Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IObject HHK Attack ^ ^ TlWil ^jt?. bet ^^^klphonso XIII Left AftB^Midnight ^^^^B^^krvarchict Threw a ^^fl^^^^^Carriage With No H^HH^^Han to Injure As the by President Lou- j away from a gala penur of The opera after midnight an , threw a bomb in the direcHu>n of the royal carriage. The projectile struck a soldier belonging to the cuirassier escort, on the shoulder, and then fell to the ground and exploded without injuring his majesty or the President, who continued their drive to the Palais d'Orsay. Several soldiers of the escort were " thrown from their horses and injured, ; whilst fragments of the bomb struck a number of persons in the crowd. King Alfonso and President Loubet had been cheered along the entire route to the opera by enthusiastic crowds, the young monarch having . completely gained the hearts of the orrivol Vl PTP AT at i^jo.uo ciuvc u?o ?. The performance went without a hitch. His majesty chattered gaily with President Loubet during the Intermissions. and at the close of the performance the orchestra again played the national hymns of the two countries* and the King and President axpse to leave. ^ They proceeded down the grand staircase and arrived at the gaily illuminated and decorated Place da TOpera, where the royal carriage awaited them. The King and President took seats side by side and the """ vehicle started off surrounded by several squadrons of cuirassiers towards the Avenue Opera. The procession arrived at the end of the Avenue de TOpera and crossed the Place Theatre FVancias. |where were assembled at least 1,500 persons In the Rue de Rohan, a short street forming; practically a continuation of the Avenue de TOpera, right opposite the arched gateway of the Louvre leading to the Place Caroussel. There, g^ust a few yards before reaching the ^Stue Rivoli, a man sprang forward with i his arm raised in the air and before the cordon of police could prevent him, without uttering a word, he threw * nroi?vtii? in the direction of the royal carriage. The police immediately rushed toward him. At that moment a deafening explosion occurred. Cries from the crowd were heard and ^tf^^gneof intense excitement began. thecrSVcf surging to and fro. Soldiers I were seen to fall, but as the Sash from the bomb died out it was observed that the king and the president had not been struck, and their carriage proceeded on its way. A iarge number of arrests have been made, Including the person who is believed to have thrown the bomb, and three persons suspected of complicity .In the plot, as the latter were seen under the archway at the Louvre with a destructive engine a few minutes Bthe explosion occurred bomb had been thrown with ' sat force and passed over the irriage and struck the shoulder lirassier and then fell to the where it exploded, fragments triking the horses of the sol- | ausing them to bo't and throw ders. Captain Schneider, who ling at the right side of the ?, and Captain Garnier, who I the left, were both killed. ^^ hents of the bomb also struck ^^^Vpersons?a sergeant, two policea woman, who was seriously in^Pfreci, and a child, who was struck in the eye. One horse of the escort was killed outright, and six others lay about maimed and bleeding. Art Gallery Dedicated. BufTalo, Special.?The Albright Art Callery was dedicated in the presence of 10,000 people. Ralph H. Plumb, presl- j dent of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, v presided. President Plum introduced ; Charles W. Elliott, president of Har- | vard University, who delivered an address on "Beauty and Democracy." Richard Watson Gilder read a dedicatory poem, entitled, "A Temple of Art." Cotton Needs Cultivation. Washington, Special.?The weekly crop report of the Weather Bureau says: "Throughout nearly the whole of the ^ cotton belt cotton is much in need of cultivation, and reports af abandoned fields are received from the Carolinas Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. Good stands are generally reported, but much planting remains to be done in northern Texas, and planting is unfinished in Arkansas. In southern Texas and in portions of the centra; and eastern districts the situation is improved, and the crop is doing well in localities. Squares are now forming in the southern portion of the central and eastern districts. In Japanese Hospital. Tokio, Bv Cable?Admiral Rojestvensky has arrived at the Sasebo naval j hospital. The naval officer has announced that the only Japanese vessels lost :n the I batttle with the Russian fleet were ! three torpedo boats. Tokio, By Cable.?It is now certain that Admiral Rojestvensky is a prisoner of the Japanese. He is wounded ir? j the forehead, legs and back, but wili recover. Vice Admiral Voclkersam la supposed to have perished. Telegraphic