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VOL. XVII. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. APRI FEARED DISGRACE. General Sir Hector McDonald CoM-! mits Suicile in Paris. COULD NOT FACE THE CHARGES. The Distinguished Officer Stood High in the British Service. Was to be Tried on Seri ous Charges. On Wednesday a dispatch from Calambo, Ceylon, said charges of the most serious nature have been brought against Major General Sir Hector Mac Donald, commanding the forces in Ceylon. in consequence of which the governor of that island, Sir Joseph West Ridgeway, has been authorized to convene a courtmartial to try General MacDonald. The latter, when the charges was filed sometime ago, went to England from Ceylon to confer with his friends and superior officers and be started to return and face the charges, which it is alleged, are based on immoral acts. But it seems be reared to face the charges, as he committed suicide at the Hotel Regima on Wednesday in Paris. IBe shot himself in the right temple shortly after nu:n and expired a few minutes later. The general was alone in his small chamber on the mazzanine floor, of the hotel at the time of the tragedy. One of the female attendants heard the pistol shot and opening the door saw the general's ligure stretched out on tile floor with blood gushing from a bullet wound in the bead. She ran scream ing to the balcony overlooking the lobby of the hotel, where many guests, including a number of ladies, were as sembled. The proprietor of the hotel was the irst to reach the expiring man. The commissary of police was noti fied, and, accompanied by a doctor. proceede-i to a preliminary investiga tion. No money or papers of any kind were found in Sir Hector's baggage. Two notes written in English were found lying on a table in his room ano these were taken possession of by the authorities, but it is understood that their contents have no bearing on the suicide. In tne general's coat, lying on the bed, were found some photo graphs. The British embassy and consulate were notitied later, and Consul General Inglis visited the hotel and took charge of the body. Sir Bector MacDonald arrived in Paris last Friday evening from Lon don on his way back to Ceylon. where it was understood that an immediate court martial would be held to clear up the charges made against him. On reaching the hotel at 11 o'clock at night he was told that only a small and indifferent room was available. He replied that that was quite suffi cient. He was not accompanied by any aid de camp or valet. He said he only intended to stay a days or two in Paris. Little was seer of him since his arrival, Ie was, however, in the lobby this morning about noon and il is believed that a newspaper, printed in English, containing a resume of the grave charges brought against him and embellished with the general's portion in full uniform, came under his attention. He left the lobby, go ing to his room and the pistol shot followed soon after. The general's suicide has profoundly shocked the British official here. Those about the hotel who have conversed with -Sir Hector MacDonald recently say he showed no signs of excitement or men tal worry. A Wild Story. An aged negro orator, A. J. Fre mont, of Watertown, S. Dak.. a well known representative of the colored race, who, at the close of the civil war, was president o1 the society that sent 50,000 negroes back to Africa. lectured on the " Race Problem," and while there called on Congressman Tawney and asked for a private inter view. He stated he had a communi cation which he desired the congres.+ man to convey to the president to the effect that he had come into posses sion of information that a plan hail been made to attempt the life of President Roosevelt on his western trip, but that it had now been aban doned and instead the plotters were planning at some favorable point in Montana o-r Colorado to capture Sec retary of the Treasury Shaw, Secre tary of War Root and Attorney Gen eral* Knox and carry tnem to the mountains to be held for suitable ran som. Freemont refused to divulge the source of his information, but in sisted that it was correct. Need or a Bureau. The Columbia -Record says letters are being received at the governor's oftice almost daily which emphasize the need of an agricnltural and immi gration bureau, recommended in Governor Heyward's message. The following from-W. 0. Bacon~j~anville. SMentor county, Pa., is a sample: "Dear Sir: "Will you kindly cause printed information to be sent me rel ative to the agicultural products. climate, resources and special ad van t age of different sections of your state for settlers from the North?" The information sent inqluirers of this kind is only of a general nature and cannot ofcourse cover the ground thoroughly. Let a Church Burn. St. Joseph Italian Catholic Church in Hazel tovwnship, just outside the city limits, Hazeltown, Pa., was burn ed down early Wednesday morning. Mayor Rtenhardt refused to permit tbe~ firemen to extinguish the tiames owing to the residents' refusal to join in an aneration movement some time ago for a Greater Hazelton. The loss is $20,000 and the cause incendiary. A Club ofrSilence. Thbere is in Paris a society of deaf mutes who maintain a club called the "Club of silence." The servants are deaf and dumb, and are summoned, it is said, by slight electric shocks in stead of bells. When the club mem bers are having a particularly gay time the servants are so heavily charged that the electric