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I CANTER'S I COAN AND I SAVINGS i BANK. K AUGUSTA, GAj Pays Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited, le C. HAYNI, . President, CHAS. C. HOWARD,* Cashier. NO. 60. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FE BE UAR Y 10, 1904. THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA' L. C "HAYNE, FHAXK G, FORD, President. Cashier.' CAPITAL $250,000. Surplus j A" Undivided Profits. $125,000 Our New Vault contains 410 Safty-Lock Boxes, which wc offer to our patrons and e public at three to ten dollars per annum. NO. 7. City Suffers Most Disa< tory of FiRE RAGrD ALL DAY SUNDAY Toward Midnight thc Fire Began Eating Its Way Into th? Financial District-flayor HcLean Says the Loss Cannot Be Estimated. _. V Baltimore, Special.-The most de structive conflagration in the history of Baltimore occurred here Sunday in the wholesale dry goods business dis ' trict, raging practically unchecked during many hours, completely de stroying scores of the largest busi . ness houses in the wholesale district, involving losses which cannot bc esti mated, as the fire was still burning fiercely when night fell. Owing to the wide extent of the calamity it will be tomorrow before even an approximate estimate can be made, though it is certain that it has already exceeded ? $25,000,000. The fire was still burning | at nightfall, but was under control. No loss of life was reported at this j hour. j BROKE OUT ON HOPKINS PLACE. The fire broke out shortly before ll o'clock this morning in the wholesale dry goods store of John T. Hurst & Co., on Hopkins' place, in the heart of the business district, with a series of loud explosions, which were heard j j in remote parts pf the city, and spread with fearful" rapidity. In half an hour there Ww-re a dozen big warehouses in the wholesale dry goods and notions district burning fiercely. The entire fire department was called out.but was j utterly powerless to check the spread t ? of the???flames/which were aided by-L the high winds, and by noon there t were savaje fires in at least 30 big i - warehouses, and the conflagration was v steadily eating its way into successive n i blocks; east, north, west and south. On Baltimore street, the blocks be- t] tweed: Liberty and Sharp streets was . soon ablaze, then came the next block i east tb Hanover and after that the . block^on the south side to Charles ^ strcetjbi-oke cut into flames, the .Con- ^ solida^d^G^Comp?ny^?^buildlng ana Ochm!s Acme Hall buming^?iercely. v, Meanwhile there were stores^ra-th . of Baltimore street being.... simirart???? ||yW^WHfcl;. Munrh^s^otgi^^^^o^ Ililli - "ST j^jjit^MiPth?': south side tc |!|/ V^P^nd the big bargaiu house al- P iPfe^??ught. Down in Hopkins' place - whcic .the conflagration started. 11 Hurst's building and other wholesale ?ic houses on both sides of the street tc crumbled and fell. i j' The big dry goods houses of Daniel Miller & Sons aud R. M. Sutton & 11 . Co. were soon aflame, and along Ger- sI man street-east and west, from the Hurst building-there were a dozen j 6 .buildings burning. j * Mass & Kempers big wholesale !" store, on Baltimore street, quickly ri succumbed to thc flames. On Hop- t! kins' place the Hopkins' Savings Bank j and the National Exchange Bank P were gutted by thc flames. Across j the street were the ruins of John E. j M Hurst & Co., and next to it Hecbl, Jr., j n & Sons, were in dames. j il THE BLOCK A CAULDRON. j a All these beddings were swept away b by -the flames, and the whole biock I w?s nothing but a cauldron of fire. h At 1:30 o'clock Mullin's Hotel, a P seven-story structure, at'Liberty and P Baltimore streets, was in flames from c garret to cellar and its great height and narrowness acted as a torch. All the guests had been ordered out, and c none, consequently, was injured. c Though every bit of fire-fighting ap- c paratus in the city was ' called into i requisition as the flames continued ? s spread, at 10 o'clock six engines ar- i rived from Washington and four from ( Philadelphia. It is roughly estimated < that there were 350 hose playing on ? different jparts of the conflagration at i the same time. < . PINE RUN FOR THEIR LIVES. Wall after wall toppled into the I streets, and firemen ran for their lives, i All kinds of wires had to be cut to I clear the way for the fire fighters. The i block bounded by Gorman, Liberty, : Baltimore and Sharp streets was early foiind to be doomed, and the i firemen turned their attention to sav ing the buildings on Baltimore street, east cf Sharp, but the fire was beyond their control. .Red hot cinders ignited the roof of J Infuriated iNegro Mils. Tarboro. Special.