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THE BATESBURG ADVOCATE. VOL 1. BATESBURG, S. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 19Q1. NO 32 I AWFUL HOLOCAUST. Several Man Mat Death in a Roaring Furnace. CAUSED BY AN EXPLOSION Five Charred Human Bodies Fcund in the Ru ns of Waterworks Crib at Cleveland, Ch'o. Fivo men wore burned to dia'.h, four were drowned, three aod possibly four wero suffocated and several injured as the result of a firo whioh destroyed a temporary waterworks crib, two miles off CU volar d, Ohio, harbor early Wcdcctday morning. mi _ .1 J - - r _ _ _ * a . a iu? u- ?u, bo iar as sno^n: AXtnur Hasty, drowned, bcdy rcoovcrd; Mark Stryder, di owned; Arthur Hustings, burned; Plummer Jones, sulfonated; John Martine, drowned; .John Kowolsky, drowhed, body rooovcrod; four unidentifiod tn:n burnod. Tbo it jured a) far &i known: .fobn Lee", prcbablv a broken back, lata'; O. Braddook, burned about bands ard face; Charies Smith, overcome by gas in tunnel; Djvid Kjlly, rescuer, overcome by gas. Still imprisoned in tunnel: Victor KauflFman, Canton, probably dead; John Eaging, probably dead; Adam Kent, probably dead. Twenty-eix iron obeyed tbo orders of Manager G. C. Van Diusen wtion tho flames broko out and took rofugo in tho water on floatirg pieces of vrookago. Four of thoui lost their hold upon their frail ti nts and sitk beneath tho waves just as help roicbcd thc:r oorurados. Van Dousen ai d thrco of his men were barging in tbo water from a e *oinoh lino suspended from tho cr b. Just as the lino was burning away above the men's handH a yawl boat frow the barge Wilheliu manned by two mon, dashed into tho heat and smoke that enveloped tho crib and rescued tbo four men on tho ropo at tho risk of their lives. The remaining mon were pirked up in tho water and brought to Cleveland. They were naked, exhaustod and badly burn ed. Many of them were cut by falling timbers. Tho orib is a total loss. It wi* a frame budding 200 by 50 feet, tho sides sheathed with iron. It contained valu able machinery. It is now a cnarrod shapelo'B ma<=s of wreokago and mingled with the blackened timbiri arc blackened, rusted and twistol picoos and plat< s of iron and steel. Tho crib and machinery wore tho _. * property of Shailcr and Sobinglau. con t?*" w '.laotors. Their loss w|m c-uO,000. j Fire at J harV.o- ' ^ with rescuing parties on board reached tho orib soon after tho flames bro-e.jout, but vrhon they arrived the atruoturo\?as r. tccih ing maBS of flames and all hope of eav ing it was abandoned. Mon could bo distinguished swim ming and floating in the water shouting for holp. Others wero clinging to ropes which they ked hitched or tied to tho rafter*, but the fUmoi wero burning the ropes away, while the men wore stark naked, and ono oy ono they wero falling into the lake. Tho tugs circled around the burning crib, picking up men from the water and mcantimo playing heavy stroams upon the flames. After an hour's work the flames were diminished enough so that the fircmon oould olimb up tbo charred Bteps and fight the fire from the interior. Then the horror of the oalam'ty wap firet realized. K/ery thing wai a total wreck. V, inlo lho firemen wera j curing water on the flames thoro was A ROARING KORNACE beneath whioh cculd not bo reached. But the firemen clung to lheir placos and fought every inoh of tho way until tho fire was under control. After two hours of hard work fivo charred human bodies wero found burned beyond recognition. Two were in the attitude of prayer. They must have boon awakened by the fire but oould not ctcape. They were caught liko rats in a trip. Ono body was burned to almost nothing. The bodi is of two other men lay clot-o to thctc that were on their knees and it. 'ojked as though they never ku^w what hap pened to them. They must have Le a suffocated before tho flainos reached them. As soon as tho fivo bodies wars discovered tLc tug Kennedy returned to tho kaibor at onoo and notifi* d tho ooroncr ol tho oisocvery. Whilo this was going on ways ard means were being devised to reach tho mon iin prisoocd in the tunnel, whoso air supply had apparency been shut ot! or tirely by the burning of the oomi rr?sed air marhinery. At till.PO it U>H ll /Mintt ? could bo hiaid dowc Li low t,r.d the life savers and the tinmen peered down with tarn in.?tt, lut ihc sour ds erased again. At thu mouth if the shaft it was liko a furnace, and tho iron work was red hot f<-o:u the flames. Finally after a dclugo of water had been thrown on the siuoldi rinr shaft entrance, a vice was hoard from the bottom, calling for ucip. "For God's rake throw down a ropr, thrown down a rope' ' a loan oalicd. A lino was quiokly droppod down the shaft and as it tightened a shout of j .y went up from those about, for it was quickly observed that (he man at the bottom was able to grasp it lie yelled again to the resent rs to pull him up. Siowly and oarofully he was railed. Ilis j allid face, covered with elime, his staticg eyes aod licav iDg chest, told of the horror ho had gono through in the hrurs he spool in tho tunntl. He wai William Curry, of Canton. As soon at he could rasp Curry said: "'I hoy arc all at tho bottom of the shaft, hurry up." Io quick succession acvon others wero brought up fnm the foul and stifling air o" 'ho tuncel. Ail wnro in a most pitiable conui'on. They re ported that two oth. r men were lying unoonscions at tho bottom of tho shaft. A workman volunteered torusjuo those men and ho was qaiokly lowered into tho shaft. In a few minutes tho uuoonsoious non wore brought up moro dead than livo. The tag that hurried out to tho soeno t, a) hood as the tire waa discovered suj- w oeedcd in rosouing no leaa than 20 men who were clinging to wreokago and ropes tied