sparks drown: th nonrieg of champagne corks. O N CHEICCO STREET. rhe Crusade Aggaint. Charleston Blind Tigers are irrEarnest. The Charleston correspondentoft The state says Governor Tillman once ,rdered the dispensary constable to raise hell on Chicco street." Sub ;titute "establishments" for the last vord of the order and then some idea nay be had of the raanner of the war *re the constables :iave begun, start fg irst with the E_st 1ay and Mar et street places of the famous king >f the blind tigers. It was stated that tll the blind tigers are to be similarly lealt with and the work was started vith Chicco's establishments. A gallon demijohn of corn whiskey vas found in a room over Chicco's -estaurant and bar and this was con ;idered ample evidence to ra:d and dis nantle the places. Chicco indignant y denied Thur.sday that "that 10-cent orn whiskey" was his. He said that t belonged to a boarder, and "every )ody knows that I don't sell that sort )f stuff. You get good goods here." kt all events, when the dismantling >rocess started, Chice-) asked that he >e permitted to remove the fixtures tnd furnishings himself, which was llowed by Howie, and the sounds of he saw and hammer took the place of he clinking of the glasses and pop >ing of corks at the weil known and nuch frequented places Thursday. rhe fixtures will be stored for future ise. Chicco expressed his willingness o quit the retail business, provided he other tigers were similarly dealt vith, and he said that Ckiief Howie romised to dismantle all the other >laces in the same way. Chicco said that he would have left arleston long ago if it were not for iis holdings of property here. He aid that even now he is willing to eave. provided any one will purchase tlI of his property. He is willing to mnock off 20 per cent. of its value to :ose out. Chicco declares that he has Llways condcuted a decent place and e can not understand why the con tables should have swooped down on 1im in the manner that they did. His ellow violators believe that Chicco's orials are largely the result of his ap )eal for leniency in the enforcement if the act. attracting attention to his >wn violation of the law. At all events, ie wants the other dealers to si'are he same fate, and the constables so'y hat the raid is thz beginning of a eneral dismantling of the bars over he city. LIFE OF YOUNG GIRL RUINED. arried Man in Hartsville. S. C. Alter Few Days Acquaintance. The Charlotte Observer says at the oarding house of Mrs. John Hender on, in that city,-a pretty woman and bride has waited a week for the re urn of her husband. The woman, Yho is quite young and penniless, und that she was not a bride, and hat the real wife of her husband is till living. The following is the sad tory as related by the Observer: The girl is Miss Mary Mclnvaille of ~artsville, Darlington county, S. 0. he thought until a day or so ago that he was Mrs. Julius Manus Four noths ago she met Manus in Harts ille and became engaged to him, and rhen her mother objected to the natch she ran away to Kershaw, S. 3., and was married to Manus. That was three weeks ago. A fortnight ago the young couple :ame here and engaged board and odging at Mrs. Hlendlerson's Manus :aimed that he had been a superin ;endent of a cotton mill and that he 'xpected to secure work in Chlarlotte. Every morning during his stay here je would leave the house early, taking 1s dinrer with him, and would not eturn until the late afternoon. A ,eek ago-Saturday, the 14th inst, tanus disappeared. Prior to his de arture he had taken from the wo nan he illegally married all the money ;he had, about .$25. In a conversation with chief of po ice Irwin and an Observer reporter Wednesday afterna o Miss McI nvaille tated that she would leave Thurs lay morning for Hartsville, her former jome. 11er mother had wired to Mr. J. H. Weddington, chairman of the ounty commissioners, asking that der daughter be s.ent back home; and the young woman said she would Lever have another moment's peace until she again saw her mother. Manus not only left her penniless, but failed to pay any part of the board bill due by the couple. "I want to make Mr. Manus suffer," said Miss McInvaille to the chief of police. '"He must be arrested. Hie has ruined my life completely." "And I want my mother." said the young girl, with a wail. Shot Her Betroyer.. Etlie Waggy, daughter of William Waggy, a prosperous farmer, of Wes ton, Va., shot Ralph McDonald son of ExSheriff McDonald Wednesday near the Waggy homestead. Four years ago Miss Waggy alleges that Mc Donald, who studied medicine in a Louisville, Ky., college, betrayed her. She says she has been-watching her chance ever since to kill him. She fired ive shots, two of which took etiect in his back and side. There is little hope of his recovery. The woman has not been arrested. Another Fallacy. There were 6507,000,000 passengers carried by the railroads of the United States in 19U2. which means that, on an average. every man, woman and child rode eight time dluring the year, notes an exchange. That's another popular fallacy, like this thing of every man, woman and child in the United State havingr 829.95. As a matter of fact we know a man who rode only twice and has only 953 cents left. A Fatal Trii. The recent Ilood on the Mississippi Valley has caused great loss of life and property. One day last week a skiff containing four drummers and two negro oarsmen were swept under the railroad track near Memphis, Ten-. andal sn ix men were drowned. AN EXPERT