The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-10-01

away of the huge crane WILDE half
million dollars.
London, Sept. pa special dis
patch from Madrid says it is reported
there that Queen Marie Christian,
mother of King Alfonso, married her
master of horse, Count de La Escosura,
while in Austria recently.
Savannah, Ca, Sept. 29.-The Con-
solidated Naval Stores Company will
be incorporated in Jacksonville We'd
nesday, with a capital of s2,o00,00o.
Washington, Sept. 29.-Gossip at
the war department has it that the sec
retary of war, Elihu Root, will be the
next member of President Rooseyelt,s
cabinet to retire.
Anderson, Sept. 27.-Anderson is to
have still another mammoth cotton
mill. 1t will start with 25,000 spin
dies and will cost some 5000, 600. Mr..
r. S. Hill, a leading business man
and president of the Farmers and
Merchants Bank and the Farmers
Loan and Trust Company, is att the
head of the new enterprise.
New York, Sept. 27.--James B.
Craft, wealthy resident of Gen.
Cove, L. l., was murdered today,
and his body decapitated in tender
loin resort known as the Empire Gar
den cafe in West Twenty ninth street,
within few doors of Broadway.
Corinth, Miss, Sept. 28.-Writhing
in the flames of fagots piled high by
hundreds of citizens, Tom Clark, alias
VIII Gibson, q young negro, was burn
ed at the stake here at late hour
today. Clark had confessed to one Of
the most atrocious assaults and mur-
ders in the history Of, Mississippi. and
said that he deserved his awful fate.
New York, Sept. ga standing
feud between two rival factions, one
living in the ghetto and the other near
the Chinse quarters in this city, came
to an open battle tonight. Nearly two
hundred people were engaged in riot
which became so fierce that the police
reserves were called ont. Clubs,
revolvers, knives, bricks and stones
were used by the rioters and many Of
the fighters were hurt. Thirteen ar
rests were made. During the fight the
residents of many blocks were in state
Of terror and it was three hours before
quiet was restored.
Boston, Sept. PA committee of
citizens headed by the publishers of a
Boston newspaper today sought relief
in the courts from the present coal
shortage and high prices by asking for
a receiver for the coal companies and
coal carrying roads. A bill in equity
was fled in the supreme court asking
that receiver be appointed for the
benefit Of all concerned upon such
terms and in such manner, and with
such agents and servants, and with
such rates Of wages and other condi-
tio1is OF employment and at such prices
for goods produced and sold, as the
court shall from time to time adjudge
proper.
Washington, September 27.-Though
recognizing in the request Of. the Gu
ban Government for tie withdrawal Of
the remaining American troops In
Cnba a very natural desire to remove
all traces Of foreign. occupation the In
dications are that The authorities here
will order the withdrawal only on the
completion of the permanent treaty
contemplated in the Platt amendment.
It is regarded as essential that such
provisions in the projected treaty as
those touching coaling stations and the
ownership of the Isle of Pines be ex-
pressly arranged for in a treaty that
Shall be absolutely binding upon both
parties, and only when these things
are done will the small remaining force
of United States troops be withdrawn.
ls Vienna, Sept. 2s.-The body of
Edmund Jellinek, the consulting Off
cial of the cashiers department. of the
Vienna Laerder real estate mortgage)
bank, has been found in the Danube
at Altenwoerth, near KremZ. He dis
appeared from Vienna September IS.
His embezzlements from the bank
amounted to about 81, l50, 600.
S. F. Rockefeller, a cousin of John
D. Rockefeller. is candidate for the
legislature in Russell county, Kansas.
He is making his race on an anti
trust platform, and promises that II
he is elected he will run his cousin s
Standard Oil Company out of the
State. The majority of the voters OF
the county, it is said, are natives OF
Russia, and are standing solidly be-
hind the anti trust man.--Savannall
News.
Lately in a small town in Germany
the school inspector arrived on his
tour of inspection too soon after his
last visit to please the mayor, who
was asked to accompany him, says an
exchange. Il should like to know
why this ass has come again so SOON
muttered the mayor TO himself, as be
put on his hat The inspector over
heard the remark, but pretended te
ignore it, and was soon busy examln,
ing the pupils in punctuation. The
mayor told him: We don't trouble
about commas and such like here.
The Inspector told one of the pupils tt
write on the blackboard, The Mayor
of Ri+1o1huttle saws the inSDectOr is al