The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 18, 1904, Image 2
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UNREST.
BY rLOBEXCE EAKLE COATES.
*v. ilan that will not be beguiled
Like a fond and happy child
'. From his toil or iuti'e strife.
Feels within his bosom burning
All the deep, impassioned yearning
5&- Woven in the woof of life.
And though far, with weary feet.
He may wander, man shall meet
.no content until lie conicSoon
or late, his f.ite compelling?
To love's domed and star-lit dwelling,
For he has no other homo. I
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I COMRADES OF
I 1 VIRGINIA. S
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Bfe'i'* " OAs M?? !
S&&V S?o x
| a^Qigj^f^ic^ILLIAIiD turned courteous- j
ly at Lyuia Denniug's j
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* M ? summons.
1 "Will you he so kind as
^ *010191018** to run up to Tod's den and
get tlie book*:*' she asked. "Then we
can settle tke question.'' milliard ncp?
cepted tlie commission, as befitted
Ted's friend and a fellow who was
often at the house. He went up stairs
and knocked at the door of the den.
Expecting no response, he immediately
pushed it open. At the same moment
|?.. a head with a mop of brown curls
tied into a bunch at the back lifted
itself from above a big book, a pair
of brilliant brown eyes looked up into
Hilliard's, and Virginia's face broke
W into a smile as he stood smiling back.
"Uii, come in," sue cried. "Why are
you up here? Aren't you having a
good time?"
"A charming time," he answered
without hesitation, for Virginia was
the younger daughter of the house.
"Why are you not down stairs? When
are you'going to be old enough to come
to Miss Lydia's parties?"
"Never, I hope." declared the girlish
ah, red lips scornfully. "Do you really
like them? They sound so stupid to
t ine. Think of staying in the house to
dance when you might be out coasting
?just come in. Such fun!"
' Hilliard sat down upon the arm of
Ted's big chair. "Tell me about it," he
requested. "In the first place?who
took you?"
Virginia closed her book and came
around to drop among Ted's sofa pillows,
six feet away. She wore her
skating dress yet, he saw?an anklelength
fur-bordered, gray affair, with
, a touch of scarlet, which set off her
dark young beauty effectively.
"Oh, I went with our set," she exf'g:.
claimed. "It was magnificent. I
' shouldn't have made Kent bring me
in so early if I hadn't forgotten all
about Lydia's party."
j.; "But, really," he insisted, "when are
| you 'coming out'?"
"Why, that is a thing that's dependent
on several others," declared the
girl. "In the first place. I'm in no
hurry. In the second place, Lydia's in
no " She stopped abruptly, looking
> up <ti uiiu \>iiu a Miuae ui ilie neau.
"I don't mean that," she added
* quickly.
p Hilliard nodded. "I understand. I
&' ? was sure you must be?well, nearly
eighteen, at least."
"I am?nineteen?at most," she ada
^ mitted. "If I should put my hair up,
you'd see."
"And they're keeping you back on
your sister's account?"
"That's all right," she said defiantly.
"It does make a girl seem older to
have a big younger sister around.
f And, besides, I really want to stay a
girl as long as I can. I hate to put
my hair up and my skirts quite down.
I don't care a stra^* for dressing up
and going to receptions and teas and
parties. Lydia loves it. I love coasting
and skating and riding, and swimming.
and all the rest of it."
"So do I." he said heartily, "and it's
a long while since I was nineteen."
She looked at him critically. "Yes. I
should think you must be about thirtyfive.
No, you can't be. because you I
iwere at college with Ted."
Hn lmio'lirwl "Vni- .miio tJiit " V>n i
said. "It won't be long before I am,
though. But I should like coasting as
.well as ever. I wish I had been out
with?your "pari j"?to-night. It's years
SQCo.rve_coasted.'^ . ? *>? ' -w^-.
VVirginia's eyes Turned Jonglngly toward
the windows. "It's a heavenly
night/' she said. ''Let's go!'' She
looked at him. smiling daringly.
He stared at her for a minute, then
he leaned to his feet with a laugh.
"Come on." he cried, under his breath.
