Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ItEil?IfS I Itt ll HE EIST. 1? tee for a Rix Up-?r?tloaf Situation is Baiter of Songhai. ?IP BESTBBYER ESTERS HARBOR Capture Russia^ Vessels or Blow Them Up, ll. $. Destroyer Chauncey Steams Be? tween Jap Destroyer and the Russian Vessels at the Oock,Wbicb is Ad? jacent to Standard Oil Plant. Shanghai, Aug. 21.-Shanghai was thrown into a fever of excitement this afternoon by the arrival of a Japanese torpedo boat. Sh? 'passed the Woo? sang at fell speed and started np the Bi ver Ju ff r Shanghai. The United States torjedp boat Chauncey slipped her cable and followed the Japanese destroyer. The x Japanese boat was cleared for actioni She anchored off ?th? Cosmopolitan dock? where the Russian cruiser ?skold ie undergoing repairs. The Chauncey carne to anchor practically between the 3ock and the jtapanese destroyer. A foreign pilot ?hip reports having seen a Japanese battleship and twp cruisers sixty miles outside of Woosang. There'are at present no Chinese men of-war ia this,, port, bnt the Taotai has telegraphed that a Chinese cruiser be sent immediately. The Russian iso! .general here flatly refuses io m the Askold and the Bnssian boat destroyer Grosovoi or to jr them to leave the harbor. The Taotai has notified American Consul Goodnow, who is the dean of tiie consular body, that Chimi cannot 3fa?otect the foreign settlements. He couteads that Russia ignores the or? ders issued- by China and that China Sias not the means of making her obey "them. Consul Goodnow has-called a meet? ing cf the consular body to take jont action forthe protection of foreign in ?abxtants. The Askold bas docked adjacent to the warehouses here of I the Standard Oil Company, which are fsaJued at over $1,000,900. The Stan? sted Oil Company hasv>dein^ pro? jection Tor its property from Consul ?oodnow. The dock where; the Askold lies is ?Ml?d by British interests. On one ?ide of this dock: is German and Butch proprety ancTon the other side Ameri? can party. . There are eight American, one Ger? man, two British and four French "warships iiere. "WHAT IS SAID IN WASHINGTON. Washington, D. C., Aug. 21.-Some - doubt was entertained at the Japanese Jegation tonight that a United States torpedo boat should have deliberately put herself between the Bnssian ships Askold and Grosovoi and a Japanese! torpedo boat which arrived off the vporfc today. The opinion- was express? ed that the Japanese had a perfect right to go in and reconnoitre to ascer? tain if the Bnssian ships had disarm? ed^ and this , is believed by the lega? tion officials to have been her object, rather than to attack the Russian ves? sels lying at Shiangbai and thus violate neutrality. The Japanese lega? tion officials were not inclined to con? strue the action cf the commander of the American torpedo boat in the light ?of intervention and said theeffort might " be to protect American business inter? ests at Shanghai from some danger & had been apprehended might ;2%*&mptS & fe?ch tn? navy officials T^sg knowledge of the movement of t?e United States vessels :in the Far1 3Sast, as well as the orders governing sseh movements, were unavailing.J Both Secretary Hay and Assistant Sec-1 vsetary Loomis of the Stete depart? ment are oat of the city. APA?ESE CRUISERS DESTROY NOVIK. Tokio, Aug. 21, 5 p. m.-After a Revere enj&gemsnt with-toa protected cruisers Chit?se- and Tsushima, toe f?ey hounds of .the Japanese navy, the '35eet Russian ariser Novik has been <**nquisbed. The fight occurred to v 3ay. After it the Novik, in a sinking condition, was run ashore in Korea ksmk harbor on the island of Sagha ^fioo. The details of the fight are not fcsown here, bat it is evident that ?be Chit?se and Tsushima caught up with the Novik yesterday and that a running fight ensued. The contest Waa resumed and terminated early this morning. Capt So ketch iro Ta Jotbasbi, who is. in command of the Chit?se, reported the engagement in a brief telegram which reach? ed the navy department here this -afternoon. He says he st attackedfir -tte Russian cruiser Saturday after? noon and that on Sandy morning be inflicted heavy damage upon her. The Kovik nearly sank but she was beach ad at Korsakovsk. A shell from the Novik struck the Tsushima in a bunker. Temporary repairs, however, rendered the Japan ese seaworthy. The Japanese suffered no casualties It is believed the Japanese snips today completed the destruction of the Sbvik. * Shanghai, A ag. 22,.