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FREE SILVER PARTY "The Progressive Democratic Party" The Name Selected. nominate a fill ticket in OHIO The Platform Adopted Calls For the Destruction of *41 he floney Trust, The Parent of All Trusts. " Columbus. O.. Special.?"The Pro^ gressive Democratic party" was or ganized here Wednesday. The attendance was so small that many doubted at first whether an attempt would he made to hold a State convention, less than a dozen men being in attendance. Features cf. the platform were the following: Laudation ot Bryan and the reaffirmation of the Kansas City platform. Planks were also inserted calling for the public ownership of all public utilities; that all money of whatever kind shall bt issued by the government without the intervention of tanks; that the "money trust, the parent of all trusts' snail ne uesiroyea, iur muuui a money aristocracy there can be n <> imperialism." The destruction of all trusts is demanded. Such Democrats as approve a gold stanuard anil ?vho supported McKinley for President, are Invited henceforth to affiliate with the Republican party. The following ticket was nominated: Governor, Dr. Rudolph Reemling; Lieutenant Governor, Menry C. Cordoy; Supreme Court Judge, Rial M. Smith: State Treasurer. J. C. Shepard; Attorney General. S. L. Clark; Cierk of Supreme Court, Charles Ronsall; member of the beard of public works, R. B. Connell. It was decided to call the new organization "The Progressive Demo- | cratic party." A State executive committee of nine members was selected with George A. Groot as chairman and Bernard ilu. bert as secretary and this committee spent the evening in arranging for campaign work. Groot acted as temporary chairman of the convention when it was called to order in the parlors cf one of the hotels. Abner L. Davis acted as temporary secretary. Chairman Groot reviewed the conditions that brougnt about the movement. He insisted that it was not brought about solely by "Bryan Democrats." but by all those who advocate tree silver and are opposed to both the old parties as at present organized and controlled. At a meeting held during the morning, attended by George A. Groot, Abner Davis. J. W. Lindsay. Bernhard Hubert. Richard lnglis and others, it was decided that a full State ticket shall be nominated at the evening session ol the convention. A State committee will be named and plans made lor an active campaign on bei half of the independent movement. The platform adopted at the Cleveland conference of July 17. and which has been circulated by mail, was endorsed. This document re-alurmea the Kansas city piaaorm, CilUUi ijca I Win. J. Bryan and declares particularly for the free coinage of silver. It also includes the following plank: "We demand that all money that is manufactured to be used in this country as a medium of exchange, whether it be gold, silver or paper, shail be coined by the government and distributed among the people without the in tervention of banks, and that every dollar of it shall be a legal tender for all debts, public and private." It is customary for the conventions always in Ohio to authorize the!/ State committee to fill vacancies but this was not done. After Chairman Groot and others left l>r. Beemelin positively declined the nomination for Governor and it was reported that others would not accept. Fast Hall Held Up. Chi.ago, Special.?The Baltimore & Ohio passenger train from the East, which was due to arrive In the Grar.d Central depot, Chicago, at 9 o'clock Wednesday night, was held up by five masked men at $ o'clock between Edf'r.1. r and Grand Calumet Heights, Indiana, 21 miles cut frc.n Chicago. One of the mail cars whien contained no money, was dynamite I and wrecked. The attempt at robbery was made after the two mail cars had been detached from the train and 1 run a quarter cf a mile ahead. The failure of the robbers to make a rich haul was due to the fact that the ex press car, which contained th? train s treasure, was in an unusual place. It I was the third car in the train. Aft r I wrecking the mail car and obaining , & no booty the robbers disappeared in A. the darkmss without attempting m * rectify their ni:3t2ke. I Adopts Suffrage Report. A Montgomery, Ala.. Special.?The B constitutional convention adopted the Hp entire report of the committee on suf? trage. The special order for the day i was the reconsideration of the Bedr dow amendment to the articles, extending the privilege of suff:age to a'.l foreigners who have declarod their intention c.' becoming citizens of the United States. The convention refused to re or.sider. Delegate Sanford.of Montgomery, offered an amendment to record the name of voters and number of ballots. but it was