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NEBRO FIEND KILLED ?N KERSK?W. Mrs. Mary Elliott and Her Young Son Attacked by an Armed Negro. Camden, November 21.?There was a killing in West Wateree, about twelve miles from Camden, Wednes day night that will be generally ap proved. Ned Kendrick, a saw mill negro, went to the homo of Mrs. Mary E. Elliott, a very industrious white woman, between 9 and 10 o'clock, armed with a pistol, a double-barrelled shotgun and an axe. Mrs. Ellitt and her son, Allen, a boy about 19 years of age, were alone. Kendrick shot his pistol in the yard and called Allen; told him just to show his head out of the house and he would shoot it off. Mrs. Elliott re cognized the voice and called to the negro and asked why he was going on in the way he waa He cursed her and dared her to show herself, threatening to kill her if she came out The supposition is that the object of the negro was to murder the boy and then commit an outrage upon Mrs. Elliott. The brute started to break the door dow/i and enter the house. As he got the door down Mrs. Elliott caught him and tried to keep him from killing her son. Allen Elliott is a tall, stout young fellow and he grabbed the negro by the throat and choked him ami, with the assistance of his mother, got him out in the yard, the negro still holding on to his gun and pistoL Wi en they got the negro down Mrs. Elliott wrenched the pistol from his grasp and used the butt end on the negro's head until he was unconscious. Shi - ;hen got a large rock and proceed ed tc make mince meat oat the negro's hetA Mrs. Elliott's act was a struggle for Efe and she succeeded in saving he* boy and herself and killing the scoundrel. Mrs. Elliott has struggled through poverty to raise her only son and is a good and industrious woman. A Porto Rican Complaint. The San Juan News, in its issue of October 9, has this to say of the political situation in Porto Rico : "It was not long ago we predicted . that the misrule in Porto Rico would be construed by many pensons in the United States as a confirmation of the proposition that the Porto Eican peo ple ai? not yet capable of self-govern ment. This we assumed would natur ally follow because of the Ignorance in the United States of the exact situa tion here. Also it was a liikely subject :or comment, as this question was an issue to some extent in irne last poli tical campaign. "Now, the fact of the matter isthat the Governor and his administration here aie responsible for the condition of affairs which some observers make the;people of Porto Bico responsible for. They have joined forces with the Republican party, which is composed of the lowest element of the island. The parly in turn has and maintains an organized band of lawbreakers to commit all kinds of outrages for poli tical purpose. These Turbas are pro tected by 'th? Government" machinery. "The Governor is responsible for sheif existence, for he fails to take such measures as would immediately end their career. The police aire in league with these criminals and no action is taken by the Government to prevent their campaign. The theory of the Government is that it is necessary to combine with this band to carry on the Government. This is not a cor rect policy, but a shame and an out rage. "If the American Government would insist upon the enforcement of the law against both Republicans and Federals, and set an example of Ameri canism to the people^ there would be no sach charges of incapacity against our whole people because of the failure of others." Greenville, November 20.??A record breaking raid was made last night by a party of revenue officials and State constables on the 4'Dark Corner" sec tion of this county. The officers de '? stroyed six large illicit distilleries, seventy-five fermenters, eight thou sand gallons of beer and mash and sixty gallons of low wines. Three of the stills were found in operation, but the moonshiners in charge escaped, being warned by sentinels of the approach of the raiding party by signal yells and repeated firing of guns. Greenwood, Nov., 20.?Julian Fost er, the negro, who was brought back from Clinton, Mass., to stand trial for Mling Louis White, another negro, was today found guilty of murder, with a recommendation to the mercy of the Court. The jury was out about an ;hour. Foster's attorneys, . Messrs. E. L. Richardson and E. G. Graydon, at once gave notice of a mo tion for a new trial. Washintgon, November 20.?The American Ornithologists' Union today decided to hold its nest convention at jphiladelpbia November 16, 19C& The old committee on bird protection was reappointed, with the addition of Wm. K. Miller, of New Orleans, and Prof. ""E. ?llbert Pearson, of North Caro lina. Prof. Wm. Dutcher, of New York, chairman of the committee on protection of North American birds, ad vocated an. international conference for bird protections The committee reported that 10,000 snow bunklings were recently found in cold storage in New York city and that 40,000 game birds, mostly sandpipers, were recent ly killed on the North Carolina coast for milinery purposes and their bodies thiown away. Washington, D. C, November 20. ?United States Consul Kehl, of Steet tin, has reported to the State depart ment that Florida phosphate will meet a serious competition in the recently discovered deposits on Ocean Island, which northeast of the Solomon Islands, appear to be superior in quality to either Florida or Christmas Island Phosphate. According to an analysis made by the j director of the largest local chemical j works and importers of the American ! rock, the Ocean phosphate contains i S6.15 per cent of tri basic phosphate of ? lime, to 76.95 percent for Florida and ? 