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VOLUME II.
GREAT STRIKE
IS UNDER WAY
w "\
Over a Hundred Thousand Coal
Diggers Lay Down Picks.
ANTHRACITE FIELDS SILENT
Great Struggle Between Opera¬
tors and Miners In Pennsly-
vania Begins In Earnest.
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The great . struggle . ... between the a-
thracitoeoal miners of Pennsylvania
and their employers was begun, a-
scheduled, Monday. Each side is con
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contending forces shows any
tiou to yield. The exact number
men who struck could not bo ascer¬
tained, as only estimates of the nniu-
'grot men who did not start work
were made during the day.
R ports received by the United
Mine Workers officials from the entire
anthracite region were to them satis¬
factory. In the Haz'eton district there
are 16,000men employed in aud about,
the mines. Of this number it is con¬
servatively estimated that, about 50 per
tent, or 8,000 min err quit work. Five
thousand of these ! -long to eolleries
which did not work at all, and the re¬
maining 3,000 to mines which worked
short-handed.
The district south of Hazleton,
known as the South Side, was tied
up completely with the exception of
Coleraine, Beaver Meadow aud Car¬
sons washeries. Iu this territory the
United Mine Workers are very strong.
O i the north side, the upper Lehigh,
Minesville, Ebervale and Drifton No.
1 collieries, employing about 1,500
men, aro shut down.
The mines at Lattimer and Pond
Creek, employing 1,200 men, nre
working full, bat every other mine in
that big territory is working with bad¬
ly crippled forces. Three of the Mar¬
ble mines, over which there has been
so much contention, worked all day
with about 65 per cent of their men.
On the west side every colliery started
up minus its ■union men except tho
Hazleton mines, where the miners
went to work in consequence of a
misunderstanding.
About 109 foreign speaking miners
left, Hazleton for New York, whero
they will fake a steamer for Europe,
These meu expect a long strike, nnd
rather than remain idle iu this conn-
try, they preferred to go their former
homes.
President Mitchell gave out the fob
lowing statement Monday night:
( J Information received un to tonight
“Reports received are to tho effect
that large numbers or those who went
to the mines today will joiu in the sus-
pension tomorrow.
“We feel confident that the entire
number of men employed iu and about
the local mines of the anthracite dis-
trict will be idle in tbe next few davs.
“The meu appear determined‘to
continue on strike until their demands
Sn: ,c o e f h r u now sCx 6
cecds that of any other industrial
contest in the history J of our country y ‘
“John Mitchell,
In speaking of the charge that poli-
tics might have something to do with
the present strike, President Mitcheil
said Monday:
“Politics will not, cannot and must
not enter into the strike. Personally,
I approach the contest as a mother
would a babe iu its first illness. The
sole object of that mother is restora-
tion of' her baby's health. Tho men
■who are called leaders in this strike
are animated with tho some considera-
tion. Thero cannot be nnd shall not
be any contention in a political sense,
as to the declaration of tbe strike. The
loaders feel, and they want their men
to feel, and they want the public to
know, that this is a fight for human
liberty. It would bo nonsensical, it
would be cruel for any one to inject
politics.”
TO SHIELD A “FRIEND.”
Shortage of $20,000 la Found After Sul-
cide of a Dunk Teller.
A shortage of $20,099 in the Union
National bank at Chicago was discov-
ered Monday through an investigation
prompted by the suicide Sunday of
George S. Forbes, a teller of tbe bank,
Forbes wroto a farewell note to his
mother, in which he said.
“I was weak and let tho one I con-
sidered my best friend get me into
troublo. I have not seen him since
the 1st of September nnd do not know
where he is.”
Forbes' sole crime, tbe bank officials
believe, was in covering up tbe ac-
counts of tho “friend” refered to.
Thirty Millions For Campaign.
It is rumored iu Washington that
Senator Hanna will return to New
York to mature a plan for raising $30,-
000,090 to be used in the canvass of
doubtful states. This is estimated as
twice the amount used in 1896.
