The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, July 20, 1911, Image 1
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VOL.XXXIV
BARNWELL. S. (J.. THURSDAY. JULY ‘20.1911
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WHAT HE SAYS
Swearinger Dies Nil Meet Cinparisns
Made by the Board
PEOPLE MUST DECIDE
Claims That he Was 1 uni red by Oth
er Members of the Board, by Not
Havinj' Chance to K v press His
Opinion When Adoption of the
Books Were Made.
VOTE BAILEY DOWN
GOAT HELD BY HORNS
THE SENATE KILLS HIS FREE IN A FENCE BEFORE HE WAS RE
LIST AMENDMENT.
LEASED FROM IT.
Train Crew on the Augusta Southern
Railroad Stopped tire Train ami
Loosed Him.
RAGING FLAMES! REAl ST0RY T0LD
i--
WENT DOWN BANK
Hiadreds if People Boroed !• Death in
the Pircnpioe District.
mWFCTED AtVOINT OF FIRE LADY CUE ST AND OWNER ARE
SWEPT DISTRICT.
Heyburn Says the Republican Party
Is on Its Death Bed Because Of its
Divided Itanks.
Senator Hailey’s fno/fist amend
ment to the Canadian recirocity bilr
was defeated in the.Senate late Wed- are telling quite a funny but pathet-
day by a large majority. So evident! ie little story about a goat who butted
was the margin against it that Mr. into a fence and stayed until the
Hailey did ndt ask for a roll call, crew of No. 4 4 caine to his assistance
Pursuing the policy of forcing the ! Col. Henry S. Jones, of Hephizs'
opponents'of reciprocity to proceed ; bah, while returning home from his
without delay, Senator Penrose urg. office in Aumsta Thursday afternoon, !
ed Sehator Hailey to introduce his^noticed a goat patiently standing by
wool tarig amendment a tonce. The a wire fence on Mr. W. W. Hack s
latter did so. ( place at DeHruce, a small station jus!
“Semi-Democrats" "borrowed beyond the old Richmond Factory
Democrats" and like terms were ap-j pond, and remembered that he had
[died to ttie Republican Senators sup-j seen it there for the third day stand-!
j>orting the bill, by Senator Hey-j ing sentinel-like with its eyes stead-
THREE TOWNS BURNED
Two Cilies Wife Wiped Out by t
Flumes and Many Were DroKneil
INSTANTLY KILLED.
The Augusta Herald says the trav- Entl . e<1 Safety h,
e.ers on th > Augusta Southern road ami tm tint!, w
to Avoid Awful Death.
The Dig Touring Car Turned Over
t ,
When Hie Rood
l iuler R.
Shafts Perish in Flam<*s. Streets
ies and Dead Carcasses of Animal
that Perished.
A special dispatch from Henderson
ville. N. C..-to the CiiimublA Record
says:
in an automobile accident Wednes-
tuirn, of Id»ho, in a si>eech against, fastiy fi^d upon the Augusta South-
aeks which are only a few feet
don all efforts to gtaln his freedom.
time conies'to buy new books.
"I hay* 1 not counted the words in
the primer or in any other book, but
the /hew btsil r< ader contain 1Ti9
pages and sells f r cents. The
pfew basal fifth reader contains IDfS
pa,ires and sells for if.', merits. The
diffrence is interesting..
“Of tlie old tiasal first reader, 1 if 1 ,-
Omi rnidf's were sold from Tfmti to
1 !* 1 1, and tills hook has tieen dis- 1
placed. Twelve tli'usand copies of
the physical g. ngraphies were sold,
and this book lias been retained. As
far as the titles on the list tire eon-
cerned these two books are equal.
b. J'ftow .can we educate thej^^pf 4 TJie jioor goat .s.t.t3i?d 1} JJc.the one tL^ a -. 0l i L '’ ia0 ’ U . U0 "
ilican princi-: for three days and nights, lonely and ' ,om Uorcupipe give vagQ6 eta(6-
State Superintendent of Education
Swearingen returned to Columbia
Tuesday night from Hock Hill, where
he had gone Friday to attend the
Conference of County Superinteo-
of Education, He declared that/'he
had no intention or desire to prolong
ttie controversey regarding the text
book adoptions made by/the State! (he measure. He declared that when j ern track
board of education. / a vote on the bill is taken, all r«*«j away.
