E?
Mr. McKinley Suddenly Galled His
Cabinet Together.
President Particularly Requested
Every Member Not to Mention
the Topic to a Soul.
Washington, June IO.-In . response
to messages from the president sent
late this evening after an hour's talk
with the secretary of state, all the
members of the cabinet now in the
city assembled at the White Honuse at
S o'clock this evening. There were f.ve
of them present. They came in even?
ing dress. The object of the gather?
ing was not known to the members of
the cabinet as the invitation to them
simply asked them to call at S o'clock.
Several of the members said the call
was simply to pay their respects.
The meeting was called suddenly by
messages sent the various cabinet
members from the White House. The
president and Secretary Long had
been out driving, the secretary being
especially sent for by, the president to
join him in a drive. When the presi?
dent returned he found Secretary Hay
awaiting him and the two spent a half
hour together, the secretary leaving
on a night train for Buffalo. It was
immediately after this call that the
cabinet was asked to assemble and
they arrived within a few minutes of
each other, about S o'clock, none of
them being advised in advance cf the
object. Secretary Long brought his
young son, Secretaries Gage, Hitch?
cock "and Wilson, Attorney General
Knox and Postmaster General Smith
were those present. Secretary Root is
in Buffalo while Secretary Hay had
left for the same place. The cabinet
immediately repaired to the cabinet
room where they remained less than
an hour. They took occasion to ex?
press their .'gratification at the contin?
ued improvement in Mrs. McKinley's
condition and also discussed another
subject which none of them would dis?
close, each member saying that it
was of a personal nature and some of
them giving out the negative infor?
mation that the meeting had no rela?
tions to Cuba, China, the Philippines,
the Boer war, the Porto Rican tariff,
the supreme court decisions, or any
importannt public question. The pres?
ident placed a personal injunction on
each member to say nothing about the
matter.
Several cabinet officers said that
their calls had to do with Mrs. Mc?
Kinley's continued improvement.
Some announcement may be made
later about the matter which was of
either a social or personal nature and
chiefly concerned those present.
A FRIEND OF THE BOERS.
Reported That Queen Wilhelmina
Visited .Germany in Interest
of Peace.
Berlin, Jnue 10.-The Klienes Jour?
nal today prints a dispatch from The
Hague, saiyng that Queen Wilhelmi?
na's recent visit here was meant to
obtain Emperor William's consent to
end the South African war, both the
zweibund and the dreibund being wil?
ling to do so through The Hague arbi?
tration court, and that the emperor
consented and the court began work
thereon. The dispatch has created a
sensation here.
The Associated Press has just ob?
tained the following foreign office
statement, which is authorized by
Count von Buelow, the imperial
chancellor :
''Neither Great Britain, France nor
Russia ever approached Germany to
participate in any action aiming at
ending the South African war. Ger?
many has all along distinguished be?
tween offering her good offices and in?
tervention. To render her good offices
would be possible if both parties to the
war requested it. but it will be re?
membered that Great Briatin only
joined The Hague conference on con?
dition that the Boer states were ex?
cluded. There is no doubt that Mr.
Kruger, who is a serious statesman,
came to Europe to obtain the good
offices of several of the powers to end
the war. but there is also no doubt
that Great Britain does not want their
good offices. At least, it is true that
since the South African war began
Great Britain has never, either ver?
bally or in writing, confidentially or
officially, broached such an idea. It
is quite possible that the Boers* side
has now formally asked The Hague
arbitration court to lend its aid to end
the war somehow and that the court
has held a session regarding the mat?
ter: but that, of course, is entirely
different from any serious steps to end
the war.*'
Washington, June 9.-The slight
improvement in Mrs. McKinley's
health which manifested itself the lat?
ter part of the week coninuesand hope
begins to be felt that she may after all
recover from the present attack. The
improvement, however, is so slight as
not to change materially the extreme
gravity of the ca>.e.
