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THE STATE OF L VOL. X. WAITING ON RUSSIA — Her Motives a Fruitful Source of Speculation. BLOWITZ’S IDEA PURELY FANCIFUL The Powers Slow to Respond to Rus sia—Their Attitude is Negative To wards Russia’s Plan. Washington. D G\, Special.—A very interesting dispatch was received at the War Department, from General Ghaffee. It described the military sit uation as eminently satisfactory, t .na would have been of great value, but for the omission peculiar to all of the other official dispatches from China, namely, the date line. However, tak ing into consideration the fact that * cablegram was received by the State Department dated five days age, from Mr. Conger, the coinclusion was reach ed that General Chaffee's dispatch also was sent from Pekin about August 29 or 30. General Chaffee asks a very important question as to the with drawal of the American troops. The answer to that question, it is said, might have been, found in the State Department’s answer* to the Russian evacuation proposition. But that an swer. or rather a synopsis of it, was not cabled to General Chaffee until the 13th ultimo, and it is assumed, allow ing for the same time in transmittal as was consumed by General Chaffee's dispatch, the synopsis has just reached him. When the Amerioan answer to the Russian proposal was made public, it was stated here that General Chaf fee had been instructed some time be fore by telegraph just, what course to pursue in the matter of retiring from Pekin in the event of the emergency that afterwards arose. This being so the application for instructions might, be regarded as an indication that he had not received the original instruc tions when he sent his message. It is stated that no order has jjeen sent to General Chaffee to leave Pekin as the result of any recent develop ment. In fact it would seem that i*ie War Department is not. able to in struct him more specmca.iy on tins point until the decision of the powers relative to general evacuation is known. It was stated at the War De partment that our position is un changed: if Russia withdraws her troops then General Chaffee will do the same. But we will not act unless there is a general agreement, or Rus sia actually does withdraw her troops. Meanwhile it is gathered that con ditions in China are disordered ami foreign life and property are s.ill un safe. The dispatch received from Minister Conger was gratifying to officials, in that it contained the date of Pekin, August 30, as an integral part of the messages, this part in cipher. The text of the Conger dispatch was not made public, but it was authoritative ly stated that it did not change the situation, and was devoted somewhat to expressions of opinion. It was au thoritatively stated in this connection that Minister Conger will remain at his post until further orders. Up to this time he has expressed no wish to be relieved. In diplomatic quarters. Russia's mo tives continue to be a fruitful theme. The theory advanced by M. de Blowitz, in the London Times, that it was an offset to France for Russia’s supposed nomination of Count Waldersee, is re garded as purely fanciful. A much simpler and more reasonable explana tion is advanced by one diplomatic of ficial who has taken an active part in the negotiations. He says that Rus sia recognizes the obvious fact that it is to her advantage to have a weak neighbor instead of having a partition of Chind, which would range a number of the powers alongside of Russia. For this reason, it is said, Russia’s chief aim is to maintain the present terri torial conditions. ) To Stop Buying American Cotton. f Manchester, By Cable.—The Federa tion of Cotton Spinners, at a meeting decided to invite all the I-onrasbirc epinnera to attend a conference Friday, at which it will be proposed to dis continue buying American spot cotton. Whis will have the effect of almost stopping the mills until the new cottou is marketed, as the mill stocks are low. M l v e Census Figures. Washington, D. C„ Special. —The Population of Richmond, Va„ is 85.0-0, a gain of 3,662, or 4.5 per cent The Population of the city of Charleston. 8. C.. as officially announced to-day. is 56.807. In 1890 the population was ; *4.9F5. These figures show, for the <%. as a whole, an increase of 852. or 1-55 per cent, from 1890 to 1900. The Population, in 1880, was 49.985. showing 1,1 increase of 4,971, or 9.95 per rent. ,r om 1880 to 1890. The Census Bu- r ftau announces the population of Hart ford. Conn., as 79,850, a gain of 26.820. 