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"DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY FOR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." VOL?. XXX^ BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FKIDA?. MARCH 24, 1905. NO lfl 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 cu Tuesday morn ing of last week b for o daylight nine teen persons were bumed to death in a fire which destroyed the live story tenement house at 105 Allen street. More than 40 were injured and only a few cf the sleeping inmates escaped unhurt. Several of those who per ished were r. asted to death in plain view of thousands in the streets. Coroner Goldenkrans declared after an investigation that he had reason to believe the blaze was tbe work of an lucen nary. Tue tire started In tbe basement and spread with frightful rapidity to the roof. The victims vs ere caught in traps of Hames, the halls and exits being rendered impas sable in a few minutes after the blaze started. * Toe tu'ldlng was one of the usual crowded tei ements and the disaster was the worst in the history of the East Side. The district attorney's of lice has begun au investigation to place the blame for the great loss of life. Chief Croker of the tire depart ment asserts tbiit the police and the tenement house departments are to blame for the violations of the tire escape law. The tenement house de partment oOiciah, however, say that the blame is on the shoulders of the fire commissioner. Of the 19 dead, three bodies, those of a boy ana two gills, remain uniden tified. The identified dead are: Ba obael Solomor, 45 years; Jacob Solo mon, 16; Isaac Solomon, 18; Jesse Coben, 15; Gershou Fuchs, 30; Bose Wiener, 23: Saucer Wiener, 4; Sarah Kline, 00; Bella Zddler, 30; Harry Z.idhr, ll; Ida Muskow.z, 10; Harrj Ka ullin a n, 10; Rose Ml 1er, 4; Morris Miller, live mouths old. Crowded fire escapes in the rear of tbe tenement house were largely responsible for so many deaths and injuries among its population, which approached 200 souls. nBAKTKKNDINO SCENES. The scenes were heartrending. The fire started In the basement occupied by Isaac Davis, his wife and three children. When Davis reached his home early Tuescay morniug and went into his store on the same licor be saw a kerosene lamp in the rear explode. He awtke his wife and both tried to put out the Haming lamp, bub without success. A policeman who heard toe cry of alarm rushed to tbe scene and eve ry effort was made to rouse the bleeping people. Meantime the Hames had spread with startling rapio i ty and the occu pants of the upper doors awoke to Hod tbemhelvea confronted by a wall of flames on nearly every side, l'auic stricken people rushed to the lire es capes only tc find them littered with rubbish. On some of tue escapes the rulbish was so cicssly packed that it became Impossible to pass certain points ano men, women and children stcod literally roasting to death as the ilau.es roarei. brough tho win dows aiound H em. One (f the es capes was manned i<y Policeman John J. Dwan, who bad ran a plank across to the window cf an acjoiulug build ing. He rescued nearly a dozen per sons, but finally fell 20 feet to the pavement and shattered his shoulder. Di zens of pe> pm were- taken irom the crowota lire ci.capts and upper win dows. By ibis time the building was a furnace aau thc rescues were i fleet ed in many eases only through heioic efforts of the firemen. Lieutenant Bonner, ton of the former fire chief, aster deo the now red-hot fire escapes five times. MANY JIKKOIC RB8CUES. Four times he brought down a wo man or a.child in 1 is arms. The fifth time he was descending with an un conscious woman, but staggered and wies barely saved from death. One.: Bonner rescu d a little g.ri from a window where she st'od surrounded by flames. She pleaded with him to leave her on Hie escape and go in afttr her Utile brother v\Lo sie said had fallen uno i.ud us. Bonner then jumped Into what locked like a fur nace, found the boy and saved him. Fireman Hannie an repeated Bon ncr's feat on thc Hurd Hour. Death reaped a harv? st quickly on the Ure escapes. In the rear two men ana two women weie descending, th ; men helping the v.om o bo remove heavy obstacles from the i scapes. Suddenly flames darted fiom the third floor windows and the quartet fell and roasted to dealh. Ai.other person with clothes afire was following but like wise sank In tbe llames. On top of one Ure escape lay three botlies, Mrs. Solomon and her two sons, isaac and Ja ..ob. They had been overcome by the dames. Two others o? the Solomon family vu r?: teer to lo .k from the windows and then fall back in the hun lng building. The eider S lomon, the busband and father, was rescu, d. As the res cued recog?) z d tl.e chaired bodies or tl cir loved ones they wept and crier! agonizingly. The streets wore filled with half dre sied, wtc-ping, searching people, Implorh g the rescue of those within Hie burning structure. When thc tenants dashed r<-r the roof, they found the door, which should have swung easily open, fastsned down. Unable lo burst, lt open, and wedged In by the surging mass bolow, uum bers were bumed to death? 