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I The Bamberg Herald. "tj ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. 8. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 29.1901. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR/ S BOERS ARE DEFIANT Steyn and Botha Scorn to Heed Kitchener's Proclamation. KRUGER ALSO STILL HOPEFUL Determination of Burghers Is Soon Emphasized By a Victory. Consul Stowe Talks of the Situation. . i _ ; 1 I ? T A aispaicn receivyu m uwuuuu from Lord Kitchener, dated from Pretoria Monday, says: "Three officers and sixty-five men, who were sent north of Lady brand. Orange River Colony, on the right of Elliott's columns, were surrounded on unfavorable grounds and captured by a superior force August 2,'i. One man was killed and four wounded. The prisoners were released. Am holding an Inquiry. "Have received a long letter from Steyn containing an argumentative statement of the Boer case, and he says he will continue to fight; also a short letter from Dewet to the same % effect "Botha writes acknowledging the receipt of my proclamation and protesting against it, and stating that the Boers intend to go on fighting. On the other hand, the surrenders lately have increased considerably." Consul Stowe Talks. <* Mr. Stowe. consul of. the United States at Cape Town, wbo is just now in London, said to a representative of the Associated Press Monday: "I find myself marooned in London. Apparently every berth on steamers bound for America is taken till the end of September, and I am anxious to get home, where I can do away with official cares and talk as a private citizen. You know pa ore in London about the military conditions of South Africa than it is possible for any one te know at Cape Town. "While I have resigned from the consular service, my resignation does not take effect till I reach Washington, hence it is impossible for me to say anything. The South African problem hnwpVT?r~^*-undoubtedlv difficult and complicated." Kruger Is Undaunted. The London Daily Telegraph publishes a long interview with Mr. Kruger at Hilversum on Lord Kitchener's latest proclamation. The correspond. " ent say 8: "Mr. Kruger, who seemed greatly improved in health, spoke vehemently and*with intense feeling, rejecting the idea that anything had been changed except the attitude of the British government. He insisted that the tactics of the Boers were still as regular as at the beginning of the war. Their forces, he said, were smaller and were split up into small parties because the British had split their forces into innumerable small columns. He declared that ever skice the capture of Bloemfonteln the British had trampled upon the code of international law. , "He contended that Lord Kitchener's proclamation itself recognized that the Boers had a regular administration and an army. The proclamation could have but one effect?to embitter and intensify resistance. He said, the question whether any protest against it would be issued and was still under consideration, but this mat Aer was of little import to the burghers, who did not look to Europe for approval, blame or Instructions. "-Having characterised the proclamation as the blackest crime com~ ' mitted against the Boers,' Mr. Kruger closed the interview by solemnly calling heaven to witness that the story of a Dutch conspiracy against the British was 'an abominable lie, the most mischievous and diabolical lie ever coined since man first appeared in the world.' "He said, however, that peace was still possible on the basis of give and take, and that the Boers were ready to make reasonable sacrifices and to give satisfactory guarantees on the basis of independence and free pardon to colonial Afrikanderi." PRINCE CHUN HALTED. Chinese Apologetic Ambassador Receives Orders to Delay. The illness of Prince Chun, a brother of the emperor of China, who, with a chinoae mmmlssinn has arrived at Basel, Switzerland, on his way to Berlin to apologize for the assassination of Baron von Kettler, the German minister at Pekin, is, acocrding to a dispatch received from Basel, a pretext fo rdelay. Prince Chun having received orders from Pekin not to proceed, as fresh complications have arisen with reference to the settlement protocol. Four Miners Fall to Death. Four miners were instantly killed Monday morning at a mine in Chenoa, 111., by the snapping of a cable support from the cage. The men fell 240 feet Conflagration In Tennessee Town. Tiptonville. Tenn., county seat of Lake county, was almost destroyed by fire late Sunday afternoon. The loss is not Known. NEGRO REPULSES MOB. Armed With Scythe Blade He Held His Ground Valiantly. With a scythe blade Enoch Henderson. a negro farmer of Moulton Heights-, Ala.. Sunday night stood off a mob of twenty-five masked white men and probably fatally wounded one of the mob which had sworn to kill the negro. The mob wanted Henderson's life because of a difficulty between Henderson and one Noel Graham several days ago wherein Graham was badly hurt. CREAn OF NEWS % Summary of the Most j Important Daily J Happenings Tersely Told. ? 