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v III t A K ~ f XVI' MANNING., S. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE1I191I4 COAL MINE HORROR AlBSeries of Explosions Causes A Terribie Disaster. MANY BRAVE LIVES LOST. Mine Was Considered Dargerrus and Explosion Was Caused by the Oreed of the Workers. A most disastrous explosion took place in the Port Royal mine near West Newton, Penn., on last Wednes day. There is no fire in the mire, to judge from appearances at the pit mouth, but the f~rae of the explosion was so great that none of the men, so the miners say, could have surv'ved the shoek. The complete list of the dead iDlules: William McCune, suprintendent, married, four children. John Reek, mine boss, married, three children. William Alliscn, superin'endent, West Newton, married. fcur children. Daniel Alsop, mine boss, and thir teen miners. Wilijam McCune was superintendent of the Port Rtal district comprising five mines. He was a large stcck holder in the Pittsburg Coal Company and his family lives in a handsome residenbe on Vine street, We st Newton. William Allison was a cousin of Presi dent McKinley. Eary Wednesday meroing Harry Beveridge ard two miners, three o! a rescuing partv that went to the mine to bring out their mates who were en tombed, were sent to the McKeesp)rt Hospital. Beveridge had both hards broken and the other two were badly burned. At 9 04 A. M., Wednesday an in spection party went into the mine through the shaft on the Baltimore and Ohio side of the Youghiogheny -River. it was their purpose to pene trate as far as possible to locate the dead bodies, with hardly hope of find ing anyone alive. The rescue party had been in the mine about an hour when the mufflhd report of another explosion was heard, issuing from the depths of the shaft, and a rush for the cage was made by the men above, who thought that these rescuers had met the fate of those who had gone before. A dozen men volun teered to go down and try ard rescue the party, but their services were not required, as the signal to hoist the cage was given from the bottom and when it reached the top three unconscious forms were found lying on it. Fire In spector Callahan and Fire Bass W. McFee, of the Wick Haven mines, were the most dangerously hurt of the party, and these men were taken to the hotel nearby, where two physicians worked with them almost an hour be fore they could be brought back to life. This last explosion, in the minds of many, seems to settle the fate of the entombed men, and all hope of getting any of them cut alive has been aban done d. The disaster oceured about 6 o'clock Wednesday evening. An explosion ws heard? by men at shift No. 2 and sud denly a cloud of smoke burst from the mouth of the shaft. A searching party, composed of Superintendent William McCune and nine others, went down shaft No. 2 Nothing was heard of them and in an hour another rescuing force, headed by James Bailey and William Williame, fire bosses, were let down the shaft. They groped their way about 200 feet when two explosions were heard in rapid succession. The shaft lamps in the hands of Bailey and Williams were blown fifty feet away, and they them selves were thrown violently to the ground, They arose to their feet and called for their comrades, but there was no answer. Both men hurried back to the shaft and were taken up in the cage. From that moment until 9 04 A. M. not another soul went down the shaft, as it wouli have meant certain death from the after damp. The part that went in this morning was composed of Mine Inspector Ber nard Callahan, General Superintendent John Rose, Fire Boss William McFee, Fire Boss Daniel McCullough, Fire Boss Peter McLindon and Pit Boss Robert MclKinney. All but Callahan were brought from the various mines of the Pittsburg Coal Company. The Port Royal mine has always been considered dangerous. There was a similar explosion in the mine seven years ago, by which one man was killed. The use of safety lamps had been made especially imperative in these mines by the district inspector, owing to the great danger that was known to exist, but careless miners sometimes use open lights, because they can see better to mine by th"em and this helps them to make a bigger day's wages. This is what probably caused the eax plosion, but the inquiry which will fol low may develop a different cause. Minister Sent To Jail. The Rev. William Wade, the Velpin, Ind., minister who was arrested some time ago on charge of, counterfeiting and who has held revival services in the jail almost nightly since his incar ceration, was found guilty by a federal court jary and sentenced to one year in prison and to pay a fine of $1,000. He denied on the stand that he knew the money be had was counterfeit and when asked if he had anything to say why sentence should rnot he passed up on him replied: "I thank God that I have had the courage to tell the truth throughout this trial. I am en tirely innocent of this charge." Given Knock Out Drops. Commander B. F. Tiller, of the United States navy was given knoer out dorps at San Franciso Friday night robbed and was left insensible by two thugs this morning. Commander Tiliey is governor of the island Tutuila So man. A Bad Slip. A Colorado editor has been compell ed to apologize to Miss Tampico Piuden beeause his proof readers permitted it to go in as 'Tapioca Puddin'. An edi tor never knows where trouble is going to rise next. A WOMAN URDEREDf And Her Body Shipped in a Trunk by Express. The :. y co:c-ning the disap pearaCc fron Bosten of Msrgaret Blondia, wife of J. W. B ondin, re mains uns.olved. Hcr headless body was sou:d ncar Chelnsfo:d. Mass., and identified by her sister. The head was hicd-n nearby. The theory has been that thc husbst d cammitted the