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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-08-01
Crisis Approaching in China.

london. July 80. 4 Is .. m.-Tne
Shanghai correspondents of the Daily
Telegraph says he 10 still firmly con
vinced that the ministers are safe but,
With the exception Of On alleged
nsessgs from the japanese legation
io Pekin, dated July 10. bropg6 By
. runner. ssying that tho Legation
vss still defending itself, nothing hss
yet been Published giving anything
IN the nature Of proof On the other
hand the daily increasing reports Of
The massacre Of missionaries and
fossigaers leaves osly the most
slender thread upou which to hang Q
hope.
The Shanghai correspondent OF The
Times, wiring yesterday, says:
IL learn that Ii Ping Hong and
La Chousn Lin. governor of Kisu.
b. both rabidIy spti.forsign. are cd.
vsnciog toward Pekin with large
bodies Of troops Their advent mus,
seriously sheot the sisustion there.
To-day The consular body decided
the situation demanded the presence
OF military foroe in Shanghai .snd the
eousuls have notified their govern
neats accordingly"
The Canton correspondent Of the
daily Telegraph. in . dispatch dsted
Saturday, ssys: "The Trisds have
become numesous end threatening 10
Hal Nan. The Taotai sod the lOos
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1t appears to us that 10 . desire
to reflect on Gov. MoSweeuey tho
Greeuville News takes him to task
for not returning the prisoners 30 the
Florence oouasy jail. where they pro.
perly belong" The News thinks that
It wss . useless expense to drsg them
around on speoisl traios, sod that i.
wss . grstuitous assumption that they
would have been lyuched 10 Florence.
We would not have sboughs that the
Nsws under ,,s present management
would hs~s been guilty OF suoh .
"smsll" at. Now The Times is 90,
supporting or Sighting any candidate
bot it hates to sec . a,ng like tbis.
Ii wss not 90 much to save the ueoks
Of the negroes that tho trip was made
on . special train or that tho negroes
we're kept ous Of Florence, for tho sou.
servstive oitiseDs Of tho town bad
pledged their word for their safe keep.
,og until the excitement passed away.
and there was ouough OF them to have
done it, but it would have been st The
expense Of several good and 10 oce o.
lives. which we're worth . whole lol
more than tho oost OF special trains and
military guards. Gov. MoSweeney
did oil that . mao could do 10 this nat.
ter. and he scted wisely sud we'll The
News has too small Q STOCK 10 this mat.
ter to manufacture capital of.-Flor
anna Timss
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troops on all sides. Both rife and
artillery Gre. Since July 16 40 armis-
tice. bot Gordon is striotly drawn on
both sides OF tho position. Chinese
bsrricades close to ours.
"All women aud children 10 the
British legstion. Casualties to date 62
killed. Including Capt. Ssrou,s. A
number Of wounded 10 hospital. io. =.
eludiog Capt Halliday. Rest Of legs.
tiou ell we'll except David w. Oliphsut
and Warren. killed July 2l.
'Macdousld,"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-08-01
Important Tidings
Hopefully Expected.

Washington. July 29.-Tbsrs 10 .
grovisg expectation ss the State dc.
psrsmsnt that news Of the u,mos. i'm .
pesssnss msy bs forthcoming st any
moment, from Pskin 1t Vas even
thought that something might bs 70.
esivsd today. bat this hope VS. doomed
to dissppoiosmsns. The fev cable.
essus that we're received referred to
miner matters sod did not touch ct oil
upon conditions 10 tho Chinese capital.
Is 10 believed that tho bssis for this
expectation 10 The knowledge on the
part Of o6eisls that ssrtain msehioery
heretofore Get 10 motion may result 10
tbs opseiog up Of sommuuiostion
through sooe secret bat reliable chan.
oels. Il 10 known that second effort
hss been made BY our Own government
TO get another mssssgs from Nj. Con.
ger sod that ossrly oil Of the powers
also have rssorssd to private sgeuciss
10 their Own interest With like obi jsct.
The fsos has just been developed that
oos Of the last acts Of tho late Col.
Lisoum before bic death ct Tien Tsin
Wss to uodsrsske tho dispatch Of . Spy
to Pekin. Gen. Dorwsrd, the British
eouusudiog officer ct Tiso Tsiu, also
sent out two messsges. and it is be.
lisved that the japanese did the came. .
Up to date not one Of these messsng gers
has returned to Tien Tsio. nor has
there been . single word heard from
any Of them. This fact. however,
has not caused the absndoumen of
hope. and this 10 true in particular Of
The messsge expected from Mr.. Con.
ger. Minister WI 10 perhaps the basis
for this hope on our part, and be main.
tsios 90 unsbsken confidence 10 bis
original assertion that tho news, when
1t does come. will show that the legs-
tioners are alive. The message re.
ported to have como through mission.
sry Wilder. ss Cbsfoo, is regarded as
most promising.
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A LETTER FROM THE CONSUL
GENERAL AT NEW YORK.

