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VOL. XXVII. BARNWELL, S. C. THURSDAY JUNE 2, 1904. NO 35 GREENWOOD BURNED. Jtn. Annie Moieley of Central Hotel Burned to Death. PRpPEBTY LOSS IS VERY HEAVY. One Half of the Bnainem Hection or the ProareMive Little * City Goes up In Smoke. '“Hr- A special dispatch from Greenwood to The State says fully one-half of the business portion of that town was wiped out by life early Wednesday morning; The property loss will ap proximate $133,000, with about $70- 000 insurance. Mrs. Annie Moseley, proprietor of the Central hotel, lost her life in the fire. The fire originated. It is believed, in the kitchen of the Central hotel, located In the-huilding ownect byJ. & D. M. Spigel, and occuplng the entire second story. The first alarm was given at 3.15 a. no. by an engineer on a C. & Wv C. freight tr^in standing id the yard. The train crew was soon on the spot and the boarders were awakened by them. Mr. R. A; Aber- netby, who occupied the room next to the kitcherr. waSsalmQ&It^jvercome by smoke but wa^abld'to *wake Mrs. Moseley, who was sleeping in the room next above him. She was greatly ex cited and began screaming. was supposed that Btre worild st oncees- cape as all. the others weretlolng. The fire was eating its way into the build ing with fiendish rapidity and the smoke was already filling every rocm. D. M. Spigel. one of the owners of the building who has a room in the hotel, was., the last one to be aroused;* He escaped by malting his way to the front vetanda and jumping to the ground. Mrs. Moseley’s continued screams revealed her presence in the building, which was completely env» loped by flame, Tb* few present, taylng no ladder, were under the wind >w trying to get her to jump,. Just a few min utes before a ladder arrived her cries hushed and the red tongue of fiame filling her window told the horror stricken few that, her dea .h agony had oome.and wat oter. " KjdBTi'N^JHE KIKE The fire department was soon on the scene, the town team jm l the two teaap from the Grendel mil s and tbe Greenwood mills and under *.be direc tion of Chief A. S. 1% w.re ready with tbeir connections In a short time, A miserable, petty spout of water was all that they had to work with. It is the practice here In case of a fire to cut off the connection with the stand pipe and start the pumps at the power bouse. The engineer-at tlie power house was not aware of the fire and coaid not be telephoned, the wirea be ing burned. Mr. W. P. Dur.-t mount ed^ horse and rode two ml’es out to tbe power house and bad the pumps started. By this tine tbe Central hotel, stores and ware louse of J. & D, M. Spigel, Greenwood Hardware com pany, offices of Baker A Nichols, in surance, and Greenwood Loan and Guarant''e company, were completely droVrryed. The building just across the alley from the hotel, owned by ~ W. R; ttattey and occupied by S. C. Hodges, drugs, was at this time In great danger. Good work and the turn of the Dames in another direc tion saved it. Part o’ this stock was damaged in moving out but it is all in shape.Thursday morning. Tbe buil«L ing is damaged, as were tbe office fix tures of Dr. M. A. Ba ley, dentist and tbe telephone exchange in the second floor. **■' - • , ^Slowly but completely the flames AND *as seen that the big three-story Barksdale building was in danger. The third story window frames were biasing and the stairway also. A hose was run through the second story win dow of Dr. J. B. Hughey’s offloe to play on tbe stairway and a ladder en abled the fireman to get on tbe roof with another hose. At first it seemed that their work was entirely effective but while these men were on Die roof puffs of smoke suddely Issued from every window below them and showed that the building was burning beneath them. Tbelr escape was narrow. Mr. W. R. Parker, tbe last one to leave was rescued by a ladder held against tie wall by men in tbe second ‘Story. His coolness and presence of mind was remarkable. In this building were A. McD. Singleton, grocer; Auld Brothers, dry goods, and Mrs. A. S, Sproles, milllrery, on tbe first floor. On tbe fteoond floor were tbe offices of Dr. J B. Hughey, physician, stock room the Greenwood Telephone company Western Union Telegraph company and J. S. Cbipley & Go., cotton buy ers and insurance agents. The build ing was gutted in a little while and tbe three-story store owned by the estate of Joel S, Bailey came next. Tbe first floor was occupied by M. A. Lesser and H. Nichols, photographer. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols also made tbelr borne in this building. They saved a trunk and a camera let down~ : by a rope. The one-story brick building owned by Mrs. F. E. Greene and oc cupied by J. R. Hinton, grocer, went next. A row of five one-story brick stores gave the firemen a chance to check log they Held the flames at this spot. The stores were all more or less dam aged and the stocks in all of them J were damaged by water and by being removed. , FOR THREE HOUSE. ■ From 3. o’clock until 6 Thursday morning tbe fire demon had the tpwn -ftt-thta grip. — —^ *— \ By ti o'clock the fire was completely under' control. All danger was over. About 9 o’clock the searches found a small part of th? remains of Mrs. Moseley. Mrs. Mosely’s cnly daughter. Miss Lela, age about 16, was in Ander son visiting her brother, Roscoe, about 18, wbb is clerking there. Both will arrive Thursday as will other relatives from Anderson and Lowndesville. Her death has cast a deep gloom over __thfi_entire town. Man Eating Tiger. > A writer in Tbe Bombay Gazette describes tbe rare experience of seeing the charge, of a famous man eating tiger, which ended harmlessly. ‘‘A camel with a slipping load liad,’’ the writer says, “been halted not far from his lair, when with a ! wrouff’ (once heard never __to-.be forgotten) the tiger charged for Die man leading the camel. The -tiger, I have no doubt, would have carried of the camel man, but when he saw r * the long, and to him- unfamiliar, neck of a camel coming between him and his intended victim I daresay lie thought things were not quite as lie had cal culated. Anyway, he paused, casual ly surveyed the whole party and, with crops, tail erect, calmly walked back Into the jungle. The camel man was either__fO friglitened or "the whole thing from beginning to end had oc cupied so short a time .(less than a minute,. I should judge,) that he did not stir from the place where he was when the tiger Brst made fjts'attack." BATTLE FOR LIFE. The Plaret Kars la Said to Ee Short on Water IS SLOWLY r DRYIN3 UP. The People Up There UeveDug Huge Canals and Ditches for Con veying Water,to Their - Parched Fields. The following article, which is copy righted'by the New York American, is copied from that journal: A There has been a great to-do lately among some of tbe astronomt rs over the “canals” of M&ft. As a subject for speculation and dispute these mys- rious objects refuse as obstim; tely as Banquo’s ghost to be ptit down. Mr. Walter Maunder, tbe English observ er, Insists that instead of being con tinuous, independent lines they are qply rows of spots and edges of dark- shaded regions. But Mr. Fercival Lowell, at his Arizona observatory, stoutly defends his theory that ttae^ seem to be, unbroken lines, and be becomes every day more convinced that the inhabitants of Mars have not only produced them, but are at work, upon them at. the present time. He has lately discovered as he thinks, fresh efforts of the-Martians to keep small portions of their almost.driedup planet still green and productive. It seems to be a smuggle like tbat of the at Tort 1 Arthur., inspired by desperation and tbe grimmest neoes- slty. Cold, empty, unpltylng space VICTIMS OF THINGS. Mc- wrapped themselves around the build ing of the First National bank. The officers ofitbe bank, Mr. S. H- dbee, president, E. i cashier, ahd N. A. Crate aol K^nnei Baker, had previously entered the and 1 papers not in the time-lock tafe. The — money and securities were In the safe wifeb $r time-lock and could not be opened.J The vault was closed and is beli&ved' to be intact. By sunrise Thursday ..morn iog the bark issued --handbills announcing tbat they would * open for-business as usual at.9 o'clock Thursday morning. They are occupy ing part of the store usee by Miss Bertha Wadsley and A. L. Raelnhard, jeweler. Their prompt wo"!- is be ing greatly praised. Out of their adversity they have made a fine and lasting advertisement. .. 