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p?? ; j-f ~'**' " / ,; ' * V- / ** THE COUNTY BE80BD, Pa Wished Every Thursday ?AC? UNOflTREE. 80UTH CAROLINA. ?BY? C. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. Eleven years ago American goods ^vcre practically unknown in India. To-day in all the departments in the larger cities American merchandise ii offered for sale. A large number of Arctic expeditions are planned for this summer. As usual, no one knows exactly what the explorers expect to discover or of what use it will be when found. ? ' Mr. Jacob Schoenhof pleads in the Forum, for more attention to "Higher Technical Training." In this respect he regards America as less enterprising than England and the Continent Of Europe, and even than Japan. He accuses American manufacturers cf preferring to exploit in their own mills the highly educated talent ot European countries rather than to create schools at home. It is claimed that great as is our annual wheat crop it does not exceed tba production of poultry and eggs. This Is due to the fact that a Large proportion of poultry is kept in the suburbs ?f cities, towns and villages, the farinj j not producing more than one-half. It ; is almost impossible to get a correct census of the poultry and eggs pro duced in the United States, as but few keep records of their fowls. _ i Great statesmen, poets, novelists, soldiers and sailors pass away and their services to the world are much talked about At Frankfort Ky? Benjamin F. Meek, the inventor of the fishing reel, died the other day. Though little fuss is made about him, it must be admitted that he has conferred more real benefit on the race than many a greater man, as the world counts .greatness. The gentle philosophical race of anglers is under an obligation to him. Peace to his ashes! The extreme percentages of forelgn"born citizens in the United States are found in the East and Northeast, and the next greatest In the Northern Cen tral division?the group of States including Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan. That New Yorlc, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts Lave the larger proportions of foreign-born will not come as a sur 4 ' prising revelation, since the average : Immigration returns snow mat auuui eighty per cent cf the arrivals from abroad settle in the section covered by these States. About a quaiter of the Connecticut population is foreignborn. One of the features of the Louisiana Purchase World's Fair Exposition at St. Louis will be a heroic statue of Napoleon Bonaparte and the devotion of a day of festivity to his memory. The sale of Louisiana to the .United States was Napoleon's concep: tion, and it was carried out against the wishes of his ministers. The promoters of the exposition, therefore, consider that Napoleon did the American Republic on inestimable service .which is worthy of distinguished recognition, for the acquisition of Louisiana by England, as one of the fruits of the Napoleonic wars, might have changed tho whole current of Ameri can history. What -a wonderful era of generosity end goodwill to institutions of leai> ins is that of the present! The ambitious bo;; cr girl who desires a college training in these days in any part of this country experiences far less difficulty in obtaining it tliau did the generation of thirty years ago. If there are any Abraham Lincoln* at humble firesides at the dav.a of this century they need net confine their studies to borrowed books painfully conned by the flickering and uncertain light of pineknots. May there not be scire little danger .hat to soma extent, here and there, the higher education may be made loo It::;virions and too H f.L'cV (jucrles ihe M.-w York TiTou'i* . * - . . TILLMAN AND Ml AIR IN Colli in Talkat.'ve Mood, arid Doll Confident. fenatoi Tiliman. of South Carolino was in Washington Tuesday, being o: his way to Chautauqua, N. Y.. where hi will deliver a lecture cn "Condition and Tendencies of Our Times." Mr. Tillman, when seen by a repor ter, said that Senator McLaurin is no so strong in his State today as he wa six weeks ago. Me was sure that if th primary election for Senator were t come off in South Carolina now. Mi McLaurin could not get more than 8.00 or 10,000 out of 95,000 votes. He did no believe it would be possible for him t< get more than 15,000 or 20.000 in th first primary a year