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|m~ 1 The Press arid Banner r PABT SBOOIJT). I BRYAN ABUSED. y Senators btewdrt and Danic in Hotel Lobby. I BECAUSE HE THINKS pr Himself unci Refuses to Sneezi Whenever They Take Snuff.?Tin Former, With Angry Words, He fuses to Meet Mr. Bryan, Whili the Latter Kails at Him Becausi He Does Not Do As He Wants Him I One day last week William J ryan was denounced by former Sen :or William Stewart, of Nevada, ir le Williard Hotel, Xew Nork. Th( ;nunciation was spoken within ear lot of the Neb'raskan. A momeni ter Senator John W. Daniel, of Vir nia, declined point blank to attend e dinner that night in his honor e accused . Mr. Bryan of being dietorial and of taking his ideas from itsiders. Mr. Bryan had been in the Williard tending the meeting of the assoition which aims at publicity of mpaign contributions. As he stepd into the lobby, former Senator awart was seated in one of the 9y chairs. Senator Daniel, who is ne, was leaning on his crutches ar the desk. Major J. A. Armes, one of the jmoters of the Bryan dinner an>ached Mr. Stewart and said: "Senator, there is a friend of ars. Why don't you go over and >ak to him?" "Friend of mine; friend of mine'." uttered the former Seuator so idly that all could hear him. "That ;er is no friend of min*. What is i use of talking to him7 He doesn't ount to anything. He has run on/1 hoon defeated. You don't t TT 1VV ?UU vvvm ? Jt>et oil'a horee that has been licked twice, 'do you?" This outburst seemed to upset Major Armes, for he made no reply, but walked over and joined Senator Daniel. He said: , "Senator, won't you come to our dinner tonight in honor of Mr. Bryan? We sent you tickets, but have received no reply." "No." said Senator Daniel emphat I ically, "I will not. I do not care I to attend any dinner at which Mr. I Bryan is the guest of honor. I thank I you for your kindness, but I am goI ing to Richmond tonight and it is I impossible." ij With that, Senator Daniel started 'down the corridor. In passing the I elevator he encountered Mr. Bryan, I who was talking to a group of I friends. The two greeted each othI er and stepped aside. There was a I short conversation in an undertone I and then Senator Daniel lifted his I voice and was heard to say: I "I am very sorry I can't agree with I .you. I like you personally, but I don'1 I like your principles, nor your plat1 form. You don't listen to those withI in your party. You are too fond ol I dictating what the party should do.' I As he spoke the Virginia Senatoi I shifted his weight on his crutch anc p his free hand shook his finger at thf X'^hraskan. "When did I do that?" interrupted Mr. Bryan." "You did it in 1900. You declarer that you would not be the nomine< of the party unless the silver plan! was inserted in the platform," snap ped Senator Daniel. "Well, you were with nie on tha in 1896, wern't you, Senator?" ques tioner Mr. Bsyan. "I beg to differ with you. f wa not with you." was the answer. "You were a member of the com mittee which drew up the platform.' ^ "But I opposed that plftnk in th platform," declared Daniel, "j an not believe in it. I fought it whe: the platform was being written." "I am surprised," exclaimed Mi Bryan, and his apearence did not be lie his words. "I am surprised to hea that, for I had always considere that you were with me," he repeal ed." "No. I was not," thundered Danie You are wrong. You dictate to th pacty'too much." "Well, Senator," interrupted Mi Bryan, "I do not want to quarn with you about this matter. I thin I had better be going," and suitin the action to the word, the Nebra: kan brushed past Senator Daniel an left the hotel. Senator Daniel stood his groun for several minutes, and then he. to< left the hotel, going to the railroa station and taking a train for Ricl mond. POOR FELLOW Had Nothing; To Be Thankful F< and Killed Self. "I have lived thirty-six Thankgi ings and never had anything to 1 thankful for, so here goes nothing was the note left bv Jos Meisle proprietor of a hotel at Appleto Wis., who blew off the top of his lie? with a shotgun. iu?iciU ordered all the guests from the hot saying that he intended quitting but ness and demanded that they moi before Thanksgivng morning. HAD A HARD TIME. }l Two Men Starved Three Days i Boat on Bay. Drifting Without h'oou or Dim They Hail Passing Vessels lint ) No Avail. p Without food or drink for sevent; two consecutive hours, and 1 earin p