The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 23, 1900, Image 6
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THE COUNTY RECORD.
Poblished EYory Thursday
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tIN08TP.EE. SOUTH CAROLINA.
? BY ?
C. W. WOLFE .
Editor and Proprietor.
The announcement that the German
Government has released on furlough
some of the soldiers of the Eastern
provinces to help in the harvest fields
jof their districts affords an interesting
(parallel to the announcement from
iKausas that the students of one of the
[women's colleges ha! left school to
help garner the wheat crop of the Sunflower
State. In each incident is the
recognition that the annual yield of
its great grain fields is, in an important
sense, the foundation on which
%re reared the prosperity and content
of a State.
Up to July 1 the total fire loss in the
United States for 11)00 was $103,000,500,
against $63,000,000 for the correiponding
period last year. There hare
been no less thau fifteen fires with
tosses of over $500,000 each since .Tannary
1 last, and five of them have destroyed
property reckoned by millions,
the Ottawa conflagration heading the
list, with a loss of $12,000,000. And
flie underwriters reix.rt that not only
^iU8 the first half of 1000 been remark
pble for great fires. but that the number
and destructiveness of small fires
Itave also been unusual.
One of the most suggestive tributes
to the skill of American workmen is
jibe offer of Swiss manufacturers to
give large prizes to inventors for improvemnts
in watch making, so that
American competition in this line can
be cheeked. The delicacy and simplicity
of American-made watch movements
is such that the Swiss no longer
claim tfle pre-eminence 111 mis nne.
The result is all the more gratifying
because the sitecializntion of watchmaking
in the United States is of such
recent growth compared to the ages
iu which the Swiss have excelled iu
it.
Victor Smith, in the New York
jPress, thinks that what this country
Heeds is u school of "unlearning." lie
says: "There are so many distorted
facts engraved on the tablets of our
memory that we shall never get them
straightened out unless we go to school
at forty, fifty, sixty aud seventy to
unlearn that which we stored up in
youth and take in a fresh cargo of
corrected information. Perhans it
were better that we should uot go to
jw-hool at all until we have knocked
kbout for half a century. It Is much
(harder to unlearn and learn over agaiu
than to learn correctly in the start."
The recently prevailing fashion of
wearing trained skirts on the street
Is responsible for a new development
In au old disease, say physicians. This
)s varicose veins in the upper arm,
caused by the unnatural twisting of
the arm in holding the skirt from the
ground. Several cases have been
treated lately, in which the veins have
fc>urst, to the serious danger of the patient,
and permanent distortion of the
Buna has resulted more tnan onee. ror
tliis reason medical men are greeting
with warmth the latest dictate of
fashion, to the effect that street costumes
must have skirts that clear the
ground.
The writer of an article on "The
Passing of Birds*" in the ?:v Muglnud
Magazine, says that "in the localities
yet favored by great flights of geese,
ducks, crane and plover during the
migrations it is not a matter for uilusual
comment when a single individual
brings down fifty birds in an at
ttriicou: and for a party i.f nail" a:
dozen to has Ave hundred or uioro iu!
it day is a record that is repeatedly
achieved. Indeed, an effective style j
?f advertising now adopted 4>y some
Wcsicic railroads Is thgfoiul'Msliina
01 photographs of literal wason-loads
^>f dead ^line-birds taken iu a single
day's li ' "f it?-i" r.-.s>,rts."
Suspicious.
"I have strong doubts about Tenspot's
being a geniune tisberuian," said
(.'till! so.
"Why:" asked Cawker.
lie never refers to trout as speckled
beauties."?Detroit Free Press.
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F0REI6XE.1S FOUND TO BE SAFE.
Official Confirmation of The News of
the Capture Received in Washington
City.
Washington, D. C., Special.?Tht allied
armies have captured and entered
Pekiu in the face of obstinate resistance
and the members of the foreign
legations are safe. Official confirmation
of the fall of the Chinese capital
came to the United States govern,
ment Friday night, in the shape of two
cablegrams, one from Admiral Remey
and the other from Consul Fowler, at
Che Fu. The cablegram from Admiral
Remey came to hand first early in the
evening, followed very soon after by
that from Consul Fowler, and the officials.
realizing the great public inter- j
est In the events, which it was believed
had happened in Pekin, at once made
them public. Admiral Reniey's dis
patch is as follows:
"Taku. Aug. 17, 1 a. m.
