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" '^fga ii The Bamberg Herald. J i ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 2.1902. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. | \r.m I nnrnmriiT , r> i im u l/llirm H f ?r? i ?V 7 tn? 1 / * I 7 r* H i HI7f SHAKE DP IN STOCKS Call Money in New York Soars to Thirty-Five Per Cent. MORGAN COMES TO THE RESCUE Various Gigantic Deals on Foot, Calling For Millions of Ready Cath, Given as the Cause oftB g Shake Up. 1 Stocks broke disastrously in New York Monday when the rate for call money ro e to 35 per cent and the market was almost in a panic just before at the close. After the close of the market. James R. Keene, the bull leader, said: "The money situation alone has unsettled the stock market. Underlying conditions are safe and reassuring as ever. I think the plans of relief set afoot by the secretary cf the treasury will ease the situation shortly." The whole list went down in the day's slump, led by Louisville and Nashville, which lost over 11 points, and St. Paul, which lost about 10. Giltedge stocks like Pennsylvania drop pod from 4 to 6 points. The Southern Pacific, that stock in which the largest pool ever known in Wall street history has been operating, and on which James R. Kecne has staked his reputation as an operator, held firm until late In the day, when it was forced down, despite all the millions Keene could send in support of it. j J. P, Morgan poured millions into the market in vain. More than twenty million dollars was paid cut by Morgan I & Co. anticipating interest due Octo J ber 1, but the only effect it had was to break the price of money from 35 to 20 per cent. It did not stay the down ward deluge of liquidation. Cause of Stringency. There is high authority for saying that the real cause of the money strin ' gency is that J. P. Morgan & Co. arc buying up all the foreign bills of ex change to pay the English stockholders cash for their stocks surrendered in the organization of the ship trust. Mr. Morgan has already called on his syndicate for twenty-five million dol lars for this purpose and it is stated that he wiH require that much more. The reports that plans are well advanced for the Atlantic Coast Line to take over a majority interest in Louisville and Nashville stock is attributed by those in a position to know to the fact that the Louisville and Nashville stocks not now controlled by J. P. Morgan & Co. either by direct ownership or under the option given that firm by the interests represented by Gates and Hawley, will constitute a minority stock. It is also said positively that the dividend will remain at 5 per ceDt. Among the heaviest sufferers in Monday's crash is sp.id to be John W. Gates. He is in Europe, where he is said to be desperately endeavoring to unload his American stocks on the London exchange. Above the crash of millions Russell Sage stood smiling. He had been selling stocks for a month, fairly tumbling them on the market at high prices. A manipulator said after the flurry that the technical position of the market was much improved by the shake up. The greatest loss was sustained by Louisville and Nashville. Disappointment regarding the probable disposition of the road as much as anythng else is supposed to have caused the break. Other features that combined to unsettle the market were disquieting reports concerning the president's condition, the prolongation of the coal strike and the undoubtable fact that London and the continent are unloading "Americans" in large blocks. Practically all the money loaned on call came from trust companies and out of town corporations and private individuals. The banks of the Clearing House Association stood aloof and made virtually no loans for speculative purposes. Moreover, the so-called substantial interests offered no sup port to the market. SON FIGHTS FOR MILLIONS. Harry Stratton Decides to Contest Hie Father's Will. Harry Stratton, of Passadena, Cal., after a conference in Denver between his attorneys, decided to contest the will of his father, which left the bulk of his estate, estimated to be worth from $10,000,000 to $12,000,000, for the establishment of a home for poor sick people at Colorado Springs. Young Stratton forfeits $50,000 which his father left him by making a contest. THE NIOROS ARE DEFIANT. American Troops Having Trouble in Subduing Them. That the task of reducing Moros to terms is proving difficult is indicated by the folowlng cablegram received Wednesday by the war department from General Chaffee: "Manila. September 24.?Adjutant General. Washington: Captain John J. Pershing to Vicars; unable to reach Marcin forts; water and swamps pre vented. CHAFFEE." CARPENTERS RE-ELECT HUBER. President of Association Given Another Two-Year Term. General President William D. Hu ber, of Philadelphia, of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, was re-elected general president of the ordT for the coming two