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CHARLES W. BIRCHMORE, PROPRIETOR. VOL. 28 "THE HAKTD OF THE DILIGENT SHALL RULE." TERMS, 91 .60 IN AdJYAJf CAMDEN, KERSHAW COUNTY, S. C? TUESDAY. MARCH 29, 191G NO. 26 AWFUL TRAGEDY A Drunken Man Slays Two Men on a Traia Near Wilmington, Del. KILLER SHOT TO DEATH J. H. Bethea of Dillon, 8. C., Kills ? Colored Porter and the Conduc tor on a Pullman Car unci Is Fi nally Killed in Battle With the Police. An exciting battle 1ft which three men were killed took place on a north bound Baltimore and Ohio railroad train Wednesday afternoon. The fight began at Newark, Del., and ended at Wilmington, Del. Several personB were wounded In the deadly affray which occurred nt the Delaware avenue station at Wil mington following the arrival of the train at 6:17 o'clock. The de?ad: O. E. Wellman, aped 40, of Philadelphia, conductor of the train Samuel Williams, aged 50, ne gro Pullman porter, whose home is ?aid to have been in Jersey City; J. H. Bethea, aged 40. Dillon, S. C. The Injured: John O. Wiley, aged 40, a park guard of Wilmington. Del., shot In the hand and leg; Mat thew Haley, a citizen of W 1 1 m 1 n - ton, shot in the le>;. Others were grazed by flying bullets. The foi lowing graphic story of tho awful J tragedy wub told by one of the m?*tr. bers of the train crew. I "We left Washington at three o'clock " said the member of the crew, "but nothing peculiar in tin actions of Bethea was observed un til the train pulled out of Baltimore. We had scarcely reached the out- I Bkirts of the city, when Bethea, who was occupying a chair in the parlor I car, threatened to chastise Williams, because of no apparent reason, other I than he took exception to the por ter being a negro. | "A short time later the porter I again had occas''",'; to pass through the car. He was busy ooeiiini; a ventilator, when Bethea arose and lunged toward him. The porter hur- J riedly left the car and reported flu matter to Conductor Wellman. The latter told Williams to remain ort of the car unless it was aosciutely necessary tor him to enter. Bethea In the meantime had taken * sc??t lu a coach. "When the ?.rain was bf .woon Harv- do Oranoe' aud Newark, th?j I porter started through the coarn, not-l noticing Bethea. The latter was ap- 1 parently dosing in his seat, but Just 1 as the colored man passed him lie I rose and said: 'You negro; I'll I ?hoot you full of holes." "Williams was Iobs than four faei I from the enraged man and aB Bethea I spoke Williams turned half aroui d I In evident Burprise. As ho did so Bethea fired a shot into the porter'B heart. Williams fell back Into a I Beat, and as Conductor Wellman ap proached the murderer, Bethea fired again. This laBt shot went througn Williams' thigh and buried Itself in the woodwork in the Bide of the I car. j "By this time pandemonium reign ed. Thore were about thirty persons in the car and they made a mad rush for both doors. Conductor Wellman apparently didn't know that I Williams had been fatally shot, as the negro waB Bitting upright In the seat. As Wellman Hpoke to Bethea I the latter turned livid with rage, I and placing his revolver almost on I the conductor's chest, fir?d. Well man dropped without nrvovlng an I Inch and Bethea, flourishing his re I volver, backed toward the tollot I room, entered and closed the i\r^r I "In the meantime the train had I reached Newark, Del. No stop was I made but a messajce was thrown off I asking tho railroad officials at Wll-I mingfaon, 12 miles distant, to have I police-men on hand to arrest Beth- I ea. None of us knew at this time I that either Williams or Conductor ! Wellman was dead. Before tho train I reached Wilmington the door was I barred from the outside and a has- I ty examination of both men showed that life was extinct. "So bitter was the feeling against I the desporate man among tho pas sengers that he could have been t?orn limb from limb had they been able to gain admittance to the toilet. "When Wilmington 'was reached a score of policemen and oitisenn were waiting on the station platform. The top of Bethea's head could be seen above the window blind as he was standing in the toilet. Captain Kane of the Wilmington police force was the first man to step on our train. He was followed by half a dosen other policemen. As thoy ap proached the toilet room Bethea threatened to murder the whol' bunch, if they attempted to enter the room. The officers withdrew from the car and held a consultation. ' TMs conference was Interrupted by several shotV from the toilet win dow. Bethea then drew back as the policemen returned the fire. "At this juncture a fire appartua appeared and a Strefcm- Was turned In the broken window. Bethea kept on firing, but we had all secured convenient posts and waited develop ments. / Tn a few minutes Bethea staggered from his arsefiAl. He was still firing his revwlver. As he start ed to leave the car an officer shot him In the face and a second later another shot shattered his arm. Still struggling to thrust his revolver from his Injured arm to the sound member, the man dropped dead. "In the toilet room we found near ly fifty empty cartridges, while the window was a full of holes ai a pep per bo*.'