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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKUi BE?f^lGOOD Magbb:aite Wells, of Scm'er ? a Hyslerions Case y MADE HIMSELF SCARCE White Man Severely WTiipped by a Xegyo Girl's Friends for Taking Her Buggy Riding, and Then the White Man Disappeared From the Sceae. A dispatch from Sumter to The News and Courier says a case of pe culiar interest was laid to rest Sat urday in so far as Sumter County is concerned, when Magistrate Wells dismisiied the charge against Henry Caldwell, Joe and John Smiling and James Sweat for assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature be cause of lack of jurisdiction. It was found when the case came off that the alleged offence had been committed in Clarendon and not Sumter county. The case is a most unusual one in that it has been most mysterious irom start to finish. It resulted lrom the alleged whipping of a white man named Browder by the Smilings and 'Sweat. It has been stated that Browder. a white man, went to live in the house of Cheaves, a negro preacher, for whom he was working. On Sunday afternoon, June 4th, it is said, Browder secured a horse and buggy from Cheaves, (it is claimed that he stole it,) and took the daugh ter cf Caldwell Smiling, a negro, out riding. Tie Smilings objected and pursued and caught up with him, and it is allesed, wore out three buggy whips on him most, unmercifully. After that time Browder was seen no more in the vicinity and it is claimed by some of the white people of the neighborhood that the morning fol lowing the whipping considerable shooting was heard at the place Browder was last seen and they sup posed that he had been shot and his body hidden in the woods. Warrants were sworn out before Magistrate Wells, based upon infor mation and belief that Browder had met with foul treatment and the hear ing was set for Saturday. In the meantime several persons had stated that they had seen Browder and it was reported that he was at the home of his father below Greeleyville, while other reports stated that he was with his sister In Columbia. The charge was changed from murder to assault and battery and pushed on by the whites who had sworn out the warrants. At Saturday's hearing before Mag istrate Wells the witnesses, who were mostly friends and relatives of the Smilings, stated that they knew nothing about what had happened, and :lt was impossible for the State to prove that the alleged assault took place in thirf county, while sev eral of the witnesses stated that they had been told that It took place at a spot in Clarendon county. Upon these grounds the case was thrown out by Magistrate Wells for lack 01 jurisdiction. In the meanwhile, Browder, whom the case is all about, has not been located. * TWO GIRLS TERISH. Houseboat Destroyed by Accidental Fire at Xantucket. At Xantucket, .Mass., on Saturday two young women, Henel Wilson, of New York city, and Mildred DeHaven, I of Brooklyn, lost their lives in a fire! which destroyed a house boat owned I by William Williams, Jr., of New York. Several others were iujured, one of them. Thomas Kean, of New I York, so badly that he may not re-l cover. According to the story told by the; young people who were saved, the! fire started by a match thoughtlessly thrown on a recently oiled floor. In an instant the room was filled with^ flames and those who escaped did so; odIv by jumping overboard. TheJ bodies of the dead were recovered, j but both were burned beyond recog-l ni;ion. 0 ? ? TWO PERSOXS DROWXED. The Accident Horrifies a Sunday School Picnic Party. At Pensacola, Florida., caught in ?* strong undertow, a party of Sunday school picnickers, while bo*.hing were carried into the gulf Thursday afternoon, and before a rescue party could reach them, Miss Kathleen Suggs, aged 18, and W. B. Wallace, a traveling salesman of Philadelphia, were drowned. Four others were taken out of the water unconscious and were resuscitated with difficulty. A boatman named Charles Dillard al ee barely escaped death when he went to the rescue of the bathers The mother of Miss Suggs was among the horrible spectators of the drowning. Cotton Picker Company. The Yorkville Cotton Picker Com pany was commissioned by the Sec retary of State at Columbia Thurs day, with a capital of $4,500. The petitioners are: John Brown Nell, o! Clover; H. E. Neil, of Yorkville, a ad W. W. Lewis, of Yorkville. The company will engage in the sale, manufacture and buying of cotton pickers, etc. ? MAY IMPEACH HIM THAT IS WHAT FELDER SAYS OF GOVERNOR BLEASE. The