Scraps and ^acts. I ? As the result of a great revival meeting which recently closed in J Philadelphia, a wealthy resident of I hat city has placed the income from i his entire fortune of over a million dollars In the hands of the Presbyterian Kvangelical committee t?? lie devoted to church and benevolent work. The name of the man Is not given out, but he is said to be one of the most widely known citizens of Philnftelnhin. and that the income from the fortune placed In the hands of the committee will exceed $30,000 a year. ? The British cruiser Gladiator was sunk off the Isle of Wight last Saturday as the result of a collision with the American liner, St. Paul. The St. Paul struck the Gladiator amid-ship in a heavy fog, and the Gladiator went down in less than half an hour. The best of discipline prevailed on both vessels. The St. Paul offered to lower boats to help take care of the sailors of the Gladiator; but the British captain thinking he could manage the matter himself at first declined the profered assistance. Later the blue Jackets on the Gladiator asked for help. Twenty-eight blue jackets were lost. The Gladiator was a complete wreck. ? Fall River. Mass., April 26: The new Bristol county steel bridge which is to connect this city and the town of ( Somerset, across the Taunton river, , was badly damaged by a mysterious ( explosion of dynamite early today. The | bridge is being built for the county at | a cost of $750,000. and was to have been completed in two months. The police investigation today shows that a charge of not less than fifty pounds | nf dynamite was placed on tne granlie pier nearest (he Fall River shore ami was fired by the use of a fuse. | The explosion displaced the heavy steel girdlers and destroyed the. frame ) work of the bridge for 50 feet on either ( side of the pier. The entire north section of the city was shaken by the explosion and window glass in nearly every house was smashed. Many people j who were awakened by the shock rushed panic stricken from their j houses to the streets. The contractors are Holbrook. Cabot & Rollins of Boston. 1 They employ non-union work- j men. ? New York. April 25: Declaring that hanging is the most agonizing death Imaginable, Dr. E. A. Spitzke, the eminent brain specialist, who has made a study of the brains of hun- . dreds of famous criminals, today announced that he intended to begin a campaign to have hanging abolished in all the states of the union and . electrocution substituted. "Hanging is the most inhuman and brutal ? death that can be visited on a man, criminal or not," said Dr. Spitzka to day. "The neari or a man v nu ia hanged beats from thirteen to fifteen minutes after the trap drops and the unfortunate is swinging by his neck. The theory that the convulsive jerks of a body are merely a reflex action and that the person dies as soon as his weight straightens out the rope, is all wrong. I have made an extensive study of such things, have been present at hundreds of hangings and have examined the bodies after they had been taken from the gallows. I am convinced that this jerking is not reflex action, but a conscious attempt of the individual to gain a footing. I have found that the heart beats a long time after the drop falls. The . process of strangulation is a slow one." ? Washington, April 23: The announcement carried by press reports , last night to the effect that some of . >hp cotton mills in South Carolina i were undecided whether they would , shut down their plants in the near fu- 5 ture or furlough many of their em- j ployees and run on reduced time dur- f ing the remainder of the spring, and j summer until times get better, has 1 drawn attention to the fact that the j Baltimore mills making cotton duck > expect to soon sell the government 1 between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 worth of their product. They expect ; to sell this amount of goods, because congress recently appropriated a large amount for the purchase of cotton duck. Both the war and navy ] departments usually carry large stocks ' ?>f this, but so much was used in . connection with fitting out the battle- j ship fleet for its voyage to the Pacific J and for tents at the time of the San 1 Francisco earthquake that it is nec- , essary for them to replenish their < supplies. Many of the Baltimore ' mills are understood to be after these 5 contracts, and there would apparent- ( ly be an opportunity for some of the 1 mills in the south to try for them J also, and by securing them possibly , avert the threatened shut-down. 1 ? According to the New York Finan- 1 cial Chronicle, the cotton into sight | for the week ending last Friday aggregated S4.887 bales, as against 113.335 bales for the corresponding week last . year. So far this season the into sight . aggregates 10,221.116 bales, as against 12.343,611 bales for the corresponding ] period last season. Spinners' takings J of American cotton for the week totalled 214.717 bales, as against 248.748 bales for the corresponding week last year. For the season so far spinners' ! takings