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THE BE?S-G&PERS FEND. Deas, of Darlington, Colored, the Republican Chairman, Wins the First Engagement in the Merry War with Capt. John 6. Capers. Columbia, September 17.?It was quite evident today tbat Deas, the Republican chairman, has a majority of the executive committee on his side in the fight between Capers and him self. At least a majority obeyed the call for the meeting to be held here today, eighteen out of the, twenty-five responding.. The committee appointed 2 o'clock as the time for meeting and, as is always usual in such cases, there was a great deal of preliminary caucus ing. The advisability of calling a State convention for the pnrpose of nominating a State ticket and for putting up candidates for Congress "rom each district was generally agreed ?on before the committee met, though re was some opposition to the idea, re were some who wanted to pass resolutions denouncing Presidential .ppointments in this State, and on ? whole the committee seemed to be a most belligerent mood against all e powers that be. After a long session the committee ally decided not to hold a Sta te con ntion by a vote of 12 to 11. A reso tion was adopted citing the "un righteous registration laws" as a rea n, but recommending that each, dis ici chairman call a. convention and reorganize the party according to " the rules of the party. The administra^ on of Roosevelt was warmly endorsed d the opinion expressed that the dent and his Administration are lot in sympathy with illegal and un electon laws now in force in seve States which deprive the, colored of the right, of suffrage and believ that in due time national legisla will be recommended and passed anging all this. It expresses the bejief that the Pres ident has no smypathy wth the move ment in North Carolina and Alabama which seeks'to eliminate the negro, and that in due time the President a will makejfche fact known. The r?solu tions expressed confidence inHanna and ? pledge him support in his leadership of the* party, it invites all people be lieving in Republican principles to join, stating that they will be wel comed with open arms. The commit tee adopted'.a resolution urging Gover nor McSwee'aey to give the party rep resentation on the hoard of commis sioners of election, one Republican to each county board, to be* named by the county Bepubiican chairman, and also that they be allowed one manager on each precinct board. This all looks serene on its face, but Deas in his speech was quite severe in his denunciation of Qapers, E. W. Scriven and others who aid not agree with him. What he said was^not em bodied in the resolutions, but it turns out that he has the committee with him in the fight Gambling in Charleston. 'Charleston, Sept. 8.?Something of "a sensation was caused toda/ in the course oi: a deposition^ in the case of Torbet vs. Harper, which is pending in chancery at Norfolk, V?., by the admissions of Detective John Hogan in regard to the wide opan and flag rant gambling in Chalreston. The deposition was taken before Magistrate Levy, the object being to impugn certain testimony which had been given in Norfolk. Harper is alleged to have lost $30,000 in gambling in Charleston during the exposition. Hogan's testimony showed thorough familiarity with the gambling house and he was severely ^scored by CcL Marshall of Norfolk for permitting the operation of the gambling places. Hogan stated tbat he was not responsi ble for the enforcement of the poh ce laws, contenting himself only with their location, conduct and report to the chief of police. Magistrate Mani gault admitted personal knowledge of the gambling places, but being the magistrate of the Mcountry" district, just outside of Charleston, he did not feel that he should take any steps in their prosecution or even that he should not visit the places. Negro Lynched in Oregon. Marshfie?d, Ore., Sept 18.?Alonzo Tucker, a negro who assaulted Mrs. Denns near Libby yesterday, was lynched today. A body of coal miners, heavily armed, marched into town last evening. The marshal who had Tuck er in custody attempted t*> take him from the jail just as the miners enter ed, and a rush was made for the negro. He managed to give his custodian the slip and jumped under the wharf into the mud fiats and eluded both offi cers and mob until today. The miners stationed armed guards at every point of egress from the city. The patrol was kept up all night and at one time there was talk of lynching the officers who allowed Tucker to escape. Every corner of the town was search ed and finally two boys located the fugitive under a store. The boys fired at him with air guns and drove him from hie hiding place. As he emerged, a ball from a rifle cut the negro on the right leg. He ran into a store and was found by the miners who started to hang him in the store, but they de cided to take him to the