-. 1? 'V- ? There was no way of Identifying him hy baggage, as we could find none. It his pooket was a mem* orandnm book containing the name COOK'S SAD PLIGHT BKOKBN IN HEATH ANI) WITH OUT FUNDS OH F1UKNDS. Knows no One He Could Trust to go to Arctic Regions After Proofs if He Had the Money. Dr. William H. Axtell, of Belling ham, Wash., a personal friend of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the explor er, Wednesday received a letter from Mrs. Cook, dated Valparaiso, Chile, in which she says the explorer is broken in heaJth, without funds and unable to continue his fight to es tablish his claim that he discovered the North 'Pole. Dr. Axfol said: "Mrs. Cook tells' me in her letter that Cook made con siderable money out of his trip when h<e flrBt landed In New York, but that he Bpont It in defending himselft against the bitter attacks from his enemies before the Copenhagen de cision was made public. Cook left New York later to escape contumely, says Mrs. Cook, and to gx> before the l>oard of iqulry at Copenhagen ao bis own representative. Then Mrs. Cook sought him, met him In Eng land, found him a nervous wreck and very 111. "She writes that it was her fault that Cook did not appear publicly at the. time he was unfavorably report ed on. She Bays she took him to Holland, France. I tally and then to Spain, where they ombarkod for Buenos Aires. "Fnom Buenos Aires they wont around Cape Horn to Chile. Cook Is still very 111 and will be in no con dition to take up his light for the honors which he still Bays should been his." Dr. Axtell added that, according to the letter, the explorer and his fam ily will arrive quietly In New York and Bettle down for a quiet life "Mrs. Cook says," he continued, "that her husband has no funds with which to go to the Arctic regions after the proofs required by the University of Copenhagen, and that If he had the necessary cash, he kuows of no one he could truBt to lo the work for him." TWELVE (jIKIaS PERISH. In Factory Ft re Caused by Explosion of llcu/.ine. Twelve persons are reported dead lu a fire which attacked the J/Flsh Furniture company building at I'JO'J Wabash Avanue, Chicago Friday.. About 40 employes escapod. A girl who jumped from a third btory window died at a hospital. The dead were trapped, it 1b said on the fourth ttfty and sixth floors, when an ex plosion of benzine on the fourth tloor wrapped the building in flamuB. Ladders were raised to the sixth lloor, the topmost one, In a desper ate effort to resuce any person who' might be alive thore. The fire is said to have started from an explosion of benzine in the repair rooms on the fourth lloor, probably from a carelessly dropped match. Two cabinet makers who at work In the repair room were among those who escaped slight 1> burned. When a great shheet of flame shot across the floor they were knocked down, but although almost stiflcl they managed to crawl to the front stairway, whence they made their osoape to the street below. The fire, the said, was preceded by an explo sion which shook the building. QUITS KANSAS CITY. (jIIIIh of Recent Notoriety Kxlles Himself. Jero I<\ LIIIIb, president of the Western Exchange bank of Kitnsas City, who was arracked by John P. Cudahy throe weeks ago in Cudahy's l^onse, loft Wednesday on an in definite vacation, but his designation is not known by the public.. Order od by his physician to take a long rest. 1^1 II Is may go abroad before re turning to Kansas City. He has not resigned an president of th<> bank. A friend of Lillls was asked If the .mnker did not expect to meet Cud i by In the South, but this friend denied this was the purpose of Mr. IjiUls' trip. Cudahy recently waa In \8hevilie, N. C. litiniM Sell to IM'hMi. A fttKX'kl m k tragftdy ocoured at an oarly hour Friday morning In West vVaton o, Kernhaw CJounty, when Mrs. Satn Kirk land commit tod nul *.ld?. The unfortunate woman la re ported to have pourod koroBono oil on her head and ?et fire to It and wan burned bo badly that death soon resulted. 