y a Thing oi
NOW ONLY A QUESTION OF TERMS
Parish Priests Have Lost Their Influence
and the Few Troops are Powerless?Red
Flag of Revolution
^ Raised in Three Districts and a
State Bordering on Revolution in
Another?Roland and Fin and in the
North Also Menacing in Their AsHh
pect?Crisis Expected with Warm
Weather.
St. Petersburg, By Cabie.?Russia
\ has outlined the conditions under
\ "which she is prepared to negotiate
peace.
It was stated with every semblance
of authority that, thanks to the good
offices of the United Svates and
France, the question of peace ha? assumed
practical shape.
The War in Brief.
Interest in Russia's trouble has
Lifted for the moment from Manchuria,
where war operations seem at a
standstill, to Russian Poland, where
the revolutionary spirit is asserting
itself in different ways.
A well-dressed man threw a bomb
into a police station in a suburb of
^ /' Warsaw, wounding six policemen.
X While Baron von Nolken, Chief of Police
of Warsaw, was on his way to investigate,
a bomb was thrown at his
carriage and he was severely injured.
The first bomb-thrower was arrested,
, but the second broke away from his
captors.
The disaster threatening Russian
trade and industry has forced many
men of the commercial Qksses to join
the Library movement for a cessation
of the war and for a constitution. Some
of the richest men in the Empire have
entered actively into the campaign.
A Moscow lawyer has accused medi\
cal men of the military hospital *there
of accepting bribes from reservists during
mobilization.
An organized depot of arms and
>r - bombs was recently discovered on the
premises of a rich Moscow merchant.
Jews at Kirscheneff are greatly alarmed
at a renewal of anti-Semitic agitation.
The demand for the use of the Polish
language in Russian Poland has developed
into a revolutionary movement of
threatening dimensions.
The peasant disorders ia the south
and west of Russia continue, several
t landlords haying been murdered and
yj, much property destroyed.
One of Japan's conditions of peace,
It is thought, might be the Insistence
vpon a pledge from Russia that she will
build no more warships for a term of
jears, it being feared that without such
a pledge Russia would take advantage
of a cessation of hostilities to rehabilitate
her navy.
Russia's total army strength in Manchuria
is estimated at 220,000 men.
In an interview Field Marshal Oyama
praises Russian officers and men as
brave and able and says he is ready to
. contirse the war as lona as neces ary.
\ One hundred thousand inen are exv
pected to take part on April 3 in the
celebration in Tokio of the capture of
Mukden.
A paper in St Petersburg has unearthed
a report, made by Gen. Kuro0
patkin in 1903 predicting war with Japan,
but expected this to bring the
Triple Alliance and England into the
conflict.
Russian Vice-Admiral Negobatoffs
squadron has left Suez, a?ter passing
through tie canal, and sailed south.
Uprising Against Morales.
Cape Haytien, Hayti, By Cable.?Advices
received here by cruiser from
Monte Cristi, on the northern coast
of the republic of Santo Domingo
Tuesday, announce that Gen. Baraba,
j***" with a number of Dominican exiles,
/ has landed at Monte Cristi and that
the inhabitants have risen against
President Morales, reproaching him
with being the cause of the principal i
troubles with foreign countries.
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A Record Crop.
Washington, Special.?The Census
Bureau Tuesday issued a bulletin
showing the total crop of cotton ginned
for the season of 1904 to be 13,597,782
bales. These figures include
linters. and count round bales as half
bales, and the total is equivalent to
13,584,457 bales of 500 pounds. The
square bales number 13,103,447, the
round bales 296,151, the Sea Island
bales 104,317, \he linters 241,942: total
running bales, including linters,
13,754,857. Included in these totals
are 192,275 running bales estimated
by ginners as remaining to be ginned.
Pugilist Exonerated.
Philadelphia. Special.?Dorsey Cranston,
better known as "Kid" Dor-!
sey, the colored pugilist, was exonerated
by the coroner's jury of the
I death of John Hall, colored, who died
following a boxing bout Thursday.
The jury decided that Hall's death
was due to a hemorrhage of the brain,
resulting from injuries accidentally
i received. The others arrested were
also discharged.
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Armour Manager Arrested.
Chicago, Special.?The Federal
grand jury investigating the alleged
bee? trust returned an indictment tonight
against Thomas J. Connor, general
superintendent for Armour & Co.
