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YELK SUMTES WATCHMAN, Established April. 1850? Cesol Mated Aug. 2,1881. "Be -Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and .Truth's." SUMTER, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1901. THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established .lune J 66 Sew Series-Vol. XXI. \<> 12 - Published S?ery *S7ed3iosflay5 -Br KT. CSr. Osteeiij SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : $1.50 per annum-in advance. ?DTZSTISEHSST: One Square first insertion.$1 00 Every subsequent insertion..... 50 Contracts for three months, or long?r wil be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private interests will be charged for as ad versements. Obituaries and tributes of respects will be charged for. THE STATE'S PERSWERST" Annual Pension Report Full of In? teresting Facts and Sugges? tions. Comptroller General Derham has just issued his annual Pension Report to the General Assembly for the year 190L The report is quite an elaborate piece of work and shows the number of pensioners in South Carolina on the roil by counties and classes. Columbia, Sept. 14. To the Honorable General Assembly : fI submit herewith the annual pen? sion report of this office for the year 190L Under the Act of the General As? sembly 1900, the State board prepared blank applications for the applicants, and rales for the guidance of the County pension boards. For the in? formation of members of the county boards in the State and others to whom this report will be sent, I have included the pension law and rules. The Board, under the terms of the Act, ruled that a Confederate soldier or sailor, totally disabled by paralysis and the cause of paralysis could not be traced to such service. They also construed the law that a soldier or sailor, totally disabled by paralysis, was entitled to a Classs A pension, notwithstanding the fact that he re? ceived no wound or bodily injuries in services, and the cause of paralysis could not be traced to such service. They also construed the law that a soldier who lost a limb in the ser? vice of the State or Confederate States, and is now a wreck physically, could not be placed in Class A, but was entitled to Class B, there being nothing to show that his physical con? dition was the result of injuries re ^eeived in service. In some instances applicants were blind, but where there was nothing to show thatJheir loss of sight was the result of wounds or injuries received in service, thev were not placed in Class A. It seems that under this law the un? fortunate Confederate soldier who is totally paralyzed is favored above an? other unfortunate soldier who is totally disabled, and yet unable to show that his disability arises from injuries re? ceived in the service of the State. Whatever was the individual opinion of the members composing the State Pension Board, they endeavored in very instance to be governed by the law and evidence before them. In this connection I desire to cali at? tention to the condition liable to exist in this State at an early date. The establishment of a soldier's home by the State may require for each inmate of this home an annual expenditure of $200. The inmate may be" a worthy, decrepit soldier who did not receive bodily injuries in the services of his State. On the other hand, the State will expend $19.60 for the soldier who lost his leg and has been for 36 or more years a cripple, and today is prac? tically bed-ridden, who remains at home to be cared for by an aged and devoted wife, or friends. I believe that the soldier in his home county, with equal disabilities, is entitled to the same consideration as the soldier who is an occupant of the home at the capital of the State. I have no objection to make to the soliders' home. I merely call atten? tion to these facts, with the hope that when an Act is passed creating a sol? diers' home, it will be so safeguarded that the small sum that the State of South Carolina is able to spend for her veterans will not be taken from the needy pensioners and spent where at best only a few can enjoy it. At this time some very old and de? crepit soldiers in this State who re? ceived no injuries in the army, get only $14.70, and from the standpoint of equity and justice, to take one of these men, place him in a soldiers' home and spend $2,000 annually on him, and leave another at his home and give him only $14.70, savors of in? equality, to say the least of it. APPROPRIATIONS FOR PENSIONS There was doubt as to whether $100,000.00 or $150,000.00 was appro? priated at the last session of the General Assembly for pensions. After consultation with the other members of the State Pension Board. I addressed a letter to the Attorney General, setting forth the facts and asking that he give an opinion as to tbe amount of the appropriation. Be? fore he answered this communication, the State Treasurer expressed himself as unwilling to honor my warrants for the $150,000.00 on account of pensions, even if the Attorney General was of opinion that I should draw warrants for that amount. The Attorney Gene? ral under these circumstances declined to give the opinion, and suggested mandamus proceedings to settle the question. It was argued before the Supreme Court, which