The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, November 16, 1904, Image 7
?FTEH ELECTION IN WASHINGTON.
Some of ih8 Things That the Poli?
ticians Find to Talk About-Re?
publican and Democratic Ex?
planation of the Landslide.
Washington, Nov. 14.-There is no
denying the faot that we Democrats
were on Tuesday night confounded.
That Partcer might be. defeated-that,
ctf course, was among our con nts and
diacouonts. .But other annoonce
onents excited?more than transient in?
credulity. Iiwas~in the-, parlors ci the
Hational Confessional Committee of
. the Democratic party in'.?he. Riggs
House when tl?, w i res fi ret began to
buzz. Congressman Cowherd, chair?
man of the committee, held the "floor
r In bi3 nana! buoyant temper, and
.walked n^tand down reading aioxidtbe
'dispatches : banded to bim. He had
. just retnirn^d ?r#b, the West where he
nad found his own Kansas City ? dis?
trict "al! right and secure" and had
-discovered that Missouri * 'ought to
?ive 40?00O for Parker. " Even before
the returns began to come in he was
Seeling very sore because tbe party
had not backed up his. Committee and,
when a dispatch said that Pennsylva?
nia would send to Congress ene Demo?
crat and thirty-one Republicans be
came as near profanity aa he ever
does, and told the hundreds of friends
Assembled round him that bis com?
mittee bad not received a single dollar
from the rational committee during the
Bp campaign and that tbe members bad ta?
ter: $500 ont of their own pockets to
pay for the only printing* they had
.been able to get*! The declaration caus?
ed grave faces, sharp comment, and
many expressions of sympathy, es?
pecially when it was announced that
.Cowherd had been overthrown in bis
own district because he had been com?
pelled to be present in Washington,
fie is very popular in the House,
?ne of the shrewdest, readiest, mest
K| active and enterprising members,
chosen ont of the entire body because
.?cf bis political sagacity.
The causes of the landslide toRorse
veli?-for there are many. Y?m can
judge as well as your corespondent
san. There seem to be in the United
states about eighty million opinions
on this subject. I asked a prominent
Eepublican yesterday for his diagnos?
is. "Well," he said, "by his saga-!
cious action, Roosevelt made himself
solid with the Catholics, ?he Hebrews,
the negroes, and the union labor vote.
He rushed the Panama business
through, and, whether right or wrong,
the people like ? man who does things.
The normal Republican vote on Tues?
day was reinforced by a million men
who want the President always to
carry a chip on his shoulder and who
wingback him up to any extent.
"And all the people cried * * Come,
. "brother ! Your one good term deserves
another!"
: Senator Jenes seen at his residence
sere says it was the alleged prosperity
that carried the day,-the people that
nave money and the people who hope to
get money. To this was added the
bellig?rant feeling which has prevail?
ed in the United'States for the last
six years, filling the streets with boys
is uniform and sending to the poles
aa army of perverted Democrats will
ing to follow to . any conquest Theo?
dore the king of the Northern Goths.
A Eepublican friend of mine insists
that every lynching anywhere m the
United States cost the Democrats at
the polls on Tuesday ten thousand
totes. Bot I think be is.'dreaming.
The President's formal declaration
that under.no circumstances would he
be a candidate for reelection is receiv?
ed here at par as a sincere avowal. It
seems a little hasty and premature,
ont it is just like the impulsive Roose
||||: -reit. The fact, however remains that
President of the United States ?R no
longer the arbiter of his owu destiny,
ano be is liable io be seized by eulo?
gists ano flunkeys and dragged into
the White House .again even against
T*i8 own piotesr. Wbat he will do dor?
ins these next four years % nobody can
tell. Ho can sf coj?nef himself as to
promote universal -barraooy, amity
and pt ace: or be can adopt a policy
which will make hid name a synon?