VIEW. The Medical News, of New Yor] on the Race Issue. THE NEGRO VIEWED MEDICALL The News Says Unless All tt Facts Are Weighed, the South May be Done Great Injustice. The Medical News, a widely know journal published in New York cit; is aroused by the recent discussio of the race issue to comment upo "Negro Supremacy from a Medic Standpoint." In an editorial upc that subject in its issue of Februar 2S the Medical News states that i leading papers of the North an South have appeared editorials L great acumen and power, "but nor seem as yet to have dealt, except in superficial manner, with 'the rac problem as seen from a biologica ethnological or medical standpoint. The News continues: One cannot intelligently answ< the question whether the negro ca take a place in the social and econc mic progress of the nation withou being in possession of the main moi phological differences between tb Caucasian and the African, sinc these are the fundamental bases fu mental and moral discrepancies b tween the races. That the negro more nearly al proaches in body to the quadrumar or anthropoid apes is shown by th following points: The arm is abnoi mally long-in the erect position i often reaches the knee-pans, and o an averge exceeds that of the Cauca sian by about two inches. The facih angle, which is granted by all to hav a definite ethnological bearing, eve if the function of the frontal lobes i still but little known, average 82 d( grees in the Caucasian and 70 degree in the black. Coincidentally witl this is the fact that in brain weigh the white man exceeds. the negro b fully 10 ounces-almost as much a he in turn exceeds the highest gorilla Another point of difference anatomi cally is seen in the lower extremity this is not so well developed as th white man's, the foot is broad ani flat, the great toe prehensile an divergent, the heel often projectinj so far backward as to merit the terr "lark heel." It is needless to dwell longer o the wel known difference which ei ists, or to urge that they demonstrat a distinct race of mankind and sho, conclusively 41n the negro an inferic type. Among the fair-minded thi is axiomatic. Some years ago we were all alarme over the "yellow peril." Now tb "black peril" confronts us. The article quotes the late Pro1 Ogden S. Rood, of Columbia, as as] ing: "How can there be any que tion of superiority or inferiority b( tween two peoples who develop mer tally are separated by a chasmC 20,000 years?" Eugene R. Corson, i his contribution to the Wilder Qual ter Century Book, states that as a re sut of a most careful study of th census, and dependent upon persone observation in the city of Savannal he is confident that tuberculosis an alcoholism are madin stultifying it roads on the making negro, pool weakened product, that he is, of mit cegenation. Sir Spencer St. John says of the it habitants of Hayti: "After a res: dence of over twenty years in thi island 1 am forced to the conclusic that the negro is incapable of holc ing an independent position. Hay1 shows no sign of improvement-On tb other hand, it is constantly retrograc ing, and without external influenc the inhabitants will soon fall into ti stage of the dwellers of the Congo. The Medical News thus continues il comnments: If it is true, as some have perhaj well said, that the time is ripe for recognition of the negro, in substanc rather than in theory, earnest thougt should be given by those who woul liberally interpret our laws, and the should he well versed in the opiniot of such men of science as we has quoted. They must know and recos nize that profound differences do exh --that one race is 20,000 years behir the other. They must know the ethnologically, physiologically, anat< mically, the negro and Caucasia must always be widely different.] the negro is advancing, which, than]. to the noble efforts made at Tuskegt and similar institutions, he surely i what, meantime, is the Caucasian d< ing? Advancing? Yes, with h pliant brain case, capable of permi ting progressive development . froi birth to death, he is thundering abea with a rush and a speed whichr alien race can hope to follow. Unless these facts are weighed in true balance bitter injustice may 1 done the South. it Is no doubt trui as Carson assumes that the irrevo< able law of the "survival of the i test" will wipe the negro away, bt this will take centuries. There is real and immediate peril, as the Sen tor from North Carolina has well sal Science. education, religion, phila thropy may well focus their brigl rays upon it, and unless our leade follow where these trend the Sout will surely suffer. A Sad Accident. At Cocoa, Fla., at a Charavari pa ty given Mr. and Mrs. Leddon, an u: cannon used in the serenade burs Mrs. RI. B. Holmes' leg was so sha tered that amputation below the kne was necessary. A rthur Lapham's 1< was fractured. The knee of W.3 Paterson, and the thigh of his wi Iwere injured. George Whate, W! Ransom and Hugh Connor were al: hurt. The cannon was an old or rescued frc:i? the wreck of the Br: ish steamer off Sebastian. Lovers Drowned. Walter Chism, Luther Owen at JTennie George were drowned in tl Pemiscot Bayou, Ark-., while retur ing from a prayer meeting in a cano Miss George and Owens were to ha ben marrierl within a fortnight. NEGROES ON THE MOVE. The Emigration from the Souther States to Mexico Begun. Advices received at the Mexica embassy at Washington tell of the re Y cent importation to that country fror the United States of 100 negroes wh will be employed along the