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The Marlboro 9 141 "DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." "VOL. XX>( BENNETTSV1IXE, S. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1905, NO. 38: TW WIPED OUT. Such Is the Fate that Befell the Russian Baltic Fleet. CAUGHT IN A TE,AP A Russian Warrant Officer Tells How a j Big Russian Battleship Went Down After an Explosion. First Stories of the Great Bat tle at Sea. * Out of the great fleet that went Into battle on Siturday. May 27, all but. four have been captured or sunk by the Japanese. The admiral of the tl-et, Boj est ven8ky, is a prisoner and cespcratc-ly wounded. Admiral Voelkershem ls dead, shot or drowned. Admiral Nebcgatoff is a surrendered prisoner. Two vessels out of all the gallant Armada that v>as headed for Vladi vostok have reached tl at port. Such a catalogue of o ver v. helming ills seems paso precedent and is all terribly true. The Japanese report of the capture of R'-jTRtversky is direct and exaot, but St. Petersburg insists that the Ac mirai has escaped. - The Admiralty authorities there in Bist that he has reached Vladivostok, and the Lordin Standard prints a dispatch from its correspondent in tho Russian capital in which he asserts that Mme. Rtdrstvensky has received atelrgram from Vladivostok signed by ber husband, saying that he had arrived there on beard the cruiser Al mas, and that he was severely wound ed In the neck, back and abdomen. Against this is paced the circum stantial report received by the Japa nese lExbassy tbat the commander was captured on Saturday cvenirg off the Corean iBland of U:elung, with another admiral and eighty oth<u KuEsians, including stuff officers. It seems undoubled that the Aim;-/, has reached Vladivostok, and in addition to bearing si me one who at any rate claims to be Rujestvem>ky, she carries the story that re-, ugees on board were eye witnesses of the destruction of two Japanese battleships I lt is a day Of strange sLorles. Admiral Togo ls still scouring the Sea of Japan in nu st. of some rem nant of the enemy that may have es caped him. but the hst of vessels "Blink?' and vessels ''captured" la a wonderful one, as it ls set out'in'the Official dispatches. Bc re is the tally: SUNK. Battleships-Prince Suvaroff, Im perator Altx^nder III., Rorodiuo, Oshabla, Slssoi-Veltkl ;-.nd Navarin. Cruisers-Admiral Nakincoff, De mitri Dcn>ko?, Vladimir Monomacb, Svletiana ai d Z mtcburg. Coast D-fcn-jt; Ships-Admiral Ush akoff, two special service ships, the repiir ship Kamtchatka and three de Btroyers. CArXUKED. Battleships.-O.il and Imperator Nioholal I. Coast Defence Ships-Admiral Ap raxln and Admiral Senyanvln. Destroyer- hied.ivy. Making the te. rible total of twenty two 8hJpR with au aggrigate tonage of 153 ill. Now that the glory of thc vic'orl and the mist rv of defeat are writte> large, the stories t.f d. ad and wound ed men in agouy are conning to the front. Wreckage and the disfigured bodie of dead sailors are bbicg washed ashore along the shores of the Corean Strait. The twisted and ?battered hulls of the Ru:s an vessels lie on the shoals or are hung cn tho rocks, a:id Japanese tisheimeu are collecting the fearful Hoi tam cf thc light. The captured ships, with prisoners, are arriving at S.ts.eh; ; other prison ers have been hindi d at TMU Island; 300 have been or:?ught to Iwami, and tLe captured v s els are belrg brought te Japanese poits by priz ciews to be refitted and to fly the Hag of the His ing Sun. TOGO Sr08lTI0N TACTICALLY PERFECT From a scoie of various SJtircis, from crippled R issiah war vessels staggering into vari' us ports, from captured Russian ? Ulcers and men, and from the niggardly r< ports of the Japanese Naval bureau, adnitional facts are learned of thc great eucount. er, none of which chai-ge the main facts, but all of which and vividness, action and color to tho story of th? engagement. One intensely Interesting point. and it is made hy a Russian inform ant-is that Admiral Togo's dispus! tlon of his forces was tactically per fect Not only wore his equartroi s sc floated as to guard both channels, that to the. east and thal to the west ofThU Island, but he had also pre pared for a deploy of his forci s should R'destvensky spin, ids ll et, and send one division around Ji.pe.n on the out Bide way, while with the oilier ht made a dash for the Sea of Japan ant Vladivostok by way of the Coreai Strait. T. go, with his main squadron, laj off the Corean ?.cast, in the roadsteat of Masampho, while his torpedo flo tillas were disposed back of Ts ti Is land. Admirals Kamimura and Urlu heb their squadrons further north, read; to head off sucn c f the Russian ship as might get through Ti go's lines, o to scamper up to the Strait of Tsu garu and bar the way there, at th iDStant lt was reported that any o the enemy were trying to gain th outside route. TOQO'S DISPOSITION WAH IDEAL. Togo held the Strait, indeed, am his disposition w.