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3FJ*~ ' ? ?. \ - VOL. III. NO, 1. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1906. Sl.SO Per Year MILLION DOLLAR FIRE Over a Million Bushels Wheal Destroyed BURNING OF A GRAIN ELEVATOR Mighty Pillar of Fir* by Night at East St. Louis, Entailing a Loss of Oyer fl, 000,000, Besides Destruc tion of Near-By Stables. East St. Louis. 111., S|tecisl. ? The Uuiou Elevator, containing a million bushels of wheat, was destroyed by lire, entailing a loss of more than .$1,000,000. The Are spred to the stables of the St. Louis Transfer Co., and 200 horses and 200 wagons were burued, as well as the stables. The tire started in a brick engine house 30 feet from the elevator. Before the arrival of the tire department the ilamestiad spred to the elevator. As sistance was sent from St, Loiys and the effects of the tiremen were prin cipally directed toward preventing the lire spreading to adjoining elevators and warehouses, the Union Elevato* having been converted into furnace within a few minutes after it caught lire. ^ Seven dwelling houses were des troyed, being covered with burning oil by the explosion of four tanks The occapauts of the houses escaped unhurt. The oil tanks which exploded were standing nearly 400 yards north of the elevator. They bclined to the Waters Pic rce Oil Company. 1140,000 Fire at Valdosta, Ga. \ Valdosta, Ga., Special ? A fire stall ing in the paint shop of the Hender son-Crawford Buggy Company caused ;i loss of $140,000. The property de stroyed being the paint shop of the buggy company, including the Georgia Southern Railway freight- depot, eight loaded cars, 1(? cottages, the Valdosta Laundry, and Armour Com pany's warehouse. The heaviest losers are the Henderson- Cranford Huggy Company, which carried a stock valued at $60,000 and occupied a building worth $30,000. The com pany carried insurance for about two thirds of this loss. The railroad losses were from $15,000 to $20,000. ?Much of the merchandise in the depot was carried out, though considerable dam sged. Factory Burns in New York. New York, Special. ? The six-story factory building at 107-113 Grand street as the corner of Mercer street, in the heart of tho silk and linen dis trict wsa burned with a loss evceed ing $230,000. Charles School house & Sons, manufacturers of ribbons, lost $100,000, fully insured, and Bern hard, rilinau & Company, dealers in yarns, embroideries and braids, $150, 000, '.partially covered by insurance. The (ire was spectacular, bursting from all tho windows within a few minutes utter tho first alarm was sounded. So many thousands of peo ple were attracted to the scene that police reserves from eight down-town precincts had to be summoned. A fircimiu and a ]h>1 iceman were sligtly hurt. Not Half Over at Savannah. Savannah, Ga. Special ? The Greene and Gaynor trial will enter upon its fifth week and the introduction of documentary evidence will be con tinued. It is expected that the week may see the close of evidence along this particular subjects of contracts, which has been followed for "the last lew days, and that witnesses may be examined touching the character of the work done in the river and harbor improvements. Tho progress of the trial continues slow and it is not be lieved to be half over. Fierce Rioting in Paris Ohurcb. Paris, By Cable. ? As a net result of rioting though the inventory was tak en in but one church, that of St. Pisrrc-Groscaillou, over 50 persons were severely injured and a further considerable number slightly injured. The latter included a number of police and firemen, who were almost blinded with cayenne pepper. Fifty arrest* were made. ? Storms in North Atlantic. St. Johns', N. F., Special.? The steamer Ulunda. Captain Chambers, oi the Furness-Allen Line, which sailed from Liverpool January 23, for St. Johns' ami Halifax, arrived here after a stormy passage. Last Sunday during a hurrican a member of the #crew was washed overboard ayd "drowned. Tho steamer sustained sun* dry damages from beiug swept by seas. The schooner Canadian, Captain Mirntier, which sailed fixun Cadiz De cember 30, for this port, also arrived bringing reports of terrible weather experienced in the North Atlantic. Death of Oolonsl Higgins. Norfolk. Va., Feb. 1.? Col. Ales M. Higgins, commanding the seventy first Virginia regiment of infantry volunteers, died suddenly last week. Col. Uiggins ono of the most prominent citizens of Norfolk, and wss> the senior member of the real estate firm of A. M. Higgins A Co., Plume street. Ho served with the old fourth Virginia regiment in the Span Mi American war,' THE STATE LEGISLATURE Body of State Lawmaker* Down at Work ? Bills