years at Friday morning's session In Atlanta. Three ballots were necessary to complete the election. President Ruber rccived the necessary majority or. the third ballot. TRAGIC DEATH OF EMILE ZOLA. | Noted French Novelist Asphyxiated by Gases While Asl?ep?His Wife Also Overcome, Survives. Emile Zo.'a, the novelist, who was born in Paris, April 2, 1840, died in that city Monday morning. Zola was found dead in his house from asphyxiation. His wife is gravely ill. It is said that the novelist's death was accidental. He was asphyxiated by fumes from a stove, the pipes of which are said to have been ou^ of order. At the same time it is stated that there are indications of suicide. Zola and his wife returned to Paris Sunday after spending three months in the country, and owing to a sudden spell of cold weather he ordered the heating stove in his bedroom to be lighted. The stove burned badly, but 261a and his wife retired at 10 o'clock and the servants, not hearing any rrfovement in the apartment Monday morning, entered the bedroqm at 9:30 - i . i ml 1_ 1..1 ? *1, ? Ko/l ana iouna ivmit*. auiu. lyms vjh mc inanimate. Zola was lying half out. of bod, with his head and shoulders on the floor and his legs on the bed. .^Doctors were summoned, but they failed to restore Zola to life. After prolonged efforts they resusticated Mme. Zola. The rumor circulated regarding Zola's supposed suicide from poison was based on the fact that ejections supposedly from the stomach, were found on the floor, but the doctors say they came from Zola's dog. which also was in the bedroom and which did not suffer from asphyxiation. Zola dined with a good appetite Supday evening and the servants of the household partook of the same dishes. Nothing unusual was heard in the bedroom during the night. NAVAL STORES COMBINE. Companies in Savannah and Jacksonville to Pool Interests. According to a Savannah dispatch the Consolidated Naval Stores Company is in process of formation. It will begin a factorage business on November 1, 1902, with a capital of $2,500.000. Its headquarters will be Jacksonville. Fla.. and it will handle naval stores at Savannah, Pensacola and Fernandina. W. C. Powell, president of the Southern Naval Stores Company, of Savannah, will, it is understood, be president of the big concern. W. F. Coachman, of Jacksonville, and R. B. Dullard, of Savannah, will, it is said, be vice presidents, and it is believed that other naval stores men, prominent in present companies, will be vice presidents. The liquidation of the companies that are to be included 'n the Consolidated Naval Stores Company will soon begin. Notices from the Mutual Naval Stores Company, of Jacksonville^ have been sent out to stockholders, apprising them of its early liquidation. The companies that are to be consolidated into the monster concern are the Southern Naval Stores Company, of Savannah; the Euis Young Company, of Savannah; the Florida Naval Stores and Commission Company, of Jacksonville; the Mutual Naval Stores Company, of Jacksonville; the Gulf Naval Stores Company, of Tampa, Carrabelle and Pensacola; the West Coast Naval Stores Company, of Pensacola. These six companies, it is estimated, handle the output of over 500 naval stores producers of Georgia. Florida. Alabama and Mississippi. Altogether their business exceeds, during a year. find riocl-c Af cnlj-itc nf tnrnonMna VVV,VV V V UV11\ o V4, U[/Itiwg V4, V U1 JJ/VUHUV and 1,500,000 barrels of rosin. At present values this would mean an annual volume of about $15,000,000. GOVERNOR MAKES PROTEST. Against the Landing of United States Marines at Panama. The navy department Monday received the following dispatch from Vice Consul Ehrman, at Panama: "Panama, September 28.?Trains running regularly. In the last few days bands of revolutionists have been seen on the line of the railroad. Governor has protested against the landing of Americans. BHRMAN." GEORGIA MARBLE USED. Supplants Maryland Article in State Capitol Annex. Georgia marble has been substituted for Maryland marble hy the building commission of the state capitol annex, says a Baltimore dispatch. The portico is to be built of the Georgia stone, and it was decided to substitute marhip fnr mnnpr In thp. romlces. Members of the commission said they favored Maryland marble, but owing to an apparent combination afong local quarrymen to raise prices, I the Georgia stone could be had much cheaper. M'GUIRE ANSWER CHARGES. Former Official of Carpenters' Associs. tion Accused of Shortage. P. J. McGuire, former secretary and j treasurer of the United Brotherhood of i Carpenters and Joiners of America, whose alleged shortage of $10,000 has occupied the attention of the convention for the past two days, arrived in Atlanta Wednesday afternoon to make a personal defense before the convention. TO BUY QUEEN AND CRESCENT. Move of the Southern Railway to Get Irvto New Orleans. According to a New Orleans special the Southern Railway Company fs