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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-01-04
Enormous Surplus '@'
In the Treasury.
Amounting Rnnndly to One Hun
drsd Million Dollars in Ex-
psnditurss.

treasury is in condition of un-
sxampled strength" said Secrs-
tary Gage today when asked to
briefly review the treasury ,situa>
tion at the 'I"so sf the year.
''Only month aso in my an
nual report to congress l reviewed
those coniItisns The tigu, es for
the last month have made hut
little changt. For the calendar
year We show receipts in excess
OF the nrdinsry expenditures
amounting ronndIy to one hun
dred million dollars. Such an
excess might have resulted i'm
serious embarrassment bad not
the department been able by
means of this surplus to reduce
the public debt in large amounts.
Since April I last the treasury has
redeemed and cancelled United
States bonds ta the par value of
1914, 700 which have been ap-
pied to thu sinking fund and the
disbursement re.dltisg therefrom
was $72, 225,S45 The available
cash on hand is therefore about
$50, 600. 600 largsr than the
amount y Year ago.
comparing the situation a. it
is today with April 1st, 1887, the
result is most gratifying. On the
latter day the treasury held money
OF sll kinds To the amount of
$3.50, $3.50 includidg $780,
600, 900 ssagold reserve, leaving,
therefore, $3.50, 900, 200 as q cssh
balance. Today in money of all
kinds tho treasury holds 1896, :
$50, 900, and if we deduct tho
$3.50, 100000 now held as = gold
reserve the balance stands ut
SAG, 900, 600 or 81, 100000 less
than 1T was April 1, 1897. 1t
will be seen, therefore, that SUBJ
stsptial equilibrium has been
maintained.
.'Thsrs has been very material
increase in the money in circula-
ton since March l, 1897, as we'll
as in the amount Per capita. Th.
volume of money on that date,
outside the treasury was 81, ,6Y5, &.
6s4,953 and the amount per
capita was $23.14.'
"Oa the first of Decsm bsr the
amount of money outside the
tr' asury was 81, $50, ,2e5, $50 and
tho amount PEI capita was $2s 73.
The increase IN amount, there
fore, was $574, 4,561,277 and the
increase per capita was IS. SO.
"Ths amount of gold coin and
gold certificates in circulation in
creased from $3.50, 3,S6O,b15 On
March 1, 1897, to $914, 500, ,0s9
On Dec. |, 1901. Every other
kind OF money in circulation is
greater in amount new than it was
on March /, 1897. with the single
exception Of the treasury notes Of
the act of July IA, 1890. Th.
amount of thsse in circulation,
Dec. 1, 1901, was only $4O,O12,-
622 as against $s5, 546,621 on
March l., 1897. This reduction
in volume grows out of the natural
operation of the act of July u,
1890, and the act Of March IA,
1900.
The increase in the amount of
national bank notes in circulation
during the period in question was
$l32, 132,731. This increase 10
attributable to the act of
March IA, 1900"
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-01-04
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
AMERICANS IN CANADA.
They With Others Buying Land in
 Western Wheat Area.

London, July 25. In the house of lords to-day Lord Burghclere, liberal. asked Lord Onslow, under secretary for the colonial office, if he could inform the house regarding the alarming state ments that Canadian land was being bought by Americans of whom 250,OO0 have emigrated to Canada. The secre- tary said he thought his figures were incorrect In 1901 the number of Amer jeans who emigrated to Canada was 17.9S7, while to the most recent date this year the number was 24,100. The un- der secretary also said in western Can- ada land was being taken up with un- exampled rapidity not only by Ameri- cans but by Englishmen and other Eu- rOpeans. which bade fair to make the Canadian wheat fields an important factor in the wheat supply of the world
 Lord Rosebery, liberal, asked for the figures of the emigration from Canada to the United States, but Lord OnsloW was unable to supply them.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
ANOTHER WIN FOR ELlfINA,
MIneOia Defeats Yankee i'm Hard-
 Fought Contest.