83.08 percent for Christmas phosphate. -.Of oxide of iron and alumina the Ocean contains 68, Christmas LS3 and j Florida 2.2 per cent. Local statistics | show that the United States imported j into Stettin in 1901 70,341 ton of phos- ! jphate. DON'T KNOW WHERE TO TORN. Republican Leaders Divided on Tariff Revision and President is Puzzled. DAMNED IF HE DOES AND DAMNED IF HE DON'T. Washington, Nov. 24?There is prob ably no more perplexed man in Wash ington today than President Roosevelt. After yielding his own convictions, that the tariff ought to be revised, and accepting the dictum of Senator Hanna and his school of politicians, that the winning policy for the re publican party was to "stand pat," after being assured that if he wanted to be elected in 1904 he must not coun tenance revisioon, the President is now receiving the assurances of the west ern members and senators that the only hope of the party in their section of the country, lies in making good the pledges of the last campaign, that the tariff would be " revised by its friends.'? In the hope of gaining a clearer insight into the situation the President has appealed to the members of his Cabinet and to the republican leaders. There is no doubt amongst the eastern members who all say "stand pat" but secretary Wilson, for instance, says his state wants revision. Reresentatives Babcock insists on an extra session called forthat purpose exclusively and the Minnesota dele gates say that they were elected on a tariff leform platform. The same is true of Idaho and other western states which were carried for the republican party only by the personal popularity of the President and the assurance that he would insite on a revsion of tariff which would curtail the inordinate profits of the trusts. The argument advanced by the "stand paters" is that present pros perity cannot last, that tariff revision will precipitate the reversal of present conditions and that if the republican party is. caught in the midst of an at tempt to revise the tariff, which will be inervitably attended Dy endless per sonal, bickering and strife,?the country will administer a prompt rebuke by voting for their opponents. As a sample of the kind of advice proffered the Presiednt by his friends was re cently afforded by Senators Lodge and Burrows. The former signified his i willingness to ratify the Cuban treaty because it would not injure his con stituents who raise neither tobacco nor beet sugar, but he protested vigorous ly against the New 4 Foundland treaty because it might hurt some of the fish ermen of his section. On the other hand, Senator Burrows expressed his willingness to vote for the New Found - land treaty but protested against the Cuban treaty. The fact that the tariff is a local issue is again being demon strated together with the fact tht no republican is willing to sacrifice one cent of protection to the interest of his own section for the benefit of tbe coun try at large. The Pesident has held open his message, hoping to be able to judge which will be the more politic course for him to pursue, after he has conferred with the senator and repre sentatives who have been invited to call on him this week. - Apparently the opponents of an is thmian canal are again at work for at the last minute Secretary Hay was given to understand that no treaty with Colombia which did not convey absolute and permnent sovereignty over the zone of the canal, to the United States* would be accepted by the Sen ate. As has been before stated in these letters the conveyance of absolute sovereignty over a part of its territory to another nation is contrary to the constitution of Columbia and such in sistance is likely to defeat the con struction of any canal for some time to come. The advocates of the Nicara gu?n route have renewed their hope and are urging the negotiation of treaties with Nicaragua and Costa Rica and the option of the Panama property is nearing expiration so that additional congressional legislation will be inevitable. It is stated that the validity of the Panama Company's title, which Attorney General Knox found to exist, was a bitter disappoint ment to some of the most ardent ad vocates of that route. The failure of the last session to pass the Cuban reciprocity ttll is bearing fruit in a way that is a cause of grave anxiety to the administration. The Cubans, who were last year begging the United States to grant them some concessions- from the Dingley rates, have now been flattered and cajere into the