to tho burning atruoturo. An Tho tunnel which haa boon under courao of construction for sovoral years past and is Btill far from complete, haa been tho cause, all told of tho loss of more than 30 lives. Four years ago an explosion in tho store sootion of tho tunnol resulted in tho suffocation of 18 men. Two Qr years ago in a similar aooidont several more men woro killed at almost tho samo place and today's catastrophe adds at least ten additional camoa to the death list. Tho firo which dostroyod tho orib Wednesday morning waa due to an overheated boilor smokestack. Tho ^ boiler oxp'olod soon after tho fltmee dat broke out. hii rrtt _ ___ _ P % aqc crio useu was 01 pine umoer j?c, built up straight from the wiur'n odgo. Tho m-.D, who wero asleep in their bunts, sp ang up to find themselves ia era tho m del cfthoQ'mcs. Tue boards e*t all around thoin wore burning fiirioly. BCQ Down 111 tho shaft, under tho lake, 11 men were at work digging unoansoious .' until tlio air supply was cut off, of the . awful holocaustab^vn them. 10?> Mayor Johnson exprcssod great in- j1?01 digDation Wednesday wlion lie learned that no toat of lifo preserves wore pro- 8(Ji vidod as a safety measure by the oon tractors at tho crib, llo declared that 8'n| tho ease would receive the closest in ? vestigaiion, and that those found guilty 0' of criminal ntgligen-e on the matter B. would be prosecuted to the full extent n*: of tho law. whl Lite Wcdoosday afternoon Piurner ' '? Jones, of Warren, Ohio, as employo of tho tucnol contractors, and one of a party of roacufrs who dosoeuded into -wax tho rhnft to look for tho missing men, ia ? wasovercomj by gas and expired within a few u itiutcs His bony lies in the tunnel 75 feet from tho bottom of ' 1 the shaft and is covered with wator. Ul? The lifo line attached to tho body bo , , oamo fould and could not be polled .. out. ^ 1101 David Kelly, another member of tho rescuing party, was ovcroomo by gas r?. and is in a precarious condition. ^ tow McLaurin's View. ?n<] Senator MoLaurio, of South Carolina, "*f! passed through Norfolk Tuesday with his wifo and child enrouto to tho pan- ~*f American exp:sition. To the Asao- ,l oiated Pross representative bo made tho following statement: "For many ' years tho campaigns in Siuth Carolina weJi have been in tho nature of personal abuss betwoeu candidates The pros- * cnt campaign ia tho first ono in which 0' an issue is at stako. My aerios of " spccohcj Wuioh wore begun last April, aK* havo started tho pcoplo to thinking ?ow and thty have boootno aroutod. Sona- ^f0 tor Tiliman has answered nay ar^u J" mcnts by heaping personal abuse upon . me. lie threatened to go ou; among rive tho mill operators and arouae them / against tho mill owners if i continued tho urging tho expansion pal cy and tho Pa9 o&irying of American products in the Amcriom bottoms. "Expansion is not ber imperialism; tho first is a business and question; the other a matter of politics, whi It is foolishness for anybody to olaini few that a man cannot believe in ship sub- pas sidy, tLo carrying of American rxpoits bog in A rati ic mi bo.iom-1, ai_d expansion for without boing a Republican. 1 am 1 going into me primaries in douth U?r oeri oliaa next fall and 1 expect, to defeat Ura Senator Tillman." isia rivt A Lone Hobber. 18y wri A lono robbor bold up a stage at froi North liiver, N. Y , on Wednesday hat night. The stago whioh was atop and ped connects with a train which I reached North Crock, Warren county, a aoo station on the Adirondack* and Hud- ooa son railroad at 10.'JO o'clock a. m. tiai When it left the station it contained Spr seven men and 02e wotnao, botides a has quantity of express and mail mattor f jr are (Cue Mountain lako. When the stago ago was one and and a half miles north of ha*. Duaiap's hotel at North river a masked 1 robber euudcnly appeared, ilia first is I move was to shoot one of the horses, mil He then ordered the passenger* to hold brii up tiioir hands and alight. Six o' the aro men iiumodiatoly took to tho woods, Nc the remaining man staying with his is wife, who was relieved of #J0, but the iak robber fa.led to find a l&rgor sutu in aha onoliivr pocket. The highwayman then boa proceeded to r tic mo mail bigs and '] Plunder the express packages, taking at 1 everything of value. After ho hau 4ioi cloa' l is work ho disappeared into tho wh Woods and searching parties up ?.o dark trai iiuvo boon unabio to hud any traoo of ewe him. lost the A Wiuuiutf Game. A ! as 1 1 AclcSam 1* playirg a "hoads-I-win- 1 and-lailu you lose" game with little urb iu-.ai, Accoiuing to a roocat deoision ago of the treasury d.q-ar.mom that uabap- p r {y htilo uot iu t:.o ocean is a foreign uut oouniry when it it, s matter of ooilcotirg tho duties on artiuios imported thenoa into all tins uoutury, hat whon it is a mattor of big payirg rirawoaeksto cx?>ortors of goods g^h (in whl h inmnrl t *v<.j li?tn 1. '"ftvu uw*? uubu cur gvc! Ifotcd Guam suddenly and by some hoa mysterious process booomo di)mo?uo Ban tci/..ory. Thus wo oollcot tho taxes } iu alt muiauuec, uad our little protege rev gets iho privilege of tf/ing tbo fi?g. tho Bit i* ingu OQ. pie Tho Augusta Herald says Georgo Carilodgj, tho youegost son of Sergeant Cariludge, of the polioo fsroe, was cn- ^ gagtd in feeding a horso yoateiday after noun, when tho animal bit tho end of j t( tho lad's fing<r off. Too wound is a jj v very painful ono, but for tho loan of part of tho finger, tho aooidont is not j)CQ serious. Tho boy was holdiog a piece ? J grass in his hand feeding the annual when tho tcoth of tho horse olosed lf>' down on tho fingor, taking it off com- j> . |io\elj\ umck Work. 011 * wa? A di?jatoh from Charlotte i ays about wit .'