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" Do thou Groat Liberty Inspire our Souls and make our lives in thy possession happy, or our Deaths Glorious in thy Just Defence." YOI.. XII. I1 111 -1 NO.-8. PRESIDENT McKINI - --?., AN ANARCHIST PRETENDING ' T SHOTS ll Tragedy Occurred at 1 . iiiMIM? . - The Das'adly Deed to Ooi teem Were Being Show The Fiend Capture Buffalo, Sopt. 6.- Prosidont MoKin loy was shot and soriously wounded by a would-bo assassin whilo holding a ro ooptior, in tho Templo of Muslo at tho Pan. Amorioan exposition a fow min utos aftor 4 o'olook this aftornoon. Ono shot took cffcol in tho right breast; tho othor in the abdomon. Tho first is not of a ocr io vj na turo, and tho bull ot has boon oxtraoicd. Tho lattor piorood tho abdominal wall, and has not boon looated. At 10 40 p. m. tho following I..fl..?.. t-il.. .li_J !_"l,""i?!nno uuuuiiu uy buu n?iuuuiu5 pnysioiana was tho only indication of tho condi tion of tho president's wounds: Tho Prosidout is rallying, and is rott ing comfortably. At 10:15 p. m., tom ptraturo 100 4 degrees; pulso 124; res piration 21. (Signe d) P. ML ll xey, M. B. Mann, ll. M. Parko, H. Mynter, Eagono Wacbiu. Qoorgo B. Uortolyou, Soorotary to tho President. THK ASSASSINATION. President McKinloy, tho idol of tin Amerioan pooplo, tho nation's ohiof ex couti ve. and the oity's honored gues HOB, piont rate, suffering tho pangs ia flioted by tho bullots of a cowardly ns uassin, whilo his lifo hangs in the balanoo. Out on Dolawaro avenuo, ai tho home of John G. Milburn, probi dent of tho Pon-Amorioan exposition with tearful faoo, and hoart torn by eon (Hoting hopes and foars sitBtbe fatthtu wife, whoBO dovotion is known lo all th nation, lt was a tow moments after p. m., whilo Prpfcidont EoKinloy wa / holding a publiodroception in tho grce Tom plc of WUB?O,{ OiTiKtTPatt America / grounds, that tho cowardly attaok wa made,?with what suooeea limo nloico on toll,. Standing in tho midst of orowd nu mooring thousands; surrounded b; tvory o\id?neo of good will; prosscd b a motley throng of pooplo; showoro? with expressions of lovo and loyalty bosioged by multitudes, all osgor t olasp his hand; amid thc HO surround ings, and with r vor roourring plaudit of an admiring anny of sight-seers ring ing in h?? oars, tho blow of tho assassi foll, and in an instant ploasuro gav way to pain; admiration to agony; foll turned to fury, and pandemonium fo lowed. THE ASSASSIN. Down at polioo headquarters, su rounded by storn-faood inquisitors ( tho law, sits a modium-soized man e oommonplnoo appoaraneo, with his fixe gaze dirootcd on tho floor, who prctsc his Hps firmly togothcr and HP' ns wit an air of assumod indifforon to th porsistont stroam of quostion., argi monts, objurations and admonition with whioh his captors sock to indue or compel him to talk. Tho organ r< oital in' tho splondid Tomplo of Musi witnessed tho dastardly attempt. Plat ed with tho diabolical ingonuity au fineiso of whioh anarchy or nihilism : onpablo, tho would-bo assassin earrie out tho work without a hitoh, an ehould his designs fail, and tho pres dont nur vivo, only to Divino providonc oan bo attributed thatbonofioont resul WUXRE IT WAS DONE. The president, though well guarde by Unitod StatoB sooret sorvio?'dote tives, waa fully exposed to suoh an a taok asoooutred. Ho stood at tho odf of the raised dais upon whioh stam the great pipe organ at tho east sido i tho magnificent strnoturo. Throngs pooplo crowded in, to g&zo upon thc exeoutivo, perohnnoo to olasp bin han ?nd then fight thoir way out in tl good-natured mob that ovory minu swelled and multiplied at tho points ingrosB and (gross to tho building. Tl prosidont was in a ohecful "mood, ai was onjoving to tho full tho hearty e\ don?os of fiood will whioh ovorywhe mot his gt zo Upon his right stoi John G. Milburn, of Buffalo, pr?t cont of tho Pan-American cxpositic ohalting with the president and-inti duoing to him eepooially persons noto who npproaohod. Upon the pre dent's loft stood Mr. Cortelyou. THE ASSASSIN PIBES. It was shortly after 4pm, whon o of tho throng whioh surroundod t prosldontial party, a medium sizo m of ordinary appearanoo and plair dressed in black, approached as if greot tho president. Both Ho oro tr Uortolyou and Provident Milburn i tioed that tho man's band was swath in a bandngo of handkerchief. Hope of bystanders differ as to his band, j worked his way amid tho stroam people up tho edgo of tho dias until was within two feet of the pre&idoi Mr. MoKioWy 6miled, bowed and < tended ) is hind in that npirit of ge ality tho Amerioan pooplo so w know, whon suddenly ibo sharp ora of a revolvor rang out loud and oh above the hum of voioos, tho shuflii of myriad foot and vibrating waves applauso that ovor and anon Bwopt hi and thoro ovor tho assomblago. THE FIEND OAPTtJItEI). Thoro was an instant of almost oo ploto si lonco. Tho prosidont ste stock still, ?look of hositanoy, aim of bewilderment on his faoo. Thon retreated a stop while A pallor began steal over his feature?.. Themultitt only partially aware that something rioim had happened, pansodin surprl JEY ASSASSINATED. 