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b ense an o: his for t] majority o lal marriage rela the greatest cause elations are conduc ed g as the man thinks he o erhood and its requirement s, so long will there be fri Woman has been man's slav all her other virtues seem small. first to husbands, then to their of other things. Women are the heroes of sunshine. They pour their who] scant appreciation. God bless educated, strong, wise, self-relia: generations. Where these grand spect is a problem, if the boys don't want their women friends and sports,. not *to mention the these demoraliziag pursuits and few I should be willing my dau as it will, the community will d happier homes and fewer divor Janctity By Presiden (From an Address Before ' HERE is a cert. ing with our pi apt to get the'. no importance, the questions t tions like the t quence whatsoe, the unit of ou It is impos you represent. If the average hi another and toward' their chil< snay rest absolutely sure that but if we have solved every it shall profit us nothing if we have lost it if we do not have ti the proper basis. While I do I can say that so far as in me with you toward the end that One of the most unpleant the diminishing birth rate and old native American families. as for the individual no materi or scientific development will e I count myself fortunate in ha matter of vital importance to rTheJrs Dese> HIRTY-TWO ye: g~pu~mmUI1of Fresno, in t dug under it, fc lowered themse the heat of the 3 stretched the gl of green. Today this 8,000 homes in ; and children attend its public si annually. The raisin crop of 191 000. All the raisins imported value to only $400,000. In 19021 barrels of crude petroleum, wort and head of cattle graze on its When a few straggling fortu ties they were welcomed by this your horses. Water, onle bit; wi ering station" only. In 1872, ho' bringing water in ditches from E land. His proposal was laughe< won; in 1876 he had water on la and the first year's crop proved ground was rapidly extended. 'I -World's Work. The N4eE By ieut. Carlyon3 49@@9909 HAT mere popu much careful c sia. It is only I etrable which tonic, Slavonic . ing aggression 2? singly, nothing to effect their)1 in the past for daration of February 26, 1780, F den, and Denmark combined to : ers were acting together against 1807 Great Britain had to breal the treaty of Tilsit, by seizing 4 ships, and by blockading the Rua 140 battle-ships was nipp-Q Mn thi been taken bad not Great Bri with 212 battleships. We learn there were three European allia Great Britain, and all were brokE The sooner a man gets rid of th( that he was cut out for a political er the sooner he will become a t. citizen. A fool bignmist tries to get r his first wife by taking a second. It takes a genuine society wom; say unpleasant things pleasantly. Soldiers who are to take part I Chesapeake Bay war game went camp on the shore of Hampton r King Edwa:-d and Queen Alexa: arrived at Algie'rs. Three Marylanders were among 150 Americans received in audient TU ysician. for increase of divorce t: ead novels and love stories w They begin to look about for tl k themselves in love and decide increases their determination, so they 's house, tell him whatever they choos from his bed to see them. He doesn't ts the dignity of his calling and destiny e 16, he 20-and this unwise -man ties for any one thus to seal the destinies of man should marry before 25. They are e serious and perplexing duties which fol I people find many of these duties very : tions could-be conducted on a pure, high. f friction and disgust would be less. As 1 on a purely animal basis both are degra< ns this woman's soul- and body, disregard s, thinking only of himself and his suppt tion, dislike, even hatred of each other. since time began. If she is not a good e All over the country women are slaves tod hildren and the home. No time even to th the world, as well as the mothers, and e lives out for those they love, usually v 11 these women! I hail the day when th it women will control and guide the com good girls are to find husbands they can continue to smoke, drink, visit places t to know about and spend their time in gai rvrst ones. Unless they begin to give up cultivate their best natures, there would ghter should marry. When that time con mand a higher manhood. Then there will es. of Home Life t Theodore Roosevelt, he Intercburch Conference on Marriage and Divorce.) Lin tendency to exalt the unessential in di iblic questions, and public men especially attention concentrated on questions that h but are wholly ephemeral comparad v hat go straight to the root oi things. Qi Lriff and the currency are of literally no c er compared with the vital question of hav social life, the