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THE HURRICANE IN WEST INDIES. Millions in Property and Hundreds of Lives Lost. San Juan de Faerto Rico, Aug 10. -A hurricane broke over the south coast at 1 o'clock Toeeday morning .and swept northeast. There was oo abatement for erne hoers, the great est damage being done between S and 10 o'clock a in. The wires were down and' communication with the interior for a time was impos able. It is now chiefly carried on by .couriers. At San Juan four natives were drowned in the harbor, eighty houses were demolished and hundreds were unroofed. The damage to property ls estimated at $500,000 ; commis sary stores to the value of $50,000 were destroyed A courier who has just arrived from Ka macao, capital of the pro vince of that name, on the eastern coast of the island, reports awful destruction there. The loss to prop erty -s estimated at $500,000, but this is the least item in the disaster. The courier brought an official report from Capt. Eben Swift of the Fifth United States cavalry, who says : **Humaca was totally destroyed by the hurricane. Forty-six bodies have been recovered, and there are many snore is the debris. Eight privates of Troop C injured ; two fatally. Sergt. King of the Eleventh infantry was injured. North, a discharged private, is missing. At the port of Ham a cao 18 bodies have been re covered Eight hundred people are starving here 99 Ponce, Aug. 10.-A hurricane truck here at 8 o'clock Tuesday morling and lasted until 3 p. m. The rivera overflowed, flooding the 4own. It is estimated that 200 per ons were drowned. The town and port are total wrecks It is believed -the damage done will amount to ver $500,000 No news has been -received from the interior since the tonn broke. London, Aug 10 -The governor of tlie Leeward islands, Sir Francis Flecking, confirms the dispatch from St Thomas, Danish West Indies, to the Associated Press announcing the devastation caused by the hurricane at the island of Montserrat, says 74 deaths are already known He adds Shat 21 persons were killed st the island of Nevis. DEATH AND FAMINE FOLLOWS HURRICANE IN PORTO RICO APPEAL FOR AID M OS TO THE UNITED -STATES. Washington, Aug ll.-The war Department today took prompt meas cres for the relief of the hurricane itfferers io Puerto Rico. When the press dispatches and Gen Davis' advices made known the extent of ! the disaster steps were immediately taken to send supplies, and the transport McPherson was ordered put in readiness to sail from New York Monday next She will carry rations aad other necessaries Secre tary of War Root this afternoon sent an appeal to the mayors of a!I cities ?of more than 150 000 population, asking for contributions of money, clothing and food for the relief of the -destitute Puerto Ricans. The cablegram from Gen. Davis, giving fuller details of the damage done in Puerto Rico by the hurricane, ays : .'Liter reports show that the herr; cane was far more severe in interior and southern part of island than here. Data for estimate of number of Poerto -Ricans who have lost everything is deficient, bat I am forced to believe the number on the island cannot fall below one hundred thousand souls, and a famine is impending 1 ask thal; two and one half million po tn de rice and beans, equal quantities of acia be immediately shipped for food to Ponce Some here. Urgeut appeals to all post commanders for food for the destitute Am ! author ized to relieve distress by food issues f Rice aod beans only de ired. There have been many deaths of natives by falling walls So far only one soldier reported dangerous ly injured Several towns reported -entirely demolished As yet have reports from only four ports Com p ete destruction of all barracks Troops are in canvass No reports jet from the largest ports, Ponce and Mayaguez, but . they were in the cortex of the storm. At least half of the people in Puerto Rico subsist .entirely on fruit and vegetables, and torm has entirely destroyed this ource of support. {Signed) "Davis." A report has been received at the war department from an officer at San Juan de Puerto Rico estimating t'o&i the number killed amounts to 300. The same officer says a very serious cojjdUioa of affairs exists at The Lines are not Down. If the 8peeoh of Senator Tillman, delivered in the afternoon of asl Fri day in Sumter, is reported correotly, we think somebody must have placed a ^ooal cf fire upon his back., to canse him to put so much warmth in his remarks. He said he was no "peace and unity man" and the "lines were still here and wouid be down." we do not think his disclaimer of being a "peace and unity man17 is consistant with his speech m Charleston when the politi cians of that city fell over each other, to do the "belauding and bepraising and buttering'7 upon thc occasion when he and some of his colleagues made that famous junketing trip to Cuba. If we remember aright the distinguished Senator was full of peace and unity at that time, and with one hand be held out an olive branch, while with the other, he threw bouquets at his enter tainers. It is to be regretted that hs did not remain in ths.c sweet temper, fer whether Senator Tillman realizes it or not, the people are not disposed to take any