtieth infantry to begin the occupation of the island of Mln- . -M doro. The province of Batangas will ,'.^S|3 be occupied by the entire Twentieth Infantry. H. Phelps Whitmarsh, governor of Benguel province, who was recently ordered to Manila for investigation of certain charges against him, presented his side of the case to the United States Philippine commission at their J|j executive session Thursday. Mr. Whit- * "M ' marsh denied every charge made 719 against him. The commission's dec is- -A ion will be made known Saturday. ^ OLD MAN ADMITS GUILT. ?. ,| English Peer Confesses to Having Two . Spouses and Receives Sentence. A London special says: .Earl Rua- H sell, arraigned at the bar of the house '^9 of lords Thursday for trial on the '.||| charge of bigamy, pleaded guilty after ;v long arguments against jurisdiction of the court The trial was carried on with all. Jg& . the quaint middle age ceremonies. < | The arguments lasted one hour. Both the earl and Countess Russell (Mrs. Somerville), through their counsel. * jjfl pleaded they did not know they were 3 doing wrong, but had acted on the best '.M legal advice obtainable in Nevada. The peers reached their decision af- "M ter consideration of the case lasting twenty minutes. Earl Russell was sentenced to three months' imprisonment as a first-class misdemeanant The benches reserved for peresses ' were amply filled, while the space ak _ lotted to distinguished strangers waa - w crowded with diplomats and their families, including United States Am* :-aja bassader Choate. After the reply of the prosecution '|9 ' to the argument of counsel for his do* fense, Earl Russell, in a voice audible, pleaded guilty. His counsel then addressed the house in mitigation, pleading that the accused had acted upon v? ^ the best lesral advice obtainable in Ne* M vada, that the offense was merely tech- ffjjjSB nical and that no -harm had been done Mollie Coc ke. Lord Russell then addressed the house and said he proposed to re-marry Mollie Cooke at an early time. The judges njled that King Edward had a right to legislate for his subjects all over the world, but their lordships, not desijing to the_tull penalty upon Lord Russell, had nnan imrffrefry-. ^ jiz decided that justice would be satisfied by his being imprisoned In Holloway '-ill prison for three months as a criminal In a first division. * |B ????????? EXPERT 8URPRISED THE STATE. Bank Cashier Makes Strong Point For Defense In Forgery Case. In the Glenn forgery case at Par- >|S kersburg, W. Va., Thursday morning John R. Wallace, cashier for the Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank, stated >||| that if the writing shown him and al- JS leged to be Ellis Glenn's was his, then the forgery of the names of Georgia A. / ^.?8 and Vesta Hoover to the $1,400 had never been made by Glenn. ||1 This was a surprise to the state, as .32 it was their witness that made the statement and he was put in as an txr Barrel Plant Goes Up In Smoke. The plant of the Michigan Barrel Company at Grand Rapins, was de- stroyed by fire Thursday night Loss inn nnn half insured. It was the larg est plant of Its kind In existence. Consul 8prague Dead. Jj Horatio J. Sprague, consul at Gibraltar, and the eldest consul In the American service, died at hla post Thursday. WAS AN ACT OF GOD. Coroner's Verdict On Disastrous Wreck Near Peru, Indiana. Coroner Varling has filed his verdict in the Wabash wreck near Peru, Ind., a few weeks ago. He decides that the victims of the disaster came to theip ' 7* death by reason of a cloudburst having washed out the track, eausing the . wreck, and that the company had . s?j used ordinary care in regard to the rjjjg culvert and track, and is not to be held responsible for the accident.