Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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m ? ? y 81LED IH il BLIM Passengers Snowbound On a Trail For Five Days. CUFFERED HUNGER AND COLI Itot Bnlw Oat la Ik* Straggl* For rood aa4 a ftofawr Trtod tatoMi Call lateaa* ud Cm) tanrfjr Short?Hoi AM Flaally l?it?d tb? IimpriiM* Trinralm-ia XlKtricUa'i Hnolan. ( Sr. rani, Minn.?Passengers arrivlnj no a Great Northern train tell of belni anon-bound for fonr days and flv< Rights on tlie prairies of North Dakota In the midst of the worst blizsard Um Northwest has seen la many yean with only food enough for two frnga meaia.a day. and wtth snch an a moon of fuel that the women had to wra] themselves in blanfctts and the men ti wear their orercoats day and nigh to keep from freezing. The train was completely lost to thi .world. On Thursday afternoon 1 picked Its way out c>f wmiaton b the hope of baln^able to reach Minot some fourteen mllea to the east, be fore night. Al&ost midway, at a littU topping place called Bay. where then ere only siding, a water tank and i coal abed, the train waa staiieo. The engineer thought be could rui the engine back to Wllllaton and gel aid, and, taking the conductor witl * him, started on the trip. The Ioim engine waa stuck In a drift in a cui a short distance out of town and bad to be ahandooed. This left the trail ' of eight coaches and about 290 possen gers alone on the siding, with all com munjcation cut off. Then began th< long siege, during which the cold hm to be borne and hunger stilled. There waa an Incipient riot on tb< first day. The second-class passenger Insisted that they must have aa mucl or more food than the others, and a* they ware In larger numbers and bat mors ravenous appetlties, it waa (1110 colt to confine them to their quota Many ware not willing, as the first class psswngars Insisted, that tb< women and children should be fed anc taken ease of first, but after some ar gument they were prevailed upon 1< snlwfde, Monday evening Professor Colegrove of the University of Washington, wtx ted bera despondent and morose, at templed suicide by cutting bis throa with a my. There was a physlclai on the train,' but be bad no facOltlei tor performing tbe necessary operation and it was sbsolutlj necessary to ge into communication with one of tlx self hbgrlag towns. - In tnelr desperation tbe passengen broke open everything in tbe train'i cbest. and in tbe conductor's bos fount a telegraph instrument A yoang man an electrician, faced tbe blissard am tapped one of tbe wires snd attache* the Instrument. He notified tbe opera tors at both Mlnot and Wllliston ol What bad occurred. From each place a snow plow wai started In front of an engine bearini a surgeon. Tbe one from Mlnot, aftei a bard nlgbfs work, reached tbe sldlnj early the following morning and th< wounded man was removed on tbe flrsi train, to 8t Paul, where he was card for at the City Hospital. The almosi famished passengers who had suffem! from the cold and exposure were sup plied with #cd and warm berths In th< An* train nmhftl tbrouth thp drifts The rotary plow made one trip thrvuyt the drift between Bay and Mlnot. bat the now piled in so rapidly that it wai peeessary for tbe rotary to pasi through again and then precede th< passenger train through tbe cut BOY CHAWED TO FLOOR. IMiimS Dm by Padlock to Wfclcl VSUM las Gone Away Wit* tfcoKoy. Perth Amboy. N. J.?-Cliained to tb< Boot of the kitchen of hi* borne Patrol ?an William McDermott found Wolt |ec Sabalinaky, a ten-year-old boy. - McDcrmott went to tbe bouse to dad out about a pane of glass that tho boj had accidentally broken in tbe stoit of D. Fagen. McDermott saw tbe boy lying on tbo floor and noticed tbat %bfav;r cbaln led under tbe bed cloth lag tbiit partly covered tho boy. He iraa horrified to find tbat tb< tunto was tightly drawn around tht boy's lag. Just above tbe ankle, and padlocited. Tbe fatber, Albert Sabalin aky. wiia gt work in a stove works and be bad tbe key with him. McDsnnott at once communicated with Chief Burke, and was told to ge1 tbe chain off. McDermott got a black fmith to go to the Saballnsky bonu frith a file and a pair of punchers. A rrowd of people followed tbe two and Watched the work ot filing away tb< fhaln. which took about ten minutes. MADNESS A VEIL TO MYSTERY. tin. Dwh. WttMagtuD ModUtt, Cu *mr Hum Hw amaluat. Washington. O. C.?At the GarfleU hospital It la stated that Mrs. Adi Gilbert Dennis, the modiste who wai mysteriously assaulted in her resident Several months ago, will never regali her aenses. There Is every reasou t< believe that she will live for severa years, hot there Is little bope that ?bi will ever be able to tell who it vt that Inflicted the terrible wounds upoi her bead and body. To the police the case Is Just as mucl of a myatery aa It was seversl month ago. lira. Dennis's erratic talk ha never airvsd to give a due to the idee tity of the person who tried to murde her. . ItaMSMt la Ibt Anar. President Roosevelt has appoints Brigadier-General R. P. Hughes a Ma jor-Geatrtl, and Colonela Isaac D. D Boasy, Andrew 8. Burt and M. V. 8bei Idan to be Brigadier-Generala in th Regular Armv. to fill existing vacancle caused by retirements. WM1M IMIWOl! Twenty-lira DmmI. Authentic reports from every count; In Middle Tennessee place the <l?ru age done by tbe recent floods at * 95.000,000. Twenty-live persona .... their lire*. Arcontliui to lecrraa* Jtavy. Argentina has ordered two n?