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"Do Thou Liberty Groat. Inspiro Our Souls and Make Our Lives in Thy Possession Happy, or Our Deaths Glorious in Thy Just Defence." VOL. XXVI BENNETTSV?LLE, S, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1901 -_---^-^-^-,-" NO 28 TERRIBLE I?EAT. 8?X Hundred Dna?hu and Many Prostrations HOSPITALS FILLED Tonto Boing; Erected on Hospital Grounds Horses Ara Fa lng, and Automobiles Ar? Usod as Ambulances Rainstorms Wednesday, with con sequent fall in tomporaturo, woro a Godsond to tho bulk of sweltering hu manity in Now York. As soon as tho last storm of tho afternoon had paosod ovor, tho tomporaturo immediately bo gan to ascend. Tho wind whioh blow during tho storm also oommonccd to abate vory rapidly, until it aooumod tho proportions of a slight broezo only. Thooo ntmo?phorio conditions, oouplod with tho vory oousidcuiblo humidity whioh oamo as an af ter math of tho downfall of water from tho olouds, mado tho suffern-g ni mont as intonso an it was whon tho th or eic motor had rog intered soveral degrees higher. Most of tho hospitals aro already orowded to thoir ulm wt papaoity, and many of them havo oreo ted tents on thoir grounds for tho a :<nmurnda'ion of tho boat viotiuis. Tho doath rato has increase 1 with suoh rapidity that tho morgue is heine taxod as it never was beforo, and ovory availablo foot of that institution is now oooupiod by corpses. Hospital attend ants aro collapsing under tho cxtraor dinary strain to whioh thoy havo boen subjootod and woro it not for tho volun toora who havo oomo to their aid tho situation would bo g'oatly aggravated by onforocd neglect of heat patients. Although tho .nmbulacco f-crvioo has boon augmontcd by tho audition of automobiles whioh havo boen loaned for tho purposo, it ia greatly inado- j quato. Tho horsoa usod havo boon most oarofully nursed alorg to prosorvo thoir stamina, but notwithstanding this many of thom have givon out. Their piaoos aro hoing iiiicd from out pido nooreen, and so groat is tho rciroity of availablo animals, hcoauso of the combination of heat nud tho grin with whioh Now York horsoa aro alli ctod. that it has boen necossary to send to othor oitioB to pct a fresh eupply. Whon tho first downpour of rain fltruok tho city Worjuoaday it was ao oompanied by thunder and a fair sizod galo, which soon reduood tho t?mpora turo 15 degroos. Tho humidity mado tho air so sultry, however, that tho ?teat reduction waa not porooptiblo to tho ex<pat whioh most pcoplo would imagine. Tho wind and lightning whioh ac companied thc rain dud considerable damago in tho oily, especially out to ward Harlem. Many trees, awnings and buildings woro irjured, but up to 10 o'olook no bai.udtios had boon ro ported. Thoro woro 89 deaths and 107 oases of hoat prostration iu tho boroughs of Manhattan and tho Bronx during the hours botwoon 2 a. m., and 10.30p. m., Wednesday. At 12:30 o'olook this (Thursday) morning it was ostimatod that tho total deaths from tho hoat in tho last six days in Qroator Now York was GOO. During Tuosday night and Wodnos day tho deaths in Newark directly at tributed to tho hoat, numborod ?l, tho highost number of tho spoil. In Ho bokon thoro woro 19 deaths. Battorson, whioh liad been comparatively froo from deaths, ran its numbor up to 116 , for tho 24 hours onding Wodnesday night. Jorsoy City osoapod with 2. Now Brunswiok scored 4 fatalities ana Elizabeth ti. A dozen other piaoos contributed ono each to tho total so that tho grand total for Now Jorsoy will bo in the neighborhood of 100 for tho day. Tho highost temperature was 94 at 12:30 p. m. At 8 o'olook Wodnosday night it waa 80 dogrcos. Bryan Has Not Changed. William J. Bryan whilo in Roanoko, Va., last wook dolivorcd a short spocoh on tho station platform. Mr. Bryan said tho quostions that soveral yearn ago dominated tho Ghioago platform ho had stood for booauao ho believed in thom. Ho had not ohangt d his mind whon tho Kpnsas City platform was on largod to suit certain conditions. Tho Democratic party was all right whon it carno to additions, but not in subtrac tion. No baokward btep wtuld betaken but whether it did or did not it would bo tho samo with him. Ho had said tho question was not whothor they should win but whothcr thoy should do what was right. Ho would do tho right and abido tho oonscqucinus. Tho Demo crats' duty was to advooAto principles. The result would bo boyond tho party. If tho blood WAH bad and a boil oamo thoy would koop ooming until son o thing was taken to oloanso tho blood. Ho said in conclusion. "I am fight ing on, not so muoh to win, for I would rathor dio lighting for right than win fighting for something oho." Race Riot. Roports reaohod Donvor, Colorado Thutsday of a sori-ouo raoo riot whioh has just brokou out in tho mountains ol Campbell oountry bot wcon negro and whito mirers. Tho troublo started at a negro danoo whero a fight was in progress ncas Lafollotto, a mining town. Tho town marshal was sent for and tried lo arrest tho ni groes .With aposhO of fivoiucn. Thc mgroofl ope nod firo on tho ofliotrs and tho of ficers returned to town. About 20 mon roturntd to tho soeno and oponod firo on tho nogro oabin. There were ?bout 15 nogroes ia tho houso. Thoy roturnod tho lire but boon mado a break for tho woods. Io tho running light thatfollowod tliroo negroes aro said to havo boon fatlly ?hot and a numbor of ot li ern wounded. Aothor Russian Bank Fail?. In oonsequenco of tho failuro of tho Kharkoff commercial bank, tho oom moroial bank of IClkatoiiosUff suspend ed payment Friday, It? liftbititios aro 1,250,000 roubles. AN APPEAL TO AMERICANS. Gon Pearsons Issues an Address in Behalf of the Boors. Goo. Poarsons, Bpcoial agont of tho Boor government, who conducted legal proooodings at Now Orleans to prevent tho shipping of mules to ?South Afriea, has issued tho following address to tho Amcrioan pooplo, tho titlo hoing "A Statement ol Knots; a Questioned an Appeal." 