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TSE COMINO COTTON CROP. Hiere ls no Possibility of a 12, 000,006 Baie Crop. Atlanta, Ga, May 18.-Cel. J. Pope -Brown, chairman of the railroad com B|;?mission, is not a bock farmer. He juts 4,COO acres of land under cnJtiva ?^?oa, and his cotton crop varies from ?400 to SOO bales, besides all necessary -supplies. Colonel Brown, therefore, fee ps a weather eye on the market re sports and crop conditions. This morn sag while he was waiting for the com ?nission to assemble and begin the baring of the freight rate question dropped into a discussion of the prospects for this year's crop. *'I see," said Colonel Brown, "that Ifee Consittntion has been advising Sloe farmers to plant for a 12,000,0000 ^wie crop. They say it is impossible to make too much cotton. I have a : Htery vivid recollection that a few jpass ago we were selling onr cotton -for 4 or 5 cents. Mr. Inman says the farmers will get mor? for a small crop ?ban fora large one, and as that is true, I think it is a mistake to be ad? vising the people to plant for a heavy . orop and to be creating the impression -that they have largely increased the acreage. ? -4HOSUCH INCE?^5:<^>aK?AGE "The Constitution says it has read a government pamphlet which asserts iaat the acreage has been increased ?rom 15 to 20 per cent, and the Con? tention puts the possible increase at 33 1-3 per cent. Such talk is p repos . -terous. The New York . Journal of Commerce pats the increase at 10 per cant, but that is too much, because -an large sections of Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina the in? crease has not been over 6 or 7 per -centl It will take. only, a moment's *?nonght to convince a man who knows anything about cotton that to add one ^hird to the acreage would have been ^possible. Think what it would *aean. Last year's crop, with good -seasons, would . have been 12,000,000. To increase that, acreage one-third, as ^tae Constitution is talking about, ?onl? '. mean, with good seasons, a ?C00,000 bale crop. What better ar? mament could the Wall street cotton j jfeears want than that? 1 ant astonished & such twaddle from the Const i im -% jase. If the. country were t&.. gccept gdph .predictions as based on fact the lEaxmers would lose- many millions or -dollars. I have sees but one man who* fe taken issue with the Constitu ^?n;and he isa Georgian who is a pro? missor in a college in Michigan. He has taken time to think before expressing - -Sos opinion, and he figures out an- in . tapease of between 5 and 10 per cent. ' ' C^What is your awn estimate of the 3? A perfect cotton crop," said Colo? nel Brown, "starts in December and ?ends with the last day of the next ^flfccember. The? lands must be well prepared and well fertilized. There ?vest be good seasons, the crop must 4? well cultivated and there must be ^Dodtime in which to gather '^le crop. have sees ^?ecaSns make a 'full crop and lose half of ? it'before it could be gathered. The .-outlook now is . not ^promising. There^reimany thousands -of acres in which the seed has not sprouted,, on account of the dry weath y:, -?e. Ii there comes a big packing rain en such land some of this cotton may isve to be planted over. Cotton that is still in the ground means late cpt 409, and a late crop means a short crop.; Then there is the boll weevil. 3 do -not see why t!he weevil will not do.even mere damage than last year, ?fcecause rio way \ of protecting cotton against that pest has yet been devised or discovered, I do not look for more 4kan 11,000,000 bale?, and an 11,000, #00 bale crop ought lo bring 12}o cents. :**?f the farmers, listen to this big cotton crop advice," continued Colo -?el Brown, "it will cause a famine in .Georgia next year. I speak the words -advisedly," continued the colonel, ??? observed the expressions, of aston? ishment on the faces of those who heard him. "There came near being -A.famine in my section last year. I -saw a time in Hawkins ville when -3-bere was not a sack of meal, a sack ??Tcorn, a sack of oats or a bale of ??ia? ia the town. One farmer did not -have it to sell or lord to a ne; gb bor. *?he railroads could not haul the pro? visions in as fast as they could be -??ten up by tbe mules and negroes. <*fVis a fact If Georgia abandons ber ^3wg and hominy policy the ra treads -mirxim the West will have to be double backed to baal provisions to the ??sople." ""You are right about it," said Col? onel Gua by Jordan, who was present. 'Celene! Brown S8js there is hardly a ?act of Westers corn received at this *fciaae of the year that is flt to be fed cacles. He lost thirteen mules in year some time ago because a ^sjgro fed them oe Westers corn - Augusta Chronicle. Cheyenne, Wyo, May 21.