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JOHNSTON A PBES? BEHTIAL POSSIBILITY. m Mayor of Cleveland Has Captured the Ohio Democratic Con vention. There Was Some Attempt to Fight His Platform, But This Was Soon Squelched. Sandusky, O., Sept. 2.?Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland won a decis ive victory today in the preliminary meetings of the Democratic State con vention which meets here tomorrow. Ever since he was selectee as chairman of the convention by she State central committee it has been the general opinion that this occasion would be made the initial public opening of his candidacy for the next Democratic nomination for the presidency. In that respect his success has been phe nomenaL No Ohio candidate for the presidency ever had a more unanimity of sentiment in his favor among the delegates at a State convention than was shown at the meetings tonight by -congressional districts for the selec tion of officers and members of the va rions committees. Committees of the convention, the committee on credentials, permanent organization and rules and order of business are almost unanimously with him for everything he wants. One of them gave him the double honor at once of agreeing on a report to make permanent the temporary organization of the convention. The Johnson men were opposed only in the selection of the committee on resolutions and the members of the committee on resolutions and new State central committee and in some districts these contests were closer and more bitter than expected. The John son men secured l? of the 21 State commi tteemen with three contested opponents pending and a greater pro portion of those on the committee on resolutions. The Johnson men during the day made no concessions and in some cases "gave no quarter"' to their opponents. This caused the minorities on the two committee named at first to fight, but the fighting was soon over, when the j roll of the committee on resolution was called the members from the first, third and eleventh districts opposed the endorsement of Bryan and the Kansas City platform and other John eon planks, but the Johnson platform finally carried without changes anc. will be so reported to the convention to morrow and adopted without any minority report or other obstruction as had been threatened earlier in the evening. It has been customary always first to appoint - a sub-committee of : three or five to draft a platform and report the same to the full committee, but that was found not necessary to night, as Mayor Johnson handed the full committee the "draft'' and the , full commi tee soon completed its work. The tactics of the Johnson men in giving no quarter was shown most) clearly in the organization tonight of the new State central committees. Contests were made on three members as follows: By Prescott Smith on Lewis G. Bernard in the first; by J. JL McClung on Capt M. H?tt in the tenth, and by C. C. Philbrick on F. J, Heer in the twelfth district. It was urged on the Johnson men that Bernard, H?tt and Beer had the cre dentials duly signed by the chairmen and secretaries of their respective dis tricts and that such contests for com mittee membership were almost with out precedent, but all appeals for con ciliation in the interest of harmony failed and the new committee spent the night in hearing these contests, both sides fighting with unusual persistence and bitterness. Meantime the ovations at Johnson's headquarters continued. The dele gates called in greater numbers than ever after the results of the evening meetings became known. Johnson re idly refused to respond to se re l?s, saying that he wanted to save his voice for the convention. In the some hotel were J. L. Zim merman of Springfield, Chas, W. Baker of Cincinnati, Chas. W. Has kell of Ottawa, Gen. A. Sanders Piatt and other candidates for the Demo cratic nomination for governor next year, but none of them had large crowds about their quarters and none of them were called out for speeches. The call for everything was in John son. The platform as it came from Mayor Johnson was agreed to tonight by a vote of 16 to 5 of the committee on resolutions, but it will not be given out for publication until it is aodpted by the conveniton. The resolution are fully in accord with the views of Mayor Johnson on both national and State issues. They favor a new municipal code for Ohio cities with home rule as the cardinal principal and the federal plan as sec ondary and denounce what is called "municipal government by boards." They also denounce the proposition of perpetual franchisee and favor such charters subject to popular vote. in national affairs the last national platform and standard bearer are strongly endorsed and what is consid ered a special thrust at John B. McLean is incorporated in a resolution for the election of United States sena tors by direct vote of the people; and until a constitutional amendment for the election of senators can be secured m it shall be the policy of the Demo cratic party in Ohio to endorse at State conventions the party to be voted for at the next legislative election of a senator. Deca tur, 111., Sept. 4.?Action has been taken by the Decatur and Lin coln presbyteries of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church which is expect ed to result in the reunion of the Cumberland Presbyterian and the Presbyterian Church, which separated in 1810. The Decaiur and Lincoln presbyteries both adopted resolutions declaring that the creed of the Presby ' terian Church, as revised, removed all doctrinal differences over which the churches split and there was no reason why they should not reunite. Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 4.?The paving concerns of the south have en "tered into a consolidation and Chatta nooga will be the headquarters of the corporation. The main officers will be located in thi3 city. PRESIDENT NARROW ESCAPES DEATH. His Carriage Torn to Pieces by a Trolley Car. One Secret Service Man Killed. Pittsfield, Mass., Sept. 3.?The drag containing President Roosevelt and his party on the way from Pittsfield to Lenox was struck by an electric car today and the president was slightly cut and bruised. Secret Service Agent Craig was killed. Secretary Cortelyou "was slightly injured. The driver of the coach was seriously hurt. The motorman and conductor of the car were placed under arrest. The president was able to resume his journey to Lenox but sent word ahead that there should be no cheering. HOW IT OCCURRED. The president of the United States escaped a tragic death by only a few feet in a collision between his carriage and an electric car in this city today, while one of bis most trusted guards, Secret Service Agent Wm. Craig, was instantly killed, and David J. Pratt of Dalton, who was guiding the horses attached to the vehicle, was seriously injured. President Roosevelt himself was badly shaken up but received only a slight facial bruise. Secretary Cortelyou, who occupied a seat opposite the chief executive in the landeau, ssutained a minor wound in the back of the head and Gov. Crane, who sat beside the president, extri cated himself from the wreck practi cally without a scratch. The carriage was., demolished by the pact of the rapidly moving car, and the wheel horse on the side nearest the car was killed outright, the crew and passen gers of the car escaping injury. The president and party were driv ing from this city to Lennox through South street, one of the principal thoroughfares of Pittsfield, which was lined with cheering pepole and the catastrophe occurred in plain "view of hundreds, whose happiness at the ad vent of the nation's chief was sudden ly turned to' grief. Thousands had poured into the city in the early morning from the nearby country to see and hear the president and his address at the city park had been loudly cheered. At the conclu sion of the exercises he wished to make a brief call on Henry L. Dawes, formerly United States senator, whose house in Elm street is but a short dis tance from the park. The president's carriage, in which he had ridden in from Gov. Crane's home at Dalton, was accordingly driven to the ?Dawes residence and carriages containing a number of other gentlemen in the party followed. President Roosevelt's call *was a short one and then the car riages returned to the city square. After a few moments delay the jour ney toward Lennox was begun. Mean while the mounted escort of police offi cers and the carriages containing the newspaper correspondents who have ac companied the president on his tour had started off ahead ?n the road to Lennox and were some distance in ad vance ? of the president's equipage. Three or four other open carriages fell in line immediately behind the landau in which the president rode with Sec retary Cortelyou and Gov. Crane. Secret Service Agent Craig, who throughout the New England tour has been almost constantly at the presi dent's elbow, was on the driver's box beside Coachman Pratt. IN A BROAD HIGHWAY. Out through South street is a broad, smooth highway. The tracks of the Pittsfield Electric street railway are laid in the centre of ? the road with ample room for teams on each side, and scores of vehicles of every description followed along this road behind the president's party. Shortly after he left the park an electric car which had been filled with passengers at that point, started toward Lennox well behind the proces sion. It passed all of the teams and was about a mile and a half out from the city at the beginning of Howard hill and was nearly up to the presi dent's carriage, which was traveling on the west side of the highway. Just at the foot of Howard hill the road bends a little and teams are com pelled to cross the street railway tracks to the east side. The railroad then continues at one side of the street instead of in the centre. Just at this point the up-grade of the hill begins and but a short distance beyond the crossing there is a narrow bridge, spanning a small brook. The trolley car approached the road, crossing under a good head of speed with gong clanging just as the driver of the president's carriage turned his leaders to cross the tracks. On each side of the executive's carriage rode two mounted troopers of the local cav alry company and the horsemen on the left of the landau had turned on the track with the trolley car immediately behind them, though some yards distant. Alarmed by the clanging gong, they both turned in their saddles and waved vigorously to the motorman to stop his car. Almost at the same instant Gov. Crane, who quickly perceived the danger, rose to hie feet and likewise motioned to the motorman. The lat ter in great excitement desperately tried to stop his car but it was too late. It crashed into the carriage just as a loud moan went up from the fren zied onlookers who thronged the road side and who but a moment before were cheering the president The horsemen managed to get the frightened animals out of the way just in time and the car struck the rear wheel of the carriage on the left side and ploughed through to the front wheel of the vehicle which received the full force of the blow. The carriage was upset in the twinkling of an eye and one horse fell dead on the tracks. The other three powerful grays attach ed to the vehicle started to run and dragged by them and pushed by the force of the car the wrecl* d carriage was moved 