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Explosion of Powder Plant Wrecks Town and Kills Many Persons?Several Hundred Injured. Fontanel, Ind.,Oct. 16.?Fontanet was prac?ioftlly destroyed today by the explosion of the p'atit ot the Dupout Powder company. The dead number from 25 to 50. Mote than 600 persons were injured and every building in the town was wholly, or partially leveled to the grouncV Where stood a thriving and busy town of 1,000 people this 'morning, tonight there i9 ruin and scattered wreckage. The dead and more seriously injured have been taken away. Five hundred inhabitants, all more or less wounded, remain to gather their scattered household goods and 6leep tinder tents and on cots, guarded by soldiers of the State. Without warning the powder mills, seven in number, blew up at 9:15 this morning. They employed 200 men and ol these 75 were at work v.hen the first ex plosion occurred in the press mill. In quick succession the glazing mill, the two coiniug mills and the powder magazine blow up, followed by the cap mill. In the mag: z ne, situated several hundred"yards Irom the mills, were stored 40,000 kegs of powder. When it blew up the conc?J8?iou was felt reirly 200 miles away. Farm bouses two miles away and school houses equally distant were torn to pieces and their OCCapuiiia ii'ijuiou. A p?? seuger train on the Big Four railroad four miles away had every car window broken and and several passengers were injuied by flying glass. Killed His Father and Wounded Another Man. Abbeville special in the CoU umb'a State: While engaged in a drunken brawl at Mount C?rmel, Tom Frith killed his father, William Frith, and seriously wounded Alonxo Lowton. ? Frith used a pocket knife. He came to Abbeville and surrendered to tbe BberilT. It seems that the old man Frith and his son had a quarrel about a cow Saturday morning in which young Frith was whip pod by his father. Saturday night young Frith went to his father's house and forced his way in with the above remits. Lowton is expected to die. The affair occurred in a rem -te section of the county Saturday! night. Tramp in Trouble. Rock Hill Herald : A one arm tramp who gave his name as 7 u* /1 1: X. X'. V?UH txjui j ui i^unn vai u'l" na, was before Magistrate Beckham Saturday on charge of Healing $25 Irom a negro cabin on the F. jley place last Thursday night and ou account of not being able to give a $500 bond wan sent to jail to awaitthe approaching term of court. lo most cases consumption results from a neglected or improperly treated <0 d Fol -y'a Honey and Tar enrea tbe moat ob tinateonngh* and prevent* serious resnlte It costs yon no more than the on known preparations and yon abonld insist upon DAving the gennlne in tbe yellow paokage. undurbnrk Pharmacy THE Federal Court Takes a Hanc in 'Winding up Old Stat< Dispensary. Columbia special in Ch&rlolh Oh<?pvor' WufJaK.il ...... i 1101 III u mine 1. riliCIl ard, of North Carolina, hat granted a temporary injunct'ot aga'nst i lie State dispensarj commission appointed hy th? last Legislature to wind up the affairs of the S^ale dispensary ! restraining it from disposing o any funds now in its possession amounting to about fcJOO.OOO, from the sale ot stock to county dispensary boards, until the claim of Garrett & Co, of Wei don, N. C , for $7,425.97 can be finally adjudicated in the courts. This ties up about $600,000 worth of claims due to whiskey houses in various parts of the | country for supplier sold the old board of dispensary direc| tors. Stevens Lumber Co. to Establish Plant in Camden. Kershaw Era: The StevenLumber Co. haye do-ed a d^al with the Southern Railway Co., leasing their property, the old South Carolina depot at Camden, which they will fit up j.s a planing mill. Thev wilt mnvA tK.<>r ^ -- - " ??!*' ? ' UI^O II UUI hero but not discontinue their planing mill at this place. Mr. Leroy S. D mdson will be in charge of the Camden office, which will necesr-itate his re mov.tl from here as soon as they get ready for business. VVe will reeret very much to lose Mr. Davidson and his family as ci'izens of Kershaw. Negro Kills Another on Southern Train. Charlotte Observer: Following heated words between Walter McDonald, colored, third cook in the dining car of South em Railway train No. 34, and Charlie W. Wethers, also colored, a fotmer employe of the ser vice. Wethers drew ft.juiife and stabbed McDonald in the heart, killing him instantly. The affair t'^oK piaoe just oeyona the south C trolii a line yesterday after noon a few mi; u'es before 6 o'clock. After the killin : Weth* era lied lo the ' baggage car and when hard pressed by pursuers leaped through the open side door to the ground just as tlie train was slowing up for Pine ville. 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