Only One Mine Running.
Every mine in the Wyoming valley,
(Pa.) with the exception of oue, was
closed Monday by the miners’ strike.
The total number of men idle in the
valley is a little over 22,000.
LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE
Formulated by Hon. W. J. Bryan and Transmitted
To Chairman Richardson, of Democratic Noti¬
fication Committee--Its Germane Points.
Following are tbe germane features
of Hon. W. J. Bryan's letter accepting
tbe Democratic nomination for presi¬
dent which was giveii out Monday:
Lincoln, Neb , September 17.—
non. James D. Richardson, Chairmnn,
and Others of tho Notification Com¬
mittee of the Democratic National
•Convention—Gentlemen: In accept-
ipg the nomination tendered by yon on
behalf of the Democratic party, I beg
tu’assuro you of my appreciation of
['.the .'“sc delegates great honor iu convention conferred upon assembled, mo by
a F by tho voterB who gBV0 instruc
.
(Jiju to delegates.
am sensible of the responsibilities
cb rcst U P°“ ,lie chit>f magistrate
~,d 1 . vs, t
in tbe present contest,
10 m'/ Jetter of acceptance of 1896,
1 made tho tv!lowing p’edge:
“So deeply am I impressed w ifU tl ic
magnitude of the power vested by tho
constitution in tbe chief executive of
the nation aud with the enormous in¬
fluence which he can wield for the
benefit or injury of the people, that I
wish to enter the office, if elected, free
from any personal desire, except the
desire to prove worthy of the ronti-
dence of my countrymen. Human
judgment is fallible enough when un¬
biased by selfish considerations, and,
in order that I may not be tempted to
iiso the patronage of the office to ad¬
vance my personal ambition, I hereby
announce, with all tbe emphasis which
words can express, my fixed determina¬
tion not, tinder any circumstances, to
be a candidate for re-election, in ease
this campaign results in my election.”
Further reflection and observation
constrain me to renew this pledge.
Tho platform adopted at Kansas
City commands my cordial aud un¬
qualified approval. It courageously
meets the issues now before the coun¬
try, nnd states clearly and without
ambiguity the party’s position on
every question considered. Adopted
by a convention which assembled on
the anniversary of th< siguing of the
declaration of independence, it breathes
the spirit of candor, independence and
patriotism which characterizes those
who, at Philadelphia in 1776, promul-
gated the creed of the republic.
Having in my notification speech
discussed somewhat at length tho
pnramonut issue, imperialism, nnd
added some observations on militarism
and (be Boer war, it is sufficient at
tbit tirno to review the remaining
planks of tho platform.
trust ouestions ‘
, J'l? P t^wth,!#“ T y st 6t“* stlo , D gives . rbe
-
PP a!lln f? growth of combinations . m
ssassas
interstate commerce.
The Republican party has persis-
tently refused to comply with the ur-
gent request of the interstate com-
merce commission, for such an en-
largement of the scope of the inter
state commerce law as will enable the
commission to realize the hopes arous-
ed by its creation. The Democratic
P a '|J is pledged to legislation which
£»' rd?vT»;«strc=ries%r m
discrimination, and the public at large
from unjust and unfair transportation
THE rINANCIAI ' PLAKK -
The platform reiterates the demand
contained in the Chicago platform for
an American financial system made by
the American people for themselves,
The pnrpose of such a system is to
restore and maintain a bimetallic level
of prices, and iu order that there may
he no uncertainty as to the method of
restoring bimetallism, the specific de-
claration in favor of free and unlimit-
ed coinage at the existing ratio of 16
to 1, independent of the action of oth-
er nations, is repeated,
Now the Republican party, for the
flrs t time, openly abandons its advo-
< -ac y of the double standard, and in-
dorses the monetary system which it
has so often and so emphatically con-
demned. Tho Democratic party, on
the contrary, remains the steadfast
INDIANS THREATEN TROUBLE.
