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VOL. X V. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1900. NO, 15 STAIE CIAMPAIGN. The Prcgress the Cardidates Are MAkirg in the Canvass. ' GETTING LESS PERSONAL. Patterson's Charges Against Gov McSweeney Fall Flat. What the Other Cardidates Have to Say. Since our last report the candidates have visited the e.unties of Dorchester, Charleston, Colicton, Beaufort, Hamp ton, Barnwell and Bamberg, in each of which they were cordially received and given a patient hcaring. The speeches made at all the above places were sub stantially the same as published last week. At Walterboro Mr. Patterson took a hand primary to see how many supporters he had in the crowd of three hundred. About thirty hands were raised, which must have satisfied him as he did not ask for the negative side of the question. At Beaufort, Capers said McMahan was an imperialist, in that he wanted to appoint co-2nty superintendents and faculties of the county normals; also that State summer school faculty are northern teachers. McMahan replied that there was a movement to take elections of county superintendents cu of the hands of the people in order that "jNek-leg" poli ticians could not keep out trained and expert teachers. 'I his would not affect efficient superintendents now in .ffiee. W. D. Evans rendered an account of his stewardship. He had served six years. A fellow in the gailery had ob jected to a marriage because he wanted the "gal" himself. That was the way with his opponents. Col. Wharton referred to Beaufort's record in overer!lag large majorities. "Let them move hell if they want, but don't let the-n move the dry dock," he said, in par.;phra-ing anothcr candi date's joke. B. B. Evans said that. Beaufort's har bor is useless as a point of shipment, as the town is bottled up by the Coast Line. He renewed his charg: hat W. D. Evans had written to Lu..se, presi dent of the Laurens mill, that he was not responsible to the legislature but to the people. He had the applause. The gubernatorial revenue cutters then got under headway, chasing blind tigers. McSweeney was well received. He hadlived in the neighboring county, had maaried in Beaufort county and had always stuck by Beaufort in her trials. His speech v.as about the same as at Charleston. He made an appeal against lynch law. He would have had the notorious scoundrel Thomas tried and hanged long ago, and he decried de lays in court in such heinous crimes. He advocated an improved arsenal for the Beaufort artillery. (Cheers). le defied any of his opponents to have one single word against his official record. Col. Hoyt told of his record since 1876, through 1890) and down to the present day as a servant of the Demo cratieparty, without asking for office. He had been one of those -o petition for the prohibition election iu 1892 whieh led up to the dispensary law. He opposed high license as he op posed the dispensary (Cheers.) There is now ten times as much liqu& r drunk in Greenville county outside of the city as under prohibition. The blind tigers buy liquor from the dispensarv. The demoralization of upper Carolina is forty times as great as under saloons. Mr. Pattereen wshout much prehimi naries began to discuss the issues in. the campaign. Hie made the dispen sary the main topic and defended it as he did at Osangeourg. Col. H oyt had asked him did nine tenths of the Bap tists of the State drink liquor, and Pat terson in the course of remarks said ,that a lot of them do and if all the Bap tists who drink liquor be turned out ~there would not be many left in that .church, He wanted to know if it were worse for him, vice prcsident of the Baptist convention, to advocate dispen gary than for Col. Hoyt who had been president to advocate coalition between prohibition and high license as he did an an editorial last fal:. lHe charged McSweeney with evading the dispen sary issue and covering it up with local nmatters. When he said there were only four constables in Charleston some fel low said that was too many (Cheers.) Patterson showed that 20 persons in Beaufort use revenue licenses. This is -evidence of violation of the dispenary lasv. His speech was very nearly the .original, but the sensational parts were left out and it was better therefor. Mr. Gary made a speech along the asual lines. Yesterday Col. Hoyt had .charged that he, Gary, had not voted for the Robinson local option bill. He <did not recall the purport of that bill but had votta for the Archcr bill, which is almost identical with his plat form. Gary's applause was next that of McSweency. The candidates for lieutenant gover nor then took the stump. About 1~> voters and the negro band were left for them to talk to and it was nearly mid night when Capt. Jennings pronounced the benediction. The campaigners organized in order to allot the time for speaking at the several points to be visted. Col. Hoyt was selected as chairman and Ellison Capers secretax y. The candidates are never quite satisfied with allotment of time. Hampton County had her cam paign meeting Thursday. Governor Me1Sweeney gave a cordial welcome to the candidates to the homes of Hamp ton. He mnade no speech, but simply asked the people to take him on his rec ord. Col Hoyt was greeted with hand.clap -A number of ladies in t! e audi ene were supplied with beautiful bou uets arnd this evidently inspired I ol Hoyt, for he inade avery earnest speech and, as was suspected, ne was the favored of the fair sex. In regard to his editorial of last win ter, in ~which he had advocated the coalition of all opponents of the dispen sary, he said that he had agreed to it on account of the Prohibition minority of 5u to no in the Legislature. Hie had -don so that there m:ieht be a repeal of the dispensary, followed by prohibition. Why is