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Tile C0U3TY BECOBD. Published Every Thursday ?AT? 1ING8TBEE. SOUTH CAROLINA. ?BT? 0. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. It is reported as evidence of the stagnation of trade in Southern Russia that seventy per cent, of all the industrial works of the great manufacturing government of Ekatorinoslav have suspended, and in order to relieve distress and to prevent disturbance 40,000 artisans have been deported to their homes in the interior at the expense of the Government. The Trade Register repeats a statement the truth of which is obvious, yet which cannot be too often impressed on beginners and small dealers. It is that most of the successful business men had their start under the same conditions that surround nine-tent lis of the small merchants, and that their success has been duo to their courage and persistence in advertising. It is the teaching of common sense as well as of experience that a man who has reached middle age should never take physical exercise to the point of weariness, and that any exertion which he may make should ir>?? violent than the training to which he was used to in his earlier years. It is not well that a man at any age should attempt to maintain the highest degree of bodily strength and agility except as a preparation for an event which will tax his powers to the utmost. ?he prizefighter puts himself into the best condition for a contest, hut it is never his aim to keep in that state. Experience has taught him that there is a limit beyond which a reduction of weight is unsafe. Men who use their lirains much cannot carry muscular development far. The greatest minds and their greatest efforts have not been associated with severely trained bodies. The recent disastrous explosion la Philadelphia from the ignition of gasolene vapor has directed renewed attention to the dangers attending the storage or handling of this volatile < Uasolene has been exploded for years In lamps and stoves and more recently In launches and automobiles, and has proved itself to be, in the careless handling given it, about as dangerous as dynamite. If those having some e::perience and skill in its handling have accidents with it. no surprise need be felt when the vapor from a leaky barrel in a grocer's cellar meets a spark and explodes. Yet in many places no adequate measures have been adopted to regulate the storage of the oil. In the first flush of the excitement in Philadelphia the Ledger of that city recommends that the sale of the l!uhl be absolutely prohibited. This, i: acknowledges, would be a hardship to some manufacturers who use the oil largely, as also to families who cmploy it in cooking, but they, as well as other people, it argues, would be protected from a real and ever-present danger by the prohibition. As the world stands to-day, the fail of nations is through internal decay and disintegration, rather than from the invasion of armed enemies. The mightiest empires of the past, whose legions once ruled a good part of the world, are falling iuto bankruptcy which must inevitably end their existence as independent countries. The absorption of Persia by Russia and Croat Britain is concrete illustration of the new* method of invasion of one country by a more powerful empire. lVrsia is practically a bankrupt nation to-day. aud is owned part and parcel by Russia and Great Britain. She has raised loaus time and again from the two Powers, and to-day mortgages cover her railroads and chief industries. The end of her resources may not yet be in sight, but she has practically delivered over half her empire to Russia and the other half to England. The result is that Persia Is hardly an independent country. She can not make a move in the game of politics without consulting her owners. and if she attempted it one or the other would block the move. SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL! New Enterprises That Are Enriching Our Favored Section. For a Park Reservation. The Appalachian National Park Association. which has membership in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. Virginia. Tennessee. Massachu-. nVii/\ Ponncv'vnnifl OCUO, V/UiU, 11 uuv.o, A New York. Rhode Island and the Di >trict of Columbia, is determined to push at the coming session of Congress the national legislation for the establishment in the Southern Appalachians of a great forest reserve. At the annual meeting last week of the association at Asheville, President George S. Powell reported that North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia. Alabama. Tennessee