"There's nothing I'd like to do better.
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But how shall we manage it?''
"I didn't really mean it." said Virginia.
"but if you do we might liavtjust
one coast, and nobody would mis.you.
We'll slip down the side staircase,
and Luoiau's bobs are wh'cre we
can get them."
"I'll tell you." said Hilliard rapidly, j
his eyes dancing. 'I'll just take thi?: \
book down to your sister, mix in the j
crowd, slip away in ten minutes, and j
then we'll be free?see?"
This plan was carried out. The two
stole silently away from the house, and
in ten minutes more were at the suburban
hill, where a few jovial coasters
still lingered.
"Can you steer?" demanded Virginia.
"Unless I've grown old faster than
I feel as if I had. I can?sure."
lie took his place, she started the
bobs, and flung herself 011 behind them.
It was a long, swifr. breathless fiighv.
and then they stood at the bottom and
locked at each other, laughing.
They sailed down the hill again attd
aji'ain, until Virginia realized the dar
I lug or this unauthorized, unchnperoned j
performance. Milliard never liatod to
! do anything: in lus life so much as he j
| hated to put up those hobs and go in.
; lie lingered in the shadow of the side j
; entrance. Ho pulled off his glove and j
; held out his hand.
j "It's the best fun I've had in a dozen '
I blue moons." ho said, enthusiastically. ]
C!-rv ii,-i.iiTiw1 c">ii?;n?v 11 rat-iinoil I
her hand for a moment, then lie gently j
i drew off the scarlet silk mitten.
"I uon't like to shake hands with a
i good comrade with gloves on,*' lie ex- ,
| plained. She let him have the warm, '
j tirm little hand a moment?a very ;
! short one?then drew it demurely !
away.
j 'Good night, Mr. Hiliiaru," she said, j
"I've enjoyed it. too.''
"Miss Virginia." lie urged, taking a !
.step after her. "I've a favor to ask !
of yon. Couldn't you?wouldn't yonr '
sister be willing for you to appear at j
her evenings now?"
"This is nicer?and so is all the rest :
of my world. Lyuia's too much in- j
doors. I don't like to wear my best !
clothes, Mr. Hilliard."
"Try it. It's iuoro fun than you !
think. Come down next time?please, {
Miss Virginia. I can't grow young |
again, and get back into your world, j
You can put up your bail* and put on '
a trailing skirt and?come inro my !
world. Miss Virginia "
"I really must go." She was on the |
top step, her hand on the door. But 1
she could not escape liim. He was at
her side in two leaps.
"I should like to be in the same j
world with you," he said rapidly. |
"Miss Virginia, come down next time? j
Trill roii ? Tf- \rill iiict moiin tlirit vnil I
are willing to be friends?comrades? t
in the same world.. You don't know i
liow long I've been waiting for 30U
to get old enough for that."
She was gone before the words were
fairly finished. Presently he was back j
in the hot rooms and the crowd, a faint '
flush on his smooth cheek, and a singu. j
lar sparkle in his eyes.
"When at last Lydia entertained j
again, Hilliard found himself entering i
the crowded rooms at the Dennings i
with a quicker pulse than any social I
affair had ever caused him. As the
evening drew to a close and no Vir- j
ginia came, he blamed himself for an j
unwary hunter who had been follow- |
ing his game down the wind.
"Louis," said Ted Denning's voice in \
his ear, just as he had made up his ,
mind to go dejectedly home, "come up j
to my den for a minute, will you??or ,
?you run up first, and I'll be along, i
I've something I want to show you."
Willingly enough, Hilliard escaped j
to seek the familiar spot. He opened
the door unceremoniously?and stopped
with a rush of warm blood to his
heart. With a little cry of discomfitted
surprise, Virginia tried to pass :
him, but his tall, broad-shouldered ;
C1I..1 J.I.. J ~ s\ C+/-.0/1 !
Ilglil C UlitM llit' liuyI H UJ , iinu uc oiui/u |
determinedly still.