Larchmont, N. Y, July 25-After one of the hardest fought contests the sioop yachts Mineola and Yankee ever en- gagged in on Long Island Sound, the Mineola won by three minutes thirty one seconds, in the fifth days racing of the Larchmont Yacht club. She also defeated the Rainbow by ten minutes thirty-seven seconds. The course was three rounds of a triangle ten and three-quarter miles long and the Yan- kee, sailed by young Harry Maxwell son of the owner of the yacht, held the lead over two full rounds. The breeze had been fresh from the southeast up to this point. Then it fell lighter, and the Mineola gradually obtained a lead and held it to the finish.
 The schooners Elmina and Muriel al- so had a battle royal for supremacy The Muriel, sailed by her owner, Charles Smithers, made a brave fight for the lead and up to the end of the second round she was always close to her antagonist. In the third round however, the Elmina outsailed her in the windward work and finally won by two minutes fifty-one seconds. The Muriel allowed her eighteen seconds. The start of the big sloops was close all going over the line d second apart, with the Rainbow ill the windward berth, the Mineola in the middle and the Yankee at the lee end of the line
 The wind was from the southeast, making the first leg of the course to Red Spring buoy beat to windward. The second leg to Parsonage Point, was broad reach, and the last leg close reach. Small balloon jib topsails were carried on the reaches and baby jib top sails in the windward work. The wind shifted a point or two to the eastward during the last round and fell very much lighter.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
Bring Boys Saturday..

Some exceptionally good things in the boys department this day.
 We are closing out our re gular stock, at very little prices.
 Oar Boys' Wash Suiks at SI. oo--They have been $I. 4e and 22e. Of cheviots, galatea, madras, crash and the like, both plain and trimmed styles -
 59c Wash Pants, e5c-Of fine linen and white duck. ...... .-.s@s.#.9..1s
 All Me Boys Cups at L5c eaeA-c1oth and wash, golf and Eton.
 Some 25c Bloases .tor I5c-Are of dark percales. = <. - 4 line of Wtash .Snits for a5c--Value. is $I. Madras, crash, etc., prettily trimmed. -.535.#.
 25e and >s5c Wtash Pants jfoy I5c.
 Z5c Watsts sVith .Attached Collaps 1oyf 3Sc-The new low turnover style of collar attached to waist or blouse; every size. In both lauudered and unlaun- dered, .'t < ,s>i as-s.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
Everything for the
 Little Folks.

If you haven't visited the little folks corner, you should do so. @
 At front end of the cloak salon, easy to find. Such a stock of children's things can not be found elsewhere in the city.
 Here's a couple of special values too.
 Babfes' .Shfrts-Cotton, ribbed, made with high neck and long sleeves, are just bit blemished- not hing serious. You'd pay 25c for them. As they now are, we say 3 for 25c Ba6ies' Dresses, 25e-Gingham and lawn, in pretty, cool Mother Hubbard style. The usual soc kind.
 25c each
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
Martin Defeats Armstrong.

London, July 25.-The contest between Bob Armstrong and Denver Ed Mar tin, the American pugilist, for the col ored championship of the world, which took place at Crystal Palace tonight, attracted a great crowd. Armstrong started in a favorite, but his perform ance did not justify this, as Martin proved to be the more clever from the outset and never gave his opponent a chance, being declared an easy winner on points at the close of fifteen rounds, Martin. it is announced, will challenge the winner of the Jeffries- -Fitzsimmons fight in San Francisco tonight.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
BRYAN IN MAINE,
A Gratifying Reception-Hls First Visit
 to Bangor.

Bangor, Me, July 25.-William Jen- nings Bryan came to Bangor for the first time to-day and received a vel come from the democrats of this city and the surrounding country that must have been gratifying to him. He reach- ed here at 6:05 p. m. from Augusta, &C., companied by Hon. S. W. Gould of SkoWegan, democratic candidate for governor of Maine; United States Sena- tor Carmack of Tennessee, Hon. Charles S. Hamlin of Boston and several other prominent democrats. Tonight the au- ditorium was well filled long before the speakers arrived. Thomas White pre- sided and the speakers were Hon. s. w. Gould, Hon. Charles s. Hamlin, Senator Carmack and Mir Bryan, who were re- ceived with tremendous applause.
 MT. Bryan said that he was glad to visit Maine at this time as he came un- Ger more favorable personal conditions than ever before. On the occasion of his previous visits he had come as candidate seeking support from the vot- CTS of the state and he doubted not that many persons had thought that selfish ness promoted his arduous endeavors He said he is willing to admit even at this time that he was actuated by selfish motives, but selfish only in the sense that he desires to live and have his children under the best government in the world. He believed in principles and believed if these principles were ap- piled, the best possible government would result.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
FRENCH PEASANHRY IN ARMS
SERIOUS SITUATION IN COUNTRY
 AROUND BREST.

