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PALMETTa HAPPENINGS News Notes of General Interest '. From All Parte of the State. THE COLORED STATE FAIR. Greater Than Ever-Reduced Rates Wlil Bring Thousands. Batesburg, Special.-Reduced rates on all railroads,' ample accommoda tions for all, the Fair Grounds covering fifteen acres, all go to in sure that the fair will be a success. There are two large exhibit buildings, a good race track, plenty of side shows on the grounds. There will be .baby shows, horse shows, baseball, foot ball, foot races, wheelbarrow races, mule races, fox chases, bands of music, competitive drills, singing contests and various other amuse ments. . The Legislature of South Carolina has appropriated $500 for premiums. Each county will have ex hibits to itself and will contend for a prize. . Wylie Affidavit Read. Columbia, Special.-In an affidavit, portions of which were put in evi dence Wednesday afternoon, before the dispensary winding-up commis sion, Joseph B..Wylie, former dis pensary director, states that James S. Farnum, of Charleston, S. C., paid him on one occasion $900 in commis sions on Lanahan whiskey. The amount of goods was 900 cases and the rebate was $1 per case, which cor responds to the rebato schedule. There were other transactions men tioned in the affidavit of a like nature, it being set out that the division was $ifor the member of th? board and $1 for the agent. Much of the matter in the affidavit has already been brought out in the course of the dispensary alleged graft trials. The interest in the alleged Lanahan rebate is increased by' the fact that one of the members of the firm swore on the stand before tho ?commission th?t no rebates had been paid by his firm. The firm is William "Lanahan & Sons, of Baltimore, and the brand that causes so'much discus sion before the commission was ""Hunter's Rye.,, Important Rate Hearing Before South Carolina Commission. Columbia. Special.-There was au important intrastate freight rata hearing before the Railroad Commis sion Tuesday on the complaint of the Greenville, Anderson and Sparen burg boards of trade in the matter of rates from Charleston to the points named in sugar, rice, molasses, canned goods and bananas, it being shown that the rates, are not only higher than from ports of adjoining States fer similar distances, but ac tually, higher than from Charleston te points in Georgii and North Car olina, a hundred or so miles further from Charleston; - The' hearing was adjourned to Greenville for Novem ber 10, the railroads to file answers and the beards of trade to. make reply. Valuable Automobile and Garage Burned at Rock Hill. Rock Hill, Special-Dr. J. E. Mas sey, Jr., of this city, had the mis fortune to lose his automobile and automobile house Tuesday evening by fire. Dr. Massey had been up town with his machine, had some repairs made on it and had just returned to his home and put it in the house and oar] only been in the house a few minutes when a colored woman who .<vorks in the yard ran into the house" iuid informed him that there was a terrible smoke protruding from tba automobile house, and by the time lie leached there is was in flames and before the fire companv could get ou the spot the entire outfit was practi cally destroyed. The loss is partially .covered by insurance. Large Lumber. Plant Burns. Demrark, S?ecial.-At 6 o'clock Wednesday afternoon the plant of tho Salkahatchie Lumber 'company at Sshoefield/was burned and the loss is total. Schoefield, the site of *he plant, is near Ulmers. 1 Toe plant and lumber on hand wa1; estimated to be worth between $250, OC0 and $300,000. The fire is said to h2;ve started in the dry kiln. Bates Orders His Coffin. Spartanburg, Special.-J. B. Bates, *Bssgnvicted 'of murdering Mrs. Docia Boiter and sentenced to be hanged Tiiday, and whose case has been ap pealed, addressed a letter to L. A. Justice, 'a house builder, enclosing -plans and specifications for his cof fin. The drawing was made on the back -of an old envelope and on the other side was note asking that thc coffin be made as cheaply as possible as he .didn't wish to pay more than $20 for the casket. -Cook, Mistaken For Burglar, is Killed. -Andersen, Special.-Mistaking: her for.a burglar, Mr. W. A. Hudgens. cashier of the Bank, of Starr, ten. roii?s south of Anderson Thursday -night shot and killed Martha Young, -aged negro woman emoldycd as cook -in the family. She had entered the bouse to secure milk for a sick per son living in' the town and ignorant .of Mr. Hodgon's presence in the house failed to answer when asked who entered. IM?s From Touch of Wire. Chester, Special.