The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, June 03, 1904, Image 1

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,'DO THOU LIBIRTY QBEAT. ' INSPIBB OUB SOULS AND MAM|)OB LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPT. OB OUB DEATHS aLOBIO?S IN THY CAUSE." VOI^XIX. BENNETTS VILLE, S. C.. FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1904. NO 23. GREENWOOD BURNED. Mri. Annie Moseley of Central Hotel Burned to Death. PROPERTY LOSS IS VERY HEAVY. Ono Half of tho Business Section of tho Progresa! ve li 111 1 o City Coen up In Smoko. A special dispatch from Greenwood to Tho State says fully one-half of the business portion of that town was wiped out by tire early Wednesday morning. The property loss will ap proximate $1."1:1,000, with abott; $70 000 Insurance. Mrs. Annie Moseley, proprietor of the Central hotel, lost her life in the tire. The lire originated, it is believed, In the kitchen of the Central hotel, located lu the building owned by J. & D. M. Spinel, and occuping the entire second story. Thc lirst alarm was given at 3.15 a. m. hy an engineer on a C. & W. C. freight train standing In the yard. The train crew was soon on the spot and the boarders were awakened by them. Mr. lt. A. Aber nethy, who occupied the room ne xt to the kitchen, was almost overcome by smoke but was able to wake Mrs. Moseley, who was sleeping in the room '^next above him. She was greatly ex cited and begau screaming. It was sufpposed that she would at once es cape as all the others were doing. The lire was eating its way into thc build ing wltb fiendish rapidity and the smoke was already libing every rocm. D. M. S pi gel one of the owners of thc building who has a room in the hotel, was the last- one to be aroused. Ile escaped by making his way to the front veranda and jumping to the ground. Mrs. Moseley's continued screams revealed her presenee in the building, which was completely enveloped by Hame. Thc few present, having no ladder, were under the window trying to get her to jump. .lust a few min utes before a ladder arrived her cries hushed and thc red tongue of llame lV.ing her window told the horror Btricken few that her death agony had come and was over. FIGHTING THE KI HE. The tire department was soon on the scene, the town team and thc two teams from the Grendel mills aud tho Greenwood mills and under the direc tion of Chief A. S. Her were ready with their connections in a short t imo. A miserable, petty spout of ?^ater was all that they had to work *'ith. lt is the practice here in case of a tire to cut off the connection w?th the stand -ti^a^A-jL i_jit_*i._--Ifo-rnpsat-thc. power house. The engineer at the power house was not aware of the lire and could not be telephoned, the win s be ing burned. Mr. W. P. Durst mount ed a horse and rode two miles out to the power bouse and had the pumps started. By this time the Central hotel, stores and warehouse of J. & D. M. Spigel, Greenwood Hardware com pany, otllces of Baker vt Nichols, In surance, and Greenwood Loan and Guarantee company, were completely deseroyed. Thc building just across the alley from the hotel, owned by W. K. Bailey and occupied by S. C. Hodges, drugs, was at this time in great danger. Good work and the turn of the Hames in another direc tion saved it. Bart of this stock was damaged in moving out hut it is rJl in shape Thursday morning. The build ing is damaged, as were the '?Hie:: fix tures of Dr. M. A. Hailey, dentist and the telephone, exchange in the second \ltoor. \Slowly but completely the Hames wrapped themselves aronui the build ing of thc First National ?ank. The officers of the bank. Mr. S. IL Mc Giiee, president. E. J. Cunningham, cashier, and N. A. Craig arl Kenneth Baker, had previously eitered the vault and removed all the books and papers not in the time-lock safe. The money and securities were in the safe with a time-lock and co tld not he opened. The vault was closed and is believed to be intact. By su.irise Thursday morning thc bank issued handbills announcing that they would ?^'^en for business as usual at '.? o'clock Thiifti'.^ay morning. They arc occupy ing parti-w'Vde sitore used by Miss Bertha Wadsley and\A. L. Itheinhard, jeweler. Their protiXpt work is he ilig greatly praised. ' Out of their adversity they have mjyde a line and lasting advertisement. Tv .nu: HANK urit.imNU. In the building on the ground Moor was the stock of J. W. Sp\oles stoves and tinware, which was coir,'pletely d_e stroyed. Upstairs was a lot of furni ture stored by B. F. McK.ellar, .Jr., and .the ellice of Dr. B. W. ' Jobb, and a wareroam of tho Greeuwqpd Hard ware company. From this bi'.liding to the deep cut of tho set'.bo rd road, which runs through town, . tho lire made a clean sweep. Nothing' es< aped in this row. The stores of tthe New York bazaar, A. F. Hagan, D.( !. kw borne, M. Switzer, Palmetto (tracery company, E. Borgerro, western. Meat market and Lloyd's restaurant. None of these owned their buildings. '? Next came J. t. Cblpley, owner of three stores and stock of goods and machin ery, a row of wooden buildings ttwned by C. A. C. Waller, li very stable in the rear owned by C. A. C. Waller at'.d oc cupied by S. B. Marshall and S. Iwill ingford and a frame dwelling owned by Mrs. Gibbs of Columbia. In front of this row of burned buildings was the Waller block, comprising six stores and about 20 feet across the wau. The heat was so tierce that the platy glass was cracked and it was only Jay hard work that they were saved. While this row of buildings were burning lt was seen that the big three story Barksdalc building was in danger. The third story svindow frames were blazing and thc stairway also. A hose was run through the second story win dow of Dr. .1. II. Hughey's otllce