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The Mar?boro' "DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY. OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." VOLXKIX. BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., ^FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1904. NO. 13. THE FALL OE COTTON. Cotton Prices Drop Thirteen Dollars on the Bale. CAUSED GREAT EXCITEMENT. Downfall or Sully, the New York Leader or Bull Forces. Had to S UH pend Hus i n csu. Daniel J. Sully, the cot ton operator who has for 15 months been the big gest figure in the cotton makers of the world, and who has '"bulled" cotton from 7 cents a pound to over 17, an nounced lus inability to make good his engagements on Hie New York cotton exchange. Friday. Within a few moment s cot ton fell nearly $13 a bale from the highest figures of the day. Scene? such us followed the an nouncement, of the failure it, luis been the privilege of few brokers to witness before. Traders in the street have witnessed stock panics In previous years; corners have been broken and many crashes have been recorded, but none lias been accompanied by such frenzy and confusion. While there had been no premoni tion of the impending crash no morn ing of the session had witnessed a moro demoralized market. In less than 10 minutes after the opening half a cent bad been taken off the price of cotton. Prices went up and down, 10, 20 land .50 points within two and three minutes. May opened at 15.2") and sold down to 14.75 in less than 15 minutes, while .Inly, opening at 15.22, went down to 14.80. To ward the end of the first half hour early sellers started to cover and there was a rapid advance. There was noth ing in the news to account tor tho ex citement. lt seemed merely a re newal of bear operations and the catch- i lng of further stop orders. i Short!/) ?ifiui the afternoon session, 1 however, there was a lull in the pit and about live inimit?s alter 2 o'clock the annuncement of the suspension was made by Superintendent King, who read from the rostrum this no tice: "We regret that we are unable to meet our engagements and therefore will have to suspend. "Daniel J. Sully & Co." QUIET WAS OMINOUS. For a few seconds there was an ominous quiet over the floor as though tlie news had stunned all within hear ing of the announcement. Then with one impulse a mighty shout went up from the bears, they who had been 1 lighting Sully and the bull clique for months. Hats were thrown into the air to fall where t hey would, a moment later to be trampled upon by the stam pede for the pit. Coats were torn by frgjj?ht!": broV~--r.*H-?l?dr m-.:.\ efforts to. unload their holdings, and chairs and . camp stools were dashed into the pit, to emphasize some wild broker's offer to sell. Messengers soon were rushing in and out of the building with orders to sell or buy: telephone booths were besieged and telegraph offices were flooded with dispatches. Outside the cotton excha ige ap pearances gave little mcbeath n of thc pandemonium within until t ie mes- ' senge rs began to rush hetweei thc ex change and the brokers' office . Soon the news reached the stock, jrodtice l and colfee exchanges, and tm lers on 1' these markets hastened to tl j scene ] of thc panie. Crowds assailed the en- < trance to the visitors' gallery, but a ! double guard was placed at the doors < and admittance was refused to all but t those accompanied by members. j It was estimated that something t like three-quarters of u million bales < of cotton were traded ii during the 20 < ^rnAiTrtit^-s of the panic that followed i the announcement, an 1 that of this i upwarcls of half a million ha es rep- ' resent., ' "forced liquid .it lon," or the t selling emt ol men whosa margins have I been nc?p-lj or adte, wi jed om. As the o " t slumped 250 points ; durits - >n; period thc loss failing on ( this eiemeul amounted to something ; over 8 LOOo.-llOU. TUEN Si A UK ET STEADIER. ] Thc markcl ' idled after about 20 I minutes and then then was a sudden upward shoot of about an'even hun dred punts. This sharp rise brought j about by the baying of brokers and , speculators who yftw tint the market ( had slumped too Var ard would react P just as it did. Psft of Jie excitement j ', on the lloor of lh\ exchange was cai.s- ?, ed by the scram?le ol brokers who; wanted just such bargains and lad to j. right to get in the rum to get them. ( The buying iush?"as almost as exe t- , lng and just as noisy. If not more so, , as the panic I The anni ? Solly's sus- L pension wa tickers every- ( where within . ments after itL was made and tin rc wa somewhat i-f), ? flurry on the llpor?oi ie New York j, stock exchange ai tci Lia news roached I there. Mr. Sully is ii i icmbcr of that| exchange, Having ; nased a seat j two or three n i. Stocks went off from hall n poin Lo a point and j one-half ot thc fear that the failure j might bril . tl rush ol stock selling there. Th . lakueiw was only mo mentary, b vi vi r, foi ilie|| word was passed aroun I thal Sully had notbeen trading In stocks and, v fact, that thc clearing house shecu had never shown a single transaction by him. The market was reassured and stocks went up again. Upon the announcement of the fail ure the representatives of the news papers hurried to see Mr. Sully for thc purpose or getting some statement. Mr. Sully, however, shut himself hi his private ollice and would not he _ seen. Shortly after 3 o'clock Sully went into conference with counsel and later Edwin Hadley, Jr., of Provi dence, It. 1., one of the members of the firm, sent out a message by lils] secretary which read: "No statement bf any kind or de scription. Mr. Sully directs mc to say, will be given out from this ellice Friday. Possibly a statement will be ready early Saturday morning.