8li? la survived by h?r huftlmnd and five or bIx children. ? Arrc* of l)c?l Fifth. (!apt. Johnnon, of the Ward llnnr, Morro tJaatle, reported to app"TitH In Now York city, that hla v?hho1 has flighted an Im-metino quantity of (lend fl?h In Wont Indian water*. The mean wan half a mile long and 500 feet wide, covering a mifface of 8 0 acron. A auhtnarlno vofcano la nnp poirNl to have oeuno the wholonalo destruction. * of J. M. HobhoA, Dillon, B. C., iiRod 40 year*.' "There were half a doaon wound* on hi* body. 1(0 wftti ?hot in the Artn, fur* And nh6ttldeh "I never *ftw tuoh a eoene In my Ufa and -nevor want to aw? a rep etition of It. Tho w-om-on panftnn gera were Koreamlng And were *o hysterical that they even attempted to Jump from the train. Rvon af ter It wa* known that the murderer' *raa dead we had our hand* full In quieting some of the nvore nervoun ill the run from Wilmington to thin city." DIED IN FIRE Fourteen Persons Probably Perished in the Chicago Bum. DEATH TOLL FEARFUL Falling Walls Holt the Search for Bodies.? ? Grapic Description of i'v Horrible Bnrning of Men and Wo men In Fire Caused by Accidental Explosion of Benzine. Search of the wreckage for'TTe remaining bodies of those who lout their lives In the Fish Furniture Company flro horror at Chicago on riday was discontinued Friday af ternoon owing to the danger 'from the falling walla but not until twelve of the dead had be<*n recovered and eleven of those identified. While earlier estimates placed the number of victims trapped on tin fourth and fifth floors of the Fish! >ui Idling s high as twenty, later and more thorough Investigation indicates with considerable certainty that there were but sixteen. Two of thee.' escaped with their lives, which L aves >ut two more to be accounted for. Leo SU-ckel, a clerk of the Fish Company, who by accident is said to have started the fire, told his storv 0 Mr, Alt??K7 Frank Hogan FH day afternoon. Although Stoeckel mlttei8 bUt 20 y0nrB ?f ,s ad mitted more unfortunate than cul Attorn?y "ogan says that lie bring some charge against the young man to insure hid attendance at the inquest. iStoeckel was brought before the Are attorney with his hand, which had been burned, swarthed in ban nn?8!',,1!! soared heart-broken, and told his story with difficulty An5 P- m"" Stookol ?ald. a ? 18 a '"ember of he firm, gave me throe piece cigar lighters, and told me to go to the finishing room on the fourth floor and fill them with benzine. I had filled two of the lighters, consisting of a gallon can and was working on the third, when th-ere was an ex plosion. A sheet of flame almost blinded n?e, and I did not fully regain my senses until I had reached the street "?he lighters contained a contrivance in make a 8|>ark, but whether 1 ig niglvted one of thorn or not, I don't know. I either dropped the can of '"mzino v.-h.r r?. y, front of mip, or it was blown out of my hands." (Alexander Bush, a street car con ductor identified one of the bodies ? s- that of Kosle ttruncke, whom he was to have married on Easter Sun day. He recognized her through the medium of a number of trinkets, ln c uding an engagement ring he had given her. One of the victims lost his life in a desperate endeavor to rush upstairs to the aid of the women and girls Imprisoned above. IVn women and girls it |3 Bald were at work on the sixth floor when yie explosion occurred. The spread of the flames was almost, instantan eous, and when the girls rushed to the stairways they found escape cut off They next turned to the front of the building, smashing the win dow. Horrified spectators in the Rtreet saw Ennna Ltchenstein step to the window ledge and heard her scream for help. Then she jumped. I ailing on the awning OVer the front entrance to the store, she lay un conscious until Dr. Wan. L. Kins ley crawling out on the canopy, lift ed her up. She was taken at once to Bt. Lukes Hospital. on|y ? f(>w h ocks away, but died soon afterward. I>r. Kingley suffered slight burns. Mnma Llchtenstein was 20 years old and was employed as a filing clerk. Death was due to Internal in juries reot-lved in hor fall Soon after Miss Liechtenstein's des penite leap, a crash as if of floors Palling was heard, and the faces at the window disappeared. nr Klns ey graphically described his exper ience as follows: "I was nearby when the fire start ed, and when I reached the scene the a f,l,rly niy hair stand on end. The floors of the building were a uwihs of flames. Smoke in great clouds was rolling out of a ! windows f noticed 'something must ' dono- '?