Briefs. ^The State Department, at Washing- j . t<, orivicfM hv the Consul at Na- | IOU, JD - gasaki. Japan, that the Japanese sank one battleship and five other shins, another report stating that two battie hips and five others were sunk. The German Navy League adopted a resolution favoring the replacing of aecond-rate warships, with first-class battleships. Emperor William will show special attention to the Prince and Princess Arisugaw, of Japan, who are to attend the wedding of the Crown Prince. Splendid Programme That Has Beer Prepared for the Occasion. The following programme has been arranged by the Executive Committee for the thirty-first annual meeting ol the Association, which will be held at White Stone Lithia Springs. Spartanburg, county, S. C.. July 11-14: TUESDAY, JULY 11?S:30 P. M. Welcome meeting in the Hotel auditorium. Appointment of committees. WEDNESDAY?9:30 A. M. Reports of officers, committees, miscellaneous business, etc. Papers will be read on the following auujci'is iiic pcisuua iiaiucu. "Literature of South Carolina"?Mrs. Virginia D. Young, Enterprise, Fairfax. "The Advertising Agents"?A. G. Kollock. News, Darlington. General discussion of the above subjects: AFTERNOON SESSION?3 O'CLOCK. "Ethics of Journalism"?Paul M. Brice, Record. Columbia. "Newspapers and Morality"?J. T. Bigham, Lantern. Chester. General discussion of the above subjects. Opening the question box, and discussion relative to the questions asked. Miscellaneous business. EVENING SESSION?8:30 O'CLOCK. The Price of a Country Weekly"?A. B. Jordon, Herald, Dillon. "Newspapers as Lawmakers"?R. T. Kcowee Courier. Walhalla. General discussion of the abov? subjects. Miscellaneous business. THURSDAY?0:30 A. M. Miscellaneous business. "The Press, the Pulpit, the Politician"?Rev. W. P. Jacobs, D. D., Our Monthly, Clinton. "Voting Contests. Gift Propositions, etc. Do They Pay?"?C. W. Wolfe, Re-cord, Kingstree. 0 General discussion of the above subjects. Opening the question box, and discussion relative to the questions asked. Miscellaneous business. AFTERNOON SESSION?3 O'CLOCK. "Should the Foreign Advertiser Receive a Lower Price than the Local Patron?"?W. H. Wallace, Observer, Newberry. "Our Country Cousins"?J. C. Hemphill, News and Courier. Charleston. General discussion of the above subjects. Opening the question box, and discussion relative to the questions asked. EVENING SESSION?8:30 O'CLOCK. Miscellaneous business. Address by Mr. St. Elmo Massengale, o? Atlanta, Ga.. on the relation of the Advertising Agent to the Newspaper Fublisher. FRIDAY?9:30 A. M. Miscellaneous business. "My Esteemed Contemporary Across tbe Street?tjnristensen, jr., u?zeuc, Beaufort. "Getting the News"?P. H. Fike, Herald. Spartanburg. General discussion of the above subjects. Opening the question box. and discussion relative to the questions asked. AFTERNOON SESSION. Miscellaneous business. "The Lights and Shadows of a Reporter's Life"?Wm. Banks, The State, Columbia. "The Business End of It"?J. L. Sims, Times and Democrat, Orangeburg. General discussion of the above subjects. EVENING SESSION?8:30 O'CLOCK. Final meeting?Miscellaneous Business. Election of Officers, etc. ArriviTV ihi SOUTH CAROLINA. General Moverrent to Increase the Number and Importance of the Seaboard's Connections. There is increasing manifestations ol a general movement to increase the number and importance of Seaboard connections in this State, and this, together with some other schemes that have recently been projected, pictures unusual activity in railroad construction in this State for the immediate future. Whether the Seaboa~d or the communities interested took the initiative in the several different enterprises that have been blocked out to extend the Seaboard's territory in the lew country as well as in the prosperous Piedmont section, where the cotton mills alone furnish a big freight business. is of no immediate concern tc the numerous South Carolinians whose business will be facilitated and property enhanced in value by increased railroad facilities. Certain it is. however, that activity in these various projects has become marked almost simultaneously. The Union and Glenn Springs railroad has just-been completed and put in operation, giving Uuion and neighboring mills a Seaboard connection at Pride's, and a movement has been started at Spartanburg to build a connection between Buffalo, the present western terminus of the new road, and Glenn Springs, which would bring the Glenn Springs railroad into use as far as Roebuck, which is only six miles from Spartanburg, the most important cotton mill county in the State. The Seaboard could then go into Spartanhiirsr over the Charleston and Western o ? Carolina tracks or build a line of its own from Roebuck. Then in the opposite tier of Piedmont