-s Ideal. Togo, tn his flanship the Mlkasa, made hi personal iquadion ti afc of the battle ships; Vice Admiral Kami mura com mantled the heavy cruisers. Actini Independ? ntly ai. an advance or scout ing tquadren were a number of Ugh cruisers commanded hy Pear Admira Eatacka. So disputed, Togo was pn pared for any manoeuvre of the ene my, and bided his time. But in addi tlon to these named forces at bis ser vice it is now evident that the Japa nese Admiral bad other and lltterally deep-laid aids at his command. There ls little doubt now that the obannel on the Japanese side of Tsu Sbima, where tbe sea way ls narrow and twisted by numerous groups of rocky islets, specially obarted minea were laid. Moreover, there are many veiled intimations that submarine boats played a part, inconspicuous but dreadful, in the fight. And then, pernaps, Togo smiled, when it became evident that Rojest vensky really intended to maintain bis double column formation, and was thus steaming into action, like the attack of a massed brigade aoross an open plain, Togo mu it have smiled, if ever he allowed himself tbat un-ori ental luxury. The fight was to be fought then and there, and instantly Kain I mu ra's ! (j id ron steamed through the Broughton Strait-the obannel on the Corean side of Thu Sbima, and stood ready to prevent Rojest vensky's attempt to retreat southward, or lo attack on the enemy's port column from the south and west. Ni sb in order came what ls called a master move on Togo's part. Kami mura was ready on the south ll ink, sa to speak, of the Russians'port column, composed of cruisers. On the eastern side of the Russians' starboard col umn, that composed of battleships, lay the broken and dangerous shore of Japan. Ahead of the Russians lay Togo's complementary squadrons, and gathered for attack on either side ol Tsu Soima, was Togo's Bwarm of tor pedoers. To Bay nothing of minef and submarines. Togo's master move lay in Btecming to atb&ok on the port Bide of the cruiser column. He thus had thi lightest of the Russian ships betweet him and Rojesivensky's heavier ves sels, and while he was enabled witt hts big guns to reach the double tar get of cruisers and battleships, thi Russian admiral's free firing wai smothered by the line of hlB owr vessels. Not only this, but both Tog< and Kamimura were enabled to fin by broadside, while the rear ships o the Russian columns could near col; use any guns at all, coming on a they did, in line ahead formation. ROJESTVKN8KY 6 SIGNALS DISREGARE] The papers are filled wlthoriticism by naval experts on the Russian Ad inlral's obstinacy in too rigid adber enco to his first formation, but in an H wer to these lt is stated in St. Peters Lurg dispatches that the commander' signals were not followed. That con fusion seized thc Russian column there is no doubt, nor ls there an that the shelling by the Japanes was terrifia and deadly: for all thi ptt?? oi^b?Tlg?c, io must ?erundeE stood, was during the daylight of Sat ord ay, May 27, and before the nigh attacks by the Japanese torpedeen completed the confusion of the em my. As to the submarines it ls on tb authority of Captain RoBhlnoff, con mander o? the armored cruiser Ac mirai Nakblmoff, and now a ptisonc ot war at Mojl, Japan, tnat his vess. was destroyed, either by a mine ( submarine vessel. He asserts thi his ship, which led the cruller colum was entering the Corean Strait, whe suddenly ttiere was a tremendous e: pu,..km, the cruiser rose out of tl water, fell back a broken hulk, ai: Instantly sank, carrying most of bi crew down with her. Captain Rush mt? swam to a damaged steam lanni which wandered about until Sundi morning, when it wad picked up by Japanese gunboat. The other au vlvors used life boats, and were rtsc ed by fishermen. The srory of the torpedo boat a tack and tue night pursuit of tl shatter d Russian II.et has alreac been told. The fight af Suuday h als j b -en referred to, but only lu tl light of hurried and fragmentary r p.irts. Fuller and confirmatory di patches of the action of May 28 a now to hand from Tokio. It w this tight that raged arc.und the Lia court R .oks on Sunday af?.ornoo These rook barren islets, He to t northeast of T.->u Shi ma. Taere, will bc remembered, the batllishi Nicolai 1. and Orel, and the coast t fence ves-els Aptaxln and Senyai nurrendured, with about 2 OOO prise ers, including Admiral Nebogat while the protected cruiser Izumr got away, all live having run t gauntlet of Saturday's fight io t Strait, and being headed for the op Sea of Japan. STARTED AFTER A NEW FOiT. With the acceptance of the surri der of the four vessels tho main fo of the Japanese fleet stopped pura and an attempt was made by the J mirai to get something like a comp aensive report from his captains. 