<e many others there was so stricken by the sight of faces half revealed in the sixth story windows that. I COllM scarcely n?ove. The girls were shouting 'for Ood s sake send us help,' and others were crying for the firemen to raise the ?j<W>r* I trIo(, t<) Rot ^ front stairway, but at the third floor a gust of flame burnt mo about the face and hands and the next thing 1 knew I was back In the street again. Then came the crle? of t h, poor girls trapped In the upper storv camo to my ears nnn i ?aw ono ()f (,m girls throw up her hands and plungo out of the window. "Hor lK,dy crushed against the eanopy over the front end of the store. Scarcely knowing what I did I ran up-stairs to the first floor,' crawled out on the window and then carried her down a ladder which a fireman had rained." Mmlo Hlrk Dull Drunk. Wishing to cure his prize bull of pneumonia* Philip Jones, of Green Oastle, Ind., gafe hnlf n pint of whiskey. The stuff munt have hfvrt of the fighting kind for tnurriR wont on a rsmpngo and enmo nesr killing hlR owner and hutting hl? own hrAlnn out before he got. off his "Rpree." ? ? m ?? "Rnfrttyft." According to the verdict of the coroner of MArlon, Ind., Boh AuRtin | nnd Charley Richardson, negroes, lynched there laRt week, "came to ' their death by aufolde." * MANY PARDONS GRANTED U Y THE PARDON BOARD DURING THE YEAR lOOO. Nearly Every Crime ftncl County Is Represented by Those Who Re ceived Pardons. An examination of the pardon re cord for the year 1909 shows that the following pardons were granted: I'sra Alman ? Spartanburg coun ty; crime, manslaughter; sentence, two years Imprisonment. Pardon granted August 2, 1909. Matthew Atkinson ? Darlington coo-uty; crime, drunhefmess and steal i n.p; sentence, thirty days on chain gang. Pordon granted Octo ber 2, 1 909. W ? It. Cade ? Williamsburg coun ty; crime, murder; sentence, life im prisonment. Pardon granted April 24, 1 909, upon recommendation of board of pardons. J. M. Cortox ? Aiken county; crime housebreaking; sentence, eighteen months In the penitentiary. Pardon granted March IS, 1909. 'Mike Durham ? Spartanburg coun ty; crime, receiving stolen goods; 1 'titence, line of $G0 or six months on chain gang. Pardon granted to restore to citizenship. Heniy i'owlor ? Spartanburg coun ty; crime manslaughter; sentence two years Imprisonment. Pardon granted October 1 9, 1 909. Ransom Gardner ? Lancaster coun ty; crime, receiving stolen goods; sontece, fine of $1,000 or two veais in the penitentiary. Pardon granted to use as witness April 2 4, 1 909. Joseph Green ? Orangeburg coun ty; crime, burglary and larceny; sen tence. iif(. in penitentiary. Pardon granted Dec. 1, 1 909. . Gus Jackson ? Fairfield county; crime, entering house with intent to kill; sentence, one y ar in the pen itentiary. Pardon granted to restore to citizenhip Feb. 17, 1 909. Abram Jeffords ? Lexinton coun ty; crime, burglary and larceny; sentence, life Imprisonment. Par don granted Jan. 6, 1909. Lark KIrby ? Greenville county; crime,, statutory burglary and lar ceny; sentence, impirsonment for life, but commuted to five years, Dec. 18, 19 07. Pardon granted to be used as witness May 6, 1909. John Martin ? Hampton county; crime mtird r; sentence, imprison ment for life. Pardon granted Ap ? 11 -4, 1 909, unou recommendation of board of pardons. John Priestijf^v -Oconee county; uiHur-iiauglnei ; sentence, lb years in the penitentiary. Pardon granted October 19, 1909, upon rec ommendation of board of pardons. Robert Robinson ? Greenwood county; "rime, petit larceny; sen tence. 3 0 days imprisonment. Par don granted to restore to citizenship Oct. 1 8, 1909. Shelly Robinson ? Orangeburg county; crime, housebreaking and larceny ; sentence, three months on chain gang. Pardon granted to re store to citizenship, August 1 0, 1909. Walter Samuels? Edgefield coun ty; crime, rape; acnetnee, ,llfo In th< penitentiary. Pardon granted Octo ber 19, 1909, upon recommendation ot the board of pardons. Llge Simpson ? Newberry county crime, receiving stolen goodtf; sen tence, pay a fine of $30. Pardon granted to restore to citizenship Decemlxjr 6, 1909. Robert Singletary ? Florence coun ty; crime, obtaining goods under false pretences, sentence . par don granted to restore to citizenship October 15, 1909. Samuel Smalls. George Simmons, ho mas Rivers? Charleston county; crlrm?, rape; sentence, lifo in the penitentiary. Pardon granted April 2 4, 1909, upon recommendation of board of pardons. H. N. Terry? Greenville county; crime, bastardy; sentence, three kin dred dollars fln-o to be paid twenty five dollars each year for twelve. Pardon granted October 1 9, 1 909. S. C. Timer ? Spartanburg county; crime, manslaughter; sentence three years Imprisonment. Pardon grant ed April 8, 1 909. Hlic Thompson ? Darnwell county; crime, housebreaking and larceny; sentence, 18 months on chain gang. Pardon granted to restore to citizen ship for witnessing July 1 