>(>) people gttharod in froui of the oft jail hero Thursday night aid demanded the pus in of William Monroe, ool to 1 ored, ehrr^od with criminal assault. (da par a ahow o.' strength by tho guards tho Gr< crowd finally diaporsi <J Judge lloko 1 o-dTort troops to tho jaii Tuursday. cod Mouroo was to lay tried, coaviotcd and hna sentenced to bo hanged on Sept. lit. Wi The jury was out ono miautc and 20 ooa seconds, tho wholo trial consuming less fl than two hours. loai SWEPT BY STORM. Awful Tidal Wave Dastrovs Many Liver. GREAT ANXIETY 18 FELT. eat Los* of Ufa and Damags tc Property is Reported From Many Parts cf ihe Gulf Y dinpatoh from Nsw Ocloaus, under e of Aug. 15, says the slo-m whioh i been sweeping the Gulf co?hI from Gsacola and moving westward duriDg pabt two days, has prostrated tele pli and tolcpiiouo wires to tuch an or.t that newa from the outlying lioos is hard to got at. 'ho greatest feari have been enter 10 1 Tor the safety of the pooplo livat Port Kads, which is at the uth of ttio riv.r, and for the ships t started for Bca jut before tho rm began. ?ho wires thoro havo been prostrated so Tuesday night at 8 o'o oak but s Pioajano r?aib-d a tnan who left t Kidcs W.;dac*<day. II j was ecou 8ura*, which is Hi) miles down the ?r, and tho far.hcrest point with ich thoro is wira oimmuotoatlon at present time. "his m*j d scribes tho s'orm which :pt that section as a regular tids' re, similar to tho ono wh oir rsultod moh awful loss of lifo in JSi*3. Ha a all tho people liviog oil tho oast k of the riv.r have uuved up to tiio imp," whioh is 15 milts from tho uth of the river. 'ho houao of a man nailed C-blcn, f a milo above tha quarantine sta l, w*9 swept away, and the 15 mom s of tho family, including II children, wnod. 'he quarantine buildings wcro badly lagei but no ono injured. Tho bio boat Chamberlain was driven high dry in tho marsh, but her crew aro i. The government boat General so is believed to havo been lost >t. Obrion's honse was swept a'r?y, ho was on tho boat, which ws kvod to bo outside. TW oiie driver Jorts Eads was sunk, tkr crew o said to have booa savod. 'ho tugboat Velaso went down to s a L'Ontre, whioh is tho castorn ith of tho river, with two barges, on last seen she had her duok sh, and it is fear, d she has gone ro. If this boat and her barges have a lost 20 pooplo more havo been wnod. I'hore are numerous roport' individual oasualtieB all along the ir from Buras down to the Basses. l11 tho steamers which started for sea Tuesday remained inside the ses until Wcdnosday evening and n wont out safely, among tho numbeing the Cromwell liner Proteus, tho British transport Mechanic in ioh was dynamited while in port a days ago. Nut a single vossel has I * 1 -* * sou up iue nvor smoo llio Btortn an and great fears are entertained tho ones which are expected. 'htro is serious apprehension conning the Cheniora Cauiinada and md Lslo sections, on tho eoith L?u na oeast, west of tho Mississippi sr, whore 'J.UOO lives wore loat in 3 by tho ttdal wave. Up to this ting no word has been reooived 11 thai section, which is largoly in litod by fishormcn, mostly Chinese i Malays. Jp to last midnight over/thing mod to be safe at the Mississippi st towns, Bay St. Louis, Pass Chris i, Bilcxi, Mississippi City and Oocau ings, but sinco then not a word boon heard from them. All wires down. Tho only roporls of dam so far received aro of dostroyod h houses and uprooted treer. .'ho Louisville and Nashville railroad looked off beyond Chef Mouteur, 3 ) cs from this city. Tho big steol 3go thcro is safe, but fcryoudthfro several washouts on the load. Tho w Orleans and Northwestern railroad also blocked by washouts en i he c and its big trestle ovor Lake l'ont rtraia has been shaken by tho ,vy seas breaking a ;ainst it. 'here has boon much dauiigo done Stioil Bjioh, a sett oment oc L k rgno, (southeast of tho oi;y, and ioh connects with Like Po teharin. A.i the bulld'Dga there have be: n ipt away, ant thcro ar <re >)r:s ot j of 1 ifo among ia" Qshermcn, but cxaot < xlenv. of tt.it is not known, idai wave swept over tho land ih.re it did moo yea's ago. a tho oity of New Oilcans and sttb u there has boon considt-raaio datnAt Milnoburg, one o. tho lab rots, the railroad pior head run^iif; into tbo lake for a distance of * usanl yards has been destroyed and li/' t buildings dcmoiii bed. '1 .o buildings on shore withstood tl.o b. Thcro was no loss of lifo. Th imor iNjpiujo ticu up at tuts pi r.d, pounded herself to piooos und k, it West to id the lak rushed over t)to crlment and destroyed nearly ail of buildings thcro. Tno big dancing ilion ai Lake View vai | ounded to oes by wrookaco, washed up by the res. fho shell road to \Vost tond i under thrco feet of water, and uoktown," a gaoob.iog resort at the i of tho roventuicnt, has been swej t iy. Tno old basin canal coining d tho city on Toulouso street overred its banks inundating tho cnti ond district. A thousand men have n at woik on it and arc raising its iks. \ oal fleet of l'Jl bargcB, belonging the Moaouyahela Coal company of t-tburg and anohorod at Cjal i'.rt, 0 miles above the c ty, had a rough loricnoo and every tug in tho harbor 1 sent to savo tho on. Mix of them h an aggrogato oa; acity of 15,000 tons >oal, sank. 