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- r3 ?' T *v' .V , - ^ ? V- ff ? ? ?????? ?* ? . I ? - % .. -- .-. f 4 VOIi. I.NO.24. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, JU LY 14,1904. $1.50 PER TEAR. DEMOCRATIC COKVBmON Mwiaslk Choirs fer Br. (Mai Ift xs.vnjuiisnr?i^?iAiiii^ St. Louis, Mo., (Special).?Exactly at noon Wednesday Chairman J. K. Jones of the national committee called the convention to order. His ap pearance on the platform and the sound of his gavel brought forth a cheer from the floor and galleries. Chairman Jones directed the sergeant - at-arms to secure order. He con tinued belaboring the table with his gavel, but it was some time before quiet reigned. California's appearance with a huge silk banner and silk American flags and a yell "California! California! Hearst! Hc?iSi! Hearst 1" caused cheering. Just as the California delegation reached its reservation after marching up and down the center aisle William J. Bryan, who had come in unnoticed, arose in his place and was given a cheer. Then an enterprising member among the delegation crcated a diver sion by vigorously ringing of a cow bell. Again Chairman Jones demanded that the convention be in oriTer and at once directed the secretary to read the call for the convention. Applause followed the reading of the call. After quiet was restored Chairman Jones announced that the convention would be opened by prayer by Rev. John F. Cannon, pastor of Grand Avenue Baptist Church, of St. L<?uis. During the invocation the conven tion stood. Dr Cannon's voice vfras entirely inadequate to reach even the center of the hall. Enthusiastic cheering greeted the chairman's announcement that he was directed by the national committee to appoint John S. Williams temporary chairman and C. W. Walsh temporary secretary and John I. Martin tem porary sergeant-at-arms. The chairman appointed Col! J. M Guffey, of^Pcnnsylvania, and M. F. Tarp ey, of California, to escort Mr. Williams to the chair. As the plat form was enclosed by a railing it was necessary for the committee aqd Mr. Williams to climb over the railing. The committee lifted Mr. Williams safely over, and the entire convention burst into cheers as he ascended the platform. MI have the honor to introduce to discussing the price of wheat during the first Bryan-McKinley campaign. The utterance of*the name called forth a little applause and some cheers. A second later he mentioned the name again and the applause was not re peated. A mention of the name of Grorer Cleveland was cheered lustily. A moment later the first scene of the session occurred. Mr. Williams de clared that it was brazen effrontery for the republican party to attempt to JOSH SHARP, .WILLIAMS. TKXPOBAItT CBAIKMAM. seize the laurels of Grover Cleveland. A genuine outburst of applause fol lowed. Cheer after cheer rolled through the hall and, although the chairman used the gavel vigorously, the convention was soon beyond his control. As he finished, after speaking for one hour and forty minutes, the band struck up a medley of patriotic airs, the stirring strains of "Dixie" calling forth the wild cheers that never fail to follow the song, no matter when or where rendered. "The delegates are invited to visit the exposition," said Mr. Williams,! "and the clerle will read the invita-1 tion." The last few words were lost in cries of "Bryan," Bryan," that came swift and thick from dffierent parts of the hall. Cheers mingled with the calls, and it was fully a minute before the voice of the clerk was able to raise above the tumult. Mr. Bryan remained quietly in his seat during the demon stration made by his friends and gave outward sign of his recognition of the appluase that had greeted his name. Delegate Powers, of Michigan, was recognized by Chairman Williams to return the thanks of the convention to the exposition officials for the courtesy shown and made a brief speech of acknowledgment. The motion to accept the invitation with which Mr. Powers concluded TIE NPOUST TICKET Ml TriMfcs RMHi as Hi CMfliates ?T the My. ' wis i warms cmkl to OMfslaa far Pint That AIM Mnc^d Springfield, III., (Special).?Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, was unani mously nominated for President by the Populist National Convention, in session here. Thomas H. Tribbles, of Nebraska, was chosen for Vice-President. , When nominations for president were called for the name of Mr. Wat son was presented by National Chair man J. A. Parker, of Kentucky. Ex Congressman R. D. Sutherland, of Nebraska, named William V. Allen, of Nebraska, but said that Mr. Allen had authorized him to say that the nomi nation would not be accepted unless it came unanimously. Samuel W. Williams, of Indiana, was placed in nomination by Thos. Wadsworth, of Indiana. Later there was a stampede to Wat son. Platform Of The Party. The platform reaffirms adherence to the "basic truths of the Omaha platform of 189.2 and of the subse quent platforms of 1896 and 1900." It then says: "The issuing of money is a function of government an 1 should never be delegated to corporations or individ uals. The Constitution gives to Con gress alone power to issue money and regulate its value. We therefore de mand that all money shall be issued by the Government in such quantities as shall maintain stability in prices, every dollar to be a full legal tender, none of which shall be a debt re deemable in other money. "We demand that postal savings hanks be established by the Govern ment for the safe deposit of the sav ings of the people. In Behalf Of Labor. "We believe in.the right of labor to organize for the benefit and* pro tection of those who toil and pledge the efforts of the People's pariy io preserve this right inviolate. Capital is organized and has no right- to deny to labor the ptivilege which it claims for itself. "We feel that intelligent organiza tion of labor is essential; that it raises the standard of workmanship, promotes the efficiency, intelligence and character of the wage earner. ST. LOUIS COLISEUM. MEETING PLACE OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. you John S. Williams as temporary chairman," said Chairman Jones, and again the convention chcered. Mr. Williams was attired in a light 5ray suit and white waistcoat. He elivcred his address calmly and with out gestures. Several cries of "Louder, louder!" interrupted Mr. Williams as he began, his clear but not powerful voice at first failing to reach all parts of the hall. As Mr. Williams proceeded his voice increased in volume and the delegates listened attentively. j A great part of Mr. Williams' speech was delivered under great difficulties for the speaker and those of his hearers who were supposed to be most directly interested in his re marksi Several times the speaker stopped and asked that the talking cease in order lhat he might make himself better unJerstood. Passing from the discussios of Mr. Root's speech the speaker took up the republican platform. Mr. Williams drew a picture of the country's condition at the time of President Cleveland's first inaugura tion, declaring that much of the dis tress that came in the early nineties were due to republican misrule that had gone before. Under Harrison, he said, for three years all hope had well nigh vanished from the business world. He scored the attitude of the republican party on the financial ques tion, declaring that it had been full of inconsistencies and absurdities. He mentioned the name of Mr. Bryan in was adopted unanimously. VV'hcn the ticket passers had near1>"J finished their task, the chairman an nounced that the roll of states would he called, each state as its name was called to send up to the chairman's desk the names of its committeemen selected in caucus. While the roll call was in progress the spectators, concluding that the interesting scenes of the convention were finished (or the day, streamed J out by thousands. Annotincment of Mr. Bryan as a member of the resolutions committee from Nebraska called forth a cheer from such of his friends as were abii* to hear the announcement. Davit! '1. Hill's name as a member from -w York also brought a shout of app!;'tise. As t tie roll was finished and the call was began for the states whivh had not answered on the first call. Chairman Williams drew a cigar from his pocket, lighted it and commenced to smoke with great satisfaction, not withstanding the fact that numcrou* signs prohibiting the indulgence were posted all around the building. After announcing the time and places for the various committee meet ings, a motion was made by Bourke Cockran that the convention adjourn until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The motion was adopted and the con vention adjourned at 2.50 o'clock. "YVc favor the shorter workday and declare that if eight hours constitutes a day's labor in Government service i hat eight hours should constitute a day's labor in factories, workshops j and mines. Initiative An] Referendum. , "As a means ot' olao.ng all public' questions directly unci v. the control of the people, we demand that the legal provisions be made under which t!:e people .may exercise the