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TRAIN WRECKED. TIm Dnquei e Pwt Flyer la Wrecked J and Sixt.-three I OUTRIGHT. The Horrible Accident Occurred Six Milee from Pittsburg, The Train Wee Bonnd ^ lor New York. • Withy* terrible crash and a grind ing noise, the DQquesne limited, the fast through' passenger train from ' Pittsburg to New York on the Balti more and Ohio railroad, ploughed in to a pile of lumber at Laurel Bun, two miles west of Dawson^.Pa., at 7/45 o’clock Wednesday evening, and *it is estimated that 63 lives were lost and 30 persons were injured. The train left Pittsburg this evening, run ning a few minutes late, in charge of \Kngioeer Wm. Thornley ,of Connells- lle. When approaching Laurel Run, which is a particularly fine piece of roadbed, tbe train was running at a high rMe of speed. Suddenly tbe passengers were thrown from their seats by tbe lightning-like application of tbe airbrakes and a moment later there was a temfflo crash. The train was made up of two bag gage cais, two day coaches, one sleep er and cne dining car xnd was carry-, ing at t ie time, at tbb lowest esti- • mate, 150 passengers. The train ploughed along for a considerable dU- tance and the cars were torn £ > pieces, passengers jumping, screaming,\fall- ing from the wreck as it tore albog. Suddenly the engine swerved to the left and the coaches plunged down over the epb&nkment to the, edge of tbe Yougbiogheny river. The'mlo- ute the cars stopped rolling there was a wild scene. Many persons were pin- ioned^beneath tbe wreckage and the screams and cries that rent the air were beyond description. Many were injured in their mad excitement and plunged into tbe river. Others, caught beneath the heavy timbers, pleaded in agonized tones for relief. So terrific was the force of the wreck that nearly every passenger suffered a moment’s unconsciousness and many of the able bodied men were unable to assist In helping tbe injured from the wreck on aocount of log off his coat and setting firs to it He stopped tbe train Justin time to gr^vent It from plunging into the wreck and adding further horror an already indesorible disaster. Bsum collapsed when he saw be had suoceded in stopping the train and when the engine stopped he was lying within a few feet of it. An "operator at “V” tower on tbe Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad across the Yough- , logbeny river, was the first to send - JWord of the accident and to send for relief. He wsji watching the Duquesne limited as it was speeding along the B. and O. tracks across the river. He saw the cars pile high in the air and then sink back on the tracks. The screams of the injured and dying were plainly heard and in another second be was sending word to tbe railroad officials at Dawson and Connellsville. For more than 500 feet both the e&t and westbound tracks are torn up. The engine was entirely demolish ed and the big 7,000 gallon tender was thrown 100 feet ahead of the wreck. Tbe baggage car was thrown into the river but was but slightly wrecked. All the cars were derailed, and all the trucks except the diner were torn from under tbe coaches. As soon as tbe wreck was reported in Connells ville all tbe available physicians were summoned, including Baltimore and Ohio railroad physicians. suit, lorbb’s first statement. 7 The official statement of Superin tendent W. C. Loree, follows: .. "No. 12 was derailed by running into some switch timbers, derailing the engine and an cars. All tbe oars are badly damaged. Do not think any of tbe equipment, will be able to go away from the accident on theli own wheels, except possibly tbe Pull man cars and tbe dinner. Tbe en gine lies across both tracks. The ' baggage oar is over tbe bank. The first coach is partly over the bank. The balance of tbe train is badly twisted. 1 judge 35 people were killed. All tbe people killed were in the smoker. Escaping steam from the engine went into tbe first coach, scalding tbe people. Very few of tbe .other pissengers were Injured. In- JuretfHave been taken from wreck and are lying on tbe bank. Engineer and fireman cannot be found.” THE DEAD. Engineer Wm. Tboroly of Hazel- ton, Pa.; Division Engineer S. G. Heater of Hazelton, Pa.; Fireman Thomas Cook of Hazel ton, Pa.; Her bert Holmes of Emmelton, Pa.; Jesse Hines, Tarborfl, N. C., tbe Union News company’s agent on the train; Charles Ltndford of Confluence, Pa.: SDUCAT1)HAL CAMPAIGN. Interesting Compilation by Superin tendent Martin.