The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 23, 1902, Image 6

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I98B? WILL WIHO OP 8H?BLEST0M EXPOSITION. t?ga Sage Has Ordered Books and ' ?eoousts Delivered to the Master. Will he Open to Inspection?Gapt. Wag euer Discharged as Receiver. In the Charleston Court of Com mon Pieas, Judge Gary has handed down his decision in the exposition suit, ruling that the books should be neld by Master Sass, open to the close inspection of the interests in volved. The court ruled on the discharge of Cap! Wagener as one of the receivers, the sale, of the perishable property, proving of claims, etc., bat the mat ter of the inspection of the books and accounts was not passed upon by the court, being taken under advisement. Judge Gage's ruling to have the books open to inspection is in the na ture of a victory for tho attorneys of the creditors, who have been making a hard but unsuccessful effort for some time, to get at the facts and figures abou? the show. The books ana ac connts have been closely guarded and 4&e many stories which are in circula tion about the badly mixed up condi tion of the accounts have been impos sible of verification because of the close secrecy. The stories of the shortage in the accounts, and the gen erai unsa?sactory and improper man ner in which the~ books have been ' kept, will all be shown up, now that the books are to be inspected and an accounting rendered. In passing on the matter, the court states: "The single issue is, how shall the assets be divided among the creditors? The books may be relevant to show who the credei tros are, the amount of their claims, what pay ments have been made to them and when, and many other things. They are constructively in the court and they and any other papers and docu ments of the defunct corporation should be actually in the matser's hands for scrutiny by either side, at such times, in such manner and for such period as his wise discretion may limit ; that much is ordered ; it would be improper to order more. " The creditors are now much con cerned with the plan of getting their money, it has already been told that the claims for material furnished, ser vice renderd or money advanced to carry on the show would be paid di rectly by the government, On the pre sentation of properly executed vouch . era, out of the appropriation made by Congress. The troubles of many peo ple lay in the belief that the appro priition is not large enough to cover ?all the claims, and if this be true then there will be a general scaling down and the creditors will not recove the full amounis of their claims. This is -especially annoyng to the creditors who have been at an expense in the courts. According to the ruling of the Treas ury J^partment, the creditors will be paid pro rata, if the amount of the -claims are in excess of the appropria tiosrof $160,000. All cla?ffls will have to be proven and filed and no money will be paid out by the government until this is done. The claims will all have to be made, of course, under oath and be properly attested. With the books and accounts of the exposition company open to inspec tion, the work of proving the claims and getting the money will be facil itated, and Judge Gage has given the creditors ia lift by his ruling. Confusion worse confounded is che siate of the late Exposition's affairs, as every attempt to fix a basis of set ?emen shows. The hearing in court yesterday and the order of the judge referring the whole case to the master for examination and report exposed some more of the remarkable condi tions which prevailed in the manage ment of the enterprise. A curious development of the situation, too, is the withdrawal of the former presi dent of the company from all connec tions with the settlement except in the character of a creditor. The directors will scarcely like their orphaned state. ?Charleston Post. News Fros the Wires. Quebec, July 19.?CoL Gavnor and Capt. Greene, the two-American con tractors who am wanted in Savannah, Ga., for alleged frauds in Government harbor work, were given another re spite of two weeks by Judge Caron in the Superior Court today. New York, July 20.?Twenty-five thousand East Side garment workers went on trike today and it is predict ed 15,000 more will follow. .-^.Indianapolis, Ind., July 19.?At 1 o'clock this afternoon the Convention el ,?nite??