Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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rural Free VeI1Very. Indiana is the first State to co-oper ate directly with the Postoffice Depart ment in regard to rural delivery. The Governor has signed a bill which pro vides that five per cent. of the road 'fund shall be set aside to keep the rural mail routes in good condition. Many routes have been discontinued during the past winter on account of the condition of the roads. It is said that The policy of the department will be to require bad roads to be repaired as soon as possible. after which a year's notice will be given of the im provcrents required in order to main tain the routes. Greater care will in future be exercised in initiating routes. so as to make sure that when on-e started they may not have to be (scon tinued. In one_ secticn recently twon ty-seven ot of thirty-tive applications for rural delivery rou es were rejected on account of the quality of the roads. Tpe Postmnaster-Gereral has also di rected that no more routes are to lie established over roads that require the paynent of turnpike tolls by the de partmvent, and that routes already es tablished over such roads will be dis continued upon the expiration of the existing contracts. This will probably have the effect o' causing other States to fuliow the bxample of New Jersey, 'which has in the last fewyears through purchase by State or counties trans foried mest of its toll roads into free highway . It has been claimed by mary ihat in stead of abandoning routes on fccoiut of the character or quality of the roads the Gecncral Goverlmnt should. under the authority given ic Congress in the Consiiution, improve and maintain these roads as post rcads. These crit ies do not seem to realize that, as it is ;the intention to extend rural delivery over the entire country as rapidly as possibi. this would soon imply that the Postoffice Department would have .to maintain practicaliy all roads. as towns. couities and States would soon cease to do for themselves what they could get done for the:n without direct expense to themselves. Such a condi tion of affairs would be manifestly ab surd. We believe most thoroughly that the General Government should bear its share of the cost of developing the road system of this country into a con -dition similar to that of the great Eu ropean nations. It should do this, in a manner that would tend not to para lyze ru-t to stimulate local efforts either throngh the building of ohject lesson ?onds in all parts of the country. or, bett er. .thlrouglh co-operation with States or counties as provided for in The Brownionn hill, to the extent ant *st of conistruidiing and maintaining unk systeJtl of grreat interstate-lae -sfrorIi which would branch off the Sta -maintained roads, radiating fr.;m -whi -would be the less important bigh ys maintained by the counties and to us. It is high time that this ~tter should be considered in its breadth. nd plans prepared for a truly national hway system .-G ood Roads *Magazin Conn ut's Good RozdM *For the a -ut of money spent. no State is mak more rapid advance than Connect ut in securing good roads. Constr ion is left with the towns. but the te pays two-thirds the cost where t -own has over a million dollars of p ,perty taxed, and three-fourths of the e cost in towns where the property is below a million collars. Thus the poo:2 towns receive most help, yet the riche communities are cager to comply with the act and to appropriate their share of the cost. Since 1895, when the plan was start -ed 162 towns out of the I in the Stato have complied with the aw, and have commenced road impro ement, tihe results of which are alread - quite remarkable. During the past two vears 135 miles of road have been practi -ally complkted. The change in condit -mns of rravel is becoming fully appreciat d throutghouJt the State, and there pressure each year for increase of the appropriaiions. One v-ery important re ulisthe training given town officials in the art of road construction and re-;air. so that old. wo-rthless mecthod~ are t'lne; given up. and the towns arE -g moefor their money. In h.euin the co-operaion of prac ti1ly 1l the towns tind in arousmn gecal interest