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Jfesporate Hep Kriminals Shoot Bowo Police. Whole Square Burned and Negroes Shot While Attempting to Es cape. mniA CALLED OUT. vf Atlanta, Ga., May 17.-An effort by officers of the law. to arrest negro Outlaws, who had barricaded them? selves in a store, resulted today in the most fatal riot in the. nistory.. of- the city. - Eight men were Jailed, inelud ? lng* three- policemen, -j k white citizen a?? four negroes; Six people, black ! and white,: werewounded. The most i " ?e^t?ng scenes prevailed at the pl?ce emilie disturbance and all available ?l^poli?emeni^ with: -^e miHtary,; called out- by the Governor/; had all they could do to prevent ? general riot An /^entire block:<jfrbnildings was burned before the conflict wMch began early ; morning, was terniinated. -/ ; / The.scene of- -the tragedy was - on McDaniel street, a few hundrep yards - /tmtside the city' limits. The county police first attempted tc- raid the place alone where the negroes: hack taken - refuge, and later the city police were called upon for aid. Still laier "the, V>^6rOvemor. was appealed to and' the ^iinrEtary were ordered out In the barricaded store were three ' negroes. - It-is beHeved;there were at firstas-. many- aa five, /and . that .two ;:; A?8caped' before ; daylight; . The store was;a -small arsenal, in which were a. gglsumber.of /Wiachester ; rifles and a gpiSBaall Gatling gun. It was- a rendez-* vous for a gang of'thieves and mur? derers. /. ..--./;,.,.....;.*'./-/ '. . After the: burned body of Bichard . :. son had been found an angry crowd of waste, men seized : it and bore it ? towards the .city. ;<3hief Ball threw a ggeorjefon of police across a street at the ^^^Jimits and? ^?ok^ t?ieyb^y away ?fepro^the crowd and sent it to the. city in :/a- wagon. . - ':' ??.".-{ While the procession was passing, : ???H Gregg, a negro/ was ... heard to g/ remark^ kill ||^M?groes th^at way, and he had no soon ^P^^?ken th?'iwords-than le was '."-rid ^die^ with bullets. : He. was. taken to ?00&& county. fail, where he died- to l-night. Fifty men of the 5th infantry / iUd^atrbl duty in the disturbed * dis v icics all dayr being : relieved tonight hy?n& Gate City Guards. As a further ^ ^r^caution Governor /Candler tonight . /ordered every/militiaman1 in ; Atlanta . n^ and to ' remain at their ?'; company headquarters: until further r^GO^EBN?B CANDLERS' STATE .MENT. ||i|^^vernor^ follow-. ing statement tonight: : "?t 7.'. o'clock this morning I was called up . by Deputy Sheriff. Shr?p ?j^'ishire, -who informed me that a despe ;ll"iate; negro, who had waylaid and ; wounded a policeman on Friday, had '/. "been located in"an old store house on |?McDaniel street,- beyond the . city Jr; limits, and that the county police had > surrounded the house and were wait? ing until daylight to capture him. f^^L&t?i?s statement he telephoned me ; ^rVauthbri "I advised him not to do so, but to ^|g^nard the house and to prevent the ^ai?ape '-of : the negro and to call me f^ga?* whenl got to my office. I at ^^?^^rdexed Major Barker to proceed ?fcfcifeut delay to the scene of the dis? turbanceTTjth. fifty men and a Gatling ^^aa;r:3a^a few f?inutes Deputy" ^?heraff- Sh?ops?ure^ advised me that, / while he had been at the telephone j .r^?k^ to~me, Sheriff Neims had or- j ""dereel the rbonse burned and the negro [ l^haclr escaped,but was believed to be in ; another aoase near by. Meanwhile'the Jroojs under Major Barker had gone ^ " the scene of the trouble, order*3 y.?^ing^yel^ liot t? fire on any to^s? -. in.frhich there WCrfc ;aay ' women and cM?drpn* Before the .'troops, arri ved, :; it iiaVing been ascertained, there were /feo women, or children in this house, lt also was fired. Meantime the negro, p^Sdio was armed with two "Winchester //rifles' and was an expert shot, had. / "killed tbreje more white officers and wounded two others, and two negroes ? had also been killed? but the ringlead &??er would not come out, remaining until the house was burned down over Mm. v "The whole trouble grew out of the attack upon and severe wounding of the county policeman by the negroes. Three negroes are in jail " l'h?ve orderedall the troops in the city under arms and have a heavy for?a on duty at Pittsburg,? a dense negro settlement, to prevent-further trouble. All harmless negroes and their homes will be protected at whatever cost, and : all riotous conduct on the part of any? body, white pr. black, will be met with whatever force may be neces? sary to preserve order. ' ' Sev?nteen-Year Locusts. Washintgon, May 17.