mm===== vol xiil ^?? Hard of assessors. H^L "1" 1 |ggHThree Million Dollars Increase lr nMtiH Hwhtoh Hue. K of equalization has ors and has announcHnts upon cotton mill Hi Is State. The total pPFease of $3,200,000 over ^^The Increased Income of Hon the 6 mill levy will be ooo. Hal amount of taxable mill Bas represented In the assessHf 1003 was $34 557.705 and for Htent year $37,762,060. The fetae to tjie building of new ^b^Hct Chat there were Hftion .and Paoolet last Herd will meet on the W of 'the committee on Vwas adopted und the fol* Hpssments made: Re County?Abbe ville cotton F33.130. 1 County?ClcarWater, $300,aiiKley Manufacturing Com$700,000; Aiken, $360,000; Ville, $840,000, Warren, $505,reon County?Anderson cotton [750,000; Cox Manufacturing |, $105,000; Orr cotton mills, I; Riverside, $110,500; II. C. pi, |25,000 Coroncca, $15,000; *T?iuu7uuu; tjunueruss, ?i>,uuu; Hll, $107,800; Pendleton cotH $20,00; Pendleton ManufaoHompany, $50,000; Helton H),000; Brogan mills, $107,Hola, $160,735; Pelzer ManuHompatiy, $1,500,000; PiedHufacturlng company, $1,Hilllaroston mills, $200,000. H County?Bamberg cotton H>00._ HH^HflKTcbcrokec Falls ^H)any, $250,000; Himpany, $41,840; Huring company, H, $127,000; VulHny, $7,500. H-Eureka cotton HPprlng&tein mills, HFlte, $160,000; MonB^ounty?Maunlng IIosK5,500. HT Coa^fy?Colleton cotton K ? Darlington ^tiy, $450,000; H201,210. Tigeliv.ld ManuHs.OOO. ^hdr field cotton ^^latesvllle CotR',000; Brandon, H, $47,500; Foun American SpitiH 0,000; Carolina HrAr. l'oe ManufacHHHHH^'bOOO; Huguenot He 1 OO.ooo; Mis Manufacturing Hany (95 per cent.), $359,865; Hghan, $536,700; McGhee ManuHrlog company, 60,000; lteedy Hr, 160,985; Union Bleaching and Bmpany. 180,000; Woodside cot mills, $80,000; Franklin mills, ffffltyO; Pclham mills, $175,893; \ Blmonfc Manufacturing company , H Anderson county.) :?H*reenwood County?Ninety-Six cot/:' ! mill, $61,760; Glendale, $350,000; Heenwood cotton mills, $188,750. ^ Kershaw County?Camden cotton ^HU^ttr$145,000; DeKalb cotton mills, - ^"Haster County?Lancaster cotHl)a*$726,207. HOflunty?Lydia cotton 1 Banna cotton mills, ItlP^^^'H11re.ns cotton mills, $525,^^^Cwatts cotton mills, $155,430; cotton mills, $172 500. fi|M!exington County?L e x i n g t o n ;-Biufacturing company, $50,000; &*dleburg mills, $81,200; Saxe ^?>000> ijraHHrlbn County?Maple, $85,000; ^^^HLcotyHUls, $98,300; llamer, ^^^^^^^J^Kotton mills, $30,000; iu_ t J V80ia out' ?nu re?Octorora mills, cotton mills, $700,^^ ^Wrry County?Glen Lowry gMmfacturlng company, $500,000; ^ ahan, $235,000; Newberry cotton ffiUs, $470,000. K|konee County?Courtney Manufaci^Jkcompany, $350,000; Seneca cot||^4:BM^$240,000; Walballa cotton |||1H20,000; Oheswell, $140,000. ^^Wmgeburg County?Orange mills, lllMpO; Orange Mfg. Co., $200,000. ||i|BkenB County?Easley cotton S||||m$345,255; Norrls cotton mills, |3g||Bil; Liberty cotton mills, $113,ggggMenwood, $207,000; Issaquena, IraPliAid County?Capital Ci^ Columbia Mills oomn^K| HjajajigMrfuihg- $800,000; 01ynM||| H^P^^^^A^metto, $50,250.Mg||| co^S ^^^^^Kirg County?Ark wrlght sS^^y?0.000; Clifton Mfg. Co.. ^^^^^Sk)wpens Mfg. Co., $60,00^ $26,600; Drayton, $lTJfl jlgBBpPMie. $020,000; Tyger millsJP $68?&0(h Flngerville, $50,* D. E. Converse Co., $500,B^^^lctor Mfg. Co., $437,500; Inman llgra (95 per cent.,) $287,650; Blue gSMe hosiery mills, $30,000; Valley HPPb Mfg. Co., $00,250; Pelham mllli (see Greenville,) $19,110; PacoletMfg, Co., $500,000; Beaumont, $100,000; 8*xon mills, $294,000; Spartan mills, $1,300,000; Tucapau, $495,650; Whitney, $385,000; Woodruff, $105,000: Apal*0fce, $315,000; Arcadia, 129,115 Union County?Buffalo ootton mills, $300,000 Joncsvillo Mfg. Co., $150,700 Aeto* ootton mills, $138,750; Look hart ootton mills, $563,000; Excelsloi knitting mills, $149,500; Monarch oot k mills, $350,000; Union oottoi Mills. $1,089,100. EBKprk County?Bowling Green knit MgAfcills, $15,000; Oloyer cottoi HHB^OOO; FortMU^U^Co. t - - ?? 