The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 30, 1900, Image 2
THE COUNTY RECORD.
Pabliahed Every Thursday.
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UNG8TBEE. SOUTH CAROLINA.
?BT?
C. W. WOLFE .
Editor and Proprietor.
*jTfce crop experts variously estimate
tJw 'vheat crop of the Vnlted States
for 1000 at from 472.000.000 to 5:0,550,0)0
bushels, and the corn crop at
from 2,113.000.000 to 2.240.770,000
bushel.-*. This Is the most thrilling ce*
1 oIait tho vnor
ICU4 ciui jr vt %uv ^ vv>?
^Ihe United States Treasury Department
has officially ruled that tips to
sleeping-car porters are lawful aud
can he collected hack from the tJoverumeut
in a bill of expenses. Custom
long ago settled it that the sleeping-ear
porter shows no quarter where
no quarter is shown to him.
1 The greatest migration that history
has recorded is that of the European
races during the century now closing.
Up to 1820 only about 2T?0.000 foreigners
moved to the United States, which
has many fold surpassed all the rest
of America in accessions to its popu
lation through immigration; but betwwn
1820 and 1882 more than 17.000,000
Europeans left their homes
for the Americas aud other parts of
the new world.
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With all the emphasis laid upon the j
desirability of success, no hard and
fast rules have ever been formulated
for winning it. No absolute standard
is set up, the nearest approach to it
being that a man must surpass his fellows
in the attainment of objects, the
apparent value or importance of which
may be readily recognized by mankind.
Many a man dies without recognition
after a life of persistent industry.
Others who have gained all knowledge
fflron tfinir 1 iv? Q fo 1 ll f*
Vi V> UU ? <r ru < uv it .. .>.v
development of a single branch of
science, disappear equally unknown,
while the charlatan climbs up to success,
observes the New York Observer.
It is seriously represented by a Brlt'
. kh scientific paper that a jrutti percha
fsminp is threatened for which the -
game of golf Is responsible.: (iutta j
percha Is the only submarine cable j
insulator that has yet proved satis- J
factory. The prospect of the oonstrue- ;
Hon of n Pacific cable has started the i
Inquiry Into a supply of the material ,
and the causes for the threatened
shortage, <>olf bails. It is said, use ,
up enough gutta pereha annually to
insulate an Atlantic cable. As the !
game of golf is growing in favor, it
may l>e necessary for economic rca- j
?ons to adopt some other material for
the manufacture of the bulls used lu
it.
The latest returns of the British ;
Board of Agriculture show that the
farmers of the United Kingdom are
suffering heavily from the competition
of other nations. Their products
do not fetch remunerative prices in
their hoiue markets. Importations of
wheat, butter, eggs, game and similar
y.rticlcs are large, lsecause these article's
are sold more cheaply than the I
British farmer can produce them,
while the important item of meat is
now brought into the country at the |
ration of 11300 tons a dav. Nor does
it help the British farmer that so
many of bis former employes have
tn tt.#? w>;r nud thus rendered
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labor scarce.
Though the introduction of trolley
cars <lc? rc3.sc?l the demand for draught
!
horses, this decrease was only temporary.
The growth of u&tional popu-}
lation nr.d the consequent largo in- i
crease of land under cultivation must |
create an increased demand for utility I
horses, to say nothiug of the new re- |
oulreaients for such animals for local i
transportation in towns and cities.
T?nt i!ir? iii.ir'-ct for horses used for !
purposes of health, pleasure, reercu-'
Hon and sport is constantly becoming
more active, and tbe demand increases '
,.Vpry year, especially in spring and i
summer, when city people flocl: to tbe ;
rural regions. In this connection tire '
recent sale of Flying Fox for the j
equivalent of $1S7,500, the highest j
price ever paid for a horse, is highly'
?tiggtslive.
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NO MORE TROO
Our Government Will
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THINKS THEY ARE NOT NEEDED.!
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Those Now on the Way Will Be Sent
to the Philipplnes--Programme
.lade Public.
Washington. Special.?The important
development in the Chinese situation
is the decision of the government
not to send any more troops to China.
All the troops now at sea. amounting
to about 4.000. together with thcss under
orders for service in the far East
which have not sailed, amounting to
about 3,000 more, will be sent to Mainla.
These troops will sail on the
same route and upon touching at Nagaski
will go on to Manila, unless
there are developments in China not
now expected which would make their
presence in that country necessary.