4,Tho burghors of South Afrioa who havo maintained tho svar with Groat Britain thoso two yoars pa it, havo in thoir strugglo a history strikingly par allel with your own. "Drivon by English opprosBion thoy wont iuto tho wilderness and rodoomod from tho wild boasts and tho ?avago a oountry for thcmsolvoa and thoro planted a civilization and oalablishod n froo government. In tho course of timo, Eoglibh cupidity throatonoi thom. They withstood tho domaud. Raids wore mado upon thoir territory. TroopB and munitions of war massed upon their border and insulting do manda mido of them. Tho uppoal to arms followod. Hundreds of thou sando of British soldiers from all parts of tho world woro massed on tho soil of theso two littlo republics contain ing fewer inhabitants than any Sci to of your Amorioan union and yoi thoy remain unomquorcd and will so ro main if tho Amorioan pooplo will oom pol thoir government to koop faith. "By tho law of your land-a treaty solomnly en toted into and to windi you ojtnpoiiod tho atsonfc of tho Brit ish government it is doolarod that tho ports of tho Unitod Statos shall not ho male tho baso of wari i ko operations against a nation with whom tho Uni ted States aro at poaoo. Tho attention of your oourts and your president has boon formally oallod to tho oporationa of a body of English army offioora with headquarters at New Orleano. From many parla of tho United Statos thoro army ollioors gather borzoi and mules forthiir armioa aud at NJW Orloans load them on ships aud tako them to their armies in South Alrtoa With out thoso munitions of war tho war on thc South African republics would almost mstaolly end. When these re publics went to war with thoir oppres sor, thoy did not bcliovo that thoy went to war with you; they had faith in your promise of fair j lay, and can hold and establish their freedom and kcop their oountry if you koop faith. "Today tho army supplies that you pormit to loavo jour port? aro usod chit fly to ooutinuc torturing and. slay ing women aud ohildron. Thc reve lations forced tobo mado in tho Eng lish parliament within the paat fow wooks have not only 'shookod and staggorod humanity,' but havo shamod it as well. "How much of tho sin and shame shall become your own arid what.will you do about it? "On thia natal day of your groat ro publio will you not turn yourthoughta from puroly sol fi sh patriotism and in emulation ol'your Washington lot your hearts go out to tho pooplo who, aa your anoo3tors did, sock to unfurl and to uphold tho flag of liborty and to do BO just aa your forefathers did who ongaged in tho strugglo with tho samo onemy. "Tho appeal ia mado to tho liberty loving pooplo of Amorioa. Whon I oamo boro I oamo fearing that tho pooplo wore hostile as thoir govorn mont has boon unfriendly to the.Boors. I hod, indocd, that tho contrary is true Tho h;avtB of t>o Amorioan pooplo go out to thoao South Afrioans so grandly struggling with tho enor mous power of England, to maintain thoir right to koop and to rulo tho land thoy rodomcd-but you havo not improssod tho fcdoral administration wiih your will. Tho president doos not onforo3 tho troation and his sub ordinates dospieo them. Tho English government ia at tho end of ita roaouroB. Tho Boors have won as against thom. If tho Amorioan pooplo will stop tho shipment of sup plies from American ports lo British armies', tho war will ond and tho Woy lcr liko atrocities at Bloomfontoin and Protoria-tho murdor of woniou and ohildron-will end. "So in bohalf of thoso sturdy burgh ors in arms who will part with lifo rather than liborty, iu bohalf of thoso women and littlo onos who dying of starvation and in prison yet cheer thoir brave onos in tho fiold, in tho name of your own history and tradi tions and principles and for your own sakos, ut this season, 1 make bold to pray you to kcop tho faith .and tho law malo by yourselves aui compol your govornmont to bo Amorioan iu tho traditional and glorious sonso.'' A Shocking Tragedy. Raymond Albora, a ll year-old lad, of Albany, N. Y.t Friday evoning shot and killod Emanuol ICoohlcr, a boy of 12, and thou hangod hhmolf. Tho boys were playmates and according to statomonts of noighbora thoy had quar relled somo days ago. Albora iu tho son of Albert Albora, a woll known painter, and Kochia* io thc con of Rev. John T, Koohlor, a minister of the gos pol. Tho shooting took piaoo at (i o'olook Friday ovoning. Young ICooh lcr was standing on a l'once in tho roar of Albora' houso. Ho was with his 8 ycar-old brothor. Theodore Koohler, who waa tho only ooo who saw tho shooting. Tho littlo follow told his father Friday night thal tho two boy? had somo words nud that Albora raised a ribo that ho had and, pointing it at his brothor, ?hot him. Tho boy says that Albora, whon ho saw Koohlor fall from tho lonoo said: "1 am sorry I did it." Thc rifle used was a 22 filbert rifle Thu ball struok Koohlor io tho left breast and paa.icd through bin heart. Ho died almost instantly. When Al bos Hiw what ho had dono ho tan int) tho houso and told his ni o thor. Tho neighborhood wos quiokly alarmed with tho nows, and during tho excitement Albers had ran away, lt was not until tho airival of tho polioo that a soaroh was mado for him. Ho was found in tho collar pf his homo, suapondod by tho neck from tho end of a ropo tiod to a boam of tho floor above Whon ho lcarnod that Koohlor was doad, Albora wont to tho oollar and taking a picco of. ropo, t;od it to a boam and standing on a oask fastened it about his nook. Ile then j'imped from tho oask and was suoponded in mid-air whon found. When out down ho was still alivo, but ho died a fow momonto lator. REVENUE TAXES. Governor and Attorney General Have Initiated Proceedings BEFORE U. 8. COMMISSIONER