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. VOL. XVI1.- MANN- -~ING, S.C., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 14, 1908. **NO.2 24 k h's.e i W .ii~i\cCV det~t ne ti peciitus chr ; unil Wedv(1)esda; xhenl they wr omdyarse arat i-".d b iy Hon. i'obert Lid, rWhohd n to Colm ri the da The warrants chart eraly IN that these inen have beE uilot of safe-hinwing and robberi > poStoilces in) <-1uth Carolina durir enent as' 'f N .vemib'er and Decen Ar The ooing are the towne i -thCih they Lre alleed to iiave oper, ed: aaunrn i esvilie, in 0 mgehur C. znty: Etioree in Spartai urlz Counit : Ba:itesburg in Lexinig.t' : Iunt: liartsville. 1)ariington Coin v: Moitmilorecei. Aiken Countv. ati Leno. Laurens (Oitiv. The "sw au. n these r.lbberies aggregates oiv( 2L.0o0. Tiere have been quite muiber of otier roberies in -th tate. but these have not as yet be barged against Howar and his gan lhere are also large rewards whic vill be given to the proper o!1icers i ase these parties are convicted. The prisoners were arraigied befoi 4Ir. Lide WedlnesdaV afternoon an vere locked up in the county jail hey could not raise the amount >ail. -,o00 for each man. The pr iminary examination. to be held c date not yet tixed. will he conduc d before Mr. .l ames Verner. who w, ust recently appoiinted United State ommissioner. The officers will n( ive any of the evidence which point o these men as the ones guilty of th rimes enumerated. but they evideni v have enough upon which to oper: te. The developinig of the eviden( vill be the wvork of the seeret servi( Before their formal arrest each he suspected erooks was asked man earch-ig quest ions. The ollicers sa hat these men have the bearing > fessioinals and their own stati nents shows that they have been i Xlumbia some time. They denied bN g connected with any of the nume1 Us robberies in the State and say tha hey have not been outside of Coluir ia except to che carnival in Charle: o n. They likewise denied havin er traveled in neighboring States. These men. or some of them, hax ed a fast life here. They have squar lered thousands of dollars. . Nolan i aid to have lost S1.500 at cards i n night. Since their several at 'ests persons in town who were throw it,h them have been telling marve ius yarns of the extravagance of son. f these worthies. how they woul brow out a greenback in payment ( rinks and then refuse the chang< low they spent their money on me nd women whom they fancied. Sue cts as these would tend to show tha hese men. if guilty of the ciarg( >referred. have been living in Colum >ia for months and had become veti uresome in their fancicd security. The government men who have bee vorking on tite case are very compli netarv in tlwir rcferences to Chie. )alv and the waT in which he eng eered the case. O)nicers Stricklan, .nd Thackham. the city's detective .re also receiving due credit for tnei ervices in spotting anr shadowing th leged crooks. No bank or postotlic n South Carolina has been secure I ate months. and if these are the gui y parties who have committed 5 nany depredations. then the State i vell rid of them arnd the otticers ar ndeed to he praised. The receu obhries were not co-ntined to th aking (of money. The crooks knoa iow to use '"stickers" as they denc inate postage stamps. There is 'fence" or confederate of suppose espectability in scme lar'ge city wh ells the stolen stamps to wholesa] touSes. etc. A Public Apology A special to TheState from Colun >a says Post master itichardson's pul ic declaimer of responsibility or er lorsement of attacks on Senator Til nan that have appeared in his pap< vii probaly avail to~ induce the sent or to withdraw his opposition 1 chardsons co n irma tion1 as postmat er of' Greenville.Sehnator' Tiillman ha naintainedi that "'private apologi( 'or public slanders will not sullice 'he senat or said lhe w' uld ''consider. he -::i~urawal ot his' oJlpition t e post master's con :ir'mation whe ,he latter disavoiwed thriough ti: dtorial (clunts of the paperof whic e is business manager'. responsibilit ,f the a ttacks5 on the senaitors char'a Lo thme Rtich Indian. It appeairs from census statistii hat reigrets for the passing of the Ii hans fi tihe Unted States are vai Ldc useless:5 that, as ai matter of fac hee is more' indian blood in tI nitd St nes t day than ever b~ef ra eicretay liitecock's reccnt repom how thatn there' are niow inl the colu v ' 9.oomi persons of I nin 1)od(1 are numIfberl than when the i rifther landed in Massachusett td thenI indianis are iving Vt better nom an ever' h~fore in thir~ history. I ler'1 thlir va 'Ins 1 reati'.s with ti wrnmevln~.it. thtey have' beom'te Li ieest,'race of puple, tak'ing as vhole, ina t he: world'. Suicide Eidtjemic. A d ispatch froiim New York sa uie seems1 to b. epidemic in th; itigito. i he- erotner's attiee in ;eady strneam) Wu1dnesday andi med al e:inincrs were busy noliing p0s ortiems and making preliminar'y i estigatons5. -Leven cases hdad be Alponse ()her, a: white lMy w as be n missi ng from his homite serly a week and fotr whlomt searehij paties have la ,ked. was fo unid dtet n a fieki sever'al miles fro Mbie Ala. The boy had been siho uspicon po ints to a niegro boy wVil whom bert wa's last seeni as the pai wo' sh''t him. A scecial toThe A tlanita Jouurn from sainesville says cc. 1mcause h brother refus"d ii ive im a cig rette paper. .Pink...m.....yun~ mn knife into' hN 12 - kilit him instanmfly. r.ve e rr A G AN- OF CROOKS. A Den of Vice Invaded by the Officers of the law AND SAFE BLOWERS ARRESTED. They