"Bureau Navigation, Washington:
"Just received a telegram from Tientsin,
dated 16th, 10 p. m., saying:
'Pekin was captured on August 13. Foreign
legations are safe. Details follow
shortly.'"
That from Consul Fowler, giving important
details of the occurrences at
the time of the capture of the city, was
given out in the subjoined official
statement:
"Che Fu. Aug. 17, 1900.
"(Received 7:53 p. m.)
"Secretary of State. Washington:
"17th. Japanese admiral reports allies
attacked Pekin, east, 15th. Obstinate
resistance. Evening. Japanese
entered the capital with other forces.
Immediately surrounded legations. Inmates
safe. Japanese lost over 100: ,
Chinese 300. FOWLER."
Previous information, which has
been received here, showed that the allied
armies took possession of Tung
Chow on the 12th inst. From that
city to Pekin the distance is not very
*-rent iint mrirp than a dozen miles. It
seems evident, therefore, that the
armies halted for a time at Tung
Chow, probably for the purpose of giving
the men a rest and to prepare for
the attac k on the capital city in force,
after waiting until the rear of the advancing
host should arrive at the
front. Possibly also the delay was the
result of negotiations inaugurated by
the Chinese officials, looking to the
delivery of the ministers with a Chinese
or other escort. If negotiations
were attempted they must have failed,
as the army continues on its march
and attacked the capital three days
after reaching Tung Chow.
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Quarrel:ng Among; Themselves. i
London, By Cable.?Whatever of interest
might attach to the events reported
in the night dispatches is destroyed
by the capture of Pekin, as
most of the messages relate to matters
preceding the leading up ..o the capture
of the Chinese capital. Gen. Linevitoh, !
LUWUJB.UUer Ui aumiau U WP3 ill
Pechili, reports to St. Petersburg that j
on August 12 the Chinese ?.ended to
give battle at Che Sin, where were con. ;
centratcd 50 battaions of the best Manchu
troops, commanded by Gen. Tung
Fuh Sinag, but that losing courage
they retrated hurriedly, not waiting for
an attack to be made.
The eyes cf the world, which have
been fixed hitherto on Pekin, are turning
to Shanghai, where an imbroglio
resulting from the jealousy and sus- |
Lynch ng ::i Georgia.
Doerun, Special.?An armed mob
numbering so men iorciDiy entered tue
Jail here Saturday night and taking
Bill Cater, a negrc out. riddled him
with bullets. He died Instantly. Cater
was charged with attempted criminal
assault cn a white woman. As soon as
Cater was captured he confessed his
crime, and later was identified by his
victim.
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Killed bv Lightning.
Ashevllle, X. C., Special.?Peirce E.
Sauve, a clerk in the First National
Bank, of Tampa. Fla.. while sitting
under an oak tree in front of th<* Cain
House, a fashionable boarding place or.
Grove street, was struck by lightning
Thursday afternoon at 6 o'clork. Five
doctors were summoned. They found
the left side paralyzed and restored circulation,
but not consciousness, and
Sauve died in an hcur and a half. The
tree was not struck, and a man sitting
next to Sauve received only a slight
shcck. Sauve was a Catholic and his
remains are in charge of Father Marion,
who notified his home folk*
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E OF PEKIN.
the Allied Forces Into
ll Capital.
. picion of the powers will possibly
I shortly assume a serious aspect. The
British landed Gurkas and Bombay
regiments on Friday and France is
hurrying 1.700 Tonkin troops thither,
some of whom are reported to have arrived
already.
The situation in the valley of the
Vang Tse Kiang. at Wu Chang, is se.
rious. Chang Chi Tung's troops miltined.
but the outbreak was quelled.
Russia's campaign in Manchusia
seems to be progressing satisfactorily.