r? , 1909. K. S. Vllloplgue ? Kershaw coun ty. crime, obtaining money undfr faHo pretences; Rontece, flno Impos ed by magistrate. Pardon granted to restore to citizenship March 17 1 909. ' William West moreland- Iy>xlng ton county; crime, adultery; aen tenoe, fine, which has been paid. Pardon granted to rostore to citizen ship. , MOItK OOll.N Plum Hevernl Hundred Dollars to be I >l? trlbutcd In Hoys (V>?itest. J. J. Roasor, superintendent of the agrlcut ural department of the Ap palachian Exposition to bo hold In Knoxvlllo, Tonn., Septombor 12 to October I 2, In In tho H?tnt.o, In tho In terest of the corn exhibit to bo nmdo at tho expowltlon. Several hundred dollars In cash prizes, scholarships In fourteen colleges nnd a number of f ?i i *r? I n pr Implements will bo Riven to tho boys of eight southern states. South Carolina nmong them, thnt j produces the boat ton earn of eorn. I Ho hopes that the momberg of the clubs will ontor tho contest. Tho boys clubs Will enter tho contest. Tho recelvo $100 as first prize, second best, will receive $75; tho third prlzo will h* $50; the fourth $25. anrl fifth, $12.50. Tho cash prizes havo boon offered by W. J. Oliver. I The merehnivts of Knoxvlllo have also offered prizes and fourteen col j U'ror In tho South havo offered J scholarships worth from $60 to $75. 1* THEY RAN HIM DOWN MAN WHO SWINDLED PEOPLE IN THIS STATE CAVtiHT At Oklahoma City, Okla., Were He Wiw Running a lligwr Swindle Tliun at tirecmvood. A special from Greenwood to The N W8 and Courier says Postofllce In s.'octor* Gregory, who went to Okla bonm to arrest \V. J. Nieholls, former president of the Metropilltan Loan a. id Trust Company, lu.s returned a'ter having performed his part of the business in locating the man, sting him and having the Feder v* authorities there "put next." Inspector Gregory's report of the trail and final capture of Nieholls, as well as the varied career of Nich oMs, himself, reals like a romance, When located in Oklahoma City, Nieholls, now going as "Mr. C. L. Jackson," was at the head of a con cern that was doinr about the big g^t business in that hustling com munity. He had an otlice like a railroad president, and Mr. Gregory said he h id seventeen stenographers, young mien and young women as busy as bees. His oncern was alread attract - ii g attention from I'ncle Sam's men, :? 11 cl Federal district attorney there told Mr. Gregory that as soon as th* tune was ripe he would have been nabbed. He was "selling the right to sell tho right to sell." a certain kind of stove, a sort of endless chain con tract business. No provision was made as to seeing how or where the stoves could bo secured but the rinht to sell the right was what Jackson was doing. It was the wash ing machine swindle attempted si this State some years ago with stoves substituted for washing machines. Mr. Gregory said when he csilled jii Nieholls lie had no little tronule in getting into his private office. W hen he finally reached it, he found his attorney there, and his private stenographer also present. He ask ed Nieholls or Jackson for a few w ?rds in private, and was told to go ahead as the other two were in a confidential relation. Mr. Gregory insisted, so these two Anally returned to an adjoining room and then Mr. Gregory addressed him a: Nieholls, and asked about Green wood. Jackson was quite indignant at the joke, and carriet his part out \\? ll, until* Mr. Gregory showed him his own photo, and he saw the Jig ' ? Tiri. Ho t rem hi In. ?; all over, Mr. inefcory said, although he still stout ly denied that his name was other than C. I*. Jackson. As mi indication of what a rushing business Nieholls was doing In selling the right to sell the right to Bell a stove that needed no right to Bell a hardware nran at Oklahoma City told Mr. Gregory that Nieholls had paid him ten thousand dol lars cash for a lot of stoves to be used by his demonstrators. People love to be swindled. GONK TO SEE TKDD1E. And Talk Over Tarty Troubles in the Party Hanks. It is said in Washington on the !