Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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F Costly Fire Destroys Hotel On Lookout tvfountcin NO LiYfS REPORTED AS LOST Famous Hostelry on thc Crest cf Fa mous TDuresse G Mountain, Goes ?7B in Smoke, Together With Four Cot tages. I _,_ Chattanooga, Tenn., Special.-Fa mous old Lookout Inn, on the crest of Lookout mountain, was burned to the ground Tuesday afternoon, together With all its contents, and also four cottages in proximity to the hotel. The hotel owners, Messrs. Jung and Shamctulski, stated that a deal had just been consummated for the sale of the Inn property for a considera tion of $135.000 and that but for the ifire the deal would have been closed [Wednesday. There was $26,000 in surance on the hotel and its; furnish igs. The loss on the four cottages and [heir contents was estimated at $16, )0, with insurance noi priven. The. incline railway power house ras badly damaged and the trestle |n the face of the bluff was ablaze for a considerable time. Tuesday |ight there was a streak of fire al lost from the top to the base of jookout mountain along the line of |he incline railway and a force of len is fighting to prevent it from treading to the timber on the moun tainside and to many cottages which pt the slope of the mountain. The fire started in the south wing If the hotel building but the exact mse has hot yet been ascertained. ie generali}' accepted theory is that defective flue is responsible for the re. The building was as dry as tinder, ^nd a high wind which was sweep ig across the mountain from the rest, quickly carried the flames the ^ntirc length of the structure, which ras consumed iu a very short time. Seen from the city, the fire was jectacular during its carly progress, int soon the mountain was entirely nveloped in a dense cloud of smoke id all that could be seen from high >ints in thc city was what appeared a terrible storm cloud rolling from ie southwest. With the coming of darkness, how ler, the smoke cleared and the out ?e of the crest of old Lookout was larked by a rim of red fire, resemb |ng a huge figure S. It is definitely known that there ^ill be no attempt in the near future rebufld the inn. The hotel .was completed in 1SS9 at cost of $150,000 and contained ibout 400 rooms. Each succeeding season following its opening it has been visited by ?rsons of note from all over the rorld. Prince Henry of Prussia, ?ronounced it the most ideal spot he id evor visited and the scenery lore goregous than that of the Swiss Lips. ' There were no casualties so far as ian be learned. Dentist Is Acquitted. ."Roanoke, Va., Special.-"Not 'guilty," was the jury's verdict in the case of W. S. Gregory, a wealthy Roanoke dentist, who has been on trial for the past ten days on a charg? of attempt at rape on Miss Theodora U. Irvine, a teacher of ex pression of New York, while she was ?a chloroformed patient in his office liere last summer. Miss4' Irvine testi fied that she emerged from the an aesthetic in /time to positively iden tify Gregory as her assailant. Greg ory maintained that Miss Irvine was .dreaming. Eminent physicians gave expert testimony to the effect that hallucinations frequently follow the administration of anaesthesia. Watchman Killed by Robbers. ?Lynchburg, Va.,- Special.-Thomas B. Monroe, for many years night "watchman as a bluff on the James river branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, eighteen miles west of "here, was murdered Tuesday night, robbery being the motive. His body xras found lying partly in the James river, and under a fiftecn-fobt em l^ankment, where it had been thrown. His pay, received only the previous da}', was missing and a cor oner's jury rendered a verdict of murder. Victims of Their Own Plot. Birmingham, Ala., Special.-Fifty State convicts employed in the mines at Pratt City formed a conspiracy Tuesday night to set No. 3 minc afire and escape during the confusion. As a result eight of them were burned to death, one is missing and the oth er 41 are safely locked in the stock ade.- i Thc coup was. cunningly ,plan ned and daringlv executed.. Heney Jtapidly Recovering. San Francisco, Special.-Francis J. Heney is recovering with surprising rapidity from the bullerit wound in flicted by Morris Haas, and it is pre dicted that ic a few weeks he will be able to res?mp his prosecution of the graft cases. There are no indica tions of blood poisoning. He was able to take lionid nourishment. Big Mississippi Compress Burns. Indianola. Miss., Special.