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-VANNING,- - iS. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1902. APPALLIE' D)ISASTER Takes Plate on the New York Cen tral airoa. A REAR E]TD COLLISION. An Engine Crushed ki:' WIay !nto the near ta1);acli and. roth In the Ntew Yrk (kni i!. tlunnel : r::ws u:: avenue, New Y I:k Cit . t x in:: trains collidd W1ednesday. Fifte 1 passen.gers were klied :md t w. nnmber were injured. A do-zezn of latter were seriously hot. and I e roster of the dead rav bei ee(d. TUTE DIEAD): Albert M. Perrin. 4: years (ld, r"e V-rtlv from Clica'o. secrery a nd seend vice pres n of the U ni on Bag and Paper y residec' New Rochele. NY.: . 1) C. Fos kett, 4 years od. N !VoIbe&: A. E. H.'Il. 5N Rcee:. C. - Hinsdal. :'5. Ne. e .. F. Howard. :i5. N- i*v ele 'a Washburn. formerl cf Chic go pres1 dent of the Un)In 1ia and tapr company. residence New !Zochelle: Wm. Leys. 35. New Rochelle: General Manager B. Altman and comnpany 5 New York: Theodore Forgardo. :', New Loclhelle: Wi. Fisher or Frbes :25. New Rochelle: William Howard . -48 New Rochelle: Oscar 1eyrowitz. .50. -New Rochelle. optician in New York and secretary of the New 1 chelle Yacht club: Franklin Crosby. 35. New Rochelle: Ernest F. Walton, .30. New Rochelle. broker In N w York: 11. G. Diamond. New Rochelle, :assistant general manager of the Am erican Bridge company, this cit: Charles -1. Mars. New Rochielle. em ployed by the New York custom -house. THE SER.OUSLY INJWnED. Mrnest Coffin. 15 years old. New R> cbee: serious wound on head. Tak(n to weiam's hospital, 50th street and Lexingt on avenue. Alfred Wadley, florist. of New York dity: fracture of both legs. shock and scalp wounds. Albert W. Adams. a carriage buil der of New York city: left leg cut off -below the knee. - George M. Carter. New York. leg fractured: George M. Fisher. 46. Eas: t Port Chester, severely injured. Mabel Newman. New Rochelle: con tusions of body and hip fractured. Mamie J. Rice. New Ruchelle. frae tured nose, lacerated ear and sprained I ankle: Sadle Scott. New Rochelle. left I hand and left foot fractured: Richard Millineaux. New Rochelle. conpound fracture of-thigh. Thomas Murphy. New Rochelle. both legs broken and internal.injuries. condition critical. Wintield Schultz. New Richelle, ftractured legs and burns. A. McRae. New Rochelle. leg frae :tured. Henry Kenne. general umnager ofL ~the Siegel-Cooper company. l.his city. tiractured ribs and internal injuries. ~George Winter. New Rochelle. com pcend fracture of left leg. The leg was amputated. Wai. Brea iks. Erie. Pa.. iaceratedi face and posible fracture of skull: taken to Roosevelt hospital. A RIEAR END COLLISION. It was area-en o'l is~ion~ lietween a South Nocrwalk lkval thait ran in over the New' X sk. New Ihnven and Rartford railroid. and was h::lted by bloek signal at lhe srnthern entradne of the t um:'. ..nd a White Plains local tint came by th~e ~!arlem hranch of the New York1 Central. The wreck occurred at '8:1 a ~. mn., at which hour the trains were crowded by suburban-1 ites. Most of the det . i~ njury and -damage was wrought by the engine (of the White Plains t ran which plunged into the rear car, r the motionless -trai-n and was driven thrugh to the middle cf the car. smashing ahe seats and furnishings and; splitt!in theO sides as it moved forw'rd The victi ns either were maingled in u he majss of wreckage carried atiep .erhd in the space hetw"~ holrad ca r sides, or sealed by R :am' wich came' hissing from b rl pipes~u an :l ders. 'Tihe en~i~rne i' us: til pln' of 40 feet carried the rear ear forar and sent t wisted I r. brke timbers,5 spli :ne r: crashin. ino th emehc~ aihead. Liht were xtinguished and trmb wreekage and darkness eamne the cries of the injured and calls for assistane hby those who escaped. -3 won Wor' REscVE marked by heroi~snm and sacuritice, ie availabl~e amblnOVce in rt police re serves of tire precints and tile tiremen -of central an-d eastern ditricts oft Manat tan wer~e sounde r: (nCe wi th police. fire-: and surgeoun. camen a score off volnteer fy.icans n-d halfI dozen clergymen.; Ladders were iin don hr (Gl air sht. and thetimn"d 2 attacked the ueb'ris wit a1 rups :nd axes. Passen' rs already liad a!! prisone1din the#c dbi. W hr Smi lI and Rev. Dr. W alk--. ialiso the ti~e diepartmem. rale in .e tlhe wrecka..e.and iniIRered to th' partmenlt, forV'd his wa:: . *!o teoint where Mis ie an '-is Scottf lxy and stood" ini wte uav1 add h tiesh froma his hime uut.! the w-me were released. T. \- \u1. y-a . sen-:er, bI> il ofw( s wr broken and stiheld by 'I u . volunteered t'o remin'i as hei waxx' those around him were ass~'i. Two. p lcice and~ Cha'pain Wa I lev reace Mrs. Howrd. and' thI poflicemelcn wer cut t i ':awa the sea' which h* ih on1w.we pipe broke . he sebllt x r th-i mback and whe th -rers re dressin-I by ihe ambuhnei' nd o teer smr-~on f' n-I Ile h ie .3 I reet .iumy rar r aveone~ o.ansieun ,yeIe -iill- ,I p to tile sui*(Iering but In,( ih jured were at wnce taken pitals.lhcie dead were carried ,i 'or'~uead p.1lice stat ions. .t immens'e ir.'wd hedl.ss (if the .gw s.sirtld t hrouizh the at reet. I rd aut the tunnel entrance za d wachel id thie rescue Crnius Vanderhilt was amongr who came t the tunnel. I-ut the .l'e eun'ed, him admission. dcspi;e hact thu* his fa;mly control.; Ole roso -T- nE'ONsIBIITY. Rc,;.sp.siblt' y for the disasier isi un edu~. ha; Sup't. F rankln s.