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EXCITEMENT - " Japanese Vessel Anchoi Battl AMERICANS ACT WITH JAPANESE: China Net Being Able to Prevent the Russians From Violating Her Neu- j trality by Making Repairs on the , A kold and the Grosovoi, the Japanese Take the Bull by the Horns. Shanghai. By Cable.?Shanghai was ; thrown into a fever of excitement Sun- j day afternoon by the arrival of Japa- i nese torpedo beat. She passed the j Wocsung at full speed and started up the river at Iu for Shanghai. The United States torpedo destroyer Cbauncey. slipped her cable and followed the Japanese destroyer. The j Japanese boat was cleared for action, j She anchored off the Cosmopolitan dock, where the Russian cruised Askold Is undergoing repairs. The taotai has notified American consul uooanow, wno is wit; ueuu ui the consular body, that China cannot protect the foreign settlements. He contends that Russia ignores the or- \ ders issued by China, and that China J \ I nas not the means of making her obey them. Consul Goodnow called a meeting of , the consular body to take joint action j for the protection of foreign inhabi- j tants. The Askold has docked adjacent to the warehouses here of the Stanard Oil Company, which are valued at over $1.000,000. The Standard Oil Company has demanded protection for its property from Consul Goodnow. The dock where the Askold lies is owned by British interests. Inside this dock is German and Dutch property, and on the other side American property. There are eight American, one German. two British and four French warships here. SURPRISE CREATED IN LONDON. London. By Cable.?The intervention of the American squadron at Shanghai in the Japanese operations against the Russian cruiser Askold, 1 created (onsiderable surprise in official circles here. An official of the legation said: "If the report is not untrue, the American commander must have tad good reason ror ms acuuu, sum as the protection of American interests, which would have been endangered by Hying shells. "Japan has been very reluctant to 1 send ships into the harbor, for she recognized the international character of Shanghai, and the laws of neturality demanded that China should order the Askuld and the Grozovi to dismantle or leave the port, she having given the order and the Russian ships having refused, it was then incumbent for Japan to act, thereby protecting the Chinese neutrality and at the same time exerting her rights as a belligerent. It would never have done to perdu n>it Russian ships to remain in a Chinese port deliberately and avowedly violating the neutrality of the country. Whatever reason actuated tne American commander, if he really did as reported. it is certain that no complications will follow." A Destructive Storm. St. Paul, Special.?Death to twelve persons, injuries to many others and destruction to property, both private and public, estimated in round numbers at $1,000,000, resulted from a furious gale which tore down the vallev of the Mississippi at about 9 o'clock : Saturday night from a point somewhere J Corporal Punishment Abolished. St. Petersburg, By Cable.?One act signaling the birth of an heir to the throne will be the abolition of corporal punishment throughout Russia. A ukase to this effect was issued Wednesday. It is reported on good authority that Emperor William of Germany asks the privilege to act as one of the godfathers to the heir. Russia Calls Out Reserves. St. Petersburg. By Cable.?The Emperor has issued an ukase summoning to the colors all the reserve officers throughout the empire. The Official Messenger announced the mobilization of the reserves in 45 districts, calling to the colors one-tenth of the reserves of European Russia. Considerably over half the first-class reserves of European Russia have now been called out and practically all the reserves in Siberia. Current Events. Col. Ismail Montc3 was inaugurated as President of Bolivia. The Board of Public Works is en gas;ed in assessing railroad propercy in West Virginia. "Old Home Week," is being celebrated in Culpeper county. ^ The United States immigration authorities, instead of raising any objection to Mrs. Maybrick's coming to America, will facilitate her landing ' as much as possible. Admiral Jewell's squadron will leave the Mediterranean and go to Northern Europe. Minister Pcwell has sent word to the State Department that President ; Nord, of Haiti, never threatened t > massacre foreigners. , AT SHANGHAI s Close By the Russian leship near the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers near Fort Snelling. At about that point the fury of the elements seemingly divided, and with a roar descended cn the twin cities and their environs. The dead: Lorin F. Hokanson. killed at Tivoli Theatre: George" Kwenton, carpenter, killed at Tivoli Theatre; Richard Hillisbeck, telegraph operator, killed