4j ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ?Directors of the Georgia Central railroad held a meeting Monday at Savannah and declared a 5 per cent dividend on first preferred income bonds. ?Enoch Henderson, a negro of Moulton Heights. Ala., with a scythe blade, met a mob leader at his home and mowed him down. His act awed the rest of the mob and they fled. ?State Treasurer Stowers, or Mississippi, will not resign on account of the shortage discovered in the treasury, and it is probable that the governor will suspend Lim. ?In the Virginia constitutional convention Monday a delegate showed the advantages of the single court system of Georgia and North Carolina. ?Three cotton mills at Columbia, S. C., have shut out their operatives, owners declaring they will not employ union members. ""^-Four men were killed by the fall of steel girders which were being placed on the Southern's new bridge across the Congaree river, near Columbia, S. C.. Monday. ?A gusher came in unexpectedly and with tremendous force at Beaumont, Texas, Monday. Two men were killed in a vain attempt to control it. ?The whites of the Indian Territory towns are driving the negroes from their homes. United States officials have Interfered and threaten to call for troops. ?President Shaffer declares that the efforts of the civic federation to settle the strike are without his authority. ?Three members of the Chicago detective department were placed on trial Monday for alleged crookedness. ?By resolution the Texas leglsla-. ture denounces the steel trust and extends sympathy to strikers. ?Latest advices from the isthmus of Panama state that the liberals of Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia and Nicaragua are backing the revolution, hoping to organize a great federation. ?Lord Kitchener has received letters from Steyn and Botha in which they declare their purpose to continue fighting. ?Turkey will have to pay France 1,300,000 francs as indemnity for the alleged wrongs done French concessionaires. ?In spite of deaths of volunteer subjects, the yellow fever experts at Havana will continue their experiments. ?Chief Westall, of the Havana money order office, states that he has been robbed of $4,000 belonging to the office. ?Henry Noles, the negro who assaulted and killed Mrs. Charles Williams, near Winchester, Tenn., was taken from prison by a mob Sunday and burned at the stake. ?Two negro criminals in jail at Greenville, Tenn., got into a fight in their cell and one stabbed the other to death. /># \Tncro Iqc AH* VjUllDJ IU1 X ALTO J , U1 ilvgHlVD) m ami denies that he ever had anything to do with smuggling Chinese across the border. ?Commenderies of Knights Templars from all over the country gather at Louisville for their triennial conclave. ?Fireman killed and several persons injured in wreck on the Seaboard Air Line in South Carolina. ?Word has been received at Manila that Colonel Loreel and seventeen officers and men surrendered to the Americans Saturday. ?Londoners think that France has achieved only a paper victory when Turkey decided that the purchase of the quays would not be a profitable investment. ?The wedding of Henry M. Flagler, the multi-millionaire, and Miss Mary Lily Kenan took place at Kenansville, N. C., Saturday. ?Hurricanes and floods sweep sections of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Over Jersey City two storms met and destruction resulted. ?At Nogales, Ariz., Collector Hoey and Inspector Jossey were placed under arrest Saturday charged with accepting bribes to admit Chinamen into the United States. ?It is believed at Pittsburg that negotiations are in progress to settle the steel strike. It is thought that represenatives of the trust and strikers are in secret conference. ?The threatened war between France and Turkey has been finally averted by the latter's granting the demands of the French government. ?The czar of Russia will meet the kaiser of Germany on the yacht Hohenzollern. Important questions will be discussed by the two rulers. ?Miss Clara Maas, a hospital nurse employed in Cuba, wishing to become immune, alowed herself to be bittten by a yellow fever infected mosquito. Death resulted within seven days. ?The grand jury of Elmore county, Alabama, has indicted ten white men for participation in the lynching of a negro named White. ?It is reported that the VirginiaCarolina Chemical Company has bought a large oil and fertilizer mill at Charlotte. N. C. ?Benjamin Higgins, of Jacksonville, Fla., enters suit against that city for $10,000 damages. He alleged that his wife died of lockjaw brought on by compulsory vaccination. ?Read Admiral Schley has replied to the navy department in regard to the Howison matter. The admiral makes it clear that the department lias refused to aid in an effort to secure an unbiased judge. ?Prince Chun, brother of the emperor of China, who is on his way to Berlin to apologize for the murder of I Baron von Kettier, arrived at Basel, ? Switzerland, Sunday. CONFER OVER STRIKE Leaders Meet Io Pittsburg Bat Object Is Kept a Secret. STATUS OF THE FIGHT TO DATE Both