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VOL. XIII. "a blue outlook. | Capt. McQueston Returned from Manila Expresses Himself. ____________ MANY SOLDIERS NEEDED. rtlirinrv *U/? Dn!~.. vuiing me rvamy \7aa?un I om* tory .Occupied Will Have to be Abandoned Except Manila. A dispatch from San Francisco says Dr. Charles A. McQncston, who was on the staff of (Jen. K. S. Otis, and who was health officer at Manila, has returned home invalided by the climate. Capt. MoQueston made a closo study of the conditions of the Philippine situation. lie is of the opinion that it will take from 1(10,000 to 150,000 soldiers to properly subdue and hold the islands. Ho also says that the peace commission was an absolute failure and that its from tlio start was without effect. lie strongly supports the military government of the islands, except that he thinks more men will ho necessary than has been estimated. Dr. Schurman knows that the commission is a failure and is coming home in July, added Capt. McQucston. ''Unless troops, thousands of them, are sent to the aid of our men there they will bo driven back into Manila in the course of the next few months, during the rainy season. Our men simply cannot stand the climate. Fifty percent, of them will be incapacitated f by sickness and the territory overrun will have to be abandoned and Manila will be in a state of siege again. "Our officers and soldiers have accomplished wonders and have proved themselves the best soldiers in tho " v*?\A> I'UV iiuniiii^ uuuioi *u nan uwuiu of it because our men were not in great enough force." WANT TO COME HOME. Volunteer Troops at Manila Tired of War. Funston Will Retire. There seems little, if any, reason to hopo for tho rccnlistiucnt of even a small fraction of the volunteers in the Philippines. This is reluctantly admitted at the war department. No announcement so far has reached here of any wish or intention on the part of tho volunteers whose time has expired to even consider such a proposition. I'ndoubtcdly the men would bo much influenced by tho sentiment of their offioers, and if the latter exhibited the loast enthusiasm, the men eould not help catching some of the spirit. But it is painfully apparent officers and men have had all they want. The intelligence which comes over the Boa today that. Funston aud Ilale and all the daring leaders who, sword in hand, have charged at the head of their troops and cheered them on to victory have put by all inducements to romain and are coming home is a commentary of the most striking character. It shows that, to the patriot and the warrior on tho ground, there is nothing in the situation which conveys an appeal. These men, officers and privates have mado their record, they have fought long and well, they have lived up to the letter and tho spirit of their contract, and they leave behind them the bones of many comrades who, like them, never faltered. Now they arc content that others fresh from home shall take their places, if they can be found. Served Him Right. A special from Washington, N. (J , says: Thursday morning just boforc the morning train left for Parmlee. a considerable commotion occurred in tho neighborhood of tho depot, caused by tho horso whipping of J. F. Woodward, who has been is this city buying md soliciting shipments of potatoes to G. M. Snydor&Co., of New York city. The facts in the case that culminated in the whipping arc about as follows: Wednesday a young lady of this city was passing down the street when she was overtaken by Woodward, who made repeated improper proposals to her. On the young lady arriving at homo she reportod tho facts to her family. This morning on its being learned that Woodward would leave on the train a party of gentlemen repaired to tho depot armed with a couple of whips and proceeded to administer the horse whipping, after which lie was ordered to board the train and never return. Railroad Building. The New York Railroad Gazette gives no preliminary figures of new building for tho first six months of 181)9. Thoy how a total of 1,181.45 miles. This is an advanco of some 90 miles over the preliminary figures of last year. Pennsylvania takes the lead for the six months, with a total mileage of 100. rpi.