it that Mr Patterson's services to South Carolina and his pre-eminent ability have not commended him to the peopl( Patterson has written a screed on prohibition and dispensary, which he is :cattering broadcast over the State. Ile then denied Patterson's written statement that the Bible preaches tem perance, not prohibition. He conclud ed by appealing for the settlement of the iquor question this year. Mr Gary said that ,hen he saw Col Hoyt getting so uany flowers he was farced to say: "That's right, bring on the flowers, for we have buried him." le had buried Col Ho3t politically. If elected he would show the same im partiality v hich he had done in the Speaker's chair. His friends knew that he had never been a usurer. They knew too, that he was a true friend of the dispensary law. He then explained his local option position-to let the several counties vote between dispensary and prohibition. A Governor hostile to the dispensary law could paral3 ze it by see ing that it is not enforced, and if Col Hoyt be elected, which is irr ossible, ffairs would be mixed up unles. he had a prohibition Legislature behind him. Ae warned the dispensary people that Col Hoyt was a coalition candidate. Col Patterson closed the meeting. He refused to be confined to thirty minutes, and exchanged places with Gary, speaking last and consuming un limited time. This county adjoins his own, but he was received silebtly. His opening was identical with his other speeches and he developed few new matters. He continued his charges against Governor McSweeney for dila tory policy in conne.tion with the Charkston Custom House. TIlE BARNWELL MEETING The campaigners were at Barnwell on Friday. This was the largest attended and most representative gathering of the campaign. The opera house was packed. The day was cloudy and farm ers came into town. There were quite a number of ladies present. The cor respondent of The State says: "Mr. Patterson spoke with more spirit than at Hampton and other recent meetings, but it is evident he will not have a walkover here. Oae of his friends stated today that this county will be evenly divided between himself, Hoyt and 3McSweeney. The County F o cratic executive committee met this morning and decided that the offices of magistrate and master must go into the primary. Patterson is master, his com mission expires July 12, and it appears that this action today is a thrust at Senator Aldrich and Patterson. The former was instrumental in Patterson's appointment, and now the latter cannot get the job back when he is defeated for governor. Aldrich have strong op position for the senate." The candidates for railroad commis sioner had their inning, then come tbse who wanted to be lieutenant-gov erner. These were followed by the ezadidates fnr Tieasurer. Next came those who waLted to be comptroller gene:al. The last to speak before the Su'ernatoral andidates was Mr. Elli son Capers, Jr., who wants to be Super intendent (,f Education. Mr. MeMa han was absent, but sent a letter. Then came the candidates for gover nor. Walt Whitman's appearance was received as a joke. He jumped on McSweeney and Hoyt for their liquor views. He did not outlive his policy except he favors dispensary. Daring his speech there were cries of "Patter son." Walt shouted, "You had better holler for him, that's all the votes he'll get." Somebody asked who sent him down here. He replied: '-The people of the Picdmont belt, who have the brains and the votes, which can't be said of you VGkee dher/'s your wheel? Walt-There isn't room enough in your head to ho'd a wheel. Continuing, he said that he was in the race to help Col. Hoyt along. "Gary ain't in it." (Laughter.) He then camne to his old issue, the State colleges. Nobody had ever aceced him of being a crank but a friend of State colleges. Senator Tillman had stood on the same platform, and nobody called him a erank. Patterson was greeted with some cheering. At the conclusion of his speech he was presented with six bou quet4. He began by saying he was proud of the support of his neighbors. He made the O.rangeburg speech with a few little changes. He stated that Hoyt had not denied his charge that prohibition Maine sold more whi:-key illicitly than does South Carolina through the dispensary. He didn't know whether Cal. Hoyt favored local option or prohibition. He had a Writ ten statement regarding the dispute about Christ's sanctioning the use of wine. The statement is too long to tel egraph. lie asked MeSweeney if he favored the dispensary law. MeSweeney-Read my last message to the legislature. Patterson-Answer my question. McSweeney-Yes, 1 amin favor of it and I have enforced it better than any other governor. (Cheers and counter cheers ) Patterson-Ib Charleston in favor of the dispensary? McSweeney- Go ask Charleston. The question was repeated with the same answer. Patterson-Will Charleston support you? McSwecney declined to notice this question. Some one in the crowd yelled "Yes, because they favor blind tigers.'' He again referred to the custom house affair in which $1,00J0 worth of liquor was dumped into the harbor and all the fish made drunk. In Beaufort McSweeney laid not mention the dis pensary for Beaufort is against the dis pensary. In regard to the Pons case Patterson said that he commended Me~ Sweeney for that, but the issue is the liquor law. He read his check paying The News and Courier $4 for announc ing his (candidaoy. lie saw that the comptroller general had written a letter saying thatGovernor Johnson Hlagood had bought but four papers out of his contingent fund. Patterson denied that Col. Aldrich wrote his speech, a charge which, by the way, was never made. He characterized it as a falsehood. The rumor around in several p'laces was that Aldrich helped him write it. That was not denied. He 3umped