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PA~A r II r - W-1 VOL XV-I M ANNI NG S. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4. 190O1 FATAL EXPLOSION. Twnty Man Ara 0- ad andj THE:BU:LD4NG DEMOLIEMED. The Horrcrs- ef Fla Were Addied to the S %fff ng o the imprsonedi On s. Twenty men are dead, ten of themi unidenificd and ;o terribly bureed ai a blackened that iienification is almeat impossible azd 27 other men are lying in the various hospitals of the city suf fering from terrible cuts and burns and other injurite, all results of th explosion of one of the boilers in the Penberthy Iojector comnazy's large plant at the corrCr of A1bott street and Brooklyn avtrue, Dirait, Mic., at 9.3G o'clock Tu:sday of last week. Followirg are the dead: R. Bry-r, ro-ont- hand A. E HedmnaU, i3tht hZd. Joseph C..f y, lst;e had. A E. M"'il . r.h ',e ]-sn.d. Eugene Brram. la-heh d. -Edward Bertsch, attel Charles M.avin, late hand. Patrick hailey, ca:pen er. J Frye, aset. 24, testEr. len unideztned a. s-es In addtion to te 27 irjared in hos pitals, a dezin or -.o:-e of e enployes who st.fferet; c.mparatively shght i, ja ries, ade nom the shock, vfere tsken to their hemes. Twenty five -en and irys have ror as yet teen I ca'e1 eitar at their hones or at the tospitMS. The ter unidenfied 6cdi-s cc unt for ten cf these, and the officirs of the compSny say that they feel positive tir the ms jor portion of the remaining 15 are b tonght at their homes. 'ioni.ht s great force of mcn is s''tig the ruins by electric iisht and the work will not be stoppEd until every foo' has been examined. TaE FACTORY. The Penberthy Ljector compan's plant occupied half a square at the correr of Atbott street and Brooklyn avenue. L was composed c f two brick buildings, separated by a 16 foot ailey. The rear bui.ding, in which the Voiler was located and which ias completely dtfstoyed, was ihree stories in height, 54 feet in deth and 100 feet wid. Tne boiler room was Iccated at -the northwest corner of the builiLig ou the firat fior. It was in this b uilding that. most of the manufacturi g was dcne. The first floor was utLzed as the engine and boiler rom and a ro'm for testing the ou'pat of the n The finishing and bracs manufaa uring department was Iccated on the seccLd floor, and the third floor was devoted to the foundry. It is impossible to tell exactly how many men were at wrk in the various del artmer's of this rear building when the explosion ccurred but the cflicers insist that teei number was not over 85. T.uire were fLur boilers in the pleas, two huinzonsal ones which furnished steam for the engines and two verticsl boilers which were* used solely to test~ irajectors. It was the nordajtal boiler which was in use this morning which let go and causedi the awful loss of hife. WITHOUT WARNING Ihe awiut crash came without the slightest warning. Ihose in the front I building said it seemed like the ccr-j cussion of an immense cannon.Tr roof and fi.cors of the rear buildingI bulged upward a::d then crashed down with their heavy loads of macainery a.d foundry apparatus. Walls, root s,2e all droppecd into a ehapeless mass .cf debris. Wiindows in houses for a block around were breken by the con .cussion, and fl;ing bricks filled the :neighboring yards. A dcnse cikud of dust arose, and as it settled, ar.d was succeeded by denser couds of smoke and steam, agonzcd cuies began to come from the hea~p of tangled wood, metal and bricks. These who were only pardly buried franticaily dug themselves out, and thea as energea cally turned to digsio; for their c-m rades who were tuiec d: er. flAMES BROKE OUT almost imnmediatedy a~i the hcrrer of fire was adced to the eu.fluring of the impr:sonea ones. A fire alaim was turned i ano qme~k ict all me~ nbu~ances5 i tihe cu!y a rhey wer e tunied :o e scene. Per d ig their amrval, iLe!ighorig ?ou s were tutrnen ;nto tene.rary iuaipuan, and these piryscians Waov wre in the vicinits e.ea theO Lu.j as mu h - they wer-. able. The is -maa ss on the scene were toal inagse to carty those who had ngray v oen ex uiacted, arnd express nagens and~ iur vehietes weie pressed into s-ice. I As soon as tie giavity of the acci dent wais reanz.: cas isoir adiios .fiemen wsere ssnt in, and the appsaaus came fiyang to the scene from all parts .of the cit.y. While part os the firemnen ; nurned ti.eir fiorts at the fire, whichn was burning finior~l in the centre of the wreck, ine greater nude~ of them seized arts and crowbas and began pryirng out the victims who could .be seen or whose faint cries were au0dbe The department of public wcrks was notified of the horror arnd immt diately1 sent all its available men and horse3 to the scene.I In a comparatively shtcrt time, all tl e laborert who could work to advancsge were feverishiy throwing and pulog the debris out into Brooklyn averue, where it was loaded into wagons and -earried off. The fibers and roof had fallen at an angle and fou med a sort of huge cornier, under which the fire bar.aed fiercely. Not until the firemen thad chopped through this, did their strea:. begia to have an appreciable ftiroot on the fiamt s. The suffeting of those who were buried beneact .