in road improvemfen .'broughouhe State. the Connecticu plancsees to have surpassed the Stat or coanlty method as practiced, say 1 Massachusetts and in New Jersey. Th -eak point of the Connecticut systet has been the lack of connection be tween the improved sections of roac hut this fault is disappearin~g with th xxew construtctious5 made year by yea OneerC British Placo Namfes. There are some places with -uriot wan'-s int the United Kingdom. as w. heseno referenice to the Postoffi< eide. The follotving places wit names~c significant to our readers w :1w foundA in the issueO for this yea Hosintn. Orphan Hiomes. Ijydropathi & c' ard ~ . Eg~h. NursliniZ, The Chit (Great Chart, Cotton. Sheet. W o cecn.Sef. Pill. 11nss- Swallo I "- 'rna Sound, Salt, Steel. Rm n-a- n Gr -avel. Stons scales. MiumI il- d. Hlat". Le'a Eye. Tongue a Thec Jordan. Jcr;:Scour-e in a strau COWBOYS KILL WHOLE FAMILY. Father and Four Sons Shot; Three Cow. boys Dead-Wire Fence War. St. Francis. Kan.-Eight men were killed in a battle between settlers and cowboys. James Berry and his four sons rec-ently came to this county, and each took up a homestead, the five men taking more than. a square mile of lands formerly fenced by the cattle kings as ranges. The Berrys were time and again warned off, but refused to go. Wire fences N-ere strung around their place by the .Attlemen and they were warned not to cut the strands. but whenever necessary they cut them. A few days ago, while returning to their homes from a trip to this town. they found their property again fenced in. and. leaving their horses, they cut the wires. Just as they had finished the cutting a gang of fifteen cowboys rode over a hill and. without saying a word, began firing at the Berrys, who jumped on their horses and escaped, John. the eldest boy, being badly wounded. Soon after the Berrys reached their home the cowboys dashed up. and, before they could reach cover, the father and one son were killed. The remaining three reached the cabin. and, getting their rifles, returned the fire. They killed three of the cowboys anD were themselves killed. The settlers are much worked up over the murders aad are banding to gther for protection. OVER $40,000 IN REED ESTATE. Former Speaker Leaves That Amount After Payment of Debts. New York City.-The late Thomas B. Reed, former Speaker of the House of Representatives. according to the offi cial report. left a personal estate val ued at S431,099, after providing for the payineias of debts and the expenses of administration. The gross personalty amounted to S629.533. consisting chiefly of stocks and securities. By his will Mr. Rccd's property gocs to his wife. Sportin; Brevities. There are over 200 horses in training at the Columbus, Ohio. track. The Anierica n Power Boat A ssoia. tion has been formed at New York City. The Chicago Riding ant. Driving Ciub will shortly occupy a $40,000 club house. Yale beat Harvard by a half point for chief honors in the intercollegiate championships. Hugh McLean has defeated Bobby Walthour in atwenty-mile motor paced race at the Coliseum at Providence. R. I. The National Garne. Louis Lepine is hitting the ball hard for Rochester. The once mighty Lajoie has been hit ting at a .200 clip this season. Baltimore has signed Bert Myers to play second base in place of Fox. Hickman continues to win games for the Clevelands by his finc stick work. Tinker, of the Chicago Nationals. plays his position after the style of Athien. York Americans. LABOR WORLD. Calgary. Can., carpenters have struck for higher wages. Spain has a legal eight-hour day that the courts have no power to interfere with. An unsual amount of unemployed la bor is an existing condition in Sheffield, England. It is stated that more than 15,000 women are employed on the six princi pal French railways. Machinists on strike at Quincy. Ill-, have agreed to a settlement of their strike by arbitration. The Miners' Union, of Lanarkshire, Scotland, has added 80,000 to its credit in the past six months. The trades unions of the State ol New York have increased in member ship 53,000 in twelve months. It is said that the membershiP 01 tihe Carriage and Wagon Workers' In ternational Union now numbers 178. 