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ESTABLISHED JLN 1* THE BRIDE LAW ils Declared Constitutional by tbe Supreme Court DECISION SWEEPING Id Its Effects. Tbe Only Part of the Anti-Dispensary Law Rejected by tbe Court is t?e Amendment In Reference to tbe , School Food. Tbe Brloe law is constitutional. ? Saob Is the decision of the State su preme court. The dispensaries kept -open by injunction must be closed ?fc. hereafter and prohibition will prevail Ktrfall of the northwest portion of the ?State, from Elgefield to the North ?Carolina line, except ia Abbeville c jun ftty, where no election has been held. V Tne oases argued before the supreme fflpourt last Monday were decided Fri P^day and the court decrees that the law is constitutional with one escep* tion, and that may be eliminated with jk-sut affecting the law Itself. The excep f tion. singular to relate, is the "rider" which was put on the Brice bill by >?; the dispensary people, the clause which provides, that counties voting out the dispensary shall have no participation in the surplus school fund accumula ted from dispensary profits. The State of South Carolina, in the supreme conrt, November term, ^1905: W. W. Murph, petltiioner, against B. G. Landurm et al., respondents. Louis J3. Cox, petitioner, against ?James Hodges et al., respondents. ? Joseph W. Coward, petitioner, a .gainst J. H. Black well et al., respon dents, John A Weir, petitioner against F. P. Walker et al, respondents. Robert E. L'gon, petitioner, ?against F. H. Burriss et al., respon dent. Flckens County, petitioner, against ' A. W. Jones, as comptroller general, -respondent. Oconee County, petitioner, against A. W, Jones, asupomptrolles general, jrespqndent. Adam L. Anil, pexiuuu^Tp^against A. W. Jones, as comptroller general, respondent. In each of these cases brought in the original jurisdiction of this court the qusstion is raised as to the con stitutionality of the act commonly knowi as the Brice. act, approved ZFeb. 25,1904 amending section 7 of the general dispensary law, approved March 6, 1896. After careful consideration this court is of the opinion that said act is not unconstitutional on any of the grounds alleged except in so far as said Brice aot declares that "any county voting out a 'dispensary shall not thereafter receive any part of the ?surplus that may remain of the dis pensary school funds after the defi ciencies in t : e various county tchool funds have beea made up as provided by law." While the court considers this provision uncon ?stitutlonal, the court is of the opin ion that it i3 separable from the re mainder of the act and that said act stands as constitutional with this provision ^treated as striken out. This conclusion renders it necess ary to set aside the temporary injunc tion granted in tne first five above entitled cases restraining the closing of the dispensaries therein mentioned and also that the temporary inj ace tion granted in the remaining three above entitled cases restraining the comptroller general from drawing his official warrant for the Several sums arising from tbe surplus of the dis pensary fund as therein mentioned be dissolved and the comptroller general left free to disburse said fund as it would have been disbursed before the enactment of the said Brice act, and it is so adjudged. The reason for these conclusiions will be stated in an opinion hereafter to be filed. Y. J. Pope, C. J., Eugene B. Gary, A. J., . Ira B. Jones, A* J., C. A. Woods- A. J. The action of the court means that the dispensaries must be and must re main closed in Greenville, Spartan burg, Anderson, Laurens, Union, Pickens, Newberry, Cherokee, Horry, Oaonee, Darlington, Marlon, York, Lancaster, Eigefield and Saluda counties. Greenwood and Marlboro have never had dispensaries. Wil llamsburg voted t*>e dispensaiies out, but the election was illegal and tbe result was so declared. Thus 19 of 41 counties have already deolared against the dispensary sys tem and in 20 others there lias been no election. Two counties ha ve stood "by the dispensary, Florence and Fair fit id. I a several others tbu people want elections but are beiag kept from an expression of their views. Those counties which now have dis pensaries must contribute of their school fund to the counties it whioh there are no dispensaries unless an en tirely new ByqfAm b? enacted. Cheated the U allows.. Booker Glass, a negro confined in Selma, Ala., for the murder c-f K. E. Allen, a young white man, and senten ced to hang January 19th, cheated the gallows in a daring dash for liber ty Tuesday, in which he was shot to eath by deputies. The negro filed ff his manacles with a shoe iron and ried to wrest a revolver from a guard, wo men were required to overpower he negro and one deputy shot him at he risk of the other's life. The dead egro was named for Booker Wash gton. Tin dinner plates were found d over his heart when