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Thre is ?tt?8_ -ftq? of Peaesable Settluut Between Russia and Japan. China Threatened With Severe Punishment if She Sides With Japan. London, Oct 2.-A dispatch'to Ben tor's Telegram company from Tokio says: "It is reported from Pekin that M. Lessar, the. Russian minister, has addressed a long note to Prince Ching, head of the Chinese foreign office, say ing.that Japan's interference in the Manchurian question will compel Russia to adopt final ' measures, and ^ikc^atenicg China with severe punish? ment if she sides with Japan. This I action, while the negotiations are pending, has caused deep umbrage." LESS REASSURING. St Petersburg, Oct. 22.-A re? quest of tao Associated Press today for a statement form the foreign office indicating Russia's position in con? nection with the far eastern question elicited only the significant reading of a less reassuring dispath from Tokio. The Novoe Yremya, . declares that many of the most influential Japanese newspapers are subsidized by Ameri? cans and Englishmen. POPULAR UNREST GROWING. Yokohama, Oct. 22.-It is currently reported that the.hitch in the negotia? tions is due to the Japanese demands for equal railway rights in Man? churia, it is believed that a more sen? iora: &?5cnlty exists. , Dispatches are expected here from Admiral. Alexieff, tir? Russian viceroy. The feeling of popular unrest is growing. VERY UNEASY. Honolulu, Oct 22.-The steamer Nippon Maru, which sailed from here today for Yokohoma, will stop at Mid? way island, for orders, through fear ; of capture, caused by the circulation of a report here that the Japanese con? sulate at Honolulu had received a cipher cablegram that war with Russia had been declared. The passengers no the steamer were very much alarmed. L?HLLY m TH0?SH LIV?H6. Very Unusual Case in the Courts of Tennessee-Supposed Victim of a Murder k, Evidence. Chicago, Oct 22.-A dispatch to The Tribune from Knoxville, Tenn., says : For a third time Silas Hulin, the supposed victim of a murder, was "/resuscitated" and appeared alive and well in the court room last night as the chief witness in the habeas cor? pus proceedings brought to have Clar? ance Peak, who is ur^er a sentence of 18 years for " the murder of Enlim liberated. The 'court,' however, dismissed the .petition, holding in. effect that Silas Eulin is dead so all intents an pur? poses and that the court; had rio legal Hgbt to interfere with the conviction and Judgment which had been pro? perly secured. Ah appeal was present? ed to the supreme court.... Two years ago * Peak killed a man, who was identified as Hulin. He was tried and sentenced. In the meantime H?lm, appeared, but the supreme court disregarded Ms presence and affirmed the sentence on its merits as tried below. TYPHOID EP1BEMHS. fever Breaks Out in tho Virginia Military Institute. Richmond, Va., Oct 22.-Typhoid fever has broken outr at the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., nine cases having been reported to the State board of health here. The report was made by Gen. Scott Shipp, super? intendant of the institute, who stated that only two of the cases were con? sidered dangerous. AU the patients are in the institute hospital and are re? ceiving the best medical attention. Stringent and radical measures have been taken to prevent a spread of the disease. Disinfectants are being used in large quantities, and the patients are com? pletely isolated from the other cadets. Lexington, Va., Oct. 22.-It appears that the typhoid fever trouble at the Virginia Military Institute, has ex? tended to the Washington and Lee "University where seven students are iii with the fever. There have been thirty-four cases in all in the town of Lexington since the 1st of the present month. The Savage Came Out. Ehr. Parkhearst, says The New York Sun, delivered himself of a story in his sermon in the Madison Square Presby? terian Church yesterday morning. Tbk is the story : An African chief became converted and moved to London, where he wore fashionable- clothes and behaved in every way as an irreproachable gentle? man. One day he was giving a lecture in a church on the advantages of a peaceful, civilized life. His collar didn't fit very well {ind in attempting to adjust it he tore open the button hole. The ripping shirtband brought back all his old savagery and he shouted out that civilization was all a sham and he wished he was back in his old life. Whereupon he pulled oft his collar, his co&t and trousers and finally stood in the garb of the una? dorned savage. Then he set fire to the church and took to the woods. "If his button hole had been a little stronger," added Dr. Parkhurst, "he would probably have remained an ir? reproachable gentleman the rest of his life. That's the way with much of our civilization and virtue. A very small thing will reveal the real condi? tions. * FOR SALE-Sewing Machine in j good condition. Apply at Watchman I and Southron Office. Setp. 30-2fc. , : TIE MEXICAN BM FAILURE. Those Least Able to Stand lt the Worst Sufferers. Mexico City, Oct. 22.