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t iiiiiiiii iiiiiiiii ii innij J 'D'R.F.A.HEJVLEy, j DENTIST. i I'liiiiiin m THE BANK OF RANDOLPH, Asheboro, JV. C. OFFICE: Front Room Over Bank. J WORK GUARANTEED. 1 ASHEBORO, . . NC timni iiiiiiinniiiiiij J WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. 0 i - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I 1 1 1 1 1 I I 1 1 1 H NO. 1G. VOL. I. ASHEBORO. N, C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER U,U05. RANDOLPH BULLETIN ill till REVS Of INTEREST CAR'S FATAL PLUNGE Frightful Drop From Elevated Road in New York Dt I III! NORTH STATE NEWS NORTH CAROLINA CROP BULLET L 1 Last Act In The War Drama Closed And The Curtain Goes Down HISTORICAL PAPER'S CONTENTS Mr. Witte Signed First and When All Had Done So Baron Rosen and Ba ron Komura Exchanged Compli ments Tor the Two Misssions Eussian Mission Attends Thanks giving Service at Christ Episcopal Church Rulers to Sign Copies Within 50 Days. Portsmouth, N. H. Special, The treaty of Portsmouth was signed short ly before 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the conference room of the navy general store at the navy yard-. The firing of a national salute of 19 guns was the signal which told the people of Portsmouth. Kittery and Newcastle that the peace of Portsmouth was an accomplished fact, and the church bolls in the three towns were soon pealing forth a joyful refrain. For 47 minutes those outside lie conference room anxiously awaited the signal. Suddenly an orderly dashed to the entrance of the peace buildfng, and waved his hand to the gunner a few feet away and the opening shot of the salute rang out on the clear air of the soft September afternoon, pro claiming peace between Russia and Ja pan. WITTE GRASPS KOMURA'S HAND. Up' to the moment of signing the treaty, no word had broken the silence of the conference room. Throwing his pen aside. Mr. Witte, without a word, reached across the table and gvapsed 13 .iron Nomura's hand- tiis conferees followed ami the Russian and Japanese delegates remained for a moment in t ilrnre. t It i r right hands tightly clasp ci a.-ross the conference table. The var was over Russia and Japan were c-uce :.;o:e friends. Thi single ceremony rang through and rlvvply impressed the attaches and sec: ciaries of the two missions, who, with the invited witnesses, had formed a larga tirele around the delegates sit ting at the table. Baron tie Rosen was the first to break the silence. Rising from his seat, the ambassador, looking at Baron Komura n 1 Mr. Takahira straight in the eye, said a few words which one had only 1 to tear to know that they came from his lioart. He began by saying that he wished, on behalf of Mr. Witte, Rus sia's first plenipotentiary, and in his own :2ame, to say a few words. ROSEN'S EARNEST WORDS. -"Wo have just signed," continued the j u- u -i, v. 1 embassador, -an act which will have forever a place in the annals of his- j tory. As negotiators on behalf of tho Trinirti rf "Russia a well as The pmnire ! . . .. ' of Japan, we may with tranquil con science say that we have done all that v;as in our power in order to bring about the peace for which the whole civilized world was longing. We earn- estly hope that friendly relations be- i fo fig jn Russian territorial waters of tween the two empires will henceforth j the Sea of Japan, the coast of Okhotsk be firmly established and we trust that I and Behring Sea. his excellency, Baron Komura. as Min- ! Article 12.-The two high contract . . . . , i ing parties engage tlfemselves to re isterof Foreign Affairs, and one of the I p"thn rommercial treaty existing leading statesmen of his country, will apply to the strengthening of these re lations, the wide experience and wise statesmanship he so conspicuously dis played during these negotiations, which have now been so auspiciously con cluded." BARON KOMURA'S RESPONSE. Baron Komura replied that he shared entirely the views of Baron de Rosen. The Treaty of Portsmouth which they had just signed, he said, was in the interest of humanity and civilization and he was happy to believe that it would bring about a firm, lasting peace between the two neighboring empires. He begged to assure the Russian pleni potentiaries that it would be his duty as well as his pleasure to do everything in his power to make the treaty in fact what it professes to be in words a treaty of peace and amity. Portsmouth, s II., Special. The nI,n, il l. iwn-c uiiij .... x picauiuie it-uuug ; corapieted within eighteen months that his majesty, the Emperor and au- j from the signing of the treaty, begin tocrat of all the Russians, and his maj- j ning with the retirement of troops of esty, the Emperor of Japan, desiring the first line At the expiration of tie to close the war now subsisting be tween them and having appointed their respective plenipotentiaries and fur nished them with full powers, which were found to I.e in form, have come to an agreement on a treaty of peace and arranged as follows: Article 1 stipulates for the establish- Caucasus in Wild Panic. Baku, By Cable. Troops under the direction of the Governor are acting with the utmost vigor, but they have not succeeded in restoring order, al thought th":e is rather less firing. Armed rioters attacked the oil works in the suburb of Balakhan, and after a