The following is az extract frou
letter from Charles D. Pierce. consul
general of the Orange Free State at
New York 1t was received by Gov.
McS~eeuey July 29.h and will be Of
some interest
The war 10 the Scu.h African
republic is by 90 means terminated,
nor is there q prospect of it's early
termination. The British for q long
time have been acting entirely on the
defensive. they having lost fully S0.-
600 meu, aud their weekly losses now
average from l 500 to 1900 meu-
killed 10 battle. taken prisoners. deaths
from disease sud invslided home; within
o few weeks the Beers have captured
over l 900 British soldiers sud officers.
also wagon trains aud food supplies.
have the assurance of Beers high 10
authority that il they do not secure
their independence today. they will
6ght for it tomorrow, if they do not
succeed tomorrow they will continue to
light the next day spd for oil time,
uutil they do succeed 10 gaining their
iodepe Odeuoe from British rule. Thew
are as determined IS they ever we're
that they gain their Independence aud
everything points 10 that direction. I
have the nost encouraging news from
the republics. The creates. uumber of
meo the Beers have had 10 the fold at
one time is $4,000. aud of those are
enough men 10 the field to holo Lsrd
Roberts ct bay for the next two ye.rs
or logger"
He adds that Hon. P. Lou.er We.-
sells, . genuine Boer. brother Of C H.
Vessels. envoy. snd other speakers
Will visit principal cities to present the
Boer cause.
The Beer envoys ssiled from New
York FOR home on the steamship Acqui.
tame on Thursday. June 20, last.
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THE REGICIDE A MEMBER OF
THE INNER CIRCLE

New York. July ao-Angelo
Bressi lived in Paterson. N. j., for
over year. He appeared to have
had various names. The one he gave
last night when taken in custody for
the murder of the king of Italy was
one. Another was Angelus Bressi
and still another the one by which
he will be known to those who knew
him in Patterson. was Gsetsno
bressl. lie was employed in Hsmil
A Booths silk mills. His close
friends there was Cariboni Spersndio.
the man who q few weeks ago shot
down bis foreman and then killed him.
SELL leaving behind a letter telling
how ne had been selected by 10. to
kill King Humbert, and, having a
choice, owing to his living so fer
away from Italy, killed The formau
instead
A few months ago man said to be
Count Moleteski, the head of the I,sl.
Ian anarchists. was in Paterson and
during bis stay Spersndio and Bressi
were his companions and they show.
ed him about the city and intro.
duced him to others 1t would seem
that bis friend having faItered at regi.
eide, Bressi took up his burden
where Sperandio refused it and went
across the ocean to carry out the de
cree that uumbert should die.
In manners Bressi was quiet. Men
who worked beside him in Hamil g.
Booths mill say be was the last one
they would select as an assassin. He
spoke little and volunteered nothing
about himself
Each Saturday night be left the
MI! and hurried away. He went to
doboken, where his wife and little
girl are said to live. He never
brought them to Paterson. He re.
mained away until Monday morning.
he roOmed in the centre of the
anarchist section. His meals we're
taken at the Hotel Bartholdi. The
proprietor of the hotel says be knows
the man we'll He was tall and dark
and had dropping shoulders. To some
1t was known that his radical ideas
we're extreme and that he was of the
inner circle Of the anarchists.
Bressi entered the employ of Hamil
& Booth on April =, 1899. He work
ed steadily there until Nay 4. 1900.
On that day he left the mill and was
10 Patterson but seldom afterward
On May % last he sailed on the
French steamer Havre for Europe.
Where he spent the intervening time
is not known.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-08-01

Starvation never yet cured dyspepsia. Per.
sons With indigestion are already half starved.
They need plenty Of wholesome food. Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure digss.s what you eat 90 the
body can be nourishsd while the won on,
organs are being reconstructed. 1t 10 the
only preparation that will instantly relieve
and completely cure all stomach troubles.
Try II II you are suffsriag from indigestion
IL will certainly do you good 8 Hugh.
con D Co.
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Glad Tiding Received From
Several Sources Yesterday.

