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[ILLS IO SHUT DOW SOUTHERN COTTON SPINNERS' ASSOCIATION RECOMMEND 4 DAYS' RUN A WEEK. ? .?<? Charlotte, N. C., May 15.-The . Southern Cotton Spinners today de? cided to change the name, to the .American Manufacturers' association. The following officers were elected : W. C. Heath, Monroe, N. C., pres? ident ; Thomas M. Swiit, Elberton, ^G-a., vice president, and Clarence B. Bryant, Charlotte, secretary and treasurer. The. following report of a special -ioommittee was unanimously adopted : "The cotton manufacturing world using American short staple cotton is lacing conditions that are likely to continue so long as present artificial influences dominate the market for -the raw material, and these conditions are so serious that action by the Southern Cotton Spinners' association is deemed imperative and your com- j Tnittee, to whom this subject has been ' iaferred, would recommend that the j whole influence of ? the association "be used to first, bring about the en? tire cessation of night work ; second, operation cf mills not over four days ^perweek; third, these recommenda? tions to take effect not later than June 1st to 15th, 1903. "Your committee are of opinion that by a proper effort the cooperation of the majori ty of the mills in the southern States can be secured, and believe that appeals should be also jsent out to banks as well as commis? sion houses to use their influence in the same direction. If favorable ac? tion is taken by the convention your committee recommend that the Amer n consul at Manchester be cabled to communicate these actions to Xtiverpoo? and Manchester exchanges. " Two notable addresses were deliver c sd today, on* by H. J. Webber of the plant breeding laboratory of the United States department of agricul? ture, and one by E. " W. Thomas -bonner president of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' association. Mr. Webber spoke at some length on hybrids, and as a result of his con delusions said : * While the experimer.ts thus far ve not been altogether satisfactory, in general, the idications are t we may expect to be able to w a perfectly satisfactory "net of Egyptian cotton, and can Iso expect that the growing of long pie upland cottons will become more extensive and general in near future." Mr. Thomas spoke upon "the ad ?santage-of diversifying manufactures ia the south." He said he did not lejard it as in any way incredible ihiat in the future, with raw material at its very dears, the south may be ^Ssstiued to be the great m an nf a turing 'Centre cf the world. He concluded as follows : "To make this section the great jnftnnfacturing centre of the world, fiaere are many things that should se? care our attention : *4Our prompt? persistent and ener jsetic efforts to open np new avenues JEor foreign trade with other countries. *'Establishment of centres in foreign ^countries where samples of products -of this country may be exhibited. " Having our consulate service par: ?take more of a commercial nature. "There is also much for tis to do in Rake sanitary, educational and religious Hptteasures, which must be given czr workpeople, and it is a pleasure for -rv.3n? io testify as to the willingness of the northern employer generally to furnish all these advantages. " I Tte T??pdy of Russia. laster reports sustain the early ac? counts of the massacre of Jews afc Xisbic.eff, in southern Kassia, and ike affair will b? recorded as one of th? blackest incidents in history, ife? New York Sun well says: "The blackest chapter in the history of "Christianity is the cruelty of so-called Christians to the race of Jesus Christ "The worst medieval persecutions are equalled or exceeded by this lushineff massacre. Murder and ^mutilatin, robbery, outrage, exile; these are the penalties of the crime of being a Jew in southern Bussia." The persecution of the race from which the Christ came is one of ?he anomalies of history, whether pats or present. It has been done--in all ?absequent ages and in all countries "by the professed followers of Him who taught that vengeance is the Lord's. This latest outburst of cruelty ^against the Jews lias occurred in the realms of that ruler who has sought t? establish a permanent peace among -the Christian nations of the world. Ko other two things could be as wide apart as the professions upon which the czar called the peace conference at The Hague and the atrocities in his own country. Personally the emperor of -Russia, perhaps, should not be held responsible for the contradiction be? tween the fanatical deeds of his ignorant subjects and his own philan? thropic desires, yet the divergence does demonstrate how far from being truly Christianized the world is to? day. Russia is rich and powerful, a potent factor in the politics of the world, abie to influence nations and to deter? mine national destinies, and yet these barbarous perescutions occur in Russia's domains and the people of this distant republic are being asked to succor the suffering and the helpless in KisbineffI Would that the czar might convert his own people ! Bound down with traditions and customs, guarded and gagged by an unyielding hureau- j cracy, himself physically and mentally weak though of good impulses, he is practically helpless. And so Russia stands ont today a tragedy in the book of nations. A ruler wise, good and strong at once is what she needs to lead her on to a great destiny.