-' Mr. Hadley later was quoted as stat ing that the lirra would pay Its debts in full and the suspension was due to the Impossibility o? meeting demands for large sums of money due the Sully firm from European sources, sums that tho quick slump in the market made payable too quickly for them to be able to meet. Mr. Sully left his office at 4 o'clock VARIOUS EXPLANATIONS. All sorts of explanations were made for the suspension. One of the reasons given was that the New Orleans bull party had sold cotton while Sully was bulling it In the confidence that they were supporting him. Another was j that Sully, following in the market, had sold their long cotton without I advising with him. From two well informed sources came a denial that there was any treachery from New Orleans. A cotton operator with New Orleans connections said that | the hull party there was still bullish on cotton. Another account, that came from brie ot the six or seven best known .'.eton operators in this country, was toot the bear party had made a deliberate and well planned attack to | overwhelm Sully and had succeded. The bears, according to this au thority, had figured out the weakness of Sully's position due to immenss holdings of spot and contract cotton and of his operations on the Liverpool market, and planned and attack on the market- that, would carry it down just far enough to make it impossible for Sully to meet his margin calls, kncwltg that his failure would send the market, so much lower that they could cover at figures to recoup them. No definite idea of Sully's commit ments in tne cotton market could be got from the other houses in the cot ton trade. One estimate was that he wai. "long" of .'{00,000 bales of May cotton alone. A good authority stat ed that he did not believe that Sully was "long" of mure than that in the whole market, and a conservative estimate made in another source was 400,000 bales. The loss by Sully's failure in case he cannot settle, it was stated Friday, was divided up among nearly all thc brokers on the exchange. One esti mate was that Sully's owiugs after a settlement under the rule of the ex change would not exceed half a million ?. donuts. What Suily baa personally | . lost or what his backers have last in 11 market operations is not included in | j this figure. What Sully will owe will be found by deducting the average quotations of cotton today from the figure toi( which his accounts were margined j j down to the call. This will be de termined Saturday of course. NO OTflKK FAILURES. There were no other announce-1 t menus of failures and leading men in the cotton market declared that there need be no fear of trouble. In stock exchange circles the fail ure of Sully was at first taken as a sure sign of the collapse of thc cotton boom. Later there was some appre hension lest the failure might bring down a string of banking Instituions in the South. Mr. Sully's suspension was an nounced on the stocky exchange_but.| nut unLii HUor'^Tj??Ore^The^orase bf1 the market. It was announced on the coffee exchange also. Thr> cotton hulls recently went into that larket and caused an activity there that cor responded to the activity in cotton. The cofTec market slumped and rose with the cotton market last month, but it was significant that the an nouncement of Sully's suspension caused only a slight break in conffce." SULLY'S CAREBR. Daniel J. Sully became a factor in Li ie cotton market, in January of 1903, when he took up the bull movement. Ile established a cotton house of his >wn last, year, under the name of I Daniel J. Sully & Co., but when his Operations in cot ton became so suc .essful, the cotton market having been tushed up above 17 cents a pound .arly this year, he widened t he scope )f his linn's business, bought a seat )n the New York stock exchange, vent into thc colfee exchange, got a neinbership on t he Chicago Hoard of Trade, and lt was said made connec tions with other prominent exchanges throughout the country. The member.- of the firm were Dai iel J. Sully, Col. S. F. 15. Morse )f Huston. Tex., Walter S. Crandall md E lwin Hadley, Jr. Recently | \ Wm. R. Fagan, manager of the finn's N'cw Orleans office, was taken into t he Inn._ A Valuable Gift. Andi cw Carnegie has notified Fres dent Johnson of Winthrop that he ?/ill gl\e $20,000 for a library building J J )n th'? college campus. President lohnso i has been several years plan ting to rise funds for a big library at jhe co lege, and as pleasant as the ilft is to his loi g cherished hopes it no jab y does not come in the nature >f a complete st rprise to him. The ixact site for the new building has not ? 0 yet been selected, it is said, but it c .viii be given a prominent place in the j " front section of tho campus. A deal j n )f care and attention have been spent !h )n the present library at Winthrop I' with tne result Jiat already it is one ?J ?f its kind in thc south. This has 1 ilways been President Johnson's favor- r i te of thc various departments of the college and the years of thought and j1 ittention and labor he spent on it ja liave resulted in its being one of the Tullest, most selected and most com plete in the State. Murtl<;rn<l Tor III? ."Woney. A special from Crumiyah, Persia, lays: An Investigation of the death [if thc Rev. Dr. Benjamin Labarec, the American missionary, shows that Dr. Labaree, whose is superintendent 11 nf the American mission here, was re- I turning from Kola to Ummiyah on horse-hack, accompanied by a servant, when both were found dead hy the road side. Their bodies had been stripped and mullilated and had numerous stabs. The horses and ef fects of the t ravelers were missing. Dr. Labaree leaves a widow and four childron. Steps havo been taken to discover the assassins. AV an ti? to St nuil Trini. A white man, giving his name as G. W. Valentine, walked Into the po lice station ut Winston, N. C., Friday and said that during the winter of 11102, while playing teller at one of tho branch offices of the Colonial bank In New York city, he absconded with several hundred dollars and has been a fugitive from Justice ever since. Ile says he wants to return to New York and stand trial. The Fidelity Casual ty company which went on his bond, made good his shortage. JAPS AT CHEMULPO. V Euseiaui Retreating Acron? Yalu River Before Advance. AOKE GOES TO SEOUL Japanaae ta Take Control ol Ad uiinistnation of Corean Ar ian?. Von St a o k . 