\for.. A _i a uou lunun a i<nnninni|i|ii 01/, /imuiJStlM 83; Oklahoma 76; Louisiana 02; Ohio 61; Florida 60; Utah 53 and South Carolina 50 miles. The railroad which takes tho lead in mileage completed is the Illinois Central, which witlnits new lines, in Mississippi and other States, has a total of 64 miles. Handsome Gift to Schley. Rear Admiral Schloy was the recipient Wednesday morning of a handsome silver tea service, at tho hands of the Baltimore Ladios Auxiliary of the Sohley testimonial committco. The presentation was made at tho homo of /, Gen. Felix Agnus, in theOroon Spring valley, by a sub-commit tee of fourteon ladies appointed by Mayor Malster. Admiral Schley accepted the handsome gift in a few appropriate words t ' " . HE WAS IN LUCK. A Large Sum of Money Lost and Found. Some mon are boru lucky; some become lucky, and Home havo luck thrust upon them. This paraphraso of a Sliakcspcrian platitude seemed to have a proof of its correctness right in Augusta Tuesday. Among the passengers on the morning train from Charleston Tuesday was n... m. L- : tuu jlvuv. mr. uuuuuiu wnu was coming | to town on business. In an innocent looking Hatchol on the scat besido him reposed $2,SOD in good United States currency. The minister know several passengers on tho train and chatted with them, paying little or no attention to the eatohel. When tho train arrived at the union shed he pieked up a satchel and got off ?then his troubles began. In a moment or two he realized that he had a traveling bag, but it was not his. It contained no money either; only such an assortment of articles as ono uses on an out-of-town trip. He was frantic. Tho loss of the money meant much to him and ho at once went to police headquarters and reported tho robbery. Tho machinery of the law was set in motion, but there was small chance of recovery, there being littles clue to work by. Among the other passengers on the train were Dr. A. E. Sally and his little son who also carried a hand bag. When they arrived at home the doctor discovered ihat his son had come off with tho wrong "grip." After a little while lie went out to the depot to got his own property which he found waiting for him nnd at the fame time learned if Mr. .Jeffcjtu'sloss. The preacher was not very well known in Augusta and as it happened Dr. A. E. Sally was. perhaps, hotter known to him than all other citizens. So after bemoaning his fate ho bethought him to call upon the physician to tell his talc of woe When he arrived Dr. Sally was out looking for his own property. When ho returned explanations followed, the minister came into his nosession aizain and went away happy?the luckiest man in two states.?Augusta Chronicle. WANTED TO LYNCH HIM. The Slayer of a Negro Threatened by a Mob. A dispatch to The State from Conway says: "A homicide occurred last Sunday at Bucksville, a villago six miles distant from here. A Negro known by tho name of "Green" was stabbed and al most instantly killed by Sam Dew, a white boy. Young J)cw, with a few companions, was walking along the public road in the direction of Ilebron church, whore a Sunday school celebration of some kind was going on. The Negro Green passed them several times on a bicycle. Finally ho rode up behind the boys at full speed and without warning of any kind ran violently against Dew. White man, Negro and bicyolo rolled into a ditch in a heap. In the hand-to-hand light which followed the Negro received a stab from Dew's pockctknifc and died soon after. About 40 Negroes gathered at Dew's homo on Sunday night, it is believed with intention to lynch him. Dew's father appeared at the door prepared to defend his homo with a shotgun and the Negroes fled after making a few threats On Monday morning Dew quiotly gave himself up to the sheriff. A warrant had been issued, but the constable did not esc'rto it, but the boy's lather promising that he should be brought to Jail early Monday morning. A warrant has been issued for tho negroes who attempted to invade Dew's house. An Outrage in Illinois Bleeding, covered with tar and deathly sick; James Briley, of Rossville, staggered into the police station at Danville, 111., Thursday night. He was the victim of a Whitccap attack at Rossville. Terrible marks across his back and breast showed whero the lash of a whip had cut through the skin and deep in to the flesh. Briley said a crowd