evidence of having been buffeted I storm, Charles Losee and Georg e Goff, amateur fishermen, arrived ? their homes in Fort Hamilto J on Thursday evening. They told ho" a little boat In which they went adrii was passed by several fishing smack; . although the two endangered me signalled wildly for help. 1 The men had caught a good man fish and had started back for For Hamilton. As they got to the mout of the narrows a big storm struc' them. The sail of the skiff was ren as if it were tissue paper. The mas cracked and fell overboard, tippin the vessel until the men believei they would be drowned. The storr t not only destroyed sail and mast but even ripped the rudder loose, s< 1 that it was useless. Losse and Goff were helples. The: ' had taken along only enough wate and food to last late in the afternoon ' and as the night wore on and the gali swept hither and thither in the col< i and darkness they began to suffe i from thirst. As morning broke th? storm increased in fury, and the fish ' ermen had no idea where they were Rain descended in such volumes am was driven in such vapor like cloud: that they could not even see th< shore. A sailing vessel, struggling witl the choppy sea, passed close to ih< skiff. Losse and Goff shouted wildl: and waved pieces of the tattered sail But the craft went lurching on hei way, the captain paying no attentioi to the yells for help. Later another vessel, a big fishinf smack, hove in sight, and the criei were renewed, but again they wen ignored. Several other vessels sailec passed the seemingly doomed men and they abandoned hope. Meanwhile the police had issued < general alarm for them, and all th< life-saving stations along the Nev Jersey coast were notified. Crews o: outgoing fishing vessels were re quested to keep a lookout for th< missing pair, but no word was re ceived from them until late Thurs day. At seven o'clock they appeare< at their homes. They had drifted into Point Citj Cove, about eight miles from Atlan tic Highlands, and had managed s< as to manoeuvre the boat as to per mit a landing. The two were be draggled and haggard from exposun and lack of sustenance. They won' go out in the skiff again. KILLED NEAR CHESTER. i Blood Found on Trestle But Bod; Not Vet Recovered. A dispatch from Chester to Th< ; State says on the arrival of a througl freight there Friday morning fron Abbeville the crew reported that th ' fireman. Ablert Ferguson, a youn ! mail of that place, was found to b missing near Tvger river. The trai was at once stopped and an ineffec tual search made for some distanc ' along the atrck. ? On receiving the information thei c Mr. G. W. Ferguson, father of t.li voung man, in company w:ih a refa tive, Mr. W. VV. Smith, left foi th * scene. At Tvger river they saw bloo and -some strands of hair or. the ra and the bridge timber. From lhi 55 they concluded that the youug fin man had fallen into the river. The " Mnd some of the nearby resident made efforts to locate the body. In J lie efforts were without results [ On the midnight train of the Se: ? - - .V " board several men ien 10 jom u party and assist in the work of coi ' tini'ing the search. They were pr< vided with an outfit of grapplin ' hooks. c Albert Ferguson was about twent; b" two years of age and was the olde son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Ferguso of Chester. It is said that this wj e his first trip 011 the road in the c t> pacitv of fireman. il THREE HOLD ROBRERS. k S Help I'p Passengers in a Crowd* d Railway Station. ^ Thrusting big revolvers in tl 1 faces or a coachload of Erie passe ^ gers at the station of that road ear Thursday morning at Cleveland, C three masked men succeeded in gf ting $30 and escaped as a policem; arrived. As the policeman enter* the car the trio fled warning the pa ?r sengers not to join in the chase. I the hill the three sped, bullets fro the policeman's revolvers followh ^ them. me ronuers iosi meiusei v e in the crowd in Superior street. Caught by Flames. At (jlouster. Mass.. one man w ' killed, a man and woman probal: Lfl ?. .-n- -* .1 l 1 U laiauy uijuretj anu sevcicii uiucis u l- thrilling escapes Friday in a fire . the Harvard boarding house. Jo! ll~ Fonton. the dead man. jumped frc ,e a sixth story window and broke I neck. MURDERER HANGED. in Luke Chisholm Pays Penalty foi Killing Robert Graham. ik The First Hanging That Has Ever to Taken Place In the County of Dorchester. y- A dispatch from St. Georges M> ig The News and Courier says the first ly hanging in Dorchester County occurr;e ed Friday when Luke Chisolm paid it the penalty of death for the murder n of Robert Graham, In Summerville, ^ last August. At the term of Court ^ in October Luke Chisolm was found guilty of murder and sentenced to be 5* "'hanged by his neck till his body be n dead, on the 29th day of November.'