-The plant of the Indianola Compress and Warehouse Company, and several ad joining buildings were destroyed by fire Tuesday. The loss probably will he in excess of $300.000, with a com paratively small amount of insurance. A large quantity of cotton was de stroyed. Senator Elkins anncuiws formal ly that Miss K2f,'"Hne Elkins is no j engaged to the Duke of the Abmzzi. I CAMPAIGN ??NDS OF REPUBLICAN PARTY J. Pierpont Morgan Has Second Place -Andrew Carnegie and Whitelaw Reid, However, Also in $25.000 Chs3-Prociicnt $1,000. New Ycrk dir;>atch, 21st. When the report of George S. Shel don, Republican national treasurer, is filed with the State Audvtor of New York at Albany it will be found it is said that the Republican cam paign which elected William H. Taft was Conducted with a fund of about $1,700,000. Charles P. Taft was the heaviest contributor having added $160,000 to the fund. . ? > Thc following isthe list of leading contributers who gave over ^250 : Charles P. Taft. ....$160.000 J. Pierpont Morgan. 25,000 Andrew Carnegie. 25,000 William Nelson Cromwell... 25,000 Whitelaw Reid. 25.000 D. O. Mills . 5,000 Adolphus Busch. 5,000 R. C. Kerens. 5,000 W. C. Dickey. 5,000 William Barrett Ridgely ..- 1,200 President Roosevelt. 1,000 Frank B. Kellogg. 1,000 C. A. Severance. 1,000 E. N. Saunders. 1,000 Thomas F. Cole. 1,000 Edward R. Stettinius. 1,000 Marvin Hughitt. 1,000 N. W. Harris. 1,000 H. K. Conchran. 1.000 Charles R. Crane. 1.000 Samuel Insull. 1,000 John C. Wharton. 1,000 Charles Page Bryan. 1,000 W. H. Bartlett. 1,000 J?mes A. Patten. 1,000 Robert T. Lincon. 1,000 E. P. Frazier. 1,003 John G. Shedd. 1,000 Jov Morton. 1.000 E. A. W. Kieckheifer. 1,000 Gave Less Than $1,000. William Kent. F. H. Smith.. ., . A. S. Little-field. Jol*n Milton Oliver. Walter Burroughs. Clavton Mark... C. A. Smith. W. K. Bixbv.. .'. 0. B. Gorin.'. A. W. Goodrich. W. H. l?v?ns-. .:. C. B. Borland. C. S. Jobes. F. E. Grimes. F. H. Smith. T. D. Jones.,. B. E. Sunny. John A. Spoor. Samuel Cupples. R. S. Bcookings. Julius Rosenwald. A. A. McKay. John S. Ruunells. W. F. Comstock. William McLaughlin. J. A! Holmes. Spencer Otis. E. B. Price. William T. Joyce. And These Gave $500. J. C. Shar?er. .. George F. 'Griffin. D. ?. Ccmpbcll... E. F. Swinr.cy. D. M. Houser. Edward B. Butler. H. W. Coe. J. H. Etought. Stewart Spalding.. .. .... E. J. Bulfingion. A. H. Mu! h ken. David B. Jones. R. W. Sears.. .. .. Mark S. Willing. John Duprec. F. J. Dewes. J. C. Ames. Warren Nichols. Ham- Hart. J. F. Downing. E. E. Morgan. Charles Picz. T. B. Lyon. H. P. Knapp. E. V. Price. Francis Bei cl 1er. Calvin Durand. E. J. Lehmann. Alexander Robertson. And These Gave $250. The following gave $250 each: Charles J. Singer, R. Ortman,' R. A. Keyes, John P. Wilson, Levy Mayer, George J. Cooke, G. M. Revnolds, C. L. Willey, A. C. Bartlett, J*. D. Bas com, H. Woodland, F. S. Winston, Kenn- G. Hart, W. H. Whiteside, J. B. Tarbell. H. M.'Vlvllesby, R. L. W. Bowers, William Butterworth, W. V. Kelley, P. J. Bennett, M. J. Spiegal, A. B. Conover, M. A. Ryerson, D. H. Burnham, C. H. Hurlburd, Matz Boy den Fistior, E'. L. Ryerson, Eugene S. Pike, D. N. Barker. Graham H. Har ris, J. S. Field, D. M. Cummings, Jo seph B. Field, F. H. Rawson, 0. W. Nor; on, A. M. Barnhart, W. Stone, Kenneth Clark, T. A. Schuke, John 1. H. Field, C. K. Sharood, John R. Mitchell, Gebhard Bohn. A. H. Lin dke, C. W. Gordon. E. H. Bailey, F. B. Wells. F. C. Yann Dusen. W. Deering, Byron L. Smith and H. H. i Porter. Governor of Florida Will Open Cot ton Convention. Lake Cit}-, Fla., Special.-Thc com mittee on arrangements for the cot ton convention here November 25th, received a message from Governor Broward that he would be on hand to open the convention. Senators Talia ferro and Fletcher, together with many merchants and bankers of prominence will be nrcsent and ev ery phare of the cotton business will be discussed. Raised 121 Bushels of Corn* to Acre. Gaffney, S. C., Spacial.-The com mittee appointed by the Merchants and Planters ' Bank to decide who is entitled to thc $50 prize offered by it for the largest yield of corn from one acre of land in Cherokee county, awarded thc prize to O. P. Hill, who raised 121 bushels. The total num ber of bushels of corn raised by thc seventeen men who competed for this prize is 13S4 33-S0, being: an nvreagc of more than SO bushels an acre. 4?km SOO SOO G25 500 500 500 500 ooo 500 500 500 500 50o 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 5-J0 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 .500 400 400 400 3W 300 300 300 300 300 300 300 . 