The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 22, 1901, Image 2
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THE COUNTY BE80BD,
Pa Wished Every Thursday
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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*
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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.
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PERISHED IN FIRE
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Ten Lives Lost in Burning Structure
3 Near Cleveland, Ohio.
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3 CAUGHT IN AFIRi: ON THE LAKE
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t Two Others Seriously Burned and
d Will Likely Die?Firemen Do Some
8 Fine Work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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