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CAMDEN, S. C., THURSPAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1005 ??? ?< ? .1 ?' \ \ ? *? - ? ? A Year* FIVE DIE IN FUMES i Pitiful Scenes in a Tenement Mouse Fire ROASTED LIKE RATS IN HOLES Bleeping Tenants on Five Upper Floors <of New York Italian House Were Out Off While the Ground Floor Became a Roaring Fnrnaoo Beneath Them. New York, Special. ? At least five persons were burned to death in an Italian tenement house fire at 221 ? Seventy-third street. The house was aix floors high and the sleeping ten ants on the five upper floors were made prisoners by flames, with the ground floor a roaring furnace be neath them. Three of those who lost their lives were kneeling in prayer when the tire reached them. The police believe that the flre was started by an incendiary. It began in a heap of rubbish at the bottom of an air shaft and spread through tho in terior of a grocery store 011 the ground floor. A policcmnn wos the first person *? Reu tl*c fin*> j?st a8 it bad begun to creep up the air shaft. He ran into the building pounding on 1 the hall doors all the way up to the sixth floor to waken the tenants. The fire followed him so swiftly that when ho reachcd the top floor he was oblig ed to send the tenants there out to the lire escai>es to save them from suffocation. When the (ire department arrived with its ladders, nearly every one on tlio fire escapes was kneeling in pray er. Adding to the pathos of the scene was the action of the men, who stood with their arms full of personal pos sessions while their wives fought un aided to protect the childrcu from be ing trampled by the crowd or suffo cated by smoke. Every one 011 the tiro esca)>es was saved by the lire tneu. The lessee of the house told the po lice that tho Black Hand Society had recently sent him letters demanding $2,000. Although the demauds did not state what the penalty was to be for refusing to pay the money, the policc hava begun an investigation, on the belief that the fire was started by tho writer of the letters, Odell Hotly Denies All. New York, Special. ? Former^ Gov ernor Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., and United States Senator Chauncey M. Depew, as witnesses before the Arm strong legislative ? insurance investi gation committee, denied parts of the tcstiiupny of James Hazen Hyde in which their names were used. Mr. Odell in the course of his testimony called Mr. Hyde's statement "base calumny ' ' and when he was asked whether he directly or indirectly had made threats to liavo the charter of the Mercantile Trust Company re voked. his face flushed, and striking the arm of Ihe witness chair with his list, he exclaimed. "There is no truth in that statement, so help me God." School Dormitory Burned. Moultrie, (la., Special. ? Five swept away the boys' dormitory of Norman Institute at Norman Park. It was a wooden structure and, with the fur nishings, was valued at $8,000. The trustees decided to replace the build ing with a brick dormitory to ooit $12,000. The boarding students have been received into the homes of Nor man Park until the new buildings can oe completed. News in Bri?f. The old Richmond and Tidewater Railroad is to be completed by a now company and called tho Richmond, Rappahannock and Eastern. Tho Virginia Conferenco of the Methodist Episcopal Church decided to meet next year in Portsmouth. The Woman's Union annual meet ing at Frederricksburg adjourned after electing officers. Petersburg is raising a fund for the Kussian massacree victims. The Russian Government finds the Polish situation growing bourily worse. King Alfonso of Spain arrived in Vienna. Republicans made some gains in the Spanish municipal elections. The German Foreign Office states there is no present parpose of vacat ing Germany's lease of Kiaocbau, China. ?Tnpan is to issuo a )Vj."i0/HH).OOO 4 per cent, loan to convert outstanding debts. Barge Wrecked. Norfolk, Vs., Special. ? The ocean barge, Frank Pendleton, of New York, loaded with over two thousand tons of coal, was rammed and sunk by Merchants and Miners steamer. Kershaw, coming from Boston, off Ijauiherts coal dock. Tho bargo struck a rock amid ship and was almost cut in half. The crew was saved. Wreck is in the channel and will have to he moved, RATE BILL IS OPPOSED lipmiilHtiiii of 40 Tioading Coal Mints in the Knoxville Section Draw U| Petition Declaring Hkins Anti-Bebate Law Sufficient ? Final Aetyon Delayed Until Meeting at Lonisrille. Kndxville, Tenn., Special. ? A meet lag of coal operators of Tennessee and Kentucky was held here at which forty leading mines of this sectior* were represented. Their meetings were eecret and definite action was delayed on the Esch-Townsend bill, for which purpose the meeting was called, until after a meeting ot Louis ville, Ky., which will be held there by the coal men of the northern end of the district. It is the plan to se cure a representative committee from the two sectional meetings and send the same to Washington to appear be fore the Senr'e committee and set before them their objections to the Esch-Townsend bill. A peition drawn up recitcs the belief of the coal ope rators that the demand for new rate legislation is the outcome of failure of some of the common carriers to impartially apply the published tariff to all shippers, by the granting of rebates, concessions from tariff rates either directly or indirectly. The pe tition further recites that the Pres ident is right in demanding the stop page of all rebates, expresses the be lief that the Elkins law effectively remedies the rebate question when properly enforced, and urges the pas sage of legislation necessary to pro vide the proper machinery for the effective stoppage of rebates of what ever character arising from the fail ure to observe impartially the pub lished rates of railroads. "Any leg islation," recites the petition, "that will radically disturb the prevailing conditions will inure \o our injury by destroying the elasticity of present rate-making methods, and as far as coal rates are interfered with at all, local monopolies will be created by law, which present methods of rate making make impossible." The pe tition recognizes that there are evils to remedy, expresses the belief that tho Esch-Townsend bill will not fur nish relief and prays for a hearing, Killed by a Train. Reidsvillo, Special. ? Richard C. Hall, employed with tho double-track ing force of the Sonthern Railway, waa struck by fast trail No. 30 Sun day afternoon near Stokesland. He waa standing on the main line signall ing the crew of the work train and did not noiice the approach of the passenger train, and was struck by the engine and knocked a distance of fifteen or twenty feet. When picked up a few minutes later by a fellow workman he was dead, a largo hole being cut in the back of his head and an arm broken. Deceased was 26 years old and was a resident of Dan ville. Oofessed Large Robberies. New York, .Special. ? Confession to the robbery of $100,000 worth of gems from fashionablo New York homes in flie last two years was made by Harold Prescott a painter. His profit on pawning the jewelry, Pres cott aald, was but littlo over $5,000. Almost by accident the painter was arrested in connection with a reccnt ?mall robbery and the police were ignorant of the value of their arrest until at his arraignment, when Preacott said that his thiefts could not be concealed much longer and then cogfessed. The Hardware Manufacturers. Washington, Special. ? Tho Ameri can Hardware Manufacturers Asso ciation endorsed President Roose velt's plan for railroad legislation. Tho convention also agreed to a reso lution approving "a plan to re-organ* ize the American consular servico on a strictly business basis." The Asso ciation elected F. S. Kretsinger, of Cleveland, president and decided to meet at Hot Springs, Va., six month* hence. The National Hardware Asso eiation elected W. S. Wright, of Omaha, president. |26,000 Tire at Gate City, Va. Gate City, Va. ? Special ? The Myr tle Hotel, the law offices of Richmond Bond and McConnell Carter, J. M Lane & Sons' grocery store and Javno & Williams' barber shop wore des troyed by fire. The lire started l'roin kitchen stove in the hotel 'about 5:10 o'clock when no one was tip except Billy Michael, the colored porter. Tho loss will be $25,000. To Build Nicaranga Canal. Mexico City, Sjiecial. ? Tho Mexi can Herald has been informed that th% governments of Great Britain am Japan have practically decided t? construct a ship canal of their owi across Nicaranga, practically on tin lines rejected by the American f.ov eminent, Great Britain will furnish the capital and Japan the labor. Brit ish and Japanese engineers regard the Nicaranga route as the onl yone really practicable. FOR SEA LEVEL ROUTE Decision Readied By Canal Commission BORAD OF ENGINEERS AGREE After Nearly Three