"If the people of rmuth Carolina Republicans in the Senate will be op-! He looked carefully and saw that
are willing to te lieve/* lie s.iid, "that posed to it. wtien the "Semi-Demo- the goat had fastened himself in thv
they ctni now e\ch;yrige old text books C rats" will vote for it, along with the, wire fence and had seemed to aban
for newVnes at afi additional cost of fee-simple Democrats,
only^ 2-:'. cents'per child each-year, i T ‘
they w ill undeecivef* when the | tp e p ar ty back to Republican
pies," asked Senato rNelson, of Min
nesota. ^
"Who is the leader of the Repub
lican party?" asked Heyburn.
Senator Dailey declared that the
Republicans were in a state of muti
ny and did not know their leader.
Mr. Heyburn declared that the rec
iprocity bill came-to Congress wrap
ped in the flag of a pirate.
"H.-re's the bill: now you pass it
w it limit any change," said Mr. Hey
burn.
He declared that he opposed all
amendments to ttie bill as well as
\ —the bill itself, because
hut as ns fur us the pupils and Pa- mrIlt isii slllilUor ofr tho Republican
flag staff of protective i>oli. y."
"That can’t be," interacted Semi-
tor Clapp; “the flag staff has tieen
broken and the flag pulled down."
"1-11 bet you 7,000.000 Republican
votes that is not true," said Hey
burn. He added that he believed
'hat the Repuhlimns would ultimate
ly copie together again on protective
principles. /
Asked by Senator Bailev how/he
Eugene A. Thomson, business man
ho Wednesday night
brought a party of refugees to De
troit from the burned towns of Au
Strewn With Charred Human Rod- c'ablo and Oscoda furnished the first day night about two o’clock, two peo-
connected story which bias come from pie were killed when the powerful
Hie fire swepr district. j Rambler machine of Mr? H. W. Det-
' The i'ort serious fire on the out-jtis went over an embankment on the
skirts oF the town was discovered Asheville road, wrout two niile« from
Sunday and a crew fought it until it Hendersonville.
was ybiider control," lie said. Monday! The dead are: Miss Lemie How-
no/hing was dmie and on Tuesday. 1 man, of Sumter, S. C , daughter of
ded liy high winds, it iiurst out Mr P. (i. Howman and Mr. H. \V.
ag-iin with great fury. j Rettis of Trenton. S. C., who was
"Tiie first alarm in Osceodu came ■ drhvln^ the oar.
in at :i o’clork from a private house.! There were eight people in the car,
President Cowley and myself pro-;t fl kl n K a ride while returning from
A Toronto Canada, dispatch says
the loss of life in Porcupine distrb t,
from Wednesday's fire is known to tie
several hundred ,-111(1 the property
loss will reach several millions of
dollars. Only three of th“ eigli
four empoyeee of the West Dhine
Mine have been accounted f<>r and
200 miners, muckers, etc., in/the var
STARTJ0-F1GBT
rkirty-TWee lilM ia Pkck4 Battk ii
SlrwU if PaeUa.
mmm
ions other mines are niissf
cured pails from the Loud Company’s, Lake View Hotel after a dance Miss
office to fight the llames that had
Among the dead are libbert Y oiss, s .p 1 . t ,, u j to (j,,, ('atliolic cemetery. The
rn a nigger of the West Dome, and liis Iie xt alarm came in from Au Sable
township slali piles. Just aiiout the
time the host was working well we
wife and child. The West Dome Mim
Company, of Philadelphia, sustained
cared for by no one. He was almost! statements of the loss of life and
dead of starvation. ! property. The property loss will
Col. Jones, taking pity on the goat, probablyFtqtial millions,
asked Mr. M. S. Hridgers, chie.f train 1
Mabel Howman and Miss Lemie Bow
man with Mr. B. W. Bettis occupied
the front seat. Those in the back
seat were: Mrs . P. G. Bowman,
Miss Mary Pitts, Mr W. Jlammond,
Newman, Miss.^AaaaUe Heius^tflxlflea
So mb lo«s of life is also report'd
dispatcher of the Augusta Southern, * f r0I V'Porcupine and Eldorado,
who w as on the train Thursday af- 1 At West Dome and Big Dome, the en-
ternoon with him, to have the next Crapped miners, cut off from escape,
train stopped and some of the tralp! "ere forced to take to the shafts for
men get off and relieve the animal i safety, and penned in by flames, per-
from its serious and uncomfortable
condition. /
This Mr. Hridgers did. Xlo noti
fied pasenger train No. Incoming to
Augusta Thursday night to
the Richmond
stop near
ished. This was notably true at
Dome and west Dome mines*
The streets of South Porcupine are
strewn with dead persons, horses,
dotgp, and cattle. Along the mine
everv am. nd- 1 r!l ° unfortunate yoaj' was being held
and to have some bf the crew get off
trqns of the State are concerned.,
there is a difference of nearly 1 1 to
1. oi* .more than l.uuo per cent II-
luStrattons mi ht be ihultiplied in
definitely:. for readers, arithmetics,
and g-ogrtipliies form the most id-
jwirtnnt par\of a text book adoption,
and these thhp" series show that 7'’.
