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ftosolidated Aug. 2S1881.
SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 26. 1905.
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charged for.
FAILURE IN DAK??NGTON?.
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Tlie Oldest Firm Carried Down by
Cotton Oil Smash.
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Darlington, July 20.-As a result
ot the failure of *he Inderendeni
Cotton Oil Company and the Darling?
ton Trust Company Messrs. J. G
^McCall & Son, of this place, have
gone into bankruptcy. This ' firm :
had $7.000 in the Independent Oil
Company and $1,000 in the ?Baxling?
toa Trust Company. Mr. 3? G. Mc-;
Can is the oldest merchanf ..f ? in Dar?
lington and has always , done a suc?
cessful business, lt is hoped that
they will soon get all right and conf
tinue business.
Dr. G. B. Edwards, the physician;
?who examined Robert Keith Darr ]
gan shortly after he committed sui?
cide, signed proof - of his death
this morning for insurance com- :
pany.
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- DISPENSER CHOOSES BANK;
Interesting Ruling by the Attorney
General. ' j
Columbia, July 21.-A rather cu?
irions question has come up before,
the Attorney General from the dis?
pensary. A dispenser at Florence, it
appears, wishes to put his money in a j
certain bank, and- the county board
bf control wishes him to plac? it in
another bank. At all events the coun?
ty board and the -dispenser have a
different . choice as to- the bank.
The question was asked whether the
county board could regulate the
bank of deposit for the dispenser's
funds or not.
The Attorney General decided that
the dispenser.is the man who gives
the bond and who is responsible for
the money, and he and he alone has
control of the mooney until it is sent
to the State treasurer. He can keep
it in his pocket or deposit it in any
bank he wishes until he remits to
Columbia and, if the money is lost it
is his business. If the county board
undertakes to indicate a bank for de?
posit and anything should happen the
dispenser's bond may not be respon?
sive, and the county board is under
no bond for such funds.
It is suggested that in Charleston
and elsewhere the county board of
control directs the deposit of the
dispenser's funds. If such is really
the case the Attorney General holds
that the dispenser is the sole judge of
such things.
The trouble, however? is that if the
county dispensers do not make it a
point tb fall into line with the wishes
of the members of the county board
of control, when another election rolls
around they may find themselves
without their jobs.
Commander Young's Report.
Washington, July 22.-The follow?
ing was received this morning at thc
Navy Department from Commande]
Young of the Bennington, sent lat?
last night:
"San Diego,July 21.-Arrangement:
are being made to bury the dead ai
Fort Rosencrans Sunday afternoon a
2 o'clock. Several bodies are pinner
in under the boiler and covered bj
water. Have engaged a fire engin<
to pump out the hold so as to assis
in their recovery, and also cutting
away the steel bulkheads in order t<
get at them. Expect several men t<
die during the night. Will wire de
partment in the morning. Everything
that is possible to be done is beine<
done for living and dead. Are onl:
able to identify one man on board s<
far. He is R. B. Carr, apprentice(
seaman.
Otto Summey was acquitted n
Greenville of the murder of Osca:
Cureton. The jury was out 12 hours
one man held for manslaughter.
Anderson County shows a gain ii
taxable property of a million and ?
half dollars over last year.
Chester citizens held a mass meet
ing Thursday to consider measures t
secure the location of the Presby
terian College in that town.
ACROSS THE BLUE RH)GE.
Railroad to Be Extended From Wal?
halla to Marysville, Tenn. Oilier
States News.
Columbia, July 22.-Col. A, B. An?
drews, vice president of the Southern
Railway and recently of the Blue
Ridge Railway, has delighted the
hearts of Anderson people by assur?
ing them that the Blue Ridge, which
now has its terminus at Walhalla,
will be extended across the mountains
to Marysville, Tenn., where it will
connect with the Southernt to Knox?
ville. Thus Anderson is likely to
realize a cheerished dream from an
altogether unexpected source.
. Lightning yesterday killed two white
persons, a negro and three mules.'
Gillum Norton, a prominent Kershaw
. farmer, was killed under a tree along
? With a negro, and a mule, where the
.three had taken refuge (from the
rstorm, and at Lake City the four-year- ;
old daughter of W.- R. ?d?d?fc*. w?s^
killed by. a bolt that struck the- dwell
?ne.
J :In addition to these deaths,1 ?d-^
?i?rd " Cauley, a Southern" ' railway
freight brakeman, formerly t>f Aug?s-1
*?, fell 'between - cars, at .Ghester? and]
:*ras crashed to death.' and,v Crferlle
^Gillam, ? .negro of "the Silver Street
'section ot .- Newberry county, was
jfbund: dead in front of W. W. Spear-']
Oman's -gate -at Newberry* with two
loads of bird shot through his abdo?
men. He had been assassinated from
ambush in the country and his team
had carried him into Newberry.. There
3s no clue.