total s.737,762 bales, as against ' '. .757.682 bales for the corresponding J period last year. The visible supply of all kinds of cotton up to last evening was placed at 4.631,198 bales, as against 4.927.085 bales at the conesponding date last year and 4.349,886 bales two years ago. The visible supply of American cotton was placed sit 2.819,198 bales, against 3,484,085 bales a year ago and 2.760,886 bales two years ago. Exports for the week totalled 76.668 bales, as compared with exports of 140.339 bales for the corresponding week last year. The amount of cotton on shipboard, not yet cleared, at the end of the week was 113.592 bales, as against 152.780 bales a year ago. So far for this season exports have been 6.614,472 bales, as against 7.675.287 bales for a corresponding period last season. Continental imports for the week totalled 61.000 bales. Call River sales of print cloths were estimated at 30,000 to 40.000 pieces, nearly all odds, generally for converters' use. and nearly all for spot or nearby delivery. The total curtailment among Fall River print cloth mills for the week amounted to about 195,000 pieces. ? Washington. April 25: The sundry civil appropriation bill was reported to the house today by the appropriation committee. It carries ! $105,715,369. A statement of the bill , authorized by Chairman Tawney. follows in part: "The estimates submit- ! ted by the different departments of f the government for sundry civil ex- . penses for the next fiscal year far ex- . ceeded the estimates for like expenditures in many previous years in our history aggregating $ 141,284,266. These estimates were prepared for i submittance to congress last Septem- i her. when the revenues of the gov- f eminent were far in excess of current expenditures. Before congress con- j vened the financial stringency came s on. resulting in a very material fall- 1 ing off in the government revenues. ( This necessitated a thorough exam- i ination of the estimates with a view t of ascertaining the amounts actually t required to continue the service usu- < ally provided for in the sundry civil t bill and also to continue the public < works previously authorized until the < next appropriation shall become ivailable. The amounts recommended by the committee are ample to provide for the continuance during the next liscai year of all the public service usually provided for in the sundry civil bill and for the continuance of all public works heretofore authorized until the next appropriations become available. included in tlie appropriations recommended in tlie sundry civil bill is the sum of - T.UOJi for t he Isthmian canal, which amount is reimbursable to the treasury from, the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized. The bill carries for the improvement of rivers and harbors under contract authorizations. S17.692.645." fthc \lorkiuUc inquirer. Entered at the Postofflce in Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE, S. C.s TUESDAY, APRIL 28, PJ08. Instrvction of the South Carolina lolegation te unable to take advantage of it. President Roosevelt's four battleship programme was voted on in the senate yesterday and defeated fifty to twenty-three. Most of the newer senitors voted for the four battleships, ant the older ones were pretty solidly igainst the president's programme. The debate on the programme lasted hree days. a u'wiiiviirnv corresDondent re ports Hon. Joseph A. AlcCullough as laving passed through Washington i few days ago, and quotes him as sayng that there will probably be no fur;her move on the part of the dispensary receivers until the pending issues have seen passed upon by the circuit court >f appeals. The civilized element of Cuba is ;aid to be more or less seriously concerned over a report to the effect that the LTnited States is considering the early withdrawal of the "army of pacifica:ion." It is pretty generally conceded :hat should the United States troops je withdrawn there will be another jprislng within thirty days, if not sooner. Tiif. people of this country seem to )e taking as little interest in the politcal situation us they were in 1888, ind that was almost nothing. There ire a few individuals who think it rery important that Mr. Bryan be lominated for the presidency; but fenerally there is not much concern ibout the matter. The senatorial race s exciting practically no interest, and is yet there is very little doing in jounty politics. Of course things will warm up somewhat later on, when the people get their spring business off :heir hands. SEVERAL HUNDRED KILLED, rornadoes In Southwest Causes Great I ~.t 1 PrflnAfh UU39 VI k_ i v hum -j . There was terrible loss of life and property during last Friday as the result of a series of tornadoes that swept icross the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. All of the states mentioned were more or less severely hit, and in some of them were eft large patches of death and desolation. A reasonably comprehensive summary of the loss is to be found in the following compiled by the Associated