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r The Bamberg Herald. f ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 1. 1901. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. gjl bmIotterv opens ? Uncle Sam's Big Fortune Wheels Begin to Revolve at El Reno. FIRST DAY ONE OF EXCITEMENT [ C Thousands of Home Seekers Watch < the Proceedings With Deep Interest, Hoping to Be the Lucky Ones. Oklahoma's great land lottery was j begun at El Reno in earnest Monday, and when the commissioners appoint- ] ed by the. federal government adjourn- 1 ed the drawing for the day 1,000 of the < choicest of the 13,000 160-acre claims 1 m tne Kiowa-uomanche country had been awarded. The first name drawn from the wheels was that of Stephen A. Hoicomb, of Paul's Valley, I. T., for a homestead in the El Reno district, and the second Leonard Lamb, of Augusta. O. T. These two men selected the two choicest claims in this district The capital prize winners, however, proved to be James R. Wood, of Weatherford, O. T., whose name was the first to come from the Lawton district wheel, and Miss Mattie H. Bea!s: of Wichita, Kans., who drew the second number in that district. They will have the privilege of making the first filings in the Lawton district. and will undoubtedly choose the two quarter sections adjoining that town. These are considered the most valuable in the territory and are, it was estimated, worth from $20,000 to $40,000 each. The day was one of keen excitement, replete with interesting scenes. It is estimated that fully 25.000 persons witnessed the drawing. The immense throng was wrought up to the highest pitch. The drawing of the first names was followed by a mighty shout that reverberated between the hills and * must have been heard for miles over 4 the prairies. Each succeeding winner for a time was met with shouts of ap- i plause and merriment. All was pleas t antry. Every man, though he did not draw a prize from the wheels, had t steadfast faith that the next day would i surely see him the possessor of a slip reading him a title clear to 160 acres ? > : - of Oklahoma's land. Hundreds Repeated. s It has been found that many hundred s applicants have "repeated" and that other applications are so illegible that they will be thrown out. Over ^ this much discord has resulted, and t the outcome may be an appeal to the ^ courts. w The drawing had been set for i o'clock, but the transferring of the E bundles of envelopes holding the ap- v plications from the general receptacle e into the wheels, which was by lot, was so slow that it was 10:50 o'clock before c the first name was drawn. d Must Get Married. a When 25 names had been taken from the El Reno district wheel, attention a was turned to that representing the p Lawton district. C The first name brought out for this aisinci was mat 01 jonn n. vvoous. , y of Weatherford, Okla., and the crowd v again went wild. This meant that ^ Woods would be able to claim the sec'tion adjoining Lawton town, one of the choicest in the entire country. The second ticket was drawn and ? *,- Colonel Dyer cried out: 3 "I have the pleasure tft announce the name of the first waSn to draw a prize, Mattie H. Beals, of Wichita, d Kans." P Then Colonel Dyer gave her descrip tion as 23 years old and 5 feet 3 inches c in height, just the height of Woods, a Instantly the crowd caught the humor a of the situation and thousands of throats sent up the shout: tl "They must get married!" c The eighth winner in the Lawton a . district was Minerva McClintock, aged 25 years, of Oklahoma City. She was c married Sunday and by this act for- c felted her right to file for claim. She might have chosen a claim near a county seat town worth several thou Q sand dollars. The drawing was resum- ? ed Tuesday at 9 o'clock. k A Washington special says: The department of justice received a tele d gram stating that Judge Erwin, of the United States court in Oklahoma, had ? f denied the application of Lone Wolf v and other Indians for an injunction re- e straining the government from distributing land in that territory by draw- \ ? y?gs. s ______________________ ALLIANCE ORGAN SOLD. p ' o: Progressive Farmer, Published at Ra ^ leigh, N. C., Changes Hands. The Progressive Farmer, published at Raleigh, the organ of the North Car- V olina State Farmers' Alliance, estab- j1 lished by L. L. Polk, was sold Monday 1 to J. W, Denmark, Polk's son in law, for $6,000. Denmark now and for some c time has been business manager. ^ .