* ii tha s a r as le ble itl (i-1 er. .o, ti-inin r of io W ''te ;ains t rain. is c lne tid tart-It wi a th uth Nk.rwal rain stoped.' '.:agman ran back int cei un1 inel an esi .'ie i a o he n-min: rin.T~e unnel was Aadta w1 steamn and smoke vhile the snow. which fel! through he air shafts tended to obscure the tew. Engineer Wischo and Fireman hrist pher Fiye: were arrested. A ignai man al,;o was detaiene for a ne but was roelease. Supt. Franklin has issued a state na-t s 19 the a1iccent. wich he de ares that Ie bl k nals at Lft cirl1 szret wre cbeyed by thce New Laven train. wvhile le en;neer (1 he i te Platins train d'icsretarded n. "The itrnedo (..n the track f.ent ." said the superintendent. 'hhe. did not stop, even though the i-erna callcd to him to do; so. The vstem of bl!ck signals is such that it s a physical impossibility fur a signal nan to make his light declare the rack free if another train is on th.e >lkock." District Attorney Jercume visited he wreck and persoinaliy examined nanv witn esses. The State railway iso annodneed its intention to make .n Investigation and similar intent mas expressed by the general ofticers of th the New York Central and Hud on River railroad and the New York, ew Haven and Hartford railroad. Residents of New Itechelle, etnitri >uted !he largest number to the caus Itv list because the rear car of the ;out - Norwalk local was reserved for hem and was kept locked until t'he rain reached that place. APPEALS TO THE PRESIDENT. dmiral Schley Bringing Out Some New Facts. The object of Admiral Schlev's v1sit o Ihe White iouue recently was to re uest the president t. entertain and onsider an appeal for the reversal of he action of Secretary Long and the sanproval of the majority judgment f the court of inluirv. The inter -iew was sat isfactory. the president ranting the ' admiral's request. essrs. via er and Teague today will ssist Admaral S-..iley in the prepara ion of the appeal. The inte-view with the president as arranged in advance and at its onclusion Admiral Schlev left the hite Hiouse in a satistied frame of nind. lIe had been given a full op >ortulnit~y to present the case from his ,tandpoint and to acquaint the presi lent with many detaiis of which the atter could not have any knowledge. hile Admiral Schley would not make mny statemrent regarding the matters liscussed. holding that. an interview etween a naval on1icer and his comt nander in chief should be regarded as cntidential. it is understo~od that he >rought to the president's attention nany of the alleged injustices and dis ~repancies of the majority report of :he court of inquiry. .-dmiral Schley's interview with the resident was the result of his det'er nination to exl~.ust everyrmeans in his ~ower to overturn the judgment which cas been rendered against him. His ew appeal will bi. different from that ubmitted to th.' navy dlepartment. ringing out some new facts which jave an imapartant bearing upon the ont roversy. Messrs. Rayner ad Teague. counsel or Rtear Admiral Schlev, came over rom Baltimore and were closeted for everal hrours with their client. The following statemnent was given "'t by A d miral Schiley's counsel at the nclusion of the conference. "Admiral Schlec has coccluded. ~tr matunre ar d careful deliberat ion. o)appea from the majority report of he coiurt of inqcuiry to the presiden t of he Encited St at es as commander in1 hie 'of the army andin:ivy. This ac ion' haivingr hoen determined upon. ohin.1monre can be divulged at this ime. the regulations of the navy he nsc tha-t the nature of the pro 'oeapealI cannot he re-veal'd except ayth prescient after firmal docu nents have been tiled with him." Mr. I-u-vner stated that it will take! am ieto prepare the appeal and a t it wil not ibe filed with the presi et unil after the retur of Ac dmiralI cle fromn his visit t'c Savannahl. nout the~ t-h inst. He0 W'e- a 'rate. A i 'eiim Don'.huie cf Wilkeshar re. a..Enasd -Sday senten! c upon t c .t til. Thurs:!ay on the evi i::: wh he ret' urne. ine:: e late last its ot nint .e *. -. Toey wer ce coM andj -ill was chi. -h'. ncK{ ccwant*i ", warm h-c frat. Then ---i 'r-os'd.1 1 he k'd icr out efi nd wnHi no allc -r h'r toc re urn. h lp a n *h.: - all niin t. it w .e ix in ieWihr os l-elease onl. but tieA!eran? e we cc:-ifor ( h:-mi:1. Six Whie Menro Hang :,as m.:nesime.Febuary, a5.ft e imning(' si whlite man. in - ''a t r h-.hn a ::us loa ic ac :n .\.10*ll f'"r hulrnry at Lincluton.' for hnrrglary inc wiiichc a womanTt was horiribl eiuti. a ch>ild hornh GONE T() T HE W A LL. The Father of the Later "herry Tree" Idea Fails. A TOUCEITNG VA.LDICTORY. He flefers to His Wyebb Pern-eting Pres. *.. The A.m.xnce zt , sne !