Have Been Making Colulbibat Ther Headquarters Vor' Moniths. ito.hh.bbed Af Over the Sta te. Charles Hoiward. Edward Dugan. Thoma~s Niianttand Wililim McKinley'; are the nam:es of four men under ar rest in Columbia on the charge of rob bing postadices and banks and in a number of towns in South Carolina. Their arr-sts and the raids of the oti cers in search of evidence against them caused quite a sensation Tues day, the fifth instant. The State says the district of vice was thrown into turmoil by the repeated visitatonLs from the 'licers and the denizens 1 were in dread of further arrests. Over 1 a score- of persons were held at one I time or another in the effort, to getl information and the otuieers seem toi< have secured evidence sutlicient toij justify them in bringing the case to( trial. The followi ng particulars of the ar rests we take from The State. Some < time ago the chief of eee was given 1 the information that there was a gang of safe-blowers, putting up in Colum bia. They attracted attention to themselves Iv their lavish expendi ture of money. their liberal treat ment of their friends in places where drinks could be secured. and by mvak- t ing presents to women. Chief D1a1ly and the city detectives began to watch the movemeuts of these people and sent for Messrs. Gregory and Pulsirer. the United States. secret service agents who are located in South Caro-; lina. The oflicers were waitirg for an op portunity to strike when chance placed the men in the hands of the police. Sunday night. the 4th instant. a pistol was tired ny some one in or at a house on 6ates street. Ot1er Mc Quatters arrestod Edward Dugan on: the charges of carrying a concealed i weapon and of discharging tirearms on the street. The following morning in the recorder's court Dugan was C lined $40 on the tirst named charge. He paid this amount promptly and 1 put up another $40 for his appearance C at the recorder's court on the charge of discharging tirearms. Monday af ternoon, the 5th instant, Charles Howard, one of the witnesses in the latter case, went to talk vith the chief in regard to the case and Capt. Daly thought it time to make a move 1 in the more important case as How ard and Dugan were both being shad owed. Accordingly when these two r appeared in the recorder's court Tues day morning, the 6th instant, they r were detained. Otticers Strickland, Z Marsb, Thackham and Dowie were a sent to get the other men under sus- I picion. Strickland and Marsh arrested Thomas Nolan in a house on Gatesi street kept by a negress. William I McKinley was found at Grant's res- 1 taurant by Thackham and Dowie. The otticers then began a searching examination of these men. Raid afteri raid was made in the tenderloin dis trict and while no actual arrests were 1 made there were a score of denizens and frequenters of questionable placesi detained as witnesses. The otlicers' kept their own counsel and would give out no information, but the news got abroad that there was a wholesale ar- I rest of safe-blowers under the charge of disorderly conduct. BOWARD, ALIAS HEARtNE. Howard appears to be the leader of the gang. His 'road" name is "Dutchy.' He had very swell apart ments in a locality of questionable nature on Gates street, between Ger vais and Lady. When his apartments were searched the chief, the city de-1 tectives and the secret service men found receipts for furniture and fur nishings which had cost Howar hu dreds of dollars. There was aso hn dress suit case and a new valise. both of fine quality. The otticers also found a number of suits of clothes and other articles of apparel-some rough and evidently used "on the road," others for use in the city. When Howard was brought suddenly into Chief Daly's of fice where he faced inspectors Gregory and irving the crook showed that he recognized the latter who were wit nesses against Roward (or Hlearne as he was then known) for blowing open a safe at Barnwell, W. Ya. In March. 1899, Ilowaid was sentenced to spend; three years at Moundsville. W. Va. I When H oward's person wa~s searched the police found $300 sewed in the seat of his underclothing. NOLAN. TilE AR:TIsT. The next .most important in the party arrested seems to be Thomas Nolan. The police apparently~ hav~e some information as to his p'ast b~ut they will divulge nothing, except in regard to Howard. Wh~en he was ar rested in the house kept by Cairrie Baker, Nolan had nearly $400 on hi.s person. . When the otticers searched the room which he had occupied they found the equipment necessary for the work of~ safe blowing. .The heavy tools are picked up in the towns in which thet work is to be done~but there are other' -tools which unmistakably are marks of the profession~and Nolan had these in his room wrapped in a bundle. There was a flash light, such as is used by crooks, and two. electric bat teries for the light. There was also a pocket compass. a mileage book of the Southern Rtailway Company with, Thomas Nolan's name written there on, a Colt's revolver and a large" num ber of cartridges and a pocket map of the State of Georgia. loward andI Nolan were the only ones w~ho ha d any money. None of the me~n lhave any work in Columbia, Nolan and IDu gan claiming to be gamble rs an~d Howard. the man with luxurious apartments. claimed to be wor'king~ in Grant's restaurant. Mclinley 'also gambled. Each of the men hasa " road" name known to members oh the profession over country. H~oward is known as D)utchiy and iDugan as~ Starr. but the otticers have not ye.t loceol an and McKinley. WIL