murder in a fit ! jdsIousy. Friday it was inti ma-ed by the polien that the crime was committ, d in the 1;:cen street house in Boston, where the couple bzarded, and thtat the woman's remain's were sont away in a trurk. This theory was given weight by an interview between the police inspectors and Mrs. Mary flannigan, the landlady, the latter say ing that on Saturday. April 27.h; the day of Mrs Blmdin's d sppv-arance, she was sitting in the front nall just before 4 o'clock when Mrs. Blondin came in and asked what time it was. Oa being told she exalaimed: "My hus . tand will kill me," and ra2 upstairs to her room. The husband immediately entered and demanded that Mrs. Han nigan tell him how his wife spent the day. Upon being told that sh3 spant the day quietly he rushed up stairs as if in a furious temper, pushed the room door open and closed it violently. The landly heard angry talk and the fall of a body. Ten minutes later Blandin osme out wearing his best c'othes. He locked the door not only by the ordin ary fastening but with a pailck which he had attached that morning. Mrs. Hannigan went up stairs, but got no response from the room. She thought that the womai was ashamed to talk after what bad taken p'ace. Blondin returned the following fues day. During the interval Mrs. Hanni gan tritd to get word from Mrs. Blon din. When Blondin returned he looked haggard. He went to his room, re maincd there an hour and when he left in a hurry he doubly locked the door. In half an hour he retrrned with an expreEsman, explaining to Mrs. Rani gan that he hid accepted a position on a government boat in Canada and that he was going to Montreal. "Wuere is your wife?" asked Mrs. Hannigan. Blondin muttered something which the landlady could not catch. In reply to numerous queries, Mrs. Hanniean was gtven to understand that Mrs. Blondin was at the depot waiting for her husband. "I cannot understand what you have kept her locked in her room so long for," continued Mrs. Hannigan. "Is she going with you?" asked the woman. "Yes, she is at the depot now," re plied Blondin. Around the trunks which the ex pressman tock away were heavy leather bands. Then Wondin left the house and the landlady did n:t see him again. The police learn that a trunk similar to the ono described was shipped to Clemsford on the ntght of April 30. Blondin disappeard a week ago and is now believed to be'near Montreal. No Third Term for Him. President McKinley last week an nunced that he would not accept a nrninatio~n for a third term in the fol lovwing statement: "I regret that the sugestion of a third term has been :ade. I doubt whether I a n called upon to give it notice. But there are now qucsuons of the gravest importance before the Adminmstration and t'ie ountry and their just consideration hould not be pre jueiced ia the public mind by. even the suspicion of thet thought of a third term. In view, therefore, of the reiteradion of the sug gestion of it, I will say now, once for all, expressieg a long settled conviction, that I not only am not, and will not be, a candidate for a third term;. but would not accept a nomination for it if it were tendered me. My only ambition is to] servo throughout my second term to the acceptance of my countrymen,. whoss generous confidence I so deeply, appreciate, and then, 'with -them, do, my duty in the ranks of private citizmn ship." William McKinley. ] An Eye to Business. "Now, if you will show me 'where the burglars got into yaur shop," said the detective, "I will see if 1 can find a clew." "In a moment," said the pro prietor, according to Answers. "1 am working at something a little more im portant than hunting for a clew just now." And while the detective waited1 the merchant wrote as follows at his desk. "The burglar who broke into] Kat zenhefter's shop on the night of the 15th and carried away a silk hat, a pair of French calfskin boots, afur trimmad overcoat, a black broadcloth suit and two suits of silk under ware was a black hearted villian and scoundrel,, but a man whose judgment cannot be called into question. He knew where to. go when he wanted the finest clothing the market affords." "Jacob," he said to the bookeeper, "send a copy of this to all the pap'ers and tell 'em I want it printed in big black type, to occupy half a column. tomorrow morning. Now, Mr Haxkshaw, I am at your service." Forest Destruction. The Raleigh News and Observer brings forward further testimony to prove the disastrous results of forest desruction. It .says: "Mr. W. E. Myers, of the geological survey, says the secret of the bad effect of the re cent floods in Western North Carolina lies in the deforestation of the moun tain section. The country is being stripped of trees, and Mr. Myers says that the cutting away of the timber is entirely resporsible for the seiu flood. The actual damage exceed.:d $500,000. The A ppalhchamn Forest Pre serve association was organized none too soon, and the establishment of the park ought to be pressed when congress meets in December." Break Him in Giradually. It is said that Senator Depew intends to make a newspaper man out of his son, as there is so much money in that business. The senatcr should not push the young man to the highest point of wealth-getting j-ist at first; let him take Mr. Schwab's place as head of the steel trust at $800,.000 a year, for a while, so as to gradually br-eak him in to the mas sive fortune his newspaper enterprise will sield. FIGHTING FEVER In Italy oy Sp-eadrig N; s t Kaep Out the Piagu-, THE DEAOLY MO QUIOC. The Wondertu! Discovres ci D's Boss, R isori, Lav eriw, Bignam', Bastia nelli and Grassi. A dispatch from Rome says a strange Land to see is the Roman Campsgua nowadays. Snae it has been determined that this famous territory has bzen the preader