by lightning; unknown child, killed by falling wall of dormitory at House of the Good Shepherd; Albert Odhe, killed at St. Louis Park; three unknown dead at St. Louis Park, a suburb of Minneapolis; four unknown dead at Waconia. a small station 20 milec wpst nf Minnf>flnnlis. Beginning below Fort Snelling there is the first evidence that the storm struck with damaging effect. It came from the southwest and howling in its fury uprooted trees and demolished buildings in its pathway towards St. Paul. It tore off two spans of the high bridge as completely as if they had been unbolted from the rest of the structure and carried away by workmen. There the bridge connected with the high bluffs at West St. Paul and it is 180 feet above the river. This mass of steel was carried to the flats below, where flying steel girders and heavy planks fell on several small frame houses of the flat dwellers and crushed them completely. None of the occupants of these houses were hurt, they having seen the storm coming and taken refuge in the caves in the hillside where they were safe. MANGLED BODIES FOUND. Underneath the debris of the Tivoli, were found, when the storm had passed, the mangled bodies of Lorin F. Hokanson, one of the employes in the s>nn/>n>-+ Kail an/1 Conrirp Kwpnlon OnS of the audience. The storm then rushed on to the northeast, over the wholesale district and here the greatest destruction to property was wrought. After causing havoc in St. Paul, the tornado swept onward to Minneapolis and its suburbs. Here, however, the destruction of property was not so great, although telephone and telegraph wires were torn down in great numbers. For hours the twin cities were cut off from any communication with the outside world. Drummer Killed in Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Special.?A quarrel about an open bed-room door led to the killing of Frank E. Brett, a traveling salesman by Andrew A. Walline, superintendent of the Florodora Tag Company, here Sunday. Brett had been in the habit so it is cdaimed. of leaving the door of his room open when he was undressed. Walline had remonstarted with him about the matter on several occasions, and a quarrel ensued early in the day, resulting in the killing. Walline claims self-defense. Brett formerly lived in Macon, where last season he acted as coach for the Mercer College Base una team. Reported Capture of Fort. Chefoo, By Cable.?It Is reported that the Japanese before Port Arthur have captured Fort No. 25. one mile north of Golden Hill. The Japanese are not attempting to storm Liaoti promontory. Their right wing terminates at Pigeon Bay. The Russian garrison of Port Arthur is estimated at 23,000 men. covering an area of 12 miles. A junk arriving at Tengchou from the Miao Taio Islands reports seeing yesterday Ave Japanese men of war pursuing two Russian warships, type unknown. They were going in an easterly direction. Must Disarm at Shanghai. Shanghai, By Cable.?The Russian torpedo boat destroyer Grozovoi has been ordered to stop repairing and either to leave this harbor at once or to disarm. The Russian cruiser Askold must leave here Monday at noon. These orders were issued by the taotai of Shanghai. It is believed in official circle that both warships will disarm. Telegraphic Briefs. It is pleasant to learn that the Chinamen are discarding their queues and the barbers in some cities are doing a good business removing them. It is a singular fact that the queue, once a symbol of salvation, became step oy step a mark of dignity and patriotism. But there has arisen a society, known 13 the Bow Wong Woy, which has become very active in instructing the Chinese in their own history, and the removal of thousands of queues is the result. The wearing of queues has ctten been cited as an evidence that the Chinese refuse to become Americanized. But when barbered in American style they look very much like other men. The annual parade of the Grand Army of the Republic was held in Boston and 26,000 were in line. Mayor Stoy, of Atlantic City, began a crusade against flirting along the beach. George E. Lounsbery, ex-Governor of Connecticut, died at Farmingville, Conn. It is believed in Tokio that Port Arthur will be captured in a few days.Russian official reports blame Jews for the recent riots in the provinces of Radum and Siedlitz, Russian Poland. OUR MINERAL RESOURCES Paper to be Read Before American Mining Congress. i Under the direction of tlie State do- | partment of agriculture, commerce and j immigration. State Geologist Earl Sloan ! has prepared a paper on the mineral j resources of South Carolina as viewed from a commercial standpoint?that is their adaptability to commercial ssuage. This paper will be read before the American Mining congress at Portland, i Oregon, in October. It is classified into three heads as follows: 1. Metals?Gold, copper, tin. iron, nickel. The location and names of owners of all deposits are given together with the character. 