-The meeting c? the varions consuls representing neutral nations, called by United Sta? tes Consul Goodnow, wad held today for the purpose of discussing what means should be taken to compel the Rassisns to observe the neutrality of China. The Russian Consul General having flatly refused to disarm the cruiser Askold and the torpedo boat destroyer Grosovoi, or to order tbem to ??ave the harbor, the meeting ad ionroed withoot being able arrive at a decision. The situation is regard? ed as very critical and the tension is ?reat. Japan is expected to take decided action to force the issue with? in the next day or two. 22 OAPS VIGILANT AT SHANGHAI. Shanghai, Aug. 22.- The Japanese toepedo boat whose arrival here yester? day caused such great excitement, left the harbor today with dispatches for the Japanese fleet which is now lying off the month of the river. Ex? citing developments are confidently predicted within the nest twenty four hours. ITALY BACKS UNCLE SAM. Rome, Aug. 2 2-It was announced today by the minister for foregn af? fairs that the Italian squadron in the far east has been ordered to co-oper? ate with the American squadron to maintan the neutality of China, and to take whatever steps may be necessary to prevent both China and Japan from taking any action that will violate the neutrality of China to imperil neutral interests. JAPANESE LOST 250 MEN. Rome, Aug. 22.-A telegam was re? ceived here today stating that the Japanese lost in the last assault on Port Athur 250 men, including 63 offi? ces. The assault on the Russian lines continues with unabated fury. TREMENDOUS CONFLICT RAG? ING. Chefoo, Aug. 22.-The tremendous conflict which began a few days ago at Port Arthur is still raging. Chinamen who have just arrived on junks from ' Port Arthur declare that the Japanese have captured an important point, the Isthsn hills, commanding a part of the inner line of defense of the Russians. RUSSIANS SWEPT FROM PIGEON BAY. Chefoo, Aug. 23.-The investing Japanese force at Port Athur swept the Russians from Pigeon Bay, and cap? tured the Northernmost fort on the Wes? tern line of the inner defences of Port Arthur. The Japanese were prevented from occupying Pigeon Bay or the fort there on account of the terrifie fire of the Russian artillery. The latest re? ports say that the fort will soon fall. Washington, Aug. 22, 1 p. m.-A long dispatch- was received at the State department this morning from Consul General Goodnow, at Shanghai China, confirming the press despatch? es relative to the threatening entrance into the harbor of a Japanese torpedo boat destroyer, folio-wed by the Amer? ican torpedo boat Chauncey. Consul General Goodnow says that the Rus? sian Consul General refuses to comply with the orders of the Taotai of Shanfghii that the Russian vessels dismantle at once, or leave the har? bor. X Acting Secr3tary bf State Ade and and Acting Secretary, of Navy Dar? lington, went into a conference im? mediately after the receipt of the dis patch. Shanghai, Aug. 22, 4 p. m.-All the American vessels here have a full head of steam up aird the gun sights ?bave been placed, in position. Admi? ral Sterling, who is in command of the American squadron, is determined not to let the Japanese vessels molest the Russian cruiser Askold and the torpedo boat destroyer Grosovoi, which have been ordered by the Tao? tai to leave tho port. Admiral Sterl? ing bas also offered to escort the Res? saie vessels beyond the three mile 1 limit His offer has not been accept? ed. CONSUL AT SHANGHAI WORRIED Shanghai. Aug. 22.:-The neutral Consuls will met again this after soon for another session to seek a means for relieving the tension. The Taotai has given the Askold and Grosovoi nntil noon to-morrow to leave the port. No repairs to the vessels will be permitted to be made in the meantime. The Askold cannot cross the bar this week owing to the low tides. i HASTENING TO THE WAR. J Singapore, Aug. 22.