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fBS STREEFS WEEKLY T8JBE REViEW. istribution Expands as Cooler Weather Approaches. RSost Activity is Shown in the West. "New York, Oct 7-Bradstr etVto "? morrow will say : / Popular estimates of leading; crop yield cost?noe to enlarge, coin has passed ont of danger ol serions frost damage in the west, a ad distribu tion, tooth at wholesale sac" rets il,- ex pands as cooler weiathe r approaches. Additional favorable features s,re the continuance of the good tone in pig i roa, freer baying by railroads of ma-J ter a and rolling stock, and h avy' general crop movement helping collec tions north and sontb. Whild the buying of dry goods', hardware, gro ceries, shoes and clothing continues of good volume, particularly at the west,- conservative inf inc enees find- re fection in small, bnt frequent orders, calculated to meet necessities. .The transportation movement ts heary and railway earnings show an expanding tendency, the gain fer September promising to be six per cent., below isoa. There are some flaws in the situation Urbich stamp this as an off year when -compared with previous periods of-j great prosperity. Relatively most ^activity in enrent distribution, wheth er of day goods, shoes, clothing, lamber, hardware or building mate rial, exists in the west and north west. Coober weather is needed in the sonth to^stimnlate retail activity/ its the east business is i.ot so active in some industrial centres, which have felt the pinch of the spring and sum mer depression in building or in tex tile industry. Business failures for toe week end ing October 6 numbers 195, against S7 in the like week in li03. BESTEB'SOBTTOSS TEMEHT. / An Increase is- Shown Over the Past Two Yea rs. New Orleans, Oct. 7.-Secretary Hester's weekely cotton statement issued today shows for the seven days of October an increase over last year <3t 143,000 and an inc ase o per the same period year before last of 107, 000. For the 37 days of te.s season that have elaapsed the aggreagte is ahead cf the same days Jot las:; year 755,000 and ahead of tbe same lays year be fore last 213,000. The amount brought into sight.dar ing 'the past week has been 529,414 bales, against 386,519 for the same even days last year ano 422,722 year before last. The. movement since September 1st shows receipts at all United States ports to be 1,473,247, against 484,221 last year. Overland across the Mississippi, Ohio and Po tomac rivers to northern mills and Canada 23,627, against 7,677 last year; ? interior tocks in excess oi these held -at the close of the commercial year 100,985, against 110,996 last year; .--.southern mills takings 209,000, .against 169.858. - The to tai movement since Sept 1st TS fcl, S91,859, against 1,136,752 last ^year. ? Foreign exports for the week have ' been 298,839 against 221,934 last y.ear, r making the total tans far fer th sea rson976,574, againrt 465,11. The total takings of American mills north, south and Canada a, thus tar for the season lia ve been 377,159, against 330,595 last year. Stocks at the seaboard and the 29 leading southern interior centres have increased during the week 118,933 l ales againts an increase daring the corresponding period lastt season of ' Including stocks left over at ports nd interior towns from the last crop sad the number of bales brought into sight thus far rom tba new crop, the supply to date is 2,053,826, against 1,305* 351 for the same period last year. .1 SSE SiBESS AT SHMEH i. JCbmsse Officiais Are Active in Se curing Most Modern Arms. "Shanghai, Oct. 7, evening.-'Num erous reports received from the inter ior telling of the activity of secret societies at points widely apart are causing serious uneasiness:. lt rs known that the olScials every where are displaying great anxiety md are procuring the most modern roas aad munitions o war for the parp se of equipping che soldiery. There i no certainty as to whether the anxiety of the officials is directed against anticipated uprisings or as to whether it is a precautionary move ment ia view of possible danger ifrom aceessful Japan. Seo Bennett Received Five Years' Sentence. H ampton\ Oct. 7.