per cent of ttie mere titles even were
thrown out
"If the members had made up
their minds as to t\o ties! and most
d- sira'-le books, I am\it a loss to un
derstand why thov w erV^ unw illing to
point out the poor books now in use
aor
ife
aniniul loose. The
was saved bv the
Fact orb x^ud where! roads are the charred bodies of those
overcome trying to escape . Of the
staff of three hundred at tho Dome
but a few were saved, and at ttie
West Dome but three out of s| < m-
ployees are km ivn to lie aiiie.
Early Wednesday the miners saw
dense clouds of smoke to the south
west, where the fires were ragin:.
Rbal Tragedy <'aught on Film of They gave small toed It was not
and let the poo
billy goat's Ij
crew of No. 14.
MADE HIS LAST LEAP.
/
Moving Pictures.
■ /
would classify the insurgents/ Mr.
Hevburn said thev were "tiavericks"
” ’ /
waitint to tie branded.
"If they can 1-e rounded up in tlm
White House lot. I kno\y / they will be
branded." said Mr. Haflev.
Senator Heyburn ch.iracterized
some of the progressives as "pro-
It ts riaino-d tha' ample iRmliminarv
discusst 'n of Text i-noks was iiad in
pie K'oks had tieen made T^iis ad
mission is hi.lilv cratifying to me.
because tlm absence of su< h discus
sion and (otnparison -it the board
meet i c. c s bsl me to sut'pose and hop\
for tiiis condition Timv, therefore
seem to admit the fact tiiat th" real
discussion of text U oks was had ine
.leromt' Hotel I do not presume to
set my opinion a. '.inst the pinion of
se\eti distinguished educators, but
being tiie secre'arv of the board and
member directly re-potisibie to the
people. 1 tho'ieh! 'here simuld t>e a
frank, full ami op- ti discussion in the
nieet'n -v; bf the '-oard its. if.
Tils a ii mission prmc.s that the (’tiargis 1 With Fsing (tie Mails
A roil tragedy was recorded on
the film of a moving picture machine
at New York late Wednesday. As
Albert Hreytnn. actor and expert
swimmer and diver, louped from a
boat in a btateu Island pond, tlm
machine was set in motion, its lens
focused on the bubbling surface of
'in' pond where he had disappeared,
to pirture iiis aquatic feats as tie
pressing as a crab: you can't tell that l1 < Ill e t° surface. 1 lie moments pass-
thev're going.W
"This is the deathlieil of ttie Ue-
Cuhlican party," M.iid Sen itor Hey-
’'Hrn, referring to ttie split in ttie
R Kub/Hca ranks, "l"it it will tie ttie
death, bed of may of the men who are
supporting tiiis reciprocity bill, wtien
the people realize that it means put
ting dowh of the protective system."
until noon that tiie smoke cl aids be
gan to roll over ttie I’orenpine di.--
trict Then the miners berunu 1
alarmed Mossen .ers were S' nt out
and soon returned with the w rd that
the fire was traieiling threu.li tin
forest rapidly and was l:i-k:u.’ up
nitiuy towns.
Stior'iy after no n tlm fir* had cov
ered ott area of Iwonly-live miles
length and two miles in w idi It, and
was lick in ■ up 'ttie base Him nf 'IPs
dale sweeping over tlm Stand trd am!
ed and the wideiiins circles from the
impact of iris di\t> tuiielied tlm stiores.
Tiie diver’s feat had been caught on
tiie film. He did not appear and is
sui jKised to have boon tm!d fast ti\
the soft mud it the lettom Tlm
tiody was :rai'p!ed for and recovered.
nUSONED BV INSEtT’S.’
CHARGE LEWIS WITH FRAFD.