Sides Claim to Be Satisfield Over the Outlook?Overtures, However, Are Expected to Be Made Soon. A Pittsburg special says: A summary of the steel strike situation up to Friday night shows about the following conditions: In Pittsburg?Star mill: Two mills running; strikers say five more men left the plant and joined their ranks, but management positively deny the statement. Painter mill?Four mills running; fires lighted in bar mill furnaces, but failed to start as expected. Pennsylvania tube works?Mill idle, machinists say they will quit. All Carnegie mills running full. McKeesport?Demmler plant idle and no attempt will be made to start it before next week. Everything is closed down. Irondale?Mill running with same force, making two turns and assurance from the manager that more men will be added at once. Wellsville?Situation unchanged, twelve mills running. Lisbon?Fires started in tin plate plant. Manager Evans says everything in readiness for start soon with plenty "of men. Strikers voted to remain out and mill is strongly picketed. Wheeling?Everything tied up and no apparent indication of an attempt to start any of the mills. Bellair?The National Steel Company's idle plant will, it is said, be started early next week by a full force of men. Labor Leaders Confer. The conference of the labor leaders at the office of the Amalgamated association in Pittsburg Friday was the leading feature of the strike during the day. The officials of the organization seemed pleased with the way things were moving and one of them said somewhat mysteriously: "In another six days wou will see a decided change in the strike that will tell with great effect on the trust and aid in hurrying the final outcome of this struggle." Just what this change is to be was not said, but it was inferred strongly that the coming event hinged upon the conference that was taking place. President Shaffer said In reference to the meeting that it was not a preconcerted one, but "Just happened." Nothing of importance was accomplished. Mr. Snaffer said no arrangement had been made to submit a new peace proposition to the corporation or a further proposal for arbitration, adding, however, that he did not know what Individual action the conferences might take in the future. No mention was made of the miners or other trades taking sympathetic action. It is believed that as a result of the meeting another effort will be made to induce the United States Steel Corporation to tender another conference. The strikers make the claim that very little actual work has been done by the combine in any of its plants since the strike began, and that what product has been turned out has been of an Inferior character. Notwithstanding this the steel officials declare themselves well pleased with the condition of affairs and say all the mills started are working satisfactorily and turning out good product. i BLACK BRUTE KILLS WOMAN. Mr*. Williams, Wife of Prominent Farmer, Victim of Ravisher. Mrs. Charles Williams, wife of a prominent farmer of Franklin county, Tennessee, was shot and killed Friday by Henry Noles, a negro, who attempted to criminally assault her. After shooting Mrs. Williams, the negro fired upon her little son, grazing his head. The negro fled, with the sheriff and a posse with two bloodhounds -:n pursuit COAL STRIKE IS ENDED. All Minos In Matewan District Are Again In Operation. A dispatch from Matewan, W. Va... says: The Logan and Red Jacket coal mines started work Friday morning with a full force of non-union men. All of the mines which were compelled to -quit work more than two months ago by the strike of all union labor, are now in operation. Almost half of the strikers have left the fields, but the most intense excitement reigns among the others over the importation of more than a hundred men from Virginia to take their places. ANOTHER ITALIAN KILLED. Mob's Work In Texas May Cause Further International Complications. An Italian named Gingotti was killed near Ashdown, Texas, Thursday, and the killing is likely to develop into an international affair. For some time *u~ Vnne-nf f t tSn rallwflv has IUO xvanoa.o vivj ?a 4 v?^ ??? had a large force of Italian laborers at work on Its line near Ashdown. The murder resulted from a row with American workmen. NEW TOWN WIND-WRECKED. Cyclone Sweeps Anadarko, Killing Three and Doing Great Damage. Three persons were killed, two seriously and a number slightly injured in a heavy wind and rain storm which visited Anadarko, the new town in Oklahoma. Wednesday evening. Twenty buildings were almost wrecked, hundreds of tents occupied by homesteaders were town to pieces and great quantities of merchandise was strewn far and wide o\*er the prairie. WAR CLOUD GROWS OMINOUS. France and Turkey Seem to Be Drifting Toward Conflict?Russia Makes Significant Move. The French ambassador ot Constantinople, M. Constans, sent a letter to the sultan Friday morning personally Informing him that he would leave Constantinople with the entire staff of the embassy If the matters In dispute wero r.ot settled Immediately. It accords the sultan the