-OD ly two ?ftres were lost in the flood, which ?wept through West and South Chey -eua? last night, the victims being two ?09??g boys. Others who were mis ?iag were found today. Ranchmen ?tiri cg along Crow Creek report that mmocc cf their families were lost, but <Mslfr they were washed out and their property damaged to the extent of -wfcfeoasand^ of dollars. C^asta nli no pie, May 22.-It is said "3&a?*he authorities contemplate de? ring all Armenian villages in the ian diistrict of A leia Minor in to prevent the concentration of natargents in the mountains and the astfgallation of the villagers oe the n&Y" where they may be better super report comes from S juth Caro that a *"subterranean noise like roar of a distant train" bas been there. Probably it waa some trying to "undermine" Senator ian. When Roosevelt hears a ?isaiiar rumble oa the 8th of sext ?Katember tie can turn his face to the ?a?ftll .in order to keep from seeing wfe$??he hit the ceiling.-Washington _ *Xew York, May 22.- Harry D. IBahcorV, Jr., a member of the fresh ??san das? of Yale and a ?player cn -Cb* Sale polo team, died at Ms home .%e*eJtodat from the effects of aa acci " blow on the head from a polo ?in tile hands of a fellow player, C. Devereux. SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIANS _-_ A Gracious Reply to Their 8rath ! ren of the North. Mobile, Ala., May 21.-At the open? ing session today of the General As? sembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, Dr. J. S. Lyons, chairman of the ccmmitte on foreign correspondence, read the overtures which have been received from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of Amer? ica, in session at Buffalo, and the re? ply recommended by the committee. After considerable discussion the re? port was amended by the committee to read as follows, and was then adopted : . .The General Assembly of the Pres byterin Church in the United States learns with joy of the action of your Assembly in the removal of the asper? sions on the Christian character of the Presbyterian Church in the United States and declares its readiness to folllow the leadings of Providence in the matter of closer J elations, over? tures touching upon which are now before us for consideration. "' ? The afternoon session was dispensed with and at night there was a rousing meeting held iu Government Street Church, in behalf of the Sunday school work and the ?bung People's Societies. Invitations had been is? sued to mothers, Sunday-school teach? ers and pupils to attend, and the church was packed, not only with members of the Presbyterian faith, but of other denominations. The prin? cipal address was made by Dr. Phelps, who is general sn perin teD dent of the Sunday-school work west of the Mis? sissippi River. The value of the Sunday-school and the Young People's Societies as a great moral force in the religious culture of the young was forcibly set forth, as were the practi? cal methods for the best conduct of both thes3 great aids ic church work. To-morrow ail the Protestant pulpits in the city will be filled by members of the Assembly. MR. ISAAC BRADLEY'S POSITION. Special to The State. Mobile, May 22.-The greater part of the morning session yesterday was taken up with interesting rountine business, but the house was quicken? ed into lively interest by a report from the committee on foreign correspond? ence. . Their report was in response to the telegram from the northern church of yesterday conveying the intelligence that the general assembly of the north? ern church has expunged from the records all aspersions of the Christian character of the southern church and was as follows: "This general assem .bly learns with joy of the removal by your assembly of all aspersions on the Christian character of the Presby? terian church in the United States, and is ready to follow the leadings of Providence in the matter of closer re? lations, overtures touching which are now before cs for consideration. Innooccnt as this report looks, it touched a chord so sensitive4n^any ' heatrs as tb precipitate a most, animat? ed debate. All the members bfs the assembly felt that such a telegram as that of the northern church, mak? ing the amende honorable in such a noble and Christlau spirit deserved a response equally noble and honorable, but the difficutly with some of the brethren was to be as courteous as the occasion demanded, and at the same time give no encouragement to the ioea of organic union. They were very reluctant td say that they were "ready to follow the