0r 50.10 per cent.; for Fort Wayne. K, 45.115, a gain of 9.722. or 29.47 kr cent. throughout the country. The South. The city council of Atlanta has be* gun Impeachment proceedings against Mayor Woodward. Jerome B. Kerby. declined the Popu list nomination for Governor of Tex as, and E. W. Nugent, for the nominee for Lieutenant Governed will be sub stituted. Southern Pines will at once put in a water works system, it will include a cypress tank that will hold 60.000 gal lons. The pump and engine will be large enough to supply 9,000 gallons per hour. John W. Yerkes, Republican nomi nee for Governor, opened his campaign in Kentucky at Bowling Green, Tues day, and Governor Beckham at the same time opened his campaign ac Henderson. False reports that he has been ac tive in the Lillian Clayton Jewett anti lynching movement having gone to his home. I. H. Thomas, colored, is afraid to return from Boston, Mass., to Galveston, Texas. Sick and discouraged. Otto A. Bur ton, formerly a writer on the Atlanta, (Ga.) Constitution, committed suicide at Dallas, Texas. The North. An effort is being made to have the headquarters of the Brotherhood of the Ix>comotive Firemen removed from Ill inois to Rochester, N. Y. Oov. Roosevelt has extended 15 days te time in which Mayor Van Wyck, of New York City, may answer charges of his improper connection with the American Ice Company. Captain Gilley, a noted Alaskan ex plorer. was drowned in the Klondike. Clifford W. Barnes, professor of t >:tal science at Chicago University, was' elected president of Illinois Col lege. Governor Wiliahm* A. Slone, of Pennsylvania, with a party of personal and political friends, arrived at Colo rado Spring, Col. Farmer Angus McDonald, his wife and two children were killed in a tor nado which lifted their house at Wa pella, Manitoba, high in the air. A trolley car at Silver l>ake. 0.. caught fire from a fuse burning out, and in the panic one passenger was killed and three were badly crushed. Twenty-eight men. women and chil dren were poisoned and made s?riously ill by eating a salid at the reunion of the Biggerstaff family at Prospect, O. .mage i-acornbe. of the United States Circuit Court, in New York, denied the application of Contractor Michael J. Dady for an injunction restraining Governor General Wood, of Cuba, from promulgating anew carter for Havana which will nullify Dady’s franchises. Sampson Wellman, a veteran of East St. r-ouis, 111., was run over by a cab at Chicago, 111., and killed. Charges growing out of the rectnt investigation cf immigration affairs at New York have Jieen preferred against 510 employes of the Barge office. The Grand Army of the Republic, in session at Chicago, elected Major Leo Rassieur, of St. Txnfs, ccmman der-in-chief. Foreign. Russia has proposed to the powers that the troops be withdrawn from Pekin. Japan's action in seizing Afoy, Chi na, is said to have been unnecessary and in tended for territorial aggran dizement only. The Boers who have been opposing the British at Machadodorp, in the Transvaal, have retreated safely. Gaetano Bresci. the assassin of King Humbert, was s°ntenced at Milan to life imprisonment. The coal famine in Germany is caus ing great distress. Turkey has again made a proposi tion to settle the missionary claims against her by including the SIOO,COO in a contract of a cruiser, but the Presi dent will likely decline to accept it. The United States. Great Britain, Russia, France and Japan have ex pressed a willingness to troops from Pekin. What appears to be the bubonic plague has caused two deaths in Glas gow, Scotland, and 11 other suspected cases are reported. Gen. Maximo Gomez has been nomi nated as a delegate of the National party to the Cubam Constitutional Con vention. A Ponce, P. R.. newspaper in an ex tended article, dee-lares the natives are more oppressed by the American than they were by the Spanish rule. President Kruger has moved his headquarters to Neispruit, on the Df 1- agoa Bay Railroad. It is believeel that Russia will take a hand in the Balkan crisis and avert war. The Swedish government, it is said, is seeking to borrow $10.000,000 in this country. A reduction of 11 1-9 per cent, in wages is proposed by Fall River, (Mass.) cotton manufacturers. Miscellaneous. The Taft commission on September 1 assumed all functions belonging to the legislation branch of the govern jnent in the Philippine*. . TRENTON, GA.. SEPTEMBER 7. I'juu.' A DASH TO DEATH mT \,*r • Terrible Railway Collision Near Beth lehem, Pennsylvania. HARROWING SCENES WITNESSED. Thirteen Killed and Thirty Others In jured, Some Seriously. Trains En tirely Demolished. Philadelphia, Pa., Special.