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*. :.V~. ?- v- * : v .. ..| The Bamberg Herald. f | ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 20.. 1903. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. - vjj TG PRISON FOR LIFE Is the Sentence Awarded in ; Cases of Jett and White. NO FEAR OF GALLOWS Verdict of Jury Was no Surprise and is Considered a Victory for the Defense?Motion for New Trial to Be Made. At Cynthiana, Ky., Saturday morning, the jury in the case of Curtis Jett and Thomas White, charged with the assassination of James B. Marcum at Jackson, returned a verdict of guilty, fixing .the punishment of each at life imprisonment. The verdict was renrKnn t Vi r\ra worn Knt fonr nor bUiix^u nu^u tuviw n v.* v vuv xv *? sons in the court room. Jett received the verdict with comparative indifference and calmness. White, who has been apparently under a severe strain during the trial, flush' ed tip and his eyes filled with tears. Attorney Golden, for the defense, stated that a motion for a new trial will be made as soon as possible. The general opinion seems to be that the motion will be overruled by the court of appeals. The verdict occasioned little surprise in Cynthiana after the deliberation of the jury had been so prolonged. The only question which caused the delay, it is said, was that of punishment?death or life imprisonment. "?he verdict on the whole is regarded as ja victory for the defense, as the ; prcisecution asked that no middle grciund be taken and that the men either go clear or be hanged. The case has been on trial almost three weeks, having been begun July 27. At the first trial at Jackson, the jury disagreed and it is believed the final verdict was a compromise with a juror opposed to capital punishment. The friends of Captain B. L. Ewcn and other witnesses lor the commonwealth who have suffered greatly and "were living in fear of their lives are greatly relieved. They expected the death penalty which they were confident would have been followed by confessions from the condemned men, exposing parties high in authority in Breathitt county who are considered to be back of the conspiracies. There have been twenty-seven lives lost within the past two years in the Hargis-Cockrill feud in Ereathitt county, . and this is the first conviction. No arrests or indictments had Leen made until last May, when the troops were ordered to Jackson to protect the grand jury and afterward the trial jury and witnesses. Jett is still under indictment for first degree murder for killing To*'ri Marshal Cockrill. Jett said Friday night the rope had never been made with which to hang him, but he made no/remarks. His friends say he will have a new trial, and even if he fails In that effort, he might be pardoned >n the course of time. The friends of the defendants showed such relief as io leave no doubt of their previous apprehensions of the death penalty. ~ OORBETT EASY FOR JEFFRIES.' Pugilistic Contest at 'Frisco Was Tame and of Short Duration. At San Francisco Friday night before an immense audience of the sporting fraterrflty, James J. Jeffries, champion heavyweight of the world, played with Jim Corbett for nine rounds and a half, and then Corbett's seconds motioned to Referee Graney to stop the in order to save their man from needless punishment. The end came shortly after the beginning of the tenth round, when Jeffries planted one of his terrible left swings on Corbett's stomach. Tho man who conquered John L. Sullivan dropped to the floor immediately and the/memorable scene at Carson City, Nevada, when Bob Fitzsimmons landed his solar plexus blow, was almost duifeicated. This: time, however, Corbett struggled to his feet and again faced his gigantic adversary. With . hardly a moment's hesitation, Jeffries " s\yung his right and again land9d on Corbett's stomach. Jim dropped to the floor. HORRORS REACH THE LIMIT. ? Bodies of Women and Children Choke River Near Monastlr, Macedonia. A dispatch from Sofia, Bulgaria says: The river near Monastir, Mace donia, is full of the mutilated bodies oi women and children who have beer massacred by Bashi Bazouks. A dispatch received Monday from Uskub says that 600 Bashi Bazouks under tho command of Albanian chiefs, who are notoriously cruel, pil laged and destroyed a number oi Christian villages in the districts oi Debra and Okrida. FOURTEEN STRIKERS SLAIN. So Says Russian Correspondent at ?r Kieff to the London Times. Fourteen strikers were killed and 3 hundred to a hundred and fifty wounded In a military onslaught which occurred in the vicinity of Kief?, according to a Russian correspondent of Toe London Times. The troops, he says fired several volleys into the strikers at close quarters. LASH OF WHITECAPS FATAL. Sheep Rancher Tied to Tree by Mob and Whipped to Death. Near Dupuyer, Mont., Friday night, fourteen masked men, supposed to be cattlemen, took a herder from the sheep camp of Joe Sturgeon and carrying him ten miles into the mountains^ tied nim to a tree and whipped him to death. They shot many of the herder's sheep and drove the remain * der away. A posse started in pursuit of the whitecaps. ? A GREAT NAVAL DISPLAY. Occurs Off Oyster Bay for Exclusive Purpose of Presidential Honors. Twenty-One Ships in Line. A dispatch from Oyster Bay says: Twenty-one warships drawn up in four parallel columns a mile long and including some of the best fighting ships of the United States navy, resting upon the glassy surface of Long Island Sound, composed the picture which lavspread out before President Rooseveit when he stepped out upon the veranda of his home at Sagamore Hill early Monday morning. Their brass work i1 shining under the sianting rays of the morning sun gave evidence that every ship was spick and span for this, tne first naval review* at the nation's summer capitol and probably the first ever held for the exclusive purpose of presidential honors. Commanded by Rear Admiral Bar, . ., .. _ -1 Ker ana tnreo otner naval officers cf similar rank, tne fleet, comprising two ! squadrons each of two divisions, besides a flotilla of torpedo boat destroyers, included a representative of nearly every type of fighting craft from the ponderous Illinois to the little destroyers. Two parallel columns of bat Ue8kip8 and cruisers headed by the Kearsarge, Rear Admiral Barker's flagship, flanked by files of destroyers, composing the North Atlantic fleet covered the placid sound for two miles off shore from picturesque Lloyds Neck and blockading the mouth of Oyster Bay presented a splendid marine spectacle abundantly suggestive of America's sea power. Clustered in the mouth of the bay rested the president's yacht, Mayflow er, Secretary Moody's official crait, the Dolphin, and Sir Thomas Lipton's beautiful steam yacht Erin, surround ed by a graceful fleet of steam and sailing vessels gathered to witness tue imposing ceremony when the president and the fleet officials exchanged salutes. . HEALTH BOARD FOR GEORGIA. Governor Attaches His Signature to In^jortant New Legislative Act. Governor Terrell, of Georgia, signed the state board of health bill Monday morning and expects to appoint the members of the ooard immediately. The bill provides for a board of eleven members, one from each congres sional district, with a secretary whose office shall be in the capitol. The secretary is to receive a salary of $2,000 a year and is ex-offlcio member of tne board. The board elects its own president. The members receive no salaries, but are paid $5.00 a day when actually in attendance on the meetings of the board. A majority are to De practicing physicians, and the secretary is required to be a physician. The board will have complete charge of health matters of the state, with authority to take such steps as are necessary to prevetn the spread oi contagious diseases. In view of the existence, at times, of smallpox, yellow fever, etc., the importance of the board becomes at once appr^ent. WOUNDED NINE OUT OF ELEVEN. Alabama Negro Protects His Water melon Patch with Shot Gun. News reached Heflin, Ala., Monday, that four men were killed and nme wounded in Randolph county Saturday afternoon hv a neero named Sledee. The trouble started over a difficulty in a watermelon patch. A party oi white men were working the public road near which Sledge has a watermelon patch and when the men fin ished working they asked permission to eat a few melons. Sledge told them to help themselves, but requested that they take care not to destroy the vines. As soon as the men got intc the patch they began to cut and slash melons in every direction, while Sledge looked on. The negro warned them to stop and then went after his gun. Returning he emptied the weap on into the crowd, wounding nine out of eleven men. Roumanla Prepares for War. A cable dispatch from Bucharest says: Acting War Minister Bratianc has ordered the government powdei factory and small arms ammunition depots to prepare large quantities oi ammunition immediately. % RUSSIA'S IRE IS KINDLED. Warships of Czar Nicholas Ordered to Sail for Turkish Waters. A squadron of the Russian Black sea fleet has been ordered to sail for Turkish waters. Notification of this move has been telegraphed from Sebastapol -to the Russian ambassador at Constantinople. The dispatch of the squadron is intended to emphasize Russia's intention of exacting complete compliance with * ? Atmn f r\f f h C> her demands as to sauaiwauu , murder, by a Turkish gendarme, 01 her consul at Monastir. CARROLL WRIGHT AS UMPIRE. To 8ettle Questions Between Pennsylvania Miners and Operators. At Birmingham Ala., Saturday, Judge Gray affirmed the appointment of Carroll D. Wright, of Washington, as umpire in the questions to be settled between the miners and operators in the Pennsylvania district. He forj warded the appointment to the concii- j iation committee. WITH THE PRISON COMMISSION, f The Mamie DeCris Case Failed to Get Before Georgia Legislature. An Atlanta dispatch says: The De- j Cris case is now in the hands of the Georgia state prison commission. - That body sent a report to the leg- j islature Wednesday, stating that on account of the great amount of testi-1 mony submitted