0 SHAKE HANDS FIDES THO ITO Hi. he Buffalo Exposition. ie While EXurds&ions of Es ered on the President. ?I and Locked Up. . MUMU - whilo nooks wore orno od nod nil oyos turned as ono toward tho io drum, whore a groat tragedy was hoing on Roted. Thon carno a oomniotion. With tho loap of a tiger three mon throw thoinsclvos forward as with ono impulso and i-pr un g toward (ho would-bo assassin. Two of thom woro United Ht n to ? soorot sorvioo mon who wcro on tho lookout and whoso duty it was to guard against just BUO?J n calamity as bad boro befallen tho pro eldo nt and tho nation. Tho third waa a bystander, a negro, who had only an iuaiank pre viously grasped in his dusky palm tho i-J _e.u__i ? - - . unuu vii IIJO jinin-uoiii, Ul VU? lu HU tho (rio hurled thomsolveu upon tho prosidont'tjassassin. In a twinkling he was boroo to tho ground, his woapon was wrostod from his gris o aud strong arms liasonod him down. Thon tho multitudo whioh throngod tho edifico bo gan to como to a realizing Boneo of tho awfulness of tho Boone of whioh they had boon unwilling witnesses. UK MAKE3 A. CONFESSION. Loon Czologoz, tho would-bo assassin has signed a confession covering six pages of fools aap, whioh states that ho ? is an anarohist and.that ho booamo an enthusiastic member of tbat body through (hoiiiluonoo of Kunu* Gold man, whoso writings ho had toad and whoeo lectures ho had listoucd (o, Ile donies having any oonfodoiato and says bo decided on tho aot thrco days ago and bought thc revolver with whioh tho aot was committed in Buffalo. Uo has coven brothers ?<M Bisters in Clovel&nd and tho Oloveognd direotory has tho names of about bat number living oa Hosnior ?troot\,.\d Aokland avenue, whioh adjoin. Homo of them are butchers ana others in diff?rent trados. Ho is not dotainod at police headquarters ponding tho result of tho proaiaont'o injerios. Ciologoz does not appear in tho least degree uneasy or po ni to nt for hi? aption., Ho says ho was induood by his attontion to Emma Goldmau's looturos and writing to do oido (hat tho presont .form of govern mont in (his country was all wrong and ho thought tho beat way to end it was by killing tho presidont. Ho ?hows no sign of insanity, but is very roticont about muoh of his oaroor. Whilo ac knowledging himself an anarohist ho does not stato to what branoh of tho organization ho bolongs. EFFECT ON THE PEOPLE A murmur arose, sproad and swollcd to a hum of oonfusion, then grow to a babol of sounds and lntor to a panedo monium of noises. The crowds that a momont boforo had stood mute and motionless aa in bewildered i?noranoo of tho onormity of tho thing, now with a Bingle im pulso surgod forward toward the skago of tho horriod drama, while a hoarse ory wollcd up from thousand throats and a thouaad mon ohargod forward to lay hands upon the perpetrator of tho dastardly orime. For a moment confusi?n was toni ablo. Mon shouted an 1 fought, women Boroamed and children oriod. Homo of thoi-o nearest tho doors fled from tho edifico in fear of a stampode, whilo hundrods of other? from the outside struggled blindly forward in the effort io ponotrate the orowdod building and solvo tho mystery of excitement and panio whioh cvoy moment grow and Bwellod within tho congested interior of tho edifice, Af tor (he first shook of thofssassin'fl Hbo i n, tho President retreated a stop tnon as tho doteoiivesloapod upon his assailant ho turned, walked steadily to a chair aud statod himiofl, at the same timo removing his hat and bowing his hoad in his hands. in an instant Secretary Oortellyou and President Milburn woro at his sido. His coat was hurriodly oponed, tho Prosidont mjanwhil admonishing thoso abo Uv him to remain calm and tolling tl cm not to bo alarmed. "Hut jour aro wounded," oried his Secretary, "lot me examino." ''No, 1 think cot," answorod tho prosidont. "I am not badly hutt, I asburo you." NovortholosB his outor garmonta woro basti y iocs med and whon a triokling stream of crimson was soon to wind its way down his broast, spreading its telltalo btain over tho whito eurfaoo of tho Hoon thoir worst fears woro confirmed. A force of exposition guards woro on tho noone by thio timo and an effort was made to olear tho buildings. By this timo (ho or indi was terrific Spec tators crowded down tbo stairways from (ho -galleries, tho orowd on tho fioor surged toward tho rostrum whilo dspito the strenuous efforts of polioo and guards tho throng without Birugylnd madly to obtain admission. EXAMINING THE WOUND As soon as tho oro ad in the Temple of Mu io had been dispensed buffiuent ly tho presidont was removed in ibo automobile ambulance and taken to tho oxposition hospital, where an examina tion wa? made. The bast medical skill wa? buminoned and within a brief pe riod several of HufiUlo's best known practitioner!* woro at the pationt's side. Tho president retained tho full exer cise of his faculties until plaoed on tho operating table and aubjooted to an anaur.hot io. Upon tho firit examina tion it was ascertained that one bullet had taken effvot in tho light breast just below tho nipple, oausing a oom paratiyoly harmless wound. The other took cifoot in tho abdomen, about lour inohes bolow the left nipple, four [Oontinuod on pago 4.] BRYAN TO LABOR. The Ad vic? Ha Given to tho Wotk lng P?ople, WARNS AGAINST TRUSTS. Says If They Wer? as Aggrossiv* at Election? a? they ar ? at Strike? Conditions Would bo Difieren*. Labor DAV last wook waa niarkod by tho largoht and mott imposing parado of labor uni omi ovor teen at Kau nan City, Mo , and by tho participation of William J. Bryan in tho procession and oxoroisos. Eight thousand mon marou od through thostroota, groupod in their unions and caoh union wearing a dis Anguishing uniform. Mr. Bryan ooou pied a oarriago at tho hoad of tho lino and wai ohiorod as ho wan rooogn'zod A Dtriking foatu<o of tho parado was tho