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*A NEHxL O'DONNELL, Vice President.
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Jan. 31.
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ERl?NfiSHAN FORT FALLS.
JAPANESE MAKE IMPORTANT
CAPTURE AT PORT ARTHUR.
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A Strong Citadel in the Defenses of
Port Arthur Taken by Gen. Nogi.
-W?1 Hasten Ultimate Cap?
ture.
London, Dec. 29.-Baron Hayashi
\ received a telegram from Tokio to
i day announcing that the Port Arthur
! beseiging army captured on Wednes
I day night Fort Erliungshan. The cap?
ture is regarded' here as of highest
imporance and will materially hasten
the fall of the forts.
Japanese casualties in the capture
of the heights are estimated at 1,000
killed and wounded.
Russian Sailors Courtmartailed.
Odessa, Dec. 29.-A, dispatch from
Simphoropal says the commander in
chief of the Black Sea fleet has order?
ed eighty-five sailors to be court
martialed. The charge against them
! is mutiny.
Tokio, Dec:. 30.-Three Russians,
who were captured in the taking of
Erlungshan fort state that the Rus?
sian defenders numbered about 500
besides some sailors. The majority of j
? the defenders, they say, were killed.
Japs Secured 3Iany Guns.
London, Dec. 30.-Baron Hayashi
has issued the following supple
f mentary report from Tokio on the
capture of Erlungshan fort :
"Our ^occupation of Erlugshan fort
was completely assured on the night
of December 28th. We captured,
among other things, ?our large calibre
guns,- seven smaller calibre, thirty 37-r
millimetre and two machine guns."
Tokio, Dec. 30.-Admiral Togo, the !
hero of Port Arthur, and Admiral Ka?
mara, who distinguished himself by
his good work against he Vladivos
tock fleet, accompanied by their
staffs, arrived at Tokio this morning.
They proceeded immediately to the
palace to make their reports to the
emperor. They were given a hearty
reception by the population as they
passed through the streets of the
city.
GEN. KUROKI STELL LIVES.
Berlin, Dec 29.-A convivial circle
at Dortmund sent Gen. Kuroki in
September a card o? nhtsuiastic con?
gratulations on his military succt?ss,
and has now received the following
answer:
"On the Battlefield in Manchuria,
Nov. 5, 1904.-How I rejoice to be
congratulated at so great a distance,
r upon our victories. As you know, we
'are pupils of German tacticians, hence
I have double pleasure in being con
! gratulated by German men. With spe
! cia! regards, your obedient servant,
. (Signed) "KurokL"
Theabovo 'letter'from Gen: Kuroki
i remove all doubt, if any existed, that
Gen. Kuroki is still alive. He was per
; sistvntly- reported to have been killed
! during the fighting of October 4 last.
[ MOB WHIPPED WHITE MAW
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Chicago Man Given SLxty Lashes and
Ordered to Leave Mississippi.
Natchez. Miss., Dec. 28.-A. D.
Lewis, a white man, 33 years of axe,
. whose home is in Chicago, was whip?
ped in the woods near Natches today
and ordered out of the State.
Lewis was being taken to the coun?
ty convict farm to serve a ser?ei??;e
for insulting women on the streets,
While under arrest a crowd of six
white men took him from the guard,
carried him to the woods three Ju.;les
from town, stripped him and gave him
sixty lashes across he back, then
placed him on a train and ordered him
to leave the State. j
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THE LYNCHING INDUSTRY. r
A Negro Strung np by a Mob for Kill?
ing a White Man.
J' Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 29.-A special to
The Constitution from Neal, Ga., says:
Herbert Simmons,, a negro, was lynch?
ed here today for the killing of. J. A.
Park, a white man, and one of the
community's best known citizens.
The negro was taken from the of?
ficers by infuriated citizens while be?
ing carried to the Zebulon jail and af?
ter being strung up to a tree his body
was riddled with bullets.
Mr. Park was murdered on the
night of Dec. 27, his skull being
crushed in with a large stick. The cor?
oner's verdict was that he came to
his death ac the hands of Herbert
Simmons.
A DESPERATE PRISONER.
Negro Convict Exploded a Stick of
Dynamite in* a Coach-One Killed.
Birmingham. Ala.. Dec. 29.-While
a train carrying 130 convicts in the
employ of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Railway company was going
from Mine No. 3 to the prison, Will
Filler, a negro convict, exploded a
stick of dynamite in one of the coach?
es with a view of effecting a whole?
sale release. J. Dawkins, a convict
from Henry county, was killed, Guard
Pickett lost a leg and an arm. Geo.
Delaney, one of the trainmen, was
hurt, and several convicts were slight?
ly injured. During the stampec
guaards from the other cars rushed
forward and prevented the escape of
any ofthe convicts. The explosion blew
blew out the end of the coach.
Washington, Dec. 30.-President
Roosevelt received a call this morning
from Judge John J. Jackson, of the
Northern District of West Virginia,
who claims the distinction of being
tho oldest man and one of the longest
in service on the Federal bench.
Judge Jackson ii eighty years old and
was appointeed by President Lincoln.