1>< miicriH Won. For thc first lime Iii fifty years thc Democratic party elected tnelr candi dates for major on Monday in Augusta, Bidcieford, Belfast and Brewer, all in the state of Main. TUE BOLL WEEVIL Tho Director of the Georgia Station Gives Sumo Points. Cotton Growers North ?nd Bast ol Texas Urged to Prepare for the Worst Now. A dispatch from Washington to the Atlanta Journal says Information re garded by oQlcials as of great value to cotton growers ls contained in an arti cle prepared by Colonel lt. J. Ra iding, director of the Georgia experiment station, which is to bo published in a few days as a special builetiu of the bureau of plant industry of the de partment of agileulture. This is to be known os Farmers' Bulletin No 217. In his introduction Colonel Redt ding says: "In Farmers'Bulletin No. 189, Is sued In 1904, it was stated that the work of the bureau of entomology for st-v eral years has demonstrated that tin re ls nut even a remote probability that tho boll weevil will ever be ex termiuated,' and that .'the steady ex tension of the territory affected by the wet vii from year to yt ar, until the northern boundary ls far north of the center of cotton produc ion In the United States, has convinced all ob servers that it will eventually be dis tributed all over the cotton belt, lu ten years it has gradually advanced a distale of about 500 miles and will undoubtedly luvade new territory at .tb.?ut the same rate. It is not at all ilkely that legal restriction of any kind would prevent or materially hin der this spread.' "These conclusions,'.' Colonel Red ding continues, "must be accepted as of tho highest authority, since they have been reached by qualified scien tific investigators after careful labor atory and Held experiments, conduct ed for BLV. ral years on a large scale and lu the older weevil-Infested region of Texas. Tue matter is, therefore, not a li cal problem confined to Texis and nearby states, but affects the en tire cotton growiug reuioo. "At the indicated rate of migration lt is very probable that within ten or Hf teen years every portion of the co lon-producing regiuo will have t een iLvadtd. lt ls well, thereft re, for ttie cu ton growers northward and east ward of Texas to prepare for the worst by learning the mi thuds that have been fouud effective in minify lug the ravages of the weevil, and such other remedies ur palliatives as may be de veloped meanwhile, and be prepared to apply them whenever it 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. "Tue bulletin mentioned, however, gives ussurance that although the very large yields of cotton ot former times may no longer ba 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 tbe 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 vslopment of the cotton plant and an early ma turity of the largost possible pn por lion of the crop, and the object i f this bulletin is to discuss the practical tie 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, and the superadde.d re suits of liftecn consecutive years of Held experimentation at the Georgia experimetit station, lt was psrtly tbe purpose uf many of these Held experi ments to discover the conditions of fertilizing and culture that were cf feet he in promoting early maturity for the crop and the particular varie ties best suited for securing such early maturity. "lt may be well to state that during the whole i f tho tifteen-year period thc work has boen supervised by the writer, as director of the station, and the practical details have been super intended continuously by James M. Kirnbrougb, the agriculturist of the station." Tho steps necessary to secure early maturity are then dbcuised by C l i nel Uedding In the natural order of cultural succe-siuM, and in a mintier which is at once so complete and so cloar as to furnish the maximum amount of useful Information. Tue whole of this discussion cannot l e given here, of course, but an idea of lt may be gained fruin the following summary of recommendations: l Prepare thc toil thoroughly and oaiiy, b ginning with fail pl ?wing. 2. Fertilize liberally and judicious ly, carefully avoiding an exe*SS of ni trogen. On rich, dark, alluvial and freshly cleared Mill, phosphoric acid alone, in the form nf acid phosphate, may be applied. 3. Apply fertilizers in tbn drill and bed on them. Broadcasting ls rarely, If ever, expedient. 4. Choose linearly mMuiing and produutive variety of cotton and plant on tho beds, and a* early as possible. Apply in the seed furrows 40 to 75 pounds per acre of quickly available fertilizer, preferably 25 io 40 pounds of nitrate of soda. 6. Reduce to a tlual stand as quick ly as nusslblo. 0. Let cultivation be frequent and shallow. 7. Narrow rows with wide spacing of plants in the rows will result In a greater early yield than will wide rows with close spiciug. Don't i,ii. <. lt. A light which thre itens to assume proportions of that waged against Roosevelt's Crum appointment ls be ing made by local Rep?blica) s against the appointment of C. W. Anderson, colored, collector of Inti rind revenue for the second district cf New Yjrk. The nomination was confirmed by tho senate. Enemies of the negro Re* publican leadors are basing their op position to the selection on two con tentions. One is along racial lines, the other embodies the charge that he bears an unsavory record. Ander son, at present,, is spending his time at Hampton, Va. Japanese Are Pushing Russians Steadily On To Harbin. THE JAPS EEPULSED. Ia His Masterly Retreat a Fertile and Well Supplied Country Lie6 Before Gen. Kuropatkin, With