counties there is a scheme to establish a Seaboard connection for Greenville with its numerous cotton mills, at Greenwood by an extension of the old Carolina * Knoxville road from Greenville to Greenwood. This road is now in ooeration from Greenville nearly tc the North Carolina line. Expects Attack. Vladivostok, By Cable.?It is expect ed here that a Japanese attack on the fortress will not be long delayed There is, howevbr. a calm and determ ined spirt manifested by the population in the face of the forthcoming crisis. The defenses of Vladivostok on which steady work has been ir progress since the beginning of the war. are now considered as having leen completed. Peace Negotiations-Abandoned. Chicago. special.?Adjustment ol the teamsters' strike by mediatior stems as remote as it did two nights ago. Peace negotiations have beer abandoned for the present, and th< strike will be allowed to take its "nat ural course." according to President Shea, of the teamsters' organization All the business firms now involved ir the trouble refuse to concede anythinj further in the controversy, and sal that peace negotiations are off for M time. W I 1 PALMETTO AlFAIRS! .! ic< j Occurrence^ of Interest in Varlcue i j Parte of the State. lh Geneal Cotton Market. , j Middling Galveston, quiet 8-Vh J New Orleans, easy 8% i , Mobile, firm 8Vj j r ; Savannah, steady ...8^2 j , Charleston, steady 8 5 Id i Wilmington, steady 8V4 I .. Norfolk, steady 8*4 Baltimore, normal .'.834 . New York, quiet 8.75 ,1 ? . ?? lit] boston, quiet a.i;> . Philadelphia, steady 9.00 a Houston, quiet 8% ra Augusta, quiet 8% mi ! Memphis, steady S 11-11 ! St. Louis, firm 8}? Louisville, firm 9.00 Charlotte Cotton Market. These figures represent prices paid . to wagons: 's j Good middling 8% f0' Strict middling S% I ,s , Middling 8Yj Tinges 7Vi to 8 Stains GVa to 7Va '0l ?0' Poi3on in Food. ' es One hundred and ten convicts In ! ha the State penitentiary were made I 1 deathly sick at dinner Tuesday. At I first the cause was a mystery but a later investigation is reported as fol ni| lows: ! ; ib I "There was arsenic in the dinnei j : which poisoned 110 of the convicts at jm the State prison Tuesday. Dr. W. B. i PI; Burney, the State chemist, has not Li made his formal report of the analysis co undertaken at the request of Captain gn D. J. Griffith, superintendent of the we penitentiary, but he said informally is that he had discovered the presence of arsenic in considerable quantities in cu I the sample sent him for examination, ge ; The prisoners who were poisoned sic 1 have recovered from the severe ill- mi ! ness and none was left in the inflr- an : marv. It is fortunate that while sc W many were sickened the nausea came cu j upon them so soon after the meal that cii they were saved from serious con- en 1 sequences. ha "Superintendent Griffith and Captain so W. W. Adams,, captain cf the guard, made a careful investigation Wednes- s* day and they have arrived at the sh conclusion that the poison was put in- w< I to the cabbage with malice and tho ro party guilty of the crime has been de spotted. Se Buggy Burned by Moonshiners. Spartanburg, Special.?Chief Grady ge ! and several of the local constables had da a lively time of it on a raid in the j de ! Dark Corner Monday night. Arriving j de at Gowansville, their vehicle broke iss down, and they secured another and aiJ pressed forward in their quest of illicit 5U distilleries. Their raid carried them into the lonely, unfrequented sections j0, of the Corner, and they were fired on several times, but without results. tn Their search proved fruitless, and, re- wi | turning to Gowansville for their team, ^ i they discovered that it had been cut ty ' to pieces and burned up by the irate ^ I moonshiners. Their horses had not been molested and the men secured an- cj( ! other carriage and came home. ofl wi To Increase School Tax. Ac Laurens, Special.?At the annual wl meeting of the citizens it was voted Sr to increase the special tax levy for Pr the city schools from 2 3-4 to 3 mill9 cr The terms of the three trustees having mi expired, Messrs. O. B. Simmons and tr< J. J. Mousley were elected to succeed themselves. The treasurer made his fh annual report and announced that the it) salaries of a number of the teachers tic , had been increased the past year. The meeting uujourneu to meet again next ?? Tuesday, when the report of the au- re diting committee will be made. th . up New Enterprises. mi m< [ Application was made recently for im the Timmonsville Lumber company, ms Timmonsville. to have a capitalization th of $40,000. The corporators are: B. D. 1 th Dargan and F. L. Wilcox. The Yorkville Monument Works also j Pe ' applied for a commission, the corpora- j Pa tors being W. B. Moore. W. B. Wylie, I ?? i B. N. Moore, 0. E. Wilkins. W. I. j