of twelve young men came to his home at Uossvillo at 10 o'clock Thursday night and took him out. They were masked but he recognized live of them. They took him out of the town and tied him to a wire fence, lie was then stripped and beaten with a whip. Ho says they wore the whip out on him and then smeared him with tar. He finally was turned lossc, naked and bleeding, and they told him to lcavo town. The night telegraph man at the railroad station gave him some old clothes. It is alleged Briley did not support his family. A Case of Leprosy. Tho British steamer Lombard arrived at Mobile Thursday from Ship Island quarantine with a case of well developed leprosy on board in tho person of a Chinaman, a member^tf the crew. This is the vessel which was ordered to Ship Island quarantine on June 14 with a , caso of yellow fever on board. Collector Burke wired Washington for instructions and received answer that the i leper should have been loft at Mobile Bay quarantine, but ordering that tho leper be quarantined on board and takon from tho United States when tho vessel leaves. Dying of Fever. i In conscquonco of the outbreak of i yellow fever at Santiago tho garrison of TT . 1 O. . i i ? unuca raaics troops lias Dcon removed i from the old Spanish barracks to a 1 comfortable camp in the hills, on tho ; road to El Monro. Thus far four soldii ers have died of tho fever, and thero aro 18 cases in tho hospitals. Ono i civilian has suocumbcd to tho disease, and thero are three oivilian suspeots. hf 1 CONWAY. S. C. A BLACK SOLOMON. Calmly Discusses the Race Question and Southern Lynching. AN EVIL THAT IS BLIGHTING. rieaas Not tor the Negro Alone, But for Southern Manhood. The Growth of Mob Murder. BrookerT. Washington, President of the Colored Industrial and Normal School at Birmingham, Ala., Wednesday furnished the Associated Press an elaborate diseussion of the raeo question in the form of a paper. Prof. Washington begins his paper by saying that while it is truo that there are eases of lynching and outrage in the northern and western States, candor compels him to admit that by far the most of the eases of lynehings take placo in our southern States and most of the persons lynched are Negroes. "With all the earnestness of my heart," he says, "1 want to appeal, not to the president of tho United States, Mr. MeKinicy, not to the people of New York nor of Now Kngland, but to the citizens of our southern States, to assist in creating such a public sentiment as will make human life here just as safe and sacred as it is anywhere else in the world." The paper then oilers a review of the appeal that has been made through the press and prominent men that the Negro problem be left to tho South. Uo reoites that the wholo country from the the president down has been inclined to do this. By the policy of non-interference the South has been given a sacred trust. Prof. Washington continues: "1 fear but few people in tho South realizo to what an extent the habit of lynching or the taking of life without due process _r 1 I I i.i 1 . ui law uu? i?ik(.*it iiuiu ui u?, aiiu iu what an extent it is not only hurting us in the eyes of the world but injuring our own material growth. Many good people in the South and also out of the South have gotten the idea that lynching is resorted to lor ouo criino only. L havo the facts from an authoritative source. During the last year one hundred and twenty-seven persons were lynched in the United States; of this number 118 were executed in the South and nine in the northwest; of the total number lynched 102 were Ncgros, 22 whites and two Indians. Of this number only 24 were charged in any way with tho crime of rape. "Within a period of six years about 000 persons have been lynched in our southern States. This is but a few hundred short of the total number of soldiors who lost their lives in Cuba during tho war. If we could realize still more fully how much further this unfortunate habit is leading us?note the classes of crime during a few months which the local papers and tho Associated l'rcss say that lynching has been inflicted for?they include "murder, rioting, incendiarism, robbery, larceny, self defense, insul ing women, alleged poisoning, malpractice, alleged bam burning, suspected robbery, race prejudice, attempted murder