ym of aggression and conquest, and
bring the republic to tbe verge of
rniu. He should be kept ^tTaight by
tbe co8sci3usBe>s that tot ey? s of the
world are upon him,
"**Fbe numerous bronze gentleman on
horseback that t resine over the
equates and c-roles in this c. ty are tr
receive an illustrious rt-infonement
in the person uf a solitary pedestrian
ra military Uniterm of foreign and
.antiquated aspect, whose metallic
counterpart wilt be unveiled iu tbe
jr rounds of tb? nrw War College next
Saturday. Toese ar- better know as
tbe Arsnael Grounds, but dunne the
last two or three year? a long row of
limestone villas has been erected here
fer tbe use of officers and fronting
them on the other side of the park are
being built very comprehei?sive and
substantial oarrack?, adequate to all
emergencies. The personage to mount
tbe pedestal is Frederick the great,
ona hand rests cn his sword.hilt, and
the other carries a cane- perhaps the
very cane that bis father belabored
bim with when the youth was caught
in bis boyish pranks; perhaps the
very sword that he flung away at the
battle of Moliwitz when he found re?
fuge in a barn ten miles from the
battlefield; perhaps the very cocked
bat which he wore when he sold
fleslians to George III to conquer the
American colonies withal. Our fore?
fathers tore down the statute of
George III to conquer th? American
colonies withal. Our forefathers tore
down the statue of George III in New
York City and moulded it into bullets
na that occasion ; but this statute of
Frederick, presented by the Emperor
William, i s to occupy one cornere of a
quad rangle in the War College
> grounds BB an example to American
youth. The ; other corners are, it is
??mored, to be occupied by Alexander
the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, and
Theodore Roosevelt, and another
quadrangle at the bead of the "army
niese" probably will* be decorated
with the atantes of Cornwallis, Cor?
nea, Captain Kidd, and Jack the
Giant-Killer. The ceremonies on the
19th will consist of the formal presen?
tation by the German ambassador and
m grateful eulogy of Frederick by Pre?
sident Roosevelt.
The illustrious British statesman
John Morley ^is in the city today, a
guest of the President, tte seems
.-slightly incongruos, and embarrassing,
fer this is tbe Libara ? :UKI copra^ons^
the insolent aggressons of his own
country and ours aganst the republics
of Sooth Africa and the Orient. As a
Little Englander pro-Boer and a pro?
fessor of the ait of "scuttling" one
naturally wonders what he talks about
with the President.
RUSSIAN JEWS WANT TO COME HERE
The Bureau of immigration is In?
formed That a Colony of Farm?
ers With Money is Look?
ing Fora Home.
Philip Sacbmontz, a Russian Jew
of Summerville, na9 written to Mr.
E. J. Watson relative to the establish?
ment in this State of a colony of Rus?
sian Jews. Mr. Watson is informed
in the letter that these people who
want to come here are of the agricul?
tural class and have money with which
to buy their own bornes.
Mr, Watson stated vesterday that
he is afraid that the bureau of com?
merce and immigration will be unable
to give official assistance in this mat?
ter as the act creating the office Fays :
"Immigrants shall be confined to
white citizens of the United States,
citizens of Ireland, Scotland, Switzer?
land and France and all other foreign?
ers of Saso origin."
However, these oppressed people
seek to leave Russia, and their atten?
tion bas been attracted to South Caro?
lina. It is probable that they will
make arrangements through the agen?
cy of pominant Jews in Chaleston.
The State.
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West Virginia Desparadoes Sur
render.
Charleston, W., Va, Nov. 13.-Ed.
Jackson, the two brothers, of Mont?
gomery, for whom rewards have been
offered by both city and county
authorities, surrendered today, and
are now in the county jail at Charles?
ton. The men had been secreted in an
abandoned coal mine just outside
Montgomery and were driven to sur?
render by hunger and cold. Word
was sent to Montgomery by a moun?
taineer, and on the arrival of Squire
Davis and a constable the men gave
themselves up without a struggle.
Since the shooting of Sheriff Daniel
on Thursday and their subsequent
disappearnce the men spent the time
in the coal mine and blood hounds
were put on their track. The officials
took the men around the town of
Montgomery and by a ronnd abcut
way brought the prisoners to Charles?
ton to avoid a riot or lynching, which
would have occurred had the citizens
of Montgomery discovered that the
Jacksons had been captured. There
are now sis prisoners implicated in
the Montogmey shooting in the Char?
leston jail. It is not considered safe
to hold the hearing of any of them at
the present time.