scene of the crime. A start was made but the negro died from his wounds and the mob headed the body to a dam on the South Marshfield bridge. Not a masked man was in the crowd and everything was done in broad daylight. Lord Salisbury III. ??? London, Sept 19.?The Times this morning says: "We mnch regret to learn that Lord Salisbury, who is at present in Sitzerland, is ill and con fin id to bU bed. English and a Swiss doctor have been attending him and it is understood that his lordship's own attendant in London has been sent tor." Lord Salisbury has been touring the health resorts of southern Europe for several weeks. Visitors to Switerland have seen him riding a bicycle. He always kept much to himself and at tracted little atten^on. For some time past his lordship's health has been gradually failing and the carefully worded "anncurc3m?rt of his illness causes a'arm. .J._i-,B i BOXERS BREAK LOOSE A6AIH. Fifty Thousand Are Now Besieging j Cheng Tu Fu. j London, Sept. 18.?Cabling from I Shanghai under date of September 17, j the correspondent of The Daily Mail j says that Cheng Tu Fu, capital of the province of Sze Chuen is surrounded by fifty thousand Boxers, but that their attempts to take the city have so far failed. Without immediate help, however, Cheng Tu Fu must fall. "A prominent Chinese merchant tells me," continues The Daily Mail's correspondent, "that if Cheng Tu Fu is taken, a rising in the provinces is inevitable. To further complicate mat ters, the feuds between Protestant and Catholic converts are now worse than at any previous stage and magisterial jurisdiction in various matters has been unwarrantably interferred with by priests and missionaries." Pekin, Sept. 17.?United States Minister Conger has presented to the Chinese foreign office a letter from Dr. Can right, the American missionary at Cheng Tu Fu regarding the massa cre of native Christians there in July. Dr. Canright says that 11 converts were killed by Boxers and that the local ofiBcials refuse to take measures against the Boxers. The letter was written August 2. The missionaries were then guarded by troops and were unable to leave the mission buildings except when escorted by soldiers: Dr. Canright's recent telegrams says the situation is worse. The native pa mpers declare the trouble is due to the collection of excessive indemnities for Christians on account of the troubles of 1900, and owing to the Christians' arrogant attitude under foreign pro tection. The Boer Generals. Brussels, September I8.r-The Boer reception committee here has received the following telegram from Gen. Botha : "We shall be glad if you inform the population of Brussels that we desire no Anti-English demonstrations to occur upon the occasion of our visit to Brussels, our misson being non-political and purely charitable." t Dr. Leyds, the Boer representative in Europe, has issued a denial of the report that the Boer generals, Botha, De Wet and Delarey,. would abandon their tour. He declares the generals to be in complete agreement with him self and the other European Boer dele gates. The War in Haiiai. Cape Haiti?n, Haiti, Sept. 18.?The forces of the provisional government of Haiti, commanded by the war min ister, Gen. Kord, have sustained de feat at Limbe. Gen. Nord, at the head of 3,000 men, attacked Limbe at 9 o'clock yesterday morning and af .ter desperate fighting lasting three hours, the general abandoned his posi, tiens, guns and war munitions and left a great number of dead and wounded,, including several generals, on the field. Th?" population of Capt. Haiti?n is in a state of anxi?ty. The enemy, to the number of 4,000 well armed men, is advancing on the place. Another battle before th? town is imminent. A Big Suit Against Contractors. Columbia, Sept. 18.?The widow of Mr. R. S. Pringle, who ? died some weeks ago as the result of injuries sustained by falling into a sewerage excavation on Wheat street, has entered suit against Guild & Co., the sewerage contractors, ror. $50,000. An attachment has been /placed on the money the firm has now banked in this city and on the money yet to be re ceived from the city and also on the financial receipts -?rom the contract now under way in Newberry. The suit was filed last week and in lieu of publication one of the defend ants now resident in Tennessee was J served with the papers. The defend ants have 20 days in which to answer the allegation and are also given . the right to transfer the case to the United States <?ourts. It is probable that the case will be transferred as the de fendants are residents of another State. Sunday Schools of the World. Philadelphia, Pa., September 18.? The executive committee of the Inter national Sunday-school Convention met here today to ' consider plans for the next regular convention, which will be held in Montreal, Canada, in 1905, and to discuss the world's, con vention of Sunday-schools,- wjiich