That Hare Bean Intro duced. . Oompalaory Education, There was a spirited and interesting de baa te in the House over Mr. ^ Ker shaw's compulsory education bill re quiting parents, or others having in charge children between the ages of r and 14 years, to send them to school for not less than 100 days in a session, the enforcement of the law being left in the hands of the school district trustees. After the house had heard speeches for an hour and a half, a vote was reached on the motion to strike out the enacting words. Inter est and some surprise and excitement) were elicited by the announcement I from the clerk that the ayes and nays vote stood 54 to 55 in favor of the bill. This was followed by more speech making, when another eye and nay vote was taken on the motion to in definitely postpone, which resulted in 59 yeas and 56 nays. Then the final vote was taken on the motion to tattle the motion to reconsider. This result ed to 03 to 54 against the bill. The votes showed a growing sentiment in the House in favor of compulsory edu cation, over last session. The cotton tuill managements say they favor a compulsory education bill, and say that a compulsory education law will assist them to see that the chid labor law is more generally observed. The Anderson delegation voted solidly against the bill, but the delegations from the Horse Creek valley mill sec tions were divided, as were the Green ville and Spartanburg delegations. Mr. Toole, of Aiken, who has been sirUggling through several sessions to pet a ten-hour labor bill passed, favor ed the Kershaw bill, while Mr. Cloy, of Aiken, tried to laugh it out into the corridors. Among the new house bills was one from Mr. Watson, of Anderson, to refer the question of license, dispen sary or prohibition, to the August primaries, the succeeding Legislature next January to enact into law for a period of five years the majority senti ment so expressed, and one by Mr. Cothran, of Greenville, allowing sheriffs of dry counties to appoint as many special deputies as necessary to enforce prohibition. Mr. llutto had a bill to repeal the anti-free pass Jaw and the Hampton delegation sent in a bill to provide for an investigation into the financial affairs of Hampton. In The Senate. The only matter discussed in the Senate was *a bill to appoint a commission to look into the advisa bility of purchasing the old police bar racks in Charleston with a view to using the place to enlarge the dorina tory faculities of the citadel. The bill was finally passed with 'only two votes against it. The Reformatory. The reformatory bill unexpectedly made its appearance, being called up by Sneator Mauldin. Senator C. L. Blease moved to kill the bill. In a s)M'cch after his motion to in definitely postpone the bill Senator C. L. Blease said he wrote the editor of the Greenville Daily News, of The Christian Appeal, one of the Spartan burg papers, and Rev. W. I'. Jacobs, sending them the bill asking them how they would vote on it. lie had received answers from sonic ? Senator Blease said they had not tin* man hood to retract their criticisms of the senate and of him. Kev. W. 1*. Jacobs of the Clinton Orphanage wrote a let ter saying lie did not "believe" in boys who were not criminals being admitted. 4 ' Boys of good character should not be elgible to the school," he wrote, in shaking of association with criminals. Senator Blease made his same points as last year that the judges had too much power under the bill and that it would dump 5,000 children, black and white, on the State. He did not want an orphan asylum sup ported by taxation. He thought the bill mcnt "the worst involuntary sla very 1 ever heard of." The State of South Carolina was ""going into the nursery business." lie would advocate two reforma tories for criminals, one for each of the races. lie was glad to see negroes eliminated from the bill, as compared with last year's bill. * Senator Blease was glad to vote for a bill which applied alone to young criminals and which did not allow the circuit and probate judges to uso their discretion in putting boys iu the re formatory. It was 10 o'clock when Senator Blease ceased speaking and Senator McLeod began argument for the bill. One effective point which the senator from Leo made was the statement mode to the committeo by Recorder Stanly in regard to the need for a re formatory as shown by his daily ex IK'i' ieuce. The State provided for and protected its other children, even to the deaf, dumb and blind. Then why not care for thu mdrally stunted ? those most pitiful of unfortunates? The pupils at Cedar Spring can sel dom be cured, but the majority of the boys at this reformatory might be