Charleston, W., Va,, Nov. 14.-En
Jackson, the slayer of Sheriff Daniels,
who surrendered yesterday is still in
jail here. He says he did not run
nway, but kept out of sight, fearing
that Daniel's friends would try to
lynch him. He will plead self-defense
at his trial. He bad been hiding in
abandoned coal mine, and only sur?
rendered when all food was gone. All
danger of lynching is over.
THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE
STORM OF V??B3.
Telegraph and Telephone Lines
Down and Shipping Severely
Damaged.
Cleveland, Nov. 14.-The wide
spread storm which sweet over the en?
tire east last night caused enormous
damage. It cut off New York, Phila?
delphia, Washington and Baltimore
from the rest of the country and all
telegraph aud telephone wires were
carried down.and mcuh damage is be
lieved to have been done to property
and shipping.
Along the lower lakes many vessels
bad narrow escapes. Th? Buffalo and
Cleveland steamer, "City of Buffalo"
reached port se v real hon rs late with
bulwarks stove in. The tug John
Gregory foundeied off Cleveland har?
bor. Capt Kinney, of Buffalo, was
drowned
The storm started off the Florida
coast last night and gained strength
as it swept northward. A hurricane
of wind bipw, accompanied by rain
which turned of snow north of Cane
Hatteras. The damage to telegraph
and telephone lines is the greatest
since the blizzard of 1888. It is fear?
ed that gre*t damage has been doue to
shipping, but it is impossible to learn
antybing until the wires are repaired.
6E0RGE MURRY BRANCHING OUT.
He ls One of the Corporators of
the Sumter Commercial and
Real Estate Agency.
Columbia, Nov. 14.-George W.
Murray, then negro es-Congressman,
who is in trouble for forgery, is one
of the corporators of the Sumter
Commercial and Real Estate Company
which was commissioned this morn?
ing, by the Secretary of State, with
a capital stock of $10,000. The other
corporators are Z. E. Walker, of Sum?
ter, and Alston Vestberry, of Hagood.
Murray's name is substituted for That
of C. W. Birnie, whose name is
tricken from the application.
H. M.
Auburn, Cal., Nov. 14.-Eighteen
year old Adolph Weber is nuder arrest
charged with the murder of his fath?
er, sister and brother and burning
the bouse to hide his cime.
Springfield, lils., Nov. 14.-Capt.
A. Leonard Hay, a brother of Secre?
tary of State John Hay, died in War?
saw, Ills., this morning.
San Franci>co, Nov. 14. The an?
nual convention of the American
Federation of Labor opened here this
morning. Only preliminary business
was transacted today,
Chicago, Nov. 14 -Prince Sadahar *
Fasbimi Godson of the Mikado is the >
guest of tn" city today and be is ht
MACON CONTRACTORS
FIGHT OUEL WITH KNiVES.
One Dead and Another Seriously
Cut-Mob Tries to Take
Wounded Man From Hos?
pital.
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Macon, Ga., Nov. 12.- Fred Tharpe,
a contractor, is dead, i?nd Frank
Christian, contractor and painter, is
dying in a hospital as the result of a
fierce driel with knives this atfernoon
in a Mulberry street saloon. Tharpe's
daughter married Rafe Plunkett, who
was a step-son of Christian and also
his partner' in business. Some time
ago Rafe Plunkett accidentally shot
and killed himself. Since this death
there has been some discussion be?
tween Tharpe and Christian as to the
manner in which he was shot and also
on account "of some family troubles.
The dispute this afternoon was be?
cause of these matters. Tharpe drew
a knife and cut Christian across the
stomach, whereupon the latter brought
his own knife into play, caught his as?
sailant by the hair and cut his throat.
Tharpe died almost instantly and
Christian cannot live.