Press from reports received during Friday. Saturday and Sunday and 00. Homeless, several thousand. Towns reporting serious wrecklge, 46. Habitations and business houses, practically complete ruins in these ~ AVxa.,4 O Sftfl IV w iiff, ainmi -, c w v. The above figures do not include the wreckage on plantations and farms, scores of which were struck ind damaged. The number of dead ,vill never be known accurately for the reason that about 300 of them were negroes and they were buried in many communities without careful records neing made of their numbers. While some of the first reports giving apparently reliable death lists have proved exaggerated, nevertheless remote places ivhich are late in reporting their dead lave served to hold the death list uniformly around 350. The manner in vhich this death list has grown for :wo days, in spite of continual sub:ractions from early reports, has been i melancholy index of the inter-state ?cope of the disaster. Course of the Storm. By following the wreckage of :owns, the general direction of the :ornadoes can be traced closely. Apparently the storm struck in three separate currents. each describing :he arc of a circle and traveling toward the northeast. The first of these struck through northern Louisiana, Mississippi, and nto Tennessee before daylight Friday. The second appeared further south about breakfast time in cental Louisiana and Mississippi. This i nnarantlv was the nortion of the dorm which swept on through Ala)ama and Georgia on Friday night ind Saturday morning. The third portion of the storm appeared during Friday afternoon, further south than ?ither of its predecessors. This was he storm which demolished Amite. La., and Purvis, Miss., the two towns n which the wreckage was worst. Why the fatalities were so unusuilly large is apparent today from a glance at the mass of photographs vhich has arrived here from many portions of the tornado belt. They til tell the same story. Whole blocks >f what were formerly little residences and cabins lie spread over the ground in separate boards. If a huge umber pile had been scattered over hese areas, the number of individual wards, unattached to anything could scarcely have been greater. Many of hese planks show very few breaks vhere they were separated from the >ther construction. I'nder this mass >f wreckage many hundred persons vere found, few escaping without injury. The houses which were thus scattered about were mostly negro labitations. The homes of the whites leld together better, and the photographs show many of them with half he top of the upper half of the strueure ripped off, but leaving below proeetion which must have saved scores Tom death. A Remarkable Experience. Along with the accounts of sufferng have come many recitals of renarkable experiences of which the 'ollowing is typical: At Amite. La., when the tornado ippeared there were seven persons it the dinner table of Mr. Hamilton Warner's home, including three chilIren. One of the diners, Claude Henlett, saw the whirling cloud in time o shout a warning and rush out loots, but the others remained in the lining room. The wind in a second ore off two doors on opposite sides f the room, and an astonishing profession of live and inanimate objects began to pass through the room through these doors. First came a calf running before the wind. The animal jumped over the dining table and went out the opposite door from which it entered. Afterward came a horse which after one or two prances about, followed through the exit taken by the calf. The three children sought refuge under the dining table and no one in the room was injured. Today has been one of relief measures throughout the wrecked district. The ruined towns have been visited by thousands of spectators, very many of whom went with a few dollars in their pockets to distribute among the needy. Sheds made from the wreckage have become the homes of hundreds. Small parties of men on horseback have gone through country districts taking inventories of the assistance needed and rendering aid where it was most necessary. At least a dozen relief funds have been started in as many cities and. in New Orleans Mayor Behrman has called a meeting of the heads of business institutions for tomorrow to take charge of relief from here. Towns Damaged. Following is a list by states of the 46 towns reporting more or less damage and most of which are quite small: LiOUlsiana: i.?ucerne, tvcumuic, immourie. Richland. Amite. Tessie, Pine. Angle, Franklinton. Sheridan, Avard, Eunice. Total 12. Mississippi: Giles. Bend. Purvis, Church Hill. Lnrman, Tillman, Melton, Baxterville, Braxton, Sunflower, Wahlaka, Win pate, Columhus, Walls, Fairchild's Creek. Quitman's Landing. McLaurin, McCallum, Winchester. Pine Ridge. Total 19. Georgia: Columbus, Chipley. LaGrange. Harris. Griffin, MePonough, Locust Grove, Gedartown, Cave Springs. Total 9. Alabama: Albertville. High Mound. Hatton. Leesburg. Settlement, Blountsville. Total 6. The four members of the Rayburn family reported killed at Baxferville, Miss., were not killed