Atlanta Constitution Intimates That Col. Felder Has Much Evi dence for Use. { Under the heading "Gov. Brown Did Right," the Atlanta Constitution haa the following editorial on the Felder requisition: "Gov. Brown's refusal to honor the extradiction proceedings brought against Hon. Thos. B. Felder of the Atlanta bar by Governor Blease of South Carolina, will be very general ly approved. "At best is appears that Govt.nor Blease's whole proceeding grows out of poiitical promptings in which Mr. Felder 'figured an a mere incident. The governor has been charging up and down the state like a roaring bull attacking everybody and everything, and when Mr. Felder got in his way he went at him as he had done against many of the most prominent citizens of South Carolina. "It is now reported that the next, act of this interesting drama may take place before the legislature of South Carolina on impeachment pro ceedings, and if one-tenth of the evi dence is gathered that The Constitu tion hears is available, it can be tak en for granted that the next session of the South Carolina legislature will be one of the most interesting in years. .1 "A remarkable tribute was paid to Mr. Felder by his associates of the Atlanta bar, many of the most prom inent lawyers of the city appearing in his .behalf before Gov. Brown to protest against the extradition ask ed for by Governor Blease. "The incident leaves the governor of South Carolina in an unenviable predictment. He has made a number of unfortunate and glaring errors while in office. But this one is par ticularly pointed in its brazen attempt to bring: into play the machinery of) a soverign State to vent a personal spite growing out of political differ ence. "As for Mr. Felder, he emerges from the affair with his public credit and esteem heightened." FATAL RIOT AT JALAPA. Nine Persons Are Killed and Twenty * r Are Innred. Nine persons were killed and 25 were, wounded. Friday, at Jalapa, Mexico, the capital of the' state of Vera Cruz in a clash between revolu tionary forces and federal authori ties. Acting upon orders from the pro- J visional governor, the commander of I the small force of federals attempted j to remove from the arsenal in thei State palace a quantity of arms. Thei intention was to place them in anoth er building, but the revolutionary forces, not understanding the motive for the transfer, argued with the sol diers regarding the matjter. The crowd which was collected in front of the palace, knowing less of the order and its purport than the revolutionary forces, joined in the protest. Police, 'attempting to dis perse the mob, precipitated thei shooting. Complete order has been restored, according to reports made to the federal government and to Francisco T. Madero. _, ? , j CLARK DEFIES TAFT. As to Tuft's Proposal to Veto Any Tariff Legislation. Speaker Champ Clark issued a defi to the Administration Saturday at Washington, on learning of reports that President Taft had proposed to veto any general tariff legislation at the extra session of Congross. The Speaker in a formal statement, de clared that the whole tariff ought to be revised, and that the Democratic party would rest its case with the country. "The tariff ought to be revised from top to bottom," said Mr. Clark. "The people of the land so decided last November. That is their latest mandate. The House decided that it was best to revise it schedule by schedule. We have made a good start on that plan. We will continue as we have begun. The country en dorses what the House is doing:. If the Republican Senate beats our bills >ve will appeal to the country, and it ?rill sustain us. We believe we are right. We are not afraid of a con test." Kails Fall on Croup. George Williams, a white man of Pavo. Ga., was instantly killed and four negroes were injured, none se riously, when they were partly buried under steel rails that were spilled from a flat car on the Waycross and Southern railroad, 20 miles south of Waycross Friday. The men were riding on the loaded car. Half Score Negroes Drown. While bathing, in the bayou Satur day afternoon at Pensacola, Fla., ten small negroes were carried by the tide beyond the depth and drowned. The children ranged in age from five to eight years, and all met death be fore help could reach them. The bodies were found in a heap by the searchers. ning while at work in a field. ORANGEI BLEASE'S MISTAKE SAYS FELDER HAS BEEN INDICT ED, WHICH IS NOT SO. In Offering a Reward for the Atlanta Attorney an Incorrect Statement Is Made. An official proclamation by Gov. Elease Friday