of the curse of the world, ma laria, for so many centuries, entircly eause of the mosquitoes with which it is infested, a vase quasrantini has been declared against the bloodthirsty insects. The entire Campagna is wrapped in netting. This is done not merely because the inhabitants want to do it, but because the Government has forced many to do it by edict. They are not permitted to sleep except under mosquito netting; may not labor in the fields except with etted headdresses and gaun'lets to protect their arms and hands; every perture of the'r houses, even the 3himtcys, must be covered with metal ic netting. These laws have a dcuble end. First they are designed to protEct the individ als themselves and save them from etting the malaria through the bites f the mosquitoes; secondly, the laws ire enforced becanie it is held that very individual that gets the disease s a walking source of 1ro;agati)n of be scourge and tP-t any law that will rotect nis neignbors is just:fisble. Those who suffer from the disease al eady are not privileged. They must twell under netting like the others, nd, in addition, the State is putting hem through a rigorous course of treat nent for the complaint, dosing them with decoctoins of Peravian bark, iron, asenic and other specifias. In the Campagna now folks shut hcmselves up in their mosquito-proof lousesat sundown, and they do not tir abroad after that ex irp on urgent, usiness, and then only thoroughly overed, with veils au gloves. The rigorous - observance of these les is necessary. R'ad-rs of the unday Press will remember the arti lIe in an issue some months ago, in rhieh this terrible Roman Camp3gna ras described as a land of almost sure enth,where the laborers era wled around ike yellow corpses and where hardly y inhabitant could hope to escape he plague of malaria. Sooner or la er t was bound to catch him and kill him r leave him a wreck for the rest of his rretched life. Ft is a queer experierce to travel ver the rairoads that ran thro'ugh the luarantined districts now. Thero is ot a peep hole in cars, waiting rooms, ignal towers or flag stations thau is eit uacvered. Tne fbgmen, tne 'con ucors and brakemen, the s:atio2 mnas ers and the baggage smashers all nre siled and have their arms in gauntlets hat reach to the elbows. All slong the line of the road you see ~urious mufflbd figures ploughiLg and allowing othier agricultursl pursuit s, mttird as if for purpose of dianuise. our fellow passengers are so h~d jen ,ehind their veils that you cannot for he life of you s e a single fsco. Even he oxen in some of the fields are wathed in the stuff, ani they look odd nough as they stalk along maj estical y with, yards :nd y ards of gauze net ing ha'nging ou them. It makes one hink of tha old-fashioned parlors in few England farm houses in fly time, hen the furniture was covered awful y and mysteriously with the same kind f gauze Employees of the railroad are ~rathed carefully to see that they do iot violate any of the sanitary rules. )ffiials examine each laborer and warn imn to take care that he is properly veiled. T . e doors of all waiting rooms are protected with double doors, which ,lose alternately and automatically. It is laid on the inhabitants of the jampagna everywhere to be vigilant to pinful degree. They are asked, henever even a single mosquito man ages to, penetrate into their houses, to Irop all'other occupations, whatever bey may be. and not to rest until they have killed ~the wicked thing. It may have in its sting the death of a part or iven all of the household. To make the destruction of a mosquito interloper nore easy, every bit of wall in every part of the railroad properties is painted dead white. The discovery that it is the mosqui to that transmits malaria, and the sub. sequent discoveries due to the experi nents of Dr. Ross and others, and the tests carried on in the Roman Oam agna first .anounced to the public in Lhe Sunday Press from time to time. 'he discovery is of world-wide impor Lanc, but in Italy, the classic land of "the mnalaria"-malaria, "bad air," as the word's cieri~'tion incorrectly sug ets-it am ounts to a national "find." n the 8,217 comm'nes of the King. dom malaria takes he .vey annual tri bute from 3,838. Every year 2,000. 000 working people, chiefiy agricul tural, are attacked by the periodic fevers. Indeed, the mairia of their native land is one of t'ae principal causes of the enormous (emigration of Italians. Up to yesterday, almost, it I magined-rom the earliest . that the paludel, or marsh fever, va ue to poisonous gases arising from smp ground from the decomposition of organie matter. The celebrated Dc. R asori, having conceived. the proabil iy of a parasittic origin for it, the idea rapidly gained ground. All over the world, in . Eirope, North and South America, Afcica and India, soientifia medial men began investigations, of which the readers of the Press got news from time to time. France claims that Dr. Lsveran, until recently a pro fessor at Van de-grace, w-.3 the first. in 880, tc find in the blocd of malaria] patients traces of a parasite which he called the nematocaire of marsh fever. In I88,~ Dr. Manson demonstrated that the common mosquito (who had een sencted all along) inoculated reonl with still Eno-her psrasite, the fila-:s, which at the moment of his bi;i eater d into the blood of man. This fact made everything clear. The :1 gn(.Lo must carry the malaria about Shim. Neverthless, fifteen years 1a s-d without anythhg being done to t:k. pe cil advantage of this theory. D.. Ross, the 1'>Eian army surgeon, ci.coverd in 1898 that mosquitoes e velozd in their bodie3 the protc z> me L be, a parasite which he showed eis, d alaral fever in birds bitten by them, S: the connection was fixed. I only remaiced to