But was this Virginia?this lovely .
woman with the blushing face, the ;
sweet bare neck and arms, the trailing j
white garments? A transformed and i
glorified Virginia, then! He stared j
at her, a joyful smile breaking over
his grave face. But with her head ;
bent down and turned aside, her hands j
hurriedly pulling a filmy scarf over }
her shoulders, she was imploring like (
a frightened child who has been caught
at mischief.
' Please let me go by, Mr. Hilliard. :
I was not going down stairs?really I
was not. I just dressed up for fun-for?for
Ted to see. I?it was just for
fun "
"You didn't do ft for me, then?" ! ,
He would not stand aside an inch, j
He felt with a thrill that her sudden j
intense shyness was far more signifi-? j
cant than her appearance down stairf j
would have been. The thought swepi j
him off his feet.
"I always liked to dress up," shs '
breathed. "It's a childish trick."
"You told me you hated your besl !
clothes."
"I do!"?vehemently.
4*Then why did you put them on?"
"I?you?Mr. Hilliard!" She raised,
her head and tried to meet his look
with dignity, but the lashes fell beforo i
the light in his eyes.
"Virginia"?he took a step forward j
aud bent to whisper the words?'"you !
did do it for me, oniy you didn't dare j
come down. Tell me, wasn't it so'? j '
lou were Wining ro ue comruues ant-i j
ail?just comrades for a while, Vir* j
glala?till you gjd used to it," lie addec\
under his breath. * -"
Ted's step was on the stairs. Hiilistrd
turned and closed the door behind
him: he set his foot against it?
Virginia looked up appealingly?anrt
found herself fee one breathless mo
merit in his arms.
"Just comrades?till you get used to ,
it. darling," he repeated softly, "ai:*i
then, more?more 7
Hollo, old man!" called Tod, outside.
"Did you hud it:"
"Yes. I found it," answered hi?
friend's voice, with a happy laugS,
"Come in."?Washington Times.
"Wool For Paper.
It has been estimated that nine nor-'
eis had a total sale of 1,000.000 copiers
This means two million pounds &'
paper. We are assured by a mantifao"
furor of paper that the average sprue ?
tree yields a liiile less than half %
cord of wood which is equivalent t ?
l.,,,,.",.., 1 *2 r,f II!!!!#!' T t
ii'% t' Uliiiva va . - .
ciiier words. these nine novels swef'c
uway four thousand trees.
The Oil Industry.
The recent report of Dr. t\ T. Denn?\
that the total output of the California
oil wells last year amounted to oveV
113.000,000 barrels only partially repri'*
seats the important influence and value
of the industry. Its true significance ii
pointed out by J. W. Harrison, a prominent
Indianapolis coal dealer, who says
it practically displaces 0,000,000 tons
of ccal as fuel.
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SOUTH CAROLINA J
fe STATE NEWS ITEMS. *
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CsJfsJCNJtMCMCNJC N?8-T si
Handsome Church Completed.
The handsome new Baptist church
at Spartanburg, costing $50,000. which
has been in progress of construction
for over a >ear, will be formally opened
for public worship about September
1st. The pastor of the church is
Rev. Lev/is M. Rcper. There is a mem
bership of GOO.
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New South Carolina Industries.
The Chattanooga Tradesman report;;
the following new industries projected
in this stare during the past week:
Hartsville, $12,000 coffin and furniture
facrorv; $10,000 hardware company;
Biskopville, $25,000 building and
loan company; Saley, $2'5,000 oil mill.
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Awaiting Bank .Report.
At Spartanburg bankers are very
much interested in tile forthcoming
report of the comptroller general,
which is now about completed. The
report in question deals with the conditions
of banking in South Carolina
and the progress- c? the institutions.
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Gave Life to Save Sister.
V/Tiec Pmma T.flirrt the eldest dailffh
ter of John Laird ,a well known contractor
of Aiken, was drowned recently
in the surf at Sullivan's Island,
while attempting to save her younger
sister.
The younger girl was unconscious
when brought ashore, but was resuscitated
after hard work.
Miss Laird was spending the summer
on the island, and was very popular
and highly esteemed. She was 22
years of age.
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Preparing Final Report.