30 or 40 feet. PASSED OVER HIS BODY. Mr. Craig fell from is seat imme diately in front of the car and it pass ed completely over his body. Driver Prati; in lulling struck the dead horse immediately in front of him and roll ed off clear of the car, thus escaping a similar fate. President.Roosevlt, Gov. Crane and Secretary Cortelyou were thrown together in the bottom of the carriage. Almost immediately a score of men jumped to the heads of the frightened borse* and stopped their further i progress. Gov. Crane was i;he first to get to his feet, escaping entirely un hnrt. He turned immediately to the president, helped the latter to arise and together they assisted Secretary Cortelyou. A POLITICAL SENSATION. New York Republican Convention to Oppose Roosevelt. Washington, September 3.?Senator Tom Platt's emphatic declaration that the New York Republican Con vention will not endorse President Roosevelt for renomination is causing a great deal of comment here. It has carried joy into the camp of the Demo cratic Congressional campaign com mittee, for it is equivalent to a decla ration that the leaders of the Republi can party are not with President Roosevelt on the trust question and that they are ready to throw him over board rather than allow any harm to come to the trusts. It gives an other proof of the contention of the Democratic leaders that the Re publican party, as a whole, is in league with the trusts and that its policies are dictated and its leaders chosen by Wall street. Senator Platt's declaration, when it is followed up and made good by the convention, which he will rule with a rod of iron, will go far toward still more clearly marking the line between the Roosevelt Republicans and the Anti-Roosevelt Republicans The fight over Cuban reciprocity brought about the first clear division in the party on these lines and now the trust issue bids fair to widen $he breech past all possibility of healing. There is no doubt that the P resident has the great mass of his parl y with him He has them with him on the Cuban question and on the trust question, but he is widely separated from many of the leaders on both questions. '.The men who control com mittees and organize campaigns, the men who collect campaign funds and realize the importance of not offending the great moneyed interests of the country, are all dismayed at his plain talk about trusts. It is these msn who are represented by Senator Platt, and whose will the New York Republican Convention will execute when it re fuses to endorse the Republican Presi dents In this connection an \ interesting story has reached Washington through the channel of a Washington financial house with Wall street connecti?ns. It is to the effect that the big: men of theatreet want to see the Republi cans defeated this fall and a Demo cratic House of Representatives elect ed. The argument which the trust mag nates are-using is that it will be com paratively easy to prevent any anti trust legislation during the short ses sion of Congress next winter and that if the present Congress shonld be fol lowed by one in which the Senate is controlled by the Republicans ami the House of Representatives by the Dem ocrats they will be absolutely sife from molestation. They figure that the Re publican Senate would insist that the only way to reach the trusts is by means of a constitutional amendment, and that the Democratic House of Representatives, controlled by Siates rights theories, would never corsent to the adoption of this method, and thus they would go free and escape any adverse legislation whatever.? News and Courier. They Will Be Prosecuted. The first actual step towards" bring ing to justice the men who were guilty of the frauds committed in the recent primary was taken yesterday. Chair man J. H. Thayer, in the proper exer cise of the authority vested in him as the chairman of the county Demo cratic executive committee, requested Solicitor Hildebrand to come to Charleston to begin an investigation. Solicitor Hildebrand will arrive in the city to-morrow, and Chairman Thayer will at once place in his hands all the affidavits and other damning evidences of wrong-doing which are in the pos session of his committee. It is believ ed that the proofs that fraud was com mitted are amply sufficient to warrant the swearing out of warrants. The solicitor will be the judge of that. The duty of vindicating the good name of the people of the city will rest upon him, and he can accomplish the task in but one way?a vigorous prosecu tion of all of those whose guilt can be established. In this work he will be backed up by a public sentiment which is overwhelming. Prompt and vigor ous action is what is wanted, and it is believed that Solicitor Hildebrand will measure up fully to the requirements of the duties of his office and to the high the expectations of the public confi dence that has been reposed in him.? News and Courier. Navigating the Santee. The Columbia and Georgetown Navi gation Company is inafinancialjcondi tion now to build the boats ana ope rate them on the river. It is the pres ent purpose to build two boats and preliminary steps have been taken to do so, though no contract has been awarded. A Government boat will pre viously sound the river and by the time the boats are ready all the shoals and snags that may be in the river will be located. It is expected that the two boats will be running this fall. Maj. Thos. Woodward Dead. Winnsboro, Sept. 4.?This afternoon at 6.45 Maj. Thos. W. Woodward died at his'home at Rockton after a pain ful illness of several months. He was one of Fairfield's most prominent citi zens. Spartanburg, Sept. 4.? A party of northern capitalists have been investi gating the feasibility