Secretary Root says that no more
troops are being sent to China because
they were not needed. With the arrival
at Taku of the Hancock and the
troops she carried Gen. Chaffee will
" AAA qvo!!qK1o mon txrfi i;
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thought to be sufficient for all present
purposes. The decision of the department
was not based upon any recommendation
made by Gen. Chaffee, but
upon reports received by him, which
made jt appear that no more troops
were meded. The announcement of
the diversion of troops was made in
the following official bulletin which
was posted at the War Department
Friday morning:
"The government has decided that
unless required by future developments
no more troops are to be sent to China.
Orders have accordingly been cabled to
Naga.-ki for the Meade, which is due
there to-day with four troops Third
Cavalry, four companies Fifteenth Infantry
and Co. E. battalion of engineers.
to proceed directly to Manila.
Similar orders will be given to the
other troops which are under orders for
China via Nagaski."
It was stated at the department that
the encouraging condition in China
was the main reason why the orders
regarding the troops were issued. Besides
the troops on the Meade, there is
now at sea the Warren, with two
squadrons of the Ninth Cavalry and
recimits:, the Sherman, with one battalion
each of the Second. Fifth and
Eighth Infantries. The Logdn is to
sail-on Sort. I witb two battalions qf
the First and one battalion of the S ctnfsTifrv
It was said at the d:
rartmeiu that 6,000 or 7,000! troops
would bp affected by the order.
A dirpctch has been received .from
Gen. Chaffee, dated Pekin, Aug. IS.
wfrfch was not in'response to the request
ser.t him a few days ago to report
the ronditions and renuirements.
Gen. Chaffee did not report further
fighting in Pekin. and for that reaeon
the Washington officials feel assured
that hostile demonstrations in the
Chinos* capital have ceased. The dispatch
related largpl.v to transportation
conditions and stated that the railroad
between Taku and Pekin cannot b?
used at the present time, as portions
u honn do-itrnved bv the Chi
cese. Gen.Chaffoe will ro-ore_ate wi h
the other commanders in China in reconstructing
the road for the use cf
the allied forces. Gen. Chaffee also reported
that the telegraphic line which
was constructed by the signal corps
from Tien Tsin to Pekin is frequently
interrupted, being cut, probably by
hostile Chinese.
At a conference at the White House
in which the President. Secretary Root
and Acting Secretary Adee partic p*iled.
careful instructions were prepared
for Mr. Rockhill. the United States special
commissioner to China, to be for
warded at once to him for his guidance
The State Department received
a dispatch from Mr. Rockhill. dated at
Yokohama, briefly announcing his a:rival
there. This brottght about th
White Hou-e conference and the preparation
of instructions.
Omaha on the Wane.
Washington. D. C. Special.?Omaha.
Neb , is the first city thus far counted
in the twelfth tensus to show a decrease
in the population during the
past decade. The count of the popula
tica of Omaha just completed shows
102.555. The paulation in 1893 war,
140.452. This incll.-a( 8 a decease in
ten years of 37,897, or 28.98 per cent.
Admiral Remey's Dispatch.
Washington, I). C., Special.?Admiral
Remey's dispatch is as follows:
"Che Fu. Aug. 21, Taku, 20.
"Die-kins' command is landing today.
Pekin, lt?th all except imperial city
clearc-d of Chinese troops. American
troops first to enter imperial city, have
penetrated to the gates of the palace.
Captain Reilly. with artillery, killed
on 15th. Morning 11th, bixth Cavalry
and about 400 English and Japanese
dispersed 1,000 Boxers eight miles outside
of Tlen-Tsin. About 100 Chinese
killed, five Americans woun-ed. Chaffee
loses six killed, 30 wounded, two
days' fighting. REMEY."
PS FOR CHINA.
Not Send Any More
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FITZSIMONS THE VICTOR.
Docs Up ?harkey in Greet Shape and
Short Order.
New York, Special.?Whipped into
; insensibility in less than two rounds,
is the story in brief of Tom Sharkey s
meeting with Bob Fitzslmmons, at the
Coney Island Sporting Club, Friday
night. Fitzsimmons was the victor,
: Sharkey the loser. Fitzsimmons said
1 all along that when an opportunity
prevented itself he would prove conclusively
that he was Sharkey's superior,
and settle accounts for the ir.
justice done him when he met Sharkey
in California, four years ago. Sharkey
was equally confident that he
would prove to be Fitzsimmons' master
in the ring, but the result of the
battle and the brevity of it, proved
j that Fitzsimmons is still a great fighter,
and able to beat the best of the
heavy-weights. He has teaten Corbett.