Months' Hard Work, Advisory Body, Oomposod of Engineers From All Parts of the World, Goes on Record Against Locks by a Vote of 8 to 5. Washington, Special.? By a vote of 8 to 5, the board of consulting engi neers of the Isthmian. Canal commis sion placed itself on record as favor ing the construction of the Panama Canal on the sea level. This decision represents the outcome of nearly three monhs hard work. Early in September the engineers gathered from all parts of the world to assist the American engineers in the direc tion of the momentous question of constructing the Panama Canal, at sea level or at a greater altitude, involv ing a system of locks. foreigners came to Washington absolutely without instructions from iT" Kove,ri?Ments and without rl ? /? nU,m,ed to be ^,idcd ?" their direction solely by the facts to be ture of ? ^ * ? a,,ylhin? ?' ?hc na thl? !fIV? votc wn* <?kt?n; and Jus ' ?hnT H ?WaH "" inUin!Ct tCSt no? 5? ? m ? ^ro,)os,ti'?n was can not be stated with absolute certainty but t is conjectured that the issue was' ta of a anv ? o r ,OUM bc c???tructed. At an> iate, the vote disclosed the fact that a majority of the eight Ameri TJSrfr* U,ld0r (he ]c?" of Oeue" The foreigners were against the particular type mentioned in the pro position. but it was not clear that at that moment they were opposed to the ThZ V?rrVtl?n ?? * canal. J' ,,1 tes.t ('omo; ?"d the time be tween %1 uesday and the meeting Sst uiday was consumed in some very strong presentations on the part of the majority of the American dele gates to influence their foreign col leagues to accept one of the other lock propositions. Tho Americans there is reason U> believe that three of and Mi"*!* ' probab,J General Davis M,S;rjr The decision was reached about noon and thereby the board practical ly concluded its labors. There will be a few more meetings next week simply to deal with small. details and to put into permanent form the results of the board s protracted meetings. Tlie for eign delegates desire to leave for their LuVopean homes by the 27th instant. To accomodate them in this, the full board has agreed that they may con clude some purely formal work at a special meeting to be held in Paris in ?ZCt?r 7 Jamtary- 11 expected b nrd wnitm1npn iUember8 of thp noard mil go to Paris to wind m> this fc, of, w,,ich 'C ,,,e ''nal report of the bomil tho conclusions reached byThe' holm! l{ ?nd t lie re ii even SsMra*S?S , P at extl>er of Which thero rany bo great changoB proposed, for tho commission must pass tho plans and its own recommendations to the thTm til' i* in tUr"' mu8t HtnmP nroval ?n i f8 own approval or disap proval and forward them to Congress which, after all will be the court of "" ,????* ? between the LTiev"l "he fn.tC".r "imP'y through will I e<lditional legislation will be necessary if a sea-level "a , ? such a" V fT. U'e bonrd ^at such u canal will cost from seventy more thanetheUn^e<, do,,n? mnal i win c 'al>e8t practical lock ana l and will consume from live to "???? ?" the construction! Ships Sink With 100. London, By Cable. ? The Southwest ern Railway's cross-channel steamer Hilda was wrecked off St. Malo, on the north coast of France, and it is believed that one hundred or more of her passengers and crew were drown ed. The Hilda left Southampton Fri day for St. Malo with considerably more than one hundred souls on board. Her passage was greatly delayed by a log in the channel, and when near ing St. Malo she. ran into a severe storm, apparently missed her course and foundered on the rocks off Jar din lighthouse, three miles from St. Malo. Hester's Cotton Statement. New Orleans, Special. ? Secretary Hester's statement of the world's vis ible supply of cotton shows the total to be 4,280,850, against. 4,001,145 last week and 3.0"?,s,lS2 last year. Of this, the total of American cotton is 3,502, 850, against 3,208, 41ft last week and 3,120,182 last year; and of all otliei kinds, including Kgvpt, Bray.il, India, etc., 778,000, against 763,000 last wook and 52W,000 last year. A. R. P. SYNOD ADJOURNS Larfwt Attoaduot in History of ths Church ? Baseball at Erskine Ex cites Debate. Due West, SpeeiaL? Tlic 102nd synod of the A. R. P. Church tbe South held its final session in the local church Tuesday night, adjourned at 11.30 after trsnssetin nil the business that had come up for consideration. Excepting the resolution adopted re lative to the enlargement of the for eign mission policy of the church by