leadings of Prov? idence" until they could see whether Providence was leading to that much dreaded goal. Three substitutes were offered, one by Dr. A. C. Hopkins, one by Dr. W. E. Boggs and the other by Dr. J. W. Flinn. The latter proved accept? able to both Dr. Hopkins and Dr. Boggs and so the question before the assembly was whether it should adopt the committee's report, cr Dr. Flinn's substitute. Much amusement was thrown into the debate by Mr. Isaac Bradley, of Mayesville. On yesterday while members of the assembly were expressing their exuber? ant joy over the telegram from the northern church, Brother Bradley in? terjected the remark that "the re? traction had come 40 years too late." He took the floor today and defend i DP that remark said after thinking ovei it sud praying over it last night he bad concluded that be was wrone. With this the assembly broke loose ! again into applause, supposing that be had repented of his obduracy and was now a convert to the policy of closer relations with the northern church. He soon made them under- j stand that this was not hrs meaning ; but merely that he had come to re- ! cognize that we ought to rejoice that even at this late day our northern brethren had found it in their hearts to wipe out their insult to cs. "But" said he, "surely thie assem? bly must not be ignorant of the fact that our venerated leader? of other days did not withdraw from the moth? er church because of an insult to cs, but because of the insult which they offered to Christ, the divine head of the church. That insult still remains, and I can never tbirk of union with them." The laugh ? .ag" now on the other side of the mouth. It was found, however that the re? port of the committee after ueing sub? jected to a searching criticism express? ed as nearly as could be expressed the views and sentiments of the assembly, and it was adopted by a large major? ity. The big fight is yet ia the fu? ture. Holland Building Opened. St. Louis, Mo., May 21.-The Hol? land building at the world's fair was formally dedicated today with ad? dresses by President Francis of the ex? position, G. H. Ten Broek, the Hol? land commissioner, and others. The building is one of the handsomest ed? ifices of any of the foreign building* at the exposition. It is an exact repro? duction of the Rembrandt bouse just outside of Amsterdam. A garden of tulips, geraniums and other flowers has been laid out in the formal style of Dutch houses io rectangular flower beds. The inside of the li ouse is di? vided into two rooms, one of which contains Rembrandt's famous master? piece, the " Night Watch. " Darlington's new $45,000 courthouse is almost completed. SUIDE OF ROBERT H. PLANT. President of Two Banks in Macon, Georgia, and a Well Known Owner of Race Horses. Macon, Ga, May 21.-Robert H. Plant, president of the First National Bank, and owner of the I. C. Plant's Son Bank, both recently placed in the hands of receivers, committed sucide on th-3 back potch of his beautiful home on College street about 3 o'clock today. He had been ill for two months and the collapse of his finan? cial institutions, the oldest in the city, came in the meantime. He had told Lis nurse that he wished to lie down. Twenty minutes later he ask? ed to be assisted to the bath room. This she did and waited fifteen min? utes on the outside. She then heard a pistol shot. She rushed in and he was r ot visible. The bath room had : two doors, oue opening upon the porcfc. There she lound the capitalist with a 38-calibre pistol in his hand, ' speechless. Death was practically instant. The bullet had passel through the right temple and ont of the lett, flattening itself upon the wall. The cororrer was at once summoned and upon the testimony of the nurse and of a pl ysician a verdict of death by his own hands was rendered. Mi. Plant leaves a wife and nine children. The Plant banking institutions are the oldest in tte city. They were closed last Monday. The receiver cf the private institution has reported a deficit of over $844,000. The National Bank examiner bas as yet m^de no re? port as to the First National's affairs. Mr. Plant., in addition to being identified with various manufacturing enterprises and formerly engaged with the New York Life Insurance Com? pany, was known throughout the trot? ting world, and his horses for } ears havo raced in the Grand circuit He owned Grattan Boy, Dulce Cor, Willa mont and^ other well known horses. G sorge "H. Plant, vice president of the.First National, is a brother. . OUR ARMY OF PENSIONERS. Ono Million Men Now Squeezing the Government. At last the pension roll of the United States go ve rn mn et has reached the 1,000,000 mark. Tha? number of men anet women are drawing stated sums monthly in return foi their, services or :he services of their relatives in the army. All the employes of all American railroads, from their pres? idents down to the track walkers, nunber but few, mor?. The annual payroll of the railroads is $676,000, 00C a year; the pension payments are .