Ruhlin and Sharkey. Fitzsimmons
was a decided favorite in the
betting, owing to his snowing with
Ruhlin a short time ago. His defeat
of Ruhlin on that occasion and the
previous victory of ltuhlin over Sharkey
a few weeks earlier were figured
as showing that Fitzsimmons ought to
whip the sailor on this occasion.
When Fitzsimmons was declared the
winner the crowd surged toward the
ring but the police got ahead of tuem
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and drove mom uucn. r lu^iuiniuim
was congratulated by those nearest iils
corner and then he ran over and
grasped Sharkey by the gloved hand
Fitzsimmons almost danced with delight
when stepping back from Sharkey's
corner, and as he went to bin
dressing room he was loudly cheered.
Sharkey in the meantime had recovered
very quickly from his punishment
and was ahle to leave the ring as scon
as Fitzsimmons.
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300 Boxers Killed.
London, by Cable.?Five hundred
Americans participated in a signal defeat
of Boxers, outside of Tien-Tsin
on August 19. The fact is briefly re:
ported from Vienna. Details of the engagement.come
from the Reuter agent
at Tine-Tsln, in a dispatch dated Aitgust
20. In addition to the Americans
the forre consisted of 37r> British rnd
200 Japanese, all under the- British
Genera] Dorward. The fight took place
at a village six miles southeast of
Tien-Tsln, where the alli-d force;
found a consicleioble number of Boxers,
whom they engaged, killing over
200 and taking 64 wounded prisoners,
who were sent to the "hospitals of the
allies. The village was burned. Th?
Americans had five wo tnded. the Japanese
six and the British none. Hundreds
of Boxers' flags, spears and
swords were captured.
Looting Pekin.
London, by Cable.?The Pekin correspondent
of the Times, wiring last
Saturday, says: "Pekin is now entirely
under foreign control. Looting i?
proceeding systematically. The h rencn
and Russian flag? are flying over the
foe-t portion of the imperial domain,
where it is believed the imperial treasure
is buried. The Forbidden City is
. resoected by international agreement
and any punishment will be inefecthe
unless it is occupied. The Japanese
have seized a doard amounting to f0>.000
taels silver. The Emperor, Empress
Dowager. Prince Tuan ar.d all
the high officers escaped to Tai Yuan
Fu. in the Province cf Shan Si. from
which point they went to Sian Fu.
There is no governor."
Philadelphia's Population.
Washington. D. C.. Special.?The
population of the city of Philadelphia,
according to the official count of the
returns of the Twelfth Census, is 1,293.G97
in 1900. against 1,046,904 in
1S90. The figures show, for the city
a.s a whole, an increase in populatrbn
; of 246,733. or 23.57 per cent, from lSW
to 1900.
Telegraphic Briefs.
One thousand delegates are attending
the Farmer.-:' National Congees at
Colorado Springs, Col.
The entire south side of Long Island,
N. Y.. has become a prey to pestiferous
1 fleas and red ants.
Fourteen persons were injured by the
overturning of a runaway tro'.ley car.
at Cleveland, O.
The 2.000 striking vestmakers in New
York City won compliance with their
demand for union wages and a 10-bour
day.
General Randall, commanding troops
in Alaska, has been 'ordered to send
home sick and destitute miners, 8,000
In number, from Cape Nome^
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. j
The South.
In the Po^ere-Goetel murder c-6 the
jury found the defendant guilt) 5
and fixed hi-! punishment at life im
prisonment.
The Kentucky Prohibition State con
venticn has nominated for Governo
John D. White, cf Manchester, Cla;
county, fjrmerly a Kepuwu-an con
grossraan from the Eleventh district. ^
The motion f;r a new trial in th?
case of Caleb Powers. ex-Assi-tan
Secretary cf State, convicted of com
plicity in the assassination cf the late
Governor Goebel. was filed with Judge p
Cantri:l at Georgetown, Ky., Wednea- %
day. e
Tazwell. Va.. Special?A wreck ai 11
Maxwell, six miles from here on the *
Norfolk and Western Railroad, resulted
in the death of two men and the 0
wounding cf seven others. The dead
are: Engineer W. 0. Allen and Fire- c
man M. B. Marshall.
s
H. M. Wilkinson and Miss Josephine e
Packard, of Dover. Delaware, were ar- j
rested in Atlanta, the latter is tli'
sister of the former's wife whom he (
desettc-d for his sister-?n-law. ,
The North.