1 ; -- thsTbamk. duilding. in the bullcTing on the ground floor was the stock of J. W. Sproles stoves and tinware, which was completely de- . stroyed. Upstairs was a lot of furnl- . ture stored by R. F. McKelTar, Jr., and the office of Dr. B. W. Cobb, and a wareroam of the Greenwood Hard ware company. From this building to tbe deep cut of the seabord road, whlQh runs through town, the fire i, made h clean eweep. Nothing escaped 7fa this row. The stores of the New York bazaar, A, F. Hagan, D. J. Ra- borne, M. Switzer, Palmetto Grocery ooqapany, E. Borgerro, western Meat market and Lloyd’s restaurant. None of these owned their building*- Next came «f. I. Chipley*. owner of three — stores and stock of goods and machin ery, a row of wooden ^buildings owned by C. A.C. Waller^Ilvery stable In the - "rear owned by C. A. C. Waller and oo- ~ chpied by S. B. Marshall and S. Wlll- ** ' ingford and a frame dwelling owned by Mrs. Gibbs of Columbia. In front of tbla rOW of baroed buildings was tbe WaUer block, comprising six stores and about 20 feet aoroae tbe way. Tbe beat was so fierce tbat tbe plate glass was cracked and It was only by^hard were bandar t$ < * Caught With Bloodhound*. Mr. J. M. McAdams, who lives near Antreville in Abbeville county, suffer ed a severe loss by tire Thursday. Alrout 1 o’clock fire was discovered in one rof the outbuildings and two erbs, 200 bushels of corn, 4,000 bum dins of fodder, buggy and wagon, four or five, tons of bar, farming tools, ete.f- were destroyed. The loss Is $1,500 or $2,000 and It is not known here whether there wasjany insurance. wa* suspected at once tbat tbe fire wus of incendiary origin. Mr. Mc Adams phoned tbe circumstances to Deputy Sheriff Dilliflgbaml to come to tbe scene with two bloodhounds. By clever detective work he caught two negro men and a negro woman, They soon made a full confession, and were taken at once to Abbeville and placed behind the? bars. ^ v i. A Butt«r Country. ' Siberia", so long stretched before tbe imagination of the world as a^land of snow and desolation, that even now, wben the trans-Siberian railway has built, and wben the productiveness of tbat vast country UTbeginning to be understood, one is rather surprised to hear tbat more than $19,000,000 worth of butter is annually exported from Siberia. Its great plains afford gooiff grazing, and Within three years after the railway was opened 1,000 butter »manufactories were erected. Tbe government has now undertaken to furnlih free instructions on a large In dairying and butter making No Negroea Wanted. At Portsmouth, Ohio., Vifglnla negroes imported to fill, tbe places of striking employees at the Hanging Bock* Ohio, Iron Company -were fired upon Thursday night. The strikers stormed their camp bouses firing several hundred shots. The terror stricken negroes barricaded them selves in the main plant and the riotes withdrew without renewing the attack. There were no fatalities, hut another outbreak may occur at any time as authorities seem Indifferent to tbe situation. gwallowad False Teeth. At Auburn, N. Y., William Whee- ian, aged twenty-four, swallowed several false teeth while asleep Thurs day night and died Friday after a physician had removed the teeth from bis windpipe. surrounds tbe Merti&ns on .every side as relentlessly as the Japanese fleets and armies surround General Stoes- sel’s garrison. They have no-rains, springs or rivers to supply them w’itb moisture. Their only source of wa ter . supply., come from - the annual melting of the polar- snows. This water, says Mr. Lowell, they train off across tbe temperate zones of tbe planet Uirougb thousands of irrigation ditches.^ Since the general s ope of the planet’s surface is uphill from the poles toward the equator, these tire less engineers, battling for the life of a world, are compelled to pump tbe water up from level to level, and al though his telescope is unable to sbow tbe great locks that must exist in the canals in order to render such a sys tem practicable. Mr: Lowell Is confi dent, from tbe general appearance of things, tbat such locks and such a succession of levels exist. He even believes tbat he has detect ed evidence of organized co-operation among the inhabitant*ef neighboring districts on Mars, whereby the supply of water is husbanded and shared turn and turn about between two such dis tricts, one taking the water one sea son and the other the next searoq. This extraordinary conclusion is based on the alternate appearance and disappearance of adioining darl bands and expanses in certain local! les on the planet. Having utilized th water for < u-i season to grow and ripexAbeir the Inhabitants of a district may store up supplies suffle cot to carry them through, th6 next season, while their neighbors are in turn en joying the presence of the precious water in their irrigation ditches. Perhaps the_strongest argument employed, in support of Mr. Lowell’s theory is the fact