Hod Candors' union, nogroes, 225 mon. lod by a nogro band. Tho orator of tho afternoon waa Wm. J. Bryan, who was prcoodod by Mayor Beod. Tho pavilion at t o park was orowded to Buffooation. Mr. Bryan took for his loxt tho Btblo verso, "Muz 7.I0 not tho ox that troadoth out tho oom.'1 Mr. Bryan taid: IUI VAN 8 TALK. "Eioh decade of our history shows groaur production of wealth, and tl o n.i.Q produce it have less to show for it. ls thin a good condition? A right condition? Tho solution of tho probloms that confront us ia in legis lation, not in legislation for or against ol anaco, but for equal j ant iee bo foro law. Tho s'riko is today tl o only woapon tho laboror has, but it is weak and inofhoiont. "If tho laboring mon wero half au activo on olootion day as they aro in enforcement of thoir strikes, they would wield a foroo that would right tho evils whioh boBot thom. TUB OaBATBBT DA NO BU "Tho greatest dangor of today is pri vate monopoly. Not that any monopoly is woreo than others, but tho principio is bad, whioh toloratoB any privato monopoly. "1 havo hoard that tho true solution of tbs problotn is for tho laboring man to divide profits with the trusts. That has boon Riven aa an argumont for tho trusts. Buoh a thing would bo immoral and impolitic. It would bo liko divid ir g tho spoils of tho highwaymen. It would be permitting a man to rifle your pockets and thoo offer to divide tho proooeds with you. "Today tho only pooplo who sym pathizo with you aro the other who toil in other parte of tho Lord's vino ynrd. Io tho pr os ont great stool striko, whore did tho finit expression of sym patby oomo from? From Texas. They havo no steel mille thore. Thoy aro f ?rmere. Thoy aro til lora of tho Boil and laborers, like yourselves. HI9 WARNING. 1 1 want to warn you to rosiat tho overtures of tho trust. Bowaro whon corporations ask you to Join them. Tho farmers oan stand tho onorosohmonts of tho trusts longer (han you oan. The farmers live off their farms. When trust prioes got so high that tho farm ers oannot buy they will cst, tho pro ducts of thoir own industry. Thoir wivos can ?von go baok to tho primitvo method of making clothes by weaving. But whon tho farmor oan no longer pay trust prioes, then thero will to no more demand for the produotB of your toil, and you oan make no moro wages." "Tho offor of tho trusts to divido with tho laboring man is a pitfall. Can you trust the corporations to divido honestly? Mo. How many of you would like to try a law fuit, whon tho judge on the benoh is tho opposing parky to the suit? There aro good judges, good juries, yet do you want judges and juiios to (ry our canon when they aro interested in the outoome themselves? When you permit privato monopoly to diotate terms of division, then you plaoo y omvol von wholly at thoir moroy. You allow them to water thoir s took and thon oxpoot them to divido with labor on a just basis. "You are witnessing a battle botweon labor and the groat stoel trust. This trust was willing to uoion^so somo of its mills, but would have other i opon to nonunion labor. Why? Booauso the trust wants some mills that it oan dopend on in tho ovont of a striko. It is an unequal struggle, for the trust can shut down its mills for a yoar, but laboring men oan not live a year with oat work. It is your duty to ornsh monopolies with tho bost rosoureos at your command, tho ballot. GOVBRNA&BNT BT INJUNCTION. "Government by injunction is an iniquitous system and ono of tho ques tions demanding attention at tho hands of the Amerioan people. Tho courts are the servants of tho pooplo and for a oourt to rule by ic junction, is for a court to dispenso with a jury and to oondemn a man for violating a law that tho court itself mado. U od or the pro oess of government by injunction, tho oourt oonstitutos itself tho powor to mako the laws, exeouto thom, and pass judd mo nt on tho o if o udor. Tho wholo thing is wrong. Under tho syn tom a number of employers oan org?nico themsolvoD. go into court and got an order prohibiting others from organis ing for the same purpose. They can fat an order prohibiting workingmen rom getting other workingmen to re frain from working. Tho employers can organise to or uti h labor, but othors are forbidden to organizo. I am op posed to government ny iojunotion, not that it is directed ospeoially against tho laboring man, but that it does away with trial by jury. It is a monaco, Mot only to ono olas? ut to all. It is within the powor of tho laboring man to do away with the nj stein." Mr. Bryan also oondomned tho aotion of the South Carolina, mill mon who forbade thoir men (o eelebrato Labor Day or to join unions. Still a Factor. Tho Now York Sun says "ton thous and persons went to hear Mr. Bryan speak nt Platte City, Mo., the othor day. Democrats who aro trying to persuade themselves that Mr. Bryan is a remnant .md a tale that is told pleaso notloo." SEARCHING FOR LECHNBR. His Family Anxious About the Missing Timmonsvillo Cashier, A lotter roooivod hore from Tira monBvillo says that tho family of Mr. Frank 0. Loohner, tho mieoiug bauk oashior, ' boliovo thai hie whereabouts aro unknown (o thom through no do siro of hifl own." Spotkiog of tho strange OSBO tho Savannah Morning Nowa eave: F 0. Lcohner, a woaltby bankor of TimmouBvillc, S. 0, and owner of a valuablo vineyard aid grcoory atoro at Qiiffin, Ga., has boon mist-ing Binoo Aug. li), and the polieo havo beon aak' od lotjy and lcoato him. On that dato L'.ohnor waB io Savannah, on hiB way to Griffin, and bo ha? diaappearod as myetorioualy as if tho earth had awaj lowod him up. Ho may havo been foully o'o?U with, but as far as known ho did cot have a vory largo amount of monoy on his poreon at that timo. Mr, Lcohnor'a family bavo oxhaustod ovory moana of finding him and havo j almost givon up all hopo. Mrs. Lech nor and bor daughter wore at Griffin when tho hanker and merchant disap peared. Ho had writton thom that ho would loavo Timmonsvillo for Griffin on Sunday, 18eli, and did so. Ho has boon traood as far as thia oity, but whoro ho wont from boro eau not bo aboortainod. Mrs. L oh ncr and h?r daughior wait ed pationtly for his arrival in Undi i and upon his failure to put in an ap poaraucu P?'