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SCORES.
Boiror Explodes on Bennington
With Fatal Resulss.
Dentil List so Fur 66?Piratically
Every Man on bonrd at Time
ot Disaster Was Either
Killed or Badly injured.
San Diego, Cnl., duly 24.?Aa
a result of a frightful explosion
of one of the main boilers of the
United States gunboat Benning
Ion lit San Diego harbor shortly
before noon today, 33 bodies are
at the morgue and between 6ixty
and seventy more ure in the hospitals,
many of whom will die.
The total deaths will probably
no nearly sixty. The warship
was badly shattered, a great hole
baing torn in her stern, and it
has been beached to provent sinking.
The explosion is believed to
have been in the boiler, which
* for mitiy months bad been regarded
as weak, though an inspection
a year ago resulted in a favorable
report. The ship was
up stream preparitary to towing
the Wyoming to Mare's Island.
Evory man on board was either
killed or seriously or slightly
injured.*
Commander Younc and Sui
geon Peck of thn Bennington jvere
ashore At the time of the explonion.
Lieut. Yates being in
charge at (he time. He was badly
' raided and is reported to have
died. Lieut. Wade was the only
officer on hoard who is believed
to have not been seriously injured
Lieut. Sabin was badly buined
about the hands. Two other
officers were injured but bow serious
is not known.
The Bennington is a sister ship of
the Yorktown and Concord, having
the same dimensions, tonnage
t
speed ana armament. The length
is 23o feet, bieadth 39 feet mean
d/aft I4 feet displacement i,7oo,
speed 16.2 knots. It has a battery
??f six-inch rifles and eight
guns of a smaller calibro. It
takes rank among the efficient
little cruisers designed for special
service in shallow water. Tho
vessel cost about $490,000 and'
had a complement of 16 officers
anci 181 men.
The Bennington at the time of
the nocident was lying just off the
c >mmereia! wharf, everthing in
readiness for the departure when
tho starboard boiler exploded
with a deafening roar. The explosion
was terrific. People on
tha shore saw a huge cloud of
steam lise above the Bennington.
Columns of water were forced high
in the air. A dozen or fifteen
4
men were blown overboard by
the force of the explosion. Captain
Wentworlb, who was looking
at the Bennington when the explosion
occurred. s.iys he saw humnn
bodies hurled over one hun?
dred feet upward. The scene on
the Bennington was terrible. The
force of the oxplosion tore a great
hole in the starboard side and the
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IYcnoci iic^nu lu use. i\ section
of the upper deck was carried
away fro n stem to stern. Blood
and wreckage was distributed
oxer the entire ship, the after
cabin and the part of the ship
Adjacent to the exploded boiler
San Diego, Cal., .hily 22.?T<
night's summary of casualties dm
to tliH boiler explosion yesterday
aboard the gun boat Hetiningtor
in San Diego Hay gives a total o]
67 dead and 54 severely injured,
total 110.
A number of men are elil
I mi*aing, some of these may bi
dead and probably a dozen of th<
injured will die of their wound*
SICK EN INU SU IVEItJ NUFl lof
Augue and Malaria, can be re?
lieved and cured with Electn?
Hitters. This is a pure, toni<
medicine; of especial benefit ir
niHiana, ior it exerts 11 true cuia
tive influence on the disease, driv
tng it entirely out of the sys em
It is much to be preferred to Quin
iue, having none of this drug'
had after-effects. E. S Monday,
of Henrietta, Tex., writes: <4M>
brother was very low with uialuri
al fever and jaundice, till ho tooli
Electric Hitters, which saved hii
life. At Crawford Bros , J. F
MrtCkey & Co. and Fonderhurh
Pharmacy drug stores; price 50c,
guaranteed.
To He Sold At Auction.
Cor., of The Observer.
Rock Hill, S. C., July 20?Tin
Chicora Mill property will be sok
at auction in New York luiy 25U
This mill, and tour others locatec
in different parts of South, composed
the Southern Textile Company,
with a bonded indebtednesi
of $6,000,Ooo, which- is in tnc
hands of receivers The Chicor;
Mill was one 1 owned bv the Co
hens, of Charleston, and San
Fricdheim, of this city. Tin
building and plant wus recent!)
ft'ted with new machinery anc
had a new equipment ofloomi
The product was woven g?.ods
and yarn The mill kscif wai
built nianv tf/>aro nrm 1-. ?r - --
- J (rvui J gu w jr II J J IU
neer in the cotton industry of th<
south. About 1880 Col. A. II
Hutchinson erected the building
and put the mill in operation,
It was one the first to turn oui
woven goods of this kind in tin
South The plant now stand
upon eight acres of land in tin
heart of the town and hus 24 ten
ement houses erected on the premises.