-Two cruisers ! steaming westward at full speed ! were sighted off Malacia at midnight Saturday. They were ' not identified. CREW OF THE NOVIK LOST. Tito, Aug. 22, 43 0 p. rn-According to advices' jus's received, a severe storm same up st the time the Russian cruiser Novik was sunk by the crui? sers Ch?tese and Akitsashirna yester? day, which prevented the Japanese from rescuing the Russian . crew. The. Novik carried a crew of 334 men. Rome, Aug. 23.-A telegram from Shanghai to the Italia Militaire says that the Japanese soaqdron, com? posed of the battleship Tuji, cruise Krasagi andtwo other vessels have anchored befor Woo? sang, while a squadron of torpedo boat destroyers have entered the har? bor of Shanghai. The Japanese Ad? miral, according the dispatch, bas or? ders to bombard the Russian cruiser Askold and the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Grosovoi which are now in the port there in a disabled condition. RUSSIANS ABANDON LIAO YANG r Rome. Ans. 23.-A dispatch to the Italia Militaire, received at noon to? day from Shanghai, states that Gen. Kuropatkin, in command of the Rus? sian forces opposing the Japanese in Manchuria, has abandoned Liao Yang, and has fallen back to or beyondfMuk den. NEW CH WANG PROSPERS UNDER JAP RULE. ? London, Aug. 23.-A dispatch to Lloyds from New Ch wang says the Russians are detaining all products from the interior and that Liao Yaifg is expected to fall into the hands of the Japanese shortly. New Ch wang and the country thereabouts are now under Japanese jurisdiction and are progressing wonderfully. Peace and order have been restored and com? merce and all branches of industry have revived. BRITISH SQUADRON AT WEI HAI WEI. London, Aug. 2o\- An official an? nouncement was made today that the British squadron in Chinese waters which is now stationed at Wei Hai Wei has not been ordered to proceed to - Shanghai. No announcement was made respecting the policy the admir? alty intends pursuing in dealing with the situation at Shanghai. WASHINGTON WANTS MORE LIGHT. Washington, Aug. 23.- Acting Secre? tary of State A dee this morning cabled United States Minister Conger, at Pe? kin asking for farther light on the sit? uation in regard to Chinese neutrality and the recent occurrences at Shang? hai and Chefoo. Secretary Adee stated that no action will be taken by the State department until after a reply shall have been received from Minister Conger. NOT HUNTING A FIGHT. Shanghai, Aug 23.--Word has been received here that the Viceroy of Nanking has refused the request of the Tatoai of Shanghai that a Chi? nese squadron be dispatched tosthis port for the purpose of compelling Rus? sia to carry out his orders. Chefoo, Aug. 23.-Refugees from Port Arthur who have vjust arrived here say that the fortress has all but fallen as the Japanese have obtained a position between Golden Hill and the town and have reached Gen. Stoessel's residence. The Japanese are already 'prepared to celebrate the fall of the Gibraltar of the East- with great pomp and ceremony. Local experts, however, disbelieve the report that the Japs have reached Gen. Stoessel's residence. PORT ARTHUR RENDERED UN? TENABLE. Lodo Aug. 23.-A telegram to the Evening News from Chefoo says the Japanese have captured the forts at Port Arthur after the tremendous at? tack of yesterday. The shells from the Japanese guns even reached the in? ner harbor. / . ( ' Shanghai Aug. 23.-Another meet; ing of the Consuls of the various na? tions has been called for today, by American Consul Qeneral Goodnow. The meeting will consider the situa? tion created by the inability of China to compel? Russia to obey the orders of the Taotai of Shanghai to disarm or leave the port and also to.devise means for protecting the foreign set? tlements, . the T?otai having notified Consul General Goodnow that China cannct do so. " TIE BiBIES WERE* SWAPPED. Sensational Story Concerning the Russian Imperial Baby. Said to Have Been a Girl and Was Ex? changed Son of Peasant Woman. New i'ork, Aug. 20.-A special ca? blegram has been received from Paris stating that prominent Russian revo? lutionists there assert that the Czarina's child was a girl, and not a boy, and that the son of a peasant was substituted. The peasant woman they say was smuggled into the royal pal? ace a few days before the Czarina's accouchment was' expected. The Czarina's child, a girl, was given to the poasant woman and the peasant's child. a boy, was. placed in the royal cradle. A Sensation Exploded. Shanghai, Aug. 22.