2. Non-metals ? Monazite, kaolin. Fuller's earth, potter's clay, pyrites, granite, marble, limestones, etc. 3. Agricutural adjuncts?Marls adapted to the manufacture of Portland cement and fertilizers. No phosphate is dealt with because it is considered that about all the capital that can be invested in that idustry is now here end is being used. Mr. Sloan's paper is included in the whole report which bears the signature of Commissioner Watson. The introduction reads: "To the American Mining Congress: "At the request of your secretary, I was recently named by the governor ot the State to undertake through this department of the State government, the preparation of a paper dealing with the mineral resources of the State, viewed from the standpoint of their value commercially. No attention, therefore, has been given to various mineral resources that are not of sufficent commercial value to warrant successful development. This State has been for many years without that class of information about her varied mineral resources that would prove of value to the investor. These properties have simply been lying idle awaiting intelligent direction and sufficient capital to develop them. When this department was established five months ago I at once determined to secure this information and present it to investors in such form as to command attention and give them facts they wished to know. A hasty study of the mining statistics of the State showed an utter lack of development, there being only SS mines, quarries and wells operated in the State employing only 2,694 wage earners, and showing only $1,834,134 as the value of the produce placed upon the market, of which in 1903 $102,573 was in gold and $145 in silver, notwithstanding the State possesses mining properties that should produce many times that amount. "I soon found that a portion of the South Carolina gold production was being credited to neighboring States. "Knowing the value of many of the undeveloped mineral properties in the State, I had already determined to J carefully prepare just such a paper as ' you requested in your secretary's letter of May 4 to the governor. Conse- i quently I have endeavored to give you I information, prepared with greater ! oara than was nrieinallv intended, and i cit once I invoked the aid of our very j competent State geologist, who has , furnished me over his signature the resume of our mineral resources incor- | porated in this paper. As to the properties incorporated in J the treaties of the geologist I will say j that it is the business of this depart- I ment to push their development as far.j as possible. The department will en- i deavor to show inquiring investors over j the properties, offering, with his con- | sent, the further aid of the State geol- ; ogist when his services are needed. The department will also endeavor to ! secure such properties as may be wanted at the lowest possible prices ; and upon the best terms for investors, I when the proposition is coupled with | the assurance of the purchaser that he j intends to immediately develop the ! property, and there is an absence of I a purpose to make the transaction j nmrely for SDeculative purposes. | Among the porperties now listed with j the department is the Mary copper mine referred to below. "Having had considerable exper- j ience with development matters 1 do not hesitate to say that I feel that there is a fine opportunity for those who undertake the development of the ( excellent mineral resources of South Carolina, particularly in view of the fact that the field is practically a 1 virgin one and unexplored almost, < and in view of the further fact that . these properties are so well located as to railroad and water transportation, being almost in the suburbs of 1 the eastern markets and seaports." i An extract from Mr. Sloan's paper ( dealing with iron follows: "Numerous deposits of iron are In 1 this State, occurring in formatione ranging from the tertiary to the Silurian, but up to the present time none have been noted of modern industrial , importance excepting in uie rwu6 ? mountain district. One zone, beginning north of King's mountain, extends southwesterly through Cherokee and parts of Spartanburg and Union counties. and comprises magnetic and specular ores bedded in talcose schists or shales and in the itacolumitic rocks. These beds were worked to great advantage when charcoal was available, Drior to 1865. The magnetic ore, or Catawberite afforded a peculiarly superior iron, close grain and soft, yet tough, which was intensively employed in the manufacture of the Confedenate ordinance. Furnaces and roller mills were operated for this purpose adjacent to the Cherokee ford on the Broad river. Specular ore was also employed