-State. -Il? m m CBi i Austtin, Texas, May 15.-Gover? nor ' Lanham today published his veto of various items in the general appro? priation bill, cutting out ?592,96!. Among other iteras vetoed was one to preserve the battle ground of San Jacinto, where the Texas army won the Republic by capturing Santa Ana. A Missouri court has decided that a pastor can not recover arrears of sal? ary from his congregation by suit, but, must depend on the good consciences ; cf thr members of his flock. ! ! F?T?L FIRE IH NORTH C?ROLIH?. Asheville, N. C.. May 15.-lc a fire of mysterious origin, which broke out last night in a large house at Waynesvville, N. C., owned by State Attorney General Gillmer and occupied by C. J. Galbeath, who runs a board? ing house, F. W. Payne, a telegraph operator, formerly connected with the Postal Company at Richmond, and a negro woman and her daughter, ser? vants of the house, were burned to death. Someone passing the house at midnight discovered the fire and gave the alarm. Galbeath and four others were aroused and struggled through suffocating smoke to a place of safety. Efforts were made to save the three people still in the blazing building, but the heat drove the rescuers back, and the attempts had to be abandoned. It is believed that the three victims of the fire were overcome by smoke. It was several hours before their partial? ly consumed bodies were recovered. A Plea for the Children. _ During the late session of the Nat? ional Conference of Charities and Corrections in Atlanta, one of the speakers from Georgia made an ad? dress on "Child Labor," in the course of which he said : "We are suffering in Georgia more from idleness than we are from ignor? ance. We want a gospel of work rather than the substitution or promise of anything else as the means of improve? ment or advancement. Our children should all be educated at public ex? pense up to the point contemplated by our State Constitution. If they need anything beyond this they should be encouraged to procure it by their own efforts. In this first struggle they will learn self-reliance, the first principle in every successful career. If on the contrary they are taught reliance upon pubilc or private charity, and the substitution of State guardiansip for that of the family, except in compara? tively few cases, they will not only fail, but if over educated, while the necessary grounding in principle at the fireside is neglected, as a rule, they will fall out with the established order of things evolved from the world's experience." Here is a point which the people of these United States must carefully and zealously guard. The Times-Dispatch is in favor of the public school system, and it has done what it could to pro? mote the case of public education, but we have never neglected to point out the danger in a system which educates the children* of the Commonwealth at the public expense. The public school system is socialistic, and all forms of socialism in any republican govern? ment are dangerus. We do not regard the public school system as the system of general education. It would be far better if the children could be in? structed in private schools. But as that is impracticable, as many parents are not able to pay tuition, and as public ignorance is public danger, it is necessary for the government to come to the rescue and educate the children of the rising generation at the public expense. It is the best that can be done. But care should be taken, as pointed out by this sensible Georgia speaker, to save the children from dependence upon the State government. Self reliance is the great lesson of life, and it is the lesson of paramount im? portance to be taught the children of the United States. If our children are taught in the public school to look to the government for support, if they are taught to despise parental authori? ty, if they are brought up ss mere wards of the nation or of the State, it will not be long before we shall have a nation of serfs; with autocrats to rule over them, and the last vestige of lean Demcracy will have disap? peared. God gave tho children of the State from vassalage! Better a nation of ignorant Democrats with the indepen? dence and manhood for which we as a people are proverbial, than a nation of educated pulings and dependents. Richmond Times. Capt. S. 0. Bradwell Oead. ?1 * Atlanta, Ga, May 15.