iL 'IOlT CRU. n Senator Tillman Will Do All He Can to Defeat His CONFIRMATION AS POSTMASTER 01 Charieston By the United States Senate Because the People of I- I the State Want Him To. n SThe Washington correspondent of The State says "bitterness has been aroused in Charleston against the a president for his action in appointing a negro, Dr. Crum. to be collector or i that port. The Charleston board of trade has passed resolutions calling upon both Senators Tillman and Mc Laurin t'o' tight Crum's contirmation e to the last ditch in the senate and to d use every effort to secure the nonina s tion of a white man to the collector )f ship. Senator 'MeLaurin has not yet returned from his Christmas holidays t so that it is not known whether he - will respond to the cry of the Charles S ton people and oppose the policy of the s administration. Senator Tiilmamn. as I was announced in The State. will en ter a protest a'rainst the appointment e of Crum and will avail himself of the opportunity to say a few things about the policy (if the R'oosevelt ad minst ra eI tion in shoving olf negro otlicials upon e the people or the south. The senator does not anticipate that he will be sue cessful in his tight against Crum un less proof is furnished him that the negro is unqualitied for the otlice on other grounds save that of color. for while the latter ground is allsuficient to convince the senator it will be use less to hope for consideration in the senate on that score alone. Whether the Charleston people can bring proLf that Crum was a disloyal Republican at the 31inneapolis convention is not certain. These charges were present ed to the president last fall but in re futation Crum secured testimonial e from prominent Republicans to the effect that he bad entered t he conven s tion a Harrison man and had remain n ed true to hiscandidate. It was charg - ed that Crum went to the convention n pledged to Bl-laine and was induced to I- transfer his support to Harrison in re e turn for the Charleston postmaster d ship. This olice was tendered him. ,f but the nomination being held up in the senate his name was withdrawn. n President Roosevelt, it is said. would b not have objected to being furnished t with some such excuse to turn down S Crum. lie has asked the question as - to what obligations this administra tion was under to the Charleston negro. but after his personal letter to n Mayor Smyth. in which he lectured - the Charleston aristocracy on their f attitude toward the blacks, it was - obviously impossibie for him to refuse I the otce to the negro doctor, merely because he was a negro. r It is through no love for the presi e dent nor because of any desire to aid Shim in any way that Senator Tilliman inte~nds to protest against Cram's ap .pointment. Nor is it merely in re 2 sponse to the cry (if the Charleston s board of trade that he will institute e this tight. Indeed friends of the sena t tor were wondering whether he would a overlook tie fact that Charleston had y endorsed the insult President Roose - velt offered him last February in i withdrawing his invitation to the i Prince Henry dinner. It was just o after this incident, for which the e president has been rather severely criticised by some of his own party. that Charleston received MIr. R~oose velt with open arms. It is known that Senator Tillman has not forgot iten these thing nor has he forgotten >- the cordiality with which the MIc L- Laurin idea was received in thme "City l- by the Sea." at the time when it was :r tought the junior senator stood in .with the administration sutticiently to secure a generous appropriation for -the exposition. s "I have been tightiog niggers and s carpetbaggers all my life remarked -the senator Wednesday, "and I should -not be true to my traditions, my par >ty or my State if I let up anywhere n along the line in this tight. U3ut I. e want it understood that I atm oppos h ing the appointment of this negtro to the collectorship or the port of Char -leston. because I represent the peopie of South Carolina, and the people from the mountain to the seaboard are, I believe, opposed to domination by the negro." SSo far as Charleston itself is con cerned, it must, be admitted that she n is not receiving as much sympathy as might have been expected from2 i2memobers oif the South Carolina dele gatmin in having a negro hurled di r- etly at her door. This is due to the strnge chang!e of front hzost spring w ith reference to the nomination of 31r IIlarris as poistnmaster. When the - mnme of Ilarris wvas tirst sent in. pro ets cam~iTe from Charlestoin that Presi - denit Roosevelt had appointed a "'car epetbiagger" to the most lucrative post Oilc in the State. investigation, it awas claimed, would show that MIr. iais w'as not a bona tide~ citizen of the Staite: that be was in the employ of the pension ollce: that he was re ceiving the customary allowance fo~r emploes away from home: that he hiad formerly been in New York but did not receive this per diem expense appropriation, that State being con sdered his homne. So much was tihe preident impressed by the assertions tha t he withdrew the nomination from the senate and thle tight which senaitor Tillman had iistitted~ was for the time without a target. Sud denly Ch(arleston sentiment appearrs to have~ undergone a change. P'eti tions~ ilooded the capital from promin ent cit izens of Charleston reciting the praises of MIr. IHarris declaring him to be the most acceptable man for the otice, and urging Senator Tilinan toi withdraw his opposition