PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLx STORM Sweeps tie C>?*?> ** ut of commission and at an early he ar Isolated that city and Beaufort, S C. Very higl tides are reported from Tybee Islanl and early before the wires were tost from Beaufort, S. k the civilians for the of ficers, i Shingley fell at the first shot and was deser :ed by his freightened com panions. He bled to death in the road. Co inor fell \rounded from his buggy, s< veral yards up the road. The othei s hid In the woods. They were not ound until Deputy Knowles heard of the shooting and found them in he road. As the two bell boys had evidently left the county and othe. negroes are not blamed for their action, feeling has died down coir pletely. Sab ons for Birmingham. Jeffers' n county, Ala, of which Birmingh .m is a large part Thurs day voted to return to the legal sale of liquor by licensed saloons by a majority which may go to 2,000 votes. GREAT DROUGHTS THAT HAVE VISITED THE WORLD IN YEARS GONE BY. Some of the More Notable Ones Mentioned and the Harm Some of Them Did. Frederick J. Haskins tellB of the great droughts that have'visited the world and the harm they did. He says the causes of droughts, like vari ous other phenomena of nature have never been explained. They have happened from time to time since the beginning of the world, a&d in former years have ibrought a far greater suffering to mankind than they are ever likely to cause again. When the crops of a nation ?ail a famine ensues, unless some provis ion has been made to prevent it ' j The first great drought on record in the United StateB took place in New England in 1749. Histories re cord especially the suffering pt the cattle-which could not find food inj the dried up .pastures. In some places the ground dried up and cracked open in deep fissures. The fish died in the dried up streams and ponds. . This drought also extended as far south as Pennsylvania, for colonists in that state imported hay from Eng land to feed thei:- cattle at a cost of three shillings per hundred-weight. . Owing to the difficulty of obtain ing food many farmers that year slaughtered their cattle and subsist ed during the winter upon the meat thus secured, often having to eat it without bread of any kind, since the grain crop was almost a tota l fail ure. .( ; A second drought in New Sagland took place In 1762 which caused even greater Buffering than the first It is claimed that at this time there was .absolutely no rainfall frooa May 7 to July 30. Public fasts we^e pro claimed and in most of the cburches in Boston. At Falmouth and other towns al most continuous services were held for a week in the different churches to pray for rain. It is said that in this drought thousands of cattle per ished and that the loss to the colon ists felt even up to the time of the Revolutionary war. Previous to the drought of this year, the full extent of which cannot yet be estimated the greatest brought in he United States in the century culminated in . the Mississippi a.~* Missouri valleys in 1894 and in the Great Lake regions and along the At lantic coast in 1895. This drought of 1894 was a culmination of diffi dent'rainfalls for 1893. The average difficieccy of the rafln I fall during the drought throughout the country amounted to 5 inches of the annual precipitation. Notwith standing this dry weather, there was a normal yield in the wheat crop throughout the country, and almost normal in corn In 1894, although both crops -fell a little short in 1895. The average yield for corn in the latter year stood at 19.4 butiaels per acre instead of 23.5 which was nor mal and the shortage in wheat that year amounted to about 10 .yer cent. In 1881 there wa3 a great drought in the Missouri valley from July to September which extended to various other parts of tne country. In In dianapolis, that year, the rainfall from June 22 to August 30, a period of 70 days, was less than 11-2 inches while from May 15 to June 4, pre ceeding, a period of 21 days, it was less than 1-2 inch. During this drought vegetables and the staple crops suffered severely. There was also a great loss of life among cattle, which were often turn ed loose to find food anc! water. Springs and wells, which had always run freely ran dry that year and in many parts of the country the water famine took a very serious aspect. Services to pray for rain were held in different churches in a large num ber of cities. In many towns the water supply was only available for a few hours each day and its use was greatly restricted. Aside