000. Employes at the G. T. RI. shops .i London. Canada,. are to receive an in creaise in thecir sailaries of one cent an hour. The Internationafl Brotherhood 0 Papermakers has declinled to amfalga mate with the pulp, suiphite and mi worker.. At Dujuthl. Minn)., the strike of th .o0ks' and Waiters< Union is ende th strikers having gained everythin the, asked for. Th number of members of tile Ama ama ed Society of British Enginee has is creased (during the year 2300 from 943 to 93,252. Foreig ers, mostly Italians and Pole empiOye( \ as contractors' helpers SBun'alo, N Y., '-ave formed a umio I They want more pay and fewer hou1 3 of work. About 30, musicians of the cou: -try, or ninety- ye per cent.. were rep! lsented at the -deration of Musician e Ne tional Conve tion held recently sLight From ,Bacteria. 11What a maiserable. idried-up, derel h world this would he w!\thout those 11 leged cr- m':3 of mank.1nd-bacter r W'hy. we C-o ra' he'gin to appree1i r +heir mafolg j portar~c in pars e, -ogy an th arts. The po3sibilit n i Pro erscr H-a:ns M.olisch'sdiscov4 -a bacteria lamp light cinnot x timePted. Farewel'Vl to gas a'nd el c 1igh r olies' A simphs gi k .-r.:~ tuz~te ar HAVOC OF FOREbT FIRES Destructive Hames in New York State, New England and-Canada. Damage to Property Up in the Y "lenf Game Aninal and Birda Killed by the Thousards. New York City.-Reports from the northeastern counties of New York, r from all the New England States and from Canada, show that the property loss by the forest fires will go well into the millions. Villages In Main a and in New Brunswick, Canada, ha 1 been wiped out. but. so far as known r two women near St. John, N. B., ar the only victims of the flames. Definite inform::tion is lacking fro the Adirondack counties. It Is know that great tracts of woodland har been swept by tire in eight counties. that hotels and cottages have bee burned. and that thousands of game birds and animals have been destroyed. Estimates place the loss at from $1,000,000 to $1,500.000 in New York State. In Maine the forest fires are fiercest. have wined out small settle ments and devastated great areas of timber land. The damage to property Is estimated at $2,000,000, and the crops of the farmers may be a total failure from drouth. In-the rest of New Eng 'land the forest fires have caused a loss of $1,000,000. The greatest loss in all probability will be in Canada. as the fires cover 1000 miles of territory. The damage so far reported is greatest near St. John, N. B. One village was wLolly de stroyed and 200 persons are homeless. Two women. in trying to save their cows, were caught in the flames. From New Brunswick the fires have extended southwest through the Prov ince of Quebec, and news came'of for est lands ablaze in Ontario. Tl entire section of the country northeast from New York has had no rain for a month, and in some places for six weeks The intest news had no promise thi.t the fires would be checked. The smoke that spread ove. the whole of this portion of the colatry was everywhere reported to be Irtic ularly irritating to eyes and throas. The Devas'tated Area. Washington. D. C.-The nited Sites Weather Bureau saw no relief om the lurid pall of smoke which d settled over the entire eastern ser on of the country on the Atlantic sid I the Alleghanies and as far southas Washington. Nothing but wind or 11in would dissipate the smoke. which s caused by tile great New York ' New England forest fires, and neit , r wind nor rain could be predicted r shortly, according to the reports - ceived from Weather Bureau statilos throuhout the smoke affected cou - try. The area covered by the fore t fires was declared to be something le than 200,000 square miles, the burn area, of course, being much less th this amount. ROOSEVELT1 IO Washington, D. C.