- pamphlet styled The Educational Campaign In South Carolina. Copies of tbe compilations, which contains 27 pages, have been received by trusties of the various country schools In the Stgte. Tbe matter of improving the public school system has been agi- tate^Vdiscussed in meetLngs.and has held tbe attention of educators for some tim^.especially since tbe con ference held jn the senate chamber on April 11, itt which every kind of scbogl in tbe State was represented. Those who have the opportunity of attending conferences and enjoying tbe privilege of hearing discussions along the line of work have acquired an Idea, at least, of the plan and pur poses of the campaign for an Improve ment in the public school system. But there yet remains a class Condition in Lowor Richland. LANDLORDS DOING THUB PANT They Given Money ProvUlona for Month* and and Are Now Urglj to Bel Irgipg-Ot Iq^Them. Others To the Editor of The State: - It has frequently occured to me to make known to the public tbe destitu tion and suffering of tbe negroes, in tbe section that was devastated by the unprecedented hailstorm of June 1, and their imperative nted for help. Not only was the growing crop de stroyed, the one planted subsequently almost destroyed by floods of rain, biit tbe oa^ crop, which would have kept tbeir animals alive, was also destroy ed by a fly. Unless one bad witnessed this destruction it could not be con ceived. r Whole plantations that on June 1 were beautiful with well culti vated crops, were In an hour made as bare of growth as tbe public roads. Tbe helplessness of tbe negroes was pitiable. All tbeir labor waaJn vain. Wbat were they to do? They bad no food for animals. No seed for replant ing a crop—thought it was too late, to try to make another. But tbe _ , ^ ^ _ patient, hopeful negro, with encour- Superintendent ^f Education O. B. agement from white friends, decided Martin has ju'it irsued an Interesting ‘to make tbe trial, and with a fortitude Edwards, Pittsburg, wife in.Cumber- laud; J. W. Marti a, Hancock, Md.; Richard Duckett, Baltimore, Md.; Edsou Goldsmith, Connellsville, Pa. < Tbe other 53 dead are mostly foreigners and negroes who were rid ing in tbe smoking car. Tbe work of tbeir identification has not yet begun. Tbe killed, most of them, were for eigners wbo were in tbe smoker, just back of tbe baggage car. They were literally roasted to death, the baggage and smoker telescoping the engine And immediately catching fire. Their bodies are lying, many of them, burn ed to a crisp to the baggage room of the B.~& O. depot to be removed later to tbe different undertaking shops in the. eity. The entire population has turned out eu mass to assist lu caring for . tbe living and disposibg of the dead. A peculiar feature of tbe ac cident s tbe fact that hot a woman was injtred, except slightly. Tbe v/reck was caused by the break ing of (astings on a carlod of bright timbers on a westbound freight train which bad passed Laurel Bun not - more than 15 minutes before the 111- Tbe wreck ob-’ fated passenger train, curred cn a curve aud it was impossi ble for Engineer Thornly to see far enough ahead to detect the obstruc tion on the track. The big Atlantic type engine plunged into tbe timbers at a velocity of 60 mile an hour. The engine ploughed into the embankment and t8e baggage apd express cars were thrown into the lYoughlogbeny river. Tbe -smoker followed the engine and landed squarely on top of It. Tbit allowed the egoaping steam and hot water from the engine to fill tbe oar. The smoker was packed to its utmoet capacity and all tbe paseen- geia were cooked alive. Not a single passenger in this car escaped with his life and it is expected that at laast 40 of the dead were in the smoker. Baggemaster Baum of Basel wood, who was on the wrecked train, proved himself a hero. With his hpodrand body frightfully cut, b%-AB4pfMd to crawl from the ing bis way along in tbs westbound passenger train No. He had nothing with which to flag the train except matobea and Umm hi i hse of it his desperation by tafc various meetings or have not had advantages of becoming acquainted with tbe subject through tbe medium of tbe daily press. It is this class es pecially that Mr. Martin hopes to reach in.circulating tbe brochure. There appears a striking table giv en below, which deals in a compara tive style with features of the pro posed