—Thirteen persons killed and over 30 others in jured is the appalling record of a rear end collision beftweem an excursion train and a milk train on the Bethle hem branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Sunday morning at Hatfield, Pa„ 27 miles north of this city. The train consisted of 10 day coaches, ans the first sec tion of a large in made up of people from Be Allentown and surrounding tow Atlantic City. It left the union d-t,pot in Bethlehem at 6:05 a. m. exactly 35 minutes behind the milk train. Th> ’sitter train con sisted of two milk rs..*and two pas senger coaches and had stopped at ev ery station on the road from Bethle hem en route to Philadelphia. At 6.54 the rr-ilk train drew up at the milk plat • form at Hatfield and in lets than two minutes the special excursion train, running at the rate of 35 miles an hour, crashed into the rear of the milk train. The locomotive ploughed through the two passenger coaches and erushed them as if they were eggshells. The milk car immediately in front was also badly wrecked. Four persons. Godfrey Kaelin, his daughter Mamie, Harold Landis and Wm. Blackburn, on the passenger ear of the milk train.were almost instantly killed. Fortunately there were very few persons cn this train. The excursion train was a pic ture of indescribable The lo comotive was a mass of bent and bro ken iron and firmly held the bodies of its engineer and beneath its great weight. Behind the engine, six of the ten' cars were also a mass of wreckage. The first car was broken in twain and the other five cars were thrown on their eides, completely de molished. Nine persons were killed in the first two ears and the others in \these coaches ware Uadly maimed. As soon as the crash came a terrible cry arose n& e if* 1 n * Tnj; i f&P q t m H jumped from the cars to t/ie assistance of the injured. Many were pinned down by wreckage and had to be freed by the liberal use of axes. Messengers were sent to the nearby villages for physicians, and a relie/ train was telegraphed fc.r from Bethlehem. With 15 doctors and half a dozen nurses a special train was sent from Bethlehem, but before it reached the scene of the wreck it was signalled to return to Bethlehem, as a special carrying nearly all the injured had started for the hospi/tal at that place. On the run from Hatfield to the hospi tal three of the injured died. Great trouble was experienced in keeping the relatives away from the injured on the train so that the doctors gathered from near Hatfield could attend to the wounded. The special train arrived at Bethle hem at 11:30 and was met by fu'ly 5,000 persons, all clamoring to get a bit of news of the wreck or trying to learn whether loved ones were among the victims. The news t.f the wreck had reached Bethlehem at 8 o’clock and spread like wild fire. All the police of the town were gathered at the station, and it was with great difficulty that the injured were removed to the waiting ambulances and ether vehicles which conveyed them to the hospitals. All during the day people from Allentown, Oatasaupe and o:her places came pour ing into Bethlehem and confusion reigned throughout the day. The sec ond section of the excursion, made up of persons from towns other than Beth lehem and Allentown, left soon after eth first section, but was flagged down before it reached Hatfield. As it cojjSd not get through on account of the blocked tracks it was returned to Beth lehem and there was great rejoicing at the narrow escape of its occupants from the catastrophe. New York Republicans. Saratoga. N. Y., Special.-The Repub lican State committee met Monca.v night and as a result of eouferesces I of the leaders during ihe'day, the pro-1 grom of the Republican State conven-| tion Tuesday and Wednesday is aV* ready settled. The ticket will be: For Governor, Benj. Odell. Jr., of Orange; for Lieutenant Governor, Timothy L. Woodruff, of Kings. mils Shut Down. Fall River. Mas®., Special.