% Notice to the Credt;1ors. ince the untimelv eitha in fa:t indutry. -I'' Ali III Y Cherry Trete comprano ." t ske pt ica have b". . predictinrg rhe faiure of the father of then all"-the Smithil iew:iipaper Iicern of Mofni'el.t' I''i., vhichi is tile ;irst of te "g-rich -:uck"sehinS tit be s1red.Th napkin ri:g concernis a nl either ahuor I ive infringements on Ihe S. ithl copy right have been failin a and nlow cones -he announcement that Smitih has madie an assnem For several v.eks he has b inow in A ag realt tances, a1n now his agents Z; being in formed that t are apt to cone out Ao;ers in t hi.s mat ter. Sith's valdit vry a fectin.r, has a ' ring atont it.. ile is. or w e - ee1ki.1v C s i I 1 i i on Rieporter. not orosly '- srry pa: . but they brought him ov . Iub seribers tuou:h his system~ of .riving empltflovmen.it to ajents to ( writing at home. Soee of these agents in CoUlmbia are sadly in nee(i of the money which they put into t.e bu - n1ess and would almost be willing to sacrifice their claims for pay for vcork they have done if they could get back the money advanced. The last of Smith's vent ure is sum med up in the following statement which he issued under date of Jan uary 4: To the Public: Leaving the University of Georgia in 1S90. I moved to Monticello and in a few years afterwards-I haven't the exact day before me, but . seven or eight years ago. I took clarge of the 31onticello Weekly Constinition. and have continuously edited and published that paper to the present time. When I took charge of that paper it. had less than one thousand sub scribers, and by continuousi hard work have increased its circulation to 40, 000 or more: was rapidly building up a large job printingbusiness and had a prospect of doing about $50,000 worth of advertising per annum. In October, 1901, 1I bought and moved to Mont icello the best newspa per press--a Web)) perfecting -n Florida. with the exception of one in Jacksonville. I also purchased ot her costly and valuable machinery with which to operate the plant. and have nearly completed a new building. all at a heavy expense. Monticello being a small place it wis nICessarV that a hrge per ceot. of our husiiss in tlie way of subscribers. job printing and advertising. come from a dlstance. To get this business it was necessary to have a goodl many paid representatives in the territory firom which we expeeled] pat ronage. The business wats'radulally- inicreas ing and promised well up to a few months ago. At that time I encoun tered some oppositionm. but by coatinu ous and persistent etiort managed ton withstunmd it for a while.- This opposi tion came f~rom parties or newspapers who were and are not personally ac oainted wih 11me and who had no cor rect conception of my work. fromif nar ties wh'ose maini hope of keeping their own .headns up, dlepends -on pulling down the lhad~s of others. Their uin friendly criticisms consisted of stre ments and pumblicat ions that were wholly untrue, and without t he slight est foundaion. in f'ac. statements that were conceived in malice. made in jealousy. arnd circulatLed with a de sire and hope to'injure. As above stated. I was able to with stand this opposition for a time. out to do so I was compelled to toil day and night, which under tihe strain I have had to go. has seriously impaired myv health. I am flow unable to give the business the energy and attention necessary for its suecessful coatirua ron mider the d1ittetities briil men tinedi. llad it not been for this opposition t would have suecessftull built the business up to the i.oint desired. given emplo yment to many who1 needed it. and madeC a fair margrin of protit on the business transaeted. But Sad news travels at a rapid rat e and in many instances a substa.ntial institu tion uinder ordinary conditions has been quickly ruined by the cirrculation of untruthful reports. regardiless of who their authors may have been. In conducting my business I have ever enideavored to keep) faith with each of my't representatives and am sre a reference to my pjast record wvill satisfy any one on this point. And I shall yet keep faith w ith the m, even though to do) so. mks it nece';ary for me( to sacr eerythitng r have worked for. ftor te -'afst 1:' years I have carefully and marturely con sdred the sit uat ion for seri IIay1s ad hrae toIrno y cauded thait t.i thei mntere:i of ll ii s to asin um one rty for the'. pu eo itin tI just dead gist me.C I 'i ve teoe u hs day.- Volun persnial or mixed. incuded mi ,ny mi hoe .1id n ki'chen furnituro for has taken char 'C of it andi wir ll- ;mc It isa Io o( dCe rert :u.d a r'i dismpeh'met to me. and to :c'l int~ e'.ry ton who0 is pIso Tiis is accimpanied by V a si (atenet frto ''Is. 1*. lark a~i-e. in whlmih mt anid sa: - ou 'i t trforte di c'.o~nti e y\. . . ..oi in . i *ti s.vt iemize~l statemnt. nth n (I~e blan tlt Ithe1 undri ned as ignee.C if the amnit of 1his es't ab n iam-et iniIeraciom to tw ln making Up tis StatCmIlt it must be d1u1V sworn to Iefo-re some magistrate in yir vicinity. I will kindly ask that you send this statecient. forward to me s soon as possible anc. I will endeavor make the best disposition possible at Ian early idate. COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS. I Superintendent McMahan Presents Some Practical S uggestion. State Superintei-nrit of Education McMahan in his annual report h'as the followin to 0y in the imattur of con a y ihschools-: "Iv many counties, the tow, sCllloI is alt eided in its higher grades by punils fron c-Mnty district ;. who in some cases (as in Orangeburg an I ion) are adlliiI td free of tilition:x I). 1he gnerouis action Of tite city bozrd. bu. generaily are require'd to pay tuL iwn. II either ee. the limit of cLpaCI ; to mit pipils i1s being reached (.I has beeno raeacd in many towns-Cspeelai I. in those that have granted thn p: jiee without the barrier of tidtin I charges. What is to be done I)i sup p thI e demand for I;iyh school dua tiony 31orcover, many sinalkr townx have ne'ver yet been able to provIde a hi(rh scoo!'department for their own cildren. and consequently in some counties there is not even this begin ni: of a high school accesibcl to the chi !