* From the rising of the Court till y that morning just before Chisholm 't was taken to the scaffold, the minish ters of his race have been untiring k in their efforts to save his soul, and t before the black cap was adjusted to t close his vision of things of this life, S he testified that his soul was saved J , J 11 as 110 nas oneii uunt; smit scmcutc 11 of death was passed upon him. He told the spectators that he was 0 ready and willing to die and that whiskey was the cause of his filling Y a felon's grave. He asked that all r would look upon him and take a . lesson as to the evil of strong drink 8 and the degradation it would bring 1 upon a man. r Then the black cap was adjusted s over his head, his feet and hands se curely tied, the noose put around his ' neck and at 11.15 Sheriff Limehouse i cut the rope which sprung the trap s door, and Chisholm's body was swung 5 in midair until 11.38. when the attending physician pronounced him 1 dead. 5 His body was taken down and placed in a coffin to be taken in charge by his people. r A large number of people were 1 in town to witness the execution, but under the law only a certain number i were permitted to see it. There were s numbers on the outside of the jail - yard, who never gained admittance. 1 This has closed the chapter of the ... . . . worst murder ever committed in this State. 1 ? FIENDISH ATTACK r f On an Old Lady by a Brute in liich? niond, Va. Brutally assaulted in her room by j a negro who was overcome by officers and neighbors only after a wild and desperate struggle, Mrs. Jane Perry, I \ 85 years old, and an invalid, lies in } a critical condition with face and head badly bruised in her home, No. 2003 East Broad street, where the attack took place. The negro, Junius Brooker, who I lived in the yard in the rear of the premises occupied by Mrs. Perry, was caught by Policeman Goodman and a neighbor, Mr. W. A. Duke, in the y room, beating his aged victim. The old lady had been dragged from her bed on the floor, and was being held by the negro in a desperate grip, k Officer Goodman cried out: "What a are you doing there?'" whereupon e the negro reached up and with his fist, smashed the lamp, putting the room in darkness. Another light ? was secured, the officer using his club to terrible advantage over the e negroe's head. Booker fought like a fiend, seem? ing hardly to feel the blood drawing e blows which rained on his head, anc-1 , holding Officer Goodman in a tight e embrace. Duke took Goodman's pis^ tol from his pocket, but in the enjj counter was unable to gH. the shot lP at the man without endangering the officer. Hooker exclaimed: 'v. "I know you, Mr. Duke; I'll fix "s you," but when he saw the leveled pistol, he calmed down, and was dragged to the front room where he was tied hands and foot. ie Duke turned his attention to Mrs. Pprrv. who seemed unconscious, but revived on being lifted, muttering: ? "He has nearly killed me. Put me on ? my bed and let me die." and then v._ later: '"He would have killed me. if st you hadn't come in. n Several of .he bystanders and jg neighbors expressed a desire for suma_ rnary justice without the intervention of the authorities. FIVE PERSONS KILLED. 'd Train Crashed Into Crowded Trolley Car at Crossing. ie A trolley car loaded with passenn gers on their way to work was run ly down by a.rfeight train at the rail).. road crossing at Waterbury, Conu., it- Thursdaj*. an Five persons were killed in the ed crash and eight injured. The trollej is- car was demolished. *P The freight was running at full m speed. The motorman of the trollej '-i ort/i iV,o unnmnchinsr Irair Ufj t'U u IU I1V/C niv, w?~~?