A NEW VIEW POINT.
-
Novel Opinion on the Cotton Situa?
tion.
A cotton merchant of Augusta, Ga.,
in an interview with a reporter the
other day, told of a new scheme that
is being worked to thwart the efforts
of the farmers to force the price of
cotton to a higher basis. The story
is told by the Augusta Chronicle as
follows:
"A new turn has been taken to flim?
flam the farmers of the south," said
a prominent cotton merchant of Au?
gusta yesterday.
"And it has fooled some warehouse?
men, too," said he. "Here is the
proposition: An exporter will go to the
warehouseman and say: Let me have
ali the cotton you have on hand and
I will pay you spot cash at the mar?
ket price today. And in addition, I
will agree to pay you the difference
between the price today arid sixty or
ninety days hence.
"That looks, fair-dees it not ?-pay
for the farm?r's cotton at the mar?
ket price today and give him the
benefit of the rise, if any, for the
next three ?onths!
"Let's see,'Acontinued he, "how
this will work. Certain dealers, be
they exporters, mill owners or spec?
ulators, have their obligations out
to deliver so much cotton in January,
February, March, etc They have :*o
cotton and must buy it Being com?
pelled to have it they^ will pay ten
cents for it if they cannot get it
otherwise. But they propos? to l*or
row it. Don't you see, if the farmers
and factors loan them the cotton
they can fill their contracts and keep
the price down-and there will then
be no adance fordern to pay."
"It does seem "KT me," said the cot?
ton merchant, "that the brains of the
world are allied against the cotton
growers of the south. About a year
ago the secretary of agriculture of
the United States said cotton was too
high-it could be grown for less
that the high price of cotton was
hurting the mills. Quite recently his
department has issued a so-called
ginner's report putting the crop at
more than twelve million bales. He
only missed it a million bales a year
ago and he will miss it again. This
report hammered the price down;
the farmers hold meetings and agree
to hold their cotton for ten cents..
"Now comes the trick, studied out
by some brainy fellow, to take the
cotton and agree to give the farmer
the benefit of any advance in price.
This is the very thing that will keep
the price down.
"No," said he, "let the farmer hold
his cotton-and if in a warehouse,
compel his factor to hold it-hold it
-hold it, until somebody comes
along and says: Here is ten cents for
your cotton."
"Check this last movement, hold the
cotton for ten cents. Tell the ex?
porters if they have contracts to fill
they can't borrow your cotton, but
must walk up to the office and pay
teii cents for it."
The cotton merchant explained to
the Chronicle reporter that an offer
to purchase all the cotton he had in
his warehouse on the terms above,
was made by a local representative
of an exporting firm. It is needless to
say the offer was declined.
THE ARBITRATION TREATIES.
Bonds of Southern States Not Be?
lieved to Be Involved.
Washington, Dec. 28.-The senate
committee on foreign relations has
not yet taken up the several arbitra?
tion treaties negotiated last fall and
sent to the senate before the holiday
recess. It is expected that a meeting
of the committee will be held next
week when these treaties will be con?
sidered and favorably reported. Sev?
eral southern senators who have been
examining them have raised the ques?
tion as to whether under them the
bonds of southern States issued du?
ring the Reconstruction period, could
be arbitrated and declared valid. They
have given notice that if the treaties *
provide for the adjudication of such
bonds they will oppose them unless
an amendment is inserted which in
express terms will declare that bonds
of a State shall not be arbitrated.
There are many million dollars of
these bonds which it is claimed, were
fraudulently issued and for which the
States received no benefit and their
payment was refused. Other senators
who have looked into the question,
say that they believe the arbitration
treaties cannot be construed to cover
these State ^onds.
Int** ..ed to Suicide.
New York. Dec. 29.-Benjamin J.
Riley, of Brookline, Mass., last night
declared that he and Orestes A. Weed
of Boston came to this city with the
intention of committing suicide to?
gether. The two men were taken from
the Grand Union hotel here early yes?
terday suffering fr^m morphine poi?
soning and Weed died at 'the
hospital today. Riley was revived
this afternoon and was transferred to
the prison ward of Bellevue hospital,
where he is held <^n a charge of at?
tempted suicide. Jt is thought that he
will recover.
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will save the dyspeptic from many
days of misery, ana enable him to eat
whatever he wishes. They prevent
SICK HEADACHE, '
cause the food to assimilate ana* nour?
ish the body, give keen appetite,
DEVELOP FLESH
and solid muscle. Elegantly sugar
coated. ,mm
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HOLD COTTOX AND COMBINE.
Where, When and By Whom the
?.Iovcment to Hold Cotton Was
Launched.
(From Walter Parker, News Corres?
pondent.)