lost. y, r IIIKUEGKOIT IKE CWMRY. The South. Tt is thought the Seaboard Air T,:n* ftil! extend its lines to Charleston, S. C. Simon Williams, ti condemned mar derer, l?rrxko jail at Monticello. rla., shot an officer and was himself killed. The Czar has made a p:crem!o:y demand on the Sultan for the release of the Russians arrest"d in Allrania. Drawing of lots for sections of land in the Kiowa. Cemache and Apaehe region of Oklahoma b<\gan at K1 Reno. Thirty new cadets were admitted to West Point. One man was killed and two wers wounded as a result of a family feud in Memphis, Tennessee. It is expected that the Democrats in the Senate will pass on the Democracy of Senator J. L. McLaurtn, of South Carolina, at the next session. Recommendations are made for the improvement of Baltimore harbor. The Geological Survey makes a re port on the Texas oil field. The jury in the Ellis Glenn forgery case, at Parkersburg.'W. Va.. was still out at midnight after 48 hours' deliberation. A boiler In the Winyah Lumber Company's plant, at Georgetown, a. C? exploded, killing three and injuring seven colored men. The North. The annual session of the Young People's Christian Union of the United Associate Reformed Presbyterian Churches ended at Winona Lake, lad. Dr. Adam Miller, said to have been the oldest minister of tho Methodis' Episcopal church, and who was a native of Maryland, is dead in Chicago aged 01 years. The wage conference between the Green Glass Blowers' Association and the manufacturers is being held in At lantic City. Grip is said to be incapacitating many horses in Chicago. Secretary Gage bought $31.50G ^ /-?/* nkrtrUfopm hnnHc T'hnrp.fiA.V \> 1.1 III Ul ouv/l 1-bVi UI Work has been started on Dewey Hail, at Norwich University, Nor- j v,*ich Conn. The Netherlands Insurance Com pany has quit Massachusetts on account of its losses. Eighteen iron foundries out of 65 in Chicago. 111., have yielded to the striking moulders. 'Longshoremen at Ogdensburg, N. Y., are on strike for 35 cents an hour overtime. New York's State building at the Pan-American Exposition will be dedi cated August 6. Commander B. F. Tilly, Governoi of Jutuila. is visiting his aged mother in New Hampshire. The strike at the Pressed Steel Cai Works. Joliet. 111., has been settled after two weeks' duration. Union meat handlers in the wholesale houses of Boston, Mass., refuse to work non-union men. A national convention of Socialists is in session at Indianapolis ,Ind.. with Professor George D. Herron presiding. Lightning nearly demolished the Old Dutch Reformed Church belfry at Kishkill Landing. N. Y., a famous Re volutionary structure. Foreign. The proposed new German tarifl bill, it i3 expected, will fail of passage. Berlin newspapers comment bitterij upon recent swindling opeiations discovered in German financial concerns Dorrs have forced the British tc evacuate Bremersdorp, Swaziland. British trcops in East Africa inflict ed a severe defeat on the forces of thf Mad Mullah. Bishop Brcoke F. Westcott, of Durham. a noted prelate cf the English Church, i3 dead. 3aron Mount Stephen has giver $200,000 to aid ministers of the Scotch Presbyterian Church. Crn.-4i orge W. Davis, provost mar siial of .\fhhlla. ha3 aroused much enmity by declaring that cockfight; must be controlled bv leg'sDtlon. It is said in Bei.in thai the new German tariff "bill will not shut out American trade. King Edward sent a message to the House of Lords proposing that LordRoberts be granted 100.000 pounds i $500,000.) Lord Stanley stated in the House of Commons that the number of Boe:s raptured or surrendered since the 'h African War began was 33.000. unsanitary bakehouses in London are declared to be a great menace to the city's health.Thc Lyons-Mediterranean Railroad Company is ^ perirqenting with American locomotives. The first anniversary of King Humbert's assassination was observed with religious services throughout Italy. The Chinese indemnity will be payable to a committee of foreign bankers at Shanghai representing the powers. Hiscellaneous. Colombian insurgents are reported to be near Panama in large numbers. Plans of new and larger armored cruisers are being prepared at the Navy Department. / SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL Cotton Factories in the South. South Carolina leads all the States in the increase cf cotton spindles during the year ended June 30. 