hot fi-ht set fire to them. Tartar bands are scouring the country, mur dering and pillaging. The country is in a state of wild panic, and houses and farms are he lag abandoned. The Inland Waterway. Washington. Special. The engineer ing board, designated by the Secretary of War to make a new survey of the proposed inland waterway, will visit Norfolk and North Carolina points in October for the purpose of hold ing hey. in-,-,, K(, ti,at 1ne j)est opinions of the pi o;,l.. with reference to Re jection ... ;, ;,)i!te ,.an secured. This infoi i, en i; :i v.as obtained by Repre sentative Small, who called at the War Dc-and conferred with Cc'. F :.. the present of this btoLij. ment of peace and friendship between the sovereigns of the two empires and between ti'; nhj'ects of Russia and Ja pan, respe lively. Article His majesty, the Emperor of Russia, recognizes the preponderant interest fi political, military and economical points if view of Japan in the empire of Korea and stipulates that Russia will not oppose any meas ures for its government, protection or control that Japan will deem necessary to take iii Korea in conjunction with the Korean government, but Russian subjects and Russian enterprises are to enjoy t!t same status as the sub jects tUiil enterprises of other coun tries. Article 3-It Is mutually agreed that the territory of Manchuria be simul taneously evaluated by both Russian and Japanese troops. Both countries are concern' .1 in this ex&cuation, their situations being absolutely identical. All rigUs acquired by private persons and r-ompani- s sh?.il remain intact. Article 4. T'ne rights possessed by conformity with the lease by Russia of Port Author and Dainy, togt?tlier with the lands an,? waters adjacent, shall pass over in their entirety to Japan, but the properties and the rights of Russians subjects are to be safeguard ed and respected. Article 5. The. sovF-riimeiita of Rus sia and Japti'A engage themselves recip rocally hot to put any obstacles to the general measures (Which shall be alike for all nations that China may take fcr the development of the commerce and industry v.E Manchuria. Ar'fcie 6. The Manchurian Railway shall lie operated jointly between Rus sia and Japan at Kouang-Teheng-Tse. The two branch lines shall be operated only for commercial and industrial pur- : poses. In view oi Russia keeping nei branch line with all rights acquired by her convention with China for the con struction of that Railway, Japan ac quires the mines in connection with such branch line which falls to her However, the rights of private pparties or private enterprises are to be respec ted. Both parties to this treaty remain absolutely frree- lo undertake what they deem fit on ex-propriated ground. Article 7. Russia and Japan engage themselves to make a conjunction of the two branch lines which they own at Kouang-Tcheng-Tse. Article 8. It is agreed that the branch lines of the Manchuria Rail way shall be worked with a view to assure commercial traffic between them without obstruction. Article 9. Russia cedes to Japan the southern part of Sakhalin Island as far north as the fiftieth degree of north latitude, together with the is lands depending thereon. The right of free navigation is assured in the bays of La Perouse and Tartare. Article 10. This article recites the situation or tne Russian suDjecis uu the southern part of Sakhalin Island ulates that Russian colonists thCre shall be free and shall have the right to remain without changing their nationality. Per contra, the Tnncmoao mvwTimpnt. shall have the right to force Russian convicts to leave the territory which is ceded to her. Article ll.Riissia engages herself to make an agreement with Japan rririnir n ToiltlTlP!P RnhlOCtS t ll P fleht between the two governments prior to the war, in all its vigor, with slight modifications in details and with a most favored nation clause Article 13. Russia and Japan recip rocally engage to restitute their pris oners of war on paying the real cost of keeping the same, such claim for cost to be supported by documents. Article 14. This peace treaty shall be drawn up in two languages, French and English, the French text being ev idence for the Russians and the Eng lish text for the Japanese. In case of difficulty of interpretation, the French document to be final evidence. Article 15. The ratification of this treaty shall be countersigned by the sovereigns of the two States within fifty days after its signature. The French and American embassies shall be intermediaries between the Japan ese and Russian governments to an nounce by telegraph the ratification of the treaty. The additional articles are agreed to as follows: Artirlp One. The evacuation of r hir Vinth armies shall lie i BlttUUIUllo j - I CI "JIT "t. ii lUUlUO mi' " onlv be able to leave as guards ot the railway fifteen soldiers per kilo metre. Article Two. The boundary which limits the parts owned respectively by Russia and Japan in the Sakhalin Is land shall be definitely marked off on the spot by a special limitographic cemroiss'OD Dr. Rice Named. Columbia, S. C, Special. The exe cutive committee of the Columbia Theological seminary has been in ses sion here all day in an effort to elect a president of the institution. They did this indirectly only, having recom mended to the trustees that Dr. Ther on H. Rice, of Atlanta, be given a po sition. He was leader in the movement to have the seminary moved from Co lumbia and consolidated with the Ciarksville university into a big Pres byterian university at Atlanta. Public Printer Ousted. Washington, Special. Public Printer F. W. Palmer practically has been ousted from office. It was learned au thoritatively that President Roosevelt has demanded Mr. Palmer's resigna tion to take effect on the 15th instant The demand of the President for Mr' Palmer's resignation was due prima rily to the latin's action ju trying to force Oscar J. Ricketts and L. c Hay out of the Government Printing Office !