*w at mored war vessels, to be superior L speid and armanent to those of Chik The Government lias resolved to al ways maintain tbe supremacy of Aj gentlna In South America. It Is alt declared that It will not Increase taxa tioa. 1MOO HlMrt StrSk*. After mass meetings of the Rocbei ter and Pittsburg Coal and Iron Con oanjr'a minora had been bald at Pom statu waey and Syteartlie, Pa., tb threatened strike we* formally d< dared. It larohred 10.000 miners, . Lite* ;. . ,;-.v V I AMERICAN HOG REFORM Experiments to Be Conduoted by the I Department of Agriculture. fk? Okjctt I* t? Imu? Bread of Plgi With Good Character* and Ami| ablt DlipMltloa*. Washington. D. C.?A series of ex peri men ts will noon oe coauui-irti under the direction of the Department of (| Agriculture, looking to the collection of data and the securing of knowledge which will make possible the breeding I of clean Igs. One of the professors I of the department belie res with other * high authorities that the pig la not i hereditarily and inherently an nnclean > anlmaL and holds that It la simply the Tlcttm of circumstances and environ1 ment It is proposed by Inoculating 1 the principles of sanitation in succeedt ing generations of pigs to finally sej cure an animal which, while resembling the porker of to-day in every es9 sential particular, will have none of t the objectionable habits now attributed to him. , It la held by the professor that. owlng to the stigma under which the pig 1 now rests, due partly to the Biblical 1 J tradition, that the body of the swine In ancient days was considered a favorI It? place In which to confine exorcised 1 devils and erll spirits, the animal la f placed In the most unsanitary hablta1 tions, given as food everything that i* unclean and held in contempt as one 1 of the lowest beasts of the animal 1 kingdom, and that be has entirely lost 1 I his self-respect and lives in sloth and > i dirt The plan of the department cont templates the erection of a modem sty, I tree from the objectionable features of ? such structures. The theory holds that the pig's fond* ness for mud baths comes from a de? sire to rid itself of the heat retained I hi the body by layers of fat under the thick hide. The hogs In the modern s sty will not be allowed to wallow at i win. but will be cooled off by a shower i bath in one corner of the structure. It i Is believed that by providing animals I : with sanitary abodes, giving them cool lng baths and feeding them on clean I * - AW- Al A. t ln aUa . IOOU. we uuiiocu lucuicaicu uj iuc au lmals bj ffeneratlona of Inattention a can be eradicated. The object of the 1 plan is to secure a breed of pigs with elean pink skins, shiny, well-kept bria> ties, Rood characters and amiable dispositions. > MILES AGAIN REBUFFED. | ' Fmldnt Sendi CorrtapsadciN to Co? I I grmm With 8kary OnumiI. i | Washington. D. C.?Another Admini.; lstratlon rebuff to Qeneral Miles was t ; made public when President Booset relt, in resi>ons? to the Burleson resoJ lotion, sent to the House the correi 1 spondence relating to the Commanding i General's proposition for bringing hos1 . till ties In the Philippines to an end. , I President Roosevelt gives the final I' sting by concluding the entire correI spondence between Secretary Boot and . t General Miles with this note: t "The memorandum of the Secretary U no m trhAla on/I am ; V& VV<U id ?)l|flVI?U wo v? ?? Mvavt i to every part Had there been any r doubt before as to the -wisdom of deP nylng General Mlies's request these . papers would remove such doubt" ' i The only other part taken by Preal| I dent Roosevelt in the matter Is a brief I note of approval of the Secretary's t | original action and a message of trans* . | mission, in which the President states | that he includes certain additional ' memoranda, added by General Miles 1 since the passage of the resolution, to' gether with the action taken thereon. !; This correspondence was read In the House, ordered printed, and referred [ to the Committee on Insular Affairs. [ l . HATFIELO FEUD RENEWED. f*w Mm* Killed la DtifirtU Tight la Ktatiekj. ? Willlamston. W. Va. ? Reports were received about another fight with the > Hatfields. iu which four were killed. ? John Rutherford, a detective, bad a ' warrant for the arrest of Ephralm Hat* field, who is wanted In South Carolina. I He finally located Hatfield in Pike r County. Kentucky. Harry Watts, of this place, went with Rutherford, and j they found Ephralm at the home of t his father. Thompson Hatfield, on Blackberry Creek. j Rutherford and Watts broke In the I door and had secured Ephralm, when the father opened fire on them. Shoot| : tag at once became general and Watts . ; and Rutherford and both Hatfield* I ' were killed. The Rutherfords were relatives of I "Cap" Hatfield, of feud fame. Ruth* I erford was a brother of the two Ruth. erfords killed at the election In 1896, ) by "Cap" Hatfield. Watts was well i known throughout the southern part I of the 8tate. He was wealthy and i popular. COTTON STRIKE AVERTED. Adnin of Tea ftr C?at. la W?jt? I Granted to 00,000 Kaod*. Boston. ? The advance of ten per 1 cent which was granted to the 27,000 i employes of Fall River cotton mills recently has become general in Southe era New England. It Is estimated that i fully 00,000 hands In this section will > benefit by the increase In wages. The 1 decision of the New England manus facturers to concede the dpmnnrig of s the men was followed by that of the i leading mill owners of Rhode Island, and. while no authoritative announcej ment has been made as to what tbo big mills of Lowell. Lawrence. Mand cheater. Lewistou, Nashua and other i. cotton centres will do. it is generally r believed that, as usual, they will follow Fall River and New Bedford. *?to liratd ml Um Ntolk*. ft Richard Young, one of the negroei accused by young Dower Fountain in * his dying statement of having attacked '* himself and mother ou the Ogechee e Road, three miles from Savannah, Ga.. * was caught by infuriated residents of the district and burned at the stake. four Dnwatd Beside ? Mule Transport. y A skiff containing eighteen men engaged in painting the British mule transport Atlantean. at New Orleans, 1 La., was overturned and four of tV eighteen men in it were drowned. s, Mtwij OImiihc* a I Austria is arranging a commercial ?. I treaty with Mexico. I* | A non-partisan City Council 1* ex> pected from the next election in Chio cago. l" j A splendid laboratory for anatomical j purposes is contemplated by the Unii verslty of Chicago. Navigation to the St Clair flats in [. | Lake St Clair has been opened, the ; aarliest ever known. j Peru baa accepted tbe Invitation to * 1 participate in the 8L Louis Exposition, ' and will be well represented. ' V-.'Y *7 KILLED IN MINE EXPLOSION Blasts, Prematurely Shot, limited Gas and Coal Dust. DIGGERS CAUGHT IN DEATH TRAP A DafMtlTt r*M the Cbin of thm Dl?Mtor, Wkkk Ocnmd In ti?? MeUoa VIh at Dijtoa, Ttti.-Thrw Tletlau Mat t>Mth Maadlai OmUkU tha Wm -A List of Um Dead. Chattanooga, Tenn. ? An explosion of gas in thj Nelson mine of the Dayton Coal and Iron Company at Dayton, Tenn., ignited the drj coal dost In the mine and caused a terrific explosion. Twenty-two men were killed and eight Injured, two seriously. The dead are: James Franklin. Tom Sharer, James Harris, P. G. Travis, all white; George Grifflss, Ben Grlfflsa, Reese Dean. Norris Piersoll. Morgan Smith. John Robertson. all colored; Lark Hunter, white; John Harney, white; J. E. Hill, colored; Bryant Smith, colored; Mack Focst. colored; Alex. Toffer. white; six others, names unknown. On Mdata in the Nelson mine and the men are required to use safety lamps. It is the rule of the company for the miners to places their fuses ready to be lighted for blasts Just before quitting work each day. and there ore workmen known as "firemen." who go throngb the mine after all the miners are out and net off these blasts. The miners quit work at 4.30 o'clock p. m. It takes them about forty-five minutes to get out of the mine. The two "firemen." who are supposed to hare caused the explosion, are Lark Huuter and John Harney. They shot the blasts about 4.15 o'clock, before all toe miners cqqm get oat 01 me miuc. It It supposed that one of the fuses was defective, and resulted in what Is known as the "blown blast" The flame shooting ont from the blasts Ignited the gas. which In turn Ignited the accumulation of dry coal dust In the mine. The explosion that followed was horrible In Its intensity. It shot out of the mouth of the mine and completely wrecked the shed at the mine entrance. Three men were killed while standing outside the mine, and two were seriously and one fatally Injured. This mine has been the scene of two serious explosions in the past In 188!) four men were killed and eight serious* ly injured by an explosion of gas. In 1885 an explosion of mine dust occurred in which twenty-eight lives were lost In May. 1001. an explosion nt a atmllnr nitnr* noMirrwJ in th? Sballlday mine, operated by the same company, in which twenty-one lives were loot. The force of the explosion in the Nelson mine literally mangled and tore bodies to pieces. Officials say there were only seventy-five men at work In the mine, and most of them were out of the mine when the explosion occurred. STORM KILLS WORSHIPERS. Church Wr*ek?d, filter Injared ud Tw* of Ctigntatin Dead. Wellaburg. W. Va.-r-As a result of the storm the historic Franklin Methodist Episcopal Church, four miles east *wu m1?aa la In amtna (fa aiVAil nAfl. VI IUAO JiiflVU, W IU 4 UiUO, IW ?h?