-Hugh B. Riser, -of Whitmire, working at Great Falls, was fatally injured Monday aftcv -noon by coming in contact with a live wire. 'He died Wednesday about noon; the remains, in charge of Mr. *0. C.'*ftieer, Sftther of the ill-fated young man. passed through Chester -en route to Whitmire for burial. The young rran wn? a graduate of Clen4 -sca rcllecre. JQ^S. with distinction, -and had keon at Great Falls but six 'weekit. SAID TO ByN ACCIDENT Boss Boozer Killed by Younger ' Brother. Lexington, Special.-'News reached Lexington "late Saturday afternoon that Boss Boozer, a white man about 28 years old, had been shot and in stantly killed by his younger brother, Daily Boozer, at the home of the for mer, about 10 miles from Lexington. Tie killin? occurred about 6 o'clock and is said to have been an accident. The entire load entered the mouth and face of. the unfortunate man, making a ghastly wound, it is said. Information from the scene of the killing is hard to get and meagre, but it is understood that Daily Boozer claims that he was cleaning up an old gun when the weapon was discharged. There was no one at the house when the killing occurred except Boss Boozer, his wife and Daily Boozer. It is said that the woman asserts that th? killing was ari accident. Survey From Lugoff to Great Falls Made. Camden, Special.-The Seaboard Air Line surveying party that has been surveyed between Lugoff and Great Falls iave completed their sur ve}r. They will survey a line between Camden and Great Falls on the east ern side of the Wateree river. If the railroad runs from Lugoff to Great Falls it will run four miles west of Camden but, on the other hand, if it runs from Spalding to Great Falls it will come into city limits. It is said that the line will most likely run from Spalding on account of fewer hills and other advantages. If the line comes to Camden by way of Spalding it will be switched into tha Seaboard at that point and should it eventually run to Charleston it will use the Seaboard trestle over the Wateree. Some newspapers' and people say that this may some day be the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio outlet, to Charleston. Boad Survey Completed. Society Hill, Special.-J. C. Cov ington, who had been employed to survey the automobile road from Che raw to Society Hill, finished the work a little after sundown Saturday even ing. Eecently the counties of Dar lington and Chesterfield contributed 82,000 to be expended on the road, and it is expected that work will soon commence. This road is on the sup-, posed Capital highway to Columbia. When completed the tourist will be surprised and delighted at the beauti ful scenery along the route. The high sand ridge that traverses the State* will be crossed about midway between Cheraw and Society Hill. It presents from its crest beautiful and . pictur esque scenery in every direction, com manding, as it does, the valley of the Pee Dee far< "^w^i^fy early spring ently beauti Bli Bussell Yorkville, nate homici Thursday n Yorkville a sell. His s ford Thompson, a. j?~-0 . lived at Tort Mill. Thompson left home Wednesday and came to Boc/: Hill. Then he. came to Bussell's and wandered into the yard. He rang the farm bell and when hailed gave no reply. He advanced on Eli Bussell and collared him, when Bussell fired the fatal shot. It is said that the mind of Thompson was unbalanced. Coroner Louthian held an inquest and the verdict was justifiable somicide. Carolina, Clinchfiold and Ohio Enters Spartanburg. Spartanburg, Special.-The first, train over the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio road from Johnson City ar rived in Spartanburg Thursday night at 8:30. bringing 800 people from points along the line'of the :.*oad for the big celebration. Aeronaut Injured in Making Ascent. Charleston, Special. - Aeronaut Gowdy was injured Saturday after noon in making his descent from the balloon in striking the rectory of St. Patrick's church, about four blocks from Marion square, where the ascen sion was made. He was fhrown against the side of the rectory and fell with much force to the ground. Accidental Shot Was Fatal. Columbia, Special.