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XVI. MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, ATJG AWFUL HOLOCAUST. Several Men Met Death in a Rear Irig Furnace. CAUSED BY AN EXPLOSION. Five Charred Human Bodies Fcund in the Ru ns of Water works C'b at Cleve land, Chko. Five men were burned to dea'h, four were drowned, three and possibly four were suffocated and several injured as the result of a fire which destroyed a temporary waterworks crib, two miles off ClEveland, Ohio, harbor early Wednesday morning. The dead, so far as known: Arthur Hasty, drowned, body recovered; Mark Stryder, drowned; Arthur Hastings, burned; Plummer Jones. suffocated; John Martine, drowned; John Kowol sky, drowned, body recovered; four un identified men burned. The injured sa far as koown: John Lees, prcbably a broken back, fatal; 0. Braddosk, turned about hands and face; Charles Smith, overcome by gas in tunnel; David Kelly, rescuer, over come by gas. Still imprisoned in tunnel: Victor Kauffman, Canton, probably dead; John - Enging, probably dead; Adam Kent, probably dead. Twenty-six men obeyed the orders oz Manager G. C. Van Deusen when the flames broke out and took refuge in the water on floating pieces of wreckage. Four of them lost their hold upon their frail flats and sank beneath the waves just as help reached their comrades. Van Deusen and three of his men were hanging in the water from a two inch line suspended from the crib. Just as the line was burning away above the men's hands a yawl boat from the barge Wilhelm, manned by two men, dashed into the heat and smoke that enveloped the crib and rescued the four men on the rope at the risk of their lives. The remaining men were picked up in the water and brought to Cleve'and. They were naked, exhausted and badly burn ed. Many of them were cut by falling timbers. The crib is a total loss. It was a frame building 200 by 50 feet, the sides sheathed with iron. It contains d valu able machinery. It is now a charred shapeless mass of wreckage and min gled with the blackened timber3 are blackened, rusted and twisted pieces and plates of iron and steel. The crib and machinery were the property of Shailer and Schinglau. con tractors. Their loss will exceed $200, 000. Fire and harbor tugs with rescuing parties on board reached the crib Eoo-)n after the flames bro e out, but when they arrived the structure was a seeth ing mass of flames and all hope of sav ing it was abandoned. Men could be distinguished swim ming and floating in the water shout ing for help. Others were clinging to ropes which they had hitched or tied to the rafter4' but the flames were burning the ropes away, while the men were stark naked, and one oy one they were failing into the lake. The tugs circled around the burning crib, picking up men from the water and meantime playing heavy streams upon the flames. After an hour's work the flames were diminished enough so that the firemen could climb up the charred steps and fight the fire from the interior. Then the horror of the calamily was first realized. Ererything was a total wreck. 'While the firemen were pour :ing water on the flames there was A ROABING FUENACE ~beneath which could not be reached. ~But the firemen clung to their places and fought every inch of the way un :til the fire was under control. After two hours of hard work five 'charred human bodies were found barned beyond recognition. Two were in the attitude of prayer. They must have been awakened by the fire but could not escape. They were caught like rate in a trap. One body was burned to almost nothing. The bodies of two other men lay close to those that were on their knees and it oeaked as though they never knew what hap pened to them. They must have been suffocated before the flames reached them. As soon as the five bodies were dis covered the tug Kennedy returned to the harbor at once and notified the coroner of the discovery. While this was going on ways and means were being devised to reach the men im .prisoned in the tunnel, whose air sup .ply had apparently been shut off en tirely by the burning of the compress ted air shinery. At times it was thought that voices 'could be hear d down below and the life eavers and the firemen peered down with ears intent, but the sournds ceased again. At the mouth of the shaft it was like a furnace, and the iron work was red hot from the flames. kFinally after a deluge of water had been thrown on the smoldering shaft entrance, a voice was heard from the bottom, calling for help. "For God's sake throw down a rope, thrown down a roper' a man called. A line was quickly dropped down the shaft and as it tightened a shout of joy went up from those about, for it was quickly observed that the man at the bottom was able to grasp it He yelled again to the rescuers to pull him up. Slowly and carefully he was raisei. His pallid face, covered "with slime, his staring eyes and heav ing chest, told of the horror he had gone through in the hours he spent in the tunnel. He was William Curry, of Canton. As soon as he could rasp Curry said: "They are all at the bottom of the shaft, hurry up." In quick suecession seven others *were brought up frem the foul and stifling air of the tunnel. All were in a most pitiable conditon. They re ported that two other men were lying unconscious at the bottom of the shaft. A workman volunteered torescue these men and he was quickly lowered into ahe shaft. In a few minutes the unconscious men were brought up more dead than The tug that hurried out to the scene as soon as the fire was discovered su3 ceeded in rescuing no less than 20 men who were clinging to wreckage and ropes tied to the burning structure. A The tunnel