discover the action of the a-ephole mosquito as the vehicle of huma; malaria, and this iq due part ly to D,. Ross and partly to Dr. Grassi, professor of z log7 at Rome. For ten years p.imt Dr. Grassi had lein pursuing his experiments on this psr.iouisr peciv of moequito, when the data of Dr. Ross suggested to him the ul:erior researches which ended in the deoisive remit. In October, 1898, aidcd by Drs. Bignami and Bas tianelli, he acquired -he certainty that the masquito who cairied the malaria poicon was indeed the anophele. The parasitic germs which he carries in him cannot live when they pass into birds or domestic animals,-but they live and develop luxuriantly in the blood of man, which has the unlucky qua*ity of so strengthening and mul i. plying them that they not only infect him with malaria, but cause him, in turn, to infect others. It is the female anophele only wh'ch is dangerous. The male does not bite. The conclusive exoeriments were made in a hospital hall of the Santo Spirito, at Rome, on a dczen individa als in good health and of philanthropic disposition, who allowed themselves to be bi: ten by mosquitoes from malarious districts. D: Grassi rapidly obtained confirma tion of the other important fact, that the mosquitoes themsalves oftenest be come infected by absorbing the blood of a person sick with malaria. Tne red globules of the blood of sucb persons contain parasites quite distinct from those causin; any other contagious malady. There are of the class of pro tcz)ores, that is to say unicellular organisims, who obtain their organs or reproduction only after a singular honesmoon trip to the stomach of the anophele mosquitoes. It is there that the sexual distinction of these germs commences; that is to say, their repro duction and development. Sometimes their number exceeds 10,000 in one in dividual b-dy. According to climatic conditions they arrive at maturity slowly or rapidly. Then the capsule which con tains them breaks; they flow into the viscere of the anophele, thence into the salivary glands and thence to the bite of the insect. The mosquito, when he bites or pricks us, inoculates into the wound a tiny quantity of this saliva containing the germs. And as he does not get rid of his poisonous provision in any single bite, the same mo:quito may infecs several persons, one after the other. in a sigle night. One single bite is sufficient to provoke a beautiful case of malaria which may last a man a life ime or carry him to the grave in four days. When man is thus bitten and infect ed the red globules of his blood com menee to alter, after about twelve days. It is at this moment that the feverish symptoms of chills and flushes begin to show themselves. These fevers are slight or strong, long or short, accord iog to the malignity of the individual parasites with which he happens to be incencisted, and according to the season in which ho contracted the infection. Iu the spring they are lighter than in bualmtr or autumn. They generally reappear each succeeding year. Dr. '.aoson torok with him to London a quantity of infected mosquitoes, which rne canned to bite his son, who had never been outside of England in hislife. He nevertheless developed a tpyical attack of intermittent fever. Malaria, therefore, is a malady whose contagous chraracter manifests itself uniqueiy in piaces where there are ano phele mosqritoes and during the warm s cason. Vegetation, temperature, stagnant waters and marshy ground combine powerfulily to spread the evil, because they make conditions favorable for the porpagation of both mosquito and germ. But ther'e are localities like Poestum-which nave become only recently infected; and it is clear that malaria may be either brought into a neighborhood or stamped out of it. ERhnmc remains for some reason free from malaria, tiough surrounded by an in fected zone of the worst kind. The stamping out of malaria, which has been accomplished in the towns of Metaponta and Sibaria, has become the great hygientic work of Italy. Every thing demonstrates that the disease is not caused by any conditions of "bad air," as its name orignally indictated, in 1899 Dr. Celli began his experi ment on the railway employees of the Roman Campagna in search of a pre ventive regime. He choose two points known to be the most classically mala rial, CJervara and Pontegalera. These txperiments interested the whole scien tifiC world. The celebrated Dr. Koch came to follow them and the English Government sent a commission which installed itself at Ojstia. Similar experiments were begun in the infected zone of the province of Salerue by Dr. Grasui .He established his quartier generale at the railway stations of Albanella and St. Nicola Varco, on the Naplcs Reggie Calabria line, in the midst of a desolate, muddy countryside, inhabited only by treops of domestic buffaloes. They were so sucesful that they have been con tinued each summer since, and the present year will see a great extension of the work. Lieut. Lee Killed. Colonel Kline, of the Twenty-first Infantry, reports that forty men who were hunting for rifles in the vicinity of Lipa Batargas, were attacked by a band of rebels. Lieut. Springer, of the Twenty-first Infantry; Lieut. Walter L ee, of the engineers and two men were killed. Captain Wilhelm was seriously and Lieut. Ramsey slightly wounded. Three men were also wound ed. Licut. Lee of crops of engineers, was the youngest officer in this branch of service. HeI was born in Nashua, . (I., and was appointed from that State. Hie graduated at the Military Aademny in 1900 and was assigned to te craps of engineers. He was order ed to Manila in MIarch last and arrived there on April 18. He was killed dur ihis fir-st month of active service. WERE SLIGHTED. Philadilphia Merchants Have