The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, July 05, 1899, Image 1

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IV'4 J A i kV ;; i < Ab vol'. Xv. I I MA NIN I NG., S. C. I WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1899. ONLY THREE SAVED. A Lake Steamer Went to the Bot tom Like a Rock. THE CARGO SHIFTED. The Captain's Wife and Child and a Woman Passenger Were Among the Twelve Who Perished. The steamer Margaret Olwill, owned by M. P. Smith, of Cleveland, went down in the storm off Lorain, Lake Erie, Wednesday night. Twelve peo ple were lost, including Capt. John Brown, his wife and son, and Miss Baldwin, a passenger. The Olwill, of 554 tons, was bound from Kelly's Is land to Cleveland with limestone, her cargo shifting in the heavy sea, send ing her down by the stern. Seaman Coyle was the only man saved. He was picked up by the steamer State of Ohio Thursday. Those lost were: Capt. John Brown, wife and child, of Clevek.nd. First Engineer Alex. MeRoc, of Cleveland. Second Engineer Rudolph Shinski, St. Clair, Mlich. First Mate John Smith. Cleveland. Wheelsman George Ileffron, Cleve land. n ~2nan Frank Hipp, Kelly's Is land. Three deck hands, names unknown to Duncan Coyle, the sole survivor The Olwill left Kelly's island at 6 o'clock Wednesday night bound for Cleveland witlra cargo of stone. There was little or no wind blowing and everything was favorable for a pleas ant run. At S o'clock the wind began to blow from the northwest and the little boat with a thousand tons ca pacity began to go at a lively clip. At 10 o'clock the gale commenced and the wind blew at the rate of 50 miles an hour. Suddenly the gale turned to the northeast, Capt. Brown found that the boat was making little headway and concluded the only thing to do was to turn back and go with the storm. According to the story of Coyle it was 2 o'clock when the captain gave the order to turn about. The vessel had turned half way round when the rudder chain parted and in an instant the boat was at the mercy of the storm. She was caught between two waves and as she was borne along the top of one of them she rolled over on the side. The cabins were torn loose and floated en the water, while the rest of the ship went to the bottom. Coyle caught hold of part of the after cabin and climbed upon it. Heffros was clinging to part of the same cabin. Capt. Willoughby of the steamer State of Ohio sighted the wreckage about 5:15 in the morning directly in "Tthe course from Cleveland to Toledo. The big steamer put into service her life-saving c.ew and, after sailing around the wreckage for an hour and a half Coylo was rescued. Heiro was thrown a line, but he was too weak to take hold of it and went down in the presence of a large crowd on board the steamer. Several attempts were made to get the yawl boat in the water, but the sea was still running high and the work was extremely perilous. Hlefron's death was a pathetic one. As he grabbed the rope, encouraged by the crowd, he made a superhuman effort to put the rope around his body, but he was too weak and fell exhausted into the waves. THREE OF THE CREW SAV EU. Smith, McRae and Schinski were rescued by members of the crew of the steamer Sacramento and taken into Lorain by the tug Cascade. The res cued members of the crew was fcund floating on the surface of Lake Erie clinging to bits of wreckage. Their rescue was attended by exhibitions of extreme heroism, for heavy sea was still rnning when they were picked up. Filipinos Fortifying. Advices from Hakodate state that Capt. Sakichi, of the steamer Hokoku, Mara just returned from the Philippines reports that in the southern islands the young Filipinos are constructing fortifi cations against emergenCies. lEvery port is garrisoned by a thousand or so of volunteers, whose weapons, however, are very crude, only about 20 per cent. being armed with rifles. They are, bcwever, full of patriotism and state that they will not yield to the Ameri cans though the whole of the islands are destroyed. The Hokoku Maru was warmly welcomed by the Filipinos, who consider the Japantes to be of a kin dred race and hoped for assistance from them. The Filipinos were prepared to pay for arms and ammunition and said the Japanese vessels visiting the isl ands could take return cargos of hemp. Capt. Sakichi says he only sold the in surgents two revolvers and the cooks knives. 'The South's Biggest Mill. The Union, S. C., cotton mills are having plans drawn for a new mill to be known as No. 3. It will be erected about two miles away from their pres ent location on a creek so as to secure abundr.nt water supply. The new fac tory will contain 50,000 spindles and 1,200 looms. The company already oerates 87,000 spindles and 2.2S0 looms, and this expansion means a to tal of 137,000 spindles and 4,080 looms, or in other words the largest cotton mill plant in the South. The U nion Mills compony already have the largest cotton mill in the South under one roof in their No. 2 Mill which contains 72, 000 spindles arnd 1,820 looms. Got Off Light. One of the queerest freaks of jour nalism we have seen is the plea of the Galveston News that the villain who abducted little Marion Clark, of New York, has received too severe a penalty. He should get down on his knees ana thank the judge who sentenced he. lie got fifteen years in the penitentiary. Hanging would not have been too bad. THE gold bug press still insist that the silver issue is dead and buried. No doubt in this case the wish is father to HE GOT.DAMAGES For Being Blacklisted by a Chicago Railroad. Fred Rl. Ketcham., a freight conduct