and horse stealing, mistaken identity," eto. Tho practice has grown until we are now at the point whero not only blacks are lynched in tho South but white men as well. Within the last six years at least a half dozen eoloicd women have been lynched. "I am not pleading for tho Negro alone. Lynohing injures, hinders and blunts the moral sensibilities of the young and tender manhood of tho South. Never shall I forget tho remark mado by a little nine-year-old white boy with blue eyes and flaxen hair. Tho littlo fellow said to his mouicr alter he had returnca irotn a lynching: 'I have seen a man hanged. Now I wish I could sec one burned.1 Kather than hear such a remark from one of my littlo hoys I would rather sec him dead. "There is too much crime among us. The figures for a given period show that in tho United States HO per cent, of the crime committed is by Negroes, while we constitute only about 12 per cent, of tho ontire population. This proportion holds good not only in the South but also in northern States and cities. No raeo that is so largely ignorant and so recently out of slavery could perhaps show a better record, but we must face those plain facts. A large amount of tho crime among us grows out of tho idleness of our young men and women. It is for this reason that I have tried to insist upon some industry being taught our youug people in connection with their course of literary training." Prof. Washington concludes by ap pealing to school teachers, ministers and tho press to arouse such a sentiment regarding the committing of crime against women that such a crime will not bo charged against any members of the race. He says the Negro has among tho southern whites as good friends as he has anywhere in the world and advises him to stay hero and work out bis salvation. Massacre by Filipinos Captain Johnson Spicer, of tho British ship George T. Hay, recently from Manila, has rccoivcd a letter from his brother, Capt. George Spicer, of the British ship Glooscap, saying that all the adult male Spanish residents of Balabac, tho cxtromc southwest island of tho l'hilipinos, had been massacred by the natives. The letter was given to J. F. Whitnoy & Co.. shipping agents of 81 Now street, and thoy sent it to tho maritime exohango, whero it was posted on tho bullotin board. OVVIj . THURSDAY. JUNE AFTER ATLANTA'S MAYOR. The Rev. Dr. Broughton Attacked Him Vigorously. In a acnsatioual sermon recently Dr. L. (J. Broughton, Pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle, Atlanta, (la., called upou the city council of that city to impoach tho Mayor, James (1. Woodward. Dr. Broughton said tho chief exccutivo waB a "confessed gambler, a libcrtino, a sot and a disgrace to tho city." At theso words tho audicuco of about 2,000 people, cheered. In the courso of his remarks, Dr. Broughton said: "When the mayor was a member of an important committee to go to Washington on the matter of federal prison site, ho was drunk most of tho time, and there were other things that occurred in connection with him that 1 hesitato to mention from tho pulpit, lie should bo impeached at onco. If tho members of the city council do not impeach him, I shall take steps myself. No such man has a right to be mayor of this city. Tho situation is indecent and disgraceful." When asked after the sermon why ho moved against Mayor Woodward, Dr. Broughton said: U1 havo given this matter much consideration and I bclicvo I have taken a stop in the right direction. 1 know what 1 am talking about. Tho actions of tho present mayor ol Atlanta sinco he has held oftico arc a disgraco to tho city and tho people this man represents. Mayor Woodward was informed of Dr. Broughton's remarks. The executive said: "I regard the statements of Dr. Broughton as ridiculous. 