decided that $100,000 was the amount appropriated for 1901. I proceeded to disburse the pension fund in accordance with that decision and issued warrants on the basis of $100,000.00. PENSION RECORDS. I have endeavored to make this re? port full by giving the names cf each applicant, "with postoffice address, the company and regiment in which he served in the case of the soldier, and the company and regiment of husband in case of" the widow. Since com? pleting this report, I find by compari? son with the old records in the office, that some widows in their application for a pension, have given the company and regiment of their husbands entire? ly different from the company and reigment given by the husband at the time he applied for < a . pension, : eight or ten years ago. j When you consider that every name in this report is the name of a pension? er whose application was examined ?nd approved by the pension boara of this county, it is not surprising that a mistake or error that escaped them, should not be detected by the State Board. I hope all those interested will furnish this department with in? formation relative to pensioners that will tend to correct any errors or i regularities. DISTRIBUTION OF PENSION FUND. The following is the number of pen? sioners in each class, the amount of them and the total : Class A, 36 ($96 each) S3,456.00 Class B, 200 ($19 60 each) 3,920.00 Class C, No. 1, 470 ($14.70 each) . 6,909.00 Class C. No. 2, 3,030 ($14.70 each) 44,629.20 Class C, No. 3, 615 ($14.70 each) 9,040.50 Class C, No. 4, 2,146 ($14.70 each) 31,546.20 Total number of pension? ers, 6,503, $99,500.90 I again call your attention to the fact that in distributing this money a soldier 60 years of age who was not wounded or injured in service fares the same as the wounded soldier, and the widow whose husband was killed in battle or died while in service, and who has lost her husband within the last two years. I suggest that Class A. B, C, No. 1, and Class C, No. 3, receive the full amount of their pensions, that is $96, $48 and $36 per annum, and the other pensioners, the soldiers over 60 years of age who were not wounded or injur? ed in battle, and the widows of . those who died since the war, share in the balance of the appropriation pro rata. The result of that, with our present mil, and 150,000, would be as follows: 36 Classs A, $3,456.00 200 Class B, 9,600.00 470 Class C, No. 1 16,920.00 615 Class C, No. 3 22,140.00 Making a total of 1,321 $52,116.00 Leaving' $97,884 to be distributed pro rata among the soldiers and widows over 60 years old, Class C, No. 2, 3,036; Class C, No. 4, 5,146; total number, $5,182-$18 each. The first meeting of the State Board occupied five days, the time* allowed by law. For this they received $2" per" diem and five cents per mile. At this time we were not more than half through with the work, and it was necessary for them to return. The second meeting occupied several days, and for this additional service they were paid an amount sufficient to cover their expenses. The members of the State Board have individually and collectively ren? dered me every assistance possible in this work, not only at the regular meetings, but at any and all times. Capt. Starling, the resident member of the Board, has come to my office when requested, to ?confer and advise with me on questions which have arisen. In this way he has given to the State several days' work for which he received no compensation, and made no charge for it. Owing to the illness of Dr. Griffin the surgeon of the State Pension Board, Dr. L. K. Philpot was asked to act in his place, and rendered service to the Board, and very generously con? tributed his per diem to the Confeder? ate reunion in this city. COPIES OF PENSION REPORT. The public printer is authorized to print only 600 copies of the Comptrol? ler General's report, but in the case of insurance, and it will doubtless be the same with the pension report 1,000 copies were not more than enough to supply the demand. I ask that you make provision for the printing of additional insurance and pension re? ports. J. P. Derham, Comptroller General. Ex-Officio Chairman State Penison Board. -na ????.??? -- Mrs. Roosevelt has selected Miss Isabel Hagner as her social secretary, thus following the example of Mrs. Levi P. Morton, who was the first official hostess to employ a secretary. Miss Hagner is the daughter of Dr. Charles E. Hagner and a niece of Judge A. B. Hagner of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. She has been in complete charge of Mrs. Root's social correspondence for the past two seasons, and also served in a similar capacity for Miss Pauld ing, Senator Depew's niece, Mrs. Roosevelt is the first mistress of the White House to employ a young woman in this capacity^-Post. Washington, Oct. 14.-Senator Frye talked with the president today about the ship subsidy bill. Mr. Frye has j prepared a new bill, but says he will not give it out until it is introduced at the coming session. He says he does not want it riddled now by hos? tile critics, but is willing to receive friendly suggestions. Senator Frye says he believes that there is a" much brighter prospect fora shipping bill at the coming session than there was at the last congress. The whole subject was discussed with the president by Senator Frye who remained at the White House for luncheon. E. A. Cudahy has withdrawn the re? ward offered for Crane. Over a thousand persons applied for admittance to the execution of Czolgoz. McColl, Oct. 15.