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Conflict Between Japan a Thing 01 NOW ONLY A 'UESTION OF IERMS Parish Priests Have Lost Their Influ ence and the Few Troops are Pow erless-Red Flag of Revolution Raised in Three Districts and a State Bordering on Revolution in Another-Poland and Finland in the North Also Menacing in Their As pect-Crisis Expected with Warm Weather. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-Russia has outlined the conditions under which she is prepared to negotiate peace. It was stated with every semblance of authority that. thanks to the good offices of the United States and France. the question of peace hap as sumed practical shape. The War in Brief. Interest in Russia's troublpo has shifted for the moment from Manchu ra, where war operations seem at a standstill, to Russian Poland, where the revolutionary spirit is asserting itself in different ways. A well-dressed man threw a bomb into a police station in a suburb of Warsaw, wounding six policemeu. While Baron von Nolken, Chief of Po lice of Warsaw, was on his way to in vestigate, a bomb was thrown at his carriage and he was severely injured. The first bomb-thrower was arresteA., but the second broke away from his captors. The disaster threatening Russian trade and industry has forced many men of the commercial classes to join the Library movement for a cessation of the war and for a constitution. Some of tte richest men in the Empire have entered actively into the campaign. A Moscow lawyer has accused medi cal men of the military hospital there of accepting bribes from reservists du ring mobilization. An organized depot of arms and bombs was recently discovered on the premises of a rich Moscow merchant. Jews at Kirscheneff are greatly al armed at a renewal of arti-Semitic agi tation. The demand for the use of the Polish language in Russian Poland has devel oped into a revolutionary mov'ement of threatening dimensions. The peasant disorders in the south and west of Russia continue, several landlords having been murdered and much property destroyed. One of Japan's conditions of peace, it is thought, might be the insistence upon a pledge from Russia that she will build no more warships for a term of. years, it being feared that without such a pledge Russia would take advantage of a cessation of hostilities to rehabili tace her navy. Russia's total army strength in M~an churia is estimated at 220,000 men. In in intervlev Field Marshal Oya ma praises Russian officers and men as brave and able and says he is ready to conti'ne the war as long as neces sary. One hundred thousand men are ex pected to take part on April 3 in the celebration in Tokio of the capture of Mukden. A paper in St. Petersburg has un earthed a report made by Gen. Kuro patkin in 1903 predicting war with Ja pan, but expected this to bring the Triple Alliance and England into the conflict. Russian Vice-Admiral Negobatoff's squadron has left Suez, after passing through tte canal, and sailed south. Uprising Against Morales. Cape Haytien, Hayti. By Cable.-Ad vices received here by cruiser from Monte Cristi, on the northern coast of the republic of Santo Domingo Tuesday, announce that Gen. Baraba, with a number of Dominican exiles, has landed at Monte Cristi and that the inhabitants have risen against President Morales, reproaching him with being the cause of the principal troubles with foreign couutries. A Record Crop. W'arhington. Special.-The Census Bureau Tuesday issued a bulletin - showintg the total crop of cotton gin ned for the season of 1904 to be 13. 597.7&2 bales. These figures include linters. and count round bales as half bales, and the total is equivalent to 13.5S4.457 baies of 500 pounds. The square bales number 13,103,447, the round :ales 296,151, the Sea Island bales 104,317, the linters 241,942: to tal running bales. including linters, 13,754.857. Includecd in these totals are 192.275 running bales estimated by ginners as remaining to be ginned. Pugilist Exonerated. Philadelphia. Special.-Dorsey Cran ston. better known as "id" Dor sey. -he colored pugilist, was exon erated by the coroner's jury of the death ct John Hall, colored, who died following a boxhng bout Thursday. The jury- decided that Hall's death was dute to a hemorrha.;e of the brain, resulg from in iuries necidenItally received. '"he others arrested w,e also dse--.i Armour Manager Arrested. Ch:ago. Spweial.