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FOURTH IN MANILA. United States Establishes a Form c? Civil Government. Gat. TArT DELIVERS A SPEECH. The Advisory Board to Contain Some Natives?! he Personnel of the Provincial Cab.net. 4 Manila. By Cable?Civil government In the Philippines was auspiciously inaugurat 1 Thursday. Commissioner Taft "as escorted by Genera! Mae-Arthur and General Chaffee from the pai ace to a great i .nporary tribune on the opi Ah side of the Plaza Palacio. Standing c:\ a projectlag centre of the tribune. Mr. Taft took the oath of cilice as civil governor of the Philippine Island?, the oath being adminisicied by Chief Justice Arellano. Governor Taft v:as then introduced by Genera! MacArthur. the guns of Fort Santiago be.ng fired by way of a salute. A feature of th inaugural address of Governor Taft w:.s th? announcement that on Scptemi'. r 1, lf'01. the commission would be increased by th? appointment of three native members. Dr. Wardo Detavera. Benito Legarda and Jcs. E. Lazuriaga. Before the 1st ol September, departments will be instituted as follows, the heads being members of the United States Philippine commission: Interior. Worcester; Commerce and Police, Wright; Justice anc Finante. Ide: Public Instruction. Moses. Of the twenty-seven provinces organized. Governor Taft said the insurrection still exists in five. This w.l! cause th? continuance of the military government in those sections. Sixteen additional provinces are reported without insurrections, but as yet they have not been organized. Four provinces are not ready fo: civil government. Quiet Fourth in Washington. Washington, Specail.?Washington celebrated the quietest Fourth of July for many years. This is due to the fact that the regulations controling the discharge of fireworks have been more strictly enforced than heretofore. The orders prohibited the shoot-^ ing of firecrackers before 6 o'clock and' the explosion of large crackers at all. The President spent the greater part of the day with Mrs. ^IcKinley. The day was an exceptionally quiet one at the executive mansion. Big Celebration in New Orleans. New Orleans. Special.?New Orleans started the century by celebrating the Fourth of July in moat approved style. The display of bunting was lavish and f.re-works were in evidence. All business was suspended for the first time in years. There was a great free festival at City Park with military fea^ tures and patriotic speeches and clerks, grocers, drummers, street railway men and others conducted large festivals. Torrid Heat Continued. New York. Special.?The hot wave is writing another tale of death on the records. A brief electric storm accompanied by a few drops of rain gavt some relief at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. but it was only temporary. Between midnight an 1 noon forty-fivt deaths from the heat were reported tc the police, and there were prostrations tnnumeroaie. l'p to midnight the total number oi deaths from the boat during the pas: six days was 370.. By comparison the number of people killed in the battle o.' Santiago was ?65. wounded in the sam< battle 450. Pittsburg. Special. ? Eightv-s> deaths, due to the excessive Heat, have occurred here up to Friday mornini since iast Wednesday. Philadelphia. Special.?Friday the total number of death from heat in this city since the beginning of the presen? hot spell is ninety-one. Boston. Special.?During the six d3y.of excessive heat which have prevailed in New Eng'an 1. le.'ore Thursday nearly orr hundred deaths have occurred hich have been attributed to the weather conditions. Hotel Burned. Pnrlmrj Vn Snpcial.?About XTTVt OJ'i * v*., A 10.45 o'clock Wednesday night as the guests were retiring a fire broke out in the Homestead Hotel between the lloors and totaily destroyed the hotel. All the cottages connected with the hcrtel and 1 ath house were saved. Th<: impression at first prevailed that the fire broke cut in the bakery, but from further investigation it was a defective electric wire which caused the blaze. There were about 120 guests in the heusw. Nobody was injured and every one was taken care of. The guest? had ample time to move their baggage. The hotel was insured for E!ec!r?c Cottof! fliil. Columie. Ga.. Special.?The Columbus Maculae-luring Cm.-pony's nc1 "o.Oito sp.'