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SR?DSTREET'S TRADE REVIEW. AH Conditions Favorable?The Future Seems More and More S?tifactory. New York, July 18.?Bradstreet's to morrow will say: Weather, crop and industrial developments have been largely favorable, and coupled with the greater ease of money make for an optimistic feelins: in trade and specu lation. As stated some time ago and confirmed by recent developments the future seems more and more secure, but the immediate present does not in all instances present so satisfactory an -appearance. Warmer weather has continued to help retail distribut?on but has not in all cases made up tor the disadvantages caused by the heretofore backward seasno. With few exceptions* summer resort business has not equalled ex pectations./ Railway earnings are nattering, June reports on nearly 100,000 miles of : road showing an aggregate gain of 8 per cent, on last year. The demand for finished picoducts of iron and steel has improved, and lum ber seems to be recovering from the. temporary depression. The shoe trade, and naturally ? hides and leather, heretofore backward, have begun to show a favorable side, and the strength of wool goods is also .more noticeable. The eastern fall jobbing trade in dry goods is not expected to set in --quite as early as a year ago. Good growing weather is reported throughout the country and corn and -cotton reports are generally more favorable. The*southern peach yield has been, large and fruits generally have done well. Iron and steel trade conditions are : surprisingly good, to none more so than the manufacturers themselves, -who at the middle of July find their output for the last half of the year practically booked. The scarcity of pig iron amounts to something ap proaching a famine owing to re stricted supplies of fuel causing shut 'down of numerous furnaces. Numerous orders for pig iron for the first half of next year have been booked both by northern and southern furnaces. The position of the- latter has been much improved by the settle ment of the coal miners' strike in the Birmingham district Heavy sales of finished material are reported at Chi cago and Pittsburg this week. Bar iron, structural material, rails and in fact all of the heavier forms note spe ;cia! activity. Implement manufac turers have been free buyers. Hard ware has been exceptionally active, builders' material leading. Some western shovel manufacturers report an unprecedented output and sale of thjis class of material. Machinery, saws and stoves are active at the west. -Prices note few changes and are at the top ir. practically all lines. Woolen goods are still quiet at the east, but the reports as to the cloth ing business received from western southern manufacturers indicate business. Wool is strengthen m Eastern quotations are between higher and the tone is more opti >tic in this trade, helped as it is by 1er prices in Jjondon and reported >ught in Australia. .It has been a waiting market for cot the crop position not being as yet trly defined enough to induce new >mmitments. A better tone is noted the manufacturing branch, particu ly in print cioths, which are said in increased inquiry a Fall a rer. ' The industrial situation is better m it has been for some time past, business failures in the United States iber 174 against 195 last week : in iada 17 against 28 last week. Brothers Run Close. Jacksonville, July 17.?The race for State Senate from Du val county, ich was one of the most exciting ' remarkable political contests on )rd, has ended in a victory for Tel ir Stockton over his brother, Tom, the narrow margin of 39 votes in a il of 3,297 votes. It required the iial count to settle the matter. The brothers conducted a very stir ring campaign against each' other and the community was closely . divided in their support. The Stocktons are. among the most prominent people in Jacksonville and the two brothers who exposed each other are both men of tit ility and influence. London, July 18.?In the house of lords today, the foreign secretary, Lord Landsdowne, said it was hoped to restore Tien Tsin to the Chinese within a month. He also said that the Chinese indemnity debt was a gold debt, but Great Britain was not vindictive and in consequence of the serious depreciation in the value of the t&el had^suggested to the other ; ^powers mitigation of the terms by which during the first - eight years 'China should not pay more than she would have done had the tael main tained the value at which it stood when the protocol was signed. \: Roankoe, Va., July 17.?While a bridge force was working on a Norfolk and Western Railway trestle, over Reed Creek, two miles west of Wythe ville, today, the scaffolding gave way. precipitating Allen Grub, James W. Smith, Stephen Gregger, William Hicks and John McKenzie, the latter a foreman, eighty feet below into the creek. Smith's head was crushed by striking a bed of rocks, which killed him instantly. Grubb and McKenzie are believed to have received injuries that will prove fatal. Gregger and Hicks were only slightly hurt. All of the men are of family. Smith leaving a wife and thirteen children at Dub lin, Va. Summer complaint is unusually preval ent among children this season. A well de veloped case in the writer's family was cured last week by the timely use of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy?one of the best patent medicines manufactured and which is always kept on hand at the home of ye J?ribe. This is not intended as a free puff iror the company who do not advertise with us, but to beneiit little sufferers who may iot be within easy access Of a physician. 