306; IMhland Park Mfg. Co., $187,500; Manchester cotton mills, $231,325; Victoria $72,000; Tavora, $50,000; York (05 per cent.,) $172,500; Chlcora, $00,000; Fewell waste mills, $2,500. OIL MILLS ASSKSSED ^The assessment made ou oil mills nr was adopted for this year WP following changes: Aiken Industrial company, $31,200 00 pencent. $18,170. Darlington, oil mill, $05,000, 00 per cent. $39,000. South Carolina Cotton Oil company at Gi^envllle, $48,200. SWthern Cotton Oil company at Greenville, $9,680. Dillon Oil company (burned), $5,400. Cowpens Cotton Oil company, $20,000, 00 per cent? $12,000,rebuilt. Rich Illll, $18,000, 00 per cent 10,800. capital Increased. NKW MILLS ASSKSSKD. Cotton Oil company, Denmark, $20,* 000; 00 per cent. $12,000. Hroadway oil company, Helton, $22,000; $13,200. Clarendon Oil company, St. Paul, $10,000; $9,600. independent Cotton Oil company, Timmonsville, 11,000; $6,000. TlmmonsvilleOil mill, $29,000; $17,400. g Cameron Oil company, $20,000; $12,000. Rowesvlllo, $20,000; $12,000. Wllklnsville, $15,000; $9,000. Prosperity, $20,000; $12 000. Walterboro Oil company, $25,000; $15,000. Goldville Oil company, $12,000; $7,200. Seaboard Oil company, $32,000; $19,200. Townvllle Oil company, $10,000; $9,000. Lee County Manufacturing company, $25,000; $15,000. Westminster. $20,000; $12,000. Fort Motte, $20,000; $12,000. Donnald Cotton Oil oompany, $16,000; $9,000. Jonesville, $20,000; $12,000. Williamsburg, $30,000; $18,000. Pauline Cotton Oil company, $20,000; $12,000. Pickens, $20,000; $12,000. KKKTILIZKK PLANTS. The assessments on fertilizer factories were not changed, the follwlng report having been adopted: We recommend that all assessments stand same as last year. While we tind many of the assessments reduced we see no reason for same, as wo have no Information at our command to warrant same: Anderson Fertilizer company, Anderson county, $00,000. Virginia-Carolina Chemical company, Beaufort county, $106,000. Ashepoo Fertilizer -company, Charleston county, $78,000.% Ktlwan fertilizer company, Charleston county, $15,120. Virginia-Carolina Chemical company (Atlantic works), Charleston county, $118,200. Virginia-Carolina Chemical company (Chlcora works), Charleston county, $100,050. Virginia-Carolina Chemical company (Berkeley works), Charleston county, $50,808. Virginia-Carolina Chemical company (Imperial works), Charleston county, $110,910. Virginia-Carolina Chemical company (Standard works), Charleston county, $180,810. Virginia-Carolina Chemical company (Stono works), Charleston county, $122,2:15. Virginia-Carolina Chemical company (Wando works), Charleston county, $01,488. Reaiir Prosphate company, Charleston colnty, $41,049. VItkWi la-Carol I na Chemical company, ^erokee county, $32,982. Georgia Chemical works, Colleton county, $111,421. Virginia-Carolina Chemical company, Dorchester county, $54,000. Virginia-Carolina Chemical company, Greenville county, $80,956. VirKlnia-Carollna Chemical company, Richland county, $75,000. F. S. Royster Guano company, Richland county, $46,180. Spartanburg Fertilizer company, Spartanburg county, $7,000. I Total, $1,553,474. I > Killed by Lightning. |?, Columbia State says a bolt of jB'ghTOlDK Instantly killed little Jacob ZHAO A 1 O irAAM / ?!/! ?? ' $ $ " ?- - f$co, ? iu jrc?i'uiu ujiiuii ixjiii upure of the Olympia village, Tuesday rnoon at 20 minutes to 7. The boy sitting on a little bench next the p of Galne's store, which is locaton the Bluff road in the mill village about 100 yards from Wales' hoijne. The boy's face was slightly scratched, but otherwise there were no malrks on the body and the coroner's physician testified that there were no bones broken. Standing in the door of the store within two feet of the boy was\C. 0. Lawhorn, also.an operative. locked backward on the floor iot injured. T. E. Mitchell, , wno was standing behind er near the side door, about om the front door, was not ked, hesays. The flash folthe loud report like that of a ^Vhtened a horse attached to Rf iar the side door and Mr. %nfl stopped him from way. "W. T. Cox, a laundry ver in the store at the time, ilightly shocked. The bench the boy sat was under a shed whloh shelters the door and surroundings. ^qar the bench a high wire fence connects with the corner of the store room. There was no scorching of any , of the surroundings. 