which has been under course of constuution for several years past and is still far from complete, has been the cause, all told of the loss of more than 30 lives. Four years ago an explosion in the score section of the tunnel resulted in the suffocation of 18 men. Two ( years ago in a similar accident several more men were killed at almost the same place and today's catastrophe adds at least ten additional ames to the death list. The fire which destroyed the crib Wednesday morning was due to an overheated boiler smokestack. The boiler exploded soon after the flames d broke out. h The crib itself was of pine timber p built up straight from the water's edge. The men, who were asleep in their ti bunks, sprang up to find themselves in g the midst of the flames. Tne boards e: all around them were burning fiercely. B Down in the shaft, under the lake, 11 men were at work digging unconscious until the air supply was out off, of the awful holocaustab ,ve them. Mayor Johnson expressed great in dignation Wednesday when he learned that no boat of life preservers were pro vided as a safety measure by the con tractors at the crib. He declared that T the cse would receive the closest in- F veatigation, and that those found guilty of criminal negligence on the matter . would be prosecuted to the full extent w. of the law. Late Wednesday afternoon Plumer Jones, of Warren, Ohio, an employe of the tunnel contractors, and one of a party of rescuers who descended into the shaft to look for the missing men, 1o as overcome by gas and expired within s few n inutes. His body lies in the tunnel 75 feet from the bottom of the shatt and is covered with water. I'he life line attached to the body be- h same fould and could not be palled t tui David Kelly, another member of the rescuing party, was overcome by gas td is in a precarious condition. g, t< McLaurin's View. ai Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, passed throug;h Norfolk Tuesday with is wife and child enroute to the pan- b merican exposition. To the Asso iated Press representative he made b ;he following statement: 'For many at rears the campaigns in Sauth Carolina w iave been in the nature of personal ibuse between candidates. The pres mnt campaign is the first one in which m in issue is at stake. My series of peeches which were begun last April, a iave started the people to thinking b tid they hava become aroused. Sena- d or Tiliman has answered my argu- df nents by heaping personal abuse upon ri ne. He threatened to go out among i he mill operators and arouse them gainst the mill owners if I continued th irging the expansion policy and the P ,srying of American products in th american bottoms. "Expansion is not b< mperialism; the first is a business ai 1esion; the otber a matter of politdcs. w It is foolishness for anybody to claim fe hat a man cannot 'oeheve in ship sub- pi idy, the carrying of American exports bi .n Amnerican bottomn, and expansion it without being a itepublican. I am going into the primaries in South Car- c lina next fall and I expect to defeat (3 3enator Tillmin." is ri A Lone Robber. A lone robber held 'up a stage at fi Torth River, N. Y., on Wednesday hi ight. The stage which was stop- al ped connects with a train which teached North Creek, Warren county, a si station on the Adironda-eks and kiud- co son railroad at 10.20 o'clock a. m. ti When it left the station it contained 8 seven men and one woman, beside. a h Cuantity of express and mail matter LOr a: line Mountain lake. When the stage aj was one and and a half miles north of b Dunlap's hotel at North river a masked robber suddenly appeared. His first is move was to shoot one of the horses. u He then ordered the passengers to hold b up their hands and alight. Six of the a men immediately took to the woods, 3 the remaining man staying with his i~ wie, who was relieved of $20, but the h robber failed to find a larger sum in c another pocket. The highwaymsn then h proceeded to rjie the mail bags and piuader the express packages, taking a everything of value. After he had E done his work he disappeared into thie a wods and searching parties up to dark ta have been unable to find any trace of a' him. 1 A Winning Game. Uncle Sam is playing a "heads-I-win and-tais-you-lose" game with little u uam. According to a recent decision a of the treasury department that unhap- p py ittle dot in the ocean is a foreign o country when it is a matter of collecting t] duties on articles imported thence into a this country, but when it is a matter of b paying drawbacks to exporters of goods g on which import taxes have been col- si lected Guam suddenly and by some h mysterious process become domestic si territory. Thus we collect the taxes in all instances, and our little protege ri gets the privilege of fing the fisg. t] p Bit FingeQOf. p The Augusta Herald says George , Cartledge, the youngest eon of Sergeant Cartledge, of the police force, was en- e gaged in feeding a horse yesteiday after- a noon, when the animal bit the end of 5~ the lad's finger off. The wound is a very painful one, but for the loss of a part of the finger, the accident is not b serious. The boy was holding a piece b f grass in his hand feeding the animal when the teeth of the horse closed te down on the finger, taking it off con petey- __________ n Quick Work. e A dispatoh from Charlotte ays about a 300 people g athered in front of the 0 jail here l'hursday night and demand ed the persin of William Monroe, eol- ti ored, charged with criminal assault. On P a show ot strength b.- the guarda the G rowd finally dispersted. Judge Hoke o d :red trops to the jail Tnursday. 0' Monroe was today tried, conmoted and h sentenced to be hanged on Sept. 13. 