stock in a condition of things which wiil array neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother, and father against son ; this was done once, and it is a source of genuine gratification to know that suoh a condition has been relegated to the past, never again co be resurrected. Tillman may not regard himself a "peace and unity man,'; because bis composition is made up of a eombative material, nevertheless, be cannot com bat unless there is something to fight, and from the signs of the times we have peaoe now, and peace is likely to remain unless politicians invent a pian to create excitement, which will be hard for them to do. Senator Tillman has made a fine representative in Con gress, but his record there dees not entitle him to thc special privilige of again arraying the people against each Other, and if he attempt's it, they will soon give him to understand, that they will not follow any man over this State, who undertakes to lead them with fire brands. That the people want peace and unity is evident all over the State, and the place to find the evidenoe, is in tbs bails of the legislature, where the membership is mtde up without regard to faction and to fraction al is m I creeps into the laws enacted. Among the strongest advocates of j the dispensary law, which appears to be a pet with the Senator, are members of the General Assembly, who, when factional feeling ran high were allied with the conservative side, and eves one we have in mind, was a red hot Has'fiellite, this gentleman stood upon the floor of the Senate and made s speech in behalf of tbs dispensary, which would have made one of Senator Tillman's dispensary speeches pale into Iamb like tameness. The day has come when a mao may go before tba people advocating the dispensary, or any other measure, without engendering bitter ness, and the time has also come when tbe people will repudiate any man who undertakes to ride into office on the back of viilifioation, strife, aod factionalism Wa do not think that Senator Till man was justified in designating the ..prohibitionists" as **a set of hypo crites and cowards," because, the "prohibitionists" who were true to pri ciple, never did approve of soy amalgamation with the liquor element, nor do they approve of the course pursued by some meo conspicuous in their ranks. The trouble is not with the prohibitionist, bot with the poli ticians who stole the livery of prohibi tion to serve king Bacchus. Hence, it is slanderous to stigmatize good men who believe in prohibition as a part and parce!-a basic principle of their reli giou9 creed, as "byprocrites and cowards," and to do this, does not bave a tendency to permit people to live at peace with each other, and instead of making friend.) for the dispensary law, suoh irritating characterizations are resented, and very properly so. Now. had Senator Tillman shown how schem ing political pirates crawled over the sides of the prohibition ship, took charge cf the 'helm, and undertook to sail ber into a liquor haven ; be would have rendered a service, and put the people on the watch to prevent a repeti tion of such a scheme. We differ with the senator when be says that factional '.lines were still here aod won d be drawn." The factional lines if they exist at all, arc confined to a olass of politicians who realize their doom, as soon aa their s ock in trade, co looger blows up tbe embers of wrath ; let a mao offer himself for office now, as a factional candidate and defeat will settle upon bia shoulders before he gets through with bis first meeting ; then: was a time when the peo ple were excited and qualified tion and merit was lost sight of, bat that was when the State was under going a revolution , cow, things are again at their normal oondition and meo are selected with calmness, and with care, to sarve the people's inter ests. Merit and qualification are tbe requisites for public favor, and they will break through all lines, drawn hy demagogism and factionaiism -Man ning Times. - -mu>- - Heading This Way. Washington, Aug. ll, 8 p m.-Thc West Indies hurricane is now apparent ly to the southeast and near Nassau, and wiil probably reaoh tho Florida coast by Saturday morning. Hurricane signals were ordered tbif afternoon and this evening on both tbe southern Florida coasts, and ssornc signals on the northers, Florida coasi and at Savannah'and Charleston, ace ali shipping interests fully warned^ Average of Cotton Falls Several Points. ! In Poorer Condition Aug. i Than at Same Date in Years. Washington, Aug. 10 -Thc mooth* iv report of the statistician cf the department of agriculture shows the average condition of cotton on August 1 to have been 84, a9 compared with 87.8 on Joly 1, 91.2 on August 1, 1899, 86.9 at tbe corresponding date in 1897 and 85. 