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mi EYE FOB ARCHITECT WILSON Mr. Kort Berle, Government En? gineer Says State House Dome is Safe. Sides That the Girders are Kot Seri casiy Overloaded and Mr. Wilson's Catenations are Incorrect. Columbia, June 24.-The dome of the State capitol is safe. This is the -report of the government expert sent here to make an investigation. Not only is the dome safe, bat from his report it appears that the girders are sot called upon to bear any nnreason able load. The issue was settled yesterday by the report of Mr. Kort Serie, chief structural engineer in the office of the supervising architect c* the treasury department. This expert, investigation was made necessary by the report of Mr. G. C. "Wilson, the well-known engineer asDd architect of Columbia. Mr. Wil? son had been engaged hy the commit? tee to repair the State house, and he reported that the'dome of the capitol ia unsafe and therefore it won Id not be advisable So construct the heavy steel ceiling for the main lr bbv. As so much surprise was created by Ulis report, which was accompanied by calculations, Gov. Heyward de? cided to get tbs best talent available to' investigate Mr. Wilson's charges. Upon applying to the secretary of the treasury, W^Q ; has charge of all the federal buildings in this" country, Gov. Hey ward was given Mr Berle as the examining expert The report which he- submitted yes? terday is entirely in apposition to the statements of Mi;: WHson. -Mr; -Berle, | in addition to-his onlcial position, is M member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Gov. Hey ward for? warded the report together with all correspondence in the -matter, tc Col. J, Q. Marshall, chairman of the com saittee to make repsi?s. THE BfTTEBf^^ Woman Kill Herself and Titree Children to Escape Starvation. Chicago, Jane 26.-Threatened with starvation and with her,husband hope? lessly insane at the asylum at Eankake, Mrs. Annie Kelsdzick gave up tb 3 struggle for existence, killed her three small children and then ended her own Hfe. Illuminating gas'was the means of destruction she adopted and y hen the bodies were found early today -all four had" been dead several boars. The ~fami?y lived, in three small, rooms at 965 north Bobey street aud today a constable wss to eject the mother and her babies from the prem? ises for the non-payment of rent. It was after Mrs. Kelsdzi'ck tad been served with a summons to appear in court that she decidet? to end the lives cf herself and little one?. Bruno, Ber . . man and Walter, aged seven, five snd two years respectively. Ali three were found in bed locked in each other; s :~ arms. The mother's lifeless body was found lying on the kitchen floor*while gae was escaping from a jet in the ? ?acm. That the woman made every prepa? ration to do away with herself and children was evident. She first wrote 'and sealed a letter.addressed :?;o a rela? tive in Gennauy. Then shs bathed herself and donned clean linen. Each -child nad also been-given a bf Ob, clean night gowns placed upon them and the litle ones sent to the sleep.from iwhich they would?uever awaken. Hester's Co twn Staters s nt. Ne,w Orleans, June ?V-Secietary Hester's weekly cotton * statement is? sued ": today shows for the 24 days of June a decrease under last year oi%> 24, - O?OJJand a decrease under the same period year before last of 32,00J. For the nine months and 24 days of the season that have elapsed the aggregate is behind the same days of ls st year {93,000 and behind the same days year before last 349,000. * The amount brought into sieht ?during the past week has been ?27,027 bales, against ?5,130 for the same "?VjBn dajs iast year aud 45,689 ? year before lack .The movement since Sept. 1st >hows receipts at ail United States ports to beJ,S54,3v5 against 7,649,842 last yea-. Overland across toe M iss i h si pp-. Ohio and Potomac rivers to northern mills ?nd Canada 9 5 750 against 1,064,531 last year; interior stocks in excess of those held at the close of the commer? cial year 90,831 against a decrease of 17,816 last yea?. The total movement since Septem? ber 1 is 9,794,888 against 10,487,627 ?last year. Foreign exports for the week have bees 26,512 against 19,437 la>t year, .making the total thus far for the sea cm 5,798,834 against 6,539,935 last year. The total takings of American mills, north, sooth and Canada thus far for the. season have been 3,855,324 against S;?7i,748 last year. Stocks at the seaboard and the 29 leading southern interior centres nave decreased during the week 26,372 baies against a decrease during the corre? sponding period la*t season of 13,294. Including stocks left over at ports aud interior towns from the last crop and the number of bales brought into sight thus far from the new crop, the supply to date is 9,962,685 against 10,702,701 for the same period last year. The weekly statements will now be .discontinued for the rest of the sea While a tuner was at work on Mr. D. C. Sinclair's piano Tuesday, he was surprised, not to say frightened, by the discovery cf a snake. It was a\ chicken snake and measured over three feet in length. Ile had probably Jbe?? making his living cn mice, lt is thought that his snakesbip has dwelt there since he was a snakling, and it is doubtful if be could have got out ?lone.