establishing a station in India, there were no matters of unusual signili cance discussed and yet the meeting of the synod of 1005 will be memor able from the fact that it was proba bly the most largely attended meeting in its history. At Monday night's session it was decided that Rev. A. J. Ranson ol the Spartanburg church be allowed to canvass the Seeohd Presbytery for sufficient funds to erect a suitable house of worship ot that place and that Rev. G. W. Hanna of the Little Rock. Ark., field be instructed to can vass the remaining presbyteries of the church for the same purpose at his station. v The synod approved the action of the board of trustees of Erskine Col cege providing for a ten per cent, in crease in the salaries of the profes sors, and that the salary of the prin cipal of the fitting school be raised to $<>00. The faculty were also given permission to select tutors for the departments in which they were so ] ->dly needed, that of English, chem istry, languages and mathematics. Right of way over campus of 40 feet to be used for a street leading to the proposed depot was granted the promoters of IHie West-l.)onalds railroad. This action was strongly op|>osed by some members of the synod. The matter that elicited the most attention and consideration, espec ially on the part of the students of Erskine, was the action of the synod on the report of the hoard of trustees of the college recommending that Er skine be withdrawn from the S. C.I. A. A. and be allowed to play no base ball oft the home grounds with any college. The main argument of those in favor of such action was the pre sumed fact that gambling had large ly entered into tho sport and like ille galities were practiced by the stu dents when on i baseball trip. After some lively discussion, led by Col. J. L. Kirkpatrick and representatives of the faculty on behalf of the synod voted down the resolution, and tho boys clapped wildly, ignorant of the sound of the moderator's gravel. Rev. T. G. Boyce, D. who was until lately the junior editor of The Associate Reformed Presbyterian, the church paper, asked the synod to co operate with the newly elected editor. Prof. G. 0. Parkinson, in making the paper a success and for the quench ing of any sectional feeling against that organ. A resolution was offered and adopt ed to petition the president in his coming message to congress to give some attention to the great need ot abolishing the liquor traffic. After several other unimportant matters had been disposed of, the synod was led in prayer by Dr. , JScill E Pressley of Mexico and after a song was adjourned with benediction by the moderator, to meet at Camden, Ala., Thursday aftor the second Sab bath of November, 1900. Greenville Goes Dry. Greenville, Special. ? At the elec tion held in Greenville county on Tuesday to determine tho question of dispensary or prohibition, the dry ticket won by a majority estimated closely at 4 to 1. Killed By a Negro Boy. Greenville, Special. ? Doyle .lack son, a 16-year-old i#gro boy, shot and instantly killed a white man named Ward Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, on the plantation of Maj. Bellew in Glassy Mountain township. Jackson surrendered himself immediately after the tredgy, and was brought to the Greenville jail by Maj. Ha I lew, arri ving at midnight. To Colonize in the South. Columbia, Special. ? Commisiouerof Immigration Watson is at work on a scheme to have the Salvation Array l>cople establish a large colony in this section. Representatives of the array are now in this locality preparing tho for colonization in the South from the West and Southern Illinois, Indiana. Ohio, Pennsylvania and Western New York, and it is thought that colonies will he established in several of the Southern Stutcv. These represent a* tives will a No visit Mobile, Chatta nooga and other Southern Cities News in Brief. The silver jubilee of the Federation of Labor begun n at Wilkcs-Barre, Pa. Rev. Stephen M. Merrill, Methodist Episcopal Bishop, of Chicago, died at Kcyport, N. ,T., aged 80 years. President McCnll, of the New York Life Insurance Company, was order ed to demand "Judge" Andrew Hamilton's return to tell the investi gating committee about the disburse ment of the ' ' yellow -dog fund." ISLE OF PINES REBELS Effort to Set Up Independent Government WASHINGTON FIGHTS SHY OF IT Territoiial Government 1b Said to Have B^en Erected and Officials Selected to Administer Its Affairs