Gen. OrlofT. chief of staff of the Russian
forces in China, reports on Aug.
14 that he attacked the Chinese at Meduchei
on August 12 and subsequently
advanced to Yak Shi and captured an
abundance of stores. The Chinese are
said to be gathering in force in the
i neighborhood of Kobdo. from which
j place the KUSSian ann l artar rr?iueni.?
have departed.
A Berlin dispatch dated Sunday
morning says the German marine battalions
arrived at Tien Tsin on Thursday.
Waiting for Report.
Washington. D. C., Special.?The
government now fully satisfied by the
advices in hand that the international
troops have entered Pekin and that the
legations are saved, is calmly awaiting
detailed statements from its own officers
on the ground. Dispatches were
received Saturday from" Gen. Barry
at Chefoo and Consul Goodnow at
Shanghai, repeating the tuain fact of
the capture and relief. Neither Gen.
Chaffee nor Admiral Remey was heard
from, however, and it is to them, particularly
to the American commander
at Pekin. that the government looks
for advices not only on what has oc
-red but on the local developments
tiom which an intelligent determination
can be made oi what still remains
to ue aone.
The Fall of Pekii..
Berlin, by Cable.?The news regarding
the entrance into Pekin was further
confirmed by two telegrams reI
reived by the Janaese legation in Berlin,
one dated Augu-t 14, saying that
the allied forces were only ten miles
from the capital and the other briefly
announcing that they had entered.
The German press accepts the fall of
Pekin as a fact.
Senator Ingalls Dead.
Las Vegas. N. M.. Special.?Rormet
i'nited States Senator John J. Ingalls
died at Blast La Vegas at 2:25 a. ra,
Thursday. He was surrounded by bis
family. The funeral will be held in
Atchison. Kan. Senator In?alls' illness
dated from March. 1899, when, at
Washington his throat began troubling
him. He worked steadily, writing political
articles for newspapers th-.oughout
the country. He was treated by
several specialists, but received no relief.
and on their advice, returned with
his family to Atchison. At home he
grew no better. Ten months ago he
sought another change of climate, traveling
through New Mexico.
A Dip In The Deep Blue Sea.
A good breath of salt air and a dip
in the surf will make any one lose
that tired feeling wMeh the hot weather
causes. The seacoast resorts of Virginia
and the Carolina are easily and
quickly reached via the Seaboard Air
Line, and anyone taking a little trip
down to the sea will eel invigorated
and well paid for the expense. The
Seaboard's polite conductors and porters
aid in making the journey oa oi
pleasure.
iNewsTTem?r
The salmon catch will be short from
500.000 to 730,000 cases this year.
New York's Episcopal Archdiosese
will probably be divided for the eighth
time.
The United South African Breweries
Company, founded by Barney Barnato.
will erect an immense brewery at Cape
Town with American machinery, costing
$500,000.
The Japanese Consul in New York
denies that his country will seek a war
loan here.
Anson Phelps Stokes, the young millionaire
pastor, is preparing for his
fr?t pastorate in New York.
Because he advised a comrade not
to engage in a duel, the Austrian military
Court of Honor has demanded the
resignation of Captain Count Ledo.
i nu n or. a.
The tax rate of Eoston. Mass.. has
teen fixed at $14.70, as against $13.10
last year. This is the largest rate
since 1885.
A celluloid collar worn by Nathan
Clausen, of Hempstead, L. I., caught
fire from a cigar and terribly burned
him
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. |
The South.
For participating in a triple lynching
W. B. Brooks was sentenced to
life imprisonment at Palestine, Texas.
Baltimore, 'Md., is for a second time
in partial darkness, the linemen's
tetrike having been revived.
The destructive Are in tne Dismal
Swamp is still burning on the southern
side of the great wilderness, where
none of Sunday's storm was felt. It is
doubtful whether it will be extinguished
until the fall rain sets in. Lumbering
men and neighboring railroads are
still suffering.
Charged with an intention to dynamic
the Italian parade in honor of
King Humbert Alexander Bresce, an
alleged Anarchist, was locek up at
Richmond, Va.
j The North.