-Lum berton Argus. In North Carolina divorces * are granted for abandonment for one year. That makes it easy to dissolve the f marriage relation. The divorces nave bees greatly increased and 70 per cent, of the divorced marry very soon. Such a law and such results are a dis? to the Sta 'ie. SHOSKiNB 0IS6?S7IN6 UWLESSKESS. Mob of White Lynchers Hang Ne I jjfo in Mississippi" - Little Girl Made to Act as Hangman. Memphis, Tenn., June 26.-A spe? cial io The Commercial-Appeal from Enpora, Miss., says: Starling Dun? ham, a negro, wanted on the charge of criminally assaulting the 14-year-old daughter of John Wilson, white man, near Bellefontaine two days ago and attempting to criminally assault three young ladies hamed Dunn near this city, all during the course of the same day, waa hanged in the public square here today by a mob. The noose was placed about the ne? gro's neck by the little Wilson, girl, who positively identified him as her assailant. The negro was then placed upon the back of a large black horse and at a signal from the leader of the mob the little Wilson girl led the horse from under him. Ovjer 3,000 persons, white and black, witnessed the hanging. The lynching s was as orderly as a legal ex? ecution.; After being assured that the negro was dead, the mob cut down the body and turned it over to rela? tives for burial Dunham was captured Friday near Vienna, Ala., after a running chase during which be was wounded in two places. He was brought here last night by the sheriff of this, Wilson, county. A large mob met the train at the depot and an effort was made to get the negro, but the officers spirited him away and carried him to'the jail at Waith ali, six miles from here, where he was again met by a mob of deter? mine'9 men who said that their, intent? ion was to Sum him. The officers in charge pf the negro succeeded in pre? vailing upon the mob to give np this intention; but only after promising to deliver the negro to the mob this morning for execution. There waaia strong sentiment for burning but this was overcome and the lynching took the form of a hang? ing. Dunham stoutly, maintained his innocence to the last and denied that he had ever seen the Wilson girl. He admitted having visited Dunn's place but denied any bad motive.* His last remarks were made to two hundred negroes who were assembled about the point of execution, Dunham telling themi never to go about a white man's i house when women were at home j alone. ? ' The three Dunn sisters, the eldest of whom is less than 18, witnessed the lynching from a distance. mmH NEGRO PLANK. Alabama Republicans Declare it Was a Great Blunder. Birmingham, Ala.. June 25.-Prom? inent Democratic and Republican lead? ers here are alike denouncing the act? ion of the Republican convention in inserting in*-the party platform the negro suffrage plank. Col. William Youngblood, former Republican na? tional committeeman from this State and for years a conspicuous Republican leader, said today, that j this plank stamped the Republican party not only as a party of sectionalism, but a racial party; that it was a knife thrust at every effort to organize a decent white Republican party in the South, and that it would do incalculable harm to the party, because it put it in the attitude of throwing down the gaunt? let on the negro issue. WiUiam Vaughan, former Republic? an State chairman, characterizes the plank as a great' blunder, calculated to do the party much harm. B: A. Thompson, county Democratic chapman, said that although he has been an anti-Cleveland man this act will force the Democrats to nominate Cleveland because his position of sym? pathy with the South on the negro question is known, and be can com? mand enough independent votes in t?e East to elect bim. Col. Henry M. B. Ray, chairman of the last State Democratic convention, declared that the Republicans have determined .on the negro as an issue and the campaign one of sectionalism. He believes this will be beneficial to the Democracy ''because the average Northern man of intelligence has as" little use ior ti.e negro as the South? ern man." Bishop Capers Honored. Sewanee, Tenn., June 25.