hence, and he wa satisfied he could not be elected. Senator McLaurin. of South Carolino passed through Norfolk with his wif and children route the Pan-Americai Exposition. He talked with several o the Democratic leaders here for th< State convention which will discuss th general primary plan for election o Senators. To the Associated Press rep rc-3entative he made the followinj statement: "For many yeras the cam paigns in South Carolina have been ii the nature of personal abuse betwee: candidates. The present campaign i the first one in which an issue is a Btake. My series of speeches v.hic! were begun last Ayril have started th people to thinking and they have be come arouse'd. Senator Tillman has an swered my arguments by heaping per sonal abuse* upon me. He threatened t go out among the mill operatives am arouse them against the mill-owners i I continued urging the expansion pol icy and the carrying of American pro ducts in American bottoms. Expan sion is not imperialism; the first is i business question, the other a matter o politics. It is foolishness for anybod, to claim that a man cannot believ in ship subsidy, the carrying of Amer ican exports in American bottoms, am expansion without being a Republican I am going into the primaries in Soutl Carolina next fall and I expect to de feat Senator Tillman." Tersely Told. Two men lost their lives while try ing to rescue persons from a lire ?i Louisville, Ky. A combine of makerso f steel cast Ings is about to be formed, with a ca pital of over ?1?>,000,000. It is thought the Seaboard Air Lim will extend its line3 to Charleston, S C. Simon Wiliams, a condemned mur derer, broke jail at Monticello, Fla. ? J u tilled shot ?? ?nicer anu *>aa inuicm ^ _ Tiitr Jewish Chautauqua at Atlantic City has adjourned. Indications point t? further rains to day for the recently drouth-strickei sections of the Middle West. Increased attendance at the Buffali Exposition in August, September am October is looked to by those who ex pect to make the fair a financial sue cess. Will Not Accept Reduction. Fall River. Mass., Special.?It is an souneed that the requisite number ol spindles, namely 1,750,000. have beer pledged to the agreement ol the "ottor manufacturers to scale down wages be tween 14 and 15 per cent, on th* 3rt of September. In face of this posltior on the part of the manufacturers th< operatives are forming to resist th< cut. Their declaration that they wil not accept a reduction is most posi ifn Bloody Race Riot. Jarkson. 0.. Special..?A bloody ran riot haa occurred at the Big Rock col ored camp grounds. The presence o! wb+te persons was resented, and wher one of the latter got into a fight with a eolarefi man a generaJ row ensued lr which aa?r!y a hundred persons en gaged. Tfcs fight lasted half aa houi when the wWtes were forced t# flw from the yroands. Beer bottle? and elube war# the weapons used. Mori than a demem person? were serious}} hurt. Alabait Convention. Montgomery, A>a. SpeeiaK-Hie constitutional convention, by a vote of SI to SO, reeonrldered the section of the report ef the Judiciary committee, re ferringr to th? abolishing of district solicitors and the creating of two ?o!ici tors inatead. At times, the passages at arms in the debate were exciting and of a personal nature. A Big Mortgage. New York, Special.?There was filed In the Hudson County Court In Jersej City a mortgage for $150,000,000 made by the Consolidated Tobacco Company of the American to the Morton Trust Company to secure an issue ol 4 per cent, bonds not to exceed $150.000,000 It is dated June 15, and bore revenue stamps to the amount of $75, 000. The papers show that the Con solidated Tobacco Company has ab sorbed the American Tobacco and the Continental Tobacco and subsidy concerns. ><M * 1 o * PERISHED IN FIRE !l Ten Lives Lost in Burning Structure 3 Near Cleveland, Ohio. B 3 CAUGHT IN AFIRi: ON THE LAKE o t Two Others Seriously Burned and d Will Likely Die?Firemen Do Some 8 Fine Work. o 0 Cleveland. 