1 borg'a Roport. The correspondent of The London Dally Mail at Chefoo, who has just visited Cbinatnpo, Corea, .says: "On Die way to Chemulpo wo pass ad a oonstant sucoeslon of Japanese transports. Three thouaand Ju panese landed at Chemulpo at the end al last week." The correspondent adds th:-t the Russians are retreating across the Yalu river before the udvauce of the Japanese outposts. The Dally Mail's Wei Hal Wei cor respondent learns that Viscount Aoke, formerly Japanese minister to Ger many, is going to Seoul to establish practically a Japanese administration for Corea. Under date of March 17 the Chefoo correspondent of The Standard sports that provision trains are arriving hourly at Port Arthur, thc railway be ing intact. The Daily Telegraph's Tokio corres pondent, cabling March 17, asserts that thc Rufslan fleet has returned to Port Arthur. If this is correct, the 3orrespondent adds, it is evident from I Hear Admiral Varon von Stackclberg's 1 _?. ...... iu. Pneelsn i-Niloarc ! tcpui c lnai un uUmiaii ^tuiiiLiii nulCU j left Valdivostuk returned to that port without au attempt having been made to unite the fleets, or if an attempt was made it was unsuccessful. The Chefoo correspondent of the Paris edition of thc New York Iler ild, cabling under Thursday's date, isserts that a portion of tho Russian leet made several cruises within a radius of 50 miles of Port Arthur without finding any trace of the ;nemy. The foregoing dispatohes are the )nly additional items of news appear ng in the Londjn newspapers Friday norning, within the exception of ^ague rumors of alleged movements of ibo opposing forces in thc vicinity of jhe Valu river. KUROFATKIN'S COMING. The first headquarters of the Man churian army after Gen. Kuropatkln's irrival will be at Llao Yang, the gen ial having selected that point instead if Mukden, from whence to direct the iperations. Llao Yang is 10 miles vest of the railroad, hoing connected villi the main road by a hue which viii be completed by the time Gen. ?uropatk?n arrives, and has many ad r,abt?g"?s^?v?r~Mukd jn, being a. poluV vhencc both the telegraph' line and ,he Pekin road go to the Yalu river. Idao Yang commands both the road* iver which troops will be sent accord on to necessities. Liao Yang also ms the advantage of being nearer to ,he frontier of China in the event of lunitivc measures being required igainst the Chinese. While the Russians are mobilizing or the purpose of working out an of ensivo military problem they will be ireparcd to move heavy forces in any lirection to meet the Japanese, whose ommand of the sea gives them great reedom In selecting their points of .ttaek Gen. Kuropatkln will live on , train with his staff and be prepared o move immediately wherever his iresence is required. Great precautions are being taken Ie o guard against surprises. The lapa- , r icse have always shown a p: eft renee or night attacks, and most rig imus i ' miers have been issued to keei up a a ontlnuous advance ol'scouting par- ; b les and to have heavy pickets out at ' dght. ,r Gen. Kuropatkln is now near < >msk, ?iberia. He is making very fast Lime, .veraging over 532 miles per day, verything being sidetracked ;ogct lim to Mukden on March 2(5. K KA K I ll IN KSK TKO I' It LB. A dispatch from New Cowang mtier late of March 17 says: The P,:triar :hal Gen. Linevitch. who was nc- _ lompanied by Gen. Kondratoni vitcb s if ter a survey on the Kith of New ! ^ 'hwang ano its defenses, wilie' had | >een prepared for its inspectio i, re- i urned to his command at Liao Yang. ! j Ie also visited Kai Chou and points \ .fleeting the protection of thc gulf:s oast and thc holding of tho weak j] one along the main line of railway ? ipposite New Oh wan g. Although dis- / huming any apprehension of thc 0 ap?nese landing here, the autlu ritles ^ .re satisfied to have foreigners under- ) tand that thc Russians are prc pared ? v or any local omergency and tin arri- ' ?al of an additional battery of artil ery and also 150 scouts recently ds sig ilficant of coming events. 11 is apparent that both civil and nilitary strategists and the diplomats it Mukden apprehend a collision with ,he Chinese, probably fearing that ,he increasing number of their small >and8 of scouts operating between thc jlao River and the Great Wall are ,he instruments for their entangle- ? I. neut in n eonllle.t, particularly as this . n .one ls in the nature of a no-man's ^ and on account of having been aban- j loned by the powers and also because i j ihe Chinese jurisdiction is Incompc-1 ,ent. Russians able to judge profess L A) regard Gen. Ma's attitude as dan gerous to thc peace of Russia and Dhlna. RUSSIAN DESTROYED DESTROYED. A dispatch from Chefoo, under date if March 17 says that while entering Port Arthur Wednesday, the. Russian torpedo boat destroyer Skorrl struck ?pon an unplaced mine and was blown jp. Four of the crow were saved. Viceroy Alcxieff in a dispatch con firms previous accounts of damago to Port Arthur by thc