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OOLLISION OS THE OPE! Waiia-Waila Went Down-N Escape of Crew. I San Francisco, Jan. 3.-A c< at sea early Thursday morning b the steamer Walla-Walla and i known sailing vessel resulted sinking of the steamship am probable loss of at least 20 lives Walla-Walla owned by the Coast Steamship company sailed San Francisco, Jan. 1, for Sound ports. She carried 36 class passengers, 23 second-clas ^ & crew of 80 men. When off Mendocino, on the California co 4.10 o'clock Thursday mornii iron bark, believed to be F: loomed up in the haze and ci into the Walla-Walla's bow. the sailing vessel slid off int? darkness and was seen no more. All the passengers and crew c Walla-Walla, except the few on v were asleep, but were aroused t crash. The steerage quarters we the bow and it is believed that of the steerage passengers and were crushed to death. A big was made in the steamer's bow she sank in 35 minutes. The cers and .crew maintained ? disciplin? and boats and life rafts lowered. All who were not killed in the < sion got off except Capt. Hall, went down with his ship. He picked up later by one of the b uninjured, with the exception few bruises. A choppy sea was running and small boats could not make a lan on the shore, a few miles dis' They drifted about all day and fii 65 people were picked up by the st? er Dispatch, which took then Eureka. Another boat under comn of Engineer Brown and containing persons attempted to land at Trin and was swamped. Six of the thir were drowned. When the Dispatch reached Em this morning with the survivors, ! were immediately sent cut for mis boats. The tug Ranger picked up boat containing ll passengers and crew. The Walla-Walla was valued at ab $250,000. She was formerly used * collier and about 10 years ago converted into a passenger vessel a cost of $175*000. Tbe vessel was sured for about $200,000. Forakor and Hanna Uncertain Columbus, O., Jan. 3.-Theso-cal Foraker-Hanna contest over the org, ization of the Ohio legislature, clo? its last day with neither Price i McKinnon assured of the necess; 39 votes of the Republican nominati for speaker. Sacrifice hits on bc sides are being made for all otl places to get votes for McKinnon a Price, and to-night it is conced that the ballot in caucus tomorrs afternoon is the only sure thing. While McKinnon and Price a claiming 37 votes each, their man gers, who keep books, are more co se n'ai i ve. Congressman Dick, director genei for McKinnon, said : . "We.gained two in the declaratio: of Lincklqy of Perry and Fisher Medina today and we want a coup more." The Price men concede McKinnc only "29 but conservative watchers S? eaL-1: has 33 sure and that each neet at least two more votes. George I Cox, manager for Price, said to-nighi '"XLere are still seven doubtful R< publican , representatives. We nee two cr three of them and thc cthei four cr five." Wi ile Dick, Cox and others are af te recruits, their lieutenants are havin lively times in holding meir men i line and ic guarding them in man instances. Members on both sides ar accompanied by friends wherever the go, even to their meals and to bed Tber^ aro sentinels about the hotel ami at the railroad stations to see tba none get away or into strange com pan;. Representative Willis turnei on bis escort today and publicly ce nci.:i ed tho "organized espionage or both sides." Bc afterward attempted to start i movement to drop both Price and Mc Kin-, tn and take up a new man fci speaker. Whiie every pcssible effort is being made to-night to secure thc few remaining doubtful members, it is evident that the most untir? ing e??crts are being made by both .sides to hold their own. * S< Sc, Jan. 3.-The local reports of the release of Miss Ellen M. Stone and her companion, Madame Tsilka, re? main unconfirmed. News from the frontier says the brigands are hiding io Turkish territory and are being hustled by the inhabitants, who Lad previously been victimized by the bandits. A fight occurred in which thc leaders of the brigands are said to have been wounded. Part of the brigand band, wearied at the delay in obtaining a ransom for the captives have deserted, and are attempting to reenter Bulgaria, but the guards are closely watching the frontier. It is further said that the whereabouts of the captives is known and that it is hoped the agents of the missionaries will be able to get in contact with the band in a few days, The Protocol With Nicaragua. Complete Jurisdiction Given to United States. Washington, Jan. 3.