-Because she would not marry him. Randal Pitman, colored, shot and instantly killed Mag- j gie Battle, a widow, here Sunday and j probably fatally wounded her sister. Louisa Barret. Pitman had called, re- j newed his suit and as Maggie was about to' consent. Louisa protested, j whereupon the mr.n drew his pistoi. ! shot both and then made his escape. He bas not yet been apprehended. Minorflention. George Mcnchines. known as tie polyglot guide ai the capitol In Wash- j ington. died last. week. He had i served as guide there for nearly twenty j years', and was most successful in' bis j employment. He came from Wales, and ; could speak and write in French, Itali-1 an, Spanish and Portuguese, besides ? ?havirs ?. familiarity with several dia leets; He speke bis native Welsh, and j natnrally had a-good command of1 English. He went to California in 1840 and made a fortune in sluicing goldT which he- invested in valuable real i?rous Blaze in the His the South Front Street Theatre at least half a mile from the main conflagration, j which shows to what distance the fiery rain fell. The blaze was ex tinguished by the firemen, assisted by citizens. For a time considerable alarm was felt at the City Hospital. The Sisters of Mercy in charge of the institution were all at their posts, and an effort was made to keep the fa'-* of the eon- . few cinders fell on the roof of thc hos- j flagration a secret from the patients. A I pital, but were extinguished by thc j physicians of the house staff. Eighteen women, two babies and seven nurses were. taken from ? ho j Maternity Hospital, on West Lombard ! street, in police ambulances and given quarters at the city hospital. A woman who was ill in bed with typhoid fever was taken to the city hospital. CITY TERRIFIED BY EXPLOSION. At 3 o'clock a tremendous explosion of about 150 barrels cf whiskey stored in the upper floors of No. 24 Hanover street hurled tons of burning matter across the street onto the roofs of the buildings opposite which the firemen were drenching with water in a vain j ? bope to make Hanover street, the east- ) srn boundary line of the conflagration, j Here an engine was buried by a falling j ? ?vail, the firemen fleeing for their j r ives. . The whole city was notified of the :onfiagration by a terrific explosion, vhich occurred some minutes after ll ?'clock. A sharp, spitting roar went ip with reverberating thunder. This vas followed by a peculiar whistling loise like that made by a shrill wind. Nie churches in the central part of he. city were filled with worshippers, nany of whom were frightened, and, rfcile no. panics ensued hundreds of j b lea and women went outside to see 'hat had happened. In a few moments tie streets and pavements all over the ity were crowded with excited people, nother deafening crash occurred, and ense columns of cinders and smoke J pj ?lot up over the entrai section of ie city, and in a huge brown column loved rapidly toward the northeast, orne on the strong southeast wind l?^coitomit ot jmioke^blazing. cinders ^n?ers fell, compelling pedestrians . doge red-hot pieces of wood. EOPLE DODGING FIRE BRANDS. Two more explosions followed., and ?ousands of people hurried to the :ene of the fire. Of all the specta irs; comparatively few saw the fire self. They could not get within half a lock of it. Even the policemen guard ig the approaches to the fire had to lift their positions repeatedly and odge falling cinders. Pieces of tin by S feet square were lifted into the ir by the terific heat, sailed upward ke paper kites, and when they eached a point beyond the scene of ile most intense heat, fell clattering 3 the streets. CAGING WITH UNABATED FURY. 0:20 p. m.-The fire is still raging nth unabated fury.. The fire depart icnt is helpless with the flames stead iy traveling eastward on Baltimore nd Fayette streets. The, Union Trust uilding has fallen in. The Carrcllton lotel is on fire. The Herald building ? apparenty doomed, and the occu ants have moved out. The Sun is ireparing to move. Clouds of burning Inders cover the whole city. FIRE NEAR COURT HOUSE. 30:20 p. m.