?D????U ?li-?I he lad been detained at Timmonsvillo. They ro turaod to their South Carolina homo, and wero amazod to find that nothing lad bcon hoard of him sinoo bia depart ure for Griffin. The othor iffioera in tho bans wero equally as aurpdsjd to loam that ho nover io&obcd G.-iffia. A lotter was wiitton to Superintend ent Itoilly asking him to try and lo cate Loohnor, but tho dotcotivca wero unable to learn anything of his there abouts. Nothing was said about tho minding mao'a position in tbo finanoial world, and tho information that ho oould not bo found was for ward od to Mrs. Loohner. Tho lotter was filed at headquarters and no further thought waa givon to tho oaao. - Yostorday morning Capt M. Bi. Wil son, who is a friond of tho family, ro ooivod a tnlegram from Miss Bertha R. Loohner, tho missing banker's daughter, asking that ho take up tho search. Tho telegram explained that Mr. Loohuor had boon last hoard from in this oity on tho 19th, and aekod that tho hospitals boaoarohed. Capt. Wil son visited tbo hospitals, bud found no Carolina man. Ho was unable to got! any further information and wired, asking of full partioularo by mail. Mr, Wilson also called, at polio?j headquarters and bad rt oonforbhiioi with Supt, Bailly; V Tho: ^irg-?^ ,f. Miss Loohnor was Bhowb to ?ho. super intondont, but bo wau unablo to nd vanoo any plausible theory to account for thc diaappoaranoo. Supt. Reilly Baid that ho would do everything in his powor to assist in looating tho missing man, but with tho limited in formation in his possession tho task is a diffioult ono. Tho dotectivos havo boon furntshod a dosoription of Looh ner, but havo never run across him in t heir travolB, lc may bo that ho has booomo temporarily doranged, and has wandored in aomo out of-tho way placo. Ho is a Gorman and apoaks with a dooidod nooont. WBY HE i.Err. A dispatch from Timmonsvillo to ThoStato says tho sudden disappear ance of Mr. Frank 0. L sohner, oashior of tho Bank of Timmonavillo ia no longor a my story. Whon tho oashior first disappeared it was hoped that a satisfactory explanation would bo forth coming, ono that would not in volvo his integrity, but an examination of tho bunk's booka dispels auch hopos. Tho dirootors havo boon busily ongagod in this work, and although they havo only fairly begun, it is ascertained that tho cashier is short nome $5,000. What a thorough soaroh will revoal no ono oan foroBay. lt is foarod that a much moro sorious ?hortago will bo found. As tho examination goos on it dovolops that Mr. Lochner's private affamvaro in a vory bad condition and he has prob ably wotriod ovor thom for some time. His businoBB plans did not mature and ho booamo doBporato. Mr. Loohner was bondod by a security oompany to the amount $10,000 Not Needed. 1\ orno tors of tho third party oonfor onoo, tobo hold in Kansas City two wooka boneo, having uta tod that Wil liam J. Bryan was in sympathy with tho mavomont ho was akod oonoorning his attitude in tho matter. Ho ropliod: "I know nothing about tho third party movomont in Missouri, oxoopt what I havo soon in tho papara. If the third party is intoniod to in il uenoo Missouri politios I do not soo that it is nooded, for tho domooraoy has shown no inclina tion to abandon Demooratio prinoiplos, and whilo the party ad hore to Demo ototio prinoiplon, as sot forth in the Kansas Ci.y platform, now parties aro not noodtd to accomplish rofonns, Mr. Cleveland's administration drove many Domoorats into a thiid party movomont, but I am not willing to bolievo that tho Olovoland element oan again obtain oontrol of tho JDomooratio party." Furniture Factories. In speaking of tho furniture indus try in North Carolina tho Oharlotto Observer sayt>: "Few pooplo appreoiato tho magnitude of suceuse of the furni ture manufacturing industry in this stato or in tho aouth. In High Point alone there are moro than 30 fnotorios. At many other points in tho state ibero are also f adorion. Thoso mako a great variety of furniture both for homo and business effioos and do business ovor tho ontiro Unit dtatos." A Novol Soli?me. A minister in a Kansas town roqontly adopted a novol sohem t for bolstering up tho ohu:oli collodions, which had boon diminishing. Ho informed his congregation Just before the plaies Wero passed around that tho mombora who wero in debt wore not oxpooted to con tribute. Tho collection was double tho usual sum. ' At?othor Generally Unfavorable Week for Cotton. IUI BUN Cl ON SANDY LANDS. - Lute Corn Continues to Improve. .Ttbacco Reported Favor able In All ?ectiona Ex V- c?pt Two State?, STATE REPORT. Tho following is tho weekly bulletin of tho weather aud tho orops of tho Sl&to" iesuod Tuesday by Aoling Diroo tor-Tailor of South Carolina Bcotion o? tho olimato and orop sorvico of tho United