3Sc? family should be without a bottle of this medicine in the house, especially in dummer?time.?Lansing, Iowa, Journal. For s ile by Or. A. J. China. BEN. YO?NO TO SUCCEED MILES. Probable That he will Become Lieutenant-Genera! of the Army. Washington, D. C, July 18.?Major General S. M. B. Yonng, now presi dent of the War College Board, will probably succeed General Miles as the Lieutenant-General of the army. General Miles will reach the age of retirement in August, 1903, and the President's plan now is to name Gen eral Young as his successor. There is an element of injustice in this plan, and the President is perfectly con scious of it General Henry C. Corbin is the sen ior Major-General, and has a right to aspire to the position now held by I General Miles, but Corbin and his friends are perfectly agreeable to the I President's plan to nominate General j Young. There are two reasons for placing General Young ahead of Gene ral Corbin, and these reasons appeal to Corbin as well as to the President. The first reason is that Young will reach the age of retirement in Janu ary, 1904, while Corbin will not reach that age until 1906. The Only hope of Young reaching the head of the army is for him to succeed Miles. By so doing he will have six months to serve as Lieutenant-General before he goes on the retired list. He has been one of the distinguished fighters of the army, and the President desi res to give him this promotion before he retires. General Corbin is entirely agreeable to this and in hearty sym pathy with the .President's idea of justice. He and General Young are intimate friends, and it might be said that each is ready to waive his rights in favor of the other. There is, however, another reason why Young is to be selected to succeed Miles rather than Corbin. The President and Secretary Root desire to end the martydom of Gene ral Miles with his service at the head of the army. They want to have that event close the military career of Miles and also end the controversy regard ing -the troubles Miles has had with the War Department. They realize that this cannot be done if Corbin should succeed Miles, because of the persistent talk there has been about the long and bitter enmity between Miles and Corbin. The friends of Miles would insist that Corbin was selected as the successor as a means of further testifying to the administra tion's desire to humiliate General Miles. ? __.?^-_ AMERICAN GONTHOL OF COTTON. English Milis to Close Rather Than Buy at the Advanced Prices. London, July 18.?Th? newspapers display great anxiety regarding the situation in the cotton trade. They describe Lancashire as preparing to fight for its existence as the world's greatest cotton center. Mills are be ing closed and orders from India have almost ceased. The Daily Mail says that at the bidding of bold groups of American speculators the mill owners had to choose between conducting their busi ness at a heavy loss or stopping. The writer declares that certain groups headed by Theodore \ Price of New York have gradually 'acquired con trol of what is left of the old crop of cotton. The new crop not being available until September the Lancashire mill owners will have to pay about $100, 000,000 extra for raw material between now and October unless something is done. The present situation means ruin for them. America is fighting for the British markets, and India is building her own factories. The president of the Master Cotton Spinners' Federation says that combi nation must be me with combination. The American rings have already forced up prices a cent a pound or 850,000,000 on a half-year crop. The federation proposes that the mills close on Monday and Saturday each week. THE REFERENDUM. The initiative and referendum idea is. making some progress. It has been adopted, to a greater or less extent, in South Dakota, Nebraska, Illinois and California, though in the last named it is confined to the city by-laws of San Francisco. The adoption of the referendum in Oregon at the last election ,has been noted; but the radical character of the constitutional amendment has not at tracted much attention. It provides that whenever 8?per cent, of the voters of the State petition ' for the passage ! of a law it shall* be submitted to a j vote of the people, and, if approved j by a majority of those who vote upon I it, it shall become a law. Thus a j small minority may frame a law, and i they may also enact it unless the other voters take the trouble to vote against I it. This is the initiative. But 5 per cent, of the voters of the State may I demand that any enactment of the ? Legislature be submitted to a popular I vote, and, unless a majority of those ! voting upon it shall approve, it shall not be a law. This is the referendum. ! The Governor's veto does not apply , in the case of laws thus submitted to ! popualr vote. This system will occasionally have the effect of defeating bad legislation, but it may also promote the enact ment of many crude laws unless a ma jority of the people can be induced to defeat them, which experience shows to be pretty difficult. For exmple, in South Dakota the people voted in fa vor of the State's going into the business of manufacturing liquors, but as they did not supply the large capi tal required, it has been decided that the law cannot be carried out. This instance is eloquent of the possibili ties under this system of initiative.? Courier-Journal. Acts Immediately. Colds are sometime? more troublesome in summer th*n in winter, it'* so hard to keep from adding to them while cooling off after exercise. One Minute Cougli Cure cures at once. Absolutely safe. Acts immediately. Sure cure for coughs, colds, croup, t^oat and lung tcoub^es. J. S. Kughson & Co. GREAT FLOOD IN THE WEST. The Loss to Farmers Will be Two and a Half Millions. Keokuk, Iowa, July 18.?Heavy rains in central Iowa yesterday and today, sending a flood down upon prosperous Missouri farmers, which