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THE TR [JE SOUTHRON. Eatabiished Jane, IS*?
Cosolidate? Aug. 2,1881.
SUMTER. S. C. WEDNESDAY. MAY 10. 1905.
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SEWS IM TSE STATE S?PI??L
CH TALK REGARDING OGDEN
WRECK.
Blame Should be Attached to the
Charleston Dispatching Office.
Yoong Man Says He is Losing
His Mind.
Columbia, S. C., May 2.^-The talk
in railroad circles here is that the
. blame for the wreck of the Ogden
special at Greenville on Saturday
should attach to the Charlotte dis
^patching office of the Southern, which,
r it is said, failed to give the yardmas?
ter at Greenville the order as to the
special coming with right of way over
second and third and other inferior
trains. It cannot be disputed that the
^bulletin boards at the depot adver
^tised the fact that the special was
coming forty minutes late, but yard?
masters and engineers cannot be de?
pended upon to work by bulletin
boards when they are taugh to go by
orders which they sign?v That a mes?
sage "was placed on the hook" for
p the yard master was not sufficient, it
is argued here. The order should
have been sent in regular triple-plate
form, the operator retaining a copy,
the yard master a copy and the en
-iigineer a copy, the Charlotte office be?
ing advised that' the delivery of the
order was complete. The wreck oc
half a mile from the depot and
the freight crew likely never ac?
quainted themselves of the bulletin,
- being accustomed and depending up?
on orders which they sign. This, the
Columbia people say, is admitted by
?the Charlotte office, where Dispatch
King was in charge.
In the case of handling the train
from here to Spartanborg by the Sa
fevyannah division officials, the night
.dispatcher was careful to check up
every person served with an order as
to the moving of the train, and saw
\ that he got his order. The Brooklyn
Eagle finds fault with Engineer Hun?
ter and blames him for the wreck,
/ saying he was onacqmainted with the
"road. As a matter of fact Engineer
^ Hunter was picked out as a specially
careful man;; he had had three years'
^.experience running over this partico
i] lar part of the road.
The investigation before the rail?
road commission will be most rigid.
Commissioner Caughman returned
from Greenville today, but would give
no intimation as to the nature of his
j? coming report, which he will make
jointly with Commissioner Earle, who
was on the ground at once, Green?
ville being his home. A day for the
hearing before the board will be
named soon as these reports are filed.
i": A yoong white man about 20 years
old, apparently a mechanic, present
i;-'. ed himself to Superintendent Babcock
of the Insane Hospital this morning,
'. saying that he felt that he was going
^ crazy and wanted to be cared for. He
gave his name as William J. Denny,
? of 115 Drake street, Charleston, from
'f which city he says he came here this
morning on a coal car. In a note
V whieh he handed Dr. Babcock he said
guthat his mother and father and people
C lived in Charleston, bot that he did
>' not want to tell them The note said
fer that he was losing his speech, but
* Dr. Babcock found that he was very
-intelligent. The young man is not fu?
gt sane, Dr. Babcock deciding after a
?^thorough examination that worry and
?-C disease explains the young" man's
?. strange actions. He is caring for him
f until his people can fee heard from.
.He says he was discharged from the
on Hospital on Saturday.
The note which he handed to Dr.
Babcock read:
"Dear Doctor: i am a stranger here
bot i came here for treatment for 1
t am going insane. My mother and
'father and al my people stays in
Charleston, hot i did not have nerve
enough to tell them about it so i came
: here before it gets too bad on me. i
am losing my speech for i can hardly
talk, i have been with stomach and
bowell trouble. W. J. Denny, 115
f Drake street, Charleston."
THE XEW ICE FACTORY.
Citizens of Sumter Show Their Deter
ruination to Throw Off the Yoke
of the Iee Trust. *
The mass meeting called for the
purpose of devising ways and means
to emancipate this city from the ex?
actions of the ice monopoly was held
in the Court House at 6:30 o'clock
Monday evening with a large and re?
presentative attendance of business
nfen.
The meeting was called to order
by Mr. A. B. Stuckey and on his mo?
tion Mr. H. G. Osteen was elected
chairman. Mr. S. H. Edmunds was
elected secretary.
Mr. Osteen upon assuming the chair
stated that as he understod it the peo?
ple were assembled in mass meeting
because they were determined to find
means to obtain ice. a necessity of
life, at a reasonable price. Knowing
from experience and from reliable in?
formation that ice can be profitably
manufactured and retailed at twenty-,
five cents a hundred pounds, they feel
that it is an imposition to be held up
by a .trust 'and forced to pay sixty
cents a hundred.