-While assisting a negro with a mowing machine this afternoon, Mr. J. P. Gibson had his j right leg cut nearly in two below the knee. Amputation will likely be necessary. The negro was badly cut also. i Proctor's Knott's Rabbit Story. Since the Sampson-Scbley contro? versy has grown ?icute again there has been considerable reference to Proctor Knott's ''rabbit story" in connection with the credit for the victory at San? tiago. It is here reproduced : Ex-Governor Proctor Knott and John Yerkes were discussing the claims of Sampson and Schley as to the credit of smashing Cervera at San? tiago. Mr. Yerkes took the ground that all the honor of that memorable conflict belonged to Admiral Sampson, and was inclined to entirely ignore Commodore Schley's part in the affair. The governor listened until his com? panion had finished and then, with that characteristic twinkle in his eye, said: "My dear sir, it is exceedingly gratifying to me to hear you take the position you have in the matter. It is like balm to my conscience and settles a point that has worried me many a day. I was walking through the woods once with a boy friend of mine when we saw a rabbit run into a sinkhole. We stood around the hole awhile ; then I told the boy to keep watch while I went to get some fire to smoke the rabbit out. When I return? ed the boy had the rabbit. I took it away from him, claiming that it be? longed to me because I told -him to catch it if it came out. That was over 50 years ago. and you are the first man who has' agreed with me that the rab? bit was mine. I feel now that I was right in taking it, and my conscience is at rest" Mr. Yerkes looked solemn for a few moments, then smiled a feeble smile and changed the subject. More Money for Navy. Washington, Oct. 16.-The esti? mates of the navy for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, were made pub? lic at the navy department today. The total amount is 893,910,984 against $77,924,535 appropriated for the cur? rent year. Secretary Long in speaking of the estimates said that they were made with a due regard fort he needs of the navy, and intimated that they had the approval of the administration. He spoke of the increased cost of the navy and said the building of a battle? ship costing $5,000,000, was not the end of its expense, as its maintenance was very costly. These estimates, he said, did not cover any recommendations for increase of the navy over that already authoriz? ed, but it is more than likely the secre? tary will recommend three new battle? ships and two armored cruisers and a number of small gunboats,. The new estimated items for the Norfolk yard aggregate $1,208,500, which includes $350,000 for the purchase of land. An estimate of $650,000 is made for a plant for housing and storing torpedo vessels at Pensacola. The Goebelcide Trial. Georgetown, Ky., Oct.* 16.-The friends of Judge Cantrill, before whom the second trial of Caleb Powers on the charge of complicity in the Goeble assassination is proceeding, are guard-. ing him colsely, as it is reported that1 threats have been made against his life. A large number of witnesses were examined today, the most sensational 1&stiinony being given by Ike Hopkins of Bell county, a new witness for the commonwealth, who swore that he asked Wharton Golden on the day prior to the shooting of Goebel when he could go home from Frankfort. '' You wait, ' ' said Golden, ' ' Goebel will be killed today. " He also said he heard Henry Youtsey say: '"Goe? bel is going to be killed and this man," pointing to Dick Combs, 'will do the work. I have given him $100 and 25 others have given him the same amount." On tross examination Hopkins said he made his statement about what he ; knew to Arthur Goebel in Covington, Ky., last May. He admitted that he had been arrested for murder, mali? cious shooting and swindling the gov? ernment. He is now a deputy sheriff. A Gigantic Concern. New York, Oct. 15.-The Journal and Advertiser will say tomorrow: "A new and gigantic industrial com? bination which is to consolidate the armor plate manufacture of this coun? try, enter into the building of mer? chant and war ships for the world's trade and take over the large and growing export trade of the United States Steel corporation is about to be organized by J. P. Morgan and his allies." The article then says that while no official details are obtainable the pro? ject will not only consolidate many details of the steel business now sepa? rated, but also serve to bring into closer relationship these interests and the great railroad interests controlled by the Vanderbilts and the Pennsyl? vania railroad. These interests are also to be closely allied with if not made a unit with large interests of like character abroad and that the new company is to be called the Anglo-American Steel company. The Journal and Advertiser article also says that E. Gray of the United States Steel corporation will be presi? dent of the new concern. Hungry Russians Riot. London, Oct. 17.