tt play on the stairway and a ladder cu abled the fireman to get on the roo! with another hose. At tirst lt seemec that their work was entirely ell*- otivt but while these men were on the roo: puffs of smoke suddcly Issued fron every window below them and shower, that the building was burning beneatl them. Their escape was narrow. Mr W. ll. Parker, thc last one to lea/c was rescued by a ladder held against the wall by men In the-second story. His coolness and presence of mind was remarkable. In this building were A. MoD. Singleton, grocer; Auld Brothers, dry goods, and Mrs. A. S. Sproles, millinery, on the first door. On the second floor were the unices of Dr. J. B. Hughey, physician, stock room of the Greenwood Telephone company, Western Union Telegraph company and J. S. Chlpley & Co., cotton buy ers and insurance agents. The build ing was gutted in a little while and the three-story store owned by the estate of Joel S. Balley came next. The first floor was occupied by M. A. Lesser and H. Nichols, photographer. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols also made their home in this building. They saved a trunk and a camera let down by a rope. The one-story brick building owned by Mrs. F. E. Greene and oc cupied by J. il. Hinton, grocer, went next. A row of live one-story brick stores gave the llremeu a chance to check the progress and by hard light ing they held the flames at this spot. The stores were al! more or less dam aged and the stocks In all of them were damaged by water and by being removed. FOR TH KKK HOUSE. From :; o'clock until (5 Thursday morning 'ohe fire demon had-the town in this grip. By (> o'clock the lire was completely under control. All danger was over. About y j'clock the searches found a small part of the remains of Mrs. Moseley. Airs. Mosely's only daughter, Miss Lela, age about 1(3, was in Ander son visiting ber brother, Roscoe, about 18, who is clerking there, lioth will arrive Thursday as will other relatives from Anderson and Lowudesville. Her death has cast a deep gloom over the entire town. VICTIMS OF THINGS. Th? "e Women Assaulted New Yale In New Haven, Conn. N^w Haven, Conn, is greatly ex cited over assaults committed on young women by unknown men. The ttiird attack on a woman within a month, in the aristocratic Prospect Hill section of the city, occurred Thursday-night, when a short, young negro attacked and unidentified wo man on Trumbull street, at its junc tion with Canal, knocked her down and was throttling her when two sis ters, the Misses Otis, who saw the attack, screamed so loud that Detec tive-Sergeant Dunlop responded. The negro had by this time escaped, run ning along the canal railroad track int-y the negro quarter which is only a quarter of a mlle distant. Dunlop shouted to passers by to stop the thug, but he got away past a doacn person who stood near, j > . - , ? f iJtrtv^tivc--Ouulop'the woman's story, but she refused to give her name. She said that she was struck from behind, that the negro knocked her down and she was about to hand him her pocketbook when be was frightened away by the screams of the Otis sisters. "While Detective Dunlop was talking to the other young women the one who had been attacked fled, leaviug her hat and coat in the possession of the detective. She said that she was unwilling to undergo thc notoriety which would follow giving her name. A man hunt was organized prompt ly, with 1 TJO policemen, the extra de tective force and 500 Yale students, and the entire vicinity was searched. At midnight no trace of the assailant of the woman had been found. His description tallies almost exactly with that of tile negro who attacked Au gusta Patterson, who lives in the house of Professor Yandell I lender son, tiiree weeks ago, and Emily, daughter of Professor Richard, last Thursday week. Horse SlnyH a. Woman. Mrs. Robert Rogers, wile of a well to-do larmer of Mecklenburg county, N. C., wau instantly killed Friday by an infuriated horse. The accident hap pened at the dinner hour between 12 and 1 o'clock last Friday. The burses had been ungeared and were turned louse in the stable lot during dinner time. One of the burses, a young ani mal, managed to break out uf the lot and jumped over a low fence into a wheat held In the lear uf the house. Xut wishl )g to call her husband from his ref-t, Mrs. Rogers crossed Into the lield and attempted to drive the horse out. The brute became infuriated at the attempt and rushed at Mrs. Hogers. She attempted tu escape but the animal rushed on lier and threw her to thc ground. Before the men at the htuse, who were attracted by the screams oi Mrs. Rogers, could come to lier rescue she was ground into a pulp by the fore feet of the frenzied ani mal. Hhiyer Defies Captors. A special from Carthage, Tenn., says that one man is dead and another supposed tu be dead as a result of ef forts to capture a murderer, lt is re ported that Sid Vaden and Dan White had H difficulty on account, of trespass ! ing a cow or- the growing crops of I White. White told In's son tu bring a gen and empt ied its contents into Vadei: as he walked away. Vaden died instantly. Sheriff Scruggs, with ;t posse, went to the scene and found White and his sun securely barricaded in their bouse. They refused to sur render, and the olllcers guarded the place all night. Four of t lie posse charges the house Wednesday morn ing to force an entrance, but lire from tho Winchesters compelled them to retreat, leaving one of their number i behind, supposed to be dead. White defies his captors and says that he i won t bo taken alive. Curing Case of Lockjaw. , The Columbia State says une of the i few lockjaw casfs which have been successfully treated In this State is i that of thc 11-year-old son of Tansy . Anderson, colored, of 1H2.'I Pulaski . street, Columbia. When thc physl , clan, whose name ls withheld at Iiis . request, was called to the patient f lockjaw had set in in its wurst form, I caused by a large splinter which had . been imbedded In the ball of the boy's f fout two weeks. Improved methods ! were employed to get nourishment ln 1 to the patient's system, and after two i weeks' treatment he ls now able to get his Jaws open at an angel of about 30 degrees. He will recover. HAS PASSED AWAY. Col. James A. Hoyt Dies at His Home in Greenville. HIS LAST ILLNESS WAS BRIEF. The Useful Career of an Able Editor, Gallant Soldier, Zealous CuriH tlan and Publie Spirited tientlenian Ended. A dispatch from Greenville to The State says Col. Jas. A. Hoyt died at his borne in Greenville ou last Friday afternoon at three o'clock. Col. H. ?yt had only been sick a few days. The news of Col. Hoyt's death will cr.rry sorrow to the hearts of thousand:! of friends in all parts uf South Carolina, and elsewhere. Col. Hoyt's career, which is sketched more fully below, was notable for its constant activities. Only last w:ek he was a member and prominent par ticipant in the State Democratic con veuLiou, and was ciected a distiict delegate to the coming St. Louis na tional Democratic convention, receiv ing the highest number of votes cast In the district caucim. Jn this Stite convention, at a critical time in the debate over the question of hear.ng expressions from the delegates as to their choice for the Democratic nomi nation, he arose and in a brief, streng speech of live minutes, convinced the convention, which was evidently wav ering, of the wisdom of hearing from the delegates. Thus, in the last, few days of his life, he was contributing service to his State and country through his party. In all public ser.Ice, in war and in peace, Col. Hoyt was at the front; wheu anything was to be done Iiis hands were ready to do and he was rarely gifted in mental ability and poise, in gracious tact and moral and physical courage together with untlagging iudustry. Iiis ii fe was freely and generously given through all its years rather to the service of his church, his conntry and his fellow men than to selfish accumulation, but he was aide always to live independ ently, to meet all of his public and private obligations, and thus his hfe was In the broadest and highest sense successful. The campaign of 1900, when he was the candidate of the prohibitionists within the Democratic organization for governor and when he was second in the race, his competitors being Gov. Mcsweeney, the incumbent, Mr. F. B. Gary and the late Mr. A. H. Tatterson was his last participation in politics except as a worker in the ranks and in the conventions, lie was a man;, however, always to bf 'e- ? ?h'J ".pox." lut'?ci .uA" ...,.?> i^n<?r. Vi neut s in a good cause and so he will be sadly missed In South Carolina. James Alfred Hoyt was born Oct. ll. 1837, in Waynesboro, Va. His father, J. Perkins Hoyt, was a native of New Hampshire, a jeweler by trade, who came south for bis health and located in Virginia. He married Miss Jane Johnson of Virginia. Col. J. P. Hoyt was a highly cultured man, and at one time edited the Laurensville Herald and the Anderson Intellb' teer. From Virginia the Hoyt family moved toClarksville, Ga., where th"y lived a short time, a td thence v? -nt to Laurens, S. C., where James A. Hoyt grew to manhood. At the age of 14, James A. Hoyt entered the ofllce of the Laurensville Herald as an apprentice. When be was 18 years of agc he went to Anderson, as foreman of the Anderson Gazet.e. tine year later he was editor of lue paper, which position he held ur bil 18ii0, when he began the puhlicat: jn of the Anderson Intelligencer. In l?iiu, Hoyt was a leading sprit in the organization of a militia cc n pany in Anderson, known as the "Pal metto Rillcmen," and when thc com pany volunteered the next year, he was its orderly sergeant. The Palme! to lliilemen entered the State's service April 14, 1801, tn the Fourth Soi th Carolina regiment, under Col. J. B. H. Sloan, and In about six weeks v.as mustered into the Confederate servi: e. i The regiment was at the front andi participated in the tir.st battle at Manassas. Hoyt was witli the regi ment in its m?meralile and heroic defense of the Stone I'.ridge, and sub sequently was in all the principal bat tles of the Anny ol' Northern Vir ginia, except Chancellorsville aid ?Gettysburg, in which his command was not engaged. At the reorganization in 1802, the company became apart of the PB metto Sharpshooters under the gallant Jenkins, and after (Jen. Jenkins' pro motion, thc commander was Col. Joseph Walkefof Sparlanburg. Dur ing the second year of this service, Hoyt was "promoted toa lieutenancy for gallant and meritorious conduct on the Held," and afterwards served as adjutant of his regiment. He was slightly wounded at Williamsburg, and more seriously at Frazier's Karin. During this time he also contracted a severe case ol" smallpox and came very near dying. In 1804, while re turning from a sick furlough to the army, he was placed In command of an extemporized expedition of wound ed and convalescent soldiers sent out from Danville to clack Wilson's federal cavalry at Staunton river bridge, which was an important point in Lee's lint: of communication with his bas'j of supplies at Danville. The tight was a desperate one in which Hoyt shared the responsibility of com mand witli Capt. Rlddick and C >\. Coleman. Although the federals had a vastly superior force, the small and unorganized hand of Confederates de fended thc bridge until Cen. W. II. F. Lee's cavalry came up. Karly lu thc tight, Hoyt was badly wounded and disabled; but bc refuged to leave thc scene of action and