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ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 3.1901. " ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. |jj||
BURLED TO OBLIVION
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Steamer Shattered by Exp'oJing
Boiler and Many Lose Life.
BOWES HORRIBLY. MUTILLATED
Over a Score of Others Injured, Two
of Them Fatally?Fire Follows
and Adds to Horror of
. the Calamity.
Vhile the steamboat City of Trenfev
ton, of the" Wilmington Steamboat
Company, was on her way from Philadelphia
to Trenton, N. J., Wednesday
afternoon her port boiler exploded,
:killing eleven persons and injuring
over a score of others. Four passen|
a gers are missing, but as many sustained
slight injuries, it is thought 1
the missing may be among those who
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did not find it necessary to go to the
hospital. The dead are:
J. D. Chew, assistant engineer; Miss
i* Elizabeth Green, Philadelphia; two
firemen, names unknown; one deck
4 hand, name unknown; two passengers,
names unknown. 1
Missing: Mrs. John Matthews, Phil- !
adelphia; Mrs. Matilda Cross, Phila- <
v . . d<fiphia; two children, who were seen
to jump overboard.
Twenty-three passengers were in\"?'
jured, two cf them?Theresa Rhein !
and Louisa Panschoick?fatally. * i
Fire Followed Explosion.
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After the explosion the boat took
fire and ran aground. She lies a wreckjp
ed and blackened hulk in the marshes
j|| v opposite Torresdale, sixteen miles
5 above*Philadelphia. Her hold is filled J
- with water, and it is feared more of
her passengers and crew may be found '
in the bottom of the boat when the
water is pumped out.
A boat belonging to the police department
is anchored a short distance
from the stranded excursion steamer, j
pumping the water from the ill-fated 1
g1 vessel. . :
The City of Trenton made daily trips
between Philadelphia and Trenton.
She left the company's wharf at 1:45 (
- o'clock Wednesday afternoon, fifteen
minutes behind her schedule time.
Her passenger list was lighter than 1
usual and she carried very little
,.-7-'. freight
Nothing of moment occurred until j
the boat reached Torresdale. Here the
steam pipe connecting with the port
boiler burst with a loud report It
was followed by another explosion
and this time the port boiler was rent 1
in twain. Scalding steam and water
poured into the cabin and sections of
the woodwork of the boat were torn i
away by the force of the explosion 1
Those of the passengers who were not s
steamed and scarred by the scalding \
steam and boiler water were struck \
by the flying portions of the splintered t
cabin. Legs and arms were broken i
and faces and bodies were parboiled.
The screams of the Injured could De j
heard on shore and the cries of those ?
who leaped and were blown, into the <
river were heartrending. (
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8TATE TREASURER SUSPENDED. <
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f: Governor of Mississippi Fails to Get i
Satisfactory Answer From Stowers. <
Wednesday Governor Longino, of <
Mississippi, ordered the suspension of I
State Treasurer J. R. Stowers and '
appointed G. W. Carlisle temporary <
treasurer. Stowers had already stated !
that the $107,000 missing and unaccounted
for was deposited in banks
under his direction, which is forbidden
by law. All the banks of Jackson 1
having denied that they had any of
this money on deposit, the governor
^ Tuesday night wrote Stowers for a s
complete statement as to the place ]
where the deposits were made and all
things connected with the transaction, i
The reply was unsatisfactory and the *
suspension followed. 3
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Coroner's Jury Exonerates Keegan.
Michael Keegan, a night watchman '
65 years of age, who was charged with <
the killing of James M. Ward, a young (
cotton buyer, at Charleston, S. C? was 5
exonerated by the coroner's Jury at s
the inquest Wednesday.
TILLMAN GIVES WARNING.
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He Advises Cotton Mill Presidents '
Against Coercing Employes' Vote.
A Charleston, S. C., special says:
The statement issued Thursday by 1
Senator Tillman at Spartangurg, in t
which he again warned the cotton mill s
presidents of the trouble which would <
follow any attempt to coerce the mill
operative vote for Senator McLaurin, ^
Viae noiiFail a crraaf riaal nf fpplill?
uao v auovu w vv?v v%vm* w ? e
It has been pointed out all along 1
that the mill vote may be the deciding
ballot in the election of a United *
States senator next year. The mill {
presidents, as a rule, are in sympathy {
with the doctrines of Mcl>aurin. J
SCHWAB WONT ARBITRATE.
Plan of Would-Be Peacemaker Rejected
By Trust President.
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Simon Burns, who arrived at Indian- (
apolis Thursday announced that his
plan for settling the steel strike by arbitration
has been rejected by President
Schwab, of the United States
Steel Corporation. Burns says that an- i
other, proposition will be submitted to
President Schwab.
DISASTROUS WRECK REPORTED.
Seventeen Persons Killed In Collision
on Great Northern Railway.
It is reported in Spokane, Wash.,
that a big wreck occurred Friday
night on the Great Northern, forty
miles east ct Kalispell. Mont. Seven,
teen persons are reported killed.
