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VOL XVII. - MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JUNE FULLER DETAI LSi Of the Great Flood that Destroyed Heppner Oregon. DESCRIPUTON BY EYE WITNESS. Wall oi Water Rushed Down Mtoun tain Side. Wagon Loads or' Corpses Are Caste( to the Cemetery. Later news from Heppner, Oregon, show that the first reports of the dis aster were not exaggerated. The casualty list will foot up 300 and many of the bodies will never be recovered. The property loss and destruction of buildings alone will aggregate prob ably a million dollars. This re garded as a conservative estimate. One hundred and fifty of the best resi dences were swept from the earth. The debris is piled along the railroad track to the height of freight cars. The ~relief work is progressing at a satisfactory pace. James Kernan, the Oregon Railway and Navigation com pany agent, met his death at the tele graph key trying to call Portland to inform the outside world of the im pending calamity. Oneof the most thrilling adventures was that of Tom Shuter. who with his family, was carried down stream in his house for a mile and a half. His wife and two children climbed into the upper rooms. Below town it crossed the creek to the west side, where it lodged in debris 150 yards from the canyon bank. Shuter then took his two little ones and swam a hundred yards. He landed the chil dren and then rescued his wife. HORRIBLE CONDITIONS. The names of 189 persons whose bodies have been discovered or who are missing and believed to be dead as a result of the Heppner flood, have been obtained. In addition to the bodies of seven Chinese, three Japanese and 21 strangers and babies, names ( unknown, go to swell the list. Elias I Connor, a stock raiser of Lone, re turned from Ifeppner at 2 o'clock Wednesday morning. He left the scene of the disaster at 6 o'clock that night. "It is known," said Mr. Connor, t "that at least 275 or 300 people were drowned, 115 corpses have been hasti ly buried in wooden boxes and some were merely wrapped in blankets. l here were still several wagon loads I of dead on their way to the cemetery < when I left., Heppner itself has now 1 been pretty well searched, except in piles of debris, where it is thought a great numbers of bodies will be found. 1 "Between lone and' Heppner," said s Mr. Connor, "there are great piles of i debris, but the flood passed so quickly that the roads have not been serious ly damaged. It looks strange to see the heavy steel rails bent-and twisted 1 like cork screws and heavy timbers( splintered like matchwood. In Hepp ner itself the flood swept a clean path 1 a mile long and two blocks wide through the town, going generally the 1 course of Willow creek." A sURTITOR'5SsTORY. Three men who survived the flood1 at Heppner-R. D). Ball, J. J. Kelley -and A. P. Bradbury-have arrived at Portland Oregon, after having wit nessed the destruction of the town and assisted irn the work of rescue. Mr. Kelley said: '"iihe rain was not falling in Heppner, but could be seen some distance asway. Sharp flashes of lightning were accompanied by the howling thunder. Then suddenly the1 thunder died away, and a low noise was heard, very faint at first but grow ~louder. The city is situated on Wil low creek, which makes a sharp turn above the city. As the noise grew louder and louder, the people became frantic. Then in a moment the van of the flood burst into view around 5 the curve of the creek, carrying on its crest the cabins and houses which stood in its path. The people made I a rush to the hills, but were too late. 5 The flood was upon them. The little river in five minutes was transformed I into a roaring torrent 400 feet wide 1 and 20 feet deep. Houses were lifted1 .from their foundations and carried on the swirling waters. People were car- I ried away in their homes and forced 1 to crawl out on the roof. Then as the houses moved down the stream they caught on to the trees and hung there until morning, when they were rescued." HE sAW IT ALL. David McAtee, a business man of Heppner, was an eye witness of the disaster. In company with Frank 1 Spaulding he left Heppner about 10.30 o'clock Sunday night on horseback. "On Sunday afternoon," said Mr. Mc Atee, 'there had been a severe rain storm, accompanied with much wind and lightning. I was standing in front of the house and noticed that a cloud of remarkable density approached the top of the hill on the east side of the canyon. I turned for a moment, when a roar caused me to look again at the hill. I saw a wall of water, the height of which I would be afraid to gauge, rushing down the mountain, carrying immense trees and timbers on its crest and tearing away the very rock~s from their foundations. The terrificestorm struck the upper part of the town tirst. -iires~idence of Thomas IHoward was the first to fall and his entire family was drowned. In the Krug home also every person was drowned, as was the case in the Hale and Saling residences. All of these houses were about four or ive blocks above the business centre. The house of Abram