fin Witherspoon. S. W. Heath and E. D. \ of Blakeney. The capital stock will be st) i $10,000. fu The Carolina Plumbing company, of t Columbia, was chartered, capitalization to be $5,000. Officers are: W. A. Clark, president and treasurer. John 0f A. Civil, secretary and T. H. Meighan v vice president. | The Summerton Real Estate agency was given a commlssjon. the capital stock to be $5,000. W. J. Muldrow and , . A. P. Burgess, corporators. ^ ; Lewis Cohen & Co., of Charleston, y< were given a charter. Capitalization j,a $5,500. General merchandise. i A charter was granted to the Industrial Training Home, of Greenville. The I object of this institution will be to of- ^e i fer a place of refuge for fallen young ac women who have been living in shame jjj i and to give them employment under 0f Christian influences. The officers are: {|( i John S. Mercer, president: S. L. Rich- ^s ardson, vice president; W. A. Capps, ju i treasurer, and J. J. McSwain, secre- Wj i lary. 1 The Camden Baseball and Amusement Park association was given a *ei 1 commission. The purpose of this or- *? ganization will be to buy a park, en- P j close same and use it for baseball and ra other sports. The capital stock will be $1,000. Corporators: John S. Lind- , w T p weeks, and B. B. Clark. [ni ( vj, ... ?. . . -- to * Child Drank Poison. Chester, Special.?A most distressing casualty occurred here Thursday. Johnson Woods, aged two years, youngest m child of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Woods, got " access to a phial of medicine which was "? used by the child's father, and the little ki one took an overdose. In spite of er p prompt attention by a physician the ha ' child died in about two hours. The par- to ents lost last year their first born, a ro i bright little girl. Their many friends or ! sympathize with them in their fresh vi ; grief. Fi t New Mill at Iva. f Anderson, Special.?The capital stock - for a new cotton mill at Iva, in the R lower part of the county, has all been gt subscribed and the corporators, Mes' srs. T. C. Jackson, W. P. Cook W. T. t Sherard, of iva, and D. P. McBrayer, pc , of Anderson, have applied to the Sec- sh retary of State for a commission. The mill will be capitalized at $200,000. Iva t is a growing and progressive town on m the Charleston and Western Carolina rc i railroad, and is situated in a splendid Sl ijfanning community. It is expected hi |Rhat the plant will be ready for opera- tl) r| tion before the end of the year. te \ ; SOUTH CAROLINA CR^S ' >nditions For Past Week as Given ' ^ Out by the Department. The first half of the week ending ! onday. May 29th. was much cooler ! an usual, the latter half had nearly I irmal temperatures. There was a irmftil deficiency in sunshine. High sterlv winds prevailed generally, w ough the winds were light at the 5se of the week. Light frost was I ported from Cherokee county on the i n nd and 23rd. . j n There were from four to six days , th rain and. in places the precipi- i jj tion was excessive, notably in Darl- J gtcn and Chesterfield counties where 11 nds were badly washed and bottom i a nds flooded. The weekly amount of w in was largely in excess of the nor- ! t| il in the central counties, but the ound was kept wet so that only from b e to three days plowing and culti- o tion were practicable. Hoeing made t( tter progress. ' I Farm work was further delayed ana i ~ backward with many fields very ^ ill with grass and weeds, and there j e a continued scarcity of farm lab- ! 0 ers in all parts of the State, so that e grassy fields are becoming a ser- J is menace to crops. h While a few reports indicate that / tton is doing well on uplands, more b pecially on red and clay lands that ve been cultivated, the majority of I b e reports indicate the crop to be in | f( unpromising condition with the j- h ints small, and red or yellow, and i eir growth checked by the cool a ?ths. Many fields are grassy and S e probability is that some will be i s andoned in all sections of the State, [ t ing to their foul condition and the : ii practicability of cleaning them.