-vi tor Is seriously injured, two members of the congregation are dead and several others are injured. The Kev. Mr. Allsbouse was just ending his sermon when the gable end of the church was blown in. Falling timbers struck him. The congregation fled in panic. Many had reached the outside when the gale lifted the roof off and it fell among those still Inside. Estella Brady, sixteen years old. bad her neck broken and was instantly killed. Robert Gist ten years old. was internally injured and died while being taken borne. Many Charche* Damaged. Pittsburg. Pa.?A remarkable feature of the storm was the number of churchcs injured in Pittsburg and Allegheny and the immediate vicinity, eleven houses of worship were more or less wrecked. The local churches damaged are St Peter's Protestant Episcopal. Bellfleld Presbyterian. St. John the Evangelist, (Boman Catholic) and Eighth Street Temple of Pittsburg. African Methodist Episcopal and St Wencelaus Bohemian (Boman Catholic) of Allegheny. First English Lutheran and United Presbyterian of Eraddock. Knoxville Presbyterian. St. Mary's (Boman Catholic) of McKee's Bocks, and Robinson Run United Pre*hrtorlun f!hnn?h. \frDnnnld P# Evansville, Ind.?St. Boniface's Catholic Church in this city was struck by lightning and set on fire. The building is a total loss. St. Boniface's was one of the largett and finest Catholic churches In the State. It cost about $200,000. TIDAL WAVE IN_ SALVADOR. Tan Feet High, Fallowed by Two Other*. I: Drowned Mtay People. Washington, D. C.?Consul-General Jenkins reports to the 8tate Department from 8an Salvador, that recently a tidal wave ten feet high struck the whole ccast of Salvador. It was followed by two other waves of lesj height. A small village nmed La Barra "? Santiago (some twelve ir fifteen miles up the coast from Acajutla> was inundated, the buildings razed to the graund. and many people drowned. The village contained 200 Inhabitants New Dogns U BUI In Circulation. Th<? Secret Service, at Washington, has announced that a new $3 national bank note, fairly deceptive, is in circulation. It is a photographic print on two pieces of paper, with fiber beftkMnn am tlia TTtii \n VtiHnn<il RnnL* at New Orleans. Two Tears For Ill.TrMtlai Iler Child. Mrs. Leua Borkoski. of Newark. N. J., who was convicted of having hrutally beaten her little daughter, wan serteneed to two year?; at. hard labor U Ctate prison. RumUd Traitor's Life U Safe. Colouel Grimm. the Russian offlcet who is charged with revealing Russian military secrets to Germany, will l>e taken to St. Petersburg and placed in close confinement. Colonel Grir.im caiiLot be executed, since In Russia the l>etraynl of military secrets is not a capital offense, unless this betrayal he made to a power with which Russia la at war. rupee's Swoep la Tadla. The plague continues to rage in the Punjaub, India. The deaths average i 70.000 monthly. . T- *-V*ty"v ? - -- i IINSR EVDITSOF THE WEEK! wawmnaroy items. United State* Marshal Thompson, of Oklahoma, resigned, to the surprise of the Treasury Department. Preparations for beginning the inquiry Into the allegations of bribery in connection with the sale of the Danish West Indies were completed. President Roosevelt has refused Sen ator Hanna's request to pardon Rathbone. President Roosevelt reappointed Civil Engineer M. T. Endlcott U. 8. N., for another term of four years as Chief of the Naval Bureau of Yards and Docks. noMrtmrat denounced the charges cf bribery made bj Captain Christmas as "senseless fabrications." An appropriation of $18,000. to be spent at the President's will In refurnishing the White House, was included In the Sundry Civil bilL Germany requested the United States to Join In an international movement against a wireless telegraph monopoly. on AoorrzD iilakds. Agulnaldo, In answer to a subpoena, appeared In court In Manila in the libel rait of two drll commissioners against a newspaper, but his testimony was not taken. General Chaffee was about to make a tour of inspection in the Island of Samar. P. I. Noriel the only insurgent general in the Held except Malvar. was captured in the Philippines. ? Preliminary .steps were ueiug u? to establish United States naval and coaling stations In Cuba. DOMESTIC. While in a lit Mrs. Mary Hlvely. of Warsaw, Ind., fell Into a pan of boiling iugar, and was scalded to death. Joseph Potter. LL.D.. a mender of the Second J)IvIslon of the Court of Appeals, died In Whitehall, N. Y. The Ohio Legislature will allow a $20,000 MeKinley memorial to be built at the entrance to the Capitol grounds at Columbus. Reginald C. Yanderbllt, at New York City, insisted on paying taxes on $250.000 personal property, although he was assessed at only $11,000. Five hours' liberty was all that C. C. Campbell, a Federal prisoner at Atlanta. Ga., secured as a result of breaks Ing JalL Attorney-General Hamlin decided that Investment companies cannoi uo business in Illinois under tbe Foreign Corporation act. Fire in tbe chair shop of the prison it Auburn. N. Y.. caused a panic among condemned murderers, but none was hurt. Traffic on the railroads In tbe South, which was suspended because of tbe recent floods, was resumed. The German Emperor's yacht Meteor. after a slight mishap, made her trial trip in a squall and showed great speed and stability. Miss Jane Toppan, who is accused of poisoning the Davis family at Cataumet. Mass.. was pronounced Insane. An attempt, which will probably prove ineffectual, was made to harmonize the Republican factions In Delaware over the struggle for seats in the United States Senate. , Albert T. Patrick, convicted of the murder of William M. Rice, at New l'oi k City, announced