in mixtures and alone for the production of superior pig metal for castings. The red ore or Itawberite is a low grade arenaceous magnetic, which also affords good pig metal for castings. "The Catawberite or magnetic ore in talcose schist, appears intermittently for nine miles, crossing the uroaa rirer near Cherokee ford, five miles east of Gaffney. and half a mile north of a spur track of the Southern railway. ' It consists of lenticular bodies of magnetite crowded in talcose schist, pitched at high angles, attaining places the ; width of 40 feet, and extending to i depths as yet undermined. The sorted j ore in large lots exceeds 50 per cent, j of metallic iron, and is free from ob-: Jectionable association excepting in the matter of the magnesian gangue which ' adds somewhat to the difficulties of fluxing. The exposures of this ore ad jacent to the Broad river are the most prominent and most favorably situated i for development. , I SOUTH CAROLINA CROPS Report on Conditions by the Depart j ment of Agriculture. The week ending 8 a. m., August j 15, had a mean temperature of 77 ! degrees, which is about three below normal. The extremes for the week were a minimum of 59 at Greenville j oh the 9th and a maximum of 92 at J Blackville on the 12th. The first j five days were generally cloudy, the j last two generally clear. There were j local high winds accompanying thun- . derstorms that did slight damage to corn principally. There were almost daily rains from the Sth to the 13th., and less frequent showers on the last two days. The precipitation was evenly distributed throughout the State, but was not as heavy as during the previous week, but the ground continued thoroughly saturated, and the injury to crops was aggravated by the cloudy weather, and very high relative humidity that prevailed. Some bottom lands were overflowed and the crops on them destroyed. The injury from the rains was confined largely to cotton on sandy lands. { The early corn was not affected by j the wet weather except that fodder | pulling was hindered and some fodder j that was pulled was damaged; late corn continued its recent rapid improvement and has reached a stage of gTowth which assures it to be a good crop, regardless of subsequent weather conditions. A few localities in the south central and southeastern parts report no injury from the rain to cotton, but over the greater part it has grown too much weed and is not fruiting correspondingly, on clay and red lands while on sandy lands it has turned yellow and continues to shed extensively, with rust more prevalent than last week. A few open bolls have t been noted in the southeastern coun- ' ties, and a "first bale" was marketed on the 13th, although that is not indicative that picking has begun. Tobacco curing Is nearly finished: uncut tobacco is making a new and damaging growth; some injury to the leaf by tho damp weather, tobacco in barns. Rice made substantial im provement, but is ripening siowiy. Peas are growing nicely. Late melons are watery. Late peaches are rotting extensively. Pastures, gardens and minor crops are doing well, but need more sunshine. The conditions were favorable for fall truck planting and germination.?J. W. BAUER, Section Director. Fine Fruit Exhibit Clemson College, Special.?To the upcountrymen especially, but to all South Carolina farmers ,one of the most encouraging exhibits made at Clemson College this year Is that made by Prof. C. C. Newman of the department of horticulture. He has) made an exhibit of grapes, peaches, apples, Irish potatoes and onions. Of grapes the exhibit is Intended to show the methods of culture and varieties that may be grown successfully in Sntnh Pnrnlinn Prnf Vpwman shows 81 varieties of grapes, all grown on the college farm and all developed to the highest degree. In color, size and flavor the grapes are excellent and what has been done at Clemson Prof. Newman thinks can be done throughout South Carolina, probably more successfully in the low country and middle South Carolina than in the Piedmont. But the prod-. net of the Piedmont as shown by this exhibit will compare favorably with j grapes from any part of the world, j ; i Bureau to Co-Operate. ; New York, Special.?Representative W. S. Cowherd, chairman of the Demo:ratic congressional campaign commit:ee, came to New York to consult with George F. Parker, who has been made lead of the literary bureau of the na:ional committee. Mr. Cowherd has ilready sent out a great supply of literiture from Washington, and It was regarding the work done and proposed to je done by Mr. Cowherd, that the na:ional committee sought Information, it is quite likely that the two commitees will co-operate hereafter upon sampaign literature. Squadron Leaves Smyrna. Washington, Special?Rear Admiral Jewell, commanding the American European squadron, cabled to the Navy Department announcing the departure of his command, comprising the Olympia, Baltimore and Cleveland, from Smyrna for Gibraltar. This action is i taken on the instruction from Minister 4 Leishman, at Constantinople, that the j squadron's presence is no longer neces- \ sary at S:n: i ra. IN SOUTH CAROLINA Occurrences of Interest in Various Parts of the State. Negro Kills White Youth. Meggetts, Special. ? Allen Porter Heathington. 