|| ji ants continue to die on sandy landsA^ ce have appeared in a number of unties. Chopping made fair pro- fi ess, but has not been finished in the t sstern counties. Sea Island cotton n fn a poor condition. e Early corn that has been properly f ltivated is promising, but the lar- b r portion of the crop is yellow and t :kly. Planting of bottom lands a ide slow progress during the week, r d there is still much to be planted, heat is ripening and some has been a t. Oats are generally fine, espe- j illy spring oats. Fall oats are rip- R ing and harvest Is under way. It \ s been too wet for tobacco and H mc is firing. t Some peas have been sown, and c eet potatoes transplanted. Truck s ipments have about ended. Truck t >t weather has caused peaches to 8 t badly. Pastures are fine and gar- a ns are doing well.?J. W. Bauer, v iction Director. d Settlement With Counties. ? Columbia. Special.?The comptroller f neral has decided upon a uniform q te for settlements between the tax partment of the State and the tax ^ partment of the counties and has t sued the following letter to county v ditors, treasurers, supervisors and B perintendents of education: "It becomes necessary to fix a unirmn ddte for the annual settlement tween county auditors and county usurers. All annual settlements c 11 hereafter be made July 1st, or as C on as possible after that date. Coun- c treasurers, supervisors and superln- t adents of education are directed at o e close of business June 30th to a )se and balance their books. These b leers with their books and vouchers c 11 meet in the county auditor's of- t e, on or before July 10, together h th the foreman or committee of the o and jury and county auditor, and e oceed to verify the charges and ii edits taken in said settlement, as p ide up by the county auditor and k jasurer. g "County* auditors will bear in mind j at upon them rests the responsibil- C xur carrying oui inese insiruc- l i >ns and for the correctness of the fc ttlement, for it is manifestly impos- ii )le for the comptroller general or his h presentative to examine and verify t e thousands of items going to make s i the charges and credits, and he list therefore depend, in a great *asure, upon county officials covers' the same. When the settlement is ide up notify this office; a date will a en be fixed to examine and approve 0 e same. a "County supervisors and county su- " rintendents of education will pre- t( re a statment, showing the exact ^ ndition of the county and sAool ^ lances, giving a complete statement a bonded debt, borrowed money, out- * inding claims, etc. Blanks will be rnished for this purpose." Franchise Tax Upheld. ^ Washington. Special.?The validity v the special franchise tax law of F 99, of the State of New York, was ^ stained by th? Supreme Court of the s lited States in a decision handed c iwn. The decision afreets immense i ter'ests and it is stated that over $24,- q 0,000 of unpaid taxes in Greater New n >rk are made payable by the decision n nded down. Justice Brewer delivered t< e opinion of the court. v State Press Association. Mr. E. H. Aull of Newberry, presint of the State Press Association, has cepted the invitation for members of c e association to attend the meeting t the North Carolina Press Associa- p m to be held at Kenilworth Inn, c theville, on the 5th, 6th and 7th yf s ly. The Virginia Press Association 11 meet there at the same time. The meeting of the South Carolina P ess Association is not to be inter- d red with, and will be held according 1 arrangements at White Stone c rings, July 11th. Mr. Aull is also ar- * nging for the annual trip of the 1 smbers of the South Carolina Press .sociation, the projected itinerary be- ^ S to the Oregon exposition and thence c San Francisco. t1 Italian Laborer Killed. St. George, Special.?Nicolis De- j, archi, an Italian laborer, employed 1< Dorchester Lumber company at ^ idham, near here, was run over and r lied by a freight train on the South- ^ n railway between here and Badim Saturday night. His body was torn , pieces and scattered along the rail- j ad track for 200 yards or more. Cor- , ier Kizer empaneled a jury which ewed the body and adjourned till J iday afternoon of this week. J' Nineteen Vessels Sunk or Captured. Tokio, By Cable.?The number of ussian vessels of all descriptions ink and captured by Admiral Togo's P o ;et now stands at nineteen. It is e >ssible that three additional war- j, lips were sunk in the fight Saturday T id others later. The Navy Depart- o ent, however, refrains from crediting ^ ports of this nature until it is asired of their correctness. It is besved the Ural is the name of the capred transport whJ"h has been omit * d in the list preftculy cabled. " b V y J \ I A SS ! , .'J IT" I UHIIHg TWO PEKONS MOWffiD ragic End of Sunday Diversion in Sight of Many Persons?Both Bodies Recovered. Conway. Special.?Mr. S. A. Cauey and his nephew, G. Hugh Causey, rc-re drowned on Sunday at Pitch jnding on the Waccamaw river, four liles below this place. A number of ien had gathered at this place, well nn?.'n tn Iwthpru af ahnnt 1 ft o'clock ! i the morning. Mr. Causey was tryig to teach his little nephew, a boy bout 10 years old, how to swim. They rere the only ones in the water at the ime, with the exception of two small oys. Mr. Causey took his nephew n his back, and announced his innfion of swimming across the river, t that point about 90 yards wide, t'hen about half way across, he turnd around and started back?the reasu for which no one will ever