-Large num? bers of seventeen-year locusts have made their appearance in this city and reports of similar visitations have reached the departmen t of agriculture from Altoona, Pa., and Nashville, Tenn. The department entomologists say that young nursery trees and young, shoots of mature trees are all that will sustain injury from the visi? tation of the locusts, and that there is no cause for alarm over their .appear? ance. It is anticipated that the locusts will be reported from other portions of Tennessee, and from Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro? lina, Kentucky and other, localities. THE STATE FAIB. Thursday was the day upon which the bids for the State fair recently called for by the committee were to have been opened. None of the com? mitteemen reside here and it could not be definitely acsertained yesterday whether any bids were presented. It is said that there were none. Colum? bia did not put in a bid to keep the fair here, the merchants and business men taking the view that if the fair is carried away they will at once organize an epxosition company and give a first class show every fall.-The State, May217. THE CHILD LABOR QUESTION. Senator Tillman Speaks Out on a Grave Issue. Washington, May 17.-Senator Till? man has written the following letter to one of his constituents and is desirous that it have widest circula? tion possible in South Carolina : My Dear Sir : I have your letter of May 6. The House committee has rejected the Lovering resolution, look? ing to a Constitutional amendment allowing Congress, to fix the hours of labor, and l am glad of it. No such amendment should ever pass or become law. The people of the respective States alone should control such mat? ters and they are fully competent to do so. Your looking at things from only one standpiht is the reason why you have been misled into advocating such centralizing and un-Democratic doctrines. Suppose, for instance, that Congress, under the pressure of organ? ized labor in the cities, should pass an eight-hour law for all workmen throughout the United States? What would become of the agricultural work? ers of th.e country? I agree heartily with the idea of the South Carolina Legislature being com? pelled to protect child labor in our : factories, as well as prevent the exces? sive hours of laboramohg adults, and shall lend my support, with all the earnestness I possess, before the next Legislature to relieve the State of the odium now attaching to it, The cotton mill presidents may clamor for the privilege of blighting the lives of the children who work in their , mills, when they should be at play or at school,, and they may demand the right to declare dividends by his can? nibalistic process, but unless I mis? take the people of our State the issue has only, to be presented . fully and bravely to cause the Legislature to do its du$y by an overwhelming majority. sGod^forbid that we.should.ever have to seek reilef from Congress in that or any other proper reform of a local character. I consider the action of the mill' owners in Aiken Comity in locking out their employees as the most cruel and unjustifiable wrong I. have ever known of.; It cannot be disputed that men have-thecrighfc to strike and quit work, nor can it be disputed that the owners of cotton mills have the right to close their doors and not give work, but the effort to force tbs King mill people to return to work by punishing all the operatives in the other ^mills;i who{have nothing to do with it and living even in' a different State3 is something unheard of _in the South. Those mills would never been built but with a view to employing labor for the mutual benefit of both the owners and workers, and when the lockout came it was too late for the operatives to seek employment on the farm, as no crop could have been planted at that late date. I had rather see every cot? ton mill in South Carolina burned down and never have another one be built than to have those who own them make slaves of those who work in them. The child labor business is cold-blooded greed. The Aiken lock? out is a proclamation unspeakable in its infamous cruelty and insolence. The unnecessary suffering it has pro? duced and the sense of wrong will ?ahse incalcuable injury. There are men in; Aiken County who, to my knowledge, have been working faith? fully apd continually, for years and fears in j^e" Horse Creek Valley, with 3Bt ^eis^htest friction, and if all khe.cperfttives in that valley could move away and leave the mills to rot lown for ?he want of labor it would be nothing more than just retribution for this high*handed and outrageous action on the part of the owners? B; K: Tillman. | ; PufoJi? Unti??