^Aiinrn nmor 0\/ CD A I in h dLUUnLU DtMUt 0 I rnnww. ? \ c; Alabama Young Man Committed Per- n jury In Securing License. J. P. Bernard, a well known planter f of Mount Zion. Ala., was arrested* Mon day night on a charge of perjury. Ber- g nard is 36 years old*. Saturday he visited Huntsville with Florence Ham n aker, a girl who is only 15 years of a age and married her, making affidavit a that the girl was over 18 years of age. p SAMPSON INDISPOSED. c Adn^ral Slightly III and Has Nothing to Say of Investigation. An attack of illness prevented Rear ^ Admiral W. T. Sampson from attend, t ing to his duties at the Charleston navy yard Thursday. It was said that the trouble was not of a serious na- j ture. It was said at the navy yard that yielding to the advice of friends, Admiral Sampson will have nothing to say about the Schley matter until the ^ Investigation begins. __ . Kg r -i/ -\, . ^ &ik? CREAn OF NEWS rf rlnlir* * ' * t l J ? ?. TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT J Summary of the Most * + Important Daily J ?E Happenings Tersely Told. ? ?It has been learned that the Rus sian government expelled George Kennan because of his description of Si' berian horrors fifteen years ago. ?An electoral law has been reported to the Cuban constitutional convcn tion. It provides for universal suffrage. ?Advices from Pekin received at Washington state that China wll be ?iven three years in which to make the first indemnity payment. ?Judge John C. Hart, of the supe* rior court at Dublin, Ga., has ruled that the farmers are liable for taxes Dn fertilizers in hand at the date for giving in taxes. ?Judge Niles' decision gives foreign oan and building associations in Mississippi new KVe and the courts will low be burdened wth suits. ?President Henry, of the Southern ailwav machinists at Knoxville, declares no more conferences with the< ailway officials looking to a compromise will be held. ?Rev. Mr. Brockhuisen, speaking in Chicago, says the conditions in Engaud's Weyler camps are appalling 3oers are dying at an awful rate. ?Agents of the Colombiarf^governnent took Abel Murillo off a steamer it Cartegena, although he had the Jeiman flag about his body. ?Rain continues to tall in the corn ielt. It is believed that the damage, lone by drought is not so great as has >een reported. ?The drawing tor tne government ands?began Monday at. El Reno and vill continue until the 13,000 homesteads have been won. ?The Paterson anarchists held a neeting Monday night in memory of Sresci, who killed King Humbert. ?Secretary Long has issued an orler forbidding naval officers to discuss he Schley case. ?Whitecappers who went to whip a legro in Arkansas were filed upon by heir intended victim and two killed. ?In the socialist democratic ccnven ion at Indianapolis the faction friendy to Debs is in a minority. ?Shaffer and Williams, strike lead;rs, have been in New York in conference with Morgan and Schwab, of the teel trust. It is believed they will ettle the strike. ?War Correspondent Graham, who vas on the Brooklyn during the Saniago battle, scathingly arraigns tho :lique which has hounded Admiral Jchley. ?The battleship Maine, which commemorates the shapeless mass in Haana harbor, was successfully launchd at Philadelphia Saturday. ?Heavy rains nave fallen throughiut the parched west, breaking the Irought which has lasted nearly two aonths. ?The state department has received dvices confirming the press dis atches of the final settlement of the Jhinese problem. ?The Alabama constitutional con ention tor the first time found itself rithout a quorum upon opening Saturay, but the requisite number was unted up and the debate on the sufrage question proceeded. ?Judge of the federal court in Misissippi renders a decision touching sans by building associations which i a contradicton of a decision handed own by the chief justice of the sureme court of Mississippi. ?The proposed new tariff law is ausing comment in Germany. It is dmitted that certain provisions are imed at the United States. ?Captain Schley, of the Twentybird infantry, son of the admiral, omes out in defense of his father and dvises him to spare no one. ?Midway people at the Pan-Amerian exposition maue another unsucessful attempt to give performances n Sunday. ?The transport Meacie arrived at ian Francisco Sunday from Manila, ringing the Eigth battery, field arillery and many sick and Insane soliers. ?Ambassador Choate has gone to [olland. and rumor has it that Kruger rants him to act as mediator in the ffort to secure peace. ?A movement is on foot in New 'ork to seek the redemption of the outh's repudiated bonds. ?Just back from Liberia, a Georgian aints the picture of southern negroes n the trip over and declares they were adly treated. ?The steel trust has ordered the 'elders in the National Tube Compay's works, at McKcesport, Pa., to sign ^dividual contracts or get out ?Lord Kitchener's official report onfirms the rumors that British rounded were shot by Boers. ?The drought over the corn belt as at last been broken. The rains ame too late to save corn, but will furish pasturage. ?The Fosburgh murder trial at >ittsfield, Mass.. resulted in the acquital of the defendant. The verdict was reeted with applause. ?The official draft ot the new Gertorift' chnw5 heavv increaso uail lUi AM.