'lie tow beat Henry Marx, belonging iho Interstate Transportation oom iy, pounded a ho!o in h r bottom at ilea this morning and sank, riie storm whioh dcvolopod yesterday tinucd throughout i h j mghl and a vey wind wai still blowing today, nds and raiu wore general slung tho st and many trains aro bolatcd. >luoh of tho low section 01 Now Orns is under water and soows have boon brought into requisition to enablo people to got from their homos to the higher portions. Several factories havo been compelled to shut down. hake l'outiohartraiu has boon backed into tho old and now canal. Both overflowed their banks for a considerable dis auco. Tho roar, or low portions of this city, a thickly populated torritory two miles in width, is flooded to a depth of two feet. Thcro is considerable suffering among tho poor. A Louisville and Nashvillo train from tho cast, due at 7:25 a. m ., has not yet arrived, nor havo tho ooaet trains over that road. Tho high water in tho lake and tho tl ood iu the rear of tho oity have caused the dolay. Hundreds of buiiooss moo of New Or leans live along the gulf ooa*t during tho tumoicr and thus far havoboca unablj to reach tho city. i Many Louisiana noodle aro spond in? the rummer at Grand lile, which is adjacent to the Cheoiore. Over , 2,000 lives wra loit at tho later placo wnen that ne~k cf land was swept by storms a few years ago. A. Mancburg ti.o excursion steaurr N il Caaai.a oap3 ?>d at i s whaif dur ing tho storm ard is pour.ding heavily ajainst tho pier. Thoso aboard ea | c?pcd. Tho tug boat Noptuno is also j reputed to have capsind. Tho Mississippi r>vor in front of tho city today resembled a miniatur gulf. Nearly every harbor craft bad to hug 1 tho uhoro in order to avjtd being swamped. IV. gular westbound Tex is and Paoi lie trains oould not be sent out because tho transfer boats which oarry ! tue trains aor< ss t! o river wsrc uaable 1 to umko then landings. All the tugs in the harbor are engaged today i i try ing to eavj tho fleet of about 200 boats ly'ng above the city 1 Uilweu-n rix a ..d ton boats have al rtaiy been lest. Til R I.ATEST. The latost news frotn the storm is to < tho effect that it did not do as much ; damage as Just reported Many ships , were wrecked on the gulf and on tnc i Mississippi, and there was considerable j loss ol' life, but later news will have to j reveai how many people woro drowned < during tho storm. i 1 Out in India. i According to the Indian Lancet, a medical j mrnal, a satisfactory ds- 1 crease in tho number of peoplo and cattle killed by wild ntaimais ia the ' Punjab is shown by the roport for 1900. The ub.quuous snake ti, of oourse, 1 far ana away tho w. rat of these ills, 1 but in a province where considerably more than hal' a million people must 1 inevitably die every year, in the ordi 1 nary oouisa of nature, it is reassuring to find that only 893 people received their quietus from snake bite. It is out.oua to note that more deaths from ' make bite occurred >n houses than { either in tho field or in the jungle. * The only human deaths from wild ( animals woro those oaused by mad dogs ' and mad jackals, whioh numbered 29. 1 Regarding cattle, 702 were killed by leopards and 91 by wolvos. It seems ' strange that no mischief should have ! been caused by tigora or bears?perhaps 1 they aro being killed off too fast. Dar J ing the year in question 1,374 wild animale were slaughtered, including 11 tigers, 180 bears, 184 leopards, and 99 ' wolves. iMorooVcr, 13.272 makes were ! killed. 1 ] Thousands Drowned. 1 t Croat floods caused by the overflow- ( iug of tho Vang Trie have caused (ho t death of many thousands in China, j fho river has rison 10 feet and for hun- j drods of miles the eountry is a great i lake with only tops of trees and an oo- i casional roof showing. At Anting the " town ir tijod.s?i, aotno of the houses to i their roofs. At K.u K .ang, the nativj j town is flooded and two feet of water ( statnds in the foreign settlements. t Lower down tho river towards 9wu , Hue, the destruotiou was greater and i boancea estimate that ?0,000 wore drown :d in tho diotriol. Chong Tho was wiped away by floods and 1(J,U00 drownded thero and l.-jundatod involving awful lt> - of lite and great destruo- , tion to property. It is luarod an em haokuicni Luiii by Chocg Cheu Tung t near Wu Chaog would break and cause tho drowning cf thou snds. i The Naval Station. The United States government took format ; s-csuoo oi the sito, which has ( been secured lor tne naval station and tho ivioiug oi tho flag VSedncsoay , jf err >u marktd tin urst accusation. 1'r/ina ic.a who atr.vcd here Tuesday i.iit gave chock* to Mayor Soiyth for ho ci.'j's s are of tho park and to Mrs. L. vtcn, wno disposed of valuable lots adj jimug. It was not mated at what time ae.usl Oo:)*.,ruction will begin, kut this w.li not be long delayed. Jhouiy do k, i e p ans lor whiou have already b.-ea ap, ruvod. will bo crootod lirst at e s- ol fl 25 M),M. Apj ropriations jii. muting to #25 ),U0() avanablo for io.ni iia.o work and ttie uavy depart mout s p a: s caiii lor an expenditure of more than *t! OUO.OUU on the navy yard in lie entirety. tJeuator Tillman Sued. The Columbia S.ato roosntly publi ' 1 tho following meagre and un- , satisfactory artiolo. Tho people will natuiAlly want to know who J. Young Jones is and what Seua.or i'liiman has done to him or taid about him. This is what appeared in tho Siato: "It is that Mr J. Voune lonoa. form ci.y Lookkeej r of tho house, has filed a suit for t I'MHM damage against Ssna tor itllmaj, charging bitu with slander. Mr. .J ic. alleges that the senator cast , r#1 ot >CMOu his moatal atiainuicnts. It is understood that tho sheritf will soon ox oute the papers on tho sooa tor. Sorator Tillman would not dis- ( ousa who matter when informed of it. l hc rot-ua will Lc watched with inter- , est." Killed &tch Other. , A dispatch from Greenville, N. (J., says: "News roiohod hero Wednesday ol a dou ;!o tnur ier near Gardner's cross roads, in tho southern section of thin country. Win. Gardner, Mack U.xon, 1 ooili white, quarreled over some small . matter. Gardnor drew a pistol and shot i throo hails into i>.xon's abodomon. Then D.xon knoiked Gardner down, took the pistol from him and shot the two remaining balls into Gardner's body lioth men diod