Buffalo. N. Y., June S.-Lieut Com?
mander J. H. Bull, of the United
States navy, in charge of the hydro
graphic service at the Pan-American
grounds, fell from the dome of the
Government building today and was
seriously injured. He was unconscious
when assistance reached him and he
was taken at once to the Emergency
Hospital. After a careful examination
the surgeons reported that while Com?
mander Bull's injuries were serious,
thev did not think thev would prove
fatal.
ITielit "Was Esr Terror.
*'I would conga nearly all night lone, '
writes Mrs Chas Apple^ate of Alexandria,
lad, "and could hardly get any sleep. I had
consumption so bad that if I walked a block I
would cough frightfully and fpit blood, but,
when all ether medicine? failed, three SI bot?
tles of Dr King's Xew Discovery wholly cured
me and I gained 5S pounds." It's absolutely
guaranteed to cure coughs, colds, la grippe,
bronchitis and al! throat and lung trounbles.
Pri?e 50c and $!. Trial bottles free at J FW
De Lorine's drug store. 2
NO SPEG?&L SESSION.
How the Administration Circu?
lated a Report to Deceive
the Public.
Washington, June 9..-No doubt is
entertained among plitieians in this
city that the recent* talk of an extra
ssesion was wholly for political effect.
The suggestion that the President ever
had the "slightest idea of calling Con?
gress to meet, is scouted as too ridicu?
lous to be worthy of discussion. The
attitude of the Administration, as
first given out when the decision of
the Supreme Court was made known,
has, it is firmly believed, been the
idea of the President and his entire
cabinet from first to last, and only the
fear of giving strength to the charges
of imperialism and autocracy has
driven the President to pretend to
leave the question to his attorney
general and to decide the matter only
after solemn consideration.
It develops that President McKinley
is showing no little timidity in this
matter. He is exceedingly sensitive to
the charge that he is trying to be an
"emperor." Mr. Bryan's shot ?vent
home, say some of the President's
friends who have talked with him dur?
ing the last forty-eight hours. The
President did not believe the people
would take Mr. Bryan's words serious?
ly or fear that the heavens are going
to fall and constitutional liberty be de
strayed under the rule of an emperor,
but he realized that public opinion
was in a state of unrest over the deci?
sions of the Supreme Court, and he did
not wish to give the slightest justifi?
cation for the fears of those who
think we have entered upon strange
paths and that our form of govern?
ment is changing.
President McKinley never likes to
accept responsibility. He always likes
to divide it, or, better still, shield
himself behind Congress, as in the
case of the Porto Rico tariff act, or, if
Congress is not available, behind
the judicial opinion of his attorney
general.
In order to convince the public that
he was not playing too strong a hand
nor paying too little heed to the judg?
ment of the court, the President,
through members of his cabinet, pro?
ceded to start the gossip about a
special session of Congress to enlarge
the Executive's authority. The peo?
ple would think, it is argued, that if
DhePresident was not sincerely doubt?
ful about his powers, he would not be
thinking of asking Congress to meet
md help him out: and if he was
mxious to be on the safe side he could
lot be the bad man some of his critics
vere trying to make him appear.
That "is the way the public was to
regard the matter, and possibly that
is the way the public has regarded it.
The newspapers, always willing to
print what purports to be news, ad
rertised the plan from one end of the
and to the other. But from the first
oit of gossip about an extra session
:o the final quietus of the subject
;here has not been one chance in a
;housand that one would be called.
The Democratic minority may be
ible to take advantage of this obvious
gallery play when Congress meets, but
:he chances are that the facts will be
:orgotten by then or so vaguely re
nembered that reference to them
vould prove unintelligible to most
Deople. The impression that has
>een produced, however, remains.
As a matter of course, no one of
;he intelligence of the President,
;hinks for an instant that the Supreme
?ourt will uphold him in governing
;he Philippines "civilly" under mili?
tary rule. This is too wild an absur
lity for anyone to accept. However,
>uch a conception will serve to avoid
tn extra session. The understanding
n department circles is that there
viii be no cessation of effort to extend
;he civil branches of the government
n the Philippines, and that the organi?
zion of munnicipalities and the other
features of a civil regime will proceed
vithout pause. But it will all be un
?er the orders of the Secretary of
?Var and communicated to the proper
channels through the military com
nander in Manila. The object of this.