-. raimci asKi-.i lortne resignation of ietts and T7 round that they had beta .cr-uirinate. Weather Conditions GiVeh Out by the Department Observer. The North Caroline section of the climate and crop service of the De partment of Agriculture issues the following official bulletin of weather and crop conditions for the past week : The Weather has been dry with warm days and cool nights. The tem perature has beeii about normal over the whole State except in the east ern part where it lias been a few de grees above normal. The Week has beeii very favorable for saving hay and fodder, and all outdoor work. There has been little or no rain in the west and central portions, while in the extreme east the weather has been generally fair, but some few heavy rains have occurred. The far mers are ready, as a rule, to plow land for wheat aiad oats but this has beeii impossible in many cases on ac count of the hardness of the ground. Many of the crops now need rain, particularly corn and turnips. Frost was reported in Watauga county. The cotton crop lias experienced no improvement during the past week as a who!?; hi many placet; the yield is disappointing, and on the whole the crop will be fully 30 per bent, short. In the east the cotton is still shed ding and taking rust in many sec tions; there are also reports of its being attacked by the army worm which will reduce the crop one-third in those places. Caterpillars are also doing damage to some late cotton. Tho weather being dry also causes it to open prematurely in some parts. In some sections the rvop improved a little during the past week, and the top crop is maturing. In the cen tral part the bolls are few and small, and the lint is short; it is not ripen ing on top. In the west cotton is heading in all shapes and small bolls in some places ; picking is general but the yield is light. The boll weevil, it is Said has made its appearance in Martin county, but in small num bers. Cotton is being marketed in Xash county. Tobacco is all cut and cured in the east; while in the central and west portions a great deal has been cut and curd but there are some farms where cutting in only about two-thirds done. In general the leaf is good in quality and color but it lacks weight ; in the western part it is firing and specking badly in places. The crop will be light, about liO per cent. Corn has improved a little during the week) but needs rain; upland corn is generally good but bottom corn is drowned; it is earing well and ma turing rapidly, the crop will be short, many reporting only a two-thirds crop; there is ' some cutting in pro gress in the west. Peas are doing well as a whole, but in some places in the central and west district 9 the vines are good but have few peas; a great deal of pea vine hay is now being saved in the east. Peanuts are generally reported a good crop-, but in the east the crop will be short in some sections. Most of the fodder has been saved in the east, and pulling is well under way in the cen tral and est districts-. A large quan tity lost bv too wet weather. Iiav is still being cut on a few farms in the east, and central districts while in the west a great deal is now being cut. Most all of the minor crops are doing well, except white potatoes which are rotting to a considerable ex tent in the ground. Sweet potatoes turnips, rutabegas, and buckwheat are doing well. Some buckwheat is now being cut. Land for wheat and rye is being plowed, and some has been planted. Pastures are reported good, and cattle doing well. Apples are fair crop in the mountain districts, but a failure in the valleys, some are being shipped. Corn crop is looking fine, and molasses making is in pro gress in places. North State Notes. Walter Whitmire, of Spencer, was killed instantly Saturday night be tween Salisbury and Concord by be ing run over by a freight train. At a special term of the Federal court at Greensboro last week twenty eight revenue officials were indicted by the grand jury. Some of the par ties have fled the State. The increasing business in the Ral eigh postoffice, made so by the con tinued growth and progress of the city, has been substantially recogniz ed by the United States Postoihee De partment. Postmaster C. T. Bailey has received a letter from Mr. F. II. Hitchcock, First Assistant Postmas ter General authorizing him to employ one additional clerk at a salary of $600 per annum, and to detail one of the present force of clerks whose sal ary is not less than $900 per annum to duty as private secretary. In of fices where the gross receipts exceed $350,000 a year the civil service rules allow an excepted private secretary. The North Carolina School for the Deaf and Dumb, at Morgan ton, open ed with over two hundred present the first morning. Fifty more are ex pected. This will be the largest at tendance in the history of the insti tution. " There are other deaf and dumb children in the State in this institution who are kept out to work Every child should be given the bene fit of instruction in this well managed institution. An interesting railroad rumor is to the effect that the road from John son City, Tenn., through the moun tains of Western North Carolina will soon be completed, opening up one of the richest natural regions in the world. Dan Kennerly, a well known resi dent of Spencer, was fatally injured on Sunday by falling 40 feet from a tree. The sixteenth session of K!'