-The Federal grand judry investigating the alleged beei trust returned an indictment to night against Thomas J. Connor. gen eral sunerintendenlt for Armour & Co. The ch'arge is interfering with a wit ness summtoned to appear before the grand~ jury. Mr. Connor, who is one of J. Ogden Armour's most confiden tial employes, and is the active head of one of the largest packing com panies in the world, was arrested to night on a bench warrant by a United States deputy marshal and brought to the ?rand jury room. and Russia Practically , the Past Cost Russia $1,750,000. Gunshu Pass, By Cable.-The Jap anese are again moving forward and the Russian rear guard has fallen back from its position about 13 miles north of Sipinghai (74 miles north of Tie Pass), to Chaoumiaodzi, which is sit uated 40 miles below Gunshu Pass. Practically complete reports show that the Russian army sacrificed gen eral commissiariat stores worth $1, 250,000, and stores for the army corps amounting to $500,000 held at Muk den. Most of the stores were set on fire. Boots and uniforms were among the stores, of which the whole army was in need, arriving from Europe four days before the Russian retire ment from Mukden. Kuropatkin or dered the removal of the stores, but the order was not executed. An in vestigation will be made to establish the responsibility. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-Roving bands of peasants continue to pillage, burn and murder in the Chernigov government and in Tamboff, Kazan and other governments in the south. The few troops here and there are powerless. The whole peasant popu lation is affected more or less. The parish priests, under instructions from the Holy Synod, are doing all possible to quiet the peasants, but without making any appreciable im pression. With warm weather a cri sis will come, especially if it is ac companied by orders for another ex tensive mobilization. In the meantime, the situation i:n the Caucasus is growing worse. A state bordering on civil war exists i' the Kuban territory, where the popu lation has been armed for a collision with the soldiers. In the Georgia, Mingrella and Ku tais territories, the red flag of revo lution has been raised. At Yalta. Crimea, after the popu lation had wrecked the vodka shops, police quarters, etc., warships were sent from Sebastopol, and marines were landed as if in a hostile country. The renewal of the bomb outrages in Poland and the open demonstra tions in Finland* against conscription are both regarded as bad and signifi cant signs. With the Japanese Left Armies in the Field, via Fusan.-The Japanese army near Mukden is clearing the bat tlefield, sorting the enormous quanti ties of stores and materials captured, and attending to the prisoners. En gineers are rapidly repairing the rail road bridges across the Hun river, which were badly damaged by the Russians. Trains are now running to the Hun river. They will reach Muk den in a few days. The weather is very warm, and the ground is thaw ing rapidly, making the movement of guns and transport wagons difficult. London, By Cable.-A telegram from a northern European capital received in London says: "I have just learned on reliable au thority that Russia has asked Del Casse to act as an intermediate and open peace negotiations with Japan. Del Casse has signified his willingness. but considers that Lansdowne's co-op eration is essential to success." London, By Cable.-When the pros pectus of the Japanese war loan of $150,000.000 was issued, the neighbor hood of the issuing banks resembled the scenes witnessed on first nights at popular th'atres. Long lines of people were struggling for admission and special forces of police controlled the streams of eager investors. The interiors of the banks were filled with shouting crowds struggling to snatch prospectus. Telegraphic Briefs. All the foreign steamship piers in New York are being watched by detec tives for Frank C. Marr-in, the reputed head of the Storey Company, of Phila delphia. through which a large number of small investors lost money. Not fewer than 26,000 emigrants were landed in New York last week, and 23.000 more are expected this week. whnich will break all previous sprng records. A banquet was given in New York in hon'or of the acquisition of a per manent home for the American Ac-ad emy i Rome. and securing of assuran ees that th'e $1,000,000 endowment fund will be raised. Sevral successful trips were made over San .Jose. Cal.. with Prof. John Montgomery's aeroplane. Imamense congregations attended ser vices conducted by Methodist minis ters at the Baltim?ere Confercuce in Winhester. Surgeon Samuel H. Griffin is criti cally ill in the naval hospital at Nor folk. Friends of Secretary Hay do not credit the report that he will retire from the cabinet. Odd Fellows