1 ask tho public to suspend judgment." At a mooting of the city council on Monday night, a committee of live was appointed to investigate Dr. Broughton's charges. After duo consideration tho committee reported that Mayor Woodward should be impeached. Upon this action of tho city council Mayor Woodward plead guilty to all of tho charges preferred against him, and promised to reform. ~A TOUGH YARN. A Most Remarkable Tornado Story Sworn To. Tho St. Paul dispatch says: "Proba- | bly the nioHt Astounding story regarding freaks of the New Richmond cyclone iH that rclatod by W. McShano, given bolow. Your correspondent took special pains to carefully investigate this talc, and visited Mr. McShano at his residence. The story was so reinarkablo and all the facts for substantiating it being at hand, I requested Mr. MoShane to give mo his sworn affidavit to tho circumstances, which he did. I also verified tho story by neighbors ?coing the unbroken windows and pieces of the piano box lying about the yard. The affidavit follows: About the first of April, when I took the storm windows off my house, I put seven of them in an upright piano box, placed at the end of a chicken coop at the south side of tho yard. I then securely nailed on the front of tho box with tenpenny nails so that there was no opening to tho box. I passed the box tivo or six times a day, so that I a 11 oonfident it was thero in same condition Monlay night, .Juno 12, before tho cyclone struck. Mrs. MoShauo escaped the storm in a neighbor's cellar. When sho came back to the houso, immediately after, she noticed the windows lying en tho ground. 1 found the seven windows with their doublo glass, turned around endwise stacked up even ly on top of each other. Not a pane of glass was ciackod, ana the piano box had been torn ontiroly off. Pieces of tho box I found seattcrod about the yard somo distanco away. The chicken coop was uninjured. W. MoShane. "Subscribed to and sworn to before mo this Kith day of June, 1899. .J. B. Miner, "Notary Public, Ramsey Co., Minn." Pardons Granted and Refused. Gov. McSweency Wednesday granted a pardon to A. II. Soil of Hampton, the man who took away a gun while drunk and was bringing'it back when arrested. Ho had served two years of a five years term, being convicted of grand larceny. On the recommendation of tho judgo and solicitor backed by strong petitions the governor has also pardonod Joe Williams of Orangeburg who was convicted in January, 1898 of arson. He has refused to grant pardons in tho cases of J. W. Carter, convicted in Colleton of obtaining money under falso pretenses; Loo Bryant convicted in Clarendon county and Bon. Wallace sent up from Colleton for grand larceny. The Filipino's Cannon. According to Gen. Anderson, commanding the department of tho Lakes, the heavy lossos of tho Amorican troops in tho recent engagements with tho Filipinos at Los Pinas and Bakoor, south of Manila, were caused by tho artillery which Admiral Dewey prosonted to Aguinaldo last wintor. Tho battorios in position, Gon. Anderson says, aro hoi n 17 nnomtnil V?w finnniol. 0 v|/vimwu ktj uj'dii inn j/1 inunui n who havo beon released by Aguinaldo with the understanding that thoy enlist in the insurgent army. Gen. Anderson took the first dctaohmont of troops to the Philippines last fall and was a prominent figuro in tho first negotiations with tho Filipino government. Fast Bicycle Time. Charles Murphy, paced by a locomotivo, rode a mile on a bicycle in one minuto and five seconds -near Maywood. Long Island, Wednesday. The ride was a praotice sprint. 29, 1899. NEGROES SHOT Because They Were Willing to Work in the Mines IN THE PLACE OF STRIKERS. The Row Took Place at Evans* ville, Indiana. Renetition of the Pana Riots Feared. The first bloodshed of the minors' strike, that has been in progress at Evausvillo, Ind., for two months, occurred shortly after midnight. It bad been decided by the proprietors of the Sunny Side mine that foreign miners would be imported to start the mines. This decision was made known to the union men when the Chieago scale had been offered them without recognizing the union. About thirty colored miners from Madisonville, Ky., eamo in over the Louisvillo and Nashville and were met at the station by .James 11. Moore, bookkeeper and a stockholders in the Sunny Side company. Tho wagonette was drivon by Edward Uciger, son of tho priprietor of a large furniture store, and one of the most popular young men in the city. The company's plant is located on the northwestern edgo of the city, and about a quarter of a mile from Salt Wells, and is reached by a road branching from the right of Woet Maryland streot. Mr. Moore and Mr. (Jeigor were in the front of tho wagonette. While the vehicle was passing a vacant lot just before making a turn in the road to go to tho