home, preserved. ble to overstate the importance of the ca isband and wife fulfil their duties toward Iren as Christianity teaches them, then the other problems will solve themsel' ther problem in the wisest possible 3 ave lost our own. national soul, and we' question of relations of the family put u: ot '.now exactly what you wish me to l'es, everything will be .done to co-opex you have in view. and dangerous features of our family lif4 the loosening of the marriage tie among It goes' without saying that for the r 1 prosperity, no business growth, no arti unt if the race commits suicide. Therel ring the chance to work with you in 1 e national welfare. ITransformed ench Strother. is ago there was but one house in the tc e central desert of California. A hole rty feet deep,'into which the inmates lowe ies by a bucket and a windlass, to esc day. Around it, as far as the eye could .ing desert, unbroken by any cultivated s spot is the centre of a cheerful community land made fertile by irrigation. Ten thc ~hools. The industries there yield $14,000, 2 put into the farmers' bank accounts $2,2 nto the United States in 1902 amounted he oil wells of Fresno County yielded 570, . $200,000 before refining. Eighty-nine .'h ich alfa'a e-hunters came to the county late in the sign hung over Fresno's one buildinig: "Bi Lter and feet. three bits." Fresno was aL "V eer, Mr. M. J. Church conveived the ideE Ing's River, twenty miles away, to irrigate Iat as a dreamer's scheme. But persiste nd within three miles of the town of Free the soil to be fertile. The area of w7ate day there are 360,000 acres under irrigati d for ANavies ellairs, of the British ARavy. lation and riches are no match in war agai rganization, we have seen in the case of F the knowledge that the sen-barrier is imi: will effectually prevent the expanding TI and Latin races of Europe from contemp n the American continent. If unable to but sea-power will prevent them from try urpose in combination. They have combi1 the partition of Poland. By the Russian c ussia, Frarnce, Spain, Holland, Prussia, S esist the right of search, and the same pa Great Britain over this question in 1800. Napoleon's compulsory alliance, framed dghteen Danish and eight Portuguese bat sian battleships. Thus a fresh union of o bud; but such decisive action could not ha Sbeen in the plenitude of her naval strenj that, within a period of twenty-seven yet ~ces of three or more great powers agai n up by the operation of sea-power. ida Xn English laborer arrested on ea charge of theft which proved to ;ulfalse was found, on being searched the police station, to he-:e gold. sil' 1 o and bronze coins in various parts his attire to the amount of $870. 'I n oweight of them was 40 pounds. Th e South Kensington Muset th'e L ondon, is rejoicing in thc arrival o it skeleton of a diplodocus;. a prest ad. from Andrew Carnegie to King I ward. T came from Pittsburg in adria cas~es. having been found in Wymi It is the first diplodocus to visit I the rope, and is an interesting combi: 1 b tion in its structure, of reptile a I Distinguished Party From the N Greeted by Prominent Soulherner SOME SPLENDID SPEECHES MA Meeting at Columbia Opens Wit ere Cordial Address of Welcome by ernor Heyward, Followed by the 1en nual Address of Mr. Robert C. eir to den, President of the Conferenci dip Columbia, S. C.. Special.-The C ference for Education in the So use opened its eighth annual session I the Wednesday, with a large attenda of leading educators from both N( wO and South present. not The Ogden train, containing a pE rk- of ladies and gentlemen from York, Boston, Washington and ot Northern cities, arrived at 3:10 p. ind and the visitors are being entertai )ng in various homes in the city to wl led. they have been invited. The pi ing numbers ninety-five, being educat sed literary men and women and busi men interested in education. T )ok came in on a special of ten Puillr cars, chartered by Mr. Robert C. .ay, den. of New York. The memberE k the party are his guests for a ninet day trip to different points in Sc the Corolina, North Carolina and Virgi ith During their stay in Columbia, the: ese Well as the many hundreds of o1 ing visitors, mainly from the Soutil SStates, are guests of the city of re- lumbia. A party consisting of the rr or of the city, the State SuperintE nes ent of Education. Editor Gonzales all The Columbia State two professor! be the South Carolina College and sev, ies, other prominent citizens of Colum be met the party at Hamlet. N. C., and corted it into the State. Every t coming into the city brings from parts of the South visitors to the ference. rhe conference opened its first sion here with an address of welc< by Guvernor D. C. Heyward. I Governor said