$127,000,000 fully one-fitfh an much. The pensioners of all our other wars combined, including the Spanish and Philippine, could occupy a city cf 23,000, like Bayonne, N. J. The civil war pensioners today would make a ctiy of 964,000. Our pension system is a monument to tba tremendousness of the struggle over secession. The pension payments from July-1,; 18i>5, to June 30 of last year have amounted to the enormous total of S2, j 924,178,145.93; the cost of administer ! in * the law for the same period has been $95,647,934.71, making the total expenditure thus far on pension ac? count $3,037,826,080.64. Of course some of this money has gene to the pensioners of other wars than the civil war, but so trifling a part in comparison to that the grateful republic has paid ont fully $3,000,000, 000 in pensions since the last gun of the rebellion was fired. The national debt on January 1, 1S66, had reached nearly $2,750,000, 0C0, or about $250,000,000 less than hus since been paid out on pensions account. Much of this debt, too, was contracted on the paper basis, which represented various degrees of infla? tion, whereas pension payments since 1?I73 have been on a gold basia The h age debt which the government found piled np at the close of the war was destined to prove considerably loss than the debt which had not been reduced to written form either as notes, bonds or paper obligations, but depended on the will of future con grosses. -How the interest bearing 'ebt which the government still owes -borne on the treasury records at $918,000,000-compare* with obliga? tions: which are to be met through the pension office in coming years cannot 1? accurately estimated. Westminster, S. C., May 22.-Alex Mason, a white man living between here and Oakway, and his aged father, were going to mill this afternoon and while going down a slant one of the hold-back straps gave way, causing the ? io:se to become frightened and un? manageable, overturning the wagon md throwing the old gentleman ont zn hart. The younger man was drag? ged a short distance nnder the wagon ind died?a few mientes later. Lancaster, May 21.-Mr. W. McD. Brown, of this place, has sustained a heavy loss by fire, which occurred this morning about i o'clock, on his river plantation, a few mlies west of here. His large two-story barn and stables, 500 bushels corn, 8,000 bun? dles of fodder, engine, gin, press and two buggies were destroyed. A fine young mule, worth 1200, was also burned to death. Tangierr, Morocco, May 22.-The shereef of Wazan left this morning to meet Raizuli, the bandit chief, who is said to be at Beniaios. Mohoam med El Torres a representative of the Sultan of Morocco a Taniger, has em? powered the Shereef to 6ay that the governsment will grant all of the demands of Raizuli if Ion Perdicaris, the American, and Cromwell Varley, the British captive, are handed over immediately. The soldiers already have been withdrawn from the district where the bandits are located. Augusta, Ga., May 20.-A party of negroes said to number about ten are camping in a pecluded portion of Co? lumbia county near the scene of the lynching last Sunday morning. They are all armed with Winchester rifles aud have plenty of ammunition. Judging frpm the character of the ne? groes and their armament it was thought they might be forming to ie taliate for the lynching. The sheri ff bas been notified and will go to tbe scene i" the mornwith a strong posse. No trouble J occurred. NEWS FROM THE WAR IN THE EAST. Russians Scatter Mines Broadcast and Endanger Neutral Vessels. No Happenings of Importance Recently -Exact Position of Japanese Army Unknown to Russians. London, May2 3.