belief that they are quite in dependent of this country and that there is no reason why they should seek concessions from this government at the expence of their relations with foreign nations. The diplomatic corps in Havana has been most industrious in producing this frame of mind among the Cubans and most successfully. Gen - eral Bliss, who has been sent to Cuba to negotiate a treaty providing that the Cuban tariff on imports from the United States shall remain the same, while it is raised 50 per cent on imports from other countries, and iihat the .Dingley rates on Cuban imports to this country, shall be reduced 25 per cent, reports that he is meeting with almost insurmountable difficulties. The President said at his last Cabinet meeting that he did not propose to offer any further concesions to Cuba wihch he regarded as foolish and un grateful and that in so far as he was concerned there would be no deviation from enforcing every provision of the Platt amendment to the line. This pleases the advocates of annexation who say that sooner or later there will be friction with Cuba which will re suit in that end. Secretary Root says he will again urge his general staff for the army on Congress and hopes this time to be more successful than he was before. The fact that the lav.' would hardly go in to effect before the time for General Miles retirement may have some effect on the conisderation given the Secre tary's recommendation by the Senate Commitee on Military Affairs. "There will be a pretty scrap when Speaker Cannon comes to reorganize the Ways and Means Committee" said republican member today. "There is already no end of friction between Chairman Payne and Represntative Tawney and there is every prospect that Mr. babcock will lock horns with the chairman on the tariff question, j Mr. Payne will lose three of his val- ! nable supporters this year, for Re- I presentatives Long and Hopkins will j go the Senate and Major Steele was not j reelected. There is little doubt "but: ! the revisionsts will attempt to pre I vent Payne from being chairman through another Congress. Oh yes, 1 Mr. Cannon has trouble in plenty ahead ! of him." THE MURDER IN GUATEMALA. Conflicting Reports Sent to Wash ington by U. S. Officials. Washington, Nov. 22.?The State de partment today received reports from Dr. Hunter, minister at Gutaemala City and Consul General McNally at the same place, regarding the case of Godfrey Hunter, Jr., and Secretary Bailey of the American legation there who were parties to the shooting affray resulting in the death of Wm. Fitz gerald yesterday. Mr. McNally's lat est advice gives the affair the aspect Ox shocking and cold blooded murde :, making it appear that Secretary Bailey was a party to the crime, holding up Fitzgerald with a revolver in front while Hunter shot the man from be hind. Minister Hunter's statement is a flat contradiction of this report. He says that his son Godfrey and Secretary Bailey while sitting on a bench in a public park were attacked by Fitzger aid who struck young Hunter and snapped a pistol which failed to ex plode. Hunter thereupon shot and killed him. The existence of a con spiracy between members of the American colony, including Consul General McNally, is charged by Dr. Hunter. It is known here that a bitter personal feud has existed for several years between Mr. Hunter and Mr. McNally. The state department will wait to hear from the Guatemalan government before taking action in the matter. Paid After Twenty-Eight Years. Spartanburg, Nov. 20.?A practical illustration of the honesty of an aged negro woman, was recounted to the writer today by Officer Biens of the city police force. Twenty-eight years ago, "Usslie" Clark, colored, pur chased a dress from Mrs. J. T. Ham met, the mother-in-law' of Mr. Hines. She bought the dress on time, and was to pay 80 cents for the garment. Both parties to the transaction lived in the county then. Mrs. Hammett now lives in the city. Yesterday she was much surprised and pleased to re ceive a visit from *4 Usslie" Clark, who stated that the object of her trip was to square off the obligation of 28 years standing. The money accompa nied the statement. Gutting Affray in Florence. ! Florence November 21.?In an alter cation bewteen Mr. Chopsie S. Welch, ? an attoreny-at-law, and Mr. Hampton P. Bucheit, a young machinist, on the streets here last night. Mr. Bucheit was badly cut about the throat, face and hands. The attending physician thinks that the wounds were not dangerous, al though one of the arteries of the neck was severed. . Mr. Welch was arrested and is now out on bond for his appearance at the Magistrate's Court. The cause of the trouble is not known. Mr. Buchheit is resting fairly well. Big Mail Robbery. Chicago, Nov. 22.?The Chicago postoffice was the victim tonight of one of the most daring robberies that has ever been perpetrated in this city. Ten thousand dollars is the amount believed to have been secured by the robber, who made his escape without leaving any clew to his identity. Two mail sacks containing the money which hard just been picked up from two