the body rained. - v 23 Berkeley Building-_ INMATES B?iU?iD. seventeen persons GO down in A. deep pit Twelve Residences Undermined by / Clay Diggers in Making Brick. On Tuesday night of last week at Haversbraw, N. Y., seventeen per sons.were missing and are believed to have gone to their death when thir teen bouses on Bcckland street top pled over into a pit sixty feet deep which had been cut by clay diggers in connection with the brick-making Industry there. Twelve of the per sons missing were occupants of the fallen houses, five were among the rescuers who went to the aid of neighbors, after the first bouse fell and were carried down when the 12 other bouses went crashing over the precipice. The wreckage quickly caught fire and tjhose who were in the mass were either crashed or burned to death. Tuesday night there was grave fear of another cave In along the sime street and the occupants of seven or eight houses have moved 1 away. Others are keeping on all night vigil, ready to alarm their neighbors in case of Impending danger. The missing Tuesday night, all of whom are believed to be dead, are as follows. Occupants of houses, Harri? Nel son, a merchant; Benjamin Nelson, his son; Mrs. Silverman and young son, Charles Cohen and wife, John B. Beauohamp, A Frovltch and daugh ter, Abraham Dias; in the rescuing an all night vigil, ready to alarm are, Barbley MsGovern, Mrs. M. Jos eph Dailey, Bev. Mr. Alden, a Jewish rabbi. The landslide which carried away the 13 houses was caused by the fall ing in of the bank thder which the excavators of the" brick manufactur ers bad been working for a nnmber of years. When the breakage occurred in the long line of land which formed the ragged edge of Bodklaod Street, one house toppled over into the pit with all who were living within lbs walls. The other occupants of the booses pre pared to leave homes in the face of a blinding snowstorm A number of p?ople who lived) nearby rushed to their aid and were assisting them in getting out when 12 more bouses went down carrying with them not only the families wno occupied them, but also several of those who had gone to their assistance. 0 wturned stoves set fire to the buildings and firemen came from miles arouad but when the landslide occurred lb broke the waber main, bbus cutting off the enbire supply. Tuesday nighb relatives and friends of those buried beneath the ruins are still watching, as they haye been all day, for the bodies of the dead to be brought out. OTJTBaGS IN ??MTEB. White Men Committs a Crime That Calls for Lynching. A dispatch from Sumter to bhe News ana Courier says the facts in a disgraceful affair that occurred in the cotton mill village on Wednesday be came known Thursday, Two white men who have bean working in tht mill at times gob drunk and while in that condition went to the borne of Mr. J )hn Scott and made a determin ed effort bo commib a criminal assaulb on a negro girl about 15 years old. who was employed by Mr. Scott as a nurse. Mr. Scobt and all the other adult members of bis family were ab work in bbe mill ab bbe bime, and they were under the impression that bhey could accomplish bheir heinous crime un molested. They went into the house and looked the doors, bub the girl could not be made to yield by threats and when bhey attempted bo use force she screamed so loudly that the men became frightened and ran off. The girl went at once to the mill and reported the affair to Mr. Scobb. The girl's parenbs, who are respeo babie negroes, wenb before Magistrate Harby and bad a warrant Issued for the men, but they have left town and have not been apprehended yet. The crime was premeditaied, for they tried to induce another young man to go with bhem an assist in the assault on the girl. This is a case that calls for severe punishment, and if the men are not captured soon a reward should be offered for \heir arrest. Mortf :rers Hang. Last Friday morning Jenkins Bur rows and Arbhur Williams, two negro murderers, were hung ab Kingsbree. The negroes were convicted of bhe horrible murder of Mr. Julian Wilson on the 13 of last October. It will be remembered that Mr. Wilson was In the store, where he was employed as manager alone, having rooms on the second floor. One of the negroes en tered through the back door, crept up behind him and brained him with a heav ? wooden prop used under the axle of wagons when greasing the wheels. The bloody wood was found in the yard the following day. Both the negroes were convicted on bbe strongesb possible evidence, bhere having been no eyewibnesses, bub maintained to bhe end that they did not commit the crime. Both: said, however, just before going bo bhe gal lows, that they were ready to die. Many killed. A cablegram from Tokio, Japan, says that on the 4bh instant an ex plosion set tire to a mine at Aklta, on bbe main island of Japan, and that 101 persons lest their lives. MAAT OFHCfiS VACANT. I The General