States weathor bureau: Tbo woofc ending at 8 a. in , Monday, Soptorobor 2, hadan equal tomporaturo sligh?y bolow tho uormal, with a innximum -of 91 degrees at Blaokvillo and Groonwood, and a minimum of 63 dcg?coa at Groonvillo. Thoro waa a notablo defijionoy in suoshino, gooer olly detrimental to oropi. No hail or damaging winds woro reported for tho vj eek. .The rainfall waB nh ovo tho normal. Florenoo had 5.29 iaohos, (J roon wood 3 OYTnohos, St. Goorgo3.48 inches, and Halon Lurg 2 57 inohos. Dry weathor and Fum.'hino at o generally needed. Golton is gonorally roportod as rust inp, ?hodding, and not fruiting woii on sandy land, whilo on uti if o'ay lands there is HOMO complaint of its growing too muoh to wood. In somo plaoos it ia reported as rotting in tho boll. Piok h:?.', i's .pretty gonorally oomineuood, but tho orop is about two wcoks later than ufl'ttaV Making duo allowance for ono oial oa^cs, thorn is little material chango in (ho condition of tho orop oinoo a wook ogo. Late oom is as a rulo promis in;/, though exe OH tn ve rain has i n Lc rf ore d withypropor cultivation, and in some oa^S causing it to turu yellow. In plaoss oonstant and uaduo moisturo in oinking tho ears to rot. lt?garding tho ootyi orop reports oro moro favorable tlnin a woek ago. Fondor pulling has boon delayed and thl'produot injured broontinuod rains. H ?urii?;; potatoes aro doing wol?-, but go ini'too muoh to vino. Jrieh potatoes, peW poa vino hay, and truok orops ar- duli g well, lttoo looking fino, but a&?t)p late. There is muoh oomplaint oKF.^i.t's rotting, though in places myWt?'O fino. Pastures oxoecdingly NATIONAL REPORT. monthly report of tho statistioan U/j.;utmon< of ugrloulturo shows OjS^? S?ptomi?r 1, 1900; 08 5"^ Siptombei' 1, 1899, and a ton year avor ag?'of 7d 9; Tftbro was. an impairment or oondi tioi; during August amounting to 18 poipts in Texas, 10 in Oklahoma, 8 in Arkansas, 7 in Alabama, 4 in Virginia, 2 in Louisiana, and 1 point in North Carolina and Florida. On tho other hand th?ro waa an ienprovernent dur ing tho month in Georgia, South Caro lina, Tennessee, Indian Territory and Missouri, amounting to 3, 5, 3, 1 and 4 points respootivoly. In Mississippi thero wore on appreciable ohangos in conditions. A oon?lv' i below tho ton year aver ago ie roportod in a majority of tho States, tho dofioionoy is 15 points in Texas and Arkansas, 6 io North Caro lina, 3 in Tonnossoo and Virginia and 1 in Alabama and Florida. Oklahoma tho eon di lion is 10 points bolow tho avorago of five yoars, and in Missouri 6 points bolow tho avorago of tho oight years for whioh statistics aro ov.?lablo. Un tho othor hand, tho oonditionB in Georgia, .Mississippi, South Carolina and Louisiana aro 4, 13, 5 and 4 points abovo their respootivo ton voar aver ages and in Indian Territory 1 point abovo tho avcrago for five yoais. As oomparodwith Saptomborl, 1900, oonditionB at tho oloso cf August woro loss favorable in Toxas, Arkansas and Oklahoma to tho oxtont of 21, 4 and 10 points raspee lively, and woro more favorablo to tho oxtont of 28 points in Mississippi, 20 in South Carolina, 12 in Georgia ll in Alabama and Missouri. 10 in Louisiana, 9 in Tonnoesoo ana Virginia, 8 in North Ctrdini, 7 in Florida and 4 in Indian Territory. . Tho avora?os of condition in tho States rrj roportod as follows: Vir ginia 82; North Carolina 82; South Carolina 80; Goorgia 81: Florida 78; Alabama 75; Mississippi 88; Louisiana 80; Teaxas 56; Arkansas 61; Tonnossoo 73; MiBHOuri 75; Oklahoma 68; Indian Territory 76. OENBRAL SUMMARY. Tho weathor bureau's gow ral sum mary of oiop condition is as folio**: "Whilo tho weather conditions of tho week onding September 2, 1901, havo boon gonorally lavorablo in a ma jority of districts, heavy rains, (in Bomo plaooa OXOJHS?VC) havo injurod crops and rotardod work in portions of tho south Atlantic gulf S tatos, and hot, dry woather has boon unfavorablo in tho Missouri and uppor Mississippi valleys and on tho north Paoifio coast. Hhtronio hoat and drought in looalitioa of Oklahoma, and Texas have also boon very dotrimontal to orops. Lato corn continuos to show improve ment, although it was injured by drought and hoat in portions of Kan sas; has ?u Mored fur tb or deolino in Missouri and nooda rain in Nobraska. It has suiferod injury by floods on low lands in Tonnossoo. lloports indicate that tho bulk of tho lato oom will bo Halo from injury from frost by Septem ber 15 to 20, but that nomo vory lato holds will rcquiro until Ojtobor 1 to tully mature tuo orbp. Another gonorally unfavorablo wook for cotton. Continued oomplaint of rust and shedding aro received from tho groater portion of tho eastern and contra! (motions of tho cotton bolt, whilo Oklahoma and Arkansas report injury from premature oponing. .In Texas tho early eotton continues to open arid is being rapidly piokod. but the lato orop is groatly detorioratoa and in a oritioal stato with complaints of runt and shedding. Vi o king, while rotwled in Georgia and portions of Florida, is .in progross in nearly all fi cot i Olm, and with favorable won th or will noon bo general. Very favorable roporls oonoorniug tobacco aro rooeivod from all sections oxoopt Maryland, whoro it io not our ing satisfactorily, and Virginia, whoro tho yield is variablo. Cutting is gon oral and tho hulk of tho orop is in shod in Wifioonoin. A Desortor Captured. Liout. Hi/.zard, of tho Third naval ry. has brought io horo Arthur Howard, tho AUK rican dosortcr who was recent ly oapturod by tho