The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, March 24, 1905, Image 1

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The Marlboro "DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION ITAPPY FOR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE. VOL. xxX^ BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAiT. MARCH 24, 1905. NO. VS. A FATAL FIRE Nineteen People Burned to Death and Forty Injured IN EAST NEW YOBK. Many Acts of Bravery Performed by the Firemen and Others. Fire Chief Croker Asserts that the Police and Tenement House De partment Are Liable. In New York on Tu?.3day morn ing of last week before daylight nine teen persons were bun.ed to death in a fire which destroyed the five story tenement hi.use at 105 Allen street. More than 40 were injured aod only a few of the sleeping inmates escaped unhurt. Several of those who per ished were r. astcd to death in plain view of thousands in the streets. Coroner Goldenkraus declared after an investigation that he had reason to believe the blaze was the work of an lucen muy. Tue tire started In the basement and spread with frightful rapidity to the rouf. The victims were caught in traps of Hames, the halls and exits being rendered impas sable in a few minutes after the blaze started. . The tu'ld'ng was one of the usual crowded tei_eiuentH and the disaster was the worbt in the history of the East Side. The district attorney's of lice has begun au investigation to place the blame fur the great loss of life. Chief Croker of the tire depart ment asserts tLat the police and the tenement house departments are to blame for the violations of the tire escape law. The tenement house de partment officials, however, say that the blame is on the shoulders of the fire commissioner. Of the 19 dead, three bodies, those of a boy ana t wo girls, remain uniden tified. The identified dead are: Ita ohael Solomor, 45 years; Jacob Solo mon, 16; Isaac Solomon, 18; Jesse Cohen, 15; Gershon Fuchs, .'10; Rose Wiener, 23: Saucer Wiener, 4; Sarah Kline, 60; Bella Zddler, 30; Harry Zadhr, ll; Ida Muskow.z, 10; Harry Kauffman, 10; Ruse Mi 1er, 4; Morris Miller, the mouths old. Crowded fire escapes lu the rear of tbe tenement house were largely responsible for so many deaths and injuries among its population, whicli approached 200 souls. HEARTRENDING SCENES. The scenes were heartrending. The fire started in the basement occupied by Isaac Davis, his wife and three childieu. "When Davis reached his home early Tuescay morning and went into his store on the same licor he saw a kerosene lamp lu the rear explode. He aweke Ins wife and both tried to put out the Haming lamp, bur. without suecess. A poiiceaan who heard tne cry of alarm rushed to the hceuo and every effort was made to rouse the sleeping people. Meantime the Hames had spread with startling rapio i ty and the occu pants of the upper lloors awoke to tied themselves confronted by a wall of Hames on nearly every side. Paule stricken people rushed to the fire es capes only tc lind them littered with rubbish. On some of the escapes the rulbish was so o'as-ly packed that it became lmpus-dhle to pass certain points ano men, women and children stcod literally roasting to death as thc Hames roared through the win dows around them. One e f the es capes was mantled Ly Policeman John J. Dwan, who Lad ran a plank across to the lindow of an adjoining build ing, nu mcued nearly a dozen per sons, but tinnily full 20 feet lo thc pavement and shattered his shoulder. Di zens ot pe? pie were taken trom the crowoen lire e;.capts and upper win dows. By ibis time the building was a furnace aau the rescues were i Stet ed iu ti any eases only through hetoic efforts of the firemen. Lieutenant Bonner, ton of the former lire chief, astenden the now red-hot tire escapes five times. MANY HICKOK.' RESCUES. Four times he bi night down a wo man or a.cnlld In 1 is arms. The lifih time he was de.vceimlng with au un cons? lous woman, but staggered and was barely saved from death. One.: BOLULT resend a little girl from a window where she st1 od Surround?, d by fi?mes. She pleaded with him io leave her on thc escape and go in after her little brother who she said had fallen unc<asct us. Bonner then jumped into what louked like, a fur nace, found the hoy and i-aved him. Fireman Hannigan rt peatttl Bon ncr's fiat on the Hind Hour. Death reaped a ha; v? :,t quickly on the tire escapes. In the rear two men aud twti wome n were descending, the men helping tile worn u tu remove heavy ol stucles from the escapes. Suddenly Hames darted fiom the third boor windows and the quartet fell and roasted to death. Ai.othor person with clothes alire was following but likewise sank in the llames. O.i top of one Hie escape lay three bodies, Mrs. Solomon and her two sons, issac and JajOb. They had been overcome by thc Hames. Two others of the Solomon family wire teer to louk from tlx: wincows and then fall back in the bun lng building. The eider S lomon, the husband and father, was rtsctt, tl. As the res cued recOKii 7. d tl.e charred bodies Of tleir loved ea.es they wept and cried agonizingly. The streets were Ulled with half drested, weeping, searching people, imploring the rescue of those within the burning structure. When the tenants dashed for the roof, they found the door, which should have swung easily open, faslsned down. Unable to burst, lo open, and wedged In by the singing mass below, num bers were Inn ned to death. i . moons Won. For the first time lu lifty years the Demociatic party elected tnelr candi dates Tor mayor on Monday In Augusta, Biddeford, Belfast and Brewer, all in tho state of Main. THE BOLL WEEVIL The Director of the Georgia Station Gives Some Points. Cotton Qrovfors North and East ol Texas Urged to Propare lor the Worst Now. A dispatch from Wa??'