but were injured. two of them, Robert Rayburn and wife, seriously. The following deaths of white persons have not previously been reported : * Melton. Miss: Potts and wife. pension Money being paid. The Total Amount This Year is $251,217.60. The Confederate pension checks for the year 1908, writes the Columbia correspondent of The Xews and Courier, are being sent out by the comptroller general to the clerks of the court in the various counties, and the payments to pensioners will be made within the next few days. The compilation of the pension lists is a very laborious task, but it is greatly facilitated by the familiarity of the pension clerk, Miss Kate Maher. with this work. This year the lists contain the names of 9,275 pensioners, Confederate veterans and their widows, which :s an increase of 214 over last year. The greatest increase is in tne number of widows in class C, No. 4, there being 3,544 in this class this year, as against 3,368 last year. The number of helpless veterans is also increased, this being the highest class, known as Class A. in which there are 122 this year, as against 103 last year. These helpless veterans get $96 each per year, which at best is little enough to live on, but is a great help no doubt to the gallant men who followed the Stars and Bars and now aie reduced to poverty. The classes of pensioners under the present rule are as follows: Class A?Those who as a result of wounds received in the war are physically helpless, or who while in such service lost both arms or both legs or sight, or who are disabled by paralysis and are unable to make a living, and whose income, or whose wife's income, does not exceed $150 per annum. Class B?Those who while in service lost one arm or one leg and whose income or wife's income does not exceed $150 per annum. Class C, No. 1?Those soldiers and sailors disabled by wounds whose income or whose wife's income does not exceed $150 per annum. Class C, No. 2?Those who have reached the age of sixty years and whose income or whose wife's income does not exceed $75. Class C, No. 3?Widows of those wno lost tneir lives wiiue in suvn service, and whose Income does not exceed $100 per annum. Class C, Xo. 4?Widows above the age of sixty years whose income does not exceed $100 per annum. These widows may have married since the war. The appropriation for pensions this year, as last year, is the sum of $250,000, but the total amount distributed is $251,217.60, owing to a refund from last year, which increases the total amount available. The appropriation for artificial limbs this year is only one thousand dollars, as against $5,000 last year. Owing to the total increase in the fund there is a slight increase in the amount received by two of the classes. Class C, Xo. 2, and C, Xo. 4. which get $21.20 each this year, an increase of 13 cents each. The amounts paid the different classes are as follows: Class A, $06: Class B. $72: Class C. Xo. 1, $48; Class C, Xo. 2. $21: Class C, Xo. 3, $48: Class C, Xo. 4. $21.20. The number in each class this year and last year is as follows: 1907. 1908. Class A 103 122 Class B 183 169 Class C. Xo. 1 631 643 Class C. Xo. 2 4.031 4.064 Class C. No. 3 746 733 Class C. Xo. 4 3.368 3,544 Total 9.061 9,275 Xo Mokk Rkbatixc.?The anti-rebate feature of the new insurance law known as the Saye act is to be strictly enforced. A few years ago rebating by life insurance agents was a common practice, but the agent that grants a rebate on a policy now is likely to cause his company to forfeit its right to do business in South Carolina. Insurance Commissioner McMaster had a case before him yesterday and but for the fact that the application for the policy in question was written before the new law went into effect, and the policy delivered before that date, the company would have been forced out of business in South Carolina without further proceedings. In this case the insured gave a note, payable April 1, for his policy. Before the note was due the agent of the company approached the man and offered to "scale" the note. The offer was accepted and the insured paid $47.50 on his note and was given a receipt for $50. The matter was taken under advisement by the commissioner and he will make a ruling on it within a few days. ?Columbia State. ? Spartanburg1. April 25: President It. Z. Cates of the Arkwriglit mills this afternoon handed to the press the following statement: "At a representative meeting of cotton manufacturers held this day in the Chamber of Commerce it was resolved that they will accept no further orders for cloth at present prices; that they will shut down their mills indefinitely not later than July 1. 