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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKIA WHAT HE SAYS I KSwearinger I'ces Kot Meet Comparisons Hade by the Board I PEOPLE MOST DECIDE Claims That he Was Ignored by Oth er Members of the Board, by Not Having Chance to. Egress His Opinion When Adoption of the . -7?.'; i' ;?/. Books Were Made. State Superintendent of Education Swearingen returned to Columbia Tuesday night from Rock Hill, where he had gone Friday to attend the Conference of County Superlnten ' of Education. He declared that he had no intention or desire to prolong the contreversey regarding the text book adoptions made by the State board of education. "If the people of south Carolina are willing to believe," he said., "that ? they can now exchange old text books for new ones at an additional cost of only 2-3 cents per child each year, they will be undeceived when the time comes to buy new books. "I have not counted the words in the primer or in any other book, but the new basal reader contain 159 pages and sells for 35 cents. The new bisal fifth reader contains 368 pinges ami sells for 35 cents. The dlffrence is interesting. "Of the old basal first reader, 131, 000 copies were sold from 1906 to 1911, and this book has been dis placed. Twelve thousand copies of the physical geographies were sold, and this book has-been retained. As far as the titles on the list are con cerned these two books are equal, but as as far as the pupils and pa trons of the State are concerned, there is a difference of nearly 11 to 1, or more than 1,000 per cent. Il lustrations might be multiplied In definitely, for readers, arithmetics, and geographies form the most id por?ant part of a text book adoption, and these three series show that 76 per cent of the mere titles even were thrown out. "If the members had made 'up their minds as to the best and most desirable books, I am at a loss to un derstand why they were unwilling to point out the poor bocks now in use. It is claimed that ample preliminary discussion of text books was had in pie books had been made. This ad mission is highly gratifying to me, because the absence of such?"""""? sion and comparison at tux. meetings led me to suppose ana u^pe ' for this condition. They, therefore seem to admit the fact that the real discussion of text-books was had ine Jerome Hotel. I do not presume to set my opinion against the opinion of seven distinguished edlacat?rs, but being the secretary of the board and member directly responsible to '-he people, T thought there should be a frank, full and open discussion in the meetings of the board Itself. This admission proves that the adoption was decided on before the State Superintendent of Education was given a chance to express an opinion. It must not be forgotten,, also, that my request for a record of these changes was promptly refused. I was prepared to recommend sever al changes and to support these rec ommendations with argument. The board made sweeping changes, but declined to indicate the necessity for these chanes, by pointing out the in ferior and undesirable books now in use. The assertion that better books have been adopted does not suffice, but should be supported by evidence. Every change of text books is unnec essary unless a logical reason can be assigned therefor. "I have not questioned the Integ rity or impugned the motives of a majority of the board, because posi tive proof of improper influence can not be adduced. The private charac ter of every man belongs to himself, alone, but his public acts belong to his constituents. The new policies of the board were expensive, unexplain ed, and without record, and against these three charaiteristics I protest ed. "There are other points inviting interesting comment, but I leave this to be made by others. The determi nation of the issue rests with the peo ple." False Story Denounced. A*, a meeting of several Confeder ate veterans, members of camp No. 2, Army of the Tennessee, a state ment, said to have appeared in a weekly magazine on Juno 10 last in which it was asserted that a school teacher of New Haven, Conn., was de ruded, tarred and feathered fn a pub.lc square of New Orleans dur ing the civil war, was strongly de nounced as a fa'sehood. Never Been to Town. Mrs. Polly Monk, 94 years of age is dead in North Christian county, Tenn. She had lived all her life on a farm, outlived two husbands and Taad never seen a train and had an ig within two miles of Crofton. She ?had never seen a train, and had on antipathy for "new fangled