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ORDERE IM OUT OF RIS HOTEL. "All Coons Look Alike" to Proprietor S. F. Wheeler, of The Columbia Ho-el, In Columbia. The Columbia State. Proprietor S. F. Wheeler of the Columbia hotel here is one Southern hotel man who will not tolerate even the semblance of color in his business, a fact illustrated in his hotel a few days ago when he had occasion peremptorily to order ex Congressman Srmalls from his lobby. Smalls, who is collector of tbe port of Beaufort and very black, came into the lobby when Mr.! Wheeler was behind the desk. As the negro politician floated in with I his silk hat on Mr. Wheeler called out sternly across the register. "Take that hat off." "You have yours on," replied 1 Smalls, who generally has shown sense enough to know and keep his 1 place in South Carolina. "Get out of here quick," Mr. Wheeler called out, adding some j stronger language, which Smalls did not fail promptly to appreciate. The estimates of time Smalls re- 1 quired to reach the pavement vary < between three and five seconds. The I clerk's estimate is less than five seconds. The next day one of the white republicans who had learned from Smalls that he had been excluded from the hotel called Mr. Wheeler aside and apologized for causing him any inconvenience. He suggested s that possibly it might be well for him to transfer his patronage. Mr. Wheeler is not the sort of a man to be stampeded by fear. He told the white republican that he t was welcome to receive whatever c negroes it gave him pleasure to en- t tertain, but that they must be re- t ceived as other negroes who came t into the hotel, and that if he wished to transfer his patronage with this understanding he might do so. He t wished the politician to understand that he would not be responsible for promiscuous negroes coming into t the hotel and would not allow any a general conference in his lobbies t between black and tan and lily white guests; that if a negro caller wished to see any of his white guests be would insist upon his being accom- . panied to the roon by one of the . hotel's representatives. The lily white has not yet trans ferred his patronage. Another lily white, who is quite a wheel horse with the republicans. promptly sent for the clerk on hear ing of Small's exclusion. When the clerk arrived he demanded an ex planation for the treatment of Smalls. The clerk told him that Mr.i Wheeler himself had ordered Smalls from the lobby and that he would have to see Mr. Wheeler. Tbis last lily white has not yet asked to see Mr. Wheeler. AdmonihA - February Smart Set.< Lownscads (despondently) - I- t might just as well be dead. What good amI, anyway ? 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January 25.-An explosion in the Harwick mine, of the Allegh-:iy Coal Company, at Cheswick, sixteen miles from Pitts burg, promises to add one of the greatest tragedies of years to the already long list of mine fatalities Even the officials of the Allegheny Coal Company, the owners of the mine, do nc* know at this time the number of men entombed in the :hambers of the mine, 220 feet be low the surface, but a conservative stimate places the number at 184. General Manager George 3cheetze, of the coal company, who s in charge of the mine, gives little aope that many of the men will be )rought to the surface. The first .ay of hope that any of the men had !scaped the tremendous concussion )f the explosion came at 6 o'clock ast night, when Adolph Gorgie was yrought to the surface still living. 'he explosion occurred at 8.20 yes :erday morning. at the bottom of >ne ot the shafts, and was presuma )ly caused by fire damp. It was 4 )'clock in the afternoon before it ras possible to make the first at empt at rescue. Robert North and ack McCann, one of the engineers mployed by the Allegheny, Coal 2ompany, tried to get into the mine >y way of the stairs through the air haft. They managed to grope their vay some distance, but were finally [riven back by the foul air. The main shaft into the mine, 20 feet deep, was made useless by he explosion, which hurled both ages, one of which was within hirty feet of the bottom of the shaft, hrough the tipple, thirty feet above he surface. WORK OF RESCUE. Pittsburg, Pa, January 26.--Even he elements seem conspiring to revent the work of rescue at the larwick mines. Almost zero wea her and a bitter wind late in the .fternoon, swept down over the lit le valley where the mine is located nd nearly added another list of lead to the long black table already easured off. Not only was the vork of search for the dead and liv ng, if any are still alive, rudely aterrupted, but cold aad ice and vind combined nearly cost the lives if sixteen more good men. ANOTHER MINE HORROR Victor, Colo., Jan. 26.-By the aling of a cage today in the Strat on Independence mine, located near he centre of this city, 15 men are ead and one other severely injured n the main shaft x6 men were be ug hoisted in a cage from the sixth, eventh and eighth levels. When he cage reached the surface the ugineer, for some unexplained rea on, was unable to stop the engine nd the cage with its load of human reight was drawn up into the gal ows frame where it became lodged emporarily. The strain on the able finally caused it to part, and he cage released, shot down the ~haft with terrific speed. Two of he occupants, L. P. Jackson and ames Bullbek, had become entang ed in the timber rods near the top >f the gallows frame. Jackson was :rushed to death by the sheave heel, while Bullbek hadl a mar elous escape from death, but re :eived painful injaries and~ was res :ued from his p,'i ous position. re othler [4 men w.r: huriedo to. ieth down the :,500 foot shafit ('otton Mcker A Success. A .\ l)pis man, h.- has f *r omie y ars been at work .n a pe matic cotton picker, hais irngrn ed patents on several imnprovemnen% on his machine. The invention of a machine that will pic1k cottn, ne that can rdo the work the negroes are called up on to do, has been the goal of many an inventor for a half century. Many thousands of dollars have been spent in trying to give to the cotton states a picker that would pick. This machine was tried last season, minus several of the improvements for which the inventor has just been granted a patent and did good work. The picker tried during the present season had most of these improve ments and did work highly satis factory to the inventor and the capi talists who are backing hii.,. The machine is called a pneuma tic cotton picker. It is mounted on a high arched frame, something like a wagon. This wagon cove.rs one row. Hoes attached to different parts of the machine allow the men operating it to pick two rows on; each side of the machine, which with the row under the picker ma chine give a total of five rows that can be picked at one trip. The expense of operating is small and thus it will be much cheaper in the long run to pick cotton by ma chinery. All of the cotton handled is much cleaner than the product picked by hand. The ends of the hose are so constructed as to catch nearly all the leaves attached to the open bolls, but will not pull the bolls to pieces. A company has been organized under the laws of this state for the manufacture of the pickers. 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