1 the lookouts reporting the appearai Of a large vessel In the southwest, 1 Japanese cruisers Iwate and Yaku .vero dispatched to pursue her. Bi , cruisers are Meet vessels of a 21 k speed and quickly overhauled enemy which was made out to be ' coast defence ship Admiral Ushak ? At 0 o'clock the Hoeing Russian ' within easy gun range, and she < invited to surrender. She refus i tho batteries of the two cruisers w j turned loo.se and the U shako if . , sunk. Her crew of 300 men wore rose f by boats and launches from tho iw j and Yokumo. Up through tho St other fugitive units were soon . chased. Ab 5 in the afternoon armored cruiser Dmitri Donskol j seen In a northwestern direction, ,. the Japanese light division and a B stroyer flotilla were sent to bring j. down. She was fired on vigoro and os vigorously replied and mai p splendid running fight. Thedest f er flotilla hung on, however, and A B night came they closed in and broi clown their victim. She was fe next morning aground on tho so eastern shore of Urleung Island, 3 the Corean coast, a The "picking off" process laste< f> Sunday long. The protected cn - Chit?se had run northward on . lookout for some scattered prize, v -' ?she overhauled a Russian destr - and promptly blow her up. The 1 .coted cruiser Nlataka, In corni .1 with the destroyer Murakumo, si '?? ed a Russian destroyer In the full 1 of Sunday noon, and chased her until she ran aground. And so the Sun day's work of chase and destruction went on, and, from all reports, it is still going on, foi it seems to he Ad miral Togo's dread determination to sink or capture every lliating thing that liles the Russian flag. FELLS OF THE FIGHT. Russian Officers Give Porno retails of j the Terrible Rattle. Tho Japs Had Two Battlo ships and Two Crntsors Sunk and Sev eral Torpedo Boats Sank. A dispatch from Vladivostok, under date of May 30, says two ships alone ot Vice Admiral Rojestvcnsky's. power ful 11 tilla, the swift cruiser Almaz | and the toi pedo boat destroyer Grozny, ile at anchor here, todny in the curving harbor of Goideuhorn, tney having | -ecarated from the ll et in the early stage of the battle which began lu the Korea st ral l s Saturday and beaded, tn ubedier.ee to oruers, with full speed to Vladlvosiok. Up to 4 o'clock this afternoon no other vereis of the Baltic ll ot had yet arrived and the signal stations at Askold and R.mskykorsakr.il Island? reported none lu sight. Officers of the Almaz and G.ezuy say that both fleets had already sustained terrible losses when the Alma/, and Grozny broke through the hostile Une. Of tue Japanese two battleships had gone down before their eyes, and two cruisers, their sterns high out of the water, seemed ready to plunge fore most to the bottom of the Bea. The Jananese torpedo boats played the prin cipal role in the defeat of the Russian fl jet. They were sent In for action again and again under a perfect hail of shot from the Russian rapid tiring guns. More than one aalf of the Jap anese flotilla of torpedo boats was sunk. The Russian fl et, they say, was even in a sadder plight. Rajestvensky's flagship, the Knlaz Suvaroff, and her sistershlp, the B?rodine, and the cruis ers Odiaba and Ural were utterly de stroyed, and when the fog closed down and hid the scene of battle from sight I >f the speeding ships, a third great | Russian battlaship, the Alexander III, seemed in sore distress but limping northward, putting up a valiant tight against throngs of torpedo boats, and still continuing ber attacks on the I misers of the Island empire. Torpedo boats were also clinging around the other ships of the ti -et like angered rasps, separate flotillas darting in again and again to launch their weap ons. (The Almaz, whioh arrived at her j anchorage 'here Monday evening, bears soars of the battle. Her mizzenmast j is sbot away, and one of her smoke stacks is pierced by a connon sbot. But the Grozny, though engaged for several hours in a running fight at nort range with a large Japanese de stroyer, shows no signs of the fray. After her commander, Capt. An drit?ski had been wounded and an offi cer and three men had b eu killed, the Grczuy succeeded lu sinking her oppo nent with a lucky placed shot and iched Vladivostok without further iventure at ll o'clock this morning. As the Almaz dropp.td author ex oi te mont beyond description seized the thronging spactators who wsth frantic ''huzzis" tested high their caps Clti zens embraced each other and danceo Jubilantly upon the pier, ubile the ?rews of tho ships in the harbor joined in wild cheering. In a trice the boats were droppid from the davits and in mom', nt the officers of the cruise rn and toip do boats in thc harbor and ihe military ttii lals from tue fortress .vere swarming on bjard the Almaz Lo le;.rn nev.s of the tight The story was short. According to the officers of the Almaz, the fleet under Uo jest ver sky met the JapaDi.sc in the Straits of K Tea near Tsu lslhud arid the oppo.