line of th e Vera Cruz and Pacific railroad. Thi move is experimental and is beini watched. with considerable interest If.successful results ensue, it is saii that large importations from tb southern States will follow in the ef fort to solve the present problem o 'n finding laborers in Mexico who ar (' alike competent and willing to work n 'lo an Alabama negro named McKel n vin is given the credit for inducini il members of his race to emigrate ti n Mexico. McKelvin was at one tim 'Y employed on a large Alabama planta n tion. but later went to Mexico, wher d he claims to have found better wages I le returned to Alabama and distribu e ted large circulars among the negrce a telling of the advantages of the Mexi e can country and of the opportunitie , it offered poor negroes who wantet work in the 'ountry. His circular also contained as an inducement th r assurance that the negroes would no n be subject to the order of "whit 1 trash." This last feature apparentl t proved a drawing card for McKelvii 7 had no trouble in pursuading 100 ne e groes to return to Mexico with him e where he found work for them at $1.51 r a day. Most of this first importatio have been employed on the La Junt; plantation of George C. Sanborn, So far the negroes, it is said, ar a quite satistied and are in turn proving e satisfactory to their employers. Mc - Kelvin has made the claim that h t will be able to induce a million of hi n race now in the southern States t< emigrate to Mexico and several rail d road contractors are endeavoring t< e arrange with him to return to th4 n States and canvass the south for la S borers. McKelvin, it is understood will make a return trip within tho S next few months. t TO BE HONORED. y s * Rolls of the South Carolina Troops it the Civil War. Governor Heyward Wednesday sen1 the following letter to Hon. Elih: Root, secretary of war: "Absence from my office has pre n vented my replying earlier to youi communication of March 16th. I notA e with much pleasure that it is the in tention of your department to compilt and publish, as a continuatiot S of the publication known as "The Official Records of the Union and Con d federate Armies," a complete list 01 e roster of the officers and men wh( served in these armies during tho Civil war. I feel sure that this ac tion on the part of the general govern ment will meet with favor through out the entire south, and that thos who served in the Confederate armie Sand. their descendants will appreciate this opportunity of having thei: names handed down to history, I shal be glad to give to your departmen whatever ccoperation lies in m3 power. "You request that I should desig nate some one from this State to comn municate with Brig. F. C. Ainsworth 'chief of the record and pension offca of your department, relative to the details of the work. I would respect fully suggest Col. M. P. Tribble of An Sderson, S. C. I will request Col. Trib ble to correspond with you." aThe governor also sent Col. Tribbli aletter as follows: "I have been notified by the Hon e Elihu Root, secretary of war, to name an omlcial from South Carolina to co e oea '.m~ Brig. Get . F. C. Aiu.. worth, chief of the~ record and pensio: ottice of the war department, in comn spiling a full roster and list of the otii cers and enlisted men who bore arm sfor the Confederacy during the grea a war. Tf.his roster and list of name e will be compiled and published as t continuation of the publication know. d as "The Otlcial Records of the Unioe yand Confederate Armies." In compli sance with the request of Secretar: eRoot, 1 have the pleasure of namin, you for this imnport.'nt work. I fee sure that with you the work will rc ceive loving and faithful service, an< t I a very glad to name so true an< ntrien a citizen for the discharge of thi duty which means so much for thi . history of our State. "cr~er Root req ues s that yol ~Ainsworth, chief of the record ani spension offce at Washington, D). C sand 1 have written him that you wil do so." d Dove Slaughter. 10 During the big Kansas City shoo 18,000 defenceless doves whose natura a fleetness of wing had been dulled b; ycoop life, were, to the disgrace c e that city, thrown from traps and she at "just for fun." As Longfello' tsays: "A slaughter to be told i igroans, not words." Many cripple a birds escaped, to die a lingerini death, with broken legs, beaks shc away or bodies ripped open. For in astance. I found near the gun clu It grounds a dove with both legs shot o1 rsluttering helplessly about huntinj hrood. Surely this dove was paying dearly for somebody's "fun." I causes pain, hardens the public con science and above all cultivates cruel r- ty in the hearts of the young, tha Id which there is nothing more dange: Cous to the future - appiness of ou t-own race. A Free Pass. I. An exchange says that it has bee fe oered four dollars for twenty-twi ill dollars and fifty cents worth of advei o tising arid will "note with interes 1e the number of brethren who accep t- this munlicent offer." One of tb hardships and actual losses of a new. paper.is in doing a great deal of wor for nothing, and there is no way id estimating the cost to a newspaper se the absolutely free advertising it doc in the course of a year; But the sul e prising thing is that it is often expec ed by people who are liberal in othl matters. SETTLED AT LAST. n Interesting Suit Against the Charles ton and Seashore Railway. SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS a Damages Awarded Miss Annie Car e s