briefest delay within which to comply with the demands. A dispatch to The Petit Bleu (Brussels) from Vienna says: "According to advices from Qalatz, twpntv Russian tornedo boats and sev eral dispatch boats have arrived at the Dniesta delta, and Russian troops aro commencing to mobilize along the Turkish frontier." French Officials Reticent. A Paris special says: While the officials of the French foreign office decline to confirm or deny the dispatch of the Associated Press from Constantinople announcing that the French ambassador has sent the sultan a letter which is in the nature of an ultimatum, they admit having received a telegram from M. Constans, which has been laid before the council now sitting at the Elysee palace. The correspondent learns that M. Constans has been given a free hand. Any step he finds proper to take will be fully indorsed. The foreign minister, M. Delcasse, if be deems it necessary, will withdraw the French embassy from Constantinople, and Munir Bey, the Turkish ambassador, who is now in Switzerland, will be notified not to return to Paris, in which case Munir Bey will probably withdraw the legation to Berne, as he is also accredited as min ister to Switzerland. No naval demonstration is yet contemplated, but the sultan will probably be seriously inconvenienced by the closure of the Turkish embassy in Paris, which is the center of the espionage maintained to watch the numerous young Turks and other disaf fected Ottoman subjects and voluntary exiles who make their headquarters in Paris, and will have a free hand if diplomatic relations between France and Turkey are completely broken off. It has been suggested that the French government issue orders for the bourse to cease dealing in Turkish securities, but it is not likely that this step will be taken, as it would only injure the French bondholders. The entire Turkish group fell on thq bourse Friday, in some cases going 10 to 15 franc? ON SWINDLING CHARGE. Mental Science Healers In Florida Are Placed Under Arrest. Mrs. Helen Post, her husband, Colo? nel C. C. Post, and her son-in-law, C. F. Burgman, were arrested at Daytona, Fla., Friday on information sworn to by Post Office Inspector Fred D. Peer charging them with using the mails for fraudulent purposes. The three were taken to Jacksonville for a preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner William Archibald. The offense alleged consisted in sending through the mails circulars professing to cure patients at a distance by means of mental science. The instructions that were sent to patients tcrtd them to go alone for fifteen minules each day and hold themselves receptive to the thought of the healer, she agreeing r.o think of tbem at the sanv? time. Mrs. Post fhilms to be able to heal all kinds of dfreases, even restoring the blind to sight, holding that no disease was iaemMe by her method of treat??rt. Trolley Cars In Collision. An Atlanta dispatch 6ays: As the result of a head-on collision between cars 103 and 104 on the Rapid Transit river line Friday afternoon, one per? son, Harry Williams, of 170 Mills street, is dead and sixteen other persons are more or less seriously injured. "PUMPING" ESTRADA PALMA. Cubans Anxious to Know Views of Prospective Presidential Candidate. The committee recently appointed by prominent revolutionary leaders in Cuba to address a letter to Senor Estrada Palma asking for a more specific statement from him regarding the program he would follow if elected president of the Cuban republic, designated Juan Gualberto Gomez to draft the communication. 'He says the letter is In the nature of advice to Senor Palma, suggesting that he should make declarations on certain points of policy. CLOUDBURST WHELMS TOWN. Little Village of Collintville, Ala., Almost Obliterated. News comes from Collinsville, Ala., that the town was visited by a cloud burst late Thursday afternoon iasc and propertly greatly damaged. Several stores are reported to have been completely Inundated and many residences washed from their foundations. FOURTEEN TANKS BURNED. Oil Fire at Point Breeze Cost $500,000, While Three Lives Were Lost. The fire which started at the works of the Atlantic Refining Company, at Point Breeze, on the Schuylkill river front in the southwestern section of Philadelphia, burned itself out Thursday. Vice President Lloyd, of the company, estimates the loss at about $500,000. Fourteen tanks, containing about j 200.000 barrels of oil, wore destroyed. The death list has been reduced to three. VICTIM OF THE STAKE Negro Who Brutally Murdered Mrs. Williams Cremated. CONFESSED TO HEINOUS CRIME Culprit Saturated With Oil and Match Quickly Applied?Six Thousand People Witnessed the Awful Sight. A special to The Chattanooga Tiroes from Winchester, Tenn., says Henry Noles, the negro who criminally assaulted and shot to death Mrs. Charles Williams, wife of a prominent farmer near Winchester, Tenn., last Friday, was captured early Sunday morning at Water Tank, near Codan, Tenn. He was carried to Winchester by his captors and placed in the county jail. "Sheriff Stewart made haste to