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PUBLISHED T?RBE TD Five German Aeronauts Fall a Thousand Feet to a Horrible Fate. A BALLOON COLLAPSES The Accidental Explosion of a DM* gible Air Ship's Benzine Tank Wrecks the Gas Bag and the Col lapsed Balloon and Those In It Hurled to Death. Palling through space a distance of nearly 1,000 feet, Oscar Erbsloeh, noted aeronaut and inventor, winner of the international balloon race held at St. Louis, Mo., in 1907, and one of the most promising of Ger man erperientmers in aerial flight, and four companions, were dashed to death in a field near Opladen Prussia, Wednesday. The others killed were: Herr Toelle, a manufacturer of Barmen; Engineers Poehhoeppe and Kran:: and Motorman Spicke. , Only peasants saw the tragic end ing of the flight of the dirigible .bal loon Erbsloeh. which, after a series of accidents since its construction a year ago, had recently been refitted for passenger service. They had ob served the balloon a short time be fore as it swung gracefully in the air. Soon it disappeared in the fog, rand shortly a loud explosion was heard and a crumbled mass fell like a plummet to the earth. So terrific was the force of the I fall that the gondola was smashed to splinters, the motor .huxied deepJ in the sod, while the five men were crushed and torn almost beyond rec-j ognition. Experts who-examined the wreck age declared that- the benzine tank had bursted. The rubber envelope, .had ?been torn to shreds and the bow collapsed. Nearby was found a *sad| memento of the disastrous trip. It was a leaf from the note book of Engineer Hoeppe, making, a I short record of the journey. There were only a few records: I "Departed Hall 9.04; ascend air 9.10; thick fog northward. Can not see earth; sun breaks through; I heavy flog beneath us. Elevating planes sloped downwards; altitude 280 metres (916 feet) at 9.14." | This is the sole record of the last voyage of Erbsloeh, the details of w.hich can not be learned owing to the death of all the occupants of the car. Peasants near the scene I. of the catastrophe say that they heard the propellers working. They fired revolvers in order to indicate to the aeronauts, then hidden in the fog, that they were in the neighbor hood of houses. Then the explosion occurred and they saw the broken: mass hurling downward. . , I The Erbsloeh has had a dubious I career. The first -time it ascended it crashed into a clump of trees and I its occupants. narrowly escaped in jury.. The balloon, which was one I of .Che non-rigid type, had just been made over, preparatory to the es tablishment of a passenger service between Elberfeld and nearby points. There were few eye-witnesses of the accident. According to these, the start was well made. The Erbs loeh rose gracefully, pushing its way. through the fog to heights es mated at 300 yards. At this alti tude a series of evolutions were be- I guh.-,c To the onlookers the airship appeared to obey her helm perfectly Suddenly there was a;loud report and at the moment the fore part of the vessel crumpled up and the.gondo las was twisted about until appeared as thb standing on one end. As the gas escaped from the forward com ipartment the prow swayed down-1 ward. For a flash the airship flut tered like a wounded bird and then fell swiftly to the earth. | Erbsloeh and his companinos were killed the second they struck the ground. Their heads were battered in and every linrub was broken .The bodies of the victims were removed to a morgue. That of Erbsloeh would not have been recognized had it been alone. It was pierced through the breast by a piece of wreck. The eyes of the engineer were gouged out. The hands of a.'l five were tight ly clutched as though they had held desperately to the car as it shot downward. Their shoes were torn from their feet. The death of Erbsloeh and his crew, with the destruction of the bal Qdon from which much had been hoped following closely upon the wreck od the German ship. Deuchs land, has caused a gloom in avia tion circles. Votes for Income Tax. The Georgia Legislature votes for income tax. After debating the ques tion for nearly a week the lower house of the general assembly Wed nesday passed the income tax resolu tion by a vote of 125 to 45. Four teen members present did not vote. A similar resolution was adopted by the senate. Run Down by Auto. I The first really serious automobile1 accident in Sumter happened Wed nesbay afternoon. J. C. Huger, driving a heavy Cadillac car, ran in to WiWiam Burress, a negro man. The man's Bkull was fractured and he was otherwise injured. The acci dent happened on Main street. 