1908." In reply to many inquiries on the part of reporters the only answer was that the above was all there was to be given out as to the meeting of the cotton manufacturers, and when the mill men were approached they declared with one accord that they had nothing to give out. It is understood that this meeting represented the cotton cloth manuiacturers of South Carolina. Georgia and North Carolina, those not represented by officials being represented by proxy. Though there has been much discussion of a possible shutdown the impression here has been that the blow would not fall?that in some way it would be avoided?but the resolution has had a disquieting effect in all circles. There are thirty-seven mills in ; this county and fully $15,000,000 In- 1 vested in them. The proposed shut- J down is the result of the demoralized I condition in tin- cotton cloth market. | LOCAX. AXTFAXRSt. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Thos. F. McDow, Pros.?Calls a meeting of Club No. 1, Yorkvlllo precinct in the sheriff's office on May 1. Mrs. M. M. Kicker, Teacher?Invites the public to a hot supper at Shady" Grove school house next Friday night. Yorkville B. anier, Energy; J. G. Minter, Blairsville: Lee Mullinax, King's Creek; ' i S. F. Massey, Fort Mill; C. P. Man- 1 ning. Clover; Joseph A. Pursley, Hick- j cry Grove; B. S. Peeler, King's Creek; H. H. Sherer, Blairsville; J. J. Shaw, s Rock Hill; W. A. Sherer, Yorkville; f s Rufus P. Starnes, Newport; J. Y. ? Starnes, Fort Mill; J. W. Taylor, Rock * Hill; J. T. Thompson, Yorkville; Jerry Walker, Clover; John Wray, Hick- r f ory Grove; W. M. Wolfe, Fort Mill. < ? Class C, No. 2.?$21.20. \ J. J. Ashe, Yorkville; James M. j Armstrong, Fort Mill; J. T. Adkins, ' Tirzah; W. T. Alderson, Fort Mill; W. 1 ' S. Alexander, Rock Hill; W. F. Arm- 1 - strong, Clover; W. H. Armstrong, Fort f Mill; William Ashley, Yorkville; B. ? Bogus, Fort Mill; R. T. Bailey, Fort J Mill; W. M. Brackett, Clover; A. M. ? - Black, Rock Hill; S. A. Broom. Rock J . Hill; James Burns, Fort Mill; John W. e Barnhill, Fort Mill; Sidney Bryant, Pn(?if Hill- Thomas Bolln. Hickory 8 Grove; T. W. Clawson, Yorkville; J. S. f ? Chambers, Yorkville; J. R. Cromer, ? Rock Hill; J. T. Crook, Rock Hill; " James A. Clark, Rock Hill; E. C. Chllders, Hickory Grove: Sherod Childers, , Yorkville; John Clark, Rock Hill; L. . J. Dabbs, Rock Hill; Samuel N. Dunlap, Rock Hill; D. R. Dunlap, Rock ' Hill; J. E. Denton, Rock Hill; J. A. Davidson, Guthrlesvllle; John Double, Yorkville; William A, Fisher, Fort I Mill; H. W. Fudge. Rock Hill; John ' Ferguson, Rock Hill; W, G. Finley, Zeno; W. M. Gregory, Rock Hill; W. > S. Garrison, Rock Hill; D, A, Givhens, Rock Hill; Isaac Gardner, Rock Hill; J. R. Goings, Rock Hill; J. L. Gardner, Yorkville; C. Gardner, Rock Hill; S. t J. Hutchinson, Rock Hill; John C. Harper, Fodder; R. H. Hand, Yorkville; Hi J. Hullender, Yorkville; Geo. ' Harris. Hickory Grove; F. L. Hoffman, Tirzah; James H. Hogue, Yorkville; i S. B. Howe, Yorkville; R. T. Howe, i Yorkville; G. A. Henny, Rock Hill; J. T. Howell, Yorkville; A. Hudson, York ville; J. P. Hutchinson, Rock Hill; i John C. Jackson, Yorkville; W. B. Jones, Clover; Samuel L. Johnson, " Rock Hill: W. H. Kidd, Rock Hill; > i-? rrj ? i ^11 Vf 111 . CI W Vino" J no. n. ivimuicii, run iniii, VI. n. Rock Hill; Lanier Lewis, Hickory J . Grove; Harvey Lemons, Yorkville; ,, . J. R. Lucas, Yorkville; J. M. Lazingly, Rock Hill; T. H. Logan, Yorkville; J. a ' H. Lucas, Yorkville; A. W. Moore, t I Blairsville; D. B. McCarter, Yorkville; ( > M. F. S. McCollough, Hoodtown; A. , McDaniel, Hickory Grove; W. E. Mc' Knight, Olive; J. T, McMakin, Beth- I any; Elijah McSwayne, Hoodtown; -i i D. E. Mangum, Rock Hill; S. J. Meek, Clover; R. A. McCorkle, Lesslle; Robert A. P. Merrltt, Fort Mill; Ar- o 1 mand Morgan, Rock Hill; J. B. s . Merritt, Yorkville; A. P. Moore, Rock I Hill; T. P. McConnell, McConnells- a ville; J. H. Neely, Clover; D. F. Neely, a Rock Hill; John M. Osborne, Fort C Mill; William F. Patterson, Fort Mill; . > A. Jackson Patterson, Fort Mill; J. E. Plaxico, Sharon; Joseph Parks, Fort 11 Mill; Aaron Plyler, Rock Hill; Josiah a > Pugii, Yorkville: R. G. Pearson, Fort h Mill: P. L. Pursley, Bethany; Henry | Reeves, Tlrzah; Jackson Ramsey, Yorkville; William Rhea, Hickory a Grove; R. L. Rayfield, Rock Hill; ii Frank Robinson, Clover; T. J. Roach, i Rock Hill; C. H. Simnums, Rock Hill: ! S. A. Stewart, Fort Mill; C. B. Smith, 8 Yorkville: J. S. Snead, Fort Mill; J. S 1 L. Stewart, Clover; R. W. Smith, v ' Smyrna; C. Sexton, Smyrna; D. M. t , Stewart, Yorkville; A. K, Smith, Old Point: I. G. Smythe, Fort Mill; Pascal Sanders, Rock Hill; J. M. Sweat, Rock o Hill; W. I, Smith. McConnellsville; 0 Dallas Stephens, Rock Hill; J. W. Thompson. Fort Mill; T. J. Thomasson, Clover; Alexander Wallace, Bethany; 1 W. P. Wiley, Rock Hill; Daniel Wal- M lace, Smyrna: W. B. Whittaker, Clo- ^ ver; A. J. White, King's Creek; J. J. White, Yorkville: L. B. White, York- ? ville; Thomas White, Zadock; Brown E Wilson. Rock Hill; W. L. White. Fil- h bert; John Winkler, Balloon; W. W. g White, Catawba; W. C. Wherry, Rock y Hill; A. F. Wood, Yorkville; R. J. u Withers, Yorkville; D. D. Wright; \, Hickory Grove; R. L. Wood, Clover; R. P. Workman, Edgmoor: R. W. Westmoreland, Hickorv Grove; J. A. Westbrooks. Rock Hill; John W. West- * brooks. a Class C. No. 3,-^48. g Cynthia Abemathy. Fort Mill; S. J. e Camp, Yorkville; I). R. Carrunthers. I tl Newport: H. A. Can*. Yorkville; M. E. f< Caton. Newport; Mary C. Choat, TIr- E zah: M. C. Falls, Clover: Jane A. (i Ferguson. Yorkville: H. E. Gettys, tl Lesslie; Mary Hambrick. Yorkville; It M. J. Hughes, Yorkville: Jane Hill, b Blalrsville; Mary R. Lindsay. Clover: ai H. C. Lilly. Filbert: Sarah K. Lynn, e: Yorkville: Sarah Lanier, Clover; Mar- a thai Moore, Rock Hill: Margaret E. an McCollough. Lesslie: M. E. MInter. M Yorkville; Nancy Quinn, Clark's Fork: ei Margaret Smith; Hickory Grove: E. o| M. Purs ley, Yorkville; E. C. Patter- A] son. Clover: Mary P. Strait. Ogden; ca M. E. Thomas. Filbert: M. S. Tomlin- t< son. Yorkville: M. E. Whitner, Beth- o) any: Martha L. Wallace. Yorkville; t< Mary O. Youngblood, Fort Mill. hi Class C. No. 4.?