because of M1r..Iarris' acceptability the Charles tionians isked that is nomination he il contirmed regardless of thre principle s involed. Mr. Iharris is still awaiting -conirmation by the senate. Senator ilhnan has not withdrawn his oppo a stion and there is some question Swhethe-r he intends to. it is the eon 1 duet of Charlestonl in the Hlarris case n~n;,.h has robbdhhrl11em of the syrn patby they would have oterwisc re. coived froim the delegation in ther present ailliction. The point ha; been suigested if they are willing tc swallow a carpetbagger as postmastei the appointment of an alleged respect able iiegro as collector should not prove such an indigestible morsel. NEGROES IN OFFICE. Somc Sensihle Remarks on the Sub Ject by a Northern Paper. It is an error for the United States government or any of its departments says the Philadelphia Ledger, to im pose upon a community a local oflicial who is personally olfensive or distaste ful to that community. There is no theory, no abstract ideal, involved in this. The postmaster of a town is simply a person designated to trans act certain business for the inhabi tants and he mist be a person accept able to them. Their right to beserv ed agreeably is far superior to any in dividual's right to hold a public oflice. The appointments of negroes to of fice in the Southern States have very generally been based upon an inver sion of this rule-upon the negro's right to hold Omlce. rather than upon the community's right to be titly served. It is not pretended that in the average Southern town the ne groes form the mos, intelligent and trustworthy portion of the population, from whom the United States govern ment can best select its representa tives. In many towns, no doubt, they are more numerous thanthe whites; bct the chief oflicials of the place are rightly expected to be somewhat above the general average, nearer to the higher plane of intelligent citizen ship. The selection of negroes for ofr tiee. therefore, is plainly influenced by political considerations, in prefer ence to considerations of elficient ser vice or of the comfort and satisfaction of the community. This is both a theoretical and a practical error. No man possesses any personal right to hold an ollice simply by reason of his color. If he is not acceptable to the people he is expected to serve, the government is not called upon to im pose him upon them because he is a negro, any more than it would be be cause he had red hair. It may be said that the people have no more right to object to him on one account than on the other. While this may he true, the fact remains that they do object. On various grounds not necessary to discuss here most South ern communities object to negroes in ofice. while they have had no occa sion to consider objections based on other physical distinctions. It may be an unreasonable prejudice, but it ex ists, and it is not peculiar to the South. The correction of social pre judices. reasonable or unreasonable, is not a function of the United States overnment. Its function is to have the public business transacted in a manner to give the greatest possible satisfaction to the people concerned. A DEVIL SHIFTS QUARtERS. A Man Who Poisoned Two Lads for Ten Dollars Hanged. Paul Woodward, a -human in form but a devil in spirit, was hanged at Camden, N. J., on last Wednesday. The drop fell at 10.05 and Woodward was pronunced dead ten minutes later. Woodward was apparently the most unconcerned person in the party at the hanging and showed remark able nerve. Paul Woodward's crime was the murder on Oct. 1, last, of -John Cotlin, aged 11 years and Price Jennings, aged 18 years. The boys disappeared from their homes on Oct. 1. and their bodies were found in the woods near Haddion Heights, six miles from Camden, N. .,. on Oct. 4. Wood ward had been seen in company with the lads on the day of their disappear ance and was arrested. An analysis of the boys' stomachs showed that they had died from arsenical poison ing. The police otficials learned that Wodward had bought arsenic a few days prior to the boys' disappearance and upon being indicted by the grand jury was later placed on trial and con victed of murder in the first degree. Counsel for the prosecution claimed that Woodward had poisoned the boys fr the paupose of robbery. When they left home the boys had $10 in their possession, but when the bodies were found the pockets of the cloth ing did not contain a penny. The Penitentiary. Captain G rillith, superintendient of the penitentiary, has completed and filed his report mn;king a most excel lent showing financially. The finan -ial part of the report shows thai there was on hahd December 31. 1901; $11.>7.012. and -that there had beer received sinae -thuen, $72.282.19. mak ing toital cash sum available for yea; $4.ot9.2l. After paying necessary expenses making permanent improve ments amounting to $4.300. there re mains a balance of $17,112-14. TC( this must be added what Is in sight andl soon to be availab~le, making a to. tLI balance of $23.402.04. The crops were good this year-. and after having -nough to run the institution fora year there will b~e bor sale 5,00J0 bush -Is of co-rn. 50(1 tons of hay and 3,000 bushels of pe-as. D~uring the year there wvere 9i61 pr-isoners but the num tier has been reduced to 701. Wiln Get. a College. The Will iamnston Female college is to be moved to Greenwood. This dci sio(n was reached Wednesday. Nine tenths of the trustees of that institution dlecided to move it there. A vote of the students