roll, Who Fell Through the Company's Wharf and Was Very Seriously Injured. The supreme court has lately affirm ed a decision of the circuit court in Orangeburg, awarding a verdict of $6,000 t0 the plaintiff, in the case of Z Annie B. Carroll vs. the Charleston and Seashore Railroad company. This case is quite an interesting one aud has been thoroughly investigated un der the law, having been three times - brought to trial. in the lower court, S and then appealed by the railway com S pany. I On the 23rd of August, 1898, there a was to be a dance at the Isle of Palms. l Miss Carroll left Charleston, attend I ed the dance and returned when it was over. On the way back she alleges 1 that while leaving the Mount Pleasant - wharf to board the ferryboat she fell through a hole in the wharf and into ) the water and was rescued only with I great difficulty. The complaint fur L ther alleges that though it was at the time of the accident about 1.30 a. m. that there was no light on the wharf, and thus It was that she failed to see the hole In the planking. Miss Carroll claimod that she suf 3 fered so from sickness and from shock, > caused by her sudden plunge and from remaining in her wet clothing until y she got home, that she was practically incapacitated from ever earning her - living again. She asked from the railway company for her disability $10,000, and in addition $250, which she had paid the physician who at tended her. Five thousand dollars was also demanded because of the negligence of the company. In answering the complaint the rail way company said that Miss Carroll had left the regular passageway and climbed over a pile of lumber, placed especially for the purpose of guarding persons from the hole in the wharf. The case was brought up in Charles ton in November, 1899, before Judge Gage, but resulted in a mistrial. It was again brought up in November, 1900, in Charleston, before Judge Bu chanan with the same result. It was then transferred, on motion of the plaintff's attorneys, to Orangeburg, where it was heard in May, 1902, be fore Judge Gage. The jury at that time, after hear ing the evidence, rendered a verdict of $9,000 for Miss Carroll. The de fense then asked -for a new trial on the ground of excessive damages, and Judge Gage sustained this motion, recommending a new trial unless the plaintiff should remit $3,000 of the verdict rendered. The attorneys for the defense appealed on the ground that J u~dge Gage should have granted a new trial without the option of the reductilon of the verdict. The case was heard by Judges Pope, Gary and Jones, and the decision affirmed. New Chief Constables. ,The matter of Governor Heyward's Sappointments to the position of chief e constables has been agitating a large - number of office-seekers for some time. - The governor has received hundreds - of letters applying for positions on the force. 3 After much thought and a careful selection he Wednesday made the fol .lowing appointments: a 0. L. Cureton, Pickens. -*J. C. Hall, Greenville. - J. R. Fant, Spartanburg. iA. S. Osborn, Columbia. -S. Y. Delgar, Sumter. - S. T. Howie, Charleston. s W. F. Holmes, Beaufort. c. Of the old force Constables Howie, s Fant and Cureton are retained, the t other appointees having never occupi ed such positions before. 1 .J. C. Hall has been lirst sergeant of' - the police force of Greenville, S. Y. 7 Delgar a business man of Sumter, and SW. F. Holmes a farmer of Barnwell county. -A. S. Osborn who will have .his 1 headquarters in Columbia is a mer 3 chant of Ninety- Six. s The appointments become effective SA pril 1, when the ollicers will take up temporary headquarters at the places indicated and proceed to enforce the .law. TeStarving in Finland. 1 TeBerlin Die Post states that the famine in Finland is more acute daily. The suffering of the populace is more intense and has been aggravated by entire lack of meat, milk and po tatoes since October. The people are barefooted and clothed in rags. In Kegani and Uleaborg alone there are a thousand peasants said to be starv V ing, while the carcases of thousands of cattle and corpses of human beings ill the air with pollution. Epidemics of various sorts has broken out. Am E erican relief expeditions have reached ~ Haparalda, Sweeden, on the bay of Botbina, opposite Uleaborgs. Ended Thier Lives SAt Milans. Texas, because of family troubles D. E. Barmnore and S. HI. . Wor;hington agreed to take morphine to end thier lives. Barmore was the . trst to take the dose and when dis r covere.Worthington waz among those who worked over him in the effort at restoration. Barmore died. Wor thington immediately went to his l room and wrote a lett~er to his wife from whom he was separated and took -a large dose of poison. He was found t shortly afterwards and every effort *t was made to save him but the phy. e sicians say it is hardly probable. k Cut His Throat. SA man believed to be Albert Ger sola, a Spaniard, was found dead in bed'in his room in the Union Square hotel in New York. 