it is expected will be held in Jerusalem in 1904. Among those present were N. B. Broughton, of Raleigh, N. C. The committee voted, to employ two negroes to work among their people in the south. It was decided to divide the country into nine districts in order to facilitate the work. It has also been decided to send a "round the world commission" from Boston in 1903. The members will make a tour of the world, inspecting Sunday schools and report to the international convention in Jerusalem. Boston, Mass, September 17.?Con gressman Littlefield, of Maine, today informed the Globe that he would be a candidate for the Speakership of the House in the event of Speaker Henderson persisting in hie refusal to accept the nomination from the 3d Congressional district of Iowa. The graiid jury of Saline county, 111., has so far failed to return any in dictments against persons implicated in the recent anti-negro crusade. There is a growing belief that the race trou bles will be ignored by the jury. Beware of the Knife. profession has advanced more rapid jf laie than surgery, but it should not be jsed except where absolutely necessary. In cases of piles for example, it is seldom needed.', DeWitt's Witch H:>.zel Salve cures quickly and permanently. Unequalled for cuts, burns, bruises, wounds, skia diseases. Accept no counterfeits. "I was so troubled with bleeding piles that I lost muci blood and strength." says J. C. Phillips, Paris, 111. "DeWitt's Hazel Witch Salve cured me in a short time." Soothe s and hesls. J. S. Hughson & Co. THE BOXER REBELLION IN CHINA. Fears Entertained That Situa tion is as Serious as in 1900. Washington, Sept. IS.?China is on the verge of another Boxer uprising which may equal that of 1900, accord ing to mail advices received at the state department from Minister Conger, dated last month. The troubles ap pear to arise principally from extortion ate taxation combined with resent ment against the pesence of mission aries. Mr. Conger's first advice is dated Aug. 6 from Pekin and he reports serious anti-foreign riots near Chen Tu in the province of Sze Chuan in which a number of native Christians had been massacred and chapels de stroyed. Mr. Conger appeared to have acted with energy upon telegraph complaints from Dr. Canright, an American medical missionary at Cheng Tu, not only addressing ^the Chinese foreign office by letter but calling there in person to impress upon the officials the importance of .an immed ate and effective action and finally sue ceeded in.causing the removal of the local Chinese officials who had failed to repress the riots and preserve life and property. Mr. Conger encloses with his report the communications that passed be tween himself, Dr. Canright and the foreign office. Under date of June 20 from Chen Tn, Dr. Canright tele graphed: *1 Sze^Chnan repeating 1900 Chapel burned, 10 Christians killed Boxers multiplying four months ; offi eials taxed." DEMANDED PROTECTION. Mr. Conger immediately telegraph ed Dr. Canright to demand ad?quat protection for missionaries and the.na ti ve Christians from the local officials He also addressed a note to Prince Ching at the foreign office, stating that there were several American mis sionaries and many chapels and con verts in Sze Chuan, and that it < was necessary that, immediate provision be taken to stamp out these to ubi es at their very inception. In his answer Prince Chingne closed a copy of an imperial edict saying : "Such fierce and lawless breaks should certainly be quickly put down They must on no account be allowed to spread. We command Kwei-Chun to strictly order the troops to disperse the rebels and their followers, to seize the ringleaders and to punish them according to the rigor of the law and so nip the rebellion in the bud." ' Another dispatch from the foreign office to Mr. Conger, dateci July 3, states that the viceroy reported that the missionary killed was a Chinese and that quite a number of leading Box ers had been captured and punished and a sharp lookout was being kept for those still at large. Mr. Conger again had occasion to address the foreign office on July 30, informing them that; Dr. Canright had again reported, that robberies and massacres were occurring daily ; that all were in great danger and that he had demanded protection in vain. The minister urged the foreign office "to take more effective measures in order to avoid the .fearful responsi bility of a further loss of life and pro perty. " The foreign office replied that several edicts had been issued directing the viceroy to snppress the troubles. A leter of later date from Minister Conger transmits two imperial edicts, ordering several changes among pro vincial officials as a result of the dis turbances. The most important of the changes, Minister Conger states, is the removal of Kwei Chun as vicery of Sze Chuan province because of his failure to suppress the recent