'V The jury was out one minute and 20 0' seconde, the whole trial consuming less an two honurs. SWEPT BY STORM. n Awful Tidal Wave Destroys Many Lives. OREAT ANXIETY IS FELT. Ireat Loss of Life and Damage to Property is Reported From Many Parts cf the Guif. - A dispatch from New Orleans, under ate of Aug. 15, says the storm which as been sweeping the Gulf coast from ensacola and moving westward during te past two days, has prostrated tele aph and telephone wires to such an rtent that news from the outlying tions is hard to get at. The greatest fears have been enter ined for the safety of the people liv ig at Port Eads. which is at the Guth of the river, and for the ships Lit started for sea just before the orm began. The wires there have been prostrated aeo Tuesday night at 8 o'c'oek but he Picayane reached a man who left ort Eides Wednesday. H3 was seen Buras, which is 60 miles down the ver, and the fartherest point with hih there is wire communication at te present time. This man describes the storm which rept that section as a regular tidal ave, similar to the one which resulted such awful loss of life in 1893. He ,ye all the people living on th3 east ink of the riv.r have moved up to the imp," which is 15 miles from the touth of the river. The house of a man named Cbden, alf a mile above the quarantine eta n, was swept away, and the 15 mem :rs of the fanily, including 9 children, gowned. The quarantine buildings were badly imaged but no one injured. The big wboat Chamberlain was driven high d dry in the marsh, but her crew are fe. The government boat General eise is believed to have been lost. apt. Obrien's house was swept away, it he was on the boat, which was lieved to be outside. The Bile driver Ports Eads was sunk. Her crew are said to have been saved. The tugboat Velaso went down to ass a L'Outre, which is the eastern outh of the river, with two barges. hen last seen she had her deck rash, and 't is fear, d she has gone we. If this boat and her barges have e: lost 2) people more have been owned. There are numerous reports individual casualties all along the rer from Buras down to the Passes. All the steamers which started for e sea Tuesday remained inside the asses until Wednesday evening and en went out safely, among the num r being the Cromwell liner Proteus, d the British transport Mechaniesn hich was dynamited while in port a w days ago. Not a single vessel has ssed up the river since the storm gan and great fears are entertained r the ones which are expected. There is serious apprehension con rning the Cheniere Caminada and rand Isle sections, on the south L ou ana coast, west of the Mississippi ver, where 2,000 lives were loat in 193 by the tidal wave. Up to this citing no word has been received cm that section, which is largely in. abited by fishermen, mostly Chinese id Malaya. Up to last midnight ever;thing emed to be safe at the Mississippi past towns, Bay St. Louis, Patss Chris an, Biloxi, Mississippi City and Ocean prings, but since then not a word as been heard from them. All wires e down. The only reports of dam e so far received are of destroyed ith houses and uprooted trees. The Louisville and Nashville railroad blocked off beyond Chef Menteur, 30 iles from this city. The big steel idge there is safe, but beyond there e several washouts on the road. The w Orleans and Northwestern railroad also blocked by washouts on the ke and its big trestle over Lake Pont iartrain has been shaken by the savy seas breaking against it. There nas been much damage done Shell Beach, a settlement on Lake orgne, southeast of the city, and hih connects with Lake Ponchar an. All the buildings there have been rept away, and there are reports of s5 of life among the fishermen, but te exact extent of this is not known.I tidal wave swept over the land there :it did nine years ago. in the city of New Orleans and sub. ibs there has been considerable dam g. At Milneburg, one of the lake re :-rts, the railroad pier head running it into the lake for a distance of a tousand yards has been destroyed and . light buildings demolished. The ig buildings on shore withstood the ae. There was no loss of life. The eamer Neptune tied up at this pier sad, pounded herself to pieces and At West E 2d the lake rushed over the vertment and destroyed nearly all of t buildings there. The big dancing vilion at Lake View was pounded to Leces by wreckage, washed up by the ayes. The shell road to West End as under three feet of water, and Bucktown," a gambling resort at the id of the reventment, has been swept ray. The old basin einal coming ito the city on Toulouse street over wed its banks inundating the entire cond district. A thousand men have sen at work on it and are raising its A cal fleet of 121 barges, belonging n Monougahela Coal company of ittsburg and anchored at Coal Port, ne miles above the city, had a rough rperience and every tug in the harbor as sent to save them. Six of them ith an aggregate capacity of 6,000 tons !coal, sank. The towboat Henry Marx, belonging >the Interstate Transportation co m sy, pounded a hole in her bottom at retna this morning and sank. The storm which developed yesterday ntinued throughout the night and a savey wind was still blowing today, rinds and rain were general along the >ast and n'any trains are belated. Much of the low section of Niew Or ns iude water and scows havej been brought into requisition to enable people to get from their homes to the higher portions. Several factories have been compelled to shut down. Lake Pontiohartrain has been back- E ed into the old and new canal. Both overflwd their banks for a consider able dis:anc3. The rear, or low portions of this