\ Mine Workers adjourned, after declaring against a general strike, providing for ?aising a fund with which to aid the striking anthracite miners and issueing an appeal to the American people for support. The recommendations brought in by a spe cial committee, and which are practi cally identical with those suggested by President Mitchell were unanimously adopted by the Convention. London, July 21.?The Constantino- ? pie correspondent of The Daily Tele-1 graph reperts that an engagement has taken place at Strumitza, European Turkey, between a force of three hun dred Bulgarian troops and ? body of Turkish irregulars. Twenty-five Turks, the correspondent says, were killed in the engagement. Macon, Ga., July 20.? Fire this morning at Colquitt, Ga., destroyed eleven stores along the public square. Among the buildngs burned were the postoffice and the Masonic Temple. The more importnt stores were general merchandise establishments. The esti mated loss is over 840,000 with only partial insurance. Dallas, Texas, July 20.?Fire broke out this morning in the Exposition grounds, located in the suburbs of East Dallas, and in thirty minutes the main exposition bnilding, one of the j largest buildings in the country : the | music hall annex, the poultry build ing, the private buildings of the J. I. Case Plough Company, and that of ; the Pariin Oreadorff Company, were j destroyed. The loss will reach 8100,000, ? with insrance of probably $30,000. MILLIONS OF BUSHELS OF G?RK LOST. The Destruction in Mississippi Val ley is Appalling?The Streams Continue to Rise. Keoknk, la., July 20.?Exploration ? of the flooded districts of the Missis I sippi river from Keoknk, south, shows conditions beyond the appreciation or j realization of any but those of long experience with the father of waters i in its most destnctive mood. The sit nation is growing worse hourly and a great conflagration in a great city would not be more rapidly destructive of values. There is not the slightest chance of stopping this mosr, costly flood in the history of the great river above St. Louis. A correspondent of the Associated Press went over the worst damaged area today in the steamer Silver Cres cent and found everywhere the great deep enough to float a steamboat People at the river cities give ac-1 counts Of losses aggreating many mil lions of dollars. Hundreds of farmers, rich ten days ago, are penniless and horseless. Careful estimates gathered from the statements of best informed people in dicate the loss np to today is about $6,000,000 with every prospect of two or three millions additional by the rise above not yet reaching the lower stetches of the rjver. Most of thde loss is on the Missouri side of the river, between Keokuk and Hannibal. Passing the water-lapped lumber yards of Keoknk, the mouth of the Des Moines river is nearly two miles wide. Normally, there are two months and an island delta, covered with farms, which are now under rag ing" torrents. Alexandria was protect ed to the last by the Egyptian levee, the breaking of which would send four feet of water all over the town. Gregory is submerged except the White chnrch in which service was held today, the congregation from the country reaching the church by the railroad crack, which is still above the flood in a waste of waters miles wide. Other towns and cities on the islands are beyond the danger line. ;,?.; Immense fields are seen in a great lake with the shore visible only with aTgi?ss, where the high buffs bound the bottoms. Islands dotting the river at its normal stage jhave disappeared, except for the tops of trees or fringes of high, shore willows, slightly pro truding like a circular coal reef. Oc casionally a house on piles or stilts is seen, but geneally only roofs rjse to mark the centre * of farms of corn. On the edge of the floods river corn gradually rises on a slope, tassels, top, ears, stalks, appearing in order. In the middle of the present river the tracks of the St. Louis, Keokak and Northwestern railroad, normally on. the Missouri shore, are now a few inches above the water and under it in some streches. Shore lights for pilots are standing in the midst of a waste of waters where steamboats can run over them. The river is five to ten miles wide, and another lake 70 miles long is added to the map. - All this territory was practically estimated to make 75 to 100 bushels to covered with com a fortnight ago, the acre. Previous estimates of the loss have been greatly increased by the prospective yield being found much greater than ever before, experts telling of many farms which were good for 100 bushels to the acre before the flood. The loss is total Experience is that if water stays 48 hours even four inches above the surface, it kills corn and every stalk wet by waves perishes from rotting. . The height of. the flood .is indicated by an incident at Lagrange. The steamboat warehouse was well back from the river bank and stands high. A strong current and a gale caused the pilot to make an imperfect landing and the cornice of the roof of the warehouse was torn off by the forward guards of the Silver Crescent. The river is rising all the time, six inches during the day, in the immense area of 700 square miles and the worst is to come. The chief flood thus far is on the Missouri side, from Keoknk to Lonis iana with Canton and West Quincy as centres of the country hurt worst. On the Illinois side are three continuous levees for 40 miles from Warsaw'to Quincy above the water, which thus far are safe, but