and Virginia had granted the national government authority to acquire the lands for the purpose within their respective limits, and that many organized bodies of 'business men had endorsed the project, and suggested that a strong delegation of representative citizens should go to ^Washington nnxt winter to insure the passage o: a diii ior ir.e esiauusninfu, cf the reserve. Such a bill, it will be remembered, was passed by one House of Congress last winter, but failed to become a law. The movement, which is based upon economic principles, and which. If successful, will benefit immediately not only the Southern Slates, in which the reservation is to iie. but many States in other sections should be carried to fulfillment promptJv. The efforts of the Appalachian 'National Park Association should be seconded by every individual or assoticn. CapacPv lrcre??.*pd. The stockholders of the Jefferson Cotton Mills of Jefferson, Go., met during the past week and decided to add 0000 spindles to their plant. A new building will be erected to accommodate this machinery, plans for It having already been prepared. This company announced several months ago its intention to increase capital from $03,000 to $101,000. and this action was doubtless taken in connection with that. The equipment now numbers 2000 mule spindles and 100 looms, producing sheeting day and night. Indiis'rinl Mlscal'anv. It was recently announced that L. A. McConl of Laurens. S. (J., proposed the erection of a cotton-yarn mill. The Manufacturers' Record is now informed by Mr. McCord that the reiuired capital has been promised, and arrangements will at once he instituted for establishing the plant. The in vestment will be $25,000. and it is expected that contracts for material will be made about January 1. Further facts will be announced as soon as details are decided upon. According to the report of Col. H. nry G. Hester, secretary of the New Orle%ns Cotton Exchange, the amount of cotton brought into sight during the first thirteen days of the present season was 184,470 bales, a decrese under Oimr r\t.rin/t 1<lRt VOIT Of 33,370 bales: the exports were 93,034 bales, an Increisc of 48,489 bales; takings by Northern spinners 23,892 bales, an increase of 4327; by Southern spinners 02.000 bales, an increase of 9,898 bales. In view of the official information that Charleston has at lew water a depth of twenty-four feet, and that at high water vessels drawing twentyeight feet can pass in and out at will, cotton exporters of that city are preparing for a heavy year's business, and the outlook for the port is regarded as better than at any other time in recent years. Mr. D. A. Tompkins, who is in charge of the textile display and the Cotton Palace for the Charleston Exposition, has. according to the News and Courier. announced that all his available space bad been leased, and that it would be impossible for him to accept loss space than had been originally allowed him by the board. Paolo Magglone of Milan. Italy, one of the largest cotton importers of Europe. has been studying the cotton outlook in the South, and has announced at New Orleans that he expe ts to arrange for the export of 100,000 bales or more to Italy this year. TexM'e Notes. The Moultrie (Ga.) Cotton Mills will art;! 123 looms. Lynchburg (Va.> parties have leased and will operate the Farmville (Va.) Knitting Mills. Dallas ITexas) Cotton Mills has installed equipment for burning oil as fuel. The oil comes from the Beaumont field. It is rumored that a company will establish a knitting mill plant at Rocky Mount. N. C.. and M. R. Braswell can probably inform regarding the enterprise. The receipts of cotton at Little Rock. Ark., in the season of 1900-190] were 205,129 bales, more than double the number received in the preeeeding season. Newton (N. C.) Hosiery Mill is completing an addition to its building, the second undertaken this year. Additional machinery will be installed in the new structure. The Durham (N. C.) Hosiery Mil! is about to remove to its new building, a four story modern sructure. Order i has been placed for 100 packing ma-1 chines for installation. GUILTY OF MURDER. Czolgosz, The Assassin, Convicted in Short Order. JURY WAS NOT LONG IN AGREEING. The Trial Was Brief But Fair, and the Verdict Was Inevitable?Will Be Sentenced Soon. Buffalo, Special.?Loon F. Czolgosz, alias Fred Nieman, was found guilty Tuesday of murder in the first degree by a jury in Part III of the Supreme Court, in having, on the 6th flay or September, shot President William McKinley, the wounds inflicted after, wards resulting in the death of