-i Col lege opened witii all the i.'-n.-.uaes full. PUBLIC PRINTER OUT m Not a Case of Graft But One of Par tiality and Favoritism PARTISANSHIP, NOT CORRUPTION Reason For the Summary Dismissal of Public Printer Palmer is Given by President Roosevelt. Oyster Bay, L. I., Special. President Roosevelt has made public the report of the Keep commission on its recent investigation of affairs in the Govern ment Printing Office at Washington. The inquiry was made by special di rection of the President on account of a protest which he had received from a protest which he had received from of ficials of the Mergenthaler Typesetting Machine Company against the award of a contract by Public Printer Frank W. Palmer to the Lanston Monotype Com pany for 72 machines of its make. The President decided, after an ex amination of the Keep report, that the contract for the Lanston machines should stand. The Keep commission reported that it tho contract could be set aside, "such a course would be ad visable," although the commission states expressly that "no corrupt con sideration, payment or promise passed from the Lanston Monotype Company to the public printer or to any person in the government service." It was developed by the investiga tion, however, that two important as sistants bf the public prihted were in directly interested in the Laston Com pany, "their wives being stockholders therein." The commission shows that a fair and impartial test of the Lanston and Mergenthaler machines was not made, and reports that the purchase of so large a number of Lanston machines was "improvident" and indicated "great partiality and bias o the part of the public printer." The commission re gards the purchase as "maladministra tion." The text of the President's mem orandum upon the report follows: "Oyster Bay, Sept. 9, 1905. "The conclusion of the committee are hereby approved, save the latter part of conclusion first. It does not appear that there is any question as to the validity of the contract in Question. If it had not been for- the conduct of the Mergenthaler Company in preferring the charge discussed by the committee in conclusion two, that of corruption, I should agree with the committee that it would be desirable to set aside the contract, if such course were legal. But second only to corruption in a public office in point of inquiry, comes making a baseless charge of corruption, and this is what the . committee finds ths Marganthaler Company has done in this case, its comments being in part: " 'In the light of the failure of the company to produce evidence of s;-ch corruption, it must be held that te charge was made recklessly and r:e Mergenthaler Company should be 5 verely condemned for including sue" a charge in a formal communication o the president of the United Sta 3 made as a basis for official action on his part. It is fair also to the Lanston Monetype Company to say that no evi dence was produced by the Mergen thaler Company, nor was any obtained by the committee in the course of its hearing, tending to show any promise, payment or consideration of any kind whatsoever made by the Lanston Com pany, or any of its officers or agents, to any person in the government ser vice.' "Had not this charge of corruption been made I should have entirely agreed w-ith the conclusion of the com mittee that if it were possible (which it is not) it would be desirable to can cel the contract in question; "Public Printer Palmer has been re moved from office. The cases of the subordinates alluded to in the report must be taken up in connection with the discipline and re -organization of the bureau when Mr. Palmer's suc cess or asf times office. 'THEODRORE ROOSEVELT. Referring to the allegation that Os ear J. Ricketts was the candidate of the Merganthaler Company for Public Printer, the report says: "Questions were asked of the Public Printer, Mr. Dove and General Michner, as to what grounds they had for thinking that the Mergenthaler Company was he hind Mr. Ricketts. The seasons given were of an unsubstantial character and it is only just to Mr. Ricketts to say that there is not in the evidence taken before this committee anything to show an illegitimate connection between Mr. Rockets and the Mergenthaler Com pany." Gomez on Parade. Santiago de Cuba, By Cable. General Joseph Miguel Gomez, Governor of Santa Clara province and National Lib eral candidate for Presidency, and an escort of a thousand horsemen entered the city Saturday morning and par raded. The Governor of this province and the maynr of the city, anticipat ing disorder, made elaborate police ar rangements, but these were