work:' Tbe length of our school term is 88 4-10 days per annum; the average lu the United States is 145. The av erage salary of teachers is per month in South Carolina, S31.25; in the United States 448; salary per annum in South^ Carolina, 1138.12; in the United States, $388. Average cost of education per capita for enrolled pu pils in South Carolina; 43.05; in the United States, 420.29. The statis tics also show that 35 9-10 per cent, of the entire population and 13 of every 100 whites over 10 years of age are classed as illiterate. - Almost Beheaded HU Victim. A special dispatch from Beaufort says John Major’s throat was cut from ear to ear at an early hour Thursday morning in a field of the Pope planta tion on Ladies Island by another ne gro named Armstrong. The two ne groes were walking in the direction of Armstrong's bouse near by. The de ceased was also stabbed in the calf of the leg. The head was almost sever ed, only being held on by tbe spinal column. On the discovery of the mur der. Qeputy Sheriff Mann wAs sent for, and after rapid search captured Armstrong, and placed him In jaiL Deputy Mahh was assisted in the seared by a constable of magistrate White. When captured Armstrong bad on Major's hat and blood spots wefe almost on his overcoat. Corooer R. R. Sims held an inquest. The ver dict of the jury was that Major met his ((path by being struck with some instrument in the hands 6f Arm strong. No previous grudge is known to have existed between tbe men.— Three Men Killed. - . * ' Seven boilers in the power house of the St. Louis Transit company explod ed Tuesday, killing three employes, injuring six and wrecking the build- ing.—Tbe explosion broke window panes several Mocks away. The brick walls of tbe boiler bouse were thrown outward and. the heavy truss roof, dropped directly over tbe debris, im prisoning twenty employes. All the electric ligbts went out and darkness prevented prompt work in rescuing tbe injured, whose cries could be plainly beard. Fire broke out lu one portion of tbe debris, but was ex tinguished before It gained much headway.^, _ ’ --"a; - . r Want to Fight. A dispatch from Bogota, Oolombia, says "patriotic meetings are being held there every evening at which eooUngenU of men and sums of money art offered to government. Even tbe women demand to be enlist ed for the-purpose of going to Panama to subdue tbe separatists. The gov ernment only awaits ' news from General Reyes, and if that news Is to the effect that nothing can be ao- oompliahed by diplomatic means, then the authorities will c toward the troops \ ) Isthmus. -Thegov r ermoent and people hope that tbe wealthy United States congran will avoid a conflict, and they rely.upon the fair- American t Of the. and courage truly sublime, toiled on, and those who did tbeir duty faith fully with, tbeir work saw in the fall a grepn, well boiled prospect of a fairly good Crop “If frost did not come too soon.” Alas! Oct. 28 brought the dreaded frost. Tne crop was most, materially injured, the bolls so barden- ea that picking when opened was a tedious labor, done with bloody fingers. Where the prospect with many was from six to eight aud ten bales, it dwindled down to 1, 1-2 and 100 pounds—affiSost nothing. This picking still goes on In this severe weather, and will far Unto the New Year. Besides all these troubles Chills and fever took possession of tbe whole country. Often every member of a family was sick at tbe same time, not one able to watt on the other. Chil dren tiere sometimes sent a half mile take water to the sick. Medicine Is hjgb and they could not afford to buy R. But when sent <for tbe kind doctorwould go or send mediclne. IIis own drug\bill. never to be paid for by those be helned, is very high. Fodder could not bexpulled and perished on tbe stalks. These people Are In great want, want of corn and bapon, want of help to work anotber year. Those who rented land jo them tRve lost tbeir Income and can do noth!for them. This brief notice tells buVJittle of tbeir need; tbeir.nervousanxity about tbe future. They may be said to have uotbing. A man said to me in View of bis destitution, "Freedom w; given to us with nothing Util our bands—we have them yet—we will struggle on.” Citizens! these people are our friends, work fpr us, take care of us. They are children of the Confederacy. Help them. Set them up again. Open your hearts for the needy, the destitute. Here they are