--n of the county. if tie law provide.d machnery by which towni and countrv--count in short-could unte in esiablishing and supportingr such a school, it would at once become attainable in many places where now the need of it has come to be sorely felt. Indeed. we have reached the time when siue counties have develop edl a sntment in favor of providing nhII scl 1education for all children, f rom town or country. who will attend. The county board of Anderson, for ex ample. in the person of County Sup erIn-endent R. E. Nicholson and City Superintendent T. C. Walton. have been agitating for a year the establish ment of a county high school, to serve the city as well as the county. The v have called meetirgs of the school trustees of the county and secured cc operation looking to combined contri butions of public funds for this end. But mere voluntary cooperation of b)oards; liable to constant change of membership will riot sutlice. A sim ple enactment that the county board may reserve and apply in its discre tion 10 per cent. of the school fund wu~ld sufice. It would give in Ander son more than $3.000, While that board would use the fund of a high school. a board in a county not yet ready for a high school might use a small sum to assist in supplying good teachers to specially backward or poor communities. or might think best not to exercise its power to set aside and expend part of the school fund. "It would be best to attempt no dis tinct legislation on the subject. of hIgh schools. An elcbrate. system ereated by law for all coant!s at this time would be positively hurtiful-a waste of money which is sadly needed in the coantrv school districts. In any definite legislation there would be hanger of forcing prematurely a high school for it. All that is needed is to strengthen the hands of the county hards. by thie several safeguards and powers suggested above. and these boards will establish the necessary high schools as soon as local condi tions can be developed to warrgnt, them. The county board would thus he. as it should be. the governing board of the county h~igh school. The coun ty superintendent. emnployed by the county boa rd. would have general over sight of tihe count y high school. as of all the other schools in the county. "In some counties these school; would serve for the better preparation of local teachers. until that distant d v when the colleges and the normal schools shall suflice to supply trained teachers for all the schools "of the country. In some counties these high schools wo~uM' take the form of indus trial schools for boys and girls-s:t; is fyi ng somewhat the craving that Clem son and Winthrop have served to awaken in the breasts of thousands who cannot reach these splendid in stitutons. Any one of our countkC5 is as large as a State of the old world. and is amply able to provide withi' its h~orders a hig;h school fo t he p~ract ice l education of its children. rich and poor.~ The Cherry Tree 3Men. A Winston-Salenm, N. C.. special to the Chariot t* (;hserver'. sayvs: Post oiice Inspector C. E, Enteman was here yestercay conferri ng wiVth1 Dis trict. Attorney Hlolton in regard 1o the Amos Owen Chrry Tree C ompany. which stands charged with violating the postal la-ws in the advertising~ mat te sent out. The ispector is inves iga ing and collecting evidence ptre-I araty to the irial (of tile men who c~lomae 11p companly, at the next ~enido the federal court at Chiarlokie T r-' eiter o f manyI (if the letters re .-, h by istricl Attorney ilolton Is h in (o colleet the money'' xehich thy pu' d tiu cherry iroe people. Elachl wri ertels imi how much is due him r r. :.:. HothIon has prepared a cireala let er inm answer toi taose re revd:-!imn. H~e tells the peopleO woea.h: I be deiraudedi that his bridnes- is t hat er prose cutor ant not cal-i:.Ii i.s sami that the defen d tnts. thr ;ug~h theiri council, will ma ke an egT ,rt t O comproi.e the suits inisttu ted. The Ta t on Sugar. At t he annual -neeting of the stuck hoduers of' the American Sugrar Re-tin iig companyU in Jersey City Thursday. Prsd.n IL avmeyer~ presented his Iannual rep;ort. Hec saidl: ''It would see t hat with an: overtlowinig fedecrai resurv there had disappeared any raii for continutling the existinlg high tarili upon raw sugar. It con stutes a~ charge upon the conlsumup i of neairly 2 :ents a pound. This rpresenits in ain annual co nstumptin iOr ) 0000 tonis $85.000.000O a year. () t-ds. hweveu. only 1.360.000 toins are imput .u iin custios reve ules iil'It1. 3.90: t elanc. i:36. 00.90 pe into the pockets of the rlanitrs "A removiialt of this dor: yiin re smrar wou)1ld reuli. in a saving to. THE LIBERTY BEL Story of the Visit of the Eistorii Relic to Columbia. ITS ESCORT ENTERTAINED. Many School Children an( Colleg Students Visit the Car learing the Famed Piece of Mctal. Of course there was no Filipino it the t housandfl people. citizens oi t he U.itd I ats. who looked upo tie m110 01:us b'l in the w.rld i: Columb~ia Wed...ay. and re:ld tb Biiblicatisiptintherro;:"Prociain ib-iy throughout al' the land untI all the inh abitants thereo!'