According to reports received by the
officials of the Great Northern, an eastbound
freight train ran away on a
steep grade in the mountain east of
Kalispell and crashed into a westbound
passenger train.
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labor paper scores sbaffep.
In Lengthy Editorial Demand Is Made
For His Impeachment?Crisis
Near In Strike Situation.
A Pittsburg, Pa., special says: While
there is no actual change in the strine
situation, much transpired Friday calculated.to
soon produce results. The
conference between the Bay View committee
nnri the Amalpamarpd officials,
the continued efforts of President
Burns, of the Window Glass Workers'
Association, to bring about arbitration
or conciliation, the scathing editorial
in The Labor World calling for impeachment
of President Shaffer; the
march of the strikers from McKeesport
to Duquesne, and the decided effect
of the injunction proceedings at
Canal Dover, Ohio, all indicate that
the crisis is approaching.
The editorial in the current issue of
The Labor World, the organ of the International
Tin Workers' Protective
Association and the mouth of the
Pittsburg district of the Mine Workers'
Union and the Pattern Makers'
Association, is a long and bitter attack
en President Shaffer, and demands his
impeachment for calling the present
strike. The demand for the impeachment
is made because it is charged
President Shaffer compelled the steel
workers to violate contracts; because
be expelled the Chicago men and revoked
their charter without constitu:icnal
hearing, and because the whole
strike is unconstitutional and has
brought ruin and wreck to men who
bave made the Amalgamated association.
The editorial, which gives twenty-four
reasons why President Shaf
2LUU&U UC lUip^O^iiW) xo vuv*v*vu j
'Sacrifice Shaffer; Save the Amalgamated."
The most scathing paragraph of the
?ditorial is as follows:
"Is" the Amalgamated Association of
[ron. Steel and Tin Workers to be sent
to a slaughter in a lost fight sacrificed
nn the alter of the mad and selfish
ambition of this creature, Shaffer?
This is no time tor sentiment. It is a
time for facts and plain speaking. The I
Sght against the steel trust is lost, but
no order comes from Amalgamated
neadquarters where Shaffer cowers to
spare the brave men at the front!
Leaders of organized labor, forbid it
in the name of the cause you hold
iear, but which is menaced as long as
Shafferism is allowed to live! Forbid
it in the name of labor's honor and
bcnesty which Shaffer's act has impugned."
Then follows an intimation of an
lccusaticn of stock dealing that Mr. j
i-haffer has repeatedly denied.
IMMENSE CORN SHORTAGE.
Bradstreets Report a Deficit Aggregating
675,000,000 Bushels.
Bradstreets report of Saturday
ays: Late advices as to the probable
corn crop yield and as to the resulting
effect upon the general business
of the country have made for a
rather saner view of the subject than
could have been taken some six weeks
or two months ago.
A consolidation of the replies from
the seven surplus states of Iowa, Kansas,
Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri, Iniiana
and Ohio, percentages of increase
or decrease by states being
based upon the reported yields as iniicated
by the department of agriculture,
point to a reduction in the yield
3f those states of not far from 650,)00,000
bushels from a year ago. Smaller
decreases are likewise indicated in
:he smaller corn producing states like
Texas, Tennessee and Kentucky sufficient
to swell the shortage by perhaps
15,000,000 bushels more.
FOUR FIRE VICTIMS.
Woman and Three Children Lost Life
In Flaming Tenement House.
Four persons were killed and seven
seriously injured in a tenement fire in
Brooklyn, N. Y., Friday night.
The victims were: Mrs. Rosie Roth?iser,
37 years of age, jumped from
'ourth story window; Annie Beck, 10
rears; Tillie Beck, 5 years; Frank
Budd, infant.
The explosion of a kerosene oil stove
started the fire. Nets were spread to
catch those who jumped from the winlows.
Mrs. Rothgiser missed the net,
struck on the sidewalk and was instantly
killed.
TOTAL DEAD TWENTY-EIGHT.
dumber of Boiler Explosion Victims
Made Known to a Certainty.
A Philadelphia special says: It Is
iow reasonably certain that at least
;wenty-eight persons perished as a result
of the explosion of one of the boilers
of the steamer City of Trenton.
This conclusion is reached by the poice
authorities through the fact that
seventeen persons who are reported
oy their relatives or friends to have
leen on the steamer have not yet been
'ound. These missing persons, with
eleven bodies already recovered, make
i total of twenty-eight. Ten persoms
are still in a serious condition.
Forty In Three Months.
It is estimated that since May 10no
fewer than forty persons have been
drowned in flooded streams in North
Carolina, by far the greatest loss of
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1110 D^lDg 111 IVillt'UCii tuuutj.
Tarheel Negroes to Hold Fair.
It is decided that the next North
Carolina negro state fair shall be held
at Raleigh, October 28 to November 1,
both dates inclusive.
Printers Pledge Assistance.