1901. Georgia also made a very fine showing, as did North Carolina and Alabama. The latter State was slow in taking advantage of her opportunities lor cotton mamna' turing. but she has at last gone into the business with a vim and during the past two years has made remarkable strides toward greatness in textile production. Alabama now has mills which turn out as high class cotton goods as any that are made anywhere in the South, and the number of her spindles is increasing very fast. More than 61 per cent, of all the new spindles in the United States?that is, ipindles which have been put in since July 1, 1900?arc to he found in the South. South Carolina has not only led in j recent cotton mill enlargement, but in the extent of her cotton manufactures is excelled by only one State? Massachusetts. In 1900 Rhode Island stood second, but South Carolina has passed her. South Carolina's 1,794,657 spindles ' in 1900 have increased in one year to 2.185,020, a rate cf growth which the textile industry of no other State has ever shown.?Atlanta Journal. Sugar Cane in Georgia. There has been a marked increase in the acreage planted in sugar cane in Georgia within the past few years. This increase has about doubled within the past year, which indicates that many Georgia farmers have adopted ; this as one of their regular crops. That there is money in raising sugar tane hn? ViPAn demonstrated bevond doubt. ' and those farmers who desire to creato another source of income do not hesi- ! tate to engage in growing this crop. ] A market for Georgia sugar cane has ' already been established, and it is no longer a risk on the part of the farm- I er to raise a good crop of cane. The ! market for cane is almost as much a j certainty in Georgia as the market for cotton. The cane always sells at a good price, which gives the grower a fair return for his labor. The very best of syrup is made from the Georgia sugar cane, and this syrup sells readily from 25 to 35 cents per gallon. In this connection it is interesting to note that there is a strong probability of sugar refineries being built in this State, and these would no doubt yield handsome profits.?Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer Sun. North Carolina Melons. Robeson county is to become one of the greatest melon-raising regions of the world. Around the town of Maxton 2,000 acres are planted in melons and there are also large farms near Red Springs and in other parts of the county. This is not a very good season for melons, but they are being shipped North from Robeson by the carload. In a few years this new industry ought to make that section of the State rich. Nothing has brought more fame to Georgia than its peaches and melons. Southern Pines raises as fine peaches as are seen in Georgia. and now Robeson bids fair to eclipse that State in melon-raising. If they are not so early as the Georgia melon, they are of finer flavor.?Raleigh Times. Big Water Power Development. As recently announced in the Manufacturers' Record, the Whitney Reduction Co.. of which Mr. E. C. D. Hambley of Gold Hill. N. C., is president, has purchased the power of Yadkin river from Milledgeville to the celebrated Yadkin Falls. Mr. Hambley informs the Manufacturers' Record that active development of this power will be commenced in the near future, and that a total of 46,0)0 horse power will be developed for local use, as well as for transmission through electrical power to the surrounding country. If developed cn the scrl" proposed, this will be one of the largest waterpower electrical develop ments in the country. Another fllssissippl Project. A dispatch from Vicksburg, Miss., states that a company of well-known business men cf Vicksburg have become interested in the plan to build a road between Vicksburg and Hattiesburg, an estimated distance of 110 miles, and have organized the Vicksburg and Southeastern Railroad Co., W T Walla and W IU1 lUlO JSU1 J/UOV. ?? . TV vow ? ? . - . H. Fltzhugh are among those interested. Industrial Miscellany. Newnan (Ga.) Cotton Mills has abdut completed and is to put in operation its No. 2 mill of 10.000 ring spindles for manufacturing Nos. 26 to 0 ply yarns. The No. 1 mill ha* 9,560 ring spindles running on yarns, twines, etc. About $150,000 has been Invested in the second mill. The large smelting plant which has been under construction at Ducktown. Tenn., for about two years by the Ten nessee Copper Co. has been completed at a cost, it is reported of about $1,000,000. This company, organized by leading capitalists in New York, promises to become a very important copper producer and to greatly increase the development of the copper interests in the Ducktown district IIuW TO OBTAIN FREE DELIVERY. Way in Which Rural flail Routes Hay Be Secured. The following instructions which embody department orders and regulations up to date, are issued for gen eral information: Present a petition, addressed to the First Assistant Postmaster General, signed by those who desire the service. This petition should bo signed only by heads of families, and | should mention the number in