Few Defensible Positions in A dispatch from Sb. Petersburg says hanking tactics by the Japanese ap parently are in progress again. The Associated Press correspondent, who IT 11 uti ns at Tie pass telegraphs that Gen. Mlstcher.ko on March 14 engaged a Japanese fores on the Ruglan right. It is possible that the attacking force was a Japanese column which disap pearcd from observation during the battle nf Mukden. The Japane-e do not appear to have renew* d the front al attack up to njon Wednesday, thc demonstration on Tuesday having shown that the Russians were prepar ed to make a djtermincd resistance. A dispatch from Santoupu says a sanguinary c imbat occurred on Maret 14 on the centre advanced hue of the R tssian army night nodes south cf Tie pass. The Russians repulsed the attack and even made a sm ill ad vane through 1,000 corpses of Japanese, ad vauclug a larire force on the righ (lank, where Gen. Mistchenk >, who has take i command of his detach ment, though bis wound bas t ot yet healed, ls holding the Japanese in check. The Russian tromps have re gained their normal spirits and fou^h cneerfully. The ( Hi je of the cr ns >r bas already been removed to San bou pou, a pi hit eight miles north of Tie pa33 and there are intimations that it may soon ! b? established even farther north. Thc Asioiiited Presscoriespondeutthough Stying nothing regardlug the commis sariab arrangement for the troops, de clares that thc newspaper cirre'.pond cnts have practically been starved out of Tie pas?. Tnis muy, perhaps, be an indication of the amount of food available for the army, lmra?nse quan tities of which were destroyed at Muk den, y* hfre practically the c-nthje^re sevve commissariat had noon accumu lated. The oflice of the censor has been re moved to Santoupu, eight miles north of Tie pass, as existence at Tie pass for civilians is almost impossible. Practically all the newspaper corres ponder.ts have left for Harbin. For several nights the As.s< dated Pres.-. correspondent has slept without cov ering on the frosty ground and for two days 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 Chin ese reports the governor of Mukden gave a banquet in honor of the Japa ni se generals after their triumphal en try into the city. A dispatch from Tokio says the Japanese occupied Tie pass at mid night, March if). Details of the oc cupation of Tie pass have not yet been received at Imperial headquar ters. An oOiclal bulletin reports thc action and that the Japanese arc In h<)t pursuit of the retreating lim siana, hut it does not mention any particulars about the tight. The Russians have abandoned their advanced positions on the Fan river where the desperate attack of the Japanese Wednesday was repulsed, j and have fallen back upon the de fenses at Tie pass. Previous to the retirement the supplies of wood, cte , collected there were sst on lire. A desperate, bloody battle is now wag lug north of Tie pass. The Russian detachments at Tie pass Wt re, on March lf>, ordered to evacuate tin ir positions, and dunn, tho .light retlied in exemplary order, c ivering their rear. There had been fighting throughout the day. Before toe withdrawal of the Russian forces the military settlement and such o' the stores of fuel and f rage as could not be n mo' o I were set on tir?* and destroyed. Tue lighting on Mire 14 and 15 ftll to the second Siberia corps. KUSSIAN8 AUB PUZZLED. A dli pattin fr.,m .St. IVix-r burg savs wi til the evacuation of Th: pass Wed nesday night the Rust ian army aban doned tho last stronghold in south ern Manchuria and di. finitely turned ovi r the section to the Japanese fer the campaign of I9i?6. At las no other strategy is pistole for t? n. Kuropatkin In view nf lils scanty sup plies nf ammunition, and stoies the shattered condition of his army and wide enveloping mi ve moots which the Japanese have continued almost wittiout a stop since the Russian de feat at Mukden. Nothloii bas been heard of thc part widen (Jen K.iwamur.i'8 army ls .ak lng In these operations, but Gei s Nugi and Oku, operating in the low h?ls of the Tie pa>s g-irge, were tl era selves holllolcnt io ?urn the shatter, d Russian army out of thc fortifications which had been prepared with a view to being held bv the i'.rmy after I' should has been withdrawn fran Mukden. Tho evacuation of Tie pas? Involves the loss of Hie coal mints In that vicinity, which, with the Fushun and Yental mines gone, is a se vt re blow. Toe raliway shops at Tlc pa.ss and more supplies were sacrificed. J A I'S PASSING ON. The Japanese arc doing their best to accomplish the envelopment of the Russian army, which all hut succeeded ai Mukden, hut Gen. Kuropatkin with the. raliway for a line of retreat, prob ably will bo able to keep ahead of his pursuers. A constant succession of delaying rearguard encounters may be expected. Military men at St. Petem Reach of His Army. NEA KI.Y STAKVKD. J A I'S AT THC TASS. burg bave but the bazlest ideas as to where the next stand will be made. Apparently there are no more forti fied positions In readiness and the re tirement probably will not stop short of Klrln or Kuancbentzy, on tbe rall way line; and If rho Japauese press tbe pursuit tbe Russians may retire be yond aod up the Sungarl river, tbere to awaic Dew levies, tbe mobilization nf which will begin Immediately in Russia. A report received In Tokio Marcb 14 from the Japanese headquarters in the field: "In tbe direction of Sing king our forces bave been dislodging the enemy from Yiugpau, 18 miles east of Fushun, and on Marob ll oc cupied that place." WHAT KU HOI'AT KIN SAYS. A St. Petersburg dispatch says tbe following dispatch has been received by Emperor Nicholas from Gen. Kuro patkin, dated Marcb 15: ''Thetroops are traversing Tie pass In good order. I bave inspected the fourteenth divi sion of infantry. The men seemed in good spirits. "Up lo thc time of my departure from Tie pass righting had not com menced. During my progr?s* north ward I saw many troops and trains in g od order. 