AD I o'clock this morning a mob
composed ot several of the dead man's
tr?enos formed and marched to the
hospital where Christian lies wound?
ed, demanded to see him. Dr. Elder,
the surgeon in charee, asked if they
were friends of Christian, and upon
receiving a hot reply in the negative,
drew his revolver and informed the
mob that he would kill the first man
who at empted to enter the hospital.
A second attempt has not yet been
made. Fifteen officers are closely
guarding the premises at this hour.
At 3.30 o'clock r.his morning no sec?
ond attempt has been made on the
hospital. A large force of officers is
still on guard.
Mr. James ?. Holman, who has for
a number of years been connected
with the Powell Hardware Co. has
resigned his position with that firm
and has associated himself with Mr.
ii. M. Fuller, the popular traveling
salesman of the Belkap Hardware &
Mfg. Co., and have bought from Mrs.
J. B. Stokes, of Batesbnrg, the stock
of Hardware of the late Mr. Stokes.
These two enterprising young men ex?
pect to open there in the near future
an up-to-date hardware store, to be
known as the Batesburg Hardware
Co. Mr. Holman has many friends
here who regret that he is going to
leave the city, and they wish him
well in his new business.
Eunaway horses are unknown in
Russia. No one drives there without
having a thin cord with a running
noose around the neck of the animal.
When an animal starts the cord is
pulled and the horse stops as soon is it
feels the pressure on the windpipe.
j Motives in Church-Going.
The people who frequent our choch?
es, whether lay or clerical, may be
divided into two classes-the givers
and the getters. Those who are really
called to the service of the Chuch
usually ask first of all: What can I
do? How much can I give? How can
I help others along so that the cause
for which our church stands will have
honorable furtherance, and result in
blessing - to the world? The getters,
whether lay or clerical, always ask
themselves-and sometimes they are
indiscreet enough to ask others-if I
go into this thing what shall I get
out of it? How is it going to make me
more happy, or prosperous, or suc?
cessful, or popular? A man of affairs
took a pew in a Unitarian Church,
but at the end of a year gave it op,
with a con te m puons remark that he
had attended that church a year and
had't got a cent out cf it in the way
of business. This was only an ex?
treme case of a disposition too com?
monly manifested in other ways for
the good of the church. The person
wbo stands o:T and whines, "Nobody
cares for my soul' commonly care
nothing for the souls of others, if he
sought the Church for the opportunity
of doing good his complaints would
cease.
Seek to intercept Baltic Fleet.
London, Nov. 15.-Tiie Renter
Telegraph Company has just received
a dispatch from Tokio stating that the
Mikado yesterday presided at a confer?
ence of his military naval advisers, at
which plans were considered for inter?
cepting the Baltic fleet in far eastern
wa ers.
Cbefoo, Nov. H -The Japanese
blockade of Port Arthur now extends
fifty miles seaward and it is absolutely
impossiie for junks to longer run the
blockade witli wood, consequently it
is belived the garrison is starving.
Mr. Hugh R. Garden of New York
bas been chosen as the orator for the
occasion at the annual meetiug and
banquet of the South Carolina Bar
association, which is to be held in
Columbia January 19 and 20. Mr.
Garden is a former South Carolinian
and a gnduale of the South Carolina
college. He has been practicing law
successfully in New York for a num?
ber of years.
New York, Nov. 15. Thc fire in
the United States stocfe yards, Jersey
Cit}-, this morning burned to death
twenty fi ve hundred hogs, roasted
thirty two hudred carcasses and caus?
ed a stampede of live callie. Destroyed
buildings, and valuable propertv to a
value of 1150,000.
Portsma mtb, En<i., Nov. 15 -The
Kii'g and Queen of Portugal arrived
to visit Kinu Edward today.
Warsaw, Holand. Nov. I. Troops
arc on duty here, following the fierce
rioting on Sunday when two soldiers
and eight civilians were killed. The
feeling is : bitter and serious trouble |
is likely any minute.
Duluth, Nov. 14.-James Murphy a
hunter of tbis place was found today j
dementem! and wandering in a tama- i
rac k swamp. He had iu]en vvrthont !
lood and water for a week. Both legs j
and arms \\<>re badly frost bitten and i
bad to be amputated.
Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 13.- - A spe- '
cial to The Commercial-Appeal from
Decatur, Ala., says that 12 .icgroes
are dead at Cedar Lake, a nergo set?
tlement in the sruburbs of Decatu,
from thc effects of poisoned ice cream
FARMERS ADVISED TO HOLD COTTON
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I President Jordan Says the Grow
i er's Duty is Plain. Asks
Holders of Cotton to Fix
Price at Twelve
Cents and Await
Results.
Macon, Ga., Nov. 13.-Hon. Harvit
Jordan of Monticello, Ga., presidenl
of the Southern Cotton Growerj
protective association, has issued ar
address to the cotton producers of tnt
south in which he says, among othei
things:
"The producers are to he congratu
lated for the firm stand they have
already taken to market the crop slow?
ly, and that fact alone has prevented
the price from fallirjg to eight centf
during the month of October. Tb(
crop is about gathered, debts general?
ly are paid and it is no longer abso?
lutely necessary to sell tue ba la nc?
of the crop. The ginners' report re?
cently issued from the United State?
census bureau indicated that up tc
Oct. 18th only 6,400,000 bales of cot?
ton had been ginned. Ibis report
clearly indicates that this crop will
not exceed 11,000,000 bales, if it rt act
that figure. The spinner? can well
afford to pay the producers 2 cents
per pound for every bale of Americar
short staple cotton made this season
and to a profitable business for th(
stockholders. The price of yarns has
advanced three cent per pound witt
in the past 60 days and an unpreced?
ented demand for cotton goods exists,
while stocks generally are lower than
they have been for the past 20 years.
The duty of the producers is plain
and simple. They have crowded thc
markets for the past two months, con?
gesting every facility for handling
cotton and playing into the hands of
the bear speculators and spinners.
The thing to do now is to give the
markets and shippers a rest during
the next 60 days aud alluw present
stocks of spot cotton to be gotten out
of the vAay. Let the spinners who
are living lrom hand to mouth run
short of cotton and force them into
the markets as active bnyers. Let the
bear speculators begin to feel the lash
of the bull operators when the latter
call ,for the deliveries cf spot cotton
which the former will be unable to
deliver.
"Let every holder of cotton absolu?
tely stop selling and sit down at home
and quietly contemplate results. Let
each holder determine to put no more
cotton on the market until prices ad?
vance and never sell a bale on a re?
pressed market.
"Let county meetings be held all
over, the belt and strong and active
steps be taken to defend this most val
uaule agricultural product from the
rapacious greed of the selfish specula?
tor. Let every man who still holds a
bale of cutton in his possession join
in these county or local meetings and
agitate the importance of this step
among his neighbors to the end that
success in the near future will bo as?
sured. We have held*our own well so
far, but we can do much better and
easily advance the price from two
to tiree cents by persistently refusing
to sell and lightening up present re?
ceipts. We iixed our minimum at 10
cants for this season and maintained
the price'within half a cent of that
figure through October, the heaviest
mouth. Kow let the price te fixed at
12 cents for the remainder of the crop
and the world will accept it at that
price, which will mean an additional
gain of nearly $50,000,000.
"A determined stand will bring
victory. "
DEATH OF CARDINAL
SHOCKS THE POPE.
Has An Attack of Heart Failure
But Revives Promptly.
Koji9, Nov. 14.-Cardinal Moceen
ni, who has been suffering from a
long attack of creeping paralysis
died this morning. He was eighty
one years old and was created a Car?
dinal in 189:3.
Rome, Nov. 14. While holding a
consistery council tbe Pope was in?
formed of the death of Cardiual Moc
cenui. The news caused a seizare
heart of failure. Dr. Laponi was called
immediately and he ordered the
Pope's removal to his apartments,
where he received an application of a
cordial, and revived immediately.