of a trolley line from Spartanburg to Greenville. To day it was learned that the project was favorably considered and by the end of the week a charter for the proposed comppany will be applied for. It is proposed to build the line by Arcadia mills, four miles from this city, then to Fair Forest, Wellford, Pelham and several mills in Green vi lib county. The line will pass several fine water powers on the Tiger and it is proposed to develop these and operate the road by water newer. m HESTER'S ANNUAL REPORT. His Figures of the Cotton Crop of the Year Just Ended. New Orleans, Sept. 4.? Secretary Hester's annnal report was issued in full today. He puts the cotton crop of 1901-02 at 10,680,680 bales, an increase of 297,258 over that of 1900-01, 594,160 under that of 1898-99. Compared with last year in round figures the group of Atlantic States, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Caro lina, Kenucky and Virginia has in creased 461,000. The report on the cotton crop of the States follows in thousands of bales : Alabama 1,200 against 1,000 last year ; Arkansas 820 against 762 ; Flor ida 54 against 45: Georgia 1,525 against 1,295; Louisiana 880 against 719; Mississippi 1,375 against 950; North Carolina 550 against 542 ; South Carolina 925 against 911; Tennessee, etc. 359 against 350; Texas and Indian Territory 2,993 against 3,809. The average commercial value of this year's crop at $41.01 against $47.63 last year and the total value of the crop at $438,104,687 against $494,567, 549 last year. This Mr. Hester says shows that while the crop was in excess of last year by 297,258 bales the money value thereof was $552,862 less. The total spindles in the' south ? are estimated at 7,512,982, an increase over last year of 981,08S. These in clude 996,853 in new mills not yet completed. The consumption has been divided as follows: Alabama, 198,011 bales, an increase of 33,654; Arkanss 2,463, an increase of 734; Georgia 402,879, an increase of 48,380; Kentucky 25,706, an increase of 1,721; Louisiana 18,017, an increase of 1,490 ; Mississippi 33,774, an increase of 9,471; Missouri 4,329, a decrease of 602; North Carolina 528,488 bales, an increase of 93,510; South Carolina 614,065, an increase of 13,516; Texas 17,333, an in crease of 4,348; Virginia 43,983, an increase of 7,239. Total consumption of the south 1,937,971 bales, an in crease over last year of 317,040. Mr. Hester puts the consumption of American cotton by northern mills this year at 2,050,000 bales, which to gether with the 1,937,971 consumed in the south makes a total for the United States of 3,987,911. The reciepts of new cotton of the crop of 1902-03 at delivery ports as es timated are 96,531 against 52,742 last year and 22,620 the year before. THE GORAN MARKET. The Island Offers A Big Field for American Products. Washington, September 4.?Ameri can manufacturers are considering certain indispensable requirements for the capture and retention of the cotton goods trade in Cuba, according to a report from Minister Squiers, at Ha vana, dated August 12, which was made public at the State department today. The minister declares that the American houses should send Spanish speaking representatives to Cuba to work up their trade, instead of rely ing on the export commission houses in New York to engage business for them there. He also points out a number of details in the packing and invoicing of goods destined for Cuba, which are not taken into account in the United States. The British, says the minis ter, already have the larger part of the Cuban cotton goods trade, with the United States and Spain as a close rival for the second place. HIGH PRICES FOR TOBACCO. What Tobacco Farmers Are Re ceiving for Their Crops. Every day is a good day for tobacco now, the weed is just rolling in from every side and day and night the heavy wagons may be heard rumbling up the driveways. The floors were well filled today with very good tobacco, nothing extra, but what was there sold for fine prices considering its quality. The highest average was made by R. H. Green, of Pudding Swamp, who got 46 cents all around. W. A. Myers, of Willow Creek, sold 805 pounds, all grades for an average of 21 cents clear of all charge. He got a net check for $168.55. E. Hutchinson, of Lucile^ sold a lot for an average of 40 cents.* He also sold again today 486 pounds at an aver age of 18 cents. J. A. Ward sold 462 pounds at an average of 14 cents. These are only a few of the good sales made that there have been re ported to the Times. Some of this tobacco sold as high as 50 cents, while some was cheaper. This is by no means the highest prices reached this season, the longest pole knocking down a check at 87 cents per hundred. A. T. Clark, of Black Swamp, wa3 very much delighted with some fine prices that he got yesterday, and he had some very beautiful tobacco. Farmers everywhere seem to be satis fied and they seem now to be looking a little doubtful about the prices for the lower grades holding up, so those grades are being rushed to market while the returns are still good. One day last week one of the banks in town paid out over $17,000 on ware house checks while the other paid out over $10,000 for the same trade. This does not include the checks for that day which were traded at the stores and not turned in or those that were taken Jhome for the neighbors to look at.?Florence Advocate. Cincinnati, Ohio, September 4.? The historic Music Hall was damaged by fire, which broke out at 5 o'clock this morning, and the Odeon, a struc ture adjoining the Music Hall, was completely destroyed. The loss will reach $110,000 full insured. A Sad Disappointment. 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