1 aiso inspected the rrg.tnents r; cently from Russia who presented .an txoclleut appearance. "I received no further reports of fighting after thc repulso of the Jap anese at the Fan river. Individual ?oldiers and hohes of men separated from their units have b3en rejoining ? heir co nmands aunnir the previi us two di'.ys. The train service is partly I restored t<> order, the trot ps have b?en provisinm d again and are ready for fighting." A dispatch from Harbin says large numbers of Chinese bandits and Ohine.se tri tups are report'd to be west of Tsitsihar, and an at .ack on thc rail way !s appr heurli d. In spite of the neavy wllhdiawals of convalescent^ and those who h;..ve been sent west ward, thi; city ls b- lug li lei to ovei llo^inn with woundeu soldiers fi om Mukden. A number of Chinese sus pects have been arrested here. Another Hi** Hullo. News ls expected of another great bittie at Tieling si-oilar to the en casement i u the Sh .bk" river, after the fall o' L ao Yang. Many experts b lleve Kuropatkin's posaion at Tie ling ls strong r than the one he held at Mukden, owing to the protection given his right Hank by the iuwara sweep of the L'ao river and the ne cessity for the Japane-e to cress the two rivers, Fan and Tohai, before they can bi gin the turning move mont. On the other baud it ls pointed out that O.ama's fores must outnumber the Russians two to one, and If the Japanese can overcome the di?lcultics of crossing tbe rivers, they have a better chance of surrounding Kuropatklu and compelling him to Buw?w?$?$rthan at any^Jilsos pince Wie war began. ? A Hold Thief. A dispatch from Charleston to The State says Magistrate Reuse was call ed upon Wednesday tu dispose of a youthful negro burglar, Edward Sin gleton, which was settled, as far as he was concerned, by committing the buy for trial at the next term of the sessions court. Not content with forcibly entering the residence of Mr. J. D. Kelly, on Wentworth street, but after helping himself to what he wanted, the negro had thc audacity to go to sleep in Mr. Kelly's bed, where he was found by the head of thc house. Mr. Kelly applied a razor slrap vigorously in awakening the boy, and when he was thoroughly awakened, Mr. Kelly turned him over to a police olllc.er, with tho result just stated. TtmnkH ruins Hubbard. A dispatch from Anderson says the legislature of thc State of Maine at Its recent Session passed r?solutions warmly commending tho services of Miss Lenora C. Hubbard of that city in carin*: for the graves of six federal .o'.dler.-. tu ried in the cemetery of the First Presbyterian church. The res olutions are engrossed on parchment and are signed hy thc secretary of stale and the chairman of tue com mittee on military of the Maiue gen eral assembly. Tue soldiers referred to in thc r'solution belonged ti tho federal garrison stationed at Ander sen at the elo.-e of the war. Miss Hiibbird, who ls a teacher in the c.ty scho ls, had been caring for the graves of tnesesix Maine soldiers for :t 1 >; g period, placing Mowers upon e graves regularly on each memorial oay. Dit tl at Ullina r 1'KIIIO. A dispatch fr .m ll liv Hill to Tho St'.te says Mt's. M .ry A. Mellard, wh ? was prob t ly nue of thc oin? st res ide).ts of Unit county, died sad* erny her o une in 1> .wytir a few (lt, s ii^o of beare lal ure. Wm le Sitting ai thc dinner table the end Cameaudshe fell to tue ll ?ur. Magical aid was summoued bat life was pronounced ? x Inct. MM. Mellard wa. in her S?tti \i ir and the ino,t of her long lift! had been .-p nt at tho horns where s'i di ll. For years she was a meru h roi thc Methodist churcu. Many of uer famdy w-re present at the In terment at the family b irylng g.ouufl. Tw . sons, Ci pt. J P. M. Hard nf Hot Springs and Dr Mellard of SL. George, were unable to i e present L. C. Mel laid, a former S^ate representative fr m Uerkely county, is a sou of Mrs. Mall. tl. ltulit.-vuH Kui- pm tn. A dIsp:tch from St. Pcter.'.burg says it is now definitely slated t hat E : peror Niciiul. s oas approved tue. decision of the council of war to send Grund Duke Nico-las N ioholaltvltcli to n p ace Geo. Kuropatkin as the ins in ans of putting a stop to tbe int ri, u s and jealousies among geu . rals of the army both at St. Peters burg and at the front. Gen. Souk bomllnoff will beciwef of s'.alT. Bpirter Web Hope, Tm years ago a French missionary started the systematic rearing of two kinds of spiders for their web, and The 15.?ard of Trade Journal states that a spider web factory ls now In successful operation at Chal?is Men don, near Paris, where ropes are made of spider web intended for balloons f ir the French milllary aeronautic section. Thc spiders are arranged In groups of twolvc above a reel, upon which the threads aro wound. Of the Races Legally Considered by the Supreme Court. 