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I ? l> THE COUNTY RECORD. Pablitbed Every Thursday ?at? unobtree: south Carolina. ?BY ? 0. w. WOLFE . The Anarchist rails against tyranny; but what tyranny is there so absolute and So abominable as that which undertakes to defeat the will of a nation by the murderous act of a single man? asks the Philadelphia Record. In the most matter of fact way announcement is made that a cable to Hawaii will be laid forthwith, and that it will be extended to the Philippines as soon as it can bo manufactured. Is this the line that lias been so vehemently discussed for the past ten years or more? If so, it shows once more, that Horace Greeley was right?the way to get a thing done is to do it. ' There are over one hundred cities in Germany to-day where there are electric tramways in existence. These are operating over 0000 cars. Twelve years ago there were only three cities in the empire in which electric railways were operated. At present oyly three German cities have adopted underground conduits; in the remainder . ?* At.. ..A tl ,.n 1,M AUtr ciVvuit' xuuuuja uic w^ciaicu vj the trolley system. Agriculture is the basis of American national progress. It is for tbe welfare of all the nation, therefore, that t every benisou science ami love can bring to the family shall be brought to the farmer. It is for the advantage of American society that the tide shall be turned back from the congestion, moral and physical, of cities, into the freedom, the independence, and the simplicity of the farm. All other avocations depend for prosperity npon the prosperity of the farmer, reflects a writer in Harper s Bazar. 1 Here's^an instance in which a man utilized his mouth for something even better than talking. Bertram Hines, an Englishman, became a painter in eyue ui me lat'i iuui uc ioji uuiu 111s arms iii au accident when he was a child. He had developed at that time a taste for drawing, and the loss of Lis arms did not swerve him froth Lis determination to become an artist. He therefore set to work holdnig his pencil or brush with his mouth. At the age of sixteen lie exhibited a water color study at the Bristol Fine Art Academy, and a little later won an art scholarship valued at 10U guineas. ' * % x ' The French are so sanguine of tlie^ utility of the new submarine boat with .which their navy is being equipped that they freely declare the days of blockading are past. British naval officers do not share, however, in that belief. They do not attach much importance to the submarine boat, even if it is a success in a radius of ten miles, because there can be no accurt acy of steering and no certainty of aim when the boat i? submerged In <leep water; and if she comes to the surface to take bearings, it is claimed that she is sure to be seen and promptly sunk by the fire which will be centred on^her^^^^^^^^^^^ With the trend of the country's progress, it may be well to note the unlimited* demand for Western lumber. The supply sent to the Eastern markets has materially decreased, owing to the steady building of new Western towns. The vast, productive region beyond the Mississippi, which was marked in Peter Parley's geography as "The Great American Desert,'' has now become a theatre of business activity, and the dwelling place of thousands of prosperous, contented families. The trade of the Northwest has increased in the past ten years, according to Bradstreet's reports. over five hundred per cent., a statement that seems to be phenomenal. The West can also boast of hundreds of small towns, some less than ? year old,, and all progressing with vigor and rapidity. Their presence is due to the advance of transportation facilities into new sections, states Success. .? . / "*N. ffll'JDERED IN COLUMBIA. A fl'chinist at Railway Shops Is the Victim. Columbia. Special.?In the case o! the death of William Seaver the coroner's jury Sunday returned a veid'ct that deceased came to his death from a shot-gun wound indicted by Archie McCraney and that Harry Jones and seven others, to the jury unknown, are accessories to the killing. This is the most tragic affair which has occurred in Columbia for months. It happened in the dead of night in a retired and low quarter, yet its relation * - * ~ ? t 4- /*? a r\ P +Ko ty* r\-; t to oilier evenib matte it uuc kjl t,uc uivx, sensational affairs in connection with the strike of the machinist on the I Southern Railway. William Seaver and Walter Hinder tame here to take the place of men who had quit the' Southern Railway s shops. There has been intense feel ng between the "strikers" and the "s -alts' and more than one clash has occurred. A number of the strikers are