Win Early Shot His Wife Think
ing Her a Burglar.
Birmingham, Ala., July 21.?
William Early, checkweigher o
the Sloss-Sheftield Steel and Iron
company at Coalburg, shot am
fatully wounded his wife las
night, thinking her a burglar
! VI I'D Kiarlv Ilnil nnno ?? 4. U ~ * 1
...... ?... j u?.. iw inn uauh
porch to get the baby somi
water. A a she returned, M
Early thought a burglar was * 11
toring, and reached for his pistol
firing tho fatal shot half awake.
oAsnconz/t..
Be*r? th? /) ?>8 Kind You Have Always Boi-J'
?
Will build Ware House.
Special to News and Courier.
Rock Hill, July 19 ?It> is al
most a certainly that a cottoi
ware house will tie built here b;
the timo the crop begins to coin
in. The farmers Association o
! tk<.> u*<. *.? i? ii- ?
kiiio PGtuuu nun hid iimner in con
si<leration,nnd is deeply in earnes
At I ho meeting a dny or two air
they appointed a committee t
j raise funds by subscription. I
j is expected that this committci
I will lie able to raise #2,000 by Ih
diy of tho annual meeting ih
first week in August.
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tncnwcc s lonaiuon
Under Prohibition.
i
r Senator Butler Describes tltc Ini1
provomont Since thn Dispensary
f Wns Voted Out?It is Better
in Kvorv Way.
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1 Special to TLo State. i
3 Anderson, July 2o.?Col C F 1
* Clayton, who is taking a most
active part in tho fight against 1
the dispensary in this county, 1
' recently wrote to Senator T II 1
Butler of Cherokee county, and '
^ requested him to jk o a true '
j statement of tho conditions ex
. isvu'p; hi I'm uouiuy since me
- voting out of the disponsary.
Mr Butler's rep'y is a follows: '
"I)eur Sir: Ymir It'll or of the 1
2nd of July came while 1 was in
r the midst of court, houce my de- '
- lay in answering same. '
i "You ask me how we like it 1
i over in Choroxco county since 1
the dispensary was voted out, 1
and a true statement of the conditions
before and since the difl- 1
p? nsaries wero clospd.
"It it needless to tell you the
condition before The dispensaries
were voted out, for conditions are
; s-oraewhat similar where liquor is j
1 sold I may add that wo bad
? three disjien sarins, two liquor and |
1 and oiip boer. and I may also t
add that they were conducted by h
good men, and in my judgment '
s sold nccotding to the law, but tho
: opposition here was not to the ,
i manner in which otir dispensers
conducted tho dispensaries but to '
l effects of the lipuortlnit was sold
: Drunkenness could be scon here 1
r almost every day, our police court J
1 was constantly trying cases of i
i 'drunk and disorderly,' hut that
t has cea*ed and only m rare iiu '
3 stances can one seo a man under
! <
- the intt' once of liquor Our \
^ criminal courts woro always aug- |
. mcntod by the fact that in almost ;
I every instance every cane, from j
. assault and battery to murder, r
t was directly attributed to liquor,
i Within one year before the die- 1
s pensancs were voted out, fiva '
5 wliito men (in three case?) ' were '
1
- tried for hilling their man, other
- white men, and whiskey was 1
back of it all, the direct and controlling
cans'*. '
"I might mention other instances
of the evil effects of the
liquor, bnt every one is familiar
with it. But as to the conditions
since the dispensary was voted
1 out here: Our police court has
not the old familiar ca.-cs of
'drunk and disorderly' to dispose
of. It has practicaljy ceased.
Our streets are clear of the drunk
8 en, reeling men; our roadways
aro free fron. drunken brawls;
Our people are happy and have
' more money to spend for something
to oat and to woar?in fact
the difference is so great and
noticeable, and results so beneficial,
that any one who has doubts
as to the proper way to vote on
the question would never hesitate
if they could roally see ub as wo
really are, hut when the time
* cnmo would voto 'no dispensary'
1 and as often as an opportunity
* presented itself. In round numB
1
fibers $100 0()o was spent in this
. county for liquor annually, and
t out of that amount a very small
" amount came back to tbo taxpay"
ere; so you will aee that, at least,
with a very liberal allowance for
p
purchases that may bo made
?J clsewhore, $95,000 of tho $100,j
000 is here among a sober people.