on dis. crepanees in The News and Courier's report of the first and second days when these reports -were made by different rnepotes He was not a howlin suc cess today although he was g rceted with cheers by his supporters. MaSweeney began by saying that at Hampton he had made no speech ex cept to welcome the candidates. He had assailed nobody there. At St. Georee's he hadread a statement from W. W. Harris that the dispensary law is being enforced. lie read i letter from a magistrate in Greenville show ing violations of the dispensary law had decreased 51) per cent. le is being attacked for little things. Governor Evans had paid $572 :r pictures. El lerbe had paid for pictures out uf the contingent fund. In regard to the Pns case he said he meant no reflection on the attorney but he was proud of Ward. Every effort had been made to get him to pardon Pons, the notorious scoundrel but he would never pardon a biga mist. (Cheers.) He is the owner of the Hampton Guardian but is not in charge of the editorial department. He quoted from a letter to Howie, chief constable in Charleston, to renew his efforts to break up blind tigers, seize liquors, fixtures, etc. If he needed more men call on the governor. Howie wrote that the little tigers were not trouble some and the big ones were being bioken up. He had proceeded carefully in the custom house business in order not to antagonize the United States and the State. Mr. Gary said he would make but a ten minutes' speech. While Col. Hoyt and Patterson were wasting time dis cussing fermented and unfermented wine, he would discuss the method of managing the Eale of wine today. He devoted himself to the coalition be tween prohibition and high license. The reduction of the constabulary one half made the force inefficient. le had been told that in Chester the tigers were so thick they had staived each other out. The credit of turning Tol bert out of the custom house is due to Tillman, not to NlcSweeney. The word had gone out from Columbia that - Something must be done to kill off Gary for he is gaining to much." If they are seared now by the time we reach the upper tier of counrties they will take a chill. Col. Hoyt said that Gary was making a mistake running for office this year. He had been an attache of the legisla ture 16 years and is the logical candi date for lieutenant governor. Gary might be in somebody else's way, but not in his. He was maintaining this fight alone. le denied with spirit that he was a coalition candidate. Not a man in the race would decline the sup port of a respectable newspaper. It was a voluntary support. Col. Hoyt, Gary and McSweeney each received a modicum of applause. Senator Tillman's presence had helped hold the crowd. His speech lacked the old-time fire, for dynamite needs a jar to fireit off. Hespoke of na tional affairs about in the same manner as he did at Orangeburg, He kept hands off in the political circus and said he would assign the ringmaster's whip to Walt Whitman. However he did touch upon the main issue-the dispen sary. He did not claim paternity, but said it was the result of conaitions. The fight against it had been settled in 1891, in 189., 18%1 and 189S, and "yet they tell us they want to settle the liquor question. Is it to keep coming up until we give up to the minority? I wish you would settle the thing this time, put up headstones and if you have any flower3 put them on the grave, too." He was glad to see that the crowd was not drunk as it had been in some of the monkey and parrot times of yore. 'Talk about prohibition, you know you love liquor and you are going to have it. You love liquor just like you do the girls, and you will have it." (Laughter.) lHe then spoke on nation al polities. At the conclusion he re ceived flowers, three bunches. There were cries for "Bellinger," but the at torney general declined to speak at home in the absence of his opponent. A Snake Story. Scorpions, centipedes, tarantulas and other poisonous insects and reptiles are on board the German steamship Arnold- Luyken, which is now at New York. They have burrowed in the logwood with which the hold is filled. Seeking warmth the brownish scorpions crawl along the steampi pes of the winches and across the decks. A number have been captured and killel, while the chief officer of the Arnold-Luyken has preserved a large specimen in a beer bottle. The mate's scorpion is four inches long. Within the hold the gleaming, many eyed in insects and brilliant lizards people a den of fascinating tints and repulsive suggestiveness dangerous to the steve dore and the sailor. Some longshore men in the Erie basin have lost their fingers through the sting of the tropical bred scorpion. The Charleston Vote. A despatch to the Greenville News concerning the campaign meeting in Charleston Saturday says: "Colonel Hoyt especially had the solid support of the prohibitionists, whose avowed candidate he is. lie made a strong speech and delivered it well, and while the county may be placed in the doubtfnl column Hoyt will probably get a larger vote here than either of the other men who are in the gubernatorial roce." Our recollection is that in 1892 less than two hundred votes were cast for prohibition in Charleston county. There has been nothing to indicate any wonderful change since then. Charles ton may give Colonel Hoyt a plurality, but they will not be prohibition votes by a jugful.