-President Ro velt returned to Washington from hit; trip of more than two months' dura tion throughout the West. He wa given a hearty reception by the people' of the capital, who lined the sidewalks as his carriage, escorted by the battal lion of High School cadets, was driven to the White House. He looked the picture of health. A large crowd of people repaired to the rear of the White House. where the Marine Band gave a concert inI honor of the arrival home of the Chief Executive. The President nade a brief speech to the gathering. saying: "My friends and neighbors, I thank you very, very much for coming here to greet me this afternoon, and I have appreciated more than I can say the welcome back home that I have re ceived to-day. I have been absent over two months and I have traveled many miles. During this time one thing has struck me, and that Is the substantial ness of the American people. One can travel from ocean to ocean and from Canada to the Gulf and always be at home among one's fellow-Americans. I thank you again, m-y friends, and now I am going in to my own folks." Mr. Roosevelt and his party traveled over 14,000 miles on railroads and sev eral hundred miles in stage coaches and carriages, but not an accident marred their journey. During the six ty-five days that he spent on the road he made 265 speeches. One of. the 1features of the trip wvas the non-parti san spirit displayed in the reception of Sthe President everywhere. The crowds in the different phcies visited were. or Sdely and friendly, and gave the Secret Service men little cause for concern. SWOMEN WATCHED LYNCHING. - Negro Hanged to a Telegraph Pole on Crowded Street. . Greenville. Miss.-John Dennis. co] tt ored. was lynched here 1y 200 mn - The negro had attempted to assault oung lady who was returning homn from the telephon? exchange where sh 1 worked. - While the streets werescr'owded wit] 'women shoppers the men went to th tt jail. demanded admittance and wer ref used.. Securing a railway rail the battered down the door of the.prison. Dennis was taken to the telepho exchange and henged on the cross-al of a telephonle p)OIe. Manly wonfn wi ctnessed the lynching. The .negro oni -l asked time to pray. RcIichmnond's New Cahda -The cornerstone of the new Cathol Cathedral, at Richmond. Va.. was la with~ elaborate ceremny. T'fn Tears For a LynCher. ~Samuel Misheii. white. who led t Smob that lynehe'lld Thomas Gilyard. a-ar-r at .Ie~in. Mo.. reycently. w 'o ntiVEcd to) t'n vea'. imnpr.isonmef n1 the penitemiay. G ilyard killed . poiemfanl who was tryin~g to arr is av -a. (Cub. re~ieted the bid of 1- Taci Cast ueha. the oi'.y cne recei irfo the~ raisinZ ot the Mamne. The S mL1~wl -a-inl advertise for bids. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Samuel Smiles is probably the t living author in England. armored erniser King Alfred has selected to take the Prince and cesg of Wales to India in the au y -Henry. Somerset has retired the presidency of the British en's Temperance Union because i health. :ertaining a king is an expensive r. The recent visit of King Ed- I d to Dalkeith palace cost the Duke edeuch about $25,000. stice Fletcher Ladd. of the SU- i e Court in the Philippines, has ed because of his wifes~ Illness, will return to his home In New pshire. r Wilfrid Lawson is known as eand's "Grand Old Man of Temper I e. He is seventy-three years old. has devoted forty years of his life be championship of temperance. enator Hawley is a devotee of the boat for this summer. He and Hawley will begin a lingering in Chesapeake Bay. and will go up the Hudson, Lake George and Champlain. n La Farge. the artist, Is a tall slightly bald. with a narrow cest bent shoulders. His eyes are black, piercing. And while he there is a dry sort of smille play round his mouth. s pointed out that .Tudge Maxwell, died recently in Florida, was the survivor, properly speaking of the ederate Senate, which met at gomery, Aln., on March 4, 1861, was presided over by Alexander tephens. sspelate Justice Harlan, of the Uni States Supreme Court. is seventy rs old. Under the law lie may re from the bench pn full pay, but re ts not the slightest prospect that will do so, as he is hale and hearty I has the vigor of many healthy men f his age. - Jefferson Davis Arch. ,chr'nond, Special.-The specia 4nmittce of the Jefferson Davis Me >rial Association which has- been 11 sion here, consulting with the ad nory board, decided late Thnrsda: ht to report to the association tha is impracticable to do anything 1 I way of securing an arch for $ the amount ottte bid -of.Afti 3xidebroad, whose design was fe association may dec i O awa wlh the arch, or ca for-new ds k , iew arch. Troubles 54tted Norfolk, Special.