initiative tud /efetendum and proportionaal rep resentation and direct vote for ill ?xiblic officer#. with the right of re call. Trusts And Monopolies. "As to those trusts ami monopolies which are not public utilities or natural monopoly4, we demand that the special privileges which they now enjoy and which alone enable them to exist should be immediately with drawn. "Corporations being the creatures of government should be subjected to such governmental regulations and control as will ad??ijiiately protect the public. We demand the taxation of monopoly privilege*, while they re main in private hands, to the exfe:it of the value of the privileges granted. "We demand that Congress shal! enact a general law uniformly regu lating the power and duties of all in corporated companies doing interstate business." The platform was adopted unani mously. SlMfiter ?f the Acktaesc 'Amsterdam, (Special).?A dispatch from Ratavia, capital of tht Dutch East Indies, says that the commander of the expedition to North Achin, Northern Sumartra, attacked Likat, on ?June ao. The Achineae losses were 43a killed, including .81 women and 88 children, and 54 wounded. Seven teen prisoners were taken. The Dutch casualties included the commander, a lieutenant, two sergeanU and ij tnUUaca wounded. _ FINANCIAL The city of Portland, Me., has bor rowed $4,100,000 for three month*, paying 2.7 per cent, interest for it. American Car & Foundry directors were re-elected. The net earning* for the year were $4,680,000. compared with $7,403,000 the previous year and $4,686,000 in 1902. If it had not been for the efforts of E. B. Smith, I.ehigh Valley director* would not have declared any divid end. J Olrta Bsraad to Death. Raleigh, N. C., (Spccial).?Thr^e Kirls, with ages ranging from 4 to 12 years, were burned to death at Car leigh Cotton Mills, near this city. They were the daughters of John T. Cole, a boss spinner. The father, mother and two children escaped, one of the latter, a boy, being terribly burned. The father made frantic but ineffectual attempts to rescue hi* chil dren. The place is isolated and had no fire protection. KEVSHaNT George W. Bctvers, former super intendent of the' Bureau of Salaries and Allowances of the Postoflice De partmeqL will be taken to Washing ton for trial. The Filipinos who arried in St. Louis for the Exposition were quaren tined becauad of an outbreak of chickenpox among them. The government registration books for entry on the Rosebud Indian Res ervation were opened at Bonesteel, S. D. Gen. Piet Cronje, of Boer War fame, was married to Mrs. Stertzel, widow of a Boer soldier, at St. Louis. One person was killed and a score of others injured in a headon col lision at Frankford, near Philadelphia. The local board of steamboat in spectors at New York has begun an investigation of the Slocum disaster. The Socialist? Labor party in na tional convention declared against labor unions of* the Gompers stamp By the premaHfre explosion of fire works at Ogden, Utah, two persons , were killed and five were injured. The American Cafe, in the Jerusa lem concession at the World s Fair Grounds, was damaged by fire'. H. B. Freeman, prosecuting attorney of Alger county, Mich., was fatally shot by James Cyner. j The Presidnt and his family spent the Fourth on a picnic. At nignt there was an elaborate fireworks display at Sagamore Hill for the children and their invited friends. Walter Stead and Frank Rule, of Princeton, -and a young man named Rulong, from Philadelphia, who was visiting them, were drowned in Mill stone River, while boating. The centennial of the birth of Na thaniel Hawthorn^ was celebrated at Concord and a brfcnze. tablet in mem ory of the novelist was\unveiled. The Dominion Line steamship Van couver is so deep in the mud in the St. Lawrence that a new channel will have to be dug to float her. The Populist Convention opened at Springfield, III., with only 200 dele gates in attendance and hundreds of vacant seats. A-letter written by Grover Cleve land was the only feature of the Tam many celebration in New Yorkt The Convention of the Orthodox Rabbis in America was continued in New York. Dowic has announced his purpose to invade England with the restoration host. John Lane was killed by two holdu?