8. the mean of the August averages for the last ten years There was a . deoline during July amounting to 5 points io North Caro lina, 1 in South Carolina, 6 in Georgia Alabama and Texas, 4 in Tennessee and 2 in Missouri. On thc other hand, there was an improvement of 1 point in Louisiana, 2 points in Virginia, Oklahoma and Indian Territory, 3 points In florida and Mississippi and 4 points io Arkansas. The average of the different States on August 1, wero as follows : Virginia 88 ; North Carolina 83 ; South Carolina 78 ; Georgia 79 ; Flor ida 93; Alabama 82; Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana 86 ; Texas 87 ; Tennessee 84 ; Oklahoma 80 ; Indian Territory 93. The Texas report includes the con dition in the recently submerged region, a special report on which is almost ready for publication. The Round Bale Trust. I No one questions that the pressnt system of packing cotton for the market needs improvement. A casual observer will notice toe great loss by wear and tare in handling the square bale as it is generally packed and Drought to mar ket. The round bale may be an im provement, though many competent authorities are oondemiog it. But the maobinery for turning out the round bale is io the hands of a big trust, the American Cotton Company. Considerable literature pro and con bas been sent broadcast throughout the country. With the light before us, we are not kindly disposed towards the round baie trust. It appears to be a scheme practically to control the buet I ness. The Amerioan Cotton Company do not, and will not, sell the maobinery outright, but tho company leases the outfit'-somethiog on the plan of the B 11 Telapbooe Co and similar con cerns We have before os a copy of the contract wbieh ginners of the round bale are required to sign. The contract io the main is in favor of the trust. The farmer or ginner must pay "as rentals or royalties, for the ose of said machines, at the rate of twenty oents per 100 pounds of bales turned out by said machines," rendering a report to the company on the 5th day of each month. The company practically takes charge of the vast business of ginning and paoking cotton. The company "dhall be decreed," reads the contract, "co have control of the ^manufacture, * * and its duly author ized superintendent or representative or representatives, * * shall at ail times have foil and free access to the proper j ty." If in any one year the royalties fall below $1,000, the trust may refuse to renew tba contract for another year, unless the giuner will pay "for suoh preceding year a sum wbiob, added to the royalties already paid for euch year, shall make the aggregate equal to one 1,000 minimum.77 This feature alone should kill the trust. For instance, a ginner pays ono year, say $2,000 roy atty, the nexc year is a poor crop year and be pays only"$500. The trust can then require him to surrender the machinery and go out of business unless the ginner will pay $500 to make np the thousand dollars. His having paid $2,000 the first year is of no advantage to him. Thc royalty must be at least $1,000 in a bad crop year no matter bow niooh more it may have been in a good crop year. Toe whole system points to placing the cotton orop in the bands of this trust. Samples of every bale turned ont must be sent to the trust Other points in tba contract re equally aa objectionable, if not more so Tbe farmer bas his hands tied now, and we cannot advise bim to allow this trust to put a rope around hts nook. Wionsboro News and Herald - A Report From Gen. Otis. Washington, Aug. ll.-Gen. Otis cabled the war department today as follows : Manila, Aug. ll. Adjutant General, Washington MacArthur bas taken possession of Santa Rita ; reconnoitered Berao, An geles and other points. Insurgents driven north. One casualty yesterday, none today. Condition of roads makes movement of troops difficult, but con sidered it necessary to open up this j section of the country, as it virtually ! gives oootrol of tbe province of Bataan and relieves inhabitants there. Otis. "DeWitt's Little Early Risers did oc more ; good than a!! blood medicines aod other j piiis," writes Geo. H. Jacobs, of Thompson, j Coon. Prompt, pleasant, never grippe-tury ' cute constipation, arouse the torpid iver to j action and give ;>0'j dean blood, steady j nerves, a clear brain aad a healthy appetite. I -Hugbson-Ligon Co. COTTON WENT UP BY LONG JUMPS. Wild Excitement on Stock Excbang3 When Significance of Government's Crop Report Was Realized. New York, Aug. ll.-The New York cotton exchange was the scene of the wildest excitement today. Recent reports of serious damage to the crop, particular}' of Texas had been disregarded by shorts who continued to sell on the theory that there was no speculative competition for cotton while the surplus would be something like two millions from the old crop and that the movement of the new cotton, whatever the actual yields might ultimately prove to be, would fall immediately upon spinners of this country and Europe It is known that the consump tion of cotton at home and abroad was proceeding upon unpre cedented lines, but over and against this it was assumed that the crop damage reports has been over drawn, and that the yields of new cotton would be a sufficient offset to the activity in spinning circles. In this way a very heavy short interest accumulated. Latterly, however, thc market bas been showing self assertion and some longheaded Wall street parties com menced to absorb the cotton offered by the over confident bears Grad nally the ranks of buyers commenced to fill up from other directions and prices took au upward turn until, within a few days an advance of more than one half cent had been established. This is an unusual advance for these times. The excitement extended to the English and Southern markets which also advanced rapidly. No less than eleven official cables were read on exchange today one after another, in rapid succession, and all adding to the excitement by reporting addition al advances, while the southern markets and dry goods market caught the fever and marked up prices Before the session ended, however, prudent holders undertook to secure profits, which caused a partial reac tion. Mayor Woodward Refuses to Resign. Atlanta, Ga , August 10.