farmers are afraid of crevasses from muskrat holes, and every rod of the redoubt is watched day and night. The breaking of these levees would flood 175 square miles in Illinois and destroy $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 worth of corn. The levees below Quincy are in the same situation, except that they are lower and less firm. A SERIOUS STORM IN BALTIMORE. Twelve Fatalities in Less Than Twenty Minnies. Baltimore, Julv 20.?A fierce torna do, characterized by a wind storm of extraordinary velocity, thunder, vivid lightning and a heavy rain, suddenly burst upon Baltimore at 1.30 p. m., today, coming from the southwest, with the net result that 12 persons lost their lives, hundreds of houses were unroofed, trees in the pulbic park an streets were torn up by the roots, many buildnigs damaged and several people injured. The storm exhausted its fury in less than lo minutes. The damage done in the business portion of the city was comparatively slight, being confined to the. blowing down of signs and injuries to roofs. It was in the residence portions of the city along the river front and in the har bor where the wind spent its violence. Of those who perished nin^ were1 drowned in the harbor from open ! boats, one was killed by a falling tree and one by a live wire. A combination of wholesale grocers in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri and Michigan has been e?'ccted. The new corporation will be known as the National Grocery Company, and will have a capial stock of 85,000, 000. It will buy direct from importers, manufacturers and sugar refineries, and will also import direct. There will be a large supply house and cold storage plant in Chicago, and the plans contemplate a large manufactur ing house. JOHNSTONE BE6IK!. TO SMASH RECORDS. At Hampton Meeting Hemphill and Latimer Receive Severe Handling. Hampton, July 19.?The senatorial and congressional meeting was held here today in the Court House in the presence of about two hundred and fifty people. The only interesting fea ture of the meeting, like old wine, was reserved for the last. CoL George Johnstone felt that the time had come for him to speak out in meeting. He undertook to smash some of the records which have been held up to at, least half of the people of the Stiate. CoL Johnstone was the last speaker. With him ship subsidy and the Philip pines were minor issues today. Messrs. Latimer's and Hemphill's record de manded his attention. He spoke of Mr. HemphilPs claim to nominal citi zenship in South Carolina during the past ten years, the majority of his time being spent in Washington. CoL Johnstone took up Mr. ^Hemphill's claim to fighting the force bili while in Congress, when the truth of the matter is that, although backed by an outraged Southern sentiment, the House of which he was a member pass ed the measure and it would have pass ed the Senate and become a law had not the Silver Republicans of the Northwest come to the assistance of the Democratic Senators and killed the bill. He compared Mr. Hemphill to the ignorant negro fireman who claim ed that he saved the boiler from ex ploding by simply blowing the whistle. Mr. Latimer's record in Congress has been one of increased taxaation, in fact to the extent of $10 per capita. He acknowledges that he has increas ed the taxes to buy seed to send out to the people to secure votes to elect him to Congress and, fearing that this will not catch them, he sends out bul letins for the same purpose at an in creased appropriation. Mr. Johnstone took up the charge made by Mr. Evans at Orangeburg that Mr. Latimer had voted to give the Pennsylvania Road a piece of prop erty valued at $3,000,000, and that Mr. Latimer had admitted this at Bamberg last Friday. The appropriation of 8160,000 to help the Charleston Expos ition out of a hole was something that the State might get back indirectly same day in the future 3ud he is glad that it was secured, but this gift" of national property, valued at $3,000, 000, is something inexcusable. Again Mr. Johnstone charged Mr. Latimer with acting in bad faith with the peo ple when he distributed thousands of copies of a speech alleged to have made in the House against the ship subsidy bill, and on the date that the State Convention met in Columbia, in May, when to his own knowledge Mr. Latimer was in Columbia on the floor of the Convention electioneering for the same office to which he is now as piring. This he denounced as a delu sion and fraud. Mr. Johnstone. then spoke of the Constitutional Conven tion and the suffrage clause, which forever fixes the status of the white man's government in this State. Un like some of his competitors he ?s not seeking this office f?r the money that is in it and would never sink to so low a level. Col. Johnstoen was at his best today, and his peroration was most eloquent and masterly. Mr. Latimer at the conclusion of Col. Johnstone's speech stated that the Government derives its taxes