in part: GOVERNOR HEYWARD'S SPEE "Today throughout the entire Sc the schoolhouse bell is ringing. rings from the university on the and it rings from the little sch huse by the roadside, and to teachers who are present at this ference from our sister States of South and from every portion of own State, I wish to say that in i are coming you I must also congratu 3ye you upon the great work you 1 -ith done. I believe that you have es- complisbed more during the past ft on- years along educational lines than ing ever been accomplished by any I ple in the same length of time. people have ever worked so well use under the same conditions, and. )ne your work you have been accor we loyal support by your people. In t es, days of poverty and in their day: ay, prosperity the tax-payers of the Sc v.ill have shown a willingness and a osire to tax themselves to support schools. not only for their own child do, -the white...children of the Soun ate but also for the children of ano1 and dependent race. Though o: ~is msnerstood, they have never the thiunart fail them; they have n< ace looked backward, but always forw -and to day we can see in university scin college, in graded school and ore common school, in better teachers his longer terms, a happy and prospe: people-aye, in smiling fields and gr Ing cities, the result of their douI and determination. "In welcoming you to South Caro I welcome you to a State which always had a deep interest in the ca Uin which you are enlisted. With L the modern schoolhouse stands be the college of a century. From earliest history of our State our Uple have prized learning and cult tion. Be fore the Revolution, Sc wI Carolina sent her sons to Oxford vas to Cambridge. Shortly after the Rf red lution we began to build colleges pe to establish public schools. The: 5library in America to be supporte< eany degree at the public expense pot that established in Charleston 1689. iE1C IO 0 "I am sure, however, it needs nc 00,- gument to convince you that the in in tance of education in its highest si 000 has ever been realized by our pe The facts that I have just cited1 before we had colleges of our own sent our sons abroad, and the fur1 x-fact that almost within sound of ing voices stands South Carolina Colles 'at- over 100 years old-these will show of spirit that animated our ancestors. the th"Aso what we are doing today he ons and daughters of South C nen.Ihave but to point you to no, nubrof colleges ot our State, an red our growing system of graded On. public schools. The State supp Winthrop College for Women. South Carolina College. the Citadel Clemson for young men, and als State college for negroes. In aaii to this, each religious denomina supports one or more colleges wi are doing excellent work. There also many private colleges. severa which are well endowed. Contribul to these is our system of graded nst common schools. Our State consi us- tion requires that the General Ass ebly shall provide for a liberal sys e-of free public schools for children eu- tween the ages of 6 and 20 years. [at- the constitution imooses an annual do exceeding one-half of our entire S tng tax for general purposes. With us Led fight to allow school districts to ec- a special tax has already been w I it is incorporated in the organic y. of the State, and we are now ext< In ing the battle lines to the various tricts, 400 of which have already e by cised this prerogative. New victo :le- jare constantly being gained along zer line. a:'d within the next few years Le confidPTtly hope to greatly enlarge ;th army ci educational progress. .rs, During the past year we built st school houses, and we improved equipped many more. These buildi - ranged in cost from $300 to $40, aapiece, and In this equipment are be eluded 500 libraries. Two thous at and five hundred of our teachers ate y'ear attended summer schools in or eto better equip themselves for tl of-reat work. It will require no prop: 'he ri7 friends, to predict that, should be again so fortunate within the i mfew years as to welconie you wvit ~he confines of this State. your e ntwill behold vast improvement in d-educeational and industrial affairs. "Pardon me for this apparent diga sion, which I hope will prove to: 'the interest we feel in you and in y -work. Let me give you some ads welcome to our State and to ourc ause which brings you here; in the iame of every school and college in :he State; in the name of those high nterests which it is your mission to erve; in behalf of the people of our Dtate, and especially in behalf of the rth eople of our capital city, I welcome rou, ladies and gentlemen, to South s arolina.'' At the conclusion of the Governor's Lddress of welcome, the annual ad Iress of Mr. Robert C. Ogden, presi lent