Heute ne, ut whilo in command of somo Maoabobo Boonie; lu tho lol fi nd of Mindoro. He WAS placed in j iii aod will shortly bo oourtmartialod. Howard donios that ho was ever an Auicrio&n eoldior Ho olaims ho was born in Spain, that his father was English and his mother Spanish, but. that ho ospoufl(d tho oauso of tho fil ipinos. IQ 18% af tor por-oo was doolar od, ho says ho wont to Hong Kong and rotui ned in 1898 as Aguinaldo's ohiof of artillery. Whilo in tbat position, Howard r Iso says ho mado friouds with many Amorioans boforo tho insurrec tion, including (ion. Croon. Ho oast his lot with Aguinaldo at tho timo of tho rupture with tho Amorioans and ho says that ho brought in 16 American prisoners, und or a fl ig of truoo, at Angolos, in September, 1899. Howard donios that ho oommandod tho foroo at San Matoo, whioh killod don. Lawtoo. Ho spoaks Uko an oduoatcd English man. Lieut. Hazvctrd says ho himself Baw Howard at Angolos in 1899. Two California volunteers today identified Howard as a desortor from thoir rogi mont, namod Wollov of Company A, who deserted in 1899 The Cotton Crop. Tho total of Soorotary Hjstor's an nual roport of tho cotton orop of tho United States for last yoar woro pro mulgatod Wednesday thoy show r< oeipts of ootton at all United Statos ports for tho year 1900 1901 of 7,666,452 against 6,734 361 last y oaf; overland to north ern mills 1.110,237 against 1,161,189; ?muthom consumption takondirootfrom tho interior of tho ootton bolt, 1,576, 733 against 1,540,863 making tho crop of tho Unitod States for 1900 1901 amount to 10,383,422 halos against 9,436,416 lait yoar and 11,274,840 tho yoar boforo. Mr. llsstor aim givoj tho ?otuni production of Oklahoma as 119,063 and Missouri 25.794. His re port on tho ootton orop for tho di lieront states isas folio wa: North Carolina, inoluding Kontuokyand Virginia, 542, 000; South Carolina, 911,000; Georgia, 1,295.000; Alabama, 1,000.000; Florida, 45,600; Mississippi, 950,000; InuU ians, 719,000; Arkansas, 762,000; To mums ec, inoluding Oklahoma, Mis souri, Kansas and Utah, 350,000; Texas, 3 809,000. Total, 10,383,000. Bold Robbery-, Batweon land 6 o'olook Wednesday, aftor?oon, whilo." tho rolief; operator, Mr.-Pi Pearson', vtes at dinner tho door of. tho ticket, offiqo.nt. tho Atlantic; ?Ooaa?v.', Lin? '?u'p'b? ul; ivhl?dtrod^'VVi.t? brodon and 'about t25stoled 'from tho cash drawer. Tho cash drawof was lootod and the on tiro top of tho tabla into whioh it was fitted rippsd up by tho thief to got into tho drawer. Tho drawer contained $44 in outrenoy and about $75 moro in an expross paokago. Tho thief was probably frightened off boforo ho oomplotod his work and got away with only $25 A moro daring robbery has seldom boon porpotrated in KiugstroQ, whoro bold robberios aro not infrequent. A Singular Meeting. Oharlea Milton Leighton, who was wrested at Buffalo by dotootivos, ar* rivod in Now York Wodnosday after noon and was plaood in tho Tombs. Ho was aooompamod by ono of his wives, Ella Smith Leighton. Sho docs njt know whoro sho stands, as Loighton oonfossos having five other wives. Sho has sont out a oiroular inviting all Leighton's wivos to moot in New York fora oonferanoo. Loighton mado busi ness of marrying womon for thoir money and thon dosorting thom. Tho wivos aro so numorous that tho ocforonoo is oxpeotod to a&sumo almost a national soopc. _ AnEx-OiucerSued. Suit was begun in tbo United Slates distriot oourc Wodnosday at Charloston against ll. H. Weam, for morly a Mouton ant in tho First regiment of South Caro lina Volunteors. Tho notion u oauaod by hia failuro to turn over vouohora to tho amount of $1,068.83 untrusted to his euro for tho regiment. Worum is not aoousod of misappropriating tho mor.oy, but m ?roly as having fm ?od Lu account properly for tho cxpeniituro. L outonant Weam was a nativo of Now horry and was mustorod out with tho South Carolina troops. I lin family is said to havo no knowlodgo at all of his whoronbouta at tho proaont timo. A Yarn Nailed. Tho Andorton Daily Mail oalla Bish op Turnor down on tho ti tato mo nt mado reoently in a spoooh to tho elf ct that in this state when a boy it was tho law for criminals of ocrtain OIABB to bo branded on ono ohcok and havo an oar loppod off. Thoso thin *s got into cir culation often, and aro taken Up gladly by thoso who would Uko to mako tho south, and par.ioulary South Carolina appear as barbarous as possible, Thoy ought to bo nailed ovory timo. Tho Mail ohallongos Bishop Turner to pro duoc proof of that aesortion. Wholosale Poisoning. Two hundred and fifty of tho Twonty sovonth infantry aro in tho hospital at Fort MoPner?on near Atlanta as a ro suit of poko ling thought tobo from onting a stow whioh was cooked all night'. Four of them, Sorgt. Weinberg; and.privates Ooo, Gravoly and Baok may'die. Col. Fronoh, in oommand. has ordered a rigid investigation ana tho moss sorgoaat and o thorn sup posed to be rospouBiblo, will bo oourt martialod. Tirod" of Life. Lucy Washington, a nog/oaswho is said to bo 122 years old, is dying as tho roBult of two attempts at suicido, at Kolsomo, I. T. Sho was in childhood ? norvant in the family of Prosidont Madison and romomhora Booing Wash ington. A few wooka ago sho waa piok od up at tho foot of a stairway at tho county poorhouse. Hor fall was.Bup nosod to bo au aooidont, hat hor talk indioatod that sho Bought to Uko hor lifo. A DAMNO HOLD UP. A Man DoHoriboBtho Stage Robbery Ia the Adirondacks. Tho thrilling tata of tho daring hold up of tho