from revenue and the money will accumu late in the treasury. If he did not get these appropriations it would be given to other sections of the Union, and he wanted every dollar brought to the South, in regard to the ship subsidy speech he said he was in Columbia the day of the Convention, but in a day or two afterwards he attempted to deliver the speeech ?and proceeded five minutes with it, when the Speaker called him down, claiming that the speech was not germane to the subject under discussion. He then obtained permission to have it published in the Congressional Record and sent out copies to his constituents. As to the Pennsylvania Railway property he made the same statement that he did at Bamberg, and added that it was an exchange of a piece of property, but he did not remember the valua tion, if any, put upon it. The matter may come up again. Millionaire Mackey Dead. London, July 20.?John W. Mackay of San Francisco, who had been suf fering from heat prostration since Tuesday last died at his residence on Carlton House Terrace at 6.30 o'clock this evening. Mr. Mackay was the last survivor of the four bonanza kings, Flood, O'brien and Fair, the other three having long since died. The secretary of state has is sued a commission to the Carolina and Wetsern Railway and Lumber Com pany, the principal place of businsss of which will be Ihley, Hampton coun ty. The corporators of the company are W. F. Cummings of Hampton* and John F. Stone and W. C. Patrick of Cummings. The capital stock is to be $50,000. The company poposes to build a railroad to develop its timber lands, to run from Ihley, about 75 1-5 miles from Augusta on the Charleston and Western Carolina road to Till rnan, a station on the Carolina Mid land. The length of the proposed rail road line is not stated in the declara tion. It shocks us immeasurably to hear the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge refer red to as a boss of Massachusetts politics. Mr. Lodge may dominate by reason of his superior mentality and superb executive ability, the qualities which rendered him so effective in the management of the United States sen ate, but surely the gentleman doesn't do anything so vulgar as to boss. We should much prefer to have the gentle men who supply the Massachusetts political news refer to Mr. Lodge as a director or an adviser. The word "boss'' in this connection is not only shocking, bu.t it is calculated to pro duce goose flesh.?Washington Post. Tacoma, Wash, July 18.?All organ ized efforts to capture Harry Tracey, the escaped Oregon convict, have end ed. No further posses will start after him. The pursuit of Tracey through Clark, Cowlitz, Lewis, Thurston, jPierce, Kitsap, Snohomish and King counties has cost these counties 810, 000. h M? RIOT IN LEAYENWORTH. One Thousand Soldiers Enraged Against the Negroes of the City. Leaven worth, Kansas, July 19.? Abont 1,000 soldiers surrounded a resort on Main street tonight and demolished the doors, windows and furniture. This was done in revenge for the fatal stabbing of Eli Loucks, a member of Company F, 6th cavalry, by a negro in the resort. The negroes in the district became panic-stricken. A riot call was sent to police head quarters and a dozen officers marched down the street with guns levelled on the crowd. Four soldiers were severe ly clubbed. Soldiers and negroes are buying guns and serious trouble is anticipated. Lea ven worth, Kas, July 20.?Troop E, 4th cavalry, under command of Capt. Tyree Rivers, rode into Leaven worth fully equipped this morning to quell the riots on the street and dis perse the crowds of soldiers. Poilceman Joseph Wager struck a soldier in the back of the head early this morning. He is still uncon scious. It is believed his neck ? is broken. Great excitement prevails. The down-town streets are swarming with soldiers. Loucks, over whom the trouble be- i gan, is a barber in the 6th infantry, and yesterday he received his pay. John Graham, a negro, evidently knew, of this, for he waylaid Loucks near the Missouri Pacific Railroad sta tion and demanded his money. Upon Loucks's refusal Graham drew a knife and slashed Loucks across the abodo men, inflictng a very x serious and possibly fatal wound. Loucks is now in the post hospital. Graham fled af ter the cutting, but was arrested. Entertaining the Candidates. The proposition has been made that the citizens of Spartanburg furnish en tertainment for the party of candidates who will be here next week, either by taking them to their own homes or by paying their bills at a hotel or board ing house. While, of course, it will be a pleasure for any citizen of Spar tanburg to entertain one or more of the candidates who may be personally known to him, there can be no obliga tion on the part of anybody to furnish entertainment to a stranger who hap pens to be coming this way seeking office and votes. It is not to be considered a matter of patriotism or self-sacrifice in these men to consent