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The JVLarlboro Democrat V "DO THOU, GREAT ULBHUTY, INSPIRE OUB SOULS AND MAKE OUB LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OH OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." VOL XXXIH ~ 13ENN?TTSVILLE. S. C.. FRIDAY. APRIL 10, 1908 NO. 15 ~ CUT IN TWO. Thirty-six Men Perish In a Tor pedo Destroyer Which " GOES TO THE BOTTOM Tho Deck Crew C.OON Down With tho Vessel-Dressed lu Oilskins and Boot?, Victims Have Xo Chance Twenty-Two Arc Rescued by Moats From tho Other Ships-Destroyer Tries to doss Rig Cruiser's Wow. A dispatch from Portsmouth, Eng land, says thirty-six mon, including Lieut. Middleton, commander of the torpedo boat destroyer, Tiger, lost their lives in a collision off thc Isle of Wright, Friday night, between .that vessel and the British cruiser Berwick, Thc vessels belong to the Ports mouth division of the British home fleet and were engaged hi night man euvers in the channel c. ? their way to Fortland. Thc night was very dark and the s Berwick was steaming slowly. When .tue destroyer attempted to cross the big cruiser's bow she was caught amidships and cut in hali with knife like percison, sinking almost Imme diately. The deck crew who were dressed in heavy oilskins and hoots, went down With the vessel, liol having time to free themselves from these heavy en cumbrances. Of the twenty two men who were rescued most of them wert' engineers and stokers, who having light cloth ing, were able to keep themselves afloat until boats from tho other ships, which were immediately launched, picked them up. The smaller naval vessels were iii the midst, of an attack on their big ger consorts when the disaster occur red. Tho entire* licet was under masked lights, and In darkness. The destroyer was cut in two as if she had boen blade of paper.. The for-, \va,(t half sunk Instantaneously and (hosea became dotted with struggling men. Most of them, however, sank before help could reach them. Tho Tiger bad a complement of Ufty-nhie men. M THREE DEAD AND MAW Iltur. Terror Stricken 'tenants are Wedged Solidly on (be Escapes. At New Yoik three persons wore killed, fifteen were injured, some ol' them seriously, ano ino lives ol' near ly a hundred persons were endangered by a lire In a live-story tenement house at No. -Il Hester street. Miel Weinstein, his wife and one year old son were suffocated lu t heir apart ments on tho fifth door. In their mad attempt to escape ? rom the smoke and Ure scores of scantly clad men, women and chil dren crowed the narrow iron plat forms and ladders until they became wedged In solid masses oil th(! fire escapeas, unable to extricate themselves and blocking llio way ol' those who had not yet succeeded in getting out of the building. In tho meantime the flames had been con stantly spreading and the terror among tho tenants had carried them . asl tlw point of self restraint. * While tho firemen were calling ont to thom that there was no (langel and that help soon would reach them they beggar., one by one, to jump from the windows, resulting hi thc list of injured. * TROUBLE AT CL*-ON. Ovor Ralf of thc Hoys look Holiday on Wednesday. A dispatch from >. .einson to The State says a little more than naif tho cadets, principally lower classmen, taking advantage of April I. tooK holiday and went to Pendleton thia morning. All the seniors, most of tho members of the athletic teams and a number of all classes remain ed at the ctdlego and are attending their regular duties. The disciplino commttto is consildorng tho mailor hut it is not known what acto inn it wii' tnkko. WEST \ IRCINIA I OK DEVAN'. Il< ls Endorsed by a Vote Of Two lo One. T De'iioftrattc State executive Com hi i tl eo I Weal Virginia Friday decided io ld (lie stale nomination convention it Charleston on July 29. ?v The convention IO select delegates to the national Democratic convention ot Denver will bb held In Wheeling on May 28. After an ucrtlli lilas de *"ito of throe hens, a solution, indorslrg William J. Hr,.m was dopto by a vote of 10 to M., . BOYS SENT HOME. FORTY-BIGHT CLEMSON