Washington. July 30 The Secre
tsry OF State resolved at midnight last
uighs . dispatch from Mr.. Fowler,
American consul ss Chefoo. dated noon
July 20. Mr.. Fowler saye:
A letter from the German legation.
dated 2lst inst. received ct Tien Tsiu
German loss is 10 dead and IL lwound.
ed. Chinese ceased their attack on
the 18th. Baron von Ketteler's bod 2
ssid to be safe. The Austrian. Italian. .
Dutch aud Spanish legations destroyed
sod the French partially. A letter
from the .jspauess Legation. dated 22d,
arrived a Tieo Tsio on 25th. Ten
bassslioos Of Chinese shelled tho leea.
,ioos oonsseusively from she Goth Of
Juos and stopped the l7.b Of July.
bot may renew. The enemy ara de-.
creating. The German. Russisu,
American. Brisish and bali tho Japan csc
and French legations still defended
japanese have food for six days bu,
little amuuuisiou. The emperor and
empress are reported at Pekin.
Berlin. July 30 The German con
sul 1t Tiso Tsio hss tslsgr.phed under
date Of Saturday. July %. to the for.
eigo of6Oe % follows:
The German secretary Of legation
.. Pskio. Herr Buslow, writes, July
81:
"'Tbsuks. for your uews July 10
The condition Of Cordes satisfactory.
The remaining members of tho legation
are oil right. The detsobmeu,
OF the guards lost 10 killed and
IA wounded. The houses of the
Legation much damaged by oau.
oon 6re and are held by The
guard. The attack of the Chimes,
troops OF us ceased July l6. Speedies
possible advance Of relief troops or,
gsosiJ necessary.
According to trustworthy repor
The body Of Baron voo Ke.tslsr be,
been buried BY the Chipsse govern
meut
The Cordss mentioned 10 the sbov,
dispatch 10 the second Interpreter o
the German Legation. He was viii
Bsroo Won Kessslsr when the latte
VAS ou,dsrsd sod himself was wound
cd. He ssosped to the lsg..iou.
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BELOVED BY HIS PEOPLE.

kansas City, July 30.-Jerome
Fedili, Italian vice consul in Kansas
City. was greatly shocked when be
learned Of the assassin alton of King
Humbers Of Italy
king Humbert was greatly beloved
by bis people," said Mr.. FediIi, land
cannot conceive how anyone but q
crank or an anarchist should wish TO
take bis life. He was good and kind
and charitable. knew him we'll. He
will be succeeded 10 ell probability by
his oldest SOD, the Prince of Naples.
who 10 youog mau sot yet thirty
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ANOTHER MARES NEST.
MORE MISSIONARIES MASSA,
CRED.

London, July 3O.-A special die.
yssch from Shanghai. dsted yes,er-
dsy. ssys the English mission station
Sorth Of Ming Po. bss been destroyed
ssd IL missionaries have been mas
sscred.
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Rome. July 30, 4 80 Q. m.-Tbe
news of the terrible event did not
arrive here until after midnight.
Signor Ssrscco, the prime minister,
Immediately summoned q meeting of
the cabinet. and the ministers will
start at the earliest possible moment
for Mona.
The prince and princess of Naples
are on board the Yela yachting in
the Levant
Monza, July 30.-The prize dis.
tribution took place about 10 o'clock
Rome. July 80, S q m -Signor
Saracco has left for Mopza.
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FAVA MUCH DISTRESSED.

New York, July 29.-Owing to
the lateness of the hour at which the
news of the assassination of King
Humbert was received 10 this city it
was impossible to see either Consul
General Brsnchi or Vice Consuls
Alberti and Burdese
Baron de Favs. the Italian ambas.
sador. was at Seabright, N. j. He
was much distressed at receiving the
news, but said to the Associated
Press that he could not give out any
statement until be had been officially
notified by his home government
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Monza, July 30 The king bad
been attending q distribution of
prizes in connection with q gymnas.
tic composition. He bad just enter
ed his carriage, with aide. de camp,
amid the cheers of the crowd, when
be was struck by three revolver shoto
fired in quick succession.
One pierced the heart of his
majesty. who fell back and expired
in Q few minutes. The assassin was
Immediately arrested and was, with
some difficulty. saved from the fury
of the populace
He gave bis name % Angelo
Breast. describing himself as of Prato,
in Tuscany.
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AN ANARCHIST, OF COURSE.
London. July 80 angelo Bressi. the
assassin Of King Humbert. according
to special dispstch from Rome dated
today, is 40 auarohist
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Lopdoo. Jolly 81, l:05 .. m.-Tbe
aduirslsy hes msds public tho follow.
iog dispatch from Rear Admiral Bruce
st Tieo TEN
Following message from Pskiu
''British Legation. Pekiu, Juoe 20 to
July l6. repeatedly attacked BY Cbioese
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King Humbert of
Italy Assassinated.
Shot Through the Heart at
MonZa Sunday Night.
Monzs, July 20 king Humber,
has been assassinated.