to become candidates for the various offices to be filled by the votes of the people. They are can didates because they wish to be?be cause the salaries and circumstances of the offices to which they aspire are more attractive to them than those they enjoy in private life. It is pure ly a matter of business with- them and should be so regarded by the people. There is no reason to treat a party of state campaigners as if they were del egates to a church conference, conven tion or synod. Another result of the free entertain ment of candidates, should the prac tice become general, would be a large increase in the number of candidates, for a substantial reduction in the cost of making the campaign would render even more attractive to the office-seeker the service of the state with the honors and incidentally the regular monthly checks. There can be no obligation to enter tain the candidates and Spartanburg's reputation for hospitality and. good breeding will be in no wise damaged by a failure to conform to such a strained construction of hospitality as would be involved in a claim that we should furnish free board to a party of men who are abroad on a mission of private and personal interest to them selves. However, we will be glad to have the candidates in Spartanburg and to hear them speak.?Spartanburg Jour nal. Thunder Storm in Camden. Camden, July 20.?Quite a heavy thunder storm, accompanied by a good rain, fell here this evening. As a result of the storm the western half of the new tourist hotel on Hobkirk Hill was blown down. About all of the frame work was up, but not suffi ciently protected to withstand the wind, It entails pretty heavy loss, though fortunately for the contractors their loss is covered by a storm policy. A portion of the top of Messrs. Hirsch Brothers & Company's store was blown off during the storm. The damage however is not serious. A good deal of fencing and a number of trees were blown down, and telephone and tele graph wires come in for damage also. A unique and interesting event has transpired at Knoxville. J. C. Ford, recently appointed collector of cus toms there, went to assume charge, relieving E. W. Adkins, who is an old soldier. Adkins turned over the office and wished Ford well, saying that he was sorry to lose the office, which was his sole means of support. Ford listened to the story and then returned him the papers. He went to his law office and wrote .President Roosevelt, asking that Adkins be re appointed ; that he was a young man with a good clientele and that Adkins liad no other means of support. - mm) ? * * a . - For a number of years a distinguish ed French physician. Dr. Berillon, has been making observations pertain ing to the habit of finger-nail biting. The facts which he has gathered show that the habit is the result of a dis- j eased nervous system. He examined j the pupils in a number of schools. ! The habit is much more prevalent among girls than among boys. In some schools 50 per cent of the girls students had contracted the habit. It was noted that the nail-biters were the poorest students. The habit prevails most frequenti between the ages of 12 and 14. Stayed all Night With Josh. " Hon. W. F. Stevenson, candidate for attorney general, was here for a short while Friday afternoon and made a few brief remarks. He spent the night with Hon. J. W. Ashley.? Honea Path Chronicle. REDEEMING POSTAL CARPS. Order Issued Postmasters to Take ; Effect August I. The following notice is being sent oat to postmasters : i It is hereby ordered that on and af ter August 1, 1902, postmasters at all postofBees shall redeem, in postage j stamps or other stamped paper only, and from the original purchasers, un cancelled and unserviceable postal cards at 75 per cent, of their face value. Parts or pieces of cards will not be re deemed: nor will cards which have been treated by bronzing enamelling or other process of coating be redeem ed under the previsions of this order. : The Lieut. Governor's Mail. Washington, July 18.?As a result of a formal complaint from Lieutenant Governor Jim Tillman a rjostoffice in spector is to go to Pickens, S. C, and ascertain who is tampering with the Lieutenant Governor's personal maiL The postoffice d?pannent has received ; a communication from Col. Tillman charging that mail addressed to him I has been delivered to persons other j than the addressee. There is specific information con tained in this letter ripon which to rest the charges. There is an intimation, that reaches here by way of Charleston, that in view of the political rivalry between Mr. Tillman and Representaive Tal bert that the latter may have had an object in intercepting certain letters intended for the lieutenant governor. Notwithstanding the vagueness o? the charges the postoffice authorities intend to probe the matter, and the re port of the inspector will be watched with interest, especially in South Caro lina politics circles. A POLITICAL