negotiating for the purchase of the Queen and Crescent system. President Spencer, of the Southern, Is now in England, and It is reliably stated that the direct object of his visit is to effect the purchase of the line, which will give the system entrance Into New Orleans 9vex U? OTA Flltoi A REIGN OF TERROR Strikers Become More and More Defiant and Bloodthirsty. TROOPS SWARM THE REGION I Bayonets Only Serve to Add to the f i Wrath of the Strikers?Whole k Anthracite Region is Now Aflame. A Philadelphia special says: Of the ten anthracite coal producing counties | of Pennsylvania, state troops are now J [ camped in five. Despite the presence , of the troops in these districts, rioting | and general lawlessness continued Wednesday in the entire hard coal territory from Forest City, Susquehanna c($inty, on the north, to WilliamstcfjB'n. Dauphin county, on the south, a 'distance of moro than 100 miles. The section of the strike region in | the vicinity of Forest City, which has | been comparatively quiet ever since the strike began, was greatly wrought up during the day by crowds of strikers interfering with and beating men who had returned to work, and as a result Sheriff Maxey, of Susquehanna county, a&ked Governor Stone for troops to assist him and other civil authorities to preserve the p;ace. Many Troops in Field. At present there are four full regiments, two companies of another and two troops of cavalry in the field. The Thirteenth regiment is camped at Olryphant, six miles north of Scranton; the Ninth Is quartered at its armory in Wilkesbarre; the Eighth regiment and the Second Philadelphia city troops are under canvas on the top of a hill overlooking Shenandoah; one battalion of the Twelfth and the Governor's troop are in the Panther creek valley and ope battalion of the Twelfth i-n preserving order in the city of Lebanon, where the iron end steel workers are on a strike. If the disorder continues Governor Stone will be compelled to call out additional soldiers. While there has been no big general riot the disturbances have been of such a serious nature as to cause the authorities much apprehension. Every effort is being made by the sheriffs of the several counties affected and the troops to prevent disturbances from growing to such an extent as to cause bloodshed. Violence Everywhere. Reports are coming in from every section of non-union men and others either being shot or clubbed. Houses of workmen have been burned or dynamited, and attempts have been mado to hold up coal trains or rleraii them. Coal Is being shipped from many parts of the coal fields to market, but compared with the normal output tho quantity is insignificant. The output for the week will be considerably less than the average moral production of one day, which is about 300,000 tons. The strikers claim that very little of the coal is freshly mined and that it is mostly coal "washed" from the culm banks. President Mitchell had ho coment 1:0 make on the movement of the troops Into Luzerne county. He said the general strike situation Is unchanged. ODELL RENOMINATED. Present New York Governor Named For a Second Term. The New York state republican convention in session at Saratoga Wednesday named the following ticket: Governor?B. B. Odell, Jr., of Orange. Lieutenant Governor?F. W. Higgina. Cattaraugus. Secretary of State?John O'Brien, Clinton. Treasurer?John G. Wickers. Erie. Attorney General?Henry B. Coman, Madison. For Comptroller?N. B. Miller. Cortland. # Engineer?E. A. Bond. Jefferson. Judge of the Court of Appeals?W E. Werner. Monroe. The resolutions, after expressing sorrow for the death of President McKinley, endorses in strong terms the administration of President Roosevelt. PRESIDENT IS ALL RIGHT. Doctors Highly Pfeva&ed at His Sat. Jsfactory Condition. Official telegrams from Secretary Cortelyou Indicate that the president is in splendid condition and much better than he has been at any time since he was' injured in the trolley car accident Official bulletins state he is resting \y>ell, Is in the beet of spirits and that his physicians are highly ple-ascd at his satisfactory condition. Mrs. Roosevelt left the Oyster Bay home Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock for Washington and arrived late in the afternoon. MABINE POSES AS MARTYR. Misguided Filipino Refuses to Take Oath of Allegiance. The transport. Sherman from San j Francisco arrived at Manila Friday, j She called at the Island of Guam and ; had aboard 35 political prisoners who took the oath of allegiance to the United States. Mabini, the former president of the Filipino supreme court and Filipino minister of foreign affairs, refused to take the oath and was kept prisoner j at Guam. No decision has been arrived at regarding Mabini, but he probably will be left at Guam Indefinitely. Judge Adams Sworn In. i An Atlanta dispatch says: Hon. Samuel It. Adams, of Savannah, took the oath Monday required by law for associate justice