Mr. A. B. Stuckey was requested to
state th? object of %the meeting fully
and to give such facts as he had at
hand for the information of the
meeting.
He said that while he was heartily
in sympathy with the movement to
obtain cheaper : ice he had no claim
to leadership, but that practically all
the facts he had were obtained from
Mr. H. T. Edens, who as a result of
the agitation for the establishment of I
a Consumers* Ice factory had opened j
correspondence with the York Man- J
ufacturing Co., well known makers of I
ice making machinery. Letters from J
the company were read giving prices j
bf 5, x 10 and 15 ton plant?. ' Mr. j
Stuckey also read the outline of agree- j
ment to be signed by al) subscribers to j
the capital stock of the proposed J
Consumers' Ice Co. /' j
Rev. C. C. Brown offered a r?solu- J
rion to the effect that a committee of j
five b^ named to solicit subscriptions j
to the proposed Consumers' Ice Com- j
pany at $10 a share, to devise and j
carry out a plan for the purchase and J
erection of the plant, to employ a l
manager and laborers and to make J
such contracts with citizens as will j
tend to make the factory a success. J
A substitute offered by Mr. Alta- J
mont Moses was adopted. This pro- I
vided that a committee of five be ap- J
pointed by the chairman to solicit sub- j
scriptions to the capital stock, take J
steps to organize the company and to J
report back to another meeting. j
Mr. E. I. Reardon suggested that |
the stock be $5 a share so that men J
pf small means who are in hearty J
sympathy with the enterprise may be J
able to take stock.
Mr. R. I. Manning also favored the I
proposition to make the shares $5 j
each, saying that it was a popular I
movement to secure a necessity at a j
reasonable price and the shares should
be as generally distributed as j
possible. j
A resolution offered by Mr. Neill J
O'Donnell, that the shares be fixed at j
$5 each and that the plant to be j
erected should not be of less capacity J
than 15 tons of ice a day, was j
adopted. j
A resolution offered by Dr. C. P. I
Osteen that no stock should be trans- I
ferred except by the consent and ap- j
proval of the board of directors was j
adopted. !
The chairman then appointed the J
following committee as provided by J
the resolution: A. B. Stuckey, H. T. j
Edens, Bartow Walsh, J. A. Schwerin, j
and W. B. Boyle. Messrs. Neill O'Don- I
nell, Ferd Levi, and C. C. Brown ask- I
lng to be excused, though expressing I
hearty sympathy with the enterprise, i
The committee immediately called I
for subscriptions to the stock of the j
proposed corporation and 270 shares j
were subscribed for on the spot, j
many of the subscribers expressing a
willingness to double their subscrip?
tions if necessary. j
The committee began active can?
vass for additional subscriptions this
morning and there will be no let up
until all the money needed if secured. J
Prompt action is one of the most j
important prerequisites to the success j
of the enterprise, for the sooner the j
stock is subscribed and the company
organized the sooner we shall have
ice at a living price. The York Man- j
ufacturing Company offers to furnish j
the machinery and have the plant in
operation forty days from the date
of the order, and other makers of ice
machinery can probably do as well in
case it should be decided to purchase
the plant from some other concern.
The agreement governing the sub?
scriptions to stock which was adopted
by a unanimous vote of the meeting
-fJ?C
after being amermed as above stated
reads as follows:
We, the undersigned, do hereby
agree and bind ourselves to subscribe
the amounts opposite to our respec?
tive names to the capital stock of
"The Sumter Ice Consumers' Plant,"
of Sumter, South Carolina, a corpora?
tion to be organized for the manufac?
ture and sale of ice, having a capacity
of at least 15 tons a day, said shares
to be of the par value of five dollars
each.
And we do hereby covenant and
agree mutually with each other to
buy ice solely from said corporation
at the rate of twenty-five cents (25)
per hundred pounds, and at the
rate of thirty-five cents (35) per hun?
dred pounds in quantities less than
one hundred pounds, the ice to be de?
livered at our respective places of
business and at our respective homes
in the said city of Sumter, in quanti?
ties not less than ten pounds, provided.
ten pounds or more may be sold to us
at 25c. per hundred when we come for
it at place of retail sale.
And we do hereby further covenant
and agree, mutually with each other,
not to sell, hypothecate, or in any
way dispose of our stock in said cor?
poration except to a stock holder
therein, and same first to be submit?
ted to and approved by Board of Di?
rectors of the corporation.
And we do hereby further covenant
and agree, mutually with each other
that any failure to keep and carry
out the terms of this mutual con?
tract shall work a forfeiture of our
stock in said corporation in favor of
the other stockholders. This con?
tract shall remain of force so long as
the conditions above specified are car?
ried out and performed by the said
corporation."