from its effects upon the crops a great drought throughout a country with as large manufac turing interests as the United States has a very appreciable effect upon many branchs of trade. During the droughts of 1S95, 1S94> and 1S91, many factories were shut down for months because of the failure of the water supply. In some of the Southern States the manufacturing interests are be ing materially affected by the drought. At Charlotte, N. C, scores of factories were shut down for sev eral days until a means of supple menting the water supply could be devised. Charged With Murder. Charged with connection with the death of Hattie Purcell, the 15-year old daughter of William Furcell, H. C. Cox was held to the Criminal Court at Miami, Fla. wi'.hout bail Thursday, after a preliminary hear ing before Justice McCall. The girl's father, Wiliam Purcell, will have a hearing in a few days. Postal Bank at Greenville. Postmaster General Hitchcock Sat urday at Washington designated 50 more postoffice of the first class as postal savings depositories among them being: Montgoiery, Ala., Ath ens, Ga., Greensboro, N. C. Green ville S. C. ? '; ; ORANGEBU NEW DEVELOPMENT MORE ABOUT THE ADOPTION OP THE SCHOOL BOOKS. Exchange Price Must be Fixed..Flor ence County Trustees Denounce New Adoption. While official confirmation is lacking, it is said' that members of the State board of education will face an interesting situation at its next meeting, with reference to several publishing-houBes which It is said may refuse to accept the ruling of board on the matter of the exchange prices. It is said that representatives of several book companies will " appear beiore the board asking that the adopted exchange price schedule be put in. To put in the first exchange price would cause the board to re scind its last action, which eliminat ed the B. F. Johnson company. The State board of education will ask the D. C. Heath Publishing com pany to change a statement in one of the "Heart of Oak" readers that have been adopted. This action will be taken following the pretest by the Confederate Veterans. At Florence a feature of the meet ing of the Florence County School Trustees' association, held at Howe's grove Saturday was the passage of a resolution denouncing the recent school book adoption. The resolu tions, besides criticising the board for making the changes, goes on to "inform our State Superintendent of Education that we can not and will not require the patrons of our schools to conform to the change." J. E. Swearingen, State superin tendent of education, who was pres ent, said that he fully appreciated the spirit of the members of the association, as his feelings were the same. " NEW NAVAL TEST. Will Supplementary Armor Decapi tate Point of Projectile? Delivery is expected at Indian Head, Md.,, in the course of a few weeks of a target, which has been under'construction for some time at the Norfolk Navy yard for the pur pose of testing what is called the de capping theory of armor for battle ships. This theory is that if a supplemen tary sheet of armor about an inch thich attached outside of the regu lar armor, the outside sheet will have the effect of destroying the soft nose or cap of the siivll, which, thus deprived of a greal portion of its penetrating power will flatten Itself out upon the second impact and do no harm. The cap which Is placed upon shells includes certain. greasy mater ial which protects the sharp end of the projectile from being broken by b> contact with the steel plates which it is intended to pierce. If the decapping theory proves suc cessful in the tests, which are to be held at Indian Head, it is believed that the result will be a considerable saving in armor, as well as a great gain in the defensive power of bat tleships. Should the outside decap ping sheath do what its inventors ex pect of it, only a few inches of armor will suffice to resist the shell on the blunted second impact. Some of those who are skeptical about the new device lay emphasis upon its unwIeldllnesB and its ugli ness( but Admiral Twining and the bureau of ordnance are of the opin ion that accomplishment of results in actual warfare ? is the principal purpose of battleships, and that if the decapping theory turns out to be well founded, the necessary sacrifice of gracefulness should be cheer**sl ly made. LANDMARK OF WASHINGTON. Jefferson Davis' Home While Secre tary of War. The old home of Jefferson Davis while he was secretary of War was relinguished Saturday by the militia division of the war