-.ing fleets immediately closed in. Being lightly armored, the Almaz, as had been ordered by Arl mirai Rojustvenhky before the battle, separaten itself from the malu ll ??et at thc tirst opportunity and headed for 'iad.ivo.itok si on after the co mn cuoe meut of the acth ri, but not too sooi. to observe that the lo st s ou hol h sides in the titanic combat Wir? grout, f I E rly in the battle an i HI er of the Almaz, while watet lng lt j stvensk's: 11 tgship, the battleship K 1-z Souvar 1T forja signal, saw tin lltg-.i ip shud der from s em to stern as if uuder a blow fre.m a gigantic hammer and hes itate In her course, wnile the waves rose high fr m her armored sides Then she commenced to Hst aod sink. The e Ulcers believe that, the debut of the submarine boat as an effective agent in naval warfare, or perhaps a large mine, caused the disaster to the Koiaz Souvarol?. Thc dam8gj, how ever, was so extensive that the fl lgship soon went down, leaving the deck offi cers and many of the crew struggling In the waves. One of the Russian torpedo boats, either the destroyer Bulny or the Bravi, ran In and picked up a number of the swimmers, ono of whom was rf cognized through a glass as Admiral R Jcstvensky. Under a gruelling attack from the Japanese warships, aided by torpedo boats, mines and submarines, the Boro dino, o diabla and Ural were placed out of action and followed the flagship to the bottom. The fog, which had raised and low ered Intermlttenly during the morning, bogan tt) settle down again, and the fl I distance of the Almnz, which had now d ! succeeded in disengaging her.- elf in the combat from the struggling ships, made it difficult for her to see clearly, but the ctllcers are positive that they saw two Japanese battleships disap pear beneath the sea before their eyes, and that two Japanese cruisers appear ed on thc point of sinking. The arrival of the Gnzny at ll o<clock today was marked by the same scenes of excitement as those which characterized the advent of the Alma/., The correspondent of the Associated Press visited the wounded coromandel of the destroyer, Capt. Andriff kl, al thc hospital and the captain continu?e: the details given by tho officers of the Almaz. Ile described lils combat as E running light In which thc Grozny wa; engaged for several hours, Anally sink ln? tho pursulug Japanese destroyer. i1 A CLOSE GALL One Hundred and Ten Convict? in Penitentiary Poisoned. PABIS GREEN USED. It Was Put In Some Cabbage Which the Convicts Ate for Dinner. Parti clea of the Poison U?cd Have Been Discovered In and About the Kitchen. The State of Thurslay said there has been a lot of Hincas among the c mvlcts at the penittntlary within the las', 24 hours and it ls known that the 110 or more who were made slok suddenly had partaken cf green vege tables o oked in a large pot. Hone of the 300 convicts was affected except the ones who ate of the cabbage thus prepared, and it ia believed that the pt lisonlng was not due to any mischiev ous intent. Col. D. J. Griffith, super intendent of the penitentiary, stated that nearly all of the nick had left the ii.Urinary with the exception cf a few who were not well anyway, and there were no casualties of a serious na ture. Tho convicts who were made sick ate of cabbage cooked in a put whioh had not been used for somo time, al though the cooks deolared that they cleaned the vessel thoroughly, lt ls customary to put a little soda into the vegetables to facilitate the cook ing, and lt is possible that the action of the soda on the iron of the pot form ed a chemical chango which nauseated the prisoners who ate of the vegeta bles prepared therein. The nausea appeared so soon after the dinner meal that all of the din ner had not been cleared away, and some of the vegetables were sent to Dr. W. B. Burney, the State ohemist, who was asked to make a careful analysis. His report bad not bsen made Wednesday night. It is hardly pro bable that the oonvlots engaged in gathering the vegetables and in pre paring them could have been so mali clous as to want to poison their fellow prisoners, but if there was anything of the kind done it will not be dluioult to find the ones guilty. Capt. Griffith feels very much relieved after all is over because none of the prisoners failed to respond immediately ts treat ment and all will be as well as usual in a day or two. , ARSENIC IN THE POT. The State of Friday says there was arsenic