serious disturb ances in the territory under his juris diction. Killed in a Postoffice. - Minot, N. D., Sept. 18.?The post office building here collapsed this afternoon and isa total wreck. Coun ty Treasurer John Lynch and N. Davis, a prominent attorney, were seri ously injured and abont 15 people who were in the building at the time of the collapse, are believed to be buried in the ruins. The work of clearing away the de bris was commenced at once. So far no bodies have been found, but it is impossible to tell who are in the ruins. Postmaster Fugelse came out without injury. The loss on the building is es timated at $7,000, while the govern ment's, loss is not known. The mail is in bad condition and it will be sev eral days before the damage to it can be estimated. The offices of two week ly papers were in the bnilding and went down with the wreck. London, Sept. 18.?Officials of the Imperial Tobacco Company declare they have not heard of any proposi tion to combine with the American Tobacco company. The predictions to this end published in the Westminister Gazette today come from an indefinite source and are not reliable. * Durban, Natal, Sept. 18.?Uneasi ness is felt here in consequence of re ports o f unrest in Zuuland, where trouble appears to be imminent. The Times of Natal says the feeling in Zululand between Boers and natives demands active government interven tion. Dinizulu is regaining his pres tige and is regarded as dangerous. The Zulus still have the arms with which they were provided during the war. Since the Zulus were killed by the Boers in Vryheid diistrict, the pa per continues, a bitter feeling has pre vailed among the natives, and this threatens to eluminate in a serious collision. The color line has been drawn at Northwestern University, Chicago, and no colored girls will be admitted to the young women's dormitories. Dubuque, Iowa, September 18.?It is announced tonight that Speaker Henderson does not intend to resign the Speakershin at the coming session of Congress. The statement was made by his secretary in reply to a direct question, who, however, would say nothing further. Josh Weathafer, of Loo^ootee, :ts a poor man, but he says ho would not be without Chamberlain's Fain Balm if it cost five dollars a bottle, for it saved him from be ing a cripple. No external application is equal to this liniment for stiiT andswollen joints, contracted muscles, sti f neck, .sprains and rheumatic and muscular pains. It 1 asalso cured numerous cases -? partial paralysis. It is for sale by Dr. A. ? China. BACK FROM NORTH POLE, Lieut. Peary Returns From Four Years Stay in Polar Regions. North Sydney, C. ?., Sept. 18.? Lieut. Robert ?. Peary arrived here today on the steamer Windward from the frozen north. He did not discover the north pole during his trip of four years, but he says that in his last dash with that object in view he made im portant discoveries. He says he feels certain that the pole can be reached, and furthermore that if he was &, man of independent means he would per severe until'-he succeeded. The most northerly ooint reached w?s 84 degrees 17 minutes in latitude northwest of Cape Helca. Lieut. Peary says that the pole can be reached "from Franz Jose Land, and from Grant Land in latitude 83 degress, if the winter quar ters are established as far north as pos sible. He says that he would just as soon winter at Cape Helca as at Sbaina or Etah. Mrs. Peary and her- daughter who had gone with the Windward to meet him, looked well, although the form er is just recovering from an illness. Dr. Died rick was on board and quite well. As far as can be learned, the difference between him and Lieut. Peary has not been patched up. Dr. Diedrick declined to say anything furth er at present than that the difficulty be tween him and Lieut Peary had not been settled. Lieut Peary recovered and brought back the instruments and library abandoned by the Greely ex pedition. He also brought numerous and rare specimens'of natural history. Setting Bermuda and Growing Onions. I have been thinking for some time that I would send you my experience and plan for setting Bermuda grass. By my plan I have a pasture "in sixty days after I set a field, and the cost does not exceed two dollars per acre for all labor. I take a two-horse plow that will go in the ground eight to ten inches. I take the entire piece that I want to set in one land ; I start the {low at the outer edges and turn the land as fiat as I can. I take two hands to drop roots in furrow and have them drop one root every step and in every other furrow. That gives me one to every two feet square. After I go over the field that way I then sow one half bushel rye to that acre and smooth the sods with a smoothing-harrow.. 