-Columbia tecord. Throws Them Out. The Columbia Record says: Chief of Police Boyle, of Charleston, has sent to Governor 31eSweeney a list of the ases made out in Charleston for the June term of eeurt. There are thirty nine individuals charged with violating the law, there being in several instances two or three eases against each. Chief' Boyle seems to be quite active in hav ing arrests of this kind made, but they usually amount to nothing, as the grand jury continuously throws them out." This is why blind tigers flourish in Charleston. Expelled Them. Because five students in the haw de partment of the University of''enes see saw fit to play baseball with the "Original Bloomer Girl' Baseball Ciub of Chicago, who are touring the South, Dr. Thomas W. Jordan the dean of the institution has expelled them from school. TilE PLATFORM. An Ingenious and Delusive Ap peal to the People ISSUED BY BOSS HANNA. He Attributes all Prosperity to the Repub!ican Party and All Disasters to the Demo cratic Pdrty. The fellowing is the platform adopted Wednesday by the Iepublican National Convention: The Republicans of the United States, through their chosen representa tives, met in National Convention, looking back upon an unsurpassed re cord of achievement, and looking for ward into a great field of duty and op portunity, and appealing to the judg ment of their countrymen, make these deciarations: The expectation in which the Ameri can people, turning from the Democratic party, entrusted power four years ago to a Republican Chief Magistrate and a Republican Congress. has been met and satisfied. When the people then assembled at the polls, after a term of Democratic legislation and administra ion, business was dead, industry para lyzed and the national credit disastrous ly impaired. The country's capital was hidden away and its labor distressed and unemployed. The Democrats held no other plan with which to improve the ruinous conditions which they had themselves produced than to coin sil ver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The Re publican party, denouncing this plan as sure to produce conditions even worse than those from which relief was sought, promised to restore prosperity by means of two leeislative measures-a protec tive tariff and a law making gold the standard of value. The people by great majorities issued to the Republi can party a commission to enact these laws. This commission has been exe cuted and the Republican promise is redeemed. Prosperity more general and more abundant than we have ever known has followed these enactments. There is no longer controversy as to the value of any Government obligations. Every American dollar is a gold dollar r its assured equivalent, and Ameri can credit stands higher than that of any nation. Capital is fully employed and labor everywhere is profitably oc cupied. And while the American people, sus tained by this Republican legislation, have been achieving these splendid triumphs in their business and com meice, they have conducted and in vic tory concluded a war for liberty and human rights. No thought of national aggrandizement tarnished the high pur pose with which Americiu standards were unfurled. It was a war unsought ad patiently resisted, but when it came the American Government was eady. To ten millions of the human race here was given "a new birth of free om," and to the American people a ew and double responsibility. We endorse the administration of illiam McKinley. Its acts have been stablished in wisdom and in patriotism, and at home and abroad it has distinct y elevated and extended the influence f the American nation. Walking un tried paths and facing unforeseen re ponsibilities, President McKinley has been in every situation~ the true Amieri can patriot and the upright stateman, lear in vision, strong in judgment, firm in action, always inspiring and eserving the confidence of his country en. In asking the American people to en dorse this Republican record and to re new their commission to the Republi can party, we remind them of the fact that the menace to their prosperity has always resided in Democratic pinciples n no less in the general incapacity of the Democratic party to conduct public affairs. The prime essential of busi ness prosperity is public confidence in the good sense of the Government and its ability to deal intelligently with each new problem of administration nd legislation. That confidence the Democratic party has never earned. It is hopelessly inadequate and the coun try's prosperity when Democratic suc ess at the polls is announced halts and eases in mere anticipation of Demo cratic biur'ders and failures. We re new our allegiance to the principle of the gold standard and declare our con fidence in the wisdom of the legisla tion of the 56th Congress, by which the party of all our money and the stability of our currency upon a gold basis has been secured. We recognize that interest rates are potent factors in production and busi ness activity, and for the purpose of further equalizing, and of further lower ing, the rates of interest, we favor such monetary legislation as will enable the varying needs of the season and of all sections to be promptly made, in order that trade may be evenly sustained, labor steadily employed and commerce enlarged. The voaee of money in cir culation was never so great per capita as it is today. We declare our stead fast opposition to the f ree and unlimit ed coinage of silver. No measure to that end could be considered which was without the support of the leading commercial countries of the world. lowever firmly Republican legislation may seem to have secured the country against the peril of base and discredi ted currency, the election of a Demo cratic President could not fail to impair the country's credit and to bring once more into 1uestion the intention of the Am~erican people to maintain upon the gold standard the parity of their money circulation. The Demoeratic party must be convined thst the American people will never tolerate the Chicago platform. We recognize the necessity and pro priety of the honest co-operation of capital to meet new business conditions and especially to extend our rapidly in creasing foreign