which, it hL obser vations are oorrebt, seems indisput able—tbat tbe shaded bands supposed to represent vegetation only make othelr appearance after tbe mel Jng of tbe polar snows is well unde: way and as the melting proceeds ttr dark bands extend further and furthur across the temperate zones. Tbe strong element of Imag nation in this hypothesis does,not destroy Its Interest or serve to put It entirely out side the bounds of pofs’billty. Un doubtedly in tbe later stages of its evolution a world may dry up, and if such a world continues to be inb&b i ted after the desiccation of its surface has reached a serious j?oint, the .people upDn it can have no recourse but to fight for their lives against the doom of thirst and starvation. • Tlfie meffelposslblllty of such a thing going on before, our eyes In the sky is sufficientto bold the attention chain ed. What is a besieged city containing a few thousand soldiers to a death- beleaguered world crowded with mil lions of inhabitants aqxfously watch ing tbe slow, irresistible encroach meats of lifeless dtserts that spread all about the narrow tracts and oases where a little vegetation can yet Ije maintained? At the very worst such a speculation furnishes as good foed for theimagina- tldh as any hovel can dOrbut- it has in addition the attraction of being pos sibly true. With tbe moon all drier up and airless, though It has not always been. t!hus;,jffltb Mars almost in its death"throes; with Jupiter bursting with energies not yet concen trated into the forms of an anlmatfec world; and with the countless stars beyond, each perhaps possessing a no less variegated system of worlds re volving In its light—surely the uni verse around us can save us from ennui whenever we get a trifle weary of grinding our noses on this gritty little ball. 1 Three Women Aaeaulted New Yale la New Haven, Conn. New Haven, Conn., is greatly ex- cited over assaults committed on young women by unknown men. Tbe third attack on a woman Within a month, In tbe aristocratic- Prospect Hill section of the oity r ooourrad Thursday-night, when a short, young negro attacked and unidentified wo man on Trumbull street, at its Junc tion with Canal, knocked her down and was throttling her when two sis ters, the Misses Otis, who saw tbe attack, screamed so lou 1 tbat Detec tive-Sergeant Dunlop responded. The negro had by this time escaped, run ning along the canal i all road track □to the negro quarter which Is only quarter of a mile distant. Dunlop shouted to passers by to stop the thug, but be got away past a dozen person who stood near. • Detective Dunlop tried to get tbe woman’s story, but she refused to give her name. She said Ibat she was struck from behind, tbat tbe negro knocked her down aijd. she was about to hand him her pocketbook wben he was frightened away by the screams of the Otis sisters. While Detective ' )unlop was talking to the other young women the one who had been attacked fled, leaving her bat and coat In tbe possession oMhe detective.-" She said tbat she was unwilling to undergo the □otorfety which would follow giving her name. ^ A man hunt was organized prompt- y. Arith 150 tective force and 500 Yale students, and the entire vicinity was searched. At midnight no trace of the assailant of the woman had been found.. Ills description tallies almost exactly with that of the negro who attacked Au gusta |Patterson, who lives in tbe house ot» Professor Yandell Hender son, three weeks ago, and Emily, daughter of Professor Richard, last Thursday week. " RAILWAY ACCIDENT. THE BOLL WEEVIL. On Acconat of the the Ravages of the Little Pelt MEXICAN COTTON IS DOOMED. In a Passage of a Coal Mine In Penn, aylvanla. ' . ' ‘ * • i A telegram received at the Suaque- banna Coal company’s office, Wilkes- bam, Wednesday evening states that ten mlners 'vere suffocated by gas and sulphur fumes from a small locomo tive this afternoon in the wurkings of the Summit Branch Coal company at A TRAGIC INCIDENT Tbe Crop of that Country Can Never Cotlip-ite With that Gi-own In the United States, Haya Dr. L. O. Howard. Dr. L. O. Howard, obie entomolo gist of thi department of agriculture >hai returned from a tour of investi gation of the boll weevil ind yellow fe\er mosquito problems in Mexico. As a result of bis inves* igatlon he says it is possible for yello'v fever.epi demics to occur at higher elevations In Mexloo than so far has been the cat.e and that such epidemics will oc cur at the higher elevations if noth ing is