bombardment of the loth, but says the story of a fire in Port Arthur is a base fabrication. CROSSING THK YALU. Dispatches from Seoul, dated March 17, say that the Japanese authorities nave been advised that the Russian cavalry tn northern Corea has partly recrossed the Yalu river und that a Jossack battery baa also withdrawn. A small Russian force still occupies 'Jhong Ju. WHEN TUE ICE WILL. Tn AW. Lon dun dispatches of the 17 th say that inquiries made at Lloyds elicited the statement that the New Chwang agent probably meant that the river at New Chwang will be free of ice be tween March 25 and ."50 and that com munication with Port Arthur by sea will then be reopened. POUT ARTHUR'S GARRISON. A letter from Port Arthur says that the garrison there consists of 2,500 men. All is quiet, and thc military bands play twice a week iu the pubic square. BUILDING A RAILWAY. A message from Seoul, dated the 17th, says five thousand engineers are now employed in the building of the milltaiy railroad from Seoul to "VVIJu. Only a few miles have been completed. Civilians are working on the railroad from Seoul to Fusan. This road can not be completed before next October. KUROPATKIN'S PROGRESS. A St. Petersburg corr..mondent of The Echo, Paris, says Gen. Kuropat kin telegraphs that he has passed Omsk, and he ?.dds that by Friday there will be 230,000 Russian troops concentrated between Harbin and Port Arthur. WORK OF GERMAN NATIVES. Women Cul to Pieces und l'art? ol Boil ice Nailed to Building?. Letters from German Southwest Africa have arrived at Berlin, giving details of the ghastly t reatment of German settleis, 113 of whom were killed outright or tortured to death in the district of Oka-hadja alone. Women outraged and dismembered ind with pieces of their bodies nailed to the doors of houses, aud boys muti lated and left to die slowly, were fre juerit spectacles. The extraordinary columns on coming in sight of a farm bouse would see the heads of its form er occupants fastened to the roof. These sights appear to have excited the rage of the soldiers. The letters express longings for revenge and a de termination, as one writer says, "to iill everything black." That causes ;ome papers to urge thc government W telegraph instructions to Colonel Leutwein, the governor of German Southwest Africa, that he order the soldiers to restrain themselves ami sonduct the war in a civilized manner. Jolonel Leutwein himself comes in for :riticis:n, as it is alleged that he left i ^sufficient numbers of troops in the ix posed districts and was misled by , he temper of the natives, having fre luently had at his own table chiefs vho are now in rebellion and who are vearing decorations and swords of < lonor bestowed on them by the gov- i irnment in behalf of the emperor. ; The Tageblatt intimates that Colonel < ^ein-weUV"wili"T>7r rceaU'ed. T. G. Croit Will Kun. A special to the State from Aiken Vedncsday says T. G. Croft, Esq., Yednesday replied to the petition from he members of the Aiken Har associa- 1 lou and from the citizens of Aiken i ounty. Mr. Croft's reply is as fol ows: "To my fellow-citizens of Aiken ounty and of the S.cond congressional : listriet: I have read with pride and < gratitude most profound the uumer usly signed petitions Inviting me to lecome a candidate for congress to till he vacancy caused by the death of ay revered father, Hon. George W. Jroft. from the Second congressional listrict of South Carolina. No strong r token of honor, esteem and rever nce for the memory of your deceased : epresentative can be shown. "While reluctant todo so, having ai th in those who signed the petition ? url the citizens of the distiict at urge, a majority ul whom were his riends, 1 have decided to make the ace, and hereby announce myself a I andldate for congress from thc Sec- 1 nd congressional district to lill the mex pi red term only, subject to the re- ' ult of the primary election. " Aftka l'or ti Pardon. I A special to the Journal from j Iawkinsville, Ga., says a petition for | . pardon for Louis 1'. Hanvey, who ls ! , life-term convict now serving his enteric? at the camp of thc Enter* ?rise Lumber company at Pitts, has leen circulated here and thc sign? mes ol a great many of the most re iresentative citizens was secured, lanvey. who is a physich n of ability, hot his wife in the presence of his If teen-years-old daughter several ears ago Then he was living in Ulan ta. Ile was tried a id convicted f murder and sentenced Lo the penl entiary for life. Since that time he las bei n in the camp at Pitts, Ga., vhcre I e has been one of thc best be laved prisoners. The petition for .ardon is based on the .illeged pro ocation under which the crime was ommittcd. his good behavior while , convict and the belief that his pun shment has been sufficient for his rime. Stabbed in Hp-irtunliurj*. Mr. lt. R. Woodside, second hand n the weave room of the Saxon mill, ipartanburg, wan seriously stabbed rhursday afternoon by Will Berry, a ormer employe of the weave room, nit who at the time of the difficulty tad no business In thc mill. Berry vas drinking at the time he entered he room and was ordered out by Mr. iVoodsldo. A parley of hot words di ned, after which was a personal en counter, In which Berry stabbed tVoodslde in three places-thc left .boulder, ann and stomach, inllictiti| ingly wounds. Berry then escaped, dr. Woodside has been employed in die Saxon mill for some, time past. Sheriff White and others aro on the ookout for Perry. Army Oflicer Suicides. Maj. Wm. ll. Bean, U. S. A., com nlttcd suicide Thursday by shooting, lays a special from Omoha, Neb. )rdered to ?he Philippines, he had lis trunks packed Thursday moro ng and taken to the depot. I m medi ae ly afterward he