^. -. The Forum. The discovery that there is more of filth, squalor, and general sloveliness in public places and works, in streets, squares, riversides, docks, quays, roads j and;bridges in the United States than j in? any other country of the first or even second rankTs a humbling but salutary experience. In-what may be callled "our public housekeeping, in the outward appearance and maintenance of places and works administered by public or-semi-public -enterprises, we rank with Turkey' rather than, with England or Germany. Oriental Ja? pan, tiny Switezrland and slow-going Holland stand far ahead bf the United States in this respect. Our national slovenliness is seen in dirty streets and unsightly water fronts : in ill-kept squrares, ragged sidewalks and abomi? nable pavements: in shabby railway stations and embankment walls built up of rotting sleepers ; and in a thou? sand shiftless substitutes for solid permanent works. The unspeakable country roads which abound in so many regions not only illustrate the existence, but also demonstrate the folly of this semi-barbarous slackness of administrai ton ; for they constitute the most costly means of transporta? tion possible, impose a heavy tax on every farmer ' and other reisdent, and are a clog upon the general prosperity of the regions they traverse. Tidiness and the efficient maintenance of public works cost more in the first outlay than negligence : but they save this excess many times over in the end. Woman Murdered.in Laurens. Laurens, May 19.-Last night about 10.30 o'clock the sharp repoxt of a pis? tol and the scream of a woman startled the residents in the vicinity of the cotton mill store. They were quickly attracted to the house of Walker Edwards, a mill operative, where to their great astonishment Mrs. Ewdards was found in the back porch swelter? ing in her own blood, which was ooz^ ing from a bullet hole in the forehead, just above the left eye. She was un? conscious and remained so until the end came later. It is said that she and Edwards did not live happily and had a fuss early last evening. However, she and her husband had sat in the front piazza up to about 10 o'clock* when she announced ber intention of retiring and left the piazza presnmably for that purpose. A few moments later t?ie fatal shot was heard at the rear. The tragedy was soon enveloped in mystery. The coroner's jury foand a verdict that the deceased had come to her death at the hands of a person unknown. "STONEWALLS FATALISM. Jackson Prayed to God of Battles While Shell Fell. From Lippincott's Magazine. Jackson was as absolutely a fatalist as Napoleon, with this difference : that Jackson was a man with a religious creed, while Napoleon was not. Jack? son was a Presbyterian and an abso? lute believer in the tenets of that Church. As an evidence of his fatal? ism, I once saw him standing in a mountain road when the wheel of a caisson came off and was rolling di? rectly on him. An officer of his staff called to him to move, but he stood still The wheel struck a stone, bounded over the side of the moun? tain, and Stonewall Jackson turned to the officer and said* "You see, there was no danger. I knew it." It was Stonewall Jackson's habit to pray on the battlefield. His method was to5 remove his cap, raise his right hand and then pray to the God of bat? tles. I saw him do this on several oc? casions, notably on the field of Port Bepubiic, his battle with Shields, while sitting on his horse iii a road down which a splendidly served Northern battery was pouring shot and shell. Gen. Lawton informed me that sometimes he would give him an im? portant prder so quickly that it would almost take his breath away. Notably at Cedar Mountain Jackson rode up to him and said, "Gen. Lawton, ad? vance