try to barricade the jail and protect the prisoner. Soon an angry mob of several hundred citizens gathered about the jail. Assistant Attorney General Mats N. Whittaker appeared and made a speech to the infuriated citizens. He appealed to the citizens to assist him in allaying excitement and upholding the majesty of the law. He promised to reconvene the grand jury Monday to promptly indict the negro and have him speedily tried at the present term of court, assuring the crowd that his conviction and legal execution was a foregone conclusion. This appeal was supplemented by Judge J. J. Lynch, Captain W. P. Tol ley, Jesse M. Littleton. Foster Ram- 4 sey and others. No sooner had their appeals been made than several hundred citizens from the neighborhood where the crime was committed came up and * augmented the crowd to thousands. They swept forward upon the jail, overpowering the sheriff and his deputies, secured the prisoner and started foi the scene of the crime, twelve miles distant, at 10:15 a. m. It seemed that the whole population for miles around had turned out to see the fate of the wretch. A procession three miles fn length followed the mob to the Williams home. Arrived at a point in sigtt of the scene of the crime the negro was placed upon a stump and given a chance to make a statement. He mounted the stump stolidly and laughed as he began his statement He said: "Tell all my sisters and brothers to meet me in glory. I am going to make that my home. Tell my mother to meet me where parting will be no | more." He was then asked a number of questions. Interrogated as to whether or not anyone else was implicated in the crime, Noles stated emphatically there was no one Implicated but himself. "Why did you kill Mrs. Williams?'' was asked. "I Just done that because I had nothing else to do." Saturated With Oil. He finished his statement at 1:35 p. m. He was taken from the stump, carried to a tree near by, bound to it by chains and his body saturated with oil. At 1:40 p. m. a match was applied, and instantly the quivering body was enveloped in flames. Ralls were pitched about the burning body and soon life was extinct. The negro made no outcry at any time, and died stoically. At least 6,000 people witnessed the horrible fate of the negro. Many remained until nightfall, augmenting the blaze until the body was entirely consumed. They then departed for their homes quietly. History of Nobles' Crime. Lying on the floor of the family room, with her face splashed with blood, Charles Williams found his young wife Friday afternoon when he returned from marketing his wheat in the little town of Maxwell. A heavy bullet had crashed through her head. Life was completely extinct, and her two baby children were crying aloud their grief and fear a< what had transpired before the arrival of the father. The oldest boy, aged 5, told what had occurred. Tb? young mother had been shot and killed by Henry Noles, a negro hand upon Williams' place. As the mortally wounded woman sank to the floor, Noles shot at the boy, the bullet grazing the child's head. It Is reported that the motive was robbery, and $20 was obtained by the murderer. Four Million Mark Passed. A A Tin Ai.(y>on ovrvoctHnn the Al IUC X au'nutiivuii four million mark In attendance was passed Sunday and the average attendance for August has been 50 per cent greater than any previous month. BRITONS SIDE WITH SCHLEY. Depew Says Naval Controversy Incites Ridicule Across the Big Pond. Senator Chauncey M. Depew arrived at New York from Europe Saturday. Of the Schley-Sampson controversy, he said: "A great deal of interest is taken In it. The fact that Admiral Schley's daughter Is married to Mr. Worley, an Englishman, makes favorable feeling for him over there. WASHOUT CAUSED WKfc^l\. Accident on Seaboard Air Line?Fireman Killed and Several Are Injured. The Florida and Metropolitan limited train of the Seaboard Atr Line was totally wrecked Saturday night seven miles south of Cheraw, S. C.. due to a sand back washed out. Fireman Rosemond was crushed to death, while two engineers, a postal clerk and messenger were more or less injured. The passengers escaped with a severe shaking trp. Neither of the conductors were hurt. RIOT OCCURS IN COURT ROOM. At Trial of Negro Rapist Guns Are Brought Into Play?One Killed And Two Wounded. A special to the The Birmingham Age-Herald from Ashville, Ala., says that one man was killed and another probably fatally wounded In a battlo in Jthati town Thursday to save the negro, Jim Brown, from the vengeance of a mob, after he had been tried and sentenced to be hanged on Septembei 20th for the most heinous crime known in the criminal law of any state. Walter Blankenship was killed, while Arthur Blankenship and a small boy, the son of James Hanley, were wo*nded in the melee. The Blankenships were brothers, and it is said had been in town since Monday trying to stir up the trouble. Walter died within two hours after being shot, and Arthur is in a precarious condition. The attempt of the mob to gain possession of the negro followed one of the swiftest and fairest