asked his wife to day on the plano and while she was tlaylng ho thrust an army revolver to ila right temple and tired. The bullet odged in his brain and he died almost inmediately. BOLD CRACKSMAN. Federal Authorities Accuse Him of Bobbing Fostoffice. MEMBERS OF THAT WILD BAND. !.. Ivey, With Severul AliaHCa, Boiiev ed to Ha Y o Beon Une ofilia Gang that Hobbod Murty Placeo in thia Stuto. The Charleston Post ot lasL Wed nesday Bay-? L. Ivey, alias "William Smith," al as "A. M. Arnold," who is believed tc be a notorious safe cracker, was comm ited to jail this afternoon, charged vitb. breaking open the safe of the Mullina postofhee last Novem ber, pend ng a fuller imestlgatlon into the ciise. Ivey wu arrested last night by United States Marshal John D. Adams on King street. The arrest was made on i, bench warrant, supplemented hy another warraut Issued by Commis sioner J. Wattes Waring, on allldavits by t he matshal on information and be lief, charging Ivey with hiing either Bill Murphy or August DeFord, mcribers of the noted gai.R of Bafe robbers, four of whom wer i sent to thc A Liant i penitentiary kvst year to serve Uve years for robbing banks and pcstoMces in the upper part of South Carolina. Ab the time o: the trial hero last April, Murphy anl DeFord, who had avoided arrest in Jolumbia, when their pals were bagged, were In Charleston awaiting the re..ult of the trial. If the accused, Thomas No land, William McKinley, Ed Dugan and "Dutch" Howard, who were on trial, hud been acquitted Murphy and DeFord were to he delivered to the court by their attorney, a lawyer of Columbia, hut the men having been found guilty, the identity of Murphy and De Ford and their presence in Charleston were kept secret. When the effects of the gang which had been seized in Columbia were turned over to thc men such parts of the i clothing and other matter belonging to Murphy and DeFord were delivered to the agent of the fugitives, who boldly accompanied the convicted i members of the gang to Columbia and then Murphy and DeFord lost no time < in making themselves scarce. I The examination today before Coin- i missioner Waring, at which Poftotlice i Inspectors Pulsifer and Moorer were I present, revealed thc fact that the de- l scriptions did not fully tit Ivey, and < with the approval of District Attorney | John G. Capers, the charge was dis- < missed. Ivey was not, however, a free man, | with this procedure, for he was Imme- i diately rearrested on a warrant sworn < out by Inspector Pulsifer for being Implicated in the cracking and robbery ( of tvho safe of the Mullins postotllce < j? ..aber, M'n? .. ?as* *waV ivyes- : tlgauea at some length, and It was tinally decided to commit Ivey to jail, pending incriminating evidence which the inspectors hope to secure. ( The hearing was held in the private i ofllec of Marshal Adams, in the post- i otllce building, lt was desired to ; protograph Ivey and this was done by | Photographer Dowling, while the case i was being Investigated, so suddenly and quickly that Ivey did not know of it until the ph biographer stepped from his partly hidden position in the 1 room, and exposed the cameia and * tripod. . The government authorities think that they have a noted cracksman. ' Ivey gave his name last night as Arnold, but he admitted Wednesday . that this was not his real noto, hut simply assumed, on [account of his profession ( f gambling, and not desir ing to hear his correct name. He was ( asked for bis place of residence, which he gave at several places. Pittsburg was declared to he the last that he put up at. He gave the name of a gambling hmso in that city, and said that he nm the roulette game and Look a turr at times at tittier games, j There is s ich a place as hu named, ] but it remains to be ascertained . whether lv;y was connected with the ' house. This is nt t Ivey's first vlsi: to Char iest n. according to the statements of the government olllcers. He was here a shirt time ago, and then he left the city, paying for his -oom at a [lowa-town restaurant aud lodging house in advance and leaving instruc tions that his effects were not to be disturbed. When he left th? place he marr ed out no baggage, and when he returned to Charleston a few days ago he tame iii without a grip or trunk which the officers think a suspicious! act n itself. Tue officers d d not re spect his wish not to have lils effects disturbed. They examined his effects, hut it is not known if they round anything in the way of Incriminating papers, tools, etc. They rik lind sev eral line tailor-made suits, different Styles of good shoes, some of which are f aid never to have been worn. A package of diamonds, whose va lue has not been estimated, was also found in tho ?ire of the proprietor of thc lodging house and restaurant. On Ivey's person was found Wed nesday night a sleeping car ticket reading from Detroit to Pittsburg, Nothing else of any moment it is said, was found. Ivey appears very cool and collect ed. He denies that he has commit ted xny wrong, and appears perfectly willing for an investigations about lilmsclf. He has not yet employed xmnsel._ Heavy Unit Storm. Tho heaviest hall storm on record, followed by terrille rain, occurred Thursday afternoon at New < ?ricans, and a great deal of damage was done in tue city. Stores were Hooded and stocks damaged, besides roofs blown down. The main event was the cav ing in of tho roof of t ho Southern Ex press company's storage building. The roof luis a DO'-fOOt slant and the weight and volume of hall and water toro a hoi? in the roof and nearly wrecked tl . building, causing a great deal ol' damage. Killed by l*apor Cups. Two people were killed and several wounded by an explosion Thursday morning willoh