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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
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Prayers Ascend In Kansas and Mls%
souri Churches?Farmers Plow*
Ing Up Corn and Sowing
Grasses.
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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
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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.
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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.
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;! 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
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| 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.
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MRS. KRUOER PASSES AWAY, j <
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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'
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' 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." *
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JONES DREW KNIFE.
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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. *
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| 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 ?
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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
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ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS.
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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
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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.
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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.
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> - 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.
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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
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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.