-The fire sweeping east ?n Fayetteville street is within a short listance of the court house, which oc mpies the block bounded by Fayette; Lexington and Calvert streets. Oppo site is the postoffice adjoining this s the temporary custom house and mposite to this is the city hall. The :alvert office building, at Fayette and ?t. Paul street, is afire, and the Equit able building, which adjoins it, is now threatened. The main office of the Western Union Telegraph CeESpaiiy is located in the Equitable bniiding, and the force is leaving for a branch ox 5ce. A number of buildings are b?tog dynamited in an effort to tho fire. 11:45-The fire is still eating tts 35y eastward on Baltimore street and oa South and German streets. Includive the financial district. Mayor KeL&sa, who has been on the scene all day and night, says it is utterly impossible to make an estimate of loss. YSuo fire lin je pi D er I Sr til St (C< j Gi Bi I C< er m B \1 B & p. IX. ei al Si U C Fire Milt Raging at 2 O'clock. Washington, 'Special.-A dispatch received from. Baltimore at 2 o'clock Monday morning says the fire is still raging fiercely. The postofflce build ing is burning. also, the $4,000.000 court house. The Holiday Street The atre has been blown up with dryna m i te and the United States Express offices and central offices of the Bal timore & Ohio Railroad are burned. Final Interview. Tokio. By Cable.-It is believed that the final interview between Foreign Minister Komura and Baron De Rosen, th- Russian minister, took place Sun day Pfternoon. The Baron drove to Minister Komura's official residence j and remained 20 minutes. The nature of Hie conference is a secret as are all the important acts of the Japanese court. It is probable that Baron De Hosen, delivered the belate?? Russian officials say that thus far it will ag gregate $40,000,000. Crash after crash could be heard within the burning district, but even the firemen could not tell from what buildings they proceeded. In the seeth ing furnace of flames all sense of the direction of location of buildings was I lost. Hundreds of merchants and business men with offices On che threatened dis trict were notified by watchmen and police. Many took steps to have their books removed to a place of safety. A. C. Meyer & Co., and the Carroll ton Chemical Company removed boxes containing explosives to a point seve ral squares away from the fire. . SOME OF THE BUILDINGS BURNED Among the buildings consumed are the following; Roxbury Rye Distilling Company; Allen & Sons, leather; Sugar & Shear, clothing; L. Stein & Co., umbrella man ufacturers; Mi Friedman & Sons; Cr?ckin & Co... dry goods; Schwarz Toy Company; Mullin's Hotel; Burgunder Brothers, clothiug; Maas & Kemper, manufacturers of confectioners' tools; Lewis Lowry & Co., dry goods; Dry Goods Exchange; S. Neuburger & Brother, dry goods; A. Sauber, cloth ing and sponging establishment; A. C. Meyer & Co., druggists; Carrollton Chemical Company; William T. Dixon & Bro., wholesale paper; Burger & Co., i wholesale clothing; Blanke's saloon; ; Thomas Burne & Co., liquors; James | Gary & Sons, cotton ' mills, office; j Charles Burger & Co., wholesale cloth- | ing; American Cigar Company; Cook , Sanders, local agent of Cluett, Pea- j jody & Co.; John Hurst & Co.. dry ; ioods; Hancel Miller & Sons dry t ioods; Stanley & Brown Drug Com- j )any; R. M. Hutton & Co., dry. goods; ^ )iggs, Curarn & Co., boots and shoes; ? Colan's restaurant; C. Y. Davidson, r ;as-fltting establishment; F. Schleims ? 'c Co., clothing dealers; Oppenheimer, Coshland & Co., wholesale jewelers; E V. C. Katzem & Co., clothing; C. J. t stewart & Sons, hardware; Oconnell & p tannon, restaurant; building occupied t: y the National Exchange Bank and c he Merchants and Manufacturers' As- jj ociation; Hopkins Savings Bank; the a uilding occupied by Thornton, Rogers Q ; Co., printers; Carr, Owens & Heine- c] ian, and Blake's saloon; Baltimore o: ews Company; the dishing Company, TJ Dok sellers; J. S. MacDonald & Co., tl welers; the Goodyear Rubber Com- tl my; Likes Berwanger & Co., clc?h- it g; the Welch Brothers Company, 0j welers; the Consolidated Gas Com- tl my; Oehms & Co., clothiers; C. J. sa elaney & Co.; Huyler's Confection- p( y; Willing Knabe Piano Company; 0f JIL. HS! m uy eau;/ aith Piano Company; P. W. McA1"?? .tier & Co., opticians; Bryant ??tfW ratten, business college; R. Leitz & j lr pianos; Irawold & Co., furniture; I & ranger & Co., tobacconists; Arnbach.! 