'Thursday morn ing His throat was cut and suicide ris suspected. Little is known about the mnn_ A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. A Little Boy Fell Thirty Feet b an Unused Well. In an open well. 30 feet deep, flfteen hours, without any means escape, was the harrowing experiel of Henry Miller, the seven-year son of S. C. Miller, a machinist the National Furniture company, % lives at 42 Ponders avenue. The child fell in the well about o'clock Saturday morning, and v not found dntil 11 o'clock that nig! cold, injured and almost unconscio He had made despterate efforts to out of the well, having dug steps the dirt half way up to the surfL only to fall back again. The well into which the boy 1 fallen was on the property of t Ware Furniture company, on W Fourth street, about one hundred a firty yards from the residence of t boy's father. A building of the co pany was burned some time ago, a since that time there has been noi ing on the property. About 8 o'clock Saturday morni whilq flying his kite, the boy fell it the well. He was running backwE at the time and did not know of t opening. He stumbled backward a fell to the bottom without anythi to brake the force of the fall. Tb happened to be no water in the w( and the boy's fall, on the hard bott< was one which rendered him unc< scious. Nothing was known of the bo fall, and his father reported the mi ter to the police and asketi them help him in finding the lad. He stat that the boy had left home to see t cadavers which bad been deserted the river line and had not been se since. When found the boy was a semi-conscious condition and alm< frozen, the little water in the w chilling him to the marrow. When he was taken from the w the little fellow could hardly spea and it was some time before he v resuscitated. He said that the f bad rendered him unconscious a regained his senses that afternoon. I then began making desperate effoi to get out of the well, digging ste in the side of the well, using only I bands to cut into the dirt. His hat were bleeding and lacerated when r cued. His efforts to escape, howev had proven fruitless, the well havi caved in about half way up, and. could not pass the. caved-in-place -Atlanta Journal. & Thrilling Escape. A mother, father, infant and s vant were rescued by firemen fr< suffocation in a fire which occuri at Richmond, Va., last Wednesd morning. The family were all asle at the time their lives were endangi ed. The household consisted of R. Charles, his wife and infant son, a a servant named Rosa Carter Fi: man E. H. Harris reached the thi floor by means of a ladder. He fou the room dense with smoke and t family fast becoming suffocated. I snatched up the baby, wrapped it his coat and handed it to anothep-fi man, then on the ladder, who carri it to a place of safety. Returnii the first tireman wrapped Mrs. Char in a quilt and then carried her to 1 window and banded her to a th: fireman, who landed her safely. 3 Charles was then awakened and scended the ladder with the assistar of the firemen. The servant, wi aroused, became so excited that started to climb down the ladder he first, and would have been dashed pieces on the ground below, but: fireman No. 4, who set her right a assisted her ini reaching the street. Lost Her Hair - Miss Eva Merrell, a pretty a popular society girl of Carrollton, G lost her beautifulhair Thursday ni through the combination of a la1 light and a celluloid comb. She was reading and became inerested in her book she did not that her head was nearly against1 lamp on the table. The flame of1 lamp heated the comb she wore inI hair and before she was aware ofI danger the comb had ignited and head was enveloped in a mass of fi She attempted to brush the flax from her hair and badly burned hands. Finally she conquered1 flames, but her magnificient suit hair was gone and one side of her f was badly burned. What's the Use. The Chattanooga Times says:" have a communication from a "Soul ern Gentleman" scoring New Yoi 400 for entertaining a negro actress an evening function and skinni alive the young dude who led a dai with her. What's the use? Dh "southern gentlemen" know thatt same set entertained a monkey wit lunchecn at Newport last summ What are we going to do with a "s (whose fathers were thieves) and tl has nothing to do but kill?" The Tillman Trial. Solicitor Thurmond stated Frit that the trial of James H. Tilln would probably come up Monday A p 13. The first week of criminal co would be taken up with minor cas many of which would be disposed o: a day and none of the important ca would be reached until the sect week. There were a large number witnesses in the Tillman case,1 solicitor said, and the state would ready for trial on Monday' of that we Died 1awninlg. At Oshkash, Wis., after yawn without interruption for three ent days despite every effort at stoppa Mrs. Henry Jenner is dead. The pl sicians decided that she was sufferi from an obscure lesion of the hr producing laryngial spasms. RE edies and amusthetics were admmnist ed without effect. She was unable sleep and continued yawning until longer able from lack of strength. Killed by a Fall. Chas. Marsch, 40 years old, d Thursday in the yard of the Cons< dated Gas company, Avenue A Twenty-first street, New York, fr the effects of a fall received wl wrestling with a chum and lifelt friend, Thomas J. l'owers. Povw was detained at the police station, i hartbmrkn. CHARGE A STONE FORT. ito The Anieriean Troops and the Fili pinos Have a Fight. fur A dispatch from Manila says two of companies of Macabebe scouts signal ice ly defeated the main body of San old Miguel's forces Friday. It is believed for San Miguel was killed. Lieut. Reese was seriously wounded. The scouts 8 lost three men kiiled and eleven men ras wounded. 