-The local stockholders in the failed Internation? al Bank and Trost Company held about $700,000 of stock, but a portion of this amount, it is claimed, is represented by notes given instead of cash and this is advanced as an explanation of the bnak's lack of money for its business. It is said that that part of tho stock sol? in the United States was dis? posed of in the same way. The statement made in behalf of local shareholders says that they will pay to the ultimate dollar what they are liable for. They still insist that the forced liquidation was illegal, not having been authorized by the share? holders, bnt precipitated by the arbi? trary action of the bank employes. Many planters, miners and railway men who kept their funds in the bank are most seriously embarrassed. Now that the first excitement is over, it begins ta be seen th-.it the failure was a disastrous one and that American interests have been much harmed. JA? official of one of the other Amer? ican banks says that American bank? ers here will now welcome any action by the government likely to give strength to existing institutions by ex? ercising a most rigid inspection and control. Congress is expected to move great? er force to existing legislation bear? ing, on institutions of credit. LAWYER WHO WAS A TERROR. Strange Character of John Tay? lor, of the Early Arkansas Bar. At the last meeting of the Arkansas Bar Association, says Law Notes, the president, George B. Rose, delivered an interesting address on "The Bar of Early Arkansas," in which he set himself the task of rescuing from ob? livion some memories of the early leaders of the Bar and reconstructing the conditions under which they worked. Among them is presented the curious figure of John Taylor? whose picturesque and terrible char? acter might well furnish a hint for a modern Sir Walter Scott, if we were fortunate enough to possess a successor to the great novelist : "John Taylor was only a sojourner in Arkansas from 1837 to 184iU but he was so remarkable a man that he should not be forgotten. * *. * Everybody who heard him agreed that in capacity for invective, fo:r wither? ing, blustering, envenomed eloquence he excelled any human being that ever spoke, and that he seemed possessed of a demoniac power. He wzis a tall, lank, red-haired man, repulsively ugly, with little green eyes that glis? tened like those of snake, and with a fashion of licking out his tongue that was strangely serpentine. He talked to no one save on business. When he settled in Little Bock, whither he had come from Alabama after he had been defeated in his can? didacy for the United States Senate, all the Bar called on him, but he received them with repeling coldness and re? turned no vsits. He had a wife, but nobody ever saw he?-wonderful thing considering the small size of Little Bock at the time. During the seven years of his sojourn he never crossed any man's threshold and no man cross? ed his. In riding the circuit he always rode alone, permitting no companion? ship, and while in attendance on Court bb would, if the weather per? mitted, live in a tent pitched in the neighboring wood, where he might not have to look on the hated face of his fellowman. Yet this modern Ti? mon, a thousand times moie embit? tered and malignant than he of Athens, was a devout Christian, assiduous in his attendance at church, and always speaking with intense religious convic? tion. But his strange, invisible wife did not appear even on the Sabbath. As a lawyer he was a terror. His knowledge of law was prodigious and his memory of authorities almost su? perb ninan. He spared no one and feared no one ; but while he never sug? gested a resort to personal violence, he always carried two pistole in the pockets of his long black coat, in readi? ness to- repel any attack. * * * In 1855 he reappeared one day in our Supreme Court, much aged, but still erect, proud, scornful and malignant, and after looking around on such of his old opponents as survived, depart? ed without speaking to any one, and went forth upon his lonely way, whither no man knew." An Appetiser. In the family of Mr. H., treasurer of one of our states, was a small boy of four who was the possessor of ? fine rat terrier. One day the dog mys? teriously ' disappeared, and the child. Ralph, was heartbroken. Soon after? ward Mrs. H. gave an informal dinner to other state officers and their wives, and Master Ralph was allowed to be at the table under promise of good be? havior. Things went on smoothly till the meat course, when a fine roasted pig was brought In, and Ralph thought his long lost pet was going to be served to the guests. He arose lu his chair, pointed at the pig and with tears In his eyes and voice cried: "Oh, my doggie, my doggie! I want my doggie!"-Good Housekeeping. TTie Road to Success. It is well for the young man to re? member that if he finishes his educa? tion as a skilled farmer or stockman or fruit grower there are plenty of places open waiting for bim at good pay, while if he becomes a minister, lawyer or doctor he may have to hunt long and far to find a place and wait long before a good li. lng is assured. Rockford Register. The Retort Courteous. Smart Passenger-Here, conductor, i9 my fare. I had no desire to beat the company, but I thought I would just see i? I could fool you by getting busy with this newspaper. Conductor-I saw you, but you looked as if you needed information a good deal worse than the company needs money, so I lust let yon read.