I’rohatile Ciuise of Death In NeuheiT\
< ’minty.
llL.
on tu fore the
of EdWation
adiipt i' n w is decided
State Superintendent
was given a <h.anc" to express an
opinion H must not be forgotten,,
also, that inv request for a record of
tliese rbatiges was promptly refused.
I was prepvretl t" re. (imnmnd sever
a! cliau 'es and to support tliese ree-
Otitnieinl itions with arguments The
board made sweeping changes, but
d c lined to indicate tiie necessity for
these rhatms. fie poin'in: out Die in-
fer : /r ami undesirable liooks now In
use. Tim assertion Mint better hooks
fiave adopted does not suffice.'
but slinuM be sup|«artcd by evidence.
Every cliange of text lu'oks is unnec
essary uptess a logictil reason can !>•
assigned therefor.
"I tiave not questionod the integ
rity or imeutimd (lie motives of a
majority of tiie board, booms" posi
tive proof of improper influence ean-
n6t lie adduc' d. Tim private ehurae-
ter of everv man belongs to himself,
alone, but his public acts tmlnng to
his constituents. The new policies of
tiie tioard were expensive, unexplain
ed, and wtfTiUut record,: an'd a,gainst
these three charaiteristies I protest
ed
"There are other points inviting
Interesting ronrment, hut I leave this
to lie made by others. Tiie determi
nation of tho issue rests with the peo
ple."
At
False Story Renounced.
:a meeting of several Coiffbcler
Ih'fraud People.
A dispatch 'rom St. Louis says
E t; Lewis, until recent 1% publish
er of ia. numlict of magazines and
promoter of enterprises, was indict
cd 1 -v a special graml jury in the i'n-
ited States district court on charges
f frauduleljit use of tlm mails The
indictment. Containing twelve courts,
covers four points in which Lewis 1
is alleged to have obtained several
million by niisloiding statements cir
culated through the mails.
it is charged tie sold unsecured
notes on ttie Woman's .Magazine '
Building and the Woman's Daily
building in tint Fniversity City, ot
which Lewis is Mayor, unseeure>»
notes of the Fniversity Heights Real
ty Development Company, operated
i "debenture scheme," and that he
misrepresented tiie condition of the
Lewis Publishing Company in selling
s nrk in the concern. '
Lewis recently put his corporations,
into the hands of trustees with...sn.le..
power to handle them for fivjt years.
CY ditors have asked that a receiver
lie appointed. Lewis was indicted
in lito.'i on charges of conducting a
scheme tn defnnd through his oper
ation of the People'^ Fnitod Slates
Hank, one of his corporations. Oth
er indictments charged him with do-
tranding the, government of postal
funds. He was acquitted on several
of tliese charges and all were dis
missed Lifer by the government.
The sudden death of four irngr es.
three of them in one familv and in
tm house near Shelton, in Fairfield
Oountv. is supposed to have been
i aiised ’> poisonous inserts on biack-
berrii».s, which the tm ro* s had pick
Imperial mines at Du! r<\ the Phila
delphia, Inshiw, T! lurado ami I’ni'y
mim-.s
Will’ti the seriousness of tiie sana
tion was apparent the tip call was
son mled wi'h tiie Dome Mine wh;-
Oe In haif liour the tlumes were
ragin'.' on tiie spot. Thev swept over
Die Foley o lirien mine, then jumj'
ed to the I’rest. n East Dome m l fel
low ed over tho Du me and \\ </•
I >omo.
Hundreds fh'd from tiie tla.111es_. hj11
low ( v or Die land
difficult Minv
coda Ttie first to go was the Oscoda
and Au Sable canning factory and in
a few minutes the fire was general,
breaking out north, east, south and
west . il at nm e.
"Our equipment of three hose carts
and thirty-six volunteers fought for
an hour and a half with a good sup
ply of water.
"Then tho flames reached the
pumping station and it went out of
commission. A few inhabitants
among them myself and my father
and mother, went to the steamer Ni-
ko, Captain Meyers, which was lying
at my own door.
"When we left the dqck between
20fl and 2<Mi people were on it, 30 of
Diem were nursing children, cut off
from shore, with Die tramway over
head a lire There was no osi-ape for
Diem unless they jumped into Die wa-
I r I saw Peter Duval struggle down
tiie tram wav with his aged father
in-law rn his hack, hut the flaim s
forced him b"'k md I cannot ((tl!
whether ho was saved.