Monza. July 3O.-The king was
shot here last evening by q man
named Angelo Bressi de Prato and
died in q few minutes.
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London. July 30.-The British
consul st Tiso Tsiu telsgrsphs to tho
foreigo office today that letter from q
japanese eoloosl 10 Pekin states that
the legations we're safe July %. There
bad bees 90 firing on tho legations
since July IL. The consul adds
"A reliable messenger who failed to
enter Pekin bat reached there, returus
stating that there VAS no 6eiug on tho
legssions between Jolly Is and July
49,"
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Tisn Tsio, Jolly %. vie Shan ehai,
July 3O-The lassst sdvises from
Pekio under date Of July Is. cay .bss
tbs lsessions are hold;og out. The
Chinese stsseked the legations 90 tho
night Of July 10. bot were led into tho
trap by the American and British and
1000 OF them we're killed. After.
wards they continued bombarding the
legations more freely.
Among the Chinese killed vac Gen.
Ma.
The legations we're subsequently, as.
tackled With constantly increasing fury.
These advioes we're brought from
Pekiu BY Q courier.
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Brussels, July 30.-A dispatch from
the Russiso admiral. Alsxieff. d.ted at
Tiso Tsiu and July 80 aud CON muoi.
Gated to The foreigo Office. states that
tho latest nsws eou6rms the report that
the foreign ministers ct Pekiu are out
Of danger.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-10-06
MONAZITE IN DEMAND.

The following letter published in the
last issue Of The Manufacturers Rec
ord should be Of interest to owners Of
monazite deposits in this section:
CONSULAR SERVICE, U. S. A.,
BERLIN, Sept. II.
Editor Manufacturers Record
Knowing your devotion to Southern
manufacturing and commercial inter-
following circumstances:
Some years ago when I was at
Frankfort, the monazite deposits in
North and South Carolina came into
prominence as a source Of the thoria,
which Is used so extensively in the
manufacture Of incandescent mantels
for the Auer-von Welsbach gas lights.
I obtained samples Of the monazite
sand from several parties in the Caro-
linas and submitted them to different
German chemists for analysis with ex-
cellent results. About that time the
Brazilian monazite sand came into
vogue, and as it was easily obtained
in large quantities, it took prominent
hold on the European market.
But the Brazilian monaZite sand Is
now under a single control, with the
result that it's price has advanced until
there is in Germany a real demand for
a supply from another and independ-
ent source.
I am applied to by Messrs. ZeitZ &
Bruno, No. III Chausseestrasse. Ber-
lin, manufactures of the highest grade
of Welsbach mantels, who wish to be
put into relations with the owners Of
the best Carolina deposits who are
prepared to export their product in
quantities.
I have not these addresses at my
command; but short paragraph in
The Manufacturers Record would un-
doubtedly give the matter start, or
If the addresses are known to you,
would you kindly send them to me
and greatly oblige.
FRANK H. MASON, Consul General.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-10-06
MERE.MENTl0N.

A Fort Worth, Texas, dispatch Of
October 3, says the latest report made
of cotton damage in the state by high
water, places the loss at 10000 bales.
......As an electioneering scheme, Re-
publicans throughout the country are
making contracts containing a provfs-
ion to the effect that they are to be
void in the event of the election Of
Bryan. There is lively municip:
al campaign in progress in Atlanta. .. :. {.
Ex-senator Hill is campaigning in Vir-
ginia.. Immense treasures were
stolen from the palace of the Pope Of
Rome last Tuesday, by burglars. ......
The population Of Arkansas, accord
ing to the recent count, is 1911, ,564. .. &.
The American sugar refining company
has reduced the price of sugar to $40.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-10-06
OWNERSHIP OF GAME.