-David McDow ell, the Winnsboro boy who was acci dentally shot and serously wounded at his home Friday afternoon,, died here Saturday. The injured boy was rushed to Columbia for an operation, . but after an examination the physi cians could hold out no hope for his recovery, as the bullet had penetrat ed the base of the brain and entered the skull. The little fellow died with out regaining consciousness. A wid owed mother mourns the loss of her young son. White Woman Victim of Peligra. . Greenville, Special-The first death in this city from pellagra occurred at the rescue home Friday, the victim being Mary Bung; a white woman about 27 years pf agc, who came here last August from Asheville, accom panied by two children. The body was examined in the undertaking es tablishment here Friday afternoon bv a large number of thc physicians of the city who prououeed the disease pellagra. Broad Biver Bridge Beady For Traine Spartanburg, Special-The last rail coveting Spartanburg with Johnson City was laid at an carly hour Satur day morning after ali night work by the Pennsylvania Steel company's gang on thc Broad river bridge. This great structure now being completed, cars will be pushed over to this side of the river laden with ballast and thc final touches will be given the tracks between Spartanburg and Broad river at once. Preparing For Titos -Cartoon by TnbsrcDlosIs Heil ll i _ Death Rate Beelines in AU Reg] \ Nine Causes Are Most Out of Every 100 Occ \ 25 and 34 Due 1 Washington, D. C. - Health De partment returns show the total num ber of deaths from all forms of tuber culosis returned in 1908 was 78,289, exceeding those of any previous year of registration, but the death rate per 100,000 for 1908 is less than that for 1907. In all registration States the deaths from tuberculosis showed a decline except in Colorado, Rhode Isl and and Vermont. Each- of the following causes of death was responsible for at least 5000 deaths of male breadwinners during the year: Typhoid fever, tu berculosis of lungs, cancer, apoplexy and paralysis, heart disease, pneumo nia, Bright's disease, suicide and ac cident. The total number of deaths of occupied persons from these causes was, for males, 138,259, and for fe males, 17,434. Of the deaths of occu pied males, 29,433, or 15 per cent., were due to tuberculosis of the lungs, and bf the occupied females, 5511, or 21 per cent., were due to the same cause. In the registration area of the Uni ted States during the year 1908,. 30.9 deaths out of every .100 deaths of oc ~t~1-JaQjUAa--Who died between the -~-n "singed per cent, oi LUV, ._ the registration area during laue EXPOSED INI Frofessor From New Yor' less Jc Marion, Ind. - Professor Garnum Brown, an expert from the Museum of Natural History in New York, ar rived in this city with paraphernalia necessary for excavating, preserving and shipping the skeletons of prehis toric animals, to find that the institu tibn he represents has been the victim of misrepresentation. For more than a year Frank Mart, a farmer, has been in communication with the museum regarding the sale of the skeletons of prehistoric animals which he said he had found on his land. Mart informed the institution last spring that he had found the skeleton of an animal, while excavat LACK OF WORK IN Steady Increase in Armj ing Great l Washington, D. C.-The army of unemployed in Great Britain ha.s grown steadily, and now has; reached proportions that are causing the Gov ernment great uneasiness. In a spe cial report John L. Griffiths, United States Consul-General at London, gives extracts from a special state ment just issued by the royal commis sion on the poor law and relief of dis tress. The commission declares that dur ing the fiscal year ended March 31 . last the number of persons without work and seeking Government aid to talled thirty-one in every 1000 of population, while In the fiscal year preceding only fourteen per 1000 made application for assistance. The number of men who applied for relief in the last fiscal year constituted^ Three Scats in Prussian Diet Cause Grcnt." in Socialist Party. Berlin.