)f course, is to "save the face*' of
;he government in court, by the plea
:hat the Philippines are still under
nilitary control, and therefore not
analogous to the case of Porto Kico.
THE CUBAN CONVENTION.
Habana, June 9.-The Conservative
rtembers of the constitutional conven
:ionn are absolutely confident that the
Platt amendment will be accepted and
:hat several Radicals wall join with
:he 15.delegates who heretofore have
roted in favor of an acceptance. The
last few days seem to have brought
ibout a change in the attitude of del?
egates who had been bitterly arraigning
the Washinngton government for re?
jecting the convention interpretations
:>f the amendment. The strung pres?
sure from the outside brought to
bear upon the convention to finish its
business and to place the country on
i settled basis has had an ecxellent
affect upon the Radicals, inducing
them to accept the inevitable, and
?onie of them are now arguing that it
ivould be perhaps better to accept the
amendment, hoping for some form of
independence, than to prolong the mil?
itary occupation of the island.
The convenntion will meet in secret
session tomorrow. It is expected that
several days will elapse before a vote
is taken.
McKinley for a Third Term.
Cincinnati. June 9.-"There has
been no time in our history when coa?
litions would justify the election of a
president to a third term as in the
..ase of McKinley."
This remark was recently made by
Congressman Charles il. Grosvenor.
"McKinley is personally the most
popular president we have had in a
long time, and he has certainly most
creditably performed the duties of his
high office. I think it is time furth?
ermore, to demolish the fiction that
there is an unwritten law. established
by Washington, that no president of
the United States may accept a third
term. The facts are, as any student
3f the times may discover, that it was
Fear of defeat, which impelled Wash?
ington to decline a third nomination.
Being a federalist he was the object
3f very violent attacks on the part of
the Democrats of his day and recog?
nizing the growing strength of his
opponents, he doubted, as I beleive,
his ability again to secure an election
if he should run."
iN PRISON 25 YEARS.
Bruta! Incarceration of a Girl by
a Miserly Mother.
Paris. June S.- Thc sensation of the
week has been the arrest of Madame
Monnier, a rich, miserly land-owner of
the neighborhood of Poitiers, and her
son. a former sub-prefect of the de?
partment of Vienna and a leader of
Poitiers society, on the charge of in?
carcerating Mlle Blanche Monnier for
twenty-five years in a room of Madame
Monnier's house. The police were
anonymously notified of the woman's
detention, entered the house and found
Mlle Monnier shut up in a room in
darkness, lying on a mattress stark
naked and so emaciated that she ap
yjeared to. be a living skeleton. The
room was covered with filth, bones,
refuse, food, worms, rats and all kinds
of vermin. The unfortunate woman
who had partially lost her reason, was
taken to a hospital. It was thought
she would die, but she is now improv?
ing. Twenty-five years ago she was a
beautiful brunette and fell in love with
a lawyer without means. Her mother
disapproved of their love and confined
her in the room which she has only
recently left. The son after his ar?
rest, pleaded that he acted as he did
on account of filial piety and that the
mother was responsible. The lawyer
died in 1SS5.
There was another dramatic develop?
ment in the case today. Madame
Monnier died in prison of heart dis?
ease. The gravity of her crime was
brought home to her at the Judges's
examination Thursday. She became
ill and died suddenly in the infirmary
of the prison this morning.
THE CANNON NO GOOD.
"Washington, June 9.-The extensive
reports of United States Consul Co?
vert, at Lyons, France, relative to the
success of cannon firing in France as a
means of protecting orchards and vine?
yards from hail storms and also for the
purpose of mitigating or nullifying
the effects of frosts upon vegetation,
have prompted numerous inquiries
by horticulturists in this country as
to when, if at all, our government
would adopt similar methods of pro?
tection.
Prof. Willis L. Moore, the chief of
the weather bureau, acting under the
dicrection of Secretary Wilson, has is?
sued to the press the following state?
ment :
.'After an examination of all that
has been published during the past two
years, my conviction is that we have
here to do with a popular delusion as
remarkable as is the belief in the
effect of the moon on the weather.