- Rear Admiral Stirling says that the trip of the American torpedo boat destroyer Chauncey from Woosang to Shanghai yesterday was to carry dispatches. Her movements had no connection with the arrival of the Japanese tor? pedo boat destroyer. Senator Hoar in Extremis. Worcester, Mass. Aug. 22.-Sena? tor Hoar is resting comfortably this morning, but is gradually growing weaker, and his death is hourly ex? pected. , mm i i --- . Big lob Goes Begging. Manchester, England, Aug. 22.-A dispatch recived today from St. Peters? burg says that the Czar has already offered the position of minister of the interior, made vacant by the assas? sination of Minister M. Pleb.ve, to seven men, all of whom have de? clined. And Teddy Plays Tennis. Oyster Bay, Aug. 22.-President Roose velt resumed routine work here this morning after a four weeks stay in Washington. After attending to his accumulated correspondence, he played tennis with his sons. Lynching in Alabama. Cordova, Ala., Aug. 20 -TOWL Marshal J. McNelson was killed early this evening and his slayer, a negro named Avery, a short time thereafter was taken from the calaboose by a mob and pot to death with stones and pis? tol balls. McNelson had gone to the home of the negro to collect a fine ow? ing to the town. He knocked, the ne? gro opening the door, fired upon, the officer, killing bim instantly. The wife, of a citizen witnessed the crime and procuring a pistol, held it on the negro until officers arrivea. Train Wrecked in Massachusetts. Fitchburg,Mass. Aug. 22.-A special theatrical train from Albany to Boston, with members of the "Eternal City" and a melo-drama company, was wrecked here last night by colliding with a freight train. Several of the passengers were injured. - ?? il i . - ri m. - Belgrade, Aug. 22.-Au insurrection has broken out among the inhabitants of northern Turkey and Turkish troop* have been dispatched to the scene to restore order. S. Paul, Minn., Aug. 20.-Five are reported to he dead, a score in? jured and property damaged to the ex tent of $2.000.000 by a fierce ornado which swooped down on the city short? ly after 9 p. m. --?-^??-^w^ A man named Holt has been arrest? ed in dewberry charged with the mur? der ot Maud Allen in Columbia. It is c:aimed tr at the murdered woman was Allen's en ant wife. WHAT POLITICIANS TALK ABOUT. News and Gossip Gathered in the National Capital-Democratic Campaign Managers Hard at work and Hopeful of Victory. j Republicans Not Altogether Satisfied With Outlook. Washington, Ang. 22.-Congressman | Cowherd, chairman of the Democratic j congressional committee, has re- j turned from New York to headquarters j in this city, and has again tackled the \ business of the campaign. He got j some money on his trip-enough to j enable him to double the number of | girls engaged in directing envelopes i and sending off documents. There are | fourteen different kinds of enclosures .-speeches, statistics, and various j data adapted to various localities, as j indicated by the specific requests of j state committees. It is still doubtful whether the Congressoinal committee ! will move its headquarters to New ? York to join the National committee at its headquarters, Fifth Avenue and j 35th street. It is felt that tho busi- 1 ness of both committees could be thus . managed more economically and expe- : ditiously, but in any event some! rooms will be retained at the Biggs ; House, here, and all documents will ; be franked from this city. The Congressional Committee is \ making a dead set on forty districts j in the country now represented in i Congress by Republicans who were | elected by small majorities or under | conditions which it is now believed , can be overcome. . Two years ago the j Democratic Committee, by an ex- ? penditnre of less than $20,000, made a clear gain of eighteen members on . the previous Congress : nd it is now j believed by astute and experienced j Democrats that an expenditure of $200,000 for speakers and documents would overturn Congress in November j and give us a majority. ? asked Con grossman Cowherd if there was to be a i consolidation of the two committees : in New York, and he merely said : *'I. don't know." But he