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Rioting in Constantinople. Details of the Trouble, With Conflicting Reports of the Casualties. London, Oct. 2.?The Post will to morrow pablish a dispatch from Con stantinople saying it is believed that 10 persons were killed and 40 wounded in the streets during the rioting which oc * corred Monday. Five hundred persons have been arrested on the charge of participating iu the rioting. Among' the prisoners are a number of Armeni ans. These, when arrested, were thrown down, disarmed,, baten and then bound. One Armenian was struck with a bludgeon and afterwards shot and killed. Two non-commissioned gendarme officers were about to seize an Armenian near the gate of the sultan's palace, where the trouble originated, wheo shots were fired from a crowd of students, and both officers were killed. Several other gendarmes were wound ed. It is stated that eight Armenians were killed within the ministry of po lice, which was attacked by the rioters. A crowd of armed Sofias assembled later and threatened to massacre the Armenians. The police, however, dis persed them.N The porte and the palace officials are greatly alarmed. Tne ministers bave held a meeting to consider the situa tion which is threatening. A dinner had been arranged at the palace in honor of Prince Albert of Schleswig has been cancelled. The French dis patch boat Petrel, which was about to sail for Toulon, has been ordered to re maio The demonstration of the Armenians had long _ been prearranged. Copies of the petition against the government, to present which to the grand vizier was the object of the Armenians to the gate of the palace were sent to some of the j embassies with an intimation that the petition would be forwarded to the grand vizier. The police bearing of this, orders were immediately given to prevent the petition from being pre sented. About 2,000 persons assembled in the Koumkapon cathedral co attend the celebration of the cross. After the ser vice, twenty Armenian ladies presented to the patriarch a petition begging him to summon the faithful to go to the Porte to pray ttiat it promptly enforce reforms in Armenia. The patriarch addressed the assem blage and exhorted them to make no a?' ? uistration, inasmuch as it would be ou.iaryto law. He begged them to rely ? himself to do everything pos ?ibi*- to secure the desired reforms. Thereupon the crowd shouted : "We have had enough. We want liberty or death/' The patriarch then withdrew and the Armenians tried to form a procession, but in this they were prevented by the police, who dispersed the crowds into various streets. Later, however, they gathered again at an arranged point. There Maj Serwet Bey, aide to the ministry of police, addressed them, di recting them to leave the petition with him. Some say that he insulted the Armenians At any rate, the latter be came incensed and began shouting.* Then shots were fired and Sewet Bey was killed and several gendarmes were woanded A hand-to-hand fight ful lowed The disturbances were renewed on "Tusday, but the details cannot be ob tained. It is known, however that mpoeople were killed. The streets are patrolled by troops and the guards at the goverment offices have been reinforced. It Is stated that the Armenians broke into tLelaw courts and killed two judges. During the rioting Monday bullets pierced the carriages of the minister of foreign affairs and the minister of po lice. The Constantinople correspondent of | the Daiiy News says that an eye wit ness of Tui.'.duy's troubles declares that be saw a car load of corpses removed from the Koumkapaon district last night. A Greek messeuger emr-cyed at the British sconuiate, reported that he was at. the principal prison of the city and saw four dead and eight wounded Ar menians brought in. tie heard an or der given to kii! the wounded which was done. The matter was reported to Sir Phillip Curry, the British minister Tbc Daily News estimated the killed at more than 20. Christian and Mos lem fanaticism, it says, is alike aroused and the trouble may be worse yet, un less energetic measures are taken. The Standard has a Constantinople dispatch saying that the number killed j is variously estimated at from 30 to j 300. The exact number will probably never be known. . Many hundreds of persons have been arrested, and the entire ministry of justice has been turned into a jail The ordinary jails are full. The arrests continue. Any Armenian who appears on the streets runs the risk of being imprisoned. A dispatch adds that many versions are given of the tenor of the Arme nian petition. One version is that it was abusive, and was intended only as a pretext to enable the conspirators to gain access to the grand vizier. The agitators well knew that they would be resisted ; hence their action can only be regarded as deliberate armed provo cation, any repetition of which might have the most serious consequences for Christians throughout the empire. The familiar rumors of an impending massacre are revived, and the public mind is greatly agitated. r No Fischt in Texas. Austin, Tex., Oct. 2.?Corbett and Fitzsimmocs mast find another place I than Texas io which to pull off their fight for the proposed championship of the world. The legislature to-day, by a vote that was practically unanimous io tbe senate, and ooly a little less in tbe house, pass ed the bill prohibiting prize ?gbting, and