-Bishop Ellison Capers, D. D., of South Caro? lina, was elected chancellor of the University of the South this after? noon, to succeed the late Bishop Dud? ley. An Unusual Accident. Columbia, June 24 -As the result of an explosion of a half-barrel of quicklime today, in Waverly, John Mirna, a colored carpenter or mason, waa horribly burned about the face and it is feared that he will lose his sight. Mims and another carpenter were working on a house on Oak street, and it seems that a small barrel of lime,,or half-barrel as it is called by the carpenters, was opened care? lessly, only half of the top being knocked off. Water was poured in hurriedly, as the workmen were in a hurry to get to dinner and wished to finish mixing before leaving. As the "steam" commenced to*rise and the lime began to work it expanded and burst the keg, scattering the lime all over the place. Mims was struck in the face and left eye, being burned horribly, and suffered excruciating pain before medical aid could ' be sum? moned. He was taken to his borne on West Lady street as quickly as possible and efforts were made to save his sight. This may be done, but just now it is doubtful. The peculiar part about the whole accident is that Waters, another carpenter, was standing beside Mims and was not touched by any of the flying lime. The contractor says that it was the man's own fault that the accident happened. Manila, June ^-Monsignor Guidi, apostolic deleef**mp the Philippines, died today o)4/< ?ta?are. The fun? eral will K "rJ?ere next. Friday and the r<.; fl Bfee interred two months later ... TOLSTOI DENOUNCES WAR. Greatest Living Russian Criticises Czar and War Party in Se? vere Terms. Loadon, June 27.-The . Times this more lng prints a ten-column disserta? tion on the Russo-Japanese war written by Count Tolstoi in his most violent style. The trend, of this remarkable document is, first, against all war, but it is principally a thunderous philippic against the Eussian govern? ment and the Russian orthodox church and generally against the existing order of things. Tclstoi says that the Reservists throughout Russia are "dissatisfied, gloomy and exasperated and the old appeal for faith, king and fatherland has lost its spell over the Russian mas3es." The ten columns breathe gloomy forebodings and preach revolution. Tolstoi holds up the emperor to con? tempt as an " unfortunate and entang? led young man, recognized as the lead? er of 130, ?Q0, OOO, continually undecided and compelled to contradict himself." Tslstoi however, does not stop with Russia, for Japan is given a share of his stinging comments for having forcibly resisted what he terms the "unprovoked aggression of Russia." SOUTH CAROLINA CHEESES / Destined to be Known in the Mar? kets of the World. Columbia, June 26.-For years The News and Courier has advocated the establishment of creameries in this State and has been instrumental in briigSng several into. the State and interesting the "owners of others. Commissioner of Immigration Wat? son today announced that he had se? emed the working of several more. From the time of the establishment of his department there has been special attention paid to dairy farms due to the facts and figure furnished.by Prof. W. J. Spillman, the agrostologist of the depatrment*of agriculture, and the fact that there were few in this State. Mr.. Spillman was sure that such in duutry. would be a success, on account of the rich meadow lands in the State, and the Bermuda grasa While North Mr. Watson talked over the matter with several parties interested and on hifi return found a letter from Mr. C. G. Voight, ?the manager of the Union Creamery Company, of Union, S. C. MJ*. Voight is a Northwestern man, who came here a few years ago. He wi i tes as follows : ' ' A little over two years ago I emigrat? ed from Illinois to Easley, S. C., where I organized a company and pn| in a first-class creamery. In this time I have learned so Auch of the geed things of the State that Lave guten a brother to locate here; also my parents and two small brothers. I found that there was a grand opening here for the creamery - busi? ness and that the time would Vome w aen South Carolina would be a lead? ing; State in the 'manufacture of cheese. "I have proven that more cheese cf.n be made from one hundred gallons of mi|k here than by three to five in the^ Northwestern states, and it sells