makes a statement of particular interest in connection with the case of T. B. Felder. The Governor in his proclamation says that T. B. Felder "has been in dicted for said charge and is now a fugitive from justice from the State of South Carolina.'' T. B. Felder was not indicted in Newberry county. This Jact was among those presented to Gov. Brown I of Georgia on Thursday as to why requisition papers should not be hon ored for Mr. Felde:. The occasion f the proclamation was the offering of a reward of $200 for the apprehension and delivery of T. B. Felder, to South Carolina offi cers. The following is the proclamation, in which the misstatement of fact occurs: "State of South Carolina? Eyecutive Chamber "Whereas, information has been received at this department that one Thomas B. Felder did on the second day of October, A. D. 1905, and div ers other times, attempt to bribe a member of the Board of Directors of the State Dispensary of South Caro lina, and did conspire to cheat and defraud the State of South Carolina, by said actions, and has been indicted for said charge, and is now a fugi tive from justice from the State of South Carolina. "Now, therefore, I, Cole L. Blease, Governor of the State of South Caro lina, in order that justice may be done and the majesty of the law vin dicated, do hereby offer a reward of two hundred ($200.00) dollaru for the aprehenslon and delivery of the said Thomas B. Felder to the Sheriff of Newberry County, at any point within the State of South Carolina. "In testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State to be affixed, at Columbia, this twenty-third day of June, A. D. 1911, and in the 135th year of the Independence of the United States of America. Cole L. Blease, Governor. By the Governor: iR. M. i.McCown, Secretary of State. The other facts in the proclama tion are familiar to the public. Blease on the Word Indict. Governor Blease on Saturday vol unteered the following interview: "What about the use o-.' the word 'indict' in the Felder proclamation, as called attention to by The State? "We would have used the words 'formally indicted,'.,,or 'a formal in dictment having been presented.' if we had intended to convey the idea that a gravid jury had returned a true bill. The fact that the language used as it .is. Is In accordance with usual form and meant, simply to convey the idea that he had been indicted or prosecuted by order of the said State ofTlfialE, to wit: the Dispensary Com dission, and that a warrant for his arrest, had been sworn out. "These are all public matters: have been thoroughly advertised and none but those who are attempting to thwart the officials from discharging their duty would construe it other wise. I care nothing for their criti cisms. They are weakening them selves everyday by their course and strengthening me. so all I can say is, 'on with the dance.' " COl-NTERFEITERS A Hit ESTED. Two Men in Alken Jail Following Unusual Discovery. A day or two ago what was believ ed to be the workhouse of a gang of counterfeiters was discovered with in a few miles of Aiken. As a result of the discovery two white men. Jce and John Feagan. were arrested and are held pending an investi.gatios. United States Marshal Hugging and Chief Howard of the Aiken police made the discovery. In a hut locat ed in a thick wood was found a quan tity of old metal, scrap iron, pewter, brass, etc., but while everything in dicated that counterfeiting had been going on. no dies or plates could be found. The two men when arrested, are said to have had several counter feit nickles in their pockets. Die From Acid Gas. Two farmers, Silas and Warren Hicks, were asphyxiated at the bot tom of a T."> foot wel^ near London, Ont. Both were dead when dis covered. It was evident from the position of the bodies that Warren was overcome first, and that his brother lost his life in an citiempt to save him. * Rnn Into a Fence. At Milwaukee, Walter Donnelly of Cincinnati, driving a Cine car in a 50 mile automobile race at State Fair Park, was killed when his car ran in to a fence. Donnelly's skull was fractured against a post. Killed by Lightning. During an electric and rain storm at Great Falls near Chester on Friday evening, Robert Wilson, colored, was struck and instantly killed by light JURG, S. C., TUESDAY, JUNE WMTOTHE END President Taft Mdkiog a Great Effort to Rash Reciprocity tbroagh. WILL BE A HARD FIGHT Republicans Consider a Bolt, and Some of Them Contemplate a Re buke to the President and an Ap peal to the Country to Support Them in their Acts. The Washington