of the college resulted in over 75 per cent. agreeing to come to Greenwood. There are at present one hundred and five board er in the college. The Unloaded Pistul. The Spartanburg Journal says Win Bishop. of Inmnan, 2:3 years old. diec in Asheville Saturday as the result of a pistol wound accidentally inxlictec b a 15-year old boy. John Seay. The The latter was playing with a pisto in bshops room an~d not knowing the weapon was loaded he snapped it witl fatal results. The remains of BishoI wer sent to innman for burial. BUBONIC PLAGUE May Invade the United Statcs Dar ing the Present Year. AND THE WAR DEPARTXENT Is Preparing for Possible Campaign. The Destruction of All Rats Is the First Thing to Do. A Washington special to The State says although there is little apprehen sion that thenurmerous cases of bubonic plague which have recently appeared at Mazatian and other towns in Mexico will spread to this country, the war department has been sup plied with detailed information by the board of public health of Manila as to the most effective means of erad icating the plague, which will prove of great value in the event of an emer gency. The first case of the plague was discovered in Manila, Dec. 26, 1899, and from that date until March 6, 19C2, when the disease was finally stamped out, there were 745 cases in the Philippine city. "Destruction of all the rats in the city, or as many as possible, was early determined upon by the health oticials in view of the associaticn between the plague and the rodents. From Septe.nber, 1901. until the disappearance of the plague an active war waswaged against rats, a body of Filipinos known as "tie Rat Catchers Corps" being organized for the purpose, under the direction of the chief health inspector. Armed with rat traps and rat bane the corps divided into squads of two were dis tributed througnout the various sani tary districts of Manila, each squad being in command of a chief who be came responsible for the placing of traps and bane and the collection of material. In addition a per capita fee of 5 cents, Mexican, was paid for every rat sent to the government laboratory by persons not in the regu lar rat catchers corps. As a result of this warfare 50,000 rats were caught alive and several hundred thousand by poison. Rules and regulations were drawn up for the governing of the rat catchers and infraction of them was followed by dishonorable dismissal from the corps. Each member of the corps was required to wear a prescribed uniform consisting of a blouse, trousers and cap of uniform material selected by the commissioner of public health and a brass shield over his left breast bear ing the insignia of the corps and the number of the wearer. This uniform had to he worn whenever the catchers were on duty, though they were per nitted to appear in civilians clothing at othdi times. Members of the corps were required to report daily at 10 a. m. to the office of the chief sanitary inspector of each district for the purpose of receiving instructions and submitting reports. Each squad was provided with two galvanized iron buckets with covers. one for carrying the disinfection solu tion and the other for receiving the dead rats. One hundred rat bane tins and receptacles for carrying the same completed the kit of each squad. The rat bane used was prepared fresh every day at the municipal laboratory, whither the dead rodents were return ed for examination and cremation. 1The catchers went on duty at 8 p. m. every evening and came off at 5.30 a. in., covered the entire city distri buting rat bane. Beginning not later than 5.30 the next morning this bane was removed by the morning relief. In making their rounds the corps col lected all the dead rats on the premis es visited, disinfecting them in the solution furnished, after which they were tagged and turned over to the laboratory for tinal disposition. In distributing the rat bane which was of course deadly poison to the mem bers of the corps were charged to warn the inmates of the various houses vis ited of the danger involved, advising them to keep domestic pets and chil dren closely guarded during the pre scribed hours for baiting rats. Of the 60,000 rats sent to the labo ratory, 40,666 were examined micro scropically for bacilli and of these only 242 were infested with plague. In February of last year the num ber of traps set aggregated Ga, 370. In addition to baiting rats in traps with bacon, fish, cheese, meat scraps or boiled rice, the corps caught a great number by hand. The rat catchers would run their arms into the holes, rat runs and sewers and catch the rodents after they had been driven out from under shacks that were removed. Several of the catchers were severely bitten by the more vig orous rodents, though none of the in juries resulted fatally. A third meth od employed was by means of nets placed over holes and sewers into which the rats had been driven by hot water carbolic solution of the fumes of sulphur. A mong the poisons used with success were prepared rat cheese; rat bane; a mixture of ground glass, flour corn meal, sirup, with 1 per cent. of strychnine; ground rusty bacon or boiled rice with 60 per cent. of arsen ious acid; and equal parts of flour and plaster of parts with a dish of water on the side. Because of the character of the Mla nila buildings and their crowdcd con dition, the rodents were afforded every opportunity to ilourish. All rats sent to tue municipal laboratory were mi croscopically examined and as each rodent was tagged it was possible to