things." Teniffic Explosion. Near Frankfort-on-the-Main, Ger many ten persons were killed and twenty others seriously injured by an explosion in a dynamite factory Wed nesday. VOTE BAILEY DOWII THE SENATE KILLS ? HIS FREE LIST AMENDMENT. Heyburn Says the Republican Party Is on Its Death Bed Because of its Divided Raaks. Senator Bailey's free list amend ment to the Canadian recirocity bilr was defeated in the Senate late Wed day by a large majority. So evident was the margin against it that Mr. Bailey did not ask for a roll call. Pursuing the policy of forcing the opponents of reciprocity tc* proceed without delay, Senator Penrose urg> ed Senator Bailey to introduce his wool tarlg amendment a tonco. The latter did so. "Semi-Democrats" "borrowed Democrats" and like terms were ap plied to the Republican Senators sup porting the bill, by Senator Hey burn, of Idaho, in a speech against the measure. He declared that when a vote on the bill is taken, all r??u Republicans in the Senate will be op posed to it, when the "Semi-Demo crats" will vote for it, along with the "fee-simple Democrats." "How can we educate the leader of the party back to Republican princi ples," asked Senate rNelson, of Min nesota. "Who is the leader of the Repub lican party?" asked Heyburn. Senator Bailey declared that the Republicans were in a state of muti ny and did not know their leader. Mr. Heyburn declared that the rec iprocity bill came to Congress wrap ped in the flag of a pirate. "Here's the bill; now you pass It without any change," said Mr. Hey burn. He declared that he opposed all amendments to the bill as well as the bill itself, because "every amend ment is a splinter off the Republican flag staff of protective policy." "That can't be," interjected Sena tor Clap-p; "the flag staff has been broken and the flag pulled down." "I'll bet you 7,000,000 Republican votes that is not true," st.Id Hey burn. He added that he believed that the Republicans would ultimate ly come together again on protective principles. Asked by Senator Bailey- how he 'vcsld classify the Insurgents, Mr. Heyburn said they were "mavericks" waiting to be branded. "If they can be rounded up 'In the White House lot, I.know they will be branded," said Mr. Bailey. Senator Heyburn. characterized some of the progressives as "pro -gressjng as a crab; you can't tell that they're going." /?This is the deathbed of the Re publican party," said Senator Hey burn, referring to" the split in the Republica ranks, "but it will be the deathbed of may of the men who are supporting this reciprocity bill, when the-people realize that it means put ting down of the protective system." CHARGE LEWIS WITH FRAUD. Charged With Using the Mails to Defraud People. A dispatch from St. Louis says E. G. Lewis, until recently publish er of a number of magazines and promoter of enterprises, was Indict ed by a special grand jury in the Un ited States district court on charges Of fraudulent use of the mails. ? The indictment, containing twelve courts, covers four points in which Lewis is alleged to have obtained several million by misleading statements cir oulated through the mails. It is charged he sold unsecured notes on the Woman's Magazine Building and the Woman's Daily building in the University City, oi which Lewis is Mayor, unsecured notes of the University Heights Real ty Development Company, operated a "debenture scheme," and that he misrepresented the condition of the Lewis Publishing Company in selling slock in the concern. Lewis recently put his corporations into the hands of trustees with sole power to handle them for five years. Creditors have asked that a receiver be appointed. Lewis was indicted in 1905 on charges of conducting a scheme to defraud through his oper ation of the People's United States Bank, one of his corporations. Oth er indictments charged him with de frauding the government of postal funds. He was acquitted on several of these charges and all were dis missed later by the government. It is charged in the indictment that, by the debenture plan, Lewis endeavored to recover securities in his different companies and obliga-1 tion, most of which were due at early dates, amouiing to $7,160,000. Charred Bodies Found. The charred bodies cf Arthur Per neval, p. prominent farmer, and his w'fe wete fomd in the ruins of their burned farm house near Princeton, X. C, Wednesday The discovery was made .by neigbbors. An investi gation is in progress to determine under what circumstances the couple met death. Clemson's Big Income. Clemson College will this year