Columbia Typographical union, ot
Washington city, adopted a resolution
pledging both financial and moral assistance
to the striking steel workers,
and telegraphed the Amalgamated association
to that effect.
Rapist Quickly Condemned.
At Charlotte, N. C., within a period
of two hours. William Moore, the negro
who assaulted Mrs. Lemuel Martin,
near Matthews. N. C., was tried,
convicted and sentenced to hang on
September 13th.
HOWISON UNCOVERS
Evasively Denies Interview DIsparaging
Admiral Schley.
BE IS UPHELD BY DEPARTMENT
Personal Letter Is Sent to "Assistant"
Hackett?Attorneys For Schley
Not Satisfied and Will
Challenge.
A Washinton special says: Rear
Admiral Howison is to remain a member
of the Schley court of inquiry, notwithstanding
the allege/1 interview
with him printed in The Boston Record.
Though the navy department refused
to comply with Rear Admiral Schley's
request that Rear Admiral Howison
should be asked whether the interview
was correct, that officer evidently
thought that the publication of the interview
made it incumbent upon him
to writp a leter of explanation to the
navy department. He accordingly
wrote an unofficial letter to Acting
Secretary Hackett.
In effect this letter denies The Boston
Record interview, but does so by
inference, rather than explicit}*. Rear
Admiral Howison admits that he has
discussed with acquaintances the "unfortunate
disputes so widely commented
on."
As is indicated by Acting Secretary
Hackett's reply to Rear Admiral Howison.
the navy department is entirely
satisfied with his course and considers
him qualified to sit as a member
of the court of Inquiry.
The correspondence was sent to Admiral
Schley, who discussed it with
his counsel. Later in the day the following
announcement was made:
"Admiral Schley's counsel is entirely
dissatisfied with the position of Admiral
Howison, as disclosed in his letter
to Acting Secretary Hackett."
Has Forgotten the Interview.
In his communication to the department,
Howison says in part:
"I have no recollection of the gentleman
representing The Boston Record,
and I do not approve of his public
statement as mine.
"I cannot say that I have not discussed
with acquaintances matters
published in the newspapers relating
to our navy's* success, as well as the
unfortunate dispute 10 widely commented
on.
"While I feel highly, honored by the
department's selection of myself for
this duty, it is anything but a pleasant
task to sit in judgment on brother
officers.
"However, the honor of the selection
nor the unpleasantness of court
duties do not enter into the reasons
tor my now writing to say to you, personally,
three thing9. viz.:
DEATH CLAIMS GEN. LUDLOW.
One of the Best Known Army Officers
Victim of Consumption.
Brigadier General William Ludlow,
United States army, died at Convent,
N. J., Friday, cf consumption. His
illness was first noticed on his arrival
in the Philippines in May last He
was at once sent home in the hope
that the American climate would restore
him, ant' went at once to Convent.
General Ludlow was one of the best
Vnown officers in the army.
"First. To reassure you that I am
not responsible for and did not give
out such an interview as is alleged in
the dispatches from Boston and as
stated in the newspapers to have been
mentioned by Admiral Schley in a recent
letter to the department.
"Second. If, however, the department
feels that the cause of the navy
and of justice will be bqjter served
by relieving me fro mduty on the
court, I am entirely ready to withdraw
voluntarily, or to have the department
; relieve me upon its own initiative.
"Third. If, on the other hand, the
I department, knowing all the circumstances,
desires that I should perform
the duty, I am entirely ready to perform
it, and can, upon my conscience
I and oath, do my duty as a member of
j the court 'without partiality,' as the
law requires. Yours sincerely and
! respectfully, H. L. HOWISON,
"Rear Admiral, U. S. N."
Hackett's Reply to Howison.
Rear Admiral: Your personal letter
of the 24th deserves an immediate
reply.
"You say substantially that there is
no foundation for the statements attributed
to you as having been set
forth in an interview afterwards published
in The Boston Record, and lately
made the subject of a communication
from Rear Admiral Schley to the
department. You evidently have read
the correspondence between the admiral
and the department as published
last week in the newspapers.
"The department, let me assure you,
has no purpose of relieving you officially
of this duty. It has implicit confidence
in your sense of justice and
fair-mindedness.
"Should the counsel for Rear Admiral
Schley proceed to offer to the court
objection to you, it will be for the
court itself to decide the question of
( your competency to sit as a memuer.
"What you have said only confirms
me in the belief that the department
has been fortunate in selecting you as
the third member of the court.
"Kindly accept the assurance of my
personal esteem and believe me yours
truly, FRANK W. HAOKETT."
Tennessee Valley's First Bale.
The first bale of cotton of the Tennessee
valley was received in Huntsville,
Ala., Friday, and sold for 13
cents. Last year's first bale came in
August 26th.
New Oil Company Organized.
The Moulton Valley Oil Company
was organized at Montgomery, Ala.,
Friday. The company's property lies
in Lawrence county, in the Tennessee
valley.
DEATH LIST SWELLS GREATLY.