-rc inter mutely teen-~ fled to by their ch'tred and i:1-.keneo bodies. Engincer Riley was among the first I to be taken cut of the wreck. His es cape was little short of mirae'nnly. When the boiler let go he was knocked< to the 1d ,or and one of the smaller test irg bolers was blown over his prostrate ?om in such a 7ay that one erd rested DZ iome debris high above him, there by o mir g a shilAd tht k pt the fall it gIU Dos. briAs ar d machinery from r. shing him. TAhe escapz stacm, how-ver, burned !im fM'ihifunly. After his arrival at Lraes hospital, Riley's first words were: "H'w did it harpen? The en gine and be lirs were ii right." CRIES FOR HELP. Grdua~ly the retcu-rs worked their nFy do ;nva;rd through the pile. By hie t-ae th',re were no cries - groans to aid them, for the fis-.acs had de srow:ed those unferturawes who wr n. krled by the exp:osion or the f.-3. 01t :h3 work of rescue couttusa with -aatine heste. Wnen a heavy beam -r p-ece of shating .ras enouantereca u tsam of horses was brotght i' and the piece of wreckage hauled to the s-reet Stretcher bersr- stood b-side he res , 3ra ard twk away the burned and I bhckenrd bed:es. A vacant house ad ipining the ftcmory was converted into a 5 temporary morgue. H .re the bodies were placed in ccffins and taken to the searest mergue. In aveial cares the r corpses were ko bit wbtn re acvsred th lber cou'd s-araety be zndled by the uudettaker and his as t n.4tarts It The front lull'ig -f the p'ant sus ained copnparaiv little damage. yvo.d me :remendous explosion I ihin 16 fre- of it. All the windiws, a e, wire brokzn sud some of the c :icestary rsg,&:ly irjared by the 1 ; eam-atic cxtinguizhers which were iet I ts t the explosion. 'I he, rewr a dczen giriq among the i 'mployesa on the four fiors of this C -u d and tyre was so2ne:hing of a j :snie amorg th, m, but nobody was in Urel. C THE PROPZtTY LOSS eeording to Secretary George W. : ar-: $&,.000 The arm arrild $70,000 finre a;d tome boiler in ilracco, but how much of the latter 3eary Chi!di cod not etate. Subicrip:ion for the riief ofztie tif rmri brve been started. ?!hing is known as yet about the aeuzo of :he expionicn. The boilcre ai been recently irspenttd and the gieer was known as cue of the most ar! il asi capable men in the City. The rm will resume business as ocn as possible in temporary quartere, ready taken. He Will Land. The Washington crrespondent of he News and Courier eass Senator Mo- n Arinl was among the lit of esilers at te White House Wefneedy. He ws ccompanid by Cl. T. C. Crenshaw, for- r; aer Oh aman cf tie railhoid commil ion of Georgia. They talked by special h ppoin:.ment, a6nd bad a lor~g confidn- b jal ta.k with President Roosevelt late c a the afternoon after the other visit- r< >rs had been disposed of. Colonel a 3renshw, it wili be recalled, is a Democr.%tic Pretectionist, a:d also an ipansionist, a&org the M-Laurin jines. 3efoie Pre-ident SLKinley died Colo ei Craistan was an aspirant for a fed ral appointment and it is understood hat he was promised au office of tiust 8 ii Cuba. Wednesday's conference was ue, it is said, to an expressed desire n the president to meet Colonel Cren haw and talk over the political situa on in Georgia. Neither Senator Mc- t) ~aurin nor Colonel Cr'erahaw are dis- b oaed to repeat what occurred during heir talk with the president, further han to say they had a very satisfactory nterview-b Epworth Orphanage. The Epworth Or phrenage bas lost the upejintendent wio las been in charge a imee the e--ablisment of thie instul- e on in 1395, the Rev. George HeDry ta 'aideii, whxo eniered the Methodist t oneresee in 1835. Mr. Waddell has seen f read to resign on aceount of u li heaih. The litnie ciidrca at the h rphnag:- has thus lost a tiu ? and tric d a riend, une who has been a father to hem and one whom they all love de- g otedly. Tut sday night the annual c: netmug of the Epworth board was held g na that body elected Mr. Waddell g L.acial manager of the orphanage. b ?o succeed himn as supsrintendent the kv. Whi:fi.ld Brooks Wharton, now g, eving thme ohurchm at Ptosperity, in the ,i Jokesbury district, was elected. The ti lard received toe annasi reports of o e iestituuan, wieh were gratifying, ti nd attended to co::iderr.tbie business. re e: Killed Them Both. c A tr gy characteris'ically Paran. as aeammated in :he :eart of Paris a auecg As ithe caruer of the Bale 'o U . ha e iiuli~ vie r o es "" ee The opers :quaro ,as fi dd it stm 'ad~r s t lush .me, whe nt , ercrove acros~ th qiare, &i'oweud >y a man4 I..mug. A pAce an -egua atg m*ie, s~p the cab in front i hUafe de la Paix, enaolag thev uus to overtake it, when the man row a revolver,thrust it .hrough a idow of aec veiele, and fired twice, illr g the woman wrho w.as inside- h Che man in the cab, the wonia's lever, o ewid the other deor and tried to ~se g, at the hu~bard spraug after him and is lo aot his brains before the specta- it os could interere. then the hus- A ad approacad the poli.:mn, hand- n t him the wap.on anmd currendered. 3 A Gireat Success. S The new Holland sub~rnarine torpedo 3 toat is the wonder of all naval m:.n. t wts given a trial Friday at Green h eint, L. I. It is name~d tie Falcon. hipbut'icer Neonn says it is "a gress tel fish, in whichare ustd all ai theIt echanical developn' nts of L.he past ew years arnd over whose m:avementa a Eun xac:5 as perfect amnd instant obe ience to hie ~eill as if the fish hai rains." In his ognion a harbor de eated by two suegt boats coud not be .otted up as was Sarntiago. &tarrLed Three Wives. Jamr R. Ricia:dson, a white man, ti sh lives in A'u-ta and werksat a a ee~kare, h-a boen artcst(d in that ti ty chgedi ni;~ r'asmv. Two of his w nye wer Sou 'm C'limins. H de- b rttd them ani mar'e as a third g eife a Gesmria w San he married 0 hem all within thec past few years, I eerting them succssimvely. All the o tives are now after him and he is in d: Len troubl. h W OM AN M URDERED. 