1 LIBEL DECISION, Il ls Defamatory to Publish a White Mao as a Negro. Amendments to Constitution Have No Effect in Regard to So cinl Relations. The Columbia Record says a very interesting and important decision was rendered by the i-upreme court Wednesday morning, lt ls decided that for a newspaper to publish that, a white man U a new i. j ls defamatory tu the white man, aud tho newspaper making the publican n ls liable to a huit for damages. The case wps that ol an appeal on the part of Mr. Au gustus M. Flood, of Charleston, alibel salt having bten instituted by him sKainst Tno News and Courier aud The Evening Post, of Charleston, for damages in the sum of 810 OOO be cause he waa referred to as bel?g a u pro. The case ls stated as follows: Mr. Flied is a white man and a citizen of Charleston, where, lt was alleged, he always enjoyed the resp; ct and conti nonce of his fellow eit'z.ns, the same Having been of value in lils business and a source of pride and pleasure to ulm In his social life. The cum pl int further alleges that the News a> d Courier and The Eventug P st, pub llsued local Items in rt gai d to a .-un entered against the Charleston elco trio street raliway hy Mr Flood ?or damages for Injuries and referred ti bim as a colored man. Hy reasen of being publlsued as being a negro, Mr. Flood claimed that the statt ment tended to exclude bira norn society and by reason of "haiti false ann defa matory publication this plaint ill has b on injured In bis reputation au! hurt in bis feelings to his damage $10,000." In answer to the complaint it was denied that the publleaticn was de famatory or that any legal damage was stlfered therefrom, it being claimed tnat under the prov s ons ol XIII, XIV and XV amendments to Clio constitution of the United States and of the provisions of the constitu tion of South Carolina, the uss of thc said word "colored" in application to anv one <s not libelous nor defamatory 'ju.>?"f ny. legal damage or cause of, action arlS2'~Trom Buen application? This demurrer having been sustained by the presiding Judge, an appeal was taken on the grounds that the jud, t erred in holding that the application "negro" or Its equivalent, "colored," when applied to a white man is not libel ?us per se. That the law In this state, before the adoption of tho XllJ 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 KO, in that it tended t i exclude bim from society. His honor erred in holding that this had been changed and that the negro's social status has been cMauged by nain amendments, .whereas it is shbmitted that only the negro's legal and politi cal status has been affected thereby. Tne supreme court says. ''Thoonly question presented by this appeal is, 'ls it libelous perse to publish a white mau as a negro?" To call a wl;i < man a negro affects the si cial status of any white man so referred to." Authorities are qwoted -on -this point and the court continues: "Wueu wr stop to think of tho racial distinction subsisting between thc white man aud the black man, it must be apparent tnat to Impute the condition of a no gro to a white man would affect his, tho white man's, soolal status, and in case any one published a white man to be a negro, it would not only be (railing to his pride, but. would tend t j in erfere serloudy with the s iclal relation of the wtilte man with iii.? fellow while men; a-d to protect the white man from SUCH publicttion it i iiecessarv to bring such a charge to an issue quickly." lu Sorauder vs. West Virginia, the court held thar, tin so amend nins, XIII, XIV and XV, were de.- igued t aecoui members ul the negro . ac; .li same protection in life lib. r > au . pn perty wliich w..s airead, ii j ,e ny the white ruce, and i.o-sh re d -s t lecourt in that ea e reier tc th. s cial relations of each r.ioj. 'int-, stii bute laws of this state fore Ids t u association of the two races, In such i way it excludes the in gro from white society and vice versa. By li misc geuallou statutes, ttie lute: marri ge. < f the two r ices ls foro d lon and made a cringe Railroads are re quired to furnish separate c ia li s foi tue t wo races. Willie ?dil.dr n and colored child rt n are forbid en to ;.t teud the same school. Van us oplu ions are quoted to silo v mat public . inga wi.ite. man us a negro ha ho n held to bo libelous by various courts . Tho court then quotes the language of tue three amen . m-nts ti the con stitution of the United .States reierr ed to and argues ti.at it must be ?ip parent from consulting tho texts that there is not tho slightest reference to tho social condition of the two rae s. ''All take pleasure." it ls stated in the opinion, "in bowing to the au thority of the United .States in regarn to these amendments, but we would be very far from admitting that th social distinction subsisting botwei n the two races has been In any wise affected." In concluding the court holds: "We, therefore, hold that these threoamendments to the federal con stttutlou have not destroyed the law of tLis stato, which maltes the publi cation of a white man as a negro ary thlng but libel. Tho judgment of this court ls that tue judgment of the circuit cuurt bo reversed when lt sus tained the deinurrer in this ca-^e 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. onior.ru Elected and Plans Perfootcd to Tn ko Two Million Bales Oft* the Markee. The Atlanta Journal SMta'John D. Walker, secretary and treasurer of the Southern Bankers' executive commit tee and treasurer of the Georgia divi sion of the S mtbern Cotton associa tion, bas returned from New Orleans, where the organization of the Plant ers' Cotton Holding and Commission company was perfected, officers elected and plans ma'ie for at the proper time retiring two million bales of ottou Crem the market until October. The following < Ulcers were elected: W. P. Brown, of Ne?v Orleans, foi .1 i largest colt?