now under indictment for riot and assault. Seaver and Lin'der occupied "bachelors' quarters" in a miserable Utile cabin in the midst of a ne^ro settlement in a swampy suburb cf the city. A Mrs. McLean has been their "housekeeper." This place evidently has a very unsavory reputation.. Saturday night about 11 o'clock, according to the testimony of Linder, who is severely wounded, there was a knock at the door. "I went to tin door," said he, "and was confioated by these men. one of whom was armed with a double-barreled shot-gun, and one with a revolver. They askei me who lived here, I replied that myself and another gentleman. I then asked him who he was and what his bus ness was. He replied that he was a constable armed with a search warrant and was looking for a colored man supposed to live in the house. I ieplied that there were no colored men In this house. I asked him to show me the warrant and they refused. Hearing the noise. Mr. Seaver came to the front door. Then the men began cal!ing'us 'scabs' and other names, and ordered us to come out of the hou3o, * t a t# threatening to diow our Drama um u we did not comply. Instantly a white man sprang over the railing with a revolver pointed at Mr. Soaver. At the same time the man with the doublebarreled shot-gun discharged the same full in my face. I then turned and as the crowd backed away to surround the house I started for the middle room and passed on to the kitchen to secure a hand axe. As I reached the kitchen door opening on the rear porch. I heard shots in the front room and heard the fall of a body accompanied by heavy groan3, mingled with curses. "Just as I was about to step to the kitchen door to pick up the hatchet. I ?? ?u ? niooce?loff l'npo Wiiv) SUUl III my ^mv-vo ivti. ?mw? ??.. left wrist?and fell. I then heard more curses in the front room accompanying a shot. Then I heard the footsteps of parties approaching toward me. Arriving at my prostrate form they be- | gan cursing me. I "I endeavored to rise and was ira- | mediately kicked in the head and back with cries of 'finish the damned srab. we have fixed the other; we will now finish him.' Others interposing, they desisted and disappeared in the darkness." The above testimony was tak?n by Coroner Green before the wounded man was removed to the hospital. Although the homicide occurred about midnight, it was nearly 2 o'clock before the police could be notified as the negroes in tthe neighborhood were terrified. , >As the place is out of the city limits Pc^ice Sergeant Jones appealed to the sheriff for authority to take up the . case. Sheriff Coleman and his d?putir#*3oined the police and a rigid search waajnstituted. There are no streets in that neighborhood, hogs run wild in the roads and wallow in the siug- | gish littli stream which winds among , the houses, and weeds grow rank up to the doors of the houses. In the night the sherifT had difficutly in getting started. Finally he hit the right clue?quite by accident. He had gone 1 to the home of a white woman to find 1 1 ?-V i ? hnanf r\f + V? / ? ofPoir Tn hlfl UUl wiitti &1IC nucn ui lug uum??. au ...w deposition before the coroner, Sherifl 1 Coleman said: "There were two men ' in bed in the front room.We questionde 1 the woman and asked her if she knew I anything about the case. She replied 1 she had heard these boys in the b?d talking about it. I stepped to the fool of the bed. The two men in bed were Arthur McCraney and Harry Jones. 1 said to McCraney. 'Hello Mac. what's the trouble out here?' He said, 'Well, what about it?' I said. 'Well, that's ' what I am asking you, what about it?' His reply was. 'Well, how about it?' I ' said. 'Oh, well, you might as well answer me. I am not answering any ( questions.' McCraney raised up In bed and threw the covering off and . said, 'I did it; I am the man who done " - * A*?? T Uim milK o Hah. ' me SQOOllIlg 1 BUUl. IIIU1 mui c uvv ble-barreled gun in self-defense.' I 1 asked him who used the pistol. He ' said he did not know. He did not have any pistol; he shot the gun. He said the man hit him in the breast with a , hammer, which was the reason why lie | shot him. I arrested him and Jones and waited until th*y put their clothes on and carried them to jail. I did not see any marks on McCraney." McCraney worked in the shops up i to the time of the strike. His father, | Tom McCreary, is a popular engineer , on the Southern and his brother, Dan. (' i3 an engineer on the Coast Line Jones is well connected here. T^erv was liquor in the crowd. The dead 1 man came here from Massachusetts and Kinder from St. Louis, on June ' ]9th. Other arrests may follow. ' # A THEATER BURNED : T t Ten People Killed and Four