in a short while." HATE EACH OTHER. Evani ard Latimer Said to be Op?n Political Enemies. IT IS AN OLD TROUBLE. Each of tha Above Oanllamen Mad a Hits at Ona Another at the Union M anting. J. 0. Abernathy, who attondcd tbo Union and Cheater mootings for the Uharlotto Observer, says thoro is no danger that the senatorial campaign in ibis a>ato will lack heat, even though Senator MoLanrin akould withdraw Ircrn the ra:e, for tho uoiable development in the meetings horoand at Union for tbo last throo dats, atide from tho b rong dcuauolation of tho junior aena>or, was tho faot that while both are R htin^ ttllll. t Vl o TT nnn.i'J.. <l? ~ hivj wjuaiuoi tiiO uuui* mon rnemy, A 0 Latimor and John Sary Evans aro a:, daggers' points, and it wonld not turprisa men who know rho two politician* to see the ex governor and tho ooogropstuan corns to bows on the stand when tho campaign h fairly unlcr way. Evans is a slcn 3<r follow, about five frot and ton inches tail, with sharp features, a bright ryw, blaok moustache and hair, slightly tinned with gray, and iber? ia ?om?t' icv about Mm that will nuke a North Oroiioisn think of Marion Butler as soon as tho < x governor takes tho stand t" mako a spcooh. Ilis pditical antagonist, Congressman Latimer is recog t-izcd as being ono of Senator Tillman's closest friends, and ho certainly resembles the senior tenstor ia more ways than ono. In couipiring the two men, as thoy sat together on tho speak its' stand, 1 maao tho following doduo lion: Square tho congressman's jaws, punch out ono of his eyes, let b>ui fill his uiouth with quinine and to all outward appcaranoes the result will bo a !?ooud Bcu Tillman. At to tho abili ty of Latimer, as oemparcd with Tillman, 1 cannot say, for it may bo that be is only following tho leader as Mar ion Butler followed Col. L L Polk in North Carolina. In fact, his politi cal enemies term him "one of Tillman's hands." I oan add, however, that he has a more pleasant address than his ohicf, and would probably create a better impression among strangors, provided iio did not too oloscy follow liliman's stylo. These,are tho two men?Evans and Latimer- who gave it out by their words and aotions that they distrust;d oa*h otr.ci. In assuming his share )f tho responsibility for tho election )f McLauVin to the sonato, Latimer taid that two ovils were offered the peo pic arid ho voted for tho junior scaator is thei lescer of the two. John (iary Evans was the other. At ether times he referred to Evans in more or less iireot terms, whioh all South Carolin ians understood On tho other hand, the cz-goveruor made it plain to his bearers that ho meant Latimer when ho spoke of the action of certain "political traitors ' who had rofussd to take note of tho warnings he had sounded in regard to MuLaunn. Ho warned tho peoplo against turning out ono traitor to put in auothur. Mr. Evans has bocn out of politics for quite awhile, having lorno time aitor tho expiiAtion of his term as govt rnot removed to Spartanburg. where he has been practicing law, aud it was not generally known until ihe meeting at Union that ho would on ter tho Hold as a Nrnatnriiil ?on!rin> rho cx governor, by tho way, iH the man whose nemo wad foimerly ptinted in a Columbia paper thus: "Johngaryevans." South Carolinians can rest assured thai should all others drop jut of tho race those two performers alone will bo worth the price of admission. Wanted Too Much. Tho career of Phillips, tho corn king of tho Chicago grain market, contains within itself a lesson to young moo who rrc eager to got lich quick. Ho went ico the corn pit at Chicago with f."?00 1)00, ojrncred the market, made millions of money and went on with his wild peculations and is today a bankrupt. Revelation toachos us that "the lovo of money is the root of all evil," and it seems to ho true. Had this nun not been fascinated with tho gambling spirit and stopp d at the right time, if there was a rig.'it time in sticli a nofar ieus business, he might have had a comfcrubio competence for tho balanoo of his life. Hut lrrtunos made by wrecking other people's foriunos arc ill-gotten guns and aro more tuan likely to lake auto th nisvives wings. I'uur Satiiyson. 'I ho question as to whether or not Rear Admiral Sampson will appear as a witness biforo the court of inq siry asked for by Schley appears to bo surrounded by mystery. Tno n?,vy department is silent on tho sub j not. It is eiiiraed by some that ti e idea that Sampson must tako ? vacation in mado with a view of making it appear that he if too ill to go boforo the court, llovfavor, it has been known for somo time thai Sampson n in a terrible physic*, oondnion, and it ta rumored that his mini may have boon atfcotcd. This, aoiiiO reports havo it, is aooountablo for tho ootfi oting orders he sent Schley boforo tho battlo ctf Santiago. Steamer. The now steamer Celtic, which ro orntly made her first trip across tho Atlantic, is a niuo story tloator, with four open or promenade deoks, ono of whioh oontains tho dining saloon for cabin passengers, above tho water lino. Most of iho trans-Atlantic liners havo only one, and very few two. Sho is 721 feet loDg, will oarry and aooommodato 3,000 psoplo, including tho orew, and boing built for ooiufort runs with little rolling in rough woathor. Could Not Wait. Tho tobacoo trust oxeoatod a mortgage in Now York for $150,000,000 on June 15.h, on whioh it hsd to pay in stamp taxes $75,000 By waiting fifteen days, whon the law was rcpoalod on the 1st of Ju'y, that muoh inonoy oouin havo boon saved. Kvidcntly, a little item liko $75,000 oannot stand in the way of a $150,000,000 trust. THE GOVERNOR 8 VIEWWhat He Thinkt of the Ordinance Passed in Charleston. The Columbia State says there has been considerable speculation