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THE COUNTY RECORD. Pablisbed Every Thursday ?AT? 1ING8TREE. SOUTH CAROLINA. ?bt? n W WOT/EE . Editor and Proprietor. There Is nothing very serious In Mr. Carnegie's fear that he may (lie poor trhen he says that he can at short noMce raise $200,000,000. In the Canadian Northwest provinces, from Manitoba to the Pacific Coast, there are probably more colo nies of different nationalities tnan are to be found on any equal area elsewhere in the world. There are said to be more Dunkards on the plains of Alberta and Asslnil>one than in North Dakota. Russian colonists are frequent in these districts, but preference has been given by the Russians to the more northern province of Saskatchewan. Throughout the districts, scattered in large and small numbers, are colonies of Greeks, Fiulauders, French, Dutch and other nationalities, as also a colony of Hebrew farmers and several gatherings of Mormons. The man who has done more, perhaps, than any other to humanize. warfare is said to bo living almost peani less and forgotten in the liospiee of Heiden in the Swiss Canton of Appenzell. Dr. Henri Dunaut, the founder of the Rod Cross Society, hy a little work entitled "Un Souvenir de Solferino." in which he vividly described the sufferings of the wounded. ! and called upon the nations to do something to alleviate the worst horrors of war by the formation of international hospital service, first aroused the conscience of Europe to action. The hook attracted much at- j tention, and resulted in the Geneva convention of 1S04, which established Ult' UtfUllUlll.l Ul llJC uwi?i?iD uuu ..Hi- j bulauce services, and in the founding of societies in every country, with an international committee at Geneva as a centre. The London Field observes that the : advent of the automobile may operate to revive those flue old wayside inns that were common in the old coaching days. Let it be so. Railroads have done much for the utilitarian world hnt tliev have torn a verv interesting chapter out of the romance of human life. We in this country miss the old inn very little, for we I hardly know what it is, exclaims the Pathfinder. The iype of rural hotel j with us is a blank and staring frame ' building ou which tin lager be**r signs are prominent. There is seldom a redeeming feature about them. In England even yet there remain many of the old-time inns?somewhat reduced from coaching days, to be sure ?picturesque stone buildings draped ! with tender ivy, neat as a new pin throughout, cozy and inviting. We! have always thought that the bicy-1 cle was the herald of good roads, aud j certainly the automobile or any other 1 will help the cause. And with more ' travel on the road the character of our country inns will improve. Speed ^ the day. An experimental rural free mail! delivery in Missouri has proved as! gratifying as .the like experiment in : Maryland. The Missouri route is in Macon County, from Callao to Kaseyville, a tour of twenty-four miles, serving a population of 1200. In six months the delivery has increased from 600 to nearly 4000 pieces of mail per month. A registry system is conducted for sending money, so that the farmer can drive his plow team up to the fence corner, pull out his j pocketbook, and make a mail remit-1 tnnce without the loss of five minutes' I time. Boxes have beeu established at nil the gates and on corner posts of the cross roads for the convenience ?*' those living off the round. An important feature of the experiment will the improvement of the roads. Every one along the line is intersted in seeing that the carrier has a good highway to travel over, so that he shall not be delayed, and many a washout, mudhole, and gully has been repaired by those in the vicinity without any hope of pay save the prompt receipt of their mail. ni nnn\; aiat i\t DLUUUI iuui in A Negro Literally Shoi cited P MURDERER USES HIS WINCHESTER With Deadly Effect, and Several Are Killed and Wounded ?lie Is Finally | Shot to Pieces. Iffcw Orleans, Special.?After a des- j perate battle, lasting for several hours, in which he succeeded in killing Sergeant Gabriel Porteous, Andy Van- j Kurem, keeper of the police jail, and Alfred J. Bloomfield, a youDg boy; fa- j tally wounding Corporal John F. Lally, ! John Banville, ex-Policeman Frank i H. Evans, A. S. Leclere, a leading con- ' fectioner of the city, and more or less seriously shooting several citizens, the negro desperado, Robert Charles, who killed Captain Day and Patrolman j Lamb and badly wounded Officer Mora, J was smoked out of his hiding place in the heart of the residence section of the city and literally shot to pieces. The tragedy was one of the most remarkable in the history of the city and 20,000 people, soldiers, policemen : and citizens, were gathered around the square 'in which Charles was finally , put to death. Tremendous excitement reigned in New Orleans, as the battle went on between the police and citizens and the negro with his Winches- | ter. After the tragedy was over and j Charles was dragged from the mud 1 and slush in which he had fallen, xvith the mob howling for the burning of . his body, statements were made that ! the man killed was not really the des- | perado who had killed Day and Lamb, ! but papers found on his person and ] the fact that he fought so desperately ; for his life and shot so accurately seem to leave little doubt that the right man was put to death. Sergeant Gabe Porteous, one of the best known officers on the force, and ' Sergeant John F. Lally, who has a fine ! record for bravery, were informed during the day by a negro that Charles was in hiding in a house on -iio, near Saratoga street. Determining to take , him alive if possible, the officers summoned a number of patrolmen to their assistance and went to the house where Charles was supposed to be in concealment. The negro informant of the policemen accompanied the officers. They entered the alley side of the house and were surprised in "practically the same way as were Day and Lamb. Before the officers were aware of their danger, Charles, who was hidden behind a screen on the second floor of che building, raised his Winchester and began a furious but accurate fire. Lally fell with a bullet in the right side of the abdomen. Porteous was shot through the head and dropped dead across the body of Lally. The other officers and the negro fled ; from the scene. The reports of j Charles' Winchester and the fact that J two officers lay bleeding in the yard, | raised tremendous excitement. Hurry cills were sent to the mayor, the chelf of police and Col. Wood, in command of the special police, and as fast as possible armed help was rushed to the scene. In a little while there was Immerse crowd around the square it which Charles was located. | In the meantime Father Fitzgerald, of St. John s church, was summoned to administer extreme unction to the po- : lice officers who were lying in the alley. I i lie prirsr. respoiiueu piuuipu.v aiiu uc | was anointing the body of Porteous with Alfred j. Bloomfleld, a young boy, standing by his side, when Charles again fired from the window. The lad saw him at once and begged the des- 1 perado not to shoot him. Charles im- ; mediately fired his Winchester again and Bloomfleld fell dead. The priest. ; unhurt, left the scene after pluekily 1 General Massacre In Progress. London, By Cable.?The Daily Express has the following from Che Fu, dated July 27: "Four more British j missionaries have been murdered in | the province of Shan Si. News from ! the native Christian sources say that { for eight days a general massacre of j foreigners has been in progress :n the provinces of Ho Nan and Shan Si. Mob Burns Schoil Bui ding. New Orleans. Special.?At a late hour a mob which had evaded the militia and police, attacked the Thorny Lafon school house. Sixth and Rampart streets, upon the supposition that negroes had stored arms an:l ammunition In the building. They quickly gained possession and fired the struc* ture, destroying it completely. The school building was erected a few years ago by the city and was devoted exclusively to the education of colored children. No negroes were found in the school, but a number who emerged from houses in the vicinity were pursued for quite a distance. A strong force was dispatched to the scene as ! soon as the alarm was given but too late to ^ave the school. i NFW ORI.FANS. t to Pieces By an Ex* opulace. performing the last offices of the dead officer. At this time the ambulance arrived and two citizens volunteered to go into the alley way and bring out the body of Lally. They entered aaid while they were attempting to take the body of the dead officer f.om that of hi3 colleague, Charles tiered again. The citizens, nevertheless, got Lally's body out of the alley, and succeeded in taking Porteous" body out also. In the meantime an immense throng had gathered in the vicinity and schemes were set on foot to get Charles out of the build, ing. Charles, however, did not propose to be captured without selling his life dearly. Time after time he came to the window and as citizens, one by one, entered the alley, he blazed away at them. In this manner Confectioner Leclere, who was one of the special police squad; ex-Policeman Evans, .Tnhn P^nvill* and Oeorere H. Lvons. sen of the head of the biggest drug establishment in the South, were wounded. At the moment of apparent indecision some one went to the neighboring grocery, purchased a can of oil, and. pouring it over the rear steps of the building, applied a match and soon had the building in flames. So fiercely did the fire burn that it became evident that no human being could live in the building and picked men from the police. special squads and members of the militia stationed th'em=elves about the building in order to pick off the desperado, as he attempted to leave the house. A young soldier named Adolph Anderson, a member of the Thirteenth Company of the State Militia, was one of the first to see Charles as he ran down the steps leading to the second story. Charles ran across the yard and entered the room. He fired several times at Anderson and the latter who was armed with a Winchester rifle, phot the negro in the breast and he fell and died soon after. As soon as the negro fell numbers of people, armed with Winchesters and revolvers, rushed in and fired into the body. Charles was literally shot to pieces. After it ws certain that he was dead a mob entered the yard and dragged the body into the street. There the police and the mob emptied their revolvers into it while the son of one of the murdered men rushed us> and stamped the face beyond recognition. There were then loud howls that the body should be taken to a vacant square in the vicinity and publicly burned. At this instant, 1 owever, a big squad of police dashed up in a pa troi wagun. i acre were uiousuuus ui people congregated in the vicinity and it seemed as if there might be a clash between the officials and the mob. The police seemed, however, to