-Some of the main features of the protocol between the United States and Nicaragua re? ferred to in President Zelaya's mes? sage to his congress have been made known in recent press dispatches from Managua. But there are many other important features which have not yet been disclosed one of these being the ocmplete American jurisdiction, and the establishment of American courts, civil and criminal, throughout a zone six miles wide and extending from ocean to ocean, and including the proposed termini, Gretyown on the Atlantic and Brito on the Pacific. The entire policing of this large tract also is placed in the hands of the Uni? ted States so that it has the power to preserve order and after that to issue judicial process extending throughout the zone.? . Beside the authority of American courts and of the American police on the six mile zone the chief features cf the protocol are in giving lease in perpetuity of this tract to the United States and at the same time giving an American guarantee that the inde? pendence, sovereignty, and intergity of Nicaragua shall not be disturbed by the rights thus conferred upon the United States. No exact information is obtainable as to the price specified in the proto? col as payment to Nicarauga for the grant to this country. It can be stated positively, however, that this price is much less than was expected when the neogtiations began, and that it is con? sidered by officials as reasonable. It is understood at the outset the view in Nicarauga was that $20,000,000, would be a proper figure for the grant to this country, and about $6,000,000 for Costa Rico's grant. But while there is no information as to the final sum in the protocols, it is known to be far short of the above figures. As the cession takes the form of a perpe? tual lease, it is probable that the pro? tocol includes the feature of an annual rent as part payment. A protocol with Costa Rico, identi? cal in form with that with Nicaragua, except in the matter of price and ter? ritory lease, has been in course of negotiation, and it is understood that a satisfactory conclusion will be reached with that government. Last of Kentucky Hatfields. A Golbe, Arizona, special asys : Bob Hatfield, who called himself the last survivor of the Hatfield family of Kentucky, met a violent death at Troy mining camp, fourteen miles from Globe, in the mountains. Hatfield had been drinking and had been abusing his wife. She, in fear for her life, appealed to the camp offi? cer, John Devine. Hatfield heard of the complaint, and sent Devine a message that he would execute the warrant at his peril. Devine provided himself with a Win? chester and started on his errand. When he arrived at the Hatfield cabin its owner was found in the path outside. Devine called upon him to hold up his hands. Instead of doing so Hatfield reached for his revolver. Devine then dropped him with a bullet which struck just above the heart. The officer's course was emphatical? ly commended by the residents of the camp and by the Coroner's jury that sat on the case. The jury further found that Hatfield wags twenty-seven years old and that his birthplace was Pineville, Ky. He had been employ ed around Globe as a miner for about a year. King Edward's Coronation. Washington, Jan. 3.-It is under? stood that a way may be found by which two naval officers of high rank will take part in the coronation cere? monies at London. Although the question of selecting officers for this service has not yet been considered Lu? the president or the secretary of the navy, yet tte prospects that such selec? tions will be made has caused much speculation in naval circles. The present indications are that the presi clent will select a civilian representa? tive f:>r the coronation, and also one officer of the army and one officer of the navy to accompany the civilian. Quite apart from this, the navy will be represented in English waters, with a rear admiral in command of a squad? ron. The effect of this arrangement will be to place two naval officers of high rani: in the service in connec? tion with the coronation. A GOOD &EC02ff3?E2?rSATX0IT. . i have noticed that the sale oa Cham? berlain's Stomach and Live/ Tablets is almost invariably to those who have once used them,*' says Mr J H Weber, a promi inent druggist of Cascade. Iowa. What better recommendation could any medi? cine have than for people to call for it I wlu-n again in need of such a remedy ': Try them when you feel dull after eating, when you have a bad taste in the mouth, feel billions, have no appetite or when troubled with constipation, and you are certain to be delighted with the prompt relief which they afford. For sale by I)r A J China. Keith's Union Square Theatre, New j York, was burned last night, incur- { ring a heavy loss. ! TRAIN OF TOBACCO Shipped From Florence-Special A. T. Co. Train. Florence, Jan. 3.