re ceive about $260,000 ffom the sale of the fertilizer tags. Since the first of the year the sum of $242,683 has been received, as compared with $216,703 on the same date of last year. The total vamount received by the school last year was $248,098. GOAT HELD BY MORUS ? IN A PENCE BEFORE HE WAS RE LEASED FROM IT. Train Crew on the Augusta Southern Railroad Stopped the Train and Loosed Him. The Augusta Herald says the trav elers on the Au'gtusta Southern road are telling quite a funny .but pathet ic little story about a goat who butted into a fence and stayed until the crew of No, 44 came to his assistance. Col. Henry S. Jones, of Hephiz: ,bah, while returning home from his office in Augusta Thursday afternoon, noticed a goat patiently standing' by a wire fence on Mr. W. W. Hack's place at DeBruce, a small station just beyond the old Richmond Factory pond, and remembered that he had seen it there for the third day stand ing sentinel-like with its eyes stead fastly fixed upon the Augusta South ern track9 which are only a few feet array. He looked carefully and saw that the goat had fastened himself in thw wire fence anu had seemed to anait don all efforts to gain his freedom. The poor goat stood in the one spot for three days and nights, lonely and cared for by no one. He was almost dead of starvation. Col. Jones, taking pity cn the goat, tasked Mr. IM. S. Bridgers, chief train dispatcher of the Augusta Southern, who was on the train Thursday af ternoon with him, to have the next train stopped and some of the train men get off and relieve the animal from its serious land uncomfortable condition. This Mr. Bridgers did. He noti fied pasenger train No. 14 coming to Augusta Thursday night to stop near the Richmond Factory pond where the unfortunate (goat was being held and to have some of the crew get off and let the poor animial loose. The billy goat's life was saved by the crew of No. 14. MADE HIS LAST LEAP. A Real Tragedy Caught on Film of Moving Pictures. A real tragedy was recorded on the film of a moving picture machine at New York late Wednesday. As Albert Breyton, actor and expert swimmer and diver, leaped from a boat In ia Staten Island pond, the machine was set in motion, its lens focused on the bubbling surface of the pond where he had disappeared, to picture his aquatic feats as he aame to surface. The moments pass ed and the widening circles from the impact of his dive touched the shores. The diver's feat had been caught on the film. He did not appear and is supposed to have been held fast by the soft mud (at the bottom. The body was igrappled for and recovered. POISONED BY INSECTS? Probable Cause of Death in Newberry County. The sudden death of four'negroes, three of them in one family and in ?one house near Shelton, in Fiairfield County, is supposed to have been caused by poisonous insects on black berries, which the negroes had pick ed and eaten a short time before their deaths. It is said that the ne groes were about grown and two oth ers were smaller. The four had been blackberry picking in the after noon and that night, or early the next mornlnigi, according to the infor mation, they died. It is not known what else could have caused their death and the cause stated is gen eral}' accepted by the community and is supported by medical opinion. THE GRAY AND BLUE. President Taft Will Follow Bull Run Retreat. When President Taft goes to Ma nassas, Va., 25 miles southwest of Washington on July 21 to speak at the joint reunion of the blue and gray armies on the .battlefield of Bull Run, he will travel over the same old turn pike that thousands of Union sol diers used 50 years ago. The Presi dent will motor down from the capi tal with Secretary Hilles and Maj. A. W. Butt. Much of the ride will be over the road used by Gen. McDow ell's soldiers when the tide of battle turned against them and they fled back toward Washington. They Had Hot Time. In a free-for-all fight, at an outing and dance given by some Polish min ers near Adna, Ohio, three men were stabbed to death, three more were fatally injured and about a score of persons, including several women, re ceived knife wounds. Lots of Cotton Burn. A dispatch from St. Peatersburg, Russia, says the fire that broke out among the cotton bales in the port section of the city was extinguished after damage aggregating $500,000 had never been to town, although liv ed in the loss. The Mob Got Him. Will McGriff, the negro who shot and killed Will Washington, a white man, and wounded two colored men, was arrested lat Roconton Wednesday