morally made well. Senator McT/eod could not bebtvt that criminality could he promoted by the reformatory ; it would net tl\c other way, "All do not become criminals who go wrong, but if less than a dozen can be saved to South Carolina, $5, 0(H) wontd be a small *nm to pay." he *aid. Humanity was the whole idea of the reformatory, said Senator Maulditi, Further on in his speech and speaking of the effects of cigarette* on the youth of the land, the senator from Greenville got in a jab at the dispenr snry by saving1 that the cigarettes were 4 'no worse than the vile stuff dished out by the State." Senator Mauldiu did not speak long, and when he sat down, debate on the measure was adjourned until Friday. Morgan Bill Passed. The house of representatives Fri day by a decisive vote sustained the Morgan bill.' The measure has not yet been adopted, but all efforts to stampede those who voted for it have failed and the opposition seems de moralized. Oir every vote the advo cates of the bill had a majority of 15 or more, and it is claimed that the senate will give a majority of six to the local option bill. The measure as it now stands is Mr. Sanders' amendment to Mr. Mor gan V bill. These amendments have been adopted, but the bill was so much patched up thut the clerks re |M>rted that it would be almost a phy sical impossibility to have the meas ure printed and laid on the desks of the members. Therefore, in order to have a correct understanding of the hill before it parsed s< coud reading, i{ was decided to have it printed and luid on the desks of the members and debate was adjourned until Tuesday, (.'apt. J. W. Hamcl took a straight vole on prohibition at night and the pro|x)sition was defeated 77 to 20. Tin* local option hill as passed pro vides for State prohibition. The ? ati' dis|>cnsury will bo wiped out. Then the counties may go to work and vote in dispensaries if they choose to lo so. Mini Charleston "Would have the ->pi>ort unity to vote on the question ?f hi?rh license. The majority of the Richland delegation b. ing out of touch vitli the local optionists. no provis ion was made by which high license '?an be voted on in Columbia, although Mr. Mr Master made an effort to get such a concession, it was understood Thursday night that this was in the bill. There has been a great deal of talk on this bill. The author of the origi nal bill, Mr. Morgan, was jierniitted ?o make the closing speech yesterday, 'le was very ill, almost unable to stand, and lie was not able to attend ?he nielil session of the house, but the light had been won. Senate. in the Senate Fridav hut little was accomplished. The day was occupied in purely routine business. ~ Arrested on Charge of Lynching. Harnwell, Special. ? W. J. Myrick, Wade Sanders, C. \V. Hogg and Tom Huggius, all prominent farmers of this county, Postmaster Joseph llal ford of rimer, and Constables W. J. 11a iter and Milledge Lee were lodged in jail here, charged with having a* sisted in the lynching of Frank and John Deloach, colored father and ton, al rimer, December The younger negro was accuser of having killed iiayne S. Craddock, a prominent far mer of this section, having done so at the command of his father. South Carolina Items. From a letter received by Mr. Mc Dnffe Hampton from Mr. F. Welling ton Riiekslnlil, sculptor of the monu ment to (Jen. Wade Flninnton, it will be seen thai work on (In? statue is pro gressing well, and it is probable that it will be unveiled before next Christ* mas. Work is rapidly progressing on the extension of I he Chesterlield and Laaiiouster railroad. Judge D. K.Hydrick has just set tled the verdict in the case of Head vs. the Southern, by cutting the verdict of $10,000 to $20,000. Head was a young engineer who was killed in the wreck at Uadhain's ??n April 2 of last year. His estate sued for the amount indicated and a motion for a new trial was made, but the amount was reduced. The attorneys for the plaintiff were Legaro & Holman oJ Charleston and Dennis & Mann of S George, where the ease was tried. Tragedy on Frisco Streets. San Franesco, Special. ? Iu the midst of a throng of pedestrians at Market and Kearney streeth. William Wilbridge shot and killed his wife, Mabel, shot two bystanders and kill ed himself. Jealousy prompted the ads. He had been separated from his wife and came into possession of Utters sent to her signed "George. " The letters were written on paper ? ! The Hanford (Cal.) Sentinel. One 'ullet struck William T. Parlin in he month, shuttered a tooth and lodg ?d in Ihe jaw. The ??thcr bystander \as shot in the ankle. Night Watchman Murdered. New York, Special.? Dead about two hours, his skull crushed by an axe, John Arthurs, a