- n for four repre sentatives of _ run in the Prussian Diet were held, and resulted in the re turn of three Socialists, with one elec tion still undecided. Socialists were elected to the same ?eats at the lasi election, but their re turn was nullified on technical grounds. The success of tho candidates fol lowing similar (Victories in Coburg. Baden and Saxony, has caused jubila tion among the Socialists everywhere. Essence of thc News. The Kirjg of Italy offered a cup as a prize at the aviation meet at Brescia. Mass meetings of protest against thc punting to death of Francisco Ferrer were, held all over Europe. . President Taft, in Salt Lake City, announced .that_ Gifford Pinchot, the chief forester," would remain -in the Government service. Arthur G. Wright, of Lowell Cen tre, Mass.. wn3 arrested In Portland, Ore., while heavily armed and ming ling lu the throng near President Taft. RFAIM?NG. e Census Questions. G. Williams, in the Indianapolis News. ,289 Persons i 1908 istration States Except Three Frequent-30.9 Deaths upied Males Between to Tuberculosis. ; I were victims of pulmonary tuberculo sis. Among the principal causes of death were the following, with their rates per 100,000 of population, for 1908 and 1907: * 1908. 1907. Tuberculosis (allforms). 172.9 183.6 Pneumonia (all forms) ..13 6 161.2 Heart disease.133.3 141.7 Diarrhoea and enteritis .116 116.7 Bright's disease ...... 87.1 94.6 Cancer.1. 74.3 . 73.1 Typhoid fever. 25.3 30.3 Diphtheria and croup-.. 22.3 24.3 The number of - deaths from all forms of pneumonia returned for 1908 was 61,25-9, a decrease of more than 6000 from the number for 1907 C67;320), despit? the increase in the registration area. -The death rate from pneumonia was lower for 1908 than for any other* of the past five years. The crude death rates from cancer continue to Increase, and slightly I higher r?tes are recorded for each main. subdivision of the registration group. For the year 1908 33,465 deaths from .this disease were report ed, as against 30,514'for 1907. The enormous.exfeiit of the mortal ; luus. DIANA FAKIR, k Museum? Takes a Fruit itirney. .lng an open ditch, which had been pronounced to be that of a crocodile by. a professor of an Indiana college. He said that he had exposed twenty eight feet of the skeleton, but had not reached the end of it. Mart endeav ored to sell the skeleton to the insti tution for a large sum of money. Arrangements were, finally made for Professor Brown to come after the skeleton. When he arrived Professor Brown found that Mart had sold his farm two weeks ago and had left this part, of the country. Professor Brown made a trip to the farm ,in hopes of find the skeleton, but. was unable ta find even an open ditch on the place. I BRITAIN GROWS. r of Unemployed is Cans Uneasiness. 4 1-10 per cent, of the workingmen of England and Wales, while during the previous year they constituted 2 1-10, and the year preceding that only 1 9-10 per cent. The destitution and absence of work for the unemployed is general In practically all of the manufacturing cities and towns in the United King dom. A striking feature o?. the situa tion's that the men seeking work are for'the most part in the very prime of life. Plan3 are being considered where by the employers and thc working men may be brought closer.together. The Government also is seeking to discover some means of cutting off the supply of unskilled and unintelli gent labor by training boys to enter regular and permanent work. King * ) Publish a History of Nn misruatics, in Which Ile is Expert. Rome, Italy. - The Tribuna an nounces thnt King Victor Emmanuel will-'.publish a book shortly on the history cf numismatics, lt is written by himself. The King har. been n '-oin collector for rears, and has already written a treatise on the subject, which was is sued for private circulation au^ns his friends. The new hook, which ?3 to be richly illustrated, is thc resuit of long study by the monarch. Jottings About Sports. I There will be a cross-country race1 ! in November between the teams cf Syracuse and Colgate. Lozier No. 3 won tho twenty-four hour automobile race at Brighton Beach, with a new record of 1196 miles. j James J. 'Jeffries said that he . hoped *Mack" Johnson would cover a I forfeit, for. a heavyweight champion : ship fight H. B. Duryea, an American turf . man, won two races in France, both : with American horses, Ben Ban and 1 Spectatress. 