The uneducated peasantry of Europe
seem to be looking for something mi?
raculous. They would rather believe
in cannonading as a menas of protec?
tion and spend on it abundance of
money, and time and labor than adopt
the very simple expedient of mutual
insurance agaist the losses that must
inevitably occur.
"The great processes going on in the
atmosphere are conducted on too large
a scale to warrant any man or' nation
in attempting to control them. The
energy expended by nature in the pro?
duction of a hailstorm, a tornado, or a
rainstorm, exceeds the combined ener?
gy of all the steam engines and explo?
sives in the world. It is useless for
mankind to combat nature on this--1
scale.
"After the experience that this
country has had during the past ten
years with rainmakers, I am loth to
beleive that the bombardment of hail?
storms ever will be practiced or even
attempted in the United States, much
less encouraged by the intelligent por?
tion of the community. Every effort
should be made to counteract the
spread of the Italian delusion which
has been imported into this country
by Consul Covert.'"
Deplorable Condition of Boer
Women.
Nev.- York. June 9.-The Rev. H.
D. Brockhuizen of Pretoria, South
Africa, the minister who closed the
volksraad with prayer after President
Kruger's ultimatum had been read to
that body, is in this city. His broth?
er. Dr. H. J. von Brockhuizen of the
Orange Free State, who served in the
Boer armies, accompanied him. Their
mission in this country is to raise
money for the Boer women and chil?
dren'now in refuge camps. Rev. Dr.
von Brockhuizen said in an interview :
"Our women and children who are
at present concentrated in camps es?
tablished by the British are in a hor?
rible condition. It was bad enough
when I left South Africa but I know
from letters that I have received-one
only the other day from my sister
that it is a hundred times worse
now.
When the doctor left South Africa,
lie says he wa.s virtually banished by
order of Gen. Maxwell, military gover?
nor of Pretoria.
Dr. von Brockhuizen said further of
the camps: "In an official report made
by Dr. Ronald P. McKenzie of the
British army, on Feb. IS. of this year,
the British government is notified that
the conditions are horrible, the death
rate appalling and the food furnished
wholly unfit to eat."
The Afrikanders. Rev. Dr. von
grockhuizen avers, will never be over?
come and all reports to the contrary
are false. The Boer army numbers
15,000 to 17.(HK) anil is constantly br?
ing augmented by Cape Colony Boers.
Tlie Boer forces arc now armed with
Lee-Metford rilics he says and they
have tons of ammunition buried which
they can usc at any time against the
British.
A Fireman's Close Call.
"I stuck to my engine, although every joint
ached and evcrv nerve- was racked with pain,"
write* C W Btri?amr. a locomotive fireman, of
Burlington, Ima . I was weak and pale, with?
out any appetite and al! run down. A.? I was
about t?> give up, I got a borle of Electric let?
ters and, arter inking it, I felt a? well as I ever
did in my life " We?k. sickly, run down \?e<>
pie always gain new life strength ann vig'.r
from thrir use. Try them Satisfaction guaran
tied by .1 F \V 1)? Lorm<* Fri^e 30 cant*. 2
The supreme court has affirmed the
judgment, of the lower court in the
case of John Brownfield, convicted of
murder and sentenced to be hanged.
Brownfield is the negro who caused all
the militia to be sent to Georgetown
last summer.
? GREAT CHRISTIAN GATHERING.
j SEMI-GENTEHNIAL ANO JUBILEE OF
THE Y. KL 0. i
! _
Nearly Five Thousand Delegates
In Attendance.
Boston. Jun?* 10.-Streaming into
Boston from nearly every quarter of
the globe came delegates today to the
semi-centennial and international
jubilee Convention of the Young
Men's Christian Association of North
America. Practically every civilized
country in the world will be represent?
ed tomorrow when the Convention is
called to order in the exhibition hall
of the Mechanics' building and it is
confidently expected that there will be
nearly 5,000 delegates from the differ?
ent associations in attendance during
the six days the Convention is in ses?
sion.