at your own doors. , J, Without help they must scatter, leaving many a bare field now in tbe coming year to grow only grass and weeds. , I go among them daily. I see tbeir poverty. They thank God they have good bouses for shelter and plenty of wood for fire. Mrs. Jas. P. Adams. ^ Congaree, S. 0., Dec. 21, 1903. - Killed Each Other. At Tampa, Fla., J. Fernandez and E. ^Velasquez met Wednesday in a saloon and shotjacb other. Velasquez is dying and Fernandez cannot recov er. Bad blood bad existed since Sat urday night, when Fernandez called Velasquez a thief. Since then they had two encounters, but were operat ed. When they met Wednesday morn ing Fernandez shot Velasquez in the band, stomach and left lung. After being Shot Velasquez sprang to Fer nandez, placed tbe pistol against his right breast, Fernandez falling with bis !clothing on fire. Fernandez rose and rushed at Velasquez with a kniie, but spectators prevented him from us ing it.. / „ Love Powder*. One of the Iowa Indians, according ^ ^ to a Oklahoma paper, is making a S£r~b^"tWoTr t 1, i7 powders. Little, peculiar shells found in the creeks, and the root of a cer tain kind of morning glories, furnish tbe sole Ingredients of tbe love com- pdlllng powder. Tbe shells and roots are dried and ground to powder; then, after making a sort of pastes of tbe mfrture, tnrioveslck swain or 1 squaw smears it over his or her face; then tbe love powder painted person goes clSIarte’tbe one whose affection is to be captured. It is claimed that tbe besmeared person is always victorious Rich Men ftor Office. Mayor Edward F. Brush of Mount Vernon, N. Y., is appointing some of the wealthiest and most prominent men in the dty of offices under his Mr. Brush is a "reform” control. Mayor. Dr. Oampbeli, the richest lo cal physicians, has been chosen for bead of the health board, and Edson conttue to send [Lewis, a rich clothier, is police horn- mUstooer. It Is expected that these tbeir'salaries to their clerks or to char}ties, but they will give close at tention to the duties of the offices. COLUMBIAN A Good Mao Ran Over and Killed by " a ■ V .c ' ' Push Oar. A dispatch from Irmo to Tbe State says one of tbe most shocking and tragic events that the community of upper Lexington Fork ever experienc ed is the recent accident that befell Mr. Tullius W. Summer, who for many years has been engaged as superintendent of the trestle and bridge force of the Southern railway. Mr. Sujmmer’s residence is about one mile from Peak, and he had just plac ed the cars used by the hands on the sidetrack Saturday with a view of making his headquarters at Peak during the next few weeks In order that he might spend as much time as possible with , bis family and aged father, Mr. James Andrew Summer. He, with his brother aud some five hands, had been working about Pomaria or Hope Station on Saturday. While on- their way home Saturday afternoon the men were traveling dir a long lever car. Upon this car they bad some heavy tools, weighing per haps more'than 1,000 pounds. Unfor tunately Mr. Tullius W. Summer ac cidently felhin' if root of the running ■ lever car. He was fearfully mangled by the heavily loaded car, bis chest epecially being torp by tbe cogs under neath the lever oar. For a while his companion thought that he was dead, but in a short time he Yegained con sciousness. He was placed on the"Bar and carried to Peak, a distance of two miles, where' he wa§. made as comfort able as possible at the home or bis sister, Mrs Ploma Wesslnger. Every attention was given that was possible by tboee who hastened to minister to his sufferings. He lingered until Sun day morning about 10 o’clock. Thus passed away from the busy world one of the most useful and greatly respected citizens of that sec tion, He was 42 years old. He mar ried Miss Minnie Ada Bickley just 13 years ago In tbe vicinity of Cbapin. He leaves an aged father a devoted wife, six children, three brothers, four sisters and' many other relatives and hosts of friends to mourn his sud- dejj departure. > t— A Strange Fatality. At Morristown, N. J., tbe last of the Port Morris Turners met his death on the railroad Thursday morn ing, at very nearly tbe same spot where bis fathfer was killed ten years ago and at tbe same place where his grandfather had been killed ten years previous to that. Tb$ young man’s name was Samuel Turner. He was twenty-one years old and had been married only a month. He