Assembly Will Fill Im portsat Places. More elections will be held this rear by the general assembly than usual. There are vacancies occurring in six of the judicial circuits and the ohiel justice of the supreme court is to be elected. Of course much Interest will centre in the election of the three dispensary directors and the State llbarian is also to be elected. There are two, vacancies on the board of penitentiary directors. j New members must be elected on j the boards of trustees of South Caro lina college, Clemson, Winthrop, the Citadel and the State colored college, at Orangeburg. Chief Justice Y. J. Pops'a term ex plres this year and a successor must be chosen to serve eight years. Justice Pope is filling an unexplred term. The judges of the circuit courts whose terms empire and their respective cir cuits are: C. G. Dantzler first; James Aldrioh, second; R. O. Purdy, third; R C. Watts, fourth; G. W. Gage, six th aud J. 0. Elugh, eighth. These judges serve for four years each. The term of State Commissioner W. O. Tatum emires, and also the term of chairman of the bond of dispensary directors, H. H Evans. The terms of the two directors, John Bell Towill and L. W. Boykin, also expire. The term is two years. Successors to J. A. Wingo and D. D. Peurifoy of the board of peniten tiary must be elected to serve two years each. The State librarian must be chosen for a term of two years, Miss LaBorde being the Incumbent. The college trustees whose terms expire this year follow, all being elec ted for six years each: ScUth Carolina College?W. T. 0. Bates, J. Q. DaviR, August Kohn. Clemson?W. D. Evans, A. T. Smy the, L. A. Sease. Winthrop?E. S. Joynes, W. J. Roddey, A. M. Lee. Citadel?J. J. Lucas, E. M. Blvthe, State Colored College?W. R. Low man, D. J. Bradbam. There are plenty of candidates out for tbe varicui offices and there will be lots of log rolling before next Tues day or Wednesday, when the lucky ones will get the plums. Should bn Punished. ; ' A dispatch from Gaffaey to The State says it seems that Cherokee must appear before the public in a bad light. The last horror here 1b the arrest of a white man attempting to criminally rssault a negro woman, and failing in the attempt shooting her. The charge is that Scruggs stole a Winchester rifle at the Cowpens bat tle-ground on Saturday and came back by Cowpens station, where he bought some cartridges. He walked on back towards town, coming by Thlokety, where he attempted to buy some long cartridges A negro woman, about 24 years old, Lois Glover, passed and Scruggs followed her for two miles., Scruggs says that he made* a proposal to her when she cursed him and drew a pistol from her stook'ng and pointed it at him, when he loaded his gun and shot her. She lay in the road for some time before she was four ^ and carried to her home. The authorities were notified and from the description giv en Scruggs was arrested. He was carried before his victim, who identi fied him. Bold Kobbcry. A dispatch to Tne State from Greenville says Ed Fowler, a trusted driver or the Batesyille Manufactur ing company, was held up and robbed of 826.20 by two unknown white men in Court street near the corner of Court and Falls street Friday after noon about 2 ^o'clock. Fowler had just rcciived a quanthy of goods at Laurens depot, and was on his way with his four-horse team to the Southern freight depot, where he was to get other merchandise to complete his load, when he was approached by two unknown white man, about 25 years of age, who engaged him In con versation for a moment, after which they seized him and beneath the white cmvas cover of his wagon took from his pockets the amount of money named, all he carried, whioh belonged to the Batesville mill. Found Dead. At Charleston L. P. Foucbe, of Anderson, a pharmacy student of the South Carolina Medieal college, was found wounded on Coming street at an early hour Friday morning. He bad been shot In tbe stomach, and a friend, L. S. Maxwell, who was with him, was taken into custody by the police, while Fouche was sent to the Roper Hospital. An investegation seemed to establish the fact Friday that Fouche had shot himself proba bly changing his pistol from his pistol from his coat pocket to his hip pocket The wound is not serious and the young man will doubtless recover. Ohild Burned. Melton Jamison, a aegro living on Mr. Lern Berry's place near Swansea, lost a child Taureday from a severe burn. The child's clothing in some way caught fire and at least one half the skin on its entire body and extrem ities was burned, the cuticle peeling off. The child was 21 months old and did not seeem to suffer any pain. It lived about 18 hours after being burn ed. Alleged ?b8?h?1ii. Charles Zimmerman, who shot and instantly killed Jim Stevens just across the Saluda line in Edgefield county Wednesday night, was lodged in jail there tills eveniDg for safe keep ing by Messrs.