1 Da;k Detid COmm!:ld in the C ur~ty Cf Oconae SHOT TrRCUOH THE HEART Py a M +b Wh3 Was Tearing D wn H.,, s Huse. E x Mon A7r-.std and N .w n J jii. As the result of the killing of Mrs. hachel Powell alias Thomas, Sunday ight week, six young men are now in )aonee jbil. They are John Hudeon, d'oney Huison, Tom Hadson, -e;.,rge Euaso, Rowlind Rob:.rtson td Ja-k Sentrell. The firdt three vere arr sted the Monday morning fa owing 25 miles fro-m the ;cna of the r'me toward the Ge1c-gia line. Ta d:ers we 2rcated Wedrday afir a he :que c 'ear Salhm A crowd went s o Westley Powell's Sutday night week hont 3 o'clock and began to tear the Cuse down. Afer thry had torn reost of the roof ff aod hs ciarmneF coAn to theiround >owe et. came out and found fsur aen all of whom he recogr z .d as t'he u -n b,5s. He madR dhe o-st f^ e coud izd knocked Money Hadsen own with pkce of plark. At this 3 no:eare his wife. a womao of 50 3 ear, %me (ut and was shot in the heart aH eath followed instantly. Mr Powell ays he believed there were otbSrs ne -r he house ba he could not recogn Z; hem, Three C the Hudsons left a-d 9 assed through Walhala :.bout eunr:-:e h innday morning. At the i: queet Mr. orell sucre that he had knocked loney Husen deown and that he had iven him a black eye. When this statement was msde Pow 11 had not sen Hudson aLd did not now that he ns i jail. Huason shows he bl-ek eyc. D::. Beil ard MeKinieS eld tz-e pc t mortem and found .he bali n ' be one from a 38 calibre pistol. The v: fudsors had two pistols when nrrested, ii ne r 32 "0 ibre, and the other a 36 s, irs. Powell leaves file cbildren. The w lace of the kiiling is 17 miles north of e 7a!halia en Keowee rver. Westley 'owel and Rachel Powell alis Thomas E nder indictment in this county foi si vingin alaltery. The Hudsons are p ,a sons of John M. Hudsan, a Con p derate soldier, Robortsen is from w orih Carolina. 6enteli iived on a eowee river. This is said to have al een the scoond woman nver killed in a conses ocunty and the affair is decpl I gretted. The case against all the p 3eused now in jiil is believe to be a rong one. WHICH WILL WIN. h truggle Between Cmbinations of f t) Governors and Railroads. ti Profound interest is felt in the ireatened struggle bet wcen the comn ination of governors of Minnesota,a forth Dakota, Montana, Idaho, andp ashington an~d the great raircad comn- it ination composod of the Great Nor- m iern, Northen Pacific, Union Pacific, outhern Pacifie, and the Chicago, urlington and Q iincy railroads. The governors ox the foregoing states e intcrested in preventing a combina- y' en cf only two cof the roads in ques. a on, namely, the Great Northern and di ie Northern Pacific. Tue-;o road-a are lc aralel lines, an. traverse the states ir hich it is exproted, will take steps to II ave the railroad combination deciared B nswful. of This railroad combination is the big 0' et trust in the world. It represents 'N 'pital amounting to $1,082,000.000-- d: 64,000,000 more than the United W ates Steel corporation, known as the Si ilion dollar ;rust' Si It is by no means certain that the a] avernors can agree upon the course ct ist ought to be pursued in fighting rt e railroed trust. It may be that all at Stheir states haven't laws prohibiting h: t consOildation of pard~lel lines by fr leads. If they haven't, and they d' rpcca to have such laws enaoted, the ti lances are :hat they will suffer defeat. m he ailro;s ta re powerful and influen ini .41 and inov ! rie.ds in thie legisla-.s ?ne etruogis to defeat this great comn- In er his eve.r ktown, will attract the he .ation of th en:r coo-t ry, ar dit at A7 Mocce a faa:or in the gjuestion as e Swether the givurnmen tshall take u mralo r-f interes.iae railreads, to thni trent cf ru;;ervising their rates-Sa- t ______________vi A Queer Marriage Custom. The Scandinavian bridegroom giv. a is betrothied a prayer book at d many her g.s, which usually include a yose. Shae, in turn, gives him, ess:eo- vi ily in Sodn, a shirt, and this he b< iviably wears on bis weedirng day. vi .fterard he la:-s it away, and under XA >ciacimstanet.s of state or poverty c i he wear it again while alive. But3 r wears it in his grave, and tuere areV edes who earrocstly solikve not onlyR :the resurrrctio., of the body, ont in IT te veritabk. re-mrrection of the be- Ir2 othal shir~s oi such h';sbtnds who I we ncver broken their marriage vows. J h S eih wid mer must detroy Ire pon the eve of his second marriage a te wedding shirt his first wife gave w im.- Woman's Home Companion. A Lucky Missionary. It is owing to an odd twist of for- K :me that P. H. Anderson, of Kansas, di now a millionaire, irstead of a poor C airy school teacher. He applied M >ra certificate to teach achool and was tc tred down. Tihen he went to Alaska t3 Sa missionary. Daring his ministrr.