afternoon and later killed by a mob estimated at more than five hundred men. it iURG, S. C, SATURDAY, JUL RAGING FLAMES Hundreds of People Boroed to Death io tbe Porcapioe District. THREE TOWNS BURNED ? - Entrapped Miners, Seeking Safety in Shafts Perish in Flames. Streets Strewn With Charred Human Bod ies and Dead Carcasses of Animal that Perished. A Toronto Canada, dispatch says the loss of life in Porcupine district, from Wednesday's fire is'known to be several hundred and the property loss will reach several millions of dollars. Only three of the eighty four empoyees of the West Dome Mine have been accounted for and 200 miners, muckers, etc., in the var ious other mines are missing. Among the dead are Robert Weiss, manager of the West Dome, land his wife and child. The West Dome Mine Company, of Philadelphia, sustained a loss of about $50,000. Reports from Porcupine give vague state statements of the loss of life and property. The property loss will probably total millions. Some loss of life is also reported from South Porcupine and Eldorado. At West Dome and Big Dome, the en trapped miners, cut off from escape, were forced to take to the shafts for safety and penned In by flames, per ished. This was notably true at ? Dome and west Dome mines. The streets of Sonth Porcupine are strewn with dead persons, horses, doge, and cattle. Along the mine roads are the charred bodies of those overcome trying to escape . Of the stall of three hundred at the Dome but a few were saved, and at the West Dome but three out of 85 em ployees are known to be alive. Early Wednesday the miners saw dense clouds of smoke to the south- ? west, where the fires were raging. They gave small heed. It was not until noon that the smoke clouds be gan to roll over the Porcupine dis trict. Then the miners became alarmed. Messenigers were sent out and soon returned with the word that the fire was travelling througjh the forest rapidly and was lickingj up many towns. Shortly after noon the fire had cov ered ian area of twenty-five miles in length and two miles in width, and was licking} up the base line of Tis dale sweeping over the Standard and Imperial mines at Dolore, the Phila delphia, Inshaw, Tldorado and Unity mines. When the seriousness of the situa tion was apparent the fire call was sounded with the Dome Mine whis tle. In half hour the flames were raging- on the spot. They swept over the Foley O'Brien mine, then jump ed to the Preston East Dome and fol lowed over the Dome and West Dome. ' Hundreds fled from the flames, hut the smoke hung low over the land and made progress difficult. Many fell exhausted. The frame buildings of South Porcupine burned fiercely. (Twenty minutes after the flames struck the outskirts the town was in lashes. All who escaped the flames made for the water, where all .sorts of water craft, launches, canoes and skiffs were pressed into service. Women and children were first huddlea into the small boats and started og for Pottsville and Golden City, where they were temporarily safe from the flames. Many miners lost their lives in efforts to save oth ers and some were drowned. Fifteen men were drowned at South Porcupine, when they were driven into the lake by the dense clouds of smoke and rolling wave of flame. At El Dorado two men were burned to death, and another met a similar fate at the United Porcupine Mines. Three towns have been wiped off the man and hundreds or refugees are. facing starvation. A train contain ing six hundred women and children was rushed out of Cochrane for the south, as the wall of flames advanc ed toward the village. The town of 2,500 inhabitants was soon a mass of fire and is entirely destroyed. South Porcupine and Pittsv1r:= are charred ruins. Golden City was surrounded by flames for hours, and is still in dang er, although only the suburbs! have been burned. Part of Tisdale has been wiped out, the fire being con trolled only by dynamiting a dozen houses in the middle of the town. Two special trains have been sent to bring the 4,000 persons who are facing starvation or death by fire in the Tisdale district. Communica tion with stricken districts is exceed ingly difficult. The flames swept down on South Porcupine and PIttsville almots wltn out warnings The alarm came just in time for the people to rush for the lake, but they were forced to abandon all of their belongings. Gasoline boats, rowboats and even hastily improvised rafts were utilized to get the refugees, many of whom were women and children, across the lake to Golden City. There all are attempting; to