of the supreme court. The oath was administered by Judge Candler. Judge Adams received his ' commission at once. ; A FIEND'S COWARDLY ACT. Farmer, His Wife and Her Unborn Etabe Shot to Death on Public H ighway. George Bundrick shot and killed John J. Shroud -r Wednesday morning while the latter, with his wife, was proceeding in e. buggy to their home near Raines. Ga. Bundrick had claimed that a negro on Shrouder's place* had stolen his pocket knife and ifed undertaken to arrest three of Shrouder's hands. Shrouder offered to pay for the knife rn order that his farm foroe should not be interfered with at this time. Bundrick accused Shrouder of siding with the negroes. Shrouder said he would meet Bundrick as soon as he could take his wife home. They then parted. Wednesday morning- as -Shrouder was going from the station with his wife, in a buggy, he met Bundrick in the road a short distance from the station and, without any warning, Bundrick emptied both barrels of a shotgun in Shrouder's race, killing him instantly. Bundrick either intentionally shot Mrs. Shrouder, or she was hit by stray buckshot from the load fired at her husband. The shooting caused the horse to run away, and Mrs. Shrouder and her husband were thrown in the road. Mrs. Shrouder, with her unborn babe, was mortally injured by the shot and the fall. MATHIS AND LESTER DIE. White Man and Negro Swfcng from Same Gallows in Mississippi. At Oxford. Miss., Wednesday Will Mat!iis (white) and Orlando Lester, colored, were hanged for the murder ct tl>e Montgomery brothers. On the 16th of last November, Deputy United States Marshals John A. and Hugh Montgomery went out 15 miles east cf Oxxford to arrest Will Mathis, upon the charge of illicit distilling. It was learned that t)he officers arrived at Mathis* about sundown and although it was Saturday, Mathis was engaged in killing a hog. He met the officers at his gate and they proceeded to read a writ to him and informed him that they would take him on to Oxford that night Mathis requested them to let him finish cleaning the dog, so his wife would have something to eat while he was gone. The officers went into the house and that is the last known of them, of which any one is sure, until their charred and mutilated bodies were found in the ashes of Mathis' burned house next morning. The negro, Orlando Lester, was helping Mathis and Bill Jackson was also on the premises. The part each played in the tragedy has been told differently by each one concerned. Mathis claims that Whit Owens loaned the negro a gun and told him to shoot the officers, which he did against Mathis* will. Lester claims that he was sent for the gun by Will Mathis and that Bill Jackson did the shrintinp' FMU .TnrUsnn Raid left before the killing took place and Owens has never made any statement at all. After the Montgomery* were killed, Mathis took his wife to her father, Whit Owens, and returned with Owens and Lester and burned the housa in order to hide the bodies of the two murdered men. The bodies were mutilated and burned, but no one will probably ever know the details. RUSSELL OUT OF RACE. Announces tha-t He is Not Candidate For Georgisi Supreme Court Bench. Judge R. B. Russell will not bo a candidate for the Georgia supreme bench. He caakes this an' ouncement through The Atlanta Constitution. Judge Russell had never formally announced his candidacy. Still his name had been generally used in this connection and many of his friends have been working actively for him for several weeks. Phipps Gives Hundred Thousand. A dispatch from The Hague confirms the report that the donor of the $100,000 sent to General Botha for the relief of destitute Boers was Henry Phipps, of New York city. OVEft FIVE HUNDRED DROWNED. Further Details of Frightful Storms that Swept Sicily. Later advices received from Sicily show that the tempest that worked such damage In that Island raged for several days. Details of the storm multiply the number of deaths. On the east coast 370 bodies have been recovered and the sea continues to give up corpses which were swept down by the torrents from the interior. It is estimated that, five hundred bodies have already been recovered. Three hundred lives were lost at Modica. FOUR HUNDRED ON STRIKE. Machinists in Shops of C., 0 & G. Road Walk Out at Shawnee. Four hundred machinists, boiler makers, blacksmiths and woodworkers went on strike Friday at the car shops of the Choctaw. Oklahoma and Gulf railroad, at Shawnee. Okla. The strikers demand that they be paid promptly every month as under the old management. A SURPRISE TO EMPLOYES. Shop Force of Ellen N. at Pensacola Get a Raise. Employes in the L. and N. railway shops at Pensacola. Fla. wore very much surprised when the monthly payroll was apportioned to them a few rlavs ago and they found that, their salaries had been voluntarily increased 10 per cent, without any previou:notice having been given that such v step would be made. I SOUTH CAROLINA \ I STATE NEWS ITEMS, i rs>CSlCMCMTs>CMCSKNI" R<ice for Speaker. The race for speaker of the house of representatives is growing more interesting each day. W. L. Smith, of Kershaw, says he is confident of being elected speaker. Among other gentlemen are T. Yancey Williams, of Lancaster; R. A. Cooper, of Laurens, and T. H. Rainsford, of EdgefieW. * Charter Is Granted. The secretary of state has issued a commission to the Columbia Metallic Roll Company, of Columbia.'which will handle a very valuable patent obtained recently by Louis I. Gulon on a piece of cotton mill machinery. The capital stock is to be $i00,000. The corporators are Louis I. Guion, J. W. Rahcnnlr T. T WHclev W R Whaley and August Kohn. * * * Preliminary Hearing Waived. Dr. O. L. P. Jackson waived preliminary hearing in the ease made out against him by the detective of the State Pharmaceutical Association, the charge being that at Dr. Jackson's drug store, in or near the mill village, prescriptions were compounded by a young man who is not a licensed pharmacist. Dr. 0. Y. Owings, president of the State Pharmaceutical Association, stated that he was not anxious to prosecute any drug store proprietor, but he believes in his profession and wants to see it safeguarded as is the practice of medicine. ' Spartanburg Rich County. The abstracts in County Auditor Epton's office show that Spartanburg county leads as the richest and most thoroughly developed county?industrially speaking?in the state. The following are the figures: Report of 1902, total value of railroads, $1,047,820; total value of real estate, $5,692,910; total value of personal property, $5,115,853; grand total for 1902, $10,856,583. Report for 1901, total value of railroads, $1,023,295; total value of real estate, $55,391,295; total value of personal property, $5,381,781; grand total for 1901, $11,803,371. The tax on the above amount is $191,371.16. Total polls, $11,053; total taxation, $202,424.16. * Children Dropped From Mill Rsll. It was stated a few days ago that the Whaley cotton mills had issued an order for all children under 12 years of age to be kept out of the mills. As there is considerable agitation just now on account of the pending "child labor agitation," the statement is considered of some importance. When asked if such an order had been issued, J. Sumter Moore, general manager of the Olympia mills, stated that the mills have not done more this year than has been their custom. It is true that there were forty or fifty children toquit the mills under instructions issued, but the reason of this is that the schools resumed work and the mills wanted to encourage the children to attend school. Sheriff's Good Lu^k. Sherilf M. M. Buford has again shown his remarkagle ability for keeping track of criminals. A little over five years ago a negro living in Laurens county by the name of Mart Blackburn, alias Mart Rook, was charged with murder. Some time ago a warrant for the negro was placed in the hands of Sheriff Buford by the sheriff of Lancaster county, who had learned from some source that Mr. Buford was in possession of facts that would likely lead to the capture of the murderer. A few days ago Sheriff Buford and two trusted men boarded ' * A " * i.- x?i- J__ tne outgoing Augusta tram in tuiuuibia. The party alighted from the train at Lewiedale about 3 a. m., where they hired conveyances and went several miles in the country to a point above Priceville on the plantation of Dr. James Draffs, where they succeeded by strategy in capturing the negro, who had assumed the name of Thomas Allen. * C A Nonogenarian Judge. Judge O. R. Levy, who has just been elected by the people to serve Charleston another term as county judge, is probably the oldest public official in the United States. The venerable old gentleman recently celebrated his eighty-ninth birthday and he is still hale arid hearty. In the war between this country and Mexico he distinguished himself in several sanguinary engagements. Toward the close of the civil war, though an old man, he sawthat his services were needed in the confederate eause, so he joined in the conflict. Judge Levy is regarded as an able and efficient exponent of the law. He is hold in diije dread by the wrongdoers and has a stern manner of administering justice, yet his heart has been known to soften on certain occasions. The veteran tribunal has made a wonderful record in the matrimonial line. He joined more than fifty couples in the holy bonds during the recent exposition. During the fair Charleston was a veritable Mecca for those who would embark upon that turbulent sea, and Judge Levy, when called upon to perform a ceremony of this character, was never known to refuse. whether the prospective proom came provided with the price or not South Carolina is a state in which couples encounter next to no trouble at all in joining hands for better or for worse. No license has to be procured and no red tape formalities must be gone through wich. But the ease with which a pair can get hitched is offset in a measure by the difficulty in severing the ties, there being no divorce law in the Palmetto state. Some thirty five grooms arc under financial obligations to Judge Levy for starting them upon the marital path of life, but he is not pressing any of them for the debt. "It's almost like purchasing distress anyway to get married nowadays," says the Judge, "and I'm getting too far advanced in life to add to anybody's misery. 