Those who reached here this after?
noon scarcely paused to shake the dust
of travel from their clothes before ap?
pearing at the headquarters, where a
large force of officials was ready to as?
sign suitable boarding places and
attend to the needs of the visitors.
Not a delegate left the building
without a thorough inspection of the
jubilee exhibit in one of the large
halls of the Mechanics' building. This
consists of photographs of Y. M. C.
A. camps, athletic teams, gymnasium
and diagrams of work done in Bible
study, sent by associations in all sec?
tions of the country. Awards of merit,
consisting of blue ribbons and red rib?
bons, for first and second prizes, had
been distributed amongt he different
classes of exhibits.
The exhibit contained material from
all kinds of associations in all depart?
ments of activity, and designed to
graphically present the historic move?
ment in the American associations foi
the past fifty years.
The first of the delegates to arrive
were those from the most distant
clime, one party from Adelaide. Aus?
tralia, and another from Japan getting
in early. The first named party, how?
ever, journeyed West, while the Jap?
anese delegates went East to the Y.
M. C. A. Mecca of 1901. Another par?
ty from Minneapolis also came in early
in the day, and were promptly and
warmly welcomed by the local com?
mittee.
BRYAN AND THE JUDGES.
The Springfield Republican, habitu?
ally fair and conservative, rebukes phil?
osophically those editors, democratic
and republican, who severely denounce
Mr. Bryan's caustic comments on the
recent supreme court decision. The
Republican recalls the factth at Judges
Harlan and Fuller were on Bryan's
line. Justice Harlan declared from
the bench that the result of the views
fo the majority of the court, if main?
tained, ' ? will be a radical and mischiev?
ous change in our system of govern?
ment. We will, in that event, pass
from the era of constitutional liberty
guarded and protected by a written
constitution, into an era of legislative
absolutism." The chief justice almost
outdid Mr. Bryan by saying that the
majority view meant "to overthrow
the basis of our constitutional law."
The Republican continues :
'Suppose you tackle Chief Justice
Fuller or Justice Harlan. They are
not in politics. They want no office.
They aspire to lead no party. It is a
serious matter if this country is on
the brink of any kind of an absolut?
ism'-Justice Harlan's word; and it is
no joke if the basis of our constitu?
tional law, is about to be overthrown,
or already has been overthrown. If
those judges were justified in speak?
ing as they did the use of strong lan?
guage in the press or on the stump is
justified. Was the cry of anti-imperi?
alism a wanton or a foolish one-The
Republican was the first newspaper in
the United Sttes to raise it-seeing
that four ont of nine justices of the
supreme court agree in the sentiments
uttered by Messrs. Fuller and Harlan?
Was Mr. Bryan an enemy of his coun?
try or untrue to the real interests of
democracy, in taking up the issue and
assailing his opponents in the last
]?residential campaign because of their
imperialist program? Four out of
nine justices answered no. If the
four minority justices are within hail?
ing distance of the truth then the
anti-imperialist agitation was a cause
which its supporters can never cease to
be proud of. ' '
If the views of Judges Harlan and
Fuller are correct, the imperialism
tiiat Bryan warned us about has made
great strides since the election. So as
the Republican emphatically con?
cludes, the anti-imperialists " have no
reason, and never will have, to regret
opposing the peace treaty, or denounc?
ing the Philippine war. or supporting
the presidenttial candidacy of W. J.
Bryan in 1900. For they were striking
their blows, unavailing though they
were, at the great critical hours of the
struggle when those 'necessities' were
being made which have now been
forged by the majority of the court
into an argument for the constitution?
al validity of an imperialistic re?
gime."
The scheme to reelect McKinley
for a third term is part and parcel of
the imperial program- In li'04. with the
money question out of the way. the
people may pass financially upon the
greater issue, and that issue will h.- the
more decisively made if the republi?
cans try the third term for their man.
- Augusta Chronicle.
CENSUS BULLETIN.
Washington. June S. The census !