$21.20. S. C. Adams, Clover; Elizabeth J. \llen, Rock Hill; S. E. Ardrey, Rock Kill; Mary Alley. Rock Hill; S. E. \ycock, Sharon; M. J. Adkins, Tirzah; B. F. Aiken. Yorkville; S. C. Ayers, lock Hill; Sarah J. Haines, Sharon: VI. R. Black. Yorkville; Nancy T. Boyd, L'loVer; Nancy J. Hoyd, Clover; Sauli Ij. Bolln, Tirzah; Al. Huiles, Carp; Rebecca L. Black, Rock Hill; Sarah B. Harnett. Bethel; Sarah J. Barber, yorkville; Sallle Al. Blllue, Fort Mill; lane A. Boyd, Balloon; Sarih E. Bailes, Smyrna; Elizabeth Bunch, Port Mill; M. Al. Bayne, Fort Mill; Sarah L. Ca:on, Rock Hill; Jenny Chllders, Hick?ry Grove: Drucy Chllders, Hickory J rove; Lutitia Chllders, Hickory Irove; Ann E. Clinton, Yorkville; M. J. Caveney, Rock Hill; Hannah F. barter, Yorkville; J. E. Craigr. York cllle: Al. E. Carson, vorKvine; v. n.. Davidson, Clover- M. C. Davidson. Forkvilie; M. M. Duffle. Smiths: M. J. Drennon. Yorkvllle; Elizabeth Draffln. Flock Hill; M. R. Doggert, Ramuh: E. J. Duster, Yorkvllle; N. J. Donnun Rock Hill; E. J. Downs, Fort Mill; S. 2. Erwln, Filbert; Catherine Forbes, plover; E. A. Fewell, Yorkvllle; Dorcas L. Gaulden, Yorkvllle; Susan 3ordon, Rock Hill; M. A. Garvin, Sharon; E. N. Gardner, Yorkvllle; Lou J. Gourley, Sharon; M. M. Hope. Sharon; Martha J. Hall, Fort Mill; Ellen Hendricks, Rock Hill; Mary Jane Hough, Rock Hill; Jennie E. Hoover, Fort Mill; S. E. Hood. Sharon: Nanjy Harris, Rock Hill; Clementine Harlen, Smyrna; Jane E. Howe, McConlellsville; Sarah Harris, Lesslie; S. S. Harrison, Rock Hill; M. E. Howell, ftethol; M. E. Jowers, Rock Hill: V. W. Klllian, Rock Hill; Harriet L. KlmDrell, Fort Mill; Martha Lee, Rock Hill; Martha Lemon. Rock Hill: C'ath?rine Latham. Hoodtown; S. J. Llndray, McConnellsville; D. A. Lindsay. Forkville; Elizabeth McGraw, Rock Hill; H. E. McSwain. Yorkvllle; S. E. Moore. Rock Hill; Nancy J. Moses, Clover; Elizabeth Neal. Hickory Grove; \nn E. Neal, Rock Hill; Adeline Neey, Ogden; Sarah E. Neely, Tlrzah; Margaret j. Nlvens. Fort Mill; Mary >?. Nichols. Hickory Grove; M. A. Outaw. Rock Hill; Mary A. Pearson, OgJen; Mary Parrlsh, Rock Hill; Marjaret Pope, Rock Hill: Jane Pope, Rock Hill; Rebecca Price, Yorkvllle; Margaret Ramsey, Yorkvllle; M. E. Ramsey, Hickory Grove; N. Y. Rodf Isaiah CJadsden. respondent vs. the 7atawba Power company, appellant. Fire at Gastonia. The Southern railroad's freight .varehouse at CJastonia, N. C., was deitroyed by fire at about 1 o'clock last Sunday morning. The flames origllated in the ware room and had made jonsiderable headway before they were liscovered. At one time it looked as f the entire business section of the :own might be wiped out; but the oss was confined to the freight warelouse and a few loaded cars on the ildetracks. The loss is placed at $15,100. Windstorm. A heavy windstorm passed over the lortheastern portion of the country last Saturday morning through parts of lethel, King's Mountain and Broad liver townships, leaving lots of damage n its wake. The postofflce and school louse at Fiibert were thrown off their oundations, and badly shaken up. There was damage to outbuildings on he farms of Messrs. A. J. Parrott, resse Parrott, J. C. Lilly and others, ind numerous fruit trees were broken ind twisted. Many forest trees were ilso uprooted. The storm partook of lome of the characteristics of the hurricane and of some of the characterisics of the cyclone. Nobody appears o have been hurt, fork Republicans. Yorkvllie special of April 24, to Columbia State: The Republican contention of York county met here today. ?eorge A. Watts of Rock Hill, chairnan. and C. P. T. White, secretary. The meeting was held for the purpose >f electing delegates to the state and ongresslonal district conventions. The neeting was entirely harmonious and he following delegates were elected: Itate Convention?I. H. Norris, Yorkdlle: G. A. Watts, Rock Hill; A. W. ^ee, Hickory Grove, and A. D. Jamison, bullock's Creek. Alternates, C. P. T. Vhlte, Rock Hill: Allen White, Sr. i Torkville. District Convention?I. H. Morris, Yorkvllie; Allen White, Sr., forkvllle; G. A. Watts, Rock Hill; J. 2. Hall, Rock Hill; E. A. Byers, Sha- i on; A. D. Jamison, Bullock's Creek, rnd A. W. Lee, Hickory Grove. Alernates. S. M. Kennedy, Bullock's ?reek; O. L. Brown, Sharon; W. T. 1 -IcKnight, Yorkvllie, and Sam Barron, ' lock Hill. ! The Late