1ES A WEi? CLKMSON COLLEGE FINANCES. The Board of Trustees Make Annual Appropriations. The annual appropriations made, by the Clemson College trustees for the conduct of the college for the comimg year is as follows: For State j work of various kinds, $85,000; for normal operating expenses, $143, 000, for completion of new build-1 ings, $6,000; for insurance for ne::t' five years, $14,000; for unusual ex penditures, $6,000. Twenty thous and was appropriated fo? a airy building and $8,000 for a diary barn. This will put the diary work on a fine basis. The agricultural committee of Ibe board was authorized to sslt the legislature for permission ro estab lish experiment stations in the Fee Dee "and possibly in the sand hill sections. The report of the auditing com misssioni was also received and real. This commission, consisting of W. B. West, J. P. Derham, E. C. El more and J. B. Haltiwanger, recent-j ly made a thorough audit of the books and accounts of the college for the past seven years. The rdport sets forth that the accounts of the college are in every j respect satisfactorily; that the mon eys have beeni economirally spent in accordance with orders of the board, and that all accounts are properly | accounted and vouched for. The acting president and the chairman of the board were autho rized to carry into effect the pur-j chase of the Lewis lands under the | authority granted at the last legis lature, the attorney general to ap prove the titles. CLEVER RUSE. By Engineer Prevents Robbery of His Train. Cleverness on the part of the en-1 gineer prevented three youthful and apparently inexperienced bandits from robbing the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Southwestern "flyer" near Larimore, 15 miles from St.Louis early Sunday. Three men were ar rested later as suspects and placed in jail pending investigation. ' .Engineer Quinn through a ruse prevented the looting of the bag gage car and the passenger coaches. The bandits compelled the engineer) and the fireman at the point of re folvers to descent from the cab and go with them to the baggage car to j assist in uncoupling it The engine men in the darkness managed to glide away from the bandits and made for the cab. The bandits op ened fire on them. Scrambling in-1 to the cab the engineer threw the i throttle wide open and dashed away j with the train. The three men, armed and mask ed, used a red lantern to halt the | train. TOWNS IN PERIL. Forest Fires Sweeping Country With Heavy Damage. A sepcial from White Fish, Mont., says that town is in the center of for est fires which are sweeping the mountainsides, Qicking up logging and tie camps and threatening the town itself. While it is not felt that the city is in immediate dan ger, all precautions hape bean taken, the water works thoroughly tested and the fire hose made ready for in stant use. So far as is known there is no loss of life. Rain appears to be the only thing that can save this part of Flathead Valley fron terri ble loss. A dispatch from Kalishpeil reports three other fires burning in the valley. WHEAT SHED FIRED. By a Big Bolt of Lightning Which Killed Four Men. Four men were instantly killed, three others seriously hurt and a large shed containing wheat set on fire by lightning during a storm at one o'clock Thursady afternoon. The dead are William Haldrick, two Whitten brothers, and a man nam ed Scott. The injured are two Ma lone brothers, anl a man named Phillips. The storm and fire occur red on Buck Key place, eight mibis west of Florence, Ala. The men we~e farm hands employed by V. M Perry. Caused by Law's Delay. Aroused by the fact that an ap peal to the supreme court had been taken, following his condemnation to death at Rayvilie. La., Friday on the charge 'of having murdered Town Marshall C C. Chenault, a mob battered down the doors of the parish jail at Rayvilie Sunday, and dragging J. D. Freeman, a white man. from his cell hanged him on the same spot where he had slain t.he marshall. "This is the outcome of the appeal." was the note found pinned to the dead man's clothing. Freeman, who was a blacksmith, shot and killed Chenault three weeks ago, when the ^tte1- attempted Mi ??rrest him for a m.i'io- ?