Uie* In Colorado Menace Scttlerg In San
Miguel County.
An Indian outbreak is threatened in
San Miguel county, Colorado, accord-
ing to a dispatch received by Governor
Thomas Monday. The information was
contained in a letter from tbe postmas-
ter at Cedar, Col.
The governor sent a telegram to the
secretary of the interior demanding
that steps be taken to protect the set-
tiers.
Telegrams to Indian agents and
game wardens asking them to investi-
gate affairs at Cedar wer i also sent by
the governor. The nearest troops are
at Fort Duchesne. Utah.
Price of Coal Advances.
The effects of the anthracite coal
miners’ strike have already been felt
in Chicago. Every dealer in the city
raised tbe price Monday from $6.25 to
97. This is only the beginning of
what is expected if the strike continues.
Good Work In Galveston.
News from Galveston states that the
city now has a fairly good water ser¬
vice, will have electric lights in part
of the business portion at once and
that a few street cars are running.
CARNESVILLE. GA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 1900.
advocate of tho gold and silver coinage
of the constitution, and is not willing
that other nations shall determine for
ns the time and manuor of restoring standard
silver to its ancient place as a
money.. The ratio of 10 to 1 is not
only the rnt ; o now existing between nil
the gold and silver dollars in circula¬
tion in this country, a rntio which even
the Republican administration lias not
attempted to chnnge, but it is the only
rrtio advocated by those who are seek¬
ing to reopen the mints.
The demand for a constitutional
amendment providing for tbe election
of senators by direct vote of tbe peo¬
ple appears for tbe first time in a
Democratic platform. New couditk ns
have made it imperative that the people
be permitted to speak directly in the
selection of their representatives in
the senate.
The platform indorsos the principle
of direct legislation. This is already
applied to the more important ques¬
tions in nation, state and city.
The'piaiforni'-flSDews the demand
for arbitration botweeu corporations
and their employees.
I cannot too strongly emphasize the
importance of the platform recom¬
mendation of the establishment of a
department of labor,with a member of
the cabinet at its head.
The Chinese exclusion act has prov¬
en nil advantage to the country, and
its continuance and strict enforce¬
ment, ns well as its extension to other
similar races, aro imperatively neces¬
sary. prido in
The party expresses its the
soldiers and sailors of our wars, and
declares its purpose to deal generously
with them and thoir dependents. A
liberal policy is natural and necessary
in a government which depends on its
citizen soldiery, instead of a large
standing army.
Tho Democratic party is in favor of
tho immediate construction, owner¬
ship and control of the Nicarauga
canal by the United States.
There will be a popular acquiescence
in the demand for home rule, and a
territorial form of government in
Alaska and Porto Rico. Both aro en-
titled to local self-government aud
representation in congress,
Tho recognition contained in both
the Democratic and Republican plat-
foirns of the right of the Cubans to
j princip!o_inyolved independence removes the the dotnaiu general of
frorn
j partisan to politics. si-der whether It is proper, the accom- bow-
I j ever, con
plishment °f this purpose can be
^ safely entrusted to tne ldepublican
party aftei'it has yielded to the allure-
ments of the colonial idea and aban-
doned its- earlier faith in the natural
and ina aenable rights of man.
The reasons given by Washington,
Jefferson and the other statesmen of
hundred years ago. We cannot con-
nect ourselves with European nations,
and share in their jealousies and am-
bitious without losiug tbe peculiar
advantage which our location, our
character and our institutions give us
in tho world’s affairs.
The doctrine enunciated by Monroe
and approved by succeeding presi-
to tUe ^Hare of tho
agreed upon by the resolutions com-
mittee was omitted from tho platform
as read and adopted. The subject, how-
ever, is covered by tbe reaffirmation
of the Chicago platform, and I take
this occasion to reassert my belief in
the principle which underlies the in-
come tax.
imperialism
^ e SUl , ^ . 0Cta , b°y evcr treated . . . in .