I s i v a woman with two children
in tier arms rush out on Die dock
('tie of the children fell into tho wa-
■'•r and a v ung man leaped in after
it and U l V ed it.
"When tin; fire started the wind
was blowing about 7)11 miles an irour
'"‘from ttie souftieast. Then it shifted
,o the wes'w ard and Die flames cotn-
ph-ti iy swept Dio towns. Two hours
afterward it shifted to Die northeast
iii'l swept the blaze b ick over tho
ground i' already had travelled, lick
ing up tiie whole of Oscoda and Au
Sable city and township for a radius
f t it !'• c III i ie (
Home of the I «t« Rebels la Mexico
Force Home Federal Bcldiers to
Their Quartern Until They Ware
Relieved. . ...
. A dispatch from Puebla, Mexico,
says fighting between faderala and
Maderlsbas which began Tharaday
night and lasted until daylight wu
resumed Friday afternoon at Oerro
San Juan^ close to Puebla. Tha hat-
tie raged for three hours and {s wM
tc have claimed more than forty la
killed and wounded.
A party of Maderlsts who Had from
the bull ring Wedneaday night after
a stiff fight with the faderala, oat
the Interoceanlc railroad at Fabrtea
de Matfento, took poaaeoalon of a
train and proceeded to Saa Marlin,
25 miles to tha north, to
Sumter, Miss Rosa Sharfson of Al-
lenale.
Coming to ia steep fill on the newly
built Asheviile^Hendorsonvillo high
way, Du* driver saw a vehicle in front,
and gave room, going to the right.
The loose dirt caved with the heavy
machine and iiefore he could turn,
the machine Dirtied, catching the oc
cupants under the car.
'.Miss Matiel Cowman, who receiv
ed serious bruises will recover. Mr.
Rettis’ body was shipped home Thurs
day on the ''Carolina Special" of the
Southern railway. Miss Sharfson Is
a graduate of the College for Women
at Columbia.
Miss Bowman and Mr. Rettis were
to have been married in a few weeks.
DISAGREE WITH THE GOVERNOR.
Demand That Hosiery Mill Re Abol
ished Refused.
Disregarding Die demands of the
governor, tl.e board of directors of
Die State penitentiary Thursday re
fused to abolish Die hosierv mill, and ... ...
,, . . , trlven back ,by th« rerolutionlit*.
the entire controversy will be left 1 1
with the general assembly for a de-•
ed Intention to return and resaw tha
attack.
The fight, according to wltnaaaaa,
was provoked by three man, one of*
whom was said to be a son of Format
Governor tMuclo Martinet, who paasatf
the bull ring where the ICaderlatas
were quartered and fired Into tha
place and Into the bameke of tha
Zaragosa battalion of fitata troopa
oppoalte.
The fight waa taken up by both
sides, each thinking tha other had
started the trouble. The fight was
bloody and among the 40 dead wara
several women and a federal lieu
tenant colonel, Moiaee Breton. Tha
affair is laid by the reTolntlonoata
at the door of the Clentlflcoe, who are
said to have arranged the detalle la
advance and calculated upon the ef
fect of the preliminary shooting.
Ry others the clash was said to
have been provoked by an attach hy 1
a drunken revolutionists upon the
penitentiary with the Infeatkm to
liberate the prisoners.
At the first volley the State troopa
came out of their quarters but were
• NR
MOM \\ AND MAN DROWN.
the
smoko tuiug
uml tmulo progress
foil cxhaustci! Thi
of South 1‘orcupiim
Twenty minutes
struck the oii• sk irts
1 frame buifilin s
h trnc-ii fiorcofv
uftor the tlunios
tiie town w i s iti
cl a till o. ton a short time tioforo .ishos. All
their deaths It is said Diat the no- tmulo foi
groos ware about grown and two oDi of wat'r
• rs were smaller The four had skiffs we
"•on hiuckfiony pu king in the uftor-
uncm and that, niglit. or early tiie
next mornitv-’. according to tho fnfor-
ination. Dicy died. It is not known
what else could hive caused their
death and the cause state! is gen-
eralv a'cejitcd by Die coriimnnity ami ert
is supported liy medical opinion.