Seriously Injured. FATAL FIRE IN MICHIGAN TOWN. J i Blaz? That Destroyed a Vaudeville Play House and Threatened to Exterminate the Town. Ironwood, Mich., Special.?Ten lives were lost and four buildings destroyed by a fire which started in the Klondike Theatre, at Hurley, Wis.. Wednesday. The dead are: C. W. Cleveland, H. P. Clifford, Thos. Leclaire, George Benert, H. D. Emery, Timothy Ryan, F. L. Gay, St. Louis; Thos. Ozanne, Harry Raymond, Clara Bonne. Seriously injured: Jeanie Bender, Annie Scott, Laura Russell and Billy McLaughlin. The Klondike was a vaudeville theatre and all of the lead and injured were connected with >n theatre as reformers. Most of them lived at Hurley, and Thomas -eclairo was a brother of the prorf tj,e theatre. The Are started oil the stage and in a few minutes the entire structure was a mass of flames. The third story was used as '< sleeping quarters and the rapiJ i spread of the fire cut off the escape of p the occupants. The theatre building i was entirely consumed and the flames t spread to adjoining structures. The \ Ironwood fire department was called f to the assistance of the Hurley fire- ( men and only by the hardest work , was the town saved from being wiped out j The charged remains of six of,the victims have been recovered and ' search is being made for the others. The Klondike Theatre burned once * before, in July. 18S7, when eleven wo- * men lost their lives. ( f Speech for Schley. ? Washington, Special.?The climax of 1 the Schley court of inquiry came Wed- * ncsday afternoon when Mr. Royn>r, the " chief counsel for Admiral Schley, concluded a brilliant argument of over three hours with a peroration so eloquent and impassioned, that all within >Ko cnnnH nf Mc vrvipo U'Prft nmfmindlv I 2 touched. In vivid colors ho painted the i picture of the Brooklyn with Comma- c dore Schley on the bridge, fighting the f entire Spanish fleet until the Cregon a appeared out of the smoke. "The thun- C ders of the Brooklyn, music to- the t ears of his countrymen," he said, t "aroused. Admiral Schley's envious a foes." He pictured the victorious sailor t suffering as few have suffered for three i long years while the fires of persecu- t tion leaped around him and now a.wait- s Ing the hour of his vindication in the t verdict of the court. \ The scene in the court room as Mr. i Rayner finished was thrilling. The at- p tendance had been large all day and at s the morning session, a lady had fainted from excitement. Boer War Taxes. v London. By Cable.?What appear- t ed as an important announcement pre- 5 paring the people of Great Britain for new taxes and fresh loans, was made , Monday night by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Michael H.cks-Beach, in a speech at Bristol. After alluding to the enormous increase in the ordinary expenditures of the government, t he reviewed the war taxes and said E that the ever-increasing demand of the 1: national exchequer gave reasons for careful thought and even anxiety for q the future. "The cost of the war in n South Africa is enormous," said Sir a Michael. "It still drags on. It maybe g when next year comes, tuat I may have p to ask the people of this country to b bear even greater burdens and make greater sacrifices." b Virginia Postoffice Burned. f Roanoke, Va., Speciiil.?The postof- t' 3ce at Princeton, count/ seat of Mer- h cer county, W. Va., was robbed Tues- p lay morning. The safe was cracked and between $300 and $350 in stamps and 1150 in money stolen. !3ome tools taken F from a blacksmith shop were found In ^ the postoffice and Lewis McNutt, i. col- a ared employe of the blacksmith shop, * las been arrested. 81 S Human Bodies In Crates. Chicago, Special.?Bight human tj jodies were taken Wednesday evening ^ from two crates at the freight cepot a \r thp Chicaeo. Burlington & Quincy ii rtailroad. They were consigned to R. J. 11 Tones, at Brasher, Mo., and were mark- ^ ;d as second-hand laundry machinery, The bodies were purchased during the tl lay from the Harvey Medical College, lc of this city, and were being shipped 11 :o Missouri for purpose of dissection. The police are looking for Jones, but ^ !0 far have been unable to locate him. The only charge that can be brought ' igainst him is the shipping of bodies 8 n a manner contrary to law. \ Bank Cashier Shot. i< London, By Cable.?Monday after- n aoon a man named Linscobe entered the Kennington branch of the London p and Southwestern Bank, and shot the cashier dead. He then called upon the clerk to delivf ? the contents of n the till. The clerk grappled with the ^ robber, who, finding that escape was 0, impossible, shot himself. Another, clerk was wounded in the struggle. SOUTHERNINDUSTKlAL 11 S'ew Enterprises That Are Enriching Our Favo'ed Section. J The Charleston Exposition. Cn October 24. 