-The Lemberg morning papers report bread riots at Taraskova, eastern Russia, says a Vi? enna correspondent of the Daily Mail. In Samara, the starving peasants stormed the municipal buildings and the residences of wealthy persons, set? ting some on fire. Troops were sum? moned and 14 peasants were killed. Similar riots, in which several per? sons were killed, occurred at Ander weska, where two landlords had been murdered, and also at Pestrawka and elsewhere in the same idstrict. RETURNED TO HER OLD LOVE. The Mills Come Again With the Abolition of Slavery. . D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte, North Carolina, recently made an interest? ing speech before the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association meeting at Buffalo, N. Y. He spoke as follows: , Coming as I do from a section .far to the southward of where most of you live, yet in a section having a fair membership in this association, it would seem appropriate before enter? ing upon the subject of my address for me to express what I know is the sentiment of all the southern members of this association and Southern people besides, the feelings of our grief and sympathy with you because of the iate national ca? lamity. In the private life of all the people in the South the regret and dis? appointment for what befell President McKinley cannot be measured in words. I will read an extract from a private letter written by my brother at Edgefield, S. C., to me in connec? tion with some passing business mat? ters: "I am overwhelmed with sorrow at the death of President McKinley. He was a good man, with a broad mind and kind heart. He has espceially en? deared himself to the South, both for any want of bitterness, and by kind acts and loving words, and he has earn? ed for himself in that beautiful beyond the reward, ' Blessed are the peace ! makers, for they shall be called the children of God." From my sister, who lives in Abbe? ville, S. C., I had a letter also which contained similar expressions. In every phase of the private life and work of our people there have been sad hearts, deep feelings of sorrow for the man whose life was sacrificed, and solicitude for the future welfare of the Government and the people. The general sentiment seems to be in strongly favoring repressive meas? ures, and even severe punishment, to puta stop to the growing spirit of anarchy in this country. May we not appropriately consider whether such repressive measures and punishments would accomplish all that we could wish or be our full duty? Has it not come to pass that we are all to some extent, and the men of America in particular, lax in our obligations to advance Christian civilization with that energy and sense of duty that our parents and grandparents used to do? ls not anarchy finding better opportu? nity because the bulwark of Christian? ity is not as strong as it used to be? Can the punishment, even by death, of one ignoble and unworthy man cure or stop the progress of the redhanded spirit of evil, anarchy? I conceive that, in addition to ordinary punish? ment, we all have binding duties to join our mothers, wives and sisters in the endeavor to keep alive the Chris? tian spirit and with that overwhelm the anarchistic spirit. I bring you this greeting from your Southern mem? bers on a subject that concerns us all alike, and to express our realization of the duties that are before us for the common good of all our people. Now . I proceed to the subject of Southern cotton mills in the early days of the Republic. The general sub? ject of manufactures in the South is not well understood. One of the fore? most propositions of the founders of the Republic was the establishment of manufactures throughout the whole of the then, United States. All the* early Presidents, most of whom were Southern men, were advocates of pro? tection to new industries and of other means to stimulate their establishment and development. Under these in? fluences manufactures in the South ad? vanced for a long while, say, up to 1830, about parallel with the manufac? turing development of New England and the Middle States. I have often had occasion to point out that the census of 1810 shows the manufactured products of Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia equal in j quantity and value to those of all the New England States combined. The influences that gradually changed this condition was slavery. As slavery grew and became stronger in the South manufactures grew less and the factor? ies almost disappeared. In the Pied? mont region of North Carolina, in which I live it is surprising to learn what a development there was there about 1810. At numerous water powers iron works were in full opera? tion, some of them on what was then a very large scale. Iron mines and blast furnaces were in operation at many, many points on the mountain sides. The cotton mills now in opera? tion at Henrietta, Clifton, Cherokee Falls, High Shoal and many other1 places occupy the sits of former roll? ing mills. The water power canals at the mills were dug more than a hun? dred years ago by iron companies. At High" Shoal, when the present mill was begun only a few years ago, it was necessary to destroy with dynamite a number of brick stacks that had been formerly used in connection with cat? lin