Hlamsick was entirely demolished. The Palace hotel was the first building to stem the tide and all the guests were saved. but the houses below that structure were blown out into the street, overturned and wrecked. The residence of G. A. Rhea was carried away and the entire family, consisting of wife and three daugters, and Miss Adkins, a cousin. were lost. "C. E. Redtield, whose residence was completely destroyed, was absent but his wife and baby were arowned. "A. C. Geiger's house was carried away and Mr. Geiger was drowned. His family is in the east. George Conser-s house was reached next but the family succeeded in saving their lives by rushing to the upper sto ries. the house being carried down the creek three-quarters of mile. Res -uers found that the house had been but in two and Mr. Conser was stand ing in water up to his neck, holding his wife upon the roof and keeping her from slipping from his outstretch d arms. Dr. MeSwat and J. Ayers, vho were living in the same residence wvere drowned. "Oscar -Miner's house was next de nol:shed and Mrs. Miner d1rowned. The est of the family succeeded in saving ,heir lives by cinging to the roof. All >f the Wells family but two were lost Lnd the house was carried away. With he Wells residence went the house of Je.rge Swaggert. ir. Swaggert's two married daughters were drowned ith their tive children. The Mallory aouse was carried 150 yards and was ound lodged against a store and Mr. allory, a crippled old man, was found afe, holding a baby. James Matlock's was next. - Mrs. Matlock was drown d but his family was saved. Dr. Rigg's house also went. "The house of Mr. F*uyd and Mr. Walton were also destroyed and bol amilies lost. "Mr. Barton succeeded in saving all Dersons in his residence, although they were badly bruised. The house itself ,vas washed away. "Perhaps the greatest loss of life ccurred at the Heppner hotel. "This house, which was run under hie management of.lones& Ashbaugh, vas carried away. It is supposed hat there were about 50 guests in ,his hotel, all of whom are reported to )e lost. The proprietors themselves ere saved, but their families are tong the dead. "The house of Benjamin Patterson, 6r. Dunn and Mr. Noble were entirely lemolished and all persons in these bree families drowned. as were the amilies of James Jones and Henry irk. The barn of Dr. Swinburn and he big livery stable of White & Ieadows were entirely destroyed. E. . Farnsworth and Phillip Cohn were lSo drowned. The entire residence )rtion of Heppner was destroyed but he business houses, being on higher round and being generally built of )rick and stone, were not so badly lamaged. The schocl house and court iouse, which st-and en a side hill. were aved, but two churches, the Metho list and Presbyterian were completely vrecked. "Around the depot the rising water eft. great heaps of driftwood piled iigher than the roof of the station and :he rescuing parties were forced to lemolish these pyramids of timber in rder to extricate the corpses which vere tangled in the brush. Undoubted y many of th- drowned bodies were arried by the running waters down he valley. ..Gangs of men are at work clearing way the piles of detris, rocks and imbers which lie piled ig heaps in the treets and taking out the corpses vhich are thus concealed." A Pitiful Story. A pitiful story comes from Belton in his state. It told of the tragic ending if the life of Mr. Preston B. Mitchell sout two mi'es west of Belton. For he past three or four years Mr. itchell's mind has been practially nbalanced. On Monday just after limier he walked out and remarked to rrs. Mitchell that he was going to he bottoms to see his corn. Later in he afternoon she began to grow al rmed at his l'ng absence and notified he hands about the farm who began search for him, and failing to find im, the alarm was given in the eighborhood and a more thorough earh was instituted and kept.. up mtil shortly after sunrise Wednesday norning when his body was foundi bout 200 yards from the house with he top of his head blown off and an mpty shot gun by his side with a tring ticd to the triger and fastened o a bush. A False Claim. The town of Babbington, R. I.. eems to be trying to cheat the town ,t Fort Mill, S. C., out of the honor f having erected the first monument n the United States to the faithful laves. The morning papers contain ,n account of the unveiling of such a onument there and state that it is be first of its kind~ ever erected. In 95 Cadt. Samuel .E. White of Fort lill erected such a monument in the >ark close to the monument of e old soldiers and the women of the jonfederacy. It is tall, plain marble haft, with an appropriate inscription n the base. On one side of the die is n old negro mammy nursing a white aby, and on the opposite side a negro aborer sitting on a log under the shade >f a large tree with an old time scythe n his hands. On the other two sides re the family names of the best nown old time darkies. Money on Cotton . The Spartanburg Journal says "it is n ill wind that blows nobody good." ihile many of the cotton mills of the outh are