beat back the flames, which have consumer the outskirts of that place. There are only a few days' provisions left in Golden City. The laborers employed on the On-] tario Government's new railroad line, | reached the city after a desperate) y 15, i9ii. REAL STORY TOLD CONNECTED ACCOUNT OF FIRE SW3 iPT DISTRICT. Two Cities Were Wiped Out by the Flames and Many Were Drowned to Avoid .Awful Death. Eugene A. Thomson, business man and fire chia', who Wednesday night brought a 'party of refugees to De troit from the burned towns of Au Sable and Oscoda furnished the first connected Siory.which has come from the fire swept district. "The firs' serious fire on the out skirts of t.ie town was discovered Sunday and a crew fought it until it was under control," he said. Monday nothing wns done and on Tuesday, aided by high winds, it burst out again with great fury. "The fir^t alarm in Osceodia came in at 3 o'clork from a private house. President Gowley and myself pro cured pails from the Loud Company's office to fight the flames that had spread to the Catholic cemetery. The next alarm came in from Au Sable township slab piles. Just about the time the Lost was working well we got an alarm from the village of Os coda. The first to go was the Oscoda and Au Sable canning fiactory and in a few mlp'ites' the fire was general, breaking out north, east, south and west all at. once. "Our equipment of three hose carts land thirty-3ix volunteers fought for an hour and a half with a good sup ply of water. "Then the flames reached the pumping station and it went out of commission. A few inhabitants among them myself and my father and mother, went to the steamer NI ko, Captain Meyers, which was lying at my own door. "When we left the dock between 200 and 300 people were on It, 30 of them were nursing children, cut off from shore, with the tramway over head afire. There was no escape for them unless they jumped into, the wa ter. I 3aw Peter Duval struggle down the tramway with his aged father in-law on his back, but the flames forced him back 'ind I cannot tell whether he was saved. "I saw a woman with two children In her 'arms rush out on the dock. One of the children fell into the wa ter and a young man leaped in after it and saved it. "When the fire started the wind was blowing about 50 miles an hour from the southeast. Then It shifted co the westward and the flames com pletely swept the towns. Two hours afterward, it shifted to the northeast and swept the blaze back over the ground it already had travelled, lick ing up the whole of Oscoda and Au Sable city and,township for a radius cf three mile3. - - - \ WOMAN AND MAN DROWN. Giant Lake Wave Sweeps Them from Rescuing Arms. At Auburn, N. Y., a gigantic wave on Owasco Lake swept. Miss Adelaide McCarthy, 18 years old, land her cous in, Edward George Burke, 22 years old, of Philadelphia, from the grasp of rescuers, to death In the lane on Wednesday night. Burke, a good swimmer, had bat tled for the life of his companion for half an hour and was preparing to assist her to the hands of four men in a motorboat when a wave swept them away, fialf filled the boat, si lenced the engine and set the craft adrift. "Sa*ve the girl, fellows, don't try to take me in," shouted Burke, who was treading water with the girl in his arms. A moment later the wave blotted them both from view. Their bodies still lie at the botom of the lake. THEY WANT RAIN. Indian Tribal Customs to Obtain It Are Being Used. The C.eek Indians in the vicinity of Wetunika, Owla., are resorting tc lancient tribal customs in an attempt to obtain a rainfall. One of tbefr customs which has been widely followed in the last week Is to stake mud turtles on the edge a stream just Par enough away from the water so that it cannot reach it. It is the Indians belief that the tur tle despairing of their 'attempts to reach the water invoke the aid of the "Great Spirit' to send rain so that the stream will be raised and brought to them. Since the turtles were first staked out several rains have fallen. The Indians believe their prayers are be ing answered and they are fastening up more turtles to pray for a still greater rainfall. Shot by Cupid. The Greenville Daily Piedmont says Deputy Judge of Probate James R. Bates issued a marriage license to probably the oldest couple that has received a license since the m??? riase license law has been in effect in this State. The two were Henry Nix, aged 74, ad Mrs. Melvla V. Rochester, 41, both of the American Spinning Company's village, near Greenville. i fight with the