Lieut. Newman K. Perry, who was
killed ?yesterday in the explosion on
?board the gunboat Bennington, in
(San Diego harbor, which resulted in
the death of 31 and the wounding of
( over 100, was a native of Columbia,
but his widow is a Massachusetts
woman.//.Lieut Victor Blue, who es
f caped injury by reason of the fact
(that he had been carried ashore to be
operated Upon for appendicitis, is also
a South Carolinian.
The Spartanburg coroner's jury has
held Adolphus Mull for the murder
of his father Aaron MulL
Deaths from natural causes in?
cluded those of Mr. John J. Shealy at
Leesville, Mrs. Ann Geiger in Lexing?
ton county, Dr. E. K. Hardin, at
Clover, in New county, and Mr. C. D.
Bushardt in Newberry.
BRITT WEN'S AGAIN.
Light Weight Champion Defeats Kid
Sullivan in Twenty Rounds.
San Francisco, July 22.-Jimmie
Britt, the light weight champion of
the world, defeated "Kid" Sullivan,
of Baltimore in a slam bang battle of
twenty rounds last night. The deci?
sion went to Britt, who outbattled
and outfought his rival at his own
game whenever it was necessary be?
fore. The first eight rounds was over
even, but after that Britt took a de?
cided lead, though he was not able to
knock out his opponent Sullivan
at the conclusion of the fight was
badly used up. He said he broke his
hand in the tenth round and" if it
hadn't been for this .he would have
defeated his man.
RUSSUN MARINES PLOT.
Cossacks Replace Marines Who Were
to Mutiny.
St. Petersburg, July 22.-Orden?
have been issued to Cossacks to re?
place the marines who have beer
guarding the Kolpine works outside
of St. Petersburg. This change has
been made owing to the discovery ol
a plot of a part of the marinos tc
mutiny.
THE CHINESE BOYCOT.
American Goods Excluded Fron
Southern Provinces-Movement
Spreading.
Shangahi, July 22.-The boycot o
American goods which has been de
tared by Chinese merchants as i
protest against the rigorous exclu
on of Chinese from the Unitec
States has now spread throughout th?
Southern provinces. American enter
prises are being barred absolute!:
from a large area that have a popu
lation of one hundred and fifty mil
lion.
The Woodruff Oil Company los
about $10,000 by the failure of th<
Independent Oil Company. Th<
Woodruff Company had sent oil to th?
Independent Company to be refinec
no returns were made.
Harry Mobry, of Union, was drown
in the Etowah river, near Rome
., Thursday while at work on s
bridge.
THE SCUPPERXOXG INDUSTRY.
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Commissioner "Watson Has Fount!
a Market for Scuppernongs and a
Large Business May be De- *
veloped.
Columbia, July 24.-Commissioner
Watson's efforts to find a market for ;
South Carolina grown scuppernongs
as an initial stop toward developing
the scuppernong industry on a large
scale, this State growing the finest
type of these grapes in the world
from the mountains to the seaboard,
has just resulted in an order for the i
first car load from a big champagne
and wine making concern at Her?
mann, Mo.
"Of course on the success of the ;
marketing of this first car load," said
Commissioner Watson to The Daily
Item's correspondent, "largely de?
pends the future of the industry, and'
it is of the highest importance to get
the fruit to its destination in good
ihape. vBut I have, na fear of the re?
fits. ;;7The finest ^scuppernong grapes
"ia*$he-world are grown right here in
?S??th- ?j^rolinay and the crop can be
3pfoduca^i in great abundance &ny
^ere im either the coast, middle 01
??Xedm?ir? sections. If the fruit tan
be -g?tteh to market in- good condition
ispt??did| prices -can he obtained ?
hav*: eyexy reason to believe."
r T?is first car is tor be made up from
two well known South Carolina vin?
yards, and if the experiment proves
successful Commissioner Watson ex?
pects to ?ee a general revival and ex?
tension of the industry. Scupper?
nong growing has never been ex?
tensive in this State, though thc fruit
grows luxuriantly almost anywhere
in the State, but since the dispensary
law went into effect forbidding the
manufacture and sale of wine the few
paying vinyards that existed then have
been allowed to "run down" to a
great extent. The Missouri people in?
tend to use the South Carolina scup?
pernong as a basis grape iii the manu
of champagne, and if the hopes of the
manufacturers are realized to even
any reasonable extent a market wili
be promptly opened for all that South
Carolina can grow, and it is expected
that the success of the experiment in
this State will promptly result in on
extension of the industry in North
Carolina and Georgia, particularly
"fine scuppernongs being grown in
North, Carolina where it is said there
is one vine whose ramifications cover
nearly ten acres.