was walk ing up the tracks early In tbe morn ing when his foot caught in the frog or a switch. He tried to free himself,'’ but cOuld make no one bear, however, and so started to cut tbe shoe off bis fo<>t. While dping that he was run down, by the milk train. His father and grandfather were both killed In exactly tbe same way, and tbe young man bad often said that be expected to meet tbe same fate, as it seemed to run in tee family. It was his custom to go to work early in the morning then return to bregjcfast. Shortly | number- of r being married lie said to bis wife one day: “If I do not return prompt ly 8ome\day you will know that I have caught my foot in tbe frog.” Dissass and Tropic Hsat Would Aid Gnaarilla Warfare. COLOMBIA Tell* of the Condition* of that Country Which la Caualng •o Much Agitatlou These Day*. Tbe Col|imbla State says Mr. M. Polgreen, now proprietor of the Ward One furniture store In Columbia, but who is a native of the Barbadoes and wbo has spent several years in Cuba and tbe Philippines and who worked two years as a laborer on the Panama canal under, the qpw defunct French company,Rays that in case of war be tween this country and Colombia Uncle Sam’s soldierS will come in con tact with unsanitary and generally sickly conditions in the enemy’s coun try that will make the fiver and dis ease laden swamps and river sections killed Himself. At Philadelphia, Pa., Charles D. Fenstemacber, aged 48 years, who was convicted in the United States district court of using the mails to defraud, committed suicide by bang ing himself with a towel in a cell in the county prison, When arrested Fenstemacber was employed as a bookkeeper"for a firm of commission merchants. Postal Inspector Holden says bis criminal record extends ore a period of thirty years. His -plan was to mall letters to farmers in various sections of the country through which he secured large con signments of produce. This he sold but failed to make adequate financial returns to tbe farmers. During bis trial witnesses from North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and New York state testified that they had been victimized by Fenstemacber. He was committed to tbe county prison pending tbe re sult of an appeal for tbe a new trial. - - - ? A Mywteriouft Death. A dispatch from Greenville says Garvin Handy a boy about sixteen years old wbo was employed in Mills mill, was found dead by bis brother Wednesday morniqg at 11 o’clock In a body of woods beyond tbe mill. Handy left borne the day before and on bis failure to return that night bis parents tycame uneasy as to his whereabouts and Wednesday moral a bright and intelligent boy and had a number of friends in the community. Another Cotton Prat. James Brown Potter, of New Yorl^ wbo Is on his way borne from Mexico, Nbere he bas a large cotton planta tion, says a new cotton pest has ap peared in that country and has caused much damage to cotton during the past season. It is a bug which seems to have its native home In mosquito trees. Mr. Potter advises Texas farm ers to take prompt measures to pre vent tbe new pest from reaching the cotton growing districts of thla State. Killed by a Rocket Ntlck. A dispatch from Newberry to The State says in the midst of tbe Christ mas merry-making there Thursday night Sam Agnew, a negro about 16 years of age, was struck by a missile j' u ^j from a skyrocket and killed almost instantly. The accident occurred on Atal. was st&o.d; [days' ing on tbe sidewalk. The oocurrenoe ^ouk practically put a stop to the shooting -om- of fire works. of Cuba and tbe Pnlllppinies look.like blooming health resorts. He ‘also speaks of tbe fine opportunity for al most endless guerrilla Warfare the marshes and mountain fastnesses and other topographical conditions afford the natives In tbe Colombian country. Mr. Polgreen has lived 15 years In this country, but before coming here he spent three yq$rs in Cuba and some time in the Philippines. ^He worked under the French company In 1885 and 1886, at Bohlo, Tavernilla, Gor* goria, Emparador, Culebra, Laboca, and lived two months in Panama city. He says that the canal company’s hospital, which was maintained on a high mountain plateau rear the city of Panama, was really little mbreliban a stopping place for the oompanv’s. employe patients on Ahetr-way to the compafoy cemetery nearby, where the victims, according to the numbers on tbe little wooden cross placed at tbe head of each grave, numiiered thous ands even in the short time be was there. He was himself in the hospital six times from fever but pwing to W» swarthy temperament wai able to sur vive. The Chagres fever (which de rives its name from theC lagres river, with which the engineers had so much trouble on account of its wind ing across the path of the canal so many times) resembles our Georgetown hemorrhagic fever, is contracted with as little apparent provocation and is as quickly and evetrmore surely fate}.