charge Newport News officials with '-inhuman and gross neg ligence" in the burial of Capt. Albert Svenson. William Hansboro. wanted for the muder of Stewart McKeane at Hcot pins vwas captured at Charleston. Baron von Nolkcn. chief of polic-c i Warsaw.v was severely wounded by- a lO) explosion while en his way i in. e.tgt the throwing of a bomb in a suburb. As one of her conditions of peae, Japan may- insist upon Russia suspend ingraval rehabilitation for a numuer of years. By issuing debased cogper curreney. officials of the provincial Chinese mint: are said to have profited to the extent of $13,000.00~0 annually. Eiht soldiers were killed and nine ten injured by a landslide at Semlin. Hungary. Dr. J. H. Holland in his mission is expected to use his influence against the threatened revolt of the anti-MG; ales narty in Santo Domingo. PEACE REPORTS IQUESTIONED I Japanese Minister to France and For. eign Minister Del Casse Agree *rhat No Peace Negotiations or Prelimi naries Are in Progress, and Declare That Alleged Conferences Between the Two Never Took Place. Paris. By Cable.--Whatever hopeful ncss the peace situation may have had some days ago. the prospect has now completely changed, and there is every prospect that the war will drag on again. Consequently. dispatches appearing in America saying that For eign Minister Del Casse and Dr. Mor tono, the Japanese minister to France, have been conferring at the former's house relative of peace, are inaccu rate. The foregoing view of the situa tion is taken by the parties immediate ly concerned, and it is asserted with the authority of the foreign office and the Japanese legation. In view of the continued reports that there were indi cations that Minister Del Casse and Dr. Mortono were taking an active part in the negotiations, a correspond ent called at the Japanese legation to day and requested Dr. Mortono to fur nish a decisive statement which would put at rest all misunderstanding. Ac cordingly. the minister gave the fol lowing categorical statement, which was taken in writing and may be ac cepted as authoritatively clearing the situation: "I tell you explicitly that there are no peace negotiations or preliminaries for initiating peace negotiations at this time so far as I am aware, and I believe nv information to be com piete. I am not desirous of discussing the general question of peace: for, ow ing to the complete absence of negoti ations or preliminaries towards nego tiations, that question can only be academic and without practical bear ing. "The statements that I have confer red with M. Del Casse at his residence are false and are calculated to confuse a situation which Is perfectly plain. There is no representative of Japan authorized at this time to discuss peace or foreshadowing in the slight est what conditions the Japanese gov ernment might consider if the nego tiations assumed a practical stage. On the contrary, Japan is now en gaged in conducting a military cam paign, and will unreservedly proceed with that important work." It can be added that the introduction of the fcregoing dispatch, as well as the portion quoted. was submitted to Dr. Mortono, who approved every word. It was similarly submitted to the Foreign Office, where it was ap pioved t-.roughout. Therefore the dis patch can be accepted as being in the highest ( egree authoritative. No Insurrection on. Washington. Special.-Haitien Min ister Leg-er has received a cablegram from the President of Haiti, contra dieting the-cablegram of Minister Pow ell, stating that serious trouble is im pending :.n Haiti. and that it is doubt ful whether the authorities can main tain peace and order on March 31 and April 1. According to Minister Leg er's advices, the country is quiet and there is no fear of an uprising; the law concerning the Syrians is being executed peacefully, and the govern ment can. maintain order. Noted Man Dead. Louisville. Ky., Special.- Col. Fred erick de iruniak, capitalist and distin guished citizen, died at his residence here Wednesday. Col. de Funiak was born in Rome, Italy, 65 years ago, and was a veteran of Garibaldi's army. He was for a long time chief engineer of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. and has been connected with railroad building in many parts of the country He was a member of the New York Yacht Club. of the Old Southern Yacht Club and of the Philadelphia Yacht Club. A Serious Charge. Newport News. Special.-Captain Onzarda. of the Spanish steamship Niceto. New Orleans to Boness, was placed untder .