0., Special.?Fire early t Wednesday destrojed the temporary a waterworks crib two miles out in the 0 lake, resulting in the death of s at least ten men, while two others were probably fatally injured | Fire and harbor tugs with rescuing e parties on board reached the crib soon ! after the flames broke out. but when [ they arrived the structure was a seeth? lng mass of flames and all hope of a saving it was abandoned. Men could f be distinguished swimming and float ing in the water shouting for help. 1 Others were clinging to ropes which " they had hitched or tied to the rafters, H but the flames wero burning the ropes , away while the men were stark naked, t and one by one they were falling into ii the lake. The tugs circled around the ^ L)Urillll? CilU, piLn.il 15 U|f Uiv.11 uv/ui iMW water and meantime playing heavy streams upon the fiomes. 0 After an hour's hard work the flames 1- were diminished enough so that the ' firemen could climb up the charred steps and fight the fire from the interior. Then the horror of the calamity j was first realized. Everything was a ; total wreck. While the firemen were y | pouring water on the flames there was 8 a roaring furnace beneath which could "j not be reached. But the firemen clung t to their places, and fought every inch t of the way until the fire was under - control. After two hours of hard work five charred human bodies were found burned beyond recognition. Montague Nominated. 1 Norfoik, Va., Special.?The Democratic State convention met here Wed" nesday shortly after noon. State Sen ator Barksdale, or Manrax, avieu as temporary chairman; Col. Jos. Button, s of Appomattox, secretary, and Hon. R. D. Nichols, of Norfolk, sergeant-atarms. The convention adjourned immediately after this ami the commit' tee on resolutions, permanent organi, ration and credentials vent into session. The second named committee selected Hon. Carter Glass, of Lyncht burg, editor of The New?, of that city, as permanent chairman and Judge W. j S. Gooch, of Losia, as secretary. Scr1 geant-at-arms Nichols was retained. The committee on credentials disposed ' of seven contests and seated Montague delegates in each instance. Th? convention reconvened after dinner and speeches were made. Hon. A. J. Monp tague was placed in nomination for i Governor by Col. George C. Cabell, Jr., i of Danville, and the nomination was seconded by Hon. W. B. Richards. No ( other nomination was made, as Mr. Swnnarm withdrew and Mr. Montague > was nominated by acclamation, amid i the wildest enthusiasm. After the nominee's speech of acceptance the crowd cried for Swanson and the defeated gubernatorial candidate was warmly received. The convention adjourned at 12:45 , a. m. amid great confnsion, without | having received the report of the committee on resoiirtions. The platform { will embrace an anti-trust plank, a plank favoring the fellow-servants' or . employers' liability bill and a plank , relating to general primaries for the I election of United abates Senators. Se ( far as ia known at this writing there , will be no mention of Bryan or free silver in the platform. Tlie l>-y Goads Market. New York. Special.?The home trade i has shown little change in.-and de? he:;. Exporters are doing or* business and are buying four'ard sltt '.i.ngs freely for China. Print b* s v dull and barely steady, 'hints r.-e au'et ar.l unchanged. CTingare Frm. Silks a: e firm with a I .j. Hosiery and underwear a.p qui?* mrhaneed. Roosevelt Speaks. Hutchison, Kan., Special.?Vice ' President Roosevelt, en route home ' from Color ido, stopped here for a i short time and from the rear platform of his train, addressed several thousand G. A. R. men in their State re1 union. He thanked the old soldiers in the name of- the American people for their past valor and sacrifices, and / referring briefly to civic life warned them not to envy a life of ease. "We can never hope to make the country all it should be," he said, "until we honor the man who works, until we accept the principle that the man is > to be judged on his work as a man." The brief speech was enthusiastically applauded. 1 TEXTILE CORPORATIONS. The nsrket Value of Stocks to Form Basis of Assessment. The very important State board cf equalization provided f:r in the _.w ac t "to provide uniformity and equality in the assessment of property returnable for taxation by persons firms or corporations engaged in textile industries and canals providing for rent or hire, and cotton s?cd oil companies" began its first annual session in Columbia last week. The board is composed of one memter fr.:m each county. When the board was called to order there were 31 cf tto members in attendance, and they sera to be an earne-t body of men. Richland is represented on the board by Mr. G. V. Aliwcrden. The board lost no