A great irrigation dam is soon to be
built across the Tungabhadr'a river
in the western part of the Madras pre?
sidency, India, according to Tho
Builder, of London, which states that
the dam is to be built near Hospett
and will he about 150 feet high and
nearly a mile lone. The reservoir
will have an are:i of about 150 square
milts and will contain approximately
200,000,000,000 cubic feet, or between
five and six times thu capacity of the
AsFuian reservoir in Egypt.
Tho assize court of Paris has just
acquitted a mah named Digot, who
had shot bis brother for ingratitude.
The brother was a ne'er-do-well,
whom M. Digot took into bis house to
keep. Finding, however, thar the
scapegrace was inc* ssently importun?
ing bis wife and mother for money,
be gave way to exasperation and
shot his brother dead with a revolver,
and the jury held that the provocation
excused the deed.
The Wisconsin Stat?- Fair was a ;
m >ney maker this jear, as is shown i
by comparisons with the reciepts of j
former years. The receipts at tin- !
yate and grand stand were 330,458 25, !
to which may bo added $18,000 due i
trom the railroad companies for tick- j
ets sold with excursion tickets, ?15,- |
000 from racing entries, besides ad- 1
dit ional receipts from suspension of I
horses. The total receipts wen? there?
fore between $63,000 and $65,000.
Rio de .Taneirao, Nov. Iii.-The op?
position io the compulsory vaccina- j
tion law led to fierce rioting today.
The troops repeatedly charged the
mob, barricades were erected, water
and gas mains wert.* cut, plunging the
city into darkness and street cars ;
were burned. The demonstration had <
every character of a revolution. 'He j
president's palace was strongly guaro i
ed till midnight, lt was repented that .<
a dozen peoplde were killed and tnHr I
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MB. HAY WILL REMAIN.
Mr. Roosevelt Announces That the
Secretary cf State Will Continue
in Office During Second Term.
Washington, Nov. ll.--President
Roosevelt reade the announcement
today that Mr. John Hay would con?
tinue as Secretary of State during
the four year?, beginning March 4,
next.
"You may state positively," were
his words, "that Mr. Hay "will con?
tinu?" as Secretary of State up to the
4th of March, 19G9.:'
The President was asked regarding
other possible Cabinet changea but
indicated that there was nothing to be
said art present. Mr. Hay's succession
to the State department portfolio
fixes the most important place in the
new Cabinet and is the first and
only step so far taken in that direc?
tion.
THE SEABOARD AIR LINE CONNECTION
The Secretary of State Issues
Commission to Sumter and
Northern Railroad.
Columbia, No. 12.-The Secretary
of State this morning issued a com?
mission to the Sumter and Northern
Railroad Company, whose purpose is
to build a Seaboard connection for
Sumter through Sumter, Lee, Dar
lintgon and Chesterfield counties to
Macbee, on the Seaboard Air Line
in Chesterfield county. The road is
to pass through Bishopville. The
capital stock is $20,COO with tbe privi?
lege of increasing to $600,000. The
corporators are R. E. Carnes, W. R.
Scarborough and J. E. Stuckey, of
Bishopville. The new road is to run
through these townships: Sumter,
Providence, Mechanicsville Bishop?
ville Bull Stokes Bridge, Hartsville
and Alligator.
A commission was also issued to S.
Vernon Muckenfuss to Spartanburg
and G. Edgar Rogers fo Charleston as
corporators of the Jordan Mfg.. Co. of
Spartanburg, a 825,OOO cotton and wool?
en enterprise.
GREGG'S HISTORY.
Book Now in Press, illustrations
Are Wanted at Once From
Each County.
Conl. J. J. Dargan, the secretary of
the Pee Dee Historical society, pass?
ed through the city this morning go?
ing to Marion in the interest of the
work that he has in hand. He has
been very much gratified by the inter?
est shown in.the work by the people
of the communities that the has visit?
ed. Marlboro was particularly re?
sponsive to the work and has organ?
ized an anxiliary society to help carry
it on. Williamsburg, and Georgetown
are the only counthies that have not
fallen in line as yet. Marion has done
something and will do more in the
next two day, while Col. Dargan is
there to help push the work, and Mr.