or formerly in the service of the Chica go and Northwestern Iailway company, has recovered damages to the amount of $21,666 from that company for black listing him. Mr. William J. Strong, the counsel for Mr. Ketcham. has published an ar tiele in which he states that the rail roads centering at Chicago agreed with each other to employ no one engaged in the great strike of 1894, in which 8, 000 men took part. The companies agreed to kee p each other informed as to the men who took part in the strike, and to require of every applicant for work a "clearance" from the railroad by whiah he had been employed. It was known that this "clearince was actually demanded, and that when not given, though the man was of good character and had certificates of quali fication by his former employcr, he got no work. In one case where a cearance was given it stated that the man "had per mission to secure employment else where.- Mr. Strong says of this condi tion: "This is slavery pure and simple, yet it i- w-ithout exazzeration the condi tion - f most railroad employes in the country today. The blacklisting sys ML also being adopted in neatly all oLher branches of corpoiate employ ment, such as the large packing houses, street railroads. clothing manufacto ries. and coal mines. It is one of the growing evils of the present era of combinations and trusts. menacing the liberty of a large class of our citizens. "If a man who quits the employ of another cannot get work in his chosen occupation without flrst obtaining the consent of the man whose employ he has left, he becomes a slave. He will not dare resist any oppression his en ployer may impose on him. "How long will it be, if blacklisting is allowed to continue and spread. he f ore the laboring masses of the country, having become the helpless tools of these mighty masters, will do their bid ding in the exercise of the elective franchise? We shall then have a gov ernment of corporations, by corpora tions and for corporations. "The wage earner who feels his little children tugging at his coattails for bread will fear, in voting, to assert his manhood and resent oppression. Can a republic made up of such citizens long endure? Are such mere tools fit to be electors in a government by the people? These are serious questions which must be wisely answered by Americpn voters at the ballot box, or the answers will be blood and revolu tion. " BATTLE OF THE BALES. In What Shape Shall Our Cotton be Baled? The indications arc that the efforts which are being made to get owners of cotton gins, who have not already done so, to alter their press boxes so as to make a square bale that will measure 54 inches by 24, will be successful. With a uniform square bale, known as the standard bale, it is probable that there will be a prolonged contest between the standard bale and the round bale. One great objection to the square bale now is its lack of uniformity which makes it more costly to handle as freight on cars and on ships. This objection will disappear, however, just as soon as the press boxes of all cotton gins are made to conform to the 54 by 24 inch standard. Mr. C. Menelas dis::usses the subject of the standard square bale and the round bale in an interesting article in the June number of the Southern Cul tivator. As he sees the situation. the square bale is bound to hold the field. He gives several reasons for this view. One is that the square bale is more sat isfactory to the trade, since it gives the buyer a better opportunity to see what he is buying, and another is that the square bale stands better the rough handling which a cotton bale gets. It is well known, also, that a very large percentage of cotton is exposed to the weather for weeks anld often months after it is baled. It is claimed that cotton in square bales will stand this exposure better than cotton in round bales. The chief objection which Mr. Mene las offers to the round bale, however, is that the round bale presses are said to be held by a trust-that they cannot'be bought by cotton growers; or by others so that there can be competition in making the round bale. T..e cotton growers have to pay so much per bale to have their cotton pressed into the round bale. With all of the prosses for mak ing the square -bale out of use,. the round bale trust would be in a psit1>n to charge what it pleases for making the round bale-ini other words the cotton growers would be in the grasp of a mighty trust. Mr. Menelas thinks as long as the owners of the round bale presses refuse to sell their presses, it will be difficult for the round bale to 'make much headway. -Columbia Rie cord . ____________________________________ heavy on "The Sun-" Justice Brown in the United States district court, Wednesday handed down a decision awarding $65.000 damages, with interest from Nov. 1, 1898S. to Win. L. Moore. in the libel filed by him against the Sun Printing and Pub lishing company for the loss of the vatch Kanapaha, stranded in Septem ber of last year while off the north coast of Cuba. The yacht was then in ihe employ of the New York Sun as a An Honest Woman. Mrs. Emmons Blaine, of Chicago. daughter-in-law of the late James G. Blaine and daughter of the late C.yrus IMcCormiick, the great reaper mao, has achieved distinctioni. She stej :'ed up like a little woman and returned to the tax assess ors for Cook countyv S1..30, O00 personal property, the largest re turn ever made in that county. In do ing so she incidentally remarked that she thought it was the duty of the rich as well as the poor to make honest re inrns of their taxable property. A HORRIBLE