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this letter, tt important as each may seem
in itself do not press so imperatively
foi so ution as the question which tho
platform declares to bo the paramount
issue in this campaign. Whether wo
shall adhere to, or abandon thoso
ideas of government which have dis¬
tinguished this nation from other na¬
tions and given to its history its pecu¬
liar charm and value, is a question the
settlement of which cannot be delayed.
No other question can approach it in
importance; no other question demands
such immediate consideration,
CREMATED IN NURSERY.
Six Salvation Army I'oople Lone Their
Fives In a Fire at Cincinnati.
A branch nursery of the Salvation
Army at No. 403 East Front street.
Cincinnati, burned Monday evening
and six persons were killed, two fatal¬
ly injured and four seriously injured.
All tbe dead bodies were burned to a
crisp.
All the victims and those injured
belonged in the nursery, except one,
James Hawkins, who weut to the res¬
cue of his orphans. There wore twentty
in the nursery on the upper floors at the
time of the fire and eight of them es¬
caped without injury.
THE I. O. 0. F. BRAND LODGE
Hold* Its Seventy-Sixth Communication
In Richmond, Virginia.
The seventy-sixth communication of
the sovereign grand lodge, Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows commenced
great and the weather perfect. The
session bids fair to be the most sue-
cessful in the annals of the great or-
er ’
—4
KRUGER LEAVES
HIS COUNTRY
He Takes Temporary Refuge On
Portuguese Territory.
GEN. BOTHA IS BROREN DOWN.
Lord Roberts Tells Boers That
They Must Surrender at Once,
as Their Cause Is Hopeless.
A dispatch received at the waroffi e«
in London Friday from Lord Roberts,
dated Macliudodorp, September 13th,
says that Kruger has fled and Botha
hns given over the command gf the
Boer army temporarily to iMiajon, on
account of ill health.
Lord Roberts gives the text of a
proclamation which ho has circulated,
in which he says Kruger’s desertion of
the JAner should make clear to his fel¬
low burghers that it is useless to con¬
tinue the struggle any longer.
Lord Roberts declares the British
army is determined to carry the war
to a conclusion; says tho fighting has
degenerated into irregular operatious
which must be brought to au early
end, and concludes:
“The means I am compelled to
adopt are those which the customs of
war prescribe as applicable to such
cases. They are ruinous to the coun¬
try, and entail endless suffering to the
burghers nud their families, and the
longer this guerilla warfare contiunes
the more vigorously must they bo en¬
forced.”
According to the LoreDzo Marqnes
correspondent of The Daily Tele¬
graph, Mr. Kruger is virtually a pris¬
oner in the residence of the district gov¬
ernor. This is at the instance of the
British consul, who protested against
Mr. Kruger using Portuguese territory
ns a base for directing his executive.
The French consul has been forbid¬
den access to Mr. Kruger, as have also
the latter’s own officials. Tho district
governor has notified Herr Pott, the
Netherlands consul, that he can no
longer be recognized as a representa¬
tive of the Trail avaal, which is now
British territory.
PEOPLE LEAVING GALVESTON
First Move Toward Clearing Up
the Interminable DebrisfSys-
tematically Inaugurated.
The first real attempt to clear away
the great mass of debris piled along
the beach front at Galveston for a dis-
^:rr:::r . . . .. ,
I to do thta^k^A mSuTudo wJbSSK
- Thev formed into sound*
; j ftnd m L, were sheriffs t t work with p 1 olic I
and Jonutv in vigorous’m-nm,™ charge
'tiou It ishoned that n 7„i!
| of " this “*! wnrlr will wl *. e “ ? th a ® ...t. ear .‘7
[^at , ‘them 6
1 “o there are Z.ht manv of
shadow of ^ Tt i« difficult ^ ^
• indeed> i
to ne ^
r freeof thi *
and > etBam ’
, ! ^iTiv, lT re P ros ® Dt . atlve r
tra™d‘he h beach for some distance (
ft " d h ? ? ten .°^ at different points was
absolutely sickening. . Everywhere lit-
* le « rou P 8 of “en, women and chil-
draD ’ «°me of them poorly provided
rttImen *> 'i™® digging in the
ruins . of thoir homes for what little
household property they could save,
j n many cases those seeking their
former residences were utterly unable
to .tiscern a simple remnant of them,
so hopeless is the"confusion of tim-
bers and household furniture.