wrecked the plant of the Chicago Toy and Novelty Compa ny. The explosion waa caused by the Ignition of lf>0 gross of toy pistol caps stored In the building. THE SOUTH VINDICATED. Mr. BpiKht, or Miaalaaippi, DlaoMtaea tb? Race Problem. Ia the house Wednesday, during the discussion of the post office appro priation bill, Mr. Spight, of Missis sippi very ably discussed tho race qus tion. He slid he desired to vindicate the South from the charge of barbar ism. In tho South, he slid, the ne gro had been denied the right to vote and to hold office, but not the right to work for an honest living, as he had l ;en done In the Northern statis. "We some times kill them for out rag?e is crimes," he said, "hut never becat te they want to work." As for lynchings, h3 Bald, that sometimes they have unnecessarily occurred iu the South. He referred to the Wil mington, Del., lynching last year, and to the subsequent attacks on the negro settlerr eut. This never occurred In the South, he said. "When the guilty wretch has paid the penalty or his awful crime, that Is an end of it," he continued; "the mob is satistied and do-d not wreak indiscriminate vengeance upon the innooent because they belong to the same race as the criminal." He said that unlike the people of the North, the people of the South "don't go out with a torch in one hand a gun in the other, and, pointing the ?tun at defenseless women and chi'dien, and shoot them as they lice ior their Uves." He said this had occurred In New York City in 1900, and he referred to a number of lynch ings which had occurred in the North, including those at Danville, 111., and Springtield, <)., and said "such race prejudice linds no place in Southern hearts." oprosKD TO Mon-HUT. Mr. Sprigbt Continued: "So far as I am concerned, I am opposed to mob violence as a general proposition. 1 do not think that lynchings for any other crime than the nameless one against womanhood ought ever to oc cur. In all others the courts of the country are ample and generally, with us, swift to punish. But, in the one class of crimes so brutal and destructivo of all that is dear to an enlightened people, no one 1 with a spark of manhood in him can : loubt that instant death to the per- 1 petrator should follow upon the ascer- 1 tainment of the guilty facts. The ' poor .suffering woman who has been ' bbc victim of the devilish lust of a 1 brute, white or black, should not be 1 compelled to appear in court and re- ' peat before a jury the horrible details 1 if the outrage." J Mr. Spight recited that the burn ing at the stake of "such brutes" was ! not conlined to the South, but bad ' Dccurred In the North as well. Mr. Spight spoke of the attempt of 1 iertain white persons to put the negro 1 an asocial equality with themselves. 1 ted reierr'.r.^..to #tae.occasion r.\Y.hp?4* Booker Washington dined at the 1 White House with President Iloose- 1 felt, said that "this one Incident bad lone more to inllame the passions of the negro and give him a perverted idea of his importance and his near * lpproach to social equality than any- 1 Hiing that had been done for :he last { :en years." BOOKER SnOULD HAVE DECLINED He said Hooker Washington had sat , lown to dinner with the president "as J graciously as if he had been thc gov- 1 crnor of New York. He was," he con- { dimed, "sorry that Washington did t lot have more sense and self-respect ( .han to accept the invitation, lt \ ,vould have been infinitely to his credit j lad he declined. The more the ne- t ,'roes are put on a social equality," t ie vigorously asserted, "the more c langer ais becomes their position and . die su er death by violence will over- j :akc t icm soc ncr or later." ? t ails Head in Chicago. Gen ral H. H. Thomas, who was re- 't .ently ousted as federal appraiser at ( he p rt of Chicago, dropped dead i-'rida: Ilea t disease is su posed to J ie the cause. Thc removal of Goner- j il Th anas from office a few weeks , igo, was one of the most picturesque ? neiden ts known in polities here. Seat- "( id under the folds of a United States!, lag, General ' .'bomas remained at his h lesk, iefusiii(j to give way, until dis-1 lOSSCSSed by the actual arri val of his j accessor. The death of- General ! ( Thomas was as dramatic as his re- j { noval. He hat served in the civil war, i ^ jut lu.d nevi r made an application I ^ or a pension, while In receipt of other j ncome. Thursday, after Ineffectual ef brts to secure other work, he was in I i lawyer's ofl ce preparing a pension j . ippl(cation. It was while thus en-1 ' raged that General Thomas fell dead. ' ' ile was Tu yea rs old. Kommt o Dritte limited. Henry Wilhams, colored, was bang id at Roanoke, Va., Friday. The exe cution was witnessed hy several hun Ired people assembled In the jail yard, while thousands thronged the streets ihout the prison. There was no elc nonstration but as a precautionary ncasure Acting Mayor Johnson held i local military company ir, their irmory during thc night ano until ifter the execution. The crime for vhich Williams was hanged was cora nifted Jan. ;iu, last. He entered the muse of George J. Shields, a well cnown young business man, and after issaulting Mis. Shields, cut her hroat. He then struck Mildred, the ?ld daughter of the couple, ?ve he head with a hatchet, anti ,h?n robbed the house. Safo Cracker? lMond Utility. Henry Donohue and John Ray nond) indicated on the charge ofl cracking the sife in the National >ank of Rocky Mount, Va., two' non tbs ago, when $5,000 was stolen, vero arraigned in the Franklin coun ,y court Friday. The men plead guilty JO tho charge, against them Donohue was given li) years In the Stato peni entiary and Raymond was sentenced ,o five years in the same pr Iso i. Hunk Dy na ni ii