*>*-n!-e. The Cotton Tare Case. In fewer words perhaps than it has taken the Supreme Court to tell of much less important cases, that tribunal Thursday evening in an opinion being handed down by Jus tice Eugene B. Gray dismisses the ap peal of W. G. Mullins in the now famous cotton tare case involving nearly two million lollars. ORANGES! RED SPIDER PEST I MAKES ITS APPEARANCE IN THE COTTON FIELDS. I An Agent of the Agricultural De partment Tells Best Way of Com bating the Small Bugs. I ?The red spider has broken out on the farm of R. H. Caughman, near /Lexington, and threatens to be very j destructive to the cotton crop should the present wet season be followed by a continued hot and dry spell. The State says is appears from the state-1 ments of those interested in this cot ton pest that a great many sections of the State are infected and it is! believed that unless its spread is checked it will become shortly as destructive as the boll weevil. The cotton affected wilts as if it were scalded and finally dies. No practical remedy has as yet been found, though there are preventive remedies which appear successful. The department of agriculture has established a laboratory at Bates burg for a thorough study of the rel spider and H. F. Wilson in charge of the work visited Lexington and made an examination of the Caughman field. He is positive, in his opinion, that the trouble is the red spider and, of course, he real izes the danger of its further spread. In speaking about this matter, he makes ^hese inte.,i,Fting observa tions; and desires 'I- :t 'l:ev shall re ceive the attention of farriers all over the State: "Violets and poke weeds appear to be the plants from which the spiders spread to the cotton. I have seen a number of fields where volets in yards were badly infested with the j spider before it passed to the cotton. The original infection began close to the violets and spread out first in a fan shaped form and then gradually the whole field became infested. The same thing is observed in connec tion with poke weeds. Jersualem oak, fourkock, morning glories and garden products are food plants for | the spider and should be kept away from cotton fields. The spider seems to be pretty well scattered about the State and is doing considerable dam age, and threatens to do a great deal more unless some means can be found for checking it. "I have hardly gone far enough with the work to .be able to suggest) a desirable remedy. However, poke j weeds and violets near cotton fields should all be destroyed, and if the spider is only found on a few plants, these should be pulled and burned. The spider seems to be able to win ter in violets and the danger lies in infestation from these sources. "Where the infestation is bad I hkve found the fallowing mixture to be effective in killing the most of them: One pound of sulphur to three gallons of water. The sulphur to be placed in a bucket or pan and enough water added to form a paste with the sulphur, then the remainder of the water can be added. This mixture can be applied with a spray pump or with an ordinary sprinkler. Care should be taken that the mix ture is gotten onto the under side of | the leaf. The spider propagates it self very rapidly and the failure to make a thorough spray leaves room for danger in the future. ? "The most pactical method in the way of prevention seems to be that of crop rotation and I hope that by the end of the season a satisfactory system of rotation may be worked out. The farmers themselves can do a great deal towards prebenting the spread of this pest if they will .be careful about plowing around in fested stalks. The spider catches on the harness and may be carried a | long ways into the field and a new colony planted. This is a very ser ious problem and to some extent a new one. The department is do ing the best it can and is greatly in terested, in the work." CONFESSES TO MURDER. After Contributing .Materially to the Conviction of Brother. After testifying against and con tributing to the conviction of his brother, Albert Brown for the mur der of Alonza Addison, on July 28, 1909. Henry Brown went to the Sheriff of Lee County in Tupelo, Miss., and confessed to the killing of Addison. Both are well known farmers. Albert Brown had been twic^jj tried and con-'jicted of thie j murder of Addison. He was sen tenced to 15 years In the peniten