flames, in which many were badly injured. They lost every thing but the clothes they wore. WENT DOWN BANK LADY GUEST AND OWNER ARE INSTANTLY KILLED. The Big Touring Car Turned Over When the Road Bank Crumbled Under It. A special dispatch from Henderson ville, N. C, to the Columbia Record says: In an automobile accident Wednes day night about two o'clock, two peo? pie were killed when the powerful Rambler machine of Mr. B. W. Bet tis went over an embankment on the Asheville road, arout two miles from Hendersonvllle. The dead are: Miss Lemie Bow man, of Sumter, S. C, daughter of Mr. P. G. Bowman and Mr. B. W. Bettis of Trenton, S. C, who was driving the oar. There were eight people in the car, taking a ride while returning from Lake View Hotel after a dance, Miss Mabel Bowman and Miss Lemie Bow man with Mr. B. W. Bettis occupied the front seat. Those in the back seat were: Mrs. P. G. Bowman, Miss Mary Pitts, Mr W. Hammond, Newman, Miss Jennette Henry, of Sumter, Miss Rosa Sharfson of Al lenale. Coming to ia steep fill on the newly built Asheville-Hendersonville high way, the driver saw a vehicle in front and gave room, going to the right. The loose dirt caved with -the heavj machine and before he could turn, the machine turtled, catching the oc cupants under the car. iMiss Mabel Bowman, who receiv ed serious bruises will recover. Mr. Bettis' body was shipped home Thurs day on the "Carolina Special" of the Southern railway. Miss Sharfson Is a graduate of the College for Women at Columbia. Miss 'Bowman ^nd Mr. Bettis were to have been married in ia few weeks. DISAGREE WITH THE GOVERNOR. Demand That Hosiery Mill Be Abol ished Refused. Disregarding the demands of the governor, the board of directors of the State penitentiary Thursday re fused to abolish the hosiery mill, and the entire controversy will be left with the general assembly for a de cision. The contract is for five years and provides for the employment of from 200 to 350 prisoners. J. M. Graham holds the contract with the State. A letter embracing the posi tion of the board was addressed to the governor. The governor has on several occasions stated that if the hosiery mill was not abolished that he would pardon all of the 300 men and women employed in the mill. The board finds that J. M. Graham has observed every provision of the contract. That failure on the part of the State through its officers to perform its duties Aoward the con victs, should not be allowed to work a hardship on J. M. Graham nor jus tify the State in breaking the aigxee rent with him.. That the hosiery mill is in a thor oughly sanitary condition and the converts therein work under more favorable circumstances than em ployes in similar industries conduct ed by parties or corporations. That deaths from tubercrlosls In the whole- penitentiary, including the hosiery mill, has decreased from 58 durimgi the years between 1900 and 1905 to 22 during the years between 1906 and 1910. That a igxeater number of convicts are brought to the penitentiary al ready afficted with tuberculosis than those contracting the disease within the prison walls. That as soon as a convict shows ab ihlchdeT bmorniartlflhSo any symptoms of tuberculosis he or she is placed in one of the finest tuberculosis hospitals in this sec tion of the country. That the board stands ready to make any changes in the buildings that may be necessary to further safeguard the health of the convicts, whenever they ascertain through the board of health and their own in vestigations the same is desirable. That the board invites inspection by private citizens of the State at any time, of all the buildings within the walls of the State penitentiary. Refused Tainted Money. By a six to three vote the city council of Jacksonville Florida re fused to appropriate money for the maintenance of a Carnepie public 11 bralry. The philanthropist had of fered $25,000 if Pensacola would raise one-tenth of that amount. The people turned down the proposition several weeks ago on a referendum vote. The argument was advanced that Carnegie's money was "tainted." Drowned Himself. Ensign R. S. Young, of Concord, N. C, disappeared from the destroyer Perkins, at the New York Navy yard, Wednesday night leaving a note stat ing that he intended to drown him self. The young officer had slightly overstayed his shore leave and had been called upon for an explanation. Convict Was Killed. While trying to escape from the State prison at Milledgeville, Ga., W. H. O'Neal, a white~convict, who had served one year of a three-year sen tence, was shot to