mines, parties on tho sides of tho road fired in the dark upon the men in tho wagonette. Tho volley produced great excitement among the occupants of the wagonette, and the driver, whipping up his horses, hurried to the mine while thoso who had done the firing escaped in the darkness. A few minutes later IVtroltnnn lfno. ton appeared on the scene, having been attracted by tho firing. It seems that one or two of those who had fired on tho wagonetto, remained iu the neighborhood, and seeing tho policeman, opened fire on him. The shot struck against tho back part of his helmet, and he was not injured. Three other officers reached tho place soon afterwards, but they wero not fired upon. Physicians wero summoned immcdi atcly, tho men wore put in a placo of safety and tho wounded men given every attention. Moore, who was suffering intensely, refused to be given attention until the men were disposod of safely, lie is al St. Mary's hospital and this morning is resting easy, with some hope of his recovery. Charles Smith, one of the wounded Negroes, is in a critical condition. .John Smith, another Negro seriouslj injured, is in better condition thit morning, with hope of his recovery. Kd Uoiger, the driver, whose car wat clipped off has a severe wound. Ilenry Smith, colored, and Join Norswcather, also colored, were slight ly wounded. The assault upon these men hat causod a feeling of uneasiness to pre vail in tho city. It is feared tho scenes at Pana will bo recnaoted hero if fur ihcr attempts arc made to import rain ers. The Sunny Side mine remains closed today, and the imported men an in hiding. Tho proprietors refuso tf disouss the affair at all and refuse todi ulgo any plans. Tho serious wounding of Moore, thoii bookkeeper, has made a deep irapros sion on the management. Tho mine it getting into a serious condition bccausi of the lack of operation. It is a ma chino mine and fortius reason the Ion gcr it romains idle the heavier its loss Fred Diloher, tho national committee man of the United Mino Workers o America, and State Secretary Kennedy deny all knowledge of tho shooting and say they aro as much surprised a: anyone over tho affair. A Tale of Horror. A story of possiblo cannibalism or tho Yukon trail has just reached (Jirch City, Alaska. Three.men loft there ir December last for dimtown and wer< not heard of again till the stcamor Hide out, which arrived today, brought r terrible tale of suffering and horror. The mon wero Michael Daly, Victoi Kdiar and M. Provost. They wen from Providence, It. I., Woonsocket It. I., and Brockton, Mass., respective ly. Their bodies wero discovered 11 miles from the mouth of Old Man'i orcek, they having lost the trail an< become bewildered. Having left Dab river with only three weeks food, bu which was amply sufficient for the 15( miles to Jimtown, they were soon re duccd to starvation. Daly's body was found partly eaten on the stove in the tent just as it wai loft when death overtook tho others Some scraps of moose hide and mocea sin were found, of which they wcr< endeavoring to mako a stow. Daly'i body was identified by tho clothes The other two men wero found doa< A 11 f uve miies away irom mc icni. uu fact of the tent flaps being shut dowi whon found, would seem to preolud< the possibility of Daly's body havini been eaten by animals. Tho othc men doubtless were driven by hunge to the awful cxtromity of cannibalism Four hundred dollars were found on th< bodies. Many sunstrokes in tho North an< none in the South during tho rccen hoat wave again emphasizes the fac that the climato of this section is rcall; milder than in higher latitudes, ii summer as well as in winter. Id. . . ? . - i tJII _ -IT- . THE CR0P8 AND WEATHER. What the Department of Agriculture Says About Thera. Tho following ia the weekly bulletin of tho 8011th Carolina Heetion of the clitnato and crop acrvico of the 1'nited Statea weathor bureau issued last week by Director Dauer: The week ending Monday. .June IPth. was intensely hot (hiring the first four days and abnormally cool the remainder of tho week. The extreme niaxi mum was 10*J, and the minimum ?rnl do grccs. The rainfall was general on tho ltith and 17th, and in places heavy. Tho week's rainfall exceeding four inches at Klackvillo, and over three inches at a number of points, with