will ruin many of the them and cause losses aggregating, at a conservative estimate, two and a half million dol lars. There seems to be no hope to night for the country between the Mississippi river and its Missouri bluffs between Keokuk and Hannibal, 30 square miles, mostly corn laid by, with some thousands of acres of wheat in the shock. The water had touched the danger line the first of the week and had begun to recede, when heavy floods started again in the Des Moines, Skunk and Iowa rivers. With a stage in the Des Moines river only three feet below the tops of the great levees, the river began to rise three inches an hour at the mouth here today, con tinuing until the factor of safety, was wiped out this evening. A rise of one and a half feet in a short time this morning at Ottumwa and a further rise throughout its length below the capital city was pre vented from running out freely by a rise of a foot and a half at Davenport last night, increasing and coming down rapidly. This afternoon the observer of the weather bureau at Keokuk sent tele graphic warnings to all points south to prepare for danger. The crest is expected here Saturday or Sunday. The Egyptian levee which stood the flood just receding after strenuous efforts to hold it, is only slightly above the water now and the coming flood in the Des Moines will cover it certainly. This will let the water into hundreds of square miles, including the town of Alexandria, Mo. The in habitants there are preparing for an overflow of the entire town to a depth of several feet. The worst feature is the time of the year. The corn crop is all made and wheat is in the shock, entailing ? total loss of the year's work. Crops were never finer and the yi?ld promised to be immense. Grain men put the figures of the loss from the overflow nearer four millions be tween Keokuk and Hannibal. It is believed the Illinois levees will hold and the damage there is likely to be only 820,000 to 830,000 between Keokuk and Quincy. Heavy rains are reported in southeastern Iowa today and tonight indicates still higher wa ter. Low lands, diver men and the weather observer men alike predict the greatest damage ever known from flood on the upper river. Mr. Martin's Impressions. Mr. O. B. Martin is making a good impression at the campaign meeting. However this may be, Mr. Martian is making a pretty spectacle of himself before all educators ? of the State as well as before all other well-informed people. His attempt to attach blame to the State superintendent of education for the text-book adoption indicates very clearly that he is either, grossly ignorant of the duties of the office to which he aspires or seriously lacking in principle. If he does not know that it is the duty of the State board of education, consisting of nine mem bers, to adopt the text-books, and that seven of these members are appointed by the governor, the governor and State superintendent being ex-officio members, then he is too ignorant to hold the position of teacher in the public schools. If he knows this and knows also, as every well-informed educator in our State does, that the present State board was appointed with a ruthless disregard of the recommen dations of the State superintendent, and that nearly every book adopted was adopted over the superintendent's protest?if Mr. Martin "knows this and'continues to charge Mr. McMahan with any responsibility either direct ly or indirectly for the recent adoption of textbooks, then just men can have but one opinion of Mr. Martin, name ly, that he is a man totally lacking in principle. We would prefer to believe that he is only ignorant.?The Educa tional. The Baltimore American says: "The appointment of Rear Admiral Crowin shield to command the European sta tion was not hailed with peons of de light. The record of the man as a sail or and as an executive was not such as to justifiy the belief that he would measure up to the mark in either capacity. As a sailor he left Boston for ^ New York in the battleship Maine without sufficient coal or ship stores for the voyage, and narrowly escaped a courtmartial for his failure to properly perform his duties before his vessel left port. As an executive, since assuming command of the Euro pean station, he came within a very narrow margin of causing trouble between this country and Italy by per mitting his indorsement of the findings of the court of inquiry that investi gated the Chicago affair at Venice to be made public?that indorsement containing a vicious attack upon the Italian judiciary. And now, while entering the harbor of Christiana, his ship, the Illinois, went ashore in a channel that is being constantly navi gated with safety by competent sail ors. The Illinois will have to go into dock, the government will have to pay the bills and Crowninshield has added another mark to his remarkable rec ord for inefficiency." The Atlanta Constitution of Mon day printed the following: "Capt. George Lynch, who -was recently ap pointed superintendent of the Atlantic Coast Line at Charleston, was born on March 8, 1852, at Enfield, N. C. In 1868 he entered the service of the Wilmington and Weldon as freight clerk, and in 1879 was made freight conductor and later passenger conduc tor: 1881 to 1S85 he was assistant mas ter of trains and 1885 to 1895 train master, after which position he held that of assistant superintendent of trains until his appointment as super intendent of the Charleston district of the first division of the Atlantic Coast Line on July 1, 1902. " Cet this out find take it to Dr. A. J. China's Drug Store and get a box of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. The best physic. They also correct die orders of the stomach. Price 25 cents. . '':.a.-.- . -Vf'?'