'It, The enemy occupied an entrenched Ls- position- midway between Mariquina et and San Francisco del Monte, and had i erected a stone fort, which was gar , risoned by 200 men. The First and Fad ourth companies of Macabebes. com ad manded by Lieuts. Reese and Nicker ehe son, respectively, attacked the enemy's est position, but as the scouts were ex 'he posed to the tire of the enemy in a he inanner which placed th3 Macabebes m- at a disadvantage, the lieutenants .nd decided after an hour's fight to sur Ih- round the position and charge. Af ter having divided their companies ng the two otlicers then led a gallant and to successful charge during which Lieut. rd Reese fell seriously wounded. he The enemy then broke and ran, nd leaving 49 men dead on the field, in ng cluding a general officer, who is be re lieved to be San Miguel, though his ' identification is incomplete. Lieut. )m Col. Meyer of the Eleventh infantry )- has been ordered to Surigao to assume command of the troops there and di y's rect the operations of the three de t tachmeits which are pursuing the e bandit band. Additional troops are e to be sent to Surigao later on. on A GEORGLA BOY. en Lieut. Boss Reese, who was serious in ly wounded Friday in the engagement >st with San Miguel's forces in the Philip ell pines, is the son of Col. Oscar Reese, an attorney of Carrollton, Ga., and ell nephew of Congressman W. C. Adam ,k, son. Fe is 22 years old. He served as in the Secoz I Georgia regiment during all the Spanisn war. ad The Work Goes On. The work of dismantling the bars and fixtures was in progress Friday is at many saloons in Charleston in re ds sponse to orders from the constables, and the word of Chief Howie to Vin cent Chicco Thursday that his places were not to be the only establishments raided.and dismantled, is being made good. The dealers are following the example of the "King of the blind tigers" in doing their own dismantl ing, rather than have the work done er- by the constables, in order to save >m greater destruction of their property; ed As was-stated, when Chicco was told ay that his fixtures and effects were to ep be moved, he asked permission to ar- have the work done by carpenters and L. the constables were glad to be ieliev-, nd ed of it. They wanted the bar, fur re- nishings and screen doors taken down, rd and it was immaterial to them whether nd the proprietor had the work done, or he they themselves knocked the fixtures Ele down. The constables remained on in hand to see the work done. Now, they re- have'served a similar notice upon the ed bars at several hotels and many other ig, places about the city and at these es les tablishments the carpenters and ex ihe perignced helped were at work, carry ird ng out the orders of the officers. .Bot r. tIes and glasses were being packed e- away. Attention is also being given ce of course to the better concealment of en .the stock of liquors, in anticipation he of any greater inspection and search ad by the constables. A Case of Torture. d The public has been arcused by the case of a private in the army named Richter who was bound, gagged and' tortured by his company Lieutenant nd Sinclair in the Philippines till the sol a., dier died. His mother appealed to ht the president to have the lieutenant mp retired and punished, but so far her request has been disregarded. The so war office publishes statements that ice Richter was a hopeless case of drunken he insolence and that his death while he being punished resulted from drink. ser A public meeting in Faneuil Hall, aer Bostson, that historic hot bed of all 1er agitations has been held, where the re president has been roundly denounced tes for withholding from the public the ier records of the coiirt,-martial that tried he .Sinclair. This matter may yet ..be of made an issue against Roosevelt in ace politics. The claim is made that in the far away Philippines many deeds of horror and cruelty in the army and We among the natives are perpetrated h- and that only inkling of the facts ever 'reaches the public. at Wanted to Cremate the Boy. ng In Findlay,Ohio,school boys having ice been to see "Tracy, the Outlaw," they nt concluded that It would be a fine his thing to reproduce. They fell upon h a a plan to size one of their schoolmates er? and make him the victim of the re Ct" production.Ani account of the affair is 2at as follows: "On his way home from school 8-years-old Clarence Hummell, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Hummell, aof East Front street, was captured by afive schoolmates, forced to accompany r them down the Blanchard river, out ri'side the city limits and there, in a urt secluded spot, was tied to a stake. 9 Preparations for his cremation were .m being made when the little fellow's ss cries attracted the attention of men >n who were employed in the vicinity of . e the Findlay Hydraulic Press Brick e works, and he was rescued by them. e. Young Hummell's captors had wit enessed the production of "Tracey, the Outlaw," and in talking it over imade plans for the capture and the ngburning at the stake." ge .