in the last few days sinco the adoption of the now ordinance in the oi;y of Charleston by tho oounoil of that oity looking to tbo enforcement of tho disponsary law by polioo foroo in rogard to tho eff .ot this act of tho municipal authorities will have on tho attitulo of tho board cf dirootors of tlo S.ate disponsary and tho other Slato authori i?s. It was impossible Wednesday to soo any of tho members cf tho State board but Governor MoSwooncy was asked what he thought of tho aotion taken. Tho governor expressod himself freely, lie said to a representative of Tho Siato "I think tbat tho oity oounoil _ # / v i t or unaricoton nas shown excellent judgment and I believe that Mayor dmi.h and his council have done the very best thing for Charleston. Tliey have, as I said, displayed excellent judgment in adopting this ordinanoo and placing Charleston in the position that she deserves to bo planod in. With this aotion of the city oounoil the State beard of direotors, if the police carry out the law and enforce it and proscouto the blind tigers in the police oourt, should plaoo Charleston in the position occupied by the other towns and cities, and give her baok her share of the profits. 1 believe that sho w.ll bo jut back oa that basis Just horo permit me to say that I think Columbia should follow in lino and adopt j ^st such an orainanoo. "As 1 bavo said all along, on tbo stump and elsowhere, 1 would bo in favor of taking the constables out of Charleston altogether if the municipal authorities in Charleston would tbow mo that ihoy arc ocforcir g the dispensary law. 1 L&vo always taken tho ground that thero ought to be uo oon stabies in any city whose municipal authorities will onferoo the law, that the police ought to enforce the law. Tako tho case of tho town of Audorsor; I am usurtd that the police thero enforoe tho law absolutely and that there aro no blind tigers thero now. Tho people say they have no Deed for tho oonstable*. 1 believe that this can be dono Charleston with a first class police force not afraid to do its duty. Now let tho polioc foroo do its duty as has boon dono in Anderson and as other oitics and towns aro doing." Asked as to tho result of the enforo:mont of tho law in Columbia siaco the extra police were givin the constables, tho govornor remarked: "Chief Bate man's report shows that the result so far has been fir it rate. It speaks for itself." A Bad Failure. With a capitalization of $20,000,000, and owing to franchise which gave it tho privilege of operating cabs and omnibuses in any stroot ia the oity of New York, the General Carriage oompaoy tho stock of whioh at ono time sold for $200 a share passed into tho hands of a receiver rooently, and so littlo is thero remaining that tho reocivor's bond is only $5,000. Tho company at ita organization had tho "moral support of lliohard Crckcr, and among the stockholders aro Edwin Gould, Josoph Leiior, General Samuol Thomas, Louis Wcrmscr, Cyrus Fiold Junson and Eiwin M. Post. Uichard Croker's Auto-truck company too a largo blook oi slock ia tlio oonoero tad transferred to it tbc privilege of hauling paescngcrs about tho city. The General Carriage oompany bad a practical monopoly under its charter, and less tb&n one year after its formation its etcck bo came active in the market In November, 1899, tho stock waa soiling for $40 a share, and two months later it was advanced to ISO. Next day it was quoted at 1195, and two days later it soared to $200 a share. Within a week after tho $200 mark was reached the stock slumped and was selling for $50 a share. Then began a most remarkable manipulation to oompel an interest owning 8,000 sharos to sell out to those in control. The stock was fcroed down to $2 a share when the minority interest capitulated. The liabilities of the concern were not stated in tho application. Followed it Too Closely. "1 and my father before mo have been reading your paper for 50 years or more, and 1 wouldn't miss a copy of it for anything?it wouldn't seem natural to go without it," wrote a man to the Columbu1, G?., Kaquircr-Sun. "A year or two ago tho paper had a number of pointed editorial.! urging farmers to raijo everything thry needed at homo. 'What's the use of buying anythiug,' it said, 'whilo you can raise it at heme? Well, that thing struck mo. Pretty soon I needed somo corn whiskey for meoioal t?nd other) purposes, and 1 made it. I have just finished working out the eento; cj. i gu<ub you meant well, but you didca't know what trouble you wero gotting your readers into." Too Much Politics. Tho Columbia S ate says a halt is called somewhere it looks as if there is to bo a goncral senatorial cam pa. go of education after all. Announcements hi vj already been made as to the meet legs arranged for Spartanburg and Greonviiio. Njw oomos tho announce ment that Anderson has arranged for a similar meeting on tho 30th, and that tho committee will invito the same spoakers as tho other places. Tho aaounoemont also comes that Walhalla and Spearman's Spricgi, the latter in Nowbjrry country, want euoh gather inge on tho 2nd inst., the only one of the four oonseoutivo datos open to tho speakers. It id Dot yet known which of theso places will get tho crowd of political lecturers. A Now Kngluld View. "The sole dofcDdcr of McLaario, or what thoy call "Uoiumeroial Democracy" at tho UnionS. 0. political powwow last week wan John B. Clovolaud, president of a otton mill. He favored imperialistic expansion, for tho sako of markets, and declared that there was not a mill in South Carolina today with poseibly one exception, which was making a cent. Hat if imperialistic expansion is effective for markots, how can this be? Mr. Cleveland had evidently forgotten that the oountry for more than two years has been enjoying tho alleged benefits of markets forcibly annexed."