of the conference, was delivered. PRESIDENT OGDEN'S ADDRESS In. the opening Mr. Ogden spoke at i a lome length of the objects and history >f the conference. Although this con iov- 'erence, he Isaid, has no education body An- if authority, it yet has a very deep iommunity of interest with the South Og- !rn Fducational Board, the General . ducation Board, and in a lesser de ;ree with the board of trustees of the ?eabody fund, and the board of trus on- :ees of the Slater fund. These several uth oards are so thoroughly co-ordinated tnd sympathetic that every facility ere :reated by any is at the command of .nee each and the commonage of aim is so rth )erfect that waste by duplicption or >ompetition is impossible. The work >f these boards and funds having been Lrty riefly dealt with, the speaker spoke tf what had been accomplished. It is ew .he leadership of the child that we fol her ow here, he said, inspiring this great n. :ompany more than curiosity, possible ned ntertainment or social fellowship-is iich :he interest of the child. And it was Drty :ust the preparation of this pervasive ors, nfluence that awaited the advent of iess :he new movement for education which hey Aas unfolded in the triple alliance of nan he conference and the two boards. Og- This movement came at the psycho of 'ogical moment. Throughout this een Southland, isola-:ed and lonely, many auth ble, thoughtful, well informed and nia. Iolitary souls were brooding over the r as 'ieedy conditions of certain localities hor with which experience has made them eri painfully familiar. And with. the per Co- :eption of needl was associated a con ay- 5cious helplessness and vague, indef nd- :nite hopefulness, or was this condi . of tion of mind solely confined to the iso lated and obscure? Men of large pub lie affairs, women socially prominent, b~a. were both equally anxious and sadly 3 loubtful. Here a voice had been al raised, there a little local effort had a een soarted, and beyond this the pro : n phets were beginning both persuasion and provision. Then followed the se- awakening of the earnest and anxious >me thinkers. A strength of asc~ociation The was promptly created. Symptoms of :nany sorts indicated the etiucational CH- epiphany that has commanded the ad ut miration and respect of educators it throughout the land, the encourage hill ment of progressive citizens, the in yoo- terest of statesmen. Certain facts yon may be briefly cut!ined. on- PROGRESS OF LOCAL TAXATION. ou* Local taxation for education has vel- made great progress, notably in Ala late bama. South Carolina, North Carolina ave and Tennessee. The constitution of ac- the State of Georgia has been so )rty amended as to facilitate local taxation has for schools. The increase .of public yeo- appropriations both through States No nd the local tax. for education, has or aggregated many millions of dollars. in New school houses by hundreds, per ded [laps thousanas, have replaced others eir that were lacking in comfort, space of 9.nd equipment. Hundreds of inade th guate schools have been consolidated de- and transportation has been supplied the to scholars that have been incommod ren ad by the changed conditions. School -h- terms have been greatly lengthened, der the qualifications of teachers im ~ten proved, and compensation increased let to meet the longer term and better ver service. ard Laws against nepotism in~ education and have been passed and thus a beginning in bas been made in the removal of a and corrupt and debasing influence upon ous education. This is an incident in the -..divorce of public education from poli age tics-an end most devoutly to be de sired. Perhaps the most encouraging hin single element of progress is found in has the formation of local and State or use ganizations of citizens and educators us. ror the promotion of public Interest in side education. In the cities of Virginia the large audiences of the best people eo- bave been assembled by the commis iva- sion to wait upon the teachin~gs of uth men whose souls are awake to the and needs of the children and whose vo. tongues have been touched with the and hcoly fire from the altar of public ser irst vice. Such meetings have been held in eisewhere with success and power. was Rut Virginia's leadership is exception in al in persistence and thoi'oughness. No doubtful curiosity of suspicion EA- iurks in the background; no academic seclusuion, no intellectual superiority, ar- no cloistered] exclusiveness now di por v'ides higher from popular education in mse the South. pe. Other prominent educators madec ~hat ,Ie'ndid addresses. The meetinig was we an eminent s'uccess in every particu her tar. our Second Day's Session. ..