-in the court of g rerai session this morning, a motion foe a new trial was mide by counsel for Sen Bennett on tl ie ground that the evidence did not warrant the jury in Ending a verdict for manslaughter ao that it should have been guilty of murder or sot guilty. Judge King ti overruled the motion. Bennett's counsel gave notice cf appeal to the supreme court and bail was fixed at $1,000 with the disdiarge of the .prisoner subject to the directions of the governor in regard to the charge of violating the condition of pardon. Bennett was sentenced to five years' labor cn the chain gang or five years in the penitentiary It is probable that the appeal will be abandoned Berlin, Oct. 8.-Germany has a cew rebellion on ber hands in south west Africa. Three tribes, Inboys, Baastarns and Bondelz Warts have re volted and the rebellion appears more formidable than the Hereros uprising. Boston, Mass., Oct. 8.-The final business session of th3 International Peace Congress was held in the Park Street Church this atfernoon. Tiro Aboatain, the Japanese dele gate, discussed the war spirit which is rampant in his native country. THE SFiE T AUTOMOBILE RACE. Fastest Machines in the World Speeding to Win Vanderbilt Cup. Westbury, L. I., Oct. 8.- Seven teen automobiles, driven at express train speed, streaked around a course a little over thirty miles in length to day for the honor of winning the cup presented by Wm. K. Vanderbilt, Jr. Ten times the pacers blazed the way around the course making the total distance covered a little over three hundred miles. Fonr countries are represented, the United States, Germany, France, and. italy. The race had an dac'lded interest by reason of the fact that three millenaries, Frank Crocker, William Wallaceland George Arants drove their, own machines. The race started at 6 j o'clock this morning, the cars being sent off with a two minutes headway. At the end ol the second round George Teste was leading, on time, having done sixty miles in fifty minutes, 41 seconds, after deducting time used up in controls. Gabriel, the Frenchman was then, second in the race. At the end of the second round four machines, includng that of A. G. Vanderbilt, were out, owing to break downs. No serious accident had oc curred np to that time. Pandard Car Leads in Race. Westbury, I I.,- Oct. 8.-Heath, an American, but riding for the Au tomobile' Club of France in a Panhard machine, was leading by several miles at the end of the fifth rounds v. Bar ring accidents he looks like the win ner. Gabriel and> Clement are bis nearest competitors. , One Automo biles! Ki'led in Race. Westbury, Oct. 8, 12.30 p. m. There has-been one fatal accident to date, George Ahrants the million aire, who was driving one automobile was overturned on the second round and both he and his machinist. Paul Mussell were thrown'out. Both were taken to the Nassau Hospital, where Mussell died an hour later. Ah rents is suffering mainly from the shock. Albert Clement, of the Automobile Club of France, driving a Clement car took the lead about noon. At the e~d of the eighth lap Heath, who had been leading had a tire punctured and lost several minutes repairing. Heath was second at noon and three minutes behind Clement. Clement is the youngest driver in the race. Heath Wins The Cup. Westbury, L. I., Oct. 8, 1 p. m. -Heath won the great . race by one minute and 23 seconds. Albert Cle ment of the Automobile Club of France came in second. INTERNATIONAL PEAGE CONGRESS. King of Beigem Charged With Re sponsibility of Cruelties. En glish Delegate Attack. Boston, Oct. 7.-King Leopold of Belgium was assailed for his policy as sovereign of ' the Congo Free State at & public meeting held this afternoon in connection with 'the sessions of the International Peace congress. The attack upon King Leopold was made by . T. Morel of England, who represented the Congo Beform association. Mr Morel charged that the king was personally responsible tn a large meaesure for cruelties prac ticed on the natives of the Congo Free State in the terrific endavors of mo nopolistic commercial organizations ! " to obtain from the country all the ' ivory and rubber possible. The kine was defended by George Berbert Head of Cambridge, Eng., who submitted that King Leopold lad" done all possible to stop the cruelties practice a. The government policy in the Con jo also was bitterly denounced by 3ev. W. M. Morrison, for seven rears a missionary in the Congo land. The congress today accepted