trade, but we condemn all conspiracies and combinations in tended to restrict business, to create monopolies, to limit production, or to control prices, and favor such legisla Ition as will effectively restrain and pre vent allc abuse nr~et and pro mote campetition and secure the rights of producers, laborers and all who are engaged in industry and commerce. We renew our faith in the policy of protection to American labor. In that policy our industries have been estab lished, diversified and maintained. By protecting the home market competition has been stimulated and production cheapened. We favor the associated policy of recipiocity so directed as to open our markets on favorable terms for what we do not ourselves produce in return for free foreign markets. In the further interest of American workingmen we favor a more effective restriction of the immigration of cheap labor from foreign lands, the extension of opportunities of education for work ing children, .the raising of the age limit for child labor, the protection of free labor as against contract convict labor, and an effective sytem of labor insurance. Our present dependence upon foreign shipping for nine tenths of our foreign carrying is a great loss to the industry of this country. It is also a serious dangcr to our trade, for its sudden withdrawal in the event of a European war would seriously cripple our expand ing foreign commerce. The national defence and naval efficiency of this country, moreover, supply a compelling r ason-for legislation which will enable us to recover our former place among the trade-carrying fleets of the world. The pension laws should be liberal and should be liberally administered, and preferences should be given wher ever practicable with respect to employ ment in the public service to soldiers and sailors and to their widows and or phans. We commend the policy of the Re publican party in maintaining the effi ciency of the civil service law. The Administration has acted wisely in its effort to secure for public service in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Pnilippine Islands only those who3e fit ness has been determined by training and experience. We believe that em ployment in the public service in these territories should be confined as far as practicable to their inhabitants. It was the plain purpose of the fif teenth amendment to the Constitution to prevent discrimination on account of race or color in regulating the elective franchinse. Devices of State Govern ments; whether by statutory or consti tutional enactment, to avoid the pur pose of this amendment are revolution ary and shoul I be condemned. Public movements looking to a per manent improvement of the roads and highways of the country meet with our cordial approval, and we recommend this subject to the earnest considera tion of the people and of the Legisla tures of the several States. We favor the extension of the rural free delivery service wherever its ex tension may be justified. In further pursuance of the constant policy of the Republican party to pro vide free homes on the public domain, we recommend adequate natioaal legis lation to reclaim the arid lands of the United States, reserving control of the distribution of water for irrigation to the respective States and Territories. We favor home rule for, and the ear ly admission to Statehood of, the Ter ritories of New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma. The Dingley Act. amended to pro vide suffiieent revenue for the conduct of the war, has so well performed its work that it has been possible to reduce the war debt in the sum of $40,000. The country is now justified in expect ing, and it will be the policy of the Republican party to bring about, a re duction of war taxes. We favor the construction, owner ship, control and protection of an Isthmian canal by the Government of the United States. New markets are necessary for the increasing surplus of our farm products. Every effort should be made to open and obtain new markets, especially in the Orient, and the Administration is warmly to be commended for its suc cessful effort to commit trading and colonizing nations to the policy of the open door in China- In the interest of our expanding commerce we recommed that Congress create a department of commerce and industf es, in the charge of a secretary, with a seat in the cabi net. The American government must pro tect the person and property of every citizen wherever they are wrongfully violated or placed in peril. President McKinley has conducted the foreign affairs of the United States with distinguished credit to the Ameri can people. In releasing us from vex atious conditions of a European alliance for the government of Samoa his course is especially to be commended. By se curing to our undivided control the most important island of Samoan group and the best labor in the Southern Pa cific, every American interest has been safe-guarded. We commend the part taken by our government in the peace conference at The Hague. We assert our steadfast adherence to the policy announced in the Monroe doctrine. The provisions of The Hague Convention were wisely regarded when President McKinley tendered his friendly offices ine'the in terest of peace between Great Britain and the South African Republic. While the American government must continue the policy prescribed by Wash ington, affirmed by every succeeding President and imposed upon us by The Hague treaty, of non-intervention in European controversies, the American people earnestly hope that a way may soon be found honorably alike to both contending parties to terminate the strife between them. We approve the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States. In accepting by the treaty of Paris the just respontibility of our