%00 bond. char-ged with permitting two alien sailors, a Turk and an Armenian, affiinted with tra choma, to escape from the ship. The men were on board at New Orleans. but the captain could no: produce them upon demand of local customs officials. Fears Loss to Workmen.. St. Petersburg. By Cable.-A dis patch from Gen. Linevitch says: "No change in the situation. The enemy is dlisplaying activity east of the rail road." A telegram from Gunshu Pass says Gen. Linevitch ha; forbhidden the inhabitants of Harbin. with the excelp tion of vs omen andl children, to leave without spcial permits. fearing the town may be denuded of workmen. Teicgraphic Briefs. In London rea. 'x'y sta-ions~ bi-::' covered oard itrn prov:(ided. 'Anl wie letters or telcaris addr essed to pas sengers ma'. be isplayed.~ The now flritish ceo-o:ing torpo boat destr'yers art to b i:dfr oil fuel, and they will be ~r~f!!inly , arm edl to act a:; small ecruiss The Bh-itish House of Lor"ds. as a court of ultimat aippnai. has decided tat '-agueness'. rh u preasion of a testator's~ ds-re that bequests shoulH pass to oenpecified chariies. or to charities to be" seerted by his tru;teet make a will invalid. The charities of the city of Dun-I". Secotland, lose $300, 000 by the decision. IThomas .T Connemrs. financial man for Armour & Co.. was arrested and put under b11 in Chicago on the charge of having attempoed to influence .John E. Shields. a witness in the "Beef Trust" inquiry. The PBoard of Frnign M~isions ;-ot ed on the aeretanen or' r:>jetion of 31r. .Tohn D. Rc:eioner-s 1.00).Y0 gift, and t issai tha the'~c decico was tc o the~ ttest . 'qa Ige asinited StateE deput mar-sha! in NZ'w Y Phe city of Louivie and the su rtrintenden of 0 t'.e wvo thouse thecre Gessier Rosseau says heo thinks the mine whtich blew up the battleshii: MIaine was oneO of those madte by- him. Gov. Joseph W. Folk. of Mlissouri. addressed the 31issouri society of New. York on the Mi1ssouri idea of law. Louis Guggenheime'r. alleged to be a raiser of Government money orders. s said to have made $80,000 by his scheme. IA reception in honor of 'Vice-Presi dent Fairbanks was given in Philadel hia by the Union League. NOW FOR BIG SHOW Jamestwn Fxposition Endorsed By President Roosevelt OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION ISSUED A Spelamation is Issued, Inviting All Nations to be Represented by Their Military Organizations and Naval Vessels at the Tri-Centennial Com memoration in 1907 of the First English-Speaking Settlement in America. Washington, Special.-The President Wednesday issued a proclamation in viting the naticns of the earth to be represented by their milit.ry organiza tions and naval vessels at the celebra tion to be held in the vicinity of Jamestown, Va., from 'May 13 until No vember, 1907, 1907. The proclamation is as follov.: By the President of the United States, A Proclaniation: Whereas, the Congress of the Un:ted States has passed an act. approved i March 3. 1905, and entitled, "An act to provide for celebrating the birth of the American nation, the first perma nent settLement of English-speaking people on the western hemisphere,' by the holding of an international naval, marine and military celebration in the vicinity of Jamestown, on the waters of Hampton Roads, in the State of Vir ginia; to provide for suitable and per manent commemoration of said event, and to authorize an appropriation in aid thereof, and for other purposes" And whereas, section 3 of the said act reads as follows: "Section 3.-The President of the United States is hereby author.zed to make proclamation of said celebration, setitag forth the event to be commem orated, ir-viting foreign nations to par ticipate by the sending of their naval vessels and such representation of their military organizations as may be prcper" Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roose velt, President of the United States of Anerica, by virtue of the aut'lority vested in me by said act, do hereby declare and proclaim that there shall be inaugurated in the year 1907, at and near the waters of Hampton Roa ds, in the State of Virginia, an international naval, marine and military celebra tion, beginning May 13, and end-ng not later than November 1, 1907, ior the purpose of commemorating in a fitting and appropriate manner the birth of the Ame.