..ugton to the Atlanta Journal says information re garded by officials as of great value to cotton growers ls contained in an arti, cle prepared by Colonel It J. R9 .ding, director of the Georgia experiment station, which is to bo published in a few days as a special bulletin of the bureau of plant industry of the de partmei-jof agiiculture. This ls to be known ns Farmers' Bulletin No 217. In bis Introduction Colonel Red., ding says: "In Farmers' Bulletin No. 189, Is sued in 1904, it was stated that tho work of the bureau of entomology fur several years has demonstrated that there is not even a remote probability that tho boll weevil will ever bc ex terminated,' and that .'thc steady ex tension of the territory affected by the wei vii from year to yi ar, until the northern boundary ls far north of the center of cotton production in the United States, has convinced all ob servers that it will eventually be dis tributed all over the cotton belt. In feu years lb has gradually advanced a distance of about 500 miles and wll1 undoubtedly invade new territory at about the same rate, lt ls not at all likely that legal restriction of any kind would prevent or materially bin der this spread.' "These conclusions,'.' Colonel Red ding continues, "must be accepted as of the highest authority, since they have been reached by qualitled scien tific investigators after careful labor atory and field experiments, conduct ed for sew ral years on a large scale and In the older weevil-Infested region of Texas. The matter ls, therefore, not a h cal problem confined to Texis and nearby states, bu o affects the en tire colton growing region. "At the indicated rate of migration lt is very probable that within ten or tlftetn years every portion of the co - lon-producing region will have t een ltivadcd. lt is well, therefore, for tbe c itton growers northward and east ward of Texas to prepare for the worst by learning the methods that have been found Effective in minifying the ravages of the weevil, and such other remedies or palliatives as may be de veloped meanwhile, and be prepared to apply them whenever lt shall be come neccessary. In view of the Im mense importance and value of the cot ton crop, the subject has indeed be come of national Importance. "Toe bulletin mentioned, however, gives assurance that although the very large yields of cotton of former times may no longer be possible, lt is never theless entirely feasible to produce cotton at a margin of profit that will compare favorably with that Involved in the product lon of most of the staple crops of the United States by follow ing what have become generally known as cultural methods. "Among the mest Important of these methods are those directed to ward securing an early di valopment of the cotton plant and an early ma turity of the largest possible propor tion of the crop, and the object of this bulletin is to discuss the practical de tails which have been found necessary and effective in promoting early ma turity. "The writer may be pardoned for stating that most of what appears in the bulletin is directly based on long personal experience as a practical cot ton planter, aud the superadded re suits of fifteen consecutive years of Held experimentation at the Georgia experiment station, lt was pirtly tuc purpi S3 of many of these field experi ments to discover the conditions of fertilizing and cultuse that were cf fective In promoting early maturity for the crop and the particular varie ties best suited for securing such early maturity. "It may be well to state that during the whole of the lifteen-year period the work has boen supervised by the writer, as director of the station, and the practical details have been sup ir intended continuously by James M. Klrnbrough, the agriculturist of the station." The steps necessary to secure early maturity are then discussed by C. 1 i uel Redding in the natural order nf cultural succession, and in a manner which ls at once so complete and so clear as to furnish the maximum amount of ur%eful information. The whole of this discussion cannot le given here, of course, but an Idea o' lt may be gained from the following summary of recommendations: 1. Prepare the r>oil thoroughly and early, h ginning with fall pl ?wing. 2. Fertiltz? liberally and judicious ly, carefully avoiding an exe ss of ni trogen. On rich, dark, alluvial and freshly cleared Boll, phosphoric acid alone, In the form i f acid phosphate, may be applied. 3. Apply fertilizers In the. drill and bed cn them. Broadcasting is rarely, If ever, expedient. 4. Choose an early maturing and produotive variety of cotton and plant on tho beds, and as early as possible. Apply in the seed furrows 40 to 75 pounds per aero, of quickly available fertilizer, preferably 25 io 40 pounds of nitrate of soda. 6. Reduce to a final stand as quick ly ns possible. C. Let cultivation be fruinent anti shallow. 