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*? 'I . r m ? * ' ? ' ' ' She Hancagier ledger. A'^EilSii?ANjmT' | A Jtoiily Ncwrpaptr : Fbrthe Prvmatkm mfOe Political, Sb-iU, AgnettltrrolQU* Q?mm?iai Aflprati. j 1 'jJ vwr~ ~ -** . -. ...1.^,-,,, . r*~ . _ - ? ' **, *?*mmm?k sw ml.wekkla' \j A n c A ? i e Li. ls. t a Y 17 190 2 ESTABLS HIED 1852 ^ ~ _ ~ i st. mmtisland n IMMINENT DANGER.; St. Pierie A Charred Mass. Oue Section Covered With Lava Dust; 1 he Other Blasted bv Terrible Volcanic Gas. Fort do France, Island of Mar. Unique, May 18.? Business here is suspended. The people of the city have assembled in the churches and at the cathedral where servioac o i??. h/v*?? ?1-1 ? ' 1 M* t >v?a IIUIU I or lllti Ot. Pierre dead, baa been thronged s'mee daylight. The ITnitod States government tug Potomac leaves hero tonight for the Island of St. Vincent where conditions are reported to be worse. La Soufriere on St. Vincent wua in full eruption May 10. A stream of stone and mud hulf a mile wide was then issuing from the volcano. Ston*s two inches in diameter fell twelve miles awav. At Kingston, the j capital of the island, the ashes; were two inches deep Seven \ hundred dead were reported Sunday, May 11. It is estimated that the total number of deaths on St. Vincent reaches two thou sand. The present volcanic eruption on St Vincent is the first since 1812. The tug Potomac orui- xl along the coast of this island yesterday i afternoon. She encountered an ink> black column of smoke whit b made it necessary for her to go five miles out of her course. Words fail to describe the present situation at St. Pierre. A small detachment of French troops is making efforts to bury the dead although the government seems to be strikingly unconcerned as to what is done in this direction. LOOTING THE DEAD. The looting of the dead has begun already. While coming to Fort de France the Potomac picked up a boat containing five colored and one white man whose pock: ets were filled with coin and jewelry, the latter evidenly stripped from the fingers of the dead. Lieut. B. B. McCormick, the commander of the Potomac, ar' I rested these men and turned them over to the commander of the ' Frouch cruiser Suehet for punishment. The Potomac also brought 1 a ton of supplies to Martinique. BUT FEW BODIES FOUND. , Strange .to relate, in view of the , number of inhabitants of St. | Pierre who were swept to death ] by the volcanic waves from Mont j Pelee, on Thursday last, very few , corpse huvo been found by those 1 who are engaged in the work of cremating the dead bodies.' This | is duo to the fact that the most , populous quarters of the town are buried under a thick later of c:n- | dered lava which appaionth en- , tirely consumed the hodiet- tho ( victims. 1 TERROR STHICK EN. The work of succorirg tho re- 1 fugees continues incessantly. Immediately upon the cable repair ship Pouyer-Quertier, Capt. Thirion, sturted on her mission of mercy she bad to pa . through clouds of burning cinders at thev ri>k of catching lite, in order to roach the terror-stricken people ? anurwf. IsnI hlie in bringing s<? this port 4f>0 people, mainly former resident* of the village of Lo IVenehour. This whs on Saturday lust. Since then the bit timer, as the result, of other daring trips, has succeeded in bringing uiany other persons to l<ort do Vrance. On Sunday she rescued 923 persons, and piloted the French cruiser Sucbet and t tie Danish cruiser Valkyrien, who took on hoard 1.500 persons. The path of tho volcanic tor1* nt which swept over St. Pierre is marked out in a strange tnauner. Tho vicinity of the shore where vessels authored was swept by a whirlwind of volcanic gas, which ripped, tore and shuttered everything in its passage, hut loft few traces of cinders behind. On the other hand the fort, centre and adjoining parts of St. Pierro are buried under a thick bed of cinders which consumed everything oeneatn it. PARDONED A DYING MAN. Pitiful Case Presented to the Governor Yesterday. The governor yesterday pardoned a dying man in order that he might breath his hist in his uwn house. Aimer Harris was convicted in Edgefield in July in 1900, and senlenced to threo