Xew j^rleans, Dec. 27.-"Hold your
cotton and combine-form a 'Cotton
I Growrs' ^ust,-fight the devil with
fire." Thus spoke President Harvie
Jordan/of the Southern Cotton Grow?
ers' Protective Association, while the
boll weevil convention at Shreveport
was stil/ hot. ' In a little dressing room
just off the stage of the grand opera
house, where the meetings were held,
there gathered a little group of the
leaders of the movement for holding
cotton, and organized fighting. Assem?
bled there with President Harvie Jor?
dan of Monticello, Ga., were E. S. Pe?
ters, president of the Texas Cotton
Growers' Association of Calvert, Tex?
as; X. C. Murray, president of the
Farmers' Educational and Co-opera?
tive Union of America, of Kiugston,
Texas; Robt. R. Poole, commissioenr
of agriculture for the state of Ala?
bama; John P. Allison, secretary of
the Southern Cotton Growers' Protec?
tive assocition, of Concord, N. C.; El?
lison D. Smith, a big cotton mill owner
of Magnolia, S. C., and .a representa?
tive of a New Orleans newspaper.
"Fight the devil with fire," repeat?
ed Mr. Jordan, "and the only way we
can do it is by organization:-business?
like, sane, systematic organization.
The farmer holds the trump cards if
he but realized it and he is rapidly
realizing it. The past few years of
'frenzied financing* in his commodity
has opened his eyes a bit. .He has
prospered some and has had time to
think and get about. For that reason
he is preparing to come in to his own
and the object of the New Orleans
meeting to be held January 24, 25 and
26 is to assemble all southern farm?
ers' organizations, amalgamte, form a
central body, appoint a committee on
'finances, assess and secure the funds,
and organize a bureau of statistics and
information on the lines of the gov?
ernment's department, and furnish
the farmers, bankers and merchants
with information not now obtainable.
It must be plainly understood that
we are not and do not propose to be
antagonistic to the United States De?
partment of Agriculture, but are de?
termined to elliminate, as far as pos?
sible, the speculative element, from
fixing the price of spot cotton.".
Mr. Jordan and his co-workers
were in thorough harmony and it did
not take them ten minutes to deter?
mine on making the New Orleans
meeting the most important in the
cotton history of the south .
A Charleston dispatch says: "No
better evidence of the expressed pur?
pose of the farmers to hold their cot?
ton for higher prices is afforded than
in several Charleston firms reducing
the number of their buyers through
South Carolina on acceunt of the un?
willingness of the planters to part
with the staple at prevailing' prices.
The farmers have met in convention
in several sections of the State and
formally agreed to hold their cotton
and the lack of offerings is the result.
One Charleston firm which had forty
men in the field has been forced to
curtail the number considerably be?
cause the results did not justify the
maintenance of so many men through
the territory."
Barnesville, Ga., Dec 28.-J. B.
Harrison, a prominent cotton buyer
and brother of J. M. Harrison, of For?
syth, fatally shot himself at 4 o'clock
this afternoon in his room at Magnolia
Inn, the ball entering just above che
right ear and lodging in thebrain.
Heavy losses on cotton contracts led
to the act.
MONEY
PICKED UPI!
BY
Writing Life Insurance In The
Penn Mutual Insurance Go. I
LIBERAL contracts to live agents
in unoccupied territory.
ADDRESS
HI IRS, Jr,
General Agent, Sumter, S. C.
DeLORflE'S
PHARMACY,
23 South Main St.
Open from 7 a. m. to 10 p.
m. ; Sunday, 9 a. m to 1 p. m.
Having consolidated my two
stores, I will be pleased to see
all my customers at the above
stand, where I am better pre?
pared than ever to serve them.
Your prescriptions will be
called for and delivered.
Phone 45.
Full line of Drugs, GardeD
Seed and Cigars.
Your patronage solicited.
Call boll for nmht work
The Kind Yon Have Always Bought, and which lias been
in nse for over 30 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his per?
7^^*-^- sonai supervision since its infancy?
AHowno one to deceive you in this?
Ail Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-good" are but*
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children-Experience ^ against Experiment.
What is CASTOR IA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare?
gorjc, Drops aud Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant? It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic? It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep?
The Children's Panacea-The Mother's Friend,
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
The Kind You Hare Always Bon
In Use For Over 30 Years.
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AN OPPORTUNITY.
"
? We are now offering the magnificent plantation knows as
Shady Side, containing 750 acres, situated 3i miles West of
Sumter. This place has a nice 8-room dwelling, thirteen ten?
ant houses, and a fine orchard. In fact tis as ideal heme for
you. Better see us about it
WHITE & MCCALLUM,
? Beal Estate and Insurance Agents;
PHONE NO. 148. SUMTES, S. 0? OFFICE TO. 18 S. MAIN ST
Mea &-iy
The First of the Season.
A choice car] load of horses and
mules just received and need sell?
ing. Among them are some extra
nice drivers, some good smoothe,
full made work horses and a few
nice mules. All young and
sound. I will appreciate a look
from you whether you are ready
to buy or not.
Respectfully,
A. D. HARBY.
?OUR SECOND]
Car horses and mules due
to arrive Friday Oct. 14th.
Bought in St. Louis, at the World's Fair,
conceded to be the largest horse and
mule market in the U. S. If you want a
good selection see this bunch before they
are picked over.
SPECIAL.
Several choice drivers and family broke
j , harness horses,
j Ten (10) smooth young mules.
South Carolina Rust Proof seed oats, the
heaviest on the market, 653 per bushel.