correspondent of The itate says any one who will watch conditions as they exist ht the White House and in the hoi'.de and senate at the present time, and who will watch the wire pulling that is going on by President Taft to get the reciprocity bill through, realize that it is a fight to the finish. There is no use denying the fact that ir r%. proc'.ty fails it will be useless for ?Mr. Taft to try for renqmination. In] fact, in such a contingency, it looks like a sure thing for the Democrats, j To administer a direct reuke to the president and then appeal to the country is the course which many senate ieaders are seriously consid erign. They are not all of any one faction either. Democrats in general want Taft renominated, because they feel confi dent that they can defeat him. Re publicans, orthodox and hetsrodox alike, are wondering if there is a chance to break the rule of a century and a quarter that a president can re nominate himself when he chooses. There has been no exception to the rule. Report is that eight Democrats are now about to determine to vote j against reciprocity. If this be ac curate reciprocity is defeated. Taking both parties, there are prob ably not half a score of men in the entire senate who sincerely want to see reciprocity win. Most of the Democrats and some of the Republi cans will vote for /it; but in private conversations they agree amonf, themselves that they don't like It. And in the long run the senate isn't much given to doing the thing it doesn't like to do. To defeat reciprocity will necessi tate on bfhalf of those Republicans who vote against it most complete; and detailed explanations to constl-j tuents. Wherefore the senate is ton ing up in preparation for a regular oratorical tourney. Not less than thirty Republican senators are loading up for great speeches in opposition to the presi dent's measure. Senator Nelson of 'Minnesota is a good illustration. He is going to take a special committee to study Alaska this summer or au tumn?provided first he sees the fin ish of the reciprocity discussion. Nothing on earth will get him away from Washington till he has unload ed the big speech he is preparing and given his vote against the pact. It Is expected that he will have two or three days talks to unload, for he is workink night and day on the effort, collecting statistics, studying indus trial conditions, putting the agree ment itself under the miscrope. What Nelson does will be of a piece with the performances of many oth ers. Senator Cu/ilngs is at work on a speech that will require days to de liver. Clapp, La Follette, B-ristow and others are similarly preparing themselves, as are many of the regu lars. Six weeks of talk is the minimum estimate: it may go to eight or ten weeks. Almost all of the Republicans are going to make speeches for home consumption. There will Ivo some specially bitter attacks on the presi dent. He will be charged with per verting the maximum asd minimum provision of the tariff act of 1900. when he issued the proclamation giv ing Canada the benefit of the mini mum duties. Under careful analysis, it will be shown that in fact Canada's preferential treatment of British roods made it utterly impossible to give Canada the minimum rates. The president fared the necessity of either imposing the maximum rates or else abrogating the law. He choose the later course. The politics of the situation lies largely in the fact that the opponents of the treaty are going to do about all the talking, and that they are go ing to do it with the definite purpose of breaking down whatever strength the measure has with the country. Thus far the opposition has been re serving its fire. It realizes Fhat while i*. was doing this, the protagonists of reciprocity have made headway with rublic opinion. Leading progressive newspapers all over the Middle West have commuted themselves to the r.easure; f.nd in their defection is a serious thing to the progressive Re publicans who have enjoyed vast ad vantages in the past by reason of magazine support. So the Republicans who will talk against reciprocity will be taikin.g for their lives; talking to get their old supporters back in line, to srjuare themselves with the progressive press, to keep their constituents cheerful, to show them that there in no incon sistency between former professions of real for reciprocity and present '?pposition to it. it is a big contract that this class of Republicans have in their hands, and it will require big speeches. 