*1 exporter tn the world, president; Ilarvie Jordan, first vice president; E. S. Peters, second vice presloeut; A. Brittan, ttiird vice pres ch nt; S. P. Walmsley, fourth vice pre it enfc. The secretary and treasur er will be named at a meeting of the direct' rs in New Orleans on the first Monday in April. Tbe following wore circted directors in tbe Planters' Cotton Holding and Commission company and subscribed for t: e $3.000 worth of stock neces sary to .-enure a eli irter: Alabama-II. Y. Brooke, A. M. QUI, L. B. Farley. G.or^ia-Darvic Jordan, Iloke Smith, John ?. Walker, M. C. Gay. Louisiana- W. P. Brown, W. L. Kcster, A Brittan, S. P. Walmsley, F. L. Maxwell. Mississippi-Walter CUrke, S. P. With r.-poou, Jacob Bernbeimer. Nortb Carolina-J. A. Brown, J. P. Allison. South Carolina-E. D. Smith, W. S. Lipscomb. Too Huhs e-W. T. Bowdre. Texis-J F. Hickey, J. S. Davis, It. R. Dancey, E. S. Peters, F. M. Green. Oklahoma-L. B. Irwin. Indian Territory-G. W. York. Arkansas-Dr. L. E. Love, J. J. Sero;.'Kius. Tue following executive committee .vas app iuted: W. P. Brown, A. Brittan, S. P. Walmsley, W. L Fos ti r, Il trvie Jordan, John D. Walker, E S. Peters. This executive committee will dir t ct the company aud have active charge of tile cjttoa holding move ment. The meeting in New Orleans, which waa held Friuay and Saturday was au enthusiastic one and the greatest faith is exjirr. s.-etl in thc ability of the com pany tu accomplish the ends for which is was organized. Mr. Walker who at tended t-he meeting, speaks interest ingly of tbe organization. "The company will not begin oper ating," said he, until 81U0.000 has bceu paid In. Ten million dollars worth of sti ck will be sold at 31 a share and the directors are conlldent that there will be no trouble in selling this stock. The stock ls to be offered to the stales in proportion to the. amount of cotton raised by them. The thanks will be made the trustees for this sleek and in eac.i county the president of tue local organization will oe ttie agent to sell it. "There will be no effort mado to take cotton off o? the market in any great quantity until May the lirst. Bi that time the 'armera will have de monstrated whether they are cutting down the acreage. If the acreage is cut down, as agreed then two million bales will immediately bc taken off of ihe market. If tue cotton were taken iff tue market 11 iw and the price ruu up there would b.i danger of the acre age not being reducer." Mr. Walker also eilis attention to the (act that the Planters COLLO , lljlding and Commission company is th J only organization of its kind which I bas the bickiug of the Southern Cot ton association. A Fatal Flubi. As the rei-ult of a quarrel, Eiri Carpenter shot and killed A. M. Kale ,.t Hardin, N. C., Wednesday after o on. Befoie the fatal bullet was li ed, K ile shut Carpenter, who ls in an m conscious eon: i tn m and ls ex peeled to die. Kaie. w? s tue su j^riu tendent o? the Ni ms Manufacturing comp ny at Mount Holly anJ WAS about :15 years old. Carpenter ls a son .t (J. l>. Carpcuttr, tuc owner of toe U irdiu uotton mid, aud ls r.b iui 21 >. a.-s of age Tue two men quarre I ea u\er toe employment of mill ueip, aud when tb i m t .11 the public road mar ll i.Min a iie.ni i nsued. Boto men were weil ki o?vn c iz is of G .n.ou county After K.le tiri d his r. volver ne wa> sh t several limes ny Carpenter, tuc hullo s lakh g iffeot in tue. ni ad ano ? it;.er places. Death resulted lmme-dl au ly. Castro lr* Hostile. Castro, the president "f Venezuela, ants iu punish the United States. IPs attitudj is reflected in a pam p'llj j..s Ksu tl tuto ign one of hi U?VIM rsi-, C I. Juan BautistlaDatncde, iu w..:cn plans for hem ing iio.uuu Von zuelaU-> agalnit Ne.v Orleans are ill c os?d. Tue p imp dei urges tue public to avenge the iu.iults offerod Vat! zuela bv the Americans and de clare.-, .bat tho invasion of tue Missis sippi valley would bj the most etlec tl ve means of curbing the power of the United States. A Severo Storm. A storm of hurricane force burst over the Iria.i and Eugilsb coasts dur ing Wednesday night, and it ls feared tint many d. salters have oieurred. T ltgrapn linos are broken at many pOiii.s. Thc British ship Khyber, fi m Melbourne, Australia, October 215, for (?J enstown, was totally w rec kel oil the Cornish coast. Twen ty three, of lier c.cw were drowned, and tiiree saved. Numbers bf minor wrocks, accompanied by loas of life, are reported. ?Jhlcoo a Sj lupton. Thc Greenville News says "the an nouncement that Vincent Ohicco, the lt.lan blind tiger Icing of Charleston, ls actually a candidate for thc state let Llalurc to lill a vacanoy in the deb gatton is astonishing, becauso it snows tho chaiaoter of that new ele ment which is beeking political glory.' COTTON REPORTS. Tho Sonthorn Cotton