Bluo Mountain stage at Doon hill, noar North Uiver, in tho Adiron dacks, tho othor day by a masked high* wayman was told roeontly at Indian lake, N. Y., by Ki ward Hornstein, son of Boojamin Borstein, a Now York olothing manufacturer. Ho wu? ono of t\o j-assci'S"-'' who csoapod robbory. Bio said: "Tho Bluo Mountain stage loft North Orook, tho oa3ttra toi minus of tho Adi rondaok railawy, about midday. Thoro wore aoven passoogors, inoludiog my self. All woro bound for Indian Lako. Tho stngo ontorod a thiok wood soon after it loft North Crook. Tho road was dark and narrow. Tho old stage rum bled along, swaying on tho rough road, until it roached tho baso of Coon hill, I should not havo known tho name ot tho hill had not William Eldridgo, tho drivorof tho six in hand toam, told mo. I was on tho box with him from North Crook. "Tho stago slaokonod up boforo os saying tho stoop hill and bogan tho as ooat at a vory slow paoo. As it neaiod tho hilltop a maskod man stepped from bohind an oak trco and plaood himsolf in tho middlo of tho road. Ho was about 25 yards in front of us. "Al first it was impossiblo to Boa his faoo, bcoauBO ho had his baok toward tho sun, but as wo advanood another yard or two wo notiood that ho woro a big sombrero, a bluo lUnnol shirt, with an old rod handkerchief ?'otlfed tho 06I lar. A hoavy board that carno to a poiat covered tho lower part ot tho ban dit's f?oo, and two piercing oyos woro visible through holos ia tho mask. Ho stood still, menacing us with a ville. Drivor Eldrigo snailed and nudged my elbow. 'A tourist, bot youl' ho said, laughing outright, but tho stranger didn't look it. V 'Drop tho BO linos I' 01 dared tho highwayman. " 'Drop what linos? askod Eldridgo, banging his whip down with a snap on tho baoks of tho loadors. 'What aro you giving uf/r1 ho oontinuod, laughing beardy. 'Got out of tho way or I'll run ovor you.' "Tho m asked man didn't movo an inoh, but raised his gun to his sbouldor, " 'Drop thoao lineal1 "Two shots followed this ordor. It iookod as if tho highwayman meant business; for tho two loadors of tho team roared ar.d dropped to tho ground doid Tho so in tho ooaoh shrioked lonely, and for a moment I thought some ono had boen shot. V 'Drop theso lines tho highwayman commanded for tho thiid timo. .'Come, now! Stand and deliver I' ''Eldridgo .dropped, tho linos and mado v a flying; loap from tho box. i didn't think it saf? to, stop on tho, o?A?h oithor,, so l. followod tho'drivor. i"K'-?d..h?.Hl.y- ^ju^iod^tlie^grovMd .wno) . W4V?Bho t' ? . Aggs ';t- litiger eua ly .noar "my hoad.4 -'Mylogtj / gav.o Way un djr mo, atd I foll to tho grouad. X thought I had broken thom, but I found lator that my ankles woro sprained. I orawlod far into tho woods ard hid in thiok underbrush. I had $7,U00 about my person and had no in tention of Hading it ovor to tho rob ber. I romainod in hiding for. noarly au nour and thon started back for tho road. Whoa I reaohod it tho stago had gono, so I had to bogin a six mile jour ney to Indian Lake on my hands and knees," For Good Hoads. Gov. MoSwoonoy has roooivod an oarnost lottor from Proeidont W. H. Mooro, of tho International Good Hoads congross, whioh is to bo hold this year at Buffalo, Soptonibor 16 21, in whioh ho oallsattontion to tho vast importaneo of tho gathoring, urgos tho govornor to BOO that South Carolina is roproBonted by as may dologatos as possiblo, without regard to numbor hut with ro gard to oarnostnoBs of purposo. Tho prosidont also oarnostly invitOB Gov. MoSwoonoy to attond in porson and do livor an address to tho congress. In oonoludipg his lottor Prosidont Moore says: "Tho National Good Hoads asso ciation is arranging to run a spooial 'Good Hoads Train,' equipped with inodora maohinory and oxperts, as sisted by tho road departmont of tho Unitod States govornmont, through your Stato during tho o arning fall and winter. Wo would otk your oarnost oooporation in this groat industrial movomont." As dologatos to tho oon grosB tho govornor named tho following, stating tl.ac other nam os will bo added and that ho wishes every country supotvisor in tho Stato to oonsidor himsolt appointod^a dologato and writo him notifying him if ho can attond: Stato Geologist Earle Sloan, Charleston ; F. H. Hyatt and A. It, Stewart, Columbia; W. A, Cour to nay, Newry; A, B. Oaivort, Spertanburg; James T. Williams, Greenville; Mayor Tolly, Anderson; Dr, Smith, Easloy; John H. DukoD Oraogoburg; NLjor Harry Ham mond, Beaon Island._ Killed His Father An olevon year old colored boy killod his fathor near Thompson, Ga., last Sunday. Turnor and his wifo went to ohureh Sunday morning and loft oidora n icu tho ohildron who rom ai ned at homo not to let tho stook got into tho oom. On his rotutn Tamer found his cows and oatdo grazing on his young oom and booamo so munged, that ho said to bis BOD: "Now, that you didn't watoh tho rt jo?c and lot it got in tho oom, I'm going to kill you." Tho boy took it in doad oarnost and whon his fathor laid down for a nap that evening his son got an axo, walked into tho roomwhoro his fathor' was Blooping, and with ono blow split his head open deep enough to allow his brains to oozo out. Death was instantaneous. Killed byaTrolloy. W od nomi ay night a st ran gor foll from a trolley oar on ono of tho principal streots of Columbia, 8.' 