." Hac there been one of these new cili.e&:is o1 the Liit.ed States by adoption vi e1 arimt'i prCeset. he would have perhap wondeied why. the people gathere about this historic picce of metal i scratel:ed his head as he tried t rea son oil. tho meaning of the inscriptiin i'.uit he was thUsands: of miles awayi aeross the sea. and thwh ! Arerioan: etir-ens. nativ e anl oalu alized. gathered to gaze upon the pro clainier of that American liberty that was established by Washington, Jeffer son. Leec. Adams. Franklin. Henry, and him who af terwards construed the finished work of the revolution-Chiei Justice John Marshall, in honor of whom, while tolling the bell cracked on Jul F S. 1835, and became silent for ever. The crowd was a great one, and the inscription wrought in bronze was read by black and white alike. Had the famed bell been a crowned head cr a famous warrior of the world it could not have attracted more peo pie 5 the union depot. The bell was given a royal reception In the capital city. When the train first pulled into Columbia Wednesday a. m. bearing the bell on its way to the Charleston exposition there was a good crowd presert. And from that time until after 11 o'clock thousands of people were coming and going. Many went on foc.t, others on the electric cars, which were jammed during the entire time despite a five-minute schedule between the union depot and the post office; still others in carriages, bug gies, automobiles, and many more on bicycles. It looked as some one ex pressed it as if the entire population had gone crazy over a cracked bell. There were no accidents on the trip down from Asheville and the Southern railway oficials had the train consist ing o- five Pullman coaches, a baggage car and the handsome flatcar of the Pennsylvania road which bore the bell, here on time-7 a. m. The flatcar was specially built for the purpose and was an exceedingly handsome one, a rail running around it as if it were the deck of a steamship. The train had completed 998 miles of its trip wher. Colt:mbia was reached. Upon the arrival of the train Mayor Earl' and Aldermen Stanley and See gers of 11is city called, paid their re spects. and extended an inviLation t. the (scorting party to come up into the city and t;ake breakfast. This in vitat ion was declined owing to0 the fact that the visitors had already had their breakfast prepare-d upon the train. Shortly afterward the mayor and all the aldermen of the city. ae compa nied boy several prominent citi zens. returned with carriages and the members of the escorting party were taken for a delightful drive about the city. stopping on the way back to the train at the MIerchants and 3Manufac urer's club rooms. where a number of the leading citizenls 'f the town were assembled to meet the gentlemei . Af the party wa's refreshed, the carriages were again taken and soo~n all were back at the train. The Columia cont tingent was then invited ahoard the train, and for a while were enter tained by the visitors. Go~v. MIcSwveeney regretted his ina b~ility to take part in the reception of the escorting party. but he wvas quite unwell and could only remain in his (ifie a short time. A detail from the local p'jlice force was sent to the station apon the ar rival of the train to assist the guard sentfrom Philadelphia. This s.luad consisted of Ormets D~unning, Kraft, artin arnd MIegn~atters, under com mand of Lieut. Swearingen. They remained on the platform about the On the plat form of the car 0:: which the bell was loaded were sik dag poles bearing U~nited States dlags. At each end of the car stood two of the' bigst police otiicers ever seen inU th is section. 'Tw-v were of P'hiladelphia's finest men'who stood over six feet high and were large in proportion. There were two others aboard the train, sleeping. eqIually as large. While the escort was out driving. the people jammedi around the car and sever:i were permi; ted to go up ano touchl the biell. 'The crowd was comn posed of rieb and poor. white and )lak, men,. women. childrena anid babie-. And no matter howv many left the sizie of toe cro~vdl nieer b:rame T1he pupls of the publi. anid all the sec:,ols in the city marched to the dc' pot in [bodies andi passed~ by the bell. looking upon it with an ab~soriingt inl tere:t. The stuadenits from ihe differ ent colL!-.es al'so we-re given the opp'r tuity to se.- the gzrea't relic. c':en 1 ;I iegroi e IlleZ.!s closin g down a:0 sec inr their st udnats in !)odies to see the prlime nr of Amnerican libekrtyv. Mi. W - . LCn ids provi ved a speci!al Ciec tri- ear and sent all the pa1pils of the Waverly sch~ool in to take a look at the metal s'o laden with historic interest. Fnding so many hundreds of school children ~assemlded President Geo. 3feCurdy of~ the commlIton counell of P iennylvania brictly addressed the gathering. calling the attention of the children specilically- to the unity of the nort.h and south that exists at the present time and which ivill most like lv never cease to esist. ie was proud to see such a crtowd oif school childlren. and he advised all of them to study carfully arid t houghtfully the history of I he U'nited .States. On the hell were swinging several wrathus pre'sented at ditferent poinits along the line. One bore the inscrip t io. "B8ristol's Welcome." The regents of the Columbia chap .or fthe n. A. IL visited the car in a body and presented a handsome lau rel wreath tied with the blue and white ribbons of the organization and appropriately inscribed. It was placed upon the hell by Miss Jennie Mason Gil)bes. who had been selected for the purpose. When the bell reaches Charleston on its preseht