and drive the enemy from your front." Lawton replied, "General, there is a very ravine in the enemy's front." Jackson replied, "I know it. Advance!" He did not waste words. Jackson^ practice was to speak of the Northern troops as Mexicans. He very rarely called them anything else. JDr. Bunter McGuire, his medical director, is my authority for this statement. Stonewall Jackson died in a house that is still standing at Guinea Sta? tion, in Virginia, on the line of the Eichmond, Fredericksburg and Poto? mac Railroad. His left arra was am? putated at the shoulder, being - taken out. of the socket.. When he closed his-eyes in death his little daughter, then 2 or 3 years old, lay on his breast, with his right arm over her. His dying words were, "Pass the infantry rapidly to the front." "Tell A. P. Hill to prepare for action." "We will pass over the river 'and rest under the shade-of the trees on the op? posite side." He was delirious and, like Napoleon's, his mind, as it feebly fulfilled its last officers, was with his military past, Fessenden's Wireless Telegraph. Pittsburg, Pa., May 19.-The Ga? zette tomorrow will publish the fol? lowing: Prof. Reginald A. Fessenden, the wireless telegraph expert, is in Pitts-" burg with friends. He declared last night that he had completed arrange? ments for the organization of a close to $5,000,000 company for the develop? ment of the wireless system. Prof. Fessenden said also that his system of wireless telephoning has been perfect? ed to a degree that if appiled to Pitts? burg there would be none of v the troublesome crossing of lines. On the strength of the success of experiments condcuted in the interest of the United States Government, Prof. Fessenden has arranged to fulfill a number of contracts ? of importance. He and his associates will shortly take up the work of installing Trans Atlantic stations, connecting, in one instance, the United States and France. -i- i m -? ? +<r.mm - Will Have Office of Some Kind. 8ne Southern statesman who is ?f?t ty surely bound to have. effic? of some kind .is Seantof MSX&Srin, of South Carolina,, I? S??ms a. great pity that the Pr?sent cannot see this trader betwfcfeh the lines in his ' true light, b&fc he is more or less captivated by what seems to him like McLau Tia's chivalric assumption of a politi? cal cause which is not that of his State, but which is-dear to the President. ' The report that McLaurin is to be made a Judge or the Court of Claims, however, is not well founded. This Court is one of the most important iu the country, for it deals with larger amounts of money than does any other tribunal. It has been badly treated, however, and its Judges are wretched? ly paid, receiving only S4,500 per year. Congress ought to repair this injus? tice, and the President realizes that he ought to have a lawyer for the Bench whose ability is entirely dis proportioned to the meagTe salary. Henry Loomis Nelson, in the Boston Herald. um? Mr. George F. Seward, president or. the Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York, is an intimate friend of Mr. Andrew \ Carnegie, and -tells a most remarkable story concerning the millionaire Scotchman. It is in effect that when tho Spanish treaty was pending Mr. Carnegie went to 'Presi? dent McKinley and said to him that he wished to be sent to the Philip? pines as a special commissioner or. as one of the several commissioners, with authority to assure the Filipinos that the Americans were seeking only their good and had only the kindest feelings for them; that we desired to help them establish their own government securely and then their independence would be recognized. He further told Mr. McKinley that if he could have such authority he himself would undertake to pay the $20,000,000 which the treaty of Paris stipulated the Uni? ted States should pay to Spain for the relinquishment of her title to the Philippines. It is hard to believe that Mr. Car? negie made such a proposa?, as this to the President of the United States, yet the story comes from a reliable source. It was scarcely less than the offer of a bribe. It was certainly a reflection upon our government 'for Mr. Carnegie to intimate that a mone? tary consideration stood between us and our duty to the Filipinos. If Mr. McKinley had not boen one of the most amiable men in the world he would have shown Mr. Carnegie the door.