in a pinch over the matter >f securing cotton and of making a rofit on their goods at the present ligh price of the raw material, the lifton Manufacturing Company has tone ahead and disposed of 6,000) bales )f cotton on which it is said that the iet protit was $150,0?00. The comp my had on hand nine thousand bales >f cotton when the flood struck their :arhoues. Six thousand balAs were aved. while most of the remainder is scattered down Pacolet river for miles >elow the mills. This success in sell rig cotton at a high profit is especially rortunate for the mills at this t-ime in view of their recent heavy Losses caused by the tlood disaster. Collapse or a Bridge. At Eauclaire, Wis., the collapse of the_ approach to the Madison street bridg Wednesday night while about 200 carnival sightseers were wvatching the illumination of the streets caused serious injury to many and sent scores .f people to the hospital and physi cians' oflices with broken limbs and bruised bodies. When the merrymnak ing was at its height a section of the approach 50 feet long suddenly gave way and a panic resulted. Cries of pain added to the fright of' the pami stricken people and it seemed for a time that a terrible calamity had oc cred Nne eme fatally injured. COMING TO LIGHT. Significant Facts About the Mai Scandals Being Unearthed. BRISTOW'S REPLY TO CHARGES Many Irregularities Are Shown bi the Otticial Papers Being Ex amined by the Govern mient Officials. Postmaster General Payne Wednes nesday made public the reply o1 of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen. eral Bristow to the charges of Sey mour W. Tulloch, former cashier ol the Washington city post.otlice, re garding the irregularities in the posta administration, and also reports 01 of inspection and investigation of thc Washington postottice by inspectonr between June 3o, 18m)1), and July "1. 1900, toaether with the transcript of I the Tulloch charges some years ag. and the conclusion thereon then reach ed by Postmaster General Charies Emory Smith. These papers con stitute by far the most signiliennt documents yet made public as a rtsult of the sweeping postal investigation. The reports show the existence of many irregularities during the period involved. The inspector who investi gated the irregularities reports that the files of the postotlice cashier .show direct orders from sueprior authority for the disbursement of all the ques tionable items cited. The inspector urged "that the responsibility for the many illegal appointments, the pay ment of two salaries to one and the same person and the disbursement of thousands of dollars for which practi cally no service was performed, should be placed where it properly belongs and the many abuses corrected." In a summary of the several reports the postmaster general says: "The charge of Mr. Tulloch is in its essence against President McKinley and Postmaster General Smith. Presi dent McKinley is no longer living: Postmaster General Smith, who car ried out President McKinley's policy, has answered for himself. With re gard to the present management of the Washington postotlice and the conduct of any and all men charged with wrong doing who have been in the postal service under the present administration, a thorough and searching investigation is now being made." The postmaster general also says: "It will be sfen that the whole sub ject was taken up by Postmaster Gneral Smith and investigated by him. All expenditures referred to were allowed by the auditor and comp troller, with the exception of $160-. The documents made public Wed nesday show that on May 1 last, Mr. Payne wrote a letter to Mr. Bristow calling attention to the published in terview with Mr. Tulloch, and asked Mr. Bristow "what truth if any there is in the statements." Mr. Bristow's reply dated three dass later transmits reports of three in spectors relating to the Washington postoffice. Mr. Bristow says that after the in spectors had reported irregularities he directed that reports be made in the regular way. "During the progress of the inspec tion I was advised by the chief in spector that George W. Beavers, chief of the salary and allowance division, had suggested to one of the inspectors that when he came to certain ap pointments in some of the stations that appeared irregular he had better make no reference to them as they had been ordered personally by the postmaster general. 1 told the chief inspector to instruct the inspectors to report the facts as they would in any other inspection; that I did not be lieve the postmaster general had knowingly authorized any irregulari "Capt. W. B. Smith, inspector in charge, submitted a special report. This report disclo:;ed what seemed to me glaring irregularities, and I sub mittedl it personally to the postmaster general, suggesting to him at the time that it contained matters to which I thought he would want to give his pesonal attention. "The third report sets forth a num ber of irregularities that prevailed at that time in the Washington post otce. I was informed by the chief inspector that complaint was made to the postmaster general that inspec tor Little, who was engaged on the work, was asking unnecessary ques tions and seeking to obtain informa tion which was not called for on in sopection. I advised him toinstruck in sector Little to make the same kind of al investigation of the Washington postofice that he would make of any other oflice under similar circumstan ces, and to submit in a special report anything which he thought should be called to the personal attention of the postmaster general. This he did." In the first of the inspector's reports submitted by Mr. Bristow it appears that Robert Y. Willett, a son of the then postmaster. drew two salaries from .July 1 to Dec. 10. 