-Balti? more American. ALASKAN DECISION SIGNED. Canada's Twa Commissioners Walk Out of Cabinet Room. All the Contentions of the United States, Except That Relating to the Portland Canal, Granted. London, Oct. 19.-A draft of the decision reached by the Alakan bound? ary commissioners, as announced by the Associated Press, was signed by a majority of the commissioners this evening. Messers. Aylesworth and Jette, the Canadian commissioners, refused to sign. The decision grants all the American contentions with the exception of the one relating to the Portland Canal. The signatories were : Lord Chief Justice Al verstone and Senator Lodge, Senator Turner and Secretary Root, the American commis? sioners. _ They constituted a majori ty and the Signed finally. Messers. Ayles? worth and Jette carried their out? spoken disapproval of the decision gving the Portland Canal to Canada, and they emphasized their attitude by walking out of the Cabinet room in the foreign office before the signature of the others had been affixed to the historic document, which has already been printed and is ready for the ses? sion, to be held to-morrow. The only thing remaining to be done at this session is that the majority of the tri? bunal complete and sign the map which accompanies the decision, and which minutely determines the course bf the boundary in accordance with the American contentions contained in question No. 5. An engrossed copy of the decision also will be signed on Tuesday. The refusal of Messres. Aylesworth and Jette to coincide in Lord Alver stone's view was only known to few presons there to-night, but at the foreign office and in high Government circles it has created a painful im? pression. There is no* hope expressed that the Canadian commissioners will reconsider their attitude and sign the engrossed copy of the decision, which will stand as the international record of the tribunal's finding. A TARHEEL SEHS??iflN. Mrs. Richard Ward, the Divorced Wife of Cook E. Stroud, of Kins ton, Exchanges Shots With Her Former Husband. Charlotte, N. C. Oct. 19.-A special from Kinston, ,N. C. to the Observer, says: A sensational shooting affair occurred eighteen miles from here this afternoon, in which Mrs. Richard Ward, the divorced wife of Cook E. Stroud, exchanged shots with him, both being injured. Mrs. Ward, whose husband is in the Government service in Philadelphia, was visiting here, s.nd went to the home of her fermer hus? band, Stroud, from whom she was divorced two years ago. She demanded possession bf her children. Stroud re? fused to give them up. A quarrel en? sued, when both shot at each other. The woman says Stroud shot first. Mrs. Ward fled after the first exchange of shots. Stroud, it is said, pursued ber, and fired at her with a shotgun. The shot took effect in her face and bosom. Neither Mrs. Ward nor Stroud is dangerously wounded. ?B0TTIK6 RECORD BROKEN. Dan Patch Makes a Mile in I Minute 56 1-4 Seconds, Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 22.-The third day of the harness racing at the Mem? phis Trotting Association track was made memorable by the magnificent performance of Dan Patch in a tr:.al aaginst time. The handsome son of Joe Patchen made the mile in 1.56^4? clipping three-fourths of a second from the world's record of 1.57, by Prince Alert, and lowering his own record by two and three-quarters seconds. Tbe mile was paced without a wind shield and at the finish Dan Patch seemed as fresh and vigorous as at the start. The demonstration that greeted the new world's pacing champion as he flashed under the wire was a memorable one. Her owners, who stood about the track before the starters' stand, had caught the time with their own watches and before the official time was flashed out across the track they set up a ' mighty shout arid threw up their bats and caps high into the air. The shont was caught up by the people in the grand stand, the space before it, and on the club house grounds, and the victory of the new pacing idol was pro? claimed in one long hoarse roar that rose and fell, and reached its climax in a frenzy of noise as Driver M. C. McHenry pulled up before the judges' stand and doffed his hat in acknowl? edgment of the acclamation. Doctor's Recipe Fer Lemonade. Here is a scientific recipe for lemon? ade advocated by the medical profes? sion: Wash the lemons thoroughly; slice thin and peel all. Cover winn sugar, allowing the sugar to become saturated with the lemon Juice by gen? tly pressing the slices of lemon with a spoon. Then add water, slowly stirring all the while. Ice, if used, should be used sparingly. One-third of a lemon to a glass is about right for home use. A Good Suffgrestioo. "When (I write a story," said the struggling young author. "I make out 3 list of ten magazines that I think might like it, a~d I usually get mighty close to the end of the Hst before I sell it" "In that case," returned the wise business man. "I should think it would pay you to begin at the other end of your list."