- t\ Miimg moral sentiment of
out people, nctivo and vigilant
police officer*, magistrates who
aid it the enforcement of the
laws, u sheriff always determined
?h 'blind tiger' cannot operate
in this county any length of time.
In short, the moral condition of
tmr people is infinitely bettor than
it was when wo had the dispensaries
"There was one thing noticeable
in the vote against tho dispensary,
tho largest percentage of
tho vote was rust hv tr?? r?*;n
- ? J ?l?Brntives
and the farmers, and so
many Imve told mo since that the
beneficial results to them were
beyond measure.
"The above is a brief statement
af rhe conditions here and I feel
safe in saying that f if another
vota was to be cast on the same
subject on similar circumstances,
the vote against the dispensary
would even bo greater than it was
lioro in last November, and then
t was ti v? to one.
"With good wishes for success
n your undertaking, 1 am,
"Yours very truly,
Thomas I? Butler.''
A GRIM TRAGEDY.
is daily enacted, in thousands of
bomes, as Doath claims, in each
:mef, another victim of Consumption
or Pneumonia. But when
Coughs and Colds are prop
eily treated, the tragedy is averted.
F. G. Huntley, ofOaklandon,
Ind., wiitea: "My wife had the
consumption, and three doctor,
gave ! r up. Finally she tookDr,
Itiiig'iCMtoW Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Coldse
which cured her, and to-day she
is well and strong." It kills the
Terms* or till diseases. One dos.
relieves. Guaranteed at 60c and
B1.00 bv Crawford Bros., J. FMackey
& Co Funderbark Pbar.
macy, druggists. Trial bottle free.
Spartanburg Young Man Held
for Killing lather.
Spartanburg, .July 21.?The
coroner's jury in the case of
Mull, who died hero recently from
injuries, tonight returned a verlict
to the effect that ha came to
bis death from a blow delivered
by noma instrument unknown t3
them, in the hands of Adolphus
Mill1. Adolphus Mull is the son
of Aaron Mull and is in jail.
Col Daniel Lamont Dead.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., July 23
? Col Daniel Lamont, Secretary
of War under President Cleveland,
died at 9:15 this evening at
his country residence, at Milbrook,
Duchess county, N. Y.,
:n *T _ . '
nuci u unci 1UI1CW5. MCari Irtll"
ure was the cause of death.
Col. and Mrs. Lamont were
out driving this afternoon and
Col. Lamont appeared to he
enjoying the best of health. After
dinner he complained of feel
ing ill and Dr. Stewart, of New
York, who is a gupst at the house
immediately went to his aid
The physician diagnosed the cast
as an attack of heart failure ant
in spite of the heroic treat
ment, Mr. Lamont passed awa)
within half an hour. At hii
death bec? were Mrs. Lamont
and two daughters, Frances ant
Bessie. Several guests at th<
Lamont home were also presen
when the end came.
Sound kidneys are safeguard
of lifo. Make tho kidneys hcaltlr
with Foley's Kidney Cure. Soh
by Fundornurk Pharmacy.
Pjiy y^ur subscription.
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South Carolina News.
Specials to Tho State.
Negro Shot. From Amhush.
Newberry, July 2i.? Charlie
Gillaiu, a negro living in the silver
Street section eight or nine
miles from town, was shot from
amhush last n'ght about lOo'olock
and was found dead in front of
Mj. W. W. Spearman's gate this
morning.
Tho man was coining In me in
a wagon by himself when the
tragedy occurred, and statements
differ as to how many shots were
fired. Two loadsj of bird shot
went through the abdomen, either
one of which would have been
fatal. The mule attached to his
wagon carried him from the
scene of the tragedy to Mr. Spear
man's lie use.
The coroner,8 jury were not
able to get very much evidence
this morning. So far there is no
clue as to the guilty party and
the ivcHtigation may continue for
several days.
Child Killed by Lightning.
Lake City, July 21.?During a
thunder storm this afternoon
lightning struck the dwelling of
W. R. Jordan, one of Lake Citys
best citizens killing his 1-year-old
daughter instantly. Lightning
also killed two fine mules at the
King warehouse. The mules belonged
to Jeff 1). Harlston of
Johnsonville.
- * -A.
Wedding at Bethune.
Bcthune, July 21,?Mr. B. M.