*. W..V ? gainst American products. In Berlin , tariff war with the United States is iredicted. ?The battleship Maine was launched at the Cramps shipyards at Phila[elp..?a Saturday morning. ?Several earthquake shocks were ixperienced throughout Utah and Ne'ada Friday. Heavy rains followed he shocks. ?George Kennan. the famous traveler and lecturer, has been ordered to eave Russia as an undesirable foreigner. ?Several non-commissioned officers efuse to accept medals from King Edvard. claiming that their pay has beet tfithneld. fxirsicsjrvjrJCMCMfNij I SOUTH CAROLINA 1 \ STATE NEWS ITEMS. } c CMCSJfMCMCMCMCMCSlJ Another Military Regiment. A special from Columbia says that military authorities are advocating forming another regiment of militia in the lower part of the state, taking ii\ the independent battalion of four com* panics in Charleston. * Rails Have Been Ordered. The Greenville Electric Company has ordered rails for 35 miles of track and will soon begin laying track to Piedmont. The track will be extended to Pclzer and probably to Williamston. The next move will be a track to Paris Mountain. * * Sheriff Demands Reward. James Lindsay killed a man in York county last May. He escapeu to North Carolina and was captured a couple of weeks ago by a North Carolina sheriff. Sheriff Logan, of York, sent his deputy, but the sheriff of Newton refused to give up the prisoner without a reward. None had been offered. The North Carolina sheriff said he would turn the man loose unless one was paid. Sheriff Logan then went prepared to make trouble and got his man. \ < . *** h Commission Is Withheld. There is a peculiar situation in Bamberg county. J. Dickinson, the hold-over county treasurer, has been re-elccted and is awaiting his commission. In the meanwhile the auditing clerk of the comptroller general's department finds that Dickinson is < Hno tha 78 fnr tnvoc nnt no iH uut liiv O ? ? V J.V/A VWAVM "WW I over. A settfei^ent cannot be obtain- ] ed, and the governor has announced his intention of requesting the delegation from that county to recommend another man for appointment. * * * Young Man Exiled. A Columbia news item states that A. H. Wilkes, a young white man of good family, but of black sheep order, has been banished from the state for twen ty years. This was the condition of a pardon for selling whisky. The young fellow has been in a number of scrapes and was finally sentenced to the chaingang. He is a physical wreck. It is thought that he may reform and his family will doubtless give him the opportunity to make a start < elsewhere. ] * * Served Church Fifty Years. At Fair Forest Presbyterian church on a recent Sunday, from the counties, of Union, Spartanburg and Greenville; there was a large gathering to commemorate the half century of the con- 1 tinuous pastorate of Rev. A. A. James. ' Rev. B. F. Wilson, president of Converse college, preached in the morn- ' ing. After dinner Mr. James delivered an address covering many points of in- ^ terest to the community. The Fair Forest church was organ- ! ized in 1751, in a log house. In 1819 ^ the present church was built. Besides Mrs. James there were seven persons 1 who were present when Mr. James preached his first sermon in the church 1 in 1851. Lengthy Electric Roads. South Carolinans are going in for long electric railways. Recently the building of a line from Aiken to Augusta whs begun, and now the secretary of state has chartered the Green 1 ville-Piedmont Traction Company, with 1 a minimum capital of $100,000, that 1 may be increased to $250,000. This company will construct a line from < Greenville to Piedmont, a distance of ( twelve miles. Pennsylvania capital- 1 ists are interested. A plan is on foot * to extend the Buffalo road, running 5 from Union, about eight miles, to Buf- ( falo mills, via White Rock, connecting at White Rock with an extension of the Spartanburg electric line, giving an electric road between Union and < Spartanburg. *** 1 Governor Not -Pleased. 1 Governor McSweenev seemed disap- ' pointed when he heard of the action of I Mayor Smyth, of Charleston, in calling ' off policemen detailed to raid dispen- < sarles. "I do not think," he said, "that it 3 will help Charleston. It has been my hope since I have been in office to see the dispensary law enforced in every place where there is a police force, and I would have withdrawn the constabulary if I could have received a guaranty from the municipal authorities that the law would be enforced. I ! have positive information that Flor ence. Anderson. Abbeville. Greenwood, Spartanburg and other places are doing what Charleston should do?assist- ' ing the constabulary in every way possible. I have the positive statement of the mayor of Columbia that ' he will at any time direct the police to assist the state constables in making raids and breaking up the illicit sales. The dispensary constables have recently taken an additional oath that requires them to enforce all laws ol the state. Their first act under the ex tended powers was to catch a batch of negro gamblers in Greenville." * * * Policeman's Bloody Deed. Thomas Murray, a policeman who guards the town of Cheraw at night, some time ago married the daughter of A. A. McDonald, an old respected citizen. Subsequently he became furiously jealous regarding a love affair k /->i * mo??