CADETS AKE EXPELLED. Discipline Committee Going to Rot tom of "All Fools' Day" Rebellion lind tlio Knd is Not Yet. Forty-eight out of ninety-two mem bora of the junior class of Clemson College and ono suspended on Sat urday for disobedience of orders on April 1. Tho boys Iel! coll?ge and went lo Pendleton some miles away on Wednesday, when they bad been commanded not lo do so. They also sent disrespectful telegrams hack to several of the professors. After full investigation the discipline committee sentenced forty-eight members of the junior clans to expulsion and one to suspension. The committee has not yet reported on the sophmore and freshman classes, many of whose members took part in the escapade. None of the senior class wore invol ved in the trouble, it is a deplorable afluir. Nearly all the dismissed cadets say thal they realize that, they did wrong and that they deserve punishment. Theil? seems to be an absence of re sentment. In fact those dismissed are anxious thal no Student Shall leave on their account or because of any pledge that they would stick to the class. T. S. Allen, captain of the foot, ball team, says that he was a leader aftr ethe affair gol started and that he luis no kick coining on his punishment. Ho experts to do all in his power to keep any other stu dent from going because of any com pact or their sympathy. His sensible action will he followed hy many ol' the dismissed cadets. lt is not like ly that any consldorabbtc number ex cept those dismissed will leave. The following are the names of the dismissed cadets: Deadbolt. .1. x.. narnwell. Ilclltngor, (!. H., Columbia. Murray. .1. I).. Columbia. I loi n, 10. S.. Prosperity. Pennell. C. II. Abbeville Pennell, J. U.. Abbeville. Jenkins. lt, C.. Kershaw. Allen, T. S., Anderson. Hrh t.,I). C., Abbeville. Coleman, I,. A., Laurens. Yoargin. T. H., Laurens. Fulmer, T. F., Saluda. Happoidi. A. IL, Charleston. Haskell. hu C., Abbeville. Kelly. S. (>.. Leak. Boone, b. C. Orangobiirg. Covington. .1 C.. Honnet.lsvllle. Robinson, \Y. A.. lOasley. Simpson, .1. H.. Anderson Simpson, NV. Anderson Adams, iii IO., tidgcflehl. Hulton. (}. A., Newberry Gardiner, IO. A., Aiken Creamer, A. NY,, ( ! reen v i Ile. Twlggs, ll c., Greenwood. Mlake, lt, K. Abbeville. Hrockhigton, NV. .1.. Williamsburg. Clarke. NV. C . Denke. Creen, H. H., Abbeville Nance. NV. I... Laurene Sheeley, NV. .1., Newberry Watkins. T NV., Anderson Dove. .1 L., Fnlrileld Greene, F, lt . York Crier, A.. Darlington Rush; M IL. Charleston II unter. H. <?.. Pendleton McMillan. .1. I'., Marion Odom, W. F.. Harnwell Clement, 10. H.. Charleston Tar box. I-', s., Georgetown Fa son, .1. I.'., Charleston Candy. Fi I... Darlington. M Rey, T.', Peake. Wlgfall, C. Charleston. Splatt. W. C., ('hester ChamnOSS, 10.. Marlboro Wilson, .). Il,, Chester G HOST MONEY' RI'RN ED. Clcnriug House Certificates Destroyed in Columbia Last Week. A tire in Columbia last week de stroyed $446,832, but no one lost a cent .and there were no regrets. The Columbia Clearing House Association held a meeting al which all the banks were represented and the Clearing House Certificates issued some Hmo ago were ordered destroyed, having boon redeemed and recalled. The total amount of the issue was about $4fiO,DOO, and there ls about $;>.00? in certificates still outstand ing, some of Which ai in the hands of the banks The ( uring House Cor tl ttcateS served their purpose and the stringency In currency having pasSOd, the BSUO was retired some weeks ago. PREACH FR'S DODY FOI XD. Hurled I nder the Ruins of a Wreck ed Church. NV hilo clearing away the debris of the HSpWOrth Methodist church, east of Columbus, (la., which was wrock od by n storm several days ago, tho bod) of Kev. .lohn Wynn, a negro preacher, of Cuthbert, Ca., waa found under the timbers. He had taken re fug" I? tho church during tho heavy storm. PRETTY ROMANCE. SECURED A WIFE HY NEWSPA PER ADVERTISING. Tho Prospective Heide Came Prom Michigan and Met liwr Ditettded Husband, in Columbia. Tho Columbia State says through tito agency of dear old Undo Sam's mails a romance watch bridged 1.000 