The committee which has in charge
the movement looking to retaining the
Presbyterian seminary in Columbia is
preparing its final report for presentation
before the South Carolina synod
at the next meeting of that body in
Columbia. The Tennessee Presbyterians
have entered the fight and want
the semina-v moved to that state. Atlanta
also is contending for the institution.
The South Carolina members of the
denomination feel that with the already
many legal complications in the
way, the college bids fair to remain in
Columbia permanently, or at least for
a good many years to come.
Converse in Good Shape.
The annual meeting cs the board
of trustees of Converse College at
Spartanburg was held at the college
a few days ago.
The reports showed the college to be
In splendid condition. In fact, never
before in the history of the institution
have these annual reports beeen so
satisfactory as to results accomplished.
The year just passed marked the
greatest prosperity in the college's
history. The revenues have been greatly
increased, and extensive buildings
and improvements have been carried
out and some are under way.
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To Consolidate Offices.
As a result of the Virginia-Carolina
Chemical Company's recent policy of
retrenchment, the interior division,
with Columbia as headquarters, will
be consolidated with the Charleston
division, and the whole will be known
as the South Carolina division, with
A. M. Rhert, at present manager of
the Charleston division, in charge. In
addition to the Charleston mills he will
consequently have under his direction
the two mills at Columbia and one
each at Blacksburg. Greenville. Pert
Royal and Pon Pon. The Augusta mill
will be attached to the Georgia division.
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Naked Corpse of Woman Exposed.
The inquest upon the killing of the
woman known as Maude Allen, the
Hjjtetety surrounding which h2s been
th? chief tope at Columbia for seme
days, was held and developed no new
facts. The verdict was that the woman
met her death at the hands of parlies
unknown.
An incident of the tragedy causing
indignant comment among respectable
people thera, is the faet that throughout
a whole day the ungarmentcd body
of the dead woman was exposed to
view in an undertaker's morgue, ami
was visited by hundreds of idla and
morbid people, young and old, black
and white. Ostensibly the purpose
was to afford opportunity for identification,
but scarcely a fraction of the
continuous procession, which poured
in and out of the morgue all day, was
actuated by any such motive. The
cornse was made a free show, and
the authorities are being submitted
to sharp criticism for permitting it.
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Tillman Talks of Parker.
United States Senator Benjamin R.
Tillman was interviewed at. Newbevw
a few days ago while en route to h:o
heme in Trenton from Clemson Cctlerre.
where he has hecn attending a
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meeting of the board of trustees of j
the institution. When asked as to
j his view on the democratic outlook j
and on Judge Parker's speech of ac- 1
ceptance, the senator said:
"The speech made by Judge Parker j
was remarkable for its qualities cI j
statesmanship and conservatism. You j
asked me for my opinion of ParTTer. j
In answer to this question I v?iu say i
that I regard him as strong, safe an-.l i
| statesmanlike. Such a speech as j
| Parker's should and probably will in- I
! spire confidence in the minds of ail |
: those who love conservatism, and 1 !
believe that it has greatly strengthened
his position.
"As to nry individual opinion of the
j democratic outlook in November. I will
say that in my case, the wish and desire
may be the father of the opinion;
but, nevertheless, my honest opinion is
I that Alton Brooks Parker will be the
next president of the United States of
America.
"Do you think that Parker will carry
; New York?' was next ?.c!:ed the senaj
tor.
"It is absolutely necessary for his
election that he should," replied Senator
Tillman, "and -n all probability
this will be accomplished. The demoj
crats will have to carry Connecticut.
| Delaware and many of the western
j states, but' in the face of all this. I
! believe they will win in the end.
j Continuing, the senator said: "^part
j from Judge Parker's own persona!
j strength, there are many other facts
j iijron which I rase my opm.sn as to tne ;
j outcome c": the November election. The j
j personality of Mr. Roosevelt is so
! thoroughly cb noxious th?t it will go \
great way in accomplishing his defeat
in a campaign which is or seems to
be, based upon the personality of the
chief executive."
Senator Tillman seemed to be in
excellent health, the trouble in his
tfcroat having apparently disappeared.