One of the largest and most proli?
fic scuppernong vinyards in this Stat-1
is near Columbia now the property ol
Lieut. Gov. John T. Sloan. Up to 1891
this was operated with great success
by Mr. E. M. Stovber, but with the
coming of the dispensary he had tc
abandon the business. The Seaboard
now splits the plantation in twain.
In Darlington county the:-, are a
number of large and productive vines
as there are elsewhere throughout
the State, but there are few vineyards
r.uw.
The. scuppernong grape was intro
duced into Aiken county over 5C
y* ar.s ago by Dr. J. C. W. McDonald
who planted several large vineyards
but his business was practically wipec
out by the civil war. There ar<
many handsome single vines at dwell?
ings in that county, however, th?
largest in the State being that at Mr
A. J. Seigler's place, eight miles fron
Aiken county court house near Croft;
station.
Commissioner Watson has a grati
fying report from his Belgium an<
Holland special representative, Mr
C. J. C. Van Wyngarton, who wen
over the first of the summer witl
stereoptican and literature to giv<
lectures. He writes from The Hagu
that he has succeeded in arousing ;
lively interest and is coming t<
America in a few weeks to prepar
for the coming of the immigrants
Commissioner Watson has appointe
a special representative at The Hagu
in the person of Oscar P. Schuler, an?
Mr .F. W. Grauert will sail in a fev
days in the Hamberg American lin
for extensive work in Germany.
Many Unidentified.
San Diego, Cal., July 22.-Th
blackened, torn an almost dismantle"
gunboat Bennington which was rip
ped asunder yesterday by the explosioi
of her boilers lies this morning on th
harbor beach while eighty-five of cre\
lie swathed and bandage in the hospi
tals and homes of San Diego. A]
night divers worked for the recover
of the bodies missing. There ar
eighteen identified dead and twelv
yet to be identified. The revised lis
shows twenty-two seriously injuree
T. Elius Orr, a native of Spartan
burg and in the navy service on th
Brooklyn, was a guard of honor io
John Paul Jones' body.
DISASTROUS ACCIDENT.
Boiler of United States Gunboat Ben
nington Explodes Killing Many
of Crew.
Washington, July 21.-The navy
department tonight received "he fol?
lowing telegram from Commander
Young of the Bennington stationed
at San Diego, Cal.
"At 10.15 this morning while mak?
ing preparations for getting under
way with all hands at their stations,
the top of the lower furnace of boiler
B exploded, forcing the boiler astern
in contact with boiler A, which was
also forced astern and exploded.
Here he gives a list of the known
casualties.
Several supposed to be blown over?
board and drowned. Vessel listed
considerably to starboard, commenced
to settle immediately. Flooded maga?
zines and with the assistance of tug
I beached her on east bank between
?two wharves at high tide. Every as?
sistance has been given i>f the people
here and all doctors in the city volun?
teered services. The wounded' are in
the different hospitals and ha ve every
attention. Capt Scott.kindly offered
San Diego barracks and wk. quarter
men ^there. Seven bodies pinned be?
hind boilers unable to identify. Cut-,
ting away bulkhead to recover them.
Vessel almost a total wreck and will
need Ttssistance. Soon as further
.particulars can be obtained will wire.
Request department notify. nearest
relatives.
"Young."
Washington, July 21.-Later-The
navy department has received a dis?
patch from Commander Young say?
ing that Lieut Perry and 3?: men are
dead; 76 wounded and 21 missing and
that many are expected to ate before
morning. He adds that there were
131 casualties altogether.
Following is the text of the tele?
gram: ;
Secretary of the Navy,
Washington:
Since last message Lieut. Perry, C
E. Rushing, coal passer, J. H3?soher
identified to be R. B. Carr, apprentice
seaman. Expect many more deaths
one -officer, 33 men, 76 wounded, . 21
missing.
(Signed) Young.
Washington, July 21.-The navy
department has received a report to
the effect that Lieut. Victor Blue,
one of the officers of the Bennington,
was taken to a hospital yesterday
suffering from an acute attack of
appendicitis.
WHOLESALE MURDERER.
Bluebeard Carlton, of Brooklyn, ls
Charged With Another Crime by
Former Comrade.