that be was enzaztd to marry Mrs. Francis, his land lady. A Rock Island train coming Into East Pneblo. Col. killed two women and the Infant son of one of tbem. Thirty days' truce was agreed on by the anthracite miners and operators daring which time tbe Conciliation Committee will try to arert the threat* ened strike. Four women prisoners broke jail at Fort Scott Kan., and were recaptured. It developed that Vice-President Andrews. of tbe City Savings Bank, in Detroit. Mich., operated in millions of dollars' worth of stocks and bonds. Shot to death. Magnus Johnson, a bachelor, was found in bis home at Alexandria, Minn. FOBJBIOK. It Is expected that the treaty of friendship between the United States ind Spain will be signed on the return of Minister Storer to Madrid. William Stephen Temple Gore Langton. fourth Earl Temple, died at Cairo, Egypt. He was born In 1S47. The foreign trade of Germany for 1001 showed a decrease in tbe total exports and Imports, but a marked increase in tbe imports from the United States. A Russian subsidized steamer landed 60.000 rifles at a seaport of Persia on the Perslau Gulf. A large number of Haitian refugee* reached Jamaica, and reported the condition of affairs in Haiti as serious. The revenue for tbe United Kingdom for the quarter ending March 31 showed an increase of $2},004,5?]5. du<e entirely to tbe additional twu pence placed on tbe income tax. Dr. Ernst Lieber, lender of the Centre in the German Ueicbytag. is dead. He was sixty-three years old. Advices from London made It appeal that there was no immediate prospect of peace in South Africa. Charles M. Dickinson. United State* Consul-General at Sotia, has become ( ersotia non grata to Bulgaria, and lost his post by his activity in the ease of Miss Stone. The general opinion in England was that thore was no clianee for a Ilus ?iau evacuation of Manchuria. It was stated that the famous Lobengula treat)', which secured Hbodesi a for the British Empire, was ob taiued. not by Cecil K bodes. but bj "Matabele" Thompson, a member ol the Cape Parliament. A revolution broke out in San Do* mingo, and there was sharp tigbtin; on tiie south coast at the town of Bar a bona. Cecil Rhodes. It is said, left most ol bis fortune for the promotion of impcr in Usui bv education. Turkish soldier* attacked a post oi the Bulgarian frontier. The Culted States Government was ri'iKirteU to have recognized the justici oi the claim of Japan in the matter ol taxing foreigners in that country. Better news was received from th? Newfoundland sealing fleet, the catelle* turning out larger than was exacted A bitter corres|>ouden<e between A J. Balfour and Sir Uedvers Buller wat made public. Prince Derneburg. former (iermas Minister to Great Britain and Franco Is dead. Three torpedo boat destroyers wert 'damaged In the heavy seas off the Eog I Ush coast. WBECKED [?WIND SIORlT Three Churches Damaged and Many Injured in Pennsylvania. PASTOR BURIED UNDER DEBRIS Church C?Mla* Carried Dowm Dpoi a CongrsffsUea la Knoxvillo, Xtlnlif it L?ut Forty rtnow-Maay Utm iMt (a Soathora Floods, ud Proportj Doatroyod la Fit* State*. ' Pittsburg, Pa.?One of the fiercest wind storms ever known In this section struck the cltj just before noon, did almost incalculable damage to j property, and injured man> people, i some of whom maj die from the cffecti of their wounds. Scores of houses were unroofed, many trees were blown down, mill stacks toppled over. and ; telegraph and telephone wires gener- < ally disabled. j The most serlons accident was tht unroofing of the Knoxville P res byte- , rian Church in Knoxvllle. The churcb , at the time was filled with an Eastet . congregation, numbering about 600 persons. While the minister was In the midst of his sermon a strong gust ! of wind blew over the large chimney and lifted a portion of the roof of the building. The bricks from the cbim ' ney crashed through the roof and car ; rled a huge piece of the hard wood ceiling down upon the worshipers is the pews. 1 An indpcorihable nanic ensued and a frantic nub was made for the doort and windows. The excitement was soon quieted and the work of reseat . began. At least forty persons wer< caught by the wreckage and more 01 1 leas hart The storm, which came upon the dty very suddenly, came up through the Ohio Valley and passed on eastward. It lasted only about thirty 1 minutes, only five minutes of which ( was the Telocity unusually high. Ia 1 that five minutes practically all of the 1 damage waa accomplished. As Rev. J. W. English, pastor of the < Robinson Run United Presbyterlao < Church, near McDonald, was raising his arm to pronounce the benediction, lightning struck the church apire and ' it toppled upon the roof, crushing U < and injuring a number of worshipers, i two of whom?Robert Pattersoa. tec years old, and Leon Averili. elevet years old?bad tbelr skulls fractured I and were fatally Injured. I The Xoblestown Presbyterian Cburct i was also, unroofed, but tbe congreg* | Uon escaped injury. < The damage In tbe Monongabels and Turtle Creek valleys will react ( thousands of dollars, but no special?? ] big Individual loss is reported. Ckanh Struck by Cyeloae. I Greenville. Pa.?The Easter service! i in the United Presbyterian Church ai i Jamestown came to an abrupt ending i The sky became overcast and a fun I nel-shaped cloud was seen approach- | ing from the northwest Tbe congre i gation became uneasy, but the pastor, the Rev. J. M. Jamison, continued th< services. Suddenly there was a terrific crash, and part of the south end < f\9 fhn nhnrnh #aII in Kvit^rlniv thn mIn. VI IUI. V. U Ui V. U ftVtl iUf MUI/?W(| iUC U4*?