300 ,300 300 300 300 Andrew Carnegie Cernes Out Fer Tariff Revision SAYS PRGTFCTIGN NOT NEEDED Iron Master, in a Notable Article in December Issue of a Magazine, Will Declare That Duties on Manu factured Articles Should be Reduc ed or Altogether Abolished, and That Orly the Luxuries Used by the Eich Should Bear a Duty.' New York, Special.-A notable ar ticle from Andrew Carnegie, dealing with the tariff, will appear f in the forthcoming December number of Thc Cen tiny Magazine, in which the iron master takes the position that '/infant industries" no longer need protection; that the steel and other industries have now grown beyond the need of tariff protection; that duties on luxuries used by the rich should be maintained, bat that those on manufactured articles should be reduced greatly, or abolished entire ly when no longer needed. Mr. Carnegie's article is entitled "My Experience With and Views Upon the Tariff." Mr. Carnegie says: "We have already become by far the greatest of all manufacturing na tions. While the tariff as a whole even today has ceased to be primar ily benelieial as a measure of protec tion, it has become of vast import ance from the standpoint of revenue, and it is to this feature I bespeak the special attention of readers of all parties, for duties upon imports, not for protection, but for needed reve nue, should not become a party ques tion. Reasonable men of all parties may be expected to approve this plan of obtaining revenue." He says: "The American tariffs, in happy contrast to others, almost ex empt the poor and heavily tax the rich, just as it should, for it is they who have the ability to pay as re quired bv the highest economic au thority." Mr. Carnegie says of future tariff legislation : "The next. Congress dealing with the tariff "will probably be inclined at first to reduce duties all around and perhaps to abolish some, but its first care should bc io maintain present duties, and ?even in some cases to increase them, until all articles used almost exclusively by the rich, and this not for protection, but for reve nue, not drawn from the workers hut from the rich. That is the first and prime duty of Congress. "Its second duty is to reduce du ties greatly upon manufactured ar ticles and to abolish entirely those no longer needed. Whit Democrats Spent. Chicago, Special.-Thc Democratic national committee received in all $620,644.77 and spent $619.410.06 during the recent presidential cam paign, leaving a balance on hand of $1,234.71. So reads a statement made public by the officers of the commit tee and the itemized statement will bc filed for record in the office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky ins compliance with the resolution adopt-j; ed by the national committee at Lin-: coln. Neb., last July. Thc statement! made public by the committee in cludes a certificate of audit by My ron D. King, auditor of the national "immittee. Briefs of General News. Gen. William L. Marshall recom mends that Congress appropriate $965,000 for next year's work on the Baltimore channels. John D. Rockefeller began testify ing for the defense in thc suit of the government to dissolve the Standard Oil Corauany. Sunday Tragedy in Alabama Town. Birminghom, Ala., Special.-J. A. Northcutt. a wall-known citizen of Henry Ellen, Jefferson county, was shot and almost instantly killed by J. W. Dement. The shooting occur red in front of Northcutt's home and three bullets took effect, Dement was brought her.and lodged in the county jail. He will say nothing as to the cause of thet ragedy. Cleveland Street Car Strike Called Off. Cleveland, O., Special.-At a meet ing of the local union of the street railway motormen and conductors it was unanimously voted to call off the strike against the Municipal Traction Company, which was begun last May. The company was forced into the hands of receivers who now are in charge of thc railway property. The Mutual Traction Company refused to grant, an increase in wages, which was demanded by the union and the strike was ordered. Atlanta Negro Murders His Wife. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-Using a razor with which he severed the carotid artery and jugular vein, Sam Jones, a negro, Sunday ' killed his wife and left her dead body in a pool of blood in a house in thc rear of 177 West Mitchell street. Jones made his escape. He is described as a low, heavy-set negro, very black and weighs about 140 pounds. Democratic Contributors Number Over 74,000. Albany, N. Y.,Special.