-Richmond Times. , Switzerland is preparing to substi? tute electricity for steam on its rail? roads and water power for coal. It is the beginning of what appears to be the next great, revolution in the rail? way problem. ARMY OF MURDERERS. Testimony of Soldiers Reveals Hor? rors of Philippine Campaign. Refined Women Violated; Women With Babies in Arms and Old Men Butcher? ed; Their Bodies Burned. Washington, May 19.-During the Philippine investigation before the senate committee today a letter was read from Gen. Hughes, denying that he had ever given orders for the water cure and saying that if such a charge was made he wanted the fullest inves? tigation- of it. Corporal Richard O'Brien, formerly of the Twenty sixth volunteer infantry, testified to seeing the water cure administered. "There was," he said, "a Spanish woman in the town-woman of educa? tion-who was violated by the Ameri? can oflicers." This statement was made without any questioning and as soon as the witness had made it Senator Lodge asked for the names of the oificers. These the witness said he could not give, adding that he had not witness? ed the incident, but that the woman's husband was his authority for the statement. Senators Rawlins and Patterson ob? jected to the testimony as mere hear |.say and urged that it should not go into the record. The witness then was asked if Jae could not give further Eroof of the correctness of his charge, a response he related another instance of disorderly conduct, which had, he 'said, come under his own observation. This occurred at San Joaquin, the president of which place gave a recep tion to which a number of native women were invited f rom Hoilo. ' * They were," he said, /'above the average ) -not peasant women. " Among those present were Capt McDonad, Lieut. Plummer of Company M, and Major Cook. The witness said^these officers became intoxicated and while in that condition threw off all their clothes except their undershirts and their trousers, and catching the women about the waists insisted upon their waltzing with them, much to the disgust of the women. Witness said he was not on good terms with his captain. He also said | that at one place a woman with two children was burned to death in a bamboo shack when the troops were I burning the town. "Dum-dum'-' or | explosive bullets, he stated, were issued to the troops in the regular way and did horrible execution. There were "unwritten orders to take no prisoners," which were carried out in open campaign. He did not know who issued the orders, but they were understood to be in effect Upon close questioning he admited that he had seen many prisoners and they were being treated kindly by the officers and men. -O'Brien described the capture of Lanag in Panay, when a soldier fired at a native boy on a cariboo. He missed, then all the soldiers fired, himself included. This was not done by orders. "This shooting, " he said, "brought the people to their doors, and among those who came out was an old man who was shot in the abdomen and af? terward died. Later, while the firing was in progress two other old men be? tween the ages of 50 and'70, I should say, came towards us hand in" hand I < and bearing a white flag. Both were 11 shot down and the sergeant reported to Capt. McDonald that he had killed 1 two more 'niggers. ' ' Another case was < that of a ?woman and two children. I one in her arms, who were killed and then burned up in their house." MARTINIQUE AND ST VINCENT. Reports Ff??i? B?rbad??s and Fort de France. Washingtor, May 19.-Secretary Hay has receievd the following cablegram from United States Consul MacAllis ter, at Batbadoes, dated today : ''Sixteen hundred deaths at St. Vinr cent; four thousand destitute. Imme? diate wants suplied. ' Aid needed for six months." The navy department received the following dispatch from Commander McLean, of the Cincinnati : "Fort du France, May 19.-Water barge not needed. Ashes and vol? canic dust falling thickly here. Now like thick fog : decks covered. " The Potomac is reported to have reached St. Lucia Saturday. YESTERDAY IN MARTINIQUE. Fort de France, Island of Marti? nique, May 19-8 a. m.