19CO, the b:ard of directors of the South Carolina, In.ertate and West Indian Exposition gav<? ] nstructions that wori/should beg'n cn 1 V* rv AvnApiTton Itiiil'ISnn* f -nr ~?r?Tr K O )cen steadily pushed. ar.d within the -ear forty fine buildings have bec.i ' itarted, and many of them are now all aut completed. In an in.e.view last ( week Mr. B:adford L. Gilbert, the archtect-in-chief of the exposition, said 1 :hat he was confident that he could 1 lave the exposition grounds and build- i ngs in order by November 15, and that i vhen the work was completed there would be no cause for complaint, cs- ] pecially as it had been done at les3 ex- ( oease than was originally calculated ipon. Within five weeks the exposition will be opened, and the men of Charles- ' ton who have furthered its plans are c confident that during the six months )f the exposition its purposes?the cultivation of closer trade relations te- i tween the United States and the vvTest Indies?will be fully realized. . s y The South's Climate. In an interview at Knoxvllle not long { tgo Mr. W. R. Brown of Boston, speak- ] ng of the possibility of New England ( irint mills moving to the cotton fields, >aid that print goods may be success ? - 1 1 f_ it. fl ik I 1 uny manuracuireunn me ooum, urn :bat the day would never come when Ine bleached domestic may be turned )ut by Southern mills, because of eitnatic or atmospheric conditions. Cli- ( natlc or atmospheric conditions have >ecn a great standby for half a cen- 1 ury In arguments intended to prove th9 < Imitation of the South in cotton manu- j acturing. But the South, with some inerruption, has gone on manufacturing :otton, passing from lower to higher t jrades, going into tbo print business, t md even daring to try bleaching. As a i natter of fact, the South has the most d superior climate in the country, as far a is cotton is concerned, especially coton-growing. f } Brick Works at Wilmington. d The manufacture of bricks by a new c ind economical process is about to be c mdertaker. at Wilmington, N. C. An- * Irew Smith is organizing the company t or this purpose, and will incorporate c is the Hydraulic White Pressed BricK v :o.. with capital stock of $50,000. Site las been purchased, and arrangements o build the works are now being made ^ is sufficient capital to ensure the en- p erprlse has been subscribed. The plant t vill have ci daily capacity of 20,000 j tricks, and building ornaments will alo be produced. The process comprises he use of sand and chemicals as in- h rented by a German investigator, and j t is claimed the product has many suterior merits that have been demontrated in practice in Europj. Textile Information. It is announced that a new company trill be organized to rebuild and re-es- j ablish the Randleman (N. C.) Hosiery s dills, recently burned. v Chatham Manufacturing Co., of El- D :in, N. C., has completed the Installa ion in its woolen mills or an equip- a aent for producing cotton blankets. t The Business Men's Club of San An- ? onio. Texas, is in correspondence with lastern parties relative to the establishment of a large cotton factory. s The Extract Wool & Merino Co., of ^ lhattanooga, Tenn., has found the deaand for its product so increasing that , doubling of its production is necesary. The force of employes will be du- c dicated and a night shift of hands will a e operated. s tl Endeavors are being made at Vicksmrg. Miss., for the organization ot u ompany to build a cotton factory, li h s proposed to interest Eastern capi- c< alists. and one of the Iocat promoters & as gone North for the last-named pur- n ose. " The scholarship presented ty Mr. 'irth to the New England Cotton N lanufacturers' Association will be ten- o ble at the New Bedford (Mass.) Tex- b lie School, which already has drawn e: tudents from all parts of the United Ii tates. u The Orient Mills of Charlotte. N. C.. i now completing the installation of N |ie 7000 spindles and 160 dobby looms 1 ecided on 3ome time ago for its new c dditlon. Ai soon as this machinery is a l operation another 7000 spindles and 0 30 looms will be purchased and put,in 0 osltion, thus bringing the plant up to 0,400 spindles and 520 looms (the old ortion of the plant having C400 of icse spindles and 160 of the dobby >oms). The total investment ror tnose " improvements will be $250,COO. 1,1 The Itasca (Texas) Cotton Manuacturing Co. will use Beaumont oil ^ or fuel. Three tanks are being con- P1 tructed under ground, and the necesary equipment is being installed. j,, The Waxahachie (Texas) Cotton a] nils has discarded