Thus Tre a ed the Visitors to INDU 3TRIAL CONVENTION. The Dalegates Left to Hustle for Themselves. The Otj ict of the Visit Badly Hurt The Sou bern Industrial Association met in Philadelphia on Monday of last week. Delegates were in attendance from all parts of the South. South Carolina was represented by the follow iog gentlemen: C. W. Kollcck, John F. Ficken, J. C. Hemphill, James M. Seignious, W. B. Whaley, P. G. Hana han, A C. Kaufman and C. Bissell Jenkins, all of Charle6ton; Jahn B. Cleveland, Dr. Jessa F. Cleveland, Thos. E Moore and W. E Burnett, o? Spartanburg; Sol Koho, Orangeburg; C. S. McCall, Bennettsville; Charles H. Ficher, Edgefield; D. K Nerris, Anderson; A. B. Carpenter, Greenvile; W. L Durst, Greenwooi. In opening the convention on Wednes day morning President Hartgrove of Shreveport La. said: The business men of the cif y have neglected the convention and the dele gates composed of men who came here from places as far distant as Austin, Texas, with the understanding that the businessmen of the city would attend their sessions, take an interest in what they h;d to say and escort them through their establishments and do the many other graceful things that invite confidence, cement friendship and build up trade, are displeased at the failure of the mex chants and manu facturers to keep the promises made. Tuesday thcre was a fair audience but Wednesday morning there were not more than a dozan Philadelphia busi ness men present at the opening of the session and they were for the most part men who were required to be thpre ow ing to their services on committees. The first trouble developed at Tues day evening's session when Robert C. Ogden, of Philadelphia, spoke on "Popular education, the power of in dustrial progress." The delegates took umbrage at this referen',e to tha poor, illiterate white women of the South, whom, he stated, required education as much, if not more, than the Ne gro. The threatened discussion was pre vented by President H. 1. Hargrave, who said that Ogden must be misin formed. At the morning's session, however, Mr. Hargrave, who hails from Shreveport, La., and is editor of the New Orleans Picayune, got back at Ogden in a speech, which reflected severely on Philadelphia. "For the arst time," he said to the 40 persons present, "I feel misgivings as to the success of this convention. "There was a good start made, but I fear a bad ending. We of the South are famliar wita New York, Baltimre and BosL~oD, but know nothing of Phil auelphia. "Why, we never see a traveling man from Phi al.elphir. in the South. We know noihing of your goods. We make no attempt to get your business. Send your commerciat agenis down so that real commerce may grow up. "Tnat would be better than talking so much and doing nothing. I see few Pailadelphians here this morning What now face~s are in the hall are new arrivals from the South." Tihe general opinion is that the busi ness of the city with the South will materially saffer through the lack of ourtesy that hasi been shown the men who came here with the expectation that the city would extend to them open arms; that they will be treated kindly, their appeals for capital to de velop their inustries listened to with interest and efforts be made to secure the investment of money to foster theiir natural resources. Not even the reception that was tenedered the delegates by the Mayor Tuesday night did tne business men of the city consider that it was worth while to attend. There were scarcely more than a score of Philadelphia men there and the reception was a dull, flt affair that did more harm than good to the reputation of the city for warmhearted hospitality. The afternoon session was devoted to reading of papers dealing with the manufacture of cotton in the South. At the evening session the Chinese Minister Wu Ting Fang spoke on American trade with the Orient. THE NICARAGUA CANAL The discussion of the Nicaragua ca nal was opened by Hon. Sewell Cobb, of Pensacola, .lFla. H a said in part: "Five hundred and fifty millions of people of the far east, for half a ::en tury, hayai entreated us to open a high way through the narrow strip of land that connects the two great continents of America, but we have had at the helm of the ship of state men of limit ei maritime information and a deaf ear has been turned to their requests. When our military army sought oppor tunity for promotion (in rank) our offi ois rashed to a conflict with a people less than 10,000,000~ in population and already have expended in the effort to inoculate them with "benevolent as si nilation" upwards of $300,000,000 and countless lives. This money ez pended in the other process 'commer cial assimilation' wauld have construct ed the Nicaragua canal and established lines of steamships numbering not less than 100, each of 5,000 tons capacity, carrying our own products. "The twentieth century calls for hu man advanoement. We of the south learned at the close of the war that if we would develop our resources the military arm must be subservient to the civil authority. "The Clayton-Bnilwer treaty is only a pretext for delay. We cannot con cede the right of any nation to dictate either locality or manner of occupation to those whose mutual interest de mand a work free from entangling al liances. Costa Rico, Nicaragua and the United States of America are competent to decide what is best for their inter ests." George H. Anderson, of Pittsburg, spk brifly on the subject, express ing the opirim that the United States can build an isthmian 2anal without the help of E,2gland or any other na tion. The Suez canal, he said, is a great boon to Bri.ish commerce and he as eerted that this ceustry needs a short and eaonomic curse by which to send its products to the Pajific coast and thence