city, a thickly populated territory two miles in width, is flooded to a depth of two feet. There is considerable suf fering among the poor. E A Louisville and Nashville train from the east, due at 7:25 a. m., has not yet arrived, nor have the coast trains over that road. The high water in the lake and the fiood in the rear of the city have caused the delay. Hundreds of business men of New Or. leans live along the gulf coast during the summer and thus far have been L unable to reach the city. C Many Louisiana people are spend- d ing the summer at Grand Isle, which is adjacent to the Cheniere. Over t 2,000 lives were lost at the later place when that neck of land was swept by ft storms a few years ago. At Milneburg the excursion steamer Nell Camila capsiz:d at its wharf dur s ing the storm aed is pounding heavily against the pier. Those aboard es caped. The tug boat Neptune is also repartsd to have capsized. The Mississippi r.ver in front of the i city tcday resembled a miniature gulf. Nearly every harbor craft ha-l to hug e the shore in order to avoid being swamped. d Regular westbound Texas and Paci fic trains could not be sent; out be- i cause the transfer boats which carry e; the trains across the river were unable t to make their landings. t All the tugs in the haibor are eD gaged today in trying to save the fleet s of about 2U0 boats lying above the city. t etween six and ten boats have al t ready been lost. 01 THE LATEST. The latest news from the storm is to w the effect that it did not do as much m damage as just reported Many ships el were wrecked on the gulf and on the ti Mississippi, and there was considerable p loss of life, but later news will have to h reveal how many people were drowned w during the storm. if Out in India. i According to the Indian Lancet, a medical journal, a satisfactory de- 'o rease in the number of people and N attle killed by wild animals in the 0 Punjab is shown by the report for 1909. m the ubiquitous snake is, of course, ti ar and away the worst of these ills, ti but in a province where considerably c: more than half a million people must a inevitably die every year, in the ordi- 13 aary course of nature, it is reassuring o find that only 893 people received I heir quietus from snake bite. It is w 3urious to note that more deaths from e( snake bite occurred in houses than 01 sither in the field or in the jangle. 0 ?he only human deaths from wild a nimals were those caused by mad dogs P ind mad jackals, which numbered 29. a iegarding cattle, 762 were killed by E ,eopards and 94 by w.oives. It seems trange that no mischief should have di ecn caused by tigers or bears-perhaps i :hey are being killed off too fast. Dur ng the year in question 1,374 wild ani rals were slaughtered, including 11 ~ :igre, 186 bears, 181 leopards, an d 99 t~ olves. Moreover, 13,272 snakes were tiied. i p Thousands Drowned. Ct 01 Great floods caused by the overflow- s< ng of the Yang Tse have caused the te leath of many thousands in China. bi ?he river has risen 40 feet and for hun- al irs of miles the country i~s a great il ake with only tops of trees and an oc- te ~asional roof shoeing. At Anking the T wnis flooded, some of the houses to e ~her roofs, At Kiu Kiang, the nativa it own is flooded and two feet of water g, tsttds in the foreign settlements. re Lwer down the river towards Swu oi Bue, the destruction was greater and a] oatmen estimate that 20,000 were m irowned in the district. Chong The ras wiped away by floods and 10,000 rownded there and inundated involv :ng awful loss of life and great destruc- of ion to property. It is feared an em. , >ankment built by Chong Cheu Tung e :ear Wu Chang would break and cause ir :he drowning of thousands. 01 01 The Naval Station. si The United States government took ormal possesson of the site, which has n been secured for the naval station and :he raising of the flag Wednesday ifternoon markd the first accupation. ~ Pamasters who arrved here Tuesday - riitlt gave checks to Mayor Smyth for tec city's share of the park and to Mrs. 0 Lawton, who disposed of valuable lots *] djoining. It was not stated at what ime actual construction will begin, but his will not be long delayed. The diy lok, the plans for which have already been approved, will be erected first at ost of $1,250,000. Appropriations amounting to $250,000 available for immediate work and the navy depart nent's plans calls for an expenditure of a more than $6,000,000 on the navy yard r nisentirety.c Senator Tillman Sued. The Columbia State recently pub- is [ished the following meagre and un- e, satisfactory article. The people will tl naturally want to know who J. Young ct Jones is and what Senator Tillmnan has n one to him or said about him. This at is what appeared in the State: "It is t: stated that Mr. J. Young Jones, form- bi erly bookkeeper of the house, has filed a suit for $10,000 damage against Sena ter TIillman, charging him with slander. Mr. Jo~nes alleges that the senator cast og reflections on his mental attainments. ,A t is understood that the sherif mwll ft soon execute the papers on the sena- , tor. Sernator Tillmnan would not dis- c, :uss the matter when informed of it. E lhe result will be watched with inter- oi Killed Each Other. e A dispatch from Greenville, N. C., ~ says: "News reached here Wednesday oa douole murder near Gardner's cross roads, in the southern section of this iuntry. Win. Gardner, M~ack Dixon, gi both white, quarreled over some small J matter. Garaner drew a piestoland shot si h~ree balls into Dixon's abodoinen. t< l'e Dixon knocked Gardner down, o: hook the pistol from him and shot the ec two remaining balls into Gardner's body li Bth men died in a