> ? c es as he ran into the crossing. When he saw the freight trail hearing down 011 him he put on ful speed and tried <0 cross in front .v as it. The freight was too near, how ?lv ever, and in an instant the locomo ad tive liore down 011 the car. in The trolley was ground into kind llii ling wood. Many of the passenger! >111 were unrecognizable when taken ou lis of the wreck. Of the eight injurrc .several are reported to be badly hurt j SCHOOL GROWTH P In This State the Past TwentyFive Years Rapid. WHAT HAS BEEN DONE. State Superintendent of Education Martin Points Out Some of the Things That Havo Been Accomplished in the Last Quarter of a Century in Educational Matters By Our People. During the last twenty-five years South Carolina has made marvelous progress in all lines, and in no other line has the advance of this Commonwealth been greater than in education. There is yet much to be done. The foundations have merely been laid for making this Commonwealth a thorough educated and intelligent State, where iliiteracy shall be at the minimum, but at the same time encouragement and hope should be taken from the record of accomplishTV* An + Kir? r* ? -? ?? ??cui "uuiii a. quai ici ui a ucuiury. In his fourth coming annual report State Superintendent of Education Martin will give some data in the effort to show the advance within the period mentioned. Twenty-five years ago the State Superintendent of Education was Hugh E. Thompson, that splendid gentleman and educator, who later became Governor of South Carolina, went to Washington in the administration of Grover Cleveland, and wound up his career with honor as an official of the great insurance companies in New York. 'Mr. Martin has taken the last report of Superintendent Thompson and with it as a basis makes some comparisons with the conditions of totoday. He points out that twentyfive years ago State Superintendent Thompson was closing his term of office, after having done some very successful foundation and building work for a public school sytem in South Carolina. In order to accomplish results it was necessary tflen for him to encounter a great-deal of opposition. The statistics in his reports of his last term of office show marked development contrasted with conditions when he first assum j ed the position. This year's statistics are very interesting when contrasted with those of a quarter of a century ago. The following items are worthy of attention: 1832 . Total Enrollment 1 45,974 Average attendance 101,816 Total expenditures .. ..$373,567.95 Number of school houses.. ..2,781 Value 470.600 Total number of teacher?.. 413 No. of local tax districts 7 Am't raised by local taxation $28,600 Libraries None reported. No. of books in pub. school.. sso. . Number of Books in public school library.. ..None reported. 1907 Total enrollment 314.399 Average attendance 222.189 Total expenditures ..$1,148,474.11 Number of school houses.. ..r:,786 Value 2,120,000 lotal number of teachers.. ..6,044 Number of local tax districts..501 Am't raised by local taxation $326,072.96 Libraries 1,007 Number of Books in Public lfhrsarv _ -200.000 The appropriation, at the last session of the Legislature, of $50,000 for State aid to high schools will mark an epoch in the progress of our school system. In addition to the development which has occurred in the public schools the facilities for higher education have been greatlv improved. Twenty-five years ago the Citadel and the South Carolina College had just been reopened and were getting fairly started after the war of reconstruction. The denominational and private colleges were just beginning a new era of prosperity. It would be a conservative estimate to say that at least $1,000,000 had been added, either in equiptment or buildings, to the colleges which were furnishing i.:~i to Knvc nnrl E'irl'S II IICI t'UUtanua cv MWJ U M..v. C-. of the state in the early eighties. The increase in endownments would . approximate the same amount. Besides this, the State of South Carolina during that period erected three new State institutions, viz, Clemson, Winthrop and the State Colored Col' lege. The plants of these three in stitutions are easily worth one and . a half million dollars. Private and denominational enterprises have also erected Converse, Lander and Columr bia Colleges during the same period. These, with the private academies I and high schools which have been ' erected within the last few years, ' I would add at least three-fourths of |a million dollars to the total value i i of the educational property in South 1 Carolina. Of course, these figures do 1 * -1 - 4.u~ * ,,n rloT'oln nm on t 1 j not indicate Lite iuh uv*viv|/M.v... -.which lias tal<en place. The great est improvement of all is found in I the sentiment which supports the - work and in the desire which the peo3 pie manifest for continued