trip it will have cov ered 1.179 mile.K and when the ac companying party gets back to Phila delphia next Sunday morning they will have covered 1.829 miles. ON To 4AnANNfH.9 inThe special train pniled out of the sation here for Savannah at 11.30 o'clock. exactly one-half houir behind the schedn:ie lime. It left irrid tl'e waving of -inga ad han kerchief . Th lost halI'-hour it was eIpeUt.ed w n , b: nad u) hetween Colum 'a and S.tran-h ithn robe T'.e the bell will leave lavannah at 0 'clock and is scduled to re.ach Char leston by the liant system at 10 a. m. The beadquarters ot the escortin- com mittee duringo the stav in Charleston will be the Ciarkr-ston hotel. The me:neers of the c01lit.se Will leayc Charleston returninT north at 5.20 p. . Saturiw. going via the Atlantic Coast Lh ~ 1 The oicial escort of th3 bell on this trip consists-of the followifig: Hon. Samuel H. Ashbridge, mayor of Philadelphia. Comm!ttee from Common Council George MeCurdy, president; Harry D. Beaston, Lawson C. Funk. Alexander M. Deilaven, James 3N. Hazlett, Au gust Iohl, R. Cortland Horr, Albert Moore, Thomas J. Morton. 3I. D.; Charles Roberts, George W. Ruch, Samuel W. Salus. Committee from Select Council Jas. L. Miles, president; Henry Clay, Geo. D'Autrechy, Joseph H. Klemmer, Geo. R. Kucker. William MeCoach, Edward W. Patton, Charles Seger Henry R. Shock, Samuel K. Stinger, George W. Sunderland, Samuel P. Town, Watson D. Upperman. Secretary George W. Kochersper ger; Sergeant- at-arms Charles B. hall; Director of Department of Public Works Wm. C. Haddock; Director of Department of Public Safety Abraham D. English: President of Department of Charities and Correction Jno. V. Shoemaker; Chief of Bureau of City Property and Custodian of Liberty Bell Geo. G. Pierie; Secretary to the Mayor A. R. H. Morrow; Committee men of Allied Business organizations of Philadelphia, W. W. Supplee, Thomas Martindale and N. B. Kelly. A number of ladies are accompany ing the party. SQMETHING OF rrS HISTORY. The bell was cast by Thomas Les ter. Whitechapel, London. The bell arrived at the end Of August, 1752, and was hung. Early in Septemper. however, it was cracked by a stroke of the clapper without any other violence and thereupon recast by Pass.& Stow. two "ingenious workmen," in Phila delphia. and h:mtr A)ril 17th. 1753. In the recastin2- the sa i metal was used with the addition of an ounce and a half of copper to the pound to make the hell less brittle. The same form and lettering were preserved with the substitution of the names and place and year of recasting it now bears. It was recast by them. the first casting not being satisfactory, and the same year agzain hung in the State house. Thl.e bell is 12 feet in circumference around the lip and 7 feet 6 inches around the crown: it is three feet following the line of the bell from the lip to the crown. and 2 feet 3 inches over the crown. It is three inches thick in the thickets part near the lip. and oneC and a aarter inches thick in t he thinnes'~t part toward the crown. The lengthL of the elapper is 3 feet 2 inches. and the weight of the whole in .0) pounds. It is lettered in a line encircling its crow~n with the sentence: "Prolaim Liberty 'Throughout all ti*e Land Unto all the Inhabitants Tnaere Af," Lev. .uv.. v.. x. Imtnediately under this sentence, also in a line enirein its crown: "Hc Order of' the Assembly of the Province of' Pennsylvania for the State Ho(use in Philadelphia. Pass & Stow. Phladelphia M[DCCLIII." The model of the bell was one cast by order of Henry III. in the early part of the thirteenth century in memory of Edward the Confessor, which was hung in the cluck tower of Westmin iter. and was named St. Edward. but generally known as the "great Tom of W\estmnnster" Th' ringrs o the bell were Edward K2lh-. 1753-5: David Edward, 1755-8: Andrew 3MeNair. 1759-76 (September 15). the ringdr (of the Proclamation of Indlependence. The last ringer of the bell was Thomnas D'wning.18$27-363. IThe Liberty bell has been rem~oved from the building on four occassions: tefirst. during the revolut ion, 1e tember. 1777. when it was taken on a wag )l ti Albatown Penn.. and when taken from the city t o New Orleans. Januarv 33. 1885: Chicago. April 25. 3893 A tlanta. October 24, 1835. This. trip to) the Chuariest':n expositioni is therefore the fifth in it . isiory. The frame hes never been taken fronm the builtii from the time i was first placeti there in 1753. ezcept for a short timec durin': te restorat Pin in IS8%. uni'lI the preset' ie On JIa'v 1 I. 1' hel toed fr the 1:ast time. John 'Iirsall died in Poiladel.phia on the 6t d .i 1'i iS:35: his remains were dn to day of the anni 'ersary of the 1is pr.cama tI:n 'f the lIeearaht iiu :t the ice pie ig the funeral solenmties the bell. while slowly telling, parted through its great side. and was silent hence forth, forever. The crack came with out warn lng. Gormank Nam~ed. The 3Iaryland Demomrats in caumus have no0:1inated Arthur P. G~ormIan for the United States Senate. There were (14 members present and as il1 is suilenict to elect on j.,int ballot the question of the niext tlnied States senator and stat e treasurer is regarded as settled. Commeninrg Schley. A bill was intr .duced in the M1issis sippi legis:lture 'Thursday appropriat ing $1~>U.000 for a state exhibit at the St. Louis exposition1. A resolution was pre:;ente: commni1dinlg Admiral Schiev and condemning the iding of t hier court of inouiry. THE STATE'S FINANCES. A Statenent of Receipts and Dis bursements the Past Year. The clerks in the comptroller's offi ce practically completed the statement of the receipts and disbursements for the year 1901. ending with December 31 last, showing the financial condi tion of the State. The statement of the receipts was made public, show ing that they amounted to $3,391, 774.87. The comptroller's books shows the total expenditures to have been 83.781. 