a re port from the committee on propa ganda recommending that the con gress in 1905 be held at Lucerne Switzerland. MARVELOUS K DERN MUSKETEERS. The World's Prize-winning Aurora Zouaves. . "The pomp and circumstance of glorious war" is notably manifest in ;he military features to be presented here in October 26 by the great Adam Frepaugh and Sells Brothers arenic, animal, hippodromatic and martial ag gregation. Conspicuously wonderful ind popular, as having, time and again, both at home and abroad, and before all the world's leading military experts, conclusively proved them selves far and away the best drilled company of either regular or volun teer soldiers ever known, come the Aurora Zouaves. They are champion marvels in phenomenal speed and per fection of drill and manual, and while it is high praise, it may truthfully be said of them that they notably surpass ever, their famous predecessors, the Ellsworth Zouaves, of Chicago, whose triumphal tour in the deepening shad ows of the greatest war of wars is still remembered by many veterans of both the Bine and Gray, who gained from them their first instruction in the fun dametal essentials by which battles are won. And in tiiis connection, passing tribute to the brave, brilliant and lamented Col. Elmer E. Ells worth is due, in recalling the fact that at the very outset of a career which promised to crown him with unfading laurels, he was shot dead by the landlord of a hotel in Alexandria, Va., for hading down the Confeder ate flag flying defiantly from the flag pole on its roof. Those who have seen the Aurora Zouaves, of which he was the tactical progenitor, can imagine how enthusiastically he would have praised and applauded them, and the aptness of the simile employed by The New York American and Journal, in remarking, "The Aurora Zouaves are a huge red-legged centipede, whose celerity and precision have astonished the military world. '? Dave Evans was shot in the stomach by land Hill at the Mollohon Cotton Mill, Newberry, Saturday night. WHITE M H AND NEGRO KILLED HT LUCKNOW. Each Died From Wounds Inflicted by the Other-Saturday Night Riot in Lee County. Bishopville, Oct. 9.-Last night abot 9 o'clock a riot occurred at Luck now, a town about eight miles "north of Bishopville, between Harvey Lang, a yonug white man, and several ne groes, and as a result Mr. Lang and one negro man named Ezekial Arial died this morning about daylight, there being but a short time difference between their deaths. The following account is given of the row and the two homicides : Harvey Lang, who was a clerk in the store of his brother, Mr. Ben Lang, went to Eze kial Arial's house to collect t 15 cents from Arial's daughter. She denied the account and hot words were pass ed between Mr. Lang and the negro girl. In a short time the matter was related to Ezekial and when the negroes met Lang in Mr. J. S. Tis dale's store the row was renewed. Ezekial Arial was then joined by John Mack, his grandson. After a con siderable quarrel with the negroes Lang went across the street to the store in which he was a clerk and got a shot gun. Returning to where the negroes were, in Mr. Tisdale's store, the row was continued. When the feeling between Lang and the negroes had grown high the fight ensued. Lang seeing that he was up against the crowd, threw his gun to his shoul der and fired; the load riddled the arm of Ezekial which he had thrown up for protection and went into one eye. About this time John Mack managed to get the gun from Lang. Ezekall got a stick and one of them struck Lang across the head. In the fight the boy John received a painful blow over one . eye. The fight was here ended. Lang walked some dis tance to a friend's house, who carried him home, a distance of about a mile. Dr. Bullock was called to Ezekial and gave medical aid. Sheriff Smith was notified this morning of the row and that the parties were dead. He went at once, and John Mack was arrested. An inquest was held today over the dead bodies and the jury found that Ezekial Arail came to his death by a gunshot wound from his hands of Har vey Lang, and that Harvey Lang was killed by Ezekial with a heavy stick. John Mack was released. There is no evidence of further violence. KELLY, OF KELLYTOWN. Shocking Murder of a Negro in Darlington Saturday by a Drunk en White Man. _ . .; Darlington, Oct. 8.