Tho Q uestion is Whether the Inter ral Rovonuo Lews of tho U 8. Apply-to Ou' Dis pensary System. Tho Stato of South Oarolina, acting through tho govornorand attornoy gon oral, havo iaitiatod proceedings before tho commissioner of intornal rovonuo to toat tho quoetion whothor tho Stato oan bo logally rcquirod to tako out spcoial tax etomps as wholcBalo and re tail liquor dealers uudor their Stato dispensary laws, and has. nudo a do rnand upon tho oominissionor for a TO fund of all suoh tnxos hithorto paid, amounting to $1 910. Whilo this sum is not largo ii is realizod that tho principio at issuo is of groat and far roaching ituportaooo. Tho ono quontion involved ifl, whothev tho internal rovonuo laws of tho United Statos ap ply to tho dit ponsary system of South Carolina so as toontitlo th J collector to doinand tho paytuont of HIOHO taxos. Tho entiro dispensary oyatem of South ?aroiiua is managed by a board of oom missioners oonsiBting of th rc o persons Bolootod by tho Stato legislature with Columbia as its headquarters. This Stato dispensary distributes tho sup plies to tho aouniy diaponsarics and thoso in turn aro mana^od by county dispon?ors or agontB, all boing under (ho board of Stato commissioners. Uodor tho law no liquor can bo sold at night nor lo bo drunk on tho prc mises of thc dispensary. Tho liquors sold aro tho proporty of tho Stato and tho profit * acor un to tho Stato. Tho salaries of all tho oiTioials of tho dispensaries aro Axed by law and do not dopond upon tho amount of Ihoir snlos. In tho brief filed with tho oommis aioncr of intornal rovonuo oe bohalf of thc State it is contended that there is nothing in tho laws of tho United States authorizing tho collection of in tornal rovonuo taxes whioh ovon im pliedly, authorizes tho imposition of a lax against a Stato or its inatrumnntal Hies of tho S:ato governmont would bo to that oxtont unconstitutional. It is oontonded further that tho prop erty of a Stato and tho moans and in strumentalities omploycd by it lo carry ils laws into oporation cannot bo taxed by tho federal governmont r,nd an opinion of tho lato Judgo Cooley on this quistion ia quotod. If any intornal rouonuo ia\y of tho United Statos ro quiro tho. agon ts of tho State and ooun ty dispensarios of Shuth Carolina oaoh to pay a tax to too Uaitod Statos boforo boing formittod to excroiso tho duties of thoir oflioe, it is ooutondod that tho law is unconstitutional and void, in this particular, booauso tho tax whioh it imponen is purely and simply a tax upon tho inbtrumontalitioa by whioh tho Stato, through its laws, socks to minimizo tho evils of tho liquor traffic within its hordors. Tho f?deral gov ernmont it is hold oannot constitution ally intorforo with tho administration of thoso laws by requiring a spooial tax stamp to bo paid by its officials aB a oonditiou precedent to tho exorcise of thoir dutioa. Commissioner Yoi kos baa tho claim for refund of taxos by tho Stato of South Carolina undor consideration, but has rondorod no opinion yot. Whilo it is truo that this dispensary *systom may bo dosignntcd a Stato agono;, and its maintenance uphold an constitution al under tho polioo powor rosidont in all sovoroigntio8, yet tho commissioner isinolinod to tho opinion that it is not suoh a nocossary Stato agonov, or suoh a noodful funotion of tho Stato govern mont as will oxompt it from f?deral taxation. There aro certain agencies absolutoly ossontial to tho lifo of a State, suoh as tho maintonaoo of oourts, oxooutivo offioials, collodion of taxos for tho pay mont of necessary H.e. to tx ponsos and it may bo admitted that tho national government oan at no timo and in no way, dirootly or indirootly, lovy a tax upon thoso necessary State agonoits; othorwho tho national gov eminent might tax thom out of cxist onoo. But, tho government oontonda, whoo tho Stato porforina a work and assumos dirootion of an agonoy whioh has boon and can bo porformod by its oitizons in thoir individual oapaoity, a new aspi-ot ariBos. If it is unconstitu tional to requiro tho local agonts ora ployod uudor tho disponsary systom of South Carolina to pay tho govornmont (ho sums rcquirod for retail and whole sale liquor doalora' stamps, thon this samo Stato and all other Slates, tho commissioner points out could tako con trol not only of tho salo, but of tho manufaoturo of whiskey, boor and to baoco, and if so thon tho quostion would aris?, oould tho govornmont lovy any lax upon tho products of plants under atid oporalod by tho Stato and used for thoso purposob? If so, while tho St.atos might thoroby bo able to pay all of thoir governmental cxponscs tho goncral govenrnnnt, it is snd would ioso an intornal rovonuo inoomo of sotno $200,000,000 per yoar. lt ia undorstood that if tho commis sioner's dooision is against tho Stato, aa eocms probablo, tho oano ovontualiy will go to tho Bupromo court of tho United Statos. Fi Iltoon Killed by Lightning. Crowdod togothor in a littlo s.ianty under a North Shore pier, in Chioago last Monday 10 boys and young mon and ono othor nun mst instant doath by lightning today. Thoy had loft thoir fish linos and sought shelter from tho fioroo thunderstorm that dolugcd tho northern part of tho city about 1 oleok. Ton minutos hier their bodies lay with twisted and tangled limbs liko a nest of snakes ai tho men who found thom said. Twolvo uoughtsholtor rind ono osoapod. Twolvo yoar old Willio Anderson was injured and ho lay many minutos before ho oould bo drawn out from uudor tho heap of doad bodies. Tho doad a?o all mombcrs of familion of comparatively poor pooploand oom nrisod a party of mon Booking roltof from tho boat of tho day, aooompAniod by a number of boys who had como to wado anti "-dm on tho boam, CAROLINIANS IN DEMAND. Young Men Wanted for the United Statos Navy. A Bpooial from Washington Bays: .Tho oonvortod Spanish