3,346,106 CORDS OF WOOD IN 2,118,947 TONS OF PULP Mills Paid $28,000,000 FOP Raw Material, Including Mill Wasto ---Spruce, Hcmfoclc and Poplar Two hundred and fifty-one pulp mills in the United States used 3, 346,100 cords of wood and made 2, 118,947 tons of pulp last year. Spruce has always been the leading pulp wood, and it furnished 64 per cent, of the total quantity used. The rapid development of the wood pulp indus try in the last ten years has ren dered the domestic supply of spruce insufficient to meet the demands upon it, and consequently Importations from Canada have been heavy. In 190S our pulp mills consumed nearly 1,500,000 cords of imported spruce, making the imports of spruce nearly 45 per cent, of the domestic supply^ Next to spruce, the most Impor tant pulp wood is hemlock, of which 569,173 cords were converted into pulp last year. All the hemlock used was of domestic origin, and most of it was produced in the lake States and Pennsylvania. Althougu now used in less quantity than sprues and hem lock, poplar has long been a standard pulp wood. A small quantity of pop lar is imported, but by far the larger portion of the more than 300,000 cords used last year was cut from domestic timber. Spruce, hemlock and poplar made up 90 per cent, of the total quantity of pulp wood used. The remainder was* supplied by many species, the mest important of which were pine, cottonwood and balsam. The wood used by the pulp mills last year cost them a little more than $28;000,000, or an average of $8.38 a cord, against an average of $8.21 in 1907. The most costly wood used was imported spruce, with an average value of $10.60 a cord. The average for domestic spruce was $8.76 a cord and for poplar $8.04 a cord. The cheapest wood that was used in large quantity was hemlock, tho cost being $6.02 a cord. Owing to the uncer tain business conditions the total con sumption of pulp wood In 1908 was nearly 16 per cent, less than in 1907, but this did not prevent an increase In the price of wood. The high price of wood is keeping the manufactur ers constantly on the outlook for cheaper raw material, and one of the most encouraging developments has been the increased use of slab wood and other saw mill waste. This drift in the industry is clearly indicated by the fact that 193,23 1 cords of mill waste were reported as con sumed in pulp manufacture during 1907, while 252,896 cords, an in crease of 30 per cent., were used in 1908. These statements are based upon a preliminary report of the consump tion of the pulp wood in the United States in 1908 just issued by the Bureau of the Census. The Bureau of the Census and the Forest Service co-operate in the collection of an What if the World Stepped? Suppose that some mysterious pow er, entirely mental or spiritual in its nature, and of a high order of intel lect, a mentality or soul absolutely acquainted with the human mind even down to^ninute details, should desire to make an announcement, a statement to mankind in general, how would lt proceed to attract attention? I have thought of a few ways or meth ods which would attract th? attention of man. Thus, suppose thc.t at exact noon in the observatory in Washing ton or Greenwich, all the telegraphic instruments on earth should instant ly refuse to work. Let every wire on land and in cables beneath the sea cease to act. Let every key come to rest and every sounder be silent. Im agine this silence to continue five minutes. The attention of all tele graph people would be attracted and then that of newspaper men. Let ten minutes pass, and businessmen would hear of the phenomenon. Let the trouble continue during an bour, then everybody living in cities might hear that the telegraphs were lifeless. In one year, perhaps, half of the human race would hear of the disturbance. -From Nautilus. Sewage Disposal in Europe. That the last word with reference to the treatment of sewage has not yet been said seems manifest from the processes adopted by and appar ently growing in favor with many of the lr rn European cities. I?'amburg, Cop Dresden, Liverpool. Belfast, Bristol, Hull and many smal ler cities have adopted the dilutionsysi;em. The sewage is screened of all floating mat ter and is then turned into the ad jacent rivers, without chemical treat ment, and thc result seems to be en tirely satisfactory. As the cities of Europe are older than our own it is but natural that the question of the treatment and disposal of sewage should have received longer and more careful study than has been given it in this counfy. In point of fact, Eu rone leads us in sewage purification matters, and, though the subject has by no means been exhausted abroad, American engineers can leam much from the plans adopted for the treat ment of sewage by cities across the Atlantic.