—Forty four cotton mills, operated by 24 cor porations, shut down until September 10. These mills employ 17,500 hands. About three-quarters of -the corpora tions will have completed a month’s curtailment on that date in accordance with the general agreement. Providence. R. 1., Special.—The cot ton mills of the Quinebaug and Daniel son Company shut down for one week. Waltham, Mass.. Special.—The Bos ton Cotton Mills here closed until Sep tember 10. About 2,500 hands are affected. Z'MMOCItATIC. A COAL FAMINE. i American Coal to go to Europe in Large Quantities. HESTER’S LATEST COTTON REPORT Showing the Production and Con ' sumption of Cotton in the Southern States the Past Year. * London, By Cable. —American aal operators and their agents are appar ently swarming to England and rumors of many important deals filled the air during the past week. W. P. Rend, of Chicago, is here on his way to Paris. He is hopeful of supplying both the French and Russian n&vies with steam coal from West Virginia. Mr. Rend had a long interview with the Russian consul. E. M. Hopkins, of Philadelphia, has closed a contract for 100,000 tons of Pennsylvania run of mine coal for im mediate delivery at Mediterranean ports. Mr. Hopkins said to a represen tative of the Associated Press: “English consumers are not familiar with American unscreened coal, but continental dealers are. Therefore I am selling to them. I do not antici pate trouble in securing charters.” i President Gassat, of the Pennsylva nia Railroad, has gone to Paris on the. same business, while the presence of Robert Pitcairn, superintendent of the Pennsylvania's Pittsburg division, goes to Scotland on a visit to Andrew Carnegie early next week, and it has been said that there is on foot a ■cheme to provide the* Pennsylvania coal syndicate with trans-Atlantic transportation. Mr. Pitcairn said to a representative of ssociated Press: “ My . no N atioK* ie i, i'i ci actly tfgrtiiatiam not foremost niafemg <,oal ir Onber tfones ,n tile day. -ge exports. / P3f 6re ' Blveston’s t °wn ftd ee sa w<*v et in K ; Jrt/ p° rts >u nESi-jgtSE theHffnitea Si can f m.LUmps P’s former custom / on the f ith fair profit” A/. W- - , J Hester , . y otton Report. New Orleans Special.—The totals To i Secreatry Hesters annual report of the cotton crop of tne United tSates were promulgated Saturday. They show receipts of cotton at ail United States ports for the year of 6,743,764 bales against 8.575,426 list year; overland to Northern mills 1,161,189 against 1,- 345,623, Southern consumption direct from interior of the cotton belt I, against 1,353,791, making the crop of the United States for 1899- 1900 amount to 9.436,416 bales against 11, last year and 11,199 994 the year before. Mr. Hester has made his usual Investigation into the consump tion of mill in th<£ oSuth, including f that haw used cotton, and 1,597,112 bales, lAiWTthis 56,249 t-rjM were taken from ports included in receipts. This total shows thktWßO mills of the South have u ed up 197* 713 Hales more than during 1898-T9,. against a consumption by the North of. 2.300,000. He makes the actual cotton crop of Texas, including Indian Terri tory, 2,590,512, or say, hales less than last year. H’s ropo.u oP ■cotton crop for the different shows that in thousands of bales; : North. Carolina raisrd 561; South Carolina 921; Georgia 1.309; Alabama 1,044; Florida 50; Mississippi 1,230; Louisiana 325; Arkansas 750; Tennes see 358, and Texas 2,591. McKinley’s Departure Delayed. Washington Special.—President Me ley’s departure for Canton has not fixed. He had he > Ifpeave this we?k. largely on account tit the condition of Mrs. McKinley's health, but the important character of the Chinese negotiations necessitates his presence here, at least until the present crisis ;s passed. Shatter Denies Report. Washington, D. C., Special.