-ican natio'n; the first settle ment of English people on the Amer ican continent, made at Jamestcwn, on the 13th of May, 1607, and in order that the great events of the American his tory which have resulted therefrom may be accentuated to the present and future generations of American citi zens. And in the name of the government and people of the United States, I do, therefore, invite all the nations of the earth to take part in the commemora tion of the event which has had a far reaching effect on the course of human history, by sending their naval vessels to the said celebration and by making such representations of their military organizations as may be proper. In testimony thereof, I have now set my hand and taused the seal of the Unied States to bh affixed. Done in the city of Washington this twenty-ninth day of March, one thous and nine hundred and five, and in the inenendenc'e of the United States the one hundred an:1 twenty-ninth year. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. By the President, A.LVEY A. ADEE. Acti::g Secretary of State. Secretary Hay Better. Gibraltar. By Cable.-The White Star Line Cretic, from New York, March 18, with Secretary of State Hay aid Mrs. Hay on board, arrived here Wdnesday mo-ning. In an interview Mr. Hay said he felt much better than wen he left New York. He thorougii ly enjoyed the trip. Although Secre tary Hay has imnproved, he has by no means recoverfd his health. OVER-SUBSCRIBED TEN TIMES. Great Rush For Japanese Loan in Lon don Taxes Extra Bnnking Staffs. L iondon. Speial.-The portion of the .Japanese loan cf $150.000,000 al lted to Londo~n was well over-sub scibed within an hour of the time of opening the bank.s. For an hour be fore the doors opened, throngs crowed the vicinity of the issuing houses. and throughout the morning a steady flood of applicants, among whom were many wcn, taxed the extra statfs of the banking establishmeCnts engaged to deal with the rush. The issuing banks estimate that the Japanese loan has been over subscribed at least ten times. $100,000,000 Bond Issue. Philadelphia, Special-The directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Wed nesdav ordered an issue of $100,000,000 convertible bends at $75 per share, bearing Z 1.2 per cent. interest. Pri vileges are extended to the stock~held er. Of the bond issu1e $5(.00:.u0 was authorized by a stcek vote yes"rua~y and the remaining $50,O00.000) 'j au torized tw.o y-ears ago, but have us-.er been issued. 45,000 MINERS -TO QUIT. Wage Scale Conference, For the Cen tral Bituminous District of Penn~syl vania Fails to Agree. Altoona. Pcnn., Special.-The opera tors and miners of the central bitumi nous district of Pennsylvania, after being in conference in this city almost continuously since March' 13, endeav oring to agree upon a wage scale to go into effect April 1, adjou'rned finally Wednesday without comiog to an agreement. The failure to agree means a suspension of work by the 45,000 or ganized miners of the district at the ena of the nresent month. FOUR MEN -KILLED Result ?f an Accident On Southern Railway A COLLISION NEAR CHARLESTON When Found the Dead Engineer's Hand Firmly Grasped the Emer gency Brake-Freight Engineer's Watch Said to Have Been 30 Min utes Slow, This Being the Cause of the Accident-Engineer Reed Fatal ly Injured. Augusta, Ga.. Special-A special from Branchville, S. C., to The Chronicle says: The worst wreck tiat has occur -rec. on this division of the Southedn Railway in many years happened Sun day morning about 3 o'clock a few miles below Branchville near a small lurmber station called Badham. The through freight from Columbia to Charleston and the fast passenger train from Charleston to Columbia ran into each other at the above named point. There was a very dense fog at the time. It is reported that Freight En gineer Reed's watch was 30 minutes slow. and that this was the direct catuse of the wreck. So far. four are known to be killed outright as follows: Tom Conton. engineer on passenger and one of the oldest men in the ser vice. Conten's body is mashed into an almost unrecognizable mass, with one arm cut off, the hand of which is still grasping the emergency krake. Another white man named Stokes, brakeman, is killed, and also two ne gro brakemen, Adams and Stephens. Frenght Engineer Arthur Reed has both legs broken, besides severe inter nal injuries, and cannot possibly live. Leans to Russia. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-Emperor William's speech at Tangier and pros pective developments therefrom en gross the attention of the Russian I newspapers almost to the exclusion of pace discussion. Her treaty relations with France and the friendly attitude of Germany during the war place Rus sian in an awkward position. Never theless, the difficulties of floating fur- I ther loans in France and the absence o: assistance on which., until recently, I Russia at least had vaguely counted, I incline the scales somewhat in favor i of the western neighbor, whose benev o~eilt neutrality and frontier pledge enabled Russia to place in the field a anchurian army so well supplied with artillery. "Expectedly," The Russo says. "a grouping of powers in Western Eu rope has begun, and perhaps wve are o:2 the eve of great developments in international events." The Novoe Vremya sees in the Ger rr.an Emperor's supposed pleasure trips to Jerusalem, Constantinople, and Tangier a fixed plan to uphold Turkey in Morocco and create "Mus sulman peril." which is Germany's aswer to Great Britain's "yellow per I." The paper expresses the belief that it will result in strengthening the bond between Great Britain and France, the embitterment of the feel ing between France and Germany, and increased armaments, but there is no possibility of war since Berlin fully cmprehends the madness of conflict with Great Britain and France allied. Demand of Miners Granted. Philadelphia, Special.-By the action of the soft coal operators of Central Pennsylvania, who had a meeting hero Saturday, the threatened strike of the bituminous miners has been averted. The operators, in secret session decided to grant the demands of the men by renewing the wage scale in effect last year. the basis ot which is G2 cents a ton for pick mining. A meeting of the joint scale committee of operators and miners will be held at Altoona next Tuesday. when the schedule will be adopted. Baptist Editors Adjourn. Memphis, Special.-The Southern Baptist Press Association, after three days' session. has adjourned. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President. Dr. T. J. Barton. editor of The Mississippi Baptist: see rtary and treasurer. Dr. E. E. Folk. editor of The Baptist and Reflector. Nashville. Tenn. The selection of the next meeting place was left to the ex ecutive committee. It is probable next year's meeting will be held in Florida. Protests Rate of Exchiange. Mexico City. Special.-Prec~autio:; have been taken by the government and the large banks to prevent a shary rise in exchange as the result of thy' pcuaiemov'emenlt, lieved to hav.' becu latied to take place just as th' new monetary system goes into effee':. That something of the sort would he attempted,. was foreseen some months ago. It is saidl that there has been extensive buying of exchange at the present low rate in the hope of a sharp advanc'e. One of the largest banks has refused to sell exchange to brokers and private bankers, and has merely met the demands of commercial houses. It is the purpose of the government to make the transition to the new syn tem as early as possible. Poisoned by Strikers. St. Petersburg. By Cable.-Reports from many plac'es throughout Rusia. including Tver. Borissoff and Sisran. show that employes of warehouses anrd shus are again demanding shorter hours and more wvages. There has ben a reneral strike' of shop as ist ants at Sarmara and lrkutsk. Acor'ding to the Rtussky Slovo., i tv workmen ini a factory at Lodz: r'a.e been noisone'd and 2S are in a ('rmr'l coni: ionC. It is supposed that strikr reirsponsile for theC affair'. Indictment Talk Revives. Chicago, Special.--Well authenticat' Ied reports have it that the Federal grand jury which is investigating the business methods of the meat packers will return indicements when it re-con venes next Wednesday. were prevalent here. The report was that the ad journment taken was really decided upon in order to allow Assistant At'! torney Pagin time to draw up the bills Iat hisl 'easure and to give due con | sieraton to the mass of testilhony gathered since the jury went into ses siOon, DISPENSARY PROFITS DIVIDED Comparison of Amounts Received By the Several Counties. Comptroller General Jones has made an allotment of $110.000 of dispensary profits to the public schools of the State. The allotment was made after finding out the deficiency in each county. This deficiency represented the amount each school in ,the county fell short of $75. In some counties the 3 mill school tax produced revenue ufficient to pay each school $75. which amount is calculated to run a school three months. It required $9.552.53 to make up these leficiencies and the remainder of the profits recently declared by the dis pensary were divided among all of the yountics. Chesterfield' county super ntendent of educatiA having failed o respond with the data necessary, hat county was not included in the Sistribution but the amount will be made up at subsequent distributions. The total enrollment in the State as eported is 288.353; and the amount ach pupil will receive from this distri >ution will be 23% ceits. The defi -iency money was divided as follows mong the 26 counties reporting that he 3 mill school tax did not afford $75 or each and all of the schools in these :ounties: Abbeville, $297.85: Aiken. $76.30; 3amberg. $91.04: Barnwell, $32: Chero cee. $132.6S; Clarendon, $74.82; Colle on. $491.09; Edgefield. $460.24; FIor nce. $64.63: Georgetown, $267.78; 1reenville. $9184; Hampton. $434; -Iorry. $2.094; Kershaw, $128; Lancas er. $739.80: Laurens. $170.76: Lee, 115.90: Lexington, $282.20; Marion, ;242: Marlboro, $150:13: Oconee, $682. 