progress, t "There are some points in the sta1 tistics of this year in contrast with -jlast year which are favorable and | BAPTIST LAYMEN , Of South Carolina Called to Meet in Orangeburg On Sunday Afternoon, December 8, to Promote the Layman's Missionary Movement in South Carolina. The following call explains itself: Dear Brethren: In the name of our Master, we ask your earnest, prayerful consideration of this call to attend our laymen's mass-meeting, Sunday afternoon, December 8, during the meeting of the Baptist State Convention in Orangeburg. The meeting is called by the undersigned Baptist laymen, to -promote the Layman's Missionary Movement In South Carolina in line with what, is being planned throughout the South. We believe this is one of the most inspiring and promising of the recent movements for the extension of Christ's Kingdom. Its .Christlike spirit, its comprehensive purpose and its practical plans have won both the enthusiastic approval and hearty cooperation of many of our consecrated ( business men, and we believe that many others will express as hearty endorsement when the plans are presented to them. i The movement has been defined ( as "an awakening of Christian lay- ] men to the urgency of the Grea; \ Commission; an honest effort on the ( part of laymen to fulfill in the next j tw.enty-five years their Lioras command to preach the Gospel to every creature. Its aim Is to induce the Christian laymen to employ his influence, his money and his time in his religion in the same practical, common sense way that he does in his business or profession." The force of this appeal to Baptist laymen was seen in the great enthusiasm with which it was greeted in the recent Southern Baptist Convention at Richmond. South Carolina Baptists are known as a strong missionary body but we have not yet realized our strength or fully recognized our obligation, nor will we do so until more of our laymen consecrate their strenth to this great work of the kingdom. Earnestly hoping that you will attend the meeting and that you will enlist other laymen, we are, Your co-workers in His Kingdom, E. G. Quattlebaum, Columbia. F. P. Covington, Florence. T. O. Lawton, Jr., Greenville. R. B. Watson, Ridge Spring T. B. Anderson, Charleston. Geo. H. Edwards, Darlington. Wm. Goldsmith, Greenville. Zimmerman Davis, Charleston. Brooks Rutledge, Florence. R. O. Sams, Gaffney. B. H. Yarborough, Jenkinsville. S. A. Epps, Fort Mill. D. M. Dew, Latta. A. L. Lesesne, Silver T. 0. Mabry, Rock Hill. C. P. Wray, Ridgeway. O. B. Martin, Columbia. J .J. Waters, Rock Hill. Orlando Sheppard, Edgefield. E. C. Ridgell, Batesburg. C. E. Robinson, Pickens. D. J. Knotts, Swansea J. J. Lane, Clio. Bartow Walsh, Sumter. - j J. J. Gentry, Spartanburg. W. R. Rabb, Winnsboro. ;T. P. Kinarcfr, Rock Hill. F. X. K. Bailey, Edgefield. C. B. Bobo, Laurens Chas. A. Smith, Timmonsville. R. M. Mixson. Williston. Sam. M. Gist, Yorkville. W. W. Keys, Greenville. John M. Geer, Easley. C. H. Henderson, Aiken. W. B. West, Columbia. P. L. Coogler, Chester J. Q. Quattlebaum, Anderson. B. E. Geer, Greenville. E. L. Wilkins, Manning J. M. Quattlebaum, Columbia. S. M. Bagwell, Spartanburg. J. B. White, Cameron. J. B. Smith, Springfield. R. E. Rivers, Chesterfield. J. .P. Derham, Green Sea. H. L. Bomar, Spartanburg.' B. M. Shuman, Greenville. J. J. Lawton, Hartsville. J. O. Freeman, Taylors. J. O. Wingo, Campobello. George Boylston, Blackville. J. W. King, U11IUU. some which are not," says Superintendent Martin. "The average attendance last year was 218,862. The total this year is 222,189. This is especially encouraging in view of the fact that the enrollment did not increase. There was a decrease in the enrollment. The enrollment last year was 318,075. The enrollment this year was 314,399. In a number of counties the session was shortened presumably because of a reduction in funds. Some counties miss the funds which they have received from the dispensary more than other Counties. This is especially true in poorer counties. T believe that the Legislature will soon see the wisdom of making a State anuropriation which will guar antee a certain per capita per child in the counties where the funds are smallest. If a general appropriation of $100,000 were made, providing first for deficiencies by counties and afterwards for general distribution, it would have the effect of helping to strenthen the weak places and of helping those who really need