-Thia morning between ll and 12 o'clock, while John Robinson's Circus was parading on Main street, a white man, namd Ed ward Kelly, from Kelly town, in this :ounty, shot Henry Bradshaw, a col ored man, four times with a pistol. The shooting occurred just in front rf the Episcopal rectory and the ne jro fell on the sidewalk fatally injur ed. Kelly was arrested immediately 3y the police and taken to the county ail and locked up. Dr. Blackwell, of Dovesville, and 0. C. C. Hill, of Darlington, attended :he wounded man and did all they ;ould for him, but to no avail, as he lied in the county jail this afternoon between 5 and 6 o'clock from the ef fects of his wounds. The white man and the negro came iown on the train this morning frnm 3artsville and knew each other well. Che negro was from Hartsvilie Town ;hip, and he and Kelly were both kinking: It is said that Kelly be la ved out ageously coming down on the rain from Hartsvilie and the con dc c o threatened to put him off several imes. There was no cause whatever br the shooting, other than Kelly was >eastly drunk and was trying to bully he negro, and the latter remonstrated with Kelly, when be drew his pistol ind shot the negro down in cold blood without a moment's warning and in he presence of hundreds of people. Kelly is in jail. The body of the iegro will be carried to Hartsvilie to light on the regular train, lt is loped that the murderer will not es cape the punishment which be so icbly deserves. Wade Hartley, a nergo convict on the ridgefield county chain gang, died ibout two weeks ago under suspicious sircumstances and an investigation nade a few days ago seems to indicate bat he was whipped to death. Miss Bessie Wilson, of Charlestown, V. Va., was drowned in the surf at Virginia Beach Sunday afternoon., She was a niece of the late W.L. Wil on, Postmasteer General under Cleve and. Spartanburg, Oct. 9.-The down paseuger train from Asheville went rv i I d just as it reached the old Saluda .tation this morning, and engineer md brakeman were powerless to meek its speed. It dashed down to she first safety switch like an automo bile in a race. So great was its momentum that the engine climbed 3ver the switch at the end. The 3oaches remained on the track. The Sremau was slightly injured, but^ no one else was hurt. It was a ve-y won derful escape and shows the value of the safety switches. Letter to S. F. Flowers, Sumter, S. C. Dear Sir: A painter complained that our cans are too full; unhandy; spill. It's a way we have; 'tis handier not to be foll ; bot we have a weakness for full-measure. Our gallon contains eight pints;the usnal "gallon "is sev en. We'll think it over again; but we like a full can. How much short would you like a barrel? Seven gal lons would be the proportion. Short-measure suggests that the shortage is probably not in the cheap est ingredient. Guess we'll stick to four quarts to a gallon, and fifty gallons a barrel. The name to go by is Devoe lead and-zinc. Yours truly 60 FW Devoe & Co P. S.-L. B. Durant sells our paint. CUfcFUCTIN ti ATES. Sumter Requests Charleston to Change to Chaaga its Fail Festiva! Dates. To the Editor of The State : By order of the president of the Sumter Pall Festival, I euclose yon a copy of an "open letter" addressed to Gea Y. Coleman, chairman of the Charleston Fall Festival, in ricard to conflict of dates of the Charleston Fall Festival and the Sumter Fall Festival, which I beg yon will publish in your paper. E. L Seardon, Secretary Sumter Fall Festival. J Sumter, Oct. 4, 1904. To Geo. Y. Coleman, Chairman Charleston Fall Festival, Charleston, S. C. Dear Sir: At a meeting of the exe cutive committee of the Surr ter Fall Festival, held' yesterday, the follow ing resolutions were passed : "Resolved, That the president of the Sumter Fall Festival ho and is hereby instructed to correspond wi the officials of the Charleston Fall Festival and endeavor to get them to change the date of the Charleston Fall Festival, so that the same will not conflict with the Sumter Fall Fes tival" In compliance with the above resolu tion, I beg to call yonr attention to the raer that the dates as published for the ^ Charleston Fall Festival from Nov. 1st to 27tb, inclusive, cover the same dates as published for i;he Sum * ter Fall Fes ti va tlc