- But yellow fever Is always also epi demic, though be did not remember bearing much about small-pox, al though tl?at disease prevailed to an extent and was of a virulent type. A remarkable case, which was spoken of all over the country at tbe time, was that of an Italian who survived three attacks of yellow fever, the last case reaching the black vomit stage. Yellow fever and ChagrtaJever and small-pox and all the other diseases and complaints were treated in tbe same wards, which explained tbe great fatalities.' Some of the laborers who bung about thFdiggings were lazy and trilling, tbe climate re quiring scarcely any clothes and of no variety, there, being no seasons, and there being plenty of fruit which grew wild. These men when they feel ill were not allowed in tbe hospital and when they died they were carried on a board outside the diggings and dumped in a bole without ceremony and without regret. - Most of tbe natives live In tbe cities and towns and farming is of the most desultory klud, aJialf acre patch being Reared around a cabin here and there \nd these places being several miles apart. The natives aie a lazy, trifling wbo work for a tew days at a only when they are hard up for a little cash. Most of tbe cultivation e best of it was done by tbe Jamatca\negro laborers on tbe canal who seemed to stand the climate best. Florid peoplVare the most susceptible to tbe fever abd die quicker, the at tacks following Exposure in tbe ter rible sun after being wet. And nearly every day sees both th^e weather con ditions. Mr. Polgreen’s experience with the revolver and machete cirrying hot- blooded natives might furnish,an in teresting sidelight stud/ to soRe of the South Carolina members of legislature who have been so ragula ly falling to solve tbe "pistol-toting’* habit. Every male native carries a machete and a revolver, both buckled about bis waist where they can be plainly seen. - / * “Yes,” said Mr. Polgreen, "those natives are hot-blooded, just as other densely ignorant and very sensitive and quick to resent an Insult, but 1 never witnessed or heard of any fa talities, resulting from personal diffi culties.' Everybody being armed there is little opportunity to do tb bully stunt. There Is practically no law, but neither is there much chance of shooting a man down; without dan ger of getting seriously hurt in the process, although those lieastly Span iards are as treacherous as Indians.” Jury that Condemned Him a Merry Christmas. With a verdict that sends Frank H. Burness, a self-confessed murderer, to the electric chair, a Jury before Judge Crane Tuesday afternoon ended one of the most sensational murder trials beard in Brooklyffor months. Burness’ fourth murder was committed / on November 10, last, when he sbotCapt George B. Townsend, of the schooner Charles K. Buckiy, because tbe latter would not pay him 46.30, the prisoner alleged to be due him. This and other killings were calmly described by Burness on the witness stand, and the murderer Insisted that be did tbe deed with premodftotion with a full realization of tbe consequence^^- The Jury brought In a verdict of murder in the first degree.- Burness smiird broadly when the jury was polled. Judge Crane said he would sentence Burness on Monday, and be asked the judge if he would be per mitted to say something. On being glvenlhe privilege, he said: "There may be an Idea in the minds sf some of tbe jurors that I hold a' grudge against them for having found me guilty. I wish to say that I do not feel'that way in the slightest, and (laughingly) all I can Say is 1 wish them all a merry Christmas.” Burness, whb is about forty-four years of age, according to his own. statement, was born ip Butler, Pa.,~ When asked what he thought would be the result of bis act. he coolly re- plledi 1 1 ' 1 1 "I only see one way out of It.” "What Is that?” , "Why, the chair, of lie said. "~~ Hqw * Colored Brother Wm Snowed . TT ^ a, v !