27, 1911. MUCH CHEAP BOOZE MILLIONS OP GALLONS SHIPPED TO THE SOUTH. Report Says Jug Trade1 Consumers Are of Lower Grade, as is the Li quor They Use. The Washington correspondent of | The State says *#acksonville, Fla., probably the largest shipping point for liquor in the South, sends out be tween 3,000 and 4,000 packages of one or two .gallons daily, or a total of about 1,500,000 gallons a year. Chat tanooga ships about 786,000 gallons, Richmond 546, 720 gallons, Peters burg 268,123, Pensacola 267,760, New Orleans 255,856, Augusta 215, 150, and Norfolk, Cairo, Ills., Empo ria, Va., Louisville, Portsmouth, Va., Roanoke and Savannah ship more than 100,000 gallons each annually. The total annual movement indi cated is 6,050,264 gallons. When it is considered that these shipments are almost entirely from three or four States in the Southern part of j the country and that the traffic itself J is country-wide, it is not an ex-1 treme estimate that the ^-tlre volume of this traffic, going entirely to con-| sumers and not to dealers, is in ex-j ces o:.' 20,000,000 gallons a year. With this statement the Interstate commerce commission rendered its decision regarding the investigation I and suspension of express tariff rates for the transportation of liquor from mall order houses In the South. On petition filed by the Southern Mall Order Liquor Dealers' associa tion, composed mainly of shippers from Virginia and the two Carolinas, these two classifications were suo pended and under this suspension hearings were had at Richmond and at Cincinnati. "These packages," the commission says, "are sent express charges paid direct to the consumers on orders In most cases paid for in advance oi shipment. The movement Is much more active in the South than In other sections of the country, partly because of the extent of the prohibi tion territory in that section, partly because of the large quantities of very cheap wtolskey manufactured and shipped there for the consump tion of the negro population. While it Is not the function of this commission to he influenced In its conclusions by the moral aspect of the question, it is impossible not to recognize in this tariff one of the Im portant factors in the race problem of the South, the evil spirit of that problem in more ways than one. Gen* orally speaking the evidence present ed at these hearings went to show a distinct cleavage in the Industry; In the West a higher grade of liquor j was shipped and a hotter clientele ap pealed to; in the South both whiskej and consumers iere on a considera bly lower grade." The commission finds that ship ments in corrugated paper cartons are not unreasonble but forbids the use of arbitrary weights hercaftei, adding that in its opinion the indi vidual consumer purchasing the jug trade of whiskey will not be sub ected to the hardship by being limit ed to two gallons in a single package; indeed the limitation may in one re spect result in a benefit rather than a hardship to him. * COTTON PICKER COMPANY. Will Manufacture und Sell a New Cot ton Picker. The South Carolina Cotton Picker company having received a charter I was organized on June 22 with a! capital stock of $-I.r? 00. The follow-j ing officers were elected: Dr. W. G ] White, president: general manager, .1 Brown Neil; secretary and treas-, rrer. R. Ernest llenth: directors? Col. W. W. Lewis. Or. W. G. White, I it. E. Heath, J. II. Neil, and rT. D.J Neil. The picker is the invention ofj J Browne Neil, who has given this i matter considerable study. Among other inventions, Mr. Neil got up a well fixture some time ago which is a practical affair and seems to be an improvement over anything of thei kind. The cotton picker company is j a strong one and most of the stock j has been subscribed. BURNED BY LIGHTNING. Bolt Does Severe Damage in the; Town of Walterboro. At Walterboro during a thunder; shower Friday afternoon lightning struck the barn and stables In the! rear or the residence of the late Col. Jno. L>. Edwards, which is occupied by W. E. Basket!. Jr.. and family of: Jacksonboro for the summer, killing one mule, a fine buggy horse asd stunning another mule so that it hadi to be killed to prevent its being burn-! ed ali.e, setting fire to the barn and' stables, which with its contents, werej entirely consumed. Mr. Uaskell had just sent a load of provisions from; the plantation. The negro driver and an assistant had just finished unload-1 ing. They were both stunned and miraculously escaper being instant-j ly killed. Nitrogen Factory Explodes. A factory at Trosteberg, Bavaria, employed in recovering nitrogen from the atmosphere, was destroyed