1 Ilattle With a Hawk. Freeman Lane, a wealthy farmer, ' eighty years old, bad a fierce battle [ with a huge hawk in bis woods near . Sayvilie, iL. I., Wednesday, while | strolling in a pine wood. When near a pine in whloh there was a hawks' ! nest one of the birds swooped down ! upon the old man, struck him squarer ly in the face and knocked him down ? ten feet in a gully. The hawk conj tinned 8oratohing his face, and for a long time the old qaan lay as dead. . Lane rallied his remaining strength, i crawled out of the Wood and reaohed horde. Ills face was badly torn by L thAhird'a talons and he was suffering ^rojj^vere shock. c MURDER OR SUICIDE. * A A Man Killed While Riding in a New York Cab. 1 WOMAN WITH HIM ARRESTED. f< ????? e S Man Killitl While HIh Wile y Waited lor llim at I'ior 1 to Hall With Her for n ll Kuropo. n At New York Frank T. Young, ^ known on the turf as "Caesar" Young, , bookmaker, horse owner and stockholder in Pacific coast race tracks, ? was shot and killed in a hansom cab j( Saturday while on his way to the White Star line pier to Joiu his wife with whom he was to have sailed for Europe. Mrs. Young was waiting at the pier when the news of her hus- j band's death reached her. At tlrst the death was reported as a suicide but various circumstances caused the police later to change , their views. With Young in the cab when a po- ^ liccman was called was Mrs. Nan Pat- ' terson, formerly an actress, whese ? stage name was "Nan Randolph," who is said to have been a memhnr nf the original "Florodora" sextette. . She told the policeman that Young had shot himself after announcing to t her that he was about to go to Europe, ' to be gone probably for several months. The policeman told the coroner, however, that the revolver ,} was In the man's pocket and that he did not believe Young could have put .! it there after shooting himself. Young died about live minutes after the po- ,! 1 iceman first saw him. The woman was taken to a police , station where she collapsed. There was a remarkable scene in the station when Young's partner a man named Milin, called there. lie said Young never carried a revolver and that ho " did not believe the death was due to P a self in-fllcted wound. Millln said .l that Young, who came here from England 10 or 15 years ago a poor ^ man, was worth more than a half mil- 1 lion. 0 RUSH AT WOMAN. Shortly after Millln made this statement Mrs Patterson was brought in to be taken to the coroner's otlice 1 Millln was leaning against the rail 11 when he saw her. He started at her ^ with a rush. She shrank back aga'nst 0 a detective. Millln again rushed at ^ her, but two or three detectives grab- l1 bed him and held him until the wo- 11 man was out of sight. Millln shouted t at her as she left the station house. The woman was taken to Coroner 11 brown's private olllce and closeted ^ with him. While there Mlllin ap- * peared. He trial to break into the n room and get at the woman again but 11 was prevented. lie called the woman e names and shouted that tic would kill ( her If he had a weapon. w Mrs. Patterson made a statement to the coroner. She said she was the c niece of the cashier of a lead ng New York bank. Continuing, Mis. Pat- e terson said she heard a muflled report directly Young had told her he was ? going to leave her. She said she did 01 not see any pistol. She said she be- n lieved he shot himself with the pistol in his coat pocket. The b rid in c which Mrs. Patterson was held was at a lirst ilxed at $1,000, she being held as d a witness, but this was later increased a to $5,000 by the coroner on the re- c quest of