coal as fuel for ts furnaces and now burns 'Jeaulont natural oil. The change is said o give entire satisfaction to the com- ai any. The Manchester Cotton Mill Co., of ock Hill, S. C., is reported as contem- tt lating the intallation of additional tt lachinery, ta include 6000 spindles and j in 10 looms. This company's plant now i pi perates 18,240 producing sp:ndle3, I 340 twisting spindles and 300 looms in | w le manufacture of brown shesting. jj, VJ? ? LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS. _ V *Sm Many Matters of General Interest In Short Paragraphs. At The National Capital. It 13 reported that the Dowager Cmpress of China has become displeased ivith the popularity of Minister Wu ring-fang. Secretary Long has determined to ncrease the efficiency of the navy by isaigning junior officers to the engineering department. In his annual report Second Assisant Postmaster-General W. S. Siiulenberger recommends faster mail service to the Orient and the re-establishBent of the pneumatic tube service. Six breweries of Louisville, Ky.r ^Hj teve combined, with $3,500,000 capi:al. The Industrial Commission oc:ise3 :o exist on December 15 by operation )f law. The election of Gorman to the United States Senate from Maryland Is assured. Crude rubber has dropped 10 cents i pound, but the manufactured goods / ft'ill not be reduced. Several of the largest sardine faccciea in Maine will close because of ow prices prevailing for their proiuct. The Sunny South. A son of ex-Judge Merrimcn was 5hot and seriously wounded at Asberllle, N. C., Wednesday by a 15-year)ld girl that he had ruined. The cigar-makers who were arrested in connection with Monday s iisturbance in Havana, arc still in lail. A number of workmen wli sail ^ 'or Tarn pa. ; Prof, t Joseph H. Ketron, who found!d Kingsle^ Seminary at Bloomlnglale, near the Virginia-Tennessee line, !0 years ago, and had been its preailent ever since, died Thursday night, ,ged 64 years. A freight wreck occurred on the, Noi* . t oik and Western road at Ironvilld, ust east of Blue Ridge Springs, yester-' * ay. About 15 freight cars laden with oal were smashed up. The wreck ocurred in a deep cut and all trains rere tied up. "The wreck was caus.id >y the flange of a wheel breaking. No ine wa3 injured, but the damage Is ery great. *1 Robert Jacobs is believed to be faally injured as the result of an accllent at the Suffolk Clay Company's lant. He fell on a revolving shaft, he bolts of which caught in his elothng just below the belt and carried tim over rapidly. When Jacobs was [nally dashed to the ground most of ils clothing was gone and he was bady lacerated. * At The North. Ten people were burned to death n a theatre Are in a Wisconsin town. \ , r The immense plant of Dilworth 'nrtpr and Co.. manufacturers of * teel rods and spikes, at Pittsburg, /as damaged by fire Wednesday v light to the extent of about $250,000 At least 18 persons were killed and , property loss of $500,000 was susained by a fire in Hunt, Wilkinson nd Co.'s furnitiAe warehouse, Philaelphia. The Interstate Commerce Commision gave a hearing in New York on omplaints that unjust discrimination /as practiced in favor of Baltimore's rain trade. The Standard Oil Company has de- > lared a dividend of $8 per share, payble December 16, making $47 per hare for the calendar year, which is ho same amount as last year. Nashville (Tenn.) Woolen Mill Co. as completed the improvements that onvert its plant from a jeans mill to cassimere mill. The discarded looms umbered seventy-eight and new >oms to that extent were installed. The Capelsie Cotton Mills at Troy, f. C. ,is now completed, and will start perations. This plant includes a uilding 80x210 feet, with 35x40 foot ngine room, and the machinery will lclude 2,500 spindles. The comrany i naDltalized at $50,000. It is reported that the Brookside , [ills of Knoxville, Tenn., will install 00 additional looms and other mahinery. This company is now oper ting 26,000 spindles ana t>au iooiua n the production of a special grade r cloth. From Across The Sea. It is reported that General De Wet a3 captured 6,000 British Army ^ arses near Cape Town. France haa sent a note to Turkey jmanding fulfillment of the Sultan's romisee. * s< 3 The people of Samos are at loggerjads with their Government and have jpealed to Constantinople. United States Sonsul Boyle, of Liv pool, says there is no need to quaritine tourists at American ports on jcount of the Liverpool plague. Latin-American Liberals applaud ie speech of Hon. Henry G. Davi3 at ie Pan-American Congress upholdig the integrity of the American relblics. The condition ot Li Hung Chang, ho i3 seriously ill in Pekin, shows anrovement.