.i !k- cotont mill was forme. IP started July 4. with elaborate cere monie*. This mill is the first in Geor gia to be operated exclusively by electric power. Its power is obtained from the falls of the Chattahoochee The mill is to manufacture brown sheetings :'cr the trade cZ the fa East. j CUAilAt-SyUAA iiOKLi i ? Died at His Home Near Orangeburg Saturday Morning. j Orangeburg, Sj>:rial.? The death of CeagreSitr.an J. William Stoks. whi-h ccrurred at his home near this ei.y Saturday morning at 3 o'clcck, was u : great shcr'j to the whole commun ty. [though not unexpected; fcr it was j known several days aao that little if any hope was entertained of his fi.ral V _ , , ,1.- ,15-, in- I recovery. Me nau ueew j:i >:< > health l'cr months, yet his <i:siro to ! serve his constituency cause;! hir.i to | forget self and continue at his official j work until a short time since wh< r. he i was forced by weakness to give up a!! ! g: his labors. His private eecretuy ! was 1: ought here, however, and attc-nI ded to all matters of pressing iniporj tance. In the death of Dr. Stokes til" State; and county have lost a good citizen. | He was enterprising and pushing, and j in church and matters of State, h > had drawn to himself thousands of faithful friends who will sorrow a: his j untimely taking off. He was unosten{tatious and faithful to every duty; and while it may be said with truth that i ;t one time in his political career ha | had many opponents of his advancej ment in his native county, it can be as : truthfully asserted now, that a: the time of his death there were few who opposed him, si closely had he identilied himself with the people by his | faithful service as a congressman. Congressman Stokes leaves surviving him wife, and mother, and ono brother. Rev. Edwin Stckes, of 'he j South Carolina conference, SI. E. i church, south, and two sisters, Mi-s s , Anna and Lula. To all of these gi cut ; the unfeigned sympathies of a sorrow- i ing people. The time for the funeral has been : fixed for Monday, 11 o'clock n. m., at i the Methodist church. The deputy ; sergeant-at-arms arrived here Sunday i and the congressional committee came Monday morning. SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. Congressman J. William Stokes was born in Orangeburg county in 1S53. After attending the public schools he was graduated from the Washington and Lee University with hign honors. After graduation he taught school as principal of the Lincoln county, Teutipbspp school for two yeais. Then -.t the age of 27 he decided to study medicine and entered Vanderbilt university for that purpose, completing the course. While at Vanderbilt he taught a school near Nashville. At his graduation he won high honors and won from among 3S contestants a medal offered for the beit on a medical subject. Though offered the superintendency of a fine school in Mississippi he came home and practiced medicine for a year. Finally, the offer being bettered, he did go to Mississippi and took charge of the schools at Corinth, remaining there six years. Then Lin ooln county 8 scnoois neeneu nun again and he accepted the superintendencv for a period of five years. At the end of the first year, however, h" was cailed home to take charge of his. father's estate. Dr. Stokes soon became greatly interested In aericuliural matters and fell into the farmers' alliance with his whole soul, first organizing a sub aliance, then the county alliance, and later on purchasing and running The Cotton Plant in June 1S90. He ran the paper for some time. Still later he became State organizer for the alliance in its palmy days and was president of the organization for some time. In the general election In 1S90 he was sent by his county to the State Senate. Prom the sentae he went to Congress. His career theTe, particularly his persistency In the matter of the rural free delivery system. Is known to all. ' In 1SS1 Dr. Stokes married Miss E. L. Lauders. of payetteville. Tenn. As teacher, doctor, farmer, editor and official Dr. Stokes was successful. Brief flentlon. Crazed by heat, F. A. Bracketi 1 Ul- J w: ? + TA^r, Kineu ms wiie aiiu uuuscn at Moines. Ia. Corwin H. Spencer will probably be made director general of the World's Fair at St. Louis. Mo. Several persons were injured in a collision between a locomotive and a trolley car at Buffalo. X. Y. Senator Mark Hanr.a is on his way from Cleveland. O.. to New York, where it is said he will visit J. P. Morgan. Former Lieutenant Governor of Indiana Mortimer Nye was stricken with paralysis while speaking at Union .Mills, Inu. Guy Monnott, an employe of the Adams Express Company, killed him soli at Bucyrus. O.. lather than fare a shortage of S5 )?. By the overturning of a boat, James Reagan and William Waller were drowned in the Harlem River at New York. Temporary insanity, induced by heat, led P. A. Conkev to kill John Bryant and his son at Albany, Mo.. and to then attempt suicide. 