-The correspondent of the Times on board that paper's steamer Haimun, which is still ex? cluded from the real theatre of war, gives a review of the present position of affairs and says: "Reserves from Japan are being brought to reenforce Gen. Kuroki's lines of communication which are being harassed by Cossacks. "Gen. Kuroki appears to be waiting for the landing and co-operation of a third army. .It was while holding the Miao Tao straits against torpedo attacks from Port Arthur for the pass? age of transports with the third army that the Hateuse met with disaster. "Realizing that they were effective? ly isolated the Port Arthur Russians made their desperation an excuse for sowing the whole golf off Pe Chi Li with floating mines. "It is reported that they S9nt launches and junks to drop mines in the paths of the Japanese warships and transports. The mines drifted to the high seas and to Chinese waters con? stituting the gravest danger to neutral shipping. "Yesterday the Haimun passed two floating mines within six miles of Wei Hi Wei. "Even as the act of a desperate garrison this mnst be in violation of the law of nations." RUSSIAN CRUISER LOST. St. Petersburg, May 22.-Private advices received from Vladivostok con? firm the report that the cruiser Boga tyr was run on the rocks. Officials claim that they have no intimation regarding the incident. LOAN AGREED UPON. Tokio, May 22, 9 p. m.-After re? peated conferences between the bank? ers, the ministers and the elder states? men cf Japan, the bankers have ac? cepted the terms of the new popular loan of $50,000,000. It will be issued at 92, bear 5 per cent, interest and run for seven years. The former loan was issued at 95 and is to ran for five years. , BATTLESHIP SUNK BY ACCI? DENT. Constadt. May 22.-The battleship Orel which was brought here some dav s ago to receive her main battery and to be given the finishing touches before going into commission, sud? denly sack at her anchorage on the night of May 20. Vice Admiral Rojestvensy, commander in chief of the Baltic squadron, was instantly called from St. Petersburg and under his supervision the work of pumping out and raising the Orel was begun. The ship was raised this morning and found to be undamaged. An ex? amination showed that her Kingston valves had been opened, permitting the water to rush in. It is suggested that the carelessness of a workman might have been responsible for the opening of the valves, but an investiga? tion into the affair is progressing. HIT BY A SHELL. J Tokio, May 22, 5.30 p. m.-During the reconnaissance of* Port. Arthur made by Admial Togo on Friday of last week a shell hit the torpedo boat destroyer Aatzuki, killing one officer and 24 men. Good Mortgage not Riotous. "Buffalo Bill" was once exhibiting in Boston, says the Philadelphia Sat? urday Evening Post, and while giving a little reception at his tent at the close of the afternoon performance he was approached by a young man and his mother. After a moment of em? barrassment cn the lady's, part she said : . "Do yon consider that you given! true picture of western life?" "We try to, madam," answered Mr. Cody. "The people really ride about and shoot in that terrible manner,' do they?" she continued. -? ? , "Well,- yes; on occasion," the show? man replied, rather more guardedly. "I never suspected it," went onthe lady in some agitation. Most of the money left me by my husband is in? vested in the west, but now I feel doubtful about allowing any more of it to go there." "Is it secured by first class real estate mortgage?" "I believe so."" "Madam,"said Cody, with confi? dence, "do not give yourself the least uneasiness. In all my experience with the west I have never yet seen a first mortgage on real estate riding a buck? ing bronco, shooting.up the town or doing anything except grimly drawing its 12 per cent per anumn. I wish I owned a million of 'em. Co-operation in England. London, May 21.-Nowhere else in the world do cooperative societies flourish as they do in England. . If any one ..were inclined to doubt this statement he would have been con? vinced of its entire truth had he been present today at Stratford, where 2,000 delegates were assembled at the opening of the annual co-operative Congress. The delegates came from every nook and corner of England and represented no less than 7,000,000 of the population. The aggregate capi? tal of these societies reaches fabulous figures and the profit to the members ia very great. In Stratford alone the societies have a membership of 13,000. among whom more than $125,000 was distributed during the last year. The congress will continue one week and will be devoted to discussions of tiie co operative movement in all its phase*. The delegates will also in? sect the great industrial institutions in the neighborhood, including the Great Eastern Railroad shops, the Woolwich Arsenal, and the Albert and Victoria Docks. Gen. LeRoy P. Yoomans has bwn ant oin ted a special Judge to Hojd Court at Greenwood for two week>. Ihia waa on the petition of the Bar of Greenwood and the Court will open OD the third Monday in Jone. GREAT BATTLE ?T PORT ARTHUR REPORTED. i - Story Comes From Buss'anlSoiirses That Japanese Lost 15000 Men and Were Driven Sack. Japanese Spies Said to Be at Work tn Russia-Responsible for Sinking of Battleship at Cronstadt. Japs Preparing to Put Another Army in Field and Russians Ready to Retreat -Japs Said to Have Choiera. St .Petersburg, May 23.