~W. D. and J. G. Pad gett. Stevens, it is said, was sitting in his home and was shot by Zimmer man through an open window. Both parties are negroes. s. c, WJ5D:ffj2SL>A5r, ja: HAVE MET AGAIN. Both Branches of the Legisla ture Convened Tuesday. WHAT HAS BEEN DONE la the House and the Senate Since the Session Began in the Way of Legislation. Governor Hev ward's Messsge Read in Both Houses. i The General Assembly of South Carolina met in annual session on Tuesday of last week. The whole day was taken up In organizing and bearing the Governor's message read. The message is a long document, and like all State papers prepared by Gov. Hey ward, is clear and to the point. The most important subject it treats Is the dispensary. The part ot the message beiring on this subject is printed in another column. THE HOUSE. v In the House ot Representatives Clerk Tom C. Hamer called the roll and announced that a quorum was present, and Speaker M. L. Smith called upon the Rev. Mr. Pratt to open the proceedings with prayer. Speaker Smith made a brief open ing address, and said he would offer no suggestions as to what ought to be done. The members are fresh from the people and know what they want, but he fell that If the same broad conservatism and liberality charac terized the action of the members that nothing -but success would crown the work of the General As sembly. Announcements were then made that several newly elected members were present ready to be sworn in. The new members sworn fn Tuesday are: E Marlon Ruoker, of Anderson. Wm. Anderson, of Cherokee. Arnoldus Vander Horst, of Char leston. Mr. Dobbs's election has not yet been declared, and as soon as the election Is declared he will take the oath. - Messrs. Whaley, Doar and D. 0. Herbert were appointed to notify the Governor that/ the House had organ ized and was ready to receive any communications. Messages were exchanged between the Senate and House that each was ready for work. , The annual message of Governor Hey ward was read, having been pre sented by Private Secretary Norment. Tne members gave careful attention to the reading. There were only two new measures introduced the first day. Both of the new bills came from.Mr. Toole, of Aiken county. r The ?rst was a bill to restrict the number of hours of labor In cotton mills to ten hours, Instead of eleven, as is the law at present. Mr. Toole introduced a similar bill last year, but it was killed. Mr. Toole's second bill was to re duce the passenger rate in this State to two and a half cents per mile. It is now three cents per mile on pas senger trains, with no second class, which arrangement was adopted by way of compromise. The House adjourned, after about an hour's session, to meet on Wednes day at eleven o'clock. The house of representatives got down to business Wednesday and at tacked the calendar with an evident desire to kill everything that came in sight. Six bills were tabled and with drawn by their authors, there were recommitted, three had the enacting clause stricked out, the parliamentary way of saying that they were "kilt" and two were also killed by being indefinitely postponed. Speaker Smith announced the ap pointment of Mr. E. M. Rucker, Jr., as a member of the committee on ways and means, and stated that Mr. Jno. G. Richards, Jr., would be the chair man of that committee. The following executive appointments were an nounced by the speaker: Journal Clerk?Christie Benet. Bill Clerk?W. F. Norton. Keeper of the speaker's Room? James N. Pearman. Mail Clerk?John Sharpe. Doorkeepers?R. R. O wings, Ben Hoover, ? McKinney. Pages?James H. Tompkins, Earle Moffett, William Martin, John B. Pattrlok. Laborers?William Long, Henry Gllliam, George Edwards,'Caleb Bra cy, Robert Chisolm. After a short debate the house post poned indefinitely the bill presented by Mr. Ardrey to sell the State farms. The vote was 78 to 39. In the course of the debate Mr. Banks of Orange burg called attention to the fact that 25,000 bushels of corn were raised on these farms last year. Mr. J. B. Watson's bill suggesting an Increase in the length of terms of circuit judges was killed. The bill merely provided that the people be given the opportunity to vote on this question. Capt. Hamel's bill proposing that execution of criminals be conducted within the penitentiary walls was killed. Capt. Hamel explained that the bill was introduced in the inter ests of humanity. Mr. LaFftte spoke on his bill "to make cursing and abusing any one of another an assault and providing pun ishment therefor." Mr. LaFitte ex _ tfAUBir 17? 