have regained their courage and they promptly pushed the crowd aside, picked up tha body and threw it into the patrol wagon. .The driver whipped up his horses and the wagon started off with 5,000 people running after it and clamoring for the cremation of the body of the desperado. The wagon, however, wa3 fleeter than the mob, and it ultimately made its way in safely to police headquarters. There an immense crowd had gathered, and great difficulty was experienced in taking the corpse of the negro from the wagan into the morgue. When Charles' body was stripped it was found to have heen literallv lacer ated from head to foot by the bullets of the mob. Shortly after the body had been placed upon the marble slab in the morgue Annie Gant, a negro woman, who was alleged to have known Charles intimately, came to the morgue and, after regarding the body carefully, declared that it was not that of Charle3, but of his half brother, Sly Jackson. Later in the evening, however, Joseph Stass, a responsible Italian, arrived at the prison, and, seeing the body, said positively that it was that of the murderer of Day and Lamb. Coroner Richard said to a representative of the Associated Precs, upon examination of the clothing of the deceased he had found a slip of paper bearing the name of Robert V. Charles who also went under the name of So Jackson. News Items. A frvr'TYiar ohiof olorlr nf tho TTnnfa. a iv/i ui?i vutvi vivt n vi iuv vflle (Ala.) postoffice has sent to the Treasury a conscience contribution of $12.68, representing wages received for Sunday work before resigning his place. ^ Four thousand pantmakers of Manhattan and Brooklyn, N. Y., unexpectedly went on strike for a ten-hour day. Louis A. Lurienne, manager of the r reucu xe.TgTapn wauie t,ompaay siation In New York, has been made a Knight of the Legion of Honor. Alfred E. Crow, whose wife and son were killed by the explosion of his gasoline launch Sasco, at New York, will recover from his severe wounds. Because they are under contract to work in a lace mill to be opened at Pawtucket, R. I., several English lace makers are detained at the Barge Office at New York. Mrs. E. M. Waller, Thomas Bartles and William Bosely, occupants of a cab at Alton, 111., were struck and killed yesterday at a crossing of the Illinois Central Railroad. i THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. The South. The consecration of Dr. R. W. Barnwell as Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Alabama took place t C ftl m Q ui uciiua. It ?3 understood that Chairman Richardson will make imperialism, militarism and trusts the three leading points in his speech at the Bryan ratification. meeting. Police Captain John T. Day, one of the best men on the force, and Patrolman Peter J. Lamb were killed in New Orleans by negroes who were resisting arrest. Patrolman Mora was wounded. The water system of Atlanta, Ga, has failed twice within two weeks, being out of use for nearly twenty-four hours and causing much inconvenience. The North. The Kansas fusion Populist, Democratic, Silver Republican conventions nominated John W. Breidenthal, of Topeka, for governor. The League of Local Building and Loan Associations met at Indianapolis, Ind. Geheral Wm. is. Draper, 01 nupedale, Mas3., has sent to Washington a letter tendering his resignation as United States ambassador to Italy. W. J. Bryan has accepted the invitation to attend the Grand Army encampment at Chicago next month. A society has been formed by prominent persons In Philadelphia for the purpose of furthering an alliance between England and America. Wm. C. Maybury, mayor of Detroit, was nominated by acclamation for Governor of Michigan on the Democratic ticket The platform deals largely with State issues. At their convention the Kansas Democracy surrendered to the Popu I lists and thereby made possible me most harmonious fusion that has ever existed in that State. The ticket was endorsed by the Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans. It is headed by John W. Breidenthal, Populist, who was nominated for Governor. Several hundred striking pantsmakers in New York returned to work at I last year's scale. Convention Hall, in Kansas City. Mo., has been insured for $150,000, with more policies yet to be issu^-. Kansas Populists, Democrats and Silver Republicans nominated John w nroMonthol frvr fioVP-rnor. Ex-Representative George M. Curtis, of Iowa, has declined the office of First Assistant Postmaster Genera) Foreign. The Austrian war ships Kaiserin Elizabeth and Aspern have sailed for China, United States Minister Conger has sent a letter from Pekin, dated July 4, stating that on that date the legations were under heavy fire from Chinese troops. An edict has been issued in China calling upon Governors to prepare for national defense. In the House of Commons Liberals attacked Chamberlain's South African policy, moving as a manifes:ation of displeasure that his pay as Colonial Secretary be cut down. Lord Roberts has notified the British Foreign Office of a general advance from the position he has been holding east of Pretoria. Peru is now on a single gold standard basis, the libra being the coin of unit, of the same fineness and weight as the English pound sterling. The outbrak of yellow fever among the United States troops at Pinar deJ Rio, Cuba, has been checked. Governor Wood's 'decree for a constitutional convention has reached Cuba. A municipal government has been established at Vigan, Luzon, Philippine Islands. Korean advices report the Wiling of 80 Russians at An Tong by Boxers. The Chinese feebly cannonaded Blagovestchensk, Siberia, on July 2-. The Japanese government is read? to mobilize three additional divisions for service in China if required. The French Consul at Shanghai reports that five French missionaries have been billed in Southern Manchuria. Max Gruss, an American painter in Berlin, has been ordered from Prussia, Russian troops from Nikolsk and Sungary River are hastening to the reii?