18 years old, son of M. J. Heathington, was shot and killed Thursday morning by a negro named Sam Brown, in the Toogoodoo neighborhood, Colleton county. Young Heathington was remonstrating with Brown about some work when the negro drew a pistol and shot him in the head. The killing has caused intense excitement, the whole county is being scoured by posses and the negro's capture is hourly expected. Bloodhounds were secured from Charleston and are on the trail. When informed of the affair Governor Heyward at once telegraphed the sheriff of Colleton county offering him tioops and anything fie desired to pre u ui a i^uuumg. i lie uoveruui iiisu telegraphed prominent citizens of the county asking their co-operation to prevent any violence being done the nogro. South Carolina Items. Rumors continue to be circulated that Eddie Kennedy, who is suspected of having killed Jacob Kind, his employer, in Charleston, has been arrested first in one city and then in another, but there is no truth in the stories. Kennedy seems to have a good start on the police and he is probably in safe quarters for a while at least. He is a Northern man and it is likely that he has returned North where his accents and manners would not likely one? chances of his detection, as would be the case in the South. Because the paster. Rev. L. M. Roper, wanted Mrs. T. A. Brooks, who was sent to Spartanburg to superintend the putting down of the new Church carpet, to have colored women as assistants in the work, and because Mrs. Brooks, for reasons which she Btated plainly, did not wish to acquiesce in the matter, the finishers, all white men, on the interior of the new church have struck, out of sympathy with the lady, and up to 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon the matter was still unsettled. Will Anderson, a negro railway employee, was seized with a violent attack Monday afternoon while carousing and drinking with a crowd in depot flat in Spartanburg and it is believed he was the victim of a black conspiracy to drug him and rob him. Physicians were called in and Anderson was carried to his home where at last account he was still suffering great agony and is in a precarious condition. The three other negroes who were with Anderson are being held on suspicion. ^ The first bale of new cotton, which was taken to Charleston on Saturday, consigned to F. W. Wagener & Co., from H. C. Folk, of Bambery, was sold Monday to the Goldsmith Mercantile Co. for 12 cents. The bale weighed 445 pounds and was classed as fully middling. The bale is eight days ahead of the first bale of last year and 11 days later than the first bale of the year previous. Benedict College, a negro institution in Columbia, will have within a few months a library building for which plans have been drawn and which will cost $5,000, the money having been donatedJ)y Andrew Carnegie. The Pickens county candidates are discussing the automobile, all of them, it is reported, being in favor of some restrictions being placed on the free use of the automobile on the public roads. Wm. J. Mcintosh. 40 years old, the flower and seed dealer of Charleston, who on Sunday was pronounced dead in New York and apparently came to life a short time afterwards, died Tuesday night at the Hudson street hospital in that city. The physicians at the hospital have been unable to diagnose the cause and the coroner's office has been notified. The Palmetto Dry Goods company, of Greenville, capitalized at $10,000, has applied to the secretary of State for a commission to conauci a ary guuus and shoe business at Pelzer. The corporators are W. K. Hudgens, of Pelzer, J. Thomas Arnold and G. H. Mahon, of Greenville. Miss Mamie Pearson, of Woodruff, has been awarded the scholarship to Winthrop College, Rock Hill, from Spartanburg county. The college gives a limited number of scholarships each year in every county of the State for which competitive examinations are held. Capt. Wm. H. Bertless, a gallant Confederate officer of Col. Simonton's regiment during the war, died at Port Royal Monday night .after a protracted illness. He was for some years in service at the- Port Royal naval station and was highly esteemed. ' Hugh Price, a Marion county farmer, died a few days ago, leaving an estate worth $123,000, including $23,000 in cash in bank. He began life without a dollar after the war. and is said to have been wholly illiterate. BURNED AT STAKE. I . x ; . Two .Negroes