in the dinner that poisoned the conviots. Dr. W. B. Burney, the State chemist, has not made his form al report of the analysis undertaken at the request of Capt. D. J. Griffith, Superintendent of the penitentiary, but he said informally Thursday night that he had discoverer^ the presence of arsenic In considerable quantity in the sample sent him for examination. Supt. Griffith and Cant. W. W. Adams captain of the guard, made a an in vestigation Wednesday and Thursday and they hav J arrived at the conolu sl n that the poison was put into the cabbage with mallee, and tho pirty guilty of the crime has been spotted. As it waa stated Thundjy the con victs were sickened by eating of din ner of cibbage cooked in a large pot. Thinking that not even a convict she uki be so inhumanly depraved as to iieek to polslcn bis fellow cmvlot? n su?h a manne r, Capt Gr.ffivh was disposed at finit to belle ve lt passible hat there might have been some chemical chungo brought about by rea son of the fact that the cabbages were ci oked in a pot not used for some time and tl ab >oda had been used to facili ta .e '.he proc?s of cooking. THE POISON FOUND. Thursday experiments were made with the samp u pot and with othei pots. It was found that in no case dlr! the cabbage MIIOW any signs of poison from the use of soda lu the cooking. Bo? in a p rfectly clean pot used elall> tome nf the green poison on the window was added. The ?olor imparted to the cabbage was thu same as that observ?e in the dinner that mado tho convict.* sick. Convicts ate voluntairly with nt bad efiVots resulting from the greem cooked with soda. Of courao none Ol them would try the mesa cooked witt Paris green. ? Piria green contains arsenic. There fore lt is probable that the dinner wai poisoned with malice aforethought Tiiere has been Paris green In the sup room at tho penitentiary and some o lt had been used a few wcekB ago t< kill bugs on the Irish potatoes. Thurs day Capt. Grllilf.h found traces of thi green poison on the window sill of th. cooking room and in eine of tho gut tees near the kitchen was found mon in the quantity of aspoonfull. Takini this in connection with the fact tba Dr. Burney has found arsenio in th dinner of last Tuesday lt would appea that one or more of the conviuts ma. be found guilty of a diabolic attemp at wholesalo murder. Raiding ininti Tilters. At Charleston the "social dub, chartered blind tigers, continue to h raided by the constables and much ei cltement preval b among the proprio tors and members, especially at thi season of the year, when cold beer 1 I considered to bo so very neccssarj especially with thc accompaniment 1 of comfortable quarters, electric fan; etc. The raid of ono club VVednesda , night netted 21 gallons of high grad whiskey and nearly 1,000 bottles c export beer. Thc ronewed activlt of the constables is said to bo due t special instructions from Columbia t get uf ter the violators of the law. TOKO Names lt. The naval conlliot in whioh tho lin stan licet was destroyed has been vi I rlously distinguished os tho battle ( ' the Korean SLralbs and the battle < ' Tsu Island. Admiral Togo telegrapl I to Tokio that "the naval battle fougl > from tho afternoon of May 27 to Ma i 28 In the vioinity of Oklno island an * extending to thc vioinity of Orleun - Island, is called the naval battle < the Sea of Japan. " That settles lt. "DO TnOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY FOR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." VOIL. XX)( BENNETTS VILLE, s. c., FRIDAY, APRIL 28,1905. GAUSED A SLUMP. Different Cotton Reports Vary as to the Acreage. OFFICIAL ESTIMATE Lower than the Estimate of the Cotton Association, Which Was 18 Per Cent Reduction. Thc Government Reports Show 8 Reduc ion of ll Per Cent. The following bulletin on the condi tion of the cotton crop was issued by thc d 'oartment of agriculture Friday: Returns to t he chief of the bureau of statistics of the department of ag riculture show the total area planted in cotton In the United States up to May 25th to be about 28,120,000 acres, a decrease of about 3,610,000 acres, or 11.4 per cent., from the total acre age planted last ?car. The average condition of the grow ing crop on May 25th was 77.2, as compared with 33 on May 20th, 1904; 74.1 at the corresponding date in 1903, and a 10-year average of 85.3. The percentage or deorease in aore age in the different States (the com parison being with the total area planted last season) is as follows: Virginia 13. North Carolina 10, South Carolina ll, Georgia ll, Florida 10, Alabama 8, Mississippi 12, Louisiana 14, Texas 12, Arkansas 15. Tennessee 10, Missouri 14, Oklahoma ll, Indian Territory 10. The condition of the crop by States on May 25th was as follows: Virginia 87, North Carolina 