at 16 cents wholesale. The seven . cheese factories I that have established are unable to [ meet the demand. I have organ? ized the company here and expect to work on a different plan ; instead of : having farmers to bring us milk, we have our own farm and are buying^ cows to supply us with milk." Mr. Voight has taken up the mat? ter with the department of immigra? tion and commerce,' realizing, he states, that the plants will not be able to fill their orders and asks the department to induce experienced dairymen' to buy farms, establish dairies and furnish existing creameries a:ad those to be established with milk. He states that Northern men looking for a good investment in the South will find none better. He says : ** I can safely guaran te 3 20 to 30 per cent on the invetsmen." Efforts are now being made to induce several families from the North and a number cf experienced dairymen fL-om Germany to come to South Caro li na and enter upon the work of de? veloping this industry to the fullest estent. I Commissioner Watson has accepted an invitaton to go to Union on Monday and assist in the organiza? tion of the new Chamber of Commerce at that place, and will make an ad? dress on the work to be accomplished. W bile-there he will confer with Mr. Voight on the business. The depart? ment will cooperate as much as possi? ble in getting the men wanted. There c re also a number of other counties interested in diversified agriculture, and Mr. Watson will, in the next few days, visit Yorkville, Saluda, Horry und Charleston.-News and Courier. BERKELEY COUNTY ASSESSMENT. That $500 is Not in Accordance WKh the Rules. It has been published that tbe county of Berkeley has decided to assess the candidates for congress $500 which amount has been placed upon such (Candidate by Chariot-ton county, in she same district. As there is only one candidate, Mr. Geo. S. Legare, there was much interest in the an? nouncement. The rules of the party, tiowever, state that such assessments are not allowed and at the last meet? ing of the committee it was decided that all candidats assessed by tte State committee should not be assessed by the counties. Charleston county was exempted, but tbis was the only county in the State. Mr. Legare therefore will not have to pay th<> as? sessment.-Columbia Record. New York, June 25.- John Sharpe ! Williams, the Democratic leader in j Congress has been selecied temporary i Chairman of thc St. Louis Conven- ; tion and will make the key note ad? dress to that great gathering of Dem? ocrats. Sing Sing, June 27.-Frank Henry Burns, self-confessed murderer of ni i e ' men, was electrocuted this morning for the murder of Capt. Geo. B. Townsend, f?e was anxious to die and helped officials in preparations for the chair. Death was instantaneous._ TWO GREAT ARMIES IN BATTLE ARRAY. Forces of Gen. Kuropatkin and Bens. K?roki and Oku, Aggregating 300,000 Men,.Manouever ing for Position. %_ The Preliminary Engagements of the Great Battle of the War . Even Now Going on. A General Fight Cannot be Postponed Much Longer. St. Petersburg, June' 27.-Reports received today indicate that a great battle is now in progress between Fat Che Kiao and Hai Cheng. It is be? lieved that the result of the war hinges upon the outcome of this battle. It is stated that more troops are en? gaged in this battle than in any pre? vious fight, and that both armies will fight to a finish. No details, ix any have been receiv? ed, have been made public JAPAN'S LATEST VICTORY. London, June 27.-The Central News has received the following dis? patch from its Tokio Correspondent, dated June 26, evening: "A detailed account of the naval battle at Port Arthur has been pub? lished 'here. The Russian battleships Peresviet, Plotava and Sevastopol and the cruisers Bayan, Askold and Novik attempted to emerge*from the harbor at dawn on June 23, led by steamers used for clearing the mines. At ll a. m., the j battleships Czarevitch, Ret vizan and Pobieda joined the others. . "All the ships then advanced, en? deavoring to dispose of the mines laid by the Japanese, but they were hind? ered by two- Japanese torpedo boat de? stroyers, which had been guarding the mouth of the harbor-. "At 3pm., the Japanese boats ex? changed shots with seven Russian de? stroyers which were covering she clearing operations. One of the Rus? sian cruisers was set on fire and retired inside of the harbor. "Subsequently the Japanese decoyed the Russians out to sea and awaited an opportunity to begin a general act? ion. Between 8 and 9 p. m., the Rus? sian ships made for the harbor. The Japanese torpedo destroyers and tor? pedo boats chased the Russians and at 9 30 delivered the first attack, in con? sequence of which the enemy was thrown into disorder. "During the night eight separate attacks were delivered, lasting until dawn Friday, "In one of these assaults the Chir taka twice torpedoed a battlehsip cf. the Peresviet type and sank her. A battleship of the Sevastopol type and a cruiser cf the Diana type,were dis? abled, and towed away." JAPANESE BOATS DAMAGED. Chefoo, , June 27, 10.30 a. m.