Canadian em ployed as a night watchman on a pile driver wos? found dead in the cabin house of Ihe craft in the Hudson river off West Thirteenth street. A new pior is being constructed at this |>oint The cabin was in great disorder and indicated that the watchman had en tertained some one on board before Iho murder was committed. Nations, like Individuals, aro power ful in the degree that they command the sympathies of fbelr neighbors. DEADLY EXPLOSION fire On Transport Threatened Great Destruction SUSPICION OF DANGEROUS PLOT At Piet in San Francisco, Transport Meade's Forward Hold Was Suf focating Fnrnaco for Three Honrs and Fireman Worked in Danger of Flames Reaching Tons of Ex plosires. San Francisco, Special. ? Three men were killed and 58 injured, mostly by suffocation, in a fire that damaged the United States transport Meade $2,000 as she lay at the Folsom street pier Thursday morning. For three hours after midnight, the forward hold of the big troop ship was a suffocating furnace from which firemen wer borne in an almost con tinuous stream. Relays^ of men jrromptly stepped forward to take the places of those who ?ere carried out unconscious. Tons of high explosives were loaded in the after part of the vessel and the firemen worked with the possibility ever l>efore them that the flames would reach this compartment. Owing probably to the fact that an infernal machine was found in the bunkers of tho transport Thomas on her last voyage, the rumor was cir culated that a plot had been laid to fire the Meade at sea, as she was to have departed for Manila Friday. Major C. A. Devol, chief of the trans port scrvice, is investigating ? this theory with great care. He is having the cargo taken from compartment No. 2, whore the fire started to ascer tain the real cause of the disaster. The flames did not spread from com partment No. 2. Dock Captain Dun believes that some of the officers had packed matches in their trunks and that some of these were ignited in loading. A thousand pieces of baggage were ruined. Trunks, boxes, and barrels were water-soaked or burned. Wear ing apparel and household furnishings were ruined. One officer places the damage to personal effeefs at $50,000. The vessel is not seriously injured and will be ready to suit for Manila on Saturday. For N. & W. Stock Frand. Knoxville, Tenn., Special. ? C. S. Northrop, accused of using the Unit ed States mails to defraud was bound over by the United States Court at Omaha, Neb. He gave bond in the sum of $2,000. Northrop is charged with having written letters while mi ner the jurisdiction of the Omaha court by means of which he dis|K>sed <:f worthless Norfolk & Western stock. Northrop, it is charged, secured ir. excess of $20,000 by his operations in Knoxville and Jefferson City. Some of the laud which he secured on mon ? y raised on alleged worthless stock was deeded back to parties involved, but in spite of this, Northrop is said to have gained several thousands. Order Big Advance in Lumber. Norfolk, Special. ? The most sen sational advances ever recorded in the price of lumber in the South At lantic States was ordered at a meet ing of the North Carolina Pine As sociation here Thursday. The price on all grade:* of Itunhei was advanced $2 a thousand feet for some of tho better grades and $.Von tome other grades, principally the lower. Kills Man Found With Wife. Moultrie, Ga., Special. ? Dr. It. C. Lindsey, a prominent physioian of this city, returned to his home and found f\ J. Williams with Mrs. Lindsey. Dr. Lindsey drew a revolver and opened tire upon Williams killing him instnat ly. At a late hour Dr. Lindsey was still at. his office and no effort to ar rest him had been made. The coronei has ordored an inquest. West Virginia Mine Disaster. Roanoke, Special. ? A report reach ed here of the terrible explosion which occurred about 5 o 'clock Thursday afternoon in what is called the "Ball Knob" Mine,, No. 2, one of the op erations of the Red Jacket Coal and Coke Company, near Delormo Mingo county, W. Va. Up to 7.30 o'clock one miner al ready dead, and throe others serious ly injured, havo been taken out of the shaft. The names of the victims are not yet known. The victims are believed to number many more. Increase Stock to $17,000,000. Hopkinsville, Ky., Special.? At a meeting of the stockholders of the Cumberland Telegraph and Telephone Company held here, which is Ic^al headquarters of tin* company, an is sue of $3,300,000 additional stock was authorized. This makes the. total enp ital stock $17,000,000. Directors of the company will pierr in Nashville Friday. DISPENSARY LABEL GRAE1 Inteetifatin* Committee Discorera ^hat Contract for Printing 21,000, 000 