7. Narrow rows with wide Hpaclog of plants In the rows will result In a greater early yield than will wldu rows with close, spicing. Don't Mite lt. A fight which threatens to assume proportions of that waged against Roosevelt's Cru m appointment ls be ing made by local Rep?blica: s against the appointment of C. W. Anderson, colored, collector of internal revenue for the second district cf New Yjrk. The nomination was confirmed by tho senate. Enemies of the negro Re publican leaders are basing their op position to thc selection on two con tentions. One is along racial lines, the other embodies thc charge that he bears an unsavory record. Ander son, at present., ls spending his timo at Hampton, Va. Japanese Are Pushing Russians Steadily On To Harbin. THE JAPS BEPULSEP. In His Masterly Retreat a Fertile and Well Supplied Country Lies Before Gen. Kuropatkin, With Few Defensible Positions In Reach of His Army. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says Hanking tactics by the Japanese ap parently are lu progress agaiu. The Associated Press correspondent, wbo remains at Tie pass telegraphs that Gen. Mlstcber.ko on March 14 engaged a Japanese fores on tbe Ru.-sian right. It is possible that the attacking fore?4 was a Japanese column which "disap peared from observation during the battle nf Mukden. The Japane-e do not appear to have renew< d the fro: t al attack up to njon Wednesday, the demonstration on Tuesday having shown that the Russians were prepar ed to make a determined resistance. A dispatch from Santoupu says a sanguinary c mbit occurred on Marci 14 on the centre advanced line of th> R jssian army eight miles south ci Tie pass. The Russians repulsed the attack and even made a sm ill advanc through 1,01)0 corpses of Japanese, ad vauciug a large force on toe righ Hank, where Gen. Mlstchenk ., win bas taken command of bis detach ment, though his wound bas not yet. I healed, is holding the Japanese in check. The Russian tro-ps have re gained their normal spirits and fough cneerfully. NEA KL Y 8TAKVKD. The ( Moe of the cms ir bas airead] been remo vt. d to Saut/mpou, a point eight miles north of Tie pass and lhere are intimations that lt may soon b? establidiei cveu farther north. Tho Assoc i tied Press ror respondent though saying nothing regarding the commis sa ri ab arrangement for the troops, de clares that the newspaper orrespoud en ts have practically been starveu out of Tie pas;. This muy, perhaps, be an Indication of the amount of food available for the army, immense quan tities of which were destroyed at Muk den, where practically the entire re serve commissariat had bet?ii "acedmu lated. The ofllce of the censor has been re moved to Santoupu, eight miles north of Tie pass, as existence at Tie pass for civilians ls almost impossible. Practically all the newspaper corres pondents have left for Harbin. For several nights the As:s< dated Press correspondent has slept without cov ering on the frosty ground and for two dajs he had nothing to eat. It is ru mored that Chinese killed 80 foreigners in Mukden after the Russian evacua tion of that place. According to (Jinn ese reports the governor of Mukden gave a banquet In honor of the Japa m se generals after their triumphal en try into the city. JAX'S AT TUC l'ASS. A dispatch from Tokio says the Japanese occupied Tie pass?t mid night. March 15, Details of the oc cupation of Tic pa's have not yet been received at Imperial headquar ters. An ollictal bulletin reports the action and that the Japanese are In hot pursuit of the retreating Bus sians. but lt does not mention any particulars about the light. The Russians have abandoned their advanced positions on the Pan river where the desperate attack of the Japanese Wednesday was repulsed, and have fallen back upon the de fenses at Tie pass. Previous to the retirement the supplies of wi.od, etc , collected there were set on lire. A desperate, bloody battle is now wag ing north of Tie pass. The Russian detachments at Tie pass wi rt?, on March 1.'?, ordered to evacuate tluir positions, and during the night rei.lied in exemplary omer, c 'verlng their roar. There bad been lighting throughout the day. Before ttie withdrawal of the Russian forces the military settlement and such of the stores of fuel and f .rage ;<s could not he removod were set on lir** ano destroyed, Tue lighting on Marc' 14 and 15 ftll to thc se und Siberia c jrps. UU8SIANB AUK VV7.7.UKV. A dis paton fruin Ul. P.-urburg s^ys with the evacuation of Tie pass VV? d nesday night the Ru.viau army aban doned the last stronghold in south ern Manchuria and a? Ki hely toroid ovt r the section to thc Japanese for the campaign of I Otis. At las no mher s; raiegy is pesi?le for ? n. Kine pal kin In vie.v of lils scanty sup plies nf ammunition, tnd stores the shattered condition of lils army ano wide enveloping m'-vements which the Japanese have continued almost without a stop .- ince the Russian de fea', at Mukden. Nothing bas boen he ard of thc pirt which Gen Kawamura's anny ls iak lng In these operations, but Get s N gi ?md Oku, operaiiug In tito low hills of th- Tlc pass gorge, were tl em sel vos BU Molen t io turn the shattered Russian anny out of the fortifications which had bern pr< pared with a view to being held by the ?limy after T should hat been withdrawn from Muk len. Tho ?vacuation of Tie pa* Involves the loss of the coal mints in that vicinity, which, with tho Fushun and Yen tal mines gone, ls a sevt re blow. Toe railway shops at Tlc pass and more supplies were sacrillced. J A rs I'ABSINO ON. The Japanese are doing their best to accomplish the envelopment of the Russian army, which all but succeed, d at Mukden, but Gen. Kuropatkin wtu, the railway for a line of retreat, prob ably will bo able to keep ahead of his pursuers. A constant succession of delaj lng rearguard encounters may bo expected. Military men at St. Peters. burg bave but tba