■ HfTfUm. , . ' - - There was a mayoralty election in Boston tbe other day and tbe Demo crats carried the city, re-electing Mayor Collins by a large majority. That showed good Judgement on the part of Boston voters, but It was not tbe significant features of the election. Anciong the oondidates on the Repub lican ticket was one Isaac Allen, col ored who was nominated for street commissioner. He, with tbe rest of his party, was defeated, and tbe*’same result would have followed had be been a white man, no doubt, but tbe main feature of tbe election, so far as he was concerned, was tbe fact that he rah 13,000 votes behind his ticket. No Democrat voted for him, of course, so we have 13,000 white Republicans scratching tbe name of a negro oandi- Nearljr Four Thousand Mllesof Traek •i Added. U Will Be More Than That Laid During the Next Year. The Manufacturers’ Record, of Bal timore, has made a careful review of railroad construction in tbe Southern States, Missouri, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, covering the entire year of 1903 and showing that'3.707,4 mUesbf line were built since. January last and that at least 4,171.4 miles of line will be built in those States and territories during 1904. Tbe oon> structlon by States Is as follows: course REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY. Florida ..... 73.05 Georgia 113.85 Indian Territory. 514.75 Kentucky 116.35 Louisiana..^ 406.10 Maryland 10.50 Mississippi f~. 187.50 Missouri., ... 243.70 _ North Carolina. .. ItSrlS' Oklahoma'^.... . -'lw.00 South Carolina , , 30.00 Tennessee........ 185.20 Texas .. .;. 406.20 Virginia .tt. r.T.7 63.67 West Virginia .. 268.10 the same sort of men who Insist that tbe negro ought to have bis "rigbta;” who denounce the South for passing election laws which disfranchise him, and who applaud and support Roose velt in foisting inoompetent negro officials on Southern communities against the protest of business and all other interests which govern and con trol them. —— Something of tbe same sort occur red in a New Jersey election held some time previous to the Boston elec tion, and it will be the case whenever blind theorists or self-seeking politi- elans attempt to Ignore a God im planted sentiment. Boston, bowever, Is tbe hot bed of such hypocrisy, and this exhibition on the part of tbe Re publican voters makes that hypocrisy more disghstingthan ever.—Columbia Record. States and Territories. Alabama.,. Arkansas.. Miles built in 1903. . 163.38 216.36 Miles to be bnilt in 1904. 192.55 277.60 248.00 235.00 92.12 283.30 85.00 315.00 205.50 244JHL 305.00 30.00 114:31 993.50 121.28 422.80 Total 3,707.80 4,171.44 Commenting upon these flghrss, the Manufacturers’ Record says: "Tbls estimate does not include any new corporations which have not yet begun construction, although some of them are preparing to break ground for their lines, contracts having been let. It also include* very little elec tric railway, only about 75 rntte bC' ing considered for'*1903 and lees than 200 milee proposed for 1904. This electric mileage Is all designed to per form service similar to that done by steam roads. - "This review has been prepared only after a painstaking canvaM was made of an tbe railroad companies in that part of the country which It coven, the figures fora large majority of all the lines being obtained by tbs Manufacturers’ Record directly from tbeir engineering departments. Other data collected by this paper dating. date on tbeir own ticket. These are the year has been employed to oom- S . Raised the Price. The Republicans are threatening to change tbe place of meeting of tbe national convention from Chicago to anotber city. No sooner had that city been chosen than tbe enterprising hotel proprietors began to run up their rates sky high. The Auditor- hotel, which is to tie healquar- crushed, ten, will charge 420 a day and will make no reservation for less than five It other hotels and hoarding bouses charge lu tbe same proportion of “oar’* delegates will have to strike lor higher prices. Hentenced. Two Russians named Gnetscbin ^od Marosjeik, wbo have been on trial charged with murder as tbe authors of tbe massacre of Jews at Klschlnoff last spring, were sentenced Tuesday to Seven and five years servitude re spectively. Twenty-two persons ebarg ed with being involved in tbe massacre were given 2 yean each. One person was sentenced to