**ioorci onrl UI Ills Wilt unuit: UlCU uau lagc, an\t in a quarrel threw her out of the house. The young woman returned tc her father. Murray, relenting, went for her. but stated to her father that as a condition to her returning as his wife he would give her a whipping. Old McDonald went for his gun. but his aged wife dissuaded him from using it Murray's wife fled to the woods. Murray drove her parents out of the house, took possession and smashed things in general. Then in going out he shot his father in law dead. He escaped. * * * McLaurin Remains Silent. Since the action of the democratic executive committee. Senator McLaurin has been asked by representatives of newspapers for an expression of his views. Senator McLaurin and family left Bennettsville for Greenville on account of the number of cases of typhoid fever in that town. One of his daughters was sick before leaving Ben nettsville, and since arriving at Greenville the sickness has developed into typhoid fever. Mrs. McLaurin and the sick child are at the home of Mrs. A. J. S. Thomas, a relative of Mrs. McLaurin's, while Mr. McLaurin and his other child are on Paris mountain. The Senator returns to the city every day to be with his wife and sick child. His whole time and thoughts are given to his doiip-htpr and hp iznores all DOliti cal matters, declining to discuss current political conditions even with hia most intimate friends. * * * To Extend Blue Ridge Road. Fairfax Harrison, of Washington, D. C., and B. L. Abney, of Columbia, who recently bought the Blue Ridge railway, the line which John C. Calhoun placed to cross the mountains, will a* y' for a charter from the secretary i \Vate and will extend the road Oss the Blue Ridge mountains to-rd the Georgia line, going by way Rabun Gap. Beyond Walhalla, the .resent terminus, the road has been surveyed through the mountains and tunnels have already been cut through solid rock. The buiiding of this overland road would give a quick trip from the south Atlantic coast, and would mako the route a great deal shorter. It was generally supposed that the Blue Ridge was bought by the Southern railway, but this has-been denied, and the application for a charter willmean that the mountains will eventually be crossed. SAMPSON EXPRESSES PLEASURE. Says Investigation Will Show That Whole Business Is Inspired by Malice Rear Admiral Sampson, who is at Boston, said Wednesday: "I am glad that Rear Admiral Schley has asked secretary lxmg tor an investigation. I hope if there is an invest! gation it will be a thorough one and that not a d-etail of anything that has been in dispute will be avoided by the investigating board. "This whole business is inspired by malice, but now, perhaps, it may all be investigated, and if it is, the people of the United States will know all the facts." BITTER PILL FOR BOERS. Prisoners In St. Helena Fight Over Matter of Taking Oath of Allegiance. Bad blood among the Boer prisoiftis in St. Helena over the question of taking the oath of allegiance to King Edward has led to so much fighting and disorder that it has been necessary to remove those who have taken the oath to a separate inclosure. There were several severe encounters, and the vigilance committee of the irreconciliables subjected those who had taken the oath to indescribable indignities. The ringleaders have been impris>ned in the fortress. WAR ON NEGRO SOCIETIES. Many Mississippi State Newspapers Advise Breaking Them Up. A spptinn nf thp Missis;. sippi state press has opened a war on the negro societies with the view of iccomplishing their extermination. The fight was precipitated by the re?ent troubles at Cleveland, in Boliva. :ounty, where several negroes were \illed as the result of the assassina:ion of a white man. the local negro ociety, it is said, having been the >riginal cause of the assassination. CAMPS ARE CROWDED. Dver 100,000 Are Penned Up At Concentration Posts in South Africa. A parliamentary paper issued at London Wednesday gives numbers of [>ersons in the concentration camps in South Africa in Juneas follows: White, $5,410; colored, 23,489. There were f77 deaths among the whites in the :amps, the list including 576 children, rhe deaths among the colored persons aumbered five. Costly Blaze In Davenport. At Davenport, la., Thursday fire laid svaste an area of saw mill and resilence property equal to twenty ordinary city blocks. Losses will aggregate $700,000. Tariff Wall Tumbles. The President Thursday issued his proclamation establishing free trade between Porto Rico and the United States and declaring the organiation Df a civil government for the island. DIED TO SAVE OTHERS. Two Heroes Perish in Burning Building at Louisville, Ky. In a fire at Louisville, Ky., Saturday morning which destroyed the property of the Badgley-Graham and Photographic Supply Company, Max Belovitch, a cigarmaker. and Policeman James Purden were burned to death in an effort to rescue women and children who occupied rooms above the supply store. u/non I CAVC5 P.I IRA uuvcnuun II vw ? ? w He Recovers Sufficiently to Undertake Trip to New York. General Wood, governor general of Cuba, sailed from Havana Saturday on board the steamer Morro Castle