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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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