during the investiga-1 tion by Warden Jake Moore, it would be impossible to transcribe it all before adjournment. The legislature j thereupon left the case In the hands j of the commission. _ _ . CRY FROM BULGARIA Appeal to Powers to Stop Butchery by Turks, HARROWING STORY TOLD Hundreds of Villages in Balkans Have Been Pillaged and Plundered and Christian Inhaoitnast Slaughtered Right and Left. The Eulgarian government has presented a memorandum to the powers setting out at great length the condition of affairs during the past three months in Macedonia since the Turk Isli government undertook to Inaugurate the promised reforms. The most precise details, dates, places and ames of persons are given in the memorandum, the whole constituting a terrible category of murder, torture, incendiarism, pillage and general oppression committed by the Ottoman soldiers and officials. These particulars were obtained entirely from official sources, such as the reports of the Bulgarian consuls and agents of the Bulgarian government, and,' in many instances, the reports made by Turkish authorities. Tne Bulgarian government guarantees the absolute truth of every statement and challenges the porte to disprove a single charge made in the memorandum, which begins by stating that during the past three months the Ottoman government has taken a series of measures with the alleged intention of inaugurating an era of promised reform and of assuring peace and tranquility to the Bulgarian population of European Turkey, but which have nad the contrary effect of further exasperating this population and reviving the revolutionary movement. Instead of proceeding solely against persons guilty of breaches of the public order, the military and civil authorities have sought every possible pretext to persecute, terrorize and ruin the Bulgarian inhabitants, alike in the large cities and in the small village.?. Wholesale Massacres. Wholesale massacres, individual murders, the destruction of villages and setting fire to houses, the arrests, ill-treatment, tortures, arbitrary Imprisonment and banishment, the closing and disorganizing of churches and schools, the flfning of merchants, the collection of taxes for many years in advance?such, proceeds the memorandum, are among the acts of the Ottoman administration of the vilayets of Salonica, Monastir, Uskub and Arrianople. The memorandum next relates in detail a number of such cases in each village. During the first three weews of July twenty-five villages in tbe district of Tikvesch were su ejected to the depredations- of the Turkish soldiers and Bashl-Bazouks. The cillagers -ror-i i)oV#>n nnd tortured, the women violated and the houses plundered wuiie tne administrative authorities looked on. In the ilayet of Monastir, artillery bombarded and razed the flourishing town of Smerdesch, the 300 houses being left a heap of ruins. At the beginning of July two Greek bands with the connivance of the authorities, pillaged Bulgarian villages and murdered many of their inhabitants. Altogether, the memoraudum gives particulars of no less than 131 individual and general cases of excesses and outrages committed by the Turkish authorities. In summarizing the specific details of the outrages menmamnronrlnm rl AT1] A TPS th.lt il/UCUj lliC mvrnui t*uuu*u xAw.w. wholesale massacres were perpetratod, by regulars and Bashi-Bazouks in the town of Salonica and the villages of Baldevo, Banitza, Techourilovo, Karbinza, Moghila, Smerdesch and Enidje, while the scene of carnage, pillage and incendiarism were everywhere terrible. Articles of Merger Filed, There was filed in the office of the secretary of state at Montgomery, Ala., Saturday articles of agreement of merger and consolidation of the Seaboard Air Line railway and Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad Company. IMMENSE MORTGAGE FILED. Seaboard Air Line Railway Plans to Secure Extensive Equipment. A $1,605,000 mortgage was filed in the office of the judge of probate, at Montgomery, Ala., Thursday by the Seaboard Air Line railway to the Guaranty Trust Company, of New York. The mortgage is to secure equipment to be furnished the road. Enormous Increase in Tax Values. Tax returns of counties to Comp- j x?onnnrai Wright of Georgia, al- ! II U11C1 ucuv.1 UI 1. . -0 , - - _ ready show an increar.e of more than j $22,000,000 in property values. J BIG BATTLESHIP DAMAGED. | Massachusetts Came In Contact With j Rock with Serious Results. Late Thursday a^-noon divers who had been examining the United States battle ship Massachusetts, which had her forward plates cracked while leaving Bar Harbor, Maine, in a fog Wed nesday, found that she was more seriously damaged than was at first thought to be the case, as the ship was settling aft as well as forward. TURKEY CALLS OUT TROOPS. Ottoman Ruler Prepares to Put Down the Revolution in Macedonia. An important irade has been issueu at Constantinople, calling out fitly two additional battalions of troops (about 52,800 men) from the European prov inces of Turkey, in consequence of the spread of the insurrection in