to the markcts the world. W. H. Cavanagh, or St. Louis made a brief address and the discussion was closed by Walter C. StEvens, of St. Louis, who spcke on tte coming St. Louis exposition. A Grand Old Man. The Colu nbia State says the an nouncement that Dr. Carlisle will co. tinue to serve another year as president of Wofford college is good rews. Good news not only to the paLrons and sap porters of Woff3rd, but to evcry one in South Carolina who has the cause of education at heart or who admires and respects nobility of character and in telleet. When Dr. Carlisle a year ago expressed his desire to be relieved of the heavy buidens of this high cffi.ie. The State said his place could not be filled, that no sucocssor could be found who would measure up to the Carlimle standard. But for another year the col lege is to have the benefit of this great man's direction and Woffordis to be con gratulated. The infiaence Dr. Carlisle has exerted in South Carolina is in calculable. It extends far beyond the circle of those who have been st .dents at Wofford or who have come in per sonal contact with hi-. It is not con fined to the Methodist denomination, but touches those of all creeds and no creeds. He is revered by many who have never seen him. Such a man can ill be spared in any position." The Value of Knowledge. It has been well said that there is al ays work for the ' man who knows." Not the man who thinks he knows it all, but the man who has full knowledge in any single field of industry. Here is an item, that is going the rounds of the press that originated somewhere in North Carolina. A man in western North Carolina was selling standing timber-walnut trees The man who was buying came to one very handsome tree. He told the owner he would pay as much as $59 for that tree. This ex cited the owner. He did not eell, but sent for experts. The owner got $1,500 for the tree (curlt d walnut) as it stood. The man who cut it down realized $3 000 for it on the cars. It was shipped to New York and veneered one- sixth to half an inch. The sales were watched and esti mated as the bebt that could be done, and when all was disposed of it turned out that the tree brought $50,00. To Hang for Burglary. In the Supreme Court at Asheville, N. C., last week Rush Gates and Frank Johnson, white, and Ben Foster, Harry Foster and Harry Mills, colored, were found guilty of burglary in the first degree. Under North Carolina law the penalty for burglary is death. All five men will be sentenced to be hanged before the term of Court ends. On the 8th of February these men en tered the store and postoffice at Emma, two miles from Asheville, and, holding pistols on Samuel Alexander, opened a safe and began to rifle it. Alexander watched for an opportunity, and when the burglars' attention was diverted grabbed a pistol and opened fire, seri ously wounding two of the men and re ceiving almost fatal wounds himself. T'he burglars fled, but were captured. Postmaster General Smith wrote Alex ander a personal letter commending his oravery. Batleship Illinois, The United States battleship Illinois, built by the Newport News shipbuild ing company and Dry Dock company, was given her offiial trial over the government course from Cape Ann to Boon island ihursday. TIhe vessel left the upper harbor where she had been an hored since her atrival here on Mon ay, soon after 8 o'clock, and made her way slowly toward Gioucester. All sanditions were perfees for a successful est of the big vessel. The sky was lear and bright, and warm sunshine athed the battleship as she pressed her way toward Cape Ann. A light reeze from the northwest cooled the eat of a Sammer day and gave a clear atmosphere. The effical course over which the Illinois is to fulfill .her con ract, must sustain a Epeed of 16 knots, in length, to be coverei twice. Govern ent vessels were stationed to mark the course. Epidemic of Suicides. An epidemic of suicides in Eurparia, ansas, culminating Wednesday in three attempts, all exactly similar to recent successful suicides, caused the mayor and board of health to. day to forbid publication of details of suicide r attempts in lacal papers. The board is acting on the theory that publication spreads the cjntagion of suicide by psy hic suggestion. alayor Morse contends that the liberty of the press is second ry to the public health and is prepar d to use force, if necessary, under the Nisance Act. All the editors, how ver, have agreed to suppress details of suicides or attempts until the epidemic abates. The epidemic began with the suicide of Charles Cross, president of a wrecked bank, and in the last thirty dys there have been seven cases, three f which were successful. An Apology. "We owe our readers an apology," says the Bowersville Md. Clarion, "for failing to appear on time this week. But the festive goat belonging to our genial livervman, Patrick Casey, got into our pressroom Tuesday night, after our entire edition had been printed, and ate the papers all np. Consequently the entire resources of our editorial and mechanical forces have been called into play in a stren uous effort to get out another edition to replace the one that was eaten. While we admire the literary taste of the aforesaid goat, we shall hereaf ter keep the pressroom locked." Four Men Drowned. The schooner Czar, bound to Labra dor, with fishermen and their families, 70 persons altogether, was driven ashore on Cabot island, on the north coast of New Foundland in a fog and gale Sun day night. Four men were drowned and six others were injured, but the women and children were all landed safely. MORE TRUSTS FORMING. Plows. Shovels, Matches and Pianos the Latest to be Merged. The formation of great trusts pro ceeds apace, and haraiy a day passes but what the announcement