remain ed in command of his detachment until thc end. His coolness under lire was exhibited by thc fact that after he was disabled, in pain and bleeding, he calmly smoked his pipe, which he retained as a memento of the day, having long since given up thc habit of smoking. Col. Hoyt's wound was in his left leg, the small hone being so badly shattered that it was resect jd, three Inches being taken out. J'rom tills - wound he suffered almost constantly, and his control of thc le'o foot being Imperfect, be was forced to use a crutch. When the surrender cams, Hoyt was In Anderson recuperating, and like so many soldiers in his situ ation at Unit time, be was proffered numerous indignities by Sherman's bummers and the negro garrison which was sent to Anderson. As soon as he was able to work, he resurrected The Intelligencer and began tue more peaceful duties of life where they had been interrupted. In January, 1800, he was married to Miss Rebecca C. Webb, daughter of Elijah Webb, who was one of the most prominent citizens and politicians of Anderson county. Col. and Mrs. Hoyt have four chil dren. Thc children are: Mrs. A. G. Furman aud Misses Gertrude and Luoy Hoyt of Greenville, and Mr. James A. Hoyt, Jr., of the Columbia State. The ten years following the war, found Editor Hoyt still lighting for what he conceived to be the best in terests of the SUite, a. d he was very active lu the Reconstruction era. There was not a Democratic conven tion or citizens meeting held in Co lumbia during that period but what he was a member and participated in its deliberations. His bold stand at this time caused him to bo heartily hated by tho Radicals, who frequent ly threatened his life; but without effect upon his course. H's service upon the State executive committee was equally vigilant and ac .ive. He was assistant sergeant at ar os of the Wallace house, and was with Judge Haskell w len he discovered the means of entering the State capitol. In the early part of 1877, Col. Hoyt became editor of tba Columbia Regis ter, winch was the champion of the unterrilied Democracy while it was under his control. After two years in this work, be left The Register and purchased The Working Christian, which he transformed into The Bap tist Courier and removed to Greenville. The paper was enlarged and improved, and under his management as chief editor and proprietor, it became ons of the leading denominational papers in thc souffl. His connection with The Baptist Courier made him ac quainted through out the Mate, and as he had Ute exceptional faculty of remembering names and faces, he en joyed a remarkable wide range of friendships. During his editorship of The Bap tise Courier, he continued to take an interest in polities, and until 1800 he represented Greenville county in the State {Democratic executive commit tee, and in that year was elected its chairman, as one who was not an ex tremist on either side of the factional fight then brewing, and who bad the confidence of both factions. As chair man he refused to rule out the nomi nees of the famous March convention, though he did not approve the-meth ods u sid to thaVen/^B reforms ?hJ& ?tate government tv une opposing these methods, he deprecated strife and bitterness and was one of the lirst to appeal for the obliteration of fac tional lines. In 185)5, Col. Hoyt was unanimous ly elected president of the Baptist State convention and was re-elected tor nine successive terms, when he de clined to serve longer. For over 20 years he was a trustee of Furman un iversity, and was at one time vice president of the Southern Baptist con vention. For several years he was a vice president of the American Bap tist Educational society and has de livered an address before that body and also before the American Baptist Publication society. In June, 1801, he sold his interersl in Tho Baptist Courier and con tem plated a linal retirement from tin newspaper business. For a time lie was financial agent of Furman uiver sity: but the habits and association! of a lifetime were too strong, and ir January 1802, he assumed control o the Greenville Enterprise and Monti taincer as i ditor and proprietor. Tin name of the paper was changed to i ti original form, The Mountaineer, am Col. Hoyt continued as its editor am proprietor until Iiis death. Having been so long active am prominent in State politics, it wa natural that Col. Hoyt should hav been often solicitetl to become a can didate. for governor: but he alway steadfastly declined until HMO, who the demand upon him was such tba lie could n it refuse. Having alway been an outspoken advocate if prubi bition against every other method c controlling the liquor traille, and ha\ ing repeatedly favored making th light for that principle in tl ls Stati he felt that he could not decline th nomination which was given him u the prohibition Democrats, and ai cordingly he accepted tho reiponsibi ity and UK k the stump as t ic cand date for gi vernor. Besides ils adv< cacy of prohibition he possessed oth< elements of strength in his acknow edged ability, his respected bin character, his long experience an service in public life without rewan his success in business and his reputi i inn asa man and a Christian. As a prohibitionist, Col. Hoyt Wi strictly consistent. Ile never ust whiskey himself nor ever pcrmittt thc usc of wine or liquor of any kit in his home. Ile was a member of temperance society when a yout h, ai later joined the Good Templars, wno principles he always exemplified in h daily life. As an employer, Col. Ho made it a rule not to allow any ol who drank to remain on his pay ro and by thus mingling firmness wi kindness ho helped many a man give up the habit. Col Hoyt was a Mason of high tl grce, and before he had been ten