83, South Carolina 78, Georgia 84, Florida 88, Alabama 87, Mississippi 73 Louis iana 73, Tex%s 69, Arkansas 73, Ten nessee 86, Missouri 84, Oklahoma 88, Iudian Territory 81. . WANT AN INVESTIGATION. A dispatch from Atlanta says Tow ing to a differenca of 7 per cent in the government report issued Friday and the Southern Cotton Association report Issued May 31st on the reduc tion in ootton acreage, the Southern Cotton association bas taken action looking to a verification of the two reports. Secretary Cheatham of the Southern Cotton association has been Instructed to take the matter up with government officials and Friday ad dressed the following letter to Statis tician John Hyde at Washington, oalllng on him for the sources hf the government's information: Atlanta, Ga., June 1, 1905. Mr. John Hyde, Statisclan, Washing ton, D. C. Dear Sir: The government report on reduction in cotton acreage for 1905 issued from your department at noon today shows a difference of 7 per cent, less than the report issued by the Southern Cotton Association at New Orleans, May 31. The associa tion h?s been most painstaking and conservative in Its report and desires to verify lt with that of the govern ment, and will ask that you forward to its ellice a copy of the detailed sources from which your report was maoe ?nd the manner of Its tinal tab ulation. Tue association also stands ready to furnish your department with similar information giving names and post ?nica addresses of the 17,500 reporters and bu.-duess In which tuey are en gaged, from which reports the associa tion tabulated Its tinal estimate. A prompt compliance of your office with this request will very much oblige, Your truly, Rica A HU CHEATHAM, Sect'y. Southern Cotton Association. CAUSED A SLUM1V A dispatch from New York says the government's tir.it monthly cotton re port of the season giving tho average of the stock at 77.2 per cent, and re duction In aceraue at 11.4 per cent, was prtc ded and followed by active selling und excitemt nt on the cotton exchange Friday. The market was weak i rom the opening under active pressure ana b.-.fore the report was is .' ued July sold off to 8.15, October 8 22 and December 8.34 Immediately fol lowing the aunouueement of the gov ernment ligures there was great con fusion on the cotton exchange due to the New Oileans maiket, whioh shot up over 20 points, eau-dng a rally of 6 to 8 points hero. This, however, was sibsiquently lost. It developed later that the average*, condition was receiv ed in New Orleans at 75.2 instead of 77.2. July hold off to 8.10 In the New York market, a decline from Thursday i of about 24 points, and lost one half a ceut from the high pjints of last Wednesday. The market closed steady ? in tone but aa just about the lowest . prices, a net decline of 31 to 34 points. , Sales estimated 750,000 bales. Will Hang Himself, j A special to the New York Sun . from Lincoln, Neb., says that Frank . Harker, convicted of the murder of 5 his brother, Daniel, and also nib . brother's wife, and now contined it) the Nebraska penitentiary awaiting , thc neo>e of the hangman for his i double crime, is to be his own execu tioner. As Warden Hecmer shrinks from the duty of springing the trap Harker has stepped into the breach . and informed the warden that ho will ? ba his own hangman, lurker ha J frankly confessed that he is guilty, 1 and adults that he deserves the pun 2 Ihhment which the law prescribes. 3 An electrical contrivance ls to con trol the trap, connected with a wir? - running Into Barker's hands. Ile wll . be strapped to his hips, but will hav. e free use of his lingers, and will pusl e t:;e button releasing the trap. Trouble Brewing 1 -A dispatch from Paris says lt 1: 8 learned from an unusually well-inform td source that Dr. Motono, the Japan ese minister, has demanded on behal of Japan, from Minister Delcaaso, tht i- sum of 500.000,000 francs (?100,000 i, 000) as damages for Freuoh breache. s of neutrality In connection with th? d vovagc of Admiral Rojestvensky t o the E ist and sojourn tn Frenoh Asln tio waters. "LOOK AT ENGLAND. A Comparison Between tira United States with the Old Country. Some Rcapceta tn Which the Mother Country Seems to Have tho advamnso ol Us. Oolller's Weekly thinks that the Uulted States should pay higher salaries. Ambassadors do not get enough. Neither do oablnet officers. The President also ls underpalded. How lamente b'.r I "Look at Eogland," Eays Collier'* in effeot. E.glandpays 1100,000 to the Und lieutenant of Ireland, $36,000 to the speaker of the house of commons and so forth and so on. "Well, let us accept the invitation, and look at England. Who pays tho taxes in England? We know who pays them here. With us the poor man pays the taxes. When he covers his nakedness, when