01 rothers, clothing manufacturers; g, Dnrad Zeul's Sons, trunk manuiactur- ta s: the building occupied by Silber- ei an & Todes, dry goods; Thalmier se rothers, dry goods, and the Florence a< T. McCarthy Company; Fussellbaugh- ?! lake Company, wall paper; Raschgan Garner, window shades; R. Jandorf F Co., boots and shoes; James Rob- ? .tson Manufacturing Company, met- tl ls; Peter Rose & Sons, harness and u iddlery; B. Cohen, notions; N. Pretz- o ;lder, boots and shoes; John Murphy p ompany, publishers. ? LATER-At 8 o'clock Monday morn jg the fire was reported nncontrol ble, with loss fully fifty millious of ollar8. The fire departments of Now ork City, Philadelphia, Wrehington nd Wilmington on hand and almost jt( oweileBS to stay the flames. News of the Day. j g The presentation by the Prince of j D lonaco to the Academy of Sciences of 'aris of a map of ocean depths, show- , r ng the nature and formation of all the ' lottoms sounded has once more irought the personality of the Prince lefore the public. Beyond the fact that ie is paid $500,000 a year to permit [ambling in bis principality and that ie has twice been freed from marital ibligatlons-once from the daughter of he Duke of Hamilton, his first wife, ind latelv from the Duchess of Riche, ieu, nee*Heine, of New Orleans, very ittle is known of the Prince. With he gift of this deep sea chart has ?orne the revelation that Prince Albert s a seien ist, for most of the soundings eoorded on this chart were iaken by lim cr those with bim in the cruises )f his yachts, the Hirondelle, the Princess Alice I and the Princess Alice [I. It is announced that Thomas Nelson Page, author, is in the near future to establish a technical school in Han over, Va., teh county of his birth. The plan' is to teach young men and girls fte different manual callings, such as ..arpentering. mechanics, cooeing, cooking, sewing, etc. Telegraphic Briefs. The Russian reply was delivered to Ja.pan at Tokio, and is expected to lead to war. Mrs. Florence Maybrick is at the country home of the Sisters of the Epiphany, at Truro. Cornwall. Joseph Chamberlain is exhausted by his political labors and will take a long rest. The movement for separating church and state is gaining a fresh impetus in France. The Presidential boom of Cbiel Justice Alton B. Parker was launched at a banquet of the Manhattan Club, in New York! Important arragneonents for the Republican National Convention were completed in Chicago. District Attorney Jerome returned from his tour in Mexico, and declared that New York was less open than in Mayor Low's administration. Provisions are short at Port Arthur, and it is feared that the Russian gar rison will be starved cut if Japan get? control of thc sea NOW OUT OF CUBA American Army No Longer Occupies the Country INDEPENDENT AFTER MANY YEARS The Last Indication of Foreign Occu pation Has Been Removed From thc Island. Havana, By Cable.-The last vestige or the American occupation of Cuba disappeared Thursday afternoon when the American flag was lowered from the Cabana barracks, and the last bat talion of American soldiers marched to j the Ti istomia pier and hoarded the j United States army* transport Sum- j ner. The Sumner had brought the Seven- j teentii and Nineteenth company off United States artillery from Santiago, and these troops participated with the Twenty-first and the Twenty-second-} companies, who have been stationed hero in the evacuation of Cabana bar- j racks. J President Palma and tho.members of I his cabiuet. Gen. Rodriguez, command- I er of the rural guards, United States : Minister Squires add the members of the legation staff took their places in the centre of the parade ground: After the soldiers had presented arms, the ly American ftag was slowly lowered from ;he staff over the barracks, a salute of J'; il guns meanwhile being fired from L he fortress. The Cuban flag was raised L n its place and also saluted with 21 If ;uns. President Palma then addressed f dr. Squires and Major Brown, com- L nander of the American troops, say- h ng: |t "We are confronted by one of the [3 tiost extraordinary facts recorded ia he annals of universal history, the de- I arture from our shores of the last S ro?ps the United States has kept in f Juba, after helping us to secure our If) ^dependence and the blessings of free- t om. They coulri stay longer, under m ny pretext whatever, or an unjust sj? emand could be imposed upon us but V n the contrary, the government of the i f3 nited States identified as it is with :?j ie liberal spirit and noble character of j ie American people, willingly proves I s disinterestedness and the sincerity^ : the aid it rendered us by taking M tese men away and showiflgjg?t the:; fl ime time, that we mdent ory ai irerers, for it means that nobody mbts our ability to govern ourselves t * to maintain peace