(?nice today issued a bulletin giving
the population of incorporated places
in the country. The bulletin shows
that there an- 10,602 such places, as ;
compared with 7.47S in 1S90.
The incorporaten places contain, in (
the aggregate, 35.849,510 inhabitants, :
as com) ia red with a total of 26.079.S2S
persons jiving in incorporated places in '
1890. The combined population in the
incorporated towns and cities consti?
tute 47 per cent, of the population of
the entire country, as against 41 per
cent, in the towns of 1890.
London, June 10.-Sir Walter
Besant, the novelist, died yesterday at
his residence in Hempstead, after a
fortnight's illness, from influenza.
He was born in 1836.
! OUTSIDE THE COSTITUTION.
What Manifest Destiny and
Supreme Court Decision Wiil
Lead to.
Washington. Jnr..' IO-The worst
thing about expansion, in the opinion
of many level-headed men. is not that
the (Jn i ted States will have to govern
'outside tile constitution.' certain out?
lying territory already acquired from
Spain, but that it will be tempted to
go further and stir UTI strife for the
purpose of gaining more land. This
tendency is illustrated by a recent in?
terview given out here by Representa?
tive Boutell, of Chicago, who not only
declares in favor of keeping what we
have but urges the acquisition of Can?
ada. Mexico, the West Indies, and
Central America down to the line of
the Nicaraguan canal.
This is "manifest destiny*' with a
vengeance and can hardly be expected
to conduce to the continuance of good
relations with our already suspicious
Spanish-Amercian neighbors, whose
good will is necessary to prevent the
incursion of Europe into that part of
the world. The worst of it is that Mr.
Boutell has always been considred a
very level-headed man, not at all a
fire brand, and his words may be tak?
en as representative of a large and tol?
erably conservative section of the Re?
publican party. He said :
"In my opinion there is only one
logical conclusion regarding the ulti?
mate course of events in the Island of
Cuba. The time will come, and it will
not be long, before Cuba will be a
part of the United States. The wisest
minds pf the past have been predict?
ing such an outcome, holding that it
will eventually be necessary for this
country to absorb the island, and I
must say that I fully concur in that
opinion. Indeed I go a little farther.
I think that in time the whole of the
West India Islands will become ours
and that within fifty years the United
States will be exercising its sovereign?
ty over every acre of territory down to
the Nicaraguan canal, which water?
way, will have been completed by
then. Upon the North I include Can?
ada. This combination is bound to
come, I believe, and the United
States will have so expanded in a com?
mercial and industrial sense by that
time that the absorption of so much
territory will be a justifiable policy.*'
Mr. Boutell believes that if civil
government is established in the Phil?
ippines on July 1, as is now contem?
plated, without'a call for an extra ses?
sion of Congress to enact some meas?
ure prescribing a specific schedule of
tariff rates, all duties collected on
merchandise from the archipelago be?
tween the first'of next month and the
date upon which Congress finally
passes such an act must be refundep.
As a matter of fact, the President
has come to his peculiar position in
regard to the rights in the Philip?
pines, by avoiding the Spooner law.
"The departure from right principles"
in the first instance, acording to some
critics, has led to endless entangling
contradictions, and to save itself from
a present dilemma the Administration
is impelled to discredit the Spanish
title to the Philippines conveyed to
the United States. By placing a cloud
upon the Spanish title and questioning
the exact validity of the conveyance, a
distinction is made between " cession"
and "possession*' and the war power
is established as a warrant for Execu?
tive authority, independently of the
Spooner law. The idea that a civil
government can rule by military law
is surely one of the most peculiar that
any Attorney-General ever held,
II ? - .
Vr W J 3-x'fr, of Nortb B'cck, N" C gaye
be suffered with piles for fifteen jears He
tried many reroerbee w i tb uc results uu'tl be
used DevVio's Wr.cb H*z?! S??ve ?t>r?d ?ha
quickly cured him - J S Bogbsoo ? Co.
Wichita. Kanss. June 8.-The most
disastrous storm that has ever visited
Oklahoma prevailed in Kay County
last night. A tornado struck Billings.