trials ever held. It was a battle of witnesses with the Judge and court officials on j the defensive to suppress the fast rising anger of the crowd, as detail after detail of the fiend's work was told by the witnesses for the state. There was no evidence for the defense. As the ' brute said afterwards in his confes- ! sion there was nothing the witnesses he had summoned could say In his behalf. The clash came in half an hour af- I ter Judge Pelham had pronounced the j sentence. By a ruse the court room was cleared of half of its angry occupants. The remaining half was surly and seemed bent on mischief. k At the request of Judge Pelham, J. L. Garrett, father of the girl outraged by Brown, mounted a table and spoke, counselling peace. He had hardly adthe assembly as his friends and neighbors before he broke down in tears. In concluding his appeal, he said: "If you have any respect for my feelings, If I can have any weight In your hearts, let me urge you as good citizens to go home and obey the law { and I will never cease to thank you from the bottom of my heart from this day to the day of my death." Fired Into Windows. The first sign of an outbreak came i when one man from the outside with I a pistol in his hand started to mount the stairway. He was followed by two or three others. Several shots were 1 exchanged and the mob leaders retreated to the outside when two members began firing into the windows. Arthur Blankenship was hit first and his brother was shot while emptying his revolver in the direction of the windows above. A hard rain was falling. The bodies of the wounded were removed and the i crowd scattered about in front of the stores across the street. The officers took advantage of this lull aad spirited the negro away in charge of two special deputies. He was gotten safely aboard a freight train for Birmingham. The Negro's Crime. The crime for which Brown will hang was committed on May 7th, near Springville, within a quarter of a m'.lo of the home of the Garretts. He was working in a field near where Miss Garrett, who is a school teacher, had fn noes hi rptnrnine home late in tbo afternoon. He followed her for some distance and finally assaulted her near a creek. He dragged the girt into the water, threatening to drown her. Abandoning this last thought of ending his heinous crime by murder, he pulled ofT his clothes and put on another suit in the presence of the young woman, throwing his shoes into the water. He was with her for three-quarters of an hour. Miss Garrett remained unconscious for some time, and then made her way to the house and gave the alarm. Brown left the vicinity at once, first going to Birmingham, then to Anniston, Atlanta, and finally to Charleston. S. C.. where he was captured. In the meantime another negro had been shot to death because he was mistaken for Brown. The real Brown attempted suicide by cutting his thoat with a piece of glass shortly after his capture. TRUST WINS A ROUND. One Big Plant Is 8tarted Up and Others Prepared to Resume. The developments in the steel strike Thursday morning were all favorable to the masters. Early in the day the American Tin Plate Company succeeded in getting about one hundred men safely inside the gates of the Star plant, in Pittsburg, while preparations were made to start up two more mills. Another crew was put on at Lindsay & McCutcheon works* in Allegheny, and the Jinney mill started, and 250 men were reported at work in the Painter plant, on the south side. OFFICERS MUST FACE JURY. ? a- A ^ Three New York Policemen xo swer For Alleged Misdoings. The New York grand jury voted Thursday to Indict Police Sergeant Shiels and Wardmen Glennon and Dwyer. It was given out that the indictments charge neglect of duty. Shiels, Glennon and Dwyer were subsequently arraigned before Recorder Goff and Friday afternoon was set as the time for them to plead WHITE RAPIST SWUNG UP. Mercer Goes to His Doom at Tampa, Fla., Protesting Innocence. J. M. Mercer, a white man convicted last May of assaulting Jessie Taylor, a little girl, was hanged at Tampa. Fla.. Friday. His neck was broken by the fall. He died declaring his innocence. His last words were a request that his wife be taken care of. Mercer is the first white man evei legally executed in Hlllsboro county. I SOUTH CAROLINA I j STATE NEWS ITEMS. | Tragedy at Whisky Factory. 