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Decapitated by Train.
Joe Howell, a well known young man
of Campobello. this state, was decap
itated by a Southern Railway train
at Spartanburg a few days ago. Young
Howell camo down on the train from
Ashevffle, rnd seeing No. 39 leaving
for Atlanta, tided to board it several
hundred yards from the depot, jumping
from (he Asheville train and falling
to the ground.
Arising, he grappled at No. 39,which
was well under way, missed his hold
and his body was hurled under the
wheels. The head was found 15 feet
from the body.
The sight was a most ghastly one.
The body was carried to the home of
the young man some hours after the
accident.
MINE FLOODED; EIGHT DEAD.
Pond Breaks Loose and Whelms Workers
in North State Gold Pit.
j The Baringer gold mine, located
j near Gold Hill, Rowan county, North
Carolina, was suddenly flooded with
I water late Thursday afternoon, caus
ing the instant death of eight men
employed in the mine.
The victims were in the mine shaft
when a large pond located near the
I entrance to the mine suddenly broke
loose, the breakage being caused by
excessive rains, the waters rushing in
terrific and deadly force to a depth
of 100 feet upon the men, who were
powerless to save themselves.
G. A. R. HOSTS IN SESSION.
National Encampment of Veterans of
the Blue Begins at Boston.
The national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, with it*
j several affiliated bodies, opened in
Boston. Mass., Monday with tbe larg
est attendance in recent years.
The city is extensively and hand.
eomely decorated in honor of the occasion.
NO TRIAL FOR CONTEMPT.
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Chief Ball, of Atlanta Police Department,
Wins Important Case.
Chief John W. Ball, of the Atlanta 1
police force, will not go to jail. By an
opinion of the Georgia supreme court, i
J
i banded down Thursday in the Badi
Qrmond contempt catc-, the decision if i
Judge J. K. Lumpkin, of the superior
court, in sustaining a writ of prohibition
and thereby preventing Justice or
j the Peace Orinond from trying Chief
| Bail and sending him to jail for conj
tempt, was affirmed.
MONUMENT TO WHITNEY.
j Movement inaugurated to Honor Memory
0f Cotton Gin Inventor.
A movement has been started in
Biston to erect a monument to Eli
Whitney, the inventor of the cottou
gin, the product of whose genius made
possible the development of cotton i
raising into the great industry tha'. it j
is in the south today,
j An association will be formed tc j
1 ? *? r - c? *1./^ and tVic i
j r<llS 1.UIIClS iur mu mvuuaicui, vmv i
! cotton growing 3tates will be asked tc {
I take a prominent part in the move ' t
: meat.
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JAP AND RUSS SHAKE. \
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Interesting Ir.ccident at Meeting cf So- j j
cia|i?t and Trades Congress. | ]
The International Socialist and ; j
j Trades Congress op-ned at Am? tor- j (
i dam, Holland. Sunday. There was | (
i great applause when Vire President-j j
j Katayama, of Japan, and Plekharoff. j t
1 of Russia, publicly shook hands. f
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JUDGES GET RAISE',
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Georgia Legislature Votes i J
Increases in Salaries.
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FREE PASSES CUT OUTN
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Salaries cf Judctes of Supreme Court i
Raised to $4,OCO Per Year and of
Superior Courts to $3,000.
Proviso Attached.
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Georgia judges get an increase of !
$1,000 a year to their salaries by.the , ^
vote cf the house of representatives j {
at Tuesday's session, but they were j
forbidden to accept or ride on free ! '
passes or to receive telephone, tele- ; c
graph and express franks under pen- '
alty of impeachment. j 1
The house passed by a vote of 121 s
to 22 the bill by Senator Comas, *
which passed the senate by a two- \ *
thirds majority lust year and which e
provides for an increase from $3,000 ; '
to $4,000 to the salary of supreme j <
court judges. The bill thus received !
in the house votes more than the two- !
thirds majority necessary to make it : ,
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a law. !