?Springfield Republican. HELD UP A TRAIN. Robbsra Laughed aid Talked at They Robbed a TrainA train was bold up ar d robbed near Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuetday night. Tin express car was blown open, the safe wrecked and the mail sacks rifled. All the passengers were robbed of thoir money. El Caney, where the robbary oooured, is a side traok thirty-nine miles north of Denieon. It is in the Cnootaw nation of the Indian Territory and the population surrounding the station is only 125. Tho train does not stop at Caney cxnopt on signal. As tho the proprr signal was given tho engineer whistled his reply, and tho train Blowed down for tho stop. Instead of the hurriod signal to go ahead, tho engineer and Srcman wore confronted by two men with masked faoes. About the samo time the express messenger and tho mail clerk were communicated with through the oloscd doors of thoir ctr<. Throe o! tho robKnra a - ? J * I- 11 ?'' ? * ww* .i.rii. uuu iuvu mo can wont to tho messenger and olork: "Open up here! Open up and don't be too slow about it!" From within came no response and the robbers agaiD called out. "Open tho door or we will blow it opon and blow you to fcoli!" There wai no response to the i>eoond call and tho firing again began, fa'ly tweniy shots being diiehargod. Still thcro was no reeponto, and tho tlroe men proparod a small blast of dynamite against the car door. In tho meantime the shooting had awakened tho passengers, llio conductor, brakemen and porter ran through tho train, and as they called out: "It's a hold up!' The passengers tried to hido their money and valuables. The dynamito was at last exploded. It was a small chargo a id was intended more for fright than anything else. A larger blast of dynamito was prepared and explodod. 'ibis tore tho silo off tho express and matl oir a d tho robbers leaped through tho opening, and, overpowered the messenger. Ho was ordered to open tho safe, but he oculd cot, as the oombina 1 tion was at ond of tho run. The robbers then put a oharge of dynamite to the safe and blow it open. They de- 1 molish'.d the safe, but scoured only ' $1.50, as tho monoy had all been loft at Muskogee to be picked up by tho " Katy flyer," which runs through tho territory by day. Tho tnossengor and olork wero forced to assist tho bandit* in thoir 1 work. Every mail pouch was emptied and the mail considered valuable by tho robbers was taxor, Then with Postal Clerk Tulloy bo'ding an empty mail saek, tho robbers went through tho ooaches and robbed every passenger. They secured $280 in one ooaoh. A. negro who refurod to give up his money was Levity boaton. The passengers wore compelled to throw their valuable into tha pouch. After the work was dono tho robbers, who seemed to rejoice in tho situation, sat around and laughed over the matter. After holding the train two hours, the robbers lot't, going east into tho dense bottom timber, for which tortuous Caney oreek is co.ed. Tho trainmen out out tho wrecked express oar, ran down to Caney station and advised officers up and down the road. In two hours a poise of United Stales marshals with blooi bounds wcro on tho trail. Tno express company said it lost nothing, and tho connductcr estimates the passcngerb' loss at about $400, not counting tbo jewelry. THE ROBBERS CACOIIT. A dispatch from Uonison, Tex , 6ays: J. B. Dvais, deputy marshal at Colbert, I. T.. arrived horo Wednesdav ni*ht from the scene of the robbery at Caney. ''The following men have been sr rosied on the charge o? committing the robbery," said Mr. Davis: "C. 13 Richmond, Bob Alfo:d, Qeo. Brown, John Gibson, Tom id ward 9 and Jaok Barr, Theee men were arrestod at Caney and takon to Aioka Tdursday morniDg. The operator at Caney, when be heard the shooting, suspected the train was being held up and put out the light in the depot and telegraphed Atoka, 11 miles away, for officers. Within two hours after tho robbery blood hounds had trailed tbeso men to their hemes. We .'ounl the wot clothing identified by pasaongors as that worn by the robbers. We also found three masks and fcuid in the fire box of tho oook stovo when tho arrests were made the shoos of the men arrestod. rtio tracks wero measured and fitted the shoes exaotly." A Mad Tom Cat. A man who has just returned from the up country to Charleston brought back as a souvenir a thruling story of an attack mado on a whito woman by a mad torn oat. According to his aocount tho woman was walking in tho yard when, without warcing, tho oat mado a vicious lunge and planted its sharp claws just hclow her throat. Tho grip was so strong and powerful that tho woman could not break it. Her erica altracked members of tho family. When they attempted, ho vcvor, to take tho cat away tho gr'p had evidently turned to lockjaw, ard theanimal could uot bo removed. The woman's aotf ir mg was terrible. A final effort was mado to free hor from the oat, but this was not accomplished until the animal's head bad been oomplctel? sevored from its body. Even after death tho teeth olung to the fl ssh in a vice like grip. The wound was cauterized and at last reports the woman was improving. It was &a*d that bcforo attacking tho woman tho oat had bitten >tier auimais, aid in tho samo neighborhood other cats had assaulted their owners. The feartf hydrophobia was so groat that all dogs iu the immediate vicinity of the woman's homo have boen blocked and chained. Desperate Encounter. A Charleston dispatch says: "Sergt, Bondt, cno of the party of po'ics of boors who had tho despcrato encounter last weok with tho negroes suspected of killing tho chief of pnlioe of Shelby, N. C., had a narrow eaoapo tgain Wednesday. llo and Sorgt. Haley