The charge is interfering with a witness
summoned to appear before the
grand jury. Mr. Connor, who Is one
of J. Ogden Armour's most confidential
employes, and is the active head
of one of the largest packing companies
in the world, was arrested tonight
on a bench warrant by a United
States deputy marshal and brought to
the grand jury room.
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NIK 10 PI
and Russia Practically i
f the Past
Cost Russia $1,750,000.
Gunshu Pass, By Cable.?The Japanese
are again moving forward and
the Russian rear guard has fallen back
from its position about 13 miles north
of Sipinghai (74 miles north of Tie
Pass), to Chaoumiaodzi, which is situated
40 miles below Gunshu Pass.
Practically complete reports show
that the Russian army sacrificed general
commissiariat stores worth $1,250,000,
and stores for the army corps
amounting to $500,000 held at Mukden.
Most of the stores were set on
fire. Boots and uniforms were among
the stores, of which the whole army
was in need, arriving from Europe j
four days before the Russian retirement
from Mukden. Kuropatkin ordered
the removal of the stores, but
the order was not executed. An iavestigation
will be made to establish ;
the responsibility.
St. Petersburg, By Cable.?Roving
bands of peasants continue to pillage,
burn and murder in the Chernigov
government and in TambofT, Kazan
and other governments in the south.
The few troops here and there are
powerless. The whole peasant population
is affected more or less. The
parish priests, i^der Instructions
from the Holy Synod, are doing all
possible to quiet the peasants, but
without making any appreciable impression.
With warm weather a crisis
will come, especially if it is accompanied
by orders for another extensive
mobilization.
In the meantime, the situation in
the Caucasus is growing worse. A
state bordering on civil war exists in
the Kuban territory, where the population
has been armed for a collision
with the soldiers.
In the Georgia, Mingrella and Kutais
territories, the red flag of revolution
has been raised.
** r*?.{mAQ qftor tho nnnM
Al 1 aiia? V/l 1U1V.U, H4VV1 VMV t'N'l?
lation had wrecked the vodka shops,
police quarters, etc., warships were
sent from Sebastopol, and marines
were landed as if in a hostile country.
The renewal of the bomb outrages
in Poland and the open demonstrations
in Finland against conscription
are both regarded as bad and significant
signs.
With the Japanese Left Armies in
the Field, via Fusan.?The Japanese
army near Mukden is clearing the battlefield,
sorting the enormous quantities
of stores and materials captured,
and attending to the prisoners. Engineers
are rapidly repairing the railroad
bridges across the Hun river,
which were badly damaged by the
Russians. Trains are now running to
the Hun river. They will reach Mukden
in a few days. The weather is
very warm, and the ground is uiawing
rapidly, making the movement, of
guns and transport wagons difficult.
London, By Cable.?A telegram from
a northern European capital received
in London says:
"I have just learned on reliable authority
that Russia has asked Del
Casse to act as an intermediate and
open peace negotiations with Japan.
Del Casse has signified his willingness,
but considers that Lansdowne's co-operation
is essential to success."
London, By Cable.?When the prospectus
of the Japanese war loan of
$150,000,000 was issued, the neighborhood
of the issuing banks resembled
the scenes witnessed on first nights
at popular theatres. Long lines of
people were struggling for admission
and special forces of police controlled I
the streams vi eager investors. The
interiors of the banks were filled with
shouting crowds struggling to snatch
prospectus.
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Telegraphic Briefs.
All the foreign steamship piers In
New York are being watched by detectives
for Frank C. Marrin, the reputed
head of the Storey Company, of Philadelphia.
through which a large number
of small investors lost money.
Not fewer than 26.000 emigrants
were landed in New York last week,
and 23.000 more are expected Urn
week, which will break all previous
spring records.
A banquet was given in New York '
in honor of the acquisition of a per-1
manent home for the American Acad- |
emv in Rome, and securing of assuran-1
ces that the $1,000,000 endowment fund
will be raised.
Several successful trips were made :
over San Jose. Cal.. with Prof. John
Montgomery's aeroplane.
Immense congregations attended ser-1
vices conducted by Methodist minis- i
ters at the Baltimere Conference in
Winchester.
Surgeon Samuel H. Griffin is critically
ill in the naval hospital at Norfolk
Friends of Secretary Hay do not
credit the report that he will retire
from the cabinet.
Odd Fellows charge Newport News
officials with "inhuman and gross negligence"
in the burial of Capt Albert
Svenson.
William Hansboro, wanted for the
murder of Stewart McKeane at Hot'
Springs, was captured at Charleston,
W. Va.
Baron von Nolken. chief of police of
Warsaw, was severely wounded by a
bomb explosion while on his way to ]
investigate the throwing of a bomb in |
a suburb.