But the house did not pass the biU
without conditions. It was provided ;
in the bill that, hereafter no judge oi ;
the supreme cr superior courts shah j
receive for himself or any member oi j
his family any free pass from any j
railroad company or any frank from I
any telephone, telegraph or express !
company upon pain of impeachment, \
nor shall any judge who accepts such j
favors from this class of corporations
be entitled to receive the increased
salary provided for in the bill.
It was by a very pretty piece of
parliamentary tactics that the salaries
were put at $3,000 and $4,000 instead 1 s
of $2,500 and $3,500. An amendment ;
providing that no judge who received ! s
such favors from corporations should ! r
bo paid the $3,000 and $4,000 salaries | rj
sets provided for in the bill, was tacked j a
on to the anti-free pass amendment at1 f
the instance of Mr. Siaton, of- Fulton. ;
When the anti-free pass amendment, j ^
which was voted on first, was adopted, j j
it therefore fixed the salaries at $3,000 j ?
and $4,000, and all amendments for: r
lesser amounts, of which there were j E
several, were thus out of order. J ^
There is no doubt that- the house ' r
will stand by the anti-free pass amend- i ^
ment, for it was largely .through that j ^
condition", if not altogether, that the i j
increased salaries were secured. It is j "
expected, however, that the senate j ^
will readily agree to the amendment, ; j
as it can do by a mapority of a quo- : *
rum, because the senate has already j ^
cast twenty-one votes in favor of an j ^
anti-free pass measure. j j
It is understood the judges will be I
well satisfied to accept the condition. !
Many of them now are inclined not to !
accept free passes, but do so in order j c
that they may not seem queer or dif- j 7
ferent from others. There is no j ^
thought that, as a rule, free passes influence
the judges in any way, and ;1
the particular reason for prohibiting j11
them from accepting them is to do 1 *
away with any bad impression which j c
that act might make on the public !
mind. The judges one and all will, I
doubtless, be glad to get the handsome j 1
increase in salary which ihey well de j *
serve, and to comply strictly' with the ' s
condition which has been laid down ! r
by the legislature. j
EDITORS SENT TO PRISON. 8
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Newspaper Men in Manila Convict-1 *
ed of Publishing a Libel. j s
F. L. Dorrand, B. F. O'Brien, for- j b
merly the owners and editors of j
"Freedom," a paper published in Ma- j
nila, were sentenced some time ago j
by two of the Philippine coyrts to six ; "
months' imprisonment and to a fine of j
$1,000 for libeling M. Tave, a member j
cf the Philippine commission.
The sentence has now been confirm- j 11
ed by the supreme court of the United p
States, where ah appeai .was lodged., j s'
and the prisoners hare been commit-: g
ted to the prison at Bilibid. ! 0
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COLLIERIES ARE SHUT DOWN, j
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Aggregate of Sixty Thousand Mirers !
Idle In the Schuylkill Region.
A special from Pottstvilie, Pa., says: |
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The shut-down at the collieries in
the Schuylkill region Monday wis
complete with the exception of the I.e !
high Coal and NavigalTbn company,! 11
which continued to opeiate its collier ; ^
ies in the Panther Creek valley. } c
It is conservatively estimated that
there are about 60,000 idle men ip. a
the county. : 0
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SQUADRON LEAVES TURKEY.
Admiral Jewel i aKes nts i;cpsr^urc
from Smyrna?Gees to Gibraltar. j
Rear Admiral Jewell, commanding ?
:he American European squadron, ca- i
aled to the navy department Monday, i
innouncing the departure*?? hi? cam- j
nand comprising the Olympia. Eatti- j e
nore and Cleveland from Smyrna, icr 1 ?
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Gibraltar, rhis action is taken on < .
he instruction from Minister Leish- | 11
nan at Constantinople th-'t the squad- j on's
presence is no longer necessary 1
it Smyrna. d
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JAPS
COKE WRONG- w
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:eiz3 Russian Vessel Anchored
in Neutral Port.
ALLOW FLEET TO ESCAPE
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War Reaches Strenuous Stage, and"
Much is Coir.g, Both on Land
and Sea?Particular*
are Meagre.