-A party from here has gone to St. Pierre on the British cruiser Indefatigable, carrying wit1 them coffins for the purpose of re recovering: the bodies of the family of Thomas T. Prentis, the late Uni? ted States consul at that place, who were killed in the disaster. The in? terment^ of th? remains will take place here and will be conducted with military honors. The Indefatigable brought 120 tons of supplies. . There wss another eruption from Mont Pelee yesterday.. Ashes fell here. The vlocano is stlil violently smoking and there are no signs of it ceasing'its activity. The United States cruiser Cincin? nati and the Uinted States, tug Poto? mac will be stationed here indefinite? ly. The Potomac will shortly go to the island of Guadaloupe to bring to this place the furniture, books, etc., of the office of the'United States con? sul there, Louis H. Ayme.. London, May IS.-A dispatch from Vienna to a news agency -says it is re? ported from .Cracow, Galicia, that a million roubles have been -stolen from the headquarters of the general -staff there. Two generals and several staff officers, says the dispatch, have been anested in connection with the rob? bery. Baltimore. May 17.-The City of i Charelston, S. C., has made a contract I with the Mercantile Trust and Deposit j , Company, of this city, for building j ! water-works, giving a thirty-years' j ! franchise to that corporation. The ! j Charleston Li^ht and Water Company j which acquired the water-works will j carry out the new undertaking for the ; j Baltimore company. T'?e capitaliza- j j tion consists of 8150,000 of twenty- ; j vear, 5 per cent gold bonds and ; i 81.000.000 of stock. . GREEN ANO GAYNOR ESCAPE. Return to Quebec Under Conduct of High Constable on Special Train. Montreal, Que., May 19.-Col Gay? nor and Capt. Greene have won the first skirmish in the fight against extra? dition to the United States and to? night the two men are in the old city of Quebec where they believe pro? ceedings to force them to return to the United States to answer the charge of defrauding the United States gov? ernment can be successfully fought. Tonight at 10 o'clock a special train o.n the Canadian Pacific arrived from Quebec with High Constable Gale and assistants on. board, armed with a writ of habeas corpus. They got into a cab and drove to the Montreal jail, to which institution Gaynor and Greene had been committed by Judge* Lafontaine during the afternoon. The stay of the high constable in the jail was of very short duration. Evi? dently Gov. Vallee and his guests awaited their coming, for in "a short time Gale appeared accompanied by Gov. Vallee and Messrs. Gaynor and Greene. A quick drive was made to the Place Viger. station, and an hour after the iarrival of the special train, it departed, with the much sooght fugitives from the American courts on board. EH alf an hour later the regular train for Quebec departed, having on board Donald MacMaster and Chief Car? penter. They went to answer the writ of habeas corpus served on Car-: penter. Incidentally Mr. MacMas? ter will use all his efforts to see that Gov. Vallee returns his prisoner, to the Montreal jail. The question as to whether he shall do so or not depends entirely upon the legality of the. ar? rest. The case will come up in Quebec tomoorrow. There was a warm argument today in the extraditioneourt before Judge Lafontaine when "the Gaynor-Greene case was called. It began when -the counsel for the accused complained that yesterday they were unable to secure access to their clients, who were being confined in a private prison at the Windsor Hotel. They therefore demanded that Gaynor and Greene be committed to the Montreal jail, in charge of Gc v. Vallee, so that they could get access to them. Mr. MacMaster for the United States government at first raised no objection, but a few minutes later he learned that two writs of habeas corpus had been sworn out and that one of these was addressed to Gov. Vallee. Once in the Montreal jail the writ would be served upon the governor and he would have no choice but to obey its call and take Gaynor and Greene down to Quebec Mr. MacMaster en? tered a vigorous protest against the proceedings. Judge Lafontaine took the matter under advisement and this afternoon decided that as the t prison? ers really should be in jail and desired bo go there he had no -alternative but to commit them. The prisoners were then taken and committed to the care 3f Gov. Vallee under formal remand antil Friday next. Quebec, Que., May 19.