As one of her conditions of peace,
Japan may insist upon Russia suspending
naval rehabilitation for a numoer
of years.
By issuing debased copper currency,
officials of the provincial Chinese mints
are said to have profited to the extent
of $13,000,000 annually.
Eight soldiers were killed and nineteen
injured by a landslide at Semlin,
Hungary.
Dr. J. H. Holland in his mission is
expected to use his influence against
the threatened revolt of the anti-Morales
party in Santo Domingo.
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| PEACE REPORTS (QUESTIONED
Japanese Minister to France and Foreign
Minister Del Cass/e Agree That
No Peace Negotiations^ or Preliminaries
Are in Progress, and Declare
That Alleged Conferences Between
the Two Never Took Place.
Paris. By Cable.?Whatever hopefulness
the peace situation may have I
had some days ago*, the prospect has
now completely changed, and there is
every prospect that the war will drag
on again. Consequently, dispatches
appearing in America saying that Foreign
Minister Del Casse and Dr. Mortono.
the Japanese minister to France,
have been conferring at the former's
house relative of peace, are inaccurate.
The foregoing view of the situation
is taken by the parties immediately
concerned, and it is asserted with
the authority of the foreign office and
the Japanese legation. In view of the
continued reports that there were indications
that Minister Del Casse and
Dr. Mortono were taking an active j
part in the negotiations, a correspondent
called at the Japanese legation today
and requested Dr. Mortono to furnish
a decisive statement which would
put at rest all misunderstanding. Accordingly,
the minister gave the following
categorical statement, which
was taken in writing and may be accepted
as authoritatively clearing the
situation:
"I tell you explicitly that there are
no peace negotiations or preliminaries
for initiating peace negotiations at
this time so far as I am aware, and
I believe my information to be complete.
I am not desirous of discussing
the general question of peace; for, owing
to the complete absence of negotiations
or preliminaries towards negotiations.
that question can onjy be
academic and without practical bearing.
.
"The statements that I have conferred
with M. Del Casse at his residence
are false and are calculated to confuse
a situation which Is perfectly plain.
There is no representative of Japan
authorized at this time to discuss
peace or foreshadowing in the slightest
what conditions the Japanese government
might consider if the nego- |
tiations assumed a practical stage. (
On the contrary, Japan is now engaged
in conducting a military campaign,
and will unreservedly proqeed
with that Important work."
It can be added that the introduction
of the foregoing dispatch, as well as
the portion quoted, was submitted to
Dr. Mortono, who approved every
word. It was similarly submitted to
the Foreign Office, where it was appioved
throughout. Therefore the dispatch
can be accepted as being in the '
highest degree authoritative.
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No Insurrection on. 1
Washington, Special.?Haiticn Min- ,
ister Leger has received a cablegram
from the President of Haiti, contra- 1
dieting the cablegram of Minister Pow- I
ell. stating that serious trouble is im- ]
pending in Haiti, and that it is doubt- i
ful whether the authorities can maintain
peace and order on March 31 and
April 1. According to Minister Leg- i
er's advices, the country is quiet and |
there is no fear of an uprising; the (
law concerning the Syrians is being
executed peacefully, and the government
can maintain order. '
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Noted Man Dead. j
Louisville. Ky.. Special.? Col. Fred- ,
erick de Funiak. capitalist and distin- '
guished citizen, died at his residence
here Wednesday. Col. de Funiak was
born in Rome. Italy. 65 years ago. and
was a veteran of Garibaldi's army. He
was for a long time chief engineer of
the Louisville and Nashville railroad. .
and has been connecfed with railroad
building in many parts of the country
He was a member of the New York
Yacht Club, of the Old Southern Yacht
Club and of the Philadelphia Yacht
Club.
A Serious Charge.
Newport News. Special.?Captain
Onzarda. of the Spanish steamship
Niceto, New Orleans to Boness, was
placed under $600 bond, charged with
permitting two alien sailors, a Turk
and an Armenian, afflicted with trachoma,
to escape from the ship. The
men were on board at New Orleans,
but the captain could not produce
them upon demand of local customs
officials.
Fears Loss to Workmen..
St Petersburg, By Cable.?A dis
patch from Gen. Lineviich says: "No \
change in the situation. The enemy '
is displaying activity east of the rail- '
road." A telegram from Gunshu Pass
says Gen. Linevitch has forbidden the J
inhabitants of Harbin, with the excep- 1
tjon of women and children, to leave 1
without special permits, fearing the 1
town may be denuded of workmen. i
Telegraphic Briefs.