Elly and Tomkawa and its influence
covered a stretch of country ten miles
wide and thirty-six miles long, de
stroving towns, farm houses and crops.
The'financial loss will exced 8100.000.
At Eddy three persons were killed. It
is reported that two persons were kill?
ed at Billings, but this cannot be veri?
fied.
Anderson. June 9. -The Pelzer Man?
ufacturing Company has entered suit
in the United States Circuit Court
in Atlanta, Ga. against H. C. Poul
lain. of Harmony Grove. Ga., for
61*2.000 damages for failure to deliver
1.9?0 bales of cotton in October. No?
vember and December of last year ac?
cording to contract for 878.000. Cot?
ton advanced .after the contract was
made until it was worth 890.000 and
the company sues for the difference.
Messrs. Bonham and Watkins, of this
city, are of cour.se for the paintiff.
The business people of Newberry,
who have made a success of their
mills, have gone to work and organized
a new mill enterprise. Thc new cotton ,
mill is to be known as the Molohon
Manufacturing Company. It will have
a capital stock of 8200,000.
Alfalfa is the most valuable rough
feed grown, and when combined with
common grains it is worth three times 1
as much as an equal amount of prairie (
hay. four times as much as sorghum
hay, five times as much as corn fodder :
and one and a half times as much as ;
clover hay. Steer feeders report an
average gain of one and a half to two |
pounds a day per steer with corn and j
the ordinary roughness, and three to
[ive pounds a day when alfalfa is the
roughness fed. "Alfalfa is particularly ,
adapted to feeding with kaffir corn ,
and kindred grains, each having what *
the other hicks, ami the two fed to- j
pether makes tin almost ideal combina- ;
tion for fattening purposes. In sec- j
tions of the northern grain States .
where alfalfa is largely grown, feeders ]
ire paying two cents a bushel more (
for corn than is paid in neighboring "
romniunities where alfalfaa is not
jrown, and make bigger profits, too.
The feeder without alfalfa cannot
compete with the feeder who has it.
Says Se "Was Tortured.
"I suffered fitch pain in.ui corns I could j
hardly walk," writes II Robinson. Hills
borough, 111. "but bucklen's Arnica Salv?- '
completely cutei them-" Acts like magic OD <
?prains, bruises, cuts, sores, sc:iids, l urns,
boils, ulcers. Perfect healer of .?kin diseases j
and pile?. Cure guaranteed by J F W De
Lorrae. 25c. 2
FROM THE WIRES.
.Mexico City. June 9.-The Stillwell
group of American capitalists has pur
: chased thc Capachua. Zacualtipan and
Tampico Railroad from Richard Honev
Thrice Thc amount was 81. OOO, (XX)
in gold and 35 per cent of the common
stock in a company to be organized.
The rond will be prolonged from San?
doval, its junction with the Vera
Cruz Railroad to Tampico, making a
short line to northern gulf points.
We believe that Gov. McSweeney
lias made a serious mistake in ' refus"
ing to accept the resignations of Sena?
tors Tillman and McLaurin.-Spartan
burg Herald.
Pittsburg. June 9.-Major W. H.
Daly, surgeon general on the staff of
Lieut. Gen. Miles in Puerto Rico,
committed suicide at his home here
today by shooting himself in the right
temple.
London. June S.-Mrs. Louis Botha,
?wife of the Boer commandant general,,
arrived at Southampton this morning
on board the British steamer Dunve?
gan Castle from South Africa. She
refused to grant an interview, but a
son of Ex-Sscretary of State Fischer,
who accompanied her, told a represen?
tative of the Associated Press that
Mrs. Botha was going straight to Lon?
don and later would go to Holland and
Belgium, but that the time of her de?
parture for the Continent had not
been fixed. Mr. Fischer was unable
to confirm or deny the report that Mrs.
Botha had come to Europe on a peace
mission. He was released on parole
in order that he might accompany her.