-A Chinese who has arrived here from the vicinity of Poit Arthur in a junk reports that at daylight last Friday morning he saw two large Japanese ships and three torpedo boats with drawing from the fleet off Port Arthur. The vessels were all damaged. LONDON OPINION OF SITUATION London, June 27.-While the special dispatches to the morning newspapers add nothing to the details contained in the Associated Press information concerning the Port Arthur engage? ment and the situation on the Liao Tung Peninsula, the editorials by war experts devote much space to the situ? ation. The general view is that the j Russians at Port Arthur lost their, op I portunity through their timidity and ? that Togo has again asserted his right ! to be considered one of the world's j great admirajs. It is conceded on every band that while the details are not yet full known, when both sides tell the whole story the calamity to Russia will be increased. Ic is pointed out, however, that Port Arthur is open and that the Vladivostok fleet may mak? another diversion in which case the remnant of the Port Arthur fleet may at any time make a forlorn hope and dash for a juncture. The editorials, special dispatches and articles by war experts join in expressing the belief that great events are impending and that the next few days will have great bearings on the final result of the war. Tachilachao, June 28.-A great bat tld involving, 300,000 men is progress? ing between Gen. Kuropatkin's army and armies of Gen. Kuiaki and Gen. Oku near here. No decisive result bag been obtaned and no results can be known today or perhaps for several days. VLADIVOSTOK FLEET RAI?NG AGAIN. Tokio, June 28.-A report has been received from a scout boat that the Russian Vladivostock squadron was sighted early this morning at Hakaido and an attack on Hakodate is feared. THE LONG EXPECTED BATTLE. Ta Tche Kiao (Between Kai Chou and Hai Chen?, Liao Tung Peninsula), June 27, 2.45 a. m.-A great battle seems to be impending. . A portion of the Russian army has assumed the offensive against the Japanese forces commanded by Gen. Oku, and it is re? ported that Gen. Kuroki is moving along the Russian left flank against liai Cheng. According to a high placed personage, Gen. Kuroki's army I is strong enough to take the offensive, | and pre.-umably he is anxious for a j decisive action before the rains begin. ? Sharp tiring was heard in tho bills j yesterday at daybreak and severe j righting is reported to be in progress j near the village of Ton Chen. An ? officer who galloped in yesterday even- j ing reported that the Russians were gaining the upper hand and driving back the enemy. This, however, has not yet been confirmed. All day yesterday Kussian troops were hurrying southward from Ta Teno Kiao and as night fell battalions were continuously moving out briskly to the accompaniment of their battle songs. Clouds of dust hung over the marching columns and the chorus of infantry singers was occasionally in? terrupted by the rattle and clang of guns drawn at a smart trot and follow? ed by galloping squadrons of cavalry. lt waa a stirring spectacle to see the Russian army eagerly hastening, sing? ing, to battle. The old battle hymns were last beard in the battalions rounding among the bins and valleys, as. with bayontes glittering in the set? ting sun the regimental colors were born majstically forward. For hours after darkness fell over the scene one conld still hear the rattle of moving guns, the cracking of commissariat wagons and the tread of marching men, while occasonally, in place of the war songs of the soldiers, homely melodies recounting the joys of village life, which carries the minds of the men back to their distant homes in Russia, echoed through the air. As this dispatch is filed news has reached here that Gen. Kuroki is marching upon Hai Cheng. There are many military attaches and newspaper correspondents here. SITUATON AT PORT ARTHUR. Chefoo, June 27, 7 p. m.