1 do this in Sep tember. The grass has time to take on root-growth before frost and the rye comes for pasture during the winter, and by the time the stock eat off rye the Bermuda is out and mixed with other grass for summer grazing or for hay. It takes about one hundred pounds of roots to the acre, $1.50; one-half bushel rye, seventy-five cents; two dollars for labor; total, S4.25 per acre. That is worth $25.00 just as soon as planted. I have eight acres that I grazed thirty head of cows and horses on all the time and they are all fat and sleek.?Southern Cultivator. Last Sunday night on the train be tween Harvin's and Alcolu, a negro tramp was discovered beating a ride. Conductor Gruber had considerable difficulty with the fellow. Mr. C. F. Jenkinson aided the conductor in ejecting him from the train.- After he was put off and the train started, the negro pulled a pistol, but before he could fire Mr. Jenkinson fired at him and the fellow fell into a ditch. We have not heard whether he was hit or not, but suppose he was not or the news would have reached here.?Man ning Times. London, September 18.?The sub marine telegraph cable, which is j to join the United States and Hawaii, as the first link in the system to the Philippines, has been completed and is now on board the cable steamer Silvertown, lying in the Thames, pre paratory to sailing on September 20, for San Francisco, whence the vessel will immediately begin laying the cable to Honolulu. The Silvertown is expected to reach San Francisco early in September. The ; cable is wound around three enormous spools, each thirty feet in diameter. Its total length is 2,?l3 miles. The strans are one to three inches thick. ^Washington, Sept. 18.?A cablegram received in private sources here today said tbat a naval battle between the Venezuelan government vessels and the revolutionary is reported to have oc curred off San Felix, on the Orinoco. The cablegram said that the govern ment vessels had been defeated and that the Venezeulan government, be cause of the defeat was unable tto es tablish and maintain an effective block ade of the Orinoco. Ford City, Pa, September 18.?Carl Reicbard, telegraph operator on the Allegheny Valley Road at this place, shot and killed a man, who attempted to rob the station early today. The burglar wouuded the plucky operator by shooting point blank at him. The bullet clipped off the upper part of the right ear, but he seized his re volver and fired two shots at his as sailant. One of the bullets struck the burglar in the right thigh and the other entered the roof of the mouth, killing him instantly. Two compani ons, who remained outside on guard, escaped and have not been captured. The dead man was identified as Char les Andrews, who was recently releas ed from the Western penitentiary. Charlotte, N. C, Sept. 19.?A spe cial to the Observer from Laurinburg says that Charles Lockemy, superin tendent of the Richmond cotton mills, was killed today by Norris Saunders, father of a boy who was employed in the mill. The boy had been discharg ed for rebellious conduct. On arriving home he reported his discharge to his father, who secured a pistol and proceeded to the mill. He met Supt. Lockemy and after a few words- shot the superintendent, inflicting a wound which resulted in death a few hours later. Lingering ?Summer Colds. Don't let a cold run at this season. Sum mer colds are the hardest kind to cure and if neglected may linger alonar for months. long siege like this will pu!l down the srongest constitution. < >ne Minute Cough Cure will break up the att.-ick at once. Safe, sure, acts at once. Cures coughs, colds, croup, bronchiti^, all throat and lung troubles. The children like it. J. S. Hughson & Co. I DEADLY ENGO?HTER ! BETWEEN ?O?SINS. Town Marsha! at Hampton Killed Thursday. ! Special to The State. Attendale, Sept. 1.?Word has just ? reached here of a shooting scrape at J Hampton, S. C, between Archie and Hagood Gooding on one side and Perry Kearse and one of Kearse's brothers. The trouble seems to have grown out of the election just passed. It is said that Archie Gooding re ceived three bullets, one killing him. Perry Kearse was shot in the leg but the wound is not dangerous. The fight took place about 4 p. m., at the C. & W. C. depot. Archie Gooding was marshal of Hampton. THE COLLEGE PRESIDENCY. Some of Those Suggested. The board of trustees of the South Carolina College has been called to meet again on Tuesday next, to re ceive the declination of the offer of the presidency of the institution to Hon. C. A. Woods of Marion, and take further steps in the matter of the selection of a president or the- arange ments of a plan for the successful conduct of the college during the col legiate year just opening. The meet ing will be a most important one and all the members of the board will doubtless be present. It is not known whether the board will proceed to elect a president at this time; it is thought that the board will ask Prof. Ben Sloa.a to continue as acting president through the year, believing that