The Indian famine relief fund at 7
New York has reached $212,079.34. ,
Frederick Scharn. brother of Kath- r
ryn Scharn, the young girl who wa? i
murdered in her apartments in New 1
York city Saturday night, and Ei-en- t
price, said to be the girl's lover, wr-r:
arraigned and held by the corconer. <
The police no longer think robbery th< t
cause of the crime. The young womm 1
had been leading a double life and the *
detectives think that a man she had i
met at a danc? hall may have killed j
her. i
Sol B'oora. a music publisher, in Chi- (
cago. brought suit for SoO.OOO dam- (
ages against the Union restaurant and
hotel, in Randolph street for refusing ]
to serve nim while he was clad in a j
shirt waist minus a coat.
George Ferris, principal owner cf j
the Ferris-Haegerty mine, was thrown \
from his buggy at Saratoga, Wvo., and (
killed. 1
On the ocasion of his 70th birthday
Isaac B. Kleinert. of New York, sent 1
a check for $7000 to the Hebrew Union 1
College, at Cincinnati. 0. 1
Professor John Craig, head of the
department of horticulture in the Iowa
Agricultural College, has resigned tj
accept a similar position in Cornell <
University, Ithaca, N. Y. ,
A man claiming to be John W. Gra- i
ham, cf Irving.on-on-the-Hudson, N. i
Y., who insanely imagines he is to i
marry Mies Helen Gould, has been
locKed up at Indianapolis, Ind.
/ Washington, D. C., Special.?The
new Alabama sailed Tuesday from '
Philadelphia for New York on her way 1
to the New England coast, where she
is to have her initial trial trip between
Cape Ann and Cape Porpoise, the early
part of next week.
Four thousand operatives are thrown > ,
out of work by the temporary closing
Of cotton mills in the State of Maine.
The census returns show the population
of Greater New York as 2.437.202,
an increase in ten years of 37.9 per 1
cent. i
Foreign.
Assistant Surgeon F. E. Trotter, the j
juarantnie omrer ai v^ituiuejus. vuua,
in a cablegram received by the Marine
Hospital Service, says that a case of
yellow fever was removed from a hotel
tt Cienfu^os Saturday, and isolated *
jutside of the city.
The Viceroy of India, Lord Curzan,
ielegrapbs that the heavy general rain- :
fall has continued in most of the affected
districts.
Sohekib Bey, head of the cipher bu- i
reau of the Foreign Office, ha 3 been ,
appointed Turkish minister to the I'ni- ,
ted States in place of Ali Ferrouh Bey, 1
recalled. I
a oemcnt trust is organizing in Ger- !
many.
Textile industries in Germany are ,
deteriorating. 2,000 operatives being ,
idle at Aacben. ,
Germany has begun the direct im- 1
portation of South African Wool, ow- ]
ing to the Boer war. 1
The folice of our government has
not been changed in the cipture of Pc- !
kin as to its demands in China.
Although the foreign troops have en- i
tered Pekin. it is possible that they ]
may still have fighting to do within
the city.
The British press are very laudatory ;
of the efficient official intelligence of J
the American authorities regarding affairs
in China. '
.Miscellaneous.
A band of n arked brigands, operating
near Rome, have recer.t y robbed
a number of tourist?, killing one
A Papal communication. issuc-d at t
Rome, condemns and forbids the rcci- .
tation in Catholic churches or the .
Queen Dowager Margherita's prcyer
in memory of King Humbert.
A Cuban delegation had a confer- /
ence with President McKlnley on the
subject of an independent government *
for their island. t
Fourteen hundred Cuban school
teachers visited Washington. Tbey c
were received by the President and t
spent the day sigbt-seiDg. I
HOB IN OHIO TOWN!
forms The Jail and Court House and
Creates General Pandiraonium.
HOB DETERMINED TO KILL .4 NEGRO
Vho Had Confessed to An Assault on
a White Girl ?Two Killed artd_qfp
Number of People Wounded.
Akron, Special.?When day dawnd
in Akron Thursday morning it reealed
a scene of desolation and the
vldcnces of violence and lawlessness
npsrallelled !n the history of this o.ty.