trace back the infected onles to the house where they were caught. All such houses were treated as if the inmates had been infected with- the plague. Since the plague appeared in Manila cases have occurred or rats in fected with the disease have been caught in 5010 houses and the owners of each of these were reqluired by the board of health to remodel the struc tures, cleanse them and put them in a thoroughly sanitary condition. As a result of this ordinance over 600 houses were remodeled and cleaned. the repairs costing the owners in some instances from s$300 to 5.000. Tyhe plague, however, raged chiefly among the Chinese and lower classes dwell in in lower, floors aned nina houses. These were subjected to immuniza t'on by means of the Shiga antiseptic vaccine, thousands of doses of which were distributed by the board of health, the vaccination being perform ed by native physicians under the direction of a mdical inspector. SHORT DAYS AND NIGHTS. When the Sun Rises and Sets in Some Points of Sweden. Mr. Carlson. of Spartanburg, who is a native of Sweden and spent many years of his life in that far northern country, in conversation with a re porter of the Spartanburg Journal told something of the peculiar meteo rological conditions that prevail there by reason of the northerly latitude of Sweden. We think now that our days are short, but an inhabitant of Sweden would tind the days as they are now with us so long that he would prob ably get sleepy before dark. Mr. Carl son says that in midwinter in the part of Sweden where he lived the sun does not rise until 9;30 and it sets at 2:30. This gives only tive hours of sunlight and 19 of very black darkness except when the moon is shining. A little further north from his home the sun rises even later and further still it does not rise during thq winter at all. In spite of all this Mr, Carlson says the people observe about the same hours with their work as we do here. Of course, farm and outdoor work can not be carried on without -light, but during the cold season farm work is necessarily suspended anyhow. In factories, however artificial light is used and work goes right ahead. The people there eat four meals a day. A light breakfast is taken on rising, which is before day, another meal about 10 o'clock. dinner about three o'clock, which is after dark and sup per along toward bedtime. In summer these conditions are just reversed, the sun rising about 2:30 a. m. and setti og about 9:30 p. m. giv ing about five hours with the sun be low. the horizon, but even during this time there is twilight enough to see how to read. The change in the lenth of the days comes on very rapid ly and even in so short a time as that between Dec. 21 and Jan. 1 the difference is quite perceptible. Fatal Hotel Fire. At Chicago on Wednesday four per sons lost their lives and as many per sons were injured at the Hotel Som merset, a five story brick structure on Wabash avenue and Twelfth street, early Wednesday. Three of the vic tims are Mrs. Perry, aged 35 years, and her two daughters, S and -9 years old respectively. The fourth victim, Mrs. Ethel Saunders, of Indiana, jumped from a window of a room on the same floor to the street and died on her way to the hospital. The loss is nominal. A Close -Call. At Hartford, Conn., twelve men, while coasting on a large sled, colid ed with an engine at the foot of the hill. By great good fortune. the sled, instead of going between the wheels of the engine, struck one of the driv ing wheels. One man was thrown against the wheels and bounded back badly bruised. Four others were thrown into a pile so close to the track that the engine brushed them. The others clung to the sled, the rem nants of which were dragged twenty feet by the engine. Married a Convict. A courtship began in the State prison at Trenton. N. J., had its cul mination in the marriage of Charles Miller, recently paroled, to Miss Lou ise Hill, a few days ago. Miller was given a sentence of ten years for breaking into a postoffice. While working in the clothing shop he con ceived the idea of a blind lockstitch sewing machine that would enable one man to do the work of a hundred. It proved successful and he is in a fair way to become rich. H-is bride's home is just outside of the prison walls. Had Nine Wives. Eugene Skyles, an alleged bigamist, now in jail at Port Gibson, Miss., was a minister of the Christian Church, but is said to have no fewer than eight deserted wives in various parts of the country. His latest matrimo nial venture, and the one that result ed in his downfall, was his marriage to Miss Whetstone, daughter of a prominent planter of Mississippi. IHe eloped with the girl to Tfexas, and while he was gone a deserted wife proved the truth of her assertions to the girl's family. Something to Note. A quite notable utterance is quoted from Prof. W. II. Council. of Normal, Ala. "Although," he says, "*I came up from the other side of the ilood, and drank the dregs of the cup of slavery, still I honor the gray-haired veteran of the 'lost cause,' and I feel that when they pass away and when their old slaves have passed away, in a measure the power of the balance wheel of Southern society will be gone." Northern exchanges please copy. Hie Fooled Themi. .Joseph Kirspach was taken into a Philadelphia hospital recently suffer ing from what was supposed to be a bullet wound in the right temple. Ile had placed a revolver to his head and ired. Mr. Kirspach was seemingly unconscir'ms, but after the surgeons had wasized the blood from