yea a member of that order, he was chos grand master of the Ancient l'rcetn sons in South Carolina, succeed 1 Gen .1. B. Kershaw in that office 1874. He has also hold membershl in the Grange and the Odd Fellov He was prominent in organizing t South Carolina State Press associ?t! in 1875; of which he was elected pr ident. AppcndlxIcsH Club. Hamlet A. Rye, a business man Sioux City, Iowa, is organizing a ciety which is to he called tho Appi dixloss Club. Mr. Rye lias calle? meeting of all who have lost their v miforms and purposes a permanent ganlzabion. "lt will bo somethl like a G. A. R." Mr. Rye said, "1 can talk of our wounds and our batt within the prison walls of the hos tala." WA SEVERE BATTLE lu Which Appalling Losses Were j SUB tamed by Both Armies. THE JAPS CLAIM THE VICTORY. Tho Gunboats or Both Combatants j Took Part in Cooperation , With the Armies on Land. dispatch from Tokio, Japan, says tbi Japanese army swept the Russians fri m Kin Chou Thursday morning ar In a desperate attack stormed the impregnable position of the Russians on.^Siaushan hill, west of Talion Wan. Tlbattle raged in the hills all through the night and fragmentary telegrams from the Japanese head (tuWrters reported that the engage ment ia still lu progress and t tat the Japanese are st ll pursuing the Rus sians south from Nanshau ? nd the head of Talleu Wau bay. Thc Rus sians had made elaborate prep; rations to check tho Japanese movement south on the Liao Tung peuin: ula to ward Fort Ar:hur. They had forti<icd high gr? und on the'south shore of Tallen V/; u bay, their works extending to the eist and the west. The extreme Russian right was at Hushantao and the extreme left at Nanshan hill. This h ll was the strongest part of the line: i series of batteries, strongly emplaced, crown ed its crest, while rille pits extended arouund Its sides. Mines had been placed lower down on this hill, and around the base on the northern and c-astciii s?dr.3 were stretched well made wire entanglements. Another line of defenses, also protected with wire en tanglements, exteuded from Yen Cilia Tung near the head of Tallen Wan bay, due north of Liuchia Tien, which lies south of Kin Chou. A strontr Russian force was ntwte? at Kin Chou, lt consisted of infan try and artillery. TUB HILLS OCCUPIED. The Japanese first ocupied the linc of hills to the east of Kin Chou. Their position bad formed an almost perfect right, angle, showing its southern front to Talien Wan and its western front to Kin Chou. Chlu Li Chan village was the apex of thJs angei; the ex treme right of the Japanese line rest ed at Chen Cha Tien, which is almost due nprtli of Chu Li Chan, while the extreme left was at Chaltsuoh, a vil lage due cast of Chiu Li Chan. Back of this angle the attacking force as sembled in complete security. Th Russians apparently attempted to dr '\e Japanese attack last. Sat '* "^Cattailes opeued lire >.? . X1..1?J ..v:-.-...t t.-ay- rif? Jap; jue, however refused to be drav > into ah attack until the posi tion bf the Russians, the guns and their strength had been fully develop ed. To this end the Japanese began a series of careful manoeures, their of ficers working their way close enough to the Russian position to draw tuc enemy's lire. They thUs secured frag ments of shells for the purpose of as certaining the calibre of the Ilus-lan guns. They discovered that tho flat teries on "Nanshan hill included four Howitzers of about 15 centimetres cal ibre; 10 old style cannon of between nine and If? centimetres calibre and two quick-firing guns of il centi iie trcs. The Japanese discovered also a num ber of large emplacements hut they did not learn the number of gnus con tained therein. The emplacements fac ed to the north and to the east. The guns Iii ed by tho Russians de veloped a rang : of 8,500 metres. Eight heavy guns pasted on thc Russian right in the \icinity of Ilusbangtao also were di ;covercd and a luther strong Russia i position developed hy these roconnoissances was on another hill southwest of Nanshan hill where the Russians had a series of melter trendies. Ou tue shore of Tallen Wan hay, close to the head nf tho bi y, thc the Russians had established a series of positions. Here were set up thc search lights which nightly played over the Japat.ese angle in the tills to the northeast. TUE i Al" LEFT OPEN'. Further reconnoissances de\elope i the fai t that west of Liuehi; Tien the Russians h ul no defenses. Extend ing to ..he northward from Yen ( Ilia Tien to the .vest, coast, of tin Liao Tung peninsula, there were no de fenses whatever, except the force posted at Kin Chou. This gap in the tiefen-.? was i fatal defect, in the Russian position, and when it was perceived the Ja ian se extended their right to the nor h and east, enveloping Kin Chou and the Russian extreme right. The Japa nese left, als^ was ext nded to Wang Chia Tung, on the shore of Tai iel! Wan hay, and tho centre moved for ward. Wednesday morning at half-past .'. the J apa?ase attacked Kin Chou and for three hours they had an artillery duel with the batteries on Nanshan hill. The Russian gunners .searched the Japanese lines with their tire, but failed to inflict much damage. The battle was resinned at dawn on Thursday. Three Japanese gunboats then en tered Kin Chou hay and in co-opera I ion with the artillery onshore, shelled the Russian positions on Nanshan hill. A Russian gunboat in Tallen Wan bay steamed clo e to the shore and shelled jbtie Japanese left. From dawn the batteries on both sides hammered away at each other. At titi early hour tho Japanese infan try moved forward and at 20 inimites past, ;". on Thursday morning thes en 1 tered I Kin Chou, the Russians rei n - ing to ithe sou til. Thu fighting continued into Thurs day (bight, the Japanese prc.