In London railway stations blazecovered
boards are provided, on which <
letters or telegrams addressed to passengers
may be displayed.
The now British ocean-going torpedo !
boat destroyers are to be fitted for oil
fuel, and they will be sufficiently arm- 1
ed to act as small cruisiers. !
The British House of fiords. as a t
court of ultimate appeal, has decided t
that vagueness in the xpression of a c
testator's desire that bequests should i
pass to unspecified -charities, or to 1
charities to be selected by his trustees t
make a will invalid. The charities of (
the city of Dundee, Scotland, lose $500,- 1
000 by the decision. ' t
Thomas J. Conner financial man
for Armour & Co.. was arrested and
put under ba'l in Chicago on the charge
of having attemped to influence John
E. Shields, a witness in the "Beef (
Trust" inquiry. i
The Board of Foreign Missions voted
on the acceptance or rejection oi
Mr. John D. Rockefeller's $100,000 gift,
and it is said that the decision was to
accept.
' Bat" Masterson. former "bad man"
of the West, qualified as United States
deputy marshal in New York.
The city of Louisville and the superintendent
of the workhouse there
were indicted on a charge of peonage. ^
Gessler Rosseau says- he thinks the
mine which blew up the battleship
Maine was one of those made by him.
Gov. Joseph W. Folk, of Missouri, 1
addressed the Missouri society of New 1
York on the Missouri idea of law.
Louis Guggenheimer, alleged to be '
a raiser of Government money orders, '
Is said to have made $80,000 by his i
scheme.
A reception in honor of Vice-Presi- ,
dent Fairbanks was given in Philadelphia
by the Union League. (
NO^ORBMOwi
Jamestswn Exposition Endorsed By
President Roosevelt
OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION ISSUED
A ^JClamation is Issued, Inviting All
Nations to be Represented by Their
Military Organizations and Naval
Vessels at the Tri-Centennial Commemoration
in 1907 of the First
English-Speaking Settlement in
America.
Washington, Special.?The President
Wednesday issued a proclamation inviting
the nations of the earth to be
represented by their military organizations
and naval vessels at the celebration
to ho holH in tho vininitv of
Jamestown, Va., from May 13 until November,
1907, 1907. The proclamation is
as follows:
By the President of the United States,
A Proclamation:
Whereas, the Congress of the United
States has passed an act, approved
March 3, 1905, and entitled, "An act
to provide for celebrating the birth of
the American nation, the first permanent
settlement of Englisi-speaking
people on the western hemil^ere, by
the holding of an internationamnaval,
marine ai)d military celebration in the
vicinity of Jamestown, on the waters
of Hampton Roads, In the State of Virginia;
to provide for suitable and permanent
commemoration of said event,
and to authorize an appropriation in
aid thereof, and for other purposes"?
And whereas, section 3 of the said
act reads as follovs:
"Section 3.?The President of the
United States is hereby authorized to
make proclamation of said celebration,
Betitnf forth the event to be commemorated.
inviting foreign nations to participate
by the sending of their naval
Vessels and such representation of their
military organizations as may be
proper"?
Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt,
President of the United States of
America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by said act, do hereby
declare and proclaim that there shall
be inaugurated in the year 1907, at and
near the waters of Hampton Roads, in
the State of Virginia, an international
naval, marine and military celebration,
beginning May 13, and ending not
later than November 1, 1907, for the
purpose of commemorating in dotting
and appropriate manner the b#th of
the American nation; the first settlement
of English people on the American
continent, made at Jamestown, on
the 13th of May, 1607, and in order that
the great events of the American history
which have resulted therefrom
may be accentuated to the present and
future generations of American citizens.
And in the name of the government
and people of the United States, I do,
therefore, invite all the nations of the
aarth to take part in the commemoration
of the event which has had a farreaching
effect on the course of human
aistory, by sending their naval vessels
:o the said celebration and by making
such representations of their military
arganizations as may be proper.
In testimony thereof, I have now set
my hand and caused the seal of the
Jnied States to be affixed.
Done in the city of Washington this
wenty-ninth day of March, one thousmd
nine hundred and five, and in the
ndependence of the United States the
me hundred and twenty-ninth year.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Bit tho PrpalrtpTlt
" alvey~a7 adee,
Acting Secretary of State.