- ti n there he disc-overrd a gold mine Ibe orth $1,000.000. He sold out, came t tk to the states, married a nice girl, b ie a fortune to a school, and is now t : a tour to Europe with his bride. w cept for his failure to get a coacher's I" miate he would no doubt now be i tilling the "three R's" into thick J1 TWO H uROINES. they Face Burglars and Put Them to Flight. St. Louis women are not afraid of aurglars. In the past twelve months io less than a score of oases have come ip where young and timid girls have truggled dcsperztely with burglars to etain their property in thrilling en uters with desperadoes. The burglar frcqenly chooses the imo of day when the women cf the ouse are most likely to be out shop ing or caliing. Miss May Kelley, a )retty 17-3 atr-old zirl, was bruta1y ecten in a fight with a negro burglar t her home on Yuraday afternoon, ;ut by heroio resistance she saved her i'mmds and other jewels, valued at 1,700. Mi-s Ke' iy had been downstairs eadire until aftervoon when the went tpciairs to dress for a matinee. Whenl he stopped in the door of her room s rgro dealt her a blow on the face. She va, but was on her feet in a mkmant, rd seeing tbat the negro held her b.x f j !-es 0he s.zad a winiow shad6 uia stiuck him a bo -..cross the ftc, e staggrd him aad made his noae 'Ied. THREW EJER ARMS AROUND HIM. He dropped the . a-d the jacky c ras sestterod over t':e fizor. eioki-.g a p a ces~t ri-.g he a-tMpted !o rU l owOstairs. Bt tht *ri throw ter rrns ar,uod him an4 exrusgled with sii er might -o make him drop the r i 'earing hin.salf frer L.ar grasp ;-s t ruck the girl a blow in t"he eye whih I pin sent her to the ft or. Then he J icked and bat her until he supposc d e ras unable to r10. t As he crept down the stairway tho N ruised, bieeding and haif-consicous h iri etaggered ta her feet and strack r im. He turned and, with an cath and 4 threat to kill her, struek her between 3 ie eyes. This time the girl was a nooked unconsicuie, but the members F t. e family came hurrying into the b ai jazt in time to see the negre dash p ircugh the door aed up the sureet. I LEFT WITHOUT WOTY. D In the lust straggie wih the girl the 8 ian dropped the ring, and did not have I me to recover it. Miss Kelley is ill 0 k bed, with her face and body badly I rollen and bruistd, as d the neighbors s 6y they wili lynch the negro if they Y in fiad him. E Airs. K. Hoffman and Mrs. George i . Hoffman sistmr, entered a grocery t ,oe Thunday right while three des rate men were holding up the pro tietors and riffing the atore. Revolvers ' -re tbrts. in the faces of the two wo- a en and they were told to back up 1 ;sinst the wail. They did so, smiling a their u-utui positen, and one ot h .em told the burglar not to press the V sto) so closelv to her cheek, that it felt like ice." KEiPT C OL AS CUCUXBERS. i This angered the fellow and he told n er to keep quiet or he would blow e er brains out, While the robbery pro eded the two women were as cool as te proverbikl cucumber, and when the E ire u.en finished their work and left h Le store they coolly attended to the a: topping which had brought them OUt, t] Mrs. Theresa Bucher, 60 years old. tf iw two burglars in the act of robbing ai house on St. Louis avenue Thurrdayg ternoon and frightened them away, iruing them for several blocks, "cry g stop thief," and forcing the two en to do their utmost to get away. Committed Suicide. T Charlie Hannon. a harnessmaker 30 ars of age, blew his brains out with pstol on the back porch of his resi mnoes on South Poplar street, Char te, N C , at 2.30 p. m. Wednesday, the prestncs of his wife and mother. 0' is tupposed that his mind was affeted 5 anon was, generally speaking, a man 2 steady habits, barring a tendency to ~ casional ezcetssivs use of liquir, but as not under the idfaer.ea of strong a: ink when ho shot himself. He, his - if and three children resided on uth Poplar street. He complained iurday of a "rumbling in his head:: h id did rot go to work. He went to a ore shortly after noon and procured aj volver. He then went home, knocked' B the front door of his house and as s wifa opened it he drew the pistol ~ m his pocket and began to shoot at iferent object s, as if in target prace cc. After he fired several shots his ~ other came upon the sce-ne. He had * >t seen her for a long time, it is said, p d it was a mere coineitience that theb und bin wvith a pistol in hand. Sae ahed up to her son and threw hn: m3 arcu-id him li~non broke frame r embrace. pas. ed her a few fest -9 nyand in the presznc of his horor -1.keo relatives *-. the pietol u >oi his head, death 1..citing iest :meditely. T vo neim:xors were at acted by the r.:litAit; shoo:ing. annon kept them at 'a; with his a Iver until he conM send a ball in-:o 5 brainh Shot and Killed. a A ercid Friday night from Wytbe- ~ lie, Va., says: A rnussage has just ~ en ri coivod here over the telephone W a Bland C. H., savi-g that John G. ~ tts, a p:omit nt ei"z a f TAzitweil d: unty, end former United States mar l for the western district of West b ~reinia, has been shot and killed by I abert Joncs, one of his farm hands. 8 he teloohone conneec~io-:s are very bad ~ Sno ~details can be obtained other ~ an that Mr. Watts had discharged t nes, who. after his diemissal drew a w vover and shot him. He died within o1 few mir:u es after receiving tho. ound. Jon.s eosped. Nation Set Free. A dispatch from Medicine Lodge, b; asse, says David Nation was Thurs- 0' y grnued divorC* from his wife, Mrs. trie Ne'nn, The court exonerated E is. Nation from the charge of cruelty hm her husnd and divided the proper- W . Mrs. Netion said that one reason w at she foaght the proceedings was cause she wished to continue to share e pension money drawn by her hus od. Nation, in support of his peti- of m for divorce, eited a letter from his tr :fe in which she denounced him as a n: ellbound hypocrite." He charged st .t she did not attend to his wants. hi idge Gillem granted the divorce en sc . groun of gros neglect of duty. E A WOMAN'S WAY. salcus Oi Trkd to KV!I Her Lvar and Harsclf )N A CHARLESTON