M-ac-edo nia. These troops comprise twenty battalions of reserves of the first class from the Adrianople and Salonica army corns. I 4 NEW ARMY REGULATIONS.1 General Young Quits Command and j | Assumes Duties of Chief of Staff. Secretary Root Issues Orders. Saturday Secretary of War Root promulgated an order defining the du- ! ties of the general staff of the army, which went into effect under the law on that day. The most important feature of the order is that in relation lo the duties of the chief of staff. On j this point the secretary says: "Under the act of February 14, 1903, the command of the army of the United States rests with the constitutional commander in chief, the president. The president will place parts of the army and separate armies whenever constituted, under commanders suber- j dinate to his general command; and, ^ in case of exigency seeming to him Lo require it, he may place the whole ar- 1 my under a single commander- subor- I dinate to him; but in time of peace ' and under ordinary conditions tne an- i ministration and control of the army are effected without any second in command. "The president's command is exercised through the secretary of war and the chief of staff. The secretary of : war is charged with carrying out the 1 policies of the president in military af- ! fairs. He directly represents and ts J bound always to act in conformity to the president's instructions. Under .he law and the decisions of the supreme court his acts are the president's acts, and his directions and orders are the president's directions and orders. "The chief of staff reports to the secretary of war, acts as his military adviser, receives from him the directions and orders given in behalf of the president, and gives effect thereto in the manner hereafter provided. "The chief of staff is detailed by the president from officers of the army at large, not below the grade of brigadier general. The successful performance of the duties of the position requires what the title denotes?a relation of absolute confidence and personal accord, and sympathy between the chief of staff and the president, and necessarily also between the chiof of staff and the secretary of war. For this reason, without any reflection whatever upon the officer detailed, the detail will in every case cease, unless sooner detailed, on the day following the expiration of the term of office of the president by whom the detail is made; and if at any time the chief of staff considers that he can no longer sustain toward the president and the secretary of war the relations above described, it will be his duty to apply to be relieved." New Officers of General Staff. Two general orders were also issued by General Young as chief of staff of the army under the new law. The first stated that in compliance wiih the instructions of the president, he, General Young, relinquishes command of the army and assumes the duties of chief of staff. The second order announced the assignment of officers of the general staff as follows: Assistants to chief of staff, Major General Henry C. Corbin, adjutaut general. Brigadier General William H. Caster, Brigadier General Wallace F. Randolph, chief of artillery. War College Board?Brigadier General Tasker H. Bliss, president; Col> nel Alexander Maykin, secretary; Colonel William P. Hall, assistant adjutant general, is designated acting adjutant general of the army. Heretofore all army orders have been issued from the headquarters of the army, adjutant general's office, oy command of the lieutenant general. Hereafter orders will be issued direct from the war department, signed by the chief of staff and Inscribed "Official, W. P. Hall, acting adjutant gen?,j ci ai. WHEAT GOES TO ONE DOLLAR. That Price Again Reached on 'Change at Minneapolis, Minnesota. "Dollar wheat" was at last seen on 'change at Minneapolis Friday for the first time since the Leiter corner. It was cash wheat, and there were sales at that figure. Later $1.02 was asked and $1.01 bid, with no sales. The September option touched 85, the highest point in fourteen years. TOMMY IS NOT SATISFIED. Mayor of Cincinnati Has a Little Convention of His Own.The faction favoring Mayor Tom L. t Johnson for governor held in Cincinnati, Friday night, what was called "an adjourned democratic convention of Hamilton county." Delegates to the state convention were selected who are expected to favor Mayor Johnson for the nomination for governor. The delegates selected by the previous convention are in favor of John L. Zimmerman, of Springfield, tor the nomination. TURKEY WARNED BY BRITAIN. Ottoman Ruler Advised to Stop Reign of Bloody Butcheries. According to advices from Constantinople the British ambassador nas called the attention of the porte to the serious situation in Macedonia. He I ?that p-mvo conseuuences puiiitcu D may attend fresh murders of consuls or subjects. The ambassador had an audience with the sultan Friday. IT "BURNED" ALL RIGHT. Two Dead Men and Others Hurt in I Test of a Keg of Powder. A keg of powder exploded at the entrance of the North Alabama