Further Investigation Shows Horror
of Steamboat Explosion More
Appalling than First Reported.
A Philadelphia special says: It
developed Thursday that the result
of the explosion of the boiler on the
steamer City of Trenton, while on the
way up the Delaware river Wednesday
afternoon, was more appalling than
was at first supposed.
In addition to the nine identified
dead there are two charred bodies, believed
to be those of femals, in the
morgue. They are beyond recognition
and will be buried in potter's field.
The list of missing has reached
twenty, and will doubtless add many
to the death roll.
Of the thirty-three persons taken to
the hospital, Mrs. Edna Van Schoick,
Nightstown, N. J., and Miss Fannie
Keen, Philadelphia, will die.
That there are more victims In the
river is the firm belief of the authorities,
and their failure to find any additional
dead is supposed to be due to
the strong current in the river at the
point where the explosion occurred.
Never in the history of the Delaware
river has there been such keen rivalry
between the lines of river steamers
as during this season. Between Phil
adelphia and Wilmington cue sieaww
lines for a time virtually advertised
races between their vessels. For nearly
a week the City of Chester and
Brandywine, on one line, and the Diamond
State on the other, met and
raced to a finish every day. Public
sentiment, however, caused the patronage
to fall off, and.i rulo was then
made prohibiting the speed contests.
As to the exact cause of the explosion
nothing is yet known, but an investigation
is to be conducted at onoe.
Fire Marshal Lattimer, Coroner Dugan,
the police department and the United
States boiler inspectors will each carry
on an independent investigation, but
little can be known until the survivors
have been examined and a careful inspection
of the wiecked steamer shall
have been made.*
Many of the passengers who escaped
injury maintain that the City of Trenton,
which Was late when she left her
wharf, was racing at her topmost
speed and that if this had not been the
case the accident would not have happened.
This is partly borne out by
a statement said to have been made
by Assistant Engineer John Chew.
Chew told his wife that he expected to
be killed by an explosion on the steamer
as the company made the engineers
keep up too high a pressure of steam.
TURNED BACKS ON SPEAKER.
Exciting Episode In Vlrgjpla Constitutional
Convention at Richmond.
A Richmond, Va., special says: The
remarkable spectacle of a number of
ladies turning their backs on a public
speaker addressing his remarks direetlv
to them was witnessed in the
constitutional convention Thursday.
The incident caused quite' a sensation.
The speaker was Colonel John C.
Summers, the republican member
from Washington county and the most
unique character in the body. Colonel
Summers was speaking in favor of the
submission of the new constitution to
the entire present electorate of the
state and was very harsh and bitter
in his denunciation of the democratic
methods in Virginia and of the efforts
being made in the framing of the new
constitution to disfranchise the negro,
i Colonel Summers expressed his love
j for the negro and aroused the negroes
in the west gallery, to whom he addressed
himself directly, to a- high
pitch of enthusiasm.
Turning to the east, or white gallery,
in which there were many ladies,
who sat with hands uplifted, he declared
that the convention, holding itself
to be sovereign, proposed to disfranchise
the husbands of some of TTTb
fairest women in Virginia.
A number of the ladies turned their
, backs to the speaker, and ere Colonel
Summers concluded the sentence, Mr.
Willis, a democrat, with face white
with anger, called him down for addressing
the galleries instead of the
j convention.
The "Beautiful" In Colorado.
A dispatch from Denver, Col., says:
Snow fell for an hour in Alpine Pass
Thursday and was followed lfr a severe
storm.
MOTHER AND BABE MANGLED.
Crushed to Death Under Wheels of
Rapidly-Moving Trolley Car.
At Birmingham, Ala., Saturday Mrs.
Fannie McGill, carrying a baby in her
arms, was run down by a trolley car
and mother and child were mangled
to death, being dragged half a blockunder
the car.
The accident was witnessed by many
people. John Smith, the regular motorman,
and Charles Courson, a learner,
were immediately ^rrested and
nlaced in the county jail without bond.
Smith Is charged with murder and
Courson with manslaughter.
SIR KNiGHTS ADJOURK.
Conclave Ends With Grand Ball?Next
Meeting to Be Held In 'Frisco.
After electing officers and selecting,
San Francisco as the place of meeting,
the first Tuesday in September, 1904.
the twenty-eighth triennial conclave
of Knights Templars adjourned at
Louisville Thursday. The festivities
came to an end at a magnificent ball
held Thursday night at the horse show
building.
WOMAN CHARGED WITH FORGERY
Miss Eastwick, of Philadelphia, Arraigned
In London Police Court.
A London special says: .Marie Josephine
Eastwick. of Philadelphia, was
arraigned in the Guild Hall police
court Monday charged with havin.i
forged a railway certificate of the value
of $500,000. Sensational evidence
was presented.
The public prosecutor said the defendant
had been residing in England
for eighteen months and was believed
to be an American of wealth.