-Information was received here today of the death of Capt. S. D. Bradwell, who was for four years State school commissioner of Georgia, and for nearly five years president of the State Normal School, at Athens. Capt. Bradwell died at Sharpes, Fla. He was 63 years of age. White Caps Granted Bail. Wihon, N. C., May 16.-Bail was today granted to five of the men in? dicted for the murder of T. Percy Jones, the Arkansas insurance man killed here in his room by a mob Thursday morning. Themen to whom bail has been granted in the sum of $1,200 each, are: S. J. Walls, W. P. Croom, Lawrence Morgan, John Pitt? man, T. J. Bass. A special term of court to try the case will be asked for by the bar. In connection with the murder the board of aldermen of Wilson today dis? charged Policeman Snakenburg for gross neglect of duty, suspended Frank Pleiten for ten days and de? prived cf his official functions Peter Nicholas, depot watchman. The citizens insist on a thorough investigation. There was no attempt last night to reieaso the prisoners, as the military was on dary. Surcrcsrion's Kew Bank. The Hon. J. Adger Smyth, Col. C. S. Gadsden and Mrs. Henry P. Wil? liams, of Charleston, aro at Summer? ton, Clarendon County, S. C.. toady for the purpose of assiting in the organization ot' the Bank of Summer? ton, in the management of which, it is understood Mr. Richard B. Smyth, late of this city and now of Summer? ton, will be actively interested. Summerton is a live, growing town of about 1,200 population, with two railroads, itnd a prosperous futur.- is predicted fox* the enterprise to _ bo launched, its first banking institution. A commission has hero, issued for the bank and it is esperited it will en? ter the lists of finance with an authorized capital of ?25.000 and t rans? act a general banking business.-News & Courier, 19t??. Just received a large lot of crepe pa? per 10c. per roll. K. G. Osteen & Co. SEN. MILES SPEAKS OUT ABM "Idle to Assume That Campaign? ing Has Conditions That War? rant Resort to Mediaeval Cruelty." New York, May 15.-The Army and Navy Journal will print tomorrow a letter from Gen. Nelson A. Miles, in which the -writer says that he went to the Philippine Islands not as a tourist, buir in an official capacity and that the instructions addressed to him as lieutenant general "commanding the army," came from the highest authority, namely, the President, in which he was directed to give especial attention to the instruction, discipline and supplies of the anny." In referring to his officiai report on the Philippines Gen. Miles says that "no one can have a more sacred re? gard for the honor of the anny than myself." Coming to the subject of cruelties in the Philippines Gen. Miles's letter reads as follows : "It is idle to assume that campaign? ing in the Philippines has conditions that warrant resort to mediaeval cruelty and a departure from the honor? able method of conducting warfare, and that such departures as have exist? ed should be overlooked and condoned. "It is most gratifying that the serious offences have not been com? mitted by the soldiers unless they were under the directions of certain offi? cers, who were responsible. Soldiers have withheld fire when ordered to shoot prisoners, protested against acts of cruelty and written to relatives at home urging them to take action to put a stop to these crimes. It will ever be one of the glories of the array that such deeds committed by what? ever authority are abhorrent to the American soldier. The officers .who are responsible, sing chiefly cruel Maccabebes, do not by any means constitute the American army, and there must be a very unmistakable line drawn between the great body of honorable and faithful officers and brave soldiers, whose records have been commendable, and those, of whatever station, whose acts have re cieved and should receive the earnest condemnation of all honorable men." THE SMALL POX SITUATION. Dr. P. B. Bacot has recently re? turned from the Piedmont section, where he has been in charge of the small pox situation. He says that the plague has been put under control, but that so little attention is being paid to it by local authorities that it is likely to break out again at any time. He has been in the section around Clemson College, which threatened to develop an epidemic, but that danger has been averted. The disease has not been confined to negroes by any means nor to the factory peple. It has been very gen? eral on the farms. In some sections it has been very serious, notably in the sea island country, where the death reo rds have been over twenty per cent in some localities. Dr. Bacot thinks that the prudent people have mostly been vacinated and that they are resting quietly in ?sense of their own security and letting the less prudent take their chances. It is now almost impossible to enforce vac? cination. There are still a number of cases through many sections cf the state, but if they were properly cared for by the local authorities the disease might be stamped out, but there is little hope of their doing their duty fully in the matter.