done to them. Dr. Howard says, however, that the superior l>oard of health of Mexico is working ener getically and trying to Improve on the Havana methods. , Dr, Howard made a thorough study of tbe boll weevils situation jn Mexi co, but failed to find the boll weevil parasite. He discovered, however, that the bolL weevil has reached an elevation of 6,000 feet, which Is much higher than It was expected the pest would go. Owing to the climate, Mexico r ci»nnot' r adopt the remedial measures^which are use.d in thisrooun- try and on account of tbe great rav- agcs-ol tha .wefiYll 1>L. Howard ex-1 man w«rA hurled to the:Wllllana»ton presses the belief that Yexico could end of‘the tunnel Here help was at British Roads Have Few Accidents and American Roads Man)'.. ' The number of persons killed in train accidenta during the last three months of 1903 was 446, and of injur ed 3,178. Accidents of other kinds, including those sustained by employees while at work and by passengers in getting on or off of the cars, etc., jring the t/ tal number of casualties up to 14,485—1,166 killed and 13,319 □jured. There was a total of 147 passengers killed and 1,148 injured, all of whom, with tbe exception of fif teen injured, suffered in collisions or derailments. - The figures are dikrour- aging, indeed, and Comparing the re cord of theJJiree tpontlis in question with that of any other previous three months since the beginning'' of the bulletins, we find an increase of about 150 per cent over the highest previous figures. In order to get some basis of com parison,"we must refer to the figures given by the British board of trade, which exhibit.but twenty-five passen gers killed'during tlie whole year of 1903.' It will be remembered • that during" the year 1901 no passenger was killed in a collision or -derailment on the railways of Great Britain, and that in the year 1902 six passengers only were killed from this cause. ~In the great increase which took place in 1903, however, almost all of it was due to a collision of unusual sort at Glasgow, where seventeen passengers were 1 illed; and yet, with even such a tremendous proportionate increase, tlie British mortality for one year is but one-sixth of the mortality in this country for three months. r— Fire Near Augusta. The Augusta Chronicle says the large barn of Mr. C. A. Wylds, seven miles J rom the ^ity, on the Milledge- ville road, was destroyed by fire this murulug. along wltb tfae entire con tents, entailing a loss of about $2,500. Tbe origin of tbe fire is not known, although Mr. Wylds is confident that It was the work of an incendiary. Late Wednesday night when the family retired the barn was Intact aifci there was no evidence of fire. So far as could be learned there had been no'lire near the structure in several wqjlkSi, When awakened by the glare of the flames the ftre had completely swept the building and nothing could be savSfl,*not-even the live stock. Besides tbe building, two 2-horse wagons, two 1-horse wagons, a new mowing machine, two sets of new harness, six heads of horses and mules, a large quantity Of forage End farm implements were completely de stroyed. Mr. Wylds places his (total loss at $2,500. There was no Insurance either on tbe building or contents. A Sad Story. My Dear Max: My undying love for you from childhood causes me to do this. You promised to marry me If I would send you enough money to come to this country. Why you have failed to keep your promise is some thing that I cannot understand and so have decided to end It all. It Is a shame that I should die so young, but I must. I would like to see yoy. ^e- fore I die, but It is impossible fog mo to do so. 1 hope, however, to see'you in the other world, Oh! what will my parents say when they hear of this? Good bye forever, f Lena. The above note was found Thursday In tbe room of Lena Soffna, nineteen years old, who on the day previous bad hanged herself to the transom of her room, at the home of Charles Willlamstov n, Dauphin county. Tbe accident was one of the mist peculiar lb t he history of the anthra cite mines sad no reason for it can be assigned by tbe officials. Tbe victims include ^Michael Golden, general in side foreman of the company, and nine miners ind laborers. Tbe tunn* 1 in which the disaster occurred Is c ne mile In length and Is used by the coal company to convey the cal mlcers In tbe workings lo the Bear ptlley to tbe breaker in the Wil liams valley. About 4 o’clock Wednesday after