465.28. The-e are, however, , more outstanding warraits which will , make the treasurc:'s books shore the 'a aiturest $3,780,943.:7. In ac r &clance wIth thet Egures the comp tr.llcr's books shw a cash balance at the end of the year of $225,195.89, and the treasurer's booiks a cash bal- a ance of $237,74'1.25. This all indi- c cates thalt the Sute is not in as bad a 1, fix financially as may be supposed, al- v though of the receipts $146,000 repre- : t erts money borrowed by the governor I and the State treasurer upon which to I im t'' governmcnt icducing the 0 cash. balani.ce very much. The re- c ceipts from the taxas due for the year V 1901 are shown also to be pitifully 1 small. Another thing worthy-of note in the.statement of the receipts is the a farcical sum collected from the income I tax this year. ; But here is the statement of the re- y ceipts to speak for itself, and it fur- I nishes material for thought on the r part of the members of the general t assembly, which begins its annual d sessional on Tuesday next. c Back taxes. .. .. .. .. .. ..8 347.85 t Taxes, 1899.. .. .. . .. .. 5,977.90 Y Taxes, 1900........... 589,368.58 e Taxes, 1900, R. R. assess- , ment.. .............4,430.77 - Taxes (Income). .. ...... 759.24 Taxes, 1901, R. R. assess- r ment............... 1,313.55 V Taxes, 1901 (Income). 8.75 V Taxes, 1901.. .... .. .. 219,213.82 c Privileges on Fertilizers 84,073.43 . S. C. Dispensary-. ... . 1,98$,083.40 Sinking Fund Commiss'n. 39,833.34 s Sinking Fund for Reduc- IN tion............... 109,402 09 t Insurance License Fees 12,475.00 V Expenditures for 1901. 3,781,465.28 c Bash bal. Jan. 1, 1902... 225,195.89, Total............4,006,661.17 c Insurance License Fees t (Graduated).......... 13,543.76 1 Permanent State School t Fund................ 2,706.18 it Phosphate royalty...... 25,120.56 o Dispensary school fund . 100,000.00 c Cash, borrowed notes gov- a ernor and treasurer. .. 145,000 00 Fees office secretary of h state ........... 40,633.71 b Insurance, sinking fund. 3,077.47 b Clemson bequest. 33.96 M Morrill fund.. .........250,000.00 a REFUNDs. t 7 On account state house keeper............... 2.88 q On account stationery - and stamps supt. edu cation ................16.69 t] On account pensions 1,287.70 On account extra clerk o hire, secretary state 7.25 ' On account books, blanks si and charters........ 2.75 b On account expenses, j phosphate commissnr . 54.24 Total receipts.$ .3,391,774.87 a The summarIzed statement of re ceipts. expenditures and cash balance d in each otfice is as follows: s COMPTROLLER GENERAL'S OFFICE. I Cash halance .Jan. 1, 1901 8 614,886.30 t Cash receipts during 1901 .3,391,774.87 t Total.. .. . ... . . $.4,006.661.17b sTATE TREAsURER's OFFICE. n Cash balance Jan. 1. 1901 8 626,912.05 og Cash receipts during '01 3,391,774.87 Total. .... .......$4,018,686.92 Expenditures for 1901. .. 3,780,943.67 i Cash balance Jan. 1, 1902 237,743.25h Total... ....... ..84,018,686.91 . Cash bal. State Treas.. .8 237,743.25 d Cash bal. Comp. Genl... 225,195.89 cl Outstanding warrants -.s compt roller general. . .. 12,547.36 51 Total..........$. 237,743.25 c Ra.n the Negroes Out. a J. D. H-ess & Co. have~ the contract $ for building a sewer at Elwood, Ind., and last week all the men employed by the firm quit work because they were compelled to work in water. tl The company pleaded in vain, and early Thursday morning 150 negroes were imported and put to work ind building the sewer. Within an hour e: the white laborers assembled and made Ia several demonstrations, but the ne groes continued at work. The court house hell was rung and business men closed their houses and all met in ant indignation meeting, which adopted b< resolutions against bringing the ne- ti groes into the town. The contractors t were waited upon by a committee. but j f ther were rirmn and refused to stop the al work. This angered the laboring A people, and a rec war was imminent t unUI ithe negroes were warched to the n railway station under a police guard e l and sent ont of the place on a special f t rain. !Busines:, men then used their a1 innluence and the whites returned to c< work. The nere were willing to es leave wvhen tacir danger from the e: whites became .so manifest. A Mysterious Shooting. P A mo~st nmysteriouii affair oeceurred ina Columbia on Thursday night. The t street was crowded at the time, about S o'clock. A gentleman. when oppo site A bott's cigar store. heard a bul tct whizzing over his head. It struck the plate glass window and bored a bullet hole through it. The strange part of it was that no one heard the C report of a firearm. A great man people examined the window Friday. and experts say the hole could not0 havh been made from a shot - from a "slingshot." IRat it is yet a mystery where the bullet came from or for what reason it wastfired. Mr. Abbott I u had moved out of the room. and what IG might have provecn