victories in the Spanish war the President and the Senate won the undoubted approval of the American people. No other course was possible than to destroy Spain's sovereignty throughout the Western Indies and in the Philippine Islands. That course created our re sponsibility before the world and with the unorganized population whom our intervention had freed from Spain, to provide for the maintenance of law and order and for the establishment of good government, and for the performance of international obligations. Our au thority could not be less than our re sponsibility and wherever sovereign right were extended it becme the high duty of the government to main tain its authority, to put down armed insurrection and to confer the blessings of liberty and civilization upon all the rescued peoples. The largest measure of self-government consistent with their welfare and ou: duties shall be se cured to them by law. To Cuba inde pendence and self-government were as sured in the sanme voice by which war was declared, and to the letter this pledge shall be performed. FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE Thirty-Five Persons Hurled to Death in a Railroad Accident. A passenger train on the Macon branch of the Southern railway ran into a washout one and a half miles north of McDonough, Ga., Saturday night and was completely wrecked. The wreck caught fire and the entire train with the exception of the sleepers was destroyed. Every person on the train, except the occupants of the Pullman car, perished. Not a member of the train crew es oaped. Thirty-five people in all were killed. Following is a list of the dead: William A. Barclay, conductor, At lanta. J. E. Wood, conductor, Atlanta. J. H. Hunnicutt, conductor, Atlanta. J. T. Sullitan, engineer, Atlanta. W. W. Bennett, baggagemaster, At lanta. T. D. Maddox, cotton buyer, Atlanta. W. J. Pate, Atlanta. Twelve year old son of W. J. Pate, Atlanta. H. R. Cressman, Pullman conductor. George W. Flournoy, Atlanta. D. C. Hightower, Stockbridge, Ga. W. W. Ipark, Mac',n, Ga. Eider Henron, traveling man, sup posed to have been from Florda. J. R. Florida, Nashville, Tenn. ;V. 0. Ellis, bridgeman, Stockbridge. D. Y. Griffith, supervisor. J. H. Rhodes, flagman. John Brantley, white, fireman. Will Green, extra fireman. W. L. Morrisett, pump repairer. W. R. Lawrence, forman extra gang. Ed Byrd, colored, fireman, Atlanta. Robert Spencer, train porter. Four bodies yet unidentified. Eight Negro section hands. The following passengers were res cued without serious injury: Jesse L. Rohr, Baltimore. Walter Pope, Atlanta. Miss Mary B. Merritt, Boston, Mass. Miss Clara Alden, Boston, Mass. J. C. Flynn, Atlanta. E. Schreiner, Chattanooga. E T. Mack, Chattanooga. J. J. Quinlan, flagman. T. C. Carter, Pullman porter. Handy Tomlinson. Tremendous rains of daily occurrence for the past two weeks have swollen all streams in this part of the south and several washouts have been reported on the different roads. Camp's creek, which runs into the Ocmulgee, was over its banks and its waters had spread to all the lowlands through which it runs. About a mile and a half north of Mc Donougb, the creek is somewhat near the Southern's tracks and, running alongside it for some distance, finally passes away under the road by a heavy stone culvert. A cloud burst broke over that section of the country about 6 o'clock Saturday night and presum ably, shortly after dark, washed out a section of the track, nearly 100 feet in length, Into this the swiftly mov ing train plunged. There was not a note of warning. The storm was still raging and all the car windows were closed. The passengers, secure as they thought, and sheltered com fortably from the inclement weather went to death without an instant's warning. The train, consisting of a baggage car, second coach, first class coach and a Pullman sleeper, was knocked into kindling wood by the fall. The wreck caught fire a few minutes after the fall and all the coaches were burned except the Pullman car. Eleven Deaths from Fire. The death list of the disastrous blaze in the tenement at 31 Jackson street Ne w York last week now numbers 11. Patrick Byrnes, 23 years old, a 'long shoreman, who lived in the house, died in Gouverneur Hospital. He lived on the second floor of the tenement and he was the first to discover the blaze. He helped all the occupants of the floor to escape, but went back into the blazing rooms, it is said, to get some money which he had saved toward paying his sister's passage to this country from Ireland. He may have found escape by the windows cut off, for he tried to go down by the stairs, which were all aflame. A policeman dragged him out of the building, but he was so badly burned that his death was expected. An Elevator Accident. The elevator in the hotel Walton at Philadaiphia fell seven stories Wednes day and injnred five of the passengers and the elavator boy. The two passen gers most seriously hurt are J. C. Pringey, a delegate from Oklahoma, and Brenton F. Hall, a delegate from Michi gan. Dr. Burton and Walter Hunter of Delaware, Marcellas West of Wash ington and Dr. Camden of Texas were also among the injured. Pringey and Hall have broken legs; Dr. Camden of Texas had an arm and leg broken, hav ing been thrown out of .the elevator as it fell. All of the injured are being cared for, two having bean taken to hospitals. The accident caused intense excitement. Newberry College. Newberry College closed one its most successful years last week. The grad uating class numbers eighteen as fol lows, J. E. Barre, Lexington; .J. E. Boland, Little Mountain; J. E. Brim, Dawson, Ga,; B. T. Blozhardt, Newber ry; t. P. Copeland, Earhardt; D. J. S. Derrick, Leesville: H. W. Fulmer, Hil ton; D. F. Goggins, Newberry: 8. P. Johnson, Renno; Miss M. L Johnstone, Newberry; J. B. Kilgore, Newberry; J. D. Luther, Prosperity; C. (I. Olney, Charleston; A. P. Sites, Spring Hill, T. I. Swygert, Peak; J. R. Unger, Mt. WIlling; D. L. Wedaman, Newberry; C. F. Werts, Newberry. The graduat ing exercises were attended by a large crod. CHARLESTON BLIND TIGERS. What is Being Done by the Police to Suppress Them. Governor McSweeney received last week a report from Mayor Smyth, of Charleste, as to the work of the city police against the "tigers" alleged to exist in Charleston. The report is ac companied by the following letter from Mayor Smyth, of Charleston City of Charleston. Executive Dapartment, June 16, 1900. To his Excellency, the Hon. M. B. McSweeney, Governor of South Caro lina, Columbia, S. C.