> men in a saloon in Chicago. Justice Robert W. Steele, of the Colorado Supreme Court, filed an opinion dissenting from the decision 01 the majority rtfusing a writ of ha beas corpus to Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners. The Louisiana Exposition paid into the United States Subtreasury, in St. Louis, $213,092.15 as the second in stalmen on the repayment o! the loan made. George L. Upton, a prominent so ciety man of St. Paul, and his wife were killed by the explosion 6f a gasoline tank on his gasoline launch. The police saved from a mob of foreigners in Chicago Stephen Wac lavik, who had shot and killed Mrs. Annie Waclavik, his former landlady. Capt. Edward Alfred Graham, divi sion counsel for the Southern and Seabaord Air Line Railways, died in Montgomery, Ala. Air. and Airs. Charles R. Furst, of New ' York, were robbed of their diamonds at the Park Hotel. Mount Clemens, Mich. Two trolley cars collided near Marshall, Mien., and three men were seriously wounded and a number shaken up. Rev. Dr. Swallow has not decided whether or not to accept the Prohibi tion nomination for president. Pending the adoption of a new wage scale, 7,500 union miners in the Alabama district suspended work. Rev. Charles Mayne, pastor of the Methodist church at Nevada, la., was shot and killed by a burglar. The Gloucester fishing schooner Harry G. French was sunk by the Hamburg-American steamer Deutsch land and the crew was taken'on the steamer to New York. Baron Speck von Sternburg de livered the commencement address at the University of the South, in Suwanee, Tcnn., and received the de gree of doctor of civil law. Dr. Floyd Whitecomb, of Warren, Pa., was drowned in Conewango Creek, near Frewsburg, N. Y., while driving on professional business. A number of trainmen were injured in a collision between passenger trains on the C., H. & D. Railroad near Miamisburg, O. VV. H. Maxwell, superintendent of instructions in New York, was elected president of the National Educational Association. Henry F. Billings, manager of the investment department of Granger, Harwell & Co., brokers, of Chicago, committed suicide. The motion to quath the Brooklyn indictment against Georae W. Beav ers was quashed by United States Judge Thomas. Pmlfi. The Czar has appointed Prince John Obolenski to succeed the late General Hobrikotf as governor general of Fin land. Obolenski is a lieutenant gen eral on the naval staff. The General Council of the Inter national Alliance of Reformed Pres byterians elected Rev. Dr. James Os wald Dykes chairman for the next tive years. The funeral services over the re mains of Scnor Dupuy de Lome took place in the Church of the Madclainc in Paris. Gen. Reinaldo Floret, for many years prominent in Ecudorian poli tics, died at Lima. The Danish government has sent out a steamship to search the seas for boats and visit all the islands within 1 possible radius of the reef on which the steamship Norge was wrecked in the hope ot finding more survivors. Two women, wives of men lost, at tempted to commit suicide at Copen hagen. A hundred thousand people attended a great reception to General Booth in the Crystal Palace, London. PANIC ON SINKINi SUP My 18 M ?t IM fWfk ImcM >>Uit SIUMLE FN TIE LIFE MATS. London, (By Cable).?Of 774 souls on board the Danish steamer Norge, j t28, including Captain Gundel, are known to have been saved. One of the children died in a lifeboat which brought others to safety. For the missing 646 persons small hopes are entertained. The enormous death roll which was feared' with the first news of the wreck has been decreased by 102, that number of survivors, after many pri vations, having landed at Stornoway yesterday. The horror of the wreck itself grow with each survivor's account. Captain Gundel's statement, which reads like^ an affidavit from the Jead, for he went down with his ship, main tains that tne Norge struck on a sunken rock 18 miles south of Rockall. The 102 survivors spent the night at Stornoway, many of them in the hospital. The majority of the 26 who were landed at Grimsby have arrived at Liverpool, from wnere they will sail on the Cunard Line steamer Saxonia, for Boston. Vessels are searching in the vicinity of Rockall for any more survivors. The chief hope lies in Captain Grun del's statement that seven boatloads got safely away. No tragdey of the sea has had more appalling consequenccs and none has ocourred in a shorter time. The pas senger were suddenly aroused from their sleep, terrified by the contact of the bow of the ship with the solid granite, followed bv a grinding, resp ing sound, as if the hull was being sheered over huge rocks. Then silence as the clanging bells brought the engines to a stop. Those of the passengers who were standing at the time the steamer struck the rock were thrown against the bulkheads or on the decks and had not recovered their feet when a stentorian voice gave the