the President. The wheels of justice moved swiftly and covered a period of only two days. Practically all of this time was occupied by the prosecution presenting a case so clear, so conclusive that even had the prisoner entered a plea of insanity. the jury would not have returned a verdict different from the one rendered today. The announcement made in the afternoon by the attorneys for Czolgosz : that the eminent allicnistu summoned by the Erie County Bar Association and by the district attorney to examine Czolgosz and to determine his exact mental condition had declared him to be perfectly sane, destroying the only vestige of a defense that Judges Lewis and Titus could have put together. Before adjournment Justice White announced that he would pronounce sentence upon the prisoner on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Ho was taken at once through the tunnel under Delaware avenue to the jail. To all appearances he was in no v.ay affected by the result of the trial. The crowd gathered at the city hall was the largest which has seen him since his arraignment. People were lined up on both sides of the big ro- l tunda on the second floor when court 1 convened and fringed the stairs lead- ] ing from the floor above. There was no demonstration except that of curiosity. ( A large number of women witnessed ' j the proceedings. 1 At 2:44 in the afternoon District At- * torney Penny abruptly announced that the case of the prosecution was ended. Judge Lewis arose slowly and. address- J lng the court, said that the sudden close of the case against Czolgosz was i j a surprise to him and hi3 colleague, j They had no witness to call for the . defense. He asked the court that he j be allowed to address the jury at once. , The court consented and the venerable j jurist began an address that will long * ' % . V. V? ao r if * be rememoereu oy muse wuu uco.4U .... . , The jury re-tired at 3:51 to consider | j the evidence. The sc:ne in the court room then became dramatic in the extieme. Decorum was somewhat forgotten and the spectators stood up and many walked about the room and engaged in conversation. The guards about the assassin, who still eat in his seat, before the bench, were doubled Chief of Detectives Cu3ack and two of his men taking positions just back of Czolgosz's chair. Others took seats to the left and right and many "plain among the crowd surging about the clothes" men were seen mingling I room clcsely watching every one whose face was net familiar to them. There was no disposition to crowd about the prisoner, although the object of every one seemed to be to get in a position where he could have a full v.cw of hi3 j face. j Czolgosz had been seated in his chair all afternoon, his hands clasped on j the arms of the chair and his head ^ bent forward. The room was not a warm but he frequently took his hand- f kerchief from his pocket and mopped t the perspiration from his forehead and \ cheeks. At one time during the ab- c sence of the jury did he raise hi3 eyes or lift his head or seem to know that t he was the object of interest to sever- y al hundred men and women. Every c time the door was oepned all eyes t were turned in that direction, the evi- h dent thought in every mind being that v the jury would take only a few minu- t tes to agree on a verdict. d It v.as 4:30 when the crier rapped for a order and the jury filed into the room r The clerk called their nanus, each jur- ^ or responding present as his name was .n called. No time was wasted. The ' iurors did not sit down. Judge White said: "Gentlemen, have r you agreed upon a verdict?" "We have," responded foreman Wendt. "What is your verdict?" "That the verdict is guilty of mur- Is der In the first degree." f, There was a moment of silence and ^ then a murmur arose from the lips of w the crowd. It ended there. There was , no handclapping; no cheers. Justice White's voice could be clearly heard d' in every part of the room when ne P thanked the jurors for their work and fli allowed them to go until 11 o'clock to. ^ morrow morning. Court was at once adjourned. Czolgosz was immediately 81 handcuffed to his guards and hurried SI from the court room down-stair? to { p< the basement and through the tunnc-l I w under Delaware avenue ?o Mie jail. s. stNTENCED TO ELECTROCUTION. President flcKinleys Murderer Must Pey the Penalty? Date Fixed For Week Beginning October 27. Buffalo, Special.?Leon F. Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley, was Thursday afternoon sen- , tenced to be electrocuted in the Auburn State prison during the week beginning October 28, 1901. I Before sentence was passed the assassin evinced desire to speak. dui ne couia not get his voice aoove a whisper and his words were repeated to the court by his counsel. "There was no one else but me," the prisoner said in a whisper. "No one | else told mc to do it and no one paid me to do it. I was not told anything about the crime and I never thought anything about that until a couple of days before I committed the crime." Czolgosz sat down. He was quite calm but it was evident that his mind was flooded with thoughts of his own distress. His eyes were dilated, making them heavy and bright, and his cheeks were a trifle pale. The guards put the handcuffs on his wrists. He looked at one of the officers. There was an expression of the profoundest fear and helplessness in his eyes. He glanced about at the people who crowded together in efforts to get a look at him. The prisoner's eyelids rose and fell and then he fixed his gaze upon the floor in front of him. f I ~ LEON F. CZOLGOSZ. At this point Judge Titus came over to the prisoner and bade him good-bye. Czolgosz replied very Faintly. letting his eye rest upon the man who had been his counsel. "Good-bye," he said weakly. Czolgosz was then hurried downstairs and through "the Tunnel of Sobs" to the iail, where he will remain until renovea to Auburn to pay the penalty for his crime. Although the time announced for :he convening of court was 2 o'clock ?very scat and every foot of standng room were occupied before 1:30 ind scores were clamoring outside 'or admission. The doo^s were ockec! ana no more were aamiuea to j ? :he room. The prisoner was brought t nto the room at 5 minute3 to 2. Five ? ninutes later Justice White took his j ?lace upon the bench. a As soon as Justice White assumed t he bench, Crier Hess said: "Pur- c uiant to a recess, this trial term of he Supremo Court is now open for e he transaction of business." District Attorney Penney said: "If ( our honor please. I move sentence n the case of People vs. Leon Czol- ^ ;osz. Stand up. Czolgosz." Clerk Fisher swore the prisoner j' tnd his record was taken by the dis- ^ rlct attorney as follows: "Age 28 ears: nativity, Detroit; residence. 3roadwav, Nowak. Buffalo; occupaion. laborer; married or single, iingle; degrees of education, com- j, non school and parochial; re- v igious instruction. Catholic; par- t nts. father living, mother dead; ^ emperate or intemperate, tempera- ^ >erate; former conviction of crime, tone." tj Then Justice White passed sen- t, ence as follows: in taking the lite if our beloved President you com- ^ nitted a crime which shocked and * mtraged the moral sense of the ? Ivilized world. You have confessed j. hat guilt, and after learning all that . * A,-:~ A1 lnarnQ/l fl*r?m thp il UI1S unit* tan L?c Itaiuvu w~... ...... acts and circumstances of the case. welve good jurors liave pronounced . on guilty and have found you guilty if murder in the first degree. .J "You have said, according to the . estimony of creditable witnesses and . ourself. that no other person aided r abetted you in the commission of ^ his terrible act. God grant it may e so. The penalty for the crime for rhich you stand convicted is fixed by ^ h's statute and it now becomes my ^ uty to pronounce this judgment gainst you: The sentence of this ourt is that in the week beginning 1 )ctober 28. 1901. at the place, in the ^ lanner and means prescribed bv (i) iw. you suffer the punishment of . eath. Remove the prisoner." The crowd slowlv filed out of the oom and court adjourned at 2:26. /V Brvan Favors Free Speech. Lincoln, Neb., Special.?W. J. Bryan T i opposed to any limitation upon the eedom of speech, which he say3 has een suggested as a cure for anarchy. 0( t. Bryan believes the evils of restric- g] ? ?~ ~ fUor* ai'llti nf f rpp- <V on are grcan-i u-au ? ora and further declares the death of R resident McKinley cannot be traced to lything said or written against him. he warfare, he says, must be against nrchy, not against freedom of 0f leech. Anarchy, he insists, is a Euro- te an product, and thrives most there, F< here there is the least freedom of *** ae .tech and the Dress. ^ SITTINGS RESUMED. The Schley Court of Investigation in Session Again. TWO WITNESSES WERE EXAMINED Nothing Startling lias Been Brought Forward Thus Far By the Witnesses Against'Schlev. V/ashington, D. C.. Special.?Two witnesses were introduced in the bcniey court Wednesday. They were f Admiral Cotton, who as captain commanded the auxiliary cruiser Harvard, md Captain Wise, who comanded the luxiliary cruiser Yale during the Spanish war. Both these vessels were tsed as scouts