STORY. Man Falls Under a Train, Body Cut in Two. HE LIVESANDTALKS For Nearly two Hours Alive Talk With Those About Him. Drinks Water Freely. William Parsons, a young white man of Lenoir, was run over by No. 9, the south-bound mail on the Southern, Sunday night at Bethel, a small sta tion several miles from China Groove. The accident occurred at 9 OS, and the man lived an hour and 40 minutes. The aceident was one of the most horrible that has ever occurred on the road. The wheels of four cars passed over the man's body at or below the waist line, completely severing the limbs and lower part of the trunk from the rest of the body. That the man lived for only an hour with his body cmpletely cut in two is a fact which the medical world will discuss with in terest. The man's legs were picka up and placed in the baggage car; then his body was put in. The legs were placed near the trunk. Seeing them, the injured man inquired what his legs were doing so far away from his body. When the train reached Bethel Sam Er win and Ben James, colored men em ployed in the baggage room, moved the mangled trunk from the car to the stretcher and then carried the legs out, placing .wame on the stretcher. The sight was one that made old railroaders accustomed to witnessing aceidents of various degrees of horribleness, turn away with a sickening shudder. A physician was summoned as soon as possible, but nothing could be done for the man. His sufferings were so in tense that he asked, on his way to be killed. His system would not absorb morphine, so he had to endure the agony until death came to his re lief. It was horrible to see a human being lying there talking with his body cut in two. The man told his name and that of his cousin, Charles Morrow, who was with him. Parsons' parents were dead and he lived at Morrow's father, his uncle's. Morrow persuaded him to go with him to Columbia, S. C., where there is a re cruiting office, and enlist in the army. They were beatings their way when Parsons met his death. No. 35 had gone in the side track at Bethel for the vestibule to pass. The men had been put off the train once. Parsons in at tempting to board it the second time, as the train moved off, slipped and fell directly across the rail. The wheels of four cars passed over him. Capt. Tuck er was conductor and Engineer Alf Soloman was in the cab. The train was stopped as quickly as possible. The man was found in the horrible condi tion described above. He talked ra tionally up to within a few minutes of his death. The stretcher on which he lay was left at the entrance to the baggage room. "I have not long to live; let me stay in the air," said the dying man. He asked to be fanned and wanted ice water every minute or two. He was conscious up to the last. The body was taken to J. M. Harry & Co's. Tuesday morning, and was in terred Tuesday afternoon. The case is one in which science will be interested, as it is one of the few, if not the only case known to the medical profession in which a man has lived for so long after the severing of the aorta, the main artery of the body. The fact is accounted for in this way. Each ar tery has three coatings. The inner oating became contracted, forming an impediment so the blood could not get Out. The man bled little, compara tively speaking. He was about 22 years of age. In his pocket was a letter of recommendation, a photograph of him self and a letter from his sweetheart. iDr. Albert Sherrill, who is reading medicine in McManaway & Winches trs office, knew Parson well having taught him when in charge of a school at Lenoir. He says he was an honest, steady young fellow.-Charlotte Ob server. Political Soldiers. General Otis has found time from his military occupation in the Philip pines to compose a Republican cam paign document and cable it to this country at the government's expense. In this contribution to the bunch of literature which the Republican poli ticians are accumulating for next year's contest General Utis says: "The only hope of insurgent leaders in United States aid. They proclaim the near overthrow by the present administra tion to be followed by their independ ence and recognition by the United States. This is the influence which enables them to hold out."~ This part of the latest Otis cablegram reads like an extract from an editorial in an ad ministration organ, and we have no doubt that next year when the presi dential contest is on (for there is no prospect that the Philippine war will be over before then) it will be profusely circulated by the Republican campaign managers and shouted all over the coun try by Republican campaign orators. Atlanta Journal. A Mayor Assassinated. Mayor James Bolbirnie. of Muske gon, Mich.. was assassinated Thursday by J. W. Tayer. a disappointed office seeker. Tayer shot Mayor Balbirnie while the latter was standing in the doorway of his store. The ball entered hisi left breast above the nipple. After the shooting Balbirnie turned and ran upstairs to his living rooms and dropped in the hall. lHe expired 15 minutes later. Tayer swallowed some carbelic acid then turned the revolver upon himself and fired. The ball entered his left breast. lHe died at 1 o'clock. John W. Tayer was ex-city poor direc tor. At the time of the shooting Wes tern avenue, the main thoroughfare en which the mayor's store is situated was filled with people. The affair arose over the mayor's refusal to reappoint Tayer director of the city poor. Tayer OPTIMISM RUN MAD. Some Facts Bearing on the Philippine Campaign. There continue to come to hand evi dences that the administration is sup pressing