thus accomplished the purpose for wbicb the governor assembled them in special session. The vote by which the bill was car ried furnishes the strongest proof of tbe seutimeot of the State with refer ence to prize fighting. The only rallying point of the minor ity was opposition to the emergency clause, which carried the bill into im mediate effect. Certain of the mem bers regarded this as an injustice to such of the citizens of Dallas as bad spent large sums in anticipation of tbe fight, and opposed it for tbat reason alone. Their arguments were not ef fective, however, and the rote in the house ou the final passage of the bill showed but 5 votes in opposition, with 107 in its favor. In the senate tbe bili was carried with only one negative vote in tbe 27 tbat were cast. The senate made quick work of tbe measure. It had taken a recess until 3 o'clock this afternoon in order tbat the Dallas people might be given a full bearing by tbe judiciary committee. Within 55 minutes after reassembling tbe bill passed. The working the house was not so expedi tious. The house is tbe larger body, and several members desired to be heard upon the senate bill, which was substituted for the house bill then pending. Amid applause, a number of amendments were offered. Several were adopted, but tbese do not change the measure in any material extent, except to make it still more effective. As a result of tbese amendments, tbe bill will be returned to the senate to morrow, but?ts adoptiou in amended form will be delayed no longer than ne cessary to call the roll. It will then be sent to tbe governor, and when bis sig nature shall have been attached it will become a law. The bill makes prize fighting a felony and imposes a punishment upon the principals for every infraction of the law by imprisonment in tbe peniten tiary for a term not less than two and not more than five years. thky may fight ix mexico. Sax Axtoxio, Oct. 2.?Chas. Camp bell, a business man of this city to-day received a telegram from President Dan Stuart of tbe Florida Athletic club, stating that if the railroads interested in haviog tbe Corbett-Fitzsimmous j fight take place at Neuvo Laredo, M?x., j would etaud the expense or enlarging j tbe bull fi*ht arena at tbat place, be would favorably consider pulling tbe fight off there if it cannot cotti? r? at ? Dallas. Campbell is tbe own- ? ut a i concesssiou for prize fighting in N?-?vo j Laredo, which ne oDtaioed a few u?ye t ago from the State of Tamau u>as, j Mex. He returned y?sterday from Dal- j las, where be bad a conference *ith j President Stuart and made the pn.po- | sition for the fight to take place in ! Neuvo Laredo before the Florioa Ath- j letic club. The matter is now in tbe hands of tbe International and G.eat Northern and Mexican National rail roads, Somebody Wants Hanging. Fourth Attempt to Wreck Trains at Jeffrey's Creek, on the North- ; eastern Bailroad. Florence, Oetobor 2. ? A rr*p was j set on the Northeastern ii-iilroad at ! Jeffrey's C.eek last night, n is *up posed, to wreck Train 35, the fast : South-bound mail train Train No. j 209, the South bound through freight, j struck the pile of timbers a:.d rbrew them off. The pilot of the engine was ; t<?ru off. Engineer John Brother*, of j the freight train, rcportt-3 the fact to 1 the Coast Line authorities from Effiug- i ham and was ordered ?o leturu to ' Florence and get a new engin?*. After j waiting at Effiogham until Train 35 ? had passed he starred to etuiu to Florence for another engine, and whiie ! backing the dieabied engine ran into tbe timbers a second time, they having been replaced after the fast mail had passed. At the point where the ob- ; struciion was placed the track stands on an embankment about thirty feet high and spats a trestle fifty feet long. ! Had the fast mail been trapped the ! result would have been a disastrous ! one. Till Cuba Shall be Free. - ! Newark, Oct 2 ?Instructions have j been given to those in charge that the Columbian Liberty Bell, which is now ! at the Atlanta exposition shall be plac- ! ed at the disposal of a committee re presenting the prees of America to be rung in protest at midnight,until Cuba shall be free. The chairman of the general committee in making these instructions, leaves the details of the ceremony entirely with the committee of the press reporte, but suggests that eminent Americans, visiting the expo sition who are in sympathy with the movement for the freedom of Cuba shall be invited to participate in the ceremonies and that short addresses be delivered. t The Columbian Liberty bell commit tee would also be pleased to receive poems or songs appropriate to be read or sung upon these occasions They may be mailed to the committee at-61 Lincoln park, Newark, N. J. T?e Road Congress. Important Recommendations to tne Convention. Changes m the County Govern ment Law Suggested. Columbia. S. C. Oct. 3.?The Road Congress adjourned after to-nights ses sion, the work before the body having been disposed of to the entire satisfac tion of ali. The Congres? is the begin ning of actual and practical reform in the working of the public road:* m this State 3nd the manner in which the Con gress proceeded about its work, the recommendations and suggestions made and the character of the men who at tended the Congress, altogether contain much to encourage the belief that good ronds will not loug remain so conspicu ous by their absence