and order and r laramee the rights of all the inhabl- r ints of this island. This new consid- * .ation shown us, together with the a jrvices we have previously received c ; their hands, will bind the Cuban j. sople to the American people forever j i a strong tie of sincere gratitude." T Major Brown replied to President f alma and thanked him for his kind- ? ess to the American officers and sol lers. He said he believed he voiced ( ie opinions of his comrades in say- - lg that there were no better people-- j n earth than those of Cuba, and ex- t ressed the hope that Senor Palma .ould serve many years as President, } dding that the first part of his admin itration was a guarantee for success j i the future. After this reply, all j -oops marched past in platoon forman ( ion and boarded the Sumner. ( The Sumner will sail -tomorrow, ( saving thc Twenty-first and Twenty- -, econd companies of artilley at Fort 1 (arrancas, Fla, and taking the others 3 Fort Washington, Md. Safe Blowers Arrested. Roanoke, Va.. Special.-Two men living their names 2* William Ray aond and James Donohue were'' ar csted here last night by W. G. Bald fin, president of tho Railway Special j Agents' Association of America, charg !d with cracking the safe in the Na-1 j ional Bank of Rocky Mount, Va., two peeks ago. when $4,000 in silver was aken. Eleven bags containing $1,100 n silver were found on the mea. There is still $2,900 missing. The nen had the money buried near Rocky Mount and went there from Roanoke to get it. Silk Culture Congress. Washington, Special.-Louis Bj Magid, of Georgia, the president ot1 the Silk Culture League of America, announced that he had called a silk culture congress to be held next Oe-' J tober at St. Louis. He announced that Secretary Wilson has promised to j make an address. Mr. Magid called j on President Roosevelt in the interest , of the movement for the growth o? silk in the United States. -- i Plan of Organization. New York, Special.-It was announ- , ced Thursday night that a plan for the re-organization of the United States Ship Building Company, sat- ? Isfactcry both to the bondholders,-rep-j . resented by Samuel Untermeyer, and . to the Schwab-Sheldon controlling in-j ' terests. has been reached, and that inj, consequence all litigation will come to an end. Raleigh Woman Held in Rome. Rome, By Cable.-Anna Steven.? Jackson, of Raleigh, N. C., who, oi Jan. 15, after escaping from a house o detention, was found on the railroac tracks, three miles out of Rome, ha? been placed In an asylum for the in sane, pending inquiries which are be lng made in thc United States concern in? bor identity. God's mercy is like thc ocean, if i is ebb tide apparently in one place i ;: certainly flood tido In anotbor. DOINGS IN CONGRESS Discussion in the Senate on the Treaty Question. Tillman Speaks Plainly. After almost allowing th? amend ment to the urgent deficiency appro priation hill providing for a loan of $4,600,000 to the St. Louis Exposition to go through without any discussion whatever, the Senate Wednesday changed its tactics just as the vote was about to be taken and entered upon a debate on the loan provision, which continued for about four hours, j and which was still in progress when the Senate adjourned for thc day. The I debate was precipitated by a point of order made against the amendment by Mr. Bailey, who supported his point with a speech based cu the theory that the national government was not, as suhh, concerned with the success or failure of any exposition. He was sup. ported by Mr. Lodge and Mr. Elkins, wr.ile speeches were made in support oil the amendment by Messrs. Hale, Allison, Cockrell, Spooner, McComas and others. Mr. Tillman said he wanted to say something on this "loan or gift," the laxter he thought, as it was not likely that the government would ever get ?a?ything back. In the course of his remarks he said South Carolina had had a share of the steal that had bon Secured by other cities and he had Wiped to get it. What he meant was Unit this expenditure of money was unlawful and unconstitutional. #ir. Spooner remarked that the Sen ator from South Carolina had put him self.on recdrd as participating In a steal. rWhat I mean," declared Mr. Till min, "is that when Congress takes money from the people and gives it a?ay for. expositions it amounts to a Btfal. What I want to know is how far we are lo go and how much longer w? are to participate in" 'Jrlere Mr. Tillman hesitated. if'Steals," interjected Mr. Spooner. '.i'.Yes, steal," said