Coal and Iron Company's mine, at Coal City, Ala., Thursday morning, with the tesult that two men are dead and several injured. The explosion occurred while one of the men who was killed, was testing a handful of powder to see whether or not it would burn. t ? CONGRESS TO MEET! In Extraordinary Session in October or November. TWO OBJECTS IN VIEW To Make Operative the Cuban Reciprocity Treaty and Enact, if Possible, Some Needed Financial Legislation. A special from Oyster Bay says: President Roosevelt's conference Wednesday night with the members of the onK Artm I tf a a f V* ? r a t/\ fl ? nn /%/% o u U'v^ v-rixi JLia i ilcc ui iuc ociiaiu committee was not concluded until the small hours of Thursday morning. The whole subject of financial legislation at the approaching session of congress was discussed thoroughly. The committee did not present even a tentative draft of a currency bill to the president, although some propositions which, subsequently may be embodied in the measure, were reduced to concrete form, no definite conclusions as to the shape of the proposed legislation were reached. The conference related rather to methods of procedure in the work at hand, rather than to the form of legislation. At 11 o'clock some of the members left Sagamore Hill for Senator Aldrich's home in Rhode Island. One fact of distinct importance was developed at the conference. While an extraordinary session of congress next fall is assured, it has not been determined whether It will be called to meet in October or November. It has been supposed that the extraordinary session would convene Monday, November 9, but the indications now are that it will be called perhaps several weeks earlier. The primary purpose of the extraordinary session will be to enact legislation making operative the Cuban reciprocity treaty, but financial legislation also will be pressed upon the attention of congress after it convenes. It can be said that the senate finance committee will dra*t no measure formally and conclusively until consultations have been held with other members of the senate, democrats as well as republicans, with members of Hie house and with the best authorities on finance in the country. It is the desire of the committee to be constantly in touch with the president, with other .senators, wun meuiuera ui cue uuuao, with bankers of the west as well as those of the east, and with country bankers as well as city bankers, 30 that some plan of legislation may be formed by the opening of the extraordinary session of congress. It is the hope of the committee, to devise a genuinely elastic currency system?a system that will expand when necessity shall arise and contract when the necessity shall have ceased to exist. Senator Aldrich, when asked wi.h reference to the visit, said: "We talked with tne president about financial conditions and the need of legislative changes. No bill has beon drafted or agreed on and none will be until after the fullest consultation with our democratic associates of the sub-committee and all the members if the finance committee. It is, however, our purpose to have 5 bill in readiness for presentation to the senate at the beginning of the extra session, if one shall be called in October or November. We are hopeful that a bill can be agreed upon and reported that will receive the approval of both houses of congress and afford prompt and efficient relief to the business interests of the whole country." FUNDS OF LEO FOUND. Late Pontiff Had a Large Sum of Ready Cash Laid Away. A dispatch from Rome says: Monsignor Cagiano, the major domo, ac nompanied by Cardinals Rampolla and Mocenni, opened the apartment of Pope Leo Thursday afternoon, breaking the seals put on at the time of the pontiff's death. They found a considerable, amount of money, it is stated, several millions of francs, besides other valuables. FISHING VESSEL RIDDLED. Caught Poaching in Canadian Waters and Badly Shelled by Gunboat The Sliver Spray, a fishing boat owned at Erie, Pa., arrived in port Wednesday afternoon in a badly shattered condition, due to an encounter in midlake about noon, with the rCanadian | revenue cutter Petrel. The captain of the Petrel, wben he saw that the Silver Spray was trying to get away, opened fire with all the guns he had on board, and before he ceased firing some twenty shots had struck the Silver Spray. ? YELLOW JACK IN MEXICO. Texas Authorities Adopt More Rigor OUS nun VI wumaaik.iivi In view of the appearance of the yellow fever at Victoria, Mexico, about 70 miles from Monterey, on the line of the Monterey and Gulf railway, the quarantine against the yellow fever | I established at Laredo, Texas, has been I made more rigorous by the appointment of an additional force of guards by the state authorities. BIG MONEY FOR PUGILISTS. Jeffries Gets $33,723 and Corbett $10,910 for Their Little "Scrap." According to the official count, 10, 669 people viewed the contest between Corbett and Jeffries at San Francisco Friday night. The gross receipts amounted to $622,340. Of this sum the fighters received 70 per cent, or $43,628, which was divided 75 per cent ro the winner and 25 per cent to the loser. For his victory, Jeffries is enriched to the extent of $33,728, while Corbett gets $10,910. |iiiiiti1*1iiiiii********* ICream of News.? Brief Summary of Most Important Events of Each Bay. ..?Dock laborers at Brunswick have demanded an increase of two and a half cents an hour in wages and a strike is probable. ?Lewis Wiggins, last survivor of the cruiser Shenandoah, that sailed the seas under confederate colors for nine months after war ended, and who died Saturday, was buried at Columbus, Ga., Sunday. ?Raleigh, N. C., will vote on dispensary question on September 5. ?Citizens of Florence, S. C., in. mass meeting declared a boycott on the products of the tobacco trust. ?Alabama legislature reconvenes on the first Tuesday in September. ?The president and his famny Sunday morning attended divine services on board the battleship Kearsarge. ?President Roosevelt Sunday afternoon addressed a gathering of Catholics1 at Oyster Bay on decency of speech and conduct. ?Justice David Brewer, in an article on lynching, says that speedy action by the courts would have a tendency to allay the mob spirit. ?At Washington the opinion prevails that, owing to the differences among republicans, there will be no financial legislation at the extra session of congress. ?Statistics show that the deaths among the negroes in cities far exceed the births. The urban nepro population is decreasing, except as it is increased by arrivals from the country. ?A petition has been forwarded from Panama to the Colombian congress urging the passage of the canal treaty. ?Because he was socially snubbed by Reina Castillo, President Cabrera, of Guatemala, has thrown me former into prison. ?The Bulgarian government has presented a memorandum to the powers charging the Turks with unspeakable atrocities in the disturbed districts of the Balkans. ?Albany, Ga.( officials deny the published story of the lynching of a white man and a negro at Hartsfleld for assaulting a white woman. ?The two boys from Atlanta and Savannah, Ga., who were shanghaied and shipped aboard a South American Reamer, will be detained at Santos, Brazil, by the American consul. ?Fifteen negro prisoners make their escape from jail at Wasnington, N. C ?Tennessee will have an exhibit ot her products' at the World's fair in St. Louis. ?A. E. Batson was executed at Lake Charles, La., Friday, for the murder of a family of six persons. ?Coal and coke company of BirI mlnorhnm Alo cv^lrl nmnprfv tn 8 VW vrv. v - ? ? Pennsylvania company. ?Forty-nine lashes were laid on the bare back of a negro, 23 years old, by his father, at police station in Macon, Ga. The fellow was given the preference of term of chaingang or whipping. He chose the latter. His father did the whipping. ?Secretary Root has issued a statement in regard to the duties of the chief of staff. ?Jett and White were convicted of the murder of Attorney Marcum and sentenced to life imprisonment. ?In an address at Dixon, Ills., Federal Judge Grosscup declared that the governornment must supervise monopolies in oi-der to save the nation. ?The British parliament has been prorogued. There was nothing in King Edward's speech of special Interest. ?The Turkish gendarme who killed the Russian consul at Monastir has been executed in obedience to the request of the czar. ?Announcement is made in New York of the merging of Seaboard Air Line railway gvstem with Rock Island and 'Frisco interests. ?The dreaded Mexican boll weevil has at last crossed to this side of the Mississippi river and much apprehension is felt. ?The Georgia legislature adjourned its summer session at 6:30 o'clock Wednesday evening amidst great re joicing. ?The West Indies cyclone, which swept the island of Jamaica last Tues day, did fearful work in tne destruction of life and property. ?Before adjournment, Wednesday, the Georgia house, of representatives agreed to senate amendments to the convict bill, and the measure is no* up to the governor. ?Two negroes attacked five white men in Greenville county, South Carolina. One of the white men is dying and the other four were slightly wounded. ?An American fishing smack was caught poaching in Canadian waters Wednesday and was badly shelled by a Dominion gunboat ?The Georgia legislature and Governor Terrell take up the whipping of Mamie DeCris, a young woman convict at the state prison farm, and order investigation. ?Experts declare that the will r.f ihe late G. W. Collier, of Atlanta, Ga., is an impression copy and other start I ling testimony is given. I j ?Baron Speck Von Sternberg, whom Roosevelt greets as "Speckie, old boy,' was received by the president at Oys ter Bay Friday. Baron Speck appealed in full court costume. ?The Georgia Dairymen's Associa tion adjourned at Athens Wednesday to meet at Tallulak Falls next year. ?Two negroes, convicted of high way robbery, were executed at Bit mingham, Ala, Friday. ?A fight between Croatan Indians and negroes is reported from Kortb Carolina. Several of the combatants _ |t5Tnews of a week 'f i in south