tiary, but sentence was suspended pending the outcome of an appeal to the Supreme Court. The brother who confessed has been imprisoned and habeas corpus proceedings will be instituted to secure the release of the convicted man. More New Cotton Mills. The State seems to be on the eve of a revival of mill construction. On top of the announcement, for the plant called the Connemara Mills, at' Laurens, and the establishment of a $400,000 mill on the Clinchfield above Spartanburg, comes the news the Newberry is to have another big cotton factory. Invite Senator Tillman. The board of commissioners of Sullivan's Island have extended an Invitation to Senator Tillman and his family to visit the island to be the guest of the commission. JBG, S. C, 9AT?EDAY, 0 BODY REVEALS MURDER CASE IS STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO CHARLTON TRAGEDY. Detectives Not Suspicious Until the Disappearance of Dr. Crippen, the Woman's Husband. A dispatch from London saysj Scotland Yard is engaged with the1 murder of an American woman and Thursday cabled the police of the < United States requesting the arrest of the woman's husband, Dr. Haw ley Harvey Crippen, also an Ameri can, who is believed to have sailed from New York on Saturday last. The case is strikingly similar to that of the Charlton murder at Lake Como, Italy. Both women were ac tresses who left their American homes to meet death by violence iu a foreign land and in each instance the police pursued the American husband to the shores of his native land. On Saturday noon last Dr. Crip pen disappeared and since then the police have not been able to locate him. Thursday a search was made | of the Crippen home by police and the battered body of a woman was found buried in the cellar. It .had been placed in quicklime and was burned beyond recognition, but the finding of the body together wim other discoveries had left no doubt in the minds of the authorities that the murdered woman was Mrs. Crip pen. VICTIMS OF FLYING MACHINES. Names of the Men Who Lost Their Lives in Them. ?Captain Rolls, who was killed in England Tuesday, was the twelfth victim of aviation in heavier-than air machines, the history of flying with balloons, plain and dlrgible, having a death list of greater length all of its own. Fatal accidents with the real flying machines include the following in two years: 1908? September 17?Self ridge. Lieut. Thomas E.. U. S. A., killed in fall with Orv'lle WYight near Wash ington. 1909? September 7?Ena, Rosso, Italian, killed in Rome, in machine September 7?Lefebyre, E., killed in Wright machine at Juvissy-Sur Orge, France. September 22?Febre, Capt. Louis F., killed at Boulogne, France. December 6?Antonio Fernandez Spaniard, killed at Nice, falling one thousand feet after motor exploded. 1910? January 4?DeLa Grange, Deon, killed at Bordeaux, France. April 2?Herbert, Lebelon, in stantly killed, falling on rocks at San Sebastian, Spain. May 12?Micbeliu, Chevlette, kill ed at Lyons, France. June 17?Speyer, Eugene, killed at San Francisco. June 18?Ro.bl, killed at Stettin, Germany. July 7?Warhter, Charles, killed at Rheims, in Antoinette monoplane. Baroness De La Roche was almost killed by a fall in her Voisin bi plane at the Rheims meeting on July 8th. RIGGS STILL IN CHARGE. Can not Make L'p Their Mind About New President. The annual summer meeting of the Clemson board of trustees ad journed Wednesday afternoon. No acting as president was continued, tion of a president. The arrange ment by which W. M. Riggs has been actig as presidet was continued. The board authorized Acting Pres ident Riggs and Chairman Johnstone of the board to make such arrange ments as they thought wise and nec essary in regard to the conduct of the engineering department, of which Prof Riggs is director. The lioard expressed itself as well pleased with the condition of affairs at the college, the business affairs being so thoroughly systematized as to meet the entire approval of the bourd, which felt that neither the college nor the people of the State could lose anything under a contin uance of the present arrangement until the board was thoroughly pre pared to elect a permanent presi dent. HAVE FIFTEEN CHILDREN. Gov. Gilchrist Suggests that Parents Be Pensioned. I Mr. and Mrs. T. Barberi, of Pen fsacola, Fla., received from Governor Gilchrist recently a handsome spoon bearing the seal of the State of Flor