1 W. D. Freeman shot and killed Holland Durham In the government dis! tillery of the latter's half brother, M. IC. Durham, at Landrum. Holland Durham had started out of the door, carrying some liquor when he was ordered to stop by Freeman, the jugger. Durham refused to give up the liquor and started for Freeman with an open knife. Freeman then shot him in the neck, killing him instantly. Free man went at once to Spartanburg and surrendered to the sheriff. ? Must Have Licensed Man. W. B. Chisholm, manager of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company, was formally notified by the collector of port at Charleston to show cause why tie should not be fined for allowing a steamer under his direction to be oprated by an unlicensed pilot Charges vere lodged against the pilot by Capain Mitchell, of the revenue cutter "orward, and an investigation is in progress. Chisolm said that the steamer. the Dove, had been used for his vorkmen and for himself and he considered McLaughlin, the pilot, a capa>!e man. He had neglected, however, .o secure a license. Keegan Will Apply For Bail. Application for bail for Michael Keegan. who shot and killed James M. Vard, the young cotton buyer of Charleston, will be made before Chief Justice Mclver at Glenn Springs. Keegan is stil in jail. An Inquest into the cause of the killing has not been held on account of the sudden death of Coroner Vaughan and the inability to have a successor tike charge before :his. The killing occurred while a party of young men were returning from a sail. Keegan claims that the young men were drunk and noisy and when he, as night watchman at Chisolm's mill, remonstrated, they attacked him and Ward, he says, had him down by the throat when he drew a pistol and fired. Numerous witnesses have been summoned for the inquest, which will be held as soon as the new I coroner is sworn in, and all the facts will be forthcoming. % Union Men Shut Out A Columbia dispatch says: fare hundred operatives at the Olympia, Gran by, Richland and Capital City, cotton mills, who refused to make up the time that will be lost on Labor day by working six hours over time, were denied admission to the mills and were notified of their suspension for a week. The operatives fell in line and paraded through the village with much cheering. Union No. 211 is meeting to take action and is receiving hundreds of new members. Since the strength of the union has been divulged. President Smith Whaley said: "We do not propose to have any unionism in our business. The mills in South Carolina have agreed to employ no union labor whatsoever. I will close down every mill before I employ a union man. All of my operatives will be required to sign an agreement that they will belong to no union." The union strength is estimated at 900 odd members and has been increased by several hundred recently. Warren Still In Evidence. News of a shooting affray at Branchville in. which Thomas Wat son was shot four times and perhaps mortally wounded by Bartow Warren, Al- ? ? ? Vii- trrno frl<-w7 me young wmce uiau ?uu n<u uicu at the last term of the Orangebujg court for train robbery. Watson was a witness for the prosecution. It was stated that Watson said that some of the boys had been lying on him and that he meant to get even. There was a mistrial at the last court, but Watson's evidence was particularly strong against Warren. This led to much bitter feeling. The shooting occurred In front of a drug store. A telephone ^message '^brought the news that Watson could not live. Warren was charged with having held up an express messenger on the Southern railway train, from whom he is alleged to have secured nearly $200. Exposition Grounds Inspected. A committee of fourteen of the executive commissioners' association of the Pan-American exposition arrived at Charleston a day or two ago from Buffalo. They were met by the officials of the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian exposition and boarded a steamer for the Isle of Palms, where they were entertained during their stay. They visited the exposition grounds and made a full report to the exhibitors at Buffalo as to the conditions. The personnel of the party was as follows: Colonel H. E. Dosch, Portland, Oregon; A. C. Jackson, Seattle; B. H. ? ? /~t_l ?1 Cn.frln Lee, New ixjnaon f V/UIUilCI OCigiu | Lusky, Honduras; James McMullan, Minnesota; F. N. Speller, Toronto; C. L. Swain, Cincinnati; Robert M. Yost, St. Louis; P. J. Pierson, Guatemala; C. W. Matthewson, of the Manufacturers' Club; Dr. A. L. Benedict superintendent ethnology, Pan-American; Mr. J. V. Noel and L. S. Allen. * Between Charleston and Honduras. Colonel Sergio Lusky, an army commander of Honduras, and commissioner from Honduras to the Pan-American exposition, was in Charleston a few days ago with the Pan-American commissioners from Buffalo to look at the South Carolina exposition. Colonel Lusky has a scheme for the establishment of a direct line of steamers between Charleston and Honduras and he said that such an undertaking I'OUici oe carnea luruugu as uie icouu -;vi?a| of the exposition. He will endeavor to have capitalists interested, and with' the fine Honduras exhibit which will be a feature of the exposition, he will . ** be able to point out the advantages to be derived from such a project CoU> -|>S nel Lusky says the people of hit ? country are more Interested in Ameri' can manufactured goods than in good*(H|n from England, and he is of the opln- ion that trade conditions can be greatly Improved by the establishment of the direct line of steamers. -d The fruit business, which is a big -da item in Honduras, would produce traffic for the steamers and on the return ^ trips there would be heavy cargoes of cotton goods and other manufactured articles, particularly from the sooth* Will 8e Warm Contest. Charleston Politlcans are aireaoy, , ya figuring on a race for congress next summer when Congressman WHllam ./ ? Elliott will be called upon again to defend his position. A number of lead* ,.M ing men are known to be candidates Jand the fight will be warm and intePi.