W llOl cso.i pod tin
t la mi
Dio water, where a!! •
(II ts
D.’d l
craft, launctie.a ratioo-.
and
ii a ! t
e pressed j n' O Si I \ ' i e.
a-sist
i and (diildr'ti were
fi rat
'tl a
into Dm stonll lion's
and
’ in• tl 1
u fiir i'ottsv]die and to
dden
i' lire
Wo me
ll qd died
st i rtod i
City, wfj'Te they were t o m pora ri 1 >
safe from the fli uues. Manx minors
lost their lives in efforts to sum- "Di-
ttid some were drowned
(•iant Lake Wave Sweeps Them from
Rescuing Arms.
At Auburn, \ Y., a gigantic wave
on (iw asco Lake swept Miss Adelaide
M< t' a rt Ii v. is \ ears old, tandher cous-
Mdw nd (ieorgo liurko, 22 years
old. of Hhiladel^hia,'froVn’ the gras])
of n-.-M iiois. to death in'the lane on
\V' dtn-sday night.
Burke, a good swimmer, had hat
or Do' Mfe of ins companion for
n hour, an
fi'-r to Die hands of four men
motorboat when a wave swept
away, Jialf filled the boat, si-!
d tiie cm .ine and set tho craft
Fifteen men ware drowtud at
South I’orcupine, w hen t aey were
driven into the lake by the dense
cl uds Of smoke niid railing' wave of
flame. At',El Dorado nvo men wa-ic
burned to death, and another met a
similar fate at the 1'nited 1'orcujiim
Mine*.
nassas, \’a., 25 miles southwest of Three towns have been wiped off
Washington on July 21 to speak at 'he ’nap and hundreds or reDi -'ersar"
THE GRAY AND BLFE.
President Taft Will Follow Hull Run
Retreat.
When President Taft goes to Ma-
: u! r! I!.
"S i \ e Die girl
: o take me in,” shouted Burke
w is treading water with the girl In
11 - arum \ moment later tiie wave
blotted' Diem both from view. Their
'•oil es '-s - ill, lie nt the botom of the
lake.
THEY WANT RAIN.
tlie joint reunion oj' Die blue and gray
armies on ttie battlefield of Hull Run,
tie will travel over tiie same old turn
pike Dial thousands of Fnion sol
diers used ail years ago. J Tho Presi
dent will motor down from Dio capi
tal with Secretary Hi lies and Maj. A
\V. Butt. Much of Die ride will be
over the road used by* Gen. McDow
ell's soldiers when the tide of battle
turned against them and they fled
hack toward Washington.
facing starvation. A train contain
ing six hundred twomen and children
was rustled out of Foctiraiic for the
south, us the wail of flames ndvanc
ed toward Die village. The town of
2,7'i'd inhabitants was soon a mass
of jiro and is entirely destroy*...
South Porcupine and Hittsv'--- «re
charred ruins.
Golden City was surrounded by
Indian Tribal Customs to Obtain It
Are Being 1'sed.
eislon. Ttie contract is for five years
and provide* for the employment of
from 20d to 350 prisoners. J. M
Graham holds the contract with the
Htate. A letter embracing the posi
tion of Die tioard was 'addressed to
the govAftior. The governor has on
several occasions stated that if the
hosiery mill was not abolished that
he would pardon all of the 300 men
ind women employed In the mill.
The board finds that J. M. Graham
has observed every provision of- the
contract. That failure on the part
of the State through its o'fieers to
perform its duties toward the con
victs, should not he allowed to work
a hardship on J. M. Graham nor Jus
tify the State in freaking the agxee-
rent with him. ;
That the hosiery mill Is In a thor
oughly i sanitary condition and the
converts therein work under more
favorable circumstances than em
ployes in similar industries conduct
ed by parties or corporations.
That deaths from, tubercrlosls In
the whole penltontinrty, including the
was preparing to! hosiery mill, has decreased from 58
durltiur the years between 1 900 and
1.905 to 2 2 during the yeara between
1900 and 1 M0.
That a greater number of convicts
j are brought to the penitentiary al-
fi iiows, don’t try r o a( iy atficted with tuberculosis than
w h° j those contracting the disease within
tiie prison walls.
'“That as soon as a convict shows
ah hlchdeT bmorniartlflhSo
any symptoms of tuberculosis, he or
Stye 1$ placed in one of the finest
Ditiorculosis hospitals in this sec
tion of the country.
That the tioard stands ready to
make any changes in the buildings
that may he necessary . to further
safeigpard the health of the ronvlots,
whenever fihqy ascertain through the
tioard of health and their own In
vestigations the same is desirable.