know, t'hen within a few feet of the shore, | e suddenly sank, and never rose, j is he went down his nephew loosened is hold, and tried to reach the bank, ! ut succeeded only in drifting a few ! pet farther down the stream, before e too was overcome. None of the others present were ble to swim, and all efforts made to j et a boat or reach poles out to the truggling boy proved unavailing, and he horror had to be endured of seeng him go down before their eyes, ust beyond the reach of help. Mr. Causey was noted for his skill . ? a swimmer, and various theories j |>ve been put forward to account for his mo3t unfortunate accident, the oost plausible being that, due to the xtra burden of the boy's weight, he elt his strength ebbing, and turned ack, only to be seized with cramp efore reaching shore. This probably ccounts foh the fact that he did not ise after going down the first time. He was a merchant at Bear Swamp, nd leaves a wife, but no children, "or the na3t four years he has been memoer of the local camp of the Voodmen of the World, and as soon s the news of the accident reached his place, as manv or nis Drernren as ould be summoned went out to the eene. His body was recovere(Labout en yards below the point vfhSe he ank, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon; nd a few minutes later the boy's body f&a found, some distance further own the river. The members of the amp also attended the funeral exerisea, which were solemnized at his L amily burial place, called "Camp iround." The many friends and relatives of cccased have done everything within heir power to show their sympathy rith his family in this sad bereaveaent Farmer Killed Tenant. Florence, Special.?Alonzo Murphy, olored, was shot and killed by Jim ?g!e, a young white farmer, near the iry. Murphy lived on Cole's plantalon and was beating his wife. She went ver to Mr. Cole's residence nearby and ppealed to him for help. Cole went ack with her and told him he had ome to advise him and meant no rouble; however he must stop beating lis wife and having so much noise n his plantation. Murphy became M " ? * -i- J ..- Ulrt min nrhlph nragea ana picKt-u up uio 6u?, , t is said, was loaded with buckshot, ointed It at Cole and fired, but Cole mocked it up just as it fired, the load ding over his head. Murphy then umped on Cole to fight him and when 'ole found that Murphy was getting he best of him he pulled his pistol1 o shoot him. Murphy tried to take i t from him. Finally Mr. Cole shot i ilm twice, one of the bullets passing j hrough his body and killing him in- \ tantly. Tried to Kill a Farmer. Ruck Hill. Special.?Boykin Mobley. young white man. was arrested here n a warrant issued by the magistrate t Ogden. charging him with attemptig the life of W. L. Baskins. a wello-do farmer of the Ogden neighborood. It is alleged by Baskins that Tohlpv shot at him several times with shot gun and fired the same weapeon j hrough the window of his residence, ato a room where Mrs. Baskins, her wo children, and her mother, Mrs. 'arish, were standing. Baskins. while he shooting was going on. ran to the ouse of a neighbor and returned nth a gun and acquaintance, a Mr. 'arrish, who was armed with a rifle, lobley refused to surrender and Parish fired at him with a rifle. He was lightly wounded in the tend, but esaped and has been in mding since, 'he shooting occurred last Thursday, ifflcers located Mobley in hiding at he home of his father at Manchester till in this city and arrested him afer he had jumped from a second story rindow in an endeavor to escape. New Enterprises. The Carolina Ice and Packing Co., if Darlington, was chartered Monday, he officers being W. D. Coggeshall, iresiedent and treasurer, and J. R. Joggeshall, secretary. The capital took is $20,000. The Dillon Storage company has apilied for a commission and will oonuct a cotton warehouse at that town, he capitalization being $3,000. The orporators are: Wade Stackhouse, R. *. Stackhouse, J. S. Thompson and W. \ Bethea. The Wood Pottery company, of North iugusta. chartered a year ago with a apital stock of $8,000, has increasedd ts capitalization to $12,000. To Endow Chairs of Divinity. ' * - s 1 A chair of divinity will oe enauweu a Allen university and in Benedict t ol?ge by John C. Martin, the wealthy few York coal merchant, who has aleady given a fortune for the education f negro preachers. The State Bible nstitute of the John C. Martin eduational fund will be held here and will ist through Friday. It is expected that ohn C. Martin himself will be at the nstitute, and members of his working orce have made the announcement as ? the gifts to the two local institutions or the education of negroes. Sinking of Flagship. St. Petersburg, By Cabl^?The reort that the Kpiaz Souvan*. flagship f the Russian fleet, which defeatd