death by guards. O'Neal was sentenced for stabbing als wife. TWO CENTS PER COPY. START TO FIGHT rtirfy- Three Killed in Pitched Battle in Street;: ofPoebla. ATTACK ON THE TROOPS Some of the late "Rebels in Mexico Force Some Federal Soldiers to Their Quarters Until They Were Relieved. A dispatch from Puebla, Mexico, says fighting between federals and Maderistas which began Thursday night and lasted until daylight was resumed Friday afternoon at Cerro San Juan, close to Puebla. The bat tle raged for three hours and is said to have claimed more than forty in' killed and wounded. A party of Maderlsts who fled from the bull ring Wednesday night after a stiff fight with the federals, out the interoceanic railroad at Fabrica de Matienzo, took possession of a train and proceeded to San Marlin, 25 miles to the north, to procure rifles and ammunition with the avow ed intention to return and renew the attack. The fight, according to witnesses, was provoked by three men, one of whom was said to be a son of Former Governor iMucto Martinez, who passed the .bull ring where th? Maderistas were quartered and fired into the place and into the barracks of the Zaragosa battalion of State troops opposite. The fight was taken up by both sides, each thinking the other had started the trouble. The fight was bloody and among the 40 dead were several women and a federal lieu tenant colonel, Moises Breton. The affair is laid ,by the revolutionosts at the door of the Clentificos, who are said to have arranged the details in advance and calculated upon the ef fect of the preliminary shooting. By otbers the clash was said to have been provoked by an attack by a drunken revolutionists upon the penitentiary with the intention to liberate the prisoners, i At the first volley the State troops came out of their quarters but were triven back ,by the revolutionists. The latter kept up a spasmodic fire battalion of federals was ordered to their relief. The fighting ceased only when Gov. Canete appeared with a white flag and pleaded for peace. A special train with Francisco L. Madero on board arrived in the city soon after the battle began. It is alleged drunken Maderistias made an attack upon the penitentiary with* dynamite bombs in an effort to re lease the prisoners. The Saragossa troops stationed close by opening fire. Maderistias from the bull ring at tacked the federals and forced them back into their quarters. A scatter ing fire was kept up all night. At daybreak the Twenty-ninth battalion aame to the rescue of the other fed erals and used a machine igiun to clear the streets. At this attack the Mad eristas fled, leaving a large number of dead and wounded In the streets. SENATOR TILLMAN TO SPEAK. Annual Picnic of Old Soldiers at Olanto Saturday. A dispatch from Florence to The News and Courier says the annual picnic for the old soldiers will bo held at their picnic grounds, at Olanta, in lower Florence County, on Saturday, July 22, at which time United States Senator Benjamin R. Tlllman and others will make ad dresses. The old soldiers' picnic at Olanta is always one of the great events of the year in lower Florence. Last year there were more than 8, 000 people present, and rrom present indications there will be not less than 7 0,000 people there this year. Ev erybody is invited, to these events, but the old soldiers come first. Had a Close Call. When the first execution under the new law providing for electrocution in place of hanging took place in the State penitentiary at Eddyville, Ky., recently it came near ending in the death of two persons instead of one. Prison physician Moss stepped forward to feel the pulse of the negro who formed the first subject before the current had been turned off and barely missed having several thous and volts pass through his body. Killed by Caisson. Elbert J. Baum of battery A. Third U. S. field artillery, was killed dur ing target practice Thursday near San Antonio, Tex. Baum was drived of a caisson. His horses took fright vit the firing and in endeavoring to keep them from running away Baum fell from his sieat and was run over. Caught on Fire. A Washington dispatch says the House had an exciting scene when Representative Willis of Ohio, rushed from his desk, his clothing afire. Several members came to his aid and extinguished the flames. He was un injured. A box of matches in his coat pocket caught fire. Killed by Lightning. While working in a field near Ar thur, Tenn. ,two little boys, Will Pierce and Link Eads, suffered severe shocks, and the latter is not expected to live.