few places only that had less than an ineh of rain. Over the greater portion of tho State, it came in the form of a gentle soaking rain. The extreme heat and dryness of the early part of the week were detrimental to tho development of all crops except cotton, and caused much suffering among workmen and animals in prosecuting the cultivation of field crops, but tho cooler weather and generally copious rainfall of tho close of tho week have changed the conditions materially for the better. Cotton made rapid growth during the week following tho rains of last week and the high temperature -favorable conditions for it. Tho early planted has excellent stnnds and is fruiting well, and some is blooming, hate planted has neither good stands nor seasonable si/.o. Sea Island cotton is very promising. Grasshoppers are eating cotton just coming up in the extreme western counties. The condition of corn was improved by receiving the much needed moisture and by the drop in temperature. Old corn is in silk and tassel, and is being laid by. In the southeastern counties some corn was ruiucd by tho drought. 1 1 - ' ' * n iru ur mm worms ooiuinuc 10 uesiroy corn in a few counties. A few localities report the crop very promising. Tobacco was greatly improved by the rains, but it has poor stands, and has boon seriously injured by worms in Marion; transplanting just finished in Newberry; contemplated acreage reduced in Darlington. Topping has begun. June rico about all planted. Tho orop is generally doing well, but caterpillars continue to infest it in locali , ties. Wheat and oats threshing well under way. Yield of wheat below tho avcrago, while oats are very poor gouoralf ly. Pastures have started new growth. Melons bearing and growing well. Wild berry crop very poor. Peas being sown | on stubble lands and with corn. 'Jane and sorghum vary in condition accord| ing to provious rainfall. Grass fattened eattlo now being marketed. Gold and Silver. Director of tho Mint Roberts on , Monday announced his final estimate of tho gold and silver production in the United States during the calendar ycai i 181)8. It is as follows: Silver iii Gold. fine ouneei Alabama....? 5,000 $ 10(i Alaska 2,524 800 02,401 Arizona 2 405 100 2,240,HOC California... 15,037.800 012 3d( Colorado.. .. 23,105 300 22,815,001 Georgia 128.000 501, Maho 1,710 000 5,073,HOC Iowa 100 Mar>land... 000 } Michigan... 100 32,40(1 Minnesota.. 100 Montana.. .. 5,120 900 11 807.200 Novada 2,994,400 805,00C Now Mexico. 539,000 425.30( i>. uaroiina.. ? ? uimj 7U( Oregon 1,117'1>00 130,0( S.Carolina... 101 200 301 S. Dakota ... 5,690,700 152,301 TennoBSco.... 900 Texas ' 300 472,901 j Utah 2,285,400 0,485,901 Virginia 4 500 Washington., 7(50,200 254,401 ^ Wyoming ... 5,300 101 Totals $01,403 000 $51,438,000 Total for 1897 $57,333,000 $53,800,001 A Good Showing. Administration oconomica, which is } charged with the disbursement of tin finances of tho provisional govcrnmon i of Havana, and the province, publisher a statement showing that from January r to May, inolusiva, the roccipts wer? , $703,194 and the expenses $178,228 the balanco being cash on hand. Thit causes general astonishment among tin r Cubans and is unprccedoTitcd in the j history of Havana. Never before have 1 the figures been published openly. The I officials, formerly, merely mado somite oflicial statements, which were nol j itemized. No' two years of tho Spanisl regime havo yielded as much as tho pasl five months. Tho Knglish La Lucha in an editorip 1 based on this fact, sayt ^ the Cubans and Americans are watch ing tho results of military rule, recogniz 1 ing tho immense influooco which wil be exertod in tho future political strug glo by tho prosont campaign, and adds "Tho greatest praiso is duo to tho Am 1 crieans hero at this evidence of thoii 3 intent to maintain methods of th< ^ strictest honesty." |Rg?J 1*3 p NO. 50. nr II i 'II /i 4 i r n n /1 t m HUM UAUSiiS II. Evidence as to Depression of Agricultural Industry. DUE TO MONOMETALLISM. Witness Interrupted by Opponents of Silver and Was Not Allowed to Proceed on That Line. Joseph lb Vgor, president of tho Maryland Stato Grango, was before the industrial commission at Washington Thursday. 