it most." J. H. MUST TAKE THEM. Clearing House Certificates Can Be Used to Pay Taxes. The County Treasurers Who Construe Law Too Liberally Are Making Trouble Aplenty and Must Stop. The Columbia Record says State Treasurer Jennings is doing all be can to stop the drain upon the currency supply of the state, which is being made by certain county treasurers who reject clearing hoase certificates and demand cash in payment of taxes. He announced several days ago that at his own office clearinghouse certificates or any other paper of the kind that was current at par in Columbia would bg accepted and ' the county treasurers who will construe the lay on the subject in the same liberal way can do much toward 1 ameliorating the situation. ! State and county taxes are due i all over the State. They will amount to several million dollars. The county treasurers who are declining clearing house certificates in payment 1 of taxes claim that the law forbids i tneir accepting anything but goici, "| United State Currency and state bond coupons. About half the state ' tax, amounting to a million and a quarter dollars will go to New York c [n hard cash as fast as it arrives at * the state treasurer's office, which c )wes $350,000 in floating notes due ( n December and January, and $143,- s )00 in semi-annual interest on the * jtate's bonded debt, much of which iioney goes to New York. c Richland's treasurer, whose ex- 0 imple in rejecting the certificates, v las been followed by many other L :ounty treasurers, cites section 181 v >f the state tax laws in defense of * lis course. This section reads as fol- e ows: T "Taxes are payable in the follow- v ng kinds of funds and no other: h 3oId and silver coin, United Sttaes 1 :urrency, including national bank r lotes: coupons due and payable dur- a ng the current year in the consoli- s iated bonds known as brown bonds; P ind the bonds of this state known as v )lue bonds, and other state bonds t vhich may be issued by any act of c aw, making the coupon receivable or taxes. Appropriation act, 1905, b ?XIV Statutes, 995; Code Section t 114. Mandamus shall not issue to h :ompel receipt of any other fund." a Mr. H. J. Southern, the treasurer a >f Greenville county, is one of the t ;reasurers construing this section c rery liberally. He is quoted as say- i ng: t "I shall continue to accept these c jertificates as I have been doing since* s ;hey were first put into circulation. I t tnow the law states that only gold, c jurrency and bonds of this state are t icceptable in payment of taxes, but I c io not construe that to mean that I f :annot accept certificates which are t is good as gold. I deposit the money tvhich I collect in the bank each night s md these certificates are accepted t there each night the same as gold c and as I am accomodating quite a ^ number in accepting these certifi- f cates, why I shall -continue to re t ceive them unless I get orders not to. { I think that the state should do all s In its power to aid the financial sit- t nation and as these certificates are t good, it runs no risk of losing any- ( thing by taking them for taxes." l WAR COMES HIGH. Russia Has Just Finished Paying Up J the Japs. Russia sent a draft for $24,300,- j 000 to Japan on the 24th, in payment ; of the last portion of the debt incur- ? in hpr disastrous war to gobble | up Hanchuria, and incidentally, an- ( nex certain parts of the Japanese i empire. The draft was to cover the < cost of caring for Russian prisoners < taken by the victorious Japanese. ] The first bill for this was $75,000,- ( 000, but this was offset in part by a Russian bill of some $40,000,000 for the maintenance of Japanese prisoners. ' FATAL COLLISSIOX. Two Steamers Crash Into Each Othor i Near Gibralter. ? i Vino ncwirrpd 25 -*Y IcllctI tu t 1 IOIWJI liUM miles east of Gibralter, between the j Cape Negro, a Belgian coal steamer , hound for Marseilles from Sunder- 1 land and the Helvetia, an Italian , steamer hound for Lisbon from Marseilles. The Belgian vessel's how crashed into the Helvetia's starboard side, sinking her. Four of her crew < succeeding in jumping on board the , Cape Nero and subsequently the Helvetia's captain and nine men were picked up while the boatswain, three sailors and a woman passenger, Adile Sala, 22 years old, of Libson, were drowned. SLAIN BEFORE FAMILY. Former Partner, After Act, Ends His Own Life. .Adolpli Lohman. who li> ed in Elm street. Bogata, N. V.. v. j