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MILLINERY RECEPTION V . r ! ? . ? - . ? V - ... , . - , ? - ; Our Autnmn Exhibit of Import?i Hats and fashion's latest faneies in Milli nery will be held on the afternoon of Sept. 30th, front 4 to 9.30. On the following day, Oct. 1st, we will make an additional grand display of our handsome new stock m the various departments, which we feel quite sure will be of interest to all who can reach our store on these dates. Tn making this announcement, we wish our friends and the public to accept it as an invitation, and to become our guests for the evening. We will be glad to to see you The orchestra will be in attendance to add to the charms of the occasion, and souvenirs w??i be distributed. Boo't forget the dates, Sept. 30th and Oct. 1st. With best wishes, Slimier Dry ? i ?>? CUT BY A CORN SHREDDER. Sr. Daniel Davis Has Ooe Arm Severely Injured. ? negro, who came in haste for a doctor, brought the news to town abo??t 1 o'clock yesterday of a serions accident to Mr. Daniel Davis, of Con /cord township. The negro could give no particulars of the accident, merely stating that Mr. Davis, While ope rating a corn shredder, had' one^ arm cut to pieces from the hand almost to the shoulder. It is possible that the report exaggerates the gravity of Mr. Davis' injuries, but it is certain that he suffered quite a serious wound. Later?Sellable information* is that Mr. Davis' injuries while painful are not serious. His hand was pain fully cut across the back, the skin and flesh being torn loose, and there is a deep cut across the' palm. The arm was neither cut nor injured in any other way. Agreements Should be Kept There seems to be a tendency on the part of some of the merchants to ignore the agreement to close all stores promptly at 10 o'clock on Saturday night. For some little time some of I the stores have not been closed prompt ly and, while at first the late stayers kept open only a few minutes after the hour for closing, they are now "fudging" more and more every week. If a halt is not called at once, if the merchants do not live up to the letter of the agreement' and close promptly at 10 o'clock every Saturday night, the ? termination of the early closing coni- j pact is in sight. While aN majority of the merchants have no desire to keep open iate Saturday night and hope to keep the early closing in force for all time, still they will be forced to keep open late, if others persist in violating the agerement. There is no good reason for keeping the stores open until II or 12 o'clock Saturday night aad it is to be hoped that the movement in that direction will be nipped in the bud at once. SOUTH CAROLINA TELEPHONES. They are Made in Suinter and Sold all Over the Country?The industrial Prosperity of This State. "About four years ago," said Mr. F. C. Manning, of Sumter, S. C., at the Ebbitt House, "I walked into the office of a man engaged in the tele phone business in New York city and asked for an interview. I told him I represented a factory down in South Carolina that was turning out all sorts of telephone appliances, and that I'd like an order from him. "He looked at me in such sheer amazement that I could see he took me for an escaped lunatic Afterward he told me frankly that just such an idea had entered his mind. ' What on earth do you mean?' said he. 'Have you got the nerve to come here to New York from South Carolina for the purpose of suplying our trade? What do you think you can produce down there?' "I had taken the precaution to carry one or two things along with me in my pockets, for I knew he'd never go to the hotel to see what I had. In a minute he got interested, and before thirty minutes he had made a bigger order than ever I hoped, to get. He is now our New York agent. "That was four years ago. Today our concern is manufacturing tele phones on a scale of some magnitude, turning out a complete instrument every ten minutes, and we are selling them all over the United States and Canada. We make every part of our machin?s and even the wood-work of the switch-board is taken out of the adjacent forests of white oak, than which there is no finer timber in the world. "The diversified industries of South Carolina are hardly known out side the State, and they are being con stantly increased. The story of the big cotton mills of Columbia, 'Green ville and Spartanburg is an old one, but few people know that at the little town of Hartsville there is located one of the great paper mills of the conn try: nor that Georgetown has lumber mills with an aggregate capital of 820,000,000, with their own line of steamships, and with forests covering tens of thousands of acres of pine lands ; nor that extensive glass works are located at Columbia. "My own belief is that South Caro lina is going to be one of the great in dustrial centres of the United States, and that before the century is much older nearly every branch of manufac turing will be located within its bor ders.?Washington Post. Chicago banks are daily shipping from SI, 500,000 to $2,000,000 to coun try banks in the Mississippi valley to j supply the needs of farmers in harvest- i ing the grain crops. _J ROOSEVELT'S GUB?N POLICY. President Makes a Speech in De troit Before