Determined to Resist Any Attempt to ForcibIy Close the Unauthorized schools-Popuiation in Other Places
 Standing Guard Over Their Institu-
 tfons-yyomen Appear at the Eiysee
 PaIace-Madame Loubet Declines to
 See Thcm-A Woman's Threat.
 Paris, July 25,-A serious situation Is prevailing in the fanatically Catholic country around Brest on account of the closing of the unauthorized schools. The countryside has taken up arms and is determined to resist any attempt at the forcible execution of the orders of the premier An incident yesterday evening at Saint Meen, eighteen miles from Brest, shows the spirit of the peasantry. Two newspaper men of Brest drove there in an automobile to investigate the situation at the sisters school.
 Immediately after they had entered the commune a boy sounded a bugle. and crowds of peasants swarmed from the fields. armed with pitchforks and iron-bound sticks, shouting, Long live the sisters. Long live libertyi" One of the reporters was dragged from the automobile and the fanatics beat him with their pitchforks and sticks.
 A school at Ploudaniel, in the same neighborhood, has been converted into fortress, barricades have been erected and the inhabitants have formed cor don about the surrounding area. The lady superior said: You see our barri- cades. They must shoot us before we yield. There will be bloodshed if any one attempts to enter.''
 Placards have been posted in the townships urging resistance to the po- lice.
 The population of Landerneau, twelve miles from Brest, has formed relays to guard the school, and peasant women sit on benches opposite the gate. knit ting while awaiting the coming of the gendarmes. They are greatly excited. and declare that they prefer to be shot rather than abandon the sisters. The lady superior of the Landerneau con- vent said Like true Bretons, we will only yield to force. The women and other people who are guarding the school have given us a courageous ex- ample.'
 The population of Roscoff is guarding the schools day and night. Sentinels are watching the roads and men are sleeping on the guard to be ready at the first alarm.
 A strange scene, reminiscence of stormier. sadder days in France. occur red to-day at the Elysee Palace. A large delegation of women, including
 Continued on Third Page.)
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
MARCoNI NOT THE INVENTOR.
His Patents .he Work of an Italian
 Naval Officer.

London, July 25.-The Saturday Re- view says a startling denouement fol- lowed Professor Thompson attacks in the Review or the validity of the Mar conf patents in which the professor said an Italian naval officer named Solari was the real inventor of the wireless telegraph system. It says:
 The Official Journal of the patent of flee July It contains a brief notice of a very unusual character. It announces that Guglielmo Marconi who, Septem- Der 10, 1901. had filed a patent in his own name for this invention, now seeks leave to amend the application by con- verting it into an application for a patent for an invention communicated to him from abroad by the Marquis Luigi Solari, of Italy"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
HOWE X STETSON.

will have an extreme width of 76 feet and 10 inches. The mean draugft will be "A feet inches, and coaling capacity 2,200 tons. The main batteries will con- sist of four 12 inch, eight inch, and twelve inch guns with a secondary battery of 20.3 inch rapid fire guns and some smaller semi-automatic guns. The hull will be protected by a complete belt of g inch armor. The maximum il inch armor will extend 200 feet anidships, forward and aft of which will be g inch armor to protect the magazines and de- creasing in thickness gradually to four inches at the stem and stern. The case mate armor and the bulkhead arr mor will be inches thick. The armor is to be supplied by the government. The constructors are to furnish the steel for the protective deck, which is to ex- tend from stem to stern, flat anlidships and sloping at the sides.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
BATTLESHIP CONNECTICUT.
Circulars for That Vessel aud the
 Louisiana Issued.