Mr. Tillman, de- J iahtly. .'Mr. Bacon said that as he intended ! ?Vvote for the amendment he did not ' tr?nt the impression to go out that he ras ih the wrong. He thought the ap propriation a proper one. In reply to ^'question from Mr. Bailey he said ;lat;abstractly ho did not endorse the linciple, and that if the practice of T ?jnhg. aid to expositions was now be- J Uninitiated he would oppose the prac- v lier " But in view of what had ' been y Ime in the past he considered it not r Mot place to make the appropriation, p 5 fl ifThe-Senate chamber was again the ??na-.pf an interesting political de mite with the provision in the urgent Nnclency appropriation bill for a ?an of $4,600,000 for the St. Louis f .^position the basis for the discus- ' fg&-: . . tJ phe controversy was precipitated by J, g&Lodge, who quoted many official |i?gS..to demonstrate that Republican (Hcies-had not been ? failure in the T)n the bemocratpBfds Messrs. Gor- J 'ian and Bailey were the orators, i Commenting on the present condi gn of the country's finances, Mr. Cor fian said that it was due to the im- ( sense expenditures made in prepara- ; {on for war-$82.000,000 list year for i tus navy and $118,000.000 for the i ??.my, in a time of profound peace. He 1 j?nied, as Mr. Lodge had charged, that i |e had been an enemy of the upbuild- ( ig of the navy. On the contrary he 1 fould have the navy engage ample i ?rees to- guard American interests t frerywhere. Bal he had bad no idea 1 a navy to compete with that of >reat Britain or Germany, because our \ ?raditions did not require such a navy. , ie did not want a navy for display, 'dat ( tir service. ; i "I want economy in it.." he said, and , je called attendu to the effectual aid | dven to Venezuela during the admm- ? ?tration of Mr. Cleveland. "We did . kit," he said, "at thc cost of $16.0CO,- j ?DO a year, and now we pay $S2.000,- , ipO for a navy with which to threaten iolombia." He would reduce the \ irmy from 100.000 men as now au :?crlzed. to 50,000. I :He did rot, he said, confess that ho would be willing to take money from taft excessive expenditures fer tue ?.my and navy, and give it to thc St. [louis fair, the success of which was pledged by the United States. Some Spicy Remarks. Indiana and Kentucky locked horns ta the House Wednesday. The debate. (Thich involved nearly every member of ?th State delgations. was fast and t'jrious from start to finish. Kentucky iemanded of Indiana the return of W. 3. Taylor, that he might be tried for the assassination of William Goebel. The assault was made by Mr. James, of Kentucky, and the defense was led by Mr. Crumpackcr, of Indiana. Partisan feeling rose to an extreme tension, and ?S either side scored both applause lerisiou resulted. The deoate was 3ased on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. Mr. James fired both sides of thc House to interest and feeling by de claring at the outset that the "Rough Rider President" was ridiculous in his message to Congress favoring interna tional extradition treaties, when one State could not get from another fugi tive from justice. He had, he said, Introduced a bill in which the Federal government made extradition compul sory in cases where persons had been indicted for crime. For four years, he said. Governor Durbin, of Indiana, had protected Taylor, who had been regu arly indicted in Kentncky for the m?r ier of Goebel, "and yet I notice that when Durbin comes to town." con tinued Mr. James, "he is wined and iined by this great Don Quixote upon extradition, who absolutely confides to Durbin the right to give the wait ing and anxious world the news that Hanna can run for President if he wants to. And when we all read that, we again declare 'the king can do no wrong.' " Mr. Crumpackcr, of Indiana, arose to make a reply to Mr. James, and brought a storm of questions from the Democratic side. The Governor of Indiana needed no ?efense, began Mr. Crumpacker. espe :ially to anyone acquainted with thc Kentucky election of 1899. He declared Taylor had been elected Governor; that the Kentucky juries had been "pack i?," and that history would justify thc iction of Indiana. Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, com bated the idea that the Kentucky juries were "corrupt and rotten." Ii: nrao respect, he said, the speech o' Mr. Crumpacker was a disgrace U ^erican civilization. It was ridicu 'ons to suppose that all purity reigne: In Indiana, and that just, across UK i'vcr all was corruption. M 1 j I U? HS g ninor Events of the Week in n S Brief Form. j? Hunt'vjg n Criminal. For two days officers and other in dignant citizens of Bennettsvilie have been scouring that section in search of John Johnson, who is wanted for criminally assaulting the i?