six month imprison ment and 12 were acquitted, while 40 civil actions broughtr against the ac- f^ e n* for^Wf TStnff cused were dismissed. The costs of - the prosecutions must be paid by tbe con victed persons. Hanna the Man. A group of Congressmen were talk ing Presidential politics In a commit tee room when one of the members said: ’ "Here Is Hanna ready to enter upon a new six year term March 4, 1805, but be will never begin that term. You remember Garfield, anoth er Ohio man, bad been elected to A similar term, Init Instead of being sworn in as Senator be took tbe oath as president. Mark,tne, 'history will re peat iteelf.” But Hanna JsJor Roose velt,” 1^8 suggested. "Yes, and Garfield was for Sherman,” said ^be er significantly. ^ -Driven, to Crime. At Chicago Saloon Keeper Jas. Vliek, who a few weeks ago, choked his wife to death, strangled himself in his cell at tbe county jail Tuesday with a handkerchief tightly knotted about hijrthroat. The man has been acting Irrationlly since his arrest bat physicians reported that ba was sham ming. It is now believed that Insan ity was not feigned, but that Yliek took the life of bis wife and his own after being driven slowly crazy by tbe woman’s alleged drinking spelis. Head Severed from Body, J. B. Batchmao, flagman for tbe Seaboard Air Line, Columbia, at tbe Gervass street crossing w4& run over by a an engine Tuesday and Instant ly killed. His bead #as completely levered from tbe body and both legs It appears that he left his post a few minutes before the accident and walked down the track as If to cross the street A negro who was riding on the rear of the engine saw Batohman's danger and cried out iaau effort to wura him, but was too Into fartYirglnla pete and perfect these statistics. It must be noted that although ooMltf- arable second track has been bollt by some companies, it is not Included in tbls review, which repreaents new lines constructed, v ‘The largess' amount of line by any of the States and Territories under review during 1903 was In Okla homa, 596 miles being constructed, but Texas leads tbe list for new con struction projected for 1904 with a total of 993.5 milee. Indian Territory follows Oklahoma with 514.75 ofltnebuHt coring 1903. Next comes Louisiana with 406.10 miles; then Texas with 606.20, these two States being so close in amount of new mile age constructed that it is difficult to tell exactly which is tbe leader. Next, comes West Virginia with 268.1 mltas of line, Missouri 243.7 miles; Arkan sas 216.35 miles; Mississippi 175.5 miles; Tennessee 185.2 mile; Alabama 162.38 miles, eto, Am n nass la 1902 Maryland built the smallest amount of line and her total for 1903 was only 10.5 miles. * ; "Tbe amount of oonstroctioi planned for next y**r T ftnd'whiA it seems probable will 1m If Rulk'' heavy. As noted above, Texas has projected within her borders 993.5 miles. She Is far In the lead of her sister commonwealths, the second In with 422.8 mileaZ Mississippi with 315 miles; Oklahoma 305 miles; Louisiana 283.3 miles; Georgia 248 miles; Arkansas 277,6 miles; North Carolina 244.6 miles; North Carolina 244.5 miles; Indian Territory 235 miles; MiMouri 206,5 miles and Alabama 192.65 miles. Tbe- only State not projecting any, line for next yeaf Is Florida, although It Is probably that some of the^exteifltfoos proposed, as well as new corporations, will be represented by partial oonstroo* Won.” Hurrah for Chester. A ~ dispatch from Chester says "educational campaign” so prevalent through the State for the last year, together with the increase of school population In this growing town have made necessary the building of another school house for the accommodation of the crowds of children attending the Chester graded school. For that purpose the contract was recently given out to ML Joel R. StmriB for the sum of about 98,000; tbe total ex penditure for fitting up tbe building will be about 89,000. The board of trustees had a meeting a few ago to fix upon the location, new building will heacected on Foot street, a new street, recently laid off. Help* tbe Pero* crate. - The Columbia State says thorn like to dwell upon Ooincideneao recall to mind that Republican 1 tary of the Treasury Bristow Grant’s administration i frauds in connection with 1 ment, and had much, to do' cratte success in 1876. master General Bristow < administration baa 'r- Tan >, , m in exposing Acs department. ft ... A. . r. A'