STREET. rh- y Went to Charleston from Buffal', N.w Yok, ard the Man Dzsertcd the Y, ung W m n. Miss Sarah Hines, a pretty young eoman, who c me here from Baffale everal weeks ago with her s ?ectheart, dhauncey Stillman, attempted adoublo ,ime last Thursday by shooting Still Dan and herself. The senational af air occured at the corner of Calhoun 'd Coming street about 6 45 p. m iaither Mrs. Hines nor Stillman was eriously wounded. The young woman a in the city hospital, suffering, a pis rl-bal wound in her bead, which she enficted herael! after EbootiDg Still ase in the neck, Stiliman had his rourds dressed at the hoipital immo ia: dy ter the abooting. and :va3 dis harged at once. eao pistol used was very light weapon, of only 22 calibre, rhih fact dcubtless accounts for the ight wou.'ds inflicted. The shooting was the srquel to a ve tsiir between Miss Hines and Ir. S i1Imln. They camc nere from Iuffalo togetbr, and the young lady laims that they were ergaged to be mrr&id. After arriv.ng in Chsrlesten o n~ung lady ergaged board at 10 Vragg equare, where sbe ceuducted erseif with propriety, and won the -speet of evtr; one in the household tillman rented a room over John Banel's fruit store, 85 Comiog street, ,rner Calhoun street. The lovers had been in Charleston t a few days when Stilimsn began ying attention to another girl, Miss [nes could not bear the thought of Ding jilted and plannei to kill her eetheart and then end her own lifa. 'rcuring a pistol, she waited at the rner of Calhoun and Coming streets 'hrsday afternoon for Stillman, who >on approached, accompanied by a anug woman his new flame, and Miss. [ir,es opened fire on her lover. She red three times, but only one shot ik effci, the ball entering the young an's neck. Stillman ran into Man a's store. Miss Hines then Ilaced the epon to her forehead and Ared, and > the crack of the pistot she f-ll to i Sidewalk. The buflot inflitced only flesh wound. She was taken to the ipital in the ambalsnoe, together ith Stillman. Miss Hines stated to her friends that ie intended to kill Stillman and that ie wanted to die. Stillman was ar zted by the police, but, there being 3 charge against him, he was releas It is pro'bable that the police depart ent will mrke out a case against Hiss Ines after the is dismissed from the >spital for firing pistol shots in the ty limits. Stillman will not prosecute t young woman for attempting to ,k his life. Stillman is an electrician id has been working at the exposition ~ourds -Charleaten Post. AJ UNUSUAL CASE. 1 wo Young Men of Laurens Under a Dark Cloud. We learn from The State that there as great excitement in Laurens on reesday. During the night previ t Mr. Clarence E. Babb had shot and rously wounded a young man named ;ivan who was caught in a lady's use between 12 and 1 o'clock. Mr Babb was awakened by screams id jumped out of bed and, without aking any atic mnpt to dress himself, bbed his pistol atd ran out into the rd. The Ecreams came from the >me of some most estimsble ladies ~srby, and Mr. Babb saw two mnn ir themselves out of a window. arefooted and in airy attire he gave ase. For four hundred yards he pur Led one of the fleeing negroes, as he posed they were. He fired three Ltos, none taking effect. Finally the an pursued stooped as if to pick up rook and a bullet from M4r. Babb's stol caught him in that part of the >dy nearest Mr. Babb The wounded n fell end rolled ut der a house. Mr abo etooped aAd :s ic a.as a moonsie ght, saw~ the party roll over am over the far side of the house. y~ th.e me the wou-sted man emerged from ider the hcuse, Mr. Babb had inter p-ed him. fl% dazedi faliw d d rnot: xow whica way to tu--n until Mr. BAbb uted himn. Great was the captor'i rprse to find1 rhat ho hzd been puc tig awhite man. The !atter could give no account of I melf, anid wculd not diR lose the enity of his partner, who esnaped thoghoter eihbrswere on the ibb brought' down his man. The hole thing seems to be shrouded in ytery. If the wounded man was skirg he did good sprinting for a an in that coadarion. Budgary can Sthe only plausible exeuse suggested, is said that feeling agaiest yong llivan was bitter at fir~t, but there as no danger of violence bsing done m. HG father is a dispoesary at che and is well connected. Thie boy's ounds may not be of a dangerous arater. Had not this boy been brought down his flight, some poor darkey might ive been harging to a limb-as an :mple. Mr. Babb was quite a hero. eting up on a cold night and rranning irefotted, across cotton pat~ches and rer rocks, req4uires endurance. He 1 once and nearly denuded hit'self. is torn apparel was bloed stainezd and Smiht easily hsve been taken for a anded man rather than the one horn he shot. Dead in a Tree Top. W. J. Vann, a white man 50 years and married, was found dead in a1 ee top cy 'possum hunters Thursday I ght. He bought morphine and I ryehnine the day before, saying he id family troubles and was going away THE WAY8 OF SIN. A Defaulting City Treasurer Com mits Suicide. After being offercd an evening newa paper which said his books were under -xamination by expert accountants, Stuart R. Young, city treasurer of Louisviile, Ky., Wednesday evening went to the rear of a warehouse at Sixth and Nelson streets and committed sui cide by shooting himself behind the right ear with a pistol. A great sensaton was created late Wed resday afternoon when the last edition of one evening paper appeared with a story, in eubstance, that account a-ts were at work on the books of the