-Represent ing Chairman Norman E. Mack and Treasurer Herman Ridder, of the Democratic national committee, Sam uel Bell Themas, a New York attor ney, arrived in Alhanv with treasurer Kidder's report of Democratic cam paign contributions which will be filed at the office of the Secretary of State. Thc complete list of contri butors numbers over 7J.0D0. EVEN AN EXPERT DROP ONCE -Car LATE EVENTS MEA] Prof. Hirth Calls Chir tarians-Pred s~ - New York CI t'y.-Friedrich Hirth, Professor of Chinese In Columbia University, who as a lifelong student of the Chinese people, their language and literature, is considered one of the best authorities living on Chinese topics, gave it as his opinion that the death of the Empress Dowager and the Emperor meant the opening of an entirely uew and better era which would benefit not only China but the other nations of the world. He thought affairs iii China would from now on advance rapidly toward Euro pean ideals, and though progress will bo less rapid than in Japan, China would in thirty or even twenty years be transformed into a nation on an equal fooling with th?-f?ther great nations of the world. Professor Hirth had no belief in the report that foul play had entered into the death of the Dowager or the Emperor. In regard to the general attitude of the influential parties and individuals toward the new rule, he said: "1 think the events of the next few weeks or days will determine the question of bloodshed or peace. I think that both Liberals and Conser vatives are ready to walt quietly in order to see what course the Govern ment will take. Prince Chun is a Liberal, and he has enons?i?cllowers. I think, among the really' dangerous party, the overardent Liberals, who might be called the Anarchistic party, to avert any trouble from them. "Prince Chun. I believe, is an able man. He has visited Germany on a diplomatic mission.. He alone of those who have come into great power in China has seen Europe; that single fact should be enough to show in what direction his rule will tend." Speaking in a general way of the death of Emperor and Dowager he said: "It appears to me a very beneficial thing for China. The antagonistic relations between the two and the cintro! by the Dowager of the Em peror roused great dissatisfaction among the Liberals, who had rested their hopes ou the Emperor. VOODOO SIGN C Supersiitioiis Tesl applied to a Man Ace Eeo* Slain on the Weapon, Misti Monticello, Ark. --( Suspicion of , murder haviugbeenconfirmed against; him iu the eyes of his neighbors by a voodoo test, Louis Hursh, a farmer, cut his throat and died in the pres- ! en.ee of the Coroner's jury. , Samuel Haywood was the man whose murder was under investiga tion. He was called to his front door at night and killed with a charge of buckshot. His wife had but a fleet ing glance at the assassin and could give no clew to his identity. j Hursh was questioned about the crime at the inquest, but protested that he had no knowledge of lt. Mem bers of the family swore that he was nt home when the shot was fired, and Hursh apparently had been elimin ated from the list of suspects when one of the jurymen, an aged negro, spoke up. "Try the voodoo test on him," j urged Hie negro. "What's that?" inquired the Coro-, ner. I "Get H ursa's gun and fire it off again while he is standing by. If he i did the murder the guu will sweat ! blond." The Coroner was disinclined to take this et?", but others urged it on him and hf? finally consented. Hursh declared that it.was a matter of in- ? difference to him whether ihe test i President's Promise to an Ohio Veteran of the Civil War. Washington, D. C.-General H. C. Corbin, retired, secured frcm Presi dent Roosevelt a promise to appoint Gilbert Van Zandt, the drummer boy of tho Seventy-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry In the Civil War. to a place in the Government service. General Corbin brought Van Zandt, whose home is at Wilmington, Ohio, with him and told the President that he entered the military service at ten years of age as a drummer boy In the Seventy-ninth Ohio. Rlnh linds of News. It was believed ii Eerlin that France and Germany are nearer war than they have been since 1870. Washington dispatches reported Frank H. Hitchcock would be Post master-General in the Taft Cabinet. Charles F. Murphy asserted that Tammany Hail did all it could for