-6 p. m. According to reports which have reached the headqaurters of Liao Yang from Chinese sources the Japanese have made a Jand attack on Port Ar? thur, but have been repulsed with hea? vy loss. The truth of the reports is questioned here. St.. Petersburg, May 23.-11.30 p. m. -It is reported that Foreign Minister Lamsdorf has received a message from the Russian consul at Cheefoo, saying that the Japanese have made a land attack on Port Arthur and that in do? ing so they lost fifteen thousand men, killed or wounded. The Russian loss is placed at three thousand meD. The ultimate outcome of the fighting is not stated. 1 JAPANESE SPIES IN RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, May 23.-The admi? ralty reports that the battleship Orel, which suddenly sank at her anchorage, at Cronstadt, on the night of May 20, as the result, according to report, of her sea valves being opened, and which 'was subsequently raised, has not sustained any injuries. The inves? tigation recently made by the authori? ties into the recent attempts to de? stroy some of the vessels of the Baltic fleet at Cronstadt has resulted in the arrest of four Japanese spies, who seem to have escaped detection by wearing the uniform of naval cadets, thus ob? taining admission to the navy yard and access to the ships without diftl culty. m f. It is believed that they are .also re? sponsible for the fire started some time back near the naval magazine, and for the opening of the sea valves of the Orel. The authorities here think the Japanese have been harbor? ed by Anarchists. RUSSIA * ADMITS ' LOSS OF BO ; GATYR. ? St. Petersburg, May 23. -The. report that Rear Admiral Jessen, finding it impossible to save the protected cruis? er Bogatyr, which went ashore recent? ly in a fog on. the rocks off Yladivos tock, caused her to . be ?lbwn up. is confirmed. The guns of the Bogatyr were removed before she was' destroy? ed. No loss of life attended lier de? struction. . * RUSSIANS SAY ' JAPS HAVE CHOLERA. Liao Yang, May 23.-According to the latest reports the Japanese camps are infected with cholera and there is an average of 100 deaths daily. The military situation -is compara? tively quiet. ' ., Russian patrols are successfully ha? rassing the left of the Japanese ad? vance. THE STRENGTH OF PORT AR? THUR. Cheefoo, May 23.-5.30 p. m.-The captain of a Russian merchantman who left Port Arthur On May 20, and is among the recent arrivals from Dal? ny, says in an interview that the whole of the Japanese fleet bad not re? turned to Port Arthur since the loth instant, when besides the battleship Hatsuse, another big vessel struck a mine and was towed away disabled. Gunboats and torpedo boats returned off the port on May 20, when the Rus? sians succeeded in sinking a small gunboat and two torpedoj^oatavc ' 1 The .Russians aire "now confident of 'holding Port Arthur with the thirty thousand men now stationed there, exclusive of the navy and crowds of mechanics working on the damaged war ships, all of which, except the Czarevitch and the Retvizan,ars ready to rejoin the fleet. These will also be ready for Fea service by June 1. The entrance to the harbor has been cleared and small boats now pass in and out freely from Port Arthur to Dalny. JAPS ORGANIZING A THIRD ARMY. London, May 24.- A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Yinkow says: "A Japanese third army is mobil zing at Hiroshima. A change in the Japa? nese plan, arising from the naval dis? aster, involving the utilizing of the second army for the reduction of Port Arijturand therefore the first army is entrenched at Feng Wang Qkgag^'-U The Morning Post's Shanghai cor? respondent says it is reported the Rus? sians are removing stores and provis? ions to Harbin, and that one hundred locomotives and eight hundred cars are collected at Liao Yang in readiness to convey passengers and gooda There? fore, he says, the conclusion ?6 that the Russians are peparing to retreat. RUSSIANS WILL DESTROY MUK? DEN. London, May 24.-The correspondent of the Standard at Shanghai says re? ports have been received from Muk? den, that the Chinese are alarmed be? cause of threats made by the Russians that they will burn Liao Yang and Mukden before retiring to Harbin. The correspondent adds that the Tartar viceroy at Mukden has ordered a brigade of Chinese troops to occupy that place immediately after the Rus uians retire. THE OREL DAMAGED AGAIN. Loudon, May 23.