-Florence Times. The hurtsville Cotton Mil! to Double its Stock. It will be interesting to the Charles? ton stockholders in the Hartsville Cot? ton Mill to learn that the capacity of that factory is to be doubled. The stockholders met at Hartsville, May 14, to consider a proposition to in? crease their capital stock from $250, OOO to $500,000, and acted favorably upon it. The present mill has 12,000 spindles and 300 looms, making fine print cloth, lt has been in operation less than six months and is already earning money. When extended and enlarged the mill will have installed 35,000 spindles and the complement of looms and other machinery. Mr. C. C. Twitty is president and treasorer of the company. Mr. John W. Ferguson, of Laurens, is secretary, and Mr. John M. Moore, cf Spartanburg, is superintendent. Work on the extension of the mill will begin at once and will be pushed to completion. It is expected that it will be done by the beginning of the new year.-News and Courier. Senator Tillman Pitchforks Cleve? land. Washington, May 18.-Senator Till? man paid a flying visit to Washington today, leaving for the south tonight. Be found time to attend to a number of departmental matters and to give an interview excoriating ex-President Grover Cleveland, whose mention in connection with the Democratic nomi? nation for president he declared to be "an insult to the party." " What sort of curs do they take us for," be said, "to ask ns to vote for such a man ss Cleveland? Yon can't change Democrats that way. You might as well talk about nominating a Re i publican as the head ol' the Democratic ticket. There has been some inclina? tion in South Carolina to look upon Judge Parker as an available man, a man who will prove acceptable to different factions in the party." Speaking of local matters, Senator Tillman declared Gov. Beyward was making the "blind tigers" squeal by j putting on the thumb screws a little j tighter in enforcing the dispensary ? law. nient to ask Acting Secretary Darling j to as:-i'*n a commandant exclusivciv i of having tha-t officer i-!;flre his time : ' * * *en th 're ai i Po**t Ivval Char- i iestcnians, it seems, Lave been mach ? worked ut? about the talk of Port Roy- ? al being retained as a naval station. ; Acting Secretary Darling hus Sena-, tor Tillman's requsst under considera- j lion. mm hm SOEZ. Consideration of the Effect One Canal Will Have on the Other. Washington, May 13.-Ti ie possible effect of the construction of the Panama canal on the business of the Suez canal is referred to in a report to the Department of State by Mr. Raveuel, United States consul at Beirut, on the Suez canal. "The traine passing through the Suez canal," says Consul ?avenel, "has up to the prescent time been constantly increasing. Whether the canal will, however, continue to receive a grow? ing share of the tonnage of the carry? ing trade to the Orient is a proposi? tion affected no less by the Canadian, American and Panama routes than by the Bagdad, trans-Caucasian and trans-Siberian railway schemes. It is believed that the Suez canal inter? ests, while naturally concerned about the competition which is springing up in all directions, regard the situation without serious misgivings. "Even if the main path to the Orient shall be found to lie across America, the canal has the Persian gulf, India, West Australia and the east coast ;of Africa from Bei ra (the port of Rhodesia) to Saukin, in the Red sea, to guarantee its future trade. To sup? ply the growing needs of these and otner east African prts, including Djibuoti, Mmobasa, Zanzibar, Dar? es-Salaam, etc., the German and Aus rtian Lloyds are increasing their fleets, and Mr. Chamberlain, in a speech at Mombasa, recently announced the speedy inauguration of another direct line of steamers subsidized by the British government. To facilitate rapid transit, the canal has quite recently been supplied with four new light houses. In considering the chances of the Suez canal route, one must not fail to attach due importance to the work of development now being performed in Africa." Sold 1,500 Dales at 12 Gents. Carlotte, N. C. May 15.