-Newark News. Herbert Spcuccr. Herbert Spencer waa a br.chf-lor, declaring that he "had no time to gel married." Spencer never sar/ a loco motive, but was construction e.igineei in his 3'oung3r cays for the London and Birmingham Railway, anl latei on served in a similar capacity wit! the Birmingham and Gloucester?Rail way. It is not true that Spencer wa; ever in actual want, but his finance: were at times very low. The ?700C raised by friends in America was ac ccpted by Mr. Spencer "as a trust tc be uced for public ends."' Farm hands for harvesting th< grain and fruit crops of Callfornii are scarcer than ever. Bids are to be opened at the nary department here on November 20 for dredging at the Charleston Navy Yard to secure an entrance to the dry dock and berths alongside the wharf by the removal of accumulated de posits from the Cooper River. A channel will be dredged to a depth of 30 feet below mean low water, leading from the liver to the dry dock. The channel will be 165 wide, widening out to 500 feet at 30 feet below mean low water, length, 1,000 feet* from face of quay wall. The Brownsville court of inquiry has decided to visit Brownsville, Tex., late in November to hear any new material facts bearing in the famous "shooting up" of that city on the night of August 13, 1906. Every reasonable opportunity will be given to the discharged noncommissioned officers and men of the Twenty-fifth Regiment of Infantry to prove they were not c gaged in the riot with a view to their re-enlistment in the army should they desire to take.ad van tage of the offer contained in the act of Congress creating the tribunal. The court will follow up the Browns ville hearing with a similar proceed ing at "Washington. The discharged men will have the privilege of appear ing before the court represented by an attroney. What is regarded as a distinct con cession to improting interests ann to France was made by the Treasury Department Monday in directing the collectors of customs at the various United States ports to keep custom houses open until 4:30 p. m. Satur day, October 30, on which date thc commercial agreements with France, Switzerland and Bulgaria expired. The purpose of the order was to give every facility to importers to enter goods at the reduced rates of the ex piring treaties and applies particular ly to New York and a few other cities where the custom houses close ordi narily at 1 p. m. on Saturday in def erence to local law or custom. The horse as a means of transpor tation is more than holding its own under" the competition of the auto mobile, according to Maurice Connelly Mr. Connelly says the trade in horse driven vehicles this year was greater than ever before, and the business al ready booked for the coming year will eclipse all previous records. The only manufacturers of carriages af fected are those who cater to the mil lionaire class, which has in a large No grave apprehension is felt in Washington for the safety of Prof. Charles K. Leith and Arthur Leith, who, with others, sines last summer has been making geological investi gations in the Hudson Bay country. They had intended returning here by October 1, but in letters received from them early in August it was in timated that their return might bo delayed owing to weather conditions. Professor Leith is attached to the ex pedition as a representative of the University of Wisconsin, where he holds a professorship, while his brother Arthur, who lives here, is ac companying the party as aa ama teur scientist. Information has reached the State Department that the celebrated Alsop claim against Chile, involving valu able guano deposits and silver wines, is in a fair way of settlemen. The Alsop case, which has been pending for thirty-five years, had its origin in the actual advance of money by Americans to the Bolivian govern ment in return for rights to valuable guano deposits. Somebody is out just $100 because of carelessness in forwarding money through the mails. The division of dead letters, of the Post-Office De partment Saturday received an enve lope, unsealed and unaddressed, con taining an amount of currency aggre gating about $100. The envelope was deposited in a street letter box in a town in New York State. Thus far inquiries ty post-office inspectors have failed to locate the owner An examination to fill vacancies in the ranger force on one hundred and forty-nine national forests in twenty one States and Territories, including Alabea, were held Monday and .Tues day. From this examination it is expected that 500 appointments will be made. This examination was held at each forest supervisors headquarters in the national forest States and