probably wants \ to go to the metropolis, for "Old ' ,Money Bags" lives there. j Some prominent Democrats here who have been in exalted office and may be again, are warmly enthusiostic over Mr. Davis's speech of acceptance at the White Sulphur Springs but ex- j press some fear that Congressman. Williams's speech of notification was ? too delicate to be generally understood, i Such objections have been accustom- ! ed to the slang-whang sledge-hammer style of denunciation, and are startled by the sarcastic rapier thrusts of John Sharp. They would not appreciate poetry. E. P. Whipple .says of this method of attack: "Irony is a con? demnation conveyed in the form of a compliment; insinuating the most galling satire under the phraseology . of panegyric: placing its victims na? ked on a bed of thorns covered with rose leaves; adorning his brow with'a crown of gold, which burns into his brain; teasing and fretting and rid? dling him through and through with incessant discharges of hot shoe from a masked batery; laying bare the most sensitive and shrinking nerves of his mind, and smilingly pricking them with needless." This is a fair definition of the machine-gun play in? dulged in by the little black-haired gentleman from Yazco, book, and that no meddling what ever by Congress can make it any more solidified or crystaiized. Gen. Black is in a position to know whether this contention is valid or not. Having been Pension Commissioner for years, he now decides and publicly proclaims that it is not-that the Prsident's 'decree, under which millions of dol? lars have already been disbursed is not law, and cannot be until it is "crystaiized." It would be interest I ing to know what the President thinks of his office-holder in this connection. Summer visitors to Washington are greatly surprised at ? the -'improve? ments" in progress. A thirty-six inch railroad has been constructed straight across the plaza at the East front of the|| Capitol and car loads of earth are being whisked across from the site of the . new marrble palace being erected for the use of the members of the House, to the required fillings of the progressing Union station four squares north. "Ali aboard for the Union Station site," shouts the conductor, and the little "dinkey" engine puffs and pulls its trainload of dirt from south east to northeast. Some 90,COO cubic yards of earth are to be excavat? ed and" removed. There is no regular time table as yet, but tbe schedule says "Every now and then." The square from which the earth is taken is historic. Henry Clay lived there once. Thad Stevens owned and occupied a house that has jnst been torn down to make room for the new palace, when he was a member of the House, and when he was so badly crippled that he could not walk or stand. "Boys," he said to the Irish? men who were carrying him from his home up the Capitol steps, "what shall I do when you are dead?" Judge Holt's sumptuous and spacious home a few 'doors down New Jersey Avenue has just been laid low. In this square lived Jean Davenport the actress, widow of General Lando, and Mrs. Lippincott, best known as "Grace Greenwood." Here lived Judge Springer, long member of Congress from Illinois, and from a boarding house near by went John Randolph long ago to fight his duel with Clay. The coroner's jury has brought in a verdict of "Accidental and unavoida? ble" in the case of the small boat up? set in the recent regatta on the Po? tomac by which ten persons lost their lives. This in face of the fact that the law makes it the duty of the secretary of the treasury to patrol the course at regattas and "enforce the rules." Secretary Shaw makes excuse that he had no revenue cutter boat available at the time. The Strike in New York. New York, Aug. 23.- Little change was noticed in the general labor situa? tion herb today, and the strike of the building trades workers and meat packers still continues. A compro? mise agreement has been entered into between the elevated railroad employes and the Inter-Borough company and there will consequently be no strike on that line. Roosevelt's Letter of Acceptance. Oyster Bay, Aug. 23.