SURPRISE. McLaurin Has Declined to Sit on the Court of Claims. Oyster Bay, L., L, July 21.?The greatest surprise prevails in official circles here tonight over the refusal of Senator McLaurin to accept the ap pointment of judge of the United States court of appeals. The most surprised person is Presi dent Roosevelt himeslf. It is said on the the highest authority that when Senator McLaurin was the president's guest at luncheon here last Saturday a week ago he assured the chief execu tive that he would accept the office if offered him. The president it is said, thought nothing more of the matter as; accord ing to a very high authority, McLau rin has given the president his practi cal assurance that he would shortly resign the senatorhsip in order to ac cept the new office. It is also stated on the same high authority that Tillman's proposed 'fight to prevent McLaurin from accept ing the office would not have materi alized if McLaurin would have de cided to accept the office. The president earnestly hoped that McLaurin would take the judgeship and ?e would have helped to repudiate any effort to prevent McLuarin's ac ceptance. The opinion prevails in official circles here that the chief rea son McLaurin had to refuse the judge ship was to continue and even make more severe his fight against Tillman in the senate and will also make trou ble for those who circulated the story that he sold himself for the judgeship. ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF IT. Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 21.?Presi dent Roosevelt is in receipt of a letter from Senator John L. McLaurin of South Carolina declining the proffered appointment to the vacancy on the bench oi the United States court of claims. The president, it can be said, much regrets Senator McLaurin's de cision, as he believes that McLaurin's senatorial experience and his career as attorney general of South Carolina would have rendered him a particular ly good addition to the court of claims. The president now is uncertain what he will do about Senator McLaurin. It is understood that he is anxious to appoint him to some position in recog nition of what the president regards as his service to the country and his demonstrated ability in public life. Senator McLaurin's letter is couched in'the most positive terms and evi dently was based in particular upon a newspaper article which accompanied the letter. The article stated that the senator had sold himself for the prospect of getting such an office as that offered to him. It can be said, however, that the president regarded such a type of accusation as beneath notice and sincerely regrets that Sen ator McLaurin should have deemed it necessary to pay any attention to it. Senator McLaurin evidently has changed his mind about accepting the proffered appointment since he was in Oyster Bay on July 11. At that time he indicated his readiness to accept the vacancy on the court of claims and the only question then was when he should resign from the senate. OIL IN 0C0NEE ? Three weeks ago Dr. Boland, a skilled mineralogist, representing^ an extenisve oil company in Philadelphia, happened to stop at "Mr. McJunkin's home in the southwestern part of Oconee County and his attention was at once drawn to a strange tree. After an investigation of the surround ings the doctor told Mr. McJunkin that appearances indicated petroleum in abundance and insisted upon imme- j diate examination, which was reluct- j antly granted. The mineralogist bought the tree, had it dug up and paid for its delivery at the railroad, consigning it to his company in Phil-1 adelphia, and at once had a pit eight \ feet deep dug in search of what he j termed the petroleum blossom, which j lie found corroborated his first impres- ? sions. What will be the outcome, or j how it may culminate, is left to extra- j vagant conjecture, but Dr. Boland evi- ! dently is in earnest and declares that ; appearances indicate a daily output of more than 300 barrels of refin. d oil. The doctor left for his headquarters, promising to return with an expert in a short time when the work will be resumed. ? tilu?n's m raises a storm. Dictum Against Von Kolnitz, a Po litical Sensation?Some Agree With Him. Senator's Tillman's opposition to the election of Mr. . George Von Kolnitz to the State Senate, as declar ed in The Evening Post has made qnite a political sensation. As was to be expected, opinion dif fers, many people strongly resenting Senator Tillman's interference with a local election, in which he has no spe cial connection, when there are others who agree with the position of the Senator that Mr. Von Kolnitz's cam paign under the auspices of the Na tional Republican committee puts him outside of the fold of the Demo cratic organization, and suggests the advisability of Charleston electing an other candidate to the senate. An effort was made to see Mr. Von Kolnitz to secure a statement from him on the situation, but he