The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 11, 1901, Image 7
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.
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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.
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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." __ . . _ , ]
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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.
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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.
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