J. A. Bell. Mr. J. A. Bell, a well known citizen : if the Clover neighborhood, died in the tate hospital in Columbia on April 22, ged TO years, 3 months and 24 days, nd was buried in the cemetery at 'lover last Friday. He had been in he hospital during the past few aonths, having been taken there on ecount of a mental derangement that ad developed a short time before and rhleh could not be treated to the best dvantage at home. Mr. Bell was born n Gaston county, N. C., December 28, 837. His mother died when he was ix months old. He was raised by his randmother. Mrs. Sarah Floyd. He olunteered at the commencement of he war and enlisted in company F, 'ifth S. C. V. He was twice wounded, nee In the thigh at Seven Pines and nee in the arm in one of the skirlishes around Richmond, October 7. 864. His arm was amputated. He as married to Miss Minerva J. Ilenn, June 11, 1868. They had only ne child, Mrs. G. W. Knox of Clover. ' loth these survive. He leaves three ' alf sisters. Misses Lenora and Maggie j, tell of Gastonia, N. C.. and Mrs. Katie t lorrow of Gaston county, N. C., and ? ne half brother, Mr. R. M. Bell of Ok- J thoma City, Okia. ? Monotony of proceedings in the ' 'ederal court was broken for a brief r loment Friday when Special Officer * [errick and Attorney C. P. Sims of ' partanburg. came dangerously near c ngaging in a personal encounter, says r le Greenville News. Had it not been r -,? ?H*? iirdsoncp nf fhe rmirf and .Tndere 1 iraw ley's tactful Insistence that tlie ' lenity of the court must be preserved, ie incident might have led to trouble. c : seems that Mr. Merrick, who had v een a witness with several others a gainst one of Mr. Sims clients, took t Kception to the lawyer's Insinuations, r nd at the conclusion 01 the latter's r igument before the jury told him so. r Ir. Sims said that he did not consid- tl r that he had done anything to apol- c gize for and refused to retract. Mr. b ierrick insisted, and then Mr. Sims c tiled out to the court that he, an at- v trney. was being threatened by an c licet*. Judge Rrawley cautioned both c > be careful and the matter was soon n rushed over. a MERE-MENTION. The syndicate of New York and London brokers who purchased and underwrote the J40.00o.000 40-year 4 per cent mortgage bonds recently issued by the Pennsylvania Railroad company, announced on Friday that the issue had been oversubscribed by Investors ten times over, or in other words that llicy could have disposed ^ of $400,000,000 of bonds... .Governor Hughes has called an extra session of the New York legislature to convene May 11. It is expected that the governor is going to make another effort to force the passage of the an- 1 tl-race track gambling law.... Yaqul ^ Indians attacked an armoured auto mobile in Sonora, Mexico, last week and killed three American miners and two Mexicans The supreme court of Illinois has handed down a decision declaring the local option law of that state to be constitutional. Three persons were killed by a cyclone in Cummin county, Neb., Friday The German bundes- * rath has a bill before it providing for $125,000 additional yearly subsidy to the North German Lloyd Steamship company for maintaining monthly sailings of vessels from German ports to Australia, China and Japan ' Work has been resumed on the HeCall's Ferry Power company's plant at Minqua, Pa., on the Susquehanna river. One thousand men will be cmployed. When completed this dam will be greater than the Assuan dam on the River Nile, and will develop 100,000 horse power Marcus J. i>UnnuruUKC, d lire mouiaukC agciu, has been arrested at Coney Island, X. Y., on a charge of grand larceny. 1 It Is alleged that Northbrooke sold $2,000,000 of fraudulent Are Insurance policies Thos. F. Ryan, the financier, told the New York grand jury investigating the Metropolitan Street Railway company's affairs, that prior to 1885 not a dollar had been J paid for 95 pet cent of the capital stock of the railroads of this country. All but about 5 per cent tvas water. British and Indian forces are facing another uprising of fanuticat tribes in the vicinity of Peshaur, India Robert Parker, president of the Remington bank at Rensselaer, Ind., has been convicted of embez- ? zlement on six Indictments, and sen- ^ tenced to pay hues of double his embezzlements and serve two to fourteen years in psison The White Star Steamship company announces the building of two ships, the length of which will be 8*0 feet, fifty feet longer than the Lusltania, and will have a carrying capacity of 50,000 tons, or 1,700 carloads of thirty tons each Wallace H. Ham, until four years ago Xew England manager for the American Surety company, ? treasurer of St. Paul's Episcopal church of Boston and custodian of funds for St. Luke's Home for Convalescents, died in prison last week where he was serving a term of fifteen years The damage done by the Hoods in Texas last week are es- j timated to ht.ve been more than $2,000,000. Immense areas of cotton and corn will have to be replanted. V. KJulvj Wellington Kee, a Chinaman of Shanghai, has been elected editor-in-chief of the Columbian Spectator, the dally paper pub- > j lished by Columbia university, New ^ York.