terrifying order: "All hands on deck! Hurry or you may ^nk!" Life Preservers Useless. Immediately there was a rush'for the narrow companionways, and men, women and children pushed and struggled and made every other ef fort to reach the deck, where the boats swung from the davits. Many persons, retaining their presence of mind, seized life preservers, only to find in some instances that the strings wore rotten and they could not be quickly put around their bodies. Those who reached the deck saw' the nose of the Norge pinned directly against the rock. It remained there only a few fhinutes, for Captain Grundell, com manding, who had immediately gone to the bridge, gave the order to the engine-room to reverse the engines. Some of the engineer force had rela tives among the passengers, and after seeing them safely to the boats they heroically returned to their stations below. Slowly the ship backed off, and as she gained way it was found that water was pouring into her hold. This announcement, called out in Scandina vian and presarging death, added to the supreme fright and agony. The passengers who were piled in the boats weTe the fortunate ones to es cape, while the unfortunates, who saw death near, clustered in the vicinity, seething, struggling masses, some on their knees, praying, surrounded by children, others supplicating aid from anyone and shrieking for permission to enter the boats, elbowing, fighting their way to the places from which the boats were being lowered. Boats Smashed. The sound of grinding ceased, and the bow of the Norge yawed as the steamer turned to deep water. The sea rushed hungrily into the huge rents made by the rock in the iron hull. Swiftly the vessel began to sink bv the bows. Without waiting for otners, without paying attention to their proper manning, the occu pant* begun to lower the boats. The starboard lifeboat began slowly to fall, when, to the horror of those on board, the stern tackle failed, while the bow tackle ran free. Sonn the boat was almost perpendicular. Those who were in it citing des perately t<> the sides and seats until a great wave came towering along and struck the boat, smashing it against the sides of the ship. The occupants of the boat who were not killed by the impact were thrown into the water. The crew and passengers on deck had no time to spare to assist :he few who had a chance to escape but lost it. Undeterred by the ex I oerience of the first boat, a second, I loaded principally with women and I children, ,vas lowered. This time the I tackle ran smoothly, but the hopes -?f escape of the passengers on board were blasted. The moment it touched the water waves picked up the small craft as if it had been a feather and dashed it against the sides >f the ship, in spite of frantic efforts -?f tlie passengers to fend it off. The crash wai heard on deck. Then the sen swallowed more victims, and pieces of the wreckage slowly drifted towards the rock. Trade la Japaa Depre?*e<J. Seattle, Wash., (Special).?A de pressed state of trade, espcially as regards the sale of American flour, obtains in Japan, according to a letter received by an exporting firm of Seat tle from their correspondents at Kobe. Japan, they say., is overstocked with fiour through heavy purchases made by speculators and merchants during the close of 190,1 in anticipation of the war. Money is believed to be tightening up. and the government is arranging for another internal loan of 100,000,000 yen. kevtiam RtiTfticr. mmi TM M DWf?It Petersburg, lit, (Special).?An ac commodation passenger train on the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis railroad was blown from the track at Oakford, 111., twelve miles north of Peters burg, and one person was killed and a number were injured. The train consisted of two coaches, a baggage car and the engine, and all but the engine were hurled fcom the track down a seven-foot embankment, turning over twice in the descent and landing in a splintered mass of debris. The accident occurred just a few rods from the bridge over the Benja' min river. The work of relief begad immediately, as, owing to the re* markable escape of nearly all tl?4 small number of passengers aboard, those who were injured and pinioneu in the debris were speedily rescued and at once given attention. Relief trains were hurried from Springfield and Havana and the more seriously injured were taken to hospitals. The engineer, who escaped injury, said he watched the gathering storm closely as his train sped along, as he feared from the appearance of the clouds that a tornado might