-On receipt Df the news that Judge Lafontaine of Montreal had remanded Messrs. Gay? nor and Greene to the Montreal jail tvrits of habeas corpus were secured, sailing upon the sheriff to produce the two prisoners in Quebec. A special train was chartered and High Consta ole Gale and a number of provinci?l ?onstables left at 5 o'clock for Mon? treal to serve the papers and if possi? ble to get possession of Greene ' and Sraynor. ; SPABTANB?RG WINS THE CUP. lury Has Awarded Prize to Spar? tan Women. Charleston, May 17.-Spartanburg has won .the prize for the best county ?xhibit in the Woman's building. The following is the report of the commit? tee, which was selected by Mrs. S. C. Simonds, president of the Woman's" board, without their names being known even to the executive commit? tee. Spartanburg also won the first prize of 81,000, for the best county exhibit at the Exposition: At the request of the president of the Woman's^board of the Exposition, Mrs. Sarah Calhoun Simonds, Mrs. Richard NP. Bland, Mrs. Edyth Tozier Weatherred and Mrs. S. Rhett Roman, consenting to act as - a committee on awards, have examined carefully and critically the county exhibits of women's work placed in the Woman's building, with a view to give . their unbiased and honest opinion as to which county, by its superior display of art and other women's work, and its superior decoration, should be award? ed the silver cup prize offered by Mr. James Allen for that, purpose. The counties which have exhibits in the Woman's building are the follow? ing; Dorchester, Greenville, Laurens, Newberry, Edgefield, Anderson, Or angeburg. Union, Sumter, Florence, Berkeley, Spartanburg, Aiken and Georgetown, thirteen in all. Houston, Texas, May IS.-A tele? gram from Superintendent Forbes, of the New York, Texas and Mexican, to General Manager Van VIeck, in this city, says that eight blocks of busi? ness houses were blown down at Goliad. Thirty negroes and twenty seven white people were killed and seventy-five or eighty others injured. San Antonio, May 18.-Shortly after noon today a terrible wind and rain storm swept over San Antonio, damag? ing propertv to the extent of not less than $50,000. The wind reached a velocity of. seventy-two miles an hour and continued at that rate for nearly twenty minutes. A BARGAIN IN PENS, Esterbrook's Superior Steel Pens. AH Sizes. For Sale. Sumter, S. C., May 20.-We have just bought, at a sacrifice sale, 50 ?gross Esterbrook's Pens, assorted sizes, which we oller at 30 cents a gross. The Esterbrook pen is the standard in quality and is never sold for less than 75 cents a gross-many stationers charge SI a gross. H. G. OSTEEN & CO. . Liberty Street COAL MINE HOBBBB IM TEiMIIBM^EE/ j About Two Hundred Men and Boys Entombed. .-7: Coal Creek, Tenn., May 19.-The worst disaster in the history of Ten? nessee mining occurred at 7.30 o'clock this morning, when between 175 and . fr men and boys met instant death afc ? t?e h raterville coal mine, two miles west of this town, as a result of a gas explosi?n. Ont of the large number of men and boys who went to work this morning developements at 10 o'clock tonight' show that only one is alive and he is so badly injured that he cannot live This man was Wm. Morgan, an aged^: Englishman, who was a road man in. ^ the mme and was blown out of the en trance by force of the explosion. One hundred and seventy-five. miners were checked in for work this morning by the mine boss. In addition to these were boys who acted as helpers and drivers, roadmen and others to the number of perhaps fifty. : Fraterville 'mine is the oldest mine in the Coal Creek district,, having, been opened in 1870. It is fuUy three : miles from the mine's opehnig to the point where the men were at work; They had not been at work long be? fore the terrible explosion occurred. There was a fearful roar and the ? flames shot from the entrance of the air shafts. -News of the disaster spread like wildfire, but as soon as ~ possible two rescuing parties were^: started in, one at the main eohsace^ ^ the other through Thistle mine, which adjoins and in which no men were: ai work: The Thistle party were unable ?|? to make any headway, as the . gas- ' stifled the workers. The Fraterville^ party went fully two miles ?under' :tti&M earth, until a heavy fall of slate was , ' encountered. At this barrier menS worked like demons, hoping; against^ hope that those beyond might: be s^?