gunboat Alva rado will lonvo Norfolk Saturday for Nowborno, N. C., whoro headquarters will bo established and a tallier oxton Bivo plan inaugurated for recanting young mon of tho south tor tho navy. Af tor tho Spanish war tho nood of Fttilors l)o on mo EO orront that Admiral Orowninshiold, ohiof of tho bureau of ? navigation, soul recruiting partios into | tho interior, onliutinglusty farinor boys for ?en soivioo. Tho plan ha9 worked BO woll that six ships-tho Hartford. Lmoaator, B?llalo, Dixie, Allianooand Mohioan-aro now ougagod io training young mc ii for tho naval eoivioo. Admiral CrowaiiiBhiold is uow turn ing Iii? attention to tho south, au ho has boon advised by lottora from that Bootiou that North Carolina and othor Bouthorn States aro fortilo diatriots for obtaining young mon for BOO sorvioj. Following this Buggostion tho navy do partinont will now Book to mako enlist ments at various points in tho Mouth. Ono party is proceeding by laud from Port Boyal and will visit tho following s m tl, ern oit ion: Spartanbur?, Colum bia and Groonvillc, S. C.; Augusta and Atlanta, tia. ; Charlotte, Durham and ti i'ooo?boio, N. C. Tho Alvarado whioh ?tartod Saturday wilt visit all tho prir.o'pal oitios ainag thoBouthorn distriotu of North Caro lina as woll as tho by flays and smaller settlements. In announcing thc trips, tho follow ing elli dal commont is ruado aa an in duocment to ttioso likely to onlist: "There never was a timo wh'n op portunity for advanoouiont oe worthy, qualified IUOD ?B as i'avorablo as it is nt present, duo to tho iuoroaao in tho en listed forco of tho navy, and tho oon Nc quent douiaud for moro potty o?iio?ra in ?\) branches. Ib tckcB timo to gain tho Boa habit md learn the iutrioalo duties o?a petty olliocr and.tho laddor can only bo olimbad by mon who aro willing to apply thomsolvcs and gradu ally but btoadily gain ndvavoomont, "Bjys between 15 and 17 will bo en listed as apprentices until ihoy roaoh thoir majority nu' youug men botvnon 18 and 2b ns landsmen for training for four year-; thc former will bo sont to tho training tn rai-m for approntioos at Newport, II. 1., aad the latter to tho training station tor landsmen at Port Rojal, ?J. C. Af tor six months at tho tho station, if qualiliod for transfer, they wilLbo tout on board'of a oruising VOSQOI to oompleto thoir training uibat. Tho rooruitiug party will abo onlhit seamou, vf ho'hayo had four years' soa oxporionoo and ordinary soamon who I avo bed two years' Boa exporiouoo.' Too former muBt bo botwoon 21 aud 3b, and tho lattor botwoon IQ and 30, ship wrights (carpenters), maohiniats, foro mon and coal passora will aleo boonliat od but applicants ; f(o.r, theso. p?sjtionkv must furnish proof, that they- know tho trado and have oxporieuoo aud satisfac tory rooommondations aa having work ed in tho trado. "All applioants must bring with thom testimonials from people in thoir immediate diatriots as to thoir moral and general standing in tho oom-JIU ni ty and all under 21 yoars of ago must furnish written oonaent of paronts." GEN GOMEZ TO THE PUflLIO Carno to h m o? ic a to Embraoe His Dear Friond, Estrado Palmer* Con. Maximo tiomoz, w li il o in Now York last wook gavo out tho following statomont. "in responso to tho rcquost of tho press for mo to m ?ko a statement in rogard to Cuba, all I havo to say is that tho aooeptauoo of tho Platt amend mont by tho Cuban oonstiluational oonvontion has already dofiood tho political situation of Cuba, and as tho Cubans aro ali anxious to ostabliah solf govern mont, they aro all working to ward this ord. There is not ono who doon not desire to soe tho ihg float froo, a tlig whian rporesonts so uiuoh suffer ing and so many eaorifiaos forfrocdom's sako. Tho wholo world has known this many yoars. "Tho solo obj o ot of in y visit has boon my groat dosiro to ombraoo my old, truo aad loyal friond, Tomas Es trada Palma, whom I havo not boon aldo to BOO since poaoo wai ostabliahod and of oourso, to pay a visit to Presi dent McKinley, to whom wo Cubans owe so muoh, and al JO to pay my ro-' ape?la to ?ooretary Hoot. "ThiB ii not my lint viait to this oily, of whioh I havo many ploasant and also sad rooollcotiOns, for 1 havo o.ioo silontly and unknown trod tho throughfaros of u froo country with til J Only ardent hopj ot' holpiog tO break tho o'aains thai onalavod Cuba, Today everything is changed. On again sotting foot in this froo land I loci happy, for in Amorioa 1 soo friond, who having shod his blood sido by sido with us for froodom has oarnod eternal gratitudo aud ostablishod tho mutual obligation botwoon tho two poophs to m ?ntain tho poaoo and in dopend ono of tho island of Cuba. "(Signod) M. Goura." Bryan's Sontimont. Tho observan o o of Indopondonco Day in Ndw York was moro than usually quiot this year. Tammany Hall hold nj regular Indopondonco Day celebra lion at whi jil tho Declaration of Indo pondonoo was road and spooohos roado by tiovornor Jonningi of Florida and othor leaden of tho Damooratio party, Tho following lottor of regrov from Wm. J. Bryan, dated Washinton, D. OY, Juno 2?), was road: "I congratulate Tammany upon tho fidelity it has sliowu in oolobratiug oaoh returning anuivursary of tho sign ing of tho Declaration of Indopondonoo. I twit that at thia tim) whon tho llopubh'oan lo?dors aro donying tho universal application of tho solf ovi dont truths sot forth in tho doolara tioti, spooinl omphasis will bo given to tho abortion that govornmants do rive their just powors from tho oonsont of tho gjvornod. ''In responso to your requo?t fora sontimont appropriato for tho oooa sion, I beg to suggost tho following. 