he satisfies his hunger, when he builds his house, when he buys tools tc work with he pays an outrageously oppressive tariff tax. Rockefeller pays no more federal tax than ls paid by a one-horse negro farmer in the south. Morgan pays less federal tax than many a western corn grower who fed nis stove on ear corn in 1891, beoause it was oheaperthan coal. Blessed are our millionaires! Those of them who are neglected by con gre?s are tenderly cared for by the federal Judiciary. Blessed are the richi-they run the government and the commou man pays the bill. Look at England. All right, we now look. This is what we see: She oompeia her railway corpora tions to pay an income tax upon the assessed valuation of 9190,000,000 She compels the coal barons and the marble quarry owners to pay in come tax upon an assessed valuation of $95,000,000. She compels the landlords, blakers and merchant princes to pay income tax upon an assessed valuation of $900,000,000 In thia manner she forces her wealthy classes to pay on property and Inoome nearly two million dollars annually toward the support of the government 1 Her tariff duties are levied exclu sively upon articles which are not ne cessaries of life. Not a dollar of tariff need the poor man pay to live in perfect comfort. This tariff upon the non-necessaries amounts to 8170,000,000. From lntrxloating liquors the reve nue ia $$60,000,000. Thus it will be seen by a look at England that the poor man can feed himself, clothe himself, build a house to live in, and supply it with necessa ry furniture without having to pay one dollar of national tax. In this land of the free he must pay the tariff tax, or go naked, eat grass and live in a hole in the ground. But let us "look at Eagland" again. We see her operating her postoffice, carrying parcels as well as letters. She does not allow express companies to amass fortunes by robbing the people in the carrying of light freight. Thus she makes $70,000,000 Instead of letting the corporations make five times that amount. She owns ar.d operates the telegraph lines, and makes $18,000,000 per year iustead of letting the corporations make it. What, therefore, is the net result of the "Look at Eagland?" We discover tuat the government supports Itself upon the posseslons of the people rather than upon their ne cessities. Give us the same system of taxa tion-compel those who possess the wealth to pay the expenses of govern ment-aud I for one, will say, "Make the salaries what you will so long ai you will make them have to pay them." Want Social Equality. Because ll '.v. John Gjrdon, presi dent of noward University, of Wash Ington, and a white man, has raise( the rac a question at the negro collcgi by declining to associate on a soda equality plane with the student bod; and faculty, and has sought to cm pharize the importance of manua ?raining, a committee of alumni backed by the entire undergraduati body, bas preferred charges agains him and petitioned the board of trus tees for his immediate removal. Tb formal charges pressed by former Rep resentatlve White or North Carolina and^argued at length before a spcclu meeting of the trustees, follow wha has been almost open revolt at th student body during the past fe\ days. _ Bontenocs Coimnntctl. Gov. lleyward has commuted th sentence of two white boys of Green ville county who broke into tho dru ^tore of LewlB & Hartzcg and stol $350, all there was in sight. Andre\ Johnson and James Clinton and Joh Harris were cmvioted in April 190 rind were sentenced tu serve 10 year oath. The sentences of Clinton an Harris have been commuted to thre years, all of which they have sarved The sentence of Johnson wascommul jd to five years and he has yet tw > oars to serve. This action was rec ommended by Sollctor Bogga whe he question of pardon was referred t him. _ Their UuKK" Mumed. A dispatch from Spartanburg say Jhlef Grady and several of thc loci onstablea had a lively time of it on .aid in the Dark Corner Monda oght. Arriving Gowansvlllo, thel vehicles broke down, and they secure mother and pressed forward In thel mest of illicit distilleries. Their ral urrlcd lh)m Into tho lonely, unfre luented sections of corner, and the ere fired un several times, but witt mt results. Their search prove fruitless, and, returning to Gowan! ville for their team, they dlscovere iat it had been cut to pieo s an .urned up by the Irate moonshiner! j t\'ieir horses had not been moleste I nd the meu scoured another cir rhu. ' and carno on home. VIOLENT DEATH O! A Man Who Had Previously Killed Two Men. A BAD CAREER ENDED When Judge Randolph Was Shot Down Ia the Street of Montgomery, Ala., by His Cousin. Whom He Had Threatened for Refusing Him Money. Judge Francis C. Randolph, one of bhe best known men in Alabama, was