'Let Joy go with them 1 and peace behind them.' 1 "I ran past my allotted three score and ten about twenty years ago," said ( Judge Levy recently, but I am easily good for a hundred. I expect to go in under the wire with the bit between 1 my teeth, providing, of course, a house doesn't'fall on me or I get struck by lightning in the meantime."?E. O. Dean, in Sunny South. * * Unusual Case in Circuit Court. An unusual case was tried in the circuit court at Anderson the past week. Walter Gilmer, a 12-year-old white boy, was tried for assault and battery with intent to kill. The prosecutor was Waddy Murray, another boy of about the same age. The boys had been employed in the Pelzer -fcottcn mill. They had a fight in the mill one day last November and the Gilmer boy cut the Murray boy on the neck with a pocket knife. It was a painful wound, but not at all serious. Murray's father had a warrant issued against the Gilmer hoy :or assaun ana battery with intent to kill. The magistrate sent the ca>~,e up to the circuit court and the grand jury found a true bill. It is said the solicitor did not know the age of the defendant until he was arraigned in court and he did not put much vigor into the prosecution of the case. In his charge to the jury Judge Watts very plainly indicated that he wanted a verdict of acquittal. The jury was not long in making up a verdict of not guilty. ALFONSO'S MA MARRIES. On Learning of the Fact, Young King of Spain Raised a Howl. A special dispatch from Madrid, Spain, says it is reported there that Queen Marie Christina, mother of King Alfonso, married her master of horse, Count De La Escosura, while in Austria recently. When Alfonso learned of his mother's marriage he became wildly enraged and violently abused the queen, ordering her to retire to the provinces or to go abroad with her new husband. The queen refused to obey the young king's orders and the outcome is im possible to foresee. SOLDIERS' HOME DEDICATED. With Appropriate Exercises Retreat of Georgia Vets is Opened. The new Georgia Soldiers' Home building at Atlanta was iormaily opened Thursday with exercises peculiar! ? appropriate to the occasion. A large crowd was present, including the inmates of the home, Confederate Veterans of different camps, members of the Ladies' Memorial As soclation, Daughters of th eConfcderacy and other auxiliary organiza tions. Colonel W. Lowndes Calhoun, president of the board of trustees of the home, presided. ENORMOUS PENSION LIST. Report Will Show Increase of Nearly Six Thousand for Year. The annual report of the commissioner of pensions, Eugene F. Ware, made public Monday, shows that the number of names on the pension rolls is still under the million mark, despite a net gain of 5,732 ;-ensioners since 1898. The Jotal enrollment July 1 last was 999.416, against 997,735 last year. The total comprises 738,809 soldiers and 260,637 widows and depend ents. The aggregate includes 4,69c nPrislrmc Aittsid* ibo TTnlfPrl Rtofp* DEADLY WORK OF EARTHQUAKE. Frightful Calamity Visits Section of Russian Turkestan. A dispatch received in Berlin from Tashkent, capital of Jtusslan Turkes tan, reports a terrible earthquake Au gust 22, the shocks continuing until September 3. One hundred persons were killed at Kashgar. in eastern Turkestan, four hundred in the village of Astyn, twenty at Jangi, while the town of Aksullsitche was completely destroyed. INTERNATIONAL TOBACCO TRUST American and British Interests Have at Last Been Consolidated. A London special says: The tobacco war has been ended by the amalgamation of the American and British interests. An official statement containing the details and subscribed by the officers of both combines will be given out later. Spain to Recognize Cuba. According to advices from Madrid Spain has finally depided to establish fully accredited diplomatic leiations with Cuba. A minister plenipotentiary and secretary of legation will be sent to Havana soon. Coal Shortage Closes Schools. Two of the largest schools in Pawtucket, R. I., have been closed on ac- i count of the scarcity of coal. It is said that a majority of the schools j there may have to be shut up. KING IS IGNORED. Nothing Left to Leopold in Queen Henriette's Will. The will of Marie Henriette, queen cf the Belgians. *.ras opened at Brussels Wednesday. It directs that she be buried beside her son and tha?t there shall be no public lying in s'ate. The quec-n bequeaths her twelve horses to her private secretary. Baron J Goflinet. The other bequests made by her majesty were of a private charac- ' ter. She left nothing to King Leopold. namutfli auain "liniircu. Another Slight Operation is Performed by Doctors on Roosevelt's Diseased Leg. A Washington dispatch says: Another operation was performed Sunday on the abscess on the left leg of President Roosevelt In tho former operation a simple needle was used to relieve the trouble, but this time the surgeons, with a knife made an incision into the.