Washington, July 25.-The circulars for the two new battleships, the Con- necticut and Louisiana, were issued by the navy department to-day. Plans will be ready August 1st whenI the ad- vertisement for bids for the Louisiana will be published. The Connecticut will be built in the New York navy yard. The bids will be opened about October i. The maximum time for construction of the Louisiana is forty-two months. For any delay beyond the contract time the builders are to forfeit $500 per day for the first month and $500 day thereaf- ter. In considering bids preference will be given to the bidder who offers to construct the ship in the shortest time. The speed of the ship is to be eighteen knots If it falls below that limit $50,- 900 is to be deducted from the contract price for each quarter knot down to 17 knots and $100000 for each quarter knot below the latter figure down to 16 1-2 knots. If the ship fails to make 16 1-2 knots the secretary of the navy can re- ject her in his discretion.
 In a general way it can be said that the Louisiana and the Connecticut will be of the same type as the battleships Georgia and New Jersey. They will measure $40 feet on the load line and
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
MA I BE 4 HOAX.
Effort to Extort SC, ,OOO from a St. Johns
 bury, Vt. Pbysicinn.

St. Johnsbury, Vt, July 25.-Dr. Hen- ry c. Newell of this place received a letter from Boston to-day, signed with three sets of initials. threatening him with death this evening, if S6 900 were not delivered by boy, at the cor ner of School and Fremont streets, Bos- ton. The letter said man would be waiting to receive the money at 6 o'clock. The letter bore a postmark in- dicating that it was mailed in Boston yesterday afternoon. It was written in wretched hand. The words were misspelled and the letter ungrammati- cal. The three sets of initials are all in the same writing which leads to the be- lief that the lettetr may be hoax,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
GREAT BRITAIN'S WAR LOANS.
Expenditures Borne Without Serious
 Injury to Commerce.

4byuEy Ao SOm IneFees
 London, July 25.-Sir Michael Hicks Beach was the guest this evening of the lord mayor and the City Bankers and Merchants at farewell dinner at the Mansion house. In an address deal ing with national finance the chancellor said that the Chinese and South African wars had cost Great Britain LAO 0O0,- 900, of which amount the taxpayers have already willingly contributed $375, 100000. The expenditure had been borne without serious injury to com- merce, and $750, ,0OO, 900 had been borrow ed on easy terms, which Great Britain's continental neighbors envied, but could not initiate. Next year, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach said, he looked for a re- mission of taxation, and he warned his hearers against the constant growth of national expenditures, urging that prep arations should be made for a day of diversity, and that the revenue, though increasing, should not be impaired in times of peace.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
KOREA GETS STRONG ALLIES
BRTTATNAND JAPAN GUARANTEE
 HER INDEPENDENCE.

Their Support and Assistance Pledged
 in All Important Questions Affecting
 Her Internal and Foreign Policy
 Korea Agrees in Return to Strengthen
 Her Military and Naval Forces-AIso
 to Favor the Allies in Matter of Loans.
 St. Petersburg, July 25.-A dispatch received here from Seoul, Korea, an- nounces the conclusion of an important agreement between the British and Japanese ministers to Korea, on one hand, and the Japanese councillor Ka- to, special adviser of the Korean emper- or, on the other. by which Great Brit ain and Japan mutually guarantee Ko- rea's independence and pledge her their support and assistance in all important questions affecting her internal and foreign policy.
 Korea in return agrees to raise her naval and military establishments to a footing sufficient for her own defense, and also, in case of raising a foreign loan. she agrees to restrict herself to the markets of Great Britain, Japan and the United States. She further agrees that no foreigners shall be ap- pointed to positions in the Korean state service, that measures shall be imme- diately taken for the protection of Ko- rean territory, and that protest shall immediately be made against any state or persons attempting to erect works or buildings situated so as to prejudice Korea's scheme for national defense.
 Washington, July 25.-Much interest was manifested by Mir. Miniui Cho, the Korean minister here, and by the Jap anese legation officials who are in Washington, in the announcement of the conclusion of an agreement between Great Britain and Japan pledging the independence of Korea. Neither the Japanese nor Korean legation has been officially advised of the agreement.
 It is pointed out that the United States already. has treaty of peace, commerce and navigation with Korea, signed in 1882 and providing that, Eff other powers deal unjustly or oppres- sively with either government the oth- CT will exert it's good offices, on being informed of the case, to bring about an amicable arrangement
 The new agreement is regarded in some quarters here as an aftermath to the recent offensive and defensive alli- ance entered into between Great Brit ain and Japan.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
THE HOWE &STETSON STORES
Mems soc Fancy
 Underwear 29c.