-A cotton mill man, who was here today attend? ing the meeting of the Cotton Spin? ners' Association, sold 1,500 bales of cotton to a New Orleans firm. He got 12 cents a pound for the cotton. He furnished the 1,500 bales out of the stock which he holds in his ware house. The Russian Horror. It seems almost incredible that at this period .in the world's history there could have been perpetrated such a horror as we are informed took place recently in Kischineff, the chief city of Bessarabia, a governmental province of Russia. Last month the celebration of Easter was made the occasion of a ferocious assault upon the Jews by their fellow Russian townsmen. The violence and rioting lasted unchecked for two days. The unfortunate victims v?e.e given no means of defense, and the officials in charge, the soldiers, priests and police were in evident con? nivance with the mob. By a police edict two days before the outbreak the Jews were relieved of all weapons. The Governor shut himself up in his palace and refusd to see any one while the outrage went on. Men, women and children were handled without the least token of humanity. Women were outraged, infants had their heads dash- : ed to pieces on the stones of the pave- ; ment3, the bodies of the wounded and dead were trampled under the feet of the mob* into shapeless masses, were mutlated with hatchets and sharp stones, their heads cut off and carried on poles. The police and the soldiery stood by and lifted no finger to save, i At least, such is the report by eye- ; svitnesses. The Russian Government at 5rst attempted to smooth the matter : ov6r, declaring nothing had been done, * sven misleading the United States i ambassador, the Hon. R. S. McCor- ? mick, to cabling that no demonstra- i tion had taken place. But the facts Leaked out, and the Minister of the In- < teri or gives out now the official state- 1 ment that forty-five persons had been J killed, 424 wounded and 1,300 homes i ind shops looted and.wrceked. And what.was the cause of it all? I The old and throughly disproved accu? sation that the Jews had killed a Christian child for the use of its blood in the Passover service. This assertion j has never had a scintilla of evidence in its favor, it is a thought thorough- [ ly abhorrent to Jewish sentiment and ? disposition. . It has been disproved ' svery time it has been raised, and ( none but the ignorant Russian peasan- , try, under the leadership of their crafty priesthood, could entertain it. , When, during the Chinese War, Rus- ? sia engaged in a wholesale massacre of \ the Chinese, it pleaded that it was the : necessity of warfare. The plea was ( arrant- hypocrisy. It is proven by the , present instance. Russia has no hu? manity when it seeks to advance its . interests. "Scratch a Russian and you , have a Cossack," said Napoleon, and he w,as right. Russian civilization is j the thinnest kind of a veneer covering . a most brutal savagery. The Russian Government can stay these outrages if it wishes to do so. That it does not is evidence that it does not wish to. ^ It stands convicted of a most horrible outrage upon humanity, and it should be made to know and feel how it has ! violated every sentiment and every moral instinct of humanity. The Christian nations of the world should make known to Russia their displea? sure, their horror at its conduct. They hold the unspeakable Turk in check. The Turk is an inoffensive iamb compared to the Russian Hear. -Time: - Dispatch. Pestoface Robbers Carried to j Atlanta. Greenville, May Ki.---United States j Marshall .i. D. Adams and Deputy ? Marshals J. W. Gray and C. A. Car- j son took James Lang, Walter Wood, j ii. B. Wilson and Charles Rodgers to Atlanta on Thursday to the peniten? tiary, there to serve out the sentence ? . fjv<; v,imposed upen each of j them artbe late terni of thc federal j court: Tb? se men, it v. ill be recalled, were convicted upon the charge ot' j robbing the posteffice at Greers. The j motion for a new trial was made, but ? refused and the evidence brought out ; uren their trial seems to indicate j that the restraint under which the j law has now placed them will be a ? great public benefit. : HESTER'S COTTON STATEMENT. The kimi Brought Into Sight Buring tho Past Wesk Has Been. 73,728 Bales. New Orleans, May lo.-Secretary Hester's weekly cotton statement, is? sued today, shows for the 15 days of May an increase over last year of 36, 000, and an increase over the same period year before last 16,000. 3 For the 257 days ago the season that have elapsed the aggregate is ahead of the same days last year 294,000, and ahead of the same time year before last of 071,000. The amount brought into sight dur? ing the past week has been 73,728, against 62,128 for the same seven days lasty ear, and 31,263 year before last. The movement since Sept. 1 shows receipts at all United States ports to be 7,502,371, against 7,327,850 last year; overland across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to northern mills and Canada 1,029,636, against 1,062,221 last year ; interior stocks in excess of those held at the close of the commercial; year 43,045, against 72,044 last.year, and southern mill takings 1,619,500, against 1,438,859 last year. The total movement since Sept. 1 is 10,191,552, against 9,900,974 last year; and 9,523,966 