- The second day's session of the the great educational conference was markedi by exceptionally strong ad for ! dresies by notable speakers. aro- A' the Superintendents' Conference tl ':he State Superintendents of the fol to lowing States were present: South and Carolina. North Carolina, Georgia. orts Alabama, Texas, Tennessee and Ar and kansar. Each of these spoke on dif and ferent phases of the recent progress o a of education in the Southern States, ion Columbia, S. C.. Special.-The Con tion ference for Education in the South ich closed its sessions here Friday, and the are conference adjourned subject to the 1 of call of the executive committee. ing At the morning session Of the confer and ence, Mr. Robert C. Ogden. of New .itu. York. was unanimously chosen presi em- Ident: Chas. B. Aycock. former governor tern of N'rth Carolina. was chosen vice be- presidktnt. The following executive and committee was elected to serve the en tax suing year: tate S- C. Mitcenell. Virginia; sydney J. the Bow ie. Alabama: R. R. Cousins. Tex evy as;I Carenee H. Poe. North Carolina; 'on: D. C.Caldwell. Louisiana: C. P. Gibson, law Geccgia: R. H. Jesse. Missouri: Dr. I. mnd. A. .~enkins, Kentucky: S. A. Mynders, dis- Termessee: J. H. Hlineman. Arkansas; xer- D. "'. Johnson. Sou--h Carolina. ries n other officers of the conference this ele 'ed were: Secretary. B. J. Bald we w' Alabama; treasurer, W. A. Blair, our Winston-Salem. N. C. The following resolution adopted by 175 the Association of Southern States Su and perintendents of Education, at its meet ngs ing on April 26, is given out for the .000 first time: 'in- "Resolved that the Association of and Southern State Superintendents of last Public Instruction, desires to express -der its appreciation of the valuable work ieir of the Southern Educational Board, in tiet, co-operation with. the educational au we thorities of the States. and of the x spirit in which the work has been done hi for the past -:hree years: and also to ye~ express gratiueation at the provision our for the continuance of this co-opera tive work." res- All the Southern States are represent vou ed except Tennessee, Mississippi and our Virginia. ied Mr. Ogden. in a brief and expressive ap- speech, then pronou~nced the conference ea adjourned. SPECIAL IS WRECKED Ogden Party Thoroughly Shaken Up in Fatal Collision THE LIST OF DEAD AND WOUNDED Rounding a Curve in the Yard Limits of the Southern Railway at Green ville, S. C., the Train Bearing the President of the Conference for Edu cation and His 100 Guests Crushes Into the Rear of a Freight. Greesnvile. S. C.. Special.-While rounding a curve in the yard limits of the Southern railway at Greenville, and running at an estimated speed of 50 miles an hour, the special Pullman train bearing Robert C. Ogden and 100 members of the Southern Conference for Education, crashed into the rear end of a freight at 7:55 oclock this morning, killing four persons and in juring a score of others. None of Mr. Ogden's guests were killed. The dead are: Charles M. Cope. white, brakeman of the special. Columbia, S. C. John Little, W. W. Cummings and J. F. Hayne. negro employes on the dining car St. James. The injured are: Prof. Henry W. Farnham. Yale Uni versity, arm broken and cut on head, and Mrs. Henry W. Farnham, badly bruised about head and arms. St. Clair McKelway. editor of The Brooklyn Eagle. bruised on back and shoulder. Dr. Julius D. Dreher, former presi dent of Rbanoke college, cut on the head. Robert M. Ogden. secretary to Pres ident Ogden, cut on hand and head bruised. Mrs. J. G. Thorpe. Cambridge. Mlass., cut and bruised on head. Bishop W. N. MeVickar, of Provi dence, R. I., bruised. James Hunter, engineer on special. leg and arm broken. Walter Kershaw. electrician on spec ial, ear and head cut. Conductor Edward Acker. bruised. John F. McCoy, agent Pennsylvania railroad, gash on head. R. Shull, negro cook on St. James, cut on arm. George Williams. waiter on diner Waldorf, bruised. Ogden Calls For Inquiry. The Greenville wreck will be inves tigated as is shown by the following: "Hon. D. C. Heyward, Columbia, S. C.; Would respectfully suggest the extreme use of the executive power as may exist by the coroner's jury or railroad commission for investigation of criminal negligence, local and man agement, that caused wreck of my train. Four hands killed and others injured, also Prof. and -Mrs. Farnham. My impression is that the case is a bad one and needs drastic treatment. "ROBT. C. OGDEN." Governor Heyward replied as fol lows: "Robert C. Ogden. Greenville. S. C.: I have referred your telegram to the railroad commission, who will imme diately investigate wreck. Coroner's inquest will be held by county author ities." Making Investigation. Greenville. Special.