The laying of the new German cable
to the Azores was started from Coney
Island. New York.
Anxious to avenge Pekia outrages
several soldiers stoned a Cli.ucse restaurant
at Chigago. Ill and two of thein
were locked up.
A 38-inch water main burst under
the sidewalk in front of the Hotel Tou
raine, at Boston, Mass., and the nooa
did $75,000 damage.
Sailing on the steamer Deuts;hland
from New York for Hamburg were '
Charlemagne Tower. United States '
Ambassador to St. Petersburg; John ;
Wanamaker, and B. Thomas, president
of the Erie Railroad.
In a jealous rage, C. S. Reighard. a
coal wagon driver, shot and killed his
wife at Toledo, 0., and then killed himself.
The Prohibitionists have plaoed a
full State ticket in the field in North
Dakota, headed by D. Carleton, fof
governor.
Frank Davis, a colored bootblack,
was shot and killed by 16-year-old
Henry Young on West Twenty-fifth St.,
New York.
George D. Jackson has declined to
accept the Congressional nomination
unanimously given him by the Demo
rrats of the Tenth Michigan district.
The breaking of a flange on a wheel
caused a trolley car at East Prcviflence
R. I. n plunge against a tree, and 12
per> were badly injured.
For., er State Senator John F. 0'Malley
>v?s acquitted at Chicajo. 111.,
of the : lu.rge of at tempting to kill former
Alderman William Syman.
Acting Mayor Guggenheimer lias appointed
ex-Judge Albert Goetting commissioner
cf charities'for the borough*
of Brooklyn and Kueen's, New -k.
To avoid being whipped by 1. parents.
fifteen-year-old Johajn.i Rcsg
ommitted suicide by drinking carbolic
acid at New York.
Charged with embezzling $950, Harry
R. Bond, late Cincinnati manager of
the Guaranty Title and Trust Company.
was arrested at Toledo, 0.
Foreign.
Lord and I-ady Minto will visit Daw on
soon.
The Canadian government will abol
ish the obnoxious ten per cent, royalty
on gold at Dawson and establish there
! an assay office.
While the British craiser Charybdig
was casting anchor in the Straits of
Belle Isle on Sunday Boatswain's
Mate Inglis was caught in the anchor
chain and torn to pieces.
Haiti has notified Washington that
she now requires payment of duties on
all imports from Santo Domingo.
A great demonstration was given t?
Sousa's Band at Munich.
A confirmed case of bubonic plague
was removed from a steamer at Ham*
burg.
Miscellaneous.
The India Famine Relief Fund, of
the New York Committee of one Hundred.
has reached $200,020.18.
Charged with insubordination, eight
sailors of the Briti-sh ship Kings County
are in irons aboard the ship at Pensacola,
Fla.
Miequel Patermo, who arrived at
New York on the Montserrat, from Havana.
on August 1. is declared to have
yellow rever or a mna rype.
The Interooeanic Canal Company has
failed to get an extension of time for
depositing witfc the Government of
Nicaragua $400,bdO and beginning the
construction of a railroad and canal.
The National Association of Democratic
Clubs will probably meet in InA
i o n n i a In/1 rV'tnl\or 10
Miaua^vino, iuuM vvtvwwt AV.
Several thousand peoole heard Blshrp
E. B. Kephart preach at the United
Brethren camp-mceting at Mt. Gretna.
Memorial services for King Hv.mtert
t f Italy were held in Carnegie Hall,
New York, by the United Italian societies
cf that city.
School Teacher Melville M. Wood
tried to rescue Miss Alma 0?borne
from drowning at Washington, Ind.,
end both were drowned.
Judge John H. Reagan, the only surviving
member of the Confederate Cabinet,
has resigned as chairman of the
Texas Railroad Commission, after six.
ty years of public life.
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ANOTHER NEWPARTY
Two Political Meetings in Progress at
Indianapolis.
DEATH OF C. P. HUNTINGTON.
Famous Railway Magnate and flultlMillionaire
Passes Away Unexpect^T
edly?Mis Life and Work.