could not be found. Senator Tillman's ultimatum has been strongly put, and as was stated yesterday, it gives every indication of sincerity and determination, and many people believe that he means to be hands off as far as Charleston's wishes and interests are involved in the United States Senate, if Charles ton sends Mr. Von Kolnitz to the senate. . . As was stated yesterday Mr. Von Kolnitz's friends takes the position that he has always been a democrat. They say he opposed the free silver platform of the party, and in doing so, he did what every man has a right to do, acted in accordance with the dictates of his conscience and be liefs, and they argue that many other good Democrats bolted the party and supported the Republican ticket^ and who are now in the good graces of the Democratic organization, and it would be unjust to single out Mr. Von Kolnitz and blacklist him for his efforts. It is also said that Mr. Von Kolnitz can prove that when he was a candi date for United States District Attor ney, following the election of Presi dent McKinley, he solicited the office as a Democrat, and the fact tha? he was not given the place was due to the disinclination of the Republican organization to put a Democrat in the office. This statement can be borne out, it is said, by Capt. John G. Ga pers, the present district attorney, who was at the time in Washington, in the close councils of the Republi can party. Mr. Von Kolnitz :is said to have a letter from the national Democratic campaign committee of two years ago greatefully acknowl edging the receipt of a letter, offering to take the stump, for the party in doubtful states. Mr. Von Kolnitz's services were not accepted, butr-he was willing to do his part, which -^is friends argue, shows that he had nevet lost faith or interest in his party. The position of Senator Tillman is expected to crystalize and develop any probable opposition to Mr. Von Kolnitz. The ultimatum will add strength to the opposition candidate in certain circles, goes without saying, but up to this afternoon, Mr. Von Kolnitz still seemed to have the field all undisputed, no other candidates having been announced for the office. ? ?Charleston Post. ? Drove Negroes out of Town. -rr Wichita, Kas., July 21.?It was re ported here that a mob of 100 persons drove a negro family out of Blackwell,; ? Okla., last night and burned the house ' occupied by them. No negroes have been allowed even to work in that city since it-was founded. A message re 1 ceived here tonight admits that a negro family, attempting to settle I there, was ordered away, but that their house was not burned. Looking to this State. Writing to the secretary of state, Mr. Van Sickle of Huntington, L. I., N. Y., states that he wishes to move to South Carolina this fall. He wishes j to come to either Kershaw, Chester field, Darlington or Florence counties ; ! and from the nature of the infonna I tion he requests, it seems, that he intends to engage extensively in fruit growing and the cutting of timber. risky "experiment. * Paris, July 21.?Dr. Caranault, who on June 17, inoculated himself with matter taken from a consumptive cow in order to disprove Prof. Koch's theory that it is impossible' for human J beings to catch tuberculosis from cat tle, has written to the Temps announc ing that the inoculation has produced tumors. He says this proves that man is quite as susceptible to bovine tuberculosis as any other animal. He again inoculated himself July 15 by inserting under the skin of his left arm a fragment of tubercular mat ter from the liver of a diseased cow. ^ The second inoculation was performed because he feared that the tuberculosis of the skin resulting from the first would remain too long superficial. , The second form of inoculation when performed on a guinea big inevitably ! causes death within eight weeks. ? This will given an idea of the risks j Dr. <Garnault is running. The mill men of the American Tin Plate Company throughout the conn- ^ try are beginning to vote en a proposi tion to reduce wages 25 per cent. The ! company represents that with the re ! dnction it would be able to take from I the Wales' mills their last big Ameri I can customer, the Standard Oil Com ! panv, which wishes to make a con I tract for 1,500,000 boxes of tin plate. . The American Tin Plate Company * j asks its workmen to allow the cut in ! wages until the first large order is . I filled, insuring work throughout the ? year._ ! Halifax, N. S., July 21. -George j William Cook, a retired British sol I dier, is under arrest on the charge of v ! murdering his wife, Lydia Arnold j Cook, whom he married six weeks ! ago, by cutting her throat with a ? razor. " After he committed the deed ' he went to sleep in the bed from which i the body of his wife had fallen after being nearly decapitated. The murder $ I was committed at the residence oi j Cook's wife's sister, Eliza Arnold, I where the couple had resided since they were married.