for New York. He expressed himself as being quite well and wanted to walk aboard the vessel, but his friends insisted on his being carried on board on a portable cot Deep sympathy with General Wood was shown by Cubans of all clasees on his departure. SECRET CONFERENCE ? Of Steel Magnates and Strike Leaders Held In New York. DIFFERENCES FULLY DISCUSSED Procee^^^s Are Not Made Public. Opinion Prevails That Trouble Will Soon Be Satisfactorily Adjusted. The formal negotiations for a settlement of the great steel strike were opened in New York Saturday at a conference between President snaner and Secretary Williams, of the Amalgamated association, and J. Plerpont Morgan and a group of his associates, of the United States Steel Corporation. The conference and the movements of the conferees were secret, and no intimation of the result of the deliberations has come from any one in authority It is believed, however, that substantial progress toward an agreement was made and that formal announcement of the compact for peace will come within a few days. There has been much speculation as to the terms of peace, but much of it has been pure conjecture. It was said that the strike would be called off and that there would be a resumption cf the negotiations of general labor questions at the point where they were broken off at the Pittsburg conference. In financial circles, however, the opinion was general that the prospective agreement would go further than that and in itself dispose of serious questions at issue. The conference resulted from several days of preliminary discussion, all of which was kept secret. A representative of the Amalgamated association was in the city on^Erida'y was given a lengthy interview by an official of one of the companies forming the United States Steel Corporation. The conference of Saturday is believed to have been practically ar ranged at that time: Shaner ana Williams slipped quietly out of Pittsburg and were in New York several hours before a hint of their presence reached the public. Mr. Morgan and President Schwab, of the United States Steel Corporation, met first at the office of the former and were closeted for some time. The meeting with the labor leaders followed. The names of those who participated in the meeting, aside from the leaders on either side and the place at which the com ferees met were kept from ine public. Mr. Morgan was seen after the meeting, but would say nothing beyond de* nying that he had any appointment with President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated association. President Schwab, of the United States Steel Corporation, also was seen, but as he declined to make any statement whatever, he would neither admit nor deny that there had been a conference. It is said that the basis of the settlement of the steel strike is a compromise, concessions being made by both sides. RUSSIA ACCEPTS PROPOSAL. Czar's Action Puts An End to Trou* . bles in Chinese Empire. Russia has accepted on trial the l^n rrl nnH nr?n norn. JLUUU1HCU jjl uyuoai Ul uugiauu vwuvvi . ing the method of payment of the Chinese indemnity, so that at the next meeting of the representatives of the powers at Pekin, a perfect agreement can be reached, says the St. Petersburg correspondent of The New York Herald. This is the most important piece of news since the commencement of the troubles, because it means that a settlement has been reached, enabling and, indeed, compelling, the powers immediately to withdraw their troops in keeping with their promises, thus removing the chief obstacle to the return of the Chinese court to the capital. Advice From Negro Ministers. Negro ministers at Birmingham, Ala., have issued circulars advising members of their race against going north and east to take the places of striking workmen. REVERSES HIGH COURT. Federal Judge In Mississippi Decides Contrary to State Supreme Tribunal. Judge Niles, of the federal court at Jackson, Miss., Saturday handed down a decision involving $200,00U of building and loan contracts in Mississippi. He reverses the state supreme court and holds that contracts with the New South Building and Loan Association of New Orleans are not usurious. The decision effects seventy other suits. The state supreme court heid that contracts of this company were usurious and absolved the borrowers from paying any more. ARE READY FOR BATTLE. Opposing Factions In Arkansas County Threaten to Spill Blood. A special from Little Rock, Ark., says: Osceola, the county seat of Mississippi county, is under an armed incm-ro^tinn an account of Governor Davis having revoked the commissions of Sheriff Sam Brown and Circuit Clerk C. S. Driver, and appointed J. A. Lovewell and J. \V. Rhodes, respectively, as their successors. An Incentive to Live. Mrs. Hazel Silvis Wood, a young widow, who attempted suicide last week because she owed a small debt proves to be an heiress to an estate in Nebraska valued at $7,500, left to her father, who died last November in Tallahassee, Fla. Negroes Get High Grades. Complaints are being made over the state