New York, July 24.-Another mur?
der is today charged against Freder?
ick E. Carlton, of Brooklyn, the al?
leged bluebeard, whose real name is
J. E. Candlass. The charge is made
by a St. Louis man, whose name the
police refuse to divulge. He says
Carlton was known as a scoundrel in
the army and in the let:er he writes
he asks the authorities to question
Carlton regarding the murder of
Charles Rush of Company C, 6th in?
fantry, who was last seen in his com?
pany. Accompanying the .letter are
two photographs of Carlton in uni?
form.
FIRE IN SUMMERTON.
Mr. A. P. Burgess Suffered a Serious
Loss Today.
Summerton, July 24.-The resi?
dence and barn of Mr. A. Plummer
Burgess are burning at 1 o'clock and
the indications are that both will be a
total, loss. It has not been learned
how the fire originated. Mr. Bur?
gess is presumed to have insurance,
but this is not known.
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london, July 21.-Dispatches to
the Exchange Telegraph Company
from St. Petersburg announce that
the landing of Japanese troops in
Siberia is imminent. It is expected
that military operation will* be trans?
ferred to the coast in the very near
future as that is where the Russians
are weakest.
Georgia's First Bale.
Savannah, Ga., July 20.-The first
bale of Georgia cotton of the present
season's growth was sold at Albany
today for 23 cents per pound. The
bale will be shipped lo this city and
auctioned tomorrow at the cotton ex?
change.
$ Ernest Benson and Kay Robinson
were sentenced by Judge Prince in
Greenville Friday to serve five years
each on the chain gang for killing
Waverley Burns.
COTTON REPORT SCANDAL.
Committee of American Cotton Man?
ufacturers Association to Call on
Secretary Wilson.
Washington, July 2-?.-Members of
the committe from the American Cot?
ton Manufacturers Association who
will confer with Secretar: Wilson of
the Agricultural Department about
the new cotton acreage report later
in the day arrived this morning They
are S. D. Tanner, Henrietta, N. C; R.
M. Miller, Jr., and C. B. Bryant,
Charlotte, X. C; J. M. Cannon, Con?
cord, N. C; Geo. B. Hiss, Rhodes, N.
C. President Miller stated this morn?
ing that the committee would not
decide whether it, desired a new reporc
or not until it had obtained from
Secretary Wilson his ideas as., to
acreage and conditions. The commit?
te will insist upon safe guards against
leaks and fluctuations , in' the market.
THE GADSDEN, ALA.f CRIME.
Negro WomanTuitt Stafce?&
I and Testifies ^Against Three Ne?
gro Mea?.
Gadsden, - Ala,, ^ Jury 18.-Lacy
;Mayoy a negro.woman, arrested with*
.Gie negro men in connection r?tn'
th?? S criminal assault and murder of
Mrs? S. J_ Smith, last Saturday night,
today turned state's evidence before
the coroner's jury. Her evidence im?
plicates Jack Hunter, who is still at
large, .and Vance Garner and Will
Johnson, who are now confined in the
Birmingham
She says Garner described the
?whole crime to her on the morning it
happened. She claims Garner told
her that he and Will Johnson were on
the mountain and heard the woman's
screams; that, they ran to her andi
found Jack Hunter dragging her
across the road by the hair. The two
men then helped Hunter to drag her
off the, road and each assisted in
holding her while the crime was com?
mitted.
RICHLAND'S FINANCES.
Member of Sinking Fund Commission
Says They are Away.
The sinking fund commission met
yesterday in the office of Gov. Hey?
ward, all of the members being pres?
ent, including Senator R. I. Manning
and Representative Moses of Sumter,
The principal matter discussed by the
commission was the status of a loan
made to Richland county last year.
The matter was adjusted after some
discussion.
A member of the commission said
yesterday that the 'financial affairs
of Richland county are certainly in .1
tangle, and in saying so he did not
reflect upon the existing administra?
tion. As it^is well known, there is a
commission at work on the books in
the court house. The members of
this commission are: D. W. Robinson,
T. F. Davis and G. A Kaminer. They
were appointed under an act similar
to that creating the commission to in?
vestigate the books and financial af?
fairs of Greenville county.-The
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CONFERENCE WITH ROOT.
President and Secretary of Staic Dis?
cusses Important Questions.
Oyster Bay, July 21.-President
Roosevelt will have a conference with
Secretary of State Root this after?
noon. Among the important ques?
tions to be discussed will be the pro?
posed transfer of the Panama Cana]
from the jurisdiction of the Wai
Department to- that of the State De?
partment. They will also confer ovei
the details of the peace conference
and a number of department pro?
blems that have arisen during thc last
few weeks.
ROOT SWORN IN.