from this State. A committee conferred with the Ju diciary Committee of the Constitutional Couventiou in reference to the enlarge ment of the powers of courts of limited jurisdiction, so as to enable them to impose sentence to labor on the public works of the oountv. The committee of nine county super visors, charged with the preparation of amendments to the iounty government law to be submitted to the legislature, through its chairman, Mr. Scott, re ported as follows : Your committee on amendments to the new county government law beg leave to report that we recommend the following specific amendments to the original act and also submit for your consideration some general suggestion* We also recommend that a permanent committee on legislation, to consist of five members with the president of the congress as chairman, be provided who ? shall be charged with the presentation of these resolutions to the proper authorities and that these resolutions receive the endorsement of this con gress. Strike out section 5 and insert in lieu thereof, so that the same shall read : "That one competent and dis creet free holder in each township in the several counties of the State shall be elected by the qualified voters of such township at each general election, who shall be known as the township commissioner for such township, who?e term of office shall be co-terminal with that of the county supervisor for the j said county elected at such general j election and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. In case of a vacancy or in case of refusa! of any person so elected to serve as such com missioner, 3tbe vacancy shall be filled by appointment of the governor upon the recommendation of the county board <>f commissioners of said county. Provided, the said commissioner shall, during the term of his office, be ex- j empt from all road and jury duties and j he shall receive such compensation as shall be provided by law, not :o exceed twenty (20) days in any one year, at $1 50 per day. without mileage.'7 Strike out section 6 and insert in lieu ? thereof the following, viz : "That township boards of assessors j are hereby re-established and the town ship commissioner provided for in sec tion 5 sball be the chairman of the said towuship board of assessors, and the two additional members of said town ship board shall be appointed by the county auditor, and the same chairman ! shall also be a member of the county board of equalization Strike out section 7 and insert iu lieu thereof : ''That, county boards of: equalization shall thereafter be composed j of the township commissioner provided j for in section 5, of which board :jhe su- j pervisor shall be chairman and the j county auditor the clerk." Strike out sections S and 9 and in- , sert iu lieu thereof: "That the said1 township.commissioners and the county j supervisor shall constitute the county [ board commissioners, of which board the supervisor shall be the chairman. That ; the county board of commissioners shall meet hereafter on the firs: Mooday in January, April, July and October of; each year at the county court house for the transaction of business and the majority of said board shall constitute a quorum. Provided, tb:it the chair- j man may call au ostra meeting at any ! time. That at the first meeting of said board they shall elect on*.-of their num ber who shall be a member of the State \ board of equalization, and who shall ! perform all the functions of said office, as now provided by law " Insert at section 11 : "Provided, That the county board of cc missioners shall bave the right p,oy over seers or foremen to superioied the work ing of the highways, whether the con tract system be adopted or uot, and provided, further, that the county su pervisor shall have the right to employ and use convict labor, as be may deem best, whether the contract system be adopted or not.'' Add to eud of section 15 : "Provid ed, That al! commutation taxes shall be paid ss hereiu provided, during the collection of the State and county taxes immediately preceding the year in which it is intended to commute." That it is the sense of this congress that the new county government act be so revised and amended in every particular as to embody the amend men s suggested by this congress: so as to relieve the confusiou as to the officiai designation of the couuty board, and to correct al! the giammatical er rors appearing in the balauce of the act, caused by reason of the proposed ameudments, it being the scuse of this congress that the official designation of the county board as provided tor shall be the county board of commis I sioners, and that provision should be i made for all lands and righ?s of way. j to be conveyed to the county supervisor ; and his successors in office. ! We request the legislature to define i . in such terms as shall be ciear and un mistakable what shall constitute an ? ; ablebodied male citizen, and suggest that the age for road duty be fixed at from 16 to 50 years. That we believe i all persons not Student.? and t^acb^rs of schools and colleges in actual attend- ; ance thereon, and who are not pau pers, or who are not suffering from . loss of limb or limbs, should be requir- \ ed to work the public roads, exempting . only the persons aforesaid : Provided, That such counties as may desire ; especial age and other exemptions be given tbe same upon the recommenda- ; tton of