Members of the stock subscription
committee began work this morning
and they have met with a most grat?
ifying success. Practically, every per?
son they have seen has subscribed for
stock and the list is filling up rapidly.
The success of the movement to build
a consumers ice factory is assured and
it will be- a popular movement in
every sense of the word. ^Tine-tenths
of the people who use ice will be
stockholders and under the stock
agreement they will remain patrons of
the company no matter how low ice_
may be sold by competitors. Those
whom the committee may inadvert?
ently fail to visit should not be back?
ward but should call on Mr. A. B.
Stuckey at his office on Court Square
Mr. Bartow Walsh at the Bank of
Sumter or some other of the commit?
tee and subscribe for as many shares
as they can afford to carry.
NEBOG?TUFF S?G SAIGON.
fflS HOSPITAL SHIP PUTS TS AT
THAT PORT.
Saigon, Cochin China, May 8.-The
hospital ship has arrived here The . ap
pearence of the Koshoma at this time
.vouid seem to vindicate the approa-jh
of the Russian squadron commanded
by Rear Admiral Nebogatoff which
passed through the strait of Malacla
on Friday. Sixteen freighters are now
lying off Cape Saint Jacques and a
large Russian squadron is reported to
l e off the Annam coast.
Fleet Passes Saigon.
Hong Kong, May 8.-The China
Mail says it has received a telegram
from Saigon saying that Admiral
Nebogatoff's fleet has passed that
point.
London, May 8.-A dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company from
Copenhagen says it is reported from
Libau, Russia, that the fourth Baltic
squadron has assembled a* Cronstadt.
The fleet will be inspected next week,
previous to its departure for the
Far East.
ROJESTVEXKSY TO THE RESCUE.
He Hastens to Join Xebogatoff s
j Squadron Hoping to Forestall
Togo's Plan to Disable This
j Squadron.
|; St. Petersburg, May 5.-According
Ito a report emanating from admiralty
circles Admiral Rojestvensky is
hastening to join Nebogatoff's squad
? ron which entered the China sea to?
day. This action was taken, lt is said,
beause it had been learned that To?
go had, sent a number of swift cruis?
ers for the purpose of disabling Ad?
miral NobogatofTs fleet before lt
could join Admiral Rojestvensky.
Washington, May 8.-It is reported
that the Jamestown Exposition Com?
pany will offer the presidency, made
vacant by General Lee's death to
Charles 0'FerrelIs former governor of
Virginia and ex-congressman from
that state.
GERMANY THREATENS FRANCE.
GEN. BRUICHHAUSEX DECLARES
GERMANY WILL DECLARE
WAR ABOUT MORO CO.
Berlin, May 5.-Major General
Bruichhausen, a prominent member
the military party has created some?
thing of a sensation by making the
declaration that Germany will declare
war against France if the French gov?
ernment persists in ignoring Ger?
many's rights in Morocco. The Ger?
man army, Bruchhausen says, would
annihilate the French army in short
order.
Russian Soldiers Get Drunk and Cre
ate a Riot-Several Killed.
St. Petersburg, May 5.-It is report?
ed from Sevastapol that several hun?
dred soldiers there mutinied and dur?
ing the riot which followed several
were killed or wounded. According
to the report the soldiers were intoxi?
cated and soon got beyond all control
by the officers.
COAL FAMINE IN PACIFIC.
Great Demand for Coal By Japanese
and Russian Ships Causing Trou?
ble for Merchant Steamers.
Washington, May 5.-Tte shortage
of coal in the Far East, due to the
great demand for it by the Russian
and Japanese fleets is cauisng consid?
erable inconvenience to merchant
steamers. J. J. Hill, president of the
Great Northern Railway, has made an
urgent request of the navy depart?
ment for permission to purchase from
the American Naval supply enough
coal to* accommodate the steamship
Minnesota on her round trip across
the Pacific.
THE END OF THE TRIAL.
New York, May 4.-The jury in
the Nan Patterson trial was dis?
charged at 2:30 this morning, having
failed to reach a verdict after having
been out on the case for thirteen
hours. The district attorney's office
previouslj' announced that in the
event of the jury disagreeing they
would not be likely to re-try the case,
consequently the girl will soon be free.
Delay was caused when the jury
was sent for by Recorder Goff at 1:30
by the announcement that Nan was
sick. She was brought into the court
room fifteen minutes later but it was
apparent that she was suffering; a
great mental stain. When she reached
her seat beside her counsel she feli in?
to the chair and with her fac-e yshen
pale heard that the jury was ur?ab!e
to come to an agreement. The jury
was gain sent out for further delibera?
tion. .