-The American Tobacco company shipped yesterday afternoon to the Durham, N. C., stemmery, a train load of tobacco. The Atlantic Coast Line furnished a special train for the shipment, con? sisting of twenty-five freight cars. It left here about ? o'clock in the after? noon on a special schedule. The tobacco was all of the grade denoted "scrap," and of it there was 335,552 pounds. Mr. Louis B. Gregory, the A. T. Company's manager at this point, be? lieves that this is the largest shipment of tobacco ever made at any one time from South Carolina. He knows that it is the largest of any one grade. Sev? eral hogsheads of scrap are in the fac? tory here ready to be shipped later, along with many thousand pounds of the finer grades. wi?? ? a ?Ml mm - The Heavens in January, 1902. By Henry Norris Russell, Ph.d. Though the planets which illumi? nated the autumn skies so brightly are now, all but Venus, lost to view, their absence is fully made up by the ap-1 pearance of the brilliant winter con? stellations. At our accustomed hour of 9 p. m., in the middle of this month, Orion is almost due south, about half way up to the zenith. He may be instantly recognized by the familiar "belt," with the bright stars Betelgeuse above and Rigel below. The line of the belt, extended up? ward to the right, points toward the ruddy Aldebaran and the Pleiades. Extended downward for about the same distance it reaches Sirius, which is about four times as bright as any other star in sight. An irregular cross of stars below it, containing a couple of bright ones, also belongs to the constellation of Canis Major. Higher than Sirius, and some dis? tance to the left, is Procyon, and still higher are the twin stars Castor and Pollux, with the rest of Gemini. Auriga, directly overhead, is marked by Capella, next to Sirius the bright? est star visible. In the east the sickle of Leo has just risen. Between it and Gemini is a little cloud of light -tbs famous cluster Praesepe-which marks the position of Cancer; and the head of Hydra is rising farther south. Below Orion lie the small constellations Lepus and Columbia, and on the right is the extenisve but inconspicuous Eridanus. This classic river is represented by a stream of faint stars, starting near Rigel and running first westward, then southeastward, and then toward the southwest, till it sinks out of sight. It ends in a star-Achernar-almost as bright as Rigel, which is only visi? ble from points south of the latitude of Savannah. Cetus, which is almost equally ex? tensive, occupies the southwest. Aries is marked by a little triangle of stars west of the zenith. Perseus and Cas? siopeia lie in the Milky Way northwest of Auriga. Cygnus, below them, has partly set. Andromeda lies below* Perseus and to the left of Cassiopeia, and Pegasus is still lower, its "great square" standing on one corner. The Little Bear hangs by his tail from the pole- star,. inclosed by the coils of the Dragon, while the Great Bear stands upright upon his tail (the dipper-handle) in an equally uncom? fortable position. THE PLANETS. Mercury is very close to the sun at the first of the year, passing behind him on the night of the 1st, and be? coming an evening star. Though he appears so near the sun, or, rather, though he would so appear if we could see him, he is actually farther away behind him than usual. After this he approaches both the sun and the earth, and by the last week of Janu? ary he should be easily seen just after dark, low in the southwest, as he sets about an hour and a- half later than the sun. He is unusually bright, so that the present opportunity for seeing him is decidedly favorable. On the evening of the 23d he is in conjunc? tion with Mars. Their distance is less than the moon's diameter, but one will have to look sharp to soe Mars at all in the strong twilight, lie will be directly above the much brighter Mercury. They are