result. As the train approached Oakland the clouds suddenly seemed to concen trate and drop, apparently coming di' rectly toward the train. Realizing that the train would en counter the tornado if it proceeded, the engineer quickly shut oft steam and came to a halt. The approaching tornado, when about a mile, away to the southwest and coming northeast, suddenly swerved farther toward the north and the train was directly in its path. Instantly the engineer opened thq throttle in a wild endeavor to ruch beyond the zone of danger and agiin the tornado swerved and headed tli rectly for the Hying train. The roar was heard plainly abov<! the rattle of the train. Steam was crowded on, and, like a rocket, th? light accommodation, jumping and pounding on the rails, flashed ahead in an endeavor to cross before the cyclone and pass in safety. Suddenly, with a crasji that was heard above the rumble and roar of the tornado, the train was struck broadside, the coaches torn from th?J engine and lifted into the air an?J hurled from the embankment into tho ditch seven feet below, turning a com plete somersault in the descent and landing a splintered mass. The en gine alone remained upon the tails. Rockets Btakari Aadleace. Tacoma, Wash., (Special).?Fire works which were to have been set off in Wright Park as a final to a bij{ Fourth of July celebration caught fire from almost the first rocket that was sent up, and in an instant the entire heap of explosives was flying in every direction. About four dozen eight pound rockets flew through the audience of 30,000 persons, creating a panic in which many were injured, Others were airuck by the flying ex< plosives, and it was estimated that as? many as 50 *vere injured but none fatally. Blows Up on OatoBac Laanch. Minneapolis, Minn., (Special).?Two prominent society and clubmen of Minneapolis, George Christian and George Upton, received injuries from which they will probably die, and five other persons were painfully burned in an explosion of a gasoline launch at Lake Minnetonka. Mr. Christian was entertaining a party of six grown persons and two children and his boat was headed for the bay when the ex plosion occurred. It was caused by a leak in the gasoline tank and the boat was wrecked. Cabs'* Secretary of State Resigns. Havana, (Special).?Secretary of State Zaldos has resigned the port' folio and his resignation has been accepted by President Palma. The withdrawal was not due to political reasons, but was due to the fact that Zaldos wished to retire to private life. When Zaldos accepted the position it was with the understanding he would resign in two vears. It is said that Secretary of Finance Montcs wili succeed him as secretary of state. Talked About His Mother. Hopkinsville, Ky., (Special).?Mack Hern, of Paducah, aged 28, shot and killed his father, James Hern, aged 60, a barkeeper. The dead man had been divorced and married again, and the son took offence at remarks made against his mother and they exchanged blows, l.atcr young Hern walked into the saloon and shot his father. "I'd kill two fathers if they talked aboui my mother!" is his explanation. For Corrtgia and Cox. New York, (Special).?Charles H. Corrcgan of New York and William \V. Cox of Illinois were chosen as candidates f.?r President and Vice President, respectively, by the Na tional Convention of the Socialist Labor party, in session here. The candidates, both of v;hom were mem bers of the Convention, each re sponded to demands for a speech. Tried to Wreck Big Organ. St. Louis, Mo., (Special).?An at-, tempt has been made to wreck the great pipe organ, the largeste in the | world, in Festival Hall at the World's Fair, by cutting the secondary bel lows. Cot Woman's Throat. St. Loins, (Special). ? After cut ting the throat of Mrs. Marcclla Kerr with whom he had been living for a year, Kdgar I. K\a 11s, 2,1 years old -.lashed his wrist with the same razor, and then cut hi* own throat. The tragedy was enacted in front of the house where they were stopping Jealousy is ascribed by F.vans as tlie cause for his act. The woman died aim >st immediately F.vans is at the City Hotpital. His condition i? serious. JAPANESE OP THE lOVEi Ufmdf DpM At farriw lataf ?ALB riSS INCOME! R !Ji> JapMaw IWf* to CmH Onwal Stocktftcn'i Carps. ?? Pal Fraa T? Tche Klaa UfM Llaayaaf. Fmmm Ev St. Petersburg, (By Cable).?TkW latest .dispatches from the seat of; .war are to the effect that General* Kuropatkin is still at Ta Tche Kiaa .and that the Japanese forces are 8ta< ?tionary at Senuchen and along roads from Sioyen to Hatcheng, Ta Tche Kiao and Kaichou, but they are ?'maintaining their advance from Fengf AVang Cheng ore* the direct main ! roads to Liaoyang, where the effect! 