'Liberty is not safo without a written constitution, and a constitution to be of valuo must bo strong onoufch. to control ovory publlo aorvant and proad onough to inoludo within it? protoo tion ovory person who noknowlodges ttlloglanoo to tho flag.'" GALLS ON MCINLEY. OOH. Qomtz, Cuba's Grand Old Moro Calls on the President. ?J?8T A VI8IT OF COURTESY Con Lou Pay? Hio Respects to ; the Savior ot Cuba and Tivka About Him ;*Gon Gomez and party arrived at tho wy.r dopartmont at 10 30 WodnoBday. Alfter a short oonforonoo with tho soo rotary of war thoy wont to tho Whito llbusp to soo tho pro&idont. Whilo Gin. Gomez wai nt tho war dopartruont h?mot Gon. Miles. Although tho com ulgador of tho Uoitod Slates army has boon soveral timon in Cuba, ho and tho obinmondor of tho Cuban Army uevor m it boforo. Siorotary lt jot csoorted G on. Gomez to tho Whilo House at ll ?'oTook this forono?u. Tho Cuban gou oral W?B cooompaniod by his son and Sonor Gonzalos, tho privato soorotary ofsGon. Wood, Tho President, roooivod tho party vory oordially in tho Rod parlor. Tho intorviow lasted about half an hour and at it* oonolueion Gun. Gomez roitoratcd through his intorpro tor, th st his mission to this oountry. is io lip way political. Ho oamo boro to visit his old friond, Senor Palma, and do?j?joel boforo roturning to soo . Proai dodt MoKinloy, for whom ho ha? a vory hign regard, aad to oxprosa to him por so ?'.ill y tho doop gratitude ho folt for tho assiolanoa of tho Unilod Statos in tho; Cuban struggle No political topios, ho /mid, had boon touohed upon duriog thodptoryiow, whioh was puroly social. Tho prosidont invited Cm. Gomoz to bo his guost at dinner WodncB'Jay ovo nieg, whon ho will moot tho monabors of tho ?abinot now in tho oity. Soorotary ltoot romainod with Pr?s idons: MoKinloy for a short timo aftor GotvV Gomcz had dopartcd. Wbon ho left jibe Whito Houso ho said thoro was absolutely no nolitioal signidoanoo in tho yisit of Goo. Gomoz. Tho gen eral/ho said had never beforo met Provident MoKinloy and tho oall was purply ono of oourtosy, as Gjn. G omoz did not fool that ho could not loturu homfj^, without Booing Prosidont Mo 'Kinley and paving his respoots and thanking him for what this oountry has d?no for Cuba. Aft?r tho dinner Wodiosday night G.on Gomez and his son returned to Now York; GcA\. Fit'/ihu?h Loo was among thoso who tydlod on Goii, Gomoz nt Iiis hotel. Thc'.'yjsit recalled that intoroating po riod! when G?n. Loo was tho Amorioan .ci^ttl^gonoral at Habana,, and Gomoz vv.v/ioKding, the Cuban contingent in tU'frold. VVheju askod for his view, ot" I ?on) Gomoz, Gen,.Lao. saidi ; "1 am Ono of tU?it? '?? thb'''bpihiuo! tjiat if it had not boon for Gomoa'fl indomitable porsiatonoo tho Cubans would not havo hold out until aid oamo for. thom fr?ru tho United Statos. It was' not so much - as a lighter that ho distinguished hinnolf for th&ro was not muoh fighting to do on a largo soalo, but ho hold on in spito of all discour agements and with ruggod honesty re sisted tho offorts of tho Spaniards to bribe him or his gonorals. Ho ovon issued an order that any offioor Book ing to oorrupt tho Cuban gone i als bo shot, and whilo I waa at Habana ono of tho Spanish ofiioors who sought to establish relations with a Cuban ofiioor aotully sufforod doath whon ho f ll into tho hands of Gomez's foliowors. It was his Bontimontal porsovoranoo in a for lorn hopo whioh distinguished Gomoz and whioh won Cubahor indopondonco. Strikers Cause .Riot. Nows roached Don vor, Cel., lalo Wodnosday aftornoon of an outbroak of tho striking minors of tho Smuggler mino noav Tellurido in tho southwest ern part of tho Stato. Tho informa tion was to tho offoot that tho post ?nico had boon blown up with dyna mito and 15 had bcon killod in tho riot. All wiros loading to Tellurido havo boon out by tho minors. Tao nows of tho riot oamo from Ouray, Colorado, aorosa tho mou a tai ns from Tellurido and waa tolcphonod into Ouray from tho Camp Hird mino, which is botwoon Ouray and Tellurido. Tho Camp Bird is tho proporty of Thomas Walsh, a residont of Wash ington. It is said that minors from tho Liborty Boll, Tom Boy, ltovonuo and Camp Hird minos havo joined with with tho Smuggler btrikors and that BOO mon now surround tho Smuggler mino. Tho dispatch from Ouray s tu tod tho shooting was still going on whon tho dispatoh was sont. Tho striko at tho Smuggler mino has boon on for some timo and only recently a oitizons oommittoo waa appointed at Tollurido to try to offoot a sottlomont of tho dif foronoos botwoon tho minors and tho ownora of tho proporty. Tho sheriff of tho oountyin whioh Tellurido is located wirod Gov. Orman for troops to assist in Buprcssing tho rioters'. A oall for tho militia to assomblo at their armo ries at 8 o'olook Thursday night was issuod from tho adjutant gonoral's do partmsnt and dirootedto tho companies at Dmvor and Pueblo. At 10:15 TJhursday night Gov. Orman roooivod a mosnago from Sheriff Dowtain, of 'fulleride, saying that thu strikers had takon fooiblo possession of tho Smug gler Union mino and had run all tho omployos ovor the rango. Tho mos aago said that tho lattor mado no re sistance JCnds His Own Lifo. Another dirootor of tho Leipziger bank, Karl Felix Sohaeffor, oommittod suicide by shooting himsolf Friday. Sohaeffor was also a moinbor of the firm of Beiger & Voigt. This firm <1 dolares it is not affected by Schaeffer's doath, as ho sold his ?haro of tho business Thursday on favorablo torma. It is reported that au oKaminatlon of tho accounts of tho Caaaol Grain Drying oomptn, whioh assigned Friday disclos ed a dofioit of 11,500,000 marks, Thoro aro serious rumors that soouritios woro twioo plodgod and that tho dirootors owo a largo shm to tho company. Causod a Panic. 