milos and culminated rhu.aday In the joining of the ..earls and lives of a South Carolinian and .Michigander. A venerable citizen of tnis State, who bad seen service in tho Con Cod ra tb army and whose hair is snowy white, patronized a matrimonial agency several months ago and had insereted in the o f?lela 1 publication of 1 he perpetual bliss society an ad vertisement, giving notice lo all mar riageable women from coast to coast that he was lonely in his ol 1 age and was In a receptive mood to take unto himself a partner for life. The advertisement told of h.s be ing a farmer. In a prosperous farm ing section of South Carolina, and the information that he was able to provide for a helpmate and would not only provid? for uer but shower upon hoi all the love and affection ol his warm heart. A winsome lady of far-away Mich igan answered the advertisement and one letter followed another for a brief spell, and finally he of marrying in clinations sent uer word to "com? down." Ile liked her photograpn and liked also tho way her M tiers were written. , , She lol,I him thal she had a son, and this was satisfactory to the niau who was lookin? and longing for a good wife Ile sent the money for tin- two tickets and wrote thal he would meet her in Columbia. They mei there ami recognized each oilier. Instantly, for lacy had exchanged photograpns, and as she alighted from thc train they fell In to each other's arms and Hie lPtle fellow was happy, too. They left on the next train for* Sumter,' whor.e they planned to be married, and from ll)**re tliey will go lo tliqir homo in W illiamsburg county. .1-'. M. ? Dritten ; Sr.. is (he ,n ido groom and he resides at Church, Williamsburg county lie is past 70 years of age and is a little hard of hearing, but otherwise is sprightly and well preserved physically, lie is "well fixed" hi a financial way and has a nice home ail prepared foi the bride of his later years. The bride is Mrs. Lillian Barnett of Kalamazoo. Mich., and sin- ls just past forty-live. Her son is a bright yoting boy and when seen willi Iii.; mother and the mau she bas chosen as his step-father bc seemed lo bc very well pleased. Kl LI,KB BY I ALL. On the l?vo of His Celebration of His Biri Inlay. .lust as the family preparations for a surprise party in honor of his i Otb birthday wen? heine, completed last evening, Louis Lee. ot Seginow . Mich . was killed by falling down stairs He died hall an hour after being picked up by his mother ai the foot of the stairway The young man who was well known as an at?ldete and football player, had been complaining that he felt sick Starting to descend tin stairs, he missed his footing, turned a sonlorsailll in the air and landed on his. back on the door below. I'll.? siclans found that his bitch was broken. i: \liTilol AKI; PREDICTED. Hy u (touring Well al Beloit. Wis., On Two Occasions. Tho "roaring Well" near Beloit, Wis., indicted the Mexican earth quake as it did the om- at San 1 .an ci .co. 'I'lie well ls in the fa rbi of Charles. Lathers, northeast of Beloit, ll roared for several weeks, I eton tin- great earthquake at San francis co, and tho curious sound of ruin bllngs, together with wind from the mouth of the well ceased ul the pre eise hour when the shock struct the California city. On the day. a littlo over a Week ago when the well re sumed its roaring, residents of Hock county prodictod a calamity. Mon day it came, at Chllapa, Mexico. WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE. Wife of flrocerytnnn Sends Bullet Tuto lier Breast. A special to The News and Courier from Spartanburg says Mrs. J.one Sharp, wife of .1. H. Shari?, a grocer committed silicide Thursday after noon by shooting herself In the chest with a iL!