Association Will Issue Them in Future. * Absolute correct statistic} ol tho cotton crop will be one of the main features of work to be done by the Southern Cotton association. Re ports will be Issued through the press of the country every ten days telling of the coud Uh ns of the crop, the num ber of bales ginned and general crop conditions. The association will have reporta of its own, and will not de pend on the bearish reports of the government. President Harvie Jor dan has written an article on the sub ject of statistics which will be read with great interest: Mr. Jordan -ays: "One of the most important and valuable features in connection with the work of the Southern Uottou association will bc its ability and op rortuulty to gather correct .statistics with reference to tho cotton crop of the South. Since the wide agitation of the cctton question during tbe last time mouths turougb tba general press of t^e country and the oppor tunities of the farmers to get Informa tion quickly through the establish ment or lural delivery routes, and al*o, their growing interest in secur ing information, lt ls highly impor tant they be placed in possession of all the information possible which re lates to the banding of the great staple crop in which tbey are so deeply inUrekted as producers. At the present time there is a widespiead and general dem ard for some d?duite information in cotton acreage and use of commercial f?rtil '/.ir, the detailed plans of retir ing the 2,000,000 bales surplus and abo the extent of and the present temper of the farmers to continue to bold their otton for better prices The farmers in North Carolina, io h stance, d. sire to know tue exact b ndltlon of affairs In Texas, and the Texas farmers wish to be informed as to what is being done in Georgia and .the Carolinas. All of this informa tion cannot orly be gathered througu the S uthern Cottuu a-soc'atton and distributed for the benetit of the farmers and busine-s men of the South, but ?steps are already teing actively taken to get up these sta stistics In the near future for g moral d.stributiou. TLJ state presidents and secretaries of the various state divisions bavo been requested to get in close touch with the presidents and secretaries of tlie various otton grow ing counties and patishes aud have this detailed information gathered through thc chairman of the various civil sub dtvisiun. Tuls information as lt ls gathered will be submitted to the secretaries of thc counties or 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 the secre tary of the Southern Cotton associa tion, where a general and condensed c:ompilatiou will be made of such sta t.sties and prepared in proper form to be mailed to tue members of the Southern Cotton association through out all the colton states and territo ries. Dai'int; lloUbery. A special from Spartanburg to The State says tho moat daring robbery recorded in the city's hislury was the sandbagging of Mr. W. L. Gowau ana tue niling of his pockets of 815 by an unknown theif Wednesday night about 3.30 o'clock on nortli Llherty street, about a block from east Main. Mr. tiuwan had started home from nhs greengrocery, 01 east Main street, for the night, carrying lu his large leath er purse three li ive dollar bills, alni g with some express rec: lpis and other papers He pas.ed a pedestrian, a tah mau envelop :d in a long ulack uvor coat, wi.o appeared in the act of ty ing his shoestring. .Just as lie walked by Mr. Gowan received a blow lu t .e nac.k of the head, wide < felled him and tendered bim unconscious, during which time the higtiwa>mau "weiu through" ht., poekets A little negro boy reported tu the puliee tnac a mao was lying dead OJ uortb Lib rty sr.reet, and wneu the otlleers airiveo .Mr. G.iwau hi d regained conscious ness, aud was . y i i g on tue sidewalk, .vhith bis head re..ung against a tele phone p st. There was a large knot raided on lils bead, al out the base of the brain; out ne was not seriously Injured. Further down tlie street the pur e, tue pap rs and receipts were fuuud, s-auered about. Tlie police nave ba n working ou tue casi; hui; so far; t..ere nave oeen no develop men ts Wrecked Near p.a-.-<anbury. Passenger train N ?. lu, bound for Co umbia from Ashtvi le, .vus wrecked two ami a half miles from Spart ui burg, a .short distauce from tue j ii c ? lon. Friday night. Fir^m tn Uauuuu was slightly bruised up, tue r. main der uf thc train crew aud the pass-.n gi-ts escaped ?Ith a cuu??uieraoie J ir. I'l.o i c .uio.ive was turned over ano the tender bl .oks the main line. Toe mail coach jumped tim traek, but tim otder coach s arc standing uu the 11 o.i i ails The accident was caused b> the lecomutiye .splitting the switch. At the time the tram v as slowly speeding along, approaching Lue li.si of a s.riei or switches on tbe Aiheville ruad loading into ihe june tiun. Engineer Lo ve jumped and escaped un-.crtcned in Jumping Fire mau Cannon sustained some painful scraicues and and bruhes. A til-.