On Saturday we shall sell all our fancy underwear that is now marked soc for 20c a garment. These are fast col or, summer weight goods, well made and finished in everyway.
 Other things we are doing. Our $I.oo and some $1. 50 Shirts, 85c Our $I.oo Shirtwaists for soc.
 Our $I.5o Shirtwaists for 75c.
 Our $I. 50 and $I.69 Shirts for $i.OO. Our soc fancy Hose, s3c.
 Our SOC fancy Neckwear, 25c.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
Pretty Liberty
 Ribbons 25c.

We've sold several thous- and yards of these and call them one of thebest values of the season.
 Not a great many remain and there'll probably be no more.
 No. So, or AZ inch, Liberty satin ribbons, finished alike on both sides. In white, turquoise, navy, rose, cardinal, black, old rose, nais.
 2Bc the yard
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
RAILROAD WRECK IN ARIZONA.
Five Persons Kiiled-Train Derailed by
 a VashOut.

Los Angeles, Cal, July 25.-A special from Tucson, Arizona, says: Five per sons were killed and number injured in a wreck yesterday near Llano, a town seven miles from Nogales on the Sierra railroad. The northbound inter- national train was derailed by wash out and the engine, baggage car, two passenger coaches and a Pullman sleep CT toppled over an embankment. The baggage car and one passenger coach were smashed to kindling wood but the first class coaches and the Pullman es- capped with little injury.
 The killed and seriously injured were all in the second class coach.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
Costa RIcn" Volcanoes Unusually Active

San Jose, Costa Rico July 25.-Un- usual activity has lately been shown by Costa Rican volcanoes. The lands in the neighborhood of Terraba Sixty eight miles southeast of San Jose), have been considerably disturbed and the government has sent a commission to that locality to study the conditions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
Chamdler Egan tho Winner.

Chicago. July 25.-Chandler Egan of Exmoor and Harvard defeated Abram Poole, jr., of Onwentsia and Princeton in the finals for the Ravinoaks cup at Onwentsia to-day by 2 up in close match and the silver bowl will grace the Exmoor trophy cabinet for the com ing wear,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
Street Car Windows Broken.

Two drunken Swedes had a fierce fight on one of the State street cars when returning from Savin Rock last night and the glass in the, front win dows of the car was completely shat tered. The fight occurred while the car was at Wards corner on Campbell ave- nue.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
BY WIRELESS TELEGRAPHK.
News of John w. Mackay's Death Com-
 munfcated to Ills Son.

Queenstown, July 25.-Clarence H.
 Mackay, son of the late John W. Mac kay, who was a passenger on board the Cunard line steamer Campania. from New York, July 19, which arrived here to-day, received the news of his fa- ther's death by wireless telegraphy at D. m. July A from the westbound steamer Saxonia, of the same line. MT
 Mackay received large number of tel egrams here. The wireless news creat- ed the greatest sympathy for MT. Mac kay among the Campania's passengers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
E. SS 0. Must Use Electricity,

Baltimore, Md, July 25.-Mayor Hayes to-day approved the ordinance recently passed by the city council re- quiring the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road company to substitute electric motors for steam locomotives in hauling freight trains through the tunnel which passes under ground through the heart of this city.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-26
TRIED TO COMMIT SUICIDE.
John Lamb Found in Saloon on
 Meadow Street.

Meadow Street.
 John Lamb of 7S Prince street was taken to the general hospital last night. about 10 o'clock from a saloon on. Meadow street, opposite the armory. Lamb tried to commit suicide and when he was found he had small bottle half filled with carbolic acid in his hand. One of the bartenders of the sa- loon saw Lamb take the dose and then. fall over on the floor. Lamb was in toxicated when he took the poison. Dr. Maihouse, whose office is across the street, was notified and he ordered the man taken to the hospital. It was stat ed there last night that Lamb would re- cover and that he was not seriously af- fected by the carbolic acid.