Satur day by a terrific explosion originating from some unknown cause in a reser-j voir containing suplies. THAT SLUSH FUND THE ILLINOIS SOLONS KNOW ABOUT JACKPOTS. Hopkins, Defeated by Lorimer, Says Corruption Funds is a Tradition of Illinois Politics.. "Jackpots'* or corruption funds in the Illinois legislature constitute "one of the traditions of politics in Illinois," according to the testimony of Former Senator Albert J. Hopkins Friday before the Lorimc investi gating committee of the Senate, at Washington. Senator Lorimer suc ceeded Mr. Hopkins. Whether any of the "jackpot" funds or other cor ruption funds had been-used to de feat him for senator he was unable to tell the committee of his own knowledge. The only other witness of the day was Edgar A. Bancroft, general coun sel for the International Harvester company. His testimony was to the effect that Clarence S. Funk, general manager of the company, had told liim of an alleged attempt of "Mr. Hines" or "Edward HInes" to raise money to meet the expenses of elect ing Lorimer. Mr. Hopkins declined to answer specific questions as to whether he suspected Lorimer was using corrupt methods'to defeat him,or as to wheth er or not he believed certain mem bers of the Legislature had been bought. Mr. Hanrey, counsel for Mr. Lori mer, protested against the witness leaving the stand without expressing an opinion on the rumor that the 53 Domccrats who voted for Lorimer on the last ballot received money. "It leaves a cloud on those men," insisted the counsel. The Committee did not require the witness to answer as to personal relation between the witness and Senator Lorimer. Mr. Hopkins said Mr. Lorimer had told him he would oppose his candidacy. Mr. Bancroft, in relating what Mr. Funk had told him, said that he was told Mr. Hines had asked to con tribute for the company $10,000 to meet the expenses of Senator Lori mer's election. Mr. Bancroft told of Mr. Funk ask ing his advice as to whether he should make public the alleged re quest. This was during the consid eration of the Lorimer case by the senate. Members of the company asked the attorney it he did not consider his own duty to have been to notify the first Lorimer investigating committee of this matter. Mr. Bancroft replied that at the time he did not consider the matter to be so important as it is now re garded and therefore not important enough to justify an attack on the company. Judge Hynes asked who was expected to make this attack and the witness replied that Lorimer and his friends were feared because they '"were in conflict with those who op posed them." * < 'OSTS LOTS OF MONEY. Aiken Has to Pay Her Share on New County Project, Treasurer Wesley Yonce, of Aiken, County has just paid to D. V. Reeves and A. R. Nicholson, surveyors, $10, 718.75, which was their bill for Ai ken county's portion of the expenses of surveying the proposed Ileywaro county last winter. The bill was pre sented to the county commissioners who refused to pay it on the ground of exorbitant charge, the charge be ing the full amount the law allows, 52,500 for both counties, this being about $-10 a day for the time con sumed in the work. When the com missioners refused ro pay it the sur veyors drew on the county treasurer, who held the matter up until the con troller general was consulted. The Comptroller general referred the mat ter to the attorney general, who ad vised the treasurer (hat he would have to honor the draft. TURKISH TROOPS MASSACRED. Thousand Soldiers of the Sultan Kill ed by the Arabs. Bandits in great force Friday sur prised and cut up a Turkish column commanded by Mahomed AM Pasha outside Gheesan, a town on the Red sea, about one hundred miles north of Hodeldah. A thousand Turkish sol diers were killed. Mahomed All Pasha is missing. The fish ting was so desperate and at such close quarters that 500 Turk ish fugitives are suffering from seri ous dagger wounds. The survivors fled in disorder ro Gheesan, pursued by the rebels. The Turkish gunboat Sutebbe. in tending to shell the Arabs, shelled Gheesan instead, killing or wousding several hundred of the soldiers. The rebels captured four big guns, two maxims, two thousand rifles and a quantity of ammunition and ulti mately retired. Father Sees Daughter Drown. Miss Myra Humphries, the 18-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Humphries, was drowned in Broad River, just below the Drave Dam, late Friday afternoon. Her father at temtped to rescue her, but being a poor swimmer, was unable to save TWO CENTS PER COPY. HUGE IRON SHIP The Bigg ?st