-v-.ing tc the south and storming Nanshan hill. Tliey followed the retreating Russians through the southern hills. ' Th? reporta received here fail to cover the events on tho Russian right, lt is j|?robable, however, that tho Rus , sians have abandoned these positions Nojjinformation is given concerning lossesy they probably were heavy ot bothf/ildes. The; Russian resistance at Nanshar i hill vvaa stubborn. Tho Japanese made i a series of assaults before ?lu Russhins Anally yielded tho position. Tlie Russians abandoned tb is bill at 3 o'clock in tbe afternoon retreating toward Nanquan Ling, where it Is understood a second line of defenses exist. The Russians may rally at this line of defenses unless they have been dis ordered by the defeat at Kin Chou and Nanshan. The Russians had a series of mines planted at Tafangshan sta tion on the railroad, which were ex ploded. The station was destroyed. The Japanese forces were under tire for Ki hours. Tlie general start here has received telegrams from the commanders com mending the bravery and fortitude of their men. FOUND BOLL WEEVIL REMEDY. Au Am Discovered which is the Pest's l?IT?;ctIve Mcneilly. The department of agriculture Fri day announced that an ant has been found tn thc Guatemala that is an etfectlvc enemy of the boll weevil. It will bc Introduced into the cotton: States. The greatest significance is attached to the discovery, which was made by O. F. .Cook, thc botanist lu charge of tropical agricultural Investi gations of the b treau of planting in dustry. Cabled instructions have been sent to him to roport immediately to the department what assistance he needs In the way of men and money. Durliur a trip in Central America la3t year Mr. Cook discovered a cotton grown by lndiat s which gave evidence of being immune from the attacks of the boll weevil and on orders from the department bc later began an Investi gation in certain points in Guatemala and Mexico. Mr. Cnok's Investiga tions have been in more or less acces sible renions in the province of Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala. The weevils arc present there but the investiga tions show that they are unquestiona bly kept !.n check by the presence of of an active euemy in the shape of a large i oddish brown ant which is at tracted to the cotton by the food which it secures from sets of lioral nectaries. Mr. Cook's Investigations show that these ants spread them selves over fields of cotton four or live to a plant and that they are constant ly engaged in the destruction of the boll weevil. Mr. Cook reports that thc adroit and businesslike way In which tlie weevil is disposed of seems to prove beyond question that the ant is by structure and by instinct es pecially equipped for the work of de struction and is, In short, the true ex planation of iftbe fact that cotton ls successfully Cultivated by the Indians of Alta Vera 3?az In spite Of the pres ence of the boil weevil. How Tl'oy iSoiioaoto Travel. people will undertake to go" to tho great fair at St! Louis. The automo bile, the bicycle, the canoe, and the airship are a few of the methods of travel by which some expect to make the long journey. A man from Middle ton, New York, will enter the airship contest for the $100,000 prize oC'ered by the managers of thc exposition and attempt to tly to St. Louis. Two men at Jamestown, New \rork, are build ing a canoe in which they expect to navigate the rivers, canals and lakes 2,500 miks to the fair. Out In Colora do a boy proposes to push a two wheel cart across the plains from Denver to St. Louis. Harry Hoffman, of La Crosse, Wisconsin, will undertake the four months' task of walking on the bcd of the Mtss.sippl river from La Crosse to St. Luids, f>72 miles. Hoff man will ? orne up from the water only Lo eat and sleep. A "launch, upon which will bc ai . pump i and apparatus, will ace impat y him. Ash ville Student Missing. M;n.s H Wagner, Jr.. cf Cleveland, 0.,astu eut al lhe Asheville school, bas disappeared, and no member of the laen ly, the student body or bis family knows of his whereabouts. Ile j left tiie dormitory 12 days ago. De- ? led ives have been t mployed in the case in an attempt to locite the young ; man. There are numerous stories in circulation regar ling the boy's disap pearance out t he facts as near as they can be ascetaiii'd are that rather than subi lit to a reprimand for break ing a college rule he left the institu tion. Piof. Newton Manderson of thc sci loo refuse) to discu-s tlie mat ter but admits bat the young man lett without info-ming the faculty. A in? Pire. Ya/.oo City, M ss., is under martial j ! law as a result ( f Wednesday's con , llagration. Several negroes, who were caught in an atti mpt to steal salvage, have been arre .ted. Two military companies patro tlie burned district. Thc loss is vario isly estimated at he j tween $1,.'?00,000 and $2,000,000. In; ssurance will probably approximate iifbv per cent of Hie loss. Thedevasta i tion of thc business district is com j plote. Twenty-eight blocks were swept clean by the Hames. Of thc 1200 buildings destroyed, fifty were splendid residences, many of old colonial architecture and occupied by some of tlie wealthiest citizens of the south. A Butter Country. Siberia, so long stretched before the imagination of the world as a land of snow and desolation, that even now, when thc trans-Siberian railway has built, and when the productiveness of that vast country is beginning to bo. understood, one is rather surprised to hear that more than $10,000,000 worth of butter is aunually exported from Siberia. Its great plains afford good grazing, and within three years after the raliway was opened l.000 butter manufactories were erected. The government lias now