-eal I bro p.stol. Desponden cy is said to have been the cause of the act. She walked Into her room ami seizing her husband's pistol plac ed lt to her bbroast and fired. She died almost instantly. DOES IT FREE. tOF (?It H AT INTEREST TO ALL STOCK OWN HUH. Investigations of Contagious and In fections Diseases of Animals Made Without Cost to the Owners. Tlie majority of stock owners clo not know that this Slate provides for tlie investigation fit' contagious diseases and conseil neut ly there ls an unnecessary loss of ninny animals each year. .Some of these animal dis eases are also com m un lea li le and Ca lal to man. and. therefore the ap pearance of any disease of suspicions character should bo promptly report ed to the Stal<> Veterinarian. All let ters asking for information of noncon tagious diseases ol animals will ho promptly answered, but uwneds are fully requested to fully describe the, symptoms of tho disease. Observo the following rules in requesting in vestigations: Rule l. All notices for contagious or Infectious diseases should be sent lo "Veterinarian. Clemson College, S. C." ltuie 2. Wnon two or moro reput able citizens of any county In tins Stato shall not it v said veterinarian that any animals in their county are affected With a contagious disease, Hie tendency or which is to cause tin- death ol' such animals, lie will Investigate ile- same, or cause ?in In vestigation thereof to lie made. Such notices should also state the num ber ot' animals sick, tin- number ex posed and tho number dead, or it should contain such other information as may Indicate (hat tho disease in question is contagious or infectious and one thal can bo legally investi gated under tho law. Hale When said notice shows thal the disease is contagions or In ectious ?in Investigation will bo made, Inoostigalions will be made in the order not Ices-a re received when this is practicable; otherwise they will ^>o made in order or importance or sfveordlug to location. ?Hi?'?. 'l. Persons requesting inspoc Ptho '..u 'i'.' hoM /the . ..hivlv^lu readiness, awaiting the arrival of the veterinarian br assistant veterinarian, and be present io give the required Information and assistance. ltuie r>. The veterinarian, when re quested, w ill furnish blanks on which m make reports. All letters ol' In quiry asking tor information regard ing animal diseuses will bo unswero 1 as soon after their receipt ?is may be lound practicable. Kale ii. In accordance with Section :>. of lhe ad Of February ft, IflOi. Clemson College will pay the a.s sn ry expenses ol' the veterinarian, or assistant velornarian. in making in spections wher? animals are affected with contagious diseases. The own er is expected to provide transporta tion to ami from the railway ?untimi und furnish necessary labor and tooti while tho animals uro being le toil or aro in quarantine. Kale 7 lt' ail inspection ha4 been requested and Hie sick animal die or recover indore the arrival bl' Hu In spector, tho poison requesting Hie ?.i spcctlon must notify tho vol erl nar inn. UR DOE i \i.i.s. three Men Watching ?Hub Waler Swept to theil Death. Three mon wore drowned by tlie collapse or n nu:<e,,risi<>n bridge at ltockkk, VV. Va., spanning bluestone Uiver. Tlie victims were standing on Ibo bridge with five otboi- mon and hoy?, watching the rushing current when tho bridge gave way, precipita ting Hi?- entire eight into the river I Five were washed down stream to ;? (point where the river had overflowed Us banks and wore lodged in trees from which they were rescue. The bodies of tho three victims have not boon recovered MAN 111"UT IN WRECK. SOCK UM Leg Cu! oh" With His Own Knife. Pinioned under wreckage caused by ?i rear end collision on the Bur lington road Friday and with steam from a broken engine pipe pouring In to his face, Horace A. Mckittrick. :i ?tock broker of tti'OOkflold, Mo.., directed tho amputation of his leg and furnished n dull .tack knife with which tho work was done. The rough operation was performed by the Kev R. C. Allen, of drove City, l'a , nt it failed in Its purpose, McKltti lek dying later al a hospital. Admiral Evans Seeks Dealt li. Admiral F.vatis, accompanied by his son, Lieutenant Fvans, Flag 1.Ionien ant Train and 1'assed Assistant Sur geon McDonald arrived at a hotel at Hot Springs, Cal., Thursday. The Admiral hopes for a speedy restora tion to health. " MANY OUT OF WORK Till? LABOR CONDITIONS ARE MOST DISTRESSING. Thousands o f Wage Earners Are Tlu own Out ot Employment ;iy Distressed Industrial Conditions. A Washington Dispatch says the most serious problem now confront ing the country |s tho unprecedented number of idle work people in every city of any considerable si/.o through out the land. In New Yor\ alone, according to the latest statistic.