That the hoard Invites Inspection
by private citizens of the State at
any time, of all the buildings within
The latter kdpt up a spasmodic fir*
battalion of federals waa ordered to
their relief. The fighting ceased only
when Got. Canete appeared with a.
white flag and pleaded for peace.
A special train with Franciaco L.
Madero on board arrived In the city
soon after the battle began. It is
alleged drunken Madertotaa made an
attack upon the penitentiary with
dynamite bombs In an effort to re
lease the prisoners. The Baragoesa
troope statlpned close by opening fir*.
Maderlsbaa from the bull ring at
tacked the federals and forced than
back Into their quarter*. A Matter
ing fire waa kept up all night. At
daybreak the Twenty-ninth battalion
name to the rescue of the other fed
erals and used a machine gan to clear
the streets. At thla attack the Mad-
erlstaa fled, leaving a large nnmher
of dead and wounded in the atroeta.
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SENATOR TILLMAN TO ftPBAIL
Annual Ptdnhj of Old Hoklier* at
tanto Saturday.
A dispatch from Florence to Th#
News and Courier says the annnal
picnic for the old soldier* will be
held at their picnic grbund*, at
Olanta, In lower Florence County, on
Saturday, July 22, at which time
United States Senator Benjamin It.
Tillman and others will make ad
dressee, The old soldiers' picnic at
Olanta la always one of the great
events of the year in lower Florence,
l-ast year there were more than $,-
000 people present, and from present
Indications there will be not less than
10,000 people there this year. Ev
erybody is Invited to these events,
but the old soldiers come first.
/
sic veterans, members of ramp jNo
2, Armv of the Tennessee, a
It is charged in the. indictment
stftte- that, by the debenture plan, Lewis
ment, said to have appeared ip a endeavored to recover securities in
weekly magazine on June 10 lasf In
which it, was asserted that a school Dun, most of which were (lue at early ers near Adna, ( Ohid, thix'te men were
teacher of NYw Haven, Conti., was de- dates, amoutlng to $7,1
They Had Hot Time. '
In a free-for-all fiifcht, Jit an outing
his different companies and obliga- and dance given by some] Polish niin-
i4e
nmled, tarred and feathered in a
public square of New Orleans dur
ing the civil war, was strongly de
nounced as a fa’seb.ood.
1.60,000.
er, although onlv the suburbs li.yve
been burned. Part of Tisdale has
been wiped out, ttie fire being eon-
trolled only by dvnamiting a dozen
houses in the middle of Die town.
Two special trains have been sent
to bring the 4,000 persons who are
facing starvation or death by fir*
In the Tisdale district. iCqimmunira-
tion with stricken district^ is exceed
ingly difficult.
The flames swept down on South
Porcupine, and Plttsville talmots wltn-
A dispatch from St. Peatersburg, warninca The alarm came just
The discover? Russia, says the fire that broke out (n (jme for thp p eoi , lp to ri|f;h for
She had lived all her life on gation is In progress to determine ; sedt’ljjn of the city* Was extinguished abandon a ]] ' 0 f their bolorlgingb
stabbed to death, three more were
fatally, injured and about a score of
(persons, itjeluding several women, re-
CIwured Bodies Found.
The 'barred bodies of Arthur Per-1 c< ^ ve< ^ knife wounds
"evaL.c prominent farmer, and his
\v' f e Wue found in.thf ruins of their
burned farm house near Princeton,
.The Creek Indians in the vicinity
of Wet uuka, Owla.. are resorttng rr,
im-:«-tii tribal customs in an attempt
to o'.’ain a rainfall.
<>:;e of their customs which has
been widely f 1 lowed in the last week i the walls of the, State penitentiary,
is to s'ake mud turtles on the edge o> ! » » ♦ ♦
I "
a sDcain just fir enough away from! Refused Tainted Money,
the water so that it cannot reach it. | r v a B |x to three vote the city
flames for hours, and is sail in datj.'- is ,be Indians belief that the tur-j rounr)1 0 f "Jacksonville Florida re
tie d' Spairing of their attempts !°! fused to appropriate money for the
reai ii tiie water invoke the aid of the j maintenance of a Carnegie public 11-
Dt' ft Spirit to send rain go that j brary. The philanthropist had of-
Dm sfreilpi ^iil tie raised and brought! ?prPd }25,OfiO if Pqnjsjicola would
'o tip tn. • ' raise one-tenth of that pmotint. The
Sitii o 'lie turtles were first staked : p er) p] e f ur ned dow^t tkU proposition
on* several rains have fallen. The ) geveral weeks aco-. on a: referendum
Indians i.elieve their prayers are be-! V q{ P -pbe argunfenf was advanced
ing answered and they are fastening | th - at Carnegie’s money was "tainted.”
up rni.fc turtles to prpy for a still
greater ninfall.