The exodus from the city is heavy,
and hundreds were eager to go who
were unable to secure transportation.
Along tho bay front there were scores
of families with dejected faces plead-
ing for permission to be taken from
the stricken city, J where in spite of
every effort to res tore confidence
there is a universal feeling ° of depres- 1
g j on
DEAD AT OTHER POINTS.
Number of Victims of Storm nnd Flood
Outside of City of Galveston.
Following is a revised list of people
killed in the gulf coast storm outside
of Galveston:
At Arcadie, one; at AlviD, three; on
Chocolate Creek, four; at Marvil,
three; on Mustang Creek, one; Area-
dia, nine; Angleton, six; Brooksido.
two; Columbia, four; Dickinson, ten;
at Hitchcock, 42; League City, three;
at Morgan Point, two; at Patton, 23;
Ruintanto, 21; Rosenberg, 19; Rich-
mond, 18; at Sandy Point, eight; at
Seabrooke, 13; at Virginia Point, 13;
Mossing Section, 15; at Velasco, five,
Grand total, 219.
GOES OVER A MILLION.
Subscription* For Texas Storm Sn/ferer*
Reaching Fargo Proportion*.
Governor Sayers, of Texas, received
qaite a large number of subscriptions
j/estimaUd thltTe toW.n“crii! J
r " ‘
300 ? a ' V n 000 ° n 8 ‘ 0D ’ Governor a Wl11 ^ Sayers “ tota states \°' that * 1 ’;
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^“Tsubseriptions it by rtitJS'JivJ
out.
IN DIPLOMATIC PHASE
/
The Chinese Situation Has Lost
Some of Its Recont Aoutoness.
SHARP DIPLOMACY NOW IN ORDER
Russian* Receive ¥4 Hung Chnng on
I)oar<l Warship—Octt. Chaffee Kx-
preuse* mi Opinion.
A Washington special says: Thero
were no developments in the Chinese
negotiations Friday with which the
public could be made acquainted, the
whole matter being still in tho diplo¬
matic phase, and therefore not calling
for military orders.
The war department officials" are
awaiting word from the slate depart-
ment as to the next stop expected of
tho troops, but it is now intimated that
this will not be taken immediately.
The situation has lost something of
its acuteness owing to the change in
the attitude of the Russian govern¬
ment ns indicated in Thursday’s dis¬
patches, and although no officinl con¬
firmation has reached Washington of
the postponement, of the withdrawal,
the faot is not doubted here. Rut re¬
gardless of tho course to be taken by
Russia, it is now said that thero is
nothing in the American note of ro-
spouso to Russia that demands an im¬
mediate evacuation iu the event that
the Russian troops are called away.
Instead, it is stated that the control
tho situation would simply pass from
tho state department into General
Chaffee’s hands, and it would he for
him, after conferring with tho other
militaiy commanders, to determine
when aud how, and to what extent the
American forces should he withdrawn.
RUSSIANS REOEIVB HAUL LI.
“Li Hung Chang will bo taken on
board a Russian wnrship at Wu Sang
and received by the Russians at Taku,”
says tho Shanghai correspondent of
The London Post, “and ho will bo ac¬
companied by the Chinese minister of
railways.”
According to the Shanghai oorres-
pondent of The London Times, wiring
Wednesday, Earl Li considers that the
preliminary difficulty of tho negotia¬
tions consists in tho necessity, which
he realizes, of denouncing PriucoTuan
and ljis accomplices to tbe throne. He
is of the opinion that it would be ad¬
visable for the allies to take the initia¬
tive by compiling a list of those held
obiefly thoir responsible, and by formulut-
in-g demands accordingly.