of the down town sub-stations, were left in an unprotected wagon, in front of the Masonic temple, while the mail carrier went into the building to gather mail that had accumulated there. The carrier was gone but a moment and when he returned his horse and wagon had disappeared. While the carrier was in the building the robber, who evidently had been waiting his opportunity, jumped into the rig and drove away. The street was full of people at the time, but no one seems to have noticed the thief. No trace of the robber has been secured. Both the mail bags were full of registered letters. Newspaper Men in Business. The old idea that the newspaper man is unfitted for business is not con firmed by the facts, says the New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger. There are a large number of former newspaper men now holding high positions in Wall street. Among them is Joseph C. Hendrix, president of the Barik of Commerce, who was formerly a reporter on the Sun. James B. Dill, the corporation lawyer, who holds the record for the organization of new companies, was was once reporter on the Tribune. Daniel S. Lamont, vice president of the North ern Pacific Rail/oad, was in the news paper business before he became Grover Cleveland^ secretary. Vice President Vanderlip, of the National City, was a few years ago, a financial editor of the Chicago Tribune, C. A. Conant, treasurer of the Morton Trust Company, was, a year ago, Washing ton correspondent of the Journal of Commerce, C. S. Gleed, one of the directors of the Atchison system, had newspaper training. Col. George Harvey, formerly managing editor of the World, and now head of Harper's has been closely identified with a num ber of Mr. Wihtney's business inter prisse. W. R. Corwine, formerly of the World, is trust officer of the East ern Trust Company. Mr. Steiner, one of the largest custom house brokers, was once connected with the Herald. Numerous other instances might be given of newspaper men who have made a success in business. The late Henry Villard was, early in his career a Wash ington correspondent. Manila, November 23.- Silver has suffered a further decline in value. The Government has issued a proclam ation making the official rate 2.60 for 1.00 gold, the former rate was 2..">{). Berlin, Nov. 22.?Herr Krupp, the j great gunmaker and the wealthiest j man in Germany, died suddenly from apoplexy this afternoon at his villa at J Iluegel. ELIOT OH LABOR ONIONS. Singularly Fair Statement by Harvard's President. Cambridge, Mass, November 23.?In an address at a private meeting of the Colonial Club, of this city, Presi dent Eliot, of Harvard, made a com prehensive statement of his views on labor unions. He said that the work of the labor unions must be counted among the efforts to mak6 the lot of mankind more satisfying and happier, and that their strength lay in their belief in this work as their mission. He then enumerated the conditions, which he designated as humane condi j tions of employment?those to which laboring men may rightly aspire. Fi rat, was a^ rising wage, based on increased experience attainments and age; second, steady employment after ade - quate probation ; third, the opportunity for the workingman to establish a per manent home ; fourth, conditions I which enable him to give his employer generous service and to take prido in it ; fifth, the right to a pension or; disability, which give throughout life relief from one great anxiety, and thai public consideration which goes with a steady job and a self-respecting, though humble or unobserved, career. These five conditions of humane em ployment, President Eliot said, were realized today in Harvard University. Plainly they were not realized in the great American industries employing unskilled labor, whree the terms of service were often those of "instant dismissal. ' ' Another serious difficulty with American employment was that it was spasmodic. Complaints from employees were often made the ground for dismissal. The present antagonism of employers and the unions was the fault of both parties, but on the whole the former were more to blame, because their situation was more comfortable and their education superior. The indus trial community was under many obligations to unions, for the evils which they have mitigated, such as poor sanitary conditions in factories and unreasonable hours of work, child labor and the company store. The oligarchy of capital had com bined effectively and the corresponding combination of laboring men was a wholesome check upon that oligarchy. There was no question that the labor union had come to stay. On the other hand its cause was injured by certain evils which were subversive of funda mental American doctrines of liberty. One of these evils was the limit placed in the number of apprentices, whereas in the learned professions every en- j couragement was given to the training of novices. Other evils were the limit ation of output, which destroys the self-respect of the efficient workman, and the unioform wage, which was a cruel reaction on the less capable workmen, because with a