Labels Wu Let lo Cincinnati Firm for $36,677 When There Were Other Bide at One-Fifth That Figure. ( olumbia, Special. ? The disjieusarv investigating1 committee went into the matter of Director L. W. Bo v kin's purchase of 21,000,000 labels for $X>, 077, while a number of responsible houses were willing to do the work, even in better style, for one-fifth that price. The contract went to the Ni vision Weiskopt Co., of Cincinnati, al though John J. Seibels, whom Mr. Boykin asked to bid, had a bid in for one-fifth that amount, thronfh White man Brothers, who offered to do the tOVJ? 00,118 ,HM" 1'000 ?s aga ins) ? , Tl\? ?.0,,t ra.ct was completed with^ the Cincinnati concern in spite of Chairman Kvans' protest by the signature of Director Tow ill. I'n-si. dent A. E. Couzales. of The Statt Company, testified that, at the request of the committee, he had secured prices from the American Color Print ing Co., of Baltimore, which offered to duplicate the order for #7,700, al lowing Mr. (fonzules 10 per cent, on this. This hid was oil the samples the committee submitted to Mr. Con soles, the samples being obtained from the Cincinnati concern's goods he would now be willing to enter in to bond in the kuiii of $10,000 to duplicate the work at this price, *27 <92 less than the State paid for it'. I resident W. II. Coirswell, of tin Charleston firm of Walker. Evans Cogswell, testified ajong the same line I hrough samples submitted bv tin. committee, he had secured a bid lroni the Brandon Printing Co., of Nash vile, at *7,195. and would now be willing to enter i?to bond to do tin work at that figure. Editor James Denry Iiieo, of The Carolina Ficlc' (weekly), of Georgetown, was put m> y ?est,l.V about letters the committee had secured J. s. Farnum's dis JKMisarv in Chliarleston, tending to fhowit.ce's effort to ge, John J. ? eibels. J. ,S. Jarnuni, M. W. Block. "? Macon, and the dispensarv direc tor* to subscribe to atock i? tjlc Kiel,! I ublishing Co. Mr. Rice denied that an.v of them finally subscribed. A Jrainman Killed. Greenville, Special.? \Vi,|, boil, of his legs severed froifi hi* bodv, his head and trunk frightfully cut and mangled, Allen Cray, a colored train man met instant death in the South ern naihvay yards. Cray was cn?ag ed in coupling cars lor the dav switch ckw in I lit* yard, and was riding on the rear gangplank of (lie tender of locomotive No. 707. Engine,,, an Char lie Jeff mux. when the tender left the track while passing over a light rail- I ed siding in the west side of tliu .vard near tl.e overhead cross!,,., of Hampton avenue. The tender swerv ed to tl.e right and jammed into a line of loaded box ears standing on lie next parallel siding, pinning Grav between the tender and the box car ns a result of which death resulted before aid could reach him. Negress Lured to Death by Former Compani6n. Saluda, Special.- A most horrible and brutal murder was brought to g wth? f,lt' body Of a nemo wo man who had been missing since Mon day night last was found iu a lonelv wood near tb# home of Mr. J(.|V man in this county. At the inrpiest a strong network of cicuinslaneial evi dence was woven nround Will If?b bard and Mary Livingston, both ne?' )<es, and tl.ey have just been landed in Saluda jail, charged by the verdict (1 the coroner's jury with the diaboli cal crime. Items of State News. Mr. T. B. Thnckston. who has been in charge of the agricultuial and jn dustral department of the Southern railroad in this State with headquart ers in Columbia, has resigned bis pos ition to take the management of the Olenn Spring* property for the syndi cate which has recently purchased it. The senate's substitute tor the house bill relative to Christmas holi days at State colleges was adopted bv the house and was sent to the engross ing department. That, settles the fight. The Win tin op girls will set their hol iday. They would have had it aiiv *yay? tor the trustees would have voted for the holiday next time. The ma jority of the trustees favor it anywav, but the mid-winter meetings are a't Rnded by trustees who would form a minority of the whole board. Eleven hundred bills lmv* 1n_ trod need in the lower house. This number breaks uJl records. An uncontrolled switch on the Cvp. reus Mills branch of the Brooklyn Hnpid Transit Company's eh valt'd road threw a ear down on a lot, a distance of ;m feel, and ?mio man was killed, one perhaps fatally and several others seriously hurt. Attorneys for the meat packers offer ed arguments before the United States < ourf in Chicago in support of the |?lca that thrir clients are entitled to immunity from prosecution. CONGRESS AT WORK fcThat Our National Law Makers Art Doing Day by Dajr. The Rate