carolina. i 4-H-H4WH4M I I I ry-n I T f M' New Industries Established. The Chattanooga Tradesman reports the following new industries established in South Carolina during the past week: 'Charleston, $1,000,000 refinery; $30,000 bottling works, $30,000 compress and warehouse company; Pendleton, $65,000 cotton mill; Manning, telephone company, naval stores company. Three Killed by Lightning. Sarah Polite, colored, and two children were killed by lightning at Brogdens, in Sumter county. The woman was in the act of closing a window when killed The infant in her arms was knocked across the room and seriously injured, but is alive today. The other children were on the opposite side of the room. * Recruiting Office Kept Busy. The United States recruiting office is doing a rushing business at Spartanburg. One day the past week they sent seven recruits away to different stations. They have been in the city more than a month, but secured more men than they had for the previous time altogether. The rush is because of the closing down of tne cotton mills, it is? thought. A "Peeping Tom" Flogged. Twice within two weeks Charlie Stark, a young negro man from Georgia, nad been at the window of a beautiful young woman in the Sharon section of Abbeville county, evidently for an evil purpose. He called the young woman's name in a low voice, and when she heard him she called her brother, who slept in an adjoin) room, and the negro fled. I The second time he came the men of the neighborhood gave chase. He was overtaken at the Turkey Hill place, near the Island ford, over Little river, on the Savannah side of the county. The determination was to kill him at once, but some of the older men of the pursuing party prevailed upon the crowd to let him off with a whipping. Procuring a buggy trace, they laid upon his back 210 lashes. * ? Every Cent Accounted For. The work of the relief committee appointed by the mayof of Spartanburg to handle the funds and give relief lo A * 1 v.. t AaaHQ mose wno suuereu uy me icvwi Uwuu In the ficinity is done and the committee haa been discharged. The work was completed when checks for the amount remaining in the treasury were mailed out to farmers whose crops were destroyed along the streams. This was decided to he the best way to dispose of the remaining funds after all suffering had been relieved, and no actual want any longer existed: Each farmer received an amount proportionate to his loss, and the amount of funds on hand, ranging from $5 to $30 each. According to the report of the treas urer of the committee, the receipts were as follows: Subscriptions from out of town, $21,454.98; subscriptions from Spartanburg, $4,543,29. Tot U, $25,998.27. The principal disbursements were: Relief committee at Clifton, $10,600; relief committee at Pacolet, $2,890; relief committee at Glendale, $1,000; telief committee at Fingerville, $500; relief committee at Whitney, $500. The committee did a good work and deserves the thanks and appreciation, of the people. I * Boycott Against Tobacco Trust v To offset the tobacco trust, which it is stated is responsible for the almost ruinous price now received by the tobacco growers of South Carolina, the citizens of Florence county held a mass meeting a few days ago in which they declared war on the tobacco trust. After perfecting a permanent l organization, these resolutions were adopted: "Resolved, That we will not purchase any manufactured tobacco 01 cigars put on the market by the tobacco trust, or any other goods manufac-1 tured by trusts where others manufactured by independent concerns can be purchased instead, regardless of any drop in price on the part of the trusts. "2. That the chairman of this organization appoint a committee of three to visit all the merchants of Florence to urge them not to purchase or soil ' any trust manufactured tobacco or ' other trust goods where others can be 1 purchased. "3. That the chairman appoint a committee of three to prepare a complete list of all tobacco products manufactured by the trusts and that this 1 list be given to the press. "4. That the chair appoint a com- 1 mittee of three in each township in 1 this organization. "5. That this meeting urge on all ' other communities to perfect organizations looking to co-operation with us on these lines. "6. That a committee be appointed by the chair to confer with the merchants of Florence looking to make ar rangements to procure the sale of oil J from Independent companies." 1 8ERENADERS DISAPPOINTED. i ( Colored Band Made Futile Attempt t< i Serenade President Roosevelt 1 In a driving rain storm Wednesday afternoon a brass band composed ol colored boys from the Jenkins orphanage at Charleston, S. C., marched ^ from the village of Oyster Bay to Sagamore Hill, about three miles, to serenade the president and his family. The band did not reach the president's < residence, being turned back to Oys- , ter Bay by the secret service office* j on duty. t ft you have something to sell, left the people know It An advertisement * In will do the work. TREATY REJECTED -J '&M Colombia Refuses to Ratify J the Canal Convention. VOTE WAS UNANIMOUS. 