noon Gen. Inside Foreman Golden and about 50 mlnenf boarded a loaded train which was about to be hauled from Bear Valley to Wllliamston. Everything went all right until about half tbe journey was made wben some of the men attracted tbe attention of tbe engineer who at once stopped, and it was found tbat nearly every man in the party on tbe cars bad been over come by the gas and sulphur which emanated from the stack' of the loco motive and floated back over them. The engineer at once crowded on all steam possible and the .unconscious CALLED OFF. Dun Will Bs No Gouty to Gouty Canvass This Yoar. THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. Hava came very, painful. A physician saw signs of tetanus and had Abe bride removed to a hospital. * uever compete with the United States. Dr. lloward also visited-L nils!aria and examined the precautions adopted in the effort to keep the weevil out of tbat state. Dr. J. H. Stubbs, direc tor of the Louisiana experiment sta tions says he feels confident that it can, be kept out fur _apme years, The Louisiana shore of the Sabineriver is the most langerous means of spread ing tbe pest into Louisiana from Texas. The rrst of the state boun dary is heavily timbered. and it is pa-, trolled.by men for whose service tbe state is reimbursed by the federal au thorities. Even the negro laborers who cross the boundary are rigidly In spected and in two places in the state where, the weevil appeared last year the crops are not being cultivated^st all this season. # Horror Turned to Laugh. , , John H. Stewar.t, of Fort Lee, N. J.. was hurrying along 130th street early Wednesday morning to catch the N6rth river ferry. As he came In view of the pier a whistle warned him that the boat was about to start. Mr. Stewart attempted to run, but was unable to make rapid progress. A runabout driven by two women overtook tim on its way to tbe ferry. As the horse swept by be turned sud denly and attempted to grasp the back of the seat to get a “lift.’’ In doiogso, l owever, he slipped, and be fore _ the lorrified occupants of tbe carriage cnijd puli back on the' reins tbe bind v'heels bad passed Over one of Mr. Stewart’s legs. r " Tbe wc men stopped, Jonjiped out and ran One of them U. ok off her llgh < tan coat and foldin { it with tremhdngABands as a pillow, offered it to thi prostrate mai. Th mother had gottin a little brandy flask from.her handbag and war; about to ratse tt to tht dtmty ttp# of tbe man, wben he rai>ed'on bis elbow and exclaimed: “Nevermind. Wbat are you try ing to do?’’ N T Tour leg,” replied one if them in a v/hlsper. The mab brushed the du it fronOjis hat contemptuously. Then he pushed up on one foot, with his Injured leg banging limp. “Leg!” he exclaimed, .‘That’s all the trouble. That’s why 1 missed the boat. It’s wood.” Muscular Italigiou. Two Mormon elders wer t ti Win- gale, six miles east of there last Frl- lay, says the Monroe En luirer, and beiore they left that vill ige ran up agunst Rev. j. W. Little, a Baptist minister who is well known through out this section for his unique way of going for those men and measures which are so obnoxious to him. Mr. Little and the elders engaged in con versation and the subject of polygamy, as practiced by the-'Mormons, was sprung. One of the elders said that he had no argument sgaiqt polygamy, but the mother of Christ practiced it. That assertion was too much for Mr. Little and we learn that he told the elder that he could say/what he pleased about Jimmy Little, but that be had gone toe far 4n slandering thaL wo man, and with that declaration he landed a fist on the elder’s mouth, and the elder, not being a man of war, turned to flee and as he did s> Mr. Little kicked him, and also kicked the other elder, and threw a valise which one had left them, and told tihem never to come to , Wingate again. Neither of the elders showed fight* ?