-... .The Liquor Dealers' association of New York city is making a war on dives and disreputable resorts ' ? * 1 4 ?1 * - - V?.. Mn/ttnlvt/v f/? #it rnloh ill iriiti uny uy 1CIU01115 iv lutiiaou them with liquors Judge Kohlsatt in Chicago last week enjoined five express companies from issuing franks, as infringing the interstate commerce law..Louis Strang, driving an Italian car, won an auto- j mobile road race at Brlarcllffe, N. Y., Friday, in which he covered a distance of 259.2 miles in 5 hours, 14 minutes and 13 1-5 seconds... .The cotton and stock brokerage firm of T. A. Mclntyre & Co., of New York, supposedly one of the strongest firms doing business in Wall street, was fore- < ed to suspend operations last Friday. The sailors of the Atlantic fleet to the number of 3,300 were given an automobile ride at Los Angeles, Cal., last Friday. Five hundred automobiles were used........Secretary of War Taft will leave Washington on Thursday for Panama, where he goes to straighten out the controversy between Colombia and Panama as to the boundary lines, and some friction 1 among the canal administration officials Robert Ingrls, a college student, died in a Yonkers, N. Y., hospital on Friday after surviving a knife stab in the heart for nineteen days. Surgeons took several stitches in the heart between beats in an ef- 4l fort to save his life All the ship building yards of Great Britain are to be shut down for an indefinite period in an effort to coerce striking laborers in a few of the yards Three Fall River, Mass., cotton mills, with combined capital of 32,800,000, have declared dividends for the quarter ending March 31st, amounting to $46,000 Prairie fires in South Dakota last week swept over seven counties, doing damage to the amount of $100,000 Fred Herbst fatal- f ly shot his sweetheart at West AUls, Wis., Saturday because she refused to marry him, and then committed suicide by shooting out his brains..,,.. With a laugh at his wife attempting to stop him, Eugene Munsell, a prominent New York hardware man, ^ committed suicide last Saturday by jumping from a seventh floor window -* - ?? T *?muA A #_ oi i.ne vaiiuyvn. uuici a no Atlantic fleet is now at Santa Barbara Cal., for a stay of five days... .A revolution has broken out in Santiago province of the Argentine Republic and civil authorities have been forced to flee for their lives.... In a police raid in Chicago on Saturday more than 100 thieves, pickpockets, footpads and vagrants were arrested.... The United States senate on Saturday t after a bitter debate, killed the amendment to the naval appropriations bill providing for four battleships.... The Due de Chatilnes, who married Miss Theodora Shonts of New York, on February 16th last, died suddenly in a Paris hotel Thurs- I day night probably as a result of morphine poisoning United States Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, in an address at Philadelphia on Saturday night declared that there should be a revision of the protective tariff and that the work should be done by "men wise enough to distinguish between revision and ruin."...., ,In a railroad collision near Malteza, Mexico, Friday, twenty-eight persons were killed and fifteen wounded The 1200 pupils of the Edward Jemer public school of Chicago, were panic stricken and fled from the building Friday, on hearing that "Black Hand" men had planted a bomb under the juilding. Many of the children were njured Hugh M. Watson, a medical student of Charlotte, N. C? ivas killed in Chicago on Saturday by ?r? fin In Ha tiro a wnrlf I n 0* A lis way through a medical school, ind was employed as an "extra" when le fell in front of a train with fatal esults ? Greenville, April 27: The cotton nills in Greenville, Anderson and 3ickens counties were not represened at the meeting held in Spartan)urg Saturday when it was intimated hat most of the mills in this and the . idjoining states had agreed to sus- I lend operation on July 1st. As a natter of fact, the mills in Greenville lo not intend to suspend at any time. Tor the past three months many naking fine goods and yarns have >een running on reduced time. That s, they have decided to cut their pro- t luction 25 per cent and this agreenent will continue for the next three nonths. What is to be done then has lot yet been discussed, but several nanufacturers. when questioned tolay. said that they could not coneive of any conditions arising that vould lead to such a drastic measure s shutting down their plants. They lelieve that with a reduction of 25 ier cent in output they will be able to un along all right until there is a eactlon for the better. A number of he Greenville mills have received cirulars telling them of the Spurtanurg meeting and asking them to ome into the agreement. The Greenille mills, except two small plants A losed several months ago, will deline to shut down. Several of the ^ tills in this territory are sold ahead nd are still running full time.