retiring city tressurer, Stuart R. Young, and that it was reported that diecrepancies had been found in his accounts. Immediately the friends of Mr. Young began to look for him, not believing the reports. Shortly after 6 p. m. Mr. Young was seen at tAe ladies' entrance of the Louisville hotel on Main street, whore he lived with bis bride of a few months. Two newsboys who knew Mr. Young, ran up and saia: "Mr. Yourg, doo't you want a paper? Its got your picture in it." One glance at the double-co'umn headlines told Mr. Young wihy the pa :rF had pr:nted a dotile co:umn pio Lure of nim. ILstead of enicring the hotel he walked down Sixth mLeet to iords ;he river, the newsboys follow ing him on the other side of the street. Just dlter passing Nelson street Mr. Young trneed diff between some b* br. The boys leared to follow him % furtser and reiurnmng to the Lou - :ile hoel asribed Mr. Younig's ac ;ions to ' Kid" Johnson, a hactman, whose stm is in Pront of the hotel. uho'nn wa: acquainted with Young, iud g -ing in the direc..ion given by the uewetb.ys finaily found Mr. Y.unug y.M face dcwaw;ard in the cinders, his .ight arm under him. Seeing a balie: 10ie behind Mr. Yousg's right ear, Johnson turned the body over. Then is saw tbe, pit.oi in Mr. Young' right iand. L fe was extzine. The body wa6 emocd to an undertakiag establish nent under orders of Che coroner for on irq'est. btuart R. Yourg was 35 years old iud one of mhe most promirent men n L uisvifle. He was a griduate of Prinoeton uaiversity, a son of Col. t iznnett H. Young, a prominent lawyer I 6nd former Contederate soldier of - zouiville, and brother of Lawrenes foan; cf Chicago, president of the a famhington Park Jockcy club. IE t narried last Jaly b1fss Bessie W3mond, r >ne of the moet beautiful women in c Kentuokv, and daughtCr of L H. Wy- 1 nond. Four years ago Mr. Young was t leet d city treasurer and under the aw was ineligible for rec'eeion, his uecesor having been elected on qv. 5. R. WAS SHORT. Beyond the statemet made last Wed uesday night to mayor Granger by one I >f the expert accountants that dis- c repancies amounting to $23.000 had a >een found in the books of the fornr f tity treasurer, Stuart R. Q:ung, who t Immitted suicide last evening, noth t ng definite is known as to hov the so- i iounts stand between the city ard it s ormer treasurer. When asked for an t ~uthoritative statement tonight one of a he accountants said that beyond the imount mentioned Wednesday night a ie had absolutely no idea as to what r he alleged shortage is. He added that t ho accounts would ..quire two weekst o go over the books of the treasurer's >ffice. During his four years' term asc ity treasurer, Mir. Young handled $11, 00O,000. It becamie known today that i everal of Young's friends have heard eports about the condition of the for ner city treasurer s accounts before iewspaper publiction was made of them, tad arranged a tentative plan to secure uany aid for him that tmight be needed. L'hoir plan was 'frustrated merely by he fact that yesterday afternoon they were unable to find Young. Wednes lay morning Young asked for his re rolver at tne Louisville hotel, where he ieved. Held Up and Robbed. Mr. J. W. Parry of the Bell Tele hone Company, was held up at thet >oint of a pistol by two men and rob >ned last Tuesday night about 12 o'clock >n the corner of Q ueen and Logan areets while on hi:3 way home from the i:e. The men suddenly set upon uam,.covering him with a pisiol and ~aggig hinm to sup prees a crj for assis anee. His peckets wo:e searched and 1.10 wa-. tdea from him. The high taimen were young white men but the nannr in which they went about theirt iork showied theze to be toroughp ~ eatof the ri ses in their pofession. c chy is rapuiy fidling up wi~h a lious element whose charicter is mped aL the~ir faces, and it would be good ove on the part of the p'liao 3 opartment to enfoe the vagrani act. Svery man who has no visiola sign ofl upport sho'uld be sent to the chaini1 ;aog. TJe W0 aroads report that tramps i rom all parts of the cuntry are moving ~ n ibis d~reetion and the movement hould be ch-eed.--Cherleston Post. ini a Silver Car.r Juian Gsrcia and 31anuel Altervories, dexcani hoboas, who were Denting heir way to S-an Antonio Tex., were rrested by Fcderalj authoritit~s of that idriet on the charge of breaking into t leaded freight car. Tue car which he two tramps entered fo:ci.iy to get froe rige on the Southern Pacific rail osd was loaded wi,:h silver bullion to he amount of $125,000, wni was bo ng shipped to the Guggenhxeim refin- I ry at Porta Amboy, N. J., from the 5 melter at Monterey. Tho trampse rare unaware of the valusile esrgo on e rhich they rode until they haa al- ( nost completed their journey, when c hey were ta~en into custody by ofi ors. iNone of the bullion was atoien,. Schley Cheered. Rear Admiral Bohley, who with his wife, arrived at Philadelphia, as the ;uest of Col. A. K. Mc~iure, was the entre of an enthusiastic demonstra ion at the Broad street station of the f ~ennsylvania railroad when the Wash- t ngton express rolled into the big train I hed. More than a theuand persons i were congregated in the ststion to see c he admiral and when he stepped from t he train the ctowd set up a wild cheer. t Ihe people massed around him and it ; ras with much difficulty that the police I pened a passageway for him to leave i ha statinn. A NEW EDITOR. Dr Richardson Elected Editor of th Advocate Over Dr. Willson, Rev. W. R Richardson, D. D., ha been elocted editor of The Southeri Christian Advocate. This, no doubt will be a surprise to the Methodists a South Carolina. Rev. Jno. 0. Will son, D. D., has for seven years beei the editor of this periodical and hii personality has become a part of Thi Advocate. The Columbia State says when Bish op Galloway announced Friday morn ing to the Conference that the electioz should be held Dr. Willson's friend, were confideut that he would be re. elected. 