the police officials. o Mlllin, the partner of Young, in- * sisted upon being connected with the c case and was held in $1,000 bail as a a witness, which he furnised at once. a The coroner later looked over the s statement made by Mrs. Patterson and found some testimony which he t had not made pulic. Mrs Patterson" 1 in her statement had said that while f riding down west Broadway, she heard i a muffled pistol shot. r HANDLKl) THE I'IBTOL. "How do you know it was a pistol a shot?" the coroner asked. "Because I took the pistol out of f his pocket and put it back again," she answered. "After the shooting?" 4 "Yes." I An autopsy was performed on the f body of Young. At the conclusion of j the autopsy the examining physician s said he was unable to say whother the vYuuuu wu,m neii-iniiietea or noi. The bullet entered the body high up on the left side. It had a downward course, passed through the left lung and lodg- 1 cd In the fourth vertebrae. 1 j Later in the day the coroner com- 8 mitted Mrs. Patterson to the Tombs a without bail. There was no formal ac- ^ cusation made against her, but the v coroner decided it was better not to 1 commit her as a witness c Young was an Englishman by birth. 1 lie was brought to this country In 1890 1 by the old Manhattan club as a rep- 1 resentative amateur athlete of England. Young several years ago .pur- 1 chased race horses, one of them being 8 Eonio, which won the Iiurns handicap, ^ one of the big race stakes in California. 1 Mrs. Young, then a bride, trained the * horse and nearly $50,000 was won by 1 them on the race. Young brought a c string of horses east with him when he v came there about a month ago. The ( most noted of them was Cunard and r Water Cure. Mrs. Patterson met * Young in California and it is under- * stood she came east about the same time he did. According to Young's friends the trip to Europe had for Its objection the breaking off of his ac- s quaintance with Mrs. Patterson. Mrs. & Young left the pier when told of her t husband's death and was taken to a ?> friend's home, she was completely pros- i trated. t The coat and shirt worn by Young j, have been examined In the coroner's c offloe. There was no trace of powder i marks and no bullet hole In the coat c pocket In which the pistol was found. r Stole trie Money, j A loss of from $30,000 to $00,000 I through the embezzlement of Its 1 funds by a trusted employe, Douglass r M. Smith, is admitted by the officers 2 of the National Tradesmens bank of k New Haven, Conn. The exact loss Is I not yet known. Smith, who was pay- t Ing and receiving teller of the bank, t has acknowledged volantarlly that he c embezzled about $30,000 and the grea- v tor Awtnf it. If not all, within^ the t pfMKot or nine months. M m ONWAY, S. C., TH DROWNED IN THE CATAWBA. , Prominent Youiik M?ii ol Hock Hill liOHOH HIh Life. The Rock Hill correspondent of 'he State says a peculiarly sad and unjrtunatc accident occurred Saturday venlng at about U..'10 o'clock when J. tarr Moore, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter 11. Moore, and one of Hock I ill's mast highly esteemed young len, met his death while swimming i the Catawba river. The heroic ctionof hiscompanion, lliram White, i the subject of general commendalon. The two young men left the Ity for the river Saturday evening to 0 swimming. They had gone out to n island in the river and were retumlg to shore when young Mr. White oticed that his companion was sinkig. Going to his rescue White was ragged by him to the bottom, where ftcr a struggle he was forced to leave itn, he being barely able to free himjlf and rise to the surface. Not giv1 it iin hno/nuiir lio m-muiim) Pt j * ?V> MidUU^UU UV uitl^ lie unconscious form of his friend into tiallow water. At this point he was j completely exhaused that he finally Mlnquished his etlorts and crawled ut upon the shore. Later with the aid of the ferryman, rhom he summoned to his assistance, e brought the body from the