-Mayor Woodward, whose resignation was ask ed for by the city council, bas declined to relioqaieh his office. Councilman Thomson called to see the mayor yesterday at tho request of a member of Mr. Woodward's family. He suggested that Mayor Woodward place his resignation io the hands of the city ooaooil to beoome effective when and only wheo the mayor- bad taken another drink. Col Thomson told the mayor the ooaooil peala* proba bly overlook all that bad ocoorred if he would adopt this suggestion. After thinking the matter over al! night and after bearing from a council committee this morning, Mayor Wood ward refused to make a conditional i resignation. The oity council met this evening. After a long aod exciting wrangle, in which Dr. Roy, who is a councilman from the sixth ward, and who is also Mayor Woodward's family physician, stated that the mayor was in no condi tion mentally to oops with his present troubles. The council decided that a J committee of five should investigate the conduct of the mayer and any other city ofici is against whom chargea are made. This committee under the terms of its creation cannot begin work before next Monday ^tfiiS CUBAN RELIEF cures Colic, A wv Neuralgia and Toothache in ^ p/ five minutes. Sour Stomach and # Summer Complaints. Price, 25c Sold by Hoghscn-Ligon Co. - II m i i ? - A man of infinite gall is Benjamin. Io an Anderson County address, other wi e insignificant, he drew atteotioo to the fact that The State bad averred his willingness to be conciliatory if he could thereby continue io office aod to the farther fact that Mr. Featherstone accused him of willingness to renew to the same end the old strife aod bitter oeea. "Ooo of them has lied, that's devilish certain, exclaimed Tili m aa. Not so fast, Benjamin. We will bow who the liar is. Io year first speech at Sumter you said : "I am not bere tc rake up old feelings or to stir op strife that belonged to past years. We are gettiog along pretty well, and I would utter no word that would teod to inoite feeling and prejudice." And in your second speech at the same place voa said that you were "no peace aod unity man ;?7 that "there bad been already too much of that sort of thing :" that j "thc lines were still here and would be j dr wn." Thia yon declared to be j I "straight truth." The State based its j remarks on your first speech and Mr. i Featherstone based his on your second. There is uudoubtrdiy a "lie our, Benja I min, but the liar happens to be the man who spoke with two tongues at Sumter, i Both Mr. Featherstone aDd Thc Stare i agree on this : that you will take any ! course that peems best to assure you of continuance in effier-, and that you will double on that ooarse as often as may seem necessary.-Thc State. WILL THIS FACTORY GO TO COLUMBIA. -. Officers of Mason Telephone Co. Examine Facilities of That City. From The State, Acgast !2. Messrs Peter E Blow, president, and Charles T. Mason, general man ager, of the Mason Telephone com I pany, visited Columbia yesterday I and spent the day looking around the manufacturing quarter of the eily These gentlemen have in view the location of a new telephone factory, their company having out grown iis present one in Sumter, and they propose to locate it in the city I having the greatest natural advant ages. They ask no bonus and have no stock to place, but will make their decision with a view only to the most successful conduct of their business, 1 having regard to railroad rates and ; facilities, advantages for distribution I of products, quantity and quality of power and reasonableness of terms for such property as they may wish to purchase. The general pnblic wiil be surpris ed to know that the Mason company has an annual output of $100,000, employs 100 hands and conducts more processes of actual manufac ture than any other telephone con cern in the country. It is simply overwhelmed with orders from all parts of the country, and has orders ahead for months, after refusing many and withdrawing its repreeeut ative3 from the road. To enable it to meet the demands upon it the company requires a factory twice as large as its present one, and needs it quickly. Messrs. Blow and Mason had their eyes on the old bent wood factory building, but found, on arriving here, that the Columbia duck mil! had leased it for v..se as a cotton ware house. It is not impossible, howev er, that they may secure it. If not, they will have to build, and with all dispatch It ie not at all certain that this en terprise will come to Colombia, bat it is unlikely that it will go to any smaller place AH its requirements may be met here, and it is greatly to be hoped that in case the bent wood building cannot be secured, property owners will make such terms for sites as to secure the factory for Colombia Employing 200 bands, girls, boys and men, many of the latter skilled work men, and paying mach higher wages than a cotton mill, this establishment is well worth working foi. The Mason telephone bas a high reputa tion throughout the country, and the location of the factory here wonid be a fine advertisement for Colum bia as well as an important agency in the diversification of our manu factures. Kern ark a ble Rescue. Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfield, EL, makes the statement, that she caught cold, which set tled on her lungs ; she was treated tor a month by her family physician, but grew worse. He told her she was a hopeless victim of eonsump tien and that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist suggested Dr. King's New Discov ery for Consumption; she bought a bottle and to ber delight found herself benefitted from first dose. She continued its use and after taking six bottles found herself iound and well; now does her own boise work, and is as well as she ever was. Free'trial bottles of this Great Discovery at J. F. W. DeLorcae's Drug Store. Large bottles 50c aod $1. 6 WORK FOR STANDARD BALES. Capt. Gaillard Engaged in Visiting All Ginners in Sumter Cnunty. Capt. Gaillard is visiting the ginnera of Sumter county in the interest cf the standard cotton bale, and of the sixty-eight ginners be bas sees in the past two weeks all but four bave agreed to change their presses to the standard size. Tbe change will necessitate but little alteration io the presses now io nse, and the expense will bt trifling. The change is de sirable for several reasons, but one is suffi cient and should cause every ginner to alter his presa to conform with the requirements. With a uniform standard bale much more cotton can be loaded in a box-car or ehip, and tbe freight cbargei will be proportionate ly decreased. The item of freight has much to do with fixing the price of cotton, and as Liverpool fixes the price for the world any thing that reduces tbe freight rate on cotton between America and Liverpool tends to la crease the price of cotton. It is claimed by the exporters that the standard bale fills at] the requirements and that much more cotton when packed in this shape can be loaded in a ship than if packed in any other form. The effort to secure uniformity io the size and shape of cotton bales is made in tbe in terest of the cotton growers, and they will receive the direct benefit. There bas long been complaint that American eotton is pack ed ic an irregular, slovenly and careless manner, and tnat tbe loss and damage in transit from the fields to the mills is so grrat that a heavy discrimination in price must be made to protect the English and continental buyers agaicst loss. EgyptiaD and India cotton is better packed, and the bales are more uniform, tbe cotton is better protected and the loss and damage in transit is ess than on American cotton. The time for im provement ha3 arrived, and tbe exporters and con press mee have sect representatives to ! I every ginoer tn the south to enlist their aid : and co-operation in the movement to brio,-: ; about the desired improvement. What is j w oied is b les of uniform shape and better 1 I and more careful methods in packing cotton. - -. ? ? ! Hamilton Clark, o' Chauncey, IT*., says he i . su(T red with itching piies twenty years be- ; '? fore trying DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, two ; : hoses of which, completely cured Lim. ware of worrhless and dangerous counterfeits. -Hugbson-Ligon Co. The Use of Snuffers. "Yet while sitting here and listen ing to Dr. Abbott's words of praise 1 could not help thinking of what the News and Courier and the State would do if Dr Abbott's speech were to be printed in their columns. believe the press would explode with indignation. Ha l I been ccu j suited would have advised Dr. Ab' I bolt s^ainst making" the srjeech he did in introducing me, but as was j not consulted and was not prepared for what was said, 1 take ii ss it waa intended/' This is taken frcm the report of Senator Tillman's speech in Sumter county last week, printed in the Sumter Daily Item. In cur opinion, it be better to say nothing about Dr. Abbott's speech There is co reason why any of the newspapers should "explode with indignation" for any cause whatever. This is a free country. Dr Abbott had a right to say what he thought about Tillman, and Tillman had a right to think and say what he thought about Dr. Ab bott's speech. What the senator wants, however, is for somebody to explode with indignation, and that, it appears to us, would be a very foolish thing for the newspapers to do at this time. The smothering procesa would be better upon the whole than explosion. Fish can't live out cf water, and agitation is the very breath of Senator Tillman's political life, Sabe ?-News and Cou rier Ex*Gov. Atkinson Dead. Newnan, Ga , Aug. 8.-Former Gov. "ft . Y Atkinson died at hie residence at 8 52 o'clock this morn ing. He had been ill for IO days and his physicians gave up hope for his recovery several days ago. Gov. 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