by American Residents, Who Own Fire-Sixths of the Soil. >, Washington, Special. ? It has been known for several months that Am erican residents in the Isle of Pines were becoming restive under Cuban control, but surprise was created at the reported erection of a territorial government on the island and the selection of imj>ortant officials to ad minister the affairs of that govern ment. No advices indicating such ac tion have been' received officially. It can bo said that the would-be secede r? will reeei\e no encourage ment from the administration. Sec retary of State Root, when he was Secretary of War, was very clear and emphatic "that the Isle of Pines be-, longed to Cuba as a matter of right, as a matter of justice;" furthermore, that in procuring naval stations in Cuba for the United States there was a general understanding tl:ct tho I?l?? of Pines was to be ceded to Cuba, although its title hud been in doubt. The reported secession of the resi dents from Cuba control is deprecat ed, but action regarding it. if any should be contemplated, would be tak en only al'ttr the government had been advised officially and fully as to the situation. Senator Quesada, the Cuban min ister here, called at the State De partment and seemed to be consider able agitated over the news of the movement in the Isle of Pines. He had an interview on the subject with Secretary Hoot, but declined to make any statement concerning i*. The Cu ban legation has no advices concern ing the reported secession. The con tention of the American residents of the isle is that as they own in fee simple live sixths of the ground and as the remaining one-sixth is in the hands of one or two Spanish fam ilies, the 1,200 native residents be ing non-property owners, they have a right to bo heard by tliis govern meut. I Now $250,000,000 Jap Loan. London, By Cable. ? The Associated Press is informed that the Japanese government has decided to immedi ately issue a new foreign loan of $250,000,000 at four per cent., which will be used partly for converting the external t> per cent, loan and partly for the redemption of the internation al loans. It is understood that France will participate to a considerable amount, the Rothschild's Paris house being tho issuing house there. The ex act date of the issue has ot yet been decided upon. New Movo For Mrs. ChaJwick. Cleveland, O.. Special. ? Kx- Judge F. J. Wing, counsel for Mrs. Cavsie I.. Cbadwick, announced thut an ap plication for a writ of eortiorari is now beiug prepared and will be sub mitted to the Supreme Court of th# United States with a view of obtain ing a review of Mrs. Cbadwick 's case before that tribunal. The Supreme Court will bp asked to consider Mrs. Cbadwick 's case on the general ground that errors were made in her trial here before tho V. S. District Court and also in tho U. S. Circuit Court of Api>enls in htr pase. By Wire and Cable. Willia H. And icws denied, that any of his transactions with the Enter prise National Hank in Allegheny City, Pa., were otherwise than regu lar, Call money readied 2f> per cent, in New York, and Secretary Shaw said I he could not relieve tho situation j w'hilo speculation exists. * Killed by Water Fixture. Bethlehem, Pa., Special.-? While Mrs. II. A. Fueling, wife of Head Master 1'ooriiig, of the Bethlehem Preparitorv School, was in the kitcli cn of her home the water back of the stove exploded and a largo piece of flying iron struck her on ilie head, crushing her skull and instantly kill in* her. Ficf-sie Miller, a servant. thrown the length of the rooji and injured by coming in contact with the furniture. The room was badly wrceked and sot on fire, but the flfnie.s wfie exi uivuii-h' d bv painters who were employed on the premis'-s. Vladivostock Mutiny Over. St. Petersburg, By Cable.? Advices ftoiu Vladivostock indicate that t!ic mutiny of the soldiers and sailors has been quelled and order partially re stored the commandant having agreed to send homo the reservists and time expired men detained there. Mr. fJroener, tho American consul at : Vladivostok, telegraphs that a | thousand Cossacks have been brought | there from GrodekofT to aid iu quell ing the riots and patrolling the street* BLEASE TRIAL OPENED Chance of Venae Denied by Judge Memminger. Saluda, Special. ? When court con vened Thursday morning: the case of the State against E. S. Blease, charg ed with murder, was called. The so licitor and Mr. T. S. So use, who in assisting in the prosecution, formally moved for a change of venue, the mo tion being based upon the affidavits of 2!M) citizens of the county that they did not believe the State could obtain a fair and impartial trial. Defend ant's counsel in reply read the affi davits of 325 citizens who swear that a fair and impartial trial in this case can be had in ?