years on thechaingaug for breaking into a store. lie was in jail from November, 1809. The conviction was upon circumstantial c\ idenec. While serving on the ang Harris contracted pneuin nia which turned into consumption, and now he is in the county alms house in a dying condition. The prpsecutflr* plty*-;cians, leading citizens, county oflicials aud the solicitor sent an earnest appeal tor a pardon so that tli3 unfortunate man. might die at his homo.?The State. - - ?? A? <???? ? Pmnll??" ? IT? oiiiaiipuA iu union. Fourteen Persons Down W ith tho Disease Special to Tho Observer. Hon roe, May 13.? Smallpox was discovered yesterday on the farm of Mr. Henry Frank Williams, near Wingate. Mr John G. Bass, who had been sick for several days, sent for Dr. Artnfieid, of Marshville. After diagnosing Ihe case the doctor pronouced it smallpox and sent to Monroe for Dr. J. M. Blair, the county phy sician. Investigation revealed the fact that not only did Mr Bass hare tho smallpox but that other Diembers of his family had it and were almost well without ever baring had a physician. It was further found' that two negro families on the sumu farm had the disease but were convalescent. There were 14 cases in all, Mr. Bass being the last to get sick ami having the most serious case. It seems ttial none of them ha.I neeu very sick aud thought they only had chicken-pox or some slight eruption ana ne\cr iinught it necessat y to send fen* a docto.. All the cases were p.opeily (piaian* tined and ore. v. thing possible done to prevent a further spread of I be disease hut there is 110 tel I'ughow man) may have been exposec to the contagion. There arc 11 ?v three cases, all negroes, near wuxhaw, but no now onus ; expt'eted. Keep Your Bowels Strong. Constipation or diarrhoea when your bowels are out of order. Cas carets uandy Cathartic will make them act naturally. Genuine tablets stamped C. C. C. Never sold in bulk. All druggists, ioc. k > I \\t h IIH ADVER1 It Takes Tim( Goods 1 Up < \ WEJIA] -IJKIJKIEN! jW ALL OUR Our first sli nery, Dress O went out of cakes. .N EV in<?- daily. \V A SPECI/ r SPECiA tlic balance ol -LIS 10 yards of live cents. Thompson 1 Corsets. Our Dotted Silk cents. Our p 25 dozen Li 10 cents. Ou S We emit me unless we rem COME A [ 40 1SEMENTS. f4 s All iffcni* * b Ordering To Keep )ur Stock. i/E HAD AN SE STOCKDSPABTMENTS. MMwanawn.? ga ipments of Millioods, Silks, Etc., Stores like hot * f * ^ ?r ^ " * v UiH>l)S arriv I m e will have \L DISPLAY MB L PRICES ' April. TEN! Lawn for twentyBrand New 81.00 price 82 cents. Tissues, worth <U1 rice 48 cents, idies Vests, worth r price 5 cents, ntion our Bargains t the whole paper. NTI) SEE US. K' BRAVE AND GENERRUS A P BUTLER IS DEAD At the Froat in Sixty-One and Again in Seventy-Six As Commissioner of Agriculture He Did Much Valuable Work For South Carolina. I Special to The State. ' Augusta, (Ja., Muv 14.?('<>1. Audrew Pickens Butler of Aiker county died :it 0 o'clock tbit morning at the Butler home. Col. Butler was stricken with paralysis of the heart Saturday night. He 1 never regained conscioiibncso. He wss 70 years old. 11c leaves twe daughters, who are married, a sot and several grandchildren. Tin funeral will he tomorrow morn ing at 11 o'clock from S\vo( twatei church, near Aiken. i 1_1 A ? I - v/wi. niKirew I'icKens Hutlei wus a member of the famous old Kdgefield family which came from I Virginia prior to the Revolution. He was distantly related to (ien. M. C. Butler. He wui a man oi conspicuous gallantry. When tin War between the Status broko out he wont to the front us captain oi Company (t, First South Caro' liua He was promoted to majoi May 12, 189-1, and to lieutenanl J colonel May 23 of the same year, Ho was a dashing and fearless of ficer. Col. Butlor's service to tb< State in the Hamburg and Fllcn tou riots, particularly the latter were conspicuous for discretior ? and gallantry. Ho was jailed l>\ the fedo'al authorities, hut over from the jail managed to keep bis friends from bloodsned on his nc count. He served his country in the State senate and for several year.was State commissioner of agri' culture, continuing in that oliiee until the department was abolished in 1890. Col. Butler did the State good service in this capacity, ; but the dopartiuent over which he presided boro the brunt of the Tillman reform movements tight. Since 1S96 Col. Butler has been living quietly at his plantation on the South Carolina side of tlie 'Savannah river, not far from I A liortlwf STAND 1,1 KE A STONK } W A 1,1. Hot ween your children and the tortures of itching and burning eczema, scald heads or other skir diseases.?How why, by using i Bucklen's Arnica Salvo, earth's groatest healer Quickest cure for Ulcers, Fever Sores, Sail Uheum, Cuts, Burns or Bruises, i Infallible for Piles. 