ida. Married 19 years ago, the wife is now only 37 years old, but Mr. and Mrs. Barberi are the parents of 15 children. Six of the children are twins. Governor Gilchrist suggests that the legislature pass an act al lowing the parents a pension. They certainly deserve it. Fell to His Death. Henry Mars, a negro convict at the State penitentiary, committed suicide Thursday by leaping from the main prison building. The negro sustained a fractured skull, dying on Thursday afternoon. Although it was not definitely established that Mars committed suicide, this is the opinion among the authorities at the penitentiary. IULY Hi. 1910. LESSONS IN FARMING * SERIES OF FARMERS INSTITUTES ARE PLANNED. July and August Will b.? (Jwat i Months For the Tillers of the Soil i ?The Parties and Schedule. During July and August farmers' institutes under the auspices of Clemson college will be held in the various counties of the State. The members of the Glemson college staff who will travel throughout the State in the interest of the institutes will be divided into three parties, these parties being as follows. First Party?D. N. Barrow, A. F. Conradi, T. E. Keitt and T. F. Jack [ son. Second Party?Prof. W. R. Per kins, Prof. L. A. Niven uf Winthrop and Dr. ,B. Barnette. Third .Tarty?Prof. J. N. Harper, Prof. C. C. Newman, and C. L. Good rich of the United States depart ment of agriculture. The institute at Gray Court will last two days, at Jonesville three days and at Fountain Inn five days, will include besides regular work for the men, some domestic science work for the women, to be given by instructors from Winthrop college. Following is the itenerary of the parties: First Party. LMcClellansville?July 11 and 12. Horse Penn?July 13. Peniel?July 14. Cross Swamp?July 15. Ehrardt?July 16. Georgetown?July 18 and 19 Pregnos School?July 20. Scranton?July 21. Turbeville?July 22. iPiwewood?July 23. Dorchester County (point not de termined)?July 25 and 26. Elloree?July 27. Jamison?July 28. Providence?July 29 and 3 0. (Cameron?August 1. Bethel School?August 2. Fair Lawn School?August 3 Richland County (point not deter mined)?August 4. Wilkensville?August 5. Cherokee?August 6. Coleraine?August 8. Cross Keys?August 9. Jonesville?August 10, 11 and 12 Fountain Inn?Augusst 15 to 19 Second Tarty. Allen'dale?July - 16. Williston?July 18. Estelle?July 19. Gray's Point?July 20. Shiloh School?July 21. Point Not Settled?July 22. Leesville?July 23. Richland Church?July 25. Young's Grove?July 26. Torn Keitt's?July 27. J. C. Courtney's?July 28. Troy?July 29. Hodges?July 30. Apt Harmon Springs?August 1. Antreville?August 2. Wardsworth?August 3. Woodruff?August 4. Gray Court?August 5 and 6. Liberty?August 9. Baucusville?August 10. Coneross School?August 11. Townville?August 12. Rock Mills?August 15. Belton?August 16. '.W'illiamston- -August 17. Maulden?August 19. Thisd Party. General Sumter?July 25. Not Decided?July 26. Bishopville?July 27. St. Charles?July 28. Orange Hill?July 29. '.Mount Coghan?July 30. Jefferson?August 1. Union School?August 2. Bethune?August 3. Eligin?August 4. iVan Wyck?August 5. Secrist Farm?August 6. Gold Hill Academy?August S. Pleasant Valley?August 9. Stevens' Schooi?August 10. Green Brier?August 11. Dillon-?-August 12. Marion?August 13. Sandy Plain School?August 15 Mullins?August 16. Fork?August 17. Meriwether?August 19. Killed by Lightning. Two University of Illinois students were killed by lightning on the sum mit of Mount Pisgah recently. The young men started to ascend the mountaini in the morning. When they did not return that night a search party was organized. Their bodies were found under a big pine tree that had been shattered by the bolt. Mercy for the Merciless. Guilty with a recommendation to mercy was the verdict returned Wed nesday afternoon in the case of W. N. Kennedy, a white man. at Spar tanburg. charged with criminal as sault on a colored girl, under the age of 14 years. The jury lemained lout more than an hour. It is the discretion of the court to give from 5 to 4 0 years' imprisonment. Down on Cones. The ice cream cone is the latest object of attack under the pure food regulations of the Federal Govern ment. Thursday United States Mar shall Heikill with a force of depu ties visited a pier at New York and seized 18 crates, containing six hun dred boxes of the corrugated conical receptacles for ice cream. DEATH TX)\aRMORED SHIPS. Army