W. J. Bryan, despite charges to the con trary. lt is now "All aboard for Guate mala" from any railway station in the United States. All rail commu nication willi Progressive City is now open. LETS SOMETHING IN A WH?LL loon by Triggs, in the New York Treas. N A MODERN CHINA lese Born Parliament icts Progress. "Yet Tsi-An played a valuable part. It almost seems she saved the cation in 1S98. when by a coup d'etat the young Emperor tried to crowd on China in twenty days changes which the nation would have needed as many years to digest. "Yet, the Emperor being highly appreciated by the party o? reform and progress, her seizure of the reins of Oovemment and suppression of new ideas cast a gloom over the spirit of the empire. And little as we know the new characters on the Chinese stage, it is fair to believe that both extremes-conservative and progres sive-will hold themselves in check, and will wait to see where the Gov ernment is tending. All depends on events; it is impossible to state what will happen; one can only speak of probabilities. "But the tendency, whether calm or violent, will, I feel sure, bu toward liberalism. These two deaths have cleared the course for China. There is much talk of antagonism toward Manchu rule, yet that antagonism is a thing of recent years; it has been greatly heightened by the relations between the Emperor and his aunt, the Dowager. I believe now that that antagonism will calm down for the time, and will, if the new Govern ment gives satisfaction, die out. "The talk is of a Constitutional Government. I think, and have al ways thought, the Chinese well fitted for it. They have always appeared to me to be born parliamentarians. Cer tainly they are as well fitted for lib eral institutions as any Oriental na tion-better fitted than the Turks or Persians, as well fitted, I think, as the Japanese. Eut I believe they will model their Government on the Jap anese Government, and that the stages of their progress generally will be peaceful. "The present Government has a strong liberal party behind it, and the .adicals are too much in the minority now to do any harm. So many strong men, both liberal and radical, are with the Government that I do .not foresee a serious outbreak." A.USED SUICIDE. used o? Murder Drives Him to Dealb iken For Blood, is Really RKSL was applied or not. He told where his gun would be found, and it was brought into court. The Coroner and jury adjourned to the woods near by, and the gun was loaded and discharged. Hursh stood by, apparently careless of the results. Following the firing of the gun the jurymen crowded around it to exam ine it for the sign. A murmur arose among them, and the suspense was more than the prisoner could bear. He turned to the gun to examine it, and the mau who had suggested the voodoo test pointed to a red stain near the muzzle of the weapon. Hursh became agitated and seemed on the point of making a dash for liberty when he was seized by a deputy. Without further investigation the party filed back into the court room, where in a few moments the jury held Hursh responsible for the kill ing, and Coroner Lewis signed the commitment. When the prisoner saw that he was to be sent to jail on the strength of the voodoo test he took a sharp knife from his pocket and with one stroke ended i^is life. Sui"."erjuently more careful examin ation cf the red stain on the muzzle of the gun was made and beyond any doubt it was established to be noth ing but rust. Queer Dr. Cabrini Dene' in His Swiss Chateau. Geneva.-The richest and most ec centric man in Switzerland, Dr. Ca brini, is dead at Lugano, leaving a fortune of $000,000, most of which was made in America. Dr. Cabrini was a man of tho sim plest habits. He would wear th?? shabbiest clothes, and many tourists who visited his beautiful chateau at Cia ni accepted his services as a guldu nuder the impression that he was one of his gardeners. He used to take their tips with glee. The Field of Sports. P. T. Powers was elected president of the Eastern Baseball League. Thomas C. Jefferson, one of the best known owners of trotting and saddle horses in Kentucky, died at his home in Lexington, Ky., aged fifty-seven years. Tho ten-mile Marathon run to be held in conjunction with the Brooklyn Post?nico gaines on Saturday, Janu ary 16, ls going to ba au interesting affair. All thu old-timers will start. The feature will be the race ot Gil lespie, who wins u bride IL he crosse? tho tana ftr?L ? 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