short while." ti ]ATE EACH OTHER. --- Whi vans and Latimer Said to bs Open Political Enemies. be been few IT Is AN OLD TROUBLE. the enfo poli ach of the Above Gentlemen act have Made Hits at One An. other at the Union the It Meeting. an J. C. Abernathy, who attended the wha nion and Chester meetings for the He harlotte Observer, says there is no Stat anger that the senatorial campaign in of is state will lack heat, even though judg enstor MoLaurin should withdraw 8mil tom the race, for the notable develop- very rent in the meetings here and at Union have >r the last three day s, aside from the juds trong denunciation of the junior sena- and >r, was the fact that while both are that ghting what they consider the com- this on enemy. A C. Latimer and John boar try Evans are at daggers' points, and out 1 would not surprise men who know theI e two politicians to see the ex gov- shoe enor and the congressman come to o0u lows on the stand when the campaign and i fairly unler way. Evans is a slen. profi r fellow, about five feet and ten back ches tall, with sharp features, a bright me t e, black moustache and hair, slight- folio tinged with gray, and there is some- ordia ling about him that will make a North " arolinian think of Marion Butler as stun son as the ex governor takes the stand favo: make a speech. His political an- Chai igonist,Congressman Latimer,is recog auth ized as being one of Senator Tillman's me t losest friends, and he certainly re- sary ambles the senior senator in more gron ays than one. In comparing the two stab Len, as they sat together on the speak- auth es' stand, I made the following deduc- the on: Square the congressman's jaws, Take noh out one of his eyes, let him fill I am is mouth with quinine and to all out- force ard appearances the result will be a are icond Ben Tillman. As to the abili peop r of Latimer, as compared with Till- cons Lan, 1 cannot say, for it may be that done e is only following the leader as Mar. forE n Butler followed Col. L L. Polk in let t; orth Carolina. In fact, his politi been i enemies term him "one of Till- citie an's hands." I can add, however, Ai at he has a more pleasant address men ian his chief, and would probably extra eate a better impression among the rangers, provided he did not too close- man follow Tillman's style. far h These are the two men-Evans and itsel: atimer-who gave it out by their ords and actions that they distrust I each other. In assuming his share W the responsibility for the election and McLaurin to the senate, Latimer privi id that two evils were offered the peo- base e and he voted for the junior senator Yorl the lesser of the two. John Gary the E sans was the other. At ether times $200 s referred to Evans in more or less recei rect terms, which all South Carolin- rems ,ns understood. On the ocher hand, only ie ex-governor made it plair. to his orga arera that he meant Latimer when Rieb e spoke of the action of ce:tain "poll- holdi cal traitors" who hail refuisd to take Lein te of the warnings he had sounded Wor iregard to McLaurin. He warned the Elw reple against turning out one traitoi Aut< Sput in another. Mr. Evans has been of st it of politics for quite awhile, having to it )me time after the expiration of his abon rm as governoi removed to Spartan- com] rg, where he has been practicing law, unde ud it was not generally known until year te meeting at Union that he would en- cami ir the field as a senatorial aspirant. ber, he ex-governor, by the way, is., the a sh: tan whose name was formerly puinted adva ia Columbia paper thus: "John- quot iryevans." South Carolinians can soar< ist assured that should all others drop a'tei it of the race these two performers stoc] one will be worth the price of ad- shar ission. man ing Wanted Too Much. cont The career of Phillips, the corn king $2 a the Chicago grain market, contains capi ithin itself a lesson to young men who cern e eager to get iich quick. He went ito the corn pit at Chicago with $500 )0, carnered the market, made millions 0 money and went on with his wild beer eulations and is today a bankrupt- or n evelation teaches us that "the love of it g, oney is the root of all evil," and it ural ems to be true. Had this man not the sen fascinated with the gambling year irit and stopped at the right time, if ber iere was a right time in such a nefar- to ns business, he might have had a hom mfortable competence for the balance thin his life. But fortunes made by wreck- at hi g other people's fortunes are ill-got- Pret i gains and are more than likely to key he unto themselves wings- and Poor Sampson. won he question as to whether or not trou ear Admiral Sampson will appear as a into, itness before the court of inquiry ked for by Schley appears to be sur mauded by mystery. The navy depart ent 1s silent on the subject. It is T aimed by some that the plea that calle ampson must take a vacation is made to bE ith a view of making it appear that he educ too ill to go before the court. How- have er, it has been known for some time ings it Sampson is in a terrible physical Gre mndition, and it is rumored that his men id may have been affected. This, simn me reports have it, is accountable for the u conflicting orders he sent Schley spea f ore the battle off Santiago. on A Big Steamer. New The new steamer Celtic, which re ings ntly -made her first trip across the the .tlanic, is a nine story floater, with spea ir open or promenade decks, one of of i hih contains the dining saloon for poli ibn passengers, above the water line. test f the trans-Atlaintie liners have sly one, and very few two. She is "' 21 feet long, will carry and accom- whal odate 3,000 people, including the orse: *ew, and