'tho Khavkolf Oommeroial bank of Odessa, Russia, has failed with a dofioit estimated a 5,000,000 roublos. Tho failure has oausod a dnaaoial. panto in South Hussia, CONDITION OF THE COTTON CROP. Lowest Average in This S tato Binco th? War. Tho monthly ropott of tho statistician of tho Dopartmont of Agriculture at I Washington will show tho avorngo con dition of ootton on Juno 25 to havo boon 81 1, oomparod with 81 5 on tho 20th of tho pro oed i og month; 75 8 on .July 1, 19C0, and a yoarly avorago ot' 8(3.3. Tho oondition of 81.1 is, With oxcoption of tho July oondition report ed last year, tho lowest reooyded condi tion roportod for this season. Tho con dition in tho principal StntiB roportod io BU follows: North Carolina 77, South Oarolina70, Georgia 72, Florida 78, Alabama 80. Mississippi 86, Louisiana 84, Toxas 80, Arkansas 81, Tonnossoo 85, Oklahoma 91, Indian Territory 88 An improvement )S noted during Juno of two pointa ia Toxas, three points iu Arkansas, Oklahoma and In dian Territory; four in Alabama, Mis sissippi and Louisiana and seven ia TonnoaBco. Oa tho othor h md thoro I was adoolino of oight points in Georgia j and Florida, and ton in North Carolina and South Carolina. With tho oxooption of Mississippi, whoro tho ioportod avorago oondition is on? pont abovo tho menu avoragoa ro portod to July 1 in that State for tho last ton yoars, not only was tho oondi tion rooorded, with tho exception of hut yoar, for tho cotton rogion as a whole at this soasou, bub in Goorgia and South Carolina it was tho lowost j_!_:_J _a ?t-c__ _. UUllUg ? punnu VI un li. u jr n yu y CHI il, whilo iu North Carolina it was tho low ost, with ono oxooption, during tho samo poriod. lixoossivo rains, followed by hoavy growth of grass and woods, oausod much damigo in Alabama, Gorogia, South Carolina and North Carolina, whilo in Louisiana and Toxas tho growth was rotardod by tho drought. Tho gravity of tho situation is groat ly inoreasod in North and South Caro lina and Go.;i'gia, and to somo oxtont in othor Stntos by thosoaroity of labor. A Wealthy Negro. Probably tho woalthiost oolorod man in Amerioa is a guest of bis ohildion in ltoidsvillo, N. 0. Ho waa born aslavo in Henry oounty sixty-four yoara ago. By ownership his namo would bo Ki ward Abingdon, but ho preferred that of his slavo father and took tho namo of Elward Dillard. '\D.\" 101 ward Dillard as his frionds stylo him, ho having boon a SUOJOSHLUI druggist in Chicago for sov oral years. Ho mado his osoapo from slavery in 1863, going to Pittsburg, wh .re ho mado $2.50 n day shovolicg pig iron and lived on GO oonts a day until ho had savod up $1,100, whon ho bought a horao and oart and bogan tho peddling of ocal, working in tho day and studying in tho night. Ho thon wont to Chioago and. opened a (hug sto.ro, employing o oapablo drug clerk, whoso ' duties wove . to f^it cm : cu de mora and ^?oh tho -'.'propriotor thu druggists' trado. His establishment was bm nod in tho groat Chioago firo, but ho was savod from loss and mado a littlo botter oil by an insuranea of $10,000. Ho again oponod up in tho drug business, but soon sold out for $22,000 oash. Ho thon wont to Australia and ombarkod in tho oattlo busi ness-raising, buying and shipping oat tlo. Ho would buy and ship as many as 5,000 hoad a month to Liverpool, making largo profits on oaoh shipment. Ho had purchased yoars boforo, a piooo of suburban real ostato now in tho hoart of tho oity of Chioago, and for which ho has reoontly rofusod an offer of moro than $200,000. Ho also owns a valuable ostato in Australia. Tho othor day ho deposited with a Dan villo bank two drafts on tho Mob bpurno, Australia, bank for $37,000. Whon ho took his departuro a littlo moro than thirty-sovon yoars ago ho loft bohind him a son and a daughthor. His mission to this country was to find thom. Ho readily found both living in ltoidsvillo, and thoy aro to roooivo a goodly s li tiro of his fortune. Mr. Dil lard Bays ho will not roturn to Austra lia, but will dispose of his holdings thorj and honooforth live and dio in his nativo stato. Ho is an unassuming and well mannorod oolorod man and speaks of his old owners and thoir rela tives with veneration as "Marstor" or '"Mistiss." Ho says that tho .groatost fault of his raoo ia: 'Thoy do not know thj valuo of a dollar; they will not save up. They oau inako it, but will spond it," Dr. Dillard ia oasily ' worth botwoon a quartor and a half mil lion of dollars. ' Lynched for tho Usual Crime. A nogro namod Jim Bailoy was lynoh od nour Smithfiold, N. C., last wook for assaulting a whito girl. Wodno&day at noon Maud S;riokland. tho ld year old daughtor of a farmer Hying near Smith field, wont to the Mold to o Arvy dinner to hoi' father. When returning sho saw a nogro in tho path ahoad. Hor littlo sister was with hor. Tho nogro told tho sistoi lo go on or ho would kill hor. Ho caught Maud, ohokod her and outragod her. Her littlo sistor ran baok to hor fal hor and told him what had happon od, Striokland and his two brotbors found that tho nogro was Jim Bailey and that ho waa at work in tho field. Thoy tried to capture him. Bailoy was armed with hoo and hatohot and osoapod. Later ho mot two nogroos who disarmed him. Striokland and Charlos Powell soizod Bailoy and put him in a buggy to oarry him to Smithfield to doli vor him to Sheriff Ellington. Whilo on thoir way a mob mot thom four miles from town, took tho nogro ftom thom and hung him to a troo. Powell wont on to Smith field and told tho sheri ff of tho lynch ing. Tho sheriff and ooronor wont out at midnight and brought tho body to Smithfield, lt is said tho lynching 00 currod about 10 o'clock Tuesday.night. lt is also said that Bailoy used a' knifo upon his victim. Regiments About Complotod. Acting Adjutant Gonoral Ward at Washington has roooivod reports from tho offioors ongaagod in roouiting tho fivo now infantry rogimonts and tho five now oavalry rogimonts authored by tho army rooorganimation aot, show ing that tho rogimonts aro all praotic.il ly reoruitodoxoopttho 13 ,h oavalry, which is roportod to bo .389 mon short, It is oxpootcd that all theso troops will bo sont to tho Philippines for tho roliof of an otiuftl number of regular troops who havo hoon there two yoars or moro And who aro to bo brought homo. ? .U-:;,. I ' ? .' ? '} "? ?i'^?f^^^^i^U\;x i'..V'..