of Tennessee because of the high grades given negro school teachers at the institutes and the wholesale granting of certificates. X . HEAVY THRUSTS AT SAMPSON. War Correspondent Graham Roasts Admiral and Naval Clique Which Hoped to Ruin Schley. War Correspondent George Edward Graham, who represented the Associated Press on board the Brooklyn and stood beside Admiral Schley, replies to the criticisms made by Maclay. He saj o. "Maclay was cither induced or ordered to assault Schley so fiercely that the latter would ask for a court of inquiry. Then the Sampson-Evans-Crowninshield-Chadwick crowd hoped to get such a board appointed as would make J it apparent that Sampson, of 12-milesaway fame, was responsible for the defeat of Cervera, although he ran away on the day that there was any indication of trouble. Maclay gives away tne whole scheme when he says that Admiral Schley should ask tor a court of inquiry. "It would seem as if there should be settled first the question of veracity raised by Maclay and the navy department. Maclay is quoted as saying that the department saw his proof sheets and approved them. The department says that is not true. Would Maclay mind telling if Chadwick did not revise them??Chadwick, who only saw the battle from a distance of 12 miles. Chadwick, who has surreptitiously furnished the press antagonistic to Schley w.-i material; or perhaps Evans, the only man who got in a conning tower and hid during the fight, might have seen them. Anyway, Clark, of the glorious Brooklyn, or Philip, of the Texas, all of whom were up to their necks in the fight, didn't revise them or as- J sist in writing tnem. "If they are going to courtmartial somebody, why don't they get Sampson to say why he ran away the only morning when there was an indication of a fight? Why don't they ask him why he did not coal at sea off Santiago, but depleted his battle line daily by sending "ship's^"5$-miles away to c^>al? Ask him why ue leftj:he battle line with the fast cruiser NFfc^Y.ork to chase schooners so that he could get prize money. Ask him why he never said a word or signaled a word of praise to officers or men after the fight, I although Schley asked him to do so. j These are things worth courtmartial-1 ing any man for." THE MAINE IS REMEMBERED, j Launching of Namesake ef Unfortunate Battleship Draws Tremendous Crowd to Witness Event. The battleship Maine, designed to ' ^ + o n rl focfor fhfln ue UJ&&C1, OU vugu uuu 1UUI.V1 vuuu her namesake, whose shapeless mass still lies in the harbor of Havana, was successfully launched from the yards of the William Cramps Snip and Engine Building Company at Philadelphia Saturday. One of the largest crowds that has ever seen a warship take the waves at Cramps yards was on hand and patriotism ran wild as the ship left her cradle. After the yard was thrown open to the public every vantage point in the confines of the place swarmed with hu-. inanity. The weather was beautiful. The presence of the immense crowd was largely due to the fact that the new ship bears the name of the illfated Maine. The state of Maine was officially represented by Governor Hill and members of his staff. Washington was represented by Rear Admirals Bradford, Melville and Walker, Lieutenant Commander Bailey, Captain Leary, former governor of Guam, and a number of bureau chiefs of the navy department. President McKinley, Secretary of the Navy Long, Admiral Dewey, Captain Sigsbee and other naval dignitaries who received invitations, were unable to attend. The ceremony or christening the ship was performed by Miss Mary Pre_ ble Anderson, of Portland. Me., a descendant of the Preble family that added fame to the naval honors of the country. As the vessel slid off the ways a great shout went up and every steam craft in the vicinity began the tooting of whistles. LENIENCY EXTENDED CHINA. Three Years of Grace Given to Mako First Payment on Indemnity. Dispatches received at Washington by cable from Mr. Rockhill, the United States special commissioner at Pekin, set out some of the details of the financial arrangement respecting the indemnity not heretofore disclosed. He reports that the interest on the indem nity began to run on the 1st of July o' this year and the payments will be<-1 no comi.dnnnallv the firet tr? ho ^UllIC Ullt OVllii uuuvium; , vuv vw w\ met January 1st next. China will be allowed three years before making the first payment on account of the principal of the indemnity. "KEEP SILENT," SAYS LONG. People In Naval Service Are Forbidden to Discuss Schley-Sampson Affair. Secretary Long Monday morning issued the following general order: "All persons in the naval service are strictly enjoined to refrain from any public statement concerning the sub-1 ject matter of the court of inquiry re- I quested by Rear Admiral W. S. Schley. "JOR..N D. LONG. Secretary." TYSON HEIRS TO MEET. Arrangements Will Be Made For Dis tribution of Large Fortune. There will be a meeting held in Fori Worth. Texas. August 13th of the Tyson heirs for the purpose of arranging for the distribution of the vast for tune