0o the first ballot Dr. Will. ?on received 95 votes, Dr. Richsrdsoa 74, Rev. E. 0. Watson 39 and Rev. R E. Stackhouse of Pendleton 23; total 235, necessary to a choice 118. On the second ballot there were 243, necessar3 to a choice 122. Dr. Willson and Dr. Richardson detracted from the strengtI f the other candidates au Dr. Richard ion led by 15 votes. The return was Rchardson 117, Willson 102, Watson 15, Stackhouse 8. Oa the third and kal ballot Watson and Stackhouse re 3eived two votes esch'and L. F. Beaty >nE; Richaidson 133, Willson 102. While the tellers were counting the 7otte, Bishop Galloway invited Bishop Danean to Pmeside. The latter was in 'armcd by Rev. S. H. Zimmerman that io thought that some laymen had voted who were not entitled. These laymen vere members of boards of trustees, to., bat not properly members of con erence. The bishop stated that if any uoh had voted, ther could withdraw hair ballots, but none were withdrawn. ['he result would not have been af eted. ID:. Willson was visibly affected. He raiked to the edge of the pulpit, beside he Bishop's desk, and said with tremb ing voiae that at the call of conference e had unwillingly taken up this work, nd unwilling does he put it aside. H ad not sought it in the beginning, but tad beguia to love the work. However e would in manly spirit receive the ictum of conference. "All that I ask f you, bishop, is to send me to the oorest charge with the most miserly alary in conference, that 1 may show o my breihren that the shafts which ave been directed at me have been un st." He spoke with feeling of the artification which he had suffered on count of things which he did not par iulariz?. He ended his statement by newing his pledges of fidelity to his onference and to God. At which there ras a responsive "Amen" from all over he church. Humor in Census Figures. There is considerable amusement in ome of the census tables, and jokes re going the round's over the fact that ,hicago has more hogs than New York, ut that New York leads in the matter f goats. Pennsylvania beats all other tates in the number of mules, which act is mentioned in relation to its fac ional politics. The figures show that he variety of animals in this country i practically complete, and that New ork has its share-in fact, iis hard o say what can not be found in the reat American metropolis. It has Val street, and it has farms, which re conducted at a profit. It has every ace in the world and more representa ives from every section of the coun ry than any other city. It is a big own, so jammed with interest that one ould live a lifetime within its bound ries without finding out one-half of its ats.-Leslie's Weekly. Quite a Coirey. Two old hunters were swapping earns and had gotten to quail. "Why," said one, "I remember a ear when quail were so thick that you ould get eight or ten at a shot with a ifie.". The other one sighed. "What's the matte??" said the first. ."I was thinking of my quail hunts. had a fine black horse that I rode verywhere, and one day out hunting al I saw a big covey on a low branch fa tree. I threw the bridle rain ower he limb and took a shot. "Several birds fell and the rest flew way. "Well, sir, there were so many quail n that limb that when they flew off it prang back into place and hung my orse. "-Sunny South. To Beat Gorman. Mar yland Republicans have a plan o end Isidor Rayner the chief coun si for R ear Admeiral Sahley before the o'rt of irquirv, to the Ucited St.ates erseo. Ex Senator Gorman won te satyand legislature in the late elec ion by a majority of nine votes, on oint~ baliot. Rayner is a Democrat, ike G orman, but the Repubbecans say ithey can get ten Democrats to vote or R tyner they will all vote for him ,nd lct hi-1 dver G..rman. It is any hing to beat Gorman with the Repub oans, at d some of the leaders are bauoy rith the plan to get enough indepen nt and anti-Gorman support for Bay er to defeat Gormnan in that way. 2ey hope to be able to work it out. Jumped Into the Sea. Frank E Keilbach, who is supposed o have jumped overboard from the teamship Chattahoochee on route from lavannaai to New Yerk, was prominent olitieally and socially. He was a on of well to do parents and hsd him elf ccumulated considerable property. ie was 37 years old. For seventeen ears he had been connected with the fice of ordinary in that city, and was rdinary pro tem for several months. ) account of a recant change in the ifice he lost his position of chief clerk, rhih seemed to prey on his mind; not at he rneeded the salary, as he was adepent of the pay, but because he nagned his long services were unap reciated. A Great Invention. Mr. Santo. Damont, who has won ame as an aeronant, having obtained he Deutsch prize for doubling the iffel Tower in is balloon, is now talk ig about crossing the Atlantic in that onveyance. He Bays the crossing of hat ocean in a balloon is only .a ques ion of multiplying the capacity and owers of his present airship. It is robable that it will be a good while efore he will undertake suih a peril DISASTROUS