-:, nearly 700,000 are without employ ment, and with no visible means of support except what comes through a precarious sort of charity. Ol this number over 200,000 are reported as belonging tv? the various labor organizations, tho rest ?icing nonunion work people. Tho condi tion of tho laboring class is almost, i'' not quite, as bad lu Chicago Not. a city, in fact, either in the Northern or Central Western states is cxehipl from this anomalous state of things. Bven in tho extreme Nortinvest there ls a surplus of un employed labor. efforts have been made to relieve the city of New York of its congested Idle working people, but so far all efforts have proven l'utile. Recently Hm editor of tho Christian Herald sent letters to the governors of over twenty sintes Inquiring if it woujd lie possible to replace unskilled with skilled labor, and saying that lie could supply two thousand skilled laborers ?it a moment's notice. With- 1 oui H single exception, the governors ' replied to his letters lo the effect 1 thal their states have more idle work- ? inn people of their own than they I could provide with employment. 1 The sit nat lon is frightful, and con- 1 sideling the enormous crops made last year and the vast wealth ol' the i ?country, it is strangely anomalous. \ Added to this general impression in < (he business world, by which a mil- I lion ami a half of work people have ; been thrown out of employment, is I tho fact that, the cost of living luis i ant deevoasiHl to any appreciable UKI t tent. Such a condition of things t would seem to be prophetic ol' a reign t of terror. 1 No work and hunger that cannot < be appeased by honest toil make peo- 1 pie desperate. They are ripe for re- t volution ol' for anything that will , keep the wolf ol starvation from their doors And yoi nothing is being ; done n> relieve (he situation. Tho I thouble is, what can be done? All | thal we can say is thal ti-; a pity the ( innocent h ave lo suffer for the wrong | doing of the guilty. Business heretofore conducted im- | properly, if not dishonestly, in its return io honest channels ol' output and trail.' has left these unemployed stranded and with nothing to stave oil' si arvat ion. They are the suffer ers, ii ot those who by devious and dishonest methods were responsible for the punic that has Wt'OUghi SUCh widespread ruin. The Soul h. being an agricultural conni ry. is fortunately exempt in a large measure from this dreadful con dition of labor glut, although in thc larger cities wi? have more unemploy ed p copie that they care lo see. lt is possible that the farmers of the South, who ;it this time of tho year need help, could relieve to some ex tent the congestion in other sections of the country. Hut tho groatost dif ficulty in the way would be the fact that the greal majority of the unem ployed are artisans of one calling o^ ?mother and know probably nothing about farm work SENT l l' FOB TEN YEARS For Sending Through the Mails a Deadly Machine. Ai Greensboro, N. C., Hardin nor mally wm convicted in Hie superior court and sentenced to the peniten tiary, for sending an infernal ma chine through Hie mail to Caesar Cone, (he millionaire cotton manu facturer to that city, two weeks ago. Germany was a former employe in one ol' Mr. Cone's mills, and is 20 years of age. He dill not emply coun sel to defend him, and offered no tes timony, but nCdlcd the charge. Mr. Con was tho principal witness. DIED FROM 111' RN'S. Hanging Lamp Calls lo Floor With Fatal Hesults. Ar; the result of severe burn - IM Celved by (I swinging lamp In i room falling from its fastenings lind breaking at her feet. Miss l.ollie Smith, daughter of M. i>. Smith, of Wnughtown, N. c.. died Tuosday, and ber mother is confined to her room suffering from painful bm ns received in trying to save the life of her daughter A brother, (Himer, was i also badly burned In attempting to put ont the flumes that envelop".) ila mother and sister. THEY ARE GLAD. Republicans Are Jubilant ||That Senator Tillman is Absent ARE AFRAID OF HIM. Tho Republican Loaders Snid to Bo Breathing Easier Than in Years Because of the Enforced Absence of the Senior Senator Prom South Carolina.