><st of authority that both Garfield and Pinchot wrote letters to Roose velt at Khartum, telling him of the sa.l occurrences there under the lead ership of Taft. They told Roosevelt that if he wished it one of them either Garfield or Pinchot would meet him In Europe and give him further particulars. Roosevelt cabled to them to come. Garfield was to go, but owing to the Ohio government matter Pinchot went. Now what does It mean? ''All Washington" is speculating upon that question. <Back from Elba? Is that It? Mr. Tnft is now squarely allign ed with the so-called "reactionaries" of th? Republican party, those who have all along l>' en fighting the so called "Roosevelt policies"? the central idea of which, as we all un derstand, is to stay the threatening storm of wrath against the alliance of the Republican party with "pre datory wealth." The same man that mado these "policies" made also Mr. Taft. and promised the American people that Taft would carry them out. Now what Is he going to do when he gets back here? Echo answers "what. "? A VOTII KII I'WTAIj hiiootincj. Clinton Ithorion Shot to Oonth by \V. II. (?Irnn on HtVort* A fatal shooting took place at Patcsburg on Thursday when W. H Olotin, Htiperlntondont of tho olodrlc light plant, ahot Clinton Kliodon, to (loath, on one of the main at rot-is of tlio town. Tho weapon naod wan a pistol; four shots wero flrod, and each nhot took effect. Ono witness stat'd that Ithoden was unarmed. It Is stated that thoro had been had hlood between the men for some time. Much sympathy la expressed for all parties concerned, an each man hns a large family. The affair hits oast. gloom over tho town. Incendiary Sentenced. For having twice Rot flro to tone m-on f. houfKfl In Now York, wh?*r? dwelt a m<arrleid woman who roptiln od hi* advance*. Danlol Roo, convict ed of arnon In tho flrnt dogroo, mum norve twonty yearn and ono month In the penitentiary. Mo In twenty-eight yoarn old. Fifteen Drowned. Tho Norwegian ntoam^r, Dlxl^, hound from a Scotland port, capsized In tho month of the Elbe river, dur ing a nevero ntorm Thurnday and the crow of 15 wore drawned. AETNA ACTIVE Rivers of Red Hot Lava Rushing Madly Down the Mountain Side. ASHES BURIES HOUSES Of Peasants, Who Congregated at Nieholls to Watch the Sccne of the Kmption. ? They Are Terror Stricken and Implore Mercy. ? Desolation and Huin Faces Them. Mount Aetna, near Catania, Sicily, whose eruptions In the past have wrought great destruction, is again in a violent state of activity. A pronounced movement within the crater beginning early Wednesday evening, Increasing in volume, and Thursday night the gravest fears arc entertained as to the results if the eruption continues in its present vio lent form. Prom Catania correspondents inot- j orod in the direction of the moun tain. Passing the village of Map- J calucia. twelve miles in a direct line from tli" crater, a thick curtain of smoke was encountered, which on- , tirely concealed Aetna. At Nlcolosi, I ten miles from the crater, the entire1 population had gathered In tho square to watch the volcano, which appeared a as black phantom above. Now and then it was illuminated with Hashes of light, appearing al most red. Higher up -the rain of cinders became thicker and extended like a veil across the mountain. A deep roaring was heard and detona tions like the sound of artillery fol fowing one another in rps!c\ sik-.vss- i ion, while the earth shook under 1 foot. One of the guides cried: "An earthquake," and could hardly be In duced to continue. The hot cind-'rs covered the ground like a thick car pet, rendering walking cl ifllcult. A peasant was encountered coming down, lie said. "The fire is rushing down, burning everything. The lava is 'ike a red hot river." Proceeding a little further, four collossal columns of black smoke could* be observed. Occasionally they were cut by flashes of fire, pre senting an awe-inspiring spectacle. Then the wind opened the clouds for a m on1: 'lit , and a wide strip of fire uoliUi i>e M<ren In the distance, ad valu ing with monstrous contortions. It fell like a torrent from Mount Cap riolo, spreading out in the valley below. The lava flow had already reached ed the vineyards above San Leo and Ilinazzo seven miles from the crater, and had buried a large number of peasants houses. It came in several streams and united in one great miass al>out twenty feet in height and 1,500 feet a minute, varying accord ing to the condition of the ground. This mighty wall of lava was not more than five miles from Molosasso and N '?olosl The meteorological station, on the montaln side, has been destroyed, and tho village of Ilofrello is in serious danger. The populace, ter ror stricken, are flying from their homes. The earth shocks have reach ed alKjut fifty in number, but there Is a continuous vibration and tremb ling from many miles around. Every where the villagers are carrying im ages in procession and imploring mercy. Twelve new craters have been opened up. Help for the people of the devas tated region is being organized. A detatohment of soldiers and a large number of engine* rs and doctors have gone forward. The prefect <if Catania, returning from tho scene Thursday evening, said "I have witnessed a spectacle of desolation and ruin which only thos" who saw the eruption of Vesuvlous