haziest Ideas ?3 to where the next stand will be made. Apparently there are no more for ti lled positions in readiness and the re tirement probably will not stop short of Klrln or Kuanchentzy, on the rail way line; and if the Japauese press the pursuit tho Russians may retire be yond and up the Sungarl river, there to await new levies, the mobilization of which will begin Immediately in Russia. A report received in Tokio Maroh l-l from the Japauese headquarters in tho field: "lo the direction of Sing king our forces have been dislodging the enemy from Yiugpan, 18 miles east of Fushun, aud on Marob ll oc cupied that pince." WHAT KU HOI'ATKIN BAYS. A St. Petersburg dispatch says the following dispatch has been received by Emperor Nicholas from Gen. Kuro patkia, dated March 15: ''Thetroops arc traversing Tie pass in good order. I have inspected the fourteenth divi sion of infantry. The men seemed In good spirits. "Up lo thc time of my departure from Tie pa^s lighting had not com menced. During my pmgresi north ward I saw many troops and trains in g od order. I also inspected the regiments recently from Russia who pr?-s*, uted .an excellent appearance. "I rec jived no further rcp'.rts of lighting after thc r.pulse of the Jap anese at the Fan river. Individual soldiers and bodies of men separated from their units have been rejoining i heir co nmauds curing the prevU us two days. The train service is partly restored to order, the tro< ps have bjen provisioned again and are ready for flgbtlng." A dispatch from Harbin says large numbers of Chinese bandits and Chinese troops are report'd to be west of TsUsihar, and an attack on the rail way ls appr bend. d. In spite of the heavy withd awals of convalescent aud ?ro e who hi;.vc been sent west ward, thii city ls b- lug tl led to ovei Ho"lng with woundeu soldiers fi om Mukden. A number of Chinese sus pects have been arre ted here. Anotbur Iii? Baltic News ls expected of another great b itt ie at Tiellng similar to the en vra^ement i n th -Sh .bk" river, after the fall of L ao Yang. Many experts b lleve Kuropalkin's posaion at Tie ling ls strong r than the UUJ he held at Mukde.i, owing to the protection given bis right Hank by the inward sweep of tho L'ao river and the ne ces.-.ky for the Japanese to cross thc two rivers, Fan and Tobai, before tiley can bi gin the turning move mont. On the other baud it lt uoluied out that O.ama's force mus? outnumber the Russians two to one and If the Japauese can overcome tb? difficulties of crossing tbe rivers, they have a better chance of surroundlof Kuropatklu and compelling him t< suwejsjggithau at any .Mme since om war began._ i .Y Hold Thief. A dispatch from Charleston to Th< State says Magistrate Reuse waa call ed upen Wednesday to dispose of 5 youthful negro burglar, Edward Sin gleton, which was settled, as far ash? was concerned, by committing th< buy for trial at the next term of thi sessions court. Not co?tent witl forcibly entering the residence of Mr ?J. D. Keliy, on Wentworth street but after helping himself to what hi wanted, the negro had the audaclt; to go to sleep in Mr. Kelly'B bed where he was found by the head o the house. Mr. Kelly applied a razo s?rap vigorously in awakening th hoy, and when he was t.horoughl; awakened, Mr. Kelly turned him ove to a p dice ollicer, with the result jus stated. mai:UH Miss Hubbard. A dispatch from Anderson says th legislature of thc State of Maine a Its recent session passed resolution warmly commending tho services c Miss Lenora C. Hubbard of that cit in caring for the graves of six feder?? ?o'.dier.. buried in the cemetery of th First Presbyterian church. The rei olutio s are engrossed on parchmen and are signed by the secretary t state and tbs chairman of tue con mlttee on military of tile Maine ger eral assembly. Tue soldiers referre to in the r isolutlon belonged to th federal garrison stationed at Ande son at the clo.-e of the war. Mil Hubbtrri, who ls a teacher in thc c t schools, had been caring for tl graves of tnese six Maine soldiers fe a 1 H g period, placing Howers upc ' he graves regularly on each mcmuri day. 111. (1 HI Dllllll r 1 i.hlr. A dispatch fr.m II liv Hill to Tl St te says Mrs. M ?ry A. Mellar vs h . was proba ly erne of tbe olde st re ldei.ts of that county, dhd sjeh en at her nome in II iwyer a few ties ai of heart tal ure. Wade sitting the dinner table the end cime and s felt to too tl ior. Medical aid w summ med but life was pron .une ? x inet. Mrs. Mellard wa. in hor 88 year and the ino.t of her long li h td h eu .v p 'lit at th J hom; win. so died. For years she was a mei b rot MK Me .hod i st church. Ma 'f mr f vm iv Wt re present at the I tennant at the family burying groun Tw i sons, dpt. .1 P. M. Hard ul II Springs and Dr Mellard of St. Geor> ?vere una ? e to i e present. L. C. M lard, a fomiei Suite repr?sent?t! fr m Herkely county, is a son of M Mell nd. Kelt, vu? Kur. pAllu. A dispatch from St. Petersbi says it is now definitely stated tl VJ ! peror Nichol s oas approved t di cl don of thc c.mocil of war to se Grund Duke Nicholas Nicholalevil to rt p ac . l?e i. Kuropatkln as I bes m ans ot putting a stop to I ?nt 11, u s and jealousies among gi ? rais of the army buln at St. Pete burg and at the front. Gen. Soi homllnoff will hecnief of st alf. Spider Web Knpc, Ten years ago a French mission; started thc. systematic rearing of t kinds of spiders for their web, ? rile Board of Trade Journal sta that a sphler web factory ls now successful operation at Chal?is M don, near Paris, where