found to be unnecessary as there were no start ing incidents. Governor Gomez was given a bliiliant reception at the San Carlos Club this afternoon and address ed a meeting at a theatre at night. Suburbs Unsafe. Tangier, Special. Samuel R .Gum -mere, the American Minister and w number of European inhabitants, have abandoned their residences in the sub urbs and removed to the center of the town at the request of the Moroccan authorities, vSio said they were unable to guarantee their security owing to disturbed condition of the surrounding districts. Severe fighting continues between Raisuli's tribe and others. Millions For Land Act. London, By Cable. Walter Hume Long, Chief Secretary of Ireland, an nounces that the Treasury has ageed to provide additional funds amount ing to $1,000,000 before the end of the year, together with such an amount of stock during the year 1903 as will produce $50,000,000 cash to faeiii'Mi the operations of the Irish land act and to remedy the recent stoppage o: r,-.v. nf lnnrl throueh the inability to ! '.:' the purchase momney owing j to lack el land. Occurrences 6f Interest in Ifarious Parts of the State.- Charlotte Cotton Market. These figures represent prices paid to wagons: Good middling.. 10Vs Strict middling 10Vs Middling:; . : . 10y8 Tinges .:.:fl-to 10 Stains 7 to 9 General Cotton Market. Galveston, quiet 10 5-16 New Orleans.' quiet. 10Vs Mobile, easy. .' . .' .' ." .' : : ." : ; .;10 Savannah, dull and easy .'. . .10 1-16 Charleston, quiet 10 Norfolk, steady lOVi Baltimore, nominal 10 New YorK;. quiet. 10.70 Boston; quiet ; : : : ; . .10.70 Philadelphia, quiet. ; : ." 10.95 Houston, steady. . . ; ;:::..loy4 Augusta; steady. ; .. .. . .10 3-16 Memphis, quiet .... .. .. .. ..10 St. Louis, quiet ...10y3 Louisville, firm 10 '- A Sensation in Kaleigh. Raleigh, Special. The latest sen feat ioti here is the arrest and placing in jail of four attendants fit the hos pital for the insane who were charg ed with cruelty which. resulted in the death of Charles Nail, the 30-year-old patient from' Chatham county, three weeks ago. The superintendent of the hospital stated that no undue violence was used and that death was due to over-exertion on a very hot clay. It was further stated that on'e of the attendants, nearly flfinled; in fact, was made sick, by the exertion of the capture. On the other hand, it is alleged that when the head of Nail was shaved, at the post-mortem, a number of bruises were found, notab ly one at the base of the skull, and that the rear of the body was very badly bruised. The four attendants are in jail and have nothing to say. Lady Burned to Death. Statesville, Special. Miss Anna Johnston, aged about 25 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. li. John ston, of Shiloh township was so bad ly burned Tuesday that death result ed Thursday morning about 4 o'clock. The deceased went to the wash place, on the branch near her home Tues day morning; to do the family wash ing and about 11 o'clock her mother heard her screaming and ran to meet her. Mrs. Johnston found her daugh ter's clothing on fire aiid before she could extinguish the flames Miss Johnson's clothes from her hips to her waist were burned, off and her body severely burned, i Medical aid was sumoned at once but little could be done except to relieve the unfor tunate woman's suffering. Tar Heel Notes. A Greensboro special to the Char lotte Observer of Friday says : Fire broke Out at 4 o'clock Thursday af ternoon in the dry house of the Mi nola Cottoii Mills, at Gibsonville, twelve miles east of here, and des troyed several thousand dollars worth of property. The mills are equipped with a splendid water-works plant and this saved the complete destruc tion of the enterprise. A large quan tity of cotton was ruined and the building and machinery greatly dam aged before tho flames could be ex tinguished, after two hours of bard fighting. Messrs. Robertson & Arrnfield, of High Point, have obtained charters for the High Point Real Estate and Trust Company with $5000 capital paid in, and for the Merchants and Farmers' Bank, of Chapel Hill, with $10,000 paid up eapital, the stock holders being 30 residents of that town and section. Mr. Wiliam L. Geppert, president and manager of The Globe Publish ing Company, publishers of the Sal isbury Sun and Weekly Globe, thro' his attorney, J. 11. Ilorah, has field a petition for the appointment of a reciver for the above company, on the ground that the company is in debt and has not sufficient assets to carry on the business, and that the property now on hand will be lost un less placed in proper hands. A special from Lenoir says: Mr. W. H. Bower was stricken with para lysis Thursday about 7 o 'click. A physician was summoned imediately and he did not become unconscious. lie is doing as well as possible. The attack was at the left side but did not affect ony of the limbs. It is hop ed that the attack will not confine him very long. Mr. Bower is a well known lawyer and has 'served in con gress. The school year opened at Wake Forest College last week with nearly three hundred students present. There have beii a number of changes in the faculty. "While en route to a fire the Win ston hook and ladder truck ran into John Hollman, a married ban, aged about thirty-five years, knocking him down and crushing his skull. ' The