in lflOG can Imagine. Tho present eruption can bo compared to no other." ,Tho authorities have Issued or ders that no one shall I ?e permitted to go beyond Pelpasso and soldiers have been stationed at various points to see that these orders are obeyed, i The village of Merell Is surround" d by tho lava and the inhabitants have fled to Helpnsso. Prof. Ricco, director of Mount Aetna Observatory, said: "The erup tion is very grave, and I think It will become much more serious. The lava has covered five miles in six teen hours and If my calculations are rlghl the eruption of tho volcano will not bo short." LOOKS GOOD TO THEM | ltKCENT KIJCCTION UKTI HXS I'LKASKS DEMOCRATS. The Election in Massachusetts Tues day Turned Out Better Tluin the One in Missouri. Zach McGhee says the Democrats in Washington are jubilant over the | results of the by-elections in Mis souri and Massachusetts. The Mis souri district, the one formerly !<? I p reson tod by the lato David A. *>?. | Artnond, Is taken as a typical MUld.e Western district. | In it the Democratic candidate made large gains In the fleet: ;n in January. Now In Massachusetts, in the must hide-bound Republic ki d'F trict uf all New lCugland, one nevtv heretofore known to go Democ.rat ic. not even in the Clev land Ian ltd Id ?, has been changed from 14,o>>i Ue publican majority to 6,000 Democrat ic majority. In each of those district tile la" iff and the Hepublican ring r.ib? \ve;> tlie issius. Mr. Idody, the chairman of the Democratic congress" >na! committee, who went up thee* last week t niino back with the >i -.nioa that there would be Democratic gainK and declaring that if the M.u.mi He publican majority should be cut down to G.Ouo Republican tnajoftv the Democrats would be doing mighty well and should be highly sat'.ilied When the returns catno in Tues day night, with lll.noo nio'v Mem i cratic votes than Mr. Lloyd had counted on, there was jollification indeed and the li< publican w-jre awe stricken. The Uepubiicans do not p'-ejend to minimize the si ~ t1 iflca in e, but frankly admit that the ritual o.i is onuiinous of a Democratic tidal n November, unless It can be stayed. They generally stay tin be threatening tidal waves, you know; ami they may be able to stay thi* one; but they are wearing exceed ingly gloomy faces. The whole political situation gets more and more interesting every day. On Capital hill the Democrats are standing together in solid phal anx, and, contrary to the usual habit, are saying mighty little. The breach in the Republican ranks shows no signs of healing. Not even the threat of Democratic victory Been)B to frighten either faction into mnk ing overtures to the other. Tb.e Cannon or organlzat) n men in 15. i l""jo.' ? .itjuuffu , -H *". i true, and all the insurgents are sure of it thnt they have st rt c*thened their own individual position at home by finding a scape goat in Can non for the sins of their party. But these same Insurgents have little spirit in any further attacks upon their organization. The victory last week, so far as they are con cerned, is a sort of Borodino. They niiuy have captured Moscow by it but are so disabled as to be unable to hold it. And it looks as if they are going to let. Cannon dominate the rules committee after all. The regular Republicans, or the Cannon forces, are counting on Mr. Taft to help them out, if not In the house, then In the country, and Mr. Taft seems In truth to be doing all In his power to fulfill the expectation UCH.TS IIONDS AGS A J. \. Nevada legislature Is Anxious to Take Them I p. A special dispatch to the Ciiar lotto Observer from Rabign k ?i \ s (rovernor Kltehin received n tr-le graphic request from tho (Jo 'orj,.i )f Nevada asking for all poRvHi.t'e in formation regarding the repudiated North Carolina special tax bonds, some of which have been offered Nevada in order to indueo tha: iSlatn to sue North Carolina 'I Ik (Jovernor of Nevada says he decll icR to accept the bonds, but the Legis latnre is trying to force him to do so. Coventor Kitchln and Attorney Central Hlckitt sent him a mass fit information showing how fraudulent the bonds were. Simmons (iuilty Again. At Anderson Webb Simmons, n young mill operative, was found on Wednesday guilty of the murder of United States Deputy iVtcAdams and was recommended to tho mercy of tho court. Simmons killed McAdamt; in February, 1 90S, and was senten ced to hang Inst July. A new trial was granted on the ground that n member of the grand Jury had ex pressed his opinion on the killing. CAKE. hot biscuit. hot breads, pastry, are ' lessened In cost and Increased In quality and wholesomeness, by Baking Powder isaKe ine looa at home