The following communication Of J..
r. Hamilton, Esq, of Chester, to The
News and Courier, will probably re-
ceive pretty general endorsement
throughout this section:
It would facilitate the protection Of
our wild animals and birds If, In ad-
dition to the present laws, 1T were
clearly defined to whom these belong,
whether to the state or to the land
owner, in or over whose land the
same are found.
At present the game is assumed to
be the property Of the state during the
close season; but anyone's property
during the open season.
Under such conditions the farmer
who ventures to prevent the destruc-
tion of the game and birds Of any kind
on his land must rely on the laws Of
trespass. of posting, etc., difficult to
prove. to detect and to enforce.
In the game and bird life on the land
he has no part or title by statute law
and only a qualified right by common
law.
1t will surprise some of your readers
to learn that this inconsistency exists
in the English law, while by the Scot
tfsh law the game on the land Is the
absolute property Of the landowner.
AS consequence violation of the game
laws in Scotland are comparatively
rare, while in England they are more
frequent.
Our statutes as to game and other
birds are very numerous and scatter
ed through the volumes Of our Revised
Statutes. Some of these laws can be
repealed with advantage and the re-
mainder, after being well sifted, should
be consolidated into one general law
for the whole state. keeping in view
the necessity Of saving from destruc-
tion the birds and game now remain
ing on the land.
If you make game the property Of
the landowner, every farmer will be-
come his own game keeper and will
soon find out the profit there is in
having a good head Of game on his
land, and under the same law will be
able to protect the insectivorous birds
that protect his crops. Give the farm
er's game and birds the same protec-
ton as his property, and the law gives
his stock and barnyard fowls and he
will do the rest.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-10-06
FARMING THAT PAYS.

Wheat, $3.50; oats, s125; straw, $125;
hay, $3.50; sorghum, $40; cane seed,
SIS. Total, s1,165.
That is the value Of the side crops
raised by Mr.. w. S. Wilkerson, Of Hick-
ory Grove, this year, with three plows.
Mr.. Wilkerson is one Of the largest
land owners in western York and has
a number of renters. He runs only
three plows himself, however, and the
figures quoted represent what he has
realized without counting his cotton
or corn.
Mr.. Wilkerson plants both cotton
and corn, Of course. With the same
three plows he cultivated about 25
acres of each, and the prospects are as
good as are those of any of his neigh
bors. But everybody raises cotton and
corn, and 1t is the showing Of these
side crops that is especially interest
ing.
In talk with the reporter, Wednes-
day, Mr.. Wilkerson gave the figures
as estimates only. The estimates may
be taken as very nearly correct. They
are rather under than over; but If
there is any dispute Mr.. Wilkerson has
the exact figures at home by which
the matter may be settled definitely.
In the opinion Of Mr.. Wilkerson,
5000 will cover the entire expense OF
making the crops mentioned, and he
thinks he can fairly say that they rep
resent a clear profit of nearly $1,000
While he was talking he told of Il
cropper who cut 1920 worth Of crab
grass hay-sold the hay at that-off
a stubble field. The wheat mad been
fertilized literally, and 1T was the fer
tilizer that caused the grass to grow
so luxuriantly. The grass sold for
enough to pay for the fertilizers that
had been used on the wheat. That
portion of the wheat field that had not
been fertilized, yielded no crab grass
that was worth cutting.
Speaking of hay, though said MIR.
Wilkerson, II can give you an expe-
rience that ought to be interesting.
Last fall, Mr.. H. w. Thomson and my
self went shares on some wheat ind
oats, on means grass land. We sowed
20 acres-ten acres in wheat in NO
yember and ten acres in oats in Feb
ruary. The means grass grew up with
the wheat and oats and when the grain
reached the milk stage, we cut grain,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-10-06

81' A meeting of the leading rice
farmers, millers and others who are in
terested in the culture of rice, was
held in Beaumont, Texas, last Monday,
to consider a proposition which is prac-
tically to control the domestic rice
market Of the United States. The
meeting was held at the instance of
Anderson Herd, Of New York, and c..
c. Dusen, Of Crawley, La. Mr.. Herd
represents a syndicate of New York
capitalists which he claims has capt.
tai of $75,0O0,000. Mr.. Herd, in explain
ing his purpose, said the purpose Of the
company is to contract with the rice
farmer for all of his rice for four years
to come, with an option to extend
four years more If desired by the COM
pany and to pay a stated price for
the rice during the existence of the
contract. The farmers are inclined to
sign the contract, and Mr.. Herd says
that already over 80 per cent. Of the
rice farmers Of South Carolina and
Georgia and Louisiana, have agreed
to the plan.