time in getting to work, startinv out by hearing what the cotton mill and their spokesman, Hon. A. T. Smith had to say about the matter. The important sections of the ac/ under which this work is being done are as follows: Se?ion 1. Be it enacted by the gen erai asssniuiy ui u.? ciacc 1/1 0~u.11 i Carolina, that all individuals, firms, or corporations engaged, or that may be hereafter engaged in this State, in the manufacture of textile fabrics of any kind, and canals providing power for rent or hire, and coitcn seed oil companies and fertilizer companies shall make their returns of property belonging to or connected with such manufacture as usual for taxation to the auditor of the county in which the property is situated, and after the same shall be passed on by the torfnshlp and county boards all such returns. with such comments and suggestions as he shall see fit, to the comptroller-general as scon as the time for making returns has expired. Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the comptroller-general to receive and safely keep said returns in his o.'dce, and the State board of equalization shall meet annually at Columbia at such time and place in the said city as shall be fixed and notified to them by tne comptroller general, ana wnen they so convene he shall lay before said board said returns with such comments and suggestions thereon a3 he shall see fit. Sec. 3. That said State board of equalization are hereby authorized and empowered to investigate and pass on said returns and to equalize the sa.fle both as to real and personal property in order to obtain uniformity of taxation upon the property of such industries; and to that end may adopt and j promulgate such rules and regulations as may be just and equitable. In case any return so laid before said S' :e board is raised by it, then and in such case an adjourned meeting must be fixed by the board for hearing the party or corporation whose return is raised and due notice thereof by mail must be given at said meeting to said party or corporation. Sec. 4. That when said State board shall have finally acted on said returns their action shall be certified to me comptroller general wno snail transmit the same in so far as it affects the property of any county to the auditor of said county who shall enter the same, according to law, on the tax books of his county. The board organized by the election of Mr. W. W. Bradley of Abbevile as chairman and the comptroller's clerical force proceeded to attend to the clerical duties. After explaining the objects of the meeting the comptroller had distributed among the members in printed 1 form a complete statement of the re| turns filed by the various cotton mij3, I etc., throughout the State, the showing i being a most interesting one. Quite a number of cotton mill men were present and the board decided first to hear from these genetlemen in regard to the matter of the assessment and taxation of their properties. These shearings consumed the time up to 2 J o'clock when a r^cesa for dinaer was I taken. At 4 o'clock *he board reasj sembfed and there was a discussion whfth ended In the adoption of th; following resolution offered by Mr. TV. W. H^ftnedy of Williamsburg: Resolved, That the chairman appoint two ecwnmietees, the first to adopt a plan foe (he proper and e^tuit bdip assessment or cotion mills, 'mo eecon*. to adopt and report a plan for the proper ?nd eqnltable a>oes.-:me3t of cotton seed ofl mills an 1 fertilizer com pan fee. The committees were appointed an , {pllpws: Committee on Cotton Mills?Jameg L. Qninby, Aiken, chairman; D A. Geer. Anderson; T. M. Uttlpjohn. Cherokee; John R. Culp, Ch-ster; John B. Patrick. Fairfield: J. E. Speegle, Greenville; J. W. Aiton, Greenwood: J. B. Phelps, Kershaw; J. Wren Tillman, Lancaster: N. B. Wannamaker, Lexington; H. H. Folk, Newberry; C. W, Pttchford, Oconee; H. C. Shirley, Pickens; G. V. Allword ?-u, nicurdna; u. w. wmis, spartanburg; T. E. Bedenbaugb, Union; Joseph A. Smith, York. Committee on Cotton Oil Mills and Fertilizer Companies?C. A. Williams. Beaufort, chairman;Charles McSeiver, Bamberg: W. T. Harley,. Barnwell; J. St. Clair Whits. Berkeley: D. M. Ba-?ntine, Chesterfield: A. J. Richbourg, .Clarendon: W. J. Rodgers, Darlington; C. M. Garvin. Dorchester; Alex McTaggert, Florence; Charles Dusenbury, Horry; L. B. Rodgers. .Marion: J. J. 1 Lane, Marlboro; J. C. Ranch, Saluda: B. G. Pearson. Sumter; W. W. ilea 1 ncdy, Willi2trsbutg. 