Hazzard has written from George?
town that as soou as he goes down
there Georgetown will fall in line.
No representative from that commun?
ity b3s ever ..been present at the meet?
ings of the committee and do not
know exactly how to start the work.
The republication of Gregg's historj
of the Old Cheraws will be on the
press in a little while. It is especial?
ly urged that the committeemen from
the different counties get the illustra?
tions that they want to go in the
book. Every effort is being made to
get the bcok out by Christmas and
the pictures to be used must come up
at once. Four are allowed from each
county of some person or place that
is mentioned in the book or associat?
ed with the history of the early set?
tler? of this section, of the country.
The executive committee beg that all
publicity possible be giveu to this
matter at once.-Florence Times.
Glasgow, Nov. 12.-George Lenox
Watson, the world famous yacht de?
signer is dead. Ho was born October
30th, 1851. The greater part of his
life was spent in naval architecture.
His most famous yachts were ihe
Thistle, Valkyrie I and HI, Shamrock
III and the cotter Britania. The
latter was probably the most success?
ful yacht ever built.
Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 12.-Fire
here this morning destroyed the
wholesale hardware house of W. W.
Woodruff Company. The loss is esti?
mated at 8200,000. A dynamite ex?
plosion seriously injured half a dozen
tit oman and several spectators.
Dillon, Nov. H.- Calvin McNeill
and NeiT Barnes, colored workmen
engaged in feeding the big cotton
press at the oil mill ginnery, were
instantly killed this afternoon by the
explosion of a steam cylinder. The
negro operating the lever to open the
valve threw it wide and the rush of
steam burst the cylinder.
Columbia, Nov. IL-City Engineer
D. B. Miller, who had been in the
employ of the city since 1889 was
found dead in bis room at 7 o'clock
this morning. He had just 'phoned
to fhe water plant on business and j
had brought his newspaper back up to I
his room ro read before breakfast. ?
He died aione, of heart disease. Mr. ?
Miller was prominently connected j
throughout the State.
"Judge Purdy holds that a prsom r
cannot be granted bail after being
convicted of manslaughter, pending ;
an appeal to tbe supreme court. We
ought to ba\e more ju dires like him.'* I
-Bamberg Herald. Upon this tue i
Edgetit ld Advertiser says: "Yes, the
?Teat need of South Carolina is not so
much law and order leagues as it is
competent, conscientious, incorrupti?
bly jurie.- and able, fearless, unbiased,
non-partisan judges. This common?
wealth, bas some who \\<ar the fr- j
mine who are peers of anv in the
land. '
Kio Janriio, Nov. 14.-Rioting cou
riur.es here and armed tr? ops jiatiol
iii the principal stieet. The trouble
?)riiiinatnd Sunday from the enforce- i
ment of com ii pise ry vaccination. The
nob erected barricades in the streets
mu w recked water and lighting planr-.
Seventeen person? have already bien
DUN'S WEEKLY BEVIEW OF TRADE.
Developments in Leading Manu?
facturing industry are Equal
to Most Sanguine Expec?
tations.
New York, Nov. IL-R. G. Dun &
Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade tomor?
row will say :
All measures of trade indicated the
customary loss due to holiday inter?
ruption, but subsequently much of the
deficit was regained, numerous evi?
dences of increasing confidence being
seen in the disposition to place orders
for distant shipment. Increased con?
sumption of pig iron is also signifi?
cant and in other leading branches of
manufacture there is a steadiiv
diminishing percentage of idle ma?
chinery. Railway earnings in October
exceeded last year's by 3.8 per cent.
Developments in leading manufactur?
ing industry are about equal to the
most sanguine expectations. Demand
is broadening in a wholesome man?
ner, larger contracts calling for a
heavy tonnage of plates, wire, pipe
and sheets, orders for structural
shapes were heavier than any previous
time this year, and sales of bars were
made at $2 above the list prices.
Little net change is recorded in the
leading textile industries. Bayers of
cotton goods still operate cautiously,
although ?ellers are more determined
to secure full prices. They claim that
there is no prospect of higher raw
material and present costs of produc?
tions warrant quotations demanded.