6: Orangeburg. $216; Pickens, $1;0.16; aluda. $1.109; Spartanburg, $19.15; ,illiamsburg. $949. The following table gives in the first olumn the names of the counties, in he second the number of pupiIs enroll d in the public schools of each, and in he third the amount of money each eceived from the funds of $100,023.08 eft after deficiencies had been made 1p: tbbeville .... .... .... 8,995 $3,120.17 Liken ..... ...... .... 8,414 2,918.63 knderson ...........13,321 4,620.76 3amberg ..... ........ 4,287 1,487.06 3arnwell ...... ...... 7,083 2,456.93 3eaufort ....... ...... 4,033 1,398.95 3erkley ...... ........ 5,452 1,891.17 harleston .... .......13,378 4,640.52 Therokee .... ........ 4,491 1,557.82 ,hester .... .......... 6,318 2,191.57 larendon .... ........ 6,227 2,160.00 'olleton ...... ....... 5,867 2,035.13 )arlington ..... ...... 5,851 2,029.58 )orcester ...........2,984 1,035.08 Edgefield ............6,117 2,121.85 airfield ............,336 2,544.69. orence ............ 6,518 2,260.95 eorgetown .... ...... 3,356 1,164.12 reenville .... .......12,338 4,279.78 reenwood .... ....... 7,394 2,564.80 -ampton ...... ...... 5,035 1,746.53 lorry ........ ........ 6,138 2,129.13 Cershaw ...... ....... 4,679 1,623.04 sanaster .... ........ 6,'9 2,264.76 ,aurens ...... ........ 8.,07 2,777.45 .ee .... ......... .... 4.511 1,564.76 ,exington ...... ...... 6,771 2,348.70 arion ...... ...... .. 8,411 2,917.59 Iarlboro ...... ...... 5,782 2,005.64 ewberry ...... ...... 6,989 2.424.33 )conee ...... ....... 6,694 213.87 )rangeburg... ......14,425 5,003.70 'ckens .. ..... . ...... 5,279 1,831.106 ichland ..... .......8.873 ?,077.85 saluda ..... .........,361 1,859.0 partanburg... .....15,311 5,311.04 ;umter ...... ....... ,128 2,472.54 Jnion .... .... ...... 6.290 2,181.80 illiamsburg 6.... 6765 2,346.62 fork ..... ........... 0,215 3,543.3$ Tremendous4-. It is stated on good a .ority that :he increase in the sale <d liquor by :he State for the quarter ending March ist. was $222,000. The fiscal year be ins with December. At this rate of increase the sales for he entire year will show an increase >f a million dollars, and last year they were heavier than ever before. The :otal amount bought by the State dis ensary in the first quarter of the fis al year. was $873.000 and the total amount paid to the State dispensary y the local dispensaries was $1,200, This shows an astonishing array of igures. The gross sales of the sub jispensaries in 1903 amounted to $2. 17.000, just a little more than twice as much for three months of the pres ant year. Some ascribe this state of affairs to the fact that dispensaries are being patronized now by many who patronized blind tigers and mported their supplies a few years 102-year-old Colored Woman Dead at Columbia. Columbia, S. C.. Special.-Fanlnie Barnwell. sometimes known as Fannie Brice, died Sunday morning at 3 )clock at the ripe old age of 102 years. She was for many years a faithful urse in some of the best white fain lies of this city. She has been kindly emembered by them during her infir nities. She was highly respected by >oth white and colored. Young Howell's Murderer. . Early Thursday morning Most Brun on, a negro suspected of the murder ,f young Stephen Howell, was brought o Columbia from Kershaw. in which :outy he has been working. Whether 3r not Brunson is the murderer of Iloweli is not known. At the time of :he hideous murder, December 21. 1903. :here were many arrests and suspects but none of them proved to be the right man. It is femembered that Howell. in :ompany with an unknown negro, went into the woods to gather holly for sale >n the streets at Christmastide. His )ody was not found until several weeks later. Nearby was an axe. with which the murder was committed. C.racksman in South Carolina. Columbia. Special.