1 DAWES RESIGNATION Conrptrollcr of the Currency to Run For the Senate, LETTER TO PRESIDENT M'RINLEY. Declares lie Ccidd Not riake His Canvass and Hold His O.fice at the Same Time. Washington. D. C.. Special.?Comptroller of the Currency Dawes has tendered his resignation to the President to ta'io effect October 1. .Mr. Dawes resigns his office in order to enter the Illinois senatorial contest this fall Mr. Dawes' term of office would not have expired until January 1, 11'03. His letter to the President is as f elo'vs: "Washington, b C.. Jr.lv 3. 1901. 'Wia Ai. Ainie.v. l.r.nniivr Mansion. Washington. D. C.: "oir: In view of the Incl that I will I?v a ',t.:.ii'la;e ior the "nJte*l States Senate from Illinois. I hereby tender my resignation as Comptroller the Currency to take effect October ] eit. Respectfully. -CHAS. G. DAWES." In answer to an inquiry, Mr. Dawes, in -it h s.iin "l have **e-ag:iC".l her ar.se of my intention to be a candidate before* the people of Illinois for the United States Senate. It would not bo possible for me during the next yenr to make a canvass for the Senate r.nd at the same time administer to my own satisfaction the important and responsible office 1 now hold. I am influenced solely in this action by what seems to me the plain proprieties or tne situation." Mr. Dawes entered the office of Conipstroller of the Currency January 1, 1S9S, succeeding James H. Eckles, and was immediately confronted by the situation in the Chestnut Street National Bank, of Philadelphia, which was one of the most complicated ever confronting a Comptroller. He found it necessary in the interest the creditors of the bank to oppose the general plan of a re-organization committee formed of prominent citizens of Philadelphia and for a time he was severely criticised therefor. His plan was followed, however, and it is now recognized as having saved to the creditors of the bank a lien upon other property which was not contemplated by the re-organization committee from which they probably will realize over $1,000,000. One oi' his first o-ders after entering rftir.e stopped the practice of the employment of rational bank examiners fcr the private examination of banks. Early in his term he made a ruling levying a second assessment upon stockholders of the defunct banks where the assessment had been less than the law authorized, and he established the practice of rebating to stockholders s uch portions of the prior assessment as was determined by further liouidation to have been excess under the law. This ruling changed the lens established practice of the office and was upheld by the courts, practically without exception Comptroller Dawes also organized a system of consolidation of insolvent banks in the last stages of liquidation in the interests cf dbonomy, so that at the present time 37 receiverships are being administered by two receivers with gr tally reduced expenses. He also uniformly hastened the liquidation of insolvent banks. Upon entering office the fag ends largeiy of the national bank failures of the 1893 panic were still undisposed of. During the last four years he has colle'cted $25.000.000 cash from these assets which covered every description of property. Owing to the passage of the law of March 4, 1900, the national banking system of the country has greatly increased. During his administration he lias created 785 brinks. The ? sutler .i.u.om! banks now under nis purct vi<sMii is 4,0?i4, having assets of $5,030,704,367. Cashier and Chief Clerk Suspended. San Francisco. Special.?No arrests have been made in connection with the recently discovered shortage of $?.0,0o0 in the mint. Government officials working on the case refus? to state their theories as to what became of the gold. Cashier Cole and Chief Clerk Dimmick. of the mint, were <-usponded freni duty, pending the outsome cf the investigation. Telecranhic Driers. The Virginia Constitutional Convention took a recess until Tuesday next. Hon. William J. Bryan delivered his lecture on "A Conquering Nation" at Bristol. Joseph Jenkins, of King George county, Va.. died of sunstroke. Mr. John M. Sherwood, assistant treasurer of the Seaboard Air Line Railway, died in Portsmouth. The Homestead Hotel, the price. hotel at Hot Springs. Va., was desttoved by tire. The guests escaped unharmed. Two men were killed and four wounded in a riot of striking miners at Telluride, Colorado. A.','J './ . lUMIIiU.l ur Warmth and Hoisture Have Made Aluch Smnrovemjnt The week ending Monday, July 1st, averaged slightly warmer than usual, with a maximum temperature cf 102 at P.atesburg on the 25th and a minimum of CO at Cheraw ot: the 27th. The