{' '.. '\.\ '<:J??'<?.< ANOTHER BANK FAILS In Buffalo Because of Its Connection With City National. Tho Niagara bank of Buffalo, a Stato instit u don, has clos o tl its doors. Tho following notioo has hoon posted on tho doora: I havo olosod aad taken possosBion of thia bank. (Signed) F. D. Kilburn, Saporlntondont of Banks. Tho Niagara bank was organized, Soptombor 15, 1891. It had a oapital of $100,000. Tho offioara aro: Presi dent, P. II. Griffin; vioa. prosidont, M. .M Dar ko; oashior, Wno. T. Hayos. Tho ohairmau of tho oloarlng hou90 com m it too, S. M. Clement, said Thurs? day morning: "Lt should bo diatinotly understood that tho olosing of tho Niagara bank Thucsday has boon brought about solo ly by roason of its oloso oonnootion with tho City National bank, its prosidont hiving boon vioo prosidont of tho City National bank, and that no other na tional bank boro is anyway affootod. "As tho mooting of tho oloaring houso oommittoo Wodnosday at tho oloso of Wednesday's businoss, tho Niagara bank was tho only bank that applied for any assistance and arrange ments wore mado to give tho assistanoo askod for, ponding tho roport Wodncs day morning by tho banking dopart mont as to tho solvency of tho bank. Mr Kilburn, tho suporintondont of tho banks on his arrival iu town Thurs day morning booamo satisfiod that tho bank oould not got through with tho assistanoo askod for and accordingly direotod that tho bank be olosod io or dor to best protect all intorostod." Tho bank suporintondont w?s seen in tho Niagara bank and askod why tho bank was olosod. Ho said: "I havo olosod this bank booauso I think it insolvent. Tho main roason for tlio failuro is tho failure of tho City Natioual bank. This bank is in volved t an extent not to bo an nounced, but I do not doom it safo to .permit this ono to oontinuo businoss any 1 jngor. As to whothor this bank has boon in trouble horotoforo I havo nothing to say." Two Whitp Mon Stabbed. At Fiootwood, park Ohio, Friday, John and Albort Slaughtor, whito, woro probably fatally stabbed by Luther Pago and Abner O ?veas, colored. Chas. Martin and Hilov Slaughtor wore boat on with olubs. Tho trouble occurred over an attaok on a small whito bov by a ooloaed man. A small si/. >d riot fol lowed. Finally tho oolored mon woro arrested and plaoed in tho o ou n ty Jail. Aftor midnight an attempt was mado to orgauizo a mob to lynch tho prison ers. A oro wd gu thor ed at tho tuunol on O.ivo atroot, but no ono voluntoorod to load tho assault ou tho j ?il. If tho attaok had boon mado a bloody battle undoubtedly wo?ld hayo. ooQurrod" as. BO armed mob ;,wr)ro ;op guard duty . 'trpnw}. .tho I ;dl,^>ho??' thoir Jfrimul-1 woro, imprisoned.- Pago' and Q?VO/?S Were t;o orotly nTraigacd thio^orho?u, in tho oounty jail. Avrangomonts woro mado to romovo thom to Portsmouth jail for safety immodlatoly, as tho authorities fcarod trouble Saturday night. Tho ve in o val of 0 ?vonH and Page, tho negro assailants of tho Slaughtor boys, to jail at Portsmouth has nyortod a crisis at Fiootwood park. Tho two mon woro Saturday takon to a train in a olosod oarriago guardod by officers, and haltod a squaro from tho dopot. Offioora formod a oordon about tho prisoners as thoy woro led to tho train in irons. Not a dozon pooplo woro awaro of tho tramfor beforo tho train arrivod. Kiley and Martin Slaughter, brothers of tho wounded mon, had startod for tho dopot but tho train had pullod out a minute boforo thoy arrivod. Tho offioora dis arm: d. tho nogroes Saturday aftornon and arrested ono who flourished a re volver. Nogroos woro congregating and oponly displaying arms. Increasos Postage. A spooial from Washington says: Tho cabinet was in aoBsion about two hours Friday and dovotod tho ontiro timo to minor mattora. PostmaBtor Gonoral Smith explained how tho reve nues of tho postal oorvioo woro being kopi, at a point far bolow what they otherwise would bo but for tho faot that undor tho prosont classification a largo olass of poriodioals wore boing handled nt tho rate of ono oont a pound, which was a groat finanoial loss to too serv ioo. lc was his purpojo to modify tho regulations so as to oompol thia olass of publications to pay oight cants a pound instead of ono as now. Those now regulations, it ia said, will bo is sued infow days. Soorotary Hitchcock atatod that tho proolamation opening to sottlo Lont too Wichita, Kiowa and Co mancho landa in Oklahoma would bo gi von to tho prosa for publi cation at an oarly dato. Tho dato of tho oponing will not bo announoad until that timo. Hotel Bumed. Information roaoivod at tho gonoral offioos of tho Hot Springs oompany Richmond. Va., shows tho loss of tho Homostoad ho toi Wodnosday night by firo was oomploto. Tho Uro startod in tho bakery shortly bolero midnight. Tho bin? J sproad rapidly by roason of tho poor facilities of tho fire dopartmont, Tho guests woro promptly notified and esoapod, many in their night olethos most of thom losing tho ir jowola and trunks. Thoro woro aovoral narrow os* oapos. Many promiuont and woalthy guests woro in tho hotol at tho timo. Tho loss ia about $300.000, largoly ooverod by insurano?. Woalthy cot tagers aro doing everything to assist t hose burned out. Tho Homostoad will bo rebuilt at once: It waa ono of tho handsomest and most attractive hotola in tho south, aad was for years tho summer or winter homo of many prom inont pimplo from all tho country. Tho Virginia houso and tho bath house, to gothor with tho oottago, romain unin jured. Private Bank Fails. Sturgos bank, of Mansfield ? , a pri vate institution, olosod its doora, fol lowing tho filing of a docd of assign ment by Btmkor Sturgos to Attomoy H. B. Dirlam. Sturgos ownod lumber ?works, roal