----'. ^ ' ., . TILUAN OUTLAWS G. F. VON KOLNITZ, JR. The Latter is a Candidate for the State Senate. Special to The State. Charleston, July 18.?Senator Till man has put Mr. George Von Kolnitz, a candidate for the State senate, un der the ban, and he declares that if Mr.. VoH-Koinitz' is elected he will never do another thing for Charles ton. Senator Tillman's declaration on the subject is most emphatic, having been given in writing as well as by let ter, and he declares that he means every word that he has said. The situation becomes doubly inter esting for the reason that Mr. Von Kolnitz is thus without opposition in his canvass. Mr. Joseph W. Barnwell determined some time ago not to stand for reelection to the senate, leaving the field undisputed to Mr. Von Kolnitz. No other names have been mentioned as likely, to make the race, and it remains to be seen what will be the outcome now that Senator Tillman has put the only candidate out for the office under the ban. Senator Tillman's opposition to Von Kolnitz is based on Von Kolnitz's support of the Republi can party platform and candidates in the campaign of 1896. Von Kolnitz made a number of speeches in op position to the Democratic ticket in New York and other doubtful States. He spoke as a "sound money Demo crat, " opposed to the Chicago plat form, perferring the "triumph of the Republican ticket to that put out by the Democratic convention. It is known that recently certain interests opposed to Mr. Von Kolnitz endeavored to have the State execu tive committee rule him out of the primary on account of his former polit ical affiliations. The appeal was made to Chairman Jones but not. meeting with success it is presumed that the matter was carried to Senator Till man, and the dictum has been ren dered accordingly. The action of the senator in inter fering with the election here is, of course, resented by many people. FORTUNE LEFT TO CONVICT. Pardoned From Prison he Goes to Germany to Claim Estate. New York, July 18.?In order that he may return to Gemany and obtain a fortune of $50,000 to which he recently fell heir and to which his right has been fully established, Richad Bassler has been pardoned by the New Jersey court of pardons. Bassler was sentenced to two years in the state prison last fall on a charge of burglary. The story of the crime, as'he related it to the court of par dons, was that while intoxiated he fell through a store window with no in tention of stealing. Another prisoner sentenced' for ten years in 1896 on a charge of breaking into a postoffice was paroled in order that he might take up the manufac ture of a sewing machine invented by him while behind the bars. A com pany with an authorized capitalization of SI,000,000 has been chartered to manufacture the machine. The pardoned prisoner is said to have received $50,000 cash and a block of stock in the new company. Postmaster General Payne has just issued an order to the effect that logs and bags of dirt and such things can not be sent through the mails, particu larly when they weigh in a single case as much as 200 pounds, says the Phil adelphia Pres?. This is the result of a complaint by the Agricultural Depart ment that some postmasters refuse such packages while others accept them. ?It appears, according to the complaint of the Agricultural Depart ment, that some of its agents have been in the habit of sending through the mails "packages containing sec tion of logs weighing from 100 to 200 pounds." This seems to have aston ished Postmaster General Payne, and on investigation he found that not only logs were shipped as mail, under the department frank, but also that bags filled with dirt or "soil" were sent in the same way. He has just is sued an order to postmasters stating that he will hold them responsible if they permit the law to be violated in that way. Some years ago it was dis covered that roll-top desks and things of that kind were being sent through the mails under franks, and that was particularly true at a time when the mails were being weighed to deter mine what was to be paid to certain railroads for carrying the mails. The Mobile Register in a righteous fit of disgust, gets off the following : " Buckingham Palace and Oyster Bay are fast becoming tiresome subjects: the public are not being either spe cially interested in what King Edward eats or in the color of the stripes of the lawn tennis suit which Roosevelt wears. While the people of the Uni ted States have a personal interest ni Roosevelt's physical condition, so far as it bears upon the probability of his living out his present term, or in the possibility of his serving another, they do not care a baubee whether he rides a bay mare over a tenrail fence or a jackass over a field of daisies." London, July 19.?A dispatch from Milan, Italy, to The Daily Telegraph reports the arrest by the police at Bra, near Turin, of a young barber from Paterson, N. J. The prisoner gives his name as Tonett, probably assumed, and confesses that he is an ananarchist. Papers seized at his domicile indicated his intention to assassinate King Victor Emanuel. Vacation Days. Vacation time is here and the children are fairly living out of doors. There could be no healthier place for them. You need only to guard against the accidents inci dental to most open air sports. No remedy equals DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for quickly stopping pain or removing danger of serions consequences. For cuts, scalds and a^. ,;I used DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for sores, cuts and bruise*,'' says It. B. Johnson. Swift Tex. "It is the best remedy on the market." Sure cure fcr piles and skin diseases. Beware of counterfeits. J. S. Kughson ?fc Co. ??mmm- % m niA? ?? Hammocks at special prices to close out stock. H. G. 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