ropes are m tif spider web intended for hallo f.ir the French military aeronat section. The spiders are arrang?e groups of twelve above a reel, u which tbe threadbare wound. ? Of the Races Legally Considered by the Supreme Court. A LIBEL DECISION. It is Defamatory to Publish a White Man as a Negro. Amendments to Constitution Have No Effect in Regard to So cial Relations. The Columbia Record says a very interesting and important decision was rendered by the tupreme court Wednesday morning, lt ls decided that for a newspaper to publish thar, a white man ii a no i J is defamatory to the white man, and tbe newspaper making tbe publican n ls liable lo a suit for damages. The case waa that or an appeal on the part of Mr. Au gustus M. Flood, of Charleston, a lib -1 sait having buen instituted by bim against Tno News and Courier and The Evening Post, of Charl?sinn, fur damages lu the sum of 810 000 be cause he was referred to as being a negro! The case ls stated as follows: Mr. Flood is a white mau aud a cinz>n of Charleston, where, it was alleged, he always enjoyed the resp; ct and conti dence of his fellow oltlz.ns, the sanie naving been of value in his busin *a and a bource of pride and pie isure to ulm In bis social life. Tde comp] Int further alleges that, the News a- ri Courier and The Event Dg P s?> pub lisned local items in ri gaul to a .-nit entered against tue Charleston cleo irio street railway hy Mr Flood :or damages for injuries and referred c > bim as a colored man. Hy reason of being publisued as hiing a negro, Mr. Flood claimed that the statt ment tended to exclude him hom society and by re::son of "said falsj aun defa matory pubiica4iun this plaintiff has b-en injured in his reputation and hurt in his feelings to his damage *10;000." In answer to the complaint it was denied that the publication was de famatory or that any legal damage waa suffered therefrom, lt being claimed that under the prov slous of XIII, XIV and XV amendmeuts to the constitution of the United States and of the provisions of the constitu tion of South Carolina, the uss of the said word "colored" in application to anv one 's not libelous nor defamatory ;_so- .> "f ny. legal. damage or oause - oJL action arisa Trom such application? This demurrer having been susi ai ned by the presiding judge, an appeal was taken on the grounds that the jud. > erred In holding that the application "negro" or its equivalent, "colored," when applied to a white man is not libel ms per se. That the law in this state, before the adoption of the Xl IJ XIV and XV amendments to the constitution of the United States was that the term "negro" or "colored," when applied to a white person, was libelous per se, In that lt tended t'i exclude him from society. ] hs honor erred in holding that this had been changed and that the negro's social status has been changed by said amendments, .whereas lt is (submitted that only the negro's legal and politi cal status has been affected thereby. The supreme court says. "Theonly question presented by this appeal ls, 'ls lt libelous perse to publish a white mau as a negro?'' To call a wbl-i man a negro atlee!s the s( cial status of any white man so referred to." Authorities are quoted ?on -this point and the court continues: "Wncn w< stop to think of the racial distinction subsisting between the white mau and the black m in, it must be apparent that to impute the condition of a uc gro to a white mau would affect his, the white man's, social status, and lu case any one published a white mau to be a negro, lt would not only he nailing to his pride, but would tend to lu eifere serlou ?ly with the siclal relation of the white man with bi* fellow white men; a*:d to prot ol the white man from such puhl.Cition it is necessary to bring such a charge to an issue quickly." In b?rauder vs. We?t Virginia, the court held thar, tin so. amend ntn XIII, XIV and XV, were de.- igned t accoid members ol the negro acj .li same protection ia life lil? r y an . prt porty which w..s airead, ii.ji.ve; by the white race, and no A h-re d -s t ie court in that ea e reier to th. s cial relations of each r.icj. 'ide statute laws of thU state fore Ids t e association of the. two racis, m such a way lt excludes che in gro from wbite society au i vice vtrt-a. By th miscegenation statutes, tiie into, murri ge ( f the t.vo races ls furn ri lon and made a crime Railroads are. re quired to furnish separate coach a : ?. toe two races. Wida; chiidr n and colored chilar* n are forbid eu to ;.t teud the same school. Van os opiu i ?ns are quoted tj sho v tuat publls lug a wi a te man ns a negro tia tie n held to ho libelous hy variou courts , The court then quotes the language of tue three amen unen ts to the con stitution of the United States re:orr ed to and argues that it must be ap parent from consulting the texts that there is not tho sll^hteit refereoer. to the social condition of the two rac s. "All take pleasure," lt ls stated in the opinion, "in bowing to the au thority of the United Si a: es in regari to these amendments, but wo would be very far from admitting that th social distinction submiting between the two races has been In any wise affected." In concluding the court holds: "We, therefore, hold that th~so three amendments to the federal cou stltutlou have not destroyed the law of this state, which makes the publi cation of a white man as a negro any thing but libel. Tho judgment of this court ls that the judgment of the circuit court bo reveled when it sus tained the demurrer in this case