^ ots Burn.
Never Been to Town.
Mrs. Polly Monk, 94 years of age X. C, Wednesday , M1 llllie .u,
Is dead in North Christian county, was made by neighbors. An Invest!- a'mohK the cotton bales in the port the lal<p h t thpv wprp f orf . P/ j
8hot by tjnpid;
Drowned Himself:*
Ensign R. S. Yountr, of Concord. N
disaippeared from the destroyer
Tenn
a Parm, outlived two husbands and
bad never seen a train and had an
Ig within two miles o/ Crofton. She
had never seen a train, and had on
antipathy for "new fauigled things.”
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Terrilflc Explosion.
Near IFrankfort-on-the-Main, Ger
many ten persons were killed and
twehty others serloutBv injtred by an
explosion til a dynamite factory Wed
nesday.
under what circumstances the couple aftef damage aggregating $500,000
met death.
had never beep to town, although liv
ed in the loss. 'I
Clemson’a Big Income.
Clemson College will this year re
ceive about $260,000 ftom the sale
Gasoline boats, rqwboais and even
hastily improvised.rafts wjere utilized
to get the refugees, many of whom
were women and children, across the
lake to Golden City. There all are
The Greenville Daily, Piedmont ; po r ki n s, at the New York Navy yaPd,
says Deputy Judge of Prftbate James i Wednesday night leaving a note staf-
R. Pa'es issued a marriage license j n;? tbrirhe Intended to drown him-
jf„ probably the oldest couple that 8plf / The young officer had slightly
'bus received a license since the m«i-
riaze license law has been in effect in
this State. The two were Henry
Nix, aged 7 4, ad Mrs. Melvla V.
R"Chester, 41, both of tihe American
overstayed his shore leave and had
been c4lled upon for an explanation.
Had • Close 0*11. *
When the first execution under th#
new law providing for electroenttoft
In place of hanging took pfne#~ia
the State penitentiary at Eddyrllto,
Ky., recently it came near ending to
the death of two persons Instead of
one. Prison phystckan VoM stepped
forward to feel the pulse of the aogro
who formed the first subject befor#
the current had been turned off s,nd
.barely missed having several th#J»f-j
and volts pass through his body. 1 i
. ' i V
/J ' Ifitled by ChlsMm.
felbert J. Baum of battery A. Third
U. ^ field idrtillery, was killed lur
ing target practice Thursday near
San Antonio, Tex. Baum was drtvsd
of a caisson. His hdnws took
nt the firing and In endeavoring t#
keep them from ranning away Baum
fell from his seat and was run ovW.
f
Spinning Company's vllla|
Greenville.
neiar
The Mob Got Him.
Will McGrljff, the negro who shot attempting to beat back the flumes,
of the fertilizer tags. Since the first j and killed Will Washington, a white which have consumer the outskirts
of the year the sum of $242,683 ha4|inian, and wounded two colored men, | 0 f that place. There are only a few
been received, as compared witlj | was arrested at Boconton Wednesday days’ provisions left In Golden City.
$216,70^ on the same date of last afternoon and later killed by a mob | The laborers employed on thepOn- {ight with the flames, In which t^Jany
estimated at more than five ^undrM tarlo Government’s new raflfoid^line, ‘ were badly Injured. They lost etfry-
men. ^ i reached the city after a desperate thing but ths clothes they work.
Convict Was Killed.
Ought on Fire.
A Wtashingtoir dispatch says th»«
House had an exciting
Representative Willis of Ohio,:
from his desk, his cl
Several members cams to his
extinguished the iiamee. He srse i
injured. A box of mstche# Is his t
enught fire. 1'
year. The total amotint received by
tha school last year waa 1248,098
While trying to escape from the
State prison at MilledgevUle, Qa. t W.
H. O’Neal, a whlteYonvict, who bad
served one year of a three-year sen
tence, was shot to death by guards.
O’Neal was sentenced for stabbing
nls wife.