Engineer Suys Their Day of Utility is Past. At Atlantic City, N. J., Glenn H. Curtiss tossed oranges and mimic bombs within three feet of the decks of the yacht John E. Mehere II used in place of a battleship during the sham battle arranged Wednes day afternoon to demonstrates the utility of aeroplanes in' coast de fense. The mock bombs were drop ped 'from a height of about 300 feet. Experts agreed that a fleet of aer oplanes armed with bombs of high explosives oould wreck any battle ship beforeguns could be trained on them. Col. William Jones, retired, formerly of the engineers corps, who is an advocate of aeroplanes for coast defense, stated that it was hi? belief that the air machine had prov ed its efficiency. "The armored battleship has seen its last days as an engine of attack against a city or country guarded by aeroplanes," he said. "Glenn Curtiss or any other expert aviator could drop high explosives on the decks or down the funnels of a war ship as easily as Curtiss tossed the oranges within a few feet of the yacht. I believe a fleet of a score of air machines would absolutely protect any coast city. A night flight by such a fleet would not only probably demolish an entire fleet of battleships, but could so demor alize the crew of the attacked ves sels as to make them useless." Curtiss also dropped oranges over a fortification marked out on the beach, making practically every shot a "hit," although the trajectory was sometimes 3 0 degrees because of the wind and his speed. Wednesday night ended the meet. The purses of $5,000 each were presented to Brookins for breaking the altitude record and to Curtiss for establish ing a 50 mile American" record over the sea course. Twenty-two flights were made during the ten days of the meet. BOMBARD CHINESE PIRATES. Pirates In Tum Capture Portuguese Military Post. ?A Portuguese gunboat company operating with troops Wednesday bombarded the pirate settlement on the island of Golowan, destroying the houses and killing many natives. The Chnese retaliated by storming and capturing the Portuguese military post. Portuguese re-enforcements were sent to the scene from Macio. The island of Golowan is near Ma cao and its ownership is a matter of dispute between the Chinese and Portuguese. A party of Chinese stu dents had been captured by the pir ates and the governor of Macio sent an expedition to effect their rescue. The pirates resisted and were rein forced by the Chinese from the in terior. The latter were armed with modern weapons and smokeless pow der. In all two thousand persona were engaged in the rioting. Many of the Chinese were killed, wJiile the Portuguese lost a coporal killed and a large number wpunded. Subse quently the Portuguese gunboat and a force of artillery was sent to bom bard the island. WILL BE FOUGHT OUT. The Vnuderbilt University Matter in the Courts. I The difference between the board of trustees of Vanderbilt University and the college of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, over the control of the University will be threshed out in the courts. Such is the meaning of the action of the bishops in session at Nashbille recently. With Bishops Kilgo, Lam buth and Hendrix, absent, the col lege of bishops rejected the idea of any compromise and named a committee with Bishop Collins Denny as chairman to carry out an agreed upon program of a lawsuit. Bishop Hendrix who is president of the board of trust of Vanderbilt University altende' the morning ses sion of the bishops and opposed the plan, which was adopted at the af ternoon session at which he was not present. The plans of proposed lit igation were not made public. Struck Dead by Holt. Isreal White, a negro, and a mule were killed by lightning about^ live o'clock on Thursday afternoon while plowing in a field two miles from Manning. There were several hands plowing in the same field when a cloud came up. The others took out their uu.les and went to the house, but Isreal plowed on and he was killed. Kills Wife and Self. After bring four bullets with fa tal effect into the body of his 23 year-old wife, who had run away from hin'. Shelby Young, 3 7 years old. a Chicago elevated railway con ductor, committed suicide near Geneva. Ohio. Used Sheep Bone. At New Orleans the bone of a sheep was transfered to the arm of a patient at the Charity hospital Thursday night. The forearm of the patient undergoing the novel op eration had been shattered by the discharge of a shot igun. The oper ation was pronounced successful. TWO CENTS PER COPY WAS !N BAD FIX YcoDg. Pittman, Who is Imprisoned in Nicaraugna. Found Starving IN A FILTHY CELL The Nicaragua?? Threaten to Kill All Foreigners.?Consul Oliv.