WRECK Two Engines in a Head End Collision. B APPALLINO LOSS OF LIFE. One Whole Train Burned. The Engines Completely Wrecked Misunderstandiug of Or ders. 100 Killed. One of the most disastrous wrecks in the history of the Wabash railroad, or any other Michigan road, occurred at Senees, Mich., a small way station about 70 miles southwest of Detroit, between 7 and 7:30 o'clock Wednesday night. Train No. 13, an immigrant train, with two engines, westbound, collided, under a full head of steam, with train No. 4, eastbound, about one mile from Se!.eca. The result was that five or six coaches on the emigrant train were crushed and its load of human freight were Bent into eternity in a moment, while one coach on train No. 4, which consisted of a parlor car, was also tele scoped and four dead bodies have been taken from the ruins. Ik is not known how many people there were on the emigrant train, but. the number of dead and injured will be anywhera from 60 to 150. The people on that train were caught like rats in a trap and crushed. Then the wreck caught fire and those who were not instandy killed were slowly roasted to death and. none of the few spectators wno hastily gathered from tne farm houses nearby were able to afford aid. The whole emigrans train was soon consumed by the tames and every person on that train, is is report el now, was killed. Farmers residing along the track rushed in on the biasing mass to rescue those whom they thought might be ahve. The bodies hauled out of the wreck wcre taken to nearby farm houses, which are illed with dead, and a large number of injured were taken to a hospital at Peru, Ind. Alog 61e traak, long lines burned bodies lie covered with blankets, pre senting a grewsome sight. It may be possible that the exact number of killed or who they are will never be known. At present it is impossible to get any thing resembling a list of the injured or dead from Seneca. - It is said here that the socident was the resul f a misunderstanding of or ders. It reported ii Seneca that No.4 she havii W.ted at Seneca sta tion and N&13 should have taken the siding. This was not done. Then the crash came. The next tesult is that one whole train, No. 13, is burned; the engines completely wrecked and the baggage car is crushed into kindling wood. The Boer War. President Roosevelt's absence from Washington on a brief holiday saved him the embarrassment Sunday of hearing a pro-Boer sermon at the Dutch Reformed church which he habitually attends. The preacher was the Rev. Hermnann von Broekhuier, formerly pastor of the principal church at Pretoria, and chaplain of the yolks raad. Ho took up arms for the Boer cause and when captured by the Brit ish was exiled. Coimig' to this coun try, Mr. Broekhuiser has been raising money for the relief of the Boer women and children but not with any great success. Sunday night this Boer preacher described the situation in South Af rica inall itshorrors. "Iap peal to you, the people of the United 8tates," he said, "to raise your voice in protest, and when you do, it will mean the liberty of South Africs. The cause of this war, which has practi cally devastated an entire nation is the glamor of gold in the Johannesburg gold fields. Ohamaberlain and those as sociated with him see nothing but this gold, but we of Sauth Africs can say with Bismarok: 'South Africa will be England's grave.' England has been pouring men into Africa for two years, and we are still unconquered. Rhodes said in the Cape Colony parliament: 'The two black spots in South Africa must be made red,' and they are being made red, only it is with the blood of the Englishmen, and they cannot much longer stand the drain."-The State. Death of a Minister. The Pak~ens People's Journal, of last week, says: "At the Meihedist par sonage o~a the morning of the 224 inst., Rev. C. E Wiggins fell to sleep. Sics 1854 he bas praached Chriet to dying men and women, and the cloudless sky of an eternal day must have met his vision as he entered shrough the gates so be with his Lord. 'For man~y months past he had suffered the Life of an in valid, and in the face of all that skill fal physicians and home's loved ones could do, ie gradually weakened and died. Entering. the South Carolina Conference in 1844, he remained in its bounds for a time. He then joined the Holstein Conference and for some years was stationed in North Carolina and Virginia. Afterwards he again became a member of the South Carolina Confer ence, and as a superanuate of the Con ference he died in his seventy third year. His remains were carried to Hampton omanty for interment. He was the father of Rev. W. E. Wiggias who is pistor in charge of Easley and Batheada circuit." Mr. Wiggins was well known in this county, and the news of his death will be received with regret. The South's Vote. Dispatches from Washington says that renew'ed efforts will be made by Representatives Olmstead of Pennsyl vania and Crumpacker of Indiana, dur ing the 3ominlg Congress to secure a re duction in the congressional representa tion of Southern States. President McKinley stopped a similar attempt at the last congress by announcing he would not sign the bill. The plan is a hobby wita Henry C. Payne, chair man of the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee. The advocate! of the reduction expect a hard fight, but are hopeful of ulti mate success. The attempt will start a most bitter factional fight and will renew the bitterness and strife which prevailed just afte the Civil War.