0., and was pioked up in a stupofiod condition. Ho died at tho hospital Thursday morning; and at tho o or one r's inquest thoioooftsod was ldontiflod aa Diok Wil liamson, who o%mo from Augusta about two wcoks ago. Ho is said to havo a brothor on tho Augusta polioo foroo and another in-tho Sibley mill. It WAS shown In tho ovidonoo that tho ptroot oar company was in no way re sponsible GO OUT'AGAIN. Tho Oparativ*8 Goto Wotk but DldNotOtay IN THE COLUMBIA MILLS* Tho Operatives Claim that the Mill Owners Brok? Faith jw and Old Not K?ep Their Promis?. It was thought and hopod that tho Columbia mill etriko was nettled last wook. In oomplianoo with aotion of tho Toxtilo Union Monday night, that operativos should roturn to th oh* work and that they woro not to bo askod whotluv thoy oontinuod thoir allegiance., to thp union, praotioally all of tho mem bers roturned to work Tuosday morning. Tho mill folks say that thoy told tho oporativos that if thoy oamo |? baok to work booauso of order of tho union, and not of thoir. own volition, as indopondont oporativos, willing to. abido by tho rules of tho mills, thoy woro no longor wantod and that thoy could go out. Tho managomont im proved upon tho operativos, 80 thoy say, thu operativos would bo woloomod and gladly roooivod if thoy agrood to fellow the rules sud rc "di ?tions of tho mills and not thoso of tho unions. It is ?tatod that af tor this pr o sonia tion was mado tho oporativos who had boon out on striko, praotioally, in a body, rotirod, whioh loft tho situation just ?'? it stood on any day of last wook. On tho othor hand, tho oporativos who wont baok to work stated that thoy agrood to roturn to work Wodnosday morning with tho understanding that no quostions woro to bo askod thom as to tho authority by whioh thoy roturn od and that thoy woro not to ho askod whothor thoy abjurod tho union or not. Whon thoy roturnod to work, thoy say thoy woro asked if thoy had do oidod to withdraw from tho union, and that ihuy replied that thoy had uni and that thoy woro thon told by "Soo onds" that they oould not work in tho mills and that tho "Sooonda" ahl over seers tried tb persuado tho oporativos that it would bo to thoir interest to ro main in tho mill and that thoy would bo glad to havo thom romain? but that \ ; their ordors woro that thoy oould not r?ooivo thom oxoopt upon tho aoaditlou . named. Tho further statoniont iamadojMi that tho evornoor?, not hoing perfectly jati^ tho distinct understanding that thoy ; mould not follow tho union, but ruloo md regulationsof tho mill, and that ho had no right to roooivo any ono who would not agroo to thoso torma of tho mills as against thoso of tho union praotioally that tho union must ho ignored. With this, Btatoinont thoso who wont out sovoral days ago roniain od out and tho statue continuos just about tho "samo as it was last wook whon tho striko was on in full blast. Offioials of tho Whaloy mills all in sist that thoy have not ohangod a par ti?lo in thoir position and that any statement to tho off o ot that any ob an go of front has boon mado is ontiroly in oorroot, and that thoy will now, as they have always statod, roooivo any of tho oporativos who wont out, baok on condition that they abido by tho rulos of tho mills as against thoso of any ono olso, and that thoy havo noth ing to do with tho factory oporativos bolonging to tho unions, or any othor organizations, oxoopt that diaoiplino. of v thoir milla roquirod that tho first obliga tion to bo tho mills and that no ono oan roturn to work in tho mills oxoopt as an indopondont oporatlvo and not booauso any union has dirootod that ho shall return to work, ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Tho striko of toxtilo oporativos waa not sottlod and affaira are moro ohaotto than ovor. Tho striking employes ro turnod to work, overture* having boen mado through r olia bio partios. Tho oporativos woro told that thoy would not borcqairod to abandon thoir organi tion boforo tboy dooidod to go baok to work. It appears that thoso tovina woro not mado by the directors in mooting, although it was statod in tho loading lo cal papers that tho directors, or nomo of tiiom, woro willing for tho omployos to como baok to work. When tho op orativos prosontod thomsolvos at tho mills Monday morning, oaoh was asked it ho woro a mombor of tho union. Bo ing informed that no union labor was wantod tho oinking oporativos walked out. Tho Toxtilo Union had a mooting and tho mombors dooidod to ?tot thoir baok pay from tho mills and to loavo tho oity at onoo. It romains to bo seen whothor or not thoro will bo A general exodus. Tho union is s&!d to havo a thous ?nd mo mb ow. The Pal motto and Oolumbia Mills aro in no way aff joted and tho Capital City bat littlo. Tho Olympia, Granby and Biohland, known as tho Whaloy Mills, aro tho one? in whioh*tho troublo is folt mont. Tho wholo thing seoms to boan unfortunate misunderstanding. Shot and Burned. Bill Fournoory, alias Bill Hilliard? a negro oh ?god with assaulting Miss Wilson at Chestnut Grove, Ala-, was shot and his body burned by a mob near tho soono of his orimo today. Miss Wilson, who is 16 or 17 years of ago and tho littlo daughtor of Dr. Carroll, about 12 yoars of ago, woro On their way to aohool at Chontnut Orovo, lust aoroSB tho lino in Oolloo county whon thoy wore ovortakon by tho negro. Ho poizod Miss Wilson, and tho littlo girl ran off. As soon ns oho did so tho negro fired his pistol at hor but iniasod her. Tho littlo girl raised tho alana and noon a posso was in pursuit of tho negro. When thoy roaohod tho sonr?o Of the orimo thoy found Mies Wibum unoon Boious and tonibly bitton in tho faoo and braised abaut tho hoad.