Bruce, seretary of the' Stevens
Mercantile company of Bcthuu*,
and Miss Lilian Trucsdale of
Lugoff, were married yesterday
afternoon ut the residence of the
bride, Rev. C. C. Herbert of
Camden performing the ceremony.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce will
make their home here.
Death in the jail.
Spartanburg, July 22. ? Hose
Miller, colored, convicted at
the January term of sessions
court of assault and battery and
sent up to the chaingang for three
years, and who was recently
pardoned by the governor on account
of his physical condition,
he being a sufferer from consumption,
died at the county jail
yesterday.
A Rrakcman Killed.
Chester, July 21.?Kdward
Caulcy, a white brakeman 011 a
freight train on the Southern
railway, fell between two freight
cars here today and received such
I horrible injuries that ho died in
, two hours. He was 28 years
old and leaves a wife and
one child. lie came here recentr
ly from Augusta.
Lightning Destroys Church.
i Bishopville, July 21.?The
1 colored Baptist Church hero was
struck b / lightning and burner
r to-day, at 3.3O I*. M. There wa?
1 no insurance.
1 TWO BOTTLE* CUBED /ilM
i "I was troubled with kidne1
t complaint for about two years,'
writes A. H. Davis, of Mt. titer
ing, Iu., "hut two bottles o
Foley's Kidney Crre effected
permanent euro." Sold by Fur
derburk Pharmacy.
Foley's Money and Tnj
(Sr children.salt.sure. No opiate
! Speegle's" Shortage Continues
To firow.
Mote Startling Dove!opniLMtts in
the Greenville investigation.?
Asserted That Kx-supcl'visot
Received $r,20o l*rom
Paris Mountain Water
Company t>n
Personal Account.
Special to !!?? Hta' e.
Greenville. July 22 ?The
mo-t startling disclosure yet
made by the c immission investigating
tho supervisor'* office was
made public this aft . moon when
it was stated that Ex-Supervisor
J. 1-.. Speegic received $1,200
from the Paris Mountain Water
company in l?JO} for an itiunen-u
Job of work done by tic convict
tang on the reserv ii on Parimountain,
which he dep> nted v
his personal account in < ne v>t the
hanks nf the city and subsequently
made personal draft on ihh
amount.
j The cashier of the bank has
'testified to tho fuel.and the vouch
er received by the water c unpuny
from Spcegle as supcrvisot has
been i? reived hy Mr Patton from
General manager D.iwes office
tu Philadelphia. I here have ai
so been several pai 1 s of mules
told besides other county pro
pertyof which there is no record
of payment having been made in
the reyid* of tWoft-.ce. j; SPOILED
l\TAi BKAl/rYHar
iot I low aid, of 200 W^ddth
St,. New York, at one time bad
her beauty spoiled with shin
trouble. She writes: "J had Salt
Rheum or Eczema for years, but
nothing would euro it, until I used
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.'" A quick
and sure healer for cuts, burns
and sores. 'Joe at Crawford Bros,,
,J. F. Mackoy & Co's, and
Fundevburk Pharmacy, drug
store.
'WSt OT_? <??
Mr. R.K. Dublin's Insurance.
Darlington, July 22?It was
stated here tod.13' that Mr. R. K.
Dargan's insurance amounted to
about $$o,oo0 though tho exact
figures could not bo learned. It
is known, however, that he carried
$25,000 in one company and
,oo0 each in several others.
According to a will made some
years ago it sc6ms that all of his
insurance will go to his wife.
MO FALSE CLAIMS.
The proprietors of Foley's
Honey and Tar do not advertise
this as a usnro cure for consumption."
They do not claim it will
cure this dread complaint in advanced
cases, hut do positively
assert that it will cure in the earlier
stage.- and nev.u fails to give
comfort and relief in the worst
1 cases. Foley's Honey and l'ar is
without doubt the greatest throat
an I lung remedy. Kofun miI>Htilntes.
Sold l>y Fundcrburk
Pharmacy. #
No woman who is true to her
sex is afraid of the man -lie is
' ma trie ! to
But few meii ever live long
enough to realize thei: own un
im porta nee.
Some men d 1 g? > 1 dee is for
publicati >n and :u ' as a guaranty
^ ! of good faith
I ! Probably more men would
f drink sod.i water if it weren't for
h the nnme of the -tuff.
It is usually the man who doos!
n't know the secret of success
. who is willing to impart it to
^ i others.
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