each family over 16 years of age. It should sot forth the nature of the country where the delivery is desired, whether densely or sparsely populated, the character of the roads and the distances which, under existing conditions, each person has to travel to receive his mail, and should be accompanied by map or plot indicating the routes proposed. The petition should read something like this: To the First Assistant Postmaster General. Washington, D. C.: The undersigned heads of families residing in county, State of.. respectfully ask that the rural delivery service be extended to them, the delivery to start from postofflcp, county State, or such other points as the officers of the department may deem best adapted for the service. A map or rough sketch of the proposed route is herewith inclosed. Your petitioners are mostly (here state avocations, such as farmers, truck gardeners, dairymen, cattle raisers or what ever the chief occupation of the people may be). i ne roaas over ine prupuseu toucan; (state whether pike, gravelled or other wise). There are no unbrldgert creeks and the roads are passable at all seasons of the year. Following should be three columns headed respectively: Name of head of family, number over 1G years of age; distance in miles from nearest postoffice. This petition, when properly signed, should be sent to the Representative in Congress, or to one of the Senators, with a request that he endorse there-1 on his recommendation of the service asked, and forward the petition to the department. When a rural free delivery route has been uniformly equipped with boxes of any one of the above named description the department will consider these boxes as entitled to the protection of the United States, which provide severe penalties for wilful or iniiirv tr, t.ipm or inter iiianv,ivu?> iujut j w ference with their contests. j Rural carriers are not required to deliver mail to houses standing back from the man road, except in the case of registered mail,special delivery and pension letters. The patrons are expected to meet the department halt way by affording the carriers every facility for the performance of their duties, by keeping the roads clear arter heavy snow falls, and using their influence to maintain the condition of the roads in all weather up to th; standard required by the department. Rural carriers are permitted to deliver non mailable packages provide i their, doing so does not interfere with the prompt handling of the mails which must be made the flist consideration. Rural carriers are required to take with th?m on their trips for the accommodation of their patrons a sufficient supply of stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards. Postmasters may, if they chose, give credit to the carrier for stamp supplies to the extent of $5. to be accounted for eac:i day, and the carrier's bond being responsible therefor. If the carrier.? find an unstamped letter in a collection box, and the requisite amount 01 money also deposited, they are in siruciea 10 am a mc . They are empowered to register letters or packages and to deliver th.? I same giving and taking receipts ia forms provided. They are also authorized to accept money orders, giving their * receipi therefor, and, if the patrons of the delivery desire to make the carrier their agent for this purpose, the carrier may enclose theorders, when issue ! in addressed envelopes confided to hicharge and mail them without retaining the orders to the sender. To 5hfp Texas Oil. A dispatch from Beaumont. Texas, states that ell producers in that vicinity have decided to have two steamships built to earry oil in bulk to domestic and foreign ports, and tbat a contract has been given the Neafle and I.evy Shipbuilding Co. of Philadelphia. In a letter to the Manufacturers' Record Mr. Sommcrs X. Smith, vice-persident of the company, informs the Manufacturers' Record that negotiations are in progress with this end in view, but no contracts have been let as yet. The vessels It Is proposed to build are to have a carrying capacity of 800,000 gallons tw," /...mruinv ft ia annnunroil t'ttUIl. XI1U V-Utu {/auj , a w iw has already secured one steamship, being built by the New York Shipbuilding Co. of Camden, N. J Telegraphic Briefs. M. Santos-Dumont made another successful trial ascent in Paris with his steerable balloon. A draft of the new Cuban Electoral law was submitted to the Constitutional Convention at Havana. The issues of the American Bible Association last year amounted to lt- J 554.128. V s NEED Of 1EXIILE StliUuLN. Argument Showing fhe Necessity of Them In Our Section. Prof. J. H. Beaty, director of .the Clemson, S. C., text'le schools, has returned frdm the Ncrth, where he hai been to study