--W. - aywoo bird vice president of the Inter-l oonal Brotherhood of ,Mantenance W aay Employes, who has b'en in Port . oouth for- two weeks, in the intere f the trackmen of the Seaboard A Lnne system, says that the grievan af the men have all been settled sat atorily. Grand President John. Wlson arrived here today and paid visit to General Manager Barr. T Another Coal Strike in Sight. Wilkesbarre. Pa., Special.-Anlc~ dark strike cloud loom:-d up on horizon of the anthacite ccal reg Tuesday. The executive boards of United Mine Workers, in session h' edorsed the selection of their th district presidents on the board conciliation, authorized by the str comfissin and if these members not recognized by the operators excutive hoards wil contemplate e I a convention of Mine Workers dlare a general suspension of w until their members are given re:o Southern Yarns Not Affected. Philadelphia, Special.-Thle E ing Telegraph says one hundred t: sand textile workers are now strike. The commissionl men say has not yet affected the trade rto~uyannrs bz mn m hm hmht Southern yarns, but will do so if strike continues. The strike Is yei new and too big to form any idI the result. -1ne dyers have some m reserved, but the other strikers no funds. The prceent average op is that the strike wIll last two to Gas Company Sold. Knoxville. Special-The Knos Cas Company has passed into bands of Farson, Leech & Comj of ew York. The price is saidi $20 .000. The new owners will $10,000 in improvements. The Ne York coinpany owns the plants at Evansville, Ind., and kne, Washington. The fool shows his folly and li it not, but the wise guy know foly and shows it not. -Daniel Again Nominated. Richmond. Speci'i .-John' Wa Dananel was declared the ncminee State Democratic party as his ow zesr for the United. States Sen haadno opposition. Under the primary law. State Chairman I yddeclred him the nominee. D name was the only one present< derhe law. lHe is now servi thirthrterm in the Senate. dny churches have a che caeer because they live only fo .exchequs. aTeimprOvement society of ii iS Mot.. has inaugurated the Pt t atin sel eds of ecrn~racu garde: a ersrtoto he schoCi chidldre of th2 chii'rrfn have bought t'le seed say ay t they are gcinig torel t itlowewes. If any of them do a i- show will be held this summenfr, 3, they can show hoa' thecy havc e- .. aese agarder5rs as well JVE ITEMS Of NEWS, %any Matters of General Interest In Short Paragraphs. Down in D'xie. t The regular term of the Circuit Court gan at Jackson, Ky., and the alleged issassins of J. B. Marcum were )rought into court. Two young men were killed and another wounded from ambush by un known persons in Laurel county, Ken-. tucky. Witnesses have been subpoenaed at Westminster, Md., to appear before the grand jury in the case of ex-Superm tendent of Free Delivery A. W. Ma chen. It is said that North Carolina has at last got rid of all the slot macnines mnd other gambling devices in the tate. At The National Capital. The Supreme Court adjurned for the term. President Ropsevelt returned to Washington Friday night, after his 'long trip through the West. The application for a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Whitaker Wright was denied by the United States Su preme Court. The grand jury found a true bill against Machen. the man accused of robbing the postoffice department of over $13,000. . At The North. The disabled Old Dominion liner .Monroe reached New York in safety. The number of persons certainly killed by the flcod at Topelza, Kan., -is now put at 34. At Kansas City also a considerable number of liv'es have been- lost. It is told as a true story that John Chapman, at (alena, Kas, fell down a twent t tramway at thp Blind Tiger mine and dislocated his shoulder. . Hie went, home and stumbld down the callar steps, and in failing his - shoulder was thrown back into place He took a drink and' returned to work L W Across The Sea, The 'Chbiean Congress was opened a aantiago by Vice-President Luco, th esident being too ill to do so. Edna Teltener, niece of Mrs. John W t, Mackay, was married in.Rome to Sig k- nortno de Martino. A The Porte appointment of commis - sion..to investigate the massacre a tt Smerdesh, Macedonia. rr The revolt in Yun-Nan, China, grow s worse. S- . - a