TBIRIV=SIX VICTIMS
Wreck on Railroad in Montana
Most itorrible on Record.
CAUSED BY A RUNAWAY TRAIN
At Lightning Speed Wild Cars Crash
Into Passenger Coaches?Fire
Complete the Work of Death
and Destruction.
Thirty-six lives were lost and thirteen
persons injured in the wreck on
the Great Northern railway passenger
train No. 3, at Nyack, 30 miles west
of Kalispell, Mont., Friday night.
The dead are: P. T. Downs, assistant
general superintendent of the
Great Northern lines west of Mmot,
North Dakota; K. T. Downs, his son;
Henry Blair, cook aboard the private
car of Mr. Downs; Thirty-three Scandinavian
laborers, names unknown.
The inujred: Thirteen Scandinavian
laborers, names unknown.
Latest reports indicate that the
wreck was the worst in the road's history
and one of the most sanguinary
in the annals of American railroading.
Three of the injured will die and
the others are in a serious condition.
By heroic efforts fifteen of the bodies
were taken from the wrecked cars.
All the other victims were cremated,
including Superintendent P. L. Downs
and. his son, T. K. Downs.
Cause of Disaster.
There Is a severe grade near the
scene of the wreck. Two engines had
taken a train of twenty-eight freight
cars up this grade and drawn off to
take water. While doing this all the
twenty-eight cars started down the
grade. The runaway train dashed
down the grade at frightful speed and
crashed into the rear of a westbound
passenger train, No. 3, near the siding
at Nyack.
Superintendent Downs' private car
was attached to the passenger train
and next to it was a day coach filled
with railroad laborers from Duluth. As
the runaway train sped by the switch
it struck a caboose and day coach on
| tne siding wrecKing mem.
Fire immediately started from the
oil lamps in the caboose. The point
where the wild train crashed into the
passenger was several hundred feet
away, aiyl it was two and a half hours
before the flames reached the main
wreck. eMantime frantic efforts were
made to take out the dead and injured.
The wreck was piled high and wedged
into almost hopeless confusion, and in
spite of superhuman efforts the flames
burst through the wrecked cars before
the work was completed.
J. H. Blair, colored cook in Mr.
Downs' car, was taken out alive, but
died in a few minutes. It was impossible
to get at the bodies of Superia
tendent Downs and his son.
The runaway tore down the hill at
lightning speed, rounding the most severe
curves at a speed upward of 70
miles an hour, where regular trains
barely crawled along. With a roar it
burst around the curve, jumped a split
switch which would have turned it to
the side track and crashed into the
passenger. There was neither time
nor opportunity for escape. Mr. Downs'
car and that of the laborers were
smashed into kindling wood, the occupants
of the private car meeting instant
death. * The wreckage and the
shingles and lumber of the freight
burned like tinder.
DECLARES FIGHT IS LOST.
Former Vice President Amalgamated
Association Scores Strike Leaders.
n PS a ay illglli. rti me siadhu a i. r ?.ii
ville. about ten miles north of Newark.
Engineer William Meagher, of
Sod lis Point, was killed: twenty-eight
persons were injured, two of whom.
Howard Tubbs. ticket agent at Lake
Shore, and Libbie Ford, of Newark,
will probably die.
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Charges that the national officers of
the Amalgamated association had misrepresented
the attitude of the United
States Steel Corporation toward organized
labor, in order to get the members
of the association out on strike,
were made by former Vice President
Hickey at a meeting of the Bay View
lodge at Milwaukee Sunday.
The situation, as summed up by Mr.
Hickey, is that it may take years to
repair the damage to the association
which has already been done. The
strike is practically lost, he said, as
72 per cent of the mills are working.
OUR CUBAN TRADE SHORT.
Figures Show That We are Sufferers
By Radical Changes.
Some figures relating to the export
and import trade of Cuba for the first
seven months of this year, as compared
with a similar period last year,
just published by the division of in
stlar affairs, war department, indicate
that radical changes are going on in
:hat trade.
It is known that the United States
and other North American countries
are the sufferers from this turn of
trade.
ABDUL ORDERS GUNS.
Sultan Will Go to War Rather Than
Yield to Unreasonable Demands.
A special from Vienna, Austria, says:
The Tagcblatt in its issue of Wednesday
published mail correspondence
from Constantinople which states that
the sultan will go to war rather than
yield to unreasonable demands; that
he is studying plans for defense, and
that he has ordered 300 guns from Germany.
SWIFT TRAIN LEAVES TRACK.
Engineer Killed and Twenty-Eight of
the Passengers Receive Injuries.
The accommodation train leaving
Sodus Point. N. J? over the Northern
Central railroad was derailed Wed"i
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CREAn OF NEWS
? Summary of the Most ?
T Important Daily f
J Happenings Tersely Told. |
?Rev. Sam Small Is preparing to
make a tour of Georgia and will speak
in behalf of the prohibition cause.
?Ex-Judge Dudley DuBose is released
from jail, where he was held
for contempt, on $5,000 bond, and will
get a rehearing.