left by John Tyson, who died in Melbourne, Australia, two years ago, leaving an estate said to be valued at $52,000,000. about half of which is in cash In the Bank of England, the balance being railroad and raining stock and realty in Melbourne. V .. r " * NEW MOVE BY TRUST icliu Taken Wlicb Will Effectnally Checkmate Strikers. WANT INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTS Employees Must Sign op Lose Their Jobs?Action Practically Bars All Union Organizations. The National Tube Works Company, at McKeesport, Pa., has made an unexpected move intended to checkmate the Amalgamated association. Their skilled workmen have been asked to sign individual contracts to practically repudiate any union organization, and they have been given but a short time to think the matter over. It is understood that should they not sign the contracts they will find their positions vacant. Thursday evening the 600 welders of the mill were paid off and taken into the office of the general superintendent, where tney were presented with individual contracts to be signed for at least a year. Some demurred, while others signed the contracts. This movement, fighting fire with fire, carried consternation into the ranks of the strikers. The welders are highly skilled workmen, and with their co-operation the big plant might be closed down. With them in line the plant will probably keep on running as though nothing had happened. It Is intimated by friends of the welders that they would all sign the contract Definite announcement that the officials of the American Sheet Steel Company would start the W. DeWees Wood mill, in McKeesport, a non-union mill, on Monday, reached the headquarters of the Amalgamated association early Friday morning. The movement will not bi permitted to be made without a. decided attempt to check it. While the rank-and file of the strikers are not acquaint?4-^ith the plans of the campaign, they now" believe that Important developments wiuctfaitgg the aspect of affairs considerably. There is apparently less of the confidence that was noted in the first part of the week, but there was a lot of determination expressed by those who would talk. BILLION MARK EXCEEDED. Detailed Figures of Our Foreign Com* ^ 1 i. iU. Q.,klt? mercc vaivcn iu mc rwunv. A Washington dispatch says: The detailed figures of the foreign commerce of the United States in the year ended June 30, 1901, were completed by the treasury bureau of statistics Friday. They show total imports of $822,673,016; total exports, $1,487,755,557; exports of domestic products, $1/ 460,453,809. TILLMAN RESPONSIBLE. Coerced Committee In Passage of Res* olution Condemning McLaurin. A Columbia, S. C., special says: Senator Tillman is unquestionably responsible for the passage of the resolution condemning McLaurin. The executive committee was divided, numbers being uncertain as to the power of the committee to call on the'senator for his resignation. When Tillman took the floor the waverers came over. PORTO RICANS JUBILANT. i Establishment of Free Trade Hailed ; With Greatest Satisfaction. The announcement of the declaration of free trade between Porto Rico and the United States, which was cabled to the island oi. Porto Rico Thursday, was received there with many evidences of popular approval, according to a telegram from Secretary Hunt, which was received Friday by the state department. Capitalists Buy Timber Lands. Agents representing capitalists of ' Williamsport, Pa., have just closed a deal at Marion. Va., for 17,000 acres of timber land in Smyth ana Grayson counties The price paid was $103,000, Sale of Islands Favored. The new liberal cabinet of Denmark favors the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States, and the minister of foreign affairs is familiarizing himself with the details of the case with the view to continuing the negotiations to this end. Machinists Reject Offer. The machinists and blacksmiths, about 200 in all, employed in the shops of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad at Richmond, in the eastern section of Philadelphia, have decided to reject the company's offer of an advance of 5 per cent in their wages. IMPERIALISM STILL PARAMOUNT. Bryan Reiterates That It Remains Great Issue Between Parties. While in Chicago Friday William J. [ Bryan, who was en route nome aiier a I long tour of the east and south, said: | "Imperialism is still the great issue between the two political parties. The tariff, to be sure, is an important sub* ject, but to my mind the disease is a more serious malady than stomach ache." FUSILADE IN COURT ROOM. Tennessee Lawyers Have Misunderstanding and Empty Their Guns. In the chancery court room of the county court house at Clarksville, Tenn., Friday four lawyers engaged in a shooting aflrav, and while fifteen shots were fired, only three of the men were woundea. W. M. Daniel, Jr., and F. G. Gilbert indulged in personalities and after the trial Gilbert attempted to strike Daniel with an umbrella when guns were drawn. BLACKS FORCED BACK :| The Threats of a Mob Intimidate || Imported Negro Workmen. || ARMED MEN AWAITED THE! ;|| Colored Man Is Barred By Whit# :--:M Workmen In Illinois?Bloody Tragedy Narrowly Averted. General Manager Aertsen, of the La* v^flj trode Steel and CouplerWorks, at Melrose Park, 111., gave out a statement Thursday evening declaring that the company has abandoned the effort to ValmM -JtSfS Urillg LUC LUIUI cu lauuius w - .j? Park and that they will be sent back to their homes in Alabama. All day the 300 colored men sat la their cars at LaGrange, twenty-eight ,V3|9 miles from Chicago, in fear. A committee of five citizens of Melrose Parte called on them during the morning and used their best endeavors to induce J ? the men to return to Alabama. Tha/jJ^fc committee informed the colored men of the actual state of aftairs at MelrOsa :x' Park, where 300 armeg men were.^5; q awaiting the arrival of their train, de-'ytujra termined that the colored men should not be allowed to alight in the village. ~ Their statements alarmed the col ored men more than ever and flnaUy'^jl five of them stepped off the train and^'-J made their way into Chicago, where ;s, rjl they sought an interview with the m authorities for protection, which they'3 could not give them, as the trouble.*^ ;f was not within the city limits. AftlHgj ^ the five men had left the train, th*|| fears of those left on the train creased greatly, and it was with great difficulty that the train management * vs kept them from running off in a panic, > V i. Nearly all of the colored men declared'^^8 ^ that they would not go to Melrose Park * and that if taken there on the traift*^f % they would refuse to get off. At 2 o'clock Marshal Rau, of the town of LaGrange, ordered the train bearing " fi the colored men to move out of th^fSB >. villager~it-did so and was placed on $ a sidinfg at SaIF"Creek, -two miles -.3^. north of LaGrange. In the meantime attorneys for thal|88B steel company called upon Sheriff ^ gerstadt and asked that the company j be given ample protection against the mob violence which was threatened -^3 They stated positively that the labor ers would be landed in the shops of . the company whether the sheriff tornished any aid or not " *$$ "I have just received a telegram from Adjutant General Reece, offering./. >. me the aid of the state militia if I J? need it" said Sheriff Magerstadt after v his conference with the attorneys, "but 7i|fT *_ I will not need it. I have sent a half ^ dozen men to Melrose Park simply to make a report to me on the conditions there. If they say that a mob of 300 Varmed men are patrolling the streeta,.:^! as the officials of the company inform ^9 | me, I will swear in a number of depu-'J '"3 ties and will preserve the peace all hazards. However, I am not gofnaggW to call upon the militia, as the county^|ls' js capable of preserving the peace whatever happens." ;f; Out at Melrose Park the armed cife'sS % izens remained on watch until assured *the negroes were not coming, when -M ^ they dispersed. ; MRS. DAVIS IMKKUVfcU. Reports of Her Condition Were More ; JgH Alarming Than True. ^ Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the M ' president of the confederacy, who is 3 spending the summer at Portland, Me., 3 ^ and who has been confined to her room ' with a slight nervous disorder, was re- ^ Sas being better Thursday. It z id her condition is not ctmsld rious^ Imperial Troopsl!5^?&lw?., j' According to advices the imperial troops returning to Pekin plundered 3 sixteen towns south of Pao Ting Pn. After the troops departed the people >' took vengeance upon the municipalxrf- . ficers, mobbing the mandarins and -||\ wrecking their houses. HARVEY SUIT ABSOLVED. Judge, In a Sweeping Deoiaion, Helps Out Brunswick Ex-Treasurer. At Brunswick, Ga., Thursday Judge Bishop, of Eastman, acting for Judge ,j|j| Sparks, disqualified, in Glynn court, handed down a sweeping decis-; : & ion in the case against H. H. Harvey, 3s absolving the former city treasurer from any connection with the suit brought by the city against himself and his bondsman, the Fidelity and Guaranty Company or Baltimore, ana dismissing the entire suit as originally brought, together with amendment# recently added. - J|9H KAISER AS MEDIATOR. N Report That German Emperor Will >1j|| Use Good Offices to Stop Boer War. ISM In London ii is said that Emperor . ils William, of Germany, is to assume ^ the role of peacemaker in the Boer war, having been empowered by Kruger to act for the Boers; that the kai- ||| ser is willing to take the initiative In order to popularize his relations with the German people who disapprove of his friendship for Great Britain. Ja GOVERNOR IS POWERLESS. Has No Authority to Stop Importationof Negro Workmen. Governor Yates, of Illinois, was ask' ^ ed by telegraph Wednesday to stop the threatened importation of 20? mingham, Ala., negroes into the itate^^H to take the places of strikers at the aJm plant of the Latrobe Foundry Com pa- y. ny, Melrose Park, near Chicago. GovIernor Yates could see no way under the law to interfere, and suggested jm that the sheriff be called upon. 1