by the Japanese in the Sraits of Ccrea, was sunk and that^Jdmiral tojestvensky was wounde^^nd placed n board a torpedo boat destroyer is onfirmed. The whereabouts of the estroyer is not known. An understanding has been reached hich will enable the Wabash to share a the great steel tonnage of the Pittsurg district. ? ^ I President Draws Lessons From the Recent Great Sea Fight BASES PLEA FOR A STRONG NAVY In a Decoration Day Address at the j Unveilirg of a Statute of General Slocum at Brooklyn, the President i Declares That Any Man Must Be j Blind Who Cannot Read the Lesson < of the Present and the Recent Past. ] New York, Special.?In a stirring address delivered at the unveiling of a big statue of General Henry W. Slocum in Brooklyn, Memorial Day, President Roosevelt paid a splendid tribute to the men who compose the Northern armies, but did not forget those of the Southern hosts. Most notable in his cpeech was an expression cf his hope that as the nation increased in strength there ( would come a corresponding increase in f its sense of responsibility, which 1 3hould prevent its people from either ' Injuring or insulting other people; his ] declaration that the surest way for a i nation to invite disaster is to be opu- 1 lent, aggressive and unarmed. Significant, in the light of recent 1 event^^as his assertion that: "If our i aavyM good enough, we have a long careCT of peace and prosperity before us and the only likelihood of trouble ] ever coming to us as a nation will ] arise if we let our navy become too ' ?mall or inefficient. A first-class navy, ] first-class in point of size, above all j first-class in point of efficiency and i ? ? iintf ng unitn in rnre- 1 bination is the surest and cheapest 1 guarantee of peace. I should think that any man looking at what is hap- < pening and has happened abroad and i In our own history during the past few I fears, must indeed be blind if he cannot J read that lesson clearly. ( The President was In New York city \ five hours, but during that time did not put his foot in Manhattan, passing around the island in a ferry boat to the Brooklyn sid^e of the East river, and after the exercises returning In the ?ame fashion. The entire trip was without unhappy Incident. The President made a hurried dash to the naval Young Men's Christian Association. A rapid inspection of the building, the gift of Miss Helen M. Gould, was made, and then the President delivered a 20-minutes address. He again spoke of the navy, saying: "More and more our people are waking up to the need of a navy, and in view of events happening all over the world, I think we can count on Congress to continue to build 3p our navy. It certainly will, if I can per* ' suade It It is all-important to hare ihips best in bull, the best in armor , and the best in eymament of any nation , In the world '" , Crowd at Andersonville. . Americus, Ga., Special.?Tl^e memorial exercises at Andersonville na- j tional cemetery Tuesday morning were Via aiiqnirea of the Fitzgerald 1 UUUUI VMV WW?r.w.. _ Grand Army Post, and were of a 1 very impressive character. Rev. 0 .0. ( Johnson, of Fitzgerald, delivered the oration, the programme being inter* spersed with musical selections and ' short addresses from other speakers. ' The Americus Light Infantry, which was ordered to Andersonville to keep j the peace among the thousands of col* < ored excursionists assembled there, ; marched to the cemetery by special Invitation and fired the national salute j of honor over the 14,000 Federal : graves. This is the first time such an .? invitation has been extended the State ] troops. United States regulars having i performed such duty heretofore. The j ( day passed quietly in the little town, j , the military and sheriff's posse mai/i- ( ovroiipni order amond the ; * IftlUlUg VAW..?~. _ thousands of negroes. Violent Storm at Chattanooga. Chattanooga, Tenn., Special.?A vio- (' lent rain and wind storm here Tuesday afternoon blew down Salem Baptist ' j church, in one of the suburbs, damaged I 1 the Salvation Army Hotel building, the j < opera house and many private houses, i ' Trees were broken short ofT or pulled J up by the roots, and crops and shrub- 1 bery were badly damaged. No one was j y seriously hurt. < Review? The more Magazines Indispensable is The I** Indispensable," " The one mag world under a field-glass," "An current literature,"?these are some people who read the Review of Review more necessary is the Review of Reviews, is in all the mo& important monthlies periodical literature that nowadays peop with it is to read the Review of Reviews, ing section, it has more original ma'.ter an the most timely ar.d important articles pri Probably the most useful section of all ret3 c? the World," where public events i c::-'-2:r???d in every issue. Many a subset