-Dear Sir: I herewith forward for your perusal copies of statement of cases submitted to the Court of General Sessions for Charleston county, which convenes on June 18, 1900, for violations of the dis pensary law for three months, and also a letter to me from Chief of Police W. A. Boyle, explaining this statement. Please note that these cases are in ad dition to those submitted at the Febru ary term of court, and cover cases made out from February 20, 1900, to June 18, 1900. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. Adger Smyth, Mayor. The other letter is that of Chief .f Police Boyle, of Charleston. The list of cases that are to go before the June term of court, Charleston is gotten up in very neat shape. The index shows that thirty-nine alleged "tigers" have been dealt with and raided, or cases made out against them. The index shows that forty cases h&7e been made and sent by the magistrates to the higher court. The witnesses in all of these cases are J. E. Dair and E. B. Hendrix. There are a great number of reports made of raids by -the police force. Chief Boyle's letter, which states the exact status of the cases, reads: Central Station, Office Chief of Police, Charleston, S. C., June 16, 1900. Hon. J. Adger Smyth, Mayor, City. Dear Sir: Accompanying this letter is a full report of the cases bound over for the Court of General Sessions which convenes Monday June 18, 1900, for the violations of the dispensary law, to gether with the additional evidence of raids and seizures made against the parties indicated. After an examina tion of the report and it meets with your approval I would ask that you have the same forwarded to his Excel lency, Governor M. B. McSweeney, in order that he may see the work of this department on the dispensary iii. Piease call his attention to the fact that these cases have been made only for the June term of court, like cases being made for every term of court, and if the raids given to strengthen such cases date further back than three months, it doesn't follow that this is all the work the department has done for the time embraced during these raids. In other words, this is only a report for the J une term of court. My annual report shows always what work is done by the department en this line for the preceding year. Very respectfully, W. A. Boyle, Chief of Police. AN INTERESTING CASE A Divorce Granted in Another State is Recognized. During the session of the court last week at Lexington a novel case came up before Judge Klugh which was as fol fows: John B. Sharpe and Mrs. Maggie O'Brien were indicted for adultery. The indictment charged "that John B. Sharpe and Cynthia L. Sharpe were married in this State in 1876; that some five or six years ago the said Cynthia L. Sharpe lef t the said John B. Sharpe and removed to the State of Utah; that some time after she left this State John B. Sharpe removed to the State of Georgia and became a cit izen of that State; that after Cynthia IL. Sharpe had become a citizen of the State of Utab. and had her domicile there, she instituted an action for di vorce in the fourth judicial court of the county of Utah, State of Utah, against John B. Sharpe; that said Sharpe was daly served with the pro cess of said court and filed an anwser in said ease; that said judicial court of the said State of Utah, after a full hearing of said case, pronounced a de cree, absolutely dissolving the mar riage of said parties and released them from all the obligations thereof. That since that time the said John B. Sharpe and Maggie O'Brien had married in the State of Georgia and about one year ago returned to Lexington county, S. C., where they are now living as man and wife," etc. When the case was called Mr. G. T. Graham, attorney for the defendants, moved to quash the indictment, con tending that the indictment having shown that the domicile of the wife being in the State of Utah and that the court of Utah had full jurisdiction because in such a case the wife could have a separate domicile under the principles announced by the supreme court of the United States in the case of Cheever vs. Wilson, 9 Wall; and the defendant having filed an answer to the procecdings in that case, that the decision of the court of Utah was bind ing on the courts of every State, and the defendants could not be convicted of adultery under section 4, article 1, constitution United States, and section 905 R. S. U. S., and the decisions of the United States supreme court and many other decisions. After hearing the ar gument of Mr. Graham and examining the authorities, the solicitor announced that he believed the court was bound by the decision of the court of Utah and he would nol pross the case. Judge Klugh said that he was satisfied that the decision of the court of the State of Utah, which had jurisdiction of the case, would be binding, and the def end ants'were entitled to have the indict ment quashed.