1906. plained the necessity of having such a law to prevent people from being insulted on the highway and then pro vided for resenting it. The members did not see it his way and killed the bill. In the House on Thursday there were eight bills given favorable con* sideratlon, passed second reading and ordered to third reading. They were Mr. Calllson's, \ relating to public guardians, amending section 2688 of the code; Mr. Sanders' bill providing for inspection ^f oils; Mr. D. O. Her bert's to authorize mayors and intend ants to designate and detail policemen to perform duties of health officers; Mr. LaFitte's to give magistrates jur isdiction in case of theft of live stock if value of stolen property does not exceed $20; Mr. Sanders' bill against "bucket shops;" Mr. M. W. Walker's to protect boarding housekeepers; Mr. Lsban Mauldin's to require county au ditors to administer oach to persons making return of property for taxa tion Mr. Prince's bill to authorize S. M. Orr, H. H. Watklns and others to dam the Savannah river at Cherokee shoals. Mr. Sanders' bill against "bucket shops" makes a misdemeanor "the keeping any room or place where con tracts are made for the future delivery of any stocks, bonds, cotton, grain, meats, or any other animal, mineral, or vegetable product of any kind with out the seller being the owner of the stock, bond, cotton, grain, or other article contracted to be sold, and with out any intention on the part of-either the^ seller to deliver of the buyer re ceiving the same." THE SENATE. The Senate was called to order by Lieutenant Governor Sloan, who made a short address after prayer by the Chaplain, Be v. W. I. Herbert. Former Senator Hydrick, who has been made a Judge, Is succeeded by Mr. H B. Carlisle as Senator ? from Spartanburg. He was duly sworn in and was appointed to all those com mittees on which his predecessor ?served. A committee, consisting of Senators Manning, Earle and Raysor, was ap pointed to inform the Governor that the Senate was ready for business and to receive any communication he might see fit to make. It was expected that the bill giving the dispensary investigating commit tee further powers would be ^intro duced Tuesday, but Chairman Hay said there had been some mistake in enrolling It, and that it would likely be introduced later. The committee met Tuesday after noon to perfect the bill. In general terms it will be similar to the original resolution, except that it will be in the form of an Act, and the phrase ology will be so constricted as to give the committee definite and positive authority to compel attendance of those summoned as witnesses, punish for contempt, etc., and in short to give the committee those powers, for the lack of which the investigation has been much hampered. The following appointments were announced bef ire adjournment: G. E Moore, Bbnea Path, Journal clerk; A. Mr-Deal Columbia, bill clerk; N. O. Ply es, Columbia, postal clerk; Andrew Crawford, Jr., Columbia, clerk to the pre. dent; E. V. Cullum, Jr., Bates burg; and W. D. Johnson, of Alken, pages, and the same laborers who served last year. There is a vacancy in the place of assistant clerk. Gen. Hemphill will announce that appoint ment Wednesday, and the successful man will likely be Mr. W. W. Mann, of St. George. The Governor's Message was read and with that the business of the day was completed. Only ono bill was Introduced, that being by Senator Bates to amend Section 3,057 cf Volume I of the Civil Code. It has reference to assignees' Hens, The business of the senate Wednes day was not lengthly. There was only one discussion while the calendar was being read. Toe report of the dispen sary committee was made. The two third reading bills to pun ish theft of car brasses and to re quire toilets at railway stations were read. The coco-cola bill was re-commlted and there was, an effort to have Sen ator W. E. Johnson's lockout bill made a special order for Wednesday but this failed. Senator Hood offered an amendment relating to a change in the code regarding wills but after - a legal discussion this was killed. A committee was appointed in con nection with the presentation of the portraits given by Capt. T. G. White Oi Beaufort. The day set is February 1st and the committee consist of Sen ators Chrlstensen, Brice and War ren. A resolution was passed to investi gate what elections are necessary to be held this year. President Sloan read a letter from Mr. E. S. Dingle, formerly assistant clerk, who has resigned. Resolutions were passed accepting it and Mr. M. M. Mann was appointed to succeed Mr. Dingle. The dispensary committee's report and hill were introduced by Senator Chrlstensen. In the Senate on Thursday a bill to give the railroad commissioners more power over depots was given third reading, aud a bill to extend protection over quail and partridges until 1910 received second reading. Several Dills were recommitted, a mong them one, regarding railroad rates and two relating to the kinship cf supreme court justices and circuit court judges with reference to their Bitting in cases. Mangled, by Train. At Erie, Pa., Frank Hlneman and John Marast, employees of a local malt house, were instantly .killed at German street crossing of the Lake Shore railroad Wednesday morning. Toe men stepped from one track to another in front of a passenger train. Their bodies were horribly mangled. WOMEN WANTED, j Granice City IU , Has To Many Old Bachelors. "God give us menl" cried Poet Holland in lofty vein; but what Gran ite Olty wants is women. In this flourishing Illinois town which had a population of 6,700 ac cording to the census of . 