'of the rain is less appreciable. There1 'are only 12 miles between General ;Count Keller's force and the Japan*-' jese army and a collision between* them is not regarded 3S unlikely. That Japanese evidently are hoping, in cafte of success, to compel Kuropatkin^ with General Stakelberg's corps, ta? fall back from Ta Tche Kiao on Liao-i '.yang and thus force an evacuation o^ INiuchwang. I The Admirnlity here has no news ;of the sea fight off Port Arthur on1 lMonday, last, reported by Admiral Togo, and it is not inclined to believe, ?it. The understanding is that the :Russian warships are still at Porti ?Arthur. | Sieoe OPERATIONS AT PORT ARTHUR. I . Rassiaa Military Expart* om the Situation?I Wet Seasaa u4 Disease. St. Petorsburg, (By Cable).?Mili tary experts believe that the center of ? gravity has again shifted to Port ? Arthur, where siege operations arc .expected to engage most of the attend !tion of the Japanese until the con* i elusion of the rainy season permit! 'resumption of the campaign in South? . lern Manchuria. * ! The War Office believes that a (further advance on Ta Tche Kiao is i impossible, in view of the powerful 'resistance which can be made by the : Russians, combined with the great difficulties of transportation over rain-4 'sodden roads. Desultory fighting. ; however, is likely to continue for tha jpossession of the passes which are particularly valuable to either bel-4 ?ligerent for the purpose of obtaining information regarding the other's movements. The authorities are manifesting, much concern over the appearance of ;disease in the Japanese outposts and) igarrisons, and it is feared that the, (Russians camping in the tracks of the' (Japanese may become infected. It iaj, [feared also that if cholera is raging ;at Feng Wang Cheng it will be aft jnost impossible to prevent it spread-' ling to Liaoyang. # # I The rainy season is undoubtedly in favor of the Russians, enabling them jto bring up further reinforcements^ {but it is feared that it may also entail 'great mortality. | The Russian losses in killed . or} wounded so far number 8,ooo. Many more have been in hospitals, but no) epidemics have yet been reported- " SHOT WOMAN'S HEAD OFF. Unkoowa Tramp Con mitt Terrible Crime at; WIIeyvllletW. Va. , New Martinsville, W. Va., (Special).' ?Because Mrs. J. VV. Fix, wife of a^ [farmer if Wileyville, refused to cook jhim a breakfast, an unknown tramp [blew off the top of her head with a' ^shotgun. j j The man appeared at the Fix home-? ?stead just after the farm hands hadi finished brekfast, and asked for some-, thing to eat. lie was offered coltr meat, bread and butter, but refused ithat, and, in threatening terms, in sisted that she prepare him a hot meal, lie became impudent, and she .ordered him from the premises Knowing that she was at his mercy, ;he pushed by her, seized a shotgun ?and shot her head almost from her. shoulders. News of the murder spread rapidlyj and men are scouring tne country iiv search of the murderer. So intense^ ?is the feeling against him that lynch-A 'ing may follow his capture. Agalatt tie Aat Houston, Tex., (Special).?Robert' Clark, a prominent planter of Calw fhotin couuty, stated that he will ap ply for an injunction to prevent th? government experts bringing tha Guatemalan ant into Texas Aas an in? .sect enemy of the boll weevil. Mm Clark, as the basis for his application^ says it is a serious and dangcrouf matter to transplant a South Amerb Van insect or pest to South Texas, because it will multiply very rapidtj here and that it will be impossible t? get the cotton picked, because th| half-clad negroes ami barefooted chi!< dren engaged in that work will snffot from the sting of the insect. Ran Into By the Mayflower. Gibraltar. (Special). ? The United States dispatch boat Mayflower col? lided today with the British armored cruiser Bacchante, while the lattei was at anchor. The damage done, if any has not yet been ascertaincd% DeporteJ Maa Returns. Tellurido. Col., (Special).?Harry A. Floatcn. manager of the People's Sup ply Company's Store in this city, who <has been twice deported by the citi zens' aUhnce, .supported by the mili tary authorities, returned. He was not molested. "1 am going to stay here and defend myself and iny rights," j he s.iid. "I have had the best legal advice a:i<l was told to stand on my I constitutional rights as a citizen and not submit to the tyranny and op I pression of ?ho (il)roni' alliance/' ?