uniform wage he loses his job at every slack in business, whereas if he were paid ac cording to his earning capacity his employer could afford to keep them the year around. A fourth evil was the violence which was an inevitable fea ture of every strike in industries em ploying unskilled albor. The unskill ed laborer on strike had no other weapon unless it were the boycott, which was a cruel, cowardly interfer ence with the rights of all the people. President Eliot said that he saw grounds for hoping that the relations of capital and labor would be im proved, in spite of their present unin telligent antgonism, partly by frank public discussion of abuses, partly by pre-arranged agreements for concilia tion or arbitration and partly by the service which labor unions would ren der to capital through their constant command of the labor resources of which capital comes in need. England's Lost Supremacy. The "Annual Review of the Cotton Trade," by Mr. Ellison, of Liverpool, yearly sums the condition of this trade the world over. Its publication, which has just been made, shows that in the past eleven years?from 1892 to 1902, inclusive?England has made no progress in its consumption of cotton. It began with a consumption of 3,181, 000 bales of cotton, and ends with 3,253,000, an increase of but 72,000 in eleven years. These figures are prac tically "stationary. The Continent in the same period has grown consider ably over a quarter, increasing 1,144, 000 bales from 3,640,000 in 1892 to 4, 784,000 in 1902. The United States has made an even greater advance, ad ding not one-quarter but 60 per cent. In 1892 it was consuming 2,576,000 and in 1902 4,037,000, an increaes of 1,461, 000. This increase, it is well to re member is almost altogether at the South, and really represents the development of Southern mills. The most remarkable increase of all has been in mills outside of Great Britain ?tho Continent the United States and India, a categogry which includes the mills of Japan and a number of lesser countries, whose consumption was 275, 000 bales in 1892 and 908,000 in 1902, an increase of considerably over three fold. What has really happened, therefore, is that in eleven years the world's con sumption has risen about 31 per cent., or from 10,586,000 to 13,986,000, an advance of 3,400,000. But in this ad vance Great JBritain has stood still. The Continent has grown less than the average, the United States has grown twice the average and the great growth isin lesser countries like Japan. For England to stand still in this way in a great industry in which thirty years ago, in 1S70, it was consuming one half of all the cotton spun, while to day it consumes only one-quarter, real ly means that English mills will be steadily crowded to the wall, as will also many of the mills in Northern States. It is not merely Southern mills, but new mills all over the world, with new machinery, with light taxes and with low capitalization, to which tho future of tho cotton industry belon gs. - ?- ??*>? -tum - Greenville, Nov. 22.?The Bank at Liberty \v;is broken into by unknown parties early this morning, the vault door dynamited and two deposit boxes blown open, from which the burglars secured about eight dollars. Strange to say the boxes opened aere the only ones that contained any money. No papers were molested nor was the safe tampered with. Entrance to the build ing was effected by prizing up a win dow. There is no clue as to the guilty parties. THE STRIKE SETTLEMENT. Sest Probable Forecast of Terms of Agreement. Scran ton, Pa., November 23.?There has as yet been no definite time set for the holding of conferences between ; the representatives of the large compa j nies and the mine workers. The at j torneys and other persons representing J the big companies have gone to New York and Philadelphia for instruc tions and authority to act. Nothing will be done here until they return clothed with the power to negotiate a settlement. While nothing has been agreed upon, the best forecast that can be made at this time is that the men will receive in the neighborhood of a l(f per cent increase, a nine-hour day, the weigh ing of coal to be adjusted as best it can and agreements between the men and the companies by whom they are employed. The agreements, it is ex pected, will run for a term of two years from November L The four prin cipal demands of the miners are for a 20 per cent increase, an eight-hour day, weighing of coal wherever practi cable by the ton and yearly trade agreements. A representative of the miners said today that it is possible that the men employed by each company will have a committee or crgainzation to deal with the company officials, the men to have the privilege of calling mto the conference for advice the national president of the union in case of dis putes. If this scheme is not adopted, then another, which will have the collective bargain idea, it is believed, will be agreed upon. The report that the commission was the first to suggest that the opposing forces get together on the outside is true. The suggestion was made to leading counsel on