and tho aotlon is remanded to the circuit court for suoh other proceedings as may be in accordance with law." COTTON HOLDING Company Organized at New Orleans, La , Last Week. 0 Ulcera Kloo ted and Plana Porfootcd to Take Two Million Balea OIT tho Market. The Atlanta Journal sayVJohn D. Walker, secretary and treasurer o? the Southern Bankers' executive commit tee and treasurer ci the Georgia divi sion of the Southern Cotton associa tion, has returueu from New Orleans, where tlie organization of the Plant ers' Cotton Holding and Commission company win perfected, o ill ce rs elected and plans ma-le for at the proper time retiring two million b^les of o ittou from the market until October. The following ( Ulcers were elected: W. P. Brown, of New Orleans, fourth largest colt exporter lu tbe world, president; ITarvie Jordan, first vice presid ut; E. S. Peters, second vico presifjcut; A. Brittan, third vice pres di nt; S. P. Walmsley, fourth vice president. The secretary and treasur er will be named at a meeting of the directors in New Orleans on the first Monday lu April. Tbe following were elf cted directors in the Planters' Cotton Holding and Commission company and subscribed ror t; e $:i,000 worth of stock neces sary io secure a chirt?r: 1 Alabama-H. Y. Brooke, A. M. Hill, L. B. Farley. Giorgia-Harvie Jordan, Hoke .Smith, John D. Walker, M. C. Gay. Louisiana-W. P. Brown, W. L. Foster, A Brittan, S. P. Walmsley, F. L. Maxwell. Mississippi-Walter Cl-irke, S. P. With r.-poon, Jacob Bernlieimer. North Carolina-J. A. Brown, J. P. Altisou, South Carolina-3. D. Smith, W. S. Lip-iComb. Teuuessre-W. T. Bowdre. Texas-J F. Hickey, J. S. Davis, lt. R. Dancey, E. S. Peters, F. M. Li reen. Oklahoma-L. B. Irwin. Indian Territory-G. W. York. Arkansas-Dr. L. E. Love, J. J. .Scroggins. Tue following executive committee was app luted: W. P. Brown, A. Brittni, S. P. Walmsley, W. L Fos ti r, ll irvie Jordan, John D. Walker, E 3. Peters. This executive committee will dir t ct the compauy and have active charge of the ojttoa holding move ment. The meeting in New Orleans, which was hold F.iaay and Saturday was au enthusiastic one and the greatest faith is expressed in the ability of the com pauy to accomplish the ends for which is was organized. Mr. Walker who at ended, the meeting, speaks Interest ingly of the organization. "The company will not begin oper ating," said he, until 8100,000 has been paid in. Ten million dollars worth of stock will be sold at 31 a share and the directors are confident that there will be no trouble In selling this stock. The stock ls to be offered to the states in proportion to thc amount of cotton raised by them. The uanks will be made the trustees for this sti ck and in cac i c ninty the president of tue local orgauization will oe tue agent to sell it. "There will be uo effort mads to take cotton off of the market lu any great quantity until May the tlrst. By that time the farmers will have de monstrated wbctber they are cuttlug (.own the acreage. If the acreage is cut down, as agreed theu two million I bales will Immediately bu taken off of ihc market. If tue cotton were taken off toe market n JW and the price ruu up there would b.idauger of the acre age not being reducer." Mr. Walker a;so eilis attention to the fact that the Planters Cotton ll jiding and Commission company is the only organization of its kind which uas the backing of the Southern Col ton association. A. I '.-.tn! Fight. As the refait of a quarrel, Eiri Carpenter shot and killed A. M. Kale at Hardin, N. C., Wednesday after u on. Befoie the fatal bullet was ti ed, Kale shot Carpenter, who ls in "n Ut conscious coullltlon and is ex peeled lo die. Kale wi s tue su^rin tendant of the N.ms Manufacturing cum p,-. ny at Mount Holly au J WAS about 35 years old. Carpeutcr ls a sun ol O. 1>. Ca rp juter, the owner of tue Hardin ootton mi 1, and ls <-.b mo 21 y. a:s of age Tlie two men quarre.co o\er tue employment or mill ueip, ai.d when th y m t .u ti e i node road mar ll i oin a tight i nsued. Bota men were well ki own c . iz i s uf G .s.on county After K ile tiri d h.s r. volver be wa> .-b t several times ny Carpenter, tnt. buliu s laking effect in tue head ano il-.er places. Douth rt.su.ted lu-iinedl auly. CaotrO IH lin-.lile. Castro, the president <-f Venezuela, ants to punish tlie United Skates. His attitude ls relkcted in a p.im pulo? jus issued through ono of hi. ad vlsi r?, C d. Juan Bautistia Damcde, in w oco pl ms for sen-lug ?J?.uuO Ven zjel-iii. again-it New Orleans are iii c us. d. Tue p.tmp det urges tue pub.ic to avenge ibo insults offerod Vamzuela bv the Americans and de clares that the invasion of tue Missis sippl valley would bj the most etlec 61 ve means of curbing the power of tlie United States. A Hevens Storm. A storm of hurricane force burst over the Iris.i aub English coasts dur ing Wednesday night, and lt ls feared th it many d.sa-iiors nave Occurred. Tdigraph lines are broken at many po.ns. The British strip Khyber, from Melbourne, Australia, October 20, fur Qu enstown, was totally w rckel otr the Cornish coast. Twen ty three of ber c.ew were drowned, and three saved. Numbers of minor wrecks, accompanied by loss uf life, are reported. ?hlOOU . Sj milton. The Greenville News says "the an nouncement that Vincent Chico >, the lt.ian blind tiger klug of Charleston, ls actually a candidate fur the state legislature to fill a vacancy in the deli gatton ls astonishing, becauso lt sbyws tho chaiactcr of that new ele ment which ls socking political glory.' COTTON