Fort Mill Times, 1900-08-29

?;rori;lH'n Cotton Crop Muni. '111.' 1 loll. <?. It. Stl'VetlS. CotlllldSj sjoner "I Agriettlt iirr for 'Jcorgia. in ' his i -port ,iui i til:i<I.' public estimates , 1 . i li<> cotton crop ot i Jeorgia i liis y? ?r ! i in tir.fct.iHNi bales. agnim-t 1.s?hi, the I , av fr,i-c id live prc\ ioti> vcjif;.. 1 , LABOR V/ORLD. Tin* Inspectors' I'liion is (lie Int, est one in ('hiengo. , A union of earn aire ami wagon maker r> has just been organize)I. A national convention of siatioiiai.v j engineers will bo held in New York ! i City. 1 Textile linlllslries in Cernmin are deteriorating, "Jimmi operatives lining idle at Aaelien. In South Ihikota difficulty is being experienced securing bands to harvest tin- small grain crop. Sean it," of t'arin laborers in the Northwest lias caused the owners of hig wheal Ileitis to appeal to the railroad eoinpnnV's for help in obtaining ! men to harvest. A general demand for the ten hour 1 work day will be made by the lifly 'thousand members of the Journeymen 'linkers' ami t'oiifeelioiu rs* International I'nlon on May I. Telephone men who striiek in several Knstern cities have been victorious in nearl> every instance, either winning iheir cause or making a satisfactory adjustment of their grievances. Owing t>> a strike of some two thousand Tuff \ ale railroad men. near Cardiff. Wales, traffic on the railroad has been stopped. Titer' lias been some violence against volunteer workers. There are uiii" branches in New York State of l lie Woman's Intcrnatiotial I .a hot* I .on gun. whose object is to persuade workingmcn and women to buy only goods hearing the union I label. ' - '

til** total will be tint morn than To.- i .iMinno. although it will not tall j very far below that figure. Tin* ma soil it may fail below at all. is that the Census OtUee. in cutting <ntt the ?li*-triets. intends to give those enumerators who have to walk over a koo?I leal of territory a little less work to tin. On the frontiers and in the very remote places this influence operates most strongly. autl. as a rule, the returns from Mielt places are among the last to he tabulated. Therefore, it may lie put down as a settled faet that the population of the I nitial States will not lie more than 7o.tMHt.tHMt. This is the inside opinion of the t Vnsus tHiiee managers, but. being eonjet tural. itas. of eourse. found no plaee in tny otlicial bulletin. Figures have been enrried far enough hIso to show that siliotit IV.'. per rent, of tile population of the I'nitod Suites will be found living in cities or town" if St f )t I pern on s or above. This is a rery significant faet. In lslMt it trai 2ft per eetit. In IT'.mi it was per eetif. The cities already counted slmw the following results, the returns for 'his year being placed Upside those of ISJHt, with the percentage of increase: l'ereent im. t.r

A negro 11.-iturd l.oii|s Peek iltnde till ! nt tempt t<? assault t'hristinn. :i si.\vcnr-old daughter of Mr. ami Mrs. Thendore Mans, whlto people of this eity. The negro was arrested at one n'clock next morning and lurked np in the eity prison. At 7.ht) o'clock p. in. a nioli of several tliottsand persons path cred about the prison yelling for the life ??f Peek. They forced their way into the city prison stud searched all the cells. The officers offered no resistance its the negro had been removed in the early part of the evening. The mob then rushed for the county jail and forced open the outer doors of the building. The jail was soon pa?kcd with the howling members of the mob who insisted that Peck was there. Itepnty Sheriff Stone addressed the Ittob. saying that Peek was not there. A eoinmittee was appointed l?y the molt and was permitted to seareh the jail from top to bottom. The molt then rushed .serosa the street ami foreed open the doors of the t'ourt House and (tearelied that building. Peek was not there auw another rnsh was made for the eity prison, whieh was again soon paeked.

The three-mile set.lling rare at Hallfax. N. S.. between Ten Kyek ami Vail was won by Ten lCyek, the American. The American reply to Li Hung (.'hang that we will lalk peare to China when sh?' is peaeefitl ? was seconded by Certnany. Four thousand live hundred and eighty bales of eoitoit were destroyed by tire in a warehouse at Santauder. Spain. Mrs. Floreuee Maybriek. talking to a reporter in her Knglish prison, dofended the late Lord Uns-ndl from attaeks m?on his nietnory. The eoal ring is tightening its grip on the Knglish eonsuiner. as the importation of eoal front the 1'nited States, even at present prices, is unprofitable. owing to the freightage. ltresei, King Humbert's assassin, asked delay in his trial until witnesses I'rotn America could arrive in Koine. The Kritish t ioverniueut is arranging to relieve Lord Huberts in South Atriea. deputing to a general of io.s< eoiiset|uonee the vexatious work of running down the partisan baud' t here. A l aud of masked brigands, operating near Koine, have reeenlly robbed a number of tom-isis. killing one

dynamite. :i large bo\ of which whs [stored in tin* basement of ili?* build ill}:- The janitor whs iniur <1. .mil several county officials badly shaken up. 10Xpert accountants :it Shelbyville. Iih!.. tinislieil their investigation of tineounty books. They report :i probable shortage of .SUWi.IMM in Treasurer .1 Marsh Wilson's ottiee. The population of Minneapolis was Chen out bv the Census iviireau as !I02.718; of St. I'aul as 1tk",.t:.T_?. The Indian Famine Itelief Fund. at New York, has reaebed W1"J,07i?."?4. The Kelley axe faetory. the largest plant of its kind in the world, was destroyed by tire at Alexandria. Intl. The loss will reneh $7oo,imm>. almost all covered by instirunee. The Pvalde tTexasi National Hank, it is claimed, lias been defrauded out of &I.AOO by a man ivi11 tc bis name tis K. Fisher. Tiie fraud is alleged to have been neeoutplishcd by means of a confederate tapping the wires and forging telegrams. Convinced tluit she was an incurable consumptive. Kiln Thompson eom -