-Prof. Farnar, of Yale University. and Mrs. Farnar, who were injured in the wreck of the Ogden special, are both resting easily in a sanitarium here. It has not been decided when they will be able to trav el, but the attending physicians say not before Tuesday. Electrician Ker shaw, also injured in the wreck and detained here, is doing well. Assistant General Superintendent H. Baker and Division Superintendent McManus, of the Southern, are here. nd an investigation of th-e cause of the accident is being held behind closed doors. St. Paul Globe $uspends. St. Paul, Special.-The St. Paul Globe, after Sunday's edition, will sus pend business. The Globe was the only Democratic morning daily in Minnesota. and it wvas the recognized oi gan of its party both in State and in municipal affairs. The reason an nounced by the paper for its suspen sion was that, in spite of its large circulation, it was not properly patron ized by advertisers. Sixteen Killed in Texas Storm. Laredo, Tex., May 1.-Later deatils from the tornado, which struck this city Friday evening indicate that first reports in circulation here were by no means exaggerated, either as to the number of lives lost or the financial damage resulting. Scores of people were injured and are being attended by the various physicians. It will be impossible to state the nuber of the injured. but it is not belived that may deaths will result from in iuries. The number killed is sixteen in this Sentence Commuted. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-An im perial rescript summons Count Voron tzoff-Dashkoff. viceroy in the Caucas us, to the council of the empire and appoints him 'a member of the council of ministers, and charges Baron Nolde. Secretary of State, to represent the vceroy in the council's declarations. A rescript commutes the sentences of the officers concerned in the incident of the firing during the ceremony of the blessing of the waters of the NevO. Russians Sighted. Hong Kong, By Cable.-The steamer Stettin, which has arrived here, sight ed from thirty to forty vessels of the Russian Second Pacific Squadron in Hongkohe Bay, Annam. (about fifty miles north of Kamranh Bay.) Thurs day afternoon. Two cruisers, which had their decks stacked with coal. signalled the Stettin to stop, and ques tioned her. The fleet was preparing TO PENSION PROFESSORS. ( Munificient Gift of Andrew Carnegie For The Purpose of Assisting Needy Ex-Teachers. S New York, Special.-A gift of $10, 300,000 by Andrew Carnegie to provide Innuities for college professors who are aot able to continue in active service, was announced by Frank A. Vanderlip, vice president of the National City Bank, of New York. Professors in the United States, Canada and Newfound land will share in the distribution of the income of the fund. United States steel Corporation 5 per cent. first mortgage bonds for $10,000,000 have been transferred to a board of trus tees, and steps will be taken at once to organize a corporation to receive the donation. Dr. Pritchett, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Techno logy, and Mr. Vanderlip have been se lected by Mr. Carnegie to obtain data on the subject, to be presented at the first meeting of the board of trustees, h which will take place on November 16th. The bonds have a par value of 11,000,000 and will produce an annual income of $500,000. The corporation which is being formed will be styled "the Carnegie Foundation." Mr. Carnegie's secretary has sent a letter to the press, -giving the forego- 9 ing information and inclosing a letter 9 from Mr. Carne j, dated April 18th, which says, in part: "I have reached the conclusion that P the least rewarded of all professions n Is that of the teacher in our higher edu- V cational institutions. New Lork city 0 generously, and very wisely, provides C retiring pensions for teachers in her public schools and also for her police men. Very few, indeed, of our col leges are able to do 00- The conse quences are grievous.. e men hesi-t tate to adopt teaching as a career, and many old professors, whose places b should be occupied by younger men, cannot be retired." 1 Mr. Carnegie says that the fund will b apply to universities, colleges and technical schools "without regard to race, sex, creed or color;" but not E to institutions supported by State or colonial governments. Another' class F excluded is sectarian institutions. "On ly such as are under control of a sect, or require trustees, or a majority there of. or officers, faculty or students to belong to any specified sect, or which impose any theological test, are to be excluded." Mr. Carnegie specifies the duties of the trustees, and concludes with the hope that "this fund may do much 2 for the cause of higher education and to remove a source of deep and con stant anxiety to the poorest paid, and yet one of the highest, of all profes sions." Among those named as trustees are Presidents Edwin B. Craighead, of Tu lane, and George H. Denny, of Wash ington and Lee. EXPLOSION KILLS SIXTEEN. Every Man in the Mine at the Time t Lost His Life Except One, and He Will Die. Du Bois, Pa., Special.