E. *OBTS. Tbe Bontborn Cotton Association Will ISRUO Them In Future. ' Absolute correct statistics ot thc cotton crop will be one of the main features of work to be done by the Southern Cotton assoolation. Re ports will be issued through the press of the country every ten days telling of the conditions of the crop, the num ber of bales ginned and general crop conditions. The association will have reports of its own, and will nut de pend on the bearish reports of the government. President Harvie Jor dan has written an article on tho sub? ject of statistics which will bs read with great interest: Mr. Jordan -ays: "One of the most important and valuable features in connection with the work of the Southern Cotton association will be its ability and op rortuntty to gather correct statistics with r_fe;eucc to the cotton crup of the South. Since thc wide agitation of the cctton question during tbe last three mouths turuugh tbs general press of tne country and the oppor tunities of the farmers to get informa tion quickly through the establish ment of rural delivery router, and ?l?o, their growing interest in secur ing information, it is highly impor tant they be placed in possession of all the information po>sibio which re lates to the banding of the great staple crop in which they are so deeply Interested as producers. At the present time there is a widesptead and general demard for some dctiuite information in cotton acreage and use of cjmmercial f?rtil '/.jr, the detailed plans of retir ing thc 2,000,000 bales surplus and abo the extent of an1 the present temper of the farmers to continue to bold their citton fur botter prices Hie farmers lu North Carolina, fo instance, dislre to know tue.exact a edition of affairs lu Texas, and the Texas farmers wish to be inform jd as to what is being rione in Georgia and .the Carolinas. All of this informa tion cannot oaly be gathered througu the S uthern Cotton a-sodation and distributed for the benetit of the farmers and business men of the South, but steps are already teing actively taken to get up obese bia stlstics In the near future for general distribution. The state presidents and secretaries of the various state divisions have been requested to get In close touch with the presidents and secretaries of the various cjtton grow 1; g counties and pai ishes and have this detailed information gathered through the chairman of the various civil sub division. Tuis information as it ls gathered wlil be submitted to the secretaries of thc counties cr par ishes and will be by them compiled and forwarded to the state secreta ries, the state secretaries in turn will forward the information to thc secre tary of the Southern Cotton associa tion, where a general and condensed compilation will be made of such sta tistics and prepared In proper form to be mailed to tue members of the Southern Cotton association through out all the cotton states and territo ries. llai'ini; Hubbory. A special from Spartanburg to The State says the ruoat daring robbery recorded in the city's history was the sandbagging of Mr. W. L. Guwau ana tue rilling uf his pockets of 815 by an unknown theif Wednesday night about 8.30 o'clock on north Liberty street, about a block from east Main. Mr. trowan had started home from bis greengrocery, til east Mainstreet, for the night, carryiug lu his large kath .r purse three nive dollar bills, along A 1th some express rec: Ipts and other papers He passed a pedestrian, a tall man envelop :d in a long black over coat, wi.o appeared in the act of ty ing bis shoestring; Just as he walked by Mr. Gowan received a blow lu t io back of the head, wide i felled him and rendered him unconscious, during which time the highway mau "weiii, through" his pockets A little negro buy retorted tu the police tuac a nun was lying dead ou north Liberty street, and when the oUluers a;nvL-d Mr. Guwau had regained conscious ness, and was .yb g un tue sidewa.k, wbith his bead renting against a tele phone p st. There wai a large knut raiied ou lils head', al out the base bf the brain; bu o ne was not seriously injured. Pur,her do.va the street the pur e, the pap rs and receipts were found, scattered about. J?he police nave be u working on tho casi ; but so far; t..ere nave uecu no develop meuts Wrecked Ne?r ?partaiiburfc. Passenger train N i. 10, bjund for Co umbia from A-h.vi le, ivas wrecked two ami a half miles from Spiirtau burg, a .-?.'?ort distance from the j li c tilon, Friday night, t'iri m m Oiunuu was slightly bruised up, tbe r. malu der of the train crew and the passen gets escape l ?Uli a considerable j tr. Che lucjruoiivu was turned over ami the tender bl cks tb J main line. The mail coach jump J the traek, but the other coach 's are standing un the no.: ia:ls The accident was cati3ed b> the lccomulive splitting the switch. At the time the train was slowly spudL.g along, approaching me ti;st,of a series or switches on the A tbeville ruad leading into the june tion. Engineer Lo ve jumped and escaped un-.crtciied In jumping Fire mau Canoon sustained some pailful scratcuos and and bruises. A Great Lil?l>t. St. Catherine's Lighthouse, on thc south coast uf the islj of Wight, bas just been provided with a new light ut bl OOO.oOJ cannie Dower as against .I.OOU.O.JO ..btaiue.l with the old appa rel us. Seen from the land thore arc throe distinct beams of light revolv ing in view, une Just on the point ol disappearing behind the "blank" or shield, while tho otlK-rs pa t rapidly over the waters of the ID.ighsh chan nel. _ Consol! noe Money. On Tuesday Secretary of the Treas ury Shaw received $12,000 in currency from an unknown coimcltnce-stiick' n person, who wrouc that years ago he defraude i the government and w. 8 following the teaching of scripture In restoring fourfold. Tno money was deposited to tLio credit of the "conscience fund." A NEW CHIEF. Lioevitch Relieves Kuropatkin of Command of Army. HE WAS TOO SLOW. New Armies Will be Rained and Efforts - Will be Made to Put Effective Force: Ia the Field to Meet and Over come the Japanese Ar mies Under Oyama. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says with the Japanese hanging on tbe heels and flanks of the remnants of the broken, defeated Russian army Geu. Kuropatkin, t':e idol of the pri vate soldier, has been dismissed and db graced and Gen. Llnevitch, oom maudor of tho First army, appointed to succeed bim In command of ah the Russian land and sea forces operating against the Japanese Tho word dis grace, written in large letters in a laconic imperial order, wbioh is ga zetted and which contained not a sin gle word of praise, dh-poses of the ru mor that Kuropatkin asked to be re lieved. Russian military annals contain no m ire bittcr imperial rebuke. Empe ror Nicholas upon the advice of Gen. Dragonmlroff and War Minister Sak uarotT, determined the step necessary when it became apparent Wednesday that Kuropatkin, while concentrating for a stand at Tie Pass, seemed una ware that the Japanese bad worked around Westward again and allowed himself to be surprised. Old reports brou-iht by Gen. Grip.mb2rg, regard ing Kuropatkln's failing mentally, also had intluence. Liuevitch bas been able to bring off his army in order after the battle of Mukden. Kuropatkin will return to St. Petersburg forthwith. The task confined to Llnevitch of withdrawing the remnant of the army of 350,000 to Harbin is desperate. He ls hemmed in all sides, Gen. Kiwamura ls pre sumably pressing northward through the mountains eastward ready to swcop down, and Gens. Nogi and Oku are on the west of the Russian forces, while the railroad ls threatened If not already out and Chinese bandits are reported In rear of Harbin. The con summation of the Mukden disas ter ls feared. It is feared the decimated battal ions have again boen thrown Into confusion by Oyama's relentless and almost merciless pursuit. The war office fears that more of the siege and field guns whlob Kuropatkin saved at Mukden have been sacrificed In the flight from Tie Pass. The Russians were compelled to burn fur ther stores at Tie Pass and the com missariat was only beginning to feed the half famished troops when a new retreat was ordered. In the face of the possibility of the complete loss of the army and the ad mitted tact that Vladivostok ls al ready pois'.bly lost, preparations for continuing tue war on a larger scale than ever are proceeding. Another army of 450,000 men ls to be despatch ed to Manchuria. It lias beeu decided to form the new armies largely of regular units leaving reserves to replace the regu lars lu garrison duty at home. A di vlsou of the imperial guard will be sent to the front. Some of this year's conscript may bo sent as a separate army to be organziod under Gens. G rodi kuli, Gripeub.Tg and Kamaroff. General monihzation ls likely to be accompanied by wide-spread disorders unless tne comp isitlon and function of popuUr representation under the imperial rescript are more satisfac tory than now appears probable. Toe Emperor twice postponed action on Governor General Boullgan's recom mendations. Killen n hilo Hun ung. A dispatch from Greenville to The State i.ays Dudley Hunter, aged 14 ye-.rs, snot and Instantly killed his young friend, Patrick Davl3, Friday m ruing in Glassy Mountain town ship. Tuc killing is sail to have bean purely accidental. Tne two boys were out huming with young Davis' avior and another young man and they l ad stopped on the side of the r ad for a short rest. When they st arted ag on young Hunter picked up lils gun and in some way the hammer was caugnt and the gan wis dis charge i, the whole charge of small bird shot entering Davis' head. Death was instantan? ?us Hunter immedi ately telepnont d Sheriff Gllreath, who icputizjd .J. C. Fisher of that place io bring the young man to Green ville. Hunt, .r is held there awaiting the verdict of the coroners's Jury. schmoll to ileum. The Charleston Post says a colored man by the name of N.irman Brown (ell into a vat of bolling water at me Ciarles'on Basket and Veneer Manufacturing Company's factory and .vus scalded so badly that bc died Fri day night in the hospital from the effects of lils Injuries. Brown was engaged in g- ttiug out one of tho logs winch are kupt in a vat outside of the factory tu ba softened by the bolling water for u>e, when ho blipped on the var, lost his balance and fell sido'wise into the scalding water, The faot that he was not killed at once was mario possible by the presence of the thickly massed logs in the vat, whioh is about fifteen by twenty feet in area. They Will Hctlaoe. E. D. Smith of S JU tb Carolina, -fi nancial agtmt of thc Cjttou Growers association is making speeches in Ala bama In the intereso of reduotion of ac.eagc. Ile says reports from Texas and Indian Territory Indicate that the reduction will be more than 25 per cent. A Spendthrift. The Marquis.of Angelsy of Bangor, Wales, died at Monte Cirio on Tues day. Ho was a young min, remark able chi (ly for having spent afortune of $2,500,000, lu addition to an an nual income of 850,000, in the wurta o six years.