Tho Paris correspondent of the
Morning Post says:
“Franco nnd Russia, I have been
assured, have agreed to demand the
complete dismemberment of Chi-
un, including the razing of the
Taku forts and the fortifications and
arsenals elsewhere.”
General Chaffee is preparing to
make his troops comfortable for tho
winter. When asked his opinion re¬
garding the situation, Lo is reported
to have answered:
“It would be bettor for the United
States troops to leave; but, in any
event, tho Chinese Christians will be
provided for.”
DEMOCRATS TO TACKLE EAST.
, , B-.pomto ™ort, to
Capture Republican State*.
The chairmen of tho Domocratio
^ commiUee(J from the ne „ ^ b
t°yta ,he IIofT r n hou
Y ° k > m conference with
^ the fltl0, sub-committee ' al Chairman having J. K. Jones in charge and
the campaign in the east. The oou-
ference closed after a session of over
three hours. Ex-Governor Stone said
after the meeting:
“We will now make an active effort
to carry New York, New Jersey, Con-
necticutt, Delaware, Maryland and
West Virginia. ^From now on tho nn
tional sub-committee will co-operate
with the stato committees iu those
states, furnishing them all the aid and
ammunition for tho hardest kind of
a fight.”
Exterminating Catholic Missionaries.
The Cologne Yolks Zeitung, the
leading centrist organ of Germany,
bas reoeiv ® a special advices from
Shankowsayingthatthewarofexter-
mination against Catbclicmissionaries
iu China is assuming greater dimen-
sions.
BLOODY WORK CONTINUES.
Fanatical Chinese Keep Up Wholesal#
Murder of Missionaries.
A London special says: All the oor-
respondents in China are sending ter-
rible stories of the wholesale massacre
of missionaries and native Christians.
It is asserted that during July between
15,000 and 20,000 converts were mas-
sacred in the northern provinces,
Large numbers of missionaries aro
still unacconnted for.
Native reports are subject to the
most careful scrutiny, with tho result
that although thoro may bo some ex-
aggeration, it is impossible to doubt
that in the main they are correct.
CUBAN ELECTIONS QUIET.
War Department Receive* a Mcisnge to
xhmt E «ect From General Wood.
The war department has received the
following dispatch from General
Wo ° d ' m "“7
garding the elections there:
“Havana. -Reports from all over the
U,and Bh ° W elCCti ° n8 qUie ‘ and P61 "
feotly orderly; no disturbance any¬
where."
EIGHTY-FIVE LIVES LOST
On a flulf and Interstate Train
Which Was Caught In the
the Galveston Storm.
The New Orleans States received a
telegram Thursday from non. John
Poe, momber of tbe stato board of ed¬
ucation, and rosidiugat Lake Obarles,
stating that eighty-five lives were lost
on tho Gulf and Interstate train which
left Now Orleans Fridny night preced¬
ing llio storm.
Mr. Toe was one of the passengers
on this train, and together with a few
others ho sought safety in the light¬
house at Bolivar Point and was snvod.
Tho train reached Bolivar about
noon and alt preparations were made
to run the train on tha ferry boat pre¬
paratory to crossing the bay, but the
wind blow so swiftly that tho ferry
could not make a landing, and tho
conductor of the train, after allowing
it to stand on the track for a few min¬
utes, started to back it back toward
Beaumont.
Tho wind increased so rapidly,
coming in from tho open sen, that soon
the water had reaohed a level with
the button of the scats within tho cars.
It was then that some of the passen¬
gers sought safety in the nearby
lighthouse. But Mr. Too states iu his
telegram that in spite of all efforts
eighty-five passengers were blown
nwny or drowned. The train was en¬
tirely wrecked.