* small cavity, exposing the oone, which:was found to be slightly affected. The president's case has been progressing satisfactorily, but It is believed by the physicians that the further operation was made will hasten his complete recovery. While none of the doctors are willing to be quoted, they give the most positive assurances that there is not the least alarm, and say, on the contrary, there ic every Indication of a speedy recovery; that the area of the bone affected is very slight, and will not result in an impairment of the president's limb, and that there is no evidence whatever of any matter than would produce blood poisoning. They confidently expect that the president will bo on his feet within a reasonable time, and, with his robust constitution to assist recovery, soon will be himself again. Dr. Newton M. Shaffer, of New York, who long has been acquainted with the Roosevelt family, and has attended the president's children at various times, and who :s also a wellknown bone specialist, joined the president's physicians m their morning consultation at 10 o'clock. It was noticed that there had been a slight rise in tho president's temperature and an increase in local symptoms, and the conclusion was reached that the patient's recovery would be hastened by making an incision of the wound for the purpose of relieving the slight tension or swelling which was present, and also to drain the wound. The operation was performed between 2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon. An application of cocaine was used to allay the pain. The president stood the operation very well, and subsequently expressed his satisfaction at the successful result. Dr. Rixey, the surgeon general of the navy, performed the operation, assisted by Dr. Lung, the president's regular physician. RECEIVER IS ASKED FOR. Boston People File Bill In Equity Against Coal Barons. A committee of citizens, headed by the publishers of a Boston newspaper, Saturday sought relief in the courts from the present coal shortage and high prices by asking for a receiver for the coal companies and coal-carrying roads. A bill in equity was filed in the Massachusetts supremo court asking that a receiver be appointed for the benefit of all concerned upon such terms and in such manner, and with such agents and servants, and with such rates, of wages and other conditions of employment and at such prices for goods produced and sold as the court shall from time to time adjudge proper. ENGINEER DIED BRAVELY. While Pinned Down and Burning He' Talked With Those About Him, At least four and perhaps several more persons were killed by a freight wreck in the Union Pacific yards at Rawlins, Wyo., early Saturday. The engineer was pinned down by the end of the tank resting on his legs and for several hours he was conscious and carried on a conversation with members of the rescuing party, but he was finally overcome by heat from the engine and the burning cars about him. Kentucky Is Reimbursed. The comptroller of the currency has rendered a decision allowing Kentucky $120,860 in reimbursement of expenses incurred in raising and equipping volunteer troops for the war with Spain. ALGER FOR SENATE. Michigan Republicans Indorse Former Secretary of War. After a long and laborious session in Grand Rapids, in which more enthusiastic partisan strife was in evidence than has been seen in the councils of the republican party in that state for many years, the Michigan republican state con\ ntion Thursday indorsed the senatorial candidacy of General R. A. Alger, former secretary of war, and nominated William L. Carpenter, of Detroit, for justice of the supreme court, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Charles D. Long. LONDON WORRIED BY A "FAKE." Bogus News that Anarchists Were After Roosevelt. Great excitement was created in London Thursday evening by a story sent out by the Daiziel new? agency under a New York date saying It was supposed that an anarchist attempt on the Hfe of President Roosevelt was involved in the wreckage of the Golden Eagle hotel, at Washington. PROMINENT HOTEL MAN DEAD. Edward McKissick Passes Away Suddenly at Norfolk, Va. Edward P. McKissick, one of the best known hotel men in the country and manager of the Battery Park ho tel at Ashevillo. N. C., died suddenly at Norfolk, Va., Sunday morning, pro sumably from a stroke of apoplexy. Mr. McKissick was well known throughout the south and had hun dreds of