temperature was generally favorable lor the growth and development of field crops. and there was about the usual amount of sunshine. High winds caused Home damage to torn on the 27:h. There were numerous s attere.l showers throughout the week, generally light. Lut heavy in places, w.th a maximum rainfall of 2.10 inches in Pickens county. Cultivation made fair progress where the rainfall was light, but much land remains' too wet to cultivate, and many fields continue to be grassy, although much grass was killed during the week. There are compiaint? of the ground becoming very hard as it dries. Damage by hail* occurred in Abbeville, Bamberg, Barnwell, Newberry and Saluda counties, and light hail was reported from a few points. There are numerous reports of corn and cotton fields being abandoned on account of their foul condition and the cost and difficulty of cleaning them. There was a general improvement in the condition of cotton, greatest on red lands that could be worked and in the sea-island section, while on sandy !an's the plants continue to die to some extent, and generally are not thriving. Cotton is unusually small for the season, but has begun to bloom in places, although as yet it is fruiting sparely. The general condition of cotton continues to be unpromising. On low-lying land3 it is decidely off color. The condition of <orn varies greatly, although generally poor over the eastern half of the State, where it is being laid by. Upland corn looks 'well over the western counties, but cn bottom:? it was almost entirely destroyed and v now being replanted to some' extent. Planting stubble lands to corn is also underway. Ofer the greate? portion of the to- i hacco regions, the plants are backward and small, but in Kershaw county tobacco Is doing well. Cutting and curing made slow progress in Florence county. and has not been begun in other sections. Rice is generally thrlv.ng Wheat and oats are being thrashed, an l ' many correspondents report the yields the best in years..Oats were greatly damaged by rain after cutting, but the damage to wheat was slight. Minor crops are generally in a thriv- ( ing condition, but peaches and plums are rotting extensively as they ripen. Apples continue to drop. Pastures and ' gardens, with some exceptions, are fine. 1 On the whole, there is a marked im- i provement in the crop prospects, buf ( they are still reported discouraging. , New Enterprises. The secretary of State has issued a commission to the Bewley Hardware ' Company of Chester, which propose* 1 to do a wholesale and retail busines- ] on a capital stock of $10,000. The cor- 1 TA anrl I. R '< porators are w. u. dc Dawson. A commission was also issued ( to the Farmers' Trust society of Nin- ' ety-Six, which proposes to furnish ( weekly allowances to sick members 1 burial benefits, upon th? graduate) ' monthly assessment plan. The corpor- ' atoi3 are P. G. Graham. M. C. Johnson, ' Jahn PrlnVe, Wheeler Thompson, Wil- 1 lis Thompson and Bell Williams. ? The Eureka Building and Loan as- ( sociation of Georgetown was commis- 1 sioned Friday. The capital stock is to * be $150,000. payable e.i monthly instal- J meats. The corporators are Marks c Moses. J. B. Steele, Le *jrand G. Wal- 1 ker, L. S. E'nrich and S. S. Fraser. A charter was granted the Acme Drug Company of Anderson, which will do a wholesale business in medicines, I paints, oils, etc.. on a capital stock of t $40,000. R. S. Ligon is president. D. 1 A. Ledbetter is vice president, and J. t T. idgon secretary and treasurer. J t TELEGRAPHIC TERS1TIES. s In the United States Court at Wil- ^ mington Wednesday a petition was t made by the Morton Trust Companv c of New York, to foreclose a $150,000 t mortgage on the Wilmington Street * Railway Company. Judge PurneH s granted and appointed A. B. Skelding, ; general manager of the street railway I company, receiver. r The Alabama constitutional convention adopted the report of the committee on taxation, fixing the limit of taxation in the State at 6 cents on the ' tlOO. ? Violent storms have swept the north ^ west and southwest sections of ^ France, doing great damage to crops . gnd vineyards, especially in the neigh- v borhood of Bordeaux and Dijon, 1 v.herc considerable hail has fallen. 