-Chicago Tost. Xot Paid by Renalt?. "Is tho profession of weather proph? ecy a sati^actory one?" "Well." answered the expert, "in & general way it is. You see. as n rule, the income is not so unreliable as th*1 predictions."- Excmm^. The Damnable Deed! The damnable deeed is done ! The advocates of all that is base and cruel are triumphant for the time being. In the conflict truth has been crushed to earth and trampled upon, but by the eternal God it will rise again. We realize that there are those who dwell in Cherokee County who rejoice that J. H. Tillman has been aquitted. They do not rejoice because they be? lieve it right for a quiet, law-abiding citizen to be assassinated in his tracks as he walks a public thoroughfare, but they rejoice because their political faction has triumphed through force, whether it be right or wrong. We wonder if these men who have fought to bridle an incorruptible press think that because they have been victorious in this instance that they will be able to cower honest men from expressing their opinion of men and things that are corrupt? If that be their idea we believe that the express? ions of the press for the past few days will dispel that illusion. N. G. Gonzales is dead. He died the gentleman that he lived, and no one who knew him and understood his motive is ashamed of him. J. H. Till? man lives to go on through this world wearing, with his other infamies, the mark of Cain upon his brow, and all the verdicts of all the jurors in the world cannot efface that mark. It will remain with him until his dying day and the white face of his dying victim will ever haunt his memory. Something, we know not what, teaches us that N. G. Gonzales never gave his slayer the slightest excuse for his deed at the time it was com? mitted. It was a political murder and a political acquittal. From the first witness on the stand for the defense could be observed the black thread of deception. It grew and grew, like a river of inky black? ness until it finally emptied into au ocean of hellish foulness. What a spectacle! Such a farce in the name of justice ! And thus enacted in a county that bad been noted by the press for its fairness ? We bury our face in shame for poor old Carolina. Never in all time will she be able to hold her head so proudly as before this outrage. What else could be expected of twelve men who had expressed them? selves on the case before they went on the jury and then took an oath saying that they had not? Nothing. We never expected a conviction, although it was the only proper verdict that could have been rendered, but we did not expect that twelve men so base could be put on a jury. We did expect a mistrial. We know the jury was packed. You ask : How did you. know it? We asnwer : We have never seen the Rocky Mountains, but we KNOW they exist We did not see the jury packed but we KNOW it was. No man with a particle of intelligence and a spark of honor could gaze upon or watch the proceed? ings in that court five minutes with? out knowing that there was a leaning for the defense from the highest to the least officer connected with it. Rash words you say? Perhaps they be, but they are true words. SI Do you think they will stop the press from exposing well-bred liars, gamblers, thieves and murderers? Not so long as there remains a spark of manhood within the breast of a single man in South Carolina who follows the Fourth Estate. v Again we say, the damnable deed is done. We accept the decree, not be? cause we want to, but because we must. We know that there have been some men whom we believe to be honest that have sympathized with J. H. Tillman and wished for his release. We have no quarrel with them. We can't understand them. God in his infinite wisdom has decreed that poor weak humanity should not understand all things. We cannot understand why He should allow Truth and Honor tn go down in a conflict with Falsehood and Infamy, but He has done it, therefore we bow in humble snbmis son to the decree.-Gaffney Ledger. There was but one Judas in the twelve selected by the meek and lowly Nazarine, but there were twelve in the Lexington jury that acquitted Tillman -for each of the twelve betrayed his State.-Gaffney Ledger Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 22.-Harry L. White, president of the Retail Clerks' Association, authorized the statement today that as the Merchants' Exchange did not recognize the Clerk's Union, there would be a strike called on Saturday morning, and all members of the Union will be expeqted to walk out of their respective places of busi? ness. About four hundred clerks, it is stated, will be idle. Mr. White also announces that in case there is a strike, a co-operative store would be estab? lished io Birmingham at once, and that on Monday two buyers would be sent to New York to purchase goods. SO DIFFERENT. Lots of Claims Like This But so Different-Local Proof is What Sumter People Want There are a great many of them. 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