Secretary Hay Better.
Gibraltar. By Cable.?The White
Star Line Cretic, from New York,
Vlarch IS, with Secretary of State Hay
ind Mrs. Hay on board, arrived here
Wednesday morning. In an interview ,
Mr. Hay said he felt much better than
*'hen he left New York. He thorough- !
ly enjoyed the trip. Although Secretary
Hay has improved, he has by no
means recovered his health.
OVER-SUBSCRIBED TEN TIMES.
Sreat Rush For Japanese Loan in London
Taxes Extra Banking Staffs.
London, Special.?The portion of
the Japanese loan of $150,000,000 aloted
to London was well over-subscribed
within an hour of^he time of
spening the banks. For an hour beore
the doors opened, throngs crowed
the vicinity of the issuing houses, and
.hroughout the morning a steady flood
)f applicants, among whom were many
vomen, taxed the extra staffs of the
janking establishments engaged to
leal with the rush. The issuing banks
estimate that the Japanese loan has
)een over subscribed at least ten
imea
$100,000,000 Bond Issue.
Philadelphia, Special?The directors
)f the Pennsylvania Railroad, Wedlesday
ordered an issue of $100,000,000
:onvertible bonds at $75 per share,
rearing 3 1-2 per cent, interest. Privileges
are extended to the stockholders.
Of the bond issue $50,000,000 was
luthorized by a stock vote yesterday
ind the remaining $50,000,000 was au:horized
two years ago, but have never
jeen issued. 1
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45,000 MINERS TO QUIT.
A/age Scale Conference For the C;r>*
tral Bituminous District of Penr?y'vania
Fails to Agree. J '
Altoona, Penn., Special.?The t
:ors and miners of the central b^1'"1 j
nous district of Pennsylvania after
being in conference in this city almost
continuously since March 10, ndea%
oring to agree upon a wage icale to
go into efTect April 1. adjour 'd final
Wednesday without comip tn
agreement. Th?. "failure to a ee mea *
a suspension of *or\ by th *3,000
faulted miners the diJlct at the *
end of the preeent month J
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FOUR MEN HILLED
Result cf an Accident On Southern
Railway
A COLLISION NEAR CHARLESTON
When Found the Dead Engineer's
Hand Firmly Grasped the Emergency
Brake?Freight Engineer's
Watch Said to Have Been 30 Minutes
Slow, This Being the Cause of
the Accident?Engineer Reed Fatally
Injured.
Augusta, Ga., Special?A special from
Branchville, S. C? to The Chronicle
says: The worst wreck that has occurred
on this division of the Southedn
Railway in many years happened Sunday
morning about 3 o'clock a few
miles below Branchville near a small
lumber station called Badnam. ine
through freight from Columbia to
Charleston and the fast passenger train
from Charleston to Columbia ran into
each other at the above named point.
There was a very dense fog at the
time. It is reported that Freight Engineer
Reed's watch was 30 minutes
slow, and that this was the direct
cause of the wreck. So far. four are
known to be killed outright as follow^
Tom Conton, engineer on passenOT
and one of the oldest men in the Mxvice.
Conton's body is mashed into an
almost unrecognizable mass, with one
arm cut ofT, the hand of which is still
grasping the emergency krake.
Another white man named Stokes,
brakeman, is killed, and also two negro
brakemen, Adams and Stephens.
Frenght Engineer Arthur Reed has
both legs broken, besides severe internal
injuries, and cannot possibly live.
Leans to Russia.
St. Petersburg, By Cable.?Emperor
William's speech at Tangier and prospective
developments therefrom engross
the attention of the Russian
newspapers almost to the exclusion of
peace discussion. Her treaty relations
with France and the friendly attitude
of Germany during the war place Russian
in an awkward position. Nevertheless,
the difficulties of floatjpg further
loans in France and the absence
of assistance on which, until recently,
Russia at least had vaguely counted,
incline the scales somewhat in favor
of the western neighbor, whose benevolent
neutrality and frontier pledge
enabledlRussia to place in the held a
Manchurian army so well supplied
with artillery.
"Expectedly," The Russo says, "a
grouping of powers in Western Europe
has begun, and perhaps we are
on the eve of great developments in
international events."
The Novoe Vremya sees in the German
Emperor's supposed pleasure
trips to Jerusalem, Constantinople,
and Tangier a fixed plan to uphold
Turkey in Morocco and create "Mussulman
peril," which is Germany's
answer to Great Britain's "yellow peril."