—The War Department has received a trlegrai# from General Shatter, at San Prat cisco, saying that he has carefully if vestigated the statements that have been made relative to the treatment ac corded the late Captain Crenshaw, of the Twenty- ninth infantry. Says the general: "There is not the slightest foundation of fact in the newspaper articles in which it is claimed that he had not received proper while on shipboard and at the hos pital at the Presidio. It ir shown on the contrary that his cafe received special care and attention. Report by mail to-day." “THE FULL DINNER PA IL" AN ARCUMENT HARDLY SATISFY ING T 0 THE INTELLIGENT VOTER. The American Workman *• Hot Atl Stom ach—Ton Hilt Apprafto HU Brain to Bet Hl* Vote—He U Anxloua About Trust Oppression. The tame Republican editors and the Republican spellbinders ia 'un counted numbers are talking to the American workmen at present about “the full dinner nail,” and about noth ing else, , One very tame editor, a sail-eyed comic editor, puts a picture of the al leged full dinner pail on every png# his paper. We are informed that the National Republican Committee proposes t# adopt the full dinner poll as • trade mark for the whole .campaign. A full pail is au excellent thing, but we humbly submit that for au entire campaign it is hardly an ar gument satisfying to the intelligent working voter. * If Mr. Hanna were scheming tojpY the votes of eighty millions of hog. l would of course do well to devote of his newspaper space and all of political speeches to the beauties ui “the full swill trough.” But the American workman does uoti devote all of his thoughts and hopes and ambitions to his stomach. If au intelligent voter, native or for eign born, goes to Mr. Hanna.to ask: “What are you goiug to do for me if I give you my vote?” Mr. Hanna replies: “I ant going to till your stomach and keep It full for four years. I am going to give you a dinner pall so •lieaty that it will make your arm ache to drag it to the factory. Does not that make you happy?” Mr. Hanna and many other Repul*- licau men of power have got into the habit of looking upon a mere work-* man as they look upon a mule plodf ding along the canal bank. they know that if the mule has a full. stomach, a full uose-bag, that mule is happy. They can’t under stand that a man so low down in the world as to lie working for a living should as • for anything better than the full nose-bag which satisfies the uaule. he American workingman wants a full dinner pail, of course. But in the first place he knows that tin:. full dinner pail he lias got ~M- will owe the conte'uM4 ‘ iFk-—UUtl.ihat )pail to his own swuuf anff muscle, and to no plutocrat's kind heart. r rhe full dinner pci!" is not such a L tiful trade mark as the Repnbli catiy 'jnagiuc. The workman sees in it otliet things thiui the means of filliug Ills stomach. On the outside of that dinner pail shine the Tin Trust and the tin tariff—butL Republican—which make the pail <• uskg.nore than it ever did before. Inside the pail in that separate corn part tmuTUrt served for LCa or coffee 1 he Republican Sugar Trust and the Re publican Milk Trust if ave their little nests of profit. * In the body of the fail Mr. Armour'# Meat Trust gets its share. The American workmen says: “Y'ou offer me a full stomach. Very kind of you. but give me a chance to work on a fair basis, give me freedom from trusts tlu.t discharge thousands and put up prices: give me freedom from Kepuolican lock-outs like (hat which fnow starves melt and their families in (Chicago; give me a chance to live and Avork as a free man iu a free country should work and live, and I shall look after my own stomach.” Further than this, the American workman s.*ys: “1 don't like to be treated as Jonah's whale is treated iu t]l*rSunday-sclk>ol books. The whale's belly was the mokf important thing about him. but 1 want you to uuder sland that I am no' whale. J shall try to convince you in November of some thing you apparently do not suspect, that 1 lur e it brain as well as a bejly —that 1 think more of the former that of the latter, strange as that may seem to you. ‘•Just let it y dinner pail alone for awhile and answer these questions: First—What appeal have you to make ,to my .melligence, or do yon think I have n intelligence? What prospects do you of yqn Learie which shall enable them to get (Ahead iu the world as you have agieari In the world? I work hard. money, take things as tuey not because 1 am so anxious for la, full stomach, but because I have nt lßtine a wife and children whom 1 love. I wofk to supj>oft them. I work in hope that my children may have a better chance tbaiv i had, and that their sucees> *Ji l ''\weward my wife for bringing them Xthe world and sac rificing her v health to their care. R “Stop lal my dinner pail; tell me w/* plans you have for niy wife nml/'hildrcn. ••Third#- You Republicans have in your rants all the trust vultures of the country. ! Have you planned to clip the mangy gills of these tures? Have you made any at nil to prevent the accumulation of all money and all property in the hand* of a few?” . __ We hope that in November !he amib ngers of the Republican party wjtl find that, unlike the parasite crab of whh-i* Haeckel writes so tnteresthijjjly, th, American workman does not catiti!