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TOWN WRECKED. Dynamite Shocks Wreck Pleasant Prairie, Wis.-Number of Dead Unknown. Kenosha, Wis., March 9.-With a roar that was heard for 50 miles, a flare that was seen fully as far and with a concussion that broke win dows more than 10C miles away, three carloads of dynamite exploded at the plant of the DuPont DeNemours company shortly after 8 o'clock to night in the village of Pleasant Prairie, six miles west of this city. It will be impossible for many hours to tell accurately the number of dead. Nearly every house in the village, which contains 700 residents, has been badly damaged and some of them utterly demolished. Ten Miles. Off. Reports from the. country 10 miles distant are to the effect that houses eve A that far from the explosion were thrown down. It is believed inevitable that many people have been killed or injured through the surrounding country. So far as is known at present, however, but one man, E. S. Thompson, fore man of the glaze mil', was killed out right, but Charles Brady, superintend ent, and Joseph Flint, the engineer, are badly injured and may die. The cause of the explosion is not known at the present time. The plant, which covered 190 acres of ground was completely !w ecked, only one building remaining. This is one of' the magazines, and it is filled with dynamite. Four Came Quickly. The first explosion took one of the magazine buildings ana In quick suc cession four others followed, but so quickly that it seemed to be but' one. The force of the concussion wab terrific. Houses, barns and outbuild ings in the immediate neighborhood were swept from their foundations as though struck by a torpedo. It is re ported that hundreds of cattle and I horses were killed, a telephone re port from there stating that some of them were burled entirely through barns and residences. It is rpported that the town of Bris tol, Wis., 10 miles distant. was badly wrecked, but details were not ob tainable from there at midight. Special trains were hastily dis patched from Kenoshia carrying every available nurse and physician. Sev eral of the injured have been received in this city, but none of them have - sustained more than minor injuries. Thought It Was Earthquake. Cleveland, Ohio, March 9.-Thie seismograph at St. Ignatious college observatory recorded earthquake vi brations tonight beginning at S8:45 -p. m. and lasting for 25 minutes when they began decreasing. Father Oden bach, observer, says the records show two distinct shocks. His Platform. While we do not agree with some things Gov. Blease has done, we are bound to say that he has not done a thing since his election that he did not say he -would do if he was elected when he was running for governor. He is living up to his platform, re gardless of who it -hurts or 'helps. Orangeburg Times and Democrat. - It is refreshing, during, and just af ter those periods in our political life, when real paucity of thiought andk inane reaches after sarcasm, are per mitted to see the light (?). through the fulminating stage thunder of those1 near-Solomons, who elect to formu late a species of rot, that they are pleased to class as opinion, to be re minded that some of it that glitters is gold. There is a manliness in the ab ve excerpt, from the Orange'burg TiAe and Democrat that speaks for indivi duality, and a desire for those things that pertain to the welfare of the whole- people; that, were it not too far beyond the reach of the ordinary malcontent mnigh,t lead to results, hitherto un.reveal'ed, even in the land of dreams. If I am not seriously misinformed, ther are constitutional provisions for three components in the make-up of our statehood, the executive, the leg islative and the judicial, named, al ways, not only in State. but national life, in the above order, and hitherto supposed to have been named in the order of their necessity and .desira bility. Again, if I mistake not, the word or term "governor" means a controller, a supreme head, the officer to whom the eyes of the whole people turn, in the hour of peril. If this be not so. why the offce? We are well aware of the fact that the two others have their distinctive func-tions, and we know full well that a two-thirds of the assembly, or a pronouncement of unconstitutionality by the jni.ciary, is permitted to over rule the expressed will of the execu tive: b."t only when the carrvin~ in+r~ - effect of said will as antagonistic to the well-being of the body politics, is this contemplated by the framers of our organic law. We can discern some reason as to why the legislative branch should, at times, become timorous; for, bi-ennial ly or quadriennially they are com pelled to appear before their makers and give an account of their steward ship; but why the judiciary, safely ensconced behind their heavy oaken doors, a few hours of each month,! should hold with such famished grasp to the right of suggestion is a matter somewhat beyond the ken of the unin formed, when they are the court of final resort in all things coming be fore the courts presided over by those holding the commission of the "execu tive." They are in a position to be exempt from the caustic utterances of "The Rabble" and were they not, their decrees can be clothed with such mystifying phraseology and jumbled composition of Kentish and Black stonian obscurity, as to place the whole Lesponsibility upon the should ers of the et utlve; who. poor fellow, has troubles enough of his own. Words fail to express my satisfac tion when I woke up this morning to fa d that there was no ice, and, that the fruit was still safe, for I know that Gov. Blease was too busy to at tend to it, good as his will might have been. There has, for a time. been a slow growth of an up-ish-all-over-ish feel ing, of a somewhat cancerous nature, threatening to poison the life-blood of Jeffersonian principles, and, it is high time that the X-ray machine be turned on. So that we may have some hazy conception as to the inner work ings of this pestilence, and get busy in the formulation or extraction of the virus needed for its suppression. In many of the cases, we are led to conjecture that "isolation" would be advisable, until such time as benefi cial results are manifested in others, well, you will pardon me, when I assure you that the subject is of a too sorrowful nature to permit me to make the suggestion, which first pre sents itself to a rational individual. I am delighted, however, to hear that Dr. Babcock has been meeting with much success, in the treatment of such subjects.. With .hop~e that we are not recurring to the days of misunderstanding, and the gratiftying knowiledge thlat the tnanhood of the State has arrived at the age of pubirty, I beg to sub scribe myself as the friend of untar aished consistency. F. W. Higgins. March 8. 1911. Pulaski Lodge, 1. 0. 0. F. Pulaski Lodge, No. 20, I. 0. 0. F., will meet Friday night, March 1'7, it 8 o'clock at Klettner's Hall. W. H. Hardeman, N. G. W. G. Peterson, Sec. FREE IF IT FAILS. Eour Money Back ii You Are NTo; Satisfied With the Medicine We Recommend. We are so positive that our rem ady will perman;enitly relieve con stipation, no matter how chronic it nay be, that we offer to furnish the nedicine at our expense should it ail to produce satisfactory results. It is worse than useless to attempt ~o cure constipation with cathartic * Irugs. Laxatives or cathartics do, nuch harm. They cause a reaction, rritate and weaken the bowels and :end to make coinstipation more 3hronic. Besides, their use becomes i habit that is dange:ous. Constipation is caused by a weak ?ess of the nerves and muscles of :he large intestine or descending col >n. To expect permanent relief you must therfore tone uxp and strength mn these organs and restore them to 1ealthier activity. We want you to try Rexall Order ies on our recommendation. They ~re exceedingly pleasant to take, be ng eaten like cancy, and are ideal ~or children, delicate persons and old ~olks, as well as for t.ne robust. They ~ct directly on the nerves and mus :les of the bowels. They apparently laave a neutral action on other asso 3iate organs or glands. They do not~ purge,' cause excessive looseness nor create any inconvenience whatever. rhey may be taken at any time, day >r night. 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