Miscellr-neous l'latters. oth Sheldon was announced at t >twedding of Miss Sulanne Sheldon Mr. Henry Ainlee In his last will Dr. Ladislau3s Je iski. a leading physician in Lembel ir Galicia, bequeathed $65,000 to a fu h for assisting widows of doctors, a 0i ordained at the same time that a .remore than 8 shillings should be spe ree on his funeral. His numerous ordt eCC and meds's of distinction he had glv o away the day before his death to iChostler and postman. eNewspaper clipping bureaus, al-which there are sai~d to be over 400 n n hexistence, employing thousands ar eople. find many patrons among ri a-aty. His Majesty Ring Edward XII said, to subscribe to two and te rece from them some hundreds of cuttil weekly. But the Ring, like any ot. English gentleman. Is also known -en iead his papers first hand. ou ExGovernor Johnson, of the Chic ot saw Nation, is a man of good addr< Slished and courtly, and so well ux e civilization of the white man t nIo one would think him of aborig nh stock, except for his cosl black I th and the suggestion of. copper hue. atot Enterprise Mills of Rings Mount onesN. C., will erect an additi'nal bult na 75x100 feet In size an~d install niotspindles and complement of ca :hre frames, etc. Two Men Killed, Knoxville, Tenn., Special.-Two yul met instant ddath Thursday afteri the at a pumping station of the Sout )any Railway, at Bridgeport, Tenn., by >o be expiosion of a twenty-four pi ed oiler. The dead men are F >edOwens, of Knoxville. pump insp amme of the Southern, and John Blaned gas ngineer at the pump station. Spo- building was practically demolish osNext Confederate Reunion. s hisNew Orleans, Special.-Gen. Mi adjutant general of the IUited Co crate Veterans, said that he hope the cities which desired to invit -wic' rganization to hold the next re' Od the as their~ guest would send their a sutJ to him as soon as possible. He e. H e that while it is probable the re party w ill go to Louisville, the cxci ane~committed would ccnsider all i: dd un- tions and decide for any city mn gg his the est offer where he behie would be most advantageous to the reunion. He will call a meet kereededthe executive committee in thei thethilrLouisville when the place and will be fixed. . ea;Miners Trke a New Star d. anofWikebaralre, Pa., SpeciaL-Sin ~flow- repored statement of JTudge Gra: etitytyn:r sides with the thiner3 in the' of the testin that their first conai andd . com.tten v-as legally eleetC raierrie nnes have tahcn a new star flower p romin ent o.l.ials c.I tile i a thrtger IeSin 1nis city stetC: that thcre asrog- - ve vry likely be a iSifs?nson ci s tu .Im uncs the-c~tor rc:edecd fic AWFUL WORK UF HE JONADO idle'r Details of the Havoc Wroulght At Gaineslille, Georgia, Gainesville, Ga., Special.-The 6,000 habitants of this city has begun - realize the extent of the appalling - saster of Monday. It now seems cnr ain that the death list will not pe uch short of 100; perhaps somewhat ver a hundred, considering the num er of dangerously wounded whose -ances for recovery cannot now be aiculated. But through all the gloom nd desolation that surround the tWo ike a pall of darkness there radiates beam of hope and encouragement hope that the death list may not be so numerous as reported and that encour agement to those who are so bravely and devotedly assisting the work of re lief. The story of the storm's work of desolation has already been told. All that remains is the compilation of an accurate list of the dead and the chron cling of the burial of the victims. Figuring froni all available .sources and giving credence only to those re ports which are believed to be trust v orthy, the'ollowing is a summary of the effects of the tornado in Gainesville and -its environments: One hundred killed; 150 injured, of whom probablY 26 will die; eight hundred liameless7 their residences having been wiped-out of existence; property loss of 'abot half a million dollars, none of which was covered by storm insurance. A concise and accurate statement of the casualties cannot 'he' rendered for several days, but the physicians in at tendance believed that it will not go above 100, although 25 or 30 are des perately injurea and may die withint the next two or three days. The dtk list so far compiled includes 32 at the Pacolet Cotton Mills at New Holland. all of whom were kiled in the-demoli tion of the compan's cottages, and 36 at the Gainesville Cotton Mills, near 1 the Southern Railway sttion, where the tornado first .struck. The entire pathway of the-storm, ex tending two miles from the Gainesville Mills, around the outskirts of the city to the Pacolet Mills at New HolIand, Is a mass of ri as, but fortunately the kottages in the train of the tornado be tween the Southern station and New Holland were those of negroes, who ere all absent from the city yesterday La attendanee upon a colored eeenr ion Busine.