quito far apart, but the opportunity to compare the ap? pearance of the two inermost planets I of our system will be interesting. Venus is also evening star in Aqua? rius, moving but slowly among the stars, and being steadily overtaken J by the sun. On the 1st she remains! in sight for over three hours and a . half after sunset, but by the 31st this j interval is reduced to a little over two j hours. On the evening of the 9th ? she attains lier greatest brilliancy, casting a distant shadow, and being easily visible in the daytime if one knows exactlv where to look for her. : - Since both Venus and Mercury j reach a maximum of brilliancy dur- j ing the month, it seems an appro- j p ri ate time to discuss briefly the j causes of their change of brightness, j The brightness of a given planet, as ] seen from the earth, depends: 1st. On its distance from the sun. j For the nearer it is to the sun, the ! more light it will receive, and so be j able to reflect to us. I 2d. On its distance from the eai For the nearer it is to ns, the lari and consequently the brighter, it \ appear. 3d. On the phase of the planet, seen telescopically from the ear For if the planet appears as a hi moon, it will send us but half light that its whole disk would ; a in fact, less than half, since the vi ble part is lighted more oblique and in consequence less brigthly the sun. This effect will evidently much more marked when the pla: appears as a crescent. The orbit of Venus is so nearly c cular that the effect of the changes her distance from the sun may neglected. The other two causes ; in opposite directions. When Vex is farthest from us, behind the si her whole disk is illuminated, but 1 apparent diameter is so small that s is relatively faint. As she approacl us, the gain in brightness due to 1 greater nearness more than balam the loss due to phase, and this cc tinues to be the case till after t time when she appears as a ha moon. But as her crescent narrov the decrease of light bcoemes m< rapid than the increase, and she 1 gins to grow fainter. The point wh< the two effects balance, and the r gain in brightness changes to a r loss, is reached when the width of t crescent is a little more th half her radius, that is when little more than one-quarter of h apparent area is illuminated. Th is the case on the 9th instar After this, as Venus comes mo nearly between us and the sun, tl narrowing of her crescent rapidly cu down her light. On January 31 tl width of her crescent is but one-six' of her radius, and though her diamet is nearly half as much again as on tl 9th, she is but half as bright as si was then. In the case of Mercury, the increa? due to his approach to us and the di crease due to phase nearly balance or another all the way from superic conjunction (the full phase) to th greatest elongation (the half-moon After this the phase gets the best ( it, and his brightness decreases. This simple relation is actual! much modified by the results of hi changing distance from the sun, sine he receives more than twice as muc light when nearest the sun as he doe when most remote. In consequent the maxima of Mercury's brightnes usually occur near the times when h is nearest the sun, while the minim invariably happen when he is betwee us and the sun, and appears as a nar row crescent. The combination of th two effects also causes Mercury' brightness to vary quite irregularly sometimes increasing or decreasin? rapidly, and again remaining nearl; constant for some time. The maxi mum of his brightness, which occur about the end of this month, is dui mainly to his nearness to the sun. Hi phase is a little more than the half. Mars is an evening star, but is s? near the sun that he is hard to see though he may be picked up at hi? conjunction with Mercury on the 23d Jupiter is too near the sun to b< seen. On the 15th he is in con june tion with him, and becomes a morning star. Saturn is also in conjunction with the sun-on the 9th-and is invisible. Uranus is in Scorpio, rising at about 5 a. m. and Neptune is in Gemini, well observable in the evening. THE MOON. Last quarter occurs on the morning of the 1st, new moon on the afternoon of the 23d, and last quarter again on the morning of the 31st. The moon is nearest us on the 20th, and farthest away on the 4th. She passes Uranus on the morning of the 7th, Saturn, Jupiter and Mercury on the 9th (all being too near the sun to be seen), Mars on the morning of the 11th, Venus on the night of the 12th, and Neptune on the morning of the 21st.