Spanish War Veterans. Detroit, Mich., September 22.?Pres ident Roosevelt's two days' visit to De troit came to an end this evening at the conclusion of a banquet tendered him in Light Guard Armory by the Spanish War Veterans, the opening of whose" third annual Reunion he at tended this morning. It was a bril liant event. Nearly 800 men sat at tables on the floor of the big armory, and the galleries were crowded to then* utmost capacity by brilliantly gowned women and their escorts. When ?the President arose, to begin hisVddress, which was the first of,the evening, he received an ovation. The President addressed himself largely to the issues growing out of the war with Spain. Coming to the question of reciprocity with Cuba the President said : . , . "We pledged ourselves solemnly at the outbreak of the war with Spain to give to Cuba independence. The world at large sneered at the pledge and even some of our own people scoffed at the thought that we intend ed to keep it. But we have kept it in good faith and with a keen regard for the welfare of ?the Cubans. We did not turn Cuba loose to sink into a welter of anarchy. We first adminis tered the affairs of the island until order had been brought out of chaos, until the cities qad been cleaned, the Courts purified, an educational system started and a just and efficient govern ment introduced. Then we turned the new Republic over to the hands of those whom its people had elected as j its servants, and bade it Gop-speed on ? its journey of ' independence. But ? neither our duty to nor our interest in the island have come to an end with the establishment of its indepen dence. Cuba's immediate proximity to the United- States rendered its well-be ing of such, interest to us that we were forced to interfere in its interest by the course of affairs. "For this reason its future welfare cannot but be a matter of grave con cern to us. We do not desire Cuba to stand toward any other nation in the same relations of intimate friendship and alii nace that we desire to see it adopt toward us. 1 "It must, therefore, be i? a certain sense a part of our international politic al system,'and it accepted this position when it accepted the Platt amend ment. But it is out of the question for us to expect that it will assume such a position towards us with regard to international politics without at the same time sharing somewhat in the benefits of our economic system. It was this reason that President McKin ley urged, and that I have since urged and ?hall continue to urge, the need of establishing closer relations with Cuba by reciprocity. We urge reci procity because it is for our interest to control the Cuban market, because we are bound to place the Cubans on a peculiar standing economically when they Consent, in our interest as well as their own, to assume a pe culiar status internationally, and be cause it is fitting for a great and generous republic to stretch out a helping hand toward her feebler sis ter, just starting to tread the path of independence. The case stands by itself and there can be no other like it. Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Phil ippines have relations of varying in timacy to us, and they have either been admitted within or economic ! system or have been given some of the benefits thereof. Cuba, though indedpendent, also stands in a pe culiar position towards us and should receive in similar fashion a measure of -benefit from the partial inclusion within our system. The questions that ordinarily concern us as of prime weight in a tariff matter do not come in here as of primary importance. We cannot choose what the articles are which Cuba shall export. Doubt less very many of us would prefer, for reasons connected with our own tariff policy, tliat her inhabitants were en gaged in different industries from those which they, as a matter of fact, now follow; just as doubtless others of oar people would prefer that the market offered by Cuba was one for other things than those which she actually" demands. But we can neither deter mine the wants nor the productions of Cuba. We must accept them as they are, and we must remember that in dealing with this island, especially now that we are about to build the isthmian canal, and oar interests in the West Indian waters have become so great, we must shape our policy with a far-sighted regard for the future and forjtbe interest and honor of the nation as a whole. I do not believe a particle of harm will come to ;any American interest from the adoption of a reasonable measure of reciprocity with Cuba. I am certain that the adoption of such a measure will be in the interest of our people as a whole. Above all, while fully acknowledging the high-mindedness and moral-sincer ity of those of my associates with whom on this point I differ, yet I feel most strongly that by every consideration of a generous and far-siighted pulbic policy we are bound to prove to Cuba that our friendship with her is of a continuing charater, and that we in tend to aid her in her struggle for the material well-being which must under lie healthy national development," BREAKING HOLS ON GUBA. President Palma Requests Im mediate Withdrawal of Ail American Troops. Washington, Sept 22.?The govern