all unfavorable information about the status in the Philippines. Here is a sample from a Washington dispatch: The report of Brig. Gen. T. M. An derson, which, army men declare, se verely criticises Maj. Gen. Otis's con duet of the campaign in the Philippines, will not be made -public by the war de partment. It is in the possession of Adjt. Gen. Corbin, who declares that it is of no public interest. Gen. Anderson, who is now in com mand of the Department of the Lakes, headquarters at Chicago, commanded the First division of the Eighth army corps under Gen. Otis before being re called. A dispatch to the Philadelphia rimes from Hong Kong is likewise en lightening. The dispatch says: The censorship at Manila is so strict that a meeting of correspondents was called for today to protest against the action of the United States military au thorities. Nothing is allowed to be sent out on matters which affect the administration at Washington, and un less dispatches are rosy and optimistic they ace not allowed to go. I have just e u ned fromn Manila, and a corres pondent submitted his matter only to have it held up by the authorities. There is great anxiety on the part of the volunteer eldiers to return home, although any mention of the fact is suppressed by the censor. The censor also prevents the report of the terrible suffering from the heat being sent. Our men drop like sheep from the over powering influence of the sun. Noth ing concerning the movements of the army is allowed to go out, although the local papers freely use this news. Ca bling is extremely discouraging under these circumstances, but it is not at all likely that any help will come from the protest to be filed.' The officers are unhopeful of an early settlement of the war, and in their eagerness to keep the public from obtaining an inkling of the state of affairs, they make free use of the office of press censor. A South Dakota volunteer, Sergeant Hugh D. McCosham, has written a let ter to a friend in Marinette, Wis., his old home. McCosham served in Cuba and reenlisted last fall for duty in the Philippines. He is therefore no green horn nor cry-baby. Under date of May 12 he writes in part: Two days after San Fernando was taken our regiment had but 190 men on the line, the remainder being dead, sick or wounded. Gen. MacArthur com plained of the number of men sick, other regiments being in the same shape as ours, and Maj Potter, with one surgeon, was sent into Manila to rush men to the front. Acting under instructions, he sent 108 men to the front. Of these, thirty were unable to reach the depot, a mile away, many of them fainting on the way, some twen ty- eight or thirty ultimately arriving at San Fernando in worse condition than when sent to Manila, the others being ordered back by surgeons along the line of railroad, who saw at a glance that they were in a precarious condi tion. Further along in the letter, the South Dakota soldier says: You Americans shudder at the tyr anny of Spain and the cruelty visited upon the natives of Luzon and Cuba, but I want to tell, you that bright, brave, young Americana, who volun teered to defend their country in the hour of peril, are giving up their lives by service in sacrifice . to the vanity of the star bespangled generals and a fog headed, dollar hearted bureau of offi cials at home. The fierce tropical heat, the fever cursed atmosphere and the bullets of the insurgents are working such havoc among the men. that the surgeons and nurses are absolutely un able to give the sick and wounded the care they should receive. You may publish this letter, and my name may be signed. I would face a courtmatial willingly, and prove more than I write, for I know that it is only by arousing the sense of the States that we can be relieved, and to stay much longer will be the death of most of us. The three witnesses examined, an aimy officer of high rank, a newspaper correspondent, and one of the enlisted men who has seen service, prove that Gen. Otis has carried his optimism to an extreme, if nothing else.--The State. Shields Commits Suicide. Leroy H. Shields, 46 years old, pro minent in Virginia politics, and who was collector of customs at Norfolk un der the Cleveland administration, sui cided in his room at the Hygeia hotel, Old Point, Tuesday night by sending a bullet into his brain. Melancholia, induced by recent financial reverses, is the cause assigned for the deed. He had been at the hotel a week and was expecting a reappointment in the naval service. During the Spanish war Mr. Shields held the post of paymaster on the cruiser .Buffalo, and since his dis charge had been seeking a similar assign ment. lie is said to have lost heavily in speculation recently, and is known tc have been brooding over his troubles. A wife and three children survive him. Mrs. Shields is in Washington and the children in Norfolk. A Fruit Trust. It has been said that Armour & Co., and one or two other big concerns are in combination to control all the fruit and early vegetable trade of the country. The houses concerned, however, deny the truthfulness of the rumor. The rumor was disturbing to "the colored man and brother" as it included the watermelon, and there was promise of an early emigration, but the denial has brought joy to many an anxious heart. Two Similar Cases. Everybody has doubtless heard of the rattlesnake that took two days in try-* ing to charm a stuffed owl, but that isn't a circumstance to a recent British coroner's jury that sat on a mummy. It was left at a railway station, and the coroner was duly notified. It being a human body, the