The New Secretary of State Took thc
Oath of Office Today
Washington, July 19.-Elihu Root
former secretary of war, was sworr
in this morning as secretary of state
The oath of office was administeren
by William McXair, assistant libra?
rian of the department of justice ir
the office of Assistant Secretary o:
State Loomis. The room of the sec
retary of state is closed, the furnishing
being draped in mourning in hono;
of the late Secretary Hay. There wa:
little formality connected with thu
oath and the new secretary of stat?
made no speech.
William Elliott, Jr., has been elect
ed manager of the Columbia stree
railway to succeed P. I. Welles, wh<
becomes manager of the Union an.
Glenn Springs Ry.
TERRIBLE CRUELTY!
Penitentiary Officials Makes I)xemT.y
"ng Charge Against The County
Chain Gangs.
Columbia, July 25.-The burden
the new law giving county supervisors;,
the use of convicts sentenced to terra
of ten years or less with the option o?
turning them over to the penitentiary
authorities whenever they wear out or*
brake down from ill health, is fallings
with increasing weight on the penK
tentiary authorities, who ?dmp!ah>,
that practically all of the prisoners^
they get now except those sen& ir^
for long terms, are either d?s^ftsec^
or are otherwise incapacitated; tpx>
work; that short term prisoners kegtfc
on the average chaingang in this Stat%.
are soon broken in health from lacfct;
of .care and by reason cf improper?
treatment are sent into* the penitent
tiary physical wrecks.
"The new law is working a terribles
cruelty/" said Superintendent Griffig
to the Daily Item's correspondent to*
day. *T do not believe Iherf is ia,
man-in this State?physically strong?
enough to stand ten years' service on*
a chaingaiig in this State. The chain-*
gang authorities are not equipped tc*
care for the prisoners as they should?
be carada for. "When the average
chaingang prisoner gets wet working-;
in the rain he is allowed to sleep,
through .the night in his wet clothes^
which is barberous. We never ailovt*
a prisoner to sleep in wet clothes*
Wown here." *
r A majority of the deaths that occur
at the penitentiary result! from tuber-*
,culosis, and many .of these cases axe?
contracted after the prisoner reachea
Columbia, though some are sent in?
each year from the chaingangs dying;
from consumption.
A victim of this disease yesterday
w-as Al Simpson, a l'fetimer sent
I here four years ago frpm_ Abbevilte
for $ murder. Simpson was only 31
years old and contracted the disease.
18 months ago. He was a bridge^
builder ?nd killed his man in a dis-?
'pute over the construction of a bridge*
He was a well-behaved prisoner and
was apparently a man of some cul-*
ture. His remains were shipped to>
his widow and two children at Cal??
houn; two of his brothers were fre-?
quent visitors to the penitentiary?
Simpson was at first worked in the?
hosiery mill, where practically all of
the tuberculosis cases originate, but.
recently he has been working in the>
carpenter shop.
Two pegro convicts who died with-*
in the past. 30 days were brought ir*
from the county gangs; each diedj
within two days after his admission;
to the penitentiary.
In this connection a paragraph
from Dr. S. E. Harmon's last annual
report will be of interest: "There>
were 292 patients in the hospital. Ten?
times that number were treated for
minor troubles that did not require?
being actnitted to the hospital. I re-?
port 31 deaths this year, all being of a
chronic nature, with the exception ot
two or three, including one suicide*
Nineteen died of tuberculosis. The
death rate from this disease can be
reduced slightly by isolation, but
when we consider that a large per
cent of those that die from tubercu-*
losis are admitted to the institution:
already infected you can readily see*
that the death rate from this disease
will always be large. You will se?
that seven of the number that died;
were received from the various chain-?
gangs in a helpless condition; 'one of
whom died two days after being ad-?
mitted.
BALFOUR WILL NOT RESIGX.
Says That a Defeat of the Gavernmen^
Docs Xot Render Dissolution
Obligatory.
London, July 24.-Premie" Ra.four
announced in the House of Cami.ion^
this afternoon that the caUnot- would
not resign following the unfavorable
yole in the house on Thur.-duy night?
London, July 24.-?Premier Bslfoui
explained that the belief that if tho
government is defeated on any SUD-?
ject it should ?resign immediately or
dissolve Parliament is fallacious, aa
the practice has been quite the op-?
posite of this. The premier cited,
instances of defeats suffered by pre?
vious ministries, similar to that of
Thursday night, which had not been,
followed by resignation of the govern?
ment.
J. A. Pride, commercial agent of
the Seaboard Air Line at Columbia, ?4
said to be going to be appointed a$-?
distant general passenger agent of th$
Seaboard Air Line with headquarters
t Atlanta. Mr. Pride was formerly
rationed at Spartanburg.