^^ ^ esting, because it will take on a flavors of McLaurin's commercial democracy. Colonel Elliott has represented the Charleston district in Washington || since 1887, and he has managed to go - .d in time after time with little opposi^^^S tlon. In the next race, however, he will have the fight of his life, and hi* ;||j refusal to work for Charleston in tfcar^Hg/ naval station matter has cut him almost entirely from the CharlestpiMg m vote. In the naval station fight Colo-,. ~ rM nel Elliott was placed in rather an e?- | barrasslng position. He saw that aH-j signs showed that the station wotdd^ be moved to Charleston, but Port Roy- ' iM al was by his home and that town had the first call. The incident will be ii? made much of in the campaign. '3gM Major J. Adger Smyth is hesitating - \'jj? between entering the field for oon.-^ gress or standing for a third term can-;' didacy for hiayor. This Is his secondlaB k term>and while his friends say he Utr7-> ^ anxious to represent the first in congress, he believes he has a good chance to win for mayor in the thlrd^^B Both Landed In Jail. -J Jerome Blowers, formerly aaalataat^J^p manager of the Bell telephone ex- vj change at Spartanburg, and Miss ne v^jary, wuu uy iu a ion jow* ?p~ rM?-was a popular society woman off same town, were arrested in CharIe*J| f:".\ ton on a warrant charging them with J adultery. The warrant was issued by ; x gg a Spartanburg magistrate at the stance of J. W. Garrett, the father of ^ ^ Blowers' wife. Blowers has a wif<^| and two children living at his former | M SOUTHERN PROGRESS. v JaM The New Industries Reported In the^ .. > 8outh During the Past Week. Among the more important of the|H | new industries reported for the past >^||1 week are brick works at Blrmingham^*?^' Ala., and Lexington, Va.; a canning/^ factory at Ocala, Fla.; a carriage fao fj tory at Valdosta, Ga.; a chair fac^SjBv^l tory t Athens, Ga.; a $40,000 chemical company at Paris, Texas; a $500,000.^8 j cigar factory at Richmond, Va.; two ^ cold storage plants at Blrminghair^ Ala., one to cost $25,000; a $5,000,006 J/" cotton compress company to do bust f ness at Montgomery, Ala; a $50,006320 cotton gin at Nash, Texas; cotton gfoftll at Denison and Itasca, Texas; an ^ 000 cotton mill at Middleton, Ga* aad|j.v *j Itasca, Texas; a cotton mill at Gaines- I vllle, Te^as; a $25,000 drnjL.mannfa*^ turing company at Paris, Texss^ eleo^^';^ trie light plants at Sebree, rinburg, N. C., and Winnsboro, S. - J an electric power plant at Er Camp<V|S ; Texas; a 50-barrebflouring mill at-Mt.j| % Carmel, S. C., and flouring mills at Da*- ^ vldson and Macon, Ahu, and Dunlaftji Tenn.; a furniture factory at Norfbflc^ Va., and $25,000 furniture factories at 11 Hickory, N. C., and Norfolk, Va.; a | glnners' machinery company at Dsl? 31 las, Texas; a glass factory at J;: mond, Va.; gold mines at Llano, ^ a $50,000 ice factory at Paragould, Ark.; a knitting mill at Fort WM& Ark.; a $20,000 laundry at Palestfajigj^W Tejc.; lead mines at Midway, Ky.; $20,000 lumber company at Taylois^B vllle, Miss.; a lumber company at ^ Greenwood, S. C.; a $30,000 lumber .jf mill at Tampa, Fla.; a $25,000 lumber - i mill at Asheboro, N. C.; a $1,000,000 J| mining company at Condor, N. C.; a $20,000 mining company at Comstodfc3j9fl Ky.; a $26,000 oil company at Scott9?J| 3 vllle, Ky.; a $26,000 oil company at? West Nashville, Tenn.; a $500,000 oil . company at Fort Worth, Texas; f/l $300,000 oil company at Grand Falls, v Texas; a $50,000 oil company at Mar* rr shall, Texas; a planing mill at Shnqis?:^|a : lak, Miss.; a $50,000 saddle and har>"'; g| ness manufacturing plant at Worth, Texas; saw and planing mills flj at.Claxton, Ga., and near Ruston, La.j3j| ^ a $15,000 telephone company at Oxari^ ? Ark., and telephone companies at Car mflla, Ga.. and Emory, Texas.?Trades' 3 man (Chattanooga, Tenn.) COMPANY 8UE8 EX-FOREMAN. MS* Novelty In Chicago Labor TrouWos la Sprung Upon tRe Public. ;~<||9 Suelng a former employee for $26,- -31 000 damages on the charge that fcfgS spread dissatisfaction among the oth g:f 3 workmen and was thereby largely strumental in causing a strike is the vj nnvoltr In fhA TllflJlV labor troe^H lai^OV UV ? VI \*J ?* VMW W . bles in and near Chicago. The plaliK JS tiff in the suit is the W. B. Gonkejr Company, of Hammond, and ifce de- "3J fendant Is James A. Russell, formerly employed by the company as fotemalL *j| POLICE OFFICERS ON TRIAL. | Thief Chasers at Chicago Charged 'ja| With Defrauding the ^ity. 3| The three officers of the detective 3 bureau of the Chicago police depart- ^ ment who are charged with defrauding the city by means of fictitious expense *1 accounts were put on trial Monday before the civil service commission. Th# accused officers are Lieutenant Peter' J. Joyce, Detective Sergeant John C. i Cramer and Detective John J. Tracer.. 41|