~ Killed by a Train. y- J C.Bowling and W. A. Cooper, ng farmers, were killed by the eastbound an Southern railway train eight miles n- west of Durham, N~. C., at Scarlet er- crossing Thursday. The men were in to a wagon, which was struck and were no carried some distance. It is supposed that because of a deep cut the men did not hear the train. F.1led the Bill. ali- Lemuel Borden, lawyer and editor of nd the Tribune of the People of Wood om stock, Va., advertised for a wife. ile She came in the person of Mrs. Aman >ng da Deer, from Montazuma, Ind. Fri ers day. Sbe was fully up to specifica Lnd tions and in a few minutes they were married. A GRAIN LOUSE And Not the Hessian Fly is the Thing That is DESTROYING TEE OAT CROP. The Little Pest Has Done Much Damage to the Growing Oat, But Its Days Are Numbered. Prof. Charles E. Chambliss of Clem son college, an experienced entomolo gist, was in Orangeburg for a few hours Wednesday and has encouraging tidings for thefarmersof Orangeburg, Bamberg, Clarendon, Sumter, Flor (nce, Darlingt~n, Marlboro, Lee, Richland and Salida- counties, where - the so-called Hessian fly has been playing wild havoc with the oats and other small grain crops. In some sections of these counties the crop has been almost totally de stroyed, and the plague is of such a serious nature that the State board of entomology sent Professor Chambliss - out to study the destroyer and, if pos sible, to advise some means of exter minating it; and he has been success ful in his research. Professor Cham bliss has visited Darlington, Florence; and Orangeburg counties so far,,and finds the cause and conditions tie same in each. Professor Chambll says that the damage has been done, not by the Hessian fly, but by a small grain louse. This enemy obtains its food by inserting its jointed-beak in the stem and leaves of the oats, by which it sucks the sap and If it does not completely kill the plant, will cause the grain to be severely injured and shriveled. There is no practical remedy, but this need not cause alarm for, at preseit, the natural enemy of the louse has checked its ravages, These natural enemies will keep tLe louse in bounds, Ind if there were-a practical remedy there would be no need of applying it. These natural enemies of the louse are bugs of four species, and not unlike the potato bug These bugs feed on the louse and are rapidly exterminating them. Iry5 3ool weather retards the work of the louse, so that with favorable weather, aided by the bugs, it is not thought their ravages can continue longer. The broaAcasting of air-slacked lime when it strikes the insects will kill them, but not In sufficient numbers to make this remedy pay. The applic tion of nitrate of soda at 75 pounds per acre will unquestionably stimulate the plant to vigorous growth which might enable it to resist the attack of the louse, but ho immediate results could be obtained by its use and it would prove a needless expense, as the natural enemies have already so great ly reduced the numbersof the louse as to remove the fear of further injury. Professor Chambliss says that all volunteer oats should be destroyed, and that in planting'next fall it must be done on land not now infected. However, full instructions for future guidance will be given in the bulletin to be issued this summer. Professor Chambliss urges as much publicity in the weekly papers as possible, so that the farmers may be informed speedily, thereby saving them expense and worry. Mid Cheers and Hisses. A dispatch from Detroit recently says: Senator Ben. R. Tillman of South Carolina was greeted with al ternate storms of cheers and kisses when he delivered an impassioned ad dress on race problem at the Light Guard Armory', the audience being. evidently divided between upholders of his ideas and strenuous opponents of them. He said the North demand ed majority rule and with a sneer ad ded that there were 235,000 more ne groes than white people in South Car olina. "It will mean that more blood will flow than was shed in the civil war if you persist In trying to subject us to the domination of the blacks," he said. "You:batchered the Indians and shut out the Chinamen, but had it been known by the soldiers who sur rendered with Lee that it was your devilish Intent to set up the negro over the white man we would have fought you till now." Upon the sena tor's reference to some of Sherman's army as bummers, chicken thieves and carpetbaggers, his northern audi- - ence broke out into such violent hiss ing that the speech was Interrupted and some of the more timid ones in the audience feared trouble. A Singular Incident. Rev. W. W. Waddell, a Presbyterian missionary in Brazil, arrived in New York on the 12th, having made a journey of 6000 miles to be treated, as he believed, for a cancer growth in the jawbone. The patient was exa mined by an eminent cancer specialist, and to his astonishment and relief was informed that the trouble was not a cancer hut a decayed tooth. A visit to a dentist confirmed the diagnosis of the specialtist, and the missionary was speedily relieved of pain and fears. So the man had not only gone a vast distance but had spent thesavingsof a little sairy for years simply to have a tcoth pulled. Between joy at know ing he was not attacked by a deadly disease, and chagrin at the expendi ture of so much travel, time and money merely to have a decayed tooth ex tracted the state of mind of Rev. Mr. Waddell may be imagined. The States Claim. The Columbia Record says there is considerable misunderstanding among the newspapers of the country in re gard to that $89.126 war claim which Senator Tillman secured recently from the government and the Philadelphia Press recently stated that the sum grew out of a claim in.1812 on which only 34 cents was due. This mis understanding grew out of a statement made by the auditor of the treasury in regard to a claim which the govern ment had against this state for destroy ing government property in Charleston at the beginning of the civil war. The aditor stated that if this claim was paid by the state a balance of 34 cents would be due. No 'attention waso npaid tn the laim however.