at tending physician announces that the wounded man cannot live many hours, One wheel of the truck ran over Hol- loman's back and head. The hook and ladder truck weighs over six thousand pounds. Several men were on it when the fatal acident occur red. ' A bank has been chartered for Chapel Hill in the secretary of state's office. It is the Merchants and Far meus' Bank, with an authorized cap ital of $50,000 of which $.10,000 . is subscribed. The incorporators are E. M. Arrnfield, Westcott Robertson and W. S. Robertson. Mr. Arthur Long, of Greensboro, employed at the Greensboro Furni ture Factory, was ' held up by two men on West Lee street late Thurs day night while on his way to his boarding house at the corner of West Lee and, Cedar sUe?te LATE FEVER REPORT Conditions Alternately Worse and Better" at Stride Centers VIGOROUS WORK TO EXTERMINATE Sunday's Eeports Show That New Cases Are Still Developing, Though jfaFfc So Numerous. New Orleans, Special. Officiai re port to 6 p. m.: New cases, 27; total, 2.2S9. Deaths; 7? total. 316. New Foci, ll. t . Cases under treatment, 9fi dis charged, 1,677. The unfavorable part of the Sunday report is the unusually large number of deaths: AuSthfe? distinguished member of the Rcmj?ri Cfttft!ie clergy is in the list, Father L. E. Greffi, of the Jesuit College. Ho died at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, after being ill eact ly a week. He f?3 prnek with a chill last Sunday just after doliverfu'g 8 lec ture, but nothing was thought of it. The next day ho visited a room in the college which had been screened and' made ready for emergencies in accord ance with t lite suggestion of Or. "White, and jokingly remarked tfi ohO Of his colleagues that they had the . room ready now and only needed the first pa tient. A few hours later he was the occupant. Ho was later transferred to the Hotel Dieu. He suffered from other complications whr?h caused the fatal ending. He was 38 years of age and a native of England. He had been here about two years and was a teacher in the branch school conducted by the Jesuits on St. Philip street. There was not a single JtSlifMi name among the other deaths. One occurr ed in the Emergency Hospital, one in Algiers and one in the French Asylum, on Si. Ann street. Since the Marins Hospital Service has been in charge, the officers have discovered .57 fo; i infections, which has been of sonife standing and were unknwon except through the second ary infection. Tho district officers have been especially diligent in thus trac ing up infection and (his has neen tnc means of checking what, threatened to be serious nests in different neigh borhoods. 19 MSN BfeOWN TO SHREDS. Terrible Destruction Wrought by Powder I&ill Explosion. Connelsville, Fa., Special; The Rand Powder Mills at Fairchance, six miles south at Uniontcwii, were' entirely wip ed out by an explosion at 9.05 o'clock Saturday. Of the 32 men who went to work in the mill. 19 are known to be dead. Of these 13 have been identified. Nine men. including C. M. Rand; man ager of the plant;-were' seriously injur ed. - ' Scores of people in the town of Fair- chance, within half a mile of the pow der mills, were more or less painfully injured. The shock of the explosion was dis tinctly felt In Connelsville, 20 miles away, building being rocked on their foundations. At TJttiofltown hundreds of panes of glass were bfokeib In the town of Fairchance there is scarcely a house that did not suffer damage. The sides were battered as though axes' had been used. Haystacks . were toppled over in the fields and live stock were stunned. The rails of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway and the West Pennsyll vania Traction Railway Company were rooted from the road bed and traffic was delaved from four to six hours, transfers being made over the Penn sylvania- Thaln No. 52 on the Balti more and Ohio had a narrow escape from annihilation. It had just passed the Rand Mills when the explosion oc coaches were shattered and passengers coaches were shattered m passengers thrown into a panic. Had the train' been a few seconnds late it would have been blown up, &s th6 mills were in a few rods off the track. .A street car on the "West Pennsylvania road had also passed just a few seconds before the explosion and was' far away enough to escape damage, though it was derailed. Purchased Terminals. Birmingham, Ala., Special The .Bir mingham Belt Railroad Company has purchased two hundred acres of land, at Village Creek, near Birmingham, which will be utilized for terminals for tral roads. The property extends from tral roads. The property etends from Norih Birmingham to a point near the Thomas furnaces, a distance of about two miles. The Belt Line is owned by the Frisco and the Illinois Central, and has just completed arrangements for entering Birmingham over the tracks of the Frisco. Cotton Address Not pueady. Asheville, Special. The public ad dress of the Southern Cotton Associa tion will not be issued for a week or ten days. The framing of the address is in the hands of a committee com- noscd of Brown, of North Carolina:. Smith, of South Carolina; Moody, of Alabama; and McMartin, of Mississip pi. The actual wording and writing of the document will be done by Mr. Mc Martin. Admits Wrecking Train. aged 14, and John McDowell, aged JO, aged 