The paper expresses the belief
that it will result in strengthening the
bond between Great Britain and
France, the embitterment of the feeling
between France and Germany,
and increased armaments, but there is
no possibility of war since Berlin fully
comprehends the madness of conflict
with Great Britain and France allied.
Demand of Miners Granted.
Philadelphia, Special.?By the action
of the soft coal operators of Central
Pennsylvania, who had a meeting here
Saturday, the threatened strike of the
bituminous miners has been averted.
The operators, in secret session decided
to grant the demands of the men by
renewing the wage scale in effect last
year, tne Dasis ui wmcu is oz ten is a
ton for pick mining. A meeting of the
Joint scale committee of operators and
miners will be' held at Altoona next
Tuesday, when the schedule will be
adopted.
Baptist Editors Adjourn.
Memphis, Special.?The Southern
Baptist Press Association, after three
days' session, has adjourned. Officers
for the ensuing year were elected as
follows: President, Dr.- T. J. Barton,
editor of The Mississippi Baptist; secretary
and treasurer. Dr. E. E. Folk,
editor of The Baptist and Reflector,
Nashville, Tenn. The selection of the
next meeting place was left to the executive
committee. It is probable next
year's meeting will be held in Florida.
Protests Rate of Exchange.
Mexico City, Special.?Precautions
have been taken by the government
and the large banks to prevent a sharp
rise In exchange as the result of the
speculative movement, believed to have
been planned to take place just as th-.new
monetary system goes into effecr.
That something of the sort would be
attempted, was foreseen some months
ago. It is said that there has been
extensive buying of exchange at the
present low rate in the hope of a sharp
advance. One of the largest banks has
refused to sell exchange to brokers and
private bankers, and has merely met
the demands of commercial houses.
It is the purpose of the government to
make the transition to the new system
as early as possible.
. Poisoned by Strikers.
St. Jr^ersburg, By Cable.?Reports
from ,tnaiy places throughout Russia,
including 'Tver. Borissoff and Sisran.
show that employes of warehouses and
shops are again demanding shorter
hours and hiore wages. There has
been a general strike of shop assistaats
at Samarh and Irkutsk.
According tfft the Russky Slovo. sixty
workmen inla factory .it Lodz have
been poisoned fend 2S are in a critical
condition. It id sum ?i that strikers
are responsible? for the affair.
Indictme^B Talk Revives.
Chicago. Spec?!-?Well authenticate
>1 reports hnveMit that the Federal
rran.1 jury which?* investigating the
jusiness methods o?the meat packers
vill return indicen^^ts when it re-conenes
next Wef^lRday, were prevalent
ere. The iJKort was that the adonrnment
taBcen was really decided
on in orde^Lto allow Assistant Atorney
Pagin^?ne to draw up the bills
t his leasJ^Band to give due conieration
mass of testimony
altered ^^H?e jury went into se*
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DISPENSARY PROFITS DIVIDED
Comparison of Amounts Received By
the Several Counties.
Comptroller General Jones has made
an allotment of $110,000 of dispensary
profits to the public schools of the
State. The allotment was made after
finding dut the deficiency in each
county. This deficiency represented
the amount each school in the county
fell short of $75. In some counties the
3 mill school ta^ produced revenue
sufficient to pay each school $75, which
amount is calculated to run a school
three months.
It required $9,552.53 to make up these
deficiencies and the remainder of the
profits recently declared by the dispensary
were divided among all of the
counties. Chesterfield's county superintendent
of educatiA having failed
to respond with the data necessary,
that county was not Included in the
distribution but the amount will be
made up at subsequent distributions.
me loiai enrollment in tne state as
reported is 288,353; and the amount
each pupil will receive from this distribution
will be 23*4 cents. .The deficiency
money was divided as follows
among the 26 counties reporting that
the 3 mill school tax did not afford $75
for each and all of the schools in these
counties:
Abbeville, I297.S5; Aiken, $76.30;
Bamberg, $91.04; Barnwell, $32; Cherokee,
$132.68; Clarendon, $74.82; Colleton,
$491.09; Edgefield, $460.24; Florence,
$54.63; Georgetown, $267.78;
Greenville, $91.84; Hampton, $434;
Horry. $2,094; Kershaw, $128; Lancaster.
$739.80; Laurens, $170.76; Lee,
$115.90; Lexington, $282.20; Marion,
$242; Marlboro, $150.13; Oconee. $682.16;
Orangeburg, $216; Pickens, $140.16;
Saluda. $1,109; Spartanburg, $19.15;
Williamsburg, $949.