-trcs Wires State Depaitnuict Feeli.1.4 Against the Americans Bitter. Subjects Ask Protection. Confined in a filthy cell, untV] save by charitable strangers, Wil liam Pittman, an American cap'.ured by the Aladriz government forces Ujear Bluefields, was found in a crowded ' local prison at Managua, Nicaragua, by Consul Olivares on Thursday. The c?nsul, who is station id at that point, telegraphed the state de partment that he visited Pittman, discovered the revolting conditions and through protests forced Dr Mad riz to furnish the adventurer better prison accommodations. Pittman, whose relatives live at Cambridge, Mass., told Consul Oli vares that he left G-reytown July 4. that since then his captors have fail ed to provide him with food, leaving him altogether dependent for sub sistence upon charity. Pittman was starving. Olivares immediately protested, reminding Madriz of his promise to treat Pittman with consideration, .Madriz finally agreel to transfer Pittman to a larger and cleaner cell and to allow the consul to supply him with a sleeping couch and food. The consul reported that no definite action regarding Pittman had been determined on by the de facto au thorities and that he, Olivares, would exert every effort to secure humane treatment for Pittman. When the United States originally learned of Pittman's arrest Dr. Mad riz assured Olivares that the prison er would be treated fairly and con siderately. Constant complaints from Ameri can citizens at Matagalpa, relative to threats repeatedly made against their lives and property by agents of the Madriz government are being received by United States consular representatives. Consul Olivares cabled to the state department that the anti-American feeling in the western part of Nica ragua, the section under control of the Madriz faction, is daily growiug more bitter. Mr. Olivares made vigorous re presentations to Dr. Madriz and has reiterated to him Secretary Knox's warning that this government will hold Madriz factions strictly ac countable for the security of Ameri can life and property. Br'tish and German subjects at Matagalpa have appealed to their consuls in .Managua for protection. So far no representations as to these have been made to the German and English home governments, or to Washington, probably because -the British and German consuls doubt less are Nicaraguan local merchants. lAmerican Consul General Eber hardt, who is detailed at large, and happens to be in Nicaragua on a tour of inspection cabled the state de uartment corroboraiuing the alarm of foreign residents over threats of Nicaraguans. He stated that the opinion at Matagalpa was that t>* se anti-foreign demonstrations were in stigated by the Madriz faction, whose officials have openly threatened the Americans and other foreigners. Must Serve Long Term. Twenty-five years in the State pen itentiary was the sentence adminis tered by Judge Gruber at Spartan burg to W. N. Kennedy, the white man who was Wednesday convicted in general sessions court on the charge of having committed criminal assault upon a colored girl under 1 1 years of age. Estimates Population. An estimate of the population of South Carolina was made by Col. E. .1. Watson. The figures are 1,623, 000. The population as given by the census of 1900 was 1,340,310, show ing an increase for the ten years be tween 1900 and 1910 of 2S2.6S4. Between 1S90 and 1900 the increase was 189.167. What an Owl Did. At Boulder, Col., an owl w eked the plant of the Central Colorado Power company and plunged the city into darkness. The bird hooked a claw about negative and positive wires, causing a short circuit and burning out the plant. Sohl for a Song. The naval yacht Hornet, a steel vessel of 425 tons, built for Henry M. Flagler and purchased by the government for $117,500 at the out set of the Spanish war, will be sold to Nathan S. Stern of New Orleans for $5.100. Found Him Guilty. Private William Murphy who re recently killed Private Fry at Fort Moultrie post exchange on Sullivan's Island has been found guilty of manslaughter and will have to Berve five years at labor at Fort Leaven worth.