Our committee had been working up the Sumter Fall Festival for some weeks prior to the publishing of tho dates for the Char leston Fall Festival, and ha va gone to such au extent in advertising our fes tival for Nov. 22nd to 25tb, inclusive, that it will be impracticable at this time to change said date. We do not desire to conflict with the Charleston Fall Festival, as we expect many vis itors from Charleston dr ring our fes tival, and would be glad a id expect to contribute many visitors "to the Charleston Fall Festival, as we have always done, if the date of the same can be changed so as not to conflict with our festival. Inasmuch as we were in the field first, both in the selection of our date and in advertising our festival, we think it bul; fair and jost that you change your date and tho* avoid a conflict. Yours truly, R. F. Hayns worth, President. E. L Reardon. Secretary. BWKETT G8TOB OF MANSliUSTES. A Most Celebrated Cass Ended. He is Found Quilty of Having Taken the Life of His Own Wife. Special to The State. Hampton, Oct. 6.-On Monday ^norning a trne bill for murder was >found by the grand jury against Ben "Bennett Arriving on the afternoon .train from Columbia he was brought into court and arraigned. The case went to trial today with Solicitor avis for the State and Senator E. F. ^Warren and W. J. Thomas, Esq., appearing for the defendatnt. The jury retired at 7 p. m. md at 9 p. m.. Judge King h and the court officers and attorneys were sent for. A verdict of guilty of manslaughter with re commendation to the mercy of the oort was received. Bennett will be en teheed tomorrow morning. The case was called up yesterday under a motion made by h iii attorneys to have the case continued to the next term of the cart, Bennett having been only arraignd and the usual three days allowed him for prepara tion. His attorneys made earnest appeals tb the court fer a continuance, bur were opposed by a very clear and strong argumeLt ia reply by Solicitor Davis, who rehearsed the circum stance connected with Bencett's case, the conditions under which he had been pardoned by Gov. McSw^eney, when he was serving a life sentence in tbe State penitentiary, and also referred to a telegram which the soli citor had just read from Attorney Colding of Savannah, who had repre sented Bennett during the ordeal of his extradition from Georgia, to the ffect, *'It was impos-nile to attend conrt ia Hampton because he had to be present at the supt em a court of Georgia. " Attorneys Warren & Themas urged the conrt to grant the continuance because they had only been employed this week. Judge King h rein sed the motion. Bennett's case wit! be beard today. This doubtless disposes of the Ben Bennett case, as tue authorities seem, Willing to let it re<t. lt is held that j ( the violation of his agreement not to retrun to South Carolina ii: pardoned nullified the pardon and that Le is now subject to that formel' .sentence, but it id not li se ly that lois point will be pieced, LOW that Bennett has again been coavicteri. Just so he is in the penitentiary the actborities will be tati&tied. The punishment fur manslaughter is imprisonment not exceeding 30 y?ars and nut less than two. Peter Sells Dead. Columbus, O., Oct. 5.-Peter Sells, the well known showman, died to night at his home here of apoplexy, aged 55 years. He had been in the show business since 1872. . Washington, Ga, Oct. 5.-A pas senger train on the Augusta-Southern railroad ran into a burning trestle near Mitchell, Ga., 59 miles from Augusta, early today and one man was killed and eight oilers injured. The 60 foot trestle was entirely de stroyed by the fire and the tender, compartment car and two coaches also were burned. "Two heads are bettor than one," but there is a much mismating of business partners aa in matrimony. In such instances the quickest road to divorce is usually through a " Busi ness Opportunity" advertisement. "Pride-taxes9 are always self-impos ed. Pride-taxes are the moneys you lose by fearing about "what the neighbors might say" if you rented that spare-room, through a want ad., to a desirable lodger. 4 NOBLE NORTH CAROLINIAN. Death of Ex-Senator Matthew W. Ransom. Charlotte, N. C., Oct. 8.