Doubtless some of the killed were
from New Orleans, as tho train made
direct conuectious with tho Southern
Pacific train which left there Fridny
night, and there was a largo number
of New Orlenns passengers aboard,
and it is known that at least some of
these were bound for Galveston.
Those who were saved bad to spend
over fifty hours iu the dismal light¬
house on short rations.
CAROLINA. FARMERS MEET.
Wheat nnd Cotton Growers Assemble Con¬
jointly at Greenwood.
The South Carolina Cotton Growers’
Association and the Wheat Growers'
Association began their convention in
Greenwood Thursday with a large at¬
tendance.
The wheat growers were called to
order by the president, A. O. Lati¬
mer. Ho had been unable, he said, to
got tho attendance of Secretary of Ag¬
riculture WilBon, but Mr. Wilson had
sent his representative, Mr. William
S. Hill, of the department, the next
host mnn. Mr. Hill gave South Caro¬
lina Farmers some straight talk—talk
that will do good in Georgia or any-
whero else in the south. In wheat
growing, be said, the state is far be¬
hind all other sections of tho United
States, and even of the world.
Tho average yield in tho state, ac¬
cording to the statistics of the agricul¬
tural department, is only eight bush¬
els per acre. A great mistake the
farmers of South Carolina make is iu
buying so many things out of the state
that could bo raised at home. Take
wheat, for instance, South Carolina
ouly produces about one million bush-
ele per annum, yet she consumes about
6,000,000 bushels. The money to pay
for the other 5,000,000,between $5,000-
000 and $6,000,000, goes out of tho
state. If this money could be kept at
home it would be a great help to the
farming interests.
The address of the day was delivered
iu tho cotton growers’ convention in
the evening by President Jordan, of
tho Georgia association, aud it is only
fair to say that be gave South Carolina
fnrmers'the fairest, plainest and most
comprehensive business talk they liavo
listoned to for a good many years. He
bas given them hope and something
on which to found that hope.
FOR FOURTH TIME
Mrs. IT ugh os Will Be Tried For Murder
at Greenville, S. C,
The court of general sessions con¬
vened at Greenville, 8. C., Wednesday
morning with Judge Aldrich on the
bench.
Mrs. Mattie A. Hughes, who has be¬
come famous because of the killing of
her husband at Greer’s two years ago,
will he on trial for the fourth time.
The case has cost the county a larpe
sura of money. Mrs. Hughes has four
of tho most able lawyers in the state to
(tfefend her.
Ten additional murder cases will
also be tried at this term of court.
There are fifteen dispensary cases
docketed.
RESULT IN PALMETTO STATE.
Committee Canvasses Returns of the Re-
cent Primary In South Carolina.
A Columbia special says. The state
exe cntive committee Friday night can-
vassed the returns of the late primary.
Total vote for governor was 88,775,
and Governor MoSweeney’s majority
over Colonel Hoyt was 13,951.
Colonel James Tillman received 18,-
802 more votes than Colonel Sloane
for lieutenant governor. J. H. Whar-
ton defeated W. D. Evans, prosent
chairman of the railroad commission,
by 3,390. Lieutenant Governor II.
B. Scarborough defeats James Norton
for congress by 1,071.
British Take Charge of Railroad.
Advices from Cape Town state that
the military authorities have taken
® the Netherlands railway. Gen-
rftl Mac( i on aid compelled the Boers
to make a hasty flight from the Vet
river. He captured thirty-one wagons.
•'
Cincinnati Gives $7,000.
On Saturday the Texas relief fund
at Cincinnati was over $7,000. Lex¬
ington, Kv.. sent $1,200 to Galveston.
NUMBER 45.
PURSES OPEN
TO GALVESTON
People of the Country Vie With
Each Other In Extending Help.
CASH AND PROVISIONS POUR IN
Condition of City Is Still Appalling
and Unearthing of Dead Bodies
Continue—Anarchy Ended.