The following table gives in the first
column the names of the counties, in
the second the number of pupils enrolled
in the public schools' of each, and in
the third the amount of money each
received from the funds of $100,023.08
left after deficiencies had been made
up:
Abbeville 8,995 $3,120.17
Aiken 8,414 2,918.63
Anderson 13,321 4,620.76
Bamberg 4,287 1,487.06
Barnwell 7,083 2,456.93
Beaufort 4,033 1,398.95
Berkley ....' 5.452 1,891.17
Charleston 13,378 4,640.52
Cherokee 4,491 1,557.82
Chester 6,318 2,191.57
Clarendon 6,227 2,160.00
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Darlington 5,851 2,029.58
Dorcester 2,984 1,035.08
Edgefield 6,117 2,121.85
Fairfield 7,336 2,544.69
Florence 6,518 2,260.95
Georgetown 3,356 1,164.12
Greenville 12,338 4,279.78
Greenwood 7,394 2,564.80
Hampton 5,035 1,746.53
Horry 6,138 2,129.13
Kershaw ,* 4,679 1,623.04
Lancaster 6,529 2,264.76
Laurens 8,007 2,777.45
Lee 4,511 1,564.76
Lexington 6.771 2,348.70
Marion 8,411 2,917.59
Marlboro 5,782 2,005.64
Newberry 6,989 2,424.33
Oconee 6,694 2,113.87
Orangeburg 14,425 5,003.70
Pickens 5,279 1,831.16
Richland 8,873 3,077.85
Saluda 5,361 1,859;60
Spartanburg 15,311 5,311.04
Sumter 7,128 2,472.54
Union 6,290 2,181.86
Williamsburg 6,765 2,346.62
York 10,215 3,543.35
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Tremendous Sales.
It is stated on good authority that
the increase In th$ sale of liquor by
the State for the quarter ending March
1st, was $222,000. The fiscal year begins
with December.
At this rate of increase the sales for
the entire year will show an increase
of a million dollars, and last jreAr they
were heavier than ever before. The
total amount bought by the State dispensary
in the first quarter of the fiscal
year was $873,000 and the total
amount paid to the State dispensary
by tuc local dispensaries was $1,200,000.
This shows an astonishing array of
fl crnrnc Tho o-rruta sales of the SUb
Uguivo. *-v o* ?
dispensaries in 1903 amounted to <2,817,000.
just a little more than twice
as much f6r three months of the present
year. Some ascribe thfs state of
affairs to the fact that dispensaries
are being patronized now by many
who patronized blind tigers and
imported their supplies a few years
ago. f
102-year old Colored Woman Dead at
Columbia.
Columbia. S. C., Special.?Fannie
Barnwell, sometimes known as Fannie
Brice. died Sunday morning at 3
o'clock at the ripe old age of 102 years.
She was for many years a faithful
nurse in some of the best white families
of this city. She has been kindly
remembered by them daring her infirmities.
She was highly respected by
both white and colored.
Young Howell's Murderer.
Early Thursday morning Most Brunson.
a negro suspected of the murder
of young Stephen Howell, was brought
to Columbia from Kershaw, in which
county he has been working. Whether
or not Brunson is the murderer of
Howell is not known. At the time of
the hideous murder, December 21, 1903,
there were many arrests and suspects
but none of them proved to be the right
man. It is remembered that Howell, in
company wfth an unknown negro, went
into the woods to gather holly for sale
on the streets at Christmastlde. His
body was not found until several weeks
later. Nearby was an axe, with which
the murder was committed.
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Cracksman in South Carolina.
Columbia, Special.?a special to the
State from Heath Springs, Lancaster
county says, the safe of the Springs
Banking and Mercantile company was
blown open by professional burglars
about 3 o'clock Saturday morning, ami
from $1,000 to $1,500 was taken. The
tools used in effecting an entrance to
the safe were secured at a near by
blacksmith shop. The blowing open of
the safe was a neat professional job.
Bloodhounds are on the trail of the
robbers, and it is believed that they
will be captured.
Palmetto Items.
Mr. E. W. Thomas has resigned the
position of general manager of the
Olympia and Granby cotton mills in
Columbia to accept a position as supervising
engineer with the United
States Cotton Duck Trust of Baltimore.
His resignation will take effect
during the latter part of April. He
will then leave Columbia for Baltimore,
where his headquarters will be established.