ment of the United States is to be re quired to terminate the last vestige {of authority in Cuba. The war depart ment has been advised formally by the department of State that President Estrada Palma" has notified Minister Squiers that he desired the American troops remaining in Cuba to he with drawn. The State department does not un dertake to pass on his request but transmits it to Secretary Root, holding, that the problem presented is purely a military one in proving the competency of the new Cuban government to take over and care for the coast defense now in American hands. Secretary Boot, while he has not come to any conclu sion, has indicated that the troops might be withdrawn. It is a matter that may be discussed with Presi dent Roosevelt while the secretary is in the west. At* present there are eight companies of coast artillery in Cuba. AMERICAN MARINES HOLD ISTHMUS. Commander McLeon Carries Things With a High Hand at Panama. Washington, Sept. 22.?The navy department is in receipt of the follow ing cablegram from Commander Mc Lean of the cruiser Cincinnati, dated Colon, Sept. 20: "The United States guards and guarantees traffic and the line of transit. Today I permitted the ex change of Colombian troops from Panama to Colon, about one thousand men eaeh way, the troops without arms, m train guarded by Aiaerican naval force in the same manner as oth er passengers, arms and ammunition in separate train guarded also by naval force in the same manner as other freight " Officials of the Colombian legation bere predict that a storm of disapprov al will arise in Colombia as a result of Commander McLean's action in dis arming the Colombian troops before their passage across the isthmus. It is stated here that Colombia's agreement with the Panama Railroad Company specifically provides for the transpor tation of Colombian soldiery by the rialway when occasions arise and the commander's action is regarded at the legation here as a direct infringement of Colombia's sovereignty over the isthmus. A belief which has grown so strong that it no longer can be disregarded, is held in Central and4South American diplomatic quarters here in regard to this latest and, in point of numbers, almost unprecedented "dispatch of naval force to the isthmus. This belief (and it should be stated that the im pression prevails in spite of emphatic expressions of high officials of the United States government to the con trary) is that the large naval force which has been sent to keep traffic open across the isthmus will prevent, by its very presence, the continuation of hostilities along the railroad on any extensive scale, and soon bring them to a halt altogether, that the force has been sent there in anticipa tion of an early signature of the Panama canal treaty and that it will be kept there to maintain order. Derby, Ccuin., Sept. 22.?Wm. Hooper Young, for whom the police of New York have been searching, in connection with the murder of Mrs. Anna Nelson Pulitzer, has been found, and is also said to have made a con fession regarding the killing of Mrs. Pulitzer. In the guise of a tramp, he had been wandering about the country for several days, when he was arrest ed on suspicion last evening by the Derby police. Former Queen Liliuokalani has pre sented a claim for 820,000,000 to the Senate Committee of Hawaiian Affairs at Honolulu. She wants this amount in payment for the crown lands taken from her at the time of overthrow of the monarchy. \ The Civil War in Venezuela. Light Thrown on the Cause of the Revolution. Willemstad, Island of Cnracoa, Sep tember 21.?A corespondent of the As sociated Press has bad an interview at Alta Gracia, in the State of Znlia, Venezuela, with Gen. Manuel A. Matos, leader of the revolution against President Castro, on the subject of the report that Gen. Matos intended, in case of his success, to turn over control of Venezuelan* finances to cer tain German powers. Gen. Matos said : "This is absolutely false, and to at tribute such an idea to me is stupid. The surrender, direct or indirect, of Venezuela to foreign control would be contrary to my ideas and to my char acter. I said recently in Paris, Lon don and Hamburg, and I am not afraid to repeat it here, that the Gov ernment of Venezuela should put an end to the sqandering of the .country's revenue and administer the national finances, not for the benefit of the few, but for that of all Venezuelans and the satisfaction of our territory. "Venezuela does not need to be con trolled. During the ten years between 1890 and 1900 Venezuelan customs pro * duced $74,000,000; during the same period of time the legitimate expenses of the country amounted to $70,000,000, leaving a surplus of $4,000,000. This $4,000,000 has disappeared, and instead of a surplus, the country owes $7,200,000 for interest. Within six months after the re-establishment of peace in Venzuela I intend to show the financial world what.