the county board, and that do ! physician's certificate of disability should be regarded unless the same be duly sworn to before an officer author ized to administer the oath We recommend that such provision be made by the Constitutional conven tion and legislature as shall give tbe freeholders cf each township tbe right to vote and decide upon the question of issuing bonds f<?r the construction and improvement of its highways and to issue auch regulation as may be pro vided for. We further recommend that an act be passed requiring all persons claiming to hold commutation tax receipts to exhibit the same to tbe warner, and that an act be passed providing a ver bal or written notice left at the resi dence of any person liable to road I duty or delivered to him in person be I deemed a legal notice to work on high- \ ways. I The report of the committee was taken up by sections, it beiDg first or dered that the permanent committee of five on legislation .provided for in the premable to the report, should be ap pointed by the president at his leis ure. On morion of Mr. F. H. Hyatt, it j was resolved tbat the congress should : meet annually in Columbia on the call of the president during the first week : of the session of the legislature. A resolution was adopted instructing . the president of the congress to give the endorsement of the body to the ordinance introduced in the Constitu tional convention by Mr. Henderson of > Aiken, which provides means for run niog county goverments on a cash basis, j - ? ?? - i. Business is Better. The Higher Price of Cotton Hav- j mg Its Effects m the South. Baltimore, Oct. 3.?Reports'to the! Manufacturer^ Record show that the j high price of cotton is generally stimu- ; iatiug the business interests of the j south ; and while purchases of goods do ! not yet show any very large increase, i merchants and business ?? generally ' are anticipating a great improvement i in all directions. It is e;* 'mated that; the higher price of cottoti - compared \ with last year, and the ?crease iu ! grain production will make ?. net differ- ? enee to southern farmers of over ?100,- j 000,000 as compared with 1894. Iu iron interests there is considera- j ble elation in Birmingham over the j success of tbe use of pig iron made in that district in the manufacture of I basic steel. The president of the Sloss i Imo and Steel company of Birmingham ? in a letter to the Manufacturers' Re- ? cord says : ."I think the successful; manufacture of basic pig and its sale i and use by the best steel manufac ! furore in the United States is the best thing which has happened to this dis trict since my connection with the iron business. While all of us who knew our ; business felt confident that we would ! have no trouble in makin? basic pig, it had not. been demonstrated. Its com- ? p?ete demonstration will in my judg ment cause in the early future tbe ? building of a large steel plant here and j I feel confident that we will demon- ? strate that Birmingham can manufac- j ture basic steel more cheaply than any ; other pomt in the world, just as we ; have demonstrated that we could beat ! -the world in the manufacture of pig j iron for foundry purposes.1' The list of industrial enterprises re- i ported for the week, while covering a considerable range and diversity, is not j so long as for preceding weeks. It in cludes a $50.000 cotton mill in South ? Carolina; a?100, 000 grain mill iu Ar kansas ; a funiture factory, electric ! I light and water works in Georgia ; a I $40.000 lumber mill is Mississippi; a ?50,000 quarrying company in North Carolina ; an ice plant and a twine mill in South Carolina ; a $50,000 electric light plant and flour mill in Tennessee ; arrangements for the development of a sulpLar mine iu Texas ; a ?100,000 coal company and $50,000 cotton seed oil mill company in the same State ; a ?150,000 furnace company, 100 coke ovens and a $100,000 gold mining com j pany in Virginia. Black Beats Watson. Augusta. Ga., Oct. 2.?The special ! congressional election in the Tenth dis ; trict caused by the resignation of J. C. j C. Black, Democrat, on account of al ; leged frauds, was held to-day, tbe two ' candidates being the same as last year : J. C. C. Black, Democrat, and Thos. il. Watson, Populist. The election ; passed off very quietly and resulted in ' the re-election of Black by about '2,000 estimated majority. The new State registration law passed by the last legis lature was enforced with groat satisfac tion and proved a wisdom of law. m-r? *^mm~? The prettiest lot of writing tablets in the city at H. G. Osteen k Co'?. Blah's tablets , lead. Editor Rice Resigns. Prof. James Henry Rice, who has 'or some rime been editing The Evening News, in facr ever since it> advent on the sea of journalism, yesterday hand ed in his resignation and is no longer occupying that position. What caused Prof. Rice's resignation is a matter known onlv to himself and those con cerned.? The State. Black's Majority. Augusta, Oct. 4.?The official re turns in the Black-Watson congressional election in this, the Tenth district show a majority for J. <!. C. Black of 1.602 votes. Black, Democrat, re ceived 10.312 votes and Watson, Pop ulist, ?S710, making the total vote polled 19,022 in the entire district. The total vote polled in 1894 was 30, 102. Bass Balls and Bats, all prices, fcr sals by . G-. 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