a vere serious a-a fair- was averted by reason of the fact a that noi onei was in the store. The s police are investigating but as yet 1 have not suceceded in solving the mys- k tel.;..k BOLD ROBBERS. Lobbery of the National Stock Yud Bank of St. Louis DONE BY SIX MASKED MEN. hey Took All the Currency and Coin Amounting to About $5,000. Books and Papers De stroyed. Six masked men entered the Na ional Stock Yards bank north of East t. Louis, Ill., Wednesday night and fter capturing and gagging the two ight ivatehmen and firemen- at the lant and blowing open the vaults th dynamite, secured $5,000 in coin nd currency, with which they es aped. For nine hours, from 7 o'lock Ist night until 4 a. in., they were at ,ork on the vaults without being in erfered with. The entire East St. ouis police force, aided by the St. ,ouls police. are guarding all avenues f escape. but as yet have obtained no lue to the whereabouts of the robbers, rho, it is believed, escaped on horse ack. Lee Philpot. one of the watchmen, rough rider friend of President toosevelt, and a member of the well nwn Kentucky family of that name ras the first to meet with the robbers. le was standing in thd'stock jards ear the exchange building, in which he bank is located, when he was ad ressed by three men who sprang ,ut f a fence corner with revolvers in heir htnds. They said: "We want ou. Philpot." and with that overpow-. red him before he could reach his re olver. The three robbers took Phil--. ot to the composing room of the Dai National Stock Yards Reporter earby, and laid him on the floor. He ras bound hand and foot and gagged rith towels. While lying there three ther men came in. While he was lying on the floorPhil ad ot heard the leader of the robbers ay: "Let's kill him." He was pre ented from doing this, Philpot says, y the other robbers. One of the men - ras sent out with injunctions tose are anybody else in the vicinity. Af+ ert Estep, the other bank watchman,. ras caught on the steps of the ex bange building. The robber wentup 3 Estep and addressed him by name 'hinking it was a friend, Estep was iken unawares and a revolver was arusts into his face and unddr threats r death he was forced to go to the >mposing room, where he was bound ad gagged. Fireman Clark was taken unawares i the steam plant of the exchange uilding. He resisted and was badly eaten before. he was subdued. .e 'as also taken to the composing. i'om ad left, bound and gagged, with his vo companions. About midnight one of the robbers as left to guard the three captives, hile the other five went to the bank, hich is located on the first floor'of 1e exchange building, near the centre. ith nitro-glycerine the robbers blew pen the steel doors of the 'vault. hese doors of a double thickness of :eel were shattered arnd the bank's . oks and papers. blown into shreds. ntering the vault the big steel safe ith quadruple plate doors, was next 'icountered. These doors were drilled ad a charge of explosive inserted, hich blew them off. The explosion estroyed more books and papers and ~attered about $600 in gold and silver pou the floor. This money was not Lken by thle robbers. They took all le currency and other coin amount ig to about $5,000, as nearly as* the nk's otficers can estimate. The five en Lft the bank and signalled to the me who was guarding the captive atchmnen and fireman and he joined is companions. Five minutes after the robber guard ft the composing room Estep, who ad not been bound securely, worked ose and released Clark and Philpot. All the robbers wore masks. In ad [tion to the $5,000, the robbers se ired $550 left with the bank by As stant Postmaster Bushnell of the :ock yards. This is the bank whose ficers recently swore out a warrant larging Theodore Duddleston, the ssistant cashier, with embezzling L2.000. Died at His Post. There was a head-end collision on le Kenova division of the Norfolk and restern railroad at 7 o'clock Wednes ty miorning in which Hugh Smith, an spress messenger and baggagemaster -id Flagman John Turner of lue field were ~killed. The collision :curred near Alnwick, W. Va., be veen No. 4. passenger train, east >und. and an extra westbound freight ain.' The passenger .train was on me and the freight was delayed. The eight train sent Flagman Turner iead .to hold the passenger train at inwich. but owing to the heavy fog ie engineer of the passecnger train did at see him. and the flagman in his rorts to be seen got on the track in ont of the train and was run over id killed. The two trains came into llision just east of Alnwick. Both ines were badly damaged. The press car was crushed and Melsenger. nith killed. Engineer Bailey of the issener train was seriously hurt. md Conductor Moran of the same -ain was slightly injured by being cut ith broken glass. Engineer Kipps the freight train was slightly hurt, At his tiremnan was uninjured. The cpress ear and the combination ex reos and1 baggage car caught fire and ere de.,uyed, nothing being saved ve o trwnks. The body of Mes nger mi:.h was badly burned before was zecue.itd from the flames. None the passengers were injured. Street Car Accident. Ten people were descendinig a hill a street car on the Hacienda and ndaluna' nerar Pumbla. Mexico. when brake 6:lled to work and the car ran ow iwi[ity with tremendous yred. M:m -i1 i'az. member or the lacie::da, ihsped from the car and was mied ..' ta othmer occupants of the