Binghamton, X. Y., June 8.-While
a freight train on the Lackawanna was
taking water at Vestal, ten milss west
of here, at 9.45 o'clock tonight, it was
run into from behind by a double?
header wild cat freight. In the second
car from the caboose of the stationary
train was a large quantity of dyna?
mite, which was exploded by the im?
pact. Two men are known to have
been killed, three others are thought
to be in the wreck and a number of
others are known to be badly injured.
Norfolk. Va., June 10.-The machin?
ists* strike in Norfolk was settled to?
day and the machine shop proprietors
signed an agreement granting a nine
hour day with ten hours pay. The
workmen made some concessions on
other points in their demands, but the
result is a victory for the machinists.
Toronto. Ont, June 10.-The Inter?
national Machinists' association in
convention decided today to extend
financial aid to non-union men who
went out with members of the asso?
ciation. President O'Connell stated'
that officials were not restricted as to
the amount non-union men should re?
ceive, but he added that in any event
it would be sufficient to induce them
to remain in the fight to the end.
Since May 20 over 840,000 has been
distributed among strikers and as yet
no regular system of benefits has gone,
into force.
London, June 10.-Lord Kitchener
in a dispatch from Pretoria, under to?
day's date, says the number of Boers
killed, imprisoned or surrendered dur?
ing the month of May totalled 2,640~
From June 1 to 9, 26 Boers were kill?
ed, 4 were wounded, 409 were made
prisoners and 33 surrendered, and 651.
rifles, 115,510 rounds of ammunition,
120 wagons and 4,000 horses were cap?
tured.
Chicago, June 10.-Dr. August M
Unger and F. Wayland Brown, on trial
for conspiracy to defraud insurance
companies, throngh the death of Miss
Marie Defenbach were this evening
found guilty and sentenced to the*
penitentiary under the indeterminate^
act. Frank H. Smiley indicted with
Unger and Brown, pleaded guilty and
turned State's evidence. It is likely
that he will escape with a light sen?
tence.
Washington. June 10.-After the
usual consultation of Mrs. McKinley's
physicians this morning the following
statement was issued : Mrs. McKin?
ley's phsicians report that her condi?
tion is favorable and that she continues
to show a gradual improvement."
A British parliamentary return
makes plain the great changes which
have occurred in the English coal
trade in the fourteen vears between
1SSG and 1900. The output of coal in?
creased nearly 6$.COO,000 tons and the
value at the mouth of the mine rose
from 8190,000.000 to 8608,000.000 the
price of coal having advanced from 4s.
ICd. to 10s. 9d. per ton, which latter
figures will hardly be reached again
soon. The emplovees at the mines
increased from 259.000 to 759,900.
Thc average weeklv wages rose from
21s. ld. to 33s. lld., and the total
wages paid increased 8190.000,000.
The amount remaining for other ex?
penses and profits was ?11.750.000 in
issi; and ?57,216,000 in 1900.
Mclaurin in Washington.
Washington. June 10.-Senator Mc?
Laurin. of South Carolina, who has
been in the city for several days called
at the White House today and later at
the treasury department in the inter?
est of the government exhibit at the
Charleston exposition. No appropria?
tion was made by congress for the ex?
position, but the gvernment will fur?
nish an exhibit if the exposition man?
iement will provide a building. The
exhibit will be taken from the exposi?
tion at Buffalo after the latter closes.
Senator McLaurin is trying to arrange
?ome means by which the foreign ex?
hibits at Buffalo, brought into the
United States by a special act of con?
tres-- can be moved to Charleston, but
es yet no way has been found by which
[his can be accomplished.
A woman in Adrian, Mich., has car?
ried the Carrie-Nation tactics into the
gambling arena. Having protested
igainst a gambilng place, where her
inst.and lost all his wages every week,
die took her kerosene oil can with
aer. poured it over the joint, and set it
ihre. She was prosecuted for arson,
mt the jury acquitted her.
I have on hand a lot of
Borne-made Vinegar of very
ane quality. The flavor is del?
icate, while the strength is
squal to any to be had.
Will be sold at my residence ,
for 40 cents per gallon.
ft. G. OSTEJ?A*