?Labor day was generally oDserveu
in the cities of the south Monday. Parades,
sports, athletic games, etc.,
were the principal features.
?Postmaster Edwards, of Macon,
has permission of postmaster general
to try a new scheme of parcel and letter
delivery.
?Coal Creek miners are on strike
because the operators refused to confer
with them about the demands
made.
?Clint Williams, a negro convict,
while being taken on a train to Raleigh,
N. C., jumped from the cars and
was killed by the guards.
?William J. Bryan was the oratdr
of the day at the Kansas City Labor
day celebration. Taking for his text,
"Muzzle not the ox that treadeth out
the com," he proceeded to flay the
trusts for their treatment of labor.
?President Shaffer and the steel
strikers led the van of the Pittsburg
labor parade. Speaking of the steel
trust, Shaffer said the strikers would
never yield and threatened a run on
banks and sympathetic strike of coal
miners as last resorts.
?Vice President Roosevelt was the
central figure at the Minneapolis fair
Monday. He discussed combinations
and the foreign policy of the United
States.
?Near Des Moines, Iowa, a young
white girl was assaulted by a gang of
negroes and dragged into the woods.
Almost nude she succeeded in escaping.
Two of the negroes have been
arrested.
?Governor General Wood, of Cuba,
was in Washington Monday en route
to Havana. He looks for a speedy adjournment
of the Cuban convention
and wishes to be at his post when it
closes.
?Miss Eastwick, a wealthy American
lady, is held In London on a charge
of forgery involving half a million
dollars. Miss Eastwick is well known
and prominent in Philadelphia.
?The Colombian rebels are beseigIng
Bocas del Toro and the situation
there is critical. The United States
consular agent is calling for a gunboat.
Munlr Bey, the Turkish envoy, visited
Paris after relations between
France and Turkey were broken and
celebrated the sultan's birthday. For
this insult he was ordered to leave
French territory. It is reported France
will send a naval squadron to Turk
?Mrs. Curly Norris and ber baby
were crushed to death in Birmingham,
Ala., Saturday morning byi a trolley
car. The motorman and conductor
were arrested and jailed.
?The county revenue commission at j
Chattanooga, Tenn., 'made its report j
Saturday, showing the amount certain '
justices had drawn in illegal costs.
?Jellico miners, in Tennessee, have
concluded to leave their trouble to arbitrators
and continue work until October
1. Coal Creek miners are on
strike.
?Thirty-six lives were lost in wreck
on Great Northern railway at Nyack,
Mont. Assistant General Superintendent
P. S. Downs among the dead. Thirteen
were injured. S
?Yankee, the fast colt owned by
John E. Madden, won the classic Futurity
at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y., Sat-'
urday. It was worth nearly $40,000.
?Steel strikers claim biggest victory
of the fight on account of open
hearth workers of Duquesne steel
works quitting work. Existence of
strike is denied by mill officials. The
situation is reported as fast approaching
a crisis. I
?Recent figures published by the
division of insular affairs how radical
changes this year in the import
and export Cuban trade, by which this
country is the loser.
?Twelve French journalists are
coming to America to inspect the
newspaper establishments of this country.
?The property of the Ruskin colony,
socialists, near Valdosta, Ga., was
sold by the sheriff Saturday. Part of
it was a good printing outfit. i
?For the first time in the history of
North Carolina the governor issued a
Labor day proclamation.
rni* - nno otorl low POnillP.
1 lit: 1 CtCUHJ' CUav, tvu i?n ?
ing butcher shops to close, was put in
operation Sunday in New York city.
A number of arrests followed.
?Charleston, S. C., has' invited
Chauncey Depew to make an address .
at the opening of her exposition.
?A terrific storm swept over Cleveland,
Ohio, Sunday, leaving the city '
in the throes of a raging flood. Fatalities
unknown, but $1,000,000 damage
was done.
?As a result of the railroad wreck J
near Newark, N. Y., 11 persons are
dead and three others are expected
to die.
?Turkey, through the medium of a
telegram, has now evinced a desire to
have diplomatic relations restored
with France.
A NEW STEEL COMPANY.
Rich Corporation Will Erect Mills at
New Castle, Pa.
A new steel company, to be known
as the Independent Steel Company,
has been organized and will immediately
erect a plant at New Castle, Pa.
Articles of incorporation have been
applied for. The capital stock is $i,?
500.000.
A site has been selected and contracts
have been let to a Pittsburg concern
for the erection of two mills. II
is stated that other mills will be erecf.
ed later.
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I SOUTH CAROLINA I
} STATE NEWS ITEMS. \
iCMCNICNirorsHNKNACMl
Strikers Return to Work.
A Columbia dispatch says: About
half their number ot regular employes
have returned to the cotton mills. By
count 710 people, halt of them children,
entered the Olympia, Richland
and Granby mills and resumed work.