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A special from Che Foo says: A y
boarding party from a Japanese torpoio
destroyer boarded the dismantled
Russian torpedo boat destroyer Reis:ite'ni
Thursday morning at 3:30
)'c!ock. The Japanese discharged i
:heir small arms and during the firing
i Russian was wounded. Daybreak
;hc-\7C-d a third Japanese destroyer
owing the Reishitelni out cf the bar)or
and all disappeared. The Japanese
consul claims that the Japanese ^
ships were ignorant of the dismantling of
the Rierhitelni.
Pert Arthur Fleet Escapes?
According to the latest information
obtainable the Russian squadron has
:ot returned to Port Arthur. On the
light of August 9 heavy cannonading
-vas heard at sea in the direction of
?ort Arthur. 4 \
Advices from the fortress say that
he Japanese bombarded the town,
ilacing their batteries in dense kaolin
ieids, where they were effectually
nasked. The shells dropped mainly
n the western basin where the squad on
was anchored. Many of the shells
ell upon the battle ship Retvizan, but
10 serious damage was done either to
he town or the fleet. Later the forts ' 4
jot the range of the Japanese field
latteries and drove them froin their
helter.
On the morning of August 10, the
iquadron put to sea, where heavy cantonading
was heard for several hours. *
rhe result of the battle is not Viown,
ind nothing definite has been learnel
egarding either squadron.
A special from Tokio says: Evllently
driven to sea by the fire of the
'apanese land batteries, the Russian
leet emerged from Port Arthur Wedlesday
morning. Admiral Togo imnediately
closed in and opened a se ere
engagement, which lasted until
iightf3ll. Afterwards the Japanese
lestroyers and torpedo boat flotillas
lelivered a series of attacks. The I
apanese fleet withdrew during the
light. Admiral Toso has not yet re>orted
the results of the engagement,
t is thought that the Russians atom
tn-Mfana SMTard from a. 4 I
asis which is do longer tenable, but ^
hat thev again refused to attempt to
oroe Admiral Togo inland.
Short on Ammunition.
Wednesday is said to have been ?1
hosen for the escape of the Russian
rarships at Port Arthur because the
apanese fleet was then exhausted by
he constant bombardment of the two
trevious nights. Tukashan mountain, $
lear Port Arthur, which was taken b7
he Japanese Mcnday night, was reaptured
by the Russians next day.
Vladivostok Avvalts Fleet. > ^
A dispatch from Vladivostok says:
Reparations are being completed for
he reception of the Port Arthir
quc.dron. The departure of the squad- ?
on from Port Arthur is generally inerpreted
to indicate that the siege^of
he fortress is entering on its final
tage. as the program has repeatedly
een announced by the Associated
Ress, for the squadron to leave as
oon as the situation at Port Arthur
ecomes desperate.
VARDAMAN TO THE RESCUE.
Mississippi Governor Saves Another
Negro from Wrath of Lyncers.
Governor Vardaman h^s saved the * *
eck of another black man by order2g
the sheriff of Panola county 10
I-.?ce him at once in the jail at Jackon.
Last October Lee Faulkner, nerc.
aged 30. made a criminal assault *
n the 17-year-old daughter of Captain
. K. uary.
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>ARKER GOES TO MOUNTAINS
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democratic Nominee Gu-tst of Winnisook
Ciub in Catskilts.
Judge Alton B. Parker, the demosB
ratic nominee for president, is 3
uest at the Winnisook club, 2,700 feet ? 4
bove sea level, at the foot of Slide
lountain in Ulster county, New York.
-hich is the highest point in the
latskills. ? > k
The Winnisook club was organized
bout 20 years ago for the purpose
f hunting, fishing and social recretion,
and Judge Parker was its first
resident.
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MRS. MAVERICK EN ROUTE.
he Leaves France for United States
Under an Assumed Name. t
A London dispatch says: Mrs. Fler%
nee Maybrlck is on board the Red
tar Line steamer. Vadertend, which
ailed from Antwerp Saturday mornlg,
under the name of Miss Rose Ivram.
She is accompanied by her a*Drney,
Mr. Kavden. who arranged the #
etiils cf her departure.
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