ostato and a controlling in torost in tho Mansfield Maohino works, tho latter o api tali/..ul at $300,000. Wodnosday aftornoon A. Book y/as ap pointed voooivor for tho Mansfiold Ma ohino works. Sturgos was.? oloso friend of tho Uto John Sharman, BalHIHllaYB BOLD ROBBERY. Train Hold Up by One Man and "Robbid by Throe. SECURES $83,000. Bwolvers, Rifles and Dynamite U sed Freely. Wound? Sev eral and Makes Their Escape. Tko Groat Northern trann-continontal train No. 3, loaving St. Paul Minn., Tuesday morning st 9 o'olook, was hold up at Wagnor, Mont;, 196 milos)east of Groat Falls, at 320 Wodnosday nftor noon by throe maskod mon who blow opon tho ox pres ? oar and wrookod tho through safo with dynamito, soouring $83,000. Tho robbory, in daylight, was ono of tho boldest that has ovor ooourod in tho wost. Uno of tho robbors boardod tho "blind baggago oar at llindalo, a station about 20 miloo oast of- Wagnor. Ho ap poarod to bo a oommon hobo, but whoo tho oonduotor disoovorod him sta stop almost immediately afterward ho drow a hoavy dolt's rovolvor and ordorod him to roturo to tho roar of tho train on ponai ty of instant doath. Tho hobo thnn nlimhrtd. 0V?r t-b.0 locomotivo ten der, and at tho point ot his rovolvor oompollod tho onginoor and firoman to stop tho train at a ravino a fow milos east of Wagner, whoro his oonfodoratos, two in numbor, both masked, lay in wait. Tho hobo thon oompollod- tho firoman and onginoer to abandon the ongino and firing bogan on both sidos of tho train as it cuno to a stop. Passengers on tho train bogan to look out of tho windows and a brakeman alighted on ono sido of tho train while tho traveling auditor, Douglas{ alighted on tho opposite sido. Both instantly booamo tho targot of Wiuohostors in tho hands of tho robbers and woro woundod, A pnusongov on tho tourist ooaoh who was looking out of tho win dow was struok by a stray bullot and seriously injured and two othor pas sengers woro shot but neither woro no riousiy injured. To wreck tho door of tho oxpross car with dynamito, with which both tho oonfodoratos who appeared from tho ravino woro liberally suppled, was tho work of an instant. Tho expressman was oompollod to loavo tho oar at tho point of a rifts, and tho through safe was immediately dynamitod. Tho first ohargo did not break it opon, and .four others in quiok suooossiOn woro nooos-. eary boforo it was forced,; .Tho robbors hurriodly gathered in ita oontonts, con sisting of flpooie shipments, drafts, coin and valuable negotiable paper,?.und"', xe , t vea ted j ..':d*0 cpi ii sr../ ?? h o : t U i n ' ; ' or ? W ; iv u d. pa'joongoi^ ; oh afc ' tho point o?fch?i I rifles. [ All fchreo disappeared iii tho vavino, and wore soon Intor, ono mounted on a bay horso, ono upon n vyhitq horso. ono upon abuokekin bonding southward. at a furious gait, tho booty boiug plainly visiblo in asaok thrown norona tho sad dle bows of tho udor upon the buck skin horso. As tho hobo climbed over tho ten-, dor to tho looomo tivo cab, ho drew ou a mask rondoring.it almost impossible to soouro a good description. 10 a ch of his.oonfodoratos was masked and tho only information obtainable regarding thom is that ono was ovid o ntl y a half brood, . This was tho robbor upon tho buck skin horso. The gang hcadod for tho Littlo Hookies rango, lying across tho .Milk rivor in an almost inaooossiblo country, consisting mainly of bad lands. Possos woro immediately organ izad in pursuit, ono by a shoriff - who happened to bo a pasaongor on tho train. Married to Save'the Pig. si In order to savo tho lifo of a pig Hi ram Johnson and Miss Matilda Parkin son, Wilkosbarro Pa., woro married last wook by Aldorman Oonohan, of Wilkos barro, whoso roputation as a Solomon is thoroby onhanood. Miss Parkinson ap poalod to him tho othor day for jas tico. Sho said that Hiram Johnson, who ownod a farm noxt to hors at Hud son, had stolon tho pig from her. Sho also said that thoy had known cash othor for yoars and wore always good friends. Whon tho'squire sont for Johnson he said tho pig was his and ho oould provo it, As neither would yiold Aldorman Oonohau had tho hoaring Thursday. 10 soli arr i voil with s o vera I wi too ss on who sworo tho pig bolongod to ono or tho othor, and, as tho ovidonoo of oaoh sido was of equal woight, tho aldorman mado a dooision worthy of his ropufc? tiJU. Ho said tho pig should bo killed and thon divided equally. Both Miss Parkinson and J olin son objootod strenu ously that tho pig was not old onough to kill, and bosides it was a dear littlo pig, oto. Thoro was no sottlomont in sight, and tho 'squire suggostod smiling ly: "Why don't you marry and koop tho pig in tho family? You aro old onough." Eaoh is ovor 50. Tho sug gestion ploasod thom. They wont into a oornor, talked it ovor, and carno out hand-in hand and blushing, Tho aldor man marriod thom and thoy took tho pig homo. Sad Picnic ?Jnding. Thoro was quito n sad onding to tho other ,vino ploasant gathering of citizens of Mo?ormiok S. 0. at Soavl's Mill to hold an old fasliionod Fourth of Julv pionio. Tho two littlo boys of Mra.P. F, Creighton^ agod rospoofclvoly 9 to llt had gono in bathing nomo littlo' dis tanoo ?onn tho river av/ay from tho crowd. They wad od out ovor their depths, ond when Dr. Manley Brown, who was tho first to discover thom, oarao upon tho soono, thoy wore lust sinking for tho third timo. Ho called for assistance and immediately sprang into tho water. A largo orowd quiokly gathorcdand they 8bon suooooaod in finding tho younger ono of tho boys, but tho oidor oho was not found until H was too Into to savo him. Tho sym pathy of tho entire community goos out to tho boroaved ruothor, who now suffers this second boroavomont so soon having quite rooontly lost her husband, Tho doad boy woe just reaching i?H? fltago in-Hfo whon ho could be of ??nio asBiatanoo to his mother,