Another meeting of the union has been
held, at which many new members
were initiated. Resolutions were passed
indorsing the fairness of The State
in dealing with the strike.
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Work Will Soon Begin.
Mayor Smyth has been advised that
the special board of naval engineers
which will locate sites tor the various
buildings at the Charleston navy
yard may start any day for the city
to make an actual beginning of the
work. The property which was re-1
cently acquired is now in the possession
of the government and the plans
ior the big dry dock are about complete.
As soon as the engineers can
arrange the preliminary details in the
city they will return" to Washington,
prepared to call for bids.
By reason of the great need for a
dry dock in southern waters this big
structure will get first consideration.
It will be sufficiently large to hold any
vessel built or "building l'or the United
States navy. Mayor Smyth has also
been advised by Admiral Endicott
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mat me appropriations iw cue can;
stages of the dry dock building are
available, and there will be no cause
for delay. The total amount ta be ex
pended at Charleston by the navy department
is $6,000,000.
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Inspecting Terminal Properties.
Officials of the Seaboard Air Line,
headed by Vice President and General
Manager J. M. Barr. arrived in Charleston
a day or two ago to inspect terminal
properties recently acquired by
that system. The party examined the
terminals of the Louisville and Nashville
railroad and strength is given to
the report that the Seaboard Is negotiating
for the purchase of this property.
An option has been secured by
a local dealer and it is said that the
Seaboard will buy if a proper adjustment
of the price can be made.
The terminals are the most valuable
of any in that part of the state. The
Seaboard'8 line, which has been surveyed
to the west, by way of Augusta,
and other Georgia cities, will positively
be constructed, Mr. Barr said, Adding
that he was pleased with the progress
already made. Should the Seaboard
get control of the Louisville and
Nashville's water front property, it
will be better equipped for the export
trade than any other railway line enteiing
Charleston.
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Depew Invited to Exposition.
The following was adopted by the
Charleston exposition directors at a
recent meeting:
"The South Carolina Interstate and
West Indian exposition ia an exposition
with an idea, its aim being the
expansion of American commerce in
neighboring, open and most profitable,
fields. Its purpose is to suggest business
policies for the future and to emphasize
the beginning of the twentieth
century by a timely afcd comprehensive
tribute to commerce and the
arts of peace. Appreciating the intelligent
interest which he has always
manifested in the development of the
commercial and industrial resources
of the country and particularly the
friendly interest he has taken in the
success of the exposition to be held
at Charleston, the board of directors
extend to the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew,
United States senator from the
state of New York, a cordial invitation
to deliver the leading address at the
opening of the exposition on December
1, and trust that he will find it
practicable to perform this patriotic
service."
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Battle With an Eagle.
A day or two ago a large American
eagle which was captured near
Charleston after it had whipped a catamount,
was sent to th^ city and
placed in a cage, from which it had
to be removed later on. The owner
advertised for a brave man, willing to
overpower the bird without weapons.
H. J. Welch, a piano tuner, agreed to
undertake the job, and a crowd sui>
rounded the building to watch the <
event
Welch' first endeavored to throw a
sack over the eagle's head, but this
failed and the eagle showed signs of
fight. The door was quickly opened
and Welch rushed in. He seized the
eagle by the legs, but it gave a swift
lunge toward the door, passing out
and dragging the would-be captor.
Welch was dragged twenty feet,
when the eagle turned and a desperate
light followed. The piano tuner
was getting the rough en<l of the conflict,
but bystanders interfered and
the eagle was crippled and shoved into
another cage. Welch was bruised and
scratched, but otherwise was not injured.
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Strikers Still Have Hope.
P. J. Conlon, of Atlanta, vice president
of the International Association
of Machinists, has arrived in Charleston
for the purpose of trying to adjust
the differences between the Southern
railway and the striking machinists.
He has addressed the local lodge, and
has assured the men that they will be
supported in the fight, which he says
will be won by the strikers. So far
as the railroad is concerned, however,
the strike has already ended. President
Spencer and General Manager
Gannon have made repeated statements
to the effect that the men will
not be allowed to return to their former
positions under any circumstances.
and in view of this business
men of Charleston have advised the
strikers to seek other positions. Many W& '
of them have accepted the advice, but >
the men still out are taking great
hopes from the words of Mr. Conlon. *' && :
The question, however, seema to rest .j
with the railroad, so far as the Charles- JeSS [
ton troubles enter, and the ultimatnm ;;
from headquarters Is final. # m
After a manner the strike in Charles*
ton has been more unique than at any #.
other point -along the Southern ays*
tem. Because of the outrages by the. '1 ^ ^
bad element, the company was force&;j|8|jj
to fit up living quarters over the ahops?v'^^^
where non-union men have been living
ever since reaching the city. Attempts
have been made to get these workers
out, but they have failed, and the 5
ular routine goes on without Interoap-sgj
tion. The non-union men do not see?-"^|pS$
to bother with the conanement, wmcBgi
is not only satisfactory to them, but
was arranged at their request "
HESTER'S COTTON CROP TOTALS*
An Increase cf Nearly One Hundred ; I*
Thousand Bales of the Fleecy
Staple Is Predicted. -'Wk
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New Orleans special says:
totals of Secretary Hester's annual
port of the cotton crop of the
States was promulgated Monday.