14, and John McDowell, age:. both colored, were arrested by Atlan tic Coast Line Detestive L. B. Bryan and City Detective J. T. Durst. The boys confessed that they wrecked the Atlantic Coast Line freight train in the citv limits Thursday night uy piac in 2 smrkes on the tracks. They want ed to see how far the engine would jump. In the wreck Engineer Kaci ford received serioui injuries, and the track was blocked for ttnay hours. Notchez Has Two New Cases. Natchez, Miss., Special. Two new cases in one family, making one new focus of infection., were reported Sun day. The patients, Ruby and Joe Ziegler, white, live on a street adja cent to the block where the first infec tion was discovered. There are now f r-nses under treatment, A rc : rp - f the local fever record shows I i r ses for the last two weeks; no deaths. Monday, was fumigation day. Notes of Southern Cotton Mills and ' Other Manufactories Enterprises- Tountain Inn, S. C. -The Fountain Tim Matiiifactuiing Co., has decided to add -liOO spii idles. The company has erected a two-Story 75x104 ad dition to its buildings to receive the new spiiidlc and preparatory ma chinery, .and this q"r;wmcut is now being placed in position. It is also adding (iO 72-inch Jaequard looms for weaVirlg dton damasks and equip ping a dyeliou3e- J,-K. Young, super intendent, made the plans for the im provements, and is in charge of all the work connected : therewith. The cost of bsfl betterments will amount to about $5(i,6'fM The company has been operating 5,P64 ritlsr spindles and 3,000 twisting spindles, manufac turing yearns. Its present enlarge ment is the second in five years under the management. C. E. Gra ham is president, and It. L. Graham, treasurer. . Colmnbia, S. C The stockholders of the Olnipfa Cotton Mills, met last week, purpsuatit t a resolution adopted by the directors at 8 meeting held on July 13, and voted ail in crease ill the eapital stock to the amount of $3,000,000. The amount of the iiltieSS is $1,800,000, and is to be known as "first preferred tock." Practically all of (Jite tnount will be issued to the present holders of tiie first mortgage bonds. The eompany is prae'tkally reorganized. The mill and equipment is" in the best physical condition and indications' are that the demand for the product of the 100.:J0 spindles and 2,250 looms will be satisfactory. Textile Notes. The Lancaster, S. C, Cotton Mills has declared its unial semi-annual dividend of 3 1-2 per cent. The Eureaka , Cotton Mills of Ches ter, S. C, has declared it usual semi annual dividend ot 4 1-z per cent. Messrs. founders, Simth & Co., of Charlotte, N.C., will install a bleach ing plant in their cotton-b.lting mill. This improvement will add largely to the mill's capacity, which is now 2, 500 pounds daily cotton batting and mattress felts. The Eagle and riioeili.t Mills of Columbus, Ga., announced its fall prices Oil rope last week and on the same day filed orders for 250,000 pounds Of the' product. The rope manufactured varies from three-sixteenths to three-quarters of ah inch in diameter. . - . The i'oifltfua Cotton Manufacturing Co. of Greensboro. N. -C, will roof in mill No. 2, which i 130x200 feet in size, and fill it with machinery later on, after the first mill of 10,000 spindles and 300 looms is finding a ready market for it? product of ex port sheetings and drills. A stock company has been organ ized at Clafton, Gp., to establish a $100,000 cotton factory, and will be gin to Crect its buildings next month. A third cotton mill for Newberry, S. C, is the latest announcement along the line of that city's progress and spirit. Charles lcehiaf. the promoter of the cotton mill for Ciicfaiv, S, C, is looking over sites for the mill. It is said that sufficient, capital has been subscribed to build the mill at once. Capital $100,000.: Capitalist's of Meridian, Miss., dis gusted with eastern associates fail ing to put up $200,000 promised mon ey, have assumed charge of the pro posed .Beatnee Cotton Mills, costing $500,000. ' Half the capital is already raised, and :the plaut will be bonded for the balance. It may now be counted as an es tablished fact, that Cherryville is to have her fourth cotton mill in the near future. -A Winston special says: "C. B. Watson left for Halifax county, Va., to appear for. the defense in a $30, 000 damage fuit, instituted against the bis" cotton-mill at Roanoke Rap ids, for .which Jolm Patterson, form erly of this city, is manager. Ihe case is set for trial this week. A Newberry, S. C, special says: A third cotton mill for Newberry is tha lntAKt. announcement along the line of this city's progress and spirit. A prominent citizen thoroughly alive to the interests of Newberry and its people, stated that the mill will be erected. It is probable that it will be built at Helena, a small town aa joining this eity. Newberry at pres ent boasts of two of the finest cotton mills in the state. The Saluda River .Power Co. re ports steady progress on the con struction of the dam for its water power development five miles from Greenville. The dam will be 38 feet high, to develop 2500 horse-power. The" work' of installing the new electric lighting system in the White Oak Cotton Mills at Greensboro has been completed and accepted. The plant is one of the largest in the South, there, being n one of the rooms of the mill over 300 are lights nf 1.000 n wile nower each. The svstem wias installed under the direc tion of Mr. W. It. Chapman. More Dispensary Rottenness. Sumter, S. C, Special. Wednesday's two sessions .of the dispensary invest! gating commission were productive of evidence tending to show that L. J, Williams, recently -defeated for Con gress, used his influence while chair man of the State board, to get county dispensers to get their friends to the polls. in the- interest of ; the gubernato rial candidacy 'of ex-Congressman J. W. Talbeit, now chief political gladiator against the dispensary, and threatening to ri'n for Governor on the prohibition platform, ... 