and save money and health FATAL WRECK An ay Chief of Staff Seriously Injured ia Auto Crash. MRS. SLOCUM IS KILLED A Trolley Car and an Automohil? Crash in Wanlilii^ton, by Which Mrs. Herbert J. Slocum Ixxit'H lior Life and (Jen. .J. F. Bell was Very Seriously Injured. Maj. (Jen . J. Franklin Bell, chief of stuff of the r ulted States army, who was Injured early Wednesday in Washington In an automobile ac cident, in which Mrs. Herbert J. Slo cum, wife of Maj. Slocum. U. S. A., was almost instantly killed, was re ported at a late hour that night to be resting comfortably. One of hli ribs was broken and he suffered some scalp wounds but no internal In juries have been discovered and no complications of any sort have set in. Maj. Slocum, who is a member of the Seventh Cavalry, now station ed at Governor's Island, N. Y.t ar rived in Washington Wednesday night. The accident was caused by a south bound trolb .v car of the Wis consin avenue car line, near Ten skirts of the city, colliding with an | automobile owned by Gen. Hell. The car was occupied by Mrs. H. J. Slo cum, ased 5U years. Mrs. 11. L. Green and Gen. lull. Mrs. Slocum, who received internal injuries, was re moved to Georgetown hospital in- an automobile, where she was pro nounced dead. Chauffeur Ward was unhurt, but was soon arrested, t igether with the motorman and conductor of the trol ley car. They were latter reloaued from custody, however, on order b from Coroner Nevltt, who Instructed them to appear at the inquest. Mrs. Slocum, whoso husband is a nephew of Mrs. Russell Sage, was visiting her sister. Mrs. H. L. Green, at the Wyoming, a department house in Washington, but Tuesday went to Fort Myer to visit Mr. and Mrs. PHI, with whom she and her husband v, ? : e on terms of intimate friendsh p it was on the way hack to the Wyoming that the fatal collision o' urred. The Tonnallytown rofj.i, officially * known as ttath 'Avenue, runs Htm, h?flSum Georgetown through the westernly ?jnvirons of the city, and Is a favorite route for automobiles. Crossing the Georgetown bridge from Fort Myer, the car turned forth Into Wisconsin avenue and was about to turn easterly along the northerly boundary of the _clty when, at Gar field, street the collision jtfccurrod. The fast moving VroTfey car, when the two came together, completely demolished the automobile. The automobile was hurled about five feet against a trolley pole, it finally turned over. General Dell was thrown out. Ward was pinned under the front of the car, but managed to extrlcato himself. Mrs. Slocum was crushed under the body of the car. Bleed ing about the hands and head. Gen llell directed the passengers on the .ar and others in lifting the auto mobile from the injured woman. Mrs. Slocum was then hurried to the hospital. HIOATING A ItlDK. Falls From .Moving Train ami Is Ground to el)ntli. While beating his way on a freight train Wednesday afternoon Charles liockabill of Lexington, N. C., bet ter known as "Clad", f ? 1 1 under the moving fra.in and was cut In two across the stomach, dying almost In stantly. The accident happened in the '?astern part of Tkomasville, a short listance above the c.llege. No particulars further are known of the killing. hrxkablll has a wife ind four small children. He was i brick mason by trade and wa<4 <; la ddered a good peacablo follow, ex cept at 1 1 lues he would get on a spree. SHOOTS DOWN Ol AltDH. Mortally Wounds Wardens at, C'Jty Work house. Af Wellington, Del., Stephen Hunter, a negro prisoner at the New castle workhouse, who recently came to Delaware from South Carolina shot and fatally wounded two guards Walter Hastings and Thomas McCul lough. The negro struck down Has tings as the latter handed him his breakfast through the cell door. He curing the guard's revolver be em ptied two shots into Hasllng's body and then dropped \fcCiillough, who had come to the rescue. The ne gro was himself wounded before be ing overcome. Ills mind Is believed to have become deranged. After Whit** HIuvch. The American consulate In Ant werp is engaged In an attempt, to trace two New York whito slave importers, who are believed to have shipped 90 women from Paris on outgoing steamers. British and con tinentml ports are being watched, and the American and Canadian author ities have been notified to scrutinize closely all Incoming passengers. * Founds (V>ker College. 'Maj. .f. [,. Cokor has given Coker College, a girls school founded by him some two years ago at Hart.n vllle. $ I .-,0,000. the Interest on which Is available at once. This benefactor had already given about $f>0,000 to this school before this This In sures for the Institution a succe?? ful career henceforth. ?