At 2:15 the jury came bacs and an?
nounced that no further instructions
were needed and that there was no
evidence with which they were not
familiar and they deemed impossible
for them to ever agree. The jury was
polled and all indicated that this was
their opinion.
Prosecutor Rand said he had no
reason to believe the statement of the
jury untrue and suggested that it be
disch?rged. Recorder Goff so ordered.
The expression of Nan's face plain?
ly showed the extreme el?ort she was
making to keep up, but after Record?
er Goff announced that the jury would
be discharged she fainted dead away
and despite the efforts of the cou t
attendants to revive her it was neces?
sary to carry her from the court room.
Soon after reaching the prison pen,
however, she revived and was taken
to her cell, where her sister Julia
waited the result.
It is learned, despite the fact that
the jurors swore themselves to secre?
cy, the last ballot was ele ven for man?
slaughter in the first decree and one
for acquittal.
THE CHICAGO SliTtlKE.
Chicago, May 5.-No serious rioting
or disorders of any kind were report?
ed in the city this morning growing
out of the strike of the teamsters.
The police have been ordered to ar?
rest all persons who indicate a ten?
dency to follow the wagons manned
by strike breakers. Chief O'Neil be?
lieves that if such action is carried
out there will be a general observance
of peace conditions.
Wagons Running With Little Inter?
ruption Under Reduced Guards.
Chicago, May 8.-Under a reduced
guard the wagons of the Employers*
Teaming Company were sent out this
morning with little or no interruption
by striking teamsters.
It was reported at police headquar?
ters this morning that a large num?
ber of colored strike breakers had
deserted dver Sunday, declaring they
had enough of the work here.
LOOMIS B3WEN CHARGES.
THE SENSATION OF THE WEEK
IN WASHINGTON.
Washington, May 3.-Washington
has been treated to a sensation during
the past week, a sensation of such
proportions that it will curtail the
president's trip and bring him back
to the capital a week earlier than he
had expected to return. Herbert W.
Bowen, United States minister to Ven?
ezuela, and Francis B. Loomis, assist?
ant secretary of state, are the chief
figures in the affair which promises
to end in the dismissal from the pub?
lic sen-ice of at least one of these of?
ficials, possibly although improbably,
both.
It appears that some time ago
Minister Bowen filed, officially,
charges against Secretary Loomis,
who has at one time been minister to
Venezuela. In brief, these charges
rae to the effect that as minister, Mr.
Loomis accepted $10,000 from the
New York and Bermuda Asphalt Co.,
in compensation for his services in
their behalf; that Mr. Loomis pur?
chased a claim of $4,000 against the
Venezuelan government and used his
influence to collect it; and, that Mr.
Loomis undertook to collect a claim
for a Mr. Meyers for a commission
Bowen forwards these charges to Sec?
retary Taft, over .his own signature,
and Secretary Taft forwarded the
communication to the president who
was already in the west.
Not contented, however, with hav?
ing done this, Mr. Bowen grew im?
patient at hearing no echo of the se?
rious charges he had preferred and
he furnished the details of the
charges to a certain newspaper corres?
pondent in Caracas. The whole story
was then mailed to this country and
appeared in large type on the front
page of the New York dailies. Even
were the charges true, Minister Bow?
en was guilty of a grave indiscretion
and violation of courtesy in making
them public in advance of some reply
to his communication to Secretary
Taft and only unpardonably bad
judgment or ungovernable spleen
against his superior officer could ac?
count for this course. .
When the charges were first made
public Mr. Loomis was absent from
Washington but immediately on his
return he furnished to the newspapers
a categorical denial of each and all of
the charges. He explained that he
had had one financial transaction
with the New York and Bermudes
Asphalt Company, but only to the ex?
changing of his check on a Venezue?
lan bank for the company's check on a
New York bank when he left Caracas
at the conclusion of his service as
minister, this being not unusaul
among American ministers in Cara?
cas and elsewhere, where the rate of
exchange is high and sometimes ex?
change cannot be secured at any
price. Of course the transaction was
unimporatant and could not place
either party under material obliga?
tion to the other may even have been
a mutual accommodation. Every
other transaction undertaken by Mr.
Loomis as minister to Venezuela, he
declares he undertook only as a re?
sult of explicit instruction from the
secretary of state. Beyond this denial,
Mr. Loomis has declined to discuss
the charges.