Undertaken to furnish free instructions on a .arge in dairying and butter making. ' outee Comos High. Kunn.Ug for office in Charleston ' i County costs something. Tho follow ing is the assessments on thc candi dates down there: Sheriff, $500; Con gressman, $500; clerk of the court, $200; coroner, $15U; solicitor, S400; , Legislature, $30; county treas irer, ' $100; c'vnty auditor, $100; co.inty supervisor, $50; master In equity, j ?100; county suparlnteddent of ec tica , tion, 35; Judicial magistrate, 850; city . minister! U magistrate, 515; co?nu ministerial magistrate, 85. A TRAGIC INCIDENT In a Passage of a Coal Mlue In Penn sylvania. A telegram received at the Susque hanna Coal company's office, Wilkes barre, Wednesday evening states that ten miners were suffocated by gas and sulphur fumes from a small locomo tive this afternoon in thc workings of the Summit Branch Coal company at Williamstown, Dauphin county. The accident was one of the mist peculiar lu the history of the anthra cite mines and no reason for it can be assigned by the officials. The vlotims include Michael Golden, general in side foreman of the company, and nine miners aud laborers. The tunnel in which the disaster occurred ls one mile in length and is used by the coal company to convey the coal miners in the workings lu the Bear valley to the breaker in the Wil liams valley. About 4 o'clock Wednesday after noon Gen. Inside Foreman Golden and about 'M miners boarded a loaded train which was about to be hauled from Bear Valley to Wllliamston. Eveiything went all right until about half the Journey was made when some of ti e men attracted the attention of the eugincer who at once stopped, and it Wi-s found that nearly every maa in the .?arty on the cars had been over come by the gas and sulphur which emanated from the stack of the loco motive and flouted back uver them. The engineer at once crowded on all steam possible and the unconscious men were hurried to the Williamston end of the tunnel. Here help was at once summoned and the men were taken to the surface, where corps of physicians made every possible effort to resuscitate them, but aid came too late for Foreman Golden and the other victims. THE WEATHER FOR JUNE. What tho ComlitioiiH May Bo ne Indi cated by the Past. The following data, covering a pe riod of thirty-three years, have been compiled from the weather bureau records at Charleston and are issued to show the conditions that have pre vailed during the month of June for the above period of years, but must not be construed as a forecast of t he weather conditions for the coming month: Mean or normal temperature 79 de gress. Tne warmest month was that ; of 1871, with an average of 83 degrees. The coldest month was that of 1884, with an average of 70 degrees. The 1 highest temperature v/ss 100. J ?reps ! 5r "iJ-- ??-;?"?- -''JSSZ ^.*&g& ature was 51 aeyiSL^on June x, 1889. , The earliest date'on which first "kill-1 lng" frost occurred in autumn. No- j vember 9, 1886. Average date on 1 which first "killing" frost occurred in c autumn, November 30. Average date ^ on which last "killing" frost occurred 1 in spring, March 1. The latest da te . on which last "kllllDg" frost occurred J in spring, April 2, 1881. J Average precipitation for the c month, 5.43 inches." Average num- J ber of days with .04 of an inch or J more, ll. The greatest monthly pre cipitation was 10.50 inches iu 18t?0. 2 Tne least monthly precipitation was 1.20 inches in 1892. The greatest amount of precipitation recorded in ( any twenty-four consecutive hours ( was 4.'.tl inches on June 12, 18"?0. I Average number of clear days, 7; , partly cloudy days, 10; cloudy days, 7. , The prevailing winds have been from the southwest, 30 per cent. The average hourly velocity of the wind is 10.5. Thc highe.it velocity of the v ind was 54 miles from the east on June fO, 1893. A Sud Story. My Dca: Max: My undying love for you from childhood causes me to do this. You promised to marry me if 1 would lend you enough money to come tt? this country. Why you have failer to keep your promise is some thing that I cannot understand and so have decided to end lt all. It ls a shame that 1 should die so young, but I mint. 1 would like to see you be fore die, but lt is impossible for me to do so. . 1 hope, however, to see you lu the other world. Oh! what will my parents say when they hear of this? Good bye forever. LISNA. I Th J above note was found Thursday in th ; room of Lena Solt'na, ninet len years old, who on the day previous had 1 anged herself to ttie transom of her oom, at. the home of Chai les Dryer, at No. 811 Washington strict, Hoboken, addressed to Max Masmai cal, ( f No. 222 Madison street. Thc : body was removed to Yolk's morgue. Caught With Bloodhounds. Mr. J. M. McAdams, who lives near Antrcville in Abbeville county, suffer ed a severe loss by tire Thursday. About 1 o'clock lire was discovered in one of the outbuildings and two cribs, 200 bushels of corn, 4,000 bun dles of fodder, buggy and wagon, four or five tons of hay, farming tools, etc., were destroyed. The loss ls $1,500 or $2,000 and it ls not known here whether there wasjany Insurance, lt was suspected at once that the fire was of Incendiary origin. Mr. Mc Adams phoned the circumstances to Deputy Sheriff Dillinghami to come to thc scene with two bloodhounds. By clever detective work lie caught two negro men and a negro woman, They soon made a full confession, and were taken at once to Abbeville and placed behind thc bars. Policemen ls Killed. At Knoxville, Tenn., while trying to arrest some men charged with illicit distilling of whiskey, Policeman John Webb, of Johnson City, was shot twice in the stomach by "Buck" Keys, a notorious character. Keys tied and a reward of $200 has been