due processes of law had to be executed. After an hour's consultation ths usual verdict was given -came to his death by means unknown to the jury at a time and place not dis erble MEET IN BATTLE. Armed Negro Miners Under Ed Ellis Lose Four. "KNIGHTS OF AFRiCA." Result of Attempting to Prevent Lynching by Force of Arms, as Recommended by Northern Blacks. Three negroes are dead and one is not expected to live as a result of a riot be tween the white and negro miners at the ore mines near Cardiff in Jefferson county, Ala. The dead are: Ed. Ellis, Jim Dill, Adam Samuels. The wounded: Ru. dolph Williams, George Thomas, mor tally wounded. The races came to a clash in the late afternoon in Glasgow Hollow, where the negroes congregated, armed with Winchester rifles. A white man pass ing along the road was held up and abused and was roughly handled. This news soon spread, and an armed body of white miners moved toward the hol low. It is supposed that they went around by a circuitous route in the mountains and came upon the negroes unexpectedly. Ed. Ellis, the ring leader, armed with a rifle and Colts re volver, fell at the first volley. A rifile bullet did the work. There was anoth er volley and four of the other negroes fell. Jim Dill and Adam Samuels died in a few minutes later, being removed to a negro house. Geo. Thomas was shot through the abdomen with a Win chester bullet. He is not expected to recover. Rudolph Williams will live. The trouble started Tuesday when it was thought that John Shepherd, who, on last Wednesday afternoon assaulted Mrs. Monroe Jones near Corona, was in that community. The negroes arm ed themselves to prevent his capture. Both sides were aroused and only the timely arrival of a sheriff's posse pre vented an outbreak. This morning the negro miners held a mass meeting and refused to go to work. They all belong to a secret organization known as the 'Knights of Africa," or the "Mysteri ous Ten." They keep rifles and ammu nition on hand at all times. It was in the afternoon that they gathered in Glasgow Hollow, although with what intention is not known. Influential citizens say that the ring leaders are now out of the way, and they hope to manage the negroes. Ed. Ellis, the head of :he band, and holding the chief office in the secret organiza tion, made a speech to the negroes just before his death telling them not to be lieve what the white officers had told them,-and swearing that he, for one, would get even with Sheriff O'Brien, who, the day before at the point of a shot gun, ordered him to disperse his gang. Shortly after the riot Sheriff O'Brien left Birmingham with a hundred armed men. He now has the situation in hand for the time being, although late re ports say the situation is extremely critical and that the negroes are talk ing of avenging the death of their lead ers. WILL FIGHT THE TRUST. The Farmers of Texas Organize Against the Round Bale. The Farmers' Anti-Trust Union was organized in Navarro county, Texas, in May. The aim and object of this union is the mutual pirotection of the farmers and cotton raisers against the blighting influence and power of the round bale cotton trust in particular and other trusts, monopolies, syndicates and com bines of whatever name, character or formation, the workings of which are detrimental to the interest of the pro ducers of the products of the soil, which constitutes all wealth, and tends to destroy honest competition and trade in commerce. Section 4 of the agree ment declares that "all persons who are opposed to trusts and monopolies in any and all forms, and who believe in honest competition in trade, and who believe in the inalienable rights of man to life, liberty and the pursuit of hap piness as guaranteed the citizens of this great Republic by the Constitution, and ,who are willing to subscribe to the obligation hereinafter set forth, are eligible to membership in this union." The following is the obligation: "We, whose names are hereunto subscribed do most solemnly obligate ourselves not to encourage, support or patronize the - round bale cotton system in any way, shape or form. and we further agree to patronize our home gins and ginnhers with the flat bale, pro vided that our ginners will reduce their presses to conform to the uniform or standard bale of 24 by 54 inches. and we further agree that we will not insist or requipe our gin men to use or put in any mo~re cotton than is necessary to make an average weight bale of 500 pounds.." The obligation was signed by nearly every man present. R. J. Wright was ceeted president; R. F. Johnson, vice president: Sam C. French, secretary and treasurer. A committee consisting of J. . P nder and R. J. Davis, was appoi ated to organize the Negro farm This organization is not a templorary affair, but will continue in existence as lng as there is a trust to fight or, un til the State officers shall have enforced the con..itutional laws of the State. - Sentence Commuted. /The governor today commuted the ,lentence of R. C. Wyatt, of Spartan burg, who was sentenced to the peni tentiary for seven years for killing a man. He has served five years, and the sentence is commuted to five years and seven months, so as to allow Wyatt to be free at the end of the month. A nu megously signed petition, including the juitprs, induced the governor to act. On corviction the jury recommended the prisoner to mercy. Five Fatally Scalded. Five men were scalded to death by the collapse of a steam flue Wednesday night on the steamer St. Paul near St. Toni. LOSSES FROM LIGHTNING. Facts Gathered by the Official Weather Sharps of this