Taken From the Jail and Incinerated % AWFUL VENGEANCE OF GEORGIANS Paul Reed and Will Cato, Convicted of Complicity in the Murder of the Hodges Family, Near Statesboro, Taken From the Military Guard and Burned at the 8take. Savannah, Ga., Special?With cloth* ing saturated with kerosene, writh* lng and twisting in their agonj, screaming to heaven for the mercy that the mob would not- show, Paul Reed and Will Cato, negroes, two of the principals in the dastardly murdes and burning of Henry Hodges and wife and three of thedr children, six miles from Statesboro, three weeks ago, were burned at the etako Tuesday. This afternoon at 1.21 o'clock a determined mob charged upon the court house, overpowered the military guard, secured Cato and Reed, who had been found guilty after a legal trial and sentenced to be hanged, took them two miles from Statesboro and there exacted the fearful penalty. The forenoon passed quietly, the trial of Paul Reed, the ring-leader in the murder, being concluded and a verdict rendered. Sentence was Imposed upon both him and Will Cato, sentenced the day before, and Septem-. ber 9 was fixed as the date for the execution. The crowd assembled about the court house was not so large as Monday. Nor was it so threatening, though for that matter, there was never much parade. There was a , quiet about the crowd that augured the worst and the object of tiie coon- * trymen who had come in from miles i around for the trial was never to be doubted. Up to the noon hour there waa no intimation that so soon was to he enacted the terrible climax. In the trial of Reed little delay was caused, and at its conclusion, as before, the a ,< prisoners were hustled into the wit-" ness room, where a strong guard of military was mounted over them. In. the corridors the agitation began. Tho spectators left the court room and from the lawn outside many entered the hallways. Shortly before 1 o'clock the crowd was addressed by a tall man, who seemed to inflame it greatly. He called on those about him to follow him. Then Captain . Hitch, of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, who was in command of the forces, realised that the situation waa desperate. He posted guards on each of the stairways that led to the floor above, where the prisoners were confined. GUARDS HAD UNLOADED GUNS. With fixed bayonets, but unloaded rifles, the guards stood. The mob surged toward them, but were repulsed several times. The determinied effort was yet to be made. At the rear stairway the gravest danger threatened. Prominent men, among them Rev. Mr. Hodges, brother of the murdered man, sprang to the front to address the crowd. They begged them to disperse. Sheriff Kendrlck was among these. He cautioned the crowd against violence and pleaded with them to disperse. "I am your friend," he said. "I beg you to do nothing that will reflect on us and on the community. Disperse and let the law take its course. We need these men. There are others to be brought to justice and only from the information to be gained from Cato and Reed can we bring the right ones to Justice. I can almost promise that when the case is finally sifted there will be five parties who are equally guilty." "We know you are our friend, Kendrlck," some one shouted, "but prom lse us that you will let tneae men stay in the Statesboro jail and not be taken back to Savannah. Then we will disperse, not until then." There was shouting and cheering and Kendrlck could not reply. "Promise us that," they snouted. "You shall not take them away from Statesboro." The crowd surged upon the jail and took the prisoners from the officers. A confession was made by Reed, who acknowledged killing tha father and mother and implicated three others. The cries of Cato were pitiful, aa he begged the mob to shoot him. The mob dispersed quietly after their terrible act News By Wire. The American schooner yacht Igomar won the principal race for big yachts at the Royal Albert Yacht. Club regatta in the Solent. Maher,* the American jockey, rode four winners, finished third om another out of six races at the Stockton, England, summer meeting. Another American jockey, Madden, rode two wftners and one second and one third horse. Fifty non-union miners arrived ks Birmingham from Kentucky Tuesday night and will go to work for tho Schloss-SJheffleld Steel and Iron Company, at the Brooksldes mines. The strike situation is practically unchanged, with no hopes of an early settlement Germans Attack Herreros. Berlin, By Cable.?Four columns of German troops attacked the Herreros near Hamackart, German Southwest ? Africa, on the night of August 11The fighting continued all the next day. The natives were defeated with heavy losses. Five German officers. Including Count Von Arnin and nineteen men, were killed. Six officers* among them Baron Von Walter, and fifty-two men were killed. U ~ >