'he rioters had dene their wOrk and
iad disappeared. One child was lying
old in deatii(and nearly a soere of
icople were suffering from the woun s
if pistol balls, buckshot and missiles.
The city building was a heap cf
mouldering ruins arid be = i;le it s:tamd
the water-soaked ashes of Columbia
tall.
At 6 o'clock the crowds beg^n to in rease
as the curious spectators buried
to the scene of the trouble. A poiceman
appeared and then another,,
imid at first, but with increasing sslurance
as no violence was offered.
Then Co. C, cf Canton, a de.achment
)f the gallant Eighth Ohio rsgim nt,
narc'ned down the st-eet from the train
ind halting fcef;re the ruins of the
juildine, was at once set to pair: Hog
he fire lines.
There was no evidence of ill will or
li.squiet on the part of the crowds at
he lines. There was no talked of vioen:e.
as the turbu'eat elemsnt had
sunk away with the coming of daylight
ind order was once more fully restored
ifter an awful night of terror and anirchy.
At 6.30 o'clock Thursday morning
7o. C, Eighth regiment, of Canton, unier
command cf Captain A. Fisher, arrived
in Akrcn under riot orders. The
soldiers were met in the Valley depot
by Mayor Young and a party of city
officials. They wrre marched immediately
to the scene of the rioting. As
the troops marched tip the main thoroughfare
hisses and groans were
beard.
At 9.20 nine companies of the Fourth
regiment arrived in the cltv and
marched to the scene of the night's
rioting.
Shortly before 10 o'clock Mayor W.
E. Ycuug issued a proclamation closing
every saloon in Akron until, further
orders. One killed, one fatally
Injured is the result cf the mob's work,
j'.en Wade was chot and alrao-t instantly
killed. He was in the mob and
i bullet from the revolver cf a policeman
in the city hall struck him. The
lad was enly 11 years of age.
Another innorent who will die is
Rhoda Davidson, the seven-year-old
[laughter cf Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Davidson.
Sitting in a carriage with hfr ,
mother and father cn the outskirts ojL^
the mob. 2 stray bullet struck hfr ii^
the head. No hope is held out for her
recovery.
The resistance shown by the police
officers and city officials in the city
hall only served to lash the ruob Into
greater frenzy. Failing in its efforts
to foi'-e an entrance into the e:ty hail
a portion of the n.ub ran to the store
of the Standard Hardware Co. on Main
street, about cue and a ha!f bl xk.-t'roni
the scene of theriotine. Revolvers.
rifles. shotguns, razors and thousands
of rounds cf ammunition wer:
ta!?en, and will; tv.e-e weapons u:e i:;ui
returned to the city ha!!, where the
city officials were harranguing the
mob.
Adjoining the city hall, which wa?
constructed almost entirely of bri. k
was an immerse building which fot
many years past was the principal
public hall of Akron. This building
was set afire. The various fire companies
responded to the alarm, but the
mo'j refused :o permit them to work.
Columbia hail was som a ruin, but tht
city hall was yet standing. Fltning
embers were thrown into the nifT rent
rooms nd the building was soon burning.
Some of the more thoughtful one*
in the mob liberated .he prisoners from
the 'oils below the' hall.
A stick ofdynamlte was thrown into
the front rf the burning building. A
terrific crash followed and portions ol
the wall crumbled away like dust before
a trpeze. Another charg? was exploded
and the work of devastation
was completed.
$100,000 to Educate Colored Teachers
Norwich, Com.. Special.?be will of
Moses Pierce, the cotton manufacturer,
[caves a trust fund of $100,000 to the
American Missionary Society, of New
i'ork city, to be known c.s the "Edwin
\filrr.3n P:e:;e fund." the income to be
;sed for educating teachers far core.
ron s< hoots nracr.g the colored people
n the South.
Gone to the Penitentiary.
Cleveland. 0.. Special.?Louis Peck,
he colored man who last Monday
vening assaulted four-year-old Chrisina
Maas. at Akron, and whose crime
s responsible for the fearfur rioting S
bat occurred at Akron. Wednesday'
light and Thursday morning, was Friiay
afternoon taken from toe jail at
Cleveland where he had been removed
or safety, rushed to Akron, taken to;
he court house, and within five minite-s
after his arrival in .\kron waa
unvicted of the crime and was sen-,
enced to the penitentiary for life at
lard labor.