Bill. Discussion of the railroad bill con tinued in the House. Incidental to it, two speeches, the efforts of Mr. C'attip bell (Kan.) anil Martin (S. D.) took h wider range and swept the horizon ol ** trust evils" generally. Mr< Bartlett (Gu.) a minority mem- 1 ber of the committee reporting the bill, made a two hours' speech in which he discussed the legal and con stitutional questions involved and ad vocated the passage of the bill as a proper remedy for an intolerable con dition. The first speech, in opposition in the discussion, was made by Mr. Perkins (N. Y.). He based his op position to government control of rrtes <fli an inherent aversion to gov ernment conrtol of private enter prises. Bed tape and llxod condition, lie said were an inseparable part ot government action 011 any matter. A bill was passed granting a Fed ?ial charter to the Carnegie Fotinda | ion, for the advancement of teaching. The fun* consists of $10,000,000, the income of which is to furnish a i?en sion to retired educators. Shipping Bill in Senate. The Senate parsed thirty or forty misccllnneuos hills nod devoted sev eral hours to the* consideration of the shipping hills, hills were passed au thorizing the election of a Delegate in Congress troin Alaska; authorizing the construction of a revenue cutter vessel for duty at Savannah, Ga.; authorizing the construction of a bridge across St. Andrew's Bay, Fin, by the Birmingham, Columbus & St.' Andrews liailroad Conipunv, and pro viding for lighthouses. Hsh cultural stations, etc. Most of the time devoted to the shipping bill was consumed by Mr. Penrose in a sot speech in support of the measure. Mr. I illman * resolution calling on the 1 resident to sen I the senate all the letters from the I'nited States minister to Santo Domingo to the Stale Depai tnicnt in 1!MM, was refer ted to tin' committee on foreign re lations Mr. 1 illman made no object ion, but said that he only wanted tight as to whether Santo Domingo had been coerced into the present ar rangement. He said lit* newspapers had said t ii.it this was I In* east', while Mr. Patterson ,<ad said that the ar rangement was made at the solici tation <>J the Dominican government. After Mr. '1 illman had made a brief statement concerning the bills hold ing railroads res|>onsiblo for injuries to employes. Mr. Elkins withdrew his motion for their reference to the com mittee on the judiciary, thus leaving them with the committee on inter State commerce. Mi. fill ii? u 1 1 said he had not boon aware ot the frequent change of ref erence for the bills. He said that he liad been instrumental in the effort to secure the change of reference be cause the inter-Slate commerce coin mil fee was so much engaged on the i ail road rate question. At 2 o clock the shop subsidy bill was taken up. Mr. Bacon said that lie would bo inclined to support the shipping bill it its operations wore con lined to granting aid in the way of libci al mail subsidies to steamship lines between purls of the United Stales and other ports with which there is now no direct communication, such, for instance, as the ports of South America. He believed that such lines should be encouaged. Mr. Spooner suggested that the bill would afford encouragement only to large concerns, as vessels would receive sub sidy for but 10 years. Such vessels would then come into competition with subsidized ships, with the in evitable result, as he thought, of forc ing their scale to the larger compan ies operating subsidized vessels. Mr. Gallinger intimated a willing nets to amend the bill to meet the objection. Mr. Penrose declared that for 20 years attur 1873 no trans-Atlantic vessel? had been launched on the Del ewarc and that the record for thirl v years was only ten while the Clyde had launched hundreds. He contend ed tlint American labor should be protected in the ship yards as well as in the factories. Mr. C alter expressed the opinion thnt the bill would be endorsed by the entire Rocky Mountain region. Mr. Penrose declared the report that there was a ship building trust to be "a figment of the imagination. " Col. Mosby at White House. Washington, Special.? Col. John S. Mosby, who commanded an indepen dent Confederate cavalry force dur ing the CivjJ \V?r, presented to the President a letter writt?:i by General Jos. wheeler, a vcek before his (loath* recommending the nppointroont Of ail Alabaman man to a Federal of fice. The President promised to give the matter consideration. Sheriff Killed By Negro. Jackson, Miss., Special. ? Word was brought to the Governor's oltice ol the killing of Sheriff J. A. Robertson, of < ovingtou county, by a negro named llobin.oon, whom he wa? trying to ar r< st. The murderer escaped ininiedi slch and Governor Yardatmiu has offered a reward of $2.V) fi?i his < ap t-re, which has been supplemented t words off" red by citizens ol ;hc ei i.v'y, ?