is made of comb.nations of manufaaturera of arti cles of absolate human nectsity. Pretty S much evcrything a man eats or wears or tools he uses in his trade, and even the coffin he is buried in is subject so M far as price is concerned, to the regula. tions of trs s, and the end of it all is not 5 et in sight. Among some of the latest trusts to be formed are the following: An official of the Diamond Match company saSs that a consolidation of the Eaglish brat ch with the Bryant & May company would be affected soon. 0. U. Barber, pres:dtnt of the Diamond W Match company, and several managers S. and U. H. Palmer are now in England bc closing the negotiations- for the consoli- fo dation, and it is announced that Charles d Baird, its attorney will leave within ten days on the same mission. The Bryant M & May company had a complete mo- ti nopoly of the match business in Eng- T land until the Diamond Match compa- 8 ny built its Liverpool factory a few W years ago. Since then the two have di- I vided the business of the United king- W dom. The-Diamond Match company of 1 America owns 51 per cent. of the 12 English corporation, so that the consoli- w dation will be of great benefit to the t0 former company. o A combination of the piano mann- g( fa3turers, embracing the entire output C of the country, is in process of organi- Al zation. Marc A. Blamenberg, editor ri of the Musical Courier, of New York, is s in the city promoting the scheme. He o says that the purpose of the combine is to reduce the selling expenses, which ! are now $75 for every piano made. He 10 says that while the combination will cut sa off a number of hangers-on of the trade, " it will materially benefit the workmen l in the factories. Where some facteries se shut down a large part of the year be- mD eause ol lack of capital to accumulate aL stock, the combination arrangement 4 wouid firniah fuads to keep them run ning, Ohus benefiting all concerned. He bi wili endeavor to interest Cincinnati hc manufacturer3 in the scheme, and says that nearly all of the large factories 10 have the matter under consideration. h Negotiations whereby twenty or more of the leading plo, manufauturing 01 firms of the middle West will form a is trust with a.capital of about $70,000,- o 001 have been practically completed in s Chicago. The company will be finano- ' ed by the United States Mortgage com- A pany, of New York, which will obtain 8 the money from the Mutual Life and " the Equitable Life Insurance com- PI panies. The headquarters will be. in e Chicago. f Sixteen of the largest manufactur- ab era of shovels in the United States are a forming the shovel trust of which many OP rumors have been circulated, and C. C. Er Loring, of Boston, who was one of the tu organzers American Steel Wire com- a pany, is engineering the deal for them. I The capitai of the corporation will be am abcuG $10,000,000, and a Jersey th charter will be secured. The papers hve alreadoy been drawn up and all w the western Pennsylvania manufac- th turers have agreed to join. hi The Cleveland rivals of the Standard N Oil company nave given up the battle in against that concern and are combin- la ng to sell out their interests to their Ot oe. Tne Standard Oil is to pay about $,000,000 for the whole of the proper- se ties. ThCere are three of the concerns Schofield, Shurmer & Geagle; the t Ueveand Refining company and'the a cio Reficing company. B. T. Wilson, i of New York, is credited with engineer- e Lig the deal, wiiich extinguishes the ni ast spark of competition with the cer :andara Oil company in Ohio. t So the list wilt be extended until OU very conceivable article of human wi :onsumption or use, with the excep ion of air, will be in the control of en onopolies. e An Interesting Case. on M. B. Carnell prosecuted Emanuel PO )indine, J ess Alexander and Jeff An- sa erson, defendants, charged with ao :arsing and using blasphemous language of n the highway. The case was tried at du 3partanburg and the following partieu- cil rs of it we get from the Herald of that au ity: The defendants were first indicted th sfore Magistrate Kirby and a motion fo was made betore him by defendant's TI attorney, John Gary Evans, to quash fo: :he indictment on the grounds that th hcre was no offense charged in the oh warrant. This motion was overruled de y the magistrate. Whereupon defen- po ants moved for a change of venue. ra: 'he case was transferred to Magistrate th leGowan, before whom a simiiar mo- bo ion to quash was made. He dismissed the case, holding that the point was ur well taken. Tuis happened last Satur- on ay. or The prosecutor on the same day went lia before Magistrate Williams at Converse ra and swore out a warrant against the de- th endants for the same offense. The case WI was heard before Magistrate Williams ri' in the court house here. The defen- is lants attorney made the same motion to he Iash the indictment that he hed made ha Defone Magistrate Kirby ana Mo(owan. pa Magistrate Williams overruled the lie motion, thus agreeing with Magistrate N itrby, and the case went to trial on its ri' merits. After hearing all the evidence ti< and argument the defendants were found m: guilty, and each was sentenced to pay a in Eine of $5, or servo five days on the be :unty ochaingang. Defendants attor ney gave notice o: intention to appeal, ad the case will be carried to the high :r courts. C. P. Sims, iEsq., represent- Da d the prosecutie't- a Bad Enough Either Way. pi Oat in Missouri a man wants a di- .se orce on the grounds that his wife de- te :ived him regar ding her age,. but it is p to a hoped he will be nonsuited, It is1t oo more of a crime far a woman to de- T eive her intended regarding her age than it is regar ding her beauty. That illy Missourin would rob matri- aeL