^ r i AU day long the rescuers -ioit?d&?M B the slate obstruction and not untfll% ^ o'clock this evening did they ibrce^an^"J entrance, through it Up to that houi^ll only five dead bodies'had been recover-^ ? ed and hope was still high that - ma?y^? within were safe. The hopes of the?t living were doomed, ' however, : ifor when oncetherescuers could enter and - r proceed they; walked through a con? tinuous tomb of deaths There was not: a sign of life. ?very man had perish? ed, they believed, although it will be? - tomorrow morning before all - the . rooms can be entered. Eight dead bodies were first recover-' ed and- these were sent to Coal Creek. Twenty-six more were soon founds They were not disfigured beyond identifica? tion, and each corpse, as it was borne from'the month of the gigantic tomb, was surrounded by eager crowds ;'; of relatives of the men- who were * entombed. 'I }'* The Fraterville mine is . owned by " the Coal Creek company,- of which: Maj. E. C. Camp is president. He . was in Cincinnati and is now hurry- . ing to the scene of the disaster. -ui:. " 1891, after i nspecting Fraterville min?; - re ? state Commissioner of Labor El A. Shiffet reported that the ventilation'00: was not up to requirements ; that the^?*; furnace was inadequate to ventilai? the mine, and that the air ways w?re> >H> choked in places: ' He found that 164 men were at work: on the day of his visit, requiring-by "v; statute 15,200 cubic feet of air . per minute. Tile volume of air entering the mine, he said," was only 8^000 cubics . feet per minute/ ' '.S ; SELL YOUR PISTOLS. No More Pistol Carrying dr Pistot; v Selling After Next Month. Columbia, May 17.-It does not ap? pear to be generally remembered thatc- ; the State .is going to practically stop? ' ^ I the sale bf pistols after the 1st of July. Jt is not a long while before'the* - new statute goes into effect. It is, therefore, high time for the dealers ini ; \ pistols to remember the existence of . the statute and get to the point of clos? ing out their stocks. At the tune the. statute was enacted there was-some talk of bringing a suit to test the con? stitutionality of the Act. No test can be made until the law becomes; operative because the State Supreme. Court will not decide a" case which presents a prospective issue. There is now talk of a pool being gotten : jip among the dealers to. employ ,, distihr guished counsel.and, by violating the law, make a test of the constitution- _ ality. The man who, after July 1, ioiates the law and allows himself to.-.-'--; be convicted merely to test the statute, runs a considerable risk, but some; . agreement may be reached " upon this matter. The law is radical and extraordinary, but South Carolina has before this . \ done some more surprising things, and if the new law will only stop the pistol habit it-will have done a great thing. The Act, *hieh was passed in 1901; and is known as the Cooper law, reads as follows : "Section 129. From and after the first day of July, 1902, .it. shall be un? lawful for anyone to carry about the person, whether concealed or not, any pistol less than twenty inches long and three pounds in weight, and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to manufacture, sell or offer for sale or transport for ose or sale into this State, any pistol of this length or weight. Any violation of this ' section shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, or imprisonnment for not more than thirty days, and in case of a violation by a "firmVr a corporation it shall for? feit the sum of one hundred dollars to and for the use of the school fund of the countv wherein the violation takes place, tobe recovered as other fines and forfeitures. This section shall not applv to peace officers in the actual discbarge of their duties or to persons while on their premises. "The fines and forfeitures above pro? vided for, when collected, shall go to the school fund of the county where the violation occurred." . At the recent session of the General Assemblv the Act was amended^ by its .. friends so as to cure ambiguities. News and Courier. The British steamer Camorta is re? ported to have foundered near the jVIadras coast, with all of its crew and passengers, numbering 739.