friends who will be shocked to learn of his sudden death. I Ml AW BAU5 0AM3 I "lii Oaardian of Treasury Eiplains Present Money Situation. WILL TRY NO EXPERIMENTS I National Institutions Will Be Upheld I By Uncle Sam's Treasury I to Extend of Its j Ability. j Secretary of the Treasury Shaw { 'jj I gave out the following statement Thursday: j "Money once covered into the treasury (and this, of course, includes the I subtreasuries) cannot thereafter be I deposited in banks. All custom re* . ceipts are by law payable to the trea? ury and subtreasuries. The only fund if* I therefore, available for deposits In 'pM banks is internal revenue and misceilaneous receipts, before they hare been actually covered into the treasury. These amount to about half a million per day, and since the stringency arose to the fullest extent have been steadfastly returned to circuit tion. This policy will be continued . / '* from thirty to sixty days, if needed, and longer, if necessary. "In the meantime, national bank drculation has been increased about $7,- -yg 000,000, largely induced by the distribution of deposits, and the further increase to the amount of $8,000,000 Is ? assured. Algfl "All rumors of experiments have been unauthorized by the treasury dopartment. It Is to be hoped that the public will place no credence in v&ga-. -v^lajW ries started by irresponsible and aula- /^J|l teres ted men of the street. It is also ;jj|| hoped that the country will understand that the treasury department, to the fullest extent of its ability, will stand by the banks, east and west, |g north and south, and it is hoped also that the banks will stand by every business and every Interest that is worth protecting. "The only way to get money out at the treasury into circulation, after it has been actually covered In, is by the ^ payment of legal obligations of the government. These may be antic!-' pated. The department did anticipate i^|| the October interest. It now offers to anticipate all interest maturing between October 1 and the end of the 1U- % cal year, if presented within sixty days, at a rebate of two-tenths of 1 tsl per cent per month, which is at the |? rate of 2.4 per cent per annum. In other words, these obligations will be repaid at such a rate as to allow the government to profit thereby at 2.4 per cent per annum. The amount ma turing before June 30, 1903, is, in round figures, $20,650,000. The profit . to the government, if this offer shall ^ be accepted, will be, in round figure*, - k "There will be no experiments, tried, -M and no policy adopted until after ma- I /*. ture deliberation, and no feelers will y be sent out. Anything to the contrary ^ should be discrelited." Regarding the published report that J|| he had resigned, Secretary Shaw said: "I denied this rumor in Chicago. It would seem unnecessary to repudiate . ill? a story that has no author, and is built upon a false assumption and is en- ' larged upon simply to fill space. The president and the secretary of the treasury are in thorough harmony. Of this there need be no doubt, if the speeches made by the president and -yjjfl the secretary will be read and com- Jja pared instead of the head lines." * SUBSTITUTE FOR HENDERSON. V (own Republicans Fill Vacancy Caused by Speaker's Retirement ? Judge B. P. Birdsall, of Clarion. Ia^ was nominated for congress by the third district republican convention at Hampton Thursday. The third district is at present represented by the speak-, er of the national house, Hon. David B. Henderson, who recently declined ' a renomlnation. The platform Indorsee v, ^ the administration of President RooaeANOTHER TRY AT M0R08. ' Second Expedition to Dislodge Enemy is Sent Out from Camp.* According to a Manila dispatch a second expedition against the Moro 7'i position at Macin, island of Mindanao, ,-,^j left Camp Cicars Sunday. It is in command of Captain Pershing, of the Fifteenth infantry, and is composed of a battalion of infantry, a troop of caval- ~ :|3s ry, three sections of artillery and a detachment of engineers. The engineers will construct a pontoon bridge and a .' corduroy trail across the swamp, which flanks the land side of thie Mar ^ cin forts. This work will occupy sev- gS eral days. TO OUTWIT THE LAW. Nearo Murderer. Run Down by Blood hounds, Shoots Himself. The negro. George Caughman, who brutally murdered Ed Adams, a young white man, near Newberry, S. C., Tuesday morning, was captured by A posse Wednesday afternoon. When found by the dogs, the negro was lying in a clump of bushes, near ; ? his house, with two self-inflicted bullet wounds in his abdomen. ,'/3B ALGER GIVEN COMMISSION. % ^ His Appointment as Senator Signed by Governor of Michigan. A special from Detroit, Mich., says:^ J General R. A. Alger, former secretary of war, formally accepted Governor ^ a Eliss' tender of the ad interim appoint I ment as United States senator, and | Governor Bliss has signed General Alger's commission as senatorA