each side and Mr. MacVeigh went to New York and re ceived the consent of the officials there. The commission saw that the proceed ings would be interminable, and, if possible, it would be better to have them make another effort to settle their differences without having the commission compel them to take something which would not satisfy either party. In the meantime the commissioners will go ahead, and study the situation .from facts and figures to be presented,f just as they;have been doing. Killed by a Crazy Elephant. Savannah, Ga, Nov. 23.?Gypsy, a big elephant belonging to Harris ? Nickel Plate Shows, went crazy six miles from Valdosta yesterday afternoon and killed her keeper, James O'Rourke. The circus train had been in a wreck at Tif ton earlier in the day, when sev eral of the animal cars were wrecked and two or three trained horses killed. The elephant Gypsy was in a highly i nervous state when the train pulled out for Valdosta, the next show point. Six miles out from that town Gypsy became so noisy and restless that O-Rourke entered her car, as the train stopped at a small station, to try to quiet her. Immediately the mad brute attacked the man and crushed his life out against the side of the car. O'Rourke for some reason did not close the door of the car after him, so, af ter killing her keeper, Gypsy escaped to the woods. Her absence was noted before the train left the station and a hunt was organized. The big beast was shot a number of times before she succumbed to rifle bullets in the brain. O'Rourke's body was taken to Val dosta, where it was given a spectacu lar burial this afternoon being taken to the cemetery in a circus wagon drawn by six white horses. His home was in New Orleans, where he has a wife and family. The skin and bones of the elephant have been saved. Twelve men buried the mountain of flesh this afternoon in the woods where Gypsy I was killed. ?rm .<*. . ?gao?* ? Anti-American Junta Exists .in j ? Washington. I Washington, D. C, November 22.? High officials of this government have the best of reasons for believing that representatives of foreign nations are busy with propaganda in Cuba, the object of which is to create discord between this country and its protege. The most dangerous foreign represent ation to Cuba is that it would be to her advantage to deal with free trade countries, such as Great Britain, and that her least advantage would be to deal with the United States, with its high protective tariff laws. It is said that there is in Washington what might be called an anti-American Junta, which is sending all kinds of literature to Cuba, including carica tures of President Roosevelt, which show him as the personification of the "unwelfishness of the United States in its tariff agreement with Cuba." It is unlikely that certain unofficial elements which opposed reciprocity last session have something to do with this attack on the integrity of the motives of the President. Confusion in Tax Payments. I Columbia, Nov. 21.?Governor Mc j Sweeney has again received a number of letters from county auditors and ! treasurers in reference to the exten ! sion of the time for the payment of j taxes. All of them are agreed that the present law will cause confusion if the time for payment is not extended. I They say that it will require three ex ; tra books to enter the three different per cent penalties and they haven't got any such books. Even if they had they are almost unanimous against three different penalties imposed at different periods. The auditor of Orangeburg suggests that the time for final payment be fixed positively ?t December 31 and then impose a penalty of 7 or 10 per cent, or any other amount, at once upon all who fail to pay. As reported iieretofore no relief to the auditors and treasurers is in sight, and the Governor has written a letter to .hem, in which h.e says that it is out cf the question to extend ttie time, in view of the fact that money had to b-? bor rowed to pay expenses. ? Anderson, November '2' ?The whole | business portion of the town of Wil- j lington, in Abbeville County, on the Charleston and Western Carolina Rail- ! way, was burned this morning at 2 ? o'clock. The origin is not known, \ but it is supposed to have been the : work of incendiaries. "Satan Leading On.'' (From the New York Times). Illiott Danforth, politician, lawyer and society man, tells a good story on himself. Mr. Danforth, who has long been in the public eye, has a summer home at Bainbridge, Chenango County, where he is very popular. Recently there was a Sunday School fes tival and and Mr. Danforth was pre vialed upon to accept the post of grand marshal. He attired himself in blue, borrowed a chapeau, scarlet sash and spurs and engaged the most spirited horse in the village. More than 2,000 children were in the parade, and Mr. Danforth, prouder than Lucifer, rode at the head, bowing and smiling to hundreds. As the grove was neared the musial director order ed the children to sing "Hold the Fort " Mr. Danforth enjoyed it at the outset, but when the second verse be gan he blanched. The lines in that are : See the mighty host advancing, Satan leading on "Stop!" shouted Danforth, and, calling an aide, he said : "Take my place; I'll go down the line to see what's doing." The Harvin Lumber Company's mill about three miles from Paxville was burned Thursday. The mill will be rebuilt about three miles on the oppo site side of Paxville, from which point they *will continue to haul their rough stuff to their, planing mill, located at Paxville. Wilmington N. C, Nov. 22.?Fire at 2 o'clock this morning gutted the combination wood and brick building occupied by the Atlantic Coast Line ticket office, purchasing agents' and general storekeeper's offices in this city. The loss will probably reach $50,000. Mexico City, November 23.?The heavy advance in the gold premium has been rising aU week and has reached 1.71. It is generally conceded tht a gold standard cannot be long delayed, as silver fluctuates in value so rapidly that it cannot be relied on as a basis of currency. The present rise, it is believed, will probably be followed by a r?action? but on all hands it is thought that a new and per manent minimum level has been es tablished. : New York, Nov. 21.?The Interna tional Banking Corporation, which was established under special Act of7 Congress to act as a fiscal agent for the United States in the Orient, at a meeting of its directors today increas ed its capitaal and surplus from six million dollars to ten million dollars, and elected Wm. L. Moyer as its pres ident. The bank has established branches in London, Yokohama, Shanghai, Manilla and Singapore. Washington, Nov. 21.?The state de partment has been informed that God frey Hunter, Jr., son of the United f States minister of Guatemala City, to ? day shot and killed Wm. Fitzgerald of j Grand Rapids, Mich. Hunter has taken refuge in the legation and an inter esting question has a risen as to his exemption from arrest. Panama, November 21.?Consul Gen ? eral Gudger landed from the Wisconsin at 4 o'clock today, bringing the news that a treaty of peace has been signed this afternoon by the revolutionist general, Herrera, and the Government commissioners, Rear Admiral Casey will sail tomorrow. Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 21.?Harvey Logan, the alleged Montana train rob ber, was this afternoon found guilty of 10 of the 19 counts in the indict ment. Counsel entered motion for a new trial and Judge Clark deferred sentence until after the motion is heard. The 10 counts embrace charges of forging signatures to notes of the National Bank of Montana, and pass ing forged notes. Davenport, la., Nov. 21.?Robbers held up a Rock Island train tonight two miles from Davenport. The whole police force of Davenport has gone to the scene. It is reported that the robbers numbered 12 men. News or Advertising. Married by Rev. T. P. Phillips at his home in Greers, S. C, at 11 o'clock a. 'm., Nov. 16, Mr. -Green and Miss - McAllester, all of Pelham, South Carolina." The above is a sample of hundreds of marriage notices we receive every year and which the parties expect to have duly published without money and without a price. We have been intending for some time to call a halt to this wholesale imposition on good nature which the young people of the Piedmont seem to think they have a right to exact. The above notice in which even first names are suppressed has spurred us to take the position which we should have taken long ago. We do not want to take the young people or the old people unawares, but we are forced to make the following announcement : On and after January 1st, 1903, The Greenville News will publish no notice of a wedding or a funeral, un less accompanied by $1.00; except in such cases as from circumstances may render the events in our judgment, matters of public interest. For in stance, if a young couple runs away and gets mar ried, we should more than likely publish the event free and the more devilment there was attached to the surroundings the longer notice we should be inclined to give. If the irate father of the girl, for instance, pursued the elopers, killed the groom and dragged the unhappy bride back to her home by her back hair, we should be willing to pulblish all the details not only of the wedding, but of the funeral and follow it up with the hanging of the old man and the suicide of rhe unhappy bride. But just a plain every day thing as a mar riage in the Piedmont is not news: indeed it is becoming a nuisance. Everybody seems to begetting married all at once. We are not naturally suspicious, but it does look to us that a great many of these marriages are contracted to take advantage of [our free advertising system. Well, we have given a full month's notice, and hope we shall'not be considered cruel or hard-hearted, but after January, the first, it will cost 61.00 to have re corded the notice of a marriage or a funeral except as wo have explained in cases where there, is deviltry enough attached to make the event public pro perty. If you haven't got the dollar then you had better hurry up your arrange ments an'd get married or buried be fore January first.?Greenville News.