and both came up with the flying squadron off Santiago on the 27th of May, before the retrogade movement to Key West began. Admiral Cotton testified tbat he hod ?one aboard Admiral Schley's flagship, the Brooklyn, on that date to take dispatches to him and he said at first that he gave him four or five dispatches addressed to the comnander of the squadron. He after^ar.ls modified this statement, saying that probably all but two of these dispatches were addressed to himself (Admiral Cotton) but that they conmined information which he thought ?hould bevin Admiral Schley's possession. One of these was a copy of a lispatch from Admiral Sampson which lad not been printed in the official records, stating that the Spanish fleet vas at Santiago. He also said.that coal mnU Kui*a Ka/mi stVss** Hw? uuiu ua>c ucuu uarvcu wuu IUC iuti i 1 nac on the 27th of May, the day on vhlch the retrogade movement to Key tVest was begun for the purpose of oaling. Captain Wise testified that on he 27th day of May he had signaled Captain Philip, of the Texas, his jpinion that Cervera was inside the larbor at Santiago, but the testimony vsa ruled out. The first witness called was A. 1. Claxton, the machinist on board the rexas who had begun his testimony vhen the settings of the court were so ibruptly terminated Tuesday morning )y the death of Judge Wilson. Mr. Claxton said on July 3, 1898. he had >een on duty in the engine room of he Texas. The engine indicator had railed for full speed ahead early in the norning, which had, within an hour ifter the beginning of the action been hanged to "full speed astern." To his cnowledge there had been no signal or the revrsal qf the engine. He said hat he had been excused from service n the engine room, but still hp knew hat the engines were reversed for ibout two minutes. Rear Admiral Cotton, now coninandant of the Norfolk navy yard, vho commanded the auxiliary cruiser larvard during the Spanish war. was he next witness. He said that on May 7, 1S9S. he had delivered dispatches o Commodore Schley from Admiral Sampson and the Navy Department. ^ le had. h? said, boarded the Brooklyn ,bout 10:30 o'clock. The weather was. r hen moderate and he had had no difftulty in going aboard the Brooklyn. "What was said about the dispatch's?" ' I delivered to Commodore Schley lie original ciphers in which the disiatches had been received by me at It. Nicholas Mole, together with transition of those dispatches made by deutenant Beall, of the Harvard. I landed them personally to him in his abin in the order of their date. He eceived them, read them and co;naented in a general way upon their urport: spoke of the difficult*/ he had a getting coal on board his ships ?*hile at Cienfuegos and subsequently a the date o? which 1 am speaking, lav 27. and said it had been an altost impossibility to get coal on board n account of the weather. He quesioned me relative to the practicabiliV of coaling ship at St. Nicholas Mole nd Gonaive's Channel. As to St. .'icholas Mole. I said: There is no uestion the small ships can coal here. As to Gonaive'3 channel. I now of no reason why you should not e able to coal there.' The commodore lade remarks upon my statements, Se language of which I do not recall, ut he asked me. 'How about the large hips at St. Nicholas Mole?' i said: foil can't coal your big ships there.' had special reference in my reply to te battleships and protected cruisers C the Brooklyn and New York class, said, thinking of the fact that iny wn ship had been there and was of Dme 12.000 tons displacement and early C.OO feet in length, 'possibly uner favorable conditions, you might re ble to coal the large ships there, one t a time.' But the a;ea of deep water )r the anchorage of large ships is so Uinro it was net practicable to sal at the very utmost more th t:i one irge ship at a time and In rn.se the eather became bad she would irarnclately have to go to sea. ^ Irs. Roosevelt at the White House. Washington. D. C., Special.?Mrs. he. Roosevelt, the wife of the Presi;nt. took up her permanent residence i Washington Wednesday night when > mistress of the White House, she cupled apartments for the first time, tie reached the city about 9:th) clock, bringing with her two of the oosevelt children, a governess and a nisekeeper. President R icsevelt met rs. Roosevelt and the children at the irtcochere of the White House. I'artments in the southwestern p.vt the building have been specially t:td up for the new presidentii! party, or two hours late in the afternoon e President enjoyed a horsebjek ride companied by Col. 5>anger, Ihs Asitaat Secretary cf War.