Country. Few questions are of greater interest. whether considered from a practical or theoretical standpoint than the mani festations of energy in lightning dis charges. The practical side of the problem appeals directly to a great por tion or the population, but more espe cially to the people who live in the country and the smallei towns and vil lages. By the practical side is meant a working knowledge of the character of the lightning flash, the kind of ob ject most frequently struck. methods of protection and the distribution of destructive flashes both in time and over space. It would be of manifest advantage to know the precise character of the ordin ary lightning flash-whether, for ex ample, it approximates a condition of steady fLow or partakes of an oscillatory character, i. e., a current which rapidly reverses its direction. A better knowl edge than we now possess of the kind of object most frequently struck, whether tree, dwelling house or barn, might be the means of saving human life. If, for example. certain trees are more apt to be struck by lightning than others, they should be avoided as a place of shelter in time of thunderstorm. There are other lines of inquiry in which greater precision of methods and de vices would yield valuable returns. A little over a year ago the Illinois department of agriculture, through its weather Bureau, undertook the collec tion of statistics of loss of life and prop erty, especially in farming communi ties, by lightning. The results of the first year's work and consiecrable infor mation of a general character are given ia bulletin No. 26 of the weather bu reau just issued. The bulletin con sists of two parts. The first is largely devoted to a discussion of the electrifi cation of the atmosphere and the meth ods of investigation that have been pur sued by different experimenters. The application of the krnowledge thus gained to the construction of apparatus for protection from lightning is re viewed, and, finally, methods of protec tion are discussed and rules for the erection of lightning rods are given. The latter are intended not only for the guidance of persons desiring to erect rods themselves, but more particu larly for those who ma: contract with others to do the work for them. It is quite essential that every person who feels the need of a lightning rod should know himself whether or not it has been properly constructed and placed upon his premises. Part II., by Alfred J. Henry, con tains a summary of loss of life and property in the United States by light ning during 1898, and, so far at known, during previous years. The statistics are not by any means complete, espe cially as regards the loss of live stock by lightning. The fact of greatest ;m portance developed thus far in the in quiry is that about one-third of all cases of fatal lightning stroke on live stock in the fields occurred in the im mediate vicinity of wire fences; indeed there is evidence that in some cases lightning struck the fence at some dis tance from the place. where the stock was killed. The statistics, ineomplete as they doubtless are, show that the farmers of the country lost by lightning alone during 1898 live stock valued at about $50,000. During the same time there were over 1,800 cases of destructive light ning strokes on - buildings, causing a money loss of about $1,500,000. Three hundred and sixty-seven lives were lost and 404 persons were more or less se verely injured by lightning stroke. The killed were in various conditions of environment-in dwellings, barns, under trees and in the open. More peo ple were killed under trees than in the open. It is not safe to seek shelter fronm a thunderstorm under a tree. The regions of greatest danger from lightning stroke appear to be in Wyo ming, Montana, Colorado and North Dakota, although more extended records are required before a definite expression on this question can be given. The statistics confirm the general belief that danger from lightning stroke is least in closely built cities and greatest in the country. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED. Will be Enlisted Right Along and 20,000 Rushed to Manila. As a result of a conference between the President and Secretary Alger, it has been dlecided to begin the enlist ment of volunteers for two years' ser vice in the Philippines. Orders to re cruiting officers to this effect have been sent out. It is proposed to arm and equip at once three brigades. or about 10000 men, and then to continue the work until the whole 33,000 authorized by the law are secured. There will be no call upon the States. The regiments will be organized as United States vol unteera Odficers will be appointed by the President and assigned to regiments without regard to State lines. The maximum of the regular army of 5,000 men has been secured, and now enlistments will be for the provisional army to make up the total strength of 100,000 men. Gen. Otis has 29,300 men on the ground or under orders. and volunteers will be rushed to him until he has an efi,:ient force of 50,000 men. In the enlistments for the United States volunteers, veterans of the late war, including those who did not get beyond the home camps, but were sea soned, will be given the preference. and the same will be true of the offieers. A brigadier general for every three regi ments and a major general for each di vision of three brigades will be appoint ed. They will be part regulars and part volunteers, and Gen. Joe W~heeler will be among the number. Many Want Offices. Governor 31eSweeney has received a large number of letters from