his face they found no injury save some pow der burns and abrasions of the skin. It was then discovered that the cart ridge used by Kirspach was a blank one. Death of Mr. Williams. Geo. W Williams, president of the Carolina Savings Bank and widely known as one of the wealthiest men in South CarolIna died of heart fail ure at his residence, in Charleston last weels. Mr. Williams was 83 years of age and had not been in good health for some time though he was in his oflice the day before his death. The fortune that he leaves is various ly estimated at from two to three million dlainrs. TROUBLES OF BULL FIGHTERS. The Fates are Aginst the -Real Sports of Darlington. A special dispatch to The State says two brothers living in Lamar procured three bulls from another brother living in the near vicinity, contemplating giving the people of this county a free exhibition of the old Spanish sport, but having re ceived information that the governor objected to ?ugh sports, they decided not to give a pubic e iition, but to .keep them for the amusemen of their own few personal friends. Last Sat urday two of the brothers decided to go out and amuse themselves in the old Spanish style. No priest was available ih this country, to hold the opening services, as is customary in Spain, so a protestant preacher was procured. He was requested to go around and bless these sacred animals of the "Dons," so that this anxious exhibition might proceed. This min ister of the Gospel, having arrived at the stalls of the bulls and looking them over thought they were too fine animals to be killed.jn such a cruel way and so decided to return to these two brother and try to show to them the cruelty of such an inhuman act, but it seems that the bulls were averse to this minister's feeling, and as the preacher was then in the stalls with them, the bulls decided to have a quite little rehearsal before going out for the exhibition. One of them broke losse in his stall and rtarted across f.,r one of the otbers, and as the preacher was right in his way and the minister tried to grab a rope at tached to the bull's horns and was successful, but was immediately jerked down and under the bul, and in the meantime the other two bulls havinng broke loose, they allstarted in for a "free-for-all" fight, ttie first one using the preacher as a breast protec tor. At this time there being such a disturbance, the whole town had con gregated, and the two brothers were trying to "bull the rope market," when the mayor of our city arrived on the scene with the members of the city council, and .read the "riot act" to the bulls and theirs owners, but it did not seem to have any effect on the bulls, and so the mayor swore in the whole town to stop that fight, but it seems that none of them were brave onough to venture into the arena and argue the pointof inhumanity with the bulls, so the mayor decided to wire the sheriff of Yorkville and the Rock Hill militia, but the bulls seemed to have taken the hint and decided to quit, after being notified that the sheriff of Yorkville was expected. The preach er in the meantime had been kindly tossed tbrough the barn and was al lowed to escape. The mayor of the city and the two brothers have de cided to arbitrate the matter, and "peaceful conditions prevail-" Gone Twenty Years. Abiel Patch was a soldier in the Civil War, and when the war ended he returned to his native place, Rut land, Vt. There he was married a few years later. He bought a good farm, and with his wife lived happily nearly fifteen years. By industry he acquired a goodly amount of property. Patch took a pan of corn at 4 p. m Dec. 27, 1882, and started for the poultry house to feed his hens. When he did not return for supper his wife hunted all over the place for him, but in vain. The next day a searching party was formed by the neighbors and the forests for miles around were scoured, but without finding a trace of the missing man. After a few days the search was abandoned. No letter ever came nor was any inkling of the whereabouts of Patch ever received. While Mrs. Patch was preparing for supper last Monday evening there was a rap at the door. She opened the door, and an old man with a long gray beard stepped in. There was nothing about his face or figure that looked familiar to Mrs. Patch, and when the old man told her he was Abiel Patch she thought he was playing a prank on her. When he showed ner a pecu liar tinger ring which her husband had always worn and the scar of a severe bullet woond on the side of his head which he received at Cold Har bor in the Civil War there was no further doubt of his identity. "I left home because I wanted ex eitement," said Patch later in ex plaining his long absence. "I got tired of farming and started out into the woods. I have been all ovor the forests of N'orthern Vermont, New H ampshire and Maine, and have killed hundreds of deer and moose. I didn't intend to over come back, and I hoped my wire would marry again, but I heard a little while ago that she had not. I thought I would see her once more before I died. The winters have been pretty cold, and I could not stand it much longer in the woods." Patch did not think his wife would welcome him, but as she has done so, he says he will remain. Mr. and Mrs. Patch have never had any children. Nearly Roasted. At Birmningham,Ala., David Church a grocery merchant, was held up at his place of business on Avenue F and FI fteenth street at 2 o'clock Wednes day morning by two white men and a negro. All wers heavily armed and he was