water. >ressing it Mr. White drove home lone, seven miles, supporting the ody in his arms. When he reached own Mr. White went tirst to the Lev. Mr. Lingle, pastor of the l'resyterian church, and in company they arrled the Iwxly to the young man's orac. The mother was sitting upon he porch awaiting the return of her on. After yielding his charge Mr. Wiite had himself to be taken home. Young Mr. Moore was in the insurnce business in the otllce of Capt. W. V. Hoyce and was but 21 years of ge. lie was talented and industries and especially devoted to his lothcr, whose happiness was his chief oncern in life. A new home built by im as a present to 1/er had just been urned over to him by the eontractrs. The father, Mr. Walter II. loore, is with the ltoddey Mercantile ompany. I/ooUh Out I'or liimsolf. The Southern Cultivator and Dixie "armor grows quite indignant over he argument that the worlds demand for cotton will make it imperaive for the South to supply an enorrmous crop next season. All such alk, it dtclares is diametrically op os?d to the Interests of the farmers nd in favor of the factors, manufaeurers and transporters. "It Is woneiful," says "The Cultivator, "liow iuch interest these part ies seem txo i el in the welfare of the Indian, tlie Egyptian, the African, and the Gerlan, and fear that the Aiu?p!can faroer, In looking after his own n,t?>rsts, will fail to look after the intersts of all these other nations. They rould greatly prefer to see the oiling Southern farmer straining ills redit, and his strength in the elTort o cult ivate two or three million of xi,ra acres or cot,tun ana producing wo or three million extra bales and ailing the ent're output at 10 or 12 ents, and thereby making about othing as clear protlt, rather than ee him with comparative ease and omfort to himself cultivate the usual mount and produce the usual 10,#,000 or 11,000,000 bales and sell it, sThey claim at eighteen or twenty ents They seem to bo utterly obvius of the fact that the .100,000,000 or 00,000,000 extra, which the small rop would bring tc the South and nd distribute among the farmers nd through them would produce a tate of business activity and pros erlty as was never known in he South before. In other words hey asked every farmer to preer to raise twelve biles of colon to the horse and sell it at 10 cents, ather than produce ten bales and ell it at 18 cehts. They do not seem o care what becomes of the farmer in 11 this great battle in the linancial vorld. They brazenly ask him to orego his own interests, to work to lis own injury, to plant, produce and ather an extra large crop, simple and olely for the benelit of the factors, nanufacturers and foreigners." We ully agree with The Cultivator and )ixle Farmer. The Southern farmer hould lle through the abdomen and twice in ,he right leg. Wash Miller was shot through the right arm and in the shest by a negro named Cook, who vas trying to hit Constable McCarty. 3ook escaped. The two wounded nen are at the hospital and can live )ut a few hours at most. Gamble has >een an afllcer for several years. A Fatal Card Came. A serious shooting scrape occurred it Piedmont on last Sunday afternoon it a negro cabin, as a result of which ,wo negroes, Jerry Dial and Henry sherman, are dead and another War en Samples, is fatally wounded. \ gang of them, it appeals, bad congregated at this cabin for a game of lards and were all equipped with the lsual accompaniments, pistols and sorn liquor. One of the negroes, Jery Dial, died with the goods on him, ,he deuce of hearts, nine spot of dlanonds and 35 cents, which he held In its bands when death claimed him. rhe gerleral supposition is that the ow started from a dispute over the 15 cents above mentioned. It is not mown how many shots were ilred or low many negroes were present when he engagement commenced, though he negroes who were shot each revived two shots and the two who vere killed were both shot in the >ack. Two bottles of cheap whiskey rer^^up^near^h^|^ negroes. COP UR&DAY. JUNE I). YEMAN'S HALL. One of the Old Colonial Houses of Lower Carolina. 