-President Roosevelt and Senator Lodge, of Mass? achusetts were un conference at Saga? more Hill today. The situation in national politics was discussed at length and President Roosevelt's let ter|of acceptance, which is practically completed, was read and criticised. ' | Frank E. Brett, a drummer! was killed at a hotel in Altanta Sunday in a quarrel with A. A. Warin, over Brett leaving the door of bis room open while undressing. FOUR COUNTERFEITERS ARRESTED. Parties Had Printed Quantities Captured and Confessed Guilt. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 20.-As a result-' of nearly two months work* by the secret service department four men were arrested here last night and to? day charged with making and utter? ing counterfeit ten dollars bills of the "Bufflao" pattern; the plates from which the bills were printed were sur? rendered and about $30,000 of the bills were recovered. Themen under arrest are Oscar L. McMichael, a pressman in the local establishment of the La Hatte Print? ing company, Clarence W. Rebb, a printer employed by the same firm ; N. Little, an artisan who lives near this city, and P. S. Coffey, formerly postmaster at Sneed, a small town in Upson county, where he was arrested late today. There is still one man to be arrested, and it is believed that he lives in St. Louis. The spurious bills were printed at nigh in the La Hatte establishment, although the proprietor knew noth? ing of it until he was informed by the officers. He gave material assistance in apprehending the men. Rebb was arrested and taken to the office of United States Inspector James N. "Wright late yesterday. He there con? fessed his gnilt and his information led to the arrest of the others. FAMOUS MURDERESS RETURNS. Mrs: Maybrick Arrived From France Today-Declines to Be Interviewed. New York Aug. 23.-Mrs. Florence Maybrick, who after having been con? fined in English prison for fifteen years, having been convicted of the murder of her husband, was recently granted picket of leave, arrived here today aboard' the steamer Yaderland. She was accompanied by her attorney, A C. Hayden, and his wife. In a statement to a reporter she stated that she regretted being unable to give an interview, but said it was due to the condition of her health as well as for business reasons. She stated that at the earliest opportunity she would visit her birth place, Mobile, Ala., and Norfolk, Va., her home during her early marrfed life. She was hur? riedly driven to the Fifth avenue ho? tel from the dock. She will probably go to the home of her lawyer at Ellen? ville, N. Y., to try to regain ber health. x DEADLY STORM AT ST. PAUL. The Damage in Minnesota is Esti? mated at About $2,500,000. ! St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 21.-Fifteen people were killed in the fierce tor? nado which overwhelmed the "Twin Cities', and which wrought devasta? tion in other parts of the State last night The aggregate propeerty loss is con iservatively placed at $2,500,000. Of this amount St Paul suffered to the extent of about $1,000,000. Minne? apolis^ damage is estimated at $3,000, 000, while in the outside districts it is feared that $500,000 will not cover the damage done to crops and farm pro? perty. THE BUILDING ENTIRELY NEW. Fittings new throughout. Finest Strand on the Atlantic Seaboard-Nearly Forty Miles Long and situ? ated in the Curve of Long Bay. The Management has spared no Expense to make Myrtle Beach Up-to-date and Thoroughly Attractive. The Surf is admittedly the Finest yet Discovered on the Atlantic, and one of the few that has no Under? tow. . Mosquitos and sand flies are unknown. The Hotel is situated on a hill and on the Mainland and is swept by breezes all Sum? mer long. Purest" Artesian water from a well nearly 450 feet deep. The flow is strong enough to send water to the second story of the building. Many amusements have been put in-such HS Bowling Alley, Dance Pavilion, Pool Koota Reading Room. The Bathing Houses are new and alright every way-larue and airy. The Cuisine is remodelled and this department is under the immediate supervision of our Mr Tennitle, who has had years of experience in this line. We furnish all the well known sea foods Crab, Shrimp, Fish, Oysters, Turtle ard Clam-in season. Telegraph and Telephone Service from Hotel. Rates are Low and all Particulars flay be Had of======== FREEHAN & TENILLE, Proprietors, flyrtle Beach, S. C.