cd. Safe blowers dynamite the *afes of he Hank of Pasco at Dade City, Fla., Thursday night and almost wrecked ibo building. The charges of dyna mite were so heavy that the large ?rlck building was cracked from roof Lo base and every one of the plate {lass windows was blown out. TO PROMOTE IHMIGSAT?OJX A Company of That Kind ia Proceso ?? of Organizat ion. The Columbia State of Thursday says. In a few days application will be made for a commission for the Co lumbia Land and Immigration com pany, which will have a capitalization of $100,000 with headquarters at Co lumbia. At first it was proposed to make the stock $500,000, but the pro moters have decided tbat it is better to start with a more moderato capita lization. The corporators are: Mr. N. W. B-ooker of Columbia, Mr. Theodore Law of Bfshopvllle, and Mr. J. W. Lee of New York city. Mr. llrooker siysthat the company will operate in Richland Lexington counties principally, Richland, he he say?, has the cheapest lands and tho moBt attractive truck farming vs hieb oan be found in the State, lie has several thousand acres in this county which he can dispose of to im migrants on the easy payment plan. The purprses of the company are laid out in the following statement which he made Wednesday: "The plans of the company are to take lands at a reasonable price as stock in the company, to such extent as they may seem desirable. To sub divide such lands into small farms of 5.0 to 100 acres each, and Improve them by building comfortable tene rr ont houses and boring wells, and nt liing to settlers upou installments Many persons having surplus lands will subscribe them as stock, and the improvement of these will enhance the value of their other holdings. These tracts of land subdivided, can bo sold at an advance sufficient to pay the interest on the stock, yet prices will bc made to the Bettlers at very low rates. "For purposes of improvement the company will Issue an adequate num ber of bonds, of sufficient duration, underwrite the same to be floated by the company a*, they may need money for buildings, etc. "The company will confine itsopera tions, as much as possible, to Rich land and Lexington counties. The promoters have already procured an agent in New York, to aid them in reaching immigrants, who will be furnished maps, plats and prices of farms for sale. One of the promoters ls now in New York and lt ls expected that operations will begin at once. 3reat care will be had in selecting in honest and frugal class of farm ers. The company also designs ind desires a close cooperation with uhe State bureau of Immigration. This bureau having been established md no funds provided for buying and inproving lands, which ls necessary j? a successful operation of the work it is understood such a movement as this company proposes In opening up Lhe way and preparing homes for the l?ttlers. the efforts of the State bureau )( immigration will be largely sup ported." - . Will Not Be Shielded. A special from Washington to the \tlanta Journal says the special com mittee appointed to investigate the jharges made by Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow against nembers of congress in connection Arith the postal scandals will not be a ,vh i te wash big committee, after all. \ member of the committee declared Wednesday that a dozen or more con gressmen would be shown up guilty of he charge of using illegal influence o secure excessive postoffice clerk dre allowance and rental from George i. Reavers, lt is known, in spite of he secret sessions of tho committee, ,hat the famous report charging 151 iongressmen with complicity in the jostal scandals has been sifted care ully, and only 74 cases were found vhere members were in any way con ?ected with the excessive clerk hire illowances. Of these 54 cases only light were recommended by l>emo srats, remainder having beon accom plished through the influence of Re publican congressmen. The total sum ost by tho government in this exces sive allowance by Reavers is $17,000. Some of these cases where Republi cans were guilty of collusion with Bea ders are said to bo extremely scandal >us, and thc committee will bo com lelled to report a verdict of guilty ac cording to the evidence in the hands )f the committee. Only one of two if the Loinocratic members are likely Ai be refused certlflcates of character >y the committee. First in South Carolina. Thc first Automobile line in South Jtrolina will be established In Green hide says the states correspondent .viiting from that place. The Chick Springs management has induced the ;o ni ty supervisor to rclocato the road [rom Taylor's Station to the springs, which will bi a decided improvement fo< the travel, - automobile tr ick will be bu ^he station to the hotel, a,^. ^one and a half miles. ' ~ has order sd two n>Q RHF?J[l.?fc?.for rftpid transit to s . irriga Ha1* which will he un iii'.t- - Hp ad vance movemont In t,rml!?rxingPguests to .he springs, thc first of the kind in South Carolina. Chick Springs in the ?ext 00 days will enter the list of first class summer resorts with a modern, atractivo hotel that will not be sur massed in tho State. Says He Should linn/;. Gov. Odell has received a letter 'rom a man condemned to death for nurder, requesting his interference jo prevent any attempt to delay the execution. Thc writer ls Frank H. 3urness, a sailor, convicted In Brook yn of thc murder of George B. Town lend, the captain of his vessel. He s confined in Sing Sing prison and was to havo been executed Fob. 8, jut tho execution was stayed by an ippcal by his attornoy without his xmscnt. The letter says in subit?neo ihat tho writer believes himself de .ervlng of the death penalty. The governor will take no action In