The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 29, 1899, Image 1
VOL. XIII.
"a blue outlook. |
Capt. McQueston Returned from
Manila Expresses Himself.
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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.
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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."
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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
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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."
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