From all parts of the United States
and many portions of Eugland many
thousnnds of dollars are pouring into
Houston for the relief of Texas’
tuto storm sufferers. Train loads of
provisions and clothing are also hurry¬
ing towards Galveston, and those of
the rcfugocs who have arrived in
Houston are being made as comfort-
ablo as possible. Estimates of the
number of dead still vary.
Mayor Jones, of Galveston, main¬
tains his opinion, given earlier, that
tho number will bo no less than fir*
thousand. Properly losses are mount¬
ing higher as further details arrive
and some estimate for tho city of Gal¬
veston rcnch ns high ns twenty million
dollars. Thero arc 25,000 homeless
people in the city to bo taken care of,
and it is a question whether Galveston
can or will rebuilt. There seems to
be a disposition on tho port of tha
leading citizens, howover, to start res¬
olutely where the storm left off and
raise a now city from the ruins of tha
old.
The military is patrolling the streets
and looting has been given a set-back.
Several additional cases have been re¬
ported where vandals have been shot
down while robbing the dead, but
troops are rapidly gaining control of
tho lawless element.
Though tho city appears to bo piti¬
lessly desolated, tho authorities and
the commercial and industrial interest#
are setting their forces to work and a
start has at least been made toward
the resumption of business on a mod¬
erate scale. The liquor saloons have
at least temporarily gone out of the
business, and every strong-limbed man
who has not his own humble abode to
look after is being pressed into servioe
so that, first oft all, the water service
may be resumed, the gutters flushed
and the streets lighted.
Tho further the reapers dig in tha
ruins the greater becomos the inorease
in the list of those who perished aa
their homes tumbled about their heads.
On the lower beach Thursday a search¬
ing party found a score of corpses
within a slight area, going to show
that the bulwark of debris that lies
straight across the island conceals many
more bodies than have already been
accounted for.
Volunteer gangs continue their work
of hurried burial of tho corpses they
find on the shores of Galveston at the
many neighboring poiuts where fatal¬
ities attended' the storm, It will
probably bo some days yet, however,
before all the floating bodies have
found nameless graves. Along the
beach they are constantly being wash¬
ed up. Whether these are those who
were swept out into the gulf and
drowned, or are simply the return
ashore of somo of those cast into the
sea to guard against terrible pesti¬
lence, there is no means of knowing.
The city still prosents the appear¬
ance of widespread wreck and rnitj.
Little has been done to clear the
streets of the terrible tangle of wires
and the masses of wreck, mortar, slate,
stone and glass that bestrew them.
In various parts of the city the smell
of decomposed flesh is still apparent. found
Wherover such instances are
the authorities are freely disinfecting.
Ex-Millionaire a Bankrupt.
David D. Mackey filed a petition in
bankruptcy in the United States court
at Evansville Thursday. His liabili¬
ties are estimated at 8577,765. He
has no assets. Mr. Mackey was for¬
merly a western railroad king and
owned a half dozen different lines.
HANNA ADDRESSES HOOSIERS.
Senator Greeted l*y Audience of 0,000
At Delphi, Indiana.
Senator Marcus A. Hanna addressed
the Republicans of tho ninth congres¬
sional district of Indiana at Delphi,
Saturday. A large crowd had assem¬
bled at the train and a procession es¬
corted the senator to the courthouse
square, where he addressed an audi¬
ence of about 5,000 people. Congress¬
man Charles B. Landis acted as chair¬
man of the meeting and introduced
Senator Hanna, who was greeted with *
great applause.
Mobile Citizens Contribute.
The Mobile cotton exchange sub¬
scriptions for Galveston relief amount¬
ed to $580, and the public subscrip-
lion to $1,515, withont any canvassing
being done. The revenue steamer Wi¬
nona has been ordered from Mobile to
Galveston.
Government Sends Tugs.
The navy department has ordered
the gunboats Bancroft, now at New
London, Conn., aud the tug Somasot,
at Pensacola, Fla., to proceed to Gal¬
veston, Tex., to furnish what aid they
oau to tbe storm sufferers.