young men in various portions of the State asking him to use his influence with the presi dent and war department to get them commissions in the volunteer service about to be organized for the Philippine service. He has yet to receive an offer from any one desiring to volunteer for STEAMS HIP BURNED AT SEA. Was PlVing Between Brunswick, Charleston and Boston. The George W. Clyde steamship, Capt. Robinson, of New York Clyde Line, arrived in Wilmington, N. C., June 27, at 11 o'clock with Capt. A. D. Ingram and crew of the steamship Pawnee on bosrd, the Clyde having picked them up from the small boats very soon after they abandoned the Pawnee, leaving her wrapped in flames. An Associated Press representative called upon Capt. Ingram soon after his arrival and was told that the Pawnee was abandoned off Currituck on the coast of North Carolina a little past midnight on Sunday night. The fire was discovered about mid night and had gained such headway that every effort to check the flames was futile. They leaped in great volume from the forward hold of the vessel and dense smoke completely en veloped the decks. When the alarm was made Capt. Ingram was asleep, and no sooner had he rushed out and taken in the situation than he saw that if he saved his crew he must get them off at once. However, the pumps were set to work and the two streams of water upon the flames for several min utes before he gave the order for the boats to be lowered and the ship aban doned. While the crew were manning the small boats Capt. Ingram rushed into his cabin for some valuables which he h-pcd to save. When he reached the ship's side the boat had drifted out of reach, and about that time the smoke shifted so as to envelop that side of the vessel, and the captain ordered the crew to row the boat to the windward side. This they did, but in the meantime the wind shifted again, the heat and smoke forcing them to pull away without their captain. There were three vain efforts of this kind made, the boat being rowed to first one side of the vessel and then the other, in attempts to reach the cap tain. Finally Capt.Ingram leaped into the water and swam -200 feet or more toward the boat. One of the crew held an oar out to him and pulled him in completely exhausted and almost un conscious. In the meantime the George W. Clyde had sighted the Pawnee in flames and bore down upon her in time to pick up the captain and crew within a few minutes after they abandoned the burning ship. Capt. Ingram says the Pawnee had a full cargo on board, prin cipally lumber, of which there was, be tween 500,000 and 600,000 feet. There was also a quantity of cotton on board. The Pawnee, in command of Capt. Ingram,. left Brunswick, Ga., on Fri day and Charleston on Saturday for Boston, laden with lumber and gen eral cargo. The Pawnee was a freight steamer plying between Boston, Char leston and Brunswick, and had a crew of about 34 men and had no passengers. THE PARDONING POWER Gov. McSweeney Exercises it in Sev eral Cases Others Refused. Gov. McSweeney Wednesday acted upon a number of applications for par don. A pardon was granted John Dill con victed in March, 1895, in Spartanburg, of manslaughter and sentenced by Judge Witheraspoon to seven years im prisonment 'n the penitentiary. The pardon was recommended by the judge, solicitor and jury. He also pardoned Robert Wither spoon, now in jail at Lancaster. His sentence wouhd expire in October. The county physician certified that the man is dying in jail and the solicitor asked the pardon. The governot refused to interfere in the case of T. E. Thackston of Green ville, who is serving sentence for kill ing a negro woman with whom he was intimate. This was the second time Thackston had killei a person in a bawdy house, his first victim being a man. The governor could find no miti gating circumstances. General Evans Davis, who was con victed in October, 1896, in Clarendon of manslaughter rwith a- reommenda tion to mercy and was sentenced by Judge Benet to serve four years at hard labor in the State prison. got a pardon. Davis was a mere boy at the time and the killing occurred at a general row at a negro hot supper. The deceased struck him and he used his knife in de fense. The judge and solicitor both said they thought the ends of justice had been met. A pardon was given Dave 3Iurdock of Marlbgro who was convicted of as sault and battery in November, 1897, and sentenced to two years on the chaingang. His term is not out and he recently assisted in preventing the escape of prisoners, lie is in bad health. He assaulted his father-in-law in a family rowv. Solicitor Johnson and the Marlboro Delegation endorsed the application. 'The commutation to six months in the case of Irving Williams, Richland county. heretofore mentioned, was granted. The governor ref used to pardon Rob ert Crockett, convicted of larceny of live stock, although the prosecutor asked it. The main reason a pardon was desired wa., the use of Crockett as a witness in another case. The solicit or said he would need the testimony. State. It Cured Him. A Cincinnati man recently advertised his desire to sell a valuable secret for 50 cents. He stated that he would tell how he was cured of drinking. smoking, swearing, staying out at night, going to the races, gambling, and how he gained 20 pounds in weight in two years. Sev erol persons sent him 50 cents each, and here is the secret they received: '"Just cured of all the bad habits named by an enforced residence for two years in the Ohio State prison." Bryan the Man. Col. He~nry Watterson does not feel like chasing rainbows these