- Matthew \V. Ransom, United States Senator, from North Carolina for 23 years and minister to Mexico for two years, died suddenly of heart failure at his conn try home near Garysburg, Northamp ton county, at 1 o'clock this morning. Hee was 78 years of age, is death occurring on the date of his birth. The fonnerSenator had been afflicted with heart trouble for a number of years and came near dying some years ago while making a speech at States ville. He had been very feeble for some months. Gen. Ransom was, per haps, the most popular man in public life in this State. He was Attorney General several terms before the civil war and did valiaut service during the war as brigadier general. He was electd to the United States Senate in 1872 and served until March 4, 1895. He was appointed minister to Mexico by Mr. Cleveland in 1895 and served two years. He was the largest indi vidual land owner and cotton planter in the State. He leaves an estate estimated at nearly $1,000,000. At the time of his death Mrs. Ransom and her daughter were at their moun tain home at Blowing Rock. Senator Ransom's last public ad dress was to the Confederate Veter ans, at Fayetteville, three months ago. The funeral will occur at his home at 3.30 o'clock Monday after noon., the Masons conducting the burial services. RICH CLUB W N 0 W S01GIDE. A Member of New York's Four Hundred Blows Out His Brains. New York, Oct. 10.-Frank DePey ster Hall, fifty years old, a member of an old Knickerbocker family, a capitalist and until recently promi nent in club and social circles, com mited suicide by shooting himself in the right temple in his apartments at 125 Lexington avenue at 9 o'clock this morning. Hall's name was promi nently before the pnblic on Thursday when it was announced that he had begun suit for slander againts Alfred H. Bond, president of the Calumet Club and George A. Carmack, Secre tary of the New York yacht club. Damages for fifty thousand were ask ed from each. What the alleged the slan ders were not made known, but the defendants, in answer, said that they would prove the truth of their state ments._ _ If a want ad. or two would pay for your coal for the winter-it would be a pretty good investment, wouldn't j it? There are probably enough "old things" in your cellar and garret to do the trick if yon advertise them in our "For Sale" columns. iviost merchants lament that their "show-windows" are not larger, that they might give to the public a wider glimpse of what is inside. But the right kind of store-advertising puts a "show-window" at every counter of your store. AN OPPORTUNITY. We are now offering the magnificent plantation known as Shady Side, containing 750 acres, situated oh miles West of Sumter. This place has a nice S-room dwelling, thirteen ten ant houses, and a fine orchard In fact 'tis an ideal home for you. Better see us about it. WHITE & MCCALLUM, Real Estate and Insurance Agents, PHONE NO. 143. Mch 9-ly SUMTER, S. C. OFFICE NO. 18 S. MAIN ST. GENUINE PERUVIAN GUANO. Sells itself. None better. 10,000 tons now offered for sale. Nitrate of Soda, Muriate of Potash, German Kainit. H RBY Are Headquarters. US* Get our prices, please. WYNNE IS POSTMASTER GENRERAL. First Assistant to Payne Promot ed to be Member of the Cabinet. Washington, D. C., Oct. 10.-Presi dent Roosevelt today appointed Rob ert J. Wynne, Postmaster General to sncceed the late Mr. Payne. Mr. Wynne has been a- ting in that capacity since Payne's death and today's Appoint ment makes him a member of the cab inet. The new Postmaster General is a veteran newspaper man, having been the Washington corresponndent of the New York Press for a nnmber of years prior to his appointment as first assistant postmaster general two years ago. Washington, Oct. 10. -The Supreme Court of the United States reassem bled at noon today for the October session. Follwing the established cus tom on official business was transacted. Gainesville, Fla., Oct 7.-About4.30 rbis afternoon Deputy Sheriff Garrett V. Chamberlain was shot near his home at Tacoma by a negro while in a wagon with his wife. He died instantly. His wife was prostrated and could not talk. George Rogers, a well known farmer of Nichols, Marion county, had his right arm cut off in a gin at Pages' Mill on Saturday. Two ginneries were burned in Laureus county Saturday. One was the property of W. P. Harris, of Young's Store and the other was owned by John W. Simmons, of Mountville.