* is almost entirely 'ss pended throughout the city, the atten tion of.,everybody being given t -are - of --the wounded and suffering There jg no ,ack of medical attention, many surgeons being present from At tansan m.other cities. There is great eed, however, of clothing, anticapts and other medical spplies. The locn militia have been called out for P07 lice duty. The city is very oriderlyran( zu!et and only a few instanees.of .1 laging 1ave been reported. . The work of the tornado was com' plete From the factory wiere it frt Sdend, upon the doomed city o S hills beyond New Hollanid. where t' -ose into the upper air, the destructiomn of property Is appalling. Along tire cour ucdto s s like laths ad~ ee carcely a tree left. to At New Holland the storm -did lp worst. Nothing but the barren red hb are left there to tell the story ofth awful disaster. For a distance of three -; " ~uarters of a mile on the hillsideas an did n valley to the left of the Pacolet ot Mills the ground is covered almost ea nt tirely by the fragments of the 15. trs ouses that were there when the twist en ing tornado swept down. Standing O - athe hill-top nearest the city of Gaines aville, and looking northeast, a strip of perfectly smooth swept territory is pee of sented to the eye of the observer and - )W the entire vista is paved with the Of wreckage of destroyed homes. is Ngroes Run From HIgh Water. Lye Newberry, S. C., special-A very gshard rain began to fall Monday -after- *" ? to con at about 6:30 o'clock. Scott's" to reek rose rapidly and soon overnlowedt its bnks, -surrounding and even .rs La- ng abovethe floors o oue ss by negroes near the steam. Wien in serious ,samage is reported, .all the . att land near here is washed considerably. nee mmedately after the downpour q4 iarrain and while the .creek was -at its highest,' some very amnusinlg scenes. mwete witnessed by the spectators, whG 'had gathered to see the high 'water. 0000 chief among which was a negro mast s ring the occupants of the hoaU ds, s he water to "dry land,' for' which 'he received 10 cents per capita. Killed at Supper. oon Waxaachie, Texas, Specal.-A >ern double Jtragedy occurred Tuesday the night near the little village of Ranin". ,wr 14 miles south of Waxahatchie, inJ ann which a fatmer, .Samuel Westmnore ctr land, and his wife.. were shot to death Lard. in their own house. The shooting it is he charged was done by a young mn named Ellis Claridy, a brother o Mrs. Westmorelanfd, who has not bm captred. Mr. and Mrs. Westmnorelaund ele'.wwre eating supper, when, it is said. Y oung Clarndy appeared in the door dal ' vay with a double barrelled shotgen 4 heand killed them. tmamssThe Topeka Situation. s'iid Topeka, Special .-The3 flood situatlon nion n inTopeka may be briefly summarized .ltivee thus: Kinown dead 48; river has fallen vita-a today three feet and is now receding at aking the rate of two inches an hour. Dis dediitttess will b'e great among the refugees hold Governor Bailey issues a proclamionlc ing of calling for help for flood sufferers of tli in the State. Fifty deputy sheriffs, arm ~date ed with Winchesters, go to North To peka to protect property with crders to shoot looters whenever they are caught stealing. e the 1-ead Choppzd Off. - on-.-Tazewell, Tenn.. Special-Sar -a - a tn as killedl late Tuesday, Fale Minton ch chppig his head off rand burying the ax i~ ae several times in haz body. Th4 me lee in a difnculi;7 at Min tc nv. bouse. Mintcon was put in Tae v '~ ell ai! at night and the sheriff made > preparations for protection agamnst '" i m r ob violence, fears of which were e ~ uring the night.