-ai bight. St. Catherine's Lli/htbouse, on the south coast of the isle of Wight, bas just b::eu provided with a uesv light uf lu ooO.uOJ cannie Dower as against 3.ooo.o.?0 obtained with the old appa? rai us. Seen from the land thorn are throe distinct beams of light revolv ing in view, une J tnt on Hie point of disappearing behind tlie "blank" or shield, while tho others pa t rapidly uver the waters of the English chan nel._ Conscience Money. On Tuesday Secretary :?f the Treas ury Shaw received 812,000 in currency from an unknown conscitnce sli ick' n persan, who wrote that, years ago he defraudoi the government and w. s following tho teaching of scripture , In restoring fourfuld. Tue money was deposited to the credit of the I "conscienco fund." ? NEW CHIEF Linevitch Relieves Kuropatkin of Command of Army. HE WAS TOO SLOW. New Armies Will be Raised and Efforts - Will be Made to Put Effective Forcer In the Field to Alcet and Over come the Japanese Ar mies Under Oyama. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says with tbe Japanese hanging on the heels and flanks of the remnants of tbe broken, defeated Russian army Gen. Kuropatkin, the idol of the pri vate soldier, bas been dismissed and dbgraced and Gen. Linevitch, com mander of the First army, appointed to succeed him in command of all the Russian land and sea forces operating against the Japaneso. The word dis grace, written in large letters In a laconic imperial order, whioh ls ga zetted and which contained not a sin gle word of praise, disposes of the ru mor that Kuropatkin asked to be re lieved. Russian military annals contain no more bitter imperial rebuke. Empe ror Nicholas upon the advice of Gen. Dragonmiroff and War Minister Sak harov, 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 had worked around Westward again and allowed himself to be surprised. Old reports brought by Gen. Grlpjnbarg, regard ing Kuropattrin's failing mentally, abo had influence. Linevitch hes been able to bring off his army in order after the battle of Mukden. Kuropatkin will return ta So. Petersburg forthwith. Tho task confined to Linevitch of withdrawing the remnant of the army of 350,000 to Harbin is desperate. He is hemmed in all sides, Gen. Kawamura is pre sumably pressing northward through the mountains eastward ready to sweep down, and Gans. Nogl and Oku are on the west ot the Russian forces, while the railroad ls threatened if not already cut and Chinese bandits are reported in rear of Harbin. The con summation of the Mukden disas ter is feared. It is feared the decimated battal ions have again been thrown into confusion by Oyama's relentless and almost morcilcss pursuit. The war ofllce fears that more of the siege and fielst guns which Kuropatkin saved at Mukden have been sacrificed in the flight from Tie Pass. The Russians were compelled to burn fur tner stores at Tie Pass and the com missariat was only beginning to feed the half famished troops wheu a new retreat was ordered. In the face of the possibility of the complete loss of the army and the ad mitted fact that Vladivostok ls al ready possibly lost, preparations for continuing tue war on a larger scale than ever are proceeding. Another army of 450,000 men is to be despatch ed to Manchuria. lt has been decided to form the tiew armies largely of regular units leaving reserves to replace the regu lars in garrison duty at home. A dl vison of the imperial guard will be sent to the front. Some of this year's conscript may ba sent as a separate army to be organised under Gens. G rod? koli, Gripeub.Tg and Kamaroff. General mobilization ls likely to bo accompanied by widespread disorders unless tue comp isitlon and function ot popular representation under the imperial rescript are more satisfac tory than now appears probable. Tue Bm perot twice postponed action on Governor General Boullgan's recom aundations. Killen ?1 hilo Huutlllf?. A dispatch frem Greenville to The State r.ays Dudley Hunter, aged 14 years, snot and in-itantly killed his yoting friend, Pairick Davis, Friday ra roi ig In Glassy Mountain town ship. Poe killing ls said to have bean pu ely accidental. Tne two boys were out huming wita young Davis' attier and another young mau and tiioy l ad stopped on the side of the r ad fur a short rest. When they r t ai r ed ?g i?n young Hunter picked up his goo and in so jae way the hammer was caugnt and the g.in wis dis charge J, the whole charge of small bird shot intering Davis' head. Death was Instantaneous Hunter immedi ately telephoned Sheriff GUreath, who deputized .J. C. Fisher of that place to briug the young man to Green ville. Hunter is held there awaiting the verdict of the soroners's jury. Scalded to Deaili. The Charleston Post says a colored man by the name of Norman Brown tell into a vat of bolling water at . ne Charleston Basket and Veneer Manufacturing Company's factory and was scalded so badly that he died Fri day night in the hospital from the effects of his injuries. Brown was engaged In getting out one of tho logs winch are kept in a vat outside of the factory to bo softened by the bolling warer f<>r me, when ho slipped on the vat, lost his balance and feil side'wise Into the ticaidiog water. The fact that he was not killed at once was made possible by the presence of the thickly massed logs In tho vat, whioh is about fifteen by twenty feet In area. They W ill Itedueo. E. D. Smith of South Carolina, fi nancial agent of the Cotton Growers association ls makin?; speeches in Ala bama lu the intereso of reduotlon ot acteagc. 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 Monto Carlo on Tues day. He was a young m tn, remark able chi fly for having spent a fortune of i2,500,000, lu addition to an an nua' iucooiu of 850,000, in thc oouras o six years.