department, which had occupied the historical structure since the division was cre ated several years ago. The Davis home is one of the landmarks of the capitol; standing on the corner of 18th and G streets. The new home of the militia di vision, located at the intersection of 'Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th streets, diagonally apross from the war department proper is also a no table old building. When the citi zens of the District of Columbia ex ercised the franchise and were ruled by a governor, this structure was the municipal palace, containing all the, executive offices of the local govern ment. It is a little yellow brick brick structure, and today makes a sorry comparison beside the magnif cent marble edifice containing the of fice of the District commissioners. Royalists to Invade Portugal. Gen. Bastos, commander-in-chlef of the Portugese forces on the north ern frontier Friday informed the minister of war, according to the newspapers at Lisbon, the capital that well equipped royalists in Gali cia are about to invade Portugal. A steady enlistment they say is going on in the north of Portugal where the whole population are monarchists owing to the attitude of the repub lic against the church. >RG, S. C. TUESDAY, AUGU DEATH ON TRAIN Tuirly-Stvtn Killed and Six?; hjcred at Manchester, N. Y. COACHES LEAVE TRACK While Speeding Over Trestle Six Cars of Train Carrying G? A. R. Vet erans From Bochester Encamp ment Fall From Trestle to River Forty Feet Below. At least 37 person's are believed to have been killed and more than 60 ? Injured as e result of the wrecking Friday of Lehigh Valley passenger train No. 4. Speeding eastward be hind time the train ran into a spread rail on a trestle near Manchester, N. Y. and two day coaches from the rear section plunged crashing downward striking the east embankmeni 40 feet below like a pair of projec tiles. The wreck was one of the most dis ' astrous ever recorded on the system, j Crowded with pasengers, many of whom were war veterans and excur sionists from the G. A. R. encamp ment at Rochester, the train, made up of fourteen coaches, drawn by two mogul engines, was 40 minutes late when It reached Rochester Junction and from there sped eastward to make up time before reaching Ge neva. Following is the list of the dead at the Shortsvdlle morgue: T. C. iMadden, Trenton, N. J.;'E. Pangbun, veteran, Brooklyn; A. M. Hunsucker, Vineland, Ont.; Charles Hicks, Newark 1N. J.; R. S. Uncle, Southfield, N. 'j.; Mrs. A. E. Sud Southfleld, N. J.; Mrs. A. E. E. Sud leek, Buffalo, N. Y. Helen Pownell, addess unknown; C. P. Johnson or Dr. Johnson, Philadelphia or Cleve land; Mrs. -C. P. Johnson; Joseph Hickey, address unknown. The re mainder of the dead were unidenti fied. The dead at Rochester: D. M. Beltt veteran, Los Angeles, Cal.; Henry Becker, brakeman. The other dead at the Manchester morgue are seven women two girls, four men and a boy. ' On some are trinklets with initials, but in many cases there is little to work upon. The engine and two day coaches had just prosed C?e centre of a'400 foot trestle over Canaldaigua outlot, 150 yards east of the station at Man chester, at 12:35 o'clock when the Pullman car Austin, the third of a long train, left the rails. It dragged the dining car with it and the two day coaches and two Pullmans, in this order, followed. All bumped ov er the ties a short distance before the coupling btween day coach No. 237 and the rear end of the diner broke. The forward end of the train dragged the derailed Pullman Austin and the diner over safely, after which both plunge down the embankment and rolled over. The free end of an ill-fated Lehigh Valley day coach, in which most of the victims were riding, with a grand Trunk day coach, stripped the rear guard of the south side of the trestle and plunged to the shallow river bed more than forty feet below. The end of the first day coach that went over struck the east embank ment of solid masonry, and with the other sixty-foot car behind it, both shot against tie wall with terrm force. Both cars were filled with passen gers. In a few moments the cars lay a mass of battered wood, metal and glass under which a hundred men women, and chllren, many of whom were killed instantly, were buried. The greatest destruction oc currrd in day coach No. 237. A doz en persons lafer were taken dead from the second day coach, which af ter following the first car over snapped its rear coupling and thus saved the rest of the train from be ing dragged along. This second day coach