1900, and which now claims 10,000, there are ten men to each woman. The. majority of these men are bachelors?particularly the business and professional men?and as a con sequence more than half of the hous es in Granite Oity are rooming and boarding houses. While there has been no formal movement to induce an influx of wo men the marriageable men of the town would be muoh obliged, to say the least, if desirable members of the fair sex would place themselves with in reaching distance. The young bachelors of the town are so busy making money?and there Is hardly a one of them who does not rake in from 85 to 810 a day?that they have no time to go courting at a distance; yet they would prove them selvei the marryingest lot of men in tha country if they only had aohanoe. Over at Alton there is Mayor Beall, the friend uf R3QS3velt, who is preach ing against race suicide as bard as he knows how; and as the echoes of his exhortations reach the ears of the lonesome young bachelors at Gran ite Oity they are as sad as sad can be. Even some of the city officials can not get wives. They are Oity Attor ney Maurice Sullivan and Oity Olerk George Furnish, for example. Ex- mayor J. B. Judd was forced to go out of office last spring still unwed ded, though not unwilling. THE WAGES OF SIN. A, Man and Woman Commit Suicide in Raleigh. A special dispatch from Raleigh, N. O., says a sensational double suicide Was discovered there Monday after noon, in which a man of some promi nence and well know and a woman of easy vlrture figured. The man was William H. Hood, who for a number of years was deputy register of deeds of this city and county and whose fa ther was register of deeds until his death, about five years ago. The wo man'was a resident of "East Raleigh and was known among her associates as "Violet." She had been in Raleigh but a few months and her family namo has not yet been definitely learned. Mr. Hood, who held a position with the leading department store i n?, had been drinking heavily for the last few days. Oo Saturday night he and the girl, who was apparently between 20 and 25 years old, went to the house of and old colored woman. This af ternoon the bodies of tbe two were found there and nine empty lauda num vials revealed the means used by the suicides. Hood left an invalid widow and a ohild. It is stated that the widow would not permit his body to be tak en to his home after she learned the circumstances of the suicide. Hood was a man who had many friends here and in other states, and dissipa tion seems to have been the sole cause of his ruin and death. Three months ago he was treated in an institution for the drink habit. Horrib'e Butchery A dispatch from Titles, Caucasia says nearly 350 persons were killed or injured in the atttck made by Ccs sacks on the Armenian seminary I there, following the throwing of two j bombs from that institution at a pas I ing patrol. Four Cossacks were woun ded and a boy killed by the explosion of the bombs. The artillery was ?"m moned and the seminary surr nded and shelled. The building ? >urs*i "oto flam83and the oombi uu cartri dges stored therein exploded. Thirty three parsons perished during the conflagi. tion, while 300 were injured by tire or wounded by the shells. Tue troops subsquently/, shelled another Armenian house where bombs and weapons were bidden and killed eight revolutionists. Sensation of Falling. The sensation of falling down a precipice is cue that few persons have bad an opportunity of recording. Prof. Albert Helm, well known geol ogist, has been able to describe the experience to the Swiss-Alpine Club, and relates that he was not troubled in breathing and felt none of the par alyzing terror that so often over whelms victims of sudden catastrophe. He felt perfeot tranquillty, though remarkably quickened mental activi ty. Old memories were reviewed and then his ears were filled with soft musical sounds, and consciousness was lost as the ground was struck. There was no pain nor sensation of shock. Want the Job* Candidates for places on the dispen sary board are looming up. It Is said that H. H. Evans, Chairman of tbe Board, will have no opposition. The candidates for the other are: Maj. John Black, some time ago shipping clerk at the dispensary; Mr. J. M. Rawlinson, a member of the house from Rlchland county; Mr. R. Fulton Dukes, member of the house from Or angeburg county and a son of a form er director of the dispensary; Mr. J. B. Wylle of Chester, who offered for this place once before. Mr. To will and Mr. Boykin