*~ later beneath bricks and timbers. The men of the congregation rushed to the pulpit and when the stricken mlnistet > J was removed from the debris it wai , found that be had received fata) ( Injuries. Btem Imn at Biffklo. Buffalo, N. Y.?A wind storm swept over the eastern suburbs of the citj, doing considerable damage. Trolley poles were twisted, splintered and bro ken. sidewalks were torn up and burled great distances, and amall tree* j j were uprooted. Fortunately the stonx , spent its force in an almost unpopu I ' lated part of the city, and lta path waf j very narrow. ( DROWSED I* SOUTHERN FLOODS. Muj LItm Lost tad Property Daimatt* ; Estimated at S4?000,000. Nashville, Tenn. ? Twenty-two liref ! are reported to bave been lost. tbre? fnir'na nirt(n!lv /Ipsfrnvrwl Atld 14.U00.1 V ? | 000 worth of damage done la the flood} whlcli have deluged Eastern and Mid- j die Tennessee and Kentucky. Northers i Georgia. Alabama and Mississippi. The streams between Murfreesborc i and Bell Buckle. Tenn., advanced m i fast that occupants of many hornet ! I were obliged to seek safety in the sec . I ond stories of their houses. Much I i property at Mount Pleasant. Shelby I i vllle and Murfreeaboro was damaged ! ! Several hundred persons at Mount Pleasant were driven from theii j homes and forced to take refuge it the court house. The damage at Mur i freesboro and other portions of Ruth erford County is estimated to be half t million dollars. It is estimated that j from foriy to fifty bouses at Oakdali j and Harriman were washed away. Five factory employes at McMinn j ( ville, whose names could not b? ; learned, were drowned. The Annii j ' cotton mill and the Tennessee wooller mill were greatly damaged, and thf , Falcon rolling mill was partially de , n-?*1.... 11- -ii , 1 tirujcu. i miuuiu/ ail tuua^i'9 *tuu pmall buildings in the town were ; washed away. Seven PirNM Drawitd. Florence, Ala.?Two days' rain hai . , caused the most disastrous floods eve: known in this county. Every bridge is j the county Is reported swept awaj | except the Shoal Creek Bridge. Tlh j home of Pat Brahen. a colored man i j about three miles from the city. wa? j swept away and seven of his familj I drowned. Boy Kills Baby Brother. While sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Shockctte. of Friendship, Ohio, aged live and two years, were playing iu ih?? j 1 yarded, the elder boy in a tit of angei i { Jtruck the younger a blow on the head with a gardi'U hose. The child was j nade uncouscious. and lockjaw fol , lowed, causing his death. Hnndred* Killed In Chine** Blot*. A thousand people have been killed j | In riots at Ta-Mlng-Fu. in Pe-Chi-Li j i l>rnvinci> fliiii:i i':insi'il iiv nttt'inmi . to colic.*t indemnity fur the Catholic* j i Prominent 1'eopU. Mnrk Twain, like many other cele- ] brities. regards the autographhuntct . ( as au intruder. Emperor William ha* named one of : | his guurdxhips. a former torpedo boat, 1 , the Alicc Kooaevelt. General Lloyd Wbeaton is very popu? j i tar with his aoldiers in the Philippines, j i who 8i>cak of him amoug themselves j I as "Old Dad." J The villages of Fulton. N. Y., and | Hll.nl M inn aru tlu> Intact KonaA^iiir* i lea under Andrew Carnegie's library | fund. Each village U to get * $15,000 i library building. ' ^rT"r *-~,;Trr~ "* ^~.f-CUBAN BILL REPORTED , Vote in the Ways and Means Com* mittao Was 12 to 5. 411 Amendment* B(|?<t?d Kinptlu Am Bolatiac to Contract Labor?Area* m?nt of the Majority Report. Washington, D. C.?The rote on the Cuban reciprocity bill in the Ways and Means Committee stood 12 to 5. Two Republican*?'Tawney. of Minnesota, find Metcalf. of California?voted against It The final vote la detail was: Yean?Payne. Dalsell. Grosvenor, Russell. Steele. McCall, Long and Babcock. Republicans; Richardson, Swan 8011 sua ncviietua, ueuiwraw?ii. Nays?Tawney and Metcalf. Repabllcans; Robertson. Newiands and Cooper. Democrats?5. Although the actual vote was 11 to 5, bj general consent Mr. Hopkins, who ivss absent, was recorded in the affirmative, making the recorded vote 12 to 5. Before the bill was voted on finally ind reported, various amendments trere offered by the minority and beet rogar members. Mr. Richardson offered i series of amendments looking to a general revision of the tariff, and all were defeated on a party vote. Mr. McClellan offered a series of amendments increasing the amount of tariff reduction on Cuban products all the tray from thirty-three and one-third to fifty per cent These were also de- 1 feated In the same manner. , Only one amendment to tne original Payne bill was adopted, and that was proposed by the leaders. It required the adoption by Cnba of our contract labor laws as well as the Immigration