'M Details of Congressional Action art Meagre?Presider.* Roosevelt Disappointed, But is Silent News in Washington. ||3 Advices from Bogota state that the Panama treaty has been rejected nqSr Wm nimously by the Colombian congress. ' It is reported that President Marro- JjSB quin has been authorized by congress <3* w uiane a now ueai/ wxucu WIU uOv ri:/^0 require further ratification, but that |B the basis given for the treaty wOI probably prove unacceptable to the .United States. 3; It is considered, however, In officlfl circles, according to reliable Inforptar''^ ^ tion, that the authorization given by, >vl| congress to make a new treaty will furnish a basis for reopening jpegotia* . 3^ tions with the United States. If appears that one of the objection# to the ratificaion of the reaty which carried weigh in the senate was that ::M the Panama Canal Company did not 3 come to a previous arrangement with 3 the Colombian government for the | transfer of the concession. Upon the return of the president to | Sagamore Hill Monday evening fro?L^ % reviewing the fleet he found awaiting - | him there information of the rejecttos ;' 3 by the Colombian senate of the Pamv-Jj ma canal treaty. While he naturally is disappointed at the action of congress, he does not desire at this time to make any comments upon it J Washington Advised. .. '' A cablegram dated August 12, was received at the state department Mon- ^ day from Minister Beaupre, *t Bo- \ gota, saying that the Panama canal treaty has been rejected by the' lomblan senate. Very little additional information concerning the action of the Colom- ! bian senate could be obtained at the ' state department. Mr. Adee, acting-|| 3 secretary of state, would not discus# Colombian affairs, nor indicate what course the tJnited States would pur- ' ^ Section 4 of the L t' mian canal act v ^ provides that should the president be unable to obtain .satisfactory title to the property of the new Panama Canal - Company and control of the necessary " territory and the rights necessary to the construction of the canal from the I republic of Colombia, he shall make , the necessary treaties with Costa Rica and Nicaragua and proceed with the construction of a canal by the Nicaraguan route. Reasons for Rejection. The reason given for the rejection of ja the treaty by the Colombian senate,: it is said here, was the alleged encroach- ^ ment on Colombian sovereignty which '-"M its opponents contend would remi&^| i from the treaty. This information P was contained in a dispatch recebrsd Monday night by Dr. Herran, the lombian charge at Washington, from Foreign Minister Ricos, at Bogota* | This dispatch showed that in its jure* I ent form the treaty was absolutely acceptable to the senate for the reason above stated, and that it had been re- - , jected unanimously. Incidental to"fhe >^ general question of sovereignty nechsj|^^H toooo nf Oio Rtrin WOrO Uiai Vt iVUUV VJ. w ? of land through which the canal was ^ to be constructed and the debate to ^J|| the Colombian senate indicated that that body regarded this as amounting to a sale of the land and therefore Objectionable. When the treaty was sub- -|j| mitted to the senate by the committee to which it had ueen referred, seven of $1 the senators favored it with certain amendments which they proposed, and the remaining two opposed it abfco- . 'W& An interesting feature of the wh$le debate in the Colombian senate and to y the committee's report favoring the : treaty Is said to be the entire absence ^ of reference ta.tie question of indemnity offered by the United Stats* for $? the right of way. NOAKES AGAIN STAR WITNE8S. || 8ays Caleb Powers Suggested an Edsy Way to Kill Goebel. At Georgetown, Ky., Monday,\ Bnbk* ert Noakes, who three years agotojm:. first trial of Caleb Powers was sational witness, but who ran wRu| \ from Kentucky after leaving the s appeared as a witness for the common- pBjj Noakes said that James Flnley, ex- is 1 secretary of state, said to him tltat the moving of a large buncn oi vyan to Fraiikfort was too expend vet that the best way to settle the contest.was> to pay James Howard $2,000 to kill KAN8A3 CITY AGAIN FLOOOED. ' "HI River Higher Than Any Time 8<nce f Great Freshet in June. Jk Beats are again being used to traps- mm port persons between the two Kansas ' Citys, says a special of Monday. The JH James street bridge and the Metropolitan Street Railway Company's bridge 'Wt ever the Kansas river having been carried out by the strong current JThe *] river is higher than at any time since the June flood. - * c-lfes WEEVILS MOVING EA8T. Cotton Pests from Mexico and Texas Cross the Mississippi River. ' The Mexican cotton boll weevil baa - *fl crossed the Mississippi river. It has nade Its appearance in the cotton bong grown at the United States agri- ^ cultural department experiment 'sta- M ion at New Orleans. ^ There have been numerous reportn^JijM >f the appearance of the weevil east; ' i )f the river before this, but All of them fftre tpiud to be without foundation. M