The Czar's rescript on reforms for
Poland has produced a bad lmpprasioa
at Warsaw. v
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DIVISION OF LABOR. 4
Ue promised to look oat for her 1
From dawn to darkness dim
When they wete wed; but did not aa|J
She'd busy be from dark to day ,
A-)ooking out for him!
?New Orleans Times-Democrat^
MUST BE.
"Is that plant hardy V
<4A1? mo J'wa Viarl If lr? ***** yfavYahC
vu, j m 11 uau iv iu uij uaiivw
flat all winter."?Life.
MISTREATS HER.
"D'Auber sprang that old gag on me
to-day about being wedded to bis art."
"Well if be is, tbe wbipplng-post for
him."?Cleveland Leader.
THE REAL THING.*.
"Why do you call your auto she?"
"Because It is always breeding down
at critical moments, raising trouble
most of the time, and keeps me broke.* '
-Life.
THOROUGH TREATMENT.
"War seems to be tbe only remedy
for some countries."
"Yes, and Russia seems to need it
both externally and internally."?
Cleveland Leader.
PRACTICAL EDUCATION.
"Do the Russians know much about
modern warfare?"
"Of course they do. Look at what
they must have learned in the past
year!"?Washington Star.
THE DEBTOR.
Bustler?"Don't you believe th?
world owes you a living?"
Hustler?"Yes, but the trouble la it
won't pay up, and I have to work to
collect the money."?Detroit Pre?
Press.
SELF-APPRECIATION. ,
"I am one of ten children!"
The company looked surprised.
From the way the man had been talk*
ing they thought it probable he was
more than one.?The Trumpeter, in
Town Topics.
GILT-EDGE CRUELTY.
"You know," said Miss Krecch, after
her solo, "I intend to go abroad to finisb
my musical education."
"Wby not finish it right now/* suggested
Miss Cadley, "and save the expense
2"?Chicago Journal.
BOBBY JACK.
"Why are you pouting, Ethel?"
"Jack said I was beautiful. I told
him he must be short-Sighted."
"What did he sayf
"Wby, the horrid thing said perhaps
he was."?London Tit-Bits.
WHAT THEY SEEK HERE.
"What is the chief product of the
United States?" asked the teacher la
a European school.
And without hesitation the bright
pupil replied:
"Money."?Was^ngton Star.
STILL THERE.
"Of course," said the tourist, "the
wealth of this country about here is la
the soil."
"Sd fur's I'm consarned It is." replied
the poor farmer. "I ain't dragged none
out of it."?Philadelphia Press.
LESSENING THE TEMPTATION.
Kind Farmer?"Gosh! That ice i?
nwfol thin. How on airtb kin I keep
people off It?"
Wise City Man?"Well, yon can make
a good start by 'talking down that
'Danger' signal."?Pittsburg Post.
REQUIRES MANAGEMENT.
The Parson?"Have you ever given
any time to studying the social problem?"
The Layman?"No, but my wife has.
She occasionally gives a dinner party
In our little flat."?Brooklyn Life.
TEMPERATURE.
"The Russians claim they lost that
last battle because the weather man
made it too cold for them. Do you
believe it?"
"Not much! It was because the Japs
made it too hot for them."?Detroit
Free Press.
WISDOM OF LITTLE* FRITZ.
"It's 7 o'clock, Fritz! We must run
home."
"No; if I go home now, I shall b?
whipped for being so late. I'm going
to stay til 0. and then I'll get bonbons
mi L-issoa hpoqnsp I'm not drowned." d
?Lustige Blaetter.
THE DIFFICULTY.
"One half of the world's happiness
Is solved when a person learns to mind
his own business."
"Yes; but it's the other naif that
causes the most trouble."
"What's that?" <
"Getting other people to mind
theirs T?Detroit Free Press.
TRUE TO HER SEX. /
Fred?"How did she come to accept
on the second time you proposed?"
Joe?"Why, you see her refusal tho
first time I proposed made me feel
awfully cheap, and, woman-like, she
couldn't resist the opportunity to secure
a bargain."?Chicago News.
THE LAST CHAPTER.
She shook her head. "No," she said,
sadly, but firmly. "I cannot trust
you."
With a groan of desMir he sprang *
to his feet. *
"Good-by forever!" he muttered.
"I'll bet I can find a landlady that
will. I don't have to board here, yon
know."?Cleveland Reader.
A German contemporary states that
within the last decade the population
of Europe has increased about 38,000,- 'v
000, of whom Russia contributed 14,% ?
000.000, and France leu than 100,000^^3