*** entirely of stomach.—New York Even ing Journal. THE REPUBLIC IN PERIL. Plutocracy Md Imperialism Confront tle People* The Kansas City platform f u u y re-*-.. Ties the fact that the battle of the people of 1900 is to be fought o:*® •* different: from those which divldt \glk.. parties in 1896. The world lias in these past few years. The reu which was founded on the rk 0 independence and self governnpenl ha*t v been t to its very base' by thes repudiatjo*. Ivf this great principle byY the Republican' administration. Milt-*' tarism has raised its threatening head, supremacy of the Constitution has* be ' ,v ’d by the Etepublicaa majo r ;ss against the warn ing, ie of the most stead-, Zap - irty members. Tluft t* ited the srheduH* 'riff, having grows* (Ja tder that fostering. . pc: ntrol the executive islattve branch of s' Republic is r peril. > -scued or shall it be U> ■ warJtbe abyss in whi, 3 pt earlier re 4 publics' This It . *• the coming, r... evaded by ifTri t; the Demooraryßfc sen Is to the that this pjavfoiA in contrast with in resolutions put* fortlr will appeal to the pa* of the Democrats, I' publicans as well.-4 BRYAN TO COLD \ 15s They I'refer u Bold to a Bimetallic lfl William J. Bryan's ;'*w. c:Uted recently to the sUitmir* some of the opponents of imperU had auuouiiceil they would lie oppusd to him on account of,the silver idatß; in the platform; and he was whether this would seriously affect the anU-inuueriallat vote. “Sever*! .gold standard opponents of imiierialisin have already aunonucetl. their intention to support the Demo cratic ticket,” he replied, "alihougit tin* uiiti-lmperiafis-Uc t#H;*tie" link not bidividua! matter each view*'as to tM v ow off bo k: “The Democratic platform! deelMcß the question imperialism to Jie the parr.mouftt issue. If any opponent of imperialism refuses to support th* Democratic ticket because of the sil ver plank it must be treatise he con siders the. money que-Hpn more im portant than the Philippine question —that is. lie. prefers- a gftld standard, empire to a bimetallic republic. "When the test crimes, i believe ttuit tiiose who adhere to the doctrine tlnnL. governments derive just not from superior f Jn#f tlota the consent of the 41,/will sup port our ticket, eveff\, JHigh they do not indorse ' the silver, plunk. “A large majority of the believe that rcstoraficnjpf biirte’fti/iia would prove a blesaih®, hUHj&e itiip<-riaii>i- " ■ jV**' niit that aii.' ajKt’ctci more easily? im./ I'ilt —i wtitcL would folloW 1 1; CE j£%;ite Jn- ' dorsemem hf :ii!ti|ai ;.v ijp"rraU ,S„,- *■; y- /■. Sl. K lnlfl^WtclOli.)ii.}*. PresidgU Mcl®mCy In address said:*• ■“fidpnofhy if in every branch of the jjiovcgJg*pt all times. The severest ecoiit!™ must" in* observed iu all tures.” Yet he signed the sundry civil bill a few monms after those words were uttered appropriating SSi’.OOO,- (HK) of the people’s money, a bill s*> utterly bad that his predecessor had refused to sign it upon the express; ground that it was full of jobs and ueedless appropriations. His adminis tration must be conceded to have lieelp. the most extravagant in tjies expewlU ture of public moneys in the history: of the country. He has never vetoed a single one of the important acts off • Congress intended to rob the people and lias simply vejued three of four pension bills.—Kingston (N. Y.) Lead er. 5 ■ * fc.* * I The I'atsmouut Isue. Covetousness has brought in its fruin the Imperialistie spirit, and the Re publican party bases its hopes for con tinued support simply and solely npou* its belief that a majority of the peo ple are blinded by the glamour of the very dubious sort of glory which It brings. Verily the “parafnouCt issue”* of the campaign is whether we shall cling to the hoiest, safe traditions off the past or pursue the territorial ac quisition into the sen of iiuiKTiali<lc A Boston . Coin#* UEaoy. The 1 rusts takevgreat pleasure ia makiugJt.rge contributions of the peo ple's money to the Republicau cam paign fund.—Sgvanuah News. _—/ 'NO, 19.