--a special to the State from Heath Springs. Lancaster county says, the safe of the Springs Banking and Mercantile compar y was blown open by professional burglars about 3 o'clock Saturday morning, and from $1.000 to $1,500 was taken. The tools used in effecting an entrance to the safe were secured at a near by blacksmith shop. The blowing open of th safe was a neat professional lob. ;lodhounds are on the trail of the robbers, and it is believed that they will be captured. Palmetto Items. Mr. E. W. Thomas has resigned the position of general manager of the' Olympia and Granby cotton mills in Co'lumbia to accept a position as su pervising engineer with the United States Cotton Duck Trust of Balti more. His resignation will take ef fet during the latter part of April. HeI will then leave Columbia for Baltimore. where his headquarters will be estab lished. The Czar's rescript on reforms for Poland has produced a bad impressioD - DIVISION OF LABOR. -4 Ile promised to look out for her From dawn to darkness dim When they were wed; but did not saf She'd busy be from dark to day A-looking out for him! -New Orleans Times-Democrat MUST BE. "Is that plant hardy?" "Oh, yes. I've had it in my Harlent flat all winter."-Life. MISTREATS HER. "D'Auber sprung that old gag on me to-day about being wedded to his art." "Well if he is. the whipping-post for im.--Cleveland Leader. THE REAL THING. - "Why do you call your auto she?" "Because it is always breaking down it critical moments, raising trouble most of the time, and keeps me broke.M -Life. THOROUGH TREATMENT. "War seems to be the only remedy or some countries." -Yes, and Russia seems to need it both externally and internally."r Cleveland Leader. PRACTICAL EDUCATION. "Do the Russians know much about modern warfare?" "Of course they do. Look at what they must, have learned in the past" rear' "-Washington Star. THE DEBTOR. Bustler-"Don't you believe the world owes you a living?" Hustler--Yes, but the trouble is it won't pay up, and I have to work to collect the money."-Detroit Free Press. SELF-APPRECIATION. "I am one of ten children!" The . company looked surprised. From the way the man had been talk ing they thought it probable he was more than one.-The Trumpeter;. iin Town Topics. GILT-EDGE CIfUELTT. "You know," said Miss Kreech, after her solo, -1 intend to go abroad to. fin sh my musical education." "Why not finish it right now," sug ested Miss Cadley, "and save the ex ense' "-Chicago Journal. BOBBY JACK. "Why are you pouting, Ethel?"' "Jack said I was beautiful. I told iim he must be short-sighted." "What did be say?" "Why, the horrid thing said perhaps le was."-London Tit-Bits. WHAT THEY SEEK HERE'. "What is the chief product of the United States?" asked the teacher' ia a Europian school. And without hesitation the bright pupil replied: "Money"-Washington Star. STILL THERE. "Of course," said the tourist. "the ealth of this country about here is in he soil." "So fur's I'm consarned it is." replied he poor farmer. "I ain't dragged none ut of it-"-Philadelphia Press. LESSENING THE TEMPTATION. Kind Farmer--"Gosh! That ice is wful thin. How on airth kin I keep eople off it?" Wise City Man-"Well, you can make it good start by talking down that Danger' signal."-Pittsburg Post. REQUIRES MANAGEMENT.. The Parson--Have you ever given ny time to studying the social prob em?" The Layman--"No, but my wife has. ----. She occasidnally gives a dinner party n our little flat."-Brooklynl Life. TEMPERATURE. "Tue Russians claim they rost that last battle because the weather man ade it too cold for them.. Do you elieve it?" "Not much: It wvas because the .Taps mde it too hot for them.--Detroit ree Press. WISDOM OF LITTLE FRITZ. "It's 7 o'clock, Fritz: We must rtun ome." "No: if I go home now. I shall be hipped for being so late. I'm going o stay til !). and then I'll get bonbons ad kisses because I'm not drowned." -Lustige Blaetter. THE DIFFICULTY. "One half of the wvorld's happiness s solv-ed when a person learns to mind is own business." "Yes: but it's the other nalf that auses the most trouble." "What's that?" "Getting other people to mind theirs!"'-Detroit Free Press. TRUE TOH-ER SEN. Fred-"-How did she come to accept n the second time y;ou prop~osed?" Joe-"Why, you see her refusal the first time I proposed made me feel awfully cheap, and, woman-like, she couldn't resist the opportunity to se cure a bargain."-Chicago News. THlE LAST CHAPTER. She shook her' head. "No." she said. sadly, but firmly. "I cannot trust With a groan off despair he sprang to his feet. "Good-by forever:" he muttered. "'ll bet I cran tind a landlady that will. I don't have to board here, you know."-Clevelnd Leader. A German contemporary states that within the last decade the population of Europe has increased about 38,000, 000, of whom Russia contributed 14,. Q00,000, and France less than 100.00Qs