being built for comfort runs wow ith little rolling in rough weather. pres: impt Could Not Wait. marl The tobacco trust executed a moert- not ge in New York for $150,000,000 on pose une 15;,h, on which it had to pay in mak amp taxes $75,000. By waiting fif- pans en days, when the law was repealed can the 1st of July, that much money dent yuld have been saved. Eividently, a morn te item like $75,000 cannot stand in the ie wa of a 0,0000 trust. anni THE GOVERNOR'S VIEW. it He Thinks of the Ordinance Passed in Charleston. ie Columbia State says there has considerable speculation in the last lays since the adoption of the new 2ance in the city of Charleston by ,ouncil of that city looking to the reement of the dispensary law by e force in regard to the effset this >f the municipal authorities will on the attitude of the board cf )tors of the State dispensary and )ther State authorities. was impossible Wednesday to see )f the members of the State board Governor McSweeney was asked he thought of the action taken. governor expressed himself freely. said to a representative of The a "I think that the city council Tharleston has shown excellent ment and I believe that Mayor h and his council have done the best thing for Charleston. They , as I said, displayed excellent ment in adopting this ordinance placing Charleston in the position she deserves to be planed in. With action of the city council the State I of directors, if the police carry he law and enforce it and prosecute lind tigers in the police court, ld place Charlestoa in the position pied by the other towns and cities, give her back her share of the ts. I believe that she will be put on that basis. Just here permit o say that I think Columbia should w in line and adopt jast such an lance. .s I have said all along, on the p and elsewhere, I would be in r of taking the constables out 'of 'leston altogetner if the municipal orities in Charleston would show hat they are enforcing the dispen law. I have always taken the d that there ought to be no con es in any city whose municipal orities will enforce the law; that police ought to enforce the law. the case of the town of Anderson; assured that the police there en the law absolutely and that there io blind tigers there now. The le say they have no need for the tables. I believe that this can be Charleston with a first- class police not afraid to do its duty. Now ie police force do its duty as has done in Anderson and as other and towns are doing." ked as to the result of the enforce of the law in Columbia since the police were givin the constables, overnor remarked: "Chief Bate s report shows that the result so as been first rate. It speaks for A Bad Failure. ith a capitalization of $20,000,000, >wing to franchise which gave it the lege of operating cabs and omni 3 in any street in the city of New :, the General Carriage company took of which at one time sold for a share passed into the hands of a ve recently, and so little is there ining that the receiver's bond is $5,000. The company at . its iztion had the "moral support of ard Croker, and among the stock ~rs are Edwin Gould, Joseph ~r, General Samuel Thomas, Louis ner, Cyrus Field Junson and in M. Post. Richard Croker's -trnck company too a large block ack in the connern and transferred the privilege of hauling passengers the city. The General Carriage any had a practical monopoly r its charter, and less than one after its formation its stock be I active in the market. In Novem 1899, the stock was selling for $40 re, and two months later it was ned to $80. Next day it was ad at $135, and two days later it d to $200 a share. Within a week the $200 mark was reached the slumped and was selling for $30 a a. Then began a most remarkable pulation to compel an interest own 6000 shares to sell out to those in rol. The stock was fored down to share when the minority interest ulated. The liabilities of the con were not stated in the application. Followed it Too Closely. :and my father before me have reading your paper for 50 years ore, and I wouldn't miss a copy of Sanything-it wouldn't seem nat to go without it," wrote a man to Jolumbus, Ga., Enquirer-Sun, "A or two age the paper had a num f pointed editorials urging farmers aise everything they needed at a. 'What's the use of buying any g,' it said, 'while you can raise it >me?' Well, that thing struck me. ty soon I needed some corn whis for mecical (and other) purposes, I made it. I have just finished ing out the sentet os. I guess you it well, but you diden't know what ble you were getting your readers Too Much Politics. te Columbia State says a halt is d somewhere it looks as if there is a general senatorial campaign cf ation after all. Announcements already been made as to the meet arranged for Spartanburg and nville. Now comes the announce that Anderson has arranged for a lat meeting on the 30th, and that committee will invite the same kers as the other places. The an ement also comes that Walhalla Spearman's Springs, the latter in berry country, want such gather on the 2nd inst., the only one of 'our consecutive date3s open to the kes it is not yet known which ese places will get the crowd of ial lecturers. A New Englald View. Jhe sole defender of McLaurin, or they call "Commercial Demo ' at the Union S. C. political pow last week was John B. Cleveland, dent of a cotton mill. He favored rialistic expansion, for the sake of :ets, and declared that there was ilin South Carolina today with ibly one exception, which was Lng a cent. But if imperialistic ex ion is effective for markets, how this be? Mr. Cleveland had evi ly forgotten that the country for Sthan two years has been enjoying lleged benefits of markets