forced to open the safe and turn over 8659 to them. The robbers then hound and gagged him and tied him to a bed on the second floor and set tire to the house. Church was un able to release himself until the flames burned away the cord which held him. Then he ran through the tire to a window and sprang out and gave the alarm. The store was burned, with a loss of 85,000. There is no clue to the perpetrators. Painful to Record. A dispatch from Laurens to The State says Mr. Hiliary Moseley, aged 65, died Thursday night at the county home. He was a native of Laurens County and at the outbreak of the Civil War he promptly volunteered, enlisting with the South Carolina Guards. Company A. Third S. C. -Reg iment. IT" served gallantly to the close of hostilities. He was well connected in Laurens and Green ville Counties. His health failing a few years ago he became a ward of I -mrens County. A FATAL WREC A Train Telescoped on the MainStr of an Ohio Town. FOUR PERSONS WEEB A Few Minutes Later a by Wreck on Other rack Scattering the Debris.ud Wounding Engineer A dispatch from. Ada, Ohio, Says lour men dead and -fourteet- or more other persons injured, on fatally, is the result of a co '' tween two trains on the Pennsy the main street -of ity a o'clock Thursday evening The dead Joseph Stein, Fort -McPool, Fort dyne. Alonzo Hadley, --Wort, 0. Injured: W. A. Freeze, Chicag J. J. Casey, Cantn 0.. Mr. and Mrs. .Durilman and little daughter of Van -oxt Peter Trace Uctor of train No. 35. 7_ Curtis Mc d& Andrew Brun d Tort Wayne, Ind.3 M. Giese, Ottawa Walter Klinger Ada., W.- D. Blackb4;7 baggage mastr of No. 35. Guy Kingsbury;etor of the u kirk Standard. Benjamin Zooke, Fort-Wayne. T. J. Burdette, Iaton. - The accident one of ftbe ow - that ever occur a this diviiron df the Pennsylvan- tem andwas highly sensational in ~ I its details oc curring as it did on themain street the townat a time when the thogh fare was crowded with people. No. 35, westbound .fr-Fort .Wiyiie had started out of ti istation the Main street crossing was cmp ed to stop on account of someae e to the airbrakes. A'fireman wag back to notify a in the same ~ :on whc 7a1v several minutes Owingte snow storm the.enineer ofio.19was unable to see the liignal in time to slacken his speed. His engine cas into the rear ofaro. 35. el sistedottwo ing a comb n senger car hoter passee in front. Bot telescoed scarcely a passen caped" some sort. The e ihneert. of No. 19 were also slightly not enough to prevent:-th-rV rendering immedia those who were in s The scene a .Ythe wree was frightful. Many wericone84 gated about the spot af; the street was well flled. farers on their way h6bin The crash was heard aleheiifik and almost the entire popilaOn'WM, soon on hand to render wha a ance they could in r-, wounded and dead, e once carried to the freight an&sta tion and laid on improvised engine of No. 19 was almostd io ished, but the cars behind It 'e~ib damaged in the least and none passengers were bruised. Te r age 'was strewn all over the tak~D in a few minutes the Chicago i New York limited, eastbound, ad~ through on the other track '~z miles an hour, hurling the acn~ ted. debris in all directions, .bji' pausing in- its flight until theig town. Then the train was stop and backed to the scene of the ac dent to get orders. No damage ws' done to the engine of the flyer,bu1 was learned that 'a piece of wreckage flew into 'the cab as the train dahed past and painfully binised-'theerigi neer. H~e was, howeverable to-con tinue his run and left in a few min utes with his trai. Feast on Horse Flesh. Six hundred people sat down Thuirs day night to the most remarkable banquet that ever has Ueen~ given in Berlin, Germany. The dishes consist-' ed entirely of horse meat and were served In various forms. The society: for the prevention of- cruelty to ani mas issued the invitations to the din ner, which was given for the purpose of demonstrating the nourishing and palatable qualities of .horse. meat,/ thereby causing increased consaimp tion of the meat and a ready market.. for old horses. This would prevent the owners from working the-poor an imals to death, as well fed specimens would bring good prices.. The bill'of fare consisted of horse soup, pickled horse tongue, fillet or horse and roast. horse. All of the dishes were nicely prepared and were greatly relished. The presiding officers of the society, Privy Councillor von Seofeld, said 30,000 horses had been eaten in Ber lin last year and that he hoped for -a large increase In the future. Many prominent members of the reichstag and of the city council were present at the banquet. Going To Liberia. In the steerage of the White Star ling steamer Teutonic,ewhich sailed Wednesday from New York for Liver-. poo, were 32 colored men, 12'women and 10 children who are going to; Liberia to settle. Thiey came .from Irwin county, Georgia. One of the men said: We are just poor farmers. Business was not very good with us so we got together, sold out our farms and are going out to Liberia to begin. life again." The party have about $2,000. --A Bark Lost. News of the wreck of the Norwe gian bark Prince' Arthur and the: death by drowning of 18 of the crew was received Wednesday. The Prince Arthur was bound from Valparaiso to Columbia to load lumber. On thej night of January 2 the vessel ran into breakers and was soon hard and fast disaster is about two miles south of Ozette, on the Washington 'coast Tis is precisely the position fro~ which the Germa bar a e~as rescued by tugs in the winter of'1900.