\~.'uda county. In ad dition to these affidavits were submit ted by 20 citizens who slated that they had signed affidavits for a change of venue under a misapprehension. Hesidcs these, defendant s counsel submitted affidavits of the county supervisor of Saluda county, the sup erintendent of education, several mag istrates in the county, those of an cx snpervisor and an ex-sheriff. The so licitor, in presenting his side of the ease stated that this was a rare case and should not be tried by the strong friends of either side for it matters not how the case should terminate, improjver motives would be suspected. The affidavits show that a State sena tor from this county is charged with the killing of another man almost equally as |?opulur. and that under such circumstances it would indeed be difficult to procure a jury free from bias and prejudice.' The affidavits as weti a* the leeords show that the Stale could not pet representation at the local bar, but that on the other hand, every member of the legal fra ternity at this place represents the defendant. Th" purpose of all judicial investi gations is to get a trial even above suspicion. In spite of the fact that (lie sympathy is always with the de fens*? in eases of this kiiyl the State shows by the affidavits of 2!W men that there is no probability of a fair trial in Saluda county. All that the State asks is that it be transferred to some county where there is* on rea son to believe bias or prejudice ex ists. When the affidavits on behalf of the defendant had been read the solicitor lskcd for time to procure other atli lavits for the State. This Judge Miin mingcr promptly refused. At the conclusion of Mr. Sense's lrgnnteul Judge Meminingcr held that. ? he showing made by the State was in sufficient and declined the motion. TO EXTEND C. & L. Work on Extension of Chesterfield & Lancaster Railroad From Ruby to Gum Springs Now in Progress Cheraw, Special. ? Mr. A. O. Page, general superintendent and one of the largest stockholders of the Chester Held Lancaster Hailroad is authority for the statement that the road is to extend immediately from Huby. the present teriininus, to (him Springs, a distance of about eight miles, the work of cutting out the right of way being now in progress. Maj. Charles II. Scott, a prominent and exjx'rienc ?>d ci\il engineer of Elkins, West iYr .iuia, has charge of the survey of the wtension and will personally super vise the const met ion of the work. For a number of years he was con nected with the engineering depart ment of the Cheaspcake & Ohio rail road and recently has been employed by the Hon. Henry Oassaway Davis in the construction of railway work in West Virginia. The extension of the C. & l>, Hail road from Huby will follow what i* kno\vn n* the upper route, with sever al slight (iltorntioiiK in die line of sur vey. From Huby to Hum Springs it will go a lit t lo south of the old nor ?hern survey, leaving Mt. Crocrhan to the right n short distance, several thousand dallars being saved bv this slight alteration. Eroui Gum Springs the road will be built to Fox l'lace, and from there to the river; it is hard to say which route it will take, but likely the upper one, via Dudley, touching the river near the Wildeot stream opposite the little town of Tradesville, in Lancaster county. To Fledge 8. C. Fanners. Columbia, S. C., Special. ? Secre tary F. H. Weston, of the South Car olina division of the Southern Cotton Association in an interview said: "Today I am in receipt of instruc tions from headquarters in Atlanta to institute a movement toward securing pledges front the farmers for the cot ton which they now have on hand for 1") cents. ?'We know that th'-rc is a most ac tive demand for dry ^oods and that tb^ mills have not. the cot Ion neces sary to run thein to till thes? con tacts The association c-nsideied 11 cents a fair but not u treasonable price for cotton, bnl in view of the ?