■ ' once summoned and the men were taken to tbe surface, where 0 corps of physicians made, every possible effort to resuscitate them, but aid came too late for Foreman Golden and tbe other victims. THE WEATHER FOE JURE. CongreMional | Meeting* Will to Be Jbtflfilent to ffatlsQr Be- qulrementof the Primary • ' $ Hyatem This Year. e Democratic executive oommlt- et Thursday night in the office e secretary of State. There wae a attendance, only a few (ft the □embers being abeent* Senator Tillman, as national com mitteeman, was present, but be took no part in the prooeedings nor had anything to say in regard to tbe many Into ralsed-jM to party rules. The committee was called to meet especially to select nominees for presi dential. electors, but various other questions came up and were discussed, the result being that nothing was done which changes tbe party rules: In this connection, however, tbe committee put itself on record as favoring the abolition of the county to county can vass In any case where candidates for State offices have no oppo*ition. The Idea that meetings might be held In each congressional district Seemed to be favorably considered, thought It was quite evident that the committee What the Conditions May Bo aa Indl- , cated by the Past. The following data, covering a pe riod of thirty-three years, have been compiled from tbe weather bureau records at Charleston and are Issued to sbow tbe conditions tbat ’lave pre vailed during the month of June for the above period of years, but must not be construed as a forecast of tbe weather conditions for the coming) gygt^m. month: 7 Mean or normal temperature 79 de gress. Toe warmest month was tbat of 1871, with an average of 83flegrees. Tbe coldest month wss tbat of 1884, with an average of 76 degrees. Tbe highest temperature was 100 degrees on June 14, 1880. The lowest temper ature was 51 degrees, on June!, 1889. Tbe earliest date on which first “kill ing” frost occurred in autumn. No vember 9, T886. Average date on which first “killing’* frost occurred in autu in, November 30, Average date on w ilch last “killing” frost occurred in sp ing, Mircb 1. The latest date on w tich last “killing” frost occurred in sp Ing.' A irll 2, 1881. - Average" precipitation for the moot i, 5.43 Inches. Average num ber cf days with .04 of an inch or more, 11. The greatest monthly pre- cipitition wls 1?.50 Inches In 1890. Toe last mmtbly precipitation was 1.20 inches in 1892. The greatest amauuL.of. jrselp!tation recorded In i iT ....K.. rg _ Th4 any twenty four consecutive hours’^" ^ was 4.91 incites on June 12, 1876. Average number of clear days, 7; partly clourJy days, 16; cloudy days, 7. The prev.illlng winds have been from the siuthwest, 3b per cent. The averagi hourly velocity of tbe wind is 10.5. The highest velocity of the wind wai 54 miles from tbe east on June 16, 1893: had no Idea bfsugR&tttig tu abolition - of the primary. Mr. J. G. Richards of Kenhaw brought up tbe question and moved that a canvass bv the candidates be not made compulsory, as It Is accord ing to the rules. He said that such a canvass waa expensive to caodidato* as well as t<, the people, and he didn’t see why the people should be afflicted unless they wanted to be. This idea met with general approval and when It was announoed It was received with general laughter. Finally tbe committee adopted Mr. Richard's suggestion. This means U>st it is the opinion of the committee that a county to ounty canvass should be abandoned In cases where candidates have ho opposition and that meetings In congressional districts will satisfy all the requirements of tbe primary The opinion wss exprsastd, but no change in the rulee of the party was made. . It was decided that tbe campaign should begin on June 21st. A? onot m it tee was appointed to make out tbe Itinerary, and that committee will meet here one week hence. When it came to the nominatloo of tbe presidential electors the following nominations were made for electors at large: T. J^Cunningham of Chester, George Johnstone of Newberry, D. 8. Henderson of Aiken. On the first bal lot Mr. Cunningham was sleeted and there was s tie between the other two candtdatee. Mr. Henderson’s name was withdrawn and tbe election of Mr. Johnstone was made unanimous. Tbe following electors were named from the congressional distriote: M. P. Howell of Colleton, B. W. Crouch cf Saluda, H. H. Watkins of Ander son, W. T. Jeter of Union, W. M. Shannon of Camden, Olln Sawyer, of Georgetown, A. W. Summers of Or- Death from Pin Scratch. , » i «- The pin scratch that Mrs, Catherine Carroll received while adjusting her bridal veil caused her death fiom lock jaw at the Newark City Hospital Thursday, Just three days after her wedding. The bride-to-be, while readjusting her veil, attempting to fasten it with a long pin. Her band slipped and the pin scratched her palm. Two days later tbe wound be-J_Dryer, at No. 814 Washington street, Hoboken, addrmmd to Max Maamai- cal, of No. 222 Madison street. The body was removed to Volk's morgue. Blown Into Atom*. • With terrific detonation the