# a# / ij.oaViJ6n/l nthoi* nlnnpR in Si? i 1 CI 1/1 \^UCLi uiu uuu wvuw beria. Miscellaneous. The National Committee of the Gold-Standard Democracy decided unanimously against fusion with the antMmperialists and not to nominate a Gold Democratic ticket. Democratic National Chairman Jones has gone to Washington, whence he will return to Chicago abo .t August 1, when the campaign will begin in earnest. Japanese correspondents accuse the Russians of brutal inhumanity in the fighting at Tientsin. STILL LYING, LIKELY Chinese Still Claim That Ministers Are Alive. THE CHINESE PUZZLE UNSOLVED, The Emperor of China Says the^ljpirations of Great Britian are for Commercial Extension. Washington, D. C., Special.?The Chinese minister came to the State De partment early to deliver an eaict received by him to Secretary Hay. It is similar in form to the edict published, in London. The minister says that the only differences are those involved in separate translations. Mr. Wu's tjanslation of Sheng's dispatch is as follows: "Edict of 28th of the sixth moon (corresponding to July 24), states that fortunately all ministers, except Baror von Ketteler, are . alive and unharmed. They are now being supplied with vegetables, fruit and provisions by the government, to show its sympathy for them." If Mr. Wu had any doubt as to the safety of the ministers it seems to have been dissipated by this edict. He la | Dorea earnestly witn aetrewuy nay w convince him that he was bound to ac? cept this 'official declaration of the Chinese government. He pointed out that this last declaration did not represent merely belief of a minor official or a viceroy; it was the solemn declaration of the Chinese government. The day brought forth the usual crop of edicts and reports from various quarters and the usual department all bearing directly ujon the welfare of foreign ministers in Pektn. This consistently growing mass of assertion Is beginning to have a cumulative effect upon the sceptics, and there v/as a noticeably more hopeful view taken of the state of affairs. Beyond the fact that it is scarcely conceivable that the Chinese authorities should persist in repeating and strengthening these stories up to the rapidly apnroaching moment when the whole truth must be disclosed by other agencies, it appeared upon careful consideration of the reports that there was really little more ground for hope as to the safely of Mr. Conger and his colleagues at Pekln than there was a day ajo. The depressing fact is always in mind that the Chinese authorities, by their own statements, able to communicate with the legalloners, for some mysterious reason do not permit these uo^tunates to communicate with their^^n governments. Mr. Wu's explanamm of this, namely, that the Chinese methods are different from our own, is scarcely sufficient for the officials here. The minister, -owever, is honestly trying to get a further communication through from Mr. Conger, and it may be that success in this undertaking will afford him a brilliant vindication. At least he maintains a wonderful show of confidence in the safety of the legationer3 and managers to impress this in some degree r\n *V?r\ nrith tvVirv-r> ha r?nmp<3 in VU IUV V/UlV-lUr.^ I?IU1 > uvtu MV vw.MV? - ? contact. While the positive statement is made that it is not the present intention to send any more troops from Manila to China, at the same time it is known that all contingencies hav? been canvassed, and that if an emergency should arise in China which made it imperative to have additional troops, they would be drawn from the Philippines for temporary duty at least. Some time ago Gen. MacArthui* was advised by Secretary Root to maintain sufficient transports to carrysupplies between Manila and Talcu. and these transports would be available for emergency troops. The Pennsylvania, Indiana and Sumner, when the latter arrives at Manila, will be held for service between Manila an! Taku and will be available for the contingency which may occur, but which the department does not expect to arise. Te egr*phic Briefs. Sheep raising in Utah i3 a failure this year. Lord Roberts has reported to the tedWar Office that Boer forces have re% treated in disorder from Middleburg. China has offered to produce the foreign diplomats shut up in Pekin on condition that no further advance be made by the allied armies. Towne To Withdraw. Minneapolis. Minn., Special. ?The Journal says: "Charles A. Towne will be withdrawn as Vice-President candidate from the Populist national ticket about August 15. At tnat time the Populist National Committee will accept his resignation and replace with Adloi E. Stevenson as the nominee of the Populist party for VicePresident. The source from which theannouncement is received is such as tomake it impossible to question its accuracy. During the campaign Mr. Towne Is to be utilized as a campaign orator, to whom wrillvbe assigned the I most desirable tours. He will speak I V/iil JT 1U 1U1 QVJ V.I.H.O CX UU XXX \.XWOC UiS ' trlcts. 4 .. iTw&JrjAfi- k -'-Suddl