-year-cld daughter of John Hooks, at McColl. Tlie crime was committed on January 21, but the girl did not make it known till iast Saturday when she told a girl associate who was working in the Marie cotton mill with her. The news soon roached Mr, Hooks and he founu th.it she hd been seriously injured. She said she had not revealed her condition sooner because the negro threatened to kill her if she told. As soon as the crime became known Chief of Folice Hays and n posse of citizens started to hunt Johnson but he had just left town by some unknown route. Blood hounds were put on his track and fol lowed bim for several miles, but final* ly lost the trail, Chocked Her DaughtSf, About 4 o'clock Sunday morning Patsy Elligan. a negro woman living on Mr. josiah Hitt's place abor", eight miles from Walterboro, went to the bed of her own daughter, Anita Eligan, end clutching her by the throat, choked her until she was dead. There were two Other negro giris in the room but they seemed to know very little ?bout the horrible deed except that ?hey helped carry the dead body of their sister into the adjoining room at .he command of their mother. Anita Eligan was ?bout 17 years of age. Patsy was committed to jail charged sith the murder of her own child. She lenies killing her child. but says she ms killed thu devil and that she did ;o at the command of Christ. She is io doubt crazy. fctfrhetU) Briefs. While young Cecil McGowan and Valter Rawlinson, son of Col. and Irs. J. W. Rawlinson of Rock Hi.'l. rere ont in a field Monday hunting, oung Rawlinson playfully pointed his iile, of the parlor r?ttern at his com anion and pulled the trigger. A report allowed; He was horrified to discover tat the bullet had found a mark the booler little meant. ' it entered the ight cheek, passed into the mouin, utting off a piece of his tongiie, kii?ck ig out two teeth and came out irough the other cheek producing a ery painful wound, but the attending irgeon df.es not apprehend any se bus consequences. TT|1 ?S????l?B?l State, Tuesday X and a commissmnjjas-.-Yfm* he Darliii^gtw2J}?t Goods Company, ?pitalizei-?T?15i000. The dead body of Tanday Wilson, olored. was found in a tract of woods ibout three miles from Greenville Sat irday night hy W. M. Brockman. The legra had been employed by T. C. kiar tin and was engaged in hauling. Saturday morning lie went for a load if wood and was net seen again until lis body was found near a tree on vhich he had been chopping. It is bought his death was caused from j ..cart disease. The police department of Charles on has seized and confiscated nine slot nachines found in stores about the :ity. under the ordinance forbidding gambling devices, which the depart- j neut is now enforcing. The machines j Lave disappeared from the counters ind show cases, and the dealers in ci- j rars arc especially feeling the loss of the machines at which men would be ? playing nil day long. Randolph Gordon, colored, one of the j lands at the paper mill at Hartsville, Cell through a hole in the upper floor j ?f the digester room Friday night and j broken his neck. It was clearly an ac- ' :ldent and the coroner's jury so found. Capt Ivy M. Mauldin, of Pickens. who was elected a member of the board of trustees of Clemson College, notified Governor Heyward Tuesday that lie could not serve in view of the fan: that he was elected under some misapprehension. He is under the im pression that owing lo a blunder he wes put on instead ol' Mr. J. E. Tindal, ci Clarendon, although ho is mistaken aa Mr. Tindal is n life member of the hoard, having been appointed by Mr. Clemson. Susp:cl Arrested, Bluefield, W. Va.. Special.-Goldstein Howard, a negro, is under arrest here suspected of having assaulted Mrs. Shields, of Roanoke, on Saturday last. The Roanoke authorities were notified of the arrest and after getting a de scription of Howard wired the authoii tics here to hold him. Or. searching thc prisoner a silver-handled, broken pointed pen-knife, filling the descrip tion cf the knife used in cutting Mrs. Shields' throat( was found, as was also a whisk breem snposed to be the broom missing from the Shields' home. Howard admits having been in Roa uoke on thc day of thc tragedy. Sterm.r Ethel Sunk. Savannah, Ga.. Special.