-Sixteen men were killed and one will die as the re sult of an explosion at the Eleanora shaft, near Big Run, Friday night. The mine is owned by the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and Iron Co. The night shift was small or there would have been more fatalities. Every man who was in the mine at the time of the explosion, except one, was kill ed. Three bodies have been recover- I ed. The men were English speaking* and resided at Eleanora, a small min ing village two miles from the shaft. Great College For Tennessee. Columbia, Special.--Wyckliffe Rose., dean of the Peabody college at Nash ville, made the announcement here that the $800,000 required of Tennessee. had been raised to match the $1,000,004) thea Peabody board voted on the 24th ofi last January for the establishment of a teachers' college at Nashville, on thei condition that Tennessee raise $800,000. Of this amount $250,000 comes from the State and $50,000 from Davidson coun-! ty, the home of the proposed college,t which will be the largest teachers' school in- the South. In addition tO I the $1,800,000 thus available for the Institution, 3. P. Morgan has made an of|Ler of $250,000, provided a similar amount is raised. Movements of Russian Squadron. Kamranh Bay, Special.-The Rus sian squadron, with transports, left its last stopping place last Wednesday evening for an unknown destination, The warships are provisioned for six months, and are believed to be bound1 for Vladivostok. Four German col liers arrived at Kamranh Bay too late to proceed with the squadron, but sub sequently sailed in the same directiot in the efforts to catch up with it. Nebogntoff's division was expected to arrive yesterday in Indo-Chinese waters, where it is believed the admir al will receive instructions regarding the place where he is to effect a junc-1 tion with Rojestvensky, whose squad rn, besides 25 warships, includes a: repair ship and a water tank ship. ] Peonage Case Dismissed. Jacksonville, Fla., Special.-Judge Locke, of the Federal Court, issued an order sustaining a demurrer to an indictment against John W. Bennet and Richard Bennet, of Bradford coun ty, who were indicted on the charge of holding Maggie Williams in peonage< July 1, 1903. All parties are white, and; the Bennets prorainent citizens. Judge, Locke's order vircually dismisses the case. This is the only case of alleged] peonage ever brought in Florida. Death on N. & W. Train. Roanoke, Special.-Captain Thomas Alderson, an extensive planter, of Dev il's Lake, N. D., died suddenly on a Norfolk & Western train west of Roan oke Friday night. He left here for his home, apparently in good health. He 1 was a native of Pennsylvania, and dur ing the region of the "Molly Maguires" in 1875-76, he was chief of detectives for the coal operators around Potts-f ville, Pa. Later he came to Virginia, t and was prominent in coal mining. Thet remains will be interred in Roanoke. $250,000 Saw M ill. White Springs, Fla., Special.-The saw mill of R. J. and B. F. Camp, one of the largest concerns of the kind in Florida, was burned here Thursday,I with the dry kiln, veneering mill, com missary and 2,000,000 feet of lumber. The fire spread to the neighboring houses and several of them were de stroyed. The loss will reach at least $250,000,. Sir Thomas Lipton ihas invaded Paris. He has opened a store in the ane de l'Onerat iEN. FITZIUGI LEE tricken With Apoplexy Mile Oil Board a Train to Washington ISTINGUISRED MAN PASSES AWAY ad Been a Confederate Major-General Goverr.or of His State, and Consul General at Havanna, and also a Re tired Brigadier-General in the U. S. Army. Washington, Special.-General Fitz ugh Lee, United States army, retired, d one of Virginia's foremost sons, ied at the Providence Hospital here riday from an attack of appoplexy, hich he suffered on a train while en yute from Boston to Washington. In the room when he died were Dr. [ontgomery, one of the physicians at ie hospital, Miss Dorsey, a relative, ad a nurse, two of the attending phy cians, Drs. Edie and Kean, having tired temporarily. A pathetic feature E the case is that although General ee had a family consisting of a wife ad five children, not one of them was ,ith him at the time of his death. The eneral was 68 years of age. Arrangements for General Lee's fun ral, together with the selection of the lace for interment of the remains, will ot be made