oame upon John B-lliogor, a notorious negro oharao'er, who is wanted in Colleton county. The negro opened fire, with a 44-oalibro pistol, on theotboors. Sergt. Bendt roturned the (ire, putting two balls in the negro. Bollinger was sent to the oity hospital. He will probably recover" USES OF CORN. Plant That is Bscoming Mars Vaiuabls. SIDE PRODUCT8 OF PLANT. -a Tha Qovarnmant Miking Expirirr.ents With ths Piant fj In1 crease Its Yield. Means Much to the South. Mist persons probably imagine that about tho only produotB from oorn are hominy, meal and whisky. The products of the oorn plant are almost as numerous and varied as those of the co'too plaDt. An exhibit of tho agricultural department in Washington shows that in case of ncosssity oorn oould bo depended upon for fo)d, clotning and strong drink, and a number of artioles of virtuo and luxury besides. A chemist of the department has gone so far ai to produoe from oorn a substitute for rubber which cannot bo told by au inexpert person from tho genuine artiolo. It looks like rubber from Brazil, feels like it, aots like it and has all of tho characteristic properties of iL So far tho invention has not been mado "oammeroially practicable," that is, tho prooess costs too muoh to make tho oorn rubber a oompetitor of the real rubber. It is to be expected howover, that the time will oome when rubber for tires will be grown in oorn fields. Another article of cepeoial interest in tho agricultural departments exhibit is oorn oil. This is likely to come mnrn rr l/*?o l!*" -? ? V* ?woo iuiu u jlxjjisuuoa wun ootton seed oil of tho higher grades. Tho corn oil is said to look precisely like olive oil to tasto liko it, and to be good for any use in which olivo oil is employed. Only tho most expert can distinguish corn oil from tho highest grade of Italian olive oil. The produot has beon turned to commercial aooount and already large quantiios of the oil aro Bold. There aro some pretty and lustrous, though not very strong, cloths from oorn fibre shown. There are also hats, baskets, eto., made of the fibre. No great stoio, however, is sot upon the possibilities in the lino of paper making. A merchantable quality of paper has been made from it, and experiments with it are being oontinued. The pith of the corn stalk as we have previously noted is being usjtrrTn \*r86 quantities in making opffuloae. packing the Bide" of wi'tfbips. arc a of the produots of I oorn plant. Ono of tho officials of Agricultural department is amWfrity for tho statement that all told thero are not far from one hundred produots to be had from corn. It will interest farmers to know that tho department is conducting investigations and experiments with a view to largely increasing, if not doubling, the production tf oorn, without any increase in expenso of cultivation or of acreago. It is hoped this can be accomplished by a system of selection of oorn for planting is said to be a most important matter. Probably 999 farmers out of every 1000 make their selections of ears after corn is in the barn. This is said to bo wrong. This selection should be mado in the field, tho health, vigor and strength of tho stalk boing taken into account. By carefully selocting tho seed oorn from the stalks in autumn, a considerably increased yield it is Baid, may be secured, while by cross breeding the best specimens tho nitxogon oontents of tho corn wiil bo increased. The department has now produced several thousand hybrids. Within the next year ir two it hopes to evolve a oorn which with prop3r cultivation and f?rtilication will produce 100 bushels to tho aore on land that uow brings forty to fifty bushels. A Dog's Long Fast. On July 27th Mr. Jones Wilson, of Millville, wentoutinthe Eureka neighborhood oi business. His little dog, a rat terrier way homo ho missed tbo dog, and as it did not appear after Le reached homo ho supposed it had been stolen. Last Sunday he got to thinking about the d >g, when suddenly it oscored to him that ho might have looked the dog in a room in a house which ho visitod. lie drove out to the place and went to tho house. On opening tho door he found tho dog. It was alivo and, while not very frisky, was ablo to wag iij tail and walk out. IIo brought it home and fed it and it showed very little signs of its long fast. It had gone without food or water for sixteen days.?Andorson Daily Mail. The Nogroe's Best. Friend. A Negro preacher is quoted as saying at the Kmancipation Day celebration in Wise county, Vi., the other day: "Oao thing 1 cannot understand is that the same white man who votos in Richmond to take away the vote of tho Negro will be tho first man to help the Negro when ho gets into troublo." The Augusta Chronio'e says the cxtaUna^An ;? 'PL. -1- ?* 1 |/inu.ivivu i3 uR'sy. x nu Pi'UtDOrD WUllO nraa is the best friend the N jgro has. Hi is always ready to help him in nosd, but he does notconsidor the ballot safo in his hands. Imitating Sherman Arnold White, the well known newspaper men engaged in writing Knglish news for American papers, doolares in his most reoont letter that the Boer war has reached suoh a state that "Sherman's march through Qeorgia is the favorite historical today" because it is regarded as "alesson in devastation." How interesting this truth so plainly stated must be to northern oritics and southern defenders of British methods! But wo aro sorry for the Boers if Kitohenor is to ape, Sherman. Wo are alic sorry for tho British statesmen who aro responsible for suoh barbarity. A Good Law. William E. Curtis reports a condition of things in Swoden that is notable. Ho writes that in that country the saloons are closed on Saturday, whioh is tho universal pay day, while the savings backs remain open until midnight Saturday night.