*eiv aggressive campaign 1 1 1 ?? r has J been instituted against c: ?i t c?:i hi the last few days it would be absurd for | the Southern Cotton Assoeialion to stand by and seo the producers of cotton throughout the South despoil ed of millions of dolhrs. "We must convince the pinners of the world that the price of cotton is to be fixed by the producer and uot by the 8)>eculator. "We have the money on hand and proposo to pay these canvassers for I their work. PALMETTO Aff AIRS Occurrences of Interest From AH Over South Carolina i MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS A Batch of Live Paragraphs Cover ing a Wide Range ? What is Going On in Onr State. Charlotte Cotton Market. The cotton market ortVrinjr limited. Low middling 10l? Strict low middling 1oas Middling 10'.. Strict middling Good middling lo:^ General Cotton Market. Galveston, catty II ;]-io New Oilcans, quid 11 i Mobile, quiet i t?:t ( Savannah, dull 10?.4 Norfolk, steady I0~u i???lt iniore. nominal 1 1 1 ^ New York, quiet 11'., Boston, quiet i j i Houston, easy I! j.jf; Augusta, steady ma Memphis, quiei il'l St. Louis, quid j i :<M Louisville, linn hi, Charter* and Commissions. The secretary of stale issued a large uumber of charters ned com missions last week. The Cheraw Naval Stores Co. re ceived a commission and will he cap italized at $.li?,000, tht* corporator* hciiifr W. F. Stevenson, E. Prcscott. M. W. Duvall, D. T. Matthews and T. (t. Mali hews. ? The Shannou-Stevcus-Roy kin com pany of Cheraw will he mercantile in character and will he capitalized at $25,000. The corporators are: C. ,1. S. Shannon. Jr., John T. Stevens and W. A. Boy kin. The Standard Warehouse company of Columbia secured its charier. The oflieers are: 1). (!. Hey ward, president ; E. C. Cat heart, treasurer; K. T. Lipscomb, secretary. The hoard of directors consists of 1). C. lley ward, Edwin W. Robertson and August Kohn of Columbia, .1. A. Brock and 11. E. Ligou of Anderson, Ellison A. Smyth, Lew in W. Parker and \V. E. Bcattio of Greenville and .1. K. I bust of Greenwood. The capital stock of the company is $.">00,000. The Chester Ice Co., capitalized at $20,000, was chartered with T. L. Kb erhardt as president and treasurer and C. L. ltidgcly us vice pLCsident and secretary. The Haile Shoe Co. will bo looted in Union and the capital will be 000. The corporators are: Win. I. Haile, John A. Fant and Francis M. Fair. The Farmers' Bank ol' William ston will have a capital of $lf?.000 and the corporators are: W. A. Simpson, Geo. I). Sullivan, E. II. Welbourne. J. E. Wukellcld, Jr., and J. ('. Duck worth. The corporators of the Georgetown club whose purpose* are rated as athletic and social are: Lewis O 'Bry an and W. S. Moore. The capital is $.300. A chuher was given the Aiken Cot ton and Stock exchange, capitalized at $2,000. The olllcers are: (). II. Mobley. president ; Nelson Johnson, vice president; W. J. Moseley. secre tary, and H. L. Courtney treasurer. The Seaboard Product Co. of Georgetown will manufacture turpen tine product*. The capital is .+ 10,000 and the corporators!- are: A. G. Jor dan, J, B. Steele and E. W. Kamiu ski. ? The Oregon Lumber Company of Greenville has increased its capital from $3,000 to $10,000. Briefs of State News. Chief of Police Norris of Augusta has written Governor lley ward that I>. C. Murphy, a life sentence com id who escaped from the Stale prison, is now in jail in Swainsboro. Murphy whs ben fenced to be lumped for the murder of County Treasurer Copes* of Orangeburg, but lia.s his sentence commuted to life iupri^onnient and was sent up March 2<?. 1S!?7. lie es caped soon afterwards. Mr. Oscar van der Mecnsch ha* opened a bureau in Ghent. Belgium, to represent South Carolina in the immigration and colonization line, lie is a delegate to Belgium, 1 1 ? >1 1 .? n?l and France. Mr. Powell Evans of Phila delphia. a son of Dr. Juir.cs Evans of Florence has been appointed special commissioner to Fiance. (jov. Sornuel W. Pen'iypackrr of Pennsylvania, liar- written t?i Guv. Hey ward sugsrertiiii.' n monument at Valley forge from each of t ii" t!.i ' teen original State*-. The trooj * frojp thu* State were camped there and the general ;??s>embly may appro priate if sum for a small memorial. The governor has received a | I i - t ion for a pardon for .Mien Milan, who is serving a 12-year sentence from Pickens county for conviction of manslaughter. Milan killed .1. Can non in .10H. Both were negroes. The annual meeting o ft he Sons of the Revolution in this State will bo held in Charleston on December 14. Jovernor Hey ward has been asked to deliver the annual address at the ban quet.