until after the arrival in Vashington of Mrs. Lee, who is now a her way to Washington from Fort iglethrope, Ga. Meanwhile the body rill be prepared for burial and will re iain at the hospital. It is possible iat the body may be laid to rest at 2e national ceipetery at Arlington, al ough it is expected that General ,ee's friends may make an effort to ave a site chosen somewhere else in rginia, the State in which he lived so iany years and with whose interests e was so strongly identified. A widow and five children survive |eneral Lee. Two of the boys are ar iy officers and two of the girls are rives of army officers, while the re 3aining child is a young woman still i her teens. The children are Mrs. . C. Rae, wife of Lieutenant Rae, now t Fort Oglethorpe; Lieutenant Fitz .ugh Lee, of the calvary branch, now Manilla; Lieutenant Mason Lee, of he Seventh Cavalry, who is now in an Francisco; Mrs. Anne Brown, wife f Lieutenant Brown of the Seventh avalry, who is now at San Francisco, nd Miss Virginia Lee. General Lee was stricken with ap oplexy, the entire left side being af ected, at 3 o'clock Friday morning, hile on a train en route from Boston o Washington. The train had just left he Harlem river when the stroke ame. The train bearing the general ,rrived in Washington shortly after 0 o'clock. Under the direction of Ma or Kean, United States Army, of the ;urgeoil General's office, the patient 7as removed to Providence Hospital. A physician was taken aboard the rain at Jersey City. At Philadelphia e gave place to another, who accom-. anied the general to Baltimore, where tillanother was taken aboard and oade the trip to Washington. General Lee had been spending a few lays in Boston and was returning to Vashington, on his way to join Mrs. His Distinguished Career. General Lee long has been a promin *nt figure In Washington, and he al vajs was given a hearty reception herever he went. Prior to the civil war at the begin iing of which he resigned his commis ion in the United States army, Gen ral Lee saw considerable frontier duty n moving against the Indians. He vas an ex-cavalry officer. His services In the Confederate' ar ny as a major general are well known, nd during the Interval between this car and his active work in the Span sh-AmericanL war, General Lee filled a umber of important positions, includ ng governorship of Virginia. the presi lency of the Pittsburg & Virginia rail 'oad, the collectorship of internal rev mue for the Lynchburg district, and he consul generalship at Havanna. Following his honorable dischgrge om the volunteer army on March 2, .901, General Lee was appointed to the -egular army with the rank of brig dier general, and with this rank he vas retired in the March following.. Visible Supply of Cottod. M New Orleans, Special.-Secretary JIester's statement of the world's visi >lle supply of cotton, issued Friday, shows the total visible to be 4,141,621 jales, against 4,798,989 bales last week md 2,931,311 bales last year. Of this, :he total of American cotton is 2,911, 121 bales, against 2,944,989 bales. last veek and 836,311 bales last year, and >f all other kinds, including Egypt,. Brazil, India, etc., 1,230,000 bales,. mgainst 1.235,000 bales last week and L,095,000 bales last year. Of the world's visible supply of cot :on, there is now afloat and held in areat Britain arid continental Europe L,996,000 bales, against 1,66S,000 bales ast year. Hail Goes Through Roofs. Savannah, Ga., Special.-Dispatches rom Southwest Georgia report a se rere hail storm Friday. Fifteen miles rest of Albany, in Doughtery and Vorth counties, cotton and other :rops were broken to the ground. On r. H. Bynum's farm the roofs of houses veere broken through. Near Harts ield, Joseph Stovall, an old and well mown citizen, was killed by the blow n down of the house of his grand onn John Stovall. Illinois Gambling Laws. Chicago, Special.-The Worth Jock y Club on Friday definitely abandon dd the clubs race meeting, which was o begin Saturday, opening the race eaon in Chicago. The stockholders' eecided that there was nothing else o them to do but to bow as grace uuly as possible to the ultimatum of he State's Attorney, who declared hat the laws of Illinois concerning ambling must be observed. Monument to Joe Jefferson. Ricchmond, Va., Special.-A popular ubription has been started here for he erection in this city of a monu nent to Joseph Jefferson, the actor. t bids fair to be successful. The city a expected to provide a site. Steamer Passed Warships. Island of Penang, Special-The Brit sh steamer Catherine Apcar, from 3alcutta, reports having passed two letachments of eight and seven war hips, respectively., Thursday night Ixty miles south of Penang. They; -ere hamin for Singanore. .