I shot and instantly killed Saturday af ternoon by John Randolph,' a second I cousin, in front of the latter's office . on South Perry street Montgomery, Ala. There are several rumors as to the I cause of the tragedy, the one given most cr ed eu co being that Judge Ran dolph had demanded a loan of money from his slayer with the accompany ng threat that unless the loan was forthcoming violence would ensue. Tue two men met ' Saturday after noon and it is said that Judge Ran? dolph repeated his threats. John Randolph presentada single-barrelled repeating shotgun and Judge Ran dolph attempted to draw a revolver, whereupon John Randolph fired two ? shots in quick succession, one enter ing the hoart and the other the neck. Either would have proved fatal. A vast crowd, estimated at 1,000 persons, at once surrounded the scene I of the tragedy and medical aid was I summoned, but wen a physician ar rived Judge Randolph was dead. His slayer was arrested and placed in the I county jail, where many friends called I during the afternoon and tendered j any assistancs needed. Judge Franois 0. Randolph had killed two men, one in Alabama and another in Colombia, to wnich court try he fled from this state. For the homioide In Alabama he was acquit ted, but in Colombia he was sentenced to death. He was in ol03e confine ment there for several yea?, during which time his friends here and In the state were exerting every effort to have the death sentence com muted. Judge Randolph finally ob tained his liberty and returned tb I Montgomery. Soon afterwards he was tried on thirteen charges of em I bezzfement, alleged to have been com mitted during his Incumbency as pro bate judge of Montgomery county. Since his return here he has been drinking freely and it is alleged that [ on several occasions be has threatened the lives of Montgomery citizens. A few weeks ago. Judge Randolph was lan unsuccessful candidate for tho j Montgomery D?mocratie mayoralty nomination. The supreme court of the j state s orne time ago affirmed a decision I of the lower courts denying cross bills I from Judge Randolph and his wife, both petitioning for divorce. In ad dition to her, he ls survived by a son ? and four daughters. Fawning on Japan. Prince Ouktomsky in tho St. Pe tersburg Rasviet declares for peace in a half distracted editorial In which he takes the whole world to task for shutting its eyes to the yellow peril. "All the nations blind to the future," says the Prince, "are fawning upon vltorious Japan. Great Britain re joicing in Russia's fall utters her sar castic condolences, and America sends Secretary Taft and a party of eccen tric American ladies to visit the land of the Mikado. France, in fear of ndo-China, allows Japan to boss her about, while the crowned Hohenzol lern, who a few years ago sounded a solemn warning to the Aryan race, rushes to the station to greet the little yellow prince Arlsugaw?, and showers him wich attentions." Killed by l-iightuing. Mr. Boyd McRae was struck and in stantly killed by lightning during the eleotnot storm Wednesday afternoon, while under a shelter on his father's plantation in Brittons Ne^K Marlon County. He, with his brother and another young man, had been at work in the field, and when the storm arose took refuge in a tenant house, tho others going inside the house and the deceased staying under the shel ter with the horses. Hali Killed Sparrows. A special from Mount Olive, N. 0., says a severe wind, rain and hall storm swept over that section Thursday, night, unroofing buildings and laying crops io waste over a wide area cov ered by the path of the storm. The power house of the electric plant in the town of Mount Olive was partial ly wrecked. In a large elm grove on the outskirts of the tuwn, numbers of sparrows were killed by the hall stones were picked up after the storm. Burned to Ooatti. A Pennsylvania passenger train, from St. Louis, struck an oil wagon Wednesday at Stillwater Junction, Oaio. As the oil tank burst the en gine fires Ignited the oil and Engineer Edward Oimbey and Fireman Cnarles Pryor, of Columbus, Ohio, were burned to death. The driver of the wagon escaped unlnjurded. The train was not damaged. Mtnua ma lt. United States Minister Griscom, who is stationed at Tokio, in his re port calls attention to the fact that Japanese torpedo operations were ?lghly successful in the late battle and a majority of tho larga Russian vessels were sunk aa a result mines. Hilled Thum dot u Will Clark was engaged to a girl at High Spring, near Gainesville, Fia., out her undo I. L. Mlzall and her un cle's stepson Pete Rlddlok opposed the maten. They attacked Clark on Sunday while he was returning from a visit to his sweetheart. In the fight he got hold of Riddlok's pistol and killed them both.