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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.
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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. .
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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.
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Hammocks at special prices to close
out stock. H. G. Osteen & Co.
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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
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They will be sold worth the money,
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Dec 8
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