Territories, including Ark ansas, Minnesota, Michigan and Flo rida, which are the most easterly States having national forests._ HARLIN! Before insuring elseWhe Old Line Companies. At The Farmers m CHILDREN BURN Virginia Orphanage a HO??K causL SHELTON COTTAGE CONSUMED. Mysterious Outbreak Leaves No Tim* to Rescue All the Tots-A Sacri fice of Life to Rescue Younge/r Sister. Lynchburg, Va., Special-Lat? Tuesday afternoon the remains of the five children who were burned in the fire which destroyed the Shelton cot tage at the Presbyterian orphans home, near the city, at 4 o 'clock Tues-, day morning, were recovered^ though they were burned past recognition. A coroner's inquest which conclud ed its work at 8:15 o'clock at night, threw no light on the cause of tho fire, but the verdict included a stated ment fully exonerating the home au - thorities from blame. Later reports show that the fire was discovered by the housekeeper in her' room on the second floor by smoke issuing through the speaking tub? connecting her room with the kitchen. She was up to begin her duties for the day. ^ The five children were all inmates of the nursery. The dead: \ Lucile Moorefield and Ruby Moore field of Lynchburg, Mamie Reynolds of Bath county, Virginia, Marie Hick* man of Campbell county, Virginia, and Mary Pool of Davis, West Vir ginia. The children were all in the second' v> floor of the wing of the building and they were caught dry the ire in a manner that made their rescue impos sible. Ruby Moorefield, however, was taken out of the building, but when ?he ascertained that the younger sis ter was still inside she ran back into the burning building and lost her life. The fire was discovered by Mrs. Priest, the cook, who was aroused by the roar of flames. When she saw that it was impossible to get the children out by the stairway, the en tire basement and first floor at that time being enveloped, and that it would be but a few minutes before the whole building would fall, sh? rushed to the third story and brought fifteen children down to the second floor, where they were taken down ? ladder, several of them dropping into outstretched arms of the older boys in the institution. When these children were all safe? Mrs. Priest had to jump for her lifo and in so doing sustained? a dislocat ed shoulder, a scalp wound, abd an injury to her back. She will proba bly recover. While all of the escapes were miraculous, only one of the girls rpsp.ned was injured and she escaped iYi.ciu.auuu x uoow.j - murdered his sisters, Miss Ros? "Me-'; Mahon and Mrs. Alonzo Van Royera and the latter's husband, Alonzo Van Royen, on a farm near Kansas City* Kas., last Tuesday. A long standin?' family quarrel caused the tragedy. McMahon killed Van Royen in a wood and later went to the Van Royen home and shot his sisters. Fearing mob violence by a . throng that gathered about the county jail after the confession became known, the sheriff rushed the murderer and his brother, Patrick McMahon, and Patrick Lamb, a farm hand, who ara held as witnesses, to the penitentiary at Langing Tuesday night in automo biles. J McMahon's inability to keep his se cret caused his arrest. He told a friend Tuesday where he had hidden a revolver with which he did the kill ing, and several articles he took from the Van Royen home. As Sheriff Becker was preparing to arrest Patrick McMahon, the latter walked into his office and announced, that he was ready to help on the case as he has been doing each day ?nee the tragedy. Cloudburst and Inundation in Mexico. Mexico City, Special-An estimat ed loss of five millians of pesos, in cluding crops and fine hardwoods, tw* lives known to be lost and many otl* ers, it is feared, sacrificed in . the .floods, hundreds of homes in country and town washed away and thousands of head of cattle drowned are the known results cf the disastrous cloud burst and storm that broke over the State of Tabasco Mondav. Japan's Greatesf Commoner Aassas sinated. Tokio, By Cable.-Hirobumi Ito, ? Prince of Japan but thc greatest com: moner in the empire and , for,^ two years thc ancrowned ruler , of Korea, who above all stood between Korea and the degradation of immediate an nexation, hoping to build up that country anew, was assassinated bv Koreans Tuesday just as he [alighted from a special train at Harbin, Mnn churia, to which place he went from JC?lijo. cn a ?sission bf coh.ee._ ??RANCB 0 SEE 3 & BYRD re, Wegrepresent the Bes* & BYRD* Bank of Edgefleld