11o said that a trust among the farmers such as was suggested by Mr. llavomoycr was impracticable, owing to tho difficulty of gotting tho farmers to hold up prices. Speaking of colored labor, he said it was unreliable because of tho natural indolence and indilfortnco of individuals of tho colored raeo. Liquor ho regarded as tho great bane of that people, and responsible for nine-tenths of tho crituos committed by them. Mr. Agcr considered tho condition of the average farmer as worso than it was 20 years ago, but ho believed money invested in farming safer than in other lines of business. L. W. Youmans of South Carolina occupiod tho witness stand during the afternoon session. Ho said the agricultural interest, of tho south was groatly depressed, and ho attributed tho depression to the fact that silver was not rcc< gnized as a money metal. He said there had not been an increase of tho volume of money to correspond with tho increase of population. Asaconsom.nnnn l.o.l k?~.. .. 1 -J |MVIIVV illUUJ UVyUII 4% j^UUUlUl Vj| V3 " prcciation of values 11o wan proceeding to develop his viowH upon this point whan Maj. Farquhar mado a point of order against tlie character of tho testimony, and this point was sustained by the chair (Hon. A. L. Harris) after a somewhat spirited encounter betwoen Hcprescntativo Livingston and tho Republican members. Mr. Youmans then procoodod to otlicr considerations. Ho thought the tarilT also an obstacle to progress, saying that while tho cotton grower of tho I'nited States was compelled to compete with the ohoap lahor of tho world in sales abroad, he was not allowed to buy tho product of that labor in other articles abroad withing paying a duty of 40 per cent, upon it. As remodies ho suggested the free coinage of silver, a lower tarilf ami local banks of issuo. He had tried the diversification of crops , and hud not been successful, i Mr. Youmans said he had no fault to find with colorod lahor, and that ho preferred it infinitoly to imported labor. "I employ 300 or 400 Negroes," ho said, "and I find them docile and willing to work. I go away and leave , my family among them, fooling confij dent of their safety and protection." 5 He thought, however, that the Negro . as a rule irresponsive to the elforts to cducuto him, and whilo ho willingly t paid his share for such efforts at cdu, cation, he considered the money so I spent as thrown away. Death-Dealing Storms. ) Tornadoes have been known in Amcr) ica for a century or more, and thou( sands yf persons have been killed And ) injured by them A record of these visitations sinco 1704 shows tremendous loss of life and property. On FebI ruary 0, 1881, tho country from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic was ) the dancing ground for sixty terrible > tornadoes, which killed 800 people, ? and injured nearly 3.000. whilo thoy reduced to ruins 10,000 buildings. During tho period from 1794 down to tho present tinio the most disastrous tor nado was that at St. Louis on May 27. 1890. The precise number of persons killed has never been known, but the dead were several hundred and the injured many inoro. Ono of tho oarliost tornadoes on record was on May 7, 1810, in Adams County, Mississippi, when 317 peoplo were killed. Tho same place was revisited two years later when 500 were killed. Tho property loss was very great. Louisvillo was stricken in 1890, but the same city was visited by a whiriwind as long ago as August 27, 1854. At that time twenty-live persons were killcdCollided With a Whale. ThoClovoland Leader says: "Lieut. F. L. Chad wick of tho United Statesnavy is visiting his uncle, Dr. L. S. Chadwick, of Kuclid avenue. During the war with Spain Lieut. Chadwick served on the cruiser Raleigh. He entered Manila bay when Dewey made hi? famous dash into the harbor. Lieut. Chadwick said recently that on his return trip thero was a collision with a huge whalo that was slcoping on tho water. Lieut. Chadwick was on watch whon tho boat gave a luich. "I thought wo had run on somo hidden rooks," he said. "I rushed to the rail and found that the ram of tho cruiser was fast in - the side of a whalo forty feet long. : Tho eugines had to be rovorscd before - tho whalo was released. Ho floated rjaway dead. You may thiuk that ia a ) (tlali atory, hut it ia au actual faot, and tho cruiser's log will verify it." IliUiMa klj ffTlii.iiiirrriiiiMMTr nmPCl MHLmmmw J