show receipts of cotton at all UMtod^C'^v^^
States ports for the year of 7f665,4QQ^^^
against 6,374,364 last year* overlaa&ll ''lili
to northern mills, 1,140,237, against '?j?9
161,189; southern consumption tak?a^-v'^^
direct from interior of the cotton belt
1,576,733, against 1,540,863, making J||B
the crop of the United States for
1901 amount to 10,283,422
against 9,436,416 last year and
840 the year before.
Mr. Hester has made his usual ln?-J:"^|j
vestigation into the consumption
every cotton mill in the south, inclod^'Jing
woolen mills that have used
ten, and the results show a totsl':'|l?t<^S|
1,620,931 bales, but of this 44,198 balei^-;-^*
were taken from ports included in
receipts. This total shows that th%j|?||?|M
mills of the south have used up
bales more than during 1899-1900,<
against a consumption by the nortk;^||
2,050,000. He makes the actual cotiQf&j
crop of Texas, including Indian Tert^^||||
tory, 3,808,568, or say, 1,218,056 btj#'-|;:|j|j
more than last year, and states thntjfl
the actual production of Indian
tory wag 299,330, against 156,064
year.
U? Xlaatav akn C1VPS the aCtUalls?^?^
production of Oklahoma 119,063,
Missouri 25,794. His report on the
ton crop for the different states is gjkw^^ j*||h
en as follows in thousands of hales*
North Carolina, etc 54S^
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama 1,000 V "^I^S
Mississippi TOclI
Louisiana * 719 wT >||a
Arkansas 763
Tennessee, etc. 36M-;3SM
Texas, etc 8,80t|| -y"||i
Total crop, bales 10,S8Jtj ||
North Carolina above includes K?l^||r^
tucky and Virginia; Tennessee
eludes Oklahoma, Missouri, KaaewOy^
and Utah; Texas includes Indian
ritory. r -j|5
Mr. Hester's full report will contafif^^^
interesting facts in relatiot to the
tlnued increase in the spindles ?t|| ||
southern mills and to new mills
building, some of which will come tnto^ltiSj
operation during the new commercW^ ^$?1
year.
He will also give interesting^ facts - 'B
showing that with an excess in*balei^|^|S
over last year of 941006 the south
tained for the <crop an increase Ojf y S
$130,782,729, the value of this yenrt^
crop having reached the enormous to? J
tar of $494,567,549, more in dollars - B
than has ever before been obtained far*-JJ ||
any crop. He compares the value ^
this crop with that of the year before' ?? '5||
last?11,274,840 bales, the largest ever ' rg
grown?and shows that we have re- .y ; B
ceived this year for 891,418 bales le^||
$211,794,562 more. Mr. Hester says % .^Jp
nutu it 19 wuoiu^&cu ui??r uiv
past cotton crops have been sold *g
the south for $858,352,369, their,
portance will be appreciated as the :|||
means of bringing prosperity to thejsj 4I
cotton states.
"BUMPING" FEATURE OMITTED. % ZM
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Bill Waives Katowing Cere- ;;g||
mony In Receiving Chinese.
Monday night Prince Chan and Ma 1 ^
entourage left Basle, Switzerland, for ~ ^
Berlin by the imperial special
Before starting a member of'the mjp >|| -f.
sion said that Emperor William had .,- ^
decided to waive the ceremony e?|9 >
katowing and that the only persons to
be received by him in ceremonial sn>: ^
dience would be Prince Chan and Tin i
Chang. The member in question said :
also that the hi is slop would remain is - * v
Berlin for a fortni?t and had receiv* "'M
ed and accepted invitations from the ^0
British, Italian, American, Belgian and ^
Japanese governments. |
Financial Aid For Strikers.
The San Francisco branch of the >:'j
International Iron Molders' Union has f
been given $5,000 by the national bodyi
for the benefit of the members on !?
strike in that city.
An Eighty-Five Million Mortgage.
The St. Louis and San Francisco .
Railroad Company Thursday filed
with Oklahoma's secretary its $85,000,000
refunding mortgage given to d
I the Morton Trust Company, of New 3;
York. It is due in 1951 and carrieaji
$42,000 internal revenue stamps. |j
POLICE OFFICERS ON
Thief Chasers at Chicago Charged I
With Defrauding the City. I
The three officers of the detective 1
bureau of the Chioago police depart* 1
ment who are^harged with defrauding . JB
the city by means of fictitious expense 9
accounts were put on trial Monday be* ?
fore the civil serviee commission. The
accused officers are Lieutenant Peter \ J
I J. Joyce, Detective Sergeant John 0. %
Cramer and Detective John J. Tract)*, '\jm
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