8ITUATED ON OLD GOOSE CREEK, j Secret I'uHHagoH of the Old Manulon, Which Ih Now UiiIiik to ltuiiiM. Suhl to Ho Haunted. In tho busy rush of our own times, surrounded by all the conveniences and luxuries, it is like reading a romance of another ago, when we ' pause and consider the lives of those who preceded us In the days when this land was young. Their quiet, and to us uneventful lives, seem so full of peace, and yet llke*us, they had their cares and anxieties, and perhaps often greater trials. They went more slowly, but they had a hard battle to wage in reclaiming the wilderness. I will invite my readers to go back with me about a century and a half and take a peep at the home and homo life of one of the stately and busy dames of that period. On tho banks of Goose Creek there still stands the ruins of an old mansion built about the year HUM, by Sir John Yemans, and sold by him to Thomas Smith, Landgrave of South Carolina. The house was of brick, remarkable for their small size, and as an evidence that these peoples' lives were not altogether passed In peace, the house was fortified aga'nst the ' attacks of Indians. The walls of the hn?r>m for Mr Daniels by ex-Judge It. VV. Winston and by instructions of Judge Prltchard District Attorney Skinner represented Judge Purncll. After argument Judge Prltchard dismissed the ease and released Mr. Daniels, saying that he failed to iind anything in section 725, revised United States statutes, to warrant the action and hence ire ordered the respondent dismissed. Judge Pritchard, who relased Mr. Daniels, and thereby rebuked very severely Judge Purnell, who was recent appointed to the bench by President Roosevelt to succeed the late Judge Simonton. PurnelPs action was highhanded, and the people are to be congratulated that a pure and up-right man, like Judge Prltchard, lias the power to review and reverse him. Shot illiuHolf i>caoen received here that Lucama, a N little town near this city, has l>ccn In a state of ferment for the past week. T ()n Monday a passenger train was wrecked near the station and several ears were destroyed by tire, among I hem the express car. After the lire was put out men, women and children began to pick about In the ashes, one man found a small object which proved to 1)6 a 0 small diamond worth $000. Iramedl- 1 ately It became known that there J were diamonds In tho ashes crowds C Hocked to the scene of the wreck. o The night before the news was generally known the man who made the e discovery revisited the scene, carrying ti a number of empty sacks. He tilled a them with the ashes of the car. On sifting them he uncovered diamonds o to the value of $18,000, the railroad a people are of tho opinion that the si value of the stones still unaccounted S for Is more than double that of those ci already found. c< The railroad later placed a guard ri around the wreck. The railroad has si not been requested to pay for tho tl diamonds, nor has tho express com- d pany. It Is believed they were stolen goods being expressed to some point tl South, and that the shippers are o afraid to make known their identity, si Several lawsuits have grown out of si tllf? li lirlu rPlin nu/lml- of O.n uoll anno ?..w a iiv x/i uuu own r*ttjrn that the diamonds belong to him un- tl less the railroad demands them for a the real owner. A negro found one || getn valued at a thousand dollars, o The owner of the land on which t.he a' wreck occurred sued him for the pos- p session of the diamond, but the negro t,i won. d iTIio Weevil Cater. jjj Dr. Cook says the ant he has dls- J' covered in South America Is a natural tl enemy of the cotton boll weevil, destroying the pest before It, reaches the h cotton bolls. Dr. Cook believes that a If the ant can be acclimated In the w United States it will put an end to a the weevil. Secretary Wilson cabled I! him