Failures this week numbered ?3
against 283 last year.
RESTERTWEE?TITTT?HEHT.
For the Eleven Days of Novembsr
a Slight Decrease is Shown.
New Orleans, Nov. H.-Secretary
Hester's weekly cotton statement is?
sued today shows for the ll days cf
November a decrease under last year
of 3:000 and an increase over the same
period year before last of 140,000.
For the 72 days, of the season that
have elapsed the aggregate is ahead
the same days of last year l,047,0CO
and ahead the same davs year before
last 681,000.
The amount brought into sight dur?
ing the past week bas been 519,766
bales against 596,943t for the same
seven days last year and 442,954 year
before last.
The movement since Sept. 1st shows
receipts at all United States ports tc
be 2,467,528 against 2,680,663 last
year. Overland across the Missis?
sippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to
northern mills and Canada 176,116
against 114,189 last year, interior
stocks in excess of those held at the
close of the commercial year 479,711
against 349,919 last year; southern
mills taking 512,000 against 443,284
last year.
The total movement since Sept. 1st
is 4,635,355 against 3,588,055 last year.
Foreign exports for the week have
been 187,375 against 308,5188 last year,
making the total thus far for the sea?
son 2,294,915 against 1,829,676 la?r
year.
The total takings of American mills,
north, south and Canada thus far for
the season have been 1,048,901 against
844,663 last year.
Stocks at the seaboard and the 29
leading southern interior centres have
increased during the week 176,512
bales against an increase during the
corresponding gperiod last season of
123,895.
Including stocks left at ports and
interior towns from tbe last ciop and
the number of bales brought into sight
thus far from the new crop, the sup?
ply to date is 4,793,322 against 3,755,
854 for the same period last year.
MADE A SOOfiE. _
Col. Dargan Secures Recognition
of the Work of Dr. Wilson, of
this State.
Col. John J. Dargan has succeeded
in bis efforts to have the work and re?
st arches in science of Dr. John L.
Wilson, of this State, properly recog?
nized, which it will be hereafter ii
the truth can ever overtake error.
Some time ago the Times told of tho
efiorts to have the discovery of tba
gorilla, and other African researcher
now credited to DaChaUu, cr?dit?e
to Dr. Wilson of this State. Coi.
Dargan was very persistent in tt?
matter, and bas just received a letter
from the curator of the Boston Society
of Natural History, which ha3 xii
charge the specimens of gorilla firs
sent to this country, aud which bal?
been credited to Dr. Savage. Tn
writer says that he is now satisrk :
tuat the credit belongs to Dr. Wilsoc.
and, will be given to him. Thus th-:
tirst point is scored for the Pee
Historical society.--Florence Times.
CLOSING CHEBDK?EI?M SHOPS.
County Authorities Take Prompt
Action to Carry out the Will
of the People.
i _
Columbia, Nev. IL-The tbir.?
seems to have been already don?1, iv*
this item from the Gaffney Ledger ir.
dicates: "County Supervisor Wbelebt-i
tabulated the votes fer dispensar,
and no dispensary late yesterday af*
eri'ocn. and sent the following con.
municaf.on to N. H. Lit lejob-i.
chairman of county hoard of control
" 'To N H. Littlejohn, Cha irma,
lioard of Control: I, J. Y. Wbelchei.
county supeivisor of Cherokee count?
South Carolina, hereby certity tha"
ar the election held on November^.
1904, and from thv returns iliads I.
managers ot said election, ttat tb*-r
were in said election 1,251 votes ess-*
for no dispensary and 349 votes fi :
dispensary.
(..Sip.cC>d i J. V. Whelchel,
" '.As County Supervisor '
"On receipt of above communicant' .
Mr. Littlejohn ordered the two lt ca
dispenser? close their places of in-s'
ru ss, ano wired the same order to ti
dispenser at Blacksburg.
Cleveland, Ohio, Nov 14 -Up t
noon New York was still cut off frcr.
the rest of the country. It is report**