-The St. Peters? burg correspondent of the Central Newe SE j a that there was an explosion today on board the battleship Orel, at Cronstadt, and that ten stokers were killed. The vessel, the correspondent says, was damaged and it will take weeks to effect repairs. The explosion, according to the dis potcb, was the result of accumulation of gas in the bunkers. THREE JAP CRUISERS CAP? TURED. Paris, May 24.- The St. Petersburg correspondent cf the Matin says: . "It is persistently rumored that the Vladivostock squadron has captured three cruisers bought by Japan from Chili." BRYAN TRYING TO DICTATE. Will Try to Prevent Harmony in St. Louis Convention and Will Demand That Kansas City Platform be Reaffirmed. Chicago, May 22.-William Jennings Bryan said today while in Chicago that he thought the Democratic party would not be reorganized at the St. Louis convention. "The plan to bring about a reorganization cf the party will be defeated," he said. "The par amont issue in the campaign wiil be government by the people as against a government by corporations. The people will control the St. Louis con? vention and the Kansas City platform will be reaffirmed, in my judgment." '1 Do you expect to go to St. Louis as a delegate?" was asked. '1 Well, it looks that way now, though I can't be sure," was the reply. SLEW THE SLAYER OF HIS WIFE. Frank Paul Waited and Killed the Man Who Murdered Wife Be? fore His Eyes. . ? Dubois, Pa., May 22.-At Cardiff, a village near here, a woman sacrificed her life fer her husband's hat, being shot down in cold blood -by an Italian, while recovering the hat and a half hour later the murderer was. lying" dead, his head full of buckshot from the gun of the husband of,the murdered woman. A quarrel of a trivial nature was the cause of the double killing. Frank Paul, a 'prominent man of/ Cardiff, which is ll miles east of here, left his home Saturday night to visit friends at a boarding house a short ! distance from his home. About an .hour was spent sociably at the board-' ing house when a quarrel arose be? tween Paul and Saverio Pellegrino, an inmate of the house. . Although the quarrel was of a trivial character. Paul, suspicious of danger, would not remain and left hurriedly fer his home, leaving his hat lying on .the ground in front of the house. His wife urged him to return for the hst, but Paul was timid about returning and his wife volunteered to go and get it. Paul, being uneasy, watched her from his door. She walked to the boarding house, which was in plain sight of Paul's home, and as she stooped to recover the hat Pel? legrino fired pointblank at her with a shotgun. The charge of shot enter? ed the woman's head and she fell dead. Paul", who had witnes-sed the scene, took a revolver and shotgun and start? ed to avenge his wife. As the Italian was trying to escape. Paul fired several ' shots from his re . volver, but missed'.; ' Pellegrino suc? ceeded in barricading himself in his room and Paul stood guard in the hall? way. The people about the house were terrorized and would not inter? fere. After a half an hour Pellegrino hearing no sound, stuck his head through the do?r. Paul, quick as a flash, fired, killing the murderer of his wife in his tracks. After exam? ining the body to see that no life re? mained, Paul picked up his dead wife's body and tenderly carried it to his home. Surrounded by his three small children the officers when they came to arrest him found him bending, weeping over the remains. The resi? dents of the village condemn Pellegri? no and uphold Paul, who bears a good reputation. Latest numbers of The Delineator and The Designer, just received at Osteeu's Book Sotre. ?ZL\Z Cheap Szcursiba Sates Tia South era Ballway. The Southern Railway announces the fol? lowing very low excursion rates to th?? fol? lowing points: > '* Sumter to nat?as, - Texas, and return ac? count General . .Assembly Cumberland Presbyterian Church May 19, to 27. 1304. tickets on sale May 15 to li, with final limit returning May 31st. 1904. at the very low rate of 333.85: ; "The Southern Hallway offers most con? venient schedules with Pullman Sleepers and Southern Railway Dining Cars on all through trains. For full information apply to any Agent Southern Hallway, or K. W. Hunt. Division Passenger Agent. C. P. Osteen, M. D. No. 18 W. Liberty St., (Over Osteen's Book Store). SUMTER, S. C. ? _ .--( N. 0. Osteen, JrM SUBGEON DENTIST, OFFICE : Nc. 18 W. Liberty St., (Over Osteen's Book Store.) SUMTER, S. C. Office hours, 9 to 1.30 ; 2.30 to 6 "PIT" m. IT I -PIT PARTIES" are the rag?. 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