will not stand for re election. Arrested. J. R. Peden, an alleged agent of South Carolina cotton mills, was ar rested in Knoxville, Tenn., on Tues for trying to entice laborers to come to South Carolina. He is said to be representing 12 mills. ? lfU.00 PER ANNUM. LOST HIS LIFE. A Brave Fireman's Sacrifice in Effort to save Woman. A FATAL HOTEL FIRE. Many Leaped to Th?ir Death. Egbt Persons Killed, and a Numb<r In jured While Fleeing From- the West Hotel la City of Minneapolis. At Minneapolis, Minn., eight per sons dead uf suffocation or of injuries sustained in leaping from a "firs proof" hotel building, a score of per sons Injured and a building damaged 825,000 by Are, smoke .and water in an epitome of the revised ravages caused by a disaster which befell the West hotel, H>nnepln avenue and Fifth street, Wednesday, throwing seven huadrerl guests and employes Into a panic The dead: Fire Captain John Berwin, fell front the fourth floor to the Fifth street sidewalk wnile attempting to save a wo man's life. W. G. Nickels, Minneapolis, suffo cated in his room on sixth floor. Thomas Summerville, Sprin er field, Mass., salesman for Atkins & Co., suffjcated in his room on sixth floor. : < J. E. Wolfe, Northwestern agent for Sperry & Alexander company of New York, suffocated in room. Clinton B. Lamme, New York, travelling man; suffocated in his room. J. B. Peisniger, New York, travel ing man, jumped from the seventti story. ? Mrs. M. E. Hodges, Minneapolis. Jumped from seventh story, Wm. Black, New Yoik, suffocated in room. The fire was emfined to the eleva tor shaft and the two top floors in one corner of the building, but a dense smcke pervaded everywhere and the wild exoitement which followed the first alarm hurried people into halls and out on window ledges in a frantic attempt to save themselves, The Ire started in a packing room on first fioor near the elevator. The wood in the elevator shaft caught fire and burned like tinder. A sheet of flame 29 feet wide mounted the shaft to the seventh story, carrying an immense volvme of smoke which frightened tbe guests out of their senses and started a panic. The smoke spread to most all parts of the hotel, causing many persons to lose their way in the con fusion. Five persons were found suf focated in their rooms after the fire was out. Capt. John Berwin of a hook and ladder company, having broken open a window on the seventh fioor which he had reached by means of a soaling ladder; stumbled onto tbe body of Mrs. Emeline Barlow, an aged women He strapped the unconscious form to his back and started down the ladder, when midway between the seventh and sixth stories, the strap broke. Bending over to balance the body for a moment, be then leaned at the risk of his life, and threw the woman to , ward a projecting ledge on the floor below. Apparently being revived by the fresh air or by the shock, the aged woman grasped the projection and held on. Later she was rescued. But in throwing the woman to sarety, Ca'->t. Berwin lost his balance and fell to che pavement. He *as Instantly killed. J. E. Wolfe, 50 years old, traveUng representative for Sperry & Alexan der, wholesale hardware merchants of New York, met a horrible death. He was burned in bis room and the con dition of the furniture indicated that he had fought the flames until the last. All the clothing had been torn from the bed and it was apoarent that the man bad sought to smother the flames which eventually consumed him. Tae.excltement was so intense that J. B. Peisniger of N iw York and Mrs. ML. E. Hodges of Minneapolis, who were on window ledges near an alley, not being encouraged by the corwd in Fifth street, leaped from the seventh door to the pavement. Pelsiiger's clothes caught tire and be tumbled, burning, througa the air. He struck a railing near the Hennepin avenue side of the hotel and was cut in two. There were many thrilling rescues from the top floor. Dreaded Spotted Fever. A dispatch from Newport, B. I. says nearly all of 1,500 apprentices at the naval training station live in con stant dread that the fatal spotted fever may strike anyone of them next one boy having already developed in sanity and has been removed to the insane asylum at Washington. Deaths of J. F. Rjlfe, of Nebraska, Harr? Gale Bootenburg, of tibononma, Vir ginia, makes seven fatalities so far out of eleven cases, which, with the death of Frederick Friend, of Nash ville, 111., is expected any moment. This morning preparations began for double fumigation of former Spanish cruiser Kama Mercedes. The officers, are nodded with letters from parents asking abouo the health of their boy3. Family Barned to Death. Several persons, comprising an en tire family, were bumed to death in a fire which destroyed the home of!< Isaac Syler, at Pieasant, Juniata coun ty, Wednesday morning. The dead are)Mr. Syler his,daughter, Mrs. Peter Martin and the latter's five chili dren. .