shot and killed in his home by his former business partner, while his wife and l murderer. Adolph Gunkel, who had I been living in New York, then turned the weapon on himself, and died a few minutes before his victim. JL ? DIED IN FIRE. Thirteen People Burnt Up in a Tenement Building Which PROVES DEATH TRAP. ' Flames Start in Saloon on Ground Floor of a Four-Story Building and Occupants are Driven to Top Floor, Where Thirteen Are Burned or Suffocated.?Police Suspect Incendiarism. Thirteen persons lost their lives and several others were injured early Monday in a tenement house fire at One Hundred and Ninth street and Second avenue, New York. All the dead were Italians. Seven of the 13 were children. The bodies were found huddled together in rooms on :he top floor of the four-story buildng, where the terror-stricken people lad been driven by the flames, which rushed up from the lower floors. They had succumbed before they :ould reach windows which led to the ire escapes. Some had been envel>ped in the flames and burned alive. )thers, overcome by smoke, were pared the agonies of death n the lames. That the fire was the work of inendiaries who sought revenge is the ipinion of the police and firemen, t'ho made the first hasty examinaion. Three weeks ago three Italians Fere caught in the act of attempting rob a safe in the saloon of Guis ppe Cudano, on the ground floor. 'he safe contained over $2,000, rhich the saloon keeper's friends > iad withdrawn from banks during lie money panic. The would-be obbers were arrested and are now waiting trial. The fire of Monday tarted in Cudano s saloon and the >olice believe It may have been the fork of friends of the prisoners, who ?ok this means of squaring the acount with the saloon keeper. Cudano discovered the fire when ie went down to open his place of tusiness early Monday morning. As ie opened the door he was met by . rush of flames and without waiting , moment to investigate, dashed up he stairs to the tenements above, rying out for the occupants of the luilding to run for their lives. When te reached the rooms occupied by his iwn family he burst in the door and eizing his young son in his arms old Mrs. Cudano and other members >f the family to follow. Cudano and he boy managed to find their way lown the stairs to the street, but be re the woman could get through he flames had cut off all exit. A>Ut a Single [JCi ouu ry no oc.u w tppear at any of the windows of the jlazing building with the exception >f those on the second floor, from vkich several persons reached the ire escapes and were rescued. After he flames had been partially checked iremen fought their way through the imoke to the upper floors. There hey came upon piles of dead where hey had fallen victims to the rush >f flames and smoke even before th'-^y lad a chance to attempt to save hemselves. In one of the heaps the firemen found a woman who had made one ast desperate effort to save the life )f her baby even when she knew ;hat she herself was doomed to a horrible death. She had folded her irms tightly around the little one 1 it. Um/3/IIA/I rlnntn nlrtCfl f A thll 1UU U1CII UUUUICU UUnu .V loor, her body protecting that of the ihild. The mother's body was badly turned. That of the child bore scarcely a mark but it was dead from suffocation. On every side of the mother and child lay the bodies of ? jther victims. DEAD BODY FOUXI). Had Been Dead Two Days.?No Inqiiost Held. The dead body of Bill Cleveland. colored was found in a cotton patch about five miles east of Walhalla ou Friday morning. The discovery was made by a small colored boy, who in passing through the field, accidentally stepped on the feet of the dead man. ? ?nlifelnlon ruarm 1110 coroner unu mc |/nioivmu summoned, but after examination it was not thought necessary to hold an inquest, as the doctors opinion was that he died from natural causes. The man had been dead about two days. CHILDREN KIDXAPPEI) Police of Mexico City Have Big Task Before Them. A special to the Express from Mexico City says: "The police of this city are actively at work on one of the biggest, kidnapping cases that they have ever had. It is evident that for at least two months ail organized gang of kidnappers has been operating in this city. Forty-nine children have been stolen from their homes. What is done with them or who might be taking them away and by what means is not known. The age of the children varies between 12 and two years.