forcibly xed"-.prin.gfild Republican. HELD UP A 'TRAIN. Robbers Laughed and Talked as They Robbed a Train. A train was held up aid robbed near Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday night. The express car was blown open, the safe wrecked and the mail sacks rifled. All the passengers were robbed of their money. El Caney, where the robbery oeoured, is a side track thirty-nine miles north of Denison. It is in the (aootaw nation of the Indian Terri tory and the population surrounding the station is only 125. The train does not stop at Caney except on signal. As the the proper signal was given the engineer whistled his reply, and the train slowed down for the stop. In stead of the hurried signal to go ahead, the engineer and fireman were con fronted by two men with masked faces. About the same time the express. mes senger and the mail clerk were com municated with through the closed oors of their car+. Three of the rob bers shot wildly and then the call went to the messenger and clerk: "Open up here! Open up and don't be too slow about it!" From within came no response and the robbers again called out. "Open the door or we will blow it, open and blow you to lell !" There was no re sponse to the second call and the firing again began, folly twenty shots being discharged. Still there was no re sponse, and the thrae men prepared a small blast of dynamite against the oar oor. ~In the meantime the shoot ing had awakened the passengers. The ocnductor, brakemen and porter ran through the train, and as they called ut: "It's a hold-up!" The passengers tried to hide their noney and valuables. The dynamite was at last exploded. It was a small ,harge aid was intended more for fright han anything else. A larger blast of lynamite was prepared and exploded. his tore the side off the express and mail car a-d the robbers leaped through the opening, and, overpowered the mes senger. He was ordered to open the safe, but he could not, as the combina ,ion was at end of the run. The rob )era then put a charge of dynamite to he safe and blew it open. They de nolished the safe, but secured only 61.50, as the money had all been left at 1uskogee to be picked up by the "Katy yer," which runs through the territory )y day. The messenger and clerk were orced to assist the bandit. in their work. Every mail pouch was emptied nd the mail considered valuable by the robbers was taren, Then with Postal erk Tulley holding an empty mail sack, the robbers went through the =oches and robbed every passenger. They secured $280 in one coach. A zegra whio refused to give up hib money was severely beaten. The passengers were compelled to throw their valuable into the pouch. After the work was done the robbers, who seemed to rejoice in the situation, sat around and laughed over the matter. After holding the train two hours, the obbers left, going east into the dense .ottom timber, for which tortuous aney creek is noted. The trainmen sut out the wrecked express car, ran own to Caney station and advised offi ~ers up and down the road. In two ~ors a poise of United States marshals ith bloo.1 hounds were on the trail. nue express company said it lost noth ng, and the counductor estimstes the assengers' loss at about $400, not ~ounting the jewelry. THE RBBERS CAUGHT. A dispatch from Denison, Tex , says: . B. Dvais, deputy marshal at Colbert, L T., arrived here Wednesday night| rom the scene of the robbery at Caney. "The following men have been ar-| ested on the charge of committing the| obbery," said M4r. Davis: "C. E. ichmond, Bob ALford, Geo. Brown, ohn Gibson, Tom Edwards and Jack arr, These men were arrested at aney and taken to Atoka Thursday orning. The operator at Caney, when he heard the shooting, suspected be train was being held up and put out he light in the depot and telegraphed toka, 11 miles away, for officers. ithin two hours after the robbery lood hounds had trailed these men to heir homes. We founf the wet cloth ng identified by passengers as that orn by the robbers. We also found hree masks and found in the fire box f the cook stove when the arrests were ade the shoes of the men arrested. he tracks were measured and fitted the hoes exactly." A Mad Tom Cat. A man who has just returned from the up country to Charleston brought bak as a scuvenir a thrilling story of n attack made on a white woman by a ad tom cat. According to his ao ~ount the woman was walking in the 'ard when, without warning, the cat ade a vicious lunge and planted its harp claws just below her throat. The rip was so strong and powerful that the woman could not break it. Her ries attracked members of the family. hen they attempted, howrever, to take the cat away the grip had evidently urned to lockjaw, and the animal could not be removed. The woman's sufer ing was terrible. A final effort was ade to free her from the cat, but this was not accomplished until the ani al's head had been completely severed ~rom its body. Even after death the teeth clung to the fissh in a vioe- like grip. The wound was cauterized and it last reports the woman was improv ng. It was said that before attacking the woman the oat had bitten )tber nimals, and in the same neighborhood ther cats had assaulted their owners. he fear of hydrophobia was so gmeyt hat all dogs in the immediate vicinihj f the woman's home have been blocked d chained. Desperate Encounter. A Charleston dispatch says: "8ergt, endt, one of the party of police of eers who had the desperate encounter Last week with the negroes suspected i killing the chief of police of Shelby, . C., had a narrow escape again Wed eday. He and Sergt. Haley came pon John Bellinger, a notorious negro haracter, who is wanted in Colleton