laws. Just before the Ho^.e adjeurued Chairman Payne reported the bill. The majority report says: "It can. work no Injury to ocr tadr* try if we make this small reduction >n Cuban sugars. The enactment of this bill will not effect the protection of the sugar producers of the United States. There Is no reasonable pretence that the same reduction on other Cuban products will Injure any other American industry. - >U. Kill "unaer me prvTuivui ui uc u>u ire should be able to double the amount Df our export trade with Cuba, which amounts to 928.000.000 more than that we obtained in the last fiscal year. "Aside from the exceptional case that Cuba presents, the action of the Committee is In entire accord with the reciprocity doctrine of the Republican platform and the declarations of President McKlnley and President Roosevelt It Involves no proposed revision Df the tariff or anything not entirely in harmony with the maintenance of the protective system." Mr. McClellan will file a minority report, arguing that a twenty per cent, reduction is not sufficient to give Cuba substantial relief and urging a greater reduction. Mr. Newlands will present Mn annexation views in a minority re port, and Mr. Richardson will file t report on the general tariff revision. ????? i BULL CORES PREMIER MATADOR. American* Cha?r Fr*aii?<S Animal aa H? Tmm Jarllco la th? Air. El Paso, Texas.?A ball flgbt at Jaarez. Mexico, was accompanied by a ! somewhat unusual feature, the goaded animal turning the tables on the uaatador. There were many Americans among the spectators, who were somewhat disgusted with the brutal show, a* horse after horse was gored by the tormented bulls, while the picador# and matadors escaped scatbless. This was ail changed, however, when Jarligo, the premier matador, was preparing to thrust bis long, doable-edged sword Into the heart of the fifth ball which had faced him. It stood in tb? centre of the arena, bleeding from many wounds. Suddenly the bull made a quick lunge forward. So unexpected was the attack that the tighter was unable to take the customary sidestep. He was caught on the bull's horns la the middle of the body and tossed afout like a toy balloon. Before he could be rescued. Jarligo't clothing was literally stripped from his body and his right leg and hip were severely lacerated. As the bull tossed the man high in alr.receiving bis body on its boms, onij to again toss it up.the Americans among the spectators cheered the animal loudly, which called forth a storm of hisses from the Mexicans present, and for-a tine it looked ns though there would be a collision, between the two races. SLAIN BY HIS COACHMAN. ? Wife Sees Prominent BuIbm* Man KI1M la Qa>ml la Back Yard. Cleveland, Ohio.?Georg?* H. Allen, a prominent dealer in coal and timber lands and general real estate, was shot to death in the yard of his home. The ileed was done oy his coachman. John Hagesfeld. who surrendered at Central Police Headquarters and confessed. The crime Is believed to have been - ? 1 L7 patch to Pekin in which he mhinecl hit Government to prohibit Chinese students from coins to Japan. doctorin^ they would imbibe revolutionary ideas there. For 94.000.00C Station ta Wa?liloctnn. Senator .McMillan lias introduced a hill iu the United State* Senate authorizing the construction of a union station in Washington, to cost J?W. Counterfeit* of 1804 Dollar*. Because ho was too modest iu hfs r?ffer to sell t~o silver dollars of the ls<M Issue, a tuati siring ills name as U. B. Smltli was arrested at Lima, Uliio. Smith tried to sell the coins, tvorth $:W00 each, for a pittance, and suspicion "-is aroused. HfS coins were i-xamined and pronounced counterfeits. Mil** Will Not Keslifa. Oeneral Miles repudiates the suff*esHon that he apply for retirement, and Joes not intend to leare active army serv'ce until he U ?lxtr-four years old. 1 SERVANT'S AWFUL CRIIE Killed Mother and One Daughter . and Wounded Little Girl. ENTICED ONE VICTIM TO DEATH After HwiMn Vuilly, JCtgro BiU?r Ld DttMHfM 1st* th* Hmm ud b* e?p*d, Sat Coiftwd Wfcii C*?|kU DMd Isaatnd kr Ihi Fur of AhmW Tniady Oeemrred Is PhlU4?ipfeU. Philadelphia. Pa.?Fearing that be > would be arrested (or theft, William ^ H. Lane, a colored butler, shot and 1 killed bis employer. Mrs. Ella J. Fur- 1 bush, her twelve-year-old daughter I Madeline, and probably mortally wounded another daughter, Elolae. aged seven years, at their home In this city. Lane escaped fron) the bouse, but waa captured and confessed bis crime. Mrs. Furbush lived with her two daughters In a line four-story bouse. which was well furnished. Lane bad been her butler since Cbrlatmaa, and she bad another colbted servant, a woman. Recently Mcs. Furbush bad been missing small s mounts of money. 8he Informed the police, who began an in* ' vestlgatlon, which was stUl In pro- \ press when the tragedy occurred. 