to bring him some of the ants n home with him. They will be placed p in the Texas cotton Holds, and it, is ti hoped that they will thrive in this country. If they live through the b winter they will be brought further w north and int roduced to a colder ell- ii mate. Secretary Wilson has had a a sp cial bulletin printed. It, says: w "If the cotton ant can survive a long dry season and perhaps cold weather 1) in the table-lands of Guatemala it S might, easily learn to hibernate in Texas, as lias the boll weevil. The ii ant is much better abler to protect t itself against frost, since it excavates w a nest three or more feet into the h ground. To take worker ants to h Texas will be evidently a very easy v matter, but to sdcure queeiv* and ea L< tablish permanent colonies may re- a quire considerable time and expori- C ment. The Insect does not, do the rl least injury to the cotton or to any o other plant, so far as has bten ascer- v tallied, and it can be handled with r< impunity." Tho Augusta Chronicle v says "the antl-boll-weevll ant may ii yet prove the salvation of the Texas coltxm fields, and the energetic, as well as the sluggish, be willed upon to consider her ways, since it pays." ' We hope it will. w h I'liilipplim Martyrs. -s MaJ. Gen. Alnsworth, the military ' secretary, Thursday received from " Gen. Wade, commanding the division Jof the Philippines, a cable report of the recent attack upon American j' troops in Mindanao. The following is an extract from the dispatch: "Maj. Gen. Wood returned May (: .'{Oth from an expedition to Lake Ligu- a asan. The remains of olllcers and men a killed in action May 8th were brought to Cottabato and Interred. All's out- a tit, a small aggregation of outlaws, are now in hiding and will be pursued, r captured and destroyed. No disturb- ' ances whatever In Cottabato valley. J. i Following Is a complete list of casual- j ties among enlisted men May 8th: "Killed: George Wachter, Ewlng * Quillen, Benjamin B. Nolde, Elbert 1 W. Osborn, Martin Klnert, Amos J. v Gilliam, Owen Hughes, William Lult- ^ jcns, John O'Connors, Leonard C. J Smith, Wm. A. Wallam, Charlie Cole, Frank G. Meredith, last name having transferred from Company E, 17th infantry. "Wounded: Thomas II. Beckett, George It. Humphreys, Henry I). Shaddeau, John L. Barnhouse, Francis M. Davis, John F. Dolonge. All wounded doing well. "These men belonged to Company F, 17th infantry. Ten l*orCeut. Inoronno. 2 The chief of the bureau of statistics < of the department of agriculture esti- j mates the total area planted In cotton t in the United States this season at ' 31,730*371 acres, an Increase of 2,823,- j Old acres, or 9.8 per cent, upon the r acreage planted last year. The average s condition of the growing crop on May e 26th was 83, Kro Helps Wlilto Man. As a result of a light which occurred n the Sims & Williams plantation at 'rail Lake, Miss., Thursday night ohn Sims and ids manager, named ato, were killed by negroes and threo f the negroes have been killed also. The country is in a state of intense xoitement and it is feared further rouble may ensue between the whites nd blacks. The slaughter started al>out 10 'clock Thursday night, when Sims rul Cato were shot down in their tore by a negro named Sam Clark. Ims was engaged in chock ng up bis ash when Clark came In. before he ould make any kind of move Clark lined a Winchester and IIred, the tot. taking etTeet tlrst in the back and hen breaking the collarbone. Ho led instantly. Clark immediately turned on Cato, lio manager, who was in another part f the store and shot him In the right de, the ball coining out on the left de. Cato staggered out to the back of tie store and .'is he reached the door negro convict guard named Van torn, who was in wait ing, struck him ver the head with a rltlo. Cato died t 7 o'clock Friday morning and the hysiolan gives it as his opinion that io blow over the bead caused Ids eath. News of tilio tragedy was tmniedi* Loly sent