- the financial resources of the country are. "It is true that I desire Venezuelan finances to be controlled, but not by foreigners ; they must be in the con trol of an honest Venezuelan, who will administer them properly. "In four weeks' time, when we shall have arrived in Caracas, I will further explain my plans for the future of this country." TRYING TO RETAKE VELA DE CORO. Willemstad, Island of Curacoa, September 21.?Five schooners, bear ing about 1,500 Government soldiers, under the command of Gen. Castillo, left Maracaibo, Venezuela, yesterday morning in tow of the Venezuelan gun boat Zumbador. This expedition will attempt to reoccupy La Vela De Coro, which is in the power of the re volutionists.. News has reached here from Vene zuela that the revolutionary general, Mendoza, continues to retreat with his forces to the interior of the country in the hope of drawiog President Castro from Valencia. f MACHINISTS' WAGES RAISED. Atiantic Coast Liae Makes In crease of 20 Per Cent. Florence, Sept. 22.?A delegation from the Florence shops went to Wil mington on Saturday last to inter view the authorities in regard to an increase in wages of the men in the several departments of the shops. The 1 Florence delegation was met in Wil- ; mingto? by a like body from Rocky j Mount shops. The two delegations held a confer- ; enee with Mr. J. R. Kenley. An in crease of 20 per cent was asked for and granted at once. Mr. Kenley took occasion to say that the Coast- Line had every reason to be proud of the men who worked for 'it, \ and he appreciated the service that ; was being rendered in Florence. The increase will take effect on October 1. I ^Florence, Sept, 22.?W. F. Clayton, Esq., has jast served papers on the Atlantic Coast Line in a suit for $20, 000 damages, brought by the wife of the late Frank McGowan, engineer, who was killed abont IS months ago at Hope Mills, in a wreck of "78." Langdale, Ala., Sept. 22.--In a fight last ?night between William Phillips and William Owens the latter was in stantly killed and Phillips mortally wounded. Shooting occurred after church, which both the young men attended, and the trouble arose over a young woman for whose affections the men were rivals. Chattanooga has the curfew law in force. Boys under fifteen years of age must be at home after 9 o'clock at night. One hundred and twenty-four days of the coal strike cost mine owners, railroads and others 810(5,000,000. The city of Los Angeles, Cal., is sup plied with 9,000 electric horse-power, transmitted from a waterfall eighty two miles distant. ANOTHER WARSHIP FOR ISTHMUS. Spread of Revolution in Colombia Calls for Increased Naval Force. Washington, Sept. 23.?The Colom bian revolution has broken ont in a new place according to information received at the ^navy department to day. An American fruit company to day transmitted to Secretary Moody a cablegram from its agent at Santa Marta, a .place on the north coast of Colombia near the mouth of the Mag dalena river, saying that conditions there were very much disturbed, that the telegraph and railroad communica tion had been interrupted, and request ing the department's attention. The dispatch was sent at once to the state department and our consul at Barren qnilla, a place near Santa Marta, was called upon for an immedi at? report concerning the situation. This report is expected tomorrow, and'until it is received, no action looking to the dis patch of a warship will be taken by the navy department. In case the condition of affairs at Santa Marta should demand the presence of a vessel the navy department has decided to send the gunboat Marietta, now at La Gnayra, but the condition of affairs at the later point is such that if the ? Marietta is obliged to leave, the Mont ?ornery, at Cape Haiti?n, will be or ered forwith to La Gnayra and the latter's place' on the Haiti?n coast will be taken temporarily by the San Francisco which will sail from Norfolk i tomorrow. Rear Admiral Coghlan, who will have all the warships in West Indian waters under his immediate control, is expected to sail on his flag ship the Olympia, from Boston within two weeks. Upon his arrival at Cape Haiti?n the San Francisco will return to Norfolk for general repairs. Six hundred marines have been mobilized at Norfolk to bo sent to the Isthmus aboard the Prairie, now at Boston. The Prairie is ready to sail whenever she may receive notification. The mobilzation of these marines is in the nature of a precaution, and unless they are needed, it is not the inten tion of the navy department to. em bark them for the south. Admiral Coghlan was at the navy department today with his aide, Lieut. Wells, and had a talk with Secretary Moody and Rear Admiral Taylor, chief of the bureau of navigation, concerning his duties in the West Indies. While no formal orders have been issued the dis patch of a flag officer to the Caribbean practically amounts to the creation of a fleet division in those waters. It is understood to be the intention of the department formally to create a West Indian division of the North Atlantic squadron when the winter manoeuvres in the Caribbean end. SITUATION AT THE COAL MINES. Outbreaks in Wyoming Region Wiii Result in More Troops Being. Called Out. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 23.?If the lawless outbreaks in the Wyoming re gion continue, Sheriff Jacobs will un doubtedly follow the example of Sheriff Schadt of Lackawanna county and call upon Gov. Stone for troops. Several squads of deputy sheriffs were kept busy today suppressing disorders. This evening five carpenters employ ed ?t the Conyngham mine of the Dela ware and Hudson company, while on their way home, were held up by a crowd of men and boys. The carpen ters discharged their revolvers in 'che air which brought a large number of coal and iron police to their rescue. The officers iired a volley into the air and the crowd fled. A stray bullet from one of the deputies' gun lodged in the shoulder of a boy who was at work in tho yard of the "Sheldon axle works, some distance away. A deputy n-imed Jos. Kessler was arrested charg ed with the shooting and was commit ted to jail for a hearing. At Hughestown, near Pittston, a crowd of men derailed a train carrying a number of non-union workmen to a washery. The engine and two cars left the track and two men sustained slight injuries. A number of coal and iron police dispersed the crowd. An address was issued to the clergy of the United States by the People's ? Alliance, asking them to pray for a peaceful settlement of the strike. Great Price Paid for a Bull. Indianapolis, Sept. 2.1?At the stock yards Celm Gi-aves, owner of the Bun ker Hill farm, sold the Hereford bull Crusader for $10.000. Edward F. Hawkins, of Earl Park, Ind., was the successful bidder. Detective stones of all kinds at H. G. Osteen & Go's book store. PROF. SLOAN REMAINS ACTIN& PRESIDENT. South Carolina College Opened To day. Bright Prospects. Columbia, S. C, Sept. 24.?Today the South Carolina College will re sume its exercises for the scholastic year. The prospects were never bright er. Up to yesterday afternoon there were about 75 students on the campus. The board of trustees of the college met yesterday to make final arrange ments for the opening of the session. The.board did not elect a president at this-session but had a general talk about the matter. No tender was made to anyone and the election was left entirely open for final action at a sub sequent meeting of the board. Maj. Benj. Sloan, who is makiig such sn excellent [executive officer, will con tinue as acting president, much to the I pleasure of the board, student body I and 'faculty. WESTERN TRIP ABANDONED. President Roosevelt Had Opera tion Performed Tuesday. Abscess on His Leg Caused by Trolly Accident. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 23.?Pres iednt Roosevelt's western trip came to an untimely end in this city today. He was found to be suffering from a swelling in the left leg, between the knee and the ankle, which required immediate surgical attention and, in stead of being taken to the train to continue his journey to Fort Wayne and Milwaukee, he was conveyed to St. Vincent's hospital, wher? he was operated on. The operation occurred at 3.45 o'clock and lasted only a short time. Then he was taken to a private room m the hospital to rest. After taking a light luncheon at 7.30 p. m., he was conveyed on a stretcher to his' train, which had been backed up on a "Y" near the hospital, and at 10 minutes before 8 o'clcck the train left for Washington. DRAWING THE COLOR LINE. Ohio Town Stirred Up to Fighting Pitch by School Teacher's Order. Line Drawn at Kissing Although Negroes Attend School With Whites. " A special dispatch from Bellaire, 0., to the Louisville Courier-Journal gives the following account of a re markable case of drawing the color line im negrc-loving Republican Ohio: "Never was a community stirred to greaater depths than is Bellaire over the action of Principal J. D. Deafen - baugh, of the Gravel Hill school, in compelling eleven quarreling girl pupils, ranging in age from twelve to fifteen years, to kiss and make ,upr three of their number being colored. The kissing scene took place at the school late Wednesday. Indignation among white residents was aroused by Wilda Hopkins, twelve years old, rush ing into the house at the close of school Wednesdav, crying as she moaned: "What do" you think? I had to kiss some colored girls!" m She explained that Principal Deafen oaugh lined up eleven girls; thiee being colored, and gave them the alternative of kissing and becoming friends again or taking a whipping. Stephen Hopkins, the girl's father,., when he heard the story wanted tc fight. He started out to find Deafen baugh, and met two other fathers on j the same mission. One of the eleven girls lined up, Ida Eberline, broke from the line and. dashed through tiie door and ran koine... She is now the heroine of the scan ! dal, and is Tjointed to as a "girl wish spunk." The members of the warring factions each took her turn at kissing, j calling the girl's name as she did so. Two of the colored girls kissed are ! mulattoes and the other is black. I When the whites girls finished kissing the colored girls, Prof. Deafenbaugh called on them to give tbem a return kiss, which was done. Protests were filed at once with the School Board, and the Committee on Teachers and Salaries took up the case. Deafenbaugh admitted the act as a mistake. He said : " I thought it better for the white girls to kiss the colored girls than to fight on the street, which the two fac tions of schoolgirls have been doing." A special meeting of the board to day was attended by a majority of the members, and a resolution was" adopt ed unanimously giving Deafenbaugh but a few hours to resign. ?....^ ^