1 . . \ ' ' \ ' . ,i * V S A f % VENEZUELA INVADED Not Rega'ded as an International Af. fair By the People. TORRES CARDENA'S VERSION OF IT, The Washington Authorities Sending War Vessels to Protect Amer* lean Interests. Nev/ York, Special.?The following cable message has been received by the Associated Press lrom Torres Cardenas, general secretary of Presi ueui c asi.ro, 01 v enezueia, in reply to a dispatch addressed to the President, asking for a statement cn the Venezuela-Columbia situation: "Caracas, Venezuela, Aug. 17.?In the name of His Excellency, General Castro, I reply to your cablegram in the following terms: "The government of Venezuela, presided over by General Castro, is fuily justified in all its works and acts. It is essentially liberal in its practices. It is of the opinion that the Conservatives of Colombia, probably led by ruinous and wicked passions, have resolved to as- ? sist in a revolutionary movement against Venezuela and her government. All of this has been actually proven by the official publications issued by the cabinet in Bogota. They date from the first of April. This view has not been denied, either by iho Conservative eovernment of Co lombia, or by her envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in this capital. " 'When the government of Venezuela was surprised by tke first and and second invasions of her six thousand and two hundred thousand men. respectively, the invaders were victoriously expelled by the government and the people of Venezuela. Since said events, 10,000 men have been massed on the frontier for the defense and integrity of Venezuela, and its national honor. These are quite apart from her active service troops on other parts of the frontier as well as national troops scattered over the republic and the reserve militia now under arms. " 'Venezuela has not accepted the invasion as an international attack by the people of Colombia against the people of Venezuela, but knowing its. real source, recognizes in it the work nt PnncArvoHva anuornmpnt nf Colombia against the majesty of the nation of Venezuela.' Washington. D. C., Special.?The Navy Department, which is directing; all its energies to hurrying ships to the scene of Colombia-Venezuela trouble, in order to enforce our treaty guarantees, expects to have three ships on the way within 24 hours. The Machias. which has been detained at Hampton Roads by the threatening weather south of Cape Hatteras, was able to start cn her journey Saturday,, assurances having been given by the Weather Bureau that all dangers from the Gulf storm along the southern Atlantic have now passed. Word was received at the Navy Department that the battleship Iowa had arrived at San Francisco, and she was instructed by telegraph to proceed as soon as possible to Panama cn the west coast It is prounuip sne wm have to take some coal aboard, but the Department t/elieves sue wi.l be able to sail on her 3,400 mile journey by Sunday morning. The Ranger ha? sailed from San Diego souihwarcn Schlev In Washington. Washington, D. C., Special.?Admiral Winfield S. Schley arrived in the city Friday night from his home in New Hiork on business in <xmnectfon wkh.Jhe tourt ol idcjulry. fie was accompanied by Mrs. Schley and during his Stay here the admiral will ponsult with Jeremiah Wilson and his other attorneys as to the case. t ' * ' : *""* r Jj, Fight With Strikers. Cleveland, Special.?A fight , oct'jir*red Sunday night between two special policemen at the Crescent Mills and a number of strikers. The policemen were escorting a couple of work- t men from their home to the mill,' when the strikers tried to persuade the men not to return to work. This action angered the officers, who used their, clubs on those nearest. Frank Zigler and had his head smashed and several other men were less seriously hurt. The affair was of short duration, but much id feeling was evident cn both sides. Scarcty of Cotton lies. Pittsburg. Special.?A dispatch from. Sharon says: "The cotton planters of the South are beginning to feel the effects of the steel strike, according to advices received there. The closing of the mills of the Steel Hoop Company cuts off their main supply of cotton ties and they seem willing to pay any price in or^er to have a sufficient f up pi; when the time comes to move cotton.' . j 1^.