\l,?? are excite i or: i the fr.i . * dv Scvexal pci??ej jtc on tinU of 1 M I I ' I. WEARY Of KICKING Director North Claims Cotton Reports Are Accurate ABOLISH REPORTS, SAYS KE Complaints of President Jordan an* Others Because of Refusal to De part From Regular Methods of Giving Out Statistics Are Regarded by Mr. North as the Last Straw. Washington, Special. ? Having tak en not i CO ot' the criticismc upon his of tice by President Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton (Jrowers' Associa tion* and others. Director North. of the Census Bureau, declared that he hoped Congress would relieve him ot all further work in connection with i\tton statistics. "It i? the luost disagreeable and annoying woik I have ever known." said Mr. North. "These reports are ?ot ten up for the henetit of Jhc South ;'in people, but they sirem to be de voting all their energies toward dis. erediting them." A telegram from a planter in Lon >iana. received. charged Direelor North with doing a great injustice >oe.lhern plauteis by keeping hack he weight of hales and ? niililiiitr a certain eottou speculartor "and !??. liaholical crew*' to loh the South. In answer to the allegations made y President Jo*, .an, Director Noah, ??aid : "These cotton reports were estah ished hv law for the benefit of the ?? Hon growers, and I had believed hey were effective to tliat end. Inu he representatives of the jinnvciM, "ke Mr. .Jordan and J. A. Ta\lor. resident of the Cotton t Sinners' As .c-eiat ion, sft'incj Jet-'rinined to dis icdit the reports and thus desiroy 'ieir value, and under ihe.-e circam vhile for Congress to con'ir.'ie to ap propriate $2">0,000 a year for I he ????! ect ion of repot is in the interest of the ?otton g roweis when t! se men are '?ssnl islied with tho results. No ef "ort to show that the reports are iu ?ccnrate. misleading or manipulated las been suecpsful. The methods of he ollice have been exhibited t < ? rep cseutativcs of the grown s and iis records scrutinized by them, and they *ave not found it possible to put a higer on a single error either in meth ?d or result. There lias never been ? leak from 'he Census OlUcy since the system was established. " Denmark Hails New King. Copenhagen, Den math. Hy Cable The new King, Frederick VI II, now reigns over Denmark. His accession has been hailed with all appropriate enthusiasm and ceremony, but sorrow for the death of Christinui IX is pre dominant sentiment. The overwhelin | ii:g grief of the immediate members [ of this remarkably united family is n Heeled in oi ly a slightly lesser de riee in every home in ' 'openhagen. King Haakon of Norway, (Jne?Mi Al ?xandia of Kngland. and King tieorge >f (J recce are expected to ;? iri \e in i few d:iys. It is thought that the Kinperior of Kussia will attend the fu neral. but this is uneertain. It is an nounced tn&t L-'mpcrior William will bt present . N. & W. Orders 4,000 Cars and 7f? Locomotives. Hoauok", V;i? Special.--- At the gen eral ollices of the Norfolk & Western Kailwav Company it was state.' iluil a', a recent meeting of the board of directors of that company the board ordered 1,000 additional cars to he Used for carrying con I, and 7o freight locomotives. The contract h;is been awarded to the American Locomotive Company. liable for T. xcs on 8koe!: in Other Road. Atlanta. On., Special. ? .Fudge I'en llcto;?, of the Superior Court Jj^je, !ecid" i Hiat (lie Central Railroad of i corgi a is liable for State i;i:-.es oji the shate.<? of stock which it hold:; in he Western Hailwa.v of Alabama The amount of tas^s due under this consideration aggregates sTJ'.OO'V The railroad will appeal the ease. Duncan Adjudged Bankrupt. Cbarleftou, Special. ? Thomas * Duncan, former president of the But falo and tho Union Cotton Mill-, and reputed to be a man of considerable wealth, was adjudged a bank rupt in the United States District Court, uud Jnbu J? Katie, of ? olrni bia, "a? appointed referee to adminis ter the. tCfjiib of the estate, flie p<> t it ion to have Duncan adjudged n bankiupr wa.-> Hied Nov. I.!, bv the Cnion and Buffalo ('otton Mi'ls and < the Kxch-inge Banking and Trns' j Company, of Charleston. News NotcH. A < out i-tn.iishnl found l.ieui. \ ic tor S. Houston guilty of " im*i)icieuc\ in the pevforinance of duly" in the collision of t!"? Worden and the I<h\v renee. The bi)l!i(i.:y of Ley was maikcd h\ banquets. receptions and reunions throughout. \ irginia. A wreath *<"?it ?>y Hti adieit'er from England v.:.', placid "ri t.ce> tomb at Loiinefori