year before last. Foreign exports ior the week have been 66,203, against 66,173 last year, making the totals thus far for the season 6,372,189, against 6,070,486 last year. The total takings of American mills, north and south and Canada thus far for the season have been 3,636,925, against 3,459,925 last year. Stocks at the seaboard and the 29 leadings southern interior centres have decreased during the week 35,953, against a decrease during the corres? ponding period last season of 54,209. Including stocks left over at ports and interior towns from the last crop and the number of bales brought into sight thus far for the new crop the supply to date is 10,409,626, against 10,260,661 for the same period last year. Puerto Ricans Abandoning To? bacco for Sea Island Cotton. San Juan, P. R, May 18.-The weather bureau's crop bulletins an? nounce that all over the island of Puer? to Rico sea island cotton is being planted as rapidly? as seed can^be ob? tained and that in many instances the planters are abandoning tobacco for cotton. The movement is especially strong in all well known tobacco dis? tricts of Cayey and Cazuas. All the cotton tests have proved promising while the low pri?es for ordinary to? bacco in San Juan axe said to be bringing about the change. Close ob? servers, including cotton men from the southern States of America? are pre? dicting here that in a few years the figures of the former cotton 'trades of Puerto Rico will be reached, if not exceeded. The Civil War in Venezuela. Washington, May 18.-Advices of a thoroughly reliable character, received in "Washington under date of May 1, show that the Venezuelan revolution? ists are not only holding their own, but are making considerable head? way. The advices say : "The districts of Coro Barquise mento, Tucacas, on the west side, Cinda Bolivar, cn the Orinoco, and its surrounding country are still in the power of revolutionists. "Within sixty miles of La Guayra, in the Rio Chico district, the revolu? tionists are holding forth and, al? though the Government a few weeks ago sent an expendition there to drive chem out, they succeeded only in mak? ing them retreat, and within a few Jays they were again back there. A battle took place in which the Govern met lost over a thousand me, and about . three hundred wounded were brought back to La Guayra after a two days' fight." Briefly, the scheme is this; to force Mr. Cleveland' nomination by the arts 3f the blackmailing Mugwump and the Money of the Syndicate: and, nap? ing him nominated, to buy New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and the Dne additional vote necessary to sleet, relying upon the Solid South, reduced to a choice be? tween Cleveland and Rooseveit That is all. And it is great because it is so simple. If it works, so much ?ain. If it appears faulty, as the. final trial approaches, Mr. Cleveland has only to draw out, as he did from the Gold Bug Indianapolis Convention, declaring that no ono was authorized Lo put him in nomination. But, in thc meantime, though Mr. Bryan speculate and Mr. Vilas deny, Mr. Cleveland cannot be induced to utter the decisive word which would at once stop the chatter. The milk in the Cleveland cocoanut is Pierpont Morgan and when Pierpont Morgan puts his hand to a job, be it a Railway Merger, a Ship Combine or a Presidential boom, it were well that prudent men take noto of it. At least none such will make light of it. Courier-Journal. When King Edward went to italy he met according to "The London Chronicle," a King who is more cf a Stuart than himself. Both are des? cended from Janies I, but the King of Italy is also, through his mother, eleventh in descent from Charles J. In strict right, Victoria Emmanuel lias more claim to the British crown than his royal guest, who wears it. But for their Catholic religion, tho Savoys would have been installed to rule over England, and nor. tue Brunswieks, when the Stuarts were evicted. After the children of James Ii, the next in blood was the Dutchess of Savoy, daughter of Henrietta, the youngest j child of Charles I But she was ?.ot a j Protestant, and was so debarred. I Thus it ?vas that the British crown i was passed r:o the House of Brunswick j by the Act of Settlement in 1701. ? Otherwise the Saoys would now bo the ? royal family. No good fishermen talks while watch- ? ing tile cork. The country will not ! hear from your Un- le Grever for sever- ? al weeks yet. J ? MAHGHBRiAH MATTES iS STILL ?HSETTLEO. Russia Has Been Trying io Crowd Out American Cotton Trade. Pekin, May 18.