-Chinese arriving here in junks from the vicin? ity of Port Arthur, report that the Russians have ordered all the Chinese to leave the place. A number of shells fell in the town of Port Arthur dur? ing the bombardment by the Japanese on June 23, but no damage was done, many of the shells failing to explode. A Japanese officer, who went on board one of the junks off the Miao-Tao Isl? ands, seventy-five miles south of Port Arthur told the Chinese that one Jap? anese torpedo boat was damaged dur? ing the engagement off Port Arthur on June 23 and sank in the Gulf of Pe-Chi-Li. The officers stated that two other Japanese torpedo boats were badly damaged. THE BATTLE DEFERRED. St. Petersburg, Jone 27, 5.47 p. m.-The Japanese have evacuated Senu Chen, aparently with the ob ! ject of enticing Gen. Kuropatkin j south. In the meanwhile Gen. Kuroki is advancing on Hai Cheng ready to attack the Russian left, and is again moving troops north from Feng Wang Cb'eng. The result of the two recent devel? opments, it is believed by the general staff, will defer the prospects of a big battle. % The Rnsisans lost eighty-one men in the recent fight north o? Ai Yang Pien Men, about sixty miles north of Feng Wang Cheng, on the Mukden road. - THE RUSSIANS OUTFLANKED. Chicago, June 27.-A special to the Daily News from Tokio says: "It is stated by the war office that Gen. Oku'sv army has passed the moun? tain barrier, protecting the right flank and rear of Knropatkin's forces, in the passes between Kai Chou and "Motien Pass. The Russian position bas thus been rendered strategically untenable, and it is expected it will be made actually untenable in the course of the operations of the coming week, unless the Russians resist the advance of the Japanese more success? fully than hitherto. In that event Gen. Kuroki will te relieved of the necessity of attacking frontally the main strongholds of the Muscovites between Feng Wang Cheng and the railway. CHINESE WELCOMING JAPS. With Gen. Guroki's Headquarters ia the Field, June 25, via Fusau.-De? layed in Transmission.-Tbe Japanese have advanced for two days and a bat? tle is expected near Mao Tine Pass, where the Russians are entrenched. A Russian outpost of 300 retreated before the Japanese, and several Rus? sians were- captured. The Japanese army is in splendid condition. The Chinese are welcoming the Japanese occupation. The weather is perfect. EFFECT OF SAKOAROFF'S RE? PORT. St Petersburg, June 27-Lieut. Gen. Sakbaroff's disptacq, received to? night, .confirms the belief that the great decisive battle of the campaigu between Gen. Knropatkin's main army and the armies of Gens. Kuroki and Oku is imminent The three armies probably aggregate 300,000 men. and their outposts are today in tonch all along the line. The Japanese evidently tried to j draw Kuropatkin as far south as pos siwble, holding out as an incenative a check to the advance of Oku's main army. Meantime Oku swung sharply to the eastward to join Kuroki to? ward the Chapan Pars, Kuroki at the same time moving a strong force by the right flank towards Hai Cheng. The main Japanese advance contin? ues along the main Feng Wang Cheng -Liao Yang road, avoiding the Mao Tien Pass by a detour to the north ward. The advance in all points is heing attended by constant skirmish? ing. Nothing is knowji here of the exact point at which Knropatkin's main force is concentrated, though it is be? lieved that a large part of the Liao Yang force has. been moved to a point between Kin Chan and Tatche Kiao. According to the Associated Press dispatch from Tatche Kiao today a large force has pushed southward from Tatche Kiao against Ojku. While Kuropatkin is thus extending himself, the Japanese, with great mobility, seem to be trying to concentrate for the purpose of striking the Russians in flank and rear. There is a belief that the Vladivos? tok squadron put to sea Saturday and is likely t be next heard of in the Co? rean Straits. In the Democratic convention at St. j Louis it will require G&3 votes to nomi nate a President. Already Judge ! Parker has 270 delegates pledged to ! him, Mr. Hearst has 1G4, and there will be 4(50 uninstructed representa? tives from various States. Missouri, which is the last State to be heard from, will instruct for Cockerell. Undoubtedly a number of the unin? structed delegations will support j Judge Parker. Winnsboro, June 26.- James Horns- j: by, lt?-year-old hoy, son of Dock j Hornsby, an employe of the Fairfield j cotton mills w.as drowned in the pond j at the mill last night. Some of the mill hands saw his clothes on the bank cf the pond this morning and searched for his body in the pond and f jund it. FIGHTING PARSON BROUGHTON. R. W. Westbrook, Chief of the Al? bany, Ga., Police Resents Damaging Charges. Albany, Ga., Jane 27.