-The river steamer Ethel, of the Southern Trans portation Company's line, is sunk In the Savannah river, near Gray's Point. 3G miles this side cf Augusta. The passengers and crew .were taken off aud the cargo is damaged. The steamer was loaded with fertiliser and corn. The boat struck a snag in the carly thom lng and had to be beached to prevent total loss. Accident to Mie Iowa. Norfolk. Va.. Special.-The battleship Iowa, while testing her batteries on her way down the coast February 4, blew off the muzzles of both eight-inch guns in her forward starboard turret. Flying fragments smashed one of the ship's whale boats. Both guns are frac tured between hoops E and F, and the barrels ore badly swollen. None of the crow was injured, and no damage out side that given was sustained by the vessel. Must Be War. A cable dispatch from London says that the Japanese Minister in a pub lished interview declares that unless rtursia agrees to sign treaty war will bc inevitable. As Chickens Come Home, Tou may take the world as lt comes and goes, And you will be sure to find That Fate will square the accounts she owes, Whoever comes out behind; And all things bad that a man has done, By whatsoever Induced, Return at last to him. one by one, As the chickens come home to roost. Sow as you will, there's a time to reap. For the good and" the bad as well. Anti conscience, whether wo wake or sleep, ls either a heaven or hell. And every wrong will find its place, And every passion loosed Drifts back and meets you face to face Like chicken? that come home to roost. Whether you're over dr under the sod The result will be the same. You cannov escape the hand of God Vou must bear your sin and shanie. So matter whats carved on a marble ylab. When thc item's are all produced you'll find that St. Peter was keenlnc "lab," ? And that chickens came home to roost -?.aporte City (iowa) Press. Naval Officer Buys Pew. Commander F. A. Miller, U. S. N., has purchased pew No. 118 in the historic St. John's church, Washing ton, from a Philadelphia^ paying him $1,000 for It Georgia Cher AUGUST MANUFACXI HIGH GRADE AND ACID PHC CAPAC. AUGUSTA FACTO! PON PON FACTOR TOTAL Equal to 700,000 Big QUALITY Mechanical Cond ANALYSIS GU EVERY BAG FULL WE . SOLO Wagons FUENI always on hand. All calls ly responded to. All good gin of profit. Call to sec money OiSO. JP. Johnston, W. J. Ruthi MAN?FACT1 AND DEA: Cement, Plaster, Hair, I Ready Roofing ant Write Us F Corner Reynolds and Augusta, ai-??an COSK: HEADQUARTER kind, FARM WAGO] horse. Columbus, Ci grades of BUGGIES, Babcock's fine and i Carriages, Stanhopes, best in the United Stal Masbury's superior 1 H. H. CO Sole Distribut I 749 751 Broad St.. ?Ba??mmffiBB-BBB 0 FIRE Insurance ACCIDENT 1 and Indemni all descript Your Busine GRIFFIN C. A. GlUFKIN. Office Over Maj Appropriate to the Day. To the Christmas dinner let us bring every good and wholesome thought, kind hearts and the spirit of happiness. Let us call to us at .that hallowed hour the memory of loved ones not with us now, whether they be dead or living; let us give a thought to the wayward, to the pris oner, about whose very cell the broad charity of to-day twines a piece of holly; to the sick who lie on hospital beds at this hour; to the men in khaki who bear the flag in our far-off tropic isles, and who may only dream to-night of the snow and home cheer they cannot share; to those on the sea in peril among the winter storms of lake and ocean; to the babes just breathing the first breath of life, Christmas gifts indeed for pale, happy mothers; to the aged who realize that Christmas and death are coming very close together about them ; to the men who labor in our great forests where the snow banks up high among God's own Christmas trees; to all, men and women and little children, shut out in any way from the cheerful glow of the home fire, or who, having homes, may have but little fire to burn. aical Works A GA. J RE RS OF FERTILIZERS )SHATES. [TY: TONS. iY 35>000 .Y 35*000 . 70,000 s for Each Season. BEST ition Excellent . rARANTEED IGHT, 2<>0 POUNDS Buggies PURE foTo??4iearse prompt s sold on itHsTtftU mar ? me, I will save-^qu South Carolina. rford & Co. LER IN ?ire Brick, Fire Clay, ' ?1 other Material. or Prices. Washington Streets, Georgia, ERY'S S for vehicles of all NTS from one to four .ncinnati and other SURRiES, ETC. unexcelled Buggies, Cabriolets are the :es for the money, iiouse paint. SK ERY, ing Agents. Augusta, Ga. o , HEALTH Insurance, Insurance, Fidelity ty Bonds of ion issued, ss solicited. & MIMS ? E. J. MXMS r & May's Store.