forges, and very lately, in an addi? tional excavation, a large housing of a former rolling mill was found. At this point, some seventy-five years ago. varied products in iron were made, including bars, ploughshares, nails, special iron to make rifles, hol? lowware, pots, ovens and other uten? sils for cooking. There were throughout this region shops and factories for the manufac? ture of wagons, carriages, blankets, jeans, hats, furniture, cotton goods and other goods. Among the early cotton mills of the South was one built by Michael Schenck on Mill Branch, abont two miles from Lincolnton, X. C. It was run by waterpower and was erected in 1813. The machinery was built at a shop in Lincoln ton, N. C. Thc first, lot. of machinery was built by David Warilck, who was a good mechanic and a brother-in-law of Schenck. A second lot of machin? ery was built in 1816 by Michael Bean in"a shop which he operated at Lin cointon. The contract for this lot of machinery is still in existence and the following is a copy: Articles of agreement made and en? tered into this 27th day of April, 1816, between Michael Sche'nck and Absa? lom Warliek, of the county of Lincoln and State of North Carolina, of the one part, and Micahel Bean, of the county and State foresaid, of the other part, Witnesseth : That the said Michael Bean obliges himself to build for the said Schenck and Warliek, ?within twrelve months from this date, a spinning machine with one hundred and forty-four fliers, with three sets of fluted rollers, the back set to be of wood, the other two sets to be iron; the machine to be made in two frames, with two sets of wheels ; one carding machine, with two sets of saws and two ropings, each to be one foot wide, with a picking machine to be attached to it, with as many saws as may be necessary to feed the carding ma? chine: one rolling (or roping?) with four heads. All the above machinery to be completed in a workmanlike manner. And the said Bean is to board himself and find all the mate? rials for the machine and set the ma? chinery going on a branch of Ab War lick's land below where the old ma? chine stood ; the Said Schenck and Warliek are to have the house for the machine and the running gears made at their expense; but the said Bean is to fix the whole machinery above described thereto; the wooden cans for the roping and spinning and the reel to be famished by said Schenck and Warliek ; all the straps and bands necessary for the machinery to be furnished by said Schenck and War lick. In consideration of which the said Schenck and Warliek are to pay the said Bean the sum of thirteen hundred dollars, as follows, to wit: Three hundred dollars three months from this date, one hundred dollars six months from this date, and the balance of the thirteen hundred dol? lars to be paid to the said M. Bean within twelve months after said ma? chine is started to spinning. In testi? mony whereof we have hereto set our hands and seals the day and year above written. Absalom Warliek, (Seal,) Michael Schenck, )Seal. ) Michael Bean, (Seal.) Test: Robt. H. Burton." The descendants of this same Michael Schenck are now extensively and successfully in the mill business in North Carolina. There was an interim, when slavery was supreme, when probably all the members of this family were planters and not manufac? turers, but on the abolition of slavery ! and the re-esi;ablishment of conditions favorable to manufactures those having most of the inherited taste found it easy to take up a business for which there was in i;heir bones an inherited capability. As it was with this fac? tory so it was with many others. A family of Bates had extensive cot? ton milling ir terests near Greenville, S. C., Col. H. P. Hammet and after him Col. Orr, of Piedmont, have in their families the inherited taste and capabilities ol these people. I could cite numerous instances to show that the facility with which manufactures are established and developed in the South by nati ve people is bu,t a revival of what the ancestors of these same people did. The assistance of New England in helping to bring the rusty talents and skill up to date has been invaluable. I wish to call attention to the fact that we have now re-established the growth of manufactures in the United States on the basis made by the foun? ders of this nation and its early rulers, that is, throughout the entire country alike where conditions are favorable. The most favorable locations for spin? ning and weaving seems to be a sec? tion in New England and 'New York State, another section in the Middle States, (about Philadelphia and Balti? more, } and still another in the Pied? mont region of the South. In most of this territory the soil is not very fertile and, therefore, farming is not attrac? tive. Neither are there other interests like iron or coal or commerce at hand to disturb the regularity or economy of the labor mrket. Regular work and economy are the prerequisites of cot? ton manufacture, especially of coarse or standard goods. This kinship of occupation and con? ditions naturally makes for in common interests. We are so similarly situated as to make operation for our common interests of the utmost importance to us all. The new conditions in the South are but a repetition of old con? ditions. The