8us- V plclon fell on Lane, and a warrant waa \ sworn out for his arrest. J According to Lane's confession, be I saw Mrs. Furbusb counting a large roll of bills. Knowimr where she kept the money be bided bis time, and at an opportune moment late In tbe evening be stole 170. In tbe morning Mrs. Fnrbnsb missed tbe money, and questioned blm. bat be denied all knowledge of baring seen y tbe monej. Expecting tbat tbe theft would be traced to blm. and that Mrs. \ Fnrbnsb would bare blm arrested. Lane planned to mnrder tbe mother and her children, rob tbe bouse, and disappear. At 11 o'clock be went to tbe third floor and found Mrs. Fnrbnsb in one of tbe middle rooms. He sbot her ' twice, once In the lungs, and then through tbe heart. 8he died instantly. Elolse, who was In another room, hearing the noise, ran to see what was the matter, and as she entered Lane sbot her In tbe abdomen. 8be fell, and he thoncht be bad also killed ber. Without attracting the attention of the other servant who was ironing in tbe kitchen. Lane went to tbe frost door and called-in Madeline, who was skating on roller skates on tbe side? walk. He told ber that her mother wanted ber. Madeline climbed tb? stairs without removing her skates. t She went into a room adjoining that In which her mother lay dead. Lane followed ber. and as she called ber mother, the negro shot her through tbe heart, killing her Instantly. Lane. In his confe**!on. says be then proceeded to rob tbe bause. He quick* ly found $130. two watches and-? pocketbook. While be was scabbing < for the jewelry he was interrupted by tbe arrival of two special policemen, who had a warrant for bis arrest oo the charge of larceny. Tbey asked to ?ee Mrs. Furbusb. Lane showed them to tbe sitting room on tbe second floor and said tfe would call his mistress. Recognising one of the men as an officer Lane hastily donned bis orercoat and escaped by tbe rear of tbe bouse. Tbe policemen, bearing a moan, started an Investigation, and on tbe third floor hallway found little Eloise. To the policemen she said: "William sbot my mother and my sia- tcr and trljd to kill me." She was immediately sent to the hospital and the police dragnet was put in motion. Lane was traced to tbe Pennsylvania Railroad station at Camden, where he was recognized l>y one of tbe policemen he had admitted to the bouse. The officers bustled bitn on a ferryboat and out of tbe jurisdiction of New Jersey. At tbe police station Lane said be was sorry for what be had done. Later Lane was taken to the hospital. < where Eloise Identified him. saying: "He is William Lanp. the man who killed my mother and sister and tried to kill me. You know you did. William." In bis presence ber statement irnii iaKen. ana muf put me wai ui accuracy to It hjr aayinjr "Kverythinf the child has said is true." SIX PERSONS BURNEO TO DEATH. VtUMf lid Ylrm Chllrfma Ftritk las Fir* Nnr Jchutowa, P?. Johnstown. Pa. ? Six person* were burned to death in Prosser Hollow, a mile from the out?I:irm of the city, la a tire which de*;roycd their home. The dead: Philip P. Mitchell, need flfty-tbre# years; Jacob P. Mitchell, aged fourteen; Mary Martha Mitchell, aged twelve; Charles Edward Mitchell. a?ed eleven; Jesse M. Mitchell, njred nl<vh?> i IIk,i PraniHX Mlti'hfll nil. rue outcome 01 a i|uiinn uuuui fold's work. Hngesfeld fired four shots luto Allen's body. Allen dyiajf within i few minutes from the effect* of a bullet in the brain. Allen's wife was a witness to- the crime, her husband bavin? ask-'d her to got him bis gun. Threw Himself in Frnot of Train. By throwing himself in front of a passenger train near Wbittenton Junction. Mass.. Peter Rooban. of Lawrence. an inmate of the Taunton Inone Asylum, ended his life. He was thirty-six years old and a widower. ChlnrM Warned Atalnit Japan. The Chinese Minister at Tokio. -In ?."! Itn.- mint 11 cfrnncrlv A'nnlpl! (lis The family had retired, with the ex? ceptlon of one son. who was away. Mr.". Mitchell and her daughter Sophia were the first to l>e awakened bjr the heat and smoke of the flames. They woke th?' father and ran outside nnd screamed for help. Neighbors were aroused. but they could do nothing but Htaud helplessly by and watch th?> hoii*> burn, and with it the father and five children. Mit?*hell rushed down stair* to the kitchen to get some water to extinguish the Are. but wh<*n he reached i the first floor he saw it wag impossible to mvp the bouse. He then returned up stairs and perished in the burning i rafters of his own house, trying to save the IItps of his children. ThtM T*rrltorU? Nnk HinthoitH. In the House of Representative*. at Washington. Mr. Knox, of the Committee ou Territories, reported the hill for the admission of New Mexico. Oklahoma and Arizona as States, and gave notice that he would call It up at some convenient time. Rritlah .Ship floe# Down. The British steamship Alma ran down and sank the British ship Cambrian Princess near Southampton. I-Iugland. Kleven of the crew of the Cambrian Princess were drowued. ?*ro I.ynrhiiJ In Itmur, (ia. Walter Allen, a negro, was lynched by a mob of white citizen* of Home, for attempting to assault a sixtecu-ycar-old white girl. The j:irl H Miss Blossom Adumson. a member of oho of ( orgla'n most prominent families. Th- negro declared his tuuo* ceuce. lie was strung up ou a tele* phone pole. Kail war Wreck la Ik* TrsMnal. Thirty-nine British Holldi'ra w??ro 'tilled and forty-tlve injured in a railo<i(i wreck acar BarJjer'.yu. Ead'cra Crausvaal. ?