offered for his arrest. Webb cannot live. 1 Swallowed Palso Teeth. At Auburn, N. Y., William Whee* lan, aged twenty-four, swallowed several false teeth while asleep Thu :s day night and died Friday after a ' physician hud removed the teeth from his windpipe. CALLED OFF. There Will Be No County to County Canvass This Year. THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. CongrcMiimal I Moetinxs Will Hara to Bo Hu indent to Satisfy Ko li ul re mo nt ol' th o Primary ' HjBtem This Year. The Democratic executive com mit tet; met Thursday night in the office of the secretary of State. There was a full attendance, only a few of the members being absent. Senator Tillman, as national com mitteeman, was present, but he took no part in the proceedings nor had anything to say in regard to the many points raised as to party rules. Tho committee was called to meet especially to select nominees for presi dential electors, but various other questions came up and were discussed, tbe result being that nothing was done which changes the party rules. In this connection, however, the committee put itself on record as favoring tho abolition of the county to county can vass in any case where candidates for State oflices have no opposition. The idea that meetings might be held in each congressional district seemed to be favorably considered, thought lt-' was quite evident that the committee had no idea of suggesting an abolition of the primary. Mr. J. G. RiohardB of Kershaw brought up the question and moved that a canvass bv the candidates be not made compulsory, as it is accord ing to tho rules. He said that such a canvass was expensive to candidates as well as tc the people, and he didn't see why the people should be afflicted unless they wanted to be. This idea met with general approval and when :t '.vas announced it was received with general laughter. Finally the committee adopted Mr. Richard's suggestion. This means that it is the opinion of the committee that a county to couty canvass should be abandoned in cases where candidates have no opposition and that meetings in congressional districts will satisfy all the requirements of the primary system. The opinion was expressed, but no change In the rules of the party was made. It was decided that the campaign should begin on June 21st. A com mittee was appointed to make out the itinerary, and that committee will meet here one week hence. When it came to the nomination of the presidential electors tho following nominations wore made for elenora a* '".-TT 1 r."W? -..rn '.??.???__ jeorge Johnat^i.e oT^Nowberi">.'-. ). sr.-? lenders?n of Aiken. On the first bal ot Mr. Cunningham was elected and .here was a tie between tbe other two candidates. Mr. Henderson's name vas withdrawn and the election of Mr. Tohnstone was made unanimous. The following electors were named 'rom the congressional districts: M. ?. Howell of Colleton, B. W. Crouch )f Saluda, n. H. Watkins of Ander en, W. T. Jeter of Union, W. M. shannon of Camden, Olin Sawyer, ot Seorgetown, A. W. Summers of Or ingeburg -The State. Man KatitiK Tif;er. A writer in The Bombay Gazette lescribes the rare experience of seeing he charge of a famous man eating jiger, which ended harmlessly. "A jamel with a slipping load had," the writer says, "been halted not far from his lair, when with a 'wrounV (once heard never to be forgotten) the tiger charged for the man leading thc camel. Thc tiger, I have no doubt, would have carried of the camel man, but when he saw the long, and to him unfamiliar, neck of a camel coming between bim and his intended victim I daresay be thought tilings were not quite as be bad cal culated. Anyway.be paused, casual ly surveyed the whole party and, with tail erect, calmly walked back Into tbe jungle. The camel man was either so frightened or the whole thing from beginning to end bad oc cupied so short a time (less than a minute, I should judge,) that be did not stir from the place where be was when the tiger first made bis attack." Horror Turned to Latish. John H. Stewart, of Fort Lee, N. J., was hurrying along 1:10th street early Wednesday morning to catch the North river ferry. As he came In view of the pier a whistle warned bim that the boat was about to start. Mr. Stewart attempted to run, but was unable to make rapid progress. A runabout driven by two women overtook him on its way to the ferry. As the horse swept by he turned sud I denly and -a.tempted to grasp the back of the seat to get a "lift." In doing so, however, he slipped, and be fore the horrified occupants of the carriage could pull back on the reins the hind wheels had passed over ona of Mr. Stewart's legs. The women stopped, jumped out and ran back bo his assistance. One of them took ol? her light tan coat and folding it with trembling bands as a pillow, offered lt to the prostrate man. The other had gotten a little brandy liask from her handbag and was about to raise lt to the dusty lips of the man, when he raised on his elbow and excla.med: "Nevei mind. What aro you try ing Ut do?" "Your leg,".replied one of them In a whisper. The man brushed the dust from his hat contemptuously. Then he pushed up on one foot, with his injured leg hanging Ump. "Leg!" he exclaimed, "That's ali the trouble. That's why I missed the boat. It's wood." Death from Pin Scratch. The pin scratch that Mrs. Catherine Carroll received while adjusting her bridal veil caused ber death fiom lock jaw at the Newark City nospltal Thursday, Just three days after her wedding. The bride-to-be, while readjusting her veil, attempting to fasten it with a long pin. Her hand slipped and thc pin scratched her palm. Two days later the wound be came very painful. A physician saw signs ot tetanus and had the brido removed to a hospital.