the welfare of the insti tution will not suffer in such hands. One of the applicants for the presi dency is J?mes N. Anderson of Wil liamson, late professor of Greek, Uni versity of Missouri summer school, who has many^endorsements as to his schol arship. A. C. Kimler of Shephardstown, W. Va., superintendent ? of schools at Credo, W. Va., former principal of the State Normal school of West Virginia, is another applicant. J. B. Warmsley of Wesleyan college has been suggested by the Fisk Teach ers' agencies. Friends of Prof. S. H. Edmunds of the Sumter city schools' have suggest ed his name, as is the case with name of the Rev. J. H. Baldridge, pastor of the Baptist church at Lancaster. ' The Rev. S. P. Verner of Tusca locsa, Ala., has written suggesting that Dr. Charles W. Barnwell of the University of Alabama, a native of Columbia, is the man the South Caro lina College needs just now as its president. / These are merely some of the names j that have been presented to the board. I The members, of course, have been in vestigating on independent lines and a number of distinguished men have been mentioned in an informal way as suitable men for the presidency of such an institution ?s the South Caro lina College, but the board does not yet seem to have struck upon the man all of the members wish to get. They realize the importance of secur ing a man particularly and peculiarly adapted to conditions as they exist, and will go slow about deciding upon any one.?State. mumm ? ?-mm*?? Successful Air Ship. * London, Sept. 19.?Stanley Spencer, a well known English aeronaut, today successfully accomplished a remarkable flight over London in an airship of his own invention. It is estimated that his ship traveled nearly 30 miles. From observations of those on the ground, Spencer seeihed to have com plete control of his vesseL He started from the Crystal Palace at a quarter after 4 o'clcok this afternoon and ex ecuted an easy descent at the little village of Eastcote three hours later. Spencer has been experimenting re cently with his vessel the Crstyal palace. Finding the conditions suit able, he suddenly decided to start off on his dangerous voyage late this af ternoon, and the usual crowd of palace spectators gave him a hearty send off. The ship at once rose to a height of about 300 feet. After traveling for about a mile with practically no devia tion in his course, Spencer made vari cus detours and seemed able to steer his ship as easily as a torpedo boat. Spencer's airship has a blunt nose and tail and does not taper in a cigar like point, like the airships of Santos Dumont. The bag, which is 75 feet long, contains 20,000 cubic feet of hy drogen gas. The frame is built of bambo. The motive power is a "petro leum motor of about 30 horse power. The extreme speed of the new airship in calm weather is about 15 miles an hour. The machine accommodates only one person and its entire weight is about 600 pounds. Take Care of the Stomach. The man or woman whose digestion is perfect and whose stomach performs its function is never sick. Kodol cleanses, purifies and sweetens the stomach and cures positively and permanently all stomach troubles, indigestion and dyspep sia. It is the wonderful reconstructive tonic that is making so many sick people well and weak people strong by conveying to their bodies all of the nourishment in the food they eat. Rev. J. H. Eolla day, of Holladay, Miss., writes: Kodol has cured me. I consider it tne best remedy I ever used for dyspepsia and stomach trouble. I was given up by physicians. Kodol saved my life. Take it after meals. J. S. Hughson & Co. ?t?- - ?*> ? ?I Candler Sees Revolution. Atlanta, Sept. 18.?Gov. Candler today commented as follows upon Speaker Henderson's withdrawal from Congress: "Henderson is fleeing from the wrath to come. He sees the hand writing on the wall. He is anxious to get out. There is going to be a re volution of sentiment in this country against the Republican party and its oppressivo measures: and if that re volution is not successful, and the Republican party continues in power and continues its oppressive measures, allowing the trusts to dominate the country, there is .^oinix to come a re volution of blood, one that will stir the country from one end to the other. The people arc tired of the trusts and of Republican domination." j stimulate the TORPID LIVER, strengthen the digestive organs, regulate ibc howeis, and are un? equaled zs an AN?i-BiLSO?JS MEDICINE, 5 materia] districts their virtues are wideiy recognized, as they possess p-xuii-r properties in freeing the system from that poison. Elegantly szgzr coated. "*ke Ho Substitute ICA Y akes short roads. nd light loads. MEASE bod for everything that runs on wheels. Sold Everywhere. J^OTIC?l Until January 1, 1903, the magistrate's office will be open every night until 9 p. m. 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