textile conditions. Tc i reporter, who inquired about whal aews he found relating to textile education and other subjects, Prof. Beaty said: "Kor the past two weeks I have hern visiting some of the mill centres of tha North, studying textile conditions aa Lhey are at present, and the outlook for the future. In some lines of textile manufacture the outlook at present la' not as bright as it might be, yet there are indications which point to bet:er times for the manufacturers of textiles. A. commission firm in New York showed quite a number of orders which they had booked for the Chinese markets. These orders, in themselves, are not important, as they are not of such magnitude as to bring about any in-j crease of operation in the mills at pttsent. yet they indicate that confidence is being restored in China and a restoration of the trade in cotton gnodj ,, between that country and the United States may be expected. The firm called my attention particularly to the fact that all these orders were for a slightly finer cloth than we have heretofore exported to China. AThe people of the North are wonderfully alive on the subject of textile education. They believe that to manufacture finer and more elaborate fabrics one must be espeoiahy trained for the work, and they are seeing to It that their young men have the opportunity afforded them for getting the necessary training. There one find? five first-class textile schools, one of these bavin* hf>f>n in ooeration about 16 rears. These schools have had ar.d are still having a tremendous effect on the manufacturing Interests of that ?ection. "'Within tile la3t four years there have been established in the South fcui schools similar to those in toe North. It is not supposed that young men c*n after having completed the course oi study in textile school, step out into j a responsible lucrative position, but j they can and will-be important factors I in bringing about a much needed diversity of cotton manufacture in the * South. "I noticed in a New England machine works quite a lot of combing machinery ready to be shipped out to a Southern cotton mill. It requires more skill and judgment to manufacture combed yarns than to manufacture ordinary corded yams, but the finer the quality of production from our mills, the more profit there is for the mills. Combed yarns have been selling well i all through the present depression ol trade. With a little time, patience and education, our own people can bs taught to do this class of work as weU as any other people in the world," News Notes. Th? Orr Cotton Mills of Anderson, S. C., will fill its building with machinery, this requiring 1,500 more ring spindles and 100 looms, together with the necessary preparatory machinery. This i3 one of the new plants Its completed equipment will be 23,030 ring spindles and 700 looms. 100 of them being narrow and the others broad. Add Indus Trial News The saw mill plant of the Kresse City Lumber Co., near New Lewiaville, Ark., was burned on the 20th inst. The loss is estimated at $20,000, with insurance $15,000. William Farrell, known as the lumber king of Arkansas, died-on the 18th inst. He was president of the William Karrell Lumber Co.. whose holdings are valued at $500,000. Receipts of lumber at New Orleans, La., for the week ending the lata insi. amounted to 3,190,000 feet, and for the eeason to 131,092,139 feet, against 97,624,115 feet last season. The Cates Chair Co, ol Thomasrille ,N. C? has been chartered, with a capital stock of $25,000. The incorporators are E. W. Cates, J. W. Lambeth, J. L. Armfleld and F. S. Lamteth. The shipments of timber and lumber last week from Pensacola, Fla., amounted to 5,639,000 feet ,oak staves 19,722 pieces, shingles 3,000, shuttleblocks 200,585 pound3, and ash logs 136- I . Cost of The Boer War. r t London, By Cable.?In the House ol Commons today. Lord Stanley, the Financial Secretary cf the War Office, replying to a question, said the cost tf the war in South Africa, from April I 1 to July SI, was 35,750.000 pounds. I partly chargeable against me UCUVU (f last year. The actual cost In July was 1,250,00!) pounds weekly. The j statement was greeted with Irish j ironical cheers. _ -A J Two Women and One M^n Hrnged. Carrollton, Mi3s., Special.?The murCvr of Mr. and Mrs. Taliaferro culminated Thursday in the lynching of Betsie McCray, her son, Belfleld MeCray, and daughter, Ida McCray, all colored. The mob was composed of about 500 white citizens of Carro.l county, who marched to the Ja 1, demanded the key3 of Jailer Duke, proceeded to the cells of the unfortunate negroes, bound them by the neck ami hands and carried thorn to the woods, where they hung them to a tree by the road and riddled their bodies wiih bullets. 4 "'J