Indinanapolis, Special. ? The first
day's session of the national Third
party convention was devoted entirely
to addresses, no formal action being
taken beyond the appointment of a
committee of three to confer with the
anti-imperialists. The sentiment among
the independents was strong
against the candidacies of both McKin
ley and Bryan. It is said a third ticket
will be the outcome, although there
Is a desire to combine with the antiImperialists,
if possible, and there is
scarcely a possibility of the anti-imperialists
nominating a ticket.
The convention of the "indepenents"
was calle to order in the Commercial
Club rooms by Thomas M Osborne,
of Auburn, N. Y. The number of delegates
was not large, but enthusiasm
was plentiful. Mr. Osborne stated that
the committee calling the convention
was appointed in July. "We have chosen,"
he said, "to be known temporarily
at least by the name of the National
Party. Both the old parties have
grown'selflsh and corrupt. We are here
to compromise not only in matters of '
judgment, but in matters of conscience
In place of Lincoln, Sumner, and Ch.ise
we have McKinley, Piatt, and Hannu,
and in place of Tilden and Cleveland
and Russell we have Bryan. Altgtld
and Tlilman. We favor a platform
favoring anti-imperialism, sound money
and civil service reform. With
much of the movement of the anti-imperialists,
or "liberty congress," which
meets here, we are in sympathy, but to
the same time we want it understood
that we are entirely distinct and separate
from them."
Louis R. Ehrich, of Colorado Springs,
Col., was then nresented 2s temnorarv
chairman of the convention. Mr. Khrich
was frequently applauded during
the reading of his address.
A Raiiro.id Alagnate Gone.
Racquette Lake, N. Y., Special.?C.
P. Huntington, president of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company, died at
his camp. Pine Knot, in the Adirondaeks,
at about midnight. Heart dis.
ease was the direct cause of death. Afns
parently well on retiring at 11 o'clock,^
he was taken suddenly with a choking
spell, which was quite common with
him and which was not thought to be
serious, but he became worse. As soon
as the seriousness of the attack wad
realized, a mesenger was dispatched
to the neighboring camp of Governor
Lcnasberry, for a doctor, and he was
uu uaau IU iioii au uuui. mi. 111111tington
died without regaining conaciousness,
not more than three-quartere
of an hour having passed between
the attack and his death. Mrs. Huntington
and Mr. Huntington's secretary.
O. E. Miles, were at his bedside
at the time of ueath.
A Man of Million*.
New York, Special?Mr. Huntington's
death had little effect on the
general stock market. .Even nis own
stocks, chief among which was Southern
Pacific, were hlrdly disturbed.
Some large lots of Southern Pacific
came out in the initial transactions,
bat they were promptly taken by
banking interests known to represent
the late mi.tionaire and as a result
the price of Southern Pacific soon
rallied from its one-point decline. It
seemed to be the general opinion of
those conversant with Mr. Hunting
ton's affairs tnat ne naa jert nis properties
in such shape aa to permit of
easy handling by others. Wall street
estimates the fortune of Mr. Huntington
at from $40,000,000 to $50,000,000.
5,139 Soldiers Sick In the Philippines.
Washington, D. C-. Special?General
MacArthur has cabled the war department
a brief statement concerning the
health of the troops in the Philippine*.
The number of sick in the hospitals is
set down at 3.86S. and in quarters at
1.261. making a total of 5.129 sick soldiers.
or 8.47 per cent, of the entire axmy
in th? archipelago.
Chaffee at flatow.
Washington, D. C., Special.?The Bureau
of Navigation has made public
tbe following dispatch:
"Taku, August 12.
"Ju&t receive undated from Chaffee:
'Matow yesterday; opposition of no ^
consequence yet; terrible heat; many-y
men prostrate. Please Inform Secretary
of War.' "Remey." "
Matow Is about 11 or 12 miles b'yond
Ho Si Wu. The road between Ho Si
Wn and Maf-nxc is Indicated on the
War Department map as the worst section
of the road between Tien Tsil ,
and Pekia.
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