1 (iovernmement Works Guarded. New York, Special.?A special to the Tribune from Newport News., Va., says: "The government has stationed guards on all of its work at the shipyard as a precautionary measure dur- ; in.g the strike. On the new battleship Illinois, which will go into commission soon, tho monitor Arkansas and the battleship Missouri, men have been ' placed to protect the government's interests. These guards are additional ( to the shipyard's regular police force. * The machinists have decided not to re- 1 turn to work until their demands are ^ granted and the reports that the men would go back Monday are ground' ' less." __ . . _ , ] A A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE Visits the Town of Huntington, West T II "'Hid A LARGE HOTEL WAS BURNED. The Firemen Were Rendered Helpless Because There Was No Water in the Reservoir. Huntington. W. Vn.. Special.?A f:ro raged in the heart of this city from 11 o'clock Tuesday morning until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, resulting in a loss of $200,000. The flames started in the Adelphi Hotel from an electric wire on the fifth floor and had gained great headway before being discover eu. me noiei was crowded witn guest3 many of whom were women. Of these a number fainted when the alarm of flre rang through the halls and it was with great diffifficulty that they were removed from the building. Many attempted to leap from windows, but were prevented from doing so. Theru was not a gallon of water in the city reservoirs when the fire started and . all of the engines in the city were out of repair. The flames spread rapidly and soon half a dozen residences were on flre. The brick anne* to the Adelphi Hotel, on the other side of the square, also caught fire and was destroyed. This, as well as the hotel proper, was handsomely furnished. All is a total loss, together with a livery stable and a number of private offlces, fruit stores, barber shops and dozens of smaller structures. , The flre engines that were sent to the scene from surrounding town3 soon broke down and the flames spread rapidly and unhindered. Prostrations among the firemen were numerous, but none will result fatally. C. W. Yost, of Catlettsburg, was struck by a falling wall and his skull fractured. He is in a serious condition. ilachkiists have Won. Washington, D. C., Special.?President O'Connell, of the International Association of Machinists, said Friiay that he regarded the machinists' strike as practically won. "Even if in order should be issued at this time directing all men out to return to tvork on the old basis," h? said, "the nine-hour day would bo won." ConJnuing he said: "The movement had neen attended with every success,an J In many re&pects is the most remarkable atruggle on record. There ire now only 3,000 men out,, and igreements are being signed every lay reducing this number. It has not >e?n a strike. It has simply been a cessation of work. A strike, to tha nind of the public, means riot and jloodshed. The machinists have had lono of this. It is true there hav9 jeen one or two cases of assaults, but :hese are liable to occur at any time, J */v mfl. ID Q call U Lit UC I'UOi ?TT?U1V tvr uiw ;hlnists." The first financial aid to >e received by the machinists sfnca heir strike began v:as accepted by President O'Connell in the form of a :heck for $5,OGO from the American federation of Labor. . -y Defaulterer Escapes. Philadelphia, Special.?Wm. E. )ouglas3, until recently an assistant to he receiving teller in the Cuarantee rrust and Safe Deposit Company of his city, is a defaulter in the sum of 13,000, which Ices 13 covered by a BalJmore surety company. Douglass rerigned hLs position a' few weeks ago. [*he auditor of the trust company in he last monthly audit found the disreDamcv In Douglass' accounts, and at he request of the surety company vhich Is on hiaJbond, a warrant wa3 iworn out wHfc arrest. He vas ilaced under^BWflgtance. but escaped. 1o is a.bouttjK-. jWfB of age and onCornell Wins Boat Race. Poughkeepsie, N. T., Special.?The nter-colleglate boat races over Hudsen river course were decided as folows: 'Varsity eight, Cornell first, time 8:53 1-2; Columbia secoad, time, ,S:53: Wisconsin, third, time 19:06 4-5; leorgetown fourth, time 19:21. The >ost pre\ ious record of a 'varsity eight vas 19:44 3-5. No time was taken for tvracuse and Pennsylvania, who were nany lengths behind. In the 'varsity our Cornell was first, time 11:39 3-5; Pennsylvania second, time. 11:45 2-5; Columbia third, time 11:51 3-5. Tho >est previous record for this distance vas 10:31-1-5. Alabama Women Want to Vote. Montgomery. Ala., Sneria!.? A peti:ion was presented to the constitutionl1 convention by the ladies of Madison county, a.sking the right to vote at east in elections for schools, and vhero taxation is involved. The con .'entlon adopted the ten-minute rule r; 'or debate. It is expected that the suffrage article of the new constitu:ion will be taken up for discussion before the end of the week. 1 i