struck on the bottom and stood end up, the rear end projecting a few feet above the top of the trestle. All of the pas sengers in this car were piled in a tangled mass of broken seats at the bottom of the car. Indescribable pandemonium fol lowed. The Pullman car Emelyn, which remained on the bridge with one end projecting over the gulch, and several cars behind it derailed and in serious danger of going over the mass of wreckage below, were soon emptied of their passengers, who aided by gangs of railroad employes from the big freight yards at (Man chester, rushed to help the injured. It was several minutes, however, be fore anybody reached tho cars at the bottom to help the victims. The cars did not catch fire. Axes were secured and body after body was reached and carried by rescuers knee deep in the river bed to the bank on the west side of the trestle. There the dead and ?njured were laid out ontheground and a field hospital was established. It was more than an hour before many of the injured could be re moved and special trains from both Geneva and Rochester brought phy sicians, nurses and medical supplies. Hundreds awaited treatment and the railroad station af Manchester, a ci der mill and an ice house were used to give temporary shelter and treat ment to the suffering. It was necessary to chop through the sides and bottom of the day coach at the bottom and the work of ST 29, 1911. CONFESSES MURDER KILLED FATHER, MOTHER AND HIS BROTHER. At First He Stoutly Denied Any Knowledge of the Crime but La er He Confesses. After having been pressed by con tinuous questioning for almost 30 hours in the jail at Boonevll.le, Ind., William Lee late Friday made a ?Titten statement in which he said he had killed his father, Richard Lee in self-deefnse, after fhe father had murdered his wife and younger son, Clarence. The bodies of Lee's father, mother and brother were found in their burn ing home early Thursday and Lee was charged with the murder. Af ter young Lee's statement Friday, Sheriff Scales, fearing the prisoner would be lynched secretly took him to Evaneville. Lee, who is twenty-two years old, calmly reiterated his story that he knew nothing of the circumstances of the killing of his family until late Friday afternoon, when he suddenly said: "I have something preying on my mind." Calling for paper and pencil he wrote as follows: "I was awakened by a noise and went into the bedroom where my father mother and brother slept. As I opned the door I saw that my fath er had murdered my mother and brother. My father sprang at me, axe in hand, exclaiming, "I will get you too." I grabbed the axe away from him and in.it him over the head with it. I could smell kersoine and I found oil had already been poured over the bed. Ju?t because matches were handy and I did not know what else to do, I set fire to the bed cloth ing and then gave alarm of fire." After he had completed the state ment he said: "1 didn't know what else bo do when I set the place on fire. I didn't know how the thing would look." The streets about the jail were crowded all day with town people and farmers. ,; The county officials said they plac ed no faith in his statement. The mo?ivo ascribed by the officials in charging Lee with murder is that he wished to obtain money with which to be married to Mina Taylor. ?Cash amounting to $100 said to have been in the Lee. house Wednesday has not been found. The lives of Richard and Clarence Lee were in sured for $700. William Lee is known to have quarreled with his parents because they opposed his marriage. William Lee, of Evansville. Ind. 22 years of age, confessed late Sat urday night that he murdered his father, Richard Lee, his mother and younger brother Clarence and then set fire to the house in the hope of concealing the crime, at Booneville, Ind. early Thursday morning. In verbal and written statements to Sheriff Davis in the jail. Lee said his motive was anger because his pa rents would not consent to his mar riage with Mina Taylor, of Newburgj which he had planned for Thursday evening and would not give him mon ey with which to begin housekeep ing. When the tonfession was made public officers started with Lee in an automobile for the State reformatory at Jeffersonville to prevent possible mob violence. Lee had made a state ment tt at he had killed his father in self-defence with an axe after his father had murdered his wife and younger son, but Sheriff Davis press ed the restless prisoner, for "the true story" and Saturday afternoon he wrote a haltingly worded confession. removing