-Thie State. A Big Fire. Five blocks of the best business build ings located in the heart of Bloominging 11l., were destroyed by fire which started at 12:30 o'clock Wednesday morning. The McLean county court house, valued at $400,000, was completely gutted. The records were saved. .Nearly 30 firms were burned out. It is estimated that the losses will foot up between $1,500, i0u and $2,00.000. Two lead ing hotels, the Winsor and Phoernix were burned, but all the guests escaped. The fire started in a laundry. Its cause is unknown. THE CROPS. Weekly Bulletin Issued by Sec' tion Director Bauer. HOW THE CROPS ARE DOINO Review of the Situation and the Outlook Throughout the State of Cotton and Corn, The following is the weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and crops of the State issued last week by Director Bauer of the South Carelina section of the United States weather bureau's weather and crop service: During the week ending 8 a. m. Monday June 18, the temperature averaged slightly warmer than usual, but was free from extremes, -and was highly favorable to crop development. There were widely scattered showers every day in the week, generally light, but heavy in the wastern portions, on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, where the ground was still wet from the previous week's heavy rainfall On Saturday and Sunday the showers were more general, covering the entire State. Except in-the western portions, where the rains hindered cultivation, and in portiens, of Bamberg, Barnwell and Orangzurg counties, where the ground was still wet from previous rains the week's rainfall was very beneficial, es pecially so from Sumter northward and northeastward, where gardens and to baceo stodd in need of moisture. LInds were badly washed in the Piedmont section. Crops of all kinds made favorable progress under the above weather con ditions except in those sections where there has been an excess of rain, mak ing the soil too wet for cultivation, and fields are becoming grassy. Corn is small for the season, but has good color, and is now very premising. Earliest has been laid by. Bottom lands, in the western counties, are too wet to cultivate, and grass and weeds threaten the crop. There is general complaint of grassy cotton fields from the western countier, where chopping is unfinished and cul tivation was hindered, and in portions of the south central counties. Else "1i'ee cotton, although small for the season, is growing rapidly, but lice continue to infest many fields. They are, however, gradually disappearing. Sea island cotton needs hot weather and moisture. With the exceptions noted, the crop is clean and well culti vated. Tobacco has improved and is doing well. It is buttoning low in place. Cutting and curing has began in south ern Marion county. The wheat and oat harvest is nearly finished. Thrashing has begun, and the reports continue to indicate good yields. Some grain was damaged in the shock by the rains. A Mob's Vengeance. Wm. Woodward, of Searcy County, Ark., who shot and killed his step daughter, Mrs. Laurena Thomas, was killed by a mob. After killing his step daughter by shooting her with a Win chester rifle, Woodward shot himself in the breast. The wound would probably have proved fatal but Woodward was still living when a mob of fifteen men entered his house and with clubs beat his head almost to a jelly. Life was extinct before the mob ceased beating him. The origin of the trouble was the arrest of Woodward on a warrant sworn out by Mrs. Thomas charging her step father with forcing her into improper relations with him. Woodward was tried and bound over to await the grand jury's action. When an officer started with him to the county jail at Marshall, Woodward made a break and escaped. He went quickly to his farm, secured a Winchester rifle, and going into the field where his step daughter was at work, fired two shots at her, both tak ing effect. He then shot himself, after he had commanded his wife to kill him and declared he loved his step daughter and regretted that he had killed her. Carpet-Baggers in Cuba. A dispatch from Havana says it is probable that Estes G. Rathbone, the suspended director of posts, will be ar rested within the next few days. The postal inspectors assert that they have evidence implicating him beyond any question. Mr. Rathbone's replies in the course of the examination Thurs day before Fourth Assistant Postmas ter General Bristow, and the inspec tors, were regarded as very unsatistac tory, more than establishing the sus picions that have been forced upon the investigators during the past few weeks, until proof has accumulated to such an extent as to compel them to look upon Mr. Rathbone as gailty. It is also understood that the authorities will ask for the extradition of the head of the printing firm at Muncie, which sent bills on bill heads other than those of the firm, bill heads of purely fic ticious derm. Tae defendants will be Neely, R athbone, Reeves, Rich and the Muncie printer. Rich will be accepted as State's evidence. A Bad Showing. A traveling man with a gingery tongue thus delivered himself at the Kimball: "Some time ago a gentleman friend of mine was walking along the streets of Manila with an educated Filipino when several drunken American's stag gered out of a saloon, lie turned and pointed at them saying:, "'There is the civilization that you are giving us. Before the war there was not a saloon in Manila. Now there are 416.' "Perhaps that's the reason McoKin ley's soldiers are so slow in getting from Manila to China to keep the Box ers from killing our missionaries,'' quietly observed a curbstone patriot. Atlanta Journal. Hard to Down. The Filipinos must be a remarkable people. We are told by the adminis tration that they are as dangerous in peace as in war. That is to say the administration assures us that the war is over in the Philippines, but we can not spare any of our 65,000 soldiers in that nnartr.--Atlanta Jounanlt