-In reply to further representations of the United Stares and Japanese ministers, China has again pointed ont the impossibility cf including in the commercial treaties the opening to trade cf Manchurian ports on account of Russian opposi? tion. The American minister proposes that China open Mukden, Harbin and a small port at the mouth of the Yalu river. C. C. Baldwin of New York, a re? presentative of the southern cotton mills, who has investigated the trade conditions in Manchuria, reports that the American cotton trade was in? creasing enormously until recently, wnen Russians began to exert pres? sure upon the Chinese, amounting to coercion, for second orders for Rus? sian firms amounting to 800,000 bales cf goods, which otherwise would have gone to America. Mr. Baldwin says the foriegn firms complain bitterly of the difficulty of ocnducting business under the Russian administration and he believes that unless Russian absorption of Man? churia is checked the United States will be deprived of a most promising market for cottons within a few years. AMERICAS' COURSE. Washington, May J8.- The state de? partment has been made fully aware of the obstacles which the Shanghai treaty commissioners are meeting with the Chinese in the effort to include in the commercial treaties the opening to trade of Manchurian towns. The Chinese, as stated in the Pekin dis? patch, point out the impossibility of this on account of Russian opposition. The accuracy of this statement, how? ever, is denied by the Russians them? selves. M. Paul de Lessar, the Rus? sian minister to Pekin, who has been absent from his post of duty for some time, is now returning to Pekin. His arrival is awaited with some interest for it is expected that he will be able to speak authoritatively on the subject of Russia's position and thus clarify the situation considerably. Meanwhile the United States, anxious to secure additional port facilities for American tnde interests in Manchuria, will continue to exert its efforts to bring about that result. HABIHI PIES OF CHOLERA. A Filipino Patriot Gone to His Rest Manila, May 14.-Mabini, the form? er minister of foreign affairs of the Filipino Government, died of cholera, at midnight. He was attacked with the disease on Tuesday night. Since his return from Guam Mabini had lived in seclusion. Captured correspondence of the Risal Province insurgents showed he has been in communication with them, but the letters were not of a seditious nature.. The Filipinos and Americans gen? erally regret che death of Mabini, but there will be no demonstration at his burial, on account of the nature of his disease. --K?- .*? . tam - A French Senator Proposes Dec? orations for Kothers of Fam? ilies. Paris, May 18.-Senator Piot Las written to Premier Combes proposing that the government accord decora? tions to mothers of families. The senator says the depopulation of France is a serious menace and urges that mothers of large families are en? titled to equal consideration with fire? men, gymnasts and others who have been decorated. M. Piot expects to propose in parliament the creation of a mother's decoration, consisting of a ribbon and a cross. Disaster at a Bull Fight. London, May 18.-A special dispa:ch from Madrid announces that during a bull fight yesterday at Algecieres the amphitheatre collapsed and twelve per? sons were killed and fifty injured. Sev? eral women and children were gored by the bulls. Manilla, May 18.-A hurricane devas? tated Sania Maria, Bullican, Luzon, on Saturday. Earth shocks were fek and during the progress of the storm the great stone barracks collapsed, killing one and injuring seven native scouts. Chicago, May 15.-Two lives were lost in a fire that destroyed the West? chester apartment building, at 5.017 Cottage Grove avenue, early today. One man is missing and is supposed to have perished in the flames while two persons were probably fatally and others seriously injured by jumping from the windows. North Alabama Presbytery overtures the Synod of Alabama, tense its influ? ence, "as the only synod which owns an interest in beth tho Southwestern Presbyterian University and Columbia Seminary, for a consolidation of the two institutions at a point more cen? tral to rbe synods which control these institutions. We presume this means Atlanta, Chattanooga, or Birmingham. -Southern Presbyterian. Just four years ago Mrs. Oscar Falschen of Babylon, Long Island, visited New York to shop. Among other things she purchased shoes, after trying cn several pair. On her return the discovery of the less of a J.COO mile railroad ticket which sh?* had put in her stocking, was made, hzst week she received from Mr. James Suter of Charleston, S. C., the ticket, with a note saying that his wife had found it ir. a pair of shoes just sent her from the storr in which the Long [s?and lady shopped lour years ago. That, has some interest as a story, but it also has a lesson. Shoes nt least four y vars <>:<; were sent to lill an order from the s< urn. Thc New York es? tablishments "work oil" on this "rural" population their shopworn and ''hold-over" goods. Wouldn't it bc better to purchase from fresh stocks of local dealers? Patroinze home people.-State.