ounty. The negro opened fire, with a 4calibre pistol, on the officers. Sergt. endt returned the fire, putting two balls in the negro. Bellinger was sent o the city hospital. He will probably cover" USES OF CORN. Plant That Is Becoming M ore Valuable. SIDE PRODUCTS OF PLANT. The Government M arcing Experi ments With the Plant t In crease Its Yield. Means Much to the South. Most persons probably imagine that about the only products from corn are hominy, meal and whisky. The pro ducts of the corn plant are almost as numerous and varied as those of the cotton plant. An exhibit of the agri cultural department in Washington shows that in case of necessity corn could be depended upon for food, clotning and strong drink, and a num ber of articles of virtue and luxury be sides. A chemist of the department has gone so far as to produce from corn a substitute for rubber which cannot be told by an inexpert person from the genuine article. It looks like rubber from Brazil, feels like it, acts like it and has all of the characteristic proper ties of it. So far the invention has not been made "cammercially practicable," that is, the process costs too much to make the corn rubber a competitor of the real rubber. It is to be expected how ever, that the time will come when rubber for tires will be grown in corn fields. Another article of especial interest in the agricultural departments exhib it is corn oil. This is likely to come more or less into competition with cot ton seed oil of the higher grades. The corn oil is said to look precisely like olive oil to taste like it, and to be good for any use in which olive oil is em ployed. Only the most expert can distin guish corn oil from the highest grade of Italian olive oil. The product has been turned to commercial aecount and already large quanti'ies of the oil are mld. There are some pretty and lustrous, though not very strong, cloths from corn fibre shown. There are also hats, baskets, etc., made of the fibre. No great store, however, is set upon the possibilities in the line of paper mak ing. A merchantable quality of pa per has been made from it, and experi ments with it are being continued. The pith of the corn stalk as we have previously noted is -being used in large 1uantities in making cellulose, for packing the sides of warships. These are just a few of the products of the sea plant. One of the officials of the Agricultural department is authority for the statement that all told there are not far from one hundred products-to be had from corn. It will interest farmers to know that the department is conducting investiga tions and experiments with a view to largely increasing, if not doubling, the - production cif corn, without any in crease in expense of cultivation or of acreage. It is hoped this can be ac oomplished by a system of selection of sorn for planting is said to be a most important matter. Probably 999 farm ers out of every 1000 make their selec tious of ears after corn is in the barn. This is said to be wrong. This selec tion should be made in the field, the health, vigor and strength of the stalk being taken into account. By carefully selecting the seed corn from the stalks in autumn, a considera bly increased yield it is said, may be secured, while by cross breeding the best specimens the nittogen contents of the corn will be increased. The de partment has now produced several thousand hybrids. Within the next year .r two it hopes to evolve a ~corn which with propar cultivation and fer tilization will produce 100 bushels to the acre on land that now brings forty to fifty bushels. A Dog's Long Fast. On July 27th Mr. Jones Wilson, of Millville, went out in the Eureka neigh borhood 02 business. His little dog, a rat terrier, aecompanied him. On his way home he missed the dog, and as it did not appear after he reached home he supposed it had been stolen. Last Sunday he get to thinking about the d.og, when suddenly it ocred to him that he might have locked the dog in a room in a house which he visited. He drove out to the place and went to the house. On opening the door he found the dog. It was alive and, while not very frisky, was able to wag its tail and walk out. He brought it home and fed it and it showed very little signs cf its long fast. It had gone without food or water for sixteen days.-Anderson Daily MaiL. The Negroe's Best Friend. A Negro preacher is quoted as say ing at the Emancipation Day celebra tion in Wise county, Va., the other lay: "Ose thing I cannot understand is that the same white man who votes in Richmond to take away the vote of the Negro will be the first man to help the Negro when he gets into trouble." Phe Augusta Chronicle says the ex planation is easy. The southern white man is the best friend the Nagro has. Ee is always ready to help him in need, but he does not censider the ballot safe in his hands. Imitating Sherman, Arnold White, the well knowa news paper men engaged in writing English news for American 'papers, declares in his most recent letter that the Boer war has reached such a state that "Sherman's march through Georgia is the favorite historical today" because it is regarded as "a lesson in devastation." How interesm'ng this truth so plainly stated must be to northern critics and southern defenders of British methods! But we are sorry for the Boers if Kit ohener is to ape, Sherman. We are alec sorry for the British statesmen who are responsible for such barbarity. A Good Law. William E. Curtis reports a condi tion of things in Sweden that is no table. He writes that in that country the saloons are closed on Saturday, which is the universal pay day, while the savings banks remain open until midnight Saturday night.