v/of.h more than the price of the magazi depicting current history ia caricature, i ilcviews covers five continents, a?c Men in pubiic life, the members of C< captains of industry who must keep "u| women all over America, have decided t ~ THE REVIEW OF Rf 13 As tor Plac * Ua EVIDENCES OF SOtlTI'S PI06KSS Leads All 8eetions of the Country fit Railroad Building as Well M Growth of Other Industries. IN a recent number of the Railway Age. there is published a compilation showing the number of miles of railway now under actual construction, also the number of mile* planned or contemplated and likely to be under construction in the immediate future. The compilation covers the entire country, and we give the Bgures below. In the first column wil! be found the mileage actually under contract and in the second the mileage projected: Pro Al lHU', /t' l Mew England States 37 103 Middle States 455 55 Central Northern States ... 681 651 South Atlantic States 1,156 1,547 Sulf and Mississippi Val...1,110 802 Southwestern States 2,500 2.931 Northwestern States 628 1,243 Pacific States 933 2,000 Totals 7,500 9,332 The compilation is of interest to this section, showing as it does, that 60 per :entof therailroads actually being constructed and of those projected are in :he South. It is a positive expression if confidence in the future prosperity if the South, backed by men of superior business sagacity, in the investment of their money. Money talks, and while it is sometimes deceived, it is not if ten. If the men who are thus making large investments in the construction of railroads in this section did lot believe it would prove a paying investment they would not make it Unless the South remains prosperous and joes not continue to grow in prosperity. these investments will not pay. It is believed there is to be more business for the railroads, and there canlot be business for them unless the South is producing something to make freights, and unless the population inrreases so as to give assurance that more people will travel on the roada lad pay fares. , The confidence thus expressed gives iddltlonal vAlue t'o Southern lands, to * Southern mines and quarries and to southern mills. it gives assurance mat there is growing wealth and population, and that the South is to become i larger factor in the field of American industries and commerce.?Knoxrtlle, Tenn., Journal and Tribune. PERSONAL GOSSIP. The Duke of Oporto, brother of the King of Portugal, is one of the finest Ilute players In the world. Boston Corbett, the man who Is credited with having shot J. Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Lincoln, is residing in Texas. Two of ihe official pallbearers of Abraham- Lincoln are still living. Henry G. Worthington and Alexander B. GoiTroth. Colonel Lnrenza Alexis de Clairmont. chief of staff to President Cebrarn, of Guatemala, was once a ticket taker in Denver, Col. Ivor Davidson, who was the giant of n circus years ago, uis neignc ueing seven feet two Inches, has died at his home in Roseoe, Minn. Robert W. Chambers, who at times uses startling incidents in the construction of plots for his novels, is constantly receiving "crank" letters. Frederick Lawrence Knowles, the son of a Boston minister, is looked upon by critics as one of the most promising of the younger poets. Philip Verrill Mighels. the author, lias been elected president of the branch of the Dickens Fellowship recently established in New York. John L. Dube, whose father was a Zulu king, is in Boston trying to raise money with which to establish an inItistrial school in his native country. H. E. Barnhard, State chemist of Sew Hampshire, has been selected as the chemist for the new Indiana laborttory of hygiene at Indianapolis. Ind. William S. Kies, who has been made tor.era 1 attorney of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, is only twentyseven years old, and was born on a 'arm in Minnesota. Sam S. Shnbert, the young theatrical manager, who was killed in the svreok at South Harrisburg, Ta.. was >niy twenty-eight years old, and con;rol!ed sixteen theatres v Wedding Ring. Found on Harrow. A blacksmith of Aswarby, near Sleaford, England, has made a most curi }us discovery. He received from a neighboring farmstead a harrow for repairs, and trhile these were being executed a 22;arat gold wedding ring was found sticking on to one of the teeth of the mplement. It is supposed that the *lng was lost on the land and that it vas picked up by the harrow in the :ourse of its work. Reviews there are, the more Review of Reviews arine I feel I must take.'* "The education in public affairs and : of the phrases one hears from noted s. The more magazines there ere, the because it brings together the best that of the world. 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