the victims moved with painful slowness. Death had come swiftly to many, a large number of the dead had their skulls crushed in when they were thrown against the car seats and projections. The mor tality was .high among the older pas sengers most of whom were veterans of the War between the Sections and their wives. The wrecked train was in charge of Conductor James Hilloc, of Geneva, with Engineers Bowman and Callan on the engines. Conductor Hillock had just stepped from the dining car to the next car in front when the dining car left the track. He pulled the signal for brakes and both engi neers resjionded instantly. Engineer Bowman of the second engine was leaning from his cab window and as he turned on the brakes he look ed backward to learn the cause of the trouble and saw the cars toppling off the bridge. Passengers in the cars which re mained on the track gave prompt assistance. Appeals for doctors and nurses wore sent to the nearby j places and special relief trains were run from l>oth east and west. So great was the number of injured that there was work for all. Will Pool Tobacco Crop. Representatives of GO,000 farmers of the bright belt of Virginia and North Carolina, allied with the far mers' Educational and Cooperative union, in executive session at Greens boro, N. C. Friday entered into an agreement to pool the 1911 tobacco crop until a price of not less than 15 cents per pound is obtained in any section; the "bright" grade of tobac co will be held for twenty cents. Del egates to the meeting will, upon re turning to their respective counties work to have all the fanners join the pool. u ; DEATH AT RACES TWO DEAD AND ABOUT THIRTY SLIGHTLY HURT. While .Automobile .Races .Are .in Progress Granstand CoUapses, In juring Spectators. The 305-mile road race at Elgin, 111., won by Lon Zengel in a National with Harry Grant second and Hugh Hughes third, was not accomplished without its toll of death and injuries. Dave Boick, the veteran Chicago automobile racer, and his mechanic ian were killed as the result of an accident to his Pope-Hartford. Buck had his back broken but lived until Saturday night. Sam' Jacobs, his mechanician, died instantly, his neck being broken. Buck wa.s within 11 laps of the finish, going 64 miles an hour when his right forward wheel threw a tire. The machine turned a complete somersaul-. Another accident in which thirty persons were hurt, mostly slightly, occurred after 11 o'clock, while the first lap of the race was on, several sections of the recently 'built circus seats giving away. A thousand or more- persons were precipitated to the ground. When the stringers by which the seats were supported give way the boards spread out like a pack of cards and the spectators were shunt ed in a huddle at the bottom. Four sustained broken legs, among them a daughter of Senator Lorimer, but the others escaped with cuts and bruises. From time to time during the remainder of the day warnings were shouted through megaphones to the remaining spectators not to jump to their feet in moments,of ex citement. Many'left the grounds af ter the accident. The cars oh the course at the time of the accident were stopped as soon as they reached the repaid pits, but a new start was soon made. ENDS LONGEST FLIG3T. Atwood Alight? in New Yorlc After Flying from St. Louis. Sailing serenely over New York's water crafts, ocean liners and fer ries, Harry N. Atwood, the Boston aviator arrived in New York on his aeroplane Friday, the first man in history to. travel as far as from. St. Louis to New York by way of Chicago, in a heavier than air ma chine. Atwoods safe landing on Govern or's Island, after flying down from Nyack, N. Y., above the Hudson riv er through a fog which made him only dimly visible to the million eyes that watched him, was a nota ble incident in the annals of aero nautics. He not only broke the re cord for the world, covering 1 265 miles in an air line, or perhaps'lOO more miles with his detours, but he flew all the way in the same biplane and with no important mishaps. At wood s flight Is comparable only to that made by fast trains, for he I covered the distance in an actual fly ing time of 28 hours and 31 min utes. Atwood's final lap In his journey ney was a glide 25 miles from Nyack N. Y., where he had stopped over night. He landed, dapper and smil ing, hatless and hungry, in the arms of a handful of United States army officers and men wno hailed him as America's greatest aviator. "Well, I'm glad its ended," said Atwood, as he slopped from his nv.i