That an official statement from one
of Secretary Loomis' superiors will be
ultimately made is generally assumed
and it is regarded as probable that
the necessity of issuing such a state?
ment has played an important part
in determining the president to curtail
his hunting trip. There are, however,
other question of importance which
await the attention of the president.
There are, for instance, some ques?
tions connected with the Panama
problem which he must consider at an
early day. One of these is the dispo?
sition that is to be made of John Bar?
rett, now minister to Panama. Bar?
rett is desirious of securing promo?
tion and in any event it is unlikely
that he can retain his present posi?
tion. Another question which will
demand the president's attention In
the near future is the disposition of
the engineer members of the Pana?
ma canal commission to make trouble
because they regard, themselves as
somewhat overslaughted in the pres?
ent organization of'the commission.
Still another question which will
compel the attention of the president
at no distant date is the constantly in?
creasing treasury deficit. This has
now assumed somewhat alarming pro?
portions, being at practically the end
of May, $30,000,006. Treasury experts
claim that it will be reduced during
the next two months and this ls not
improbable as nany funds appro?
priated by con?ress ha zo been ex?
hausted, but it im f.ank.y admitted
that it cannot possibly be reduced to
naywhere near Secretary Shaw's es
A MATTER SF HEALTH
^^^^^ ^^^^
POWDER
Absolute!/Pare
HAS NO SUBSTITUTE
t?mate of $1*,CO0,IM>0.
Secretary Shaw has made one of hiss
extravagant and thoughtless state?
ments to the press, in which he says?
that a $30,000,000 deficit is "a mere
nothing," that for a great and pros*
perous country it should not be re?
garded as cf any importance and that,
in fact, "it means no more than a
dollar to the average individual." The
secretary apparently forgets the fact
that so great are the expenses of the
government that once the balance is
transferred to the wrong side of the
federal ledger it grows with astound
mg rapidity and has been known to
wipe out a large surplus in an astor*
ishingly short time, as was the case
La the Harrison administration.
Of course Secretary Shaw hopes ta
belittle the situation because he is ar:
arch "stand-patter" and cannot sleep*
when any one has suggested revising
the precious tariff schedules. OS.
course the growing deficit gives in?
creased impetus to the demand fibr
tariff revision which everyone but in?
protected interests appreciates is nec?
essary. It will be remembered that
the McKinley tariff bill deprived trie
country bf a large per centage of its
revenue because its rates were so high?
s.s to be prohibitory, and little duty
was .paid. The same condition of af?
fairs has now been reached with the
Dingley bill. Cost of production in
-nany lines has decreased and nove
?.he Dingley rates arc Rustically pro?
hibitory.
. Weekly Crop Bulletin.
Columbia, *S. C., May 9.-Tho tem?
perature during the week ending:
Monday, May StL was much above
normal, and the daily jna\imumi
ranged generally ahove s 9 degrees*
during the last half of the week; the.
night temperatures were also slightisr
above normal. The precipitation was
heavy, and damaged lands by erosion,
and flooding. Farm work was im?
practicable during the greater part o?
the week, as the lands were? too? wei:
to plow, plant or cultivate. The pre?
vailing high temperature and- copious
rainfall caused crops of all kinds to
grow rapidly, and were particularly
favorable on small grain and truck:
crops, and fer transplanting.. Many
*elds have become foul with grass;
and weeds and stand in urgent needl
of work, this being especially true of
early planted corn and cotton; though
much early corn has received its first
cultivation.
Corn has good stands as a rule,- buc
hud and cut worms are thinning?
stands on low lands; some corn is
turning yellow from too much rain.
Cotton planting is not finished in*
the western parts, though practically
f.nished in the central and eastern?
counties, except on bottom or lowi
lands that have been too wet recently
to plant. Stands vary greatly, being
generally good for that planted since
the April killing frost, and very poor
for the early plantings, much of whica
is being replanted. Some being re?
planted on account of cut worms, anet
some on account of being too fouL to
rid of grass and weeds. Some cotton?
has been chopped.
Tobacco transplanting is about fin?
ished, and is doing well generally,
though grasshoppers and cut worms
have damaged stands locally.
There has been a marked improve?
ment in oats, which is quite promis?
ing. Wheat is not doing so weir on
secount of the Hessian fiy and some
rust Truck crops and gardens have
improved rapidly, though melons itrs
still poor. The weather was favor?
able for rice. Peaches are dropping
in the eastern and southern counties?
with enough left to make a good
crop; in the western counties the fruit
prospects are very poor; apple and
pear trees are blighting badly. Pas?
tures are fine. The shipments, of
beans, peas and strawberries are
heavy.