25c at Ciaw ford Bros., and .J F. Mac key L Go's drug stores. The .Jailer Was Too Quick. lloanoke, Va., May 14.^ When Jailer Craig entered tin jail corridors this evening be wa # murderously assaulted by twi negro prisonors who had hoped t< j make thoir escape. During a strug I rr\t\ YL-hSnl. f..ll~ i ' *> ?. - .. ...VII iiiiiuivvu inn; (ii Tll< negroes, Boo Payne, was shot :;n< fatally in]i!fed by jailer (Taijj Tli men escaped from jail t\v wco.cs n?o will) ten others hn r were recaptured. flow \-\ Your KlOnryi r Or TTobbn' Spm ipus Oil Is core nil Kidney Ills. San ?.?fri*e Add. sieri uu Itomedy' >.Ciurauocr S.l Only Three More Weeks The Great Show at Charleston Will Closo on Juno 1st.? Kvoryhody Ought to At loud on "Wagoner Day," May 22U. Charleston. S. C., May 12.? The South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Kxposition will have hut three more weeks of stirring existence. Born of the far seeing enterprise of a few patriotic i men, nursed to maturity by their j uneousing toil and self-sacrifice, in the face of a thousand obstacles, ; and in spito of doubt and criticism . to those familiar with its broad . scope and minute detail, itsarchit, ectural grandeur and its infinite , variety f exhibits, its scant trea. 8Ury and its abundant achievement . hi all that v'.on-titutos an exposition, it is th * marvel of the indue* trial history of our country. Every its projectors dreamed not of so great an achievement They builded far better than they knew, but progressed step by step to the couiplotion of what is uudoubtedly the greatest exposition the p South has ever known, and censiderod from the standpoint ef money invested and results acp eomplished, the greatest the world has ever seen. The proof is easy. In a few days this great exponent of industrial progress will past into history, the exhibits will be scattered to the four quarters of the earth, and the beautiful buildings removed.- Those who ' have not seen it, should not noies lh? opportunity of their lives, . ' those who have, should see it again. ' It cannot be seen too often. The remaining weeks are full of 1 ! special "days,'* conspicuous among them Odd Fellows Day May 13; Wyst Indian Day, May 10, and last but not least "Wag- * ! ener Day,*' May 22, designated ^ ! in honor of the President of the ; company, who by his unfaultering zeal and liberality has given fruition to the plans of his company. Every South Carolina, every utan i who loves a g?:od patriotic citizen : should be on thn ?-rr^uit;r?r? - - .... *MW v*^fV0??4VU grounds ob 44 Wagoner Day," and show at least some faint recognition of the work ouo man has done. The railroads have made the lewest rates for 4{>Yagener Day" ' that has ever been made on any occasion and all can afford the small expense of attending the exposition. ; Kitchener's Report. >i r ~ 4 Outlook Seems to Ho Brighter For English Ai ms. : t London, May 13. ? Kitchener's * weekly report received today shows 19 Boers killed and 9 wounded, S02 captured and 900 surrendered. There were COO rillos, 157 wagons, 40 horses and 4,300 " I head of cattle that fell into the R hands of the iiritisli. s Gen. Ian Hamilton's column :) ari iveel at the Western railroad, ' after sweeping tho Kitchenhorg district and southwestern Transi? I vaal. These troops brought S50 ' prisoners and practically all the ' stock of the Boer commands-of 0 that disttict. This makes a reduc' t ion 111 IVI.'IITV UOA - - - - - ? "? VV. ?u I.'VV men sinco ho defeated Mnjor Paris at Rovirnines Fontcin on March 8 ^ | ami captured Methnen.