Steamship Ever Built React ed N;w York oo Thursday. \U FLOATING PALACE Nearly Nine Hnndred Feet Long ami Will Accommodate Nearly Fonr Thousand People?Has Every De vice for Safety Known to Modern Marine Science. Ponderous and palatial, the tarn est and. most luxurious ship aflo.it, the White Star Liner Olympic swept ?moothly into New York Harbor ty cently, completing without mishap her maiden transatlantic trip. She 'ereived a warm welcome, thousands of people being on the dock to see her come in. The Olympic left Southampton at noon Wedeesday, June 14. She call ed at Cherbourg and Queenstown. Her arrival within seven days o? her departure from Southampton, in cluding stops at* two intermediate ;?ort5, is in itself a worthy feat for a ship of her size and type. Shipping men gay it proves the Olympic may.be depended on *e a "six-day linev. ? The Olympic was launched Oct. 20, 1?10, from the yards of Harland & I Wolff at Belfast. Her principal di mensions arc: Length over all, 882. feet ainches; beam, 94 feet; height from keel to boat deck, 97 feet, and from bo? ton of keel to top of Cap u'n'n house, 105 feet six lsches; heighth of funnels above deck, 81 1-2 feet; number of ste?l decks, 10; number of water-tight bulkheads, In 1 ull, 15. The Great Eastern, which came or* in 1S58, was a 700-foot ship, and Ine Mauritania is an 800-footer. The Olympic p/actically marks the era of the 900-foot ship. The displacement o! the Mau:etania Is ^S.Ono tone," that of the Olympic 60,000 tons. The bridge deck promenade on the i-.ew giant is 550 feet long. To go around it five times means you have walked more than a mile. The ship has 350 first class state-., rooms, 100 of them being for a sin gle occupant only. The suites are finished In a* dozen different styles, of art. They range from ST.20? Co- $2, 150 for^a trip. f fie full capacity of the new mar vel of the Atlantic la 3,700 persons.. She might be called a good sized"' watering place. She can carry 650 ? first class, 500 second class and 1,500'" third class passengers. Her crew numbers 856 and there are 63 per sons in the navigating department, 322 in the engineers' and 471 In the commissary department. Every device for safety known to modern marine science is provided. The ship's double bottom extends the whole length of the vessel, varying from 5 feet 3 inches to 6 feet *3' inches and containing ballast tanlts. that add to the stability. JBilge keels save her from rolling. One of the most interesting features Is the combination of reciprocating and turbine engines. The two sets of reciprocating engines are of 30, 000 horse power and the turbine engine, which uses tho exhausted steam from the reciprocating machin ery, is of 15,000 horse power. The turbine engines of the Muretanla are of G8.000 horse power, but the build ers of the Olympic did not design a racing ship. The Olympic's turbine engine turns the middle propeller beneath the rudder, is designed to offset the vibration caused by reciprocating en gines, to increase the speed of the vessel, to facilitate her in backing, and to economise steam and coal. In manoeuvring the ship Capt. Smith may cut out the turbine. After the Olympic was planned Bel fast had to build the biggest dry dock in the world. Southampton had to spend nearly half a million dollars in dredging a channel for her, and an English ral?road had to take all other trains off the track and remove part of the stations clong the line to permit a locomotive and a sin gle car, bearing the immense frame work for the three propellers, to pass from an inland foundry to the coast. New York had to extend a pier temporarily to accommodate her and Harland & Wolff had to build a new and gigantic plant, one of the most wonderful features of which was a new type of seven-ton riveting ma chine, suspended from travelling cranes, which pinned tbo plates to gether without the usual ear-destroy isg racket. * Negro 111, Ends His Life. Jack Etheridge, a negro living in tho Watson vicinity, two miles from Hidge Spring, committed suicide a day or two ago by beating: his brains out against the side of his house. Ho had been afflicted with what the at tending physician pronounced pella gra, and it is supposed his mind be came unbalanced. Bolt Kills Two Men. thunderstorms with lightning kllledN two men and p'-^yed havoc generally; throughout the State yesterday. Jef? Rester and Bud Cole, both white, were killed by the sam* i>olt while at work in a lumber camp near Kinder, La. A barn containing hay, grain, and several vehieleo was destroyed, a|' the same place.