-Scientific American. Children Espc-cially Liable. Burns, bruises and cuts are extremely painful and if neglected often result in blood poisoning. Children are especially liable to such mishaps because not so careful. As a remedy DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve is unequalled. Draws out the fire, stops the pain, soon heals the wound. Beware of counterfeits. Sure cure for piles. "DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cured my baby of eczema after two physicians gave her up"," writes James Mock. X Webster, Ind. "The sores were so bad she soiled two to five dresses a day." J S Hughson & Co. -- Admiral Schley will visit several of the Southern cities in January and February. Census statisics on trusts show that on May 31, 1900, there were 1S3 com? binations with capitalization of over 83,000,000,000. The product of these combinations in 1900 was equivalent to 20 per cent, of the total gross pro? duc?s of all the manufacturing indus? tries of the conni ry in ISiW). They con? trolled over 2,000, plantsand employed over 300,000 wage-earners and over 24,000 salaried officials and clerks. Courier .Journal. Raleigh, X. C., Jan. '2. Two hun? dred and fifty thousand dollars in place Of 850,000 is the sum which the various committees of the Roanoke Island-Sir Walter Raleigh celebration will ask Congress to appropriate for a celebration of the founding of the first English colony in America. A company will be chartered here at once to raise a similar amount, and the celebration at Roanoke Island, the birthplace of Virginia Dare, the first native born white child in America, as well as the first landing place of an English colony will bc made a na? tional event. tam mmjf?L M???m : ; i i m i : ...vi,::.:.:[:i:rMi:!iut::i .*." *:m-; ,M;P:PI jij ?V?getabi? Preparaiionfor As - || sLT?la?LiglheFoodandBegu?a I liiigihcStomaciisarijlBowelsof WM ?NIS/GHILI>KEN Promotes Digestion,Cheerfur ness andRest.Contains neither Opium,Morphine nor "Mineral. >TOT NARCOTIC. f?ape of Oki J)rSAMUEL PiPCHE? Pump/an Sad' ?tx.SauttL * RodueUsSdU y?n'ss Sffd *? fitDpermvtt - IhteibonateJcdtt* MttrrH>Sred Ciavt?d Sugar ? perfect Remedy for Constipa? tion , So ur Stomach,Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions Jeverish ness and Loss OF SlLEEP. For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Facsimile Signature of NEW'YORK e For Thirty Year THE CENTAUn COMPANY. NEW VOR? CITY. orsesiHiMules. We took in a lot of : Good % Young s Stock : Which have since fattened up, and being acclimated are really more fit for present use than fresh ones. The time approaches when planters are pre^ paring for the next year. Come and see them, They will be sold worth the money, HARBY & CO. Qeo 1.8 IS PEE PARED FOR The Fall and Winter Season With a large and artistic collection of ?TRIMMED MILLINERY.! The public are requested to call and see the display. The largest assortment of Pattern Hats ever shown in Sumter. Hats for all tastes from the "Picturesque Gain bow'' to the simple street hat. Misses and children are not forgotten. Styles for them this season are quite ele? gant. Tailormade Hats are all the go in New York. We can show you quite an assort? ment of them, and at reasonable prices. We are in our new store-three doors below old stand. Come and see our hats, and we are sure you will buy, for they are quite irresistible. Yours to please, MES. L. ATKINSON. Oct 9 THE STANDARD Warehouse Co. COLUMBIA, S. C Hoe a vStorage capacity of 20,000 Balc-8 of Cotton Stores and insures Cotton for 15 c;-n:8 per Bale per month or fractional month Lower rates on 500 Bales and above. >pe cial rates for six months and season contracts All railroads running into Columbia permit Cotton to he stopped for storage and reshipped at any lime during the sea? son :it the through rate from original start? ing point, with only a tritio charge for re-handling. Cotton consigned to Columbia has the advantage of active competition when sold, and loans can always be secured on our Warehouse receipts at minimum rates. No commission or other charges for selling cotton. Correspondence solicited. H. I.. ELLIOTT. Manager. Nov 13 v MONEY TO LEND. OX LOXG TIME at 7 per cent interest. LEE & MOISE. Oct 9--3m Sumter, S. C. Tie Laipst ai Most Complete Establishment Sot Geo. 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