boilers of tow boat Fred Wilson exploded at 3.20 Thursday morning at Louisville, Ky., killing twelve or fifteen men and Seriously injuring ten others and com pletely wrecking tbe boat. Tbe crew bad just finished making a tow of coal, which was to be taken South this morning and was preparing tie up to the bank when the explqK slon occurred. It dame without warning and so great was the pressure and so large tbe boiler that tbe steam er was battered to small bits while the crew were blown ’ Into the air, some falling Into the river, and others landing on tbe embankment, others were oaught In the wreckage and In stantly killed* Slay -r Deflea Captors. A special from Carthage, Tenn., says that on ; man is dead and another supposed to be dead aa a result.of ef forts to capture a murderer. It is re ported Dial 4d Vadenand Dan White had a difficulty on account of trespass ing a cow on the growing crops of White. White bold his son to hr a gun and erripbfed its contents into Vaden as he walked away. Vaden died instantly. Sheriff Scruggs, with a posse, went to the scene ind found White and his son securely barricaded in their house. They refused to sur render, and the officers “guarded the place aU night. ° Four of the posse charges the houre Wednesday mom ing to force an entrance, but fire from the Winchesters compelled them to retreat, leaving one of their number behind, supposed to be dead. White defies his captors and says~tttatrhe won t be taken alive. A Big Fire. Yazoo City, Miss., is under martial law as a result of Wednesday’s con flagration. Several negro^i who were caught in an attempt to steal salvage, bave been arrested. Two military companies patrol tbe burned district. Tbe loss Is variously estimated at be tween $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. In. suranee will probably approximate fifty^her oent of the loss. The devasta tion of the business district Is com plete. Twenty-eight, blocks were swept clean by the flames. Of the 200 buildings destroyed, fifty were splendid residences, many of old colonial architecture and occupied by some of thA^wealthiest citizens of the south. ‘ -V ~ The Klka.Oraanlaa. A South Carolina A»ociatioa of Elks was formed Thursday morning In tbe club room in Columbia, there be ing a large attendance of the members c f the order from the brother state lidges. It was decided at the meet ing to simply form a preliminary or- i anlzatlon here which after being sub til tted to tbe various lodges, will be lermanenUy organized at a raseting bs held in Charlestofe on June ». to Temporary officers were elected as fol- 1 iwsi E. Br Clark, of Columbia, prrsl-: - r ent; Dr. C. Bunting Colston, of Char iest 007 first vioe president; Dr J. M» Oliver, of Orangeburg, second vloe president; P. T. Hayne, of Greenville, [ third vice President; W. D. MoGut- chen, of Sumter, secretary; Elliott Estes, Jr., of Spartanburg, treasurer; W". L. Davis, of Georgetown, mashal, and Dr. P. D. Brnoker of Columbia, doorkeeper. All of tbe lodges were rep resented, these being Columbia, Char leston, Orangeburg, Sumter, Green-.; ville, Spartanburg and Georgetown. Killed Herself. A. special to the Augusta, Ga., Chronicle says Mrs. Stephen Jones committed suicide Tuesday afternoon at her home three miles in the coun try by shooting herself through tbe head with a pistol. Her husband bad come to Jackson to bring their two little daughters to take music Ismoos and while they were away the deed was committed. It wss caused from Insanity, Mrt. Jones’ mother now be ing In tbe asylum. She leaves a hus band and four children. * Policeman Is Killed. Knoxville, Tenn., while trying to arrest some men charged With illicit distilling of whiskey, Policeman John Webb, of Johnson City, was shot twice in tbe stomach by “Book” Keys, a notorious character. Keys fled and a reward of $200 has been offered for his arrest. Webb cannot lire. * He Was a An extraordinary affair Is reported from Zurich. The police, on examin ing tbe room of an old man who had died from starvation found a veritable gold mine. In every nook money,' notes and bonds were discovered, and on an Inventory being made It wag found that the miser had left nearly 1200,000: Nobody wss ever seen to visit the old man, and as there was no will toe authorities are greatly piiTylari as to how to dlapnaa nt fortune. , Barned la A special from S«_ 7l that Dr. 1 R. G. Llghtte, a sidan of that place, to death In his ham, which stroyed by the explosion at a ■ M