12 CILLED AND 40 BADLY INJURED Train on Ninth Avenue Line Goinff at Speed in Expectation of a Straight Track is Mistakenly Switched Onto the Curving Sixth Avenue Junction and the Second. Car's Couplings Yield to the Strain Plunging It With Occupants 25 Feet Below. New York, Special. The death list of Monday's accident on the 9th avenue elevated railroad when a car crrowded with early workers on on their way down town pitched headlong into the street, stand at twelve. Three men are in hospitals with fracture dskulls. One of these, who as yet remains uni dentified at Roosevelt Hospital ,is un conscious and not expected to live. More than two score persons were in jured, many of them seriously. THE DEAD. Jacob M. Anspach, a merchant and member of the Newark, N. J., board or trade. Ernest P. Scheible, an electrician. Theodore Morris, colored. John Cochrane. Solomon Neugrass, employed by the Mutual Chemical Company. Wm Lees, an electrician. Joseph Bache, a policeman. James Cooper, employed by Fireproof Tenement House Association. Emma Conhoven, died in Roosevelt Hospital. Albert Weilster, clerk, died in Roose velt Hospital. Of the dead, the most frightfully mu tilated was James Cooper, whose head was completely severed from his body. THE SERIOUSLY INJURED. Henry Aitkens, policeman, fracture of ribs and dislocated leg. Wm. Butler, fractured arm and lac erated head. Martin Fitzgerald, internal injuries. James Greer, leg crushed. Patrick J. Gilliam, left side crushed. John Gensel, arm fractured. Bridgett McMahon, internal injuries and injuries to head. ' John T. McKinn, left shoulder dis located and leg crushed. Wm. T. Niebuher, skull fractured. Henry Osterlin, arm fractured. Seymour Roto,' skull' fractured. T"x,A W later, botla aJijau fractured.., . Unidentified man, fractured skull, un conscious, at 'Rooeevelt Hospital. The cause of the accident and the immediate responsibility remain to be settled. The motorman of the wreck ed train is a fugitive, while aswitch- man, conductor and four guards are under arrest. The switchman is charg ed with manslaughter and the train men are held as witnesses. Monday night Coroner Scholer, who has under taken the work of fixing the blame for the wreck announced that the switch man's bond had been placed at $5,000 and those of the witnesses at J100 each. Forty Russians Slain. Tokio, By Cable. On September 9 the Japanese in North Korea dispatch ed the bearer of a flag of truce to the Russian camp, but the Russians refused t o treat, owing to the non-arrival of the notice that an armistice was to be arranged. Skirmishing occurred in Manchuria September 9. Two compa nies of Russian infantry with two guns opened an attack, but were outflanked by the Japanese ana nea in disorder, leaving forty corpses. Mixed State of Affairs. St. Petersburg, By Cable. Dispatches from Baku received indicate that in creased quiet and better conditions are prevailing there. No further fires have occurred and the troops which have ar rived there are now holding the oil fields under control. The news from other parts of the Caucasus, however, is very disquieting. Disturbances are spreading all over the region, more or less seriously. Arms For Eevolutionists. Helsingfors, Finland, by Cable Cus toms officials on Saturday discovered 660 carbines of Swedish manufacture, with bayonets, and 120,000 cartridges on a barren island in the Gulf of Both nia, near Kerni. On Sunday morning a boat belonging to the customs service discovered a 300-ton steamer near Kalf swaer Rock, 20 miles outside Jacob stad. The captain and members of the crew, who spoke in English, declared that the steamer was fully loaded with rifles and cartridges, and thereupon the customs officials ordered the captain to take his vessel into port and discharge the cargo. Will Meet to Run Line. Godzyadani, Manchuria, By Cable. It is announced that Generals Ovanov ski and Fukushima, representing re spectively General Linevitch and Field Marshal Oyama, will meet September 13 to establish a line of demarcation be tween the two armies. Each general will have a small escort. The Chinese report that the Japanese army at Chan tufu will retire to Mukden in ten days. Midshipman Johnson Reduced. Washington, Special. Following the recommendations of the Navy Depart ment, the President has commuted the sentence in the case of Midship, man Robert Allen Jackson, of the navy, who was tried by court martial and sentenced to dismissal for absent ing himself from the battleship Missis sippi without leave, to reduction to a lower class. Every member of the court signed a recommendation for clemency. Jackson was appointed to the academy from Virginia. l: n i V1 ft: i