to Greenville and SheritT ohn Crouch, with a posse, went to le scene. The negroes, Van Ihirn and Clark, ad made their escape before the posse rrlvod, but the trail of Van Horn as found and he was tracked about quarter of a mile Into tlie woods, lore another negro convict guard amed Maytield interfered with the osse and ho was shot down in his racks. \7.... i r . i i i _ i v (VII uuin v*iii l'iV('tliruil <1UU LilKUIl 3 Leland, 14 miles distant, where ho ras placed in the jail. Ho remained i jail all night under a strong guard, nd at 8:30 o'elock Friday morning he 'as taken out and lynche I by a uiob. While the sheriff and posse were usy with Van Horn the other negro, am Clark, returned to the Sims st.orb dth the intention, it is said, of killig Muck Williams, the other partner; ' he bookkeeper, named Crow, who uus also at, work, and ot hers. Crow, owever, after the previous shooting ad armed Jg^self and a negro who mrke{f place named Aaron 'uller. j^^m\ Clark made his appearnee be4^Hsbot and killed by both Vow andW"il|ler. !? is believed at j Vail Lake that the phooting Is the utcomo of a meeting held in the' ieinlty of Trail Lake by a negro secat society / and that the negro ;s inolved were picked out to do the kill?g. Accidentally Killed. At Spartanburg while swinging rom a ladder on the end of a box car diieh was being showly carried along y a yard engine to couple up with orne other cars about BO yards away, Jerry B'owler, colored, a switchman, aet his death In the yards of the ). & W. C. railroad Wedriesday running at 7.30 o'clock. Ho was midway he ladder and was exchanging greebngs with two negro wom6n walking car the track when his hat blew off, auslug him to turn his head around ,nd at the same time lean further .way from the car. Just then the >ox car passed along where a mail car tood on a parallel track and the lead of the switchboard came lu ah- 1 upt contact with the iron appendage in the outside of the mall car which s used in handling bags and pouches. The man fell to the ground and in a ew minutes was dead. Concussion of ,he brain was caused. The verdict of .he coroner's jury was th?t the death vas accidedtal and was not the result ?f the act of any person or persons.? The .State. Ants Destroy Weevils. 1 A dispatch from San Antonia, Texas, says Jose Casslano, former :ounty collector, who has several hum Ired acres of cotton in that county, Is Jio bearer of good tidings concerning /he work of red ants. Mr. Cassiano's ields, less than a month ago, were dive with boll weevils. Today ho laid there is not alive weevil in his ields. The rows are strewn with dead vcftvllll W/Vllf\H t.ho Itiiuu 1IV?1a ././! WUU WUOy UUtlC 1 UU tnt? arc carrying away by thousands, dr. Casslano says a close inspection ailed to show a single 11 vo weevil on i cotton plant anywhere in his fields, ['he ants are on the plants and the ows between In countless thousands. Phey seem to have completed the laughter of the weevils and are now mgaged In carrying the corpses away, jrobably to be stored for food. Nine Killed. Nine persons aro reported to have >een killed and many injured in a col* ision of passenger trains on the Mis* ourl Pacific railroad near Martin City, 5 miles south of Kansas City. The rains, which met head-on, were the vestbound Colorado limited, No. 1, it., .-..it 1 - ' itiu iiiu e?Hii)oiiii? iionnngLon, Kas., iccommodatlon No. 30. A message revived by Missouri Pacific officials rhere ordered them to send a relief rain as soon as possible and to get all lie surgeons obtainable from which it s inferred that numerous passengers, vere hurt. Newspaper men were not >ermitted on the relief train, which eft about 11 o'clock Saturday night md details of the accident cAnnot be earned until the return of the train rlth the dead and injured. Oar Overturned. Twelve persons were hurt near ten, N. J., early Thursday mornln^gggroBQ xolley oar overturned and rolkj^yi^BHHWB hi embankment on the UjrtJ B rot* Camden to TrenU