new conditions are un? doubtedly permanent. Slavery is gone forever. " Therefore our factories will, this time, stay with us, In this situa- j tion the North and South are no com-1 Petitors, but have the common inter? est to find markets for our surplus goods.. If we find these markets there is more than enough profitable work for the factories of all the tex itle area in New England, the Middle States and the South. If in con? troversy we fail to co-operate to get j these markets we will not have busi? ness enough for any one of the sec? tions. Johann Most, "he anarchist, has been sentenced to one year in the peniten? tiary for sedition. The Fin? Is made with ing Powder, i sweet, pure & Inoidsniial Fees Cannot Bs Charged. Opinion of Much Importance fay Assistant Attorney General. Columbia, Oct, 16.-Assistant Attor? ney General Gunter yesterday ha oded the State Superintendent of education an opinion of far reaching importance. Under this opinion the law of the State forbids school districts to charge pupils incidental fees going to make up tuition fees which, they cannot legally charge. It will affect many a public school in the State whose resources have thus been most materially added to from time to time.. . This opinion has no bearing upon the decision of the supreme court ren? dered some time ago, in the Rock Hill case, which allowed the charging of such fees in schools. In that case the schools were chartered, and the charter gave the right to charge supplemental and incidental fees. t Mr. Gunter's opinion reads as" follows : Dear Sir: Your request to be ad? vised upon the following question : ''Can a board of trustees of a free school charge an incidental fee or im? pose any other kind of cost as a pre? requisite to the entrance of scholars to the public schools?" I am of the opinion that the boards can impose no such charges. The board of trustees being of statutory construe-' tion can have no authority except such as granted by statute. Boards of trus? tees are created under a general school law. This law provides for the com? plete free school scheme of the State, and is entitled " an act to declare the free school law cf the State," approved March 3, 1896. The title as well as the body of the act denotes the inten tion of the general assembly to give the people a free school. Not only free in name but free in fact. After a careful perusal of every sec? tion of the act I have been unable to find any auhority ,eitehr direct or im? plied to impose the fee referred to. It is true that the board of trustees are charged with the management of the free schools of their respective districts, and are given auhority to act "so as best to promote the educa? tional intreests of thier district" But this does not apply to the financial resources of the district. That feature is left to the tax collecting and tax disbursing machinery. The trustees are given authority to distribute and expend the school funds of a dsitriet for the best interests of the district. There can,, therefore, be no excuse to attempt to raise funds for any inci? dental purpose by an incdential fee for the whole sum raised by taxation is available for any educational pul? p?se. If a board of trustees can impose small fee they could likewise impose a large fee, thereby making atten" ance impossible, and thus thwartin, the object of a free school law. This conclusion has, of course, no reference to schools operating under special charters or special legislation, where? in authority is given to charge fees or tuition, teh supreme court having re cntely sustained such- a power. The cases passed upon by the supreme court have no bearing upon schools operated under the general free school law of the State. Big Telephone Fight. New York, Oct, 15.-Charles W. Morse, formerly the "Ice King" of this city, and nowa millionaire bank? er and ally of the Standard Oil Mag? nates effected the organization yester? day of his recently purchased Tele? graph, Telephone & Cable Company of America, and from now on a most vigorous war will be waged to break up the Bell telephone monopoly. The Telegraph, Telephone & Ca? ble Companv of America is capital? ized at 830,000,000. Mr. Morse bought out more than a two-third interest in the -company about a month ago, paying for the stock 50 per cent of the sum which each stockholder had paid in. The American Association of Gene? ral Passenger and Ticket Agents, in session in Asheville, N. C., will wage war against ticket scalping. Hon. Samuel B. Spencer, ex-mayor of Atalnta, died of paralysis on Tues? day. Strikers have attacked the employes of the Providence Co's, mines in Webster Co., Kentucky. The examination of witnesses has begun in the Powers-Goebel trial. New York, Oct. 15.-The Duke de Alba died in this city today from in? fluenza. The duke was one of the highest grandees of Spain. He came here to see the yacht races. Gai lon, O., Oct. 15.-The vault of the Farmer's and Citizen's bank at Trio, a small town near here, was wrecked early this .morning by six rob? bers, who secured the contents and es? caped. It is said the vault contained S40,000. The cracksmen used nitro? glycerine. The doors of the vault were blown completely off and the buildings partially demolished. Royal Bak \1 ways light, wholesome.