days. lie says in his journal that Mr. Bryan will be the Democratic nominee next year on a free silver platform and that "the Eastern Democrats who andertake to control the wild horses of the West and South, will fare no better ini 1900 than GOOD ROADS. Supervisors Invited to Attend: a Road Institute. CIRCULAR TO THE OFFICERS. The President of Our Association Advises All of Them to Keep Up With the Times. The following circular letter was is sued Wednesday: To the Road Supervisors of the Coun ties of South Carolina: The undersigned deems it his duty as president of the South Carolina Good Roads association to call the at tention of the South Carolina road supervisors to the annexed invitation from Mr. J. A. Holmes, State geolo gist of North Carolina, as given June 21st last in The State. It is respectfully suggested that as many supervisors attend as possible. The Road Builders' institute is a most useful and a most timely conception. Tne work proposed looks to the mate rial upbuilding of South Carolina. Let us hope that our State will keep up with North Carolina in her onward march in the line of good roads, with all that they imply for the prosperity of our people, especially our farming popula tion. The following is the statement from the State geologist of North Carolina: "Two of the greatest factors in the good roads problem in this country are money to cover the expenses and trained roadbuilders who know how to spend this money judiciously. Road builders will not multiply unless there is money with which to pay them, but the exist ence in every county or township of supervisors who know how to expend every dollar of road money to the best advantage, for permanent results, will very greatly increase the willingness of the people to vote taxes for ioad build ing. "With a view to aiding in bringing about this result, by awakening an in terest in this subject, a road builders' institute is to be held in Charlotte, the centre of that excellent system of ma cadam roads in Mecklenburg county, for ten days or two weeks, beginning. July 11th. next. It will be conducted by J. A. Holmes, State geologist for North Carolina. Gen. Roy Stone, di rector of the government office of road engineering, will be with the institute for several days and wiiH give it the benefit of his wide experience. Mr. D. P. Hutcheson, manager of the Charlotte township road work, and MirQ. A. Spratt, engineer for the city and cosa . ty road work, will take part in the dis cussions of good roads problems and ex plain their system of road building. 'i1he county, township and city road authorities will cooperate with the in stitute in every way possible in making the instruction given of a practicl na ture. Persons attending will be given instruction in how to locate, build and repair both earth roads and macadam roads; the handling of road machinery and the management of convicts. Road supervisors from every part of the two Carolinas and all other persons who de sire to learn something about the meth ods of modern road building, and who may wish to see the methods followed ' in building the splendid macadam roads of Mecklenburg county, are cordially invited to attend this institute." The only expenses necessary are the cost of traveling and board while in Charlotte. Persons desiring further information should write to either Mr. D. P. Hutcheson of Charlotte or Prof. J. A. Holmes, Capel Hill, N. C. Jne. P. Thomas, Pres. S. C. Good Roads Association. A RevoltigCrime. A dispatch to The State from Bates burg under date of June 26 says: James Attaway, white, was arrested here this afternoon by Sheriff Caughman of Lex ington on the charge of rape. The sheriff is looking for Ed. McCloud on the same charge. The affidavit in the warrant is made by L. H. Leitch and David Meetze, charging the assault on the persons of their wives, Mary Ann Leitch and Laura Ellen Meetze. It seems that the women have not borne the best of reputations and that the defendants have been in the habit of visiting them as lovers. Recently the women were married to the above named men and it is presumed that the husbands objected to the continu ance of their past lives. On May 16 the parties visited the house where the parties were living, but the husbands objected to their presence. Attaway and McLeod are said to be pretty bad men, and it is said that at the point of the pistol they made the husbands leave the house. In some way Attaway's pistol was discarged and the ball took effect in the groin of one of the women. Dr. Cros son of Leesville probed for the ball but was unable to find it, as it had lodged in the pelvic cavity. The woman is not yet out of danger. She claims that Attaway deliberaitely shot her, but he claims that the shooting was accidental. The prisoner had a pistol and a pair of knucks on his person when arrested today, so he will have to answer to the charge of carrying concealed weapons. The scene of the alleged crime is in the northern part of Lexington county near the Saluda river. Must Like His Job. General Leonard Wood has refused an offer of $30,000 a year to hold his post as military governor of Santiago at one, fifth that salary. Wood is one of those men who realize that there are some things in this world better than money. Such men are the salt of the earth. Too True. Henry Timrod is another dead genius who after being neglected and scoffed at during his life is now having flowers strewn upon his grave and all sorts of people to arise and call him blessed. What a fraud fame is! We seldom know who aremost worthy of our praise untl theyre onenn beyond its reach.