-Democrats Will Greatly .Miss Him and Ills Lcadorship. The Washington correspondent of Tho Nows and Courier says since it was announced a fow days ago that Senator TUman's physicians had positively forbidden him to return to Washington before the beginning of the next session of Congress and in the meantime had ordered a completo chango or livng In ovory respect, there has boen tl considerable amount of discussion as to who will tako his part In the Denver Convention and will load tho Senate until he returns. It ls said that Republican loaders are breathing easy now for the first time since Tillman went to the Son ate. While they admit that he ha? toned down considerable sinco his advent into Washington political lifo he ls still, they say, anything but docile, and what troubles them most is that they never can tell just where r>r When he is going to break out. That part of the Senator's make-up has given them more trouble than i little and many times when they bought him quieted he was only gathering ?nore material for a still nighter onslaught. Beveridge, Lodge, Aldrich, Hale, u fact all the big men on the Re ?ubllcan side of the Senate wear a llfferent look now from that to bo 'OUnd on their features two weeks igo. They knew Tillman was a ighter who did not know the mean ng of tho word fear and they had to ..oe. >. m a ey. tWi.s ^tv'?ere . tn ? ockle In order to gob a hold.- Somo imos they held him, sometimes they brew him, but it w.ns always be :ause of the combined forces of tho tepuhldicans on one side as opposed o the half-hearted help of the Dem ocrats on the other. No man who had made plans to it tend tho Denver Convention will bo nore missed than Tillman and many Democrats who expect to attend from llfferent parts of tho United States have so expressed themselves. Ho ivas to be the central figure-certain ly so far as the South is concerned unless it be Hailey, of Texas, and Lhere is now serious doubt whether the great Texas orator will ho al lowed tr. present his State or not. lowed to represent his State or not. There will be ether Democrats from various seed ions of the country, but all eyes wore be ginning to centre on Tillman and Hailey as tho two Southern leaders. The people of T?xas have never boen able tt? believe that their for mer idol, Hailey, was entirely divor ced from tho scandal that two years ago came near ending his political life, when his alleged connection with the Waters-IMerce Oil Company became known to them. In order that tho people Of Texas may vote on the issue as to whether Dalley shall he one of the four delegates at largo to the Denver Convention a special election ls to he bold May 2. Should it be decided itt that election that Halley shall not attend two of the foremost Democrats in political lifo to-day will be absent-Tillmun and Hailey. DEATH CAUSED HY LAUGHTER. Widow Ovorcome by Joke Related at a Social Function. At New York overcome by laugh tot nt ti joke by a member of the com pany slit; was atondlng, Mrs. Ann?. Cerrera a widow forty-two yearn old, was unable to stop tho laught parox ysm. She foll to the floor, was llft do back into ber chair, gasjring for breath and before the horrified guests roail/ed that anything serious was cho matter oho was dying. Roforo a phy sician who was summoned could reach tho house she was dead, i __^?___ i SHE HORSEWHIPPED HIM. Says He Had Annoyed Her With Hist Attention?. I in tho presence of a thousand poo 1 plo, Mrs. Minnie Cowden, of James town, N. Y., Inn .st u hipped Henry I Franklin, on the city's main thor oughfare Friday. When Franklin tore tho whip from her hands, Mrs. Cowden broke an mn broil a ? 1 or hm lusul. According to Mrs. C >wdon, Franklin had hoon annoying her with hh attentions. .