-Rev. Dr. Len G. Broughton of Atlanta and Chief of Police R. W. Westbrook were the central figures in a sensation? al fight which occurred about 6 o'clock this afternoon in the barber shop of Levi Dawson on Broad street. The fight was the outcome of charges preferred against Westbrook in a ser? mon by Broughton Sunday afternoon in the Chautauqua auditorium. Broughton charged^ that Wetsbrook was a drunkard and that he could be found at all hours in the lowest dives in the city. He claimed to have affi? davits ,in his possession to prove his charges and said he was ready for an investigation if one was desired by Wetsbrook. The sensation of Broughton and Westbrook has been the sole talk of the people on the streets of Albany to dya and a fight was freely predicted should Westbrook and Broughton meet. When Westbrook entered Dawson's shop this afternoon Broughton was in a chair being shaved. As soon as Westbrook saw bim he went for him;. Broughton was struck several times by Westbrook, when friends of Brough? ton interfered and hauled Westbrook off of him. Four or five hundred peo? ple collected quickly in front of the shop and for a while it appeared th&t a general mix up was imminent. The affair has caused a great sensation and it is freely predicted that more trou? ble will result from Broughton's charges Cruger Westbrook, a son of Chief Westbrook and the senator, from this district in the present assembly, had a fight with Mr. R. W. Jordan, it being believed that Jordan is the man who furnished Broughton with 1 his evidence. Jordan was knocked dow but suffered no serious damage. VIGHMS BF CARLESSNESS. Water Turned on Men Who Were Working in a Conduit in Jamaica. Kingston, Ja., June 27.-Thirty three persons were killed by an acci? dent which took place near Spanish Town, 10 miles west of Kingston, the morning in the main conduit of the West India Electric company, which operates the street cars f rom Kingston and the shareholders of which are principally Canadians, jg Nearly 100 laborers had been detailed to remove sand from the enormous pipe which is a mile long and which conveys water from the in-take on the Rio Cobre to the turbines of the pow? er house. The work had been practi? cally completed when orders were given to, allow a small quantity cf water to enter the conduit. Through misapprehension, accident or carelessness, the full force of water was turned on and a mad struggle to escape by means of the manholes en? sued with the result that 33 persons were killed. The tragedy bas cast a gloom over the colony and a rigid in? vestigation into' the cause is now in progress. DAILY MARKET REPORT. Special by Ware & Leland's Private Wire. NEW YORK COTTON. July Aap:. Sept. Oct. Dec. Jan. Open 10 50 10 43 9 80 9 65 964 9 66 High 10 55 10 55 990 9 71 9 67 9 70 Low 10 24 IO 27 9 67 9 52 9 51 9 54 Close. 10 33 10 32 9 69 9 53 9 52 9 56 CHICAGO MARKETS. Opening. Closing. WHEAT Dec. 80 1- 80 3 July, 85 3- 84 6 CORN Dec, 44' ?- 44 1 July, 47 5- 47 7 Sept., 4S 2- 43 2 OATS Dec., 32 2- 32 2 July, 38 1- .38 i Sept., 31 6- 317 PORK July, 12.65 12.60 Sept., 12.95 12.90 LARD ' July, 6.92 6 S7 Sept. 7.10 7.(7 RIBS July, 7 32 7.27 Sep., 7.37 7.52 Water Rates for Columbia. Columbia, June 24.-Commissioner of Immigration Watson tonight an? nounced that while at New York he made traffic arrangements with the steamship company for a reduction cf 5c cents per hundred pounds out all cotton goods shipped from Columbi?. As the mills here handle about 300,r 000 pounds a week it will necessitate another boat on the Congaree at once. Spartanburg, June 27.-Dr. Arthur Thomas, a weil known dentist of this city, was assaulted and robbed last night as he was returning home from Fair Forest. Dr. Thomas was riding alone in a buggy, and somewhere near Saxon mills an assailant crept from the roadside to the rear of the bug^y and dealt the unsuspecting man a knock-out blow with a bludgeon or piece of iron. The dentist was ren? dered unconscious and tbe highwayman relieved him of about $25 and a gold watch. Marion,- June 27.-Lewis Flowers was shot and mortally wounded ly Sampson Brown at the latter's hou?-e Friday afternoon. Flowers died about 1 o'clock yeserday afternoon a: c Brown is in jail. Magistrate Oliver held the inqudest. From the testi? mony adduced it appears that the two men had a difficulty over some trivial matter, but it was supposed that it had been amicably settled. Later in the afternoon, while Flowers was passing Brown's home, the shooting occurred. According to an ante-moi tem statement made -by Flowers, he was shot by Brown without warning, first in the arm and then in the abdo man.