mony of all the elemonts of chanca. a Latham, Alexander & Co. of New te: York, have issued a cotton acreage let- pa er under date of the 31. The 4,000 letters asking acreage estimates they have 2,155 replies of average date May ne 2th. Upon these they base an estimate fo of an increase of acreage over last year pc of 9.08 per cent. From all States they st have reports of a late crop an unpromis- sli ng start. The average planting was to .abu 17 days later than last year. i a 'ERRY BOAT SINKS lth One Thusands People On Board cf Her. EVERAL LIVES WERE LOST. any Boats Rushed to the Res cus and Sav. d Hun. dredsof Livts. How It Happened. The wooden side wheeler Northfield Hich has been in the service of the aten Island Ferry company plying tween New York and Jersey City r the past 38 years, was rammed Fri. 6y night by the steel hulled propellor anchohunk, used as a ferry boat by e Central railroad of New Jersey. ie collision occurred just off the aten Island ferry slip at the foot of hitehall street and in less than ten inutes after the Northfield, which as crowded with passengers, sank at e outer end of the Spanish Line pier the Est river. The Mauchohunk, hich was badly damaged, landed the ro dozen passengers who where aboard her. Over a hundred of the passen ira of the sunken Northfihld were agged out of the water by people ong shore and crews of the fleet of ver tugs whi3h proiaptly responded to e ferry boat's call for help. A few the Northfield's passengers were hurt the aaoident and the police believe at some lives were lost. Capt. Dan I Gaily of the tugboat Mutual, who w the ferry basts crash together, ys that immediately after the col non between 25 and 30 of the pas ngers leaped into the water and that any of those perished. Capt. Gully so declares that he is sure over a hun ,ad of the Northfield'spassengers were ownei. The captains of other tug ats who were early on the scene, wever, are inclined to think that the saster was not so serious as regards s of life. Thus far no dead bodies ive been recovered. The -reason for such a difference of >inion as to the estent of the disaster that the wildest excitement prevailed i the Northfield. The tug Mutual ved in all about 75 persons from the orthfield and the tugs Unity and row saved between taem 150 per ns. Two policemen of the Old Slip Weion claim to have rescued nearly 30 ople between them. As soon as the owd which had followed the sinking tryboat along the river front were le to render any aid they worked with will and in many instances men rang into the water to save life., The eatest service was rendered by the gboats, which as soon as it was pos ble circled around the Northield and ade a bridge-to the Spanish line pier d men and women clambored over e tugs to the shore. The swift run ng flood tide and the question of nch boat has the right of way was e cause of the disaster. Capt. Abra m Johnson was in charge of the wrhfield and Capt. S. U. GriAn was command of the Mauchchunk. Esa is the Diame for the collision on the her. The Northfield, with a load of pas gers, variously estimas at be eon 800 and 1,000 at 6.01 p. m. tred out of the west slip at White .11 street for St. George, Staten. Land, and at 5.53 p. m. tao Mauch unk ieis the rauroad slip at Commu paw for Waitehadl street. The later it was abreast of the barge office as a Battery when the Norrthield came e of the slip. Au exchange of isties between the Doats was tollow by the crash. Capt. Griffin appar ly believed that the Staten island ryboat would be haited until he had rked his boat into the upper slip, and the other hand Capt. Johnson sup sed that he would be allowed to cross i Maunohohunk's bows. When the ident appeared inevitable the speed the Communipaw ferryboat was re ceded as much as possible under the umtances, but borne along by the ifts running flood tide, heaa-on, the tuchhunk struck the Norikfield on a starboard side at the hood of the :ward ladies' cabin on the main deck. e blow was a terrie one and the :oc of it wrecked the steering gear at a forward end of the Mlauoh unk, to up about 10 feet of the main o, wrecked the deckhouse on the r side and broke through the deck I and threw down the stanohions on J for ward part of the Central railroad As the bumping of ferryboats is not usual in this harbor the passengers the Northfield did not for a minute so realize the seriousness of the col ion. When, however, two firemen i upon deck to save themselves from a infiow of water and the Northfield a being driven full speed up the Biat ter instead of down towards Staten Lad and all the time schreeching for Ip they knew that something serious a happened. Then commenced the nic which continued until the North 1 went down. At no time was the rthfield more than 500 feet out in the !er beyond the bulkhead line but the Le was running with the velocity of a 11 race and had the vessel sunk out the stream only the tugs would have en able to give assistance. Seriously Bitten by a Shad. William Dancan, aged 26 years, a slaware river fisherman, was bitten by ihad and is now in the Delaware Hos ~al at Wilmington, Del., suffering erely. While hauling his net some r days ago one of the fish, which was rtiu~arly vicious, sezed his hand in Smouth and inflicted a painful injury. te fish had fine teeth, which cut the sh. The wound was regarded as vial. Now it is infiamed and swol Smuch larger than the usual size, d serious results are feared. The jury is infected witha poisonous mat and the outcome may be blood isoning. The following is a remedy that will ver fail to kill the potato bug: Take ir pounds of bluestone and five unds of quick lime; dissolve the blue me in about two gallons of water, he the lime in any vessel, add both fifty gallons of water, stir well, and ray the plants freely.