the matter._ Safe Cracker? Fail. Five men made eight attempts to blow open tho safe of tho bank at Raudleman, N. C., Friday morning, but were unable to penetrate thc Inner door. They held a negro who was seen passing a prisoner for three hours. KNOCKED OUT. Th? GoYorumont Wins a Vi?tory in th? Securities Cast. TJH STATE STJPEEHE COVET Declureo That th?. Big Railroad Combinat ion ls a Violation af th? Ant i-Trust Laws ot ttho Country. The opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States in thc case of the Northern Securities Company against the United States, Involving the merger of the Northern Pacltle and Grout Northern Railway Compa nies was handed down last week ia favor of the government. The opin ion was read by Justice Harlan. The opinion of the United States Circuit Court for Minnesota ls affirmed. The effect is to sustain the contention of the character in question. Justice Harlan said that in the merger of the two roads the stockholders disappeared and reappeared in the Securities in the Company, the two thus practical ly becoming consolidated in the hold ing company, the principal object be ing to pr?voit competition. "No scheme could more effectively come within -the proscription of the anti trust law and is within the meaning of the act." Justice Harlin read thc opinion of the court. He first explained the question at issue, being the enforce ment of the anti-trust act, in which congress declares illegal contracts or combinations in restraint trade and providing penalties. "Now what is the case as presented by the plead ings? Are defendants properly charged with monopolizing or attempting to monopolize trade between states?" "In our opinion," he said, "theevi dence fully sustains the charge that the Northern Securities Company was organized as a holding corporation or custodian of more than nlne-tenthB of the stock of the Northern Pacific and three quarters of the Great. Nothern. Both lines were held as if held by one ownembip. The holding company dominated the roads for the exclusive benefit of thc stockholders. "It became a powerful corporation so that competition between constit uent companies might close. The profits were to be distributed on the basis of the stock held by the North ern Securities Company. The combi nation is one in the shape of a trust." The suit was instituted by the United States against the Northern Company, two railroad companies and their stockholders, for the purpose of dissolving the merger of the two com- . panics, which consolidation, waa man. anti-trust law " and in effect a pool to promote the interests, not of one system against the other, but ot both against the public. Tbe rail road claimed that the transfer of the stock of the two companies to tho Securities Company was in the nature of a sale and was perfectly legitimate. Justice Harlin quoted various opinions Involving the trust question, saying that from them it had been gathered that all contracts in restraint or trade, whether reasonable or unrea sonable, and prohibited by the Sher man law, and that Congress has power to establish such regulations as are laid down ia tbat law. Sho Will Die First. A special to the Augusta Herald from Atlanta says Governor Terrell Thursday afternoon declined to over rule the recommendation of the par don board in the case of Mrs. W. J. Wood, convicted with assault with in tent to murder her husband, and the fair prisoner will be sent to the state convict farm at Milledgeville -and made to work out a sentence of two years. She will be given some house hold work to perform and not put in the field. When seen at tho Tower after the action of the governor, Mrs. Wood said: "1 will die before I will wear the stripes on my back. I will tear them off, for I have done nothing to detervc them. They can do noth ing but kill me, and that would certainly be a relief. They are put ting a woman into the penitentiary for protecting her honor. When tho Georgia legislature enacts a law mak ing it a crime 1 will then think that I have violated thc law, but never think that 1 have committed a crime, morally speaking." How Baltimore Fire Started. Thc special commission named by local insurance people appointed to inquire Into the origin of the late fire, here, has formulated its report. They find in substance that the fire origi nated from outside causes In the John E. Hurst company's building. The electric switches were cut otT, thc flow of gas was cut off at the meters and the tires in the boxes of the boilers were shown to have been drawn be fore the blaze started. It is tho theory of the commission that alight ed cigarette or cigar must have ignit ed intlamable material in the cellar which smouldred until the firemen discovered thc smoke and began work. It is suggested that the opening of doors caused a vent for the flames. l:Ht huer W ell itcceivetl. The lirst annual convention of thc New York and Chicago Road associa tion met in Erie, Pa., Wednesday and will remain in session through Thurs day. Col. Albert A. Pope of Now York is presiding. Among the pro minent men in attendance was Sena tor Asbury C. La tl mer of South Caro lina, who made an address in advocacy of his bill now pending in congress for national aid in building improved highways. He was received with an ovation, and delivered a most excellent, and praotl-'. address. Tortured and Bobbed. Three burglars entered the home of James Plckcnpaugh a farmer living at Cheatncck, near Mongantown, NV. Va., Wednesday and after torturing their victim, secured $1,100 in gold and 8'lvcr, and escaped. Pickcnpaug? had no faith In the stability of tba banks and carried the money, which represented his savings for twenty years, strapped about his waist lo wallets.