1898. one as a laborer at the city postotlice at $600 a year, and the other as a mechanic at $2 per day for each work ing day on what appears to have been a special roll of the free delivery ser vice, and that N. II. Baker likewise was designated as a laborer on the postotlice roll A pril 29, 1899, at 8700 per annum and on the same date as a mechanic on the free delivery roll at $2 a day. The inspectors continu ing say that on .lune 30,. 1S99, :22 em plcyes~ were borne on the rolls and paid on what has been known as the " mili tary roll," while the "military roll" shows 34 names as having been paid by the cashier of the Washington There was also found a "s pecial roll of employes, paid for miscellan eos allowances, said appointments Ibeing under the control of the post office department." This roll con Isists of nine "cleaners" with salaries Ifrom $400 to .l00 and one "physi clan" at a salary of $1,700. Some 01 these cleauers appear to have per formed very little service and others none at all. report of lostollicc Inspetor in charg Smith of Washington division, mad in July. 1S99, setting forth irregulari ties which he urged should be investi gated. He names four employes 0: the military roll who appear not t have performed any service in con nection with military postal matter and for whose original appointmen or continuance on the rolls no goo( reason exists. The payment to W S. Larner, a military postal clerk. un der protest, by the cashier of $118.13 subsequently disallowed by the au ditor of the treasury on Jan. 4. 189! is gone into at length and it is showr that this matter was entirely irreg. ular and that payments were directe< without proper vouchers. Attention is called to certain item: of expenditures authorized for th( military postal service of supplies furniture, traveling expenses, aggre gating 28,750.70, with the statementi that the prices paid for some of thc articles enumerated, such as wasih stands at $40 each appear to have been highly excessive. Attention also is called to addi tional irregularities in connection wi tL payrolls of clerks and laborers, and t( charging premiums on the bonds of military postal clerks, notwithstand ing such expenses are not chargeable to the United States. An interesting feature concerns ir regularities in the appointment, com pensation and promotion of Oliver H1. Smith. On Nov. 20, 1897, the first assistant postmaster general author ized an allowance of $,,0 per annum for his appointment as laborer, stat I ing that the free delivery division would allow $2 per day to cover car fare and incidental expenses. Smith drew pay from Nov. 23, 1897, to Nov. 30, 1898, makirg his compensation for one year approximately $1,3483.60. The inspector reports "no one has certified to the actual time Smith was employed nor has any statement been attached to his pay vouchers showing what particular service he rendered. He was continued in the dual capacity of clerk and mechanic until April 1, 1899, when he was pro moted to be tinance clerk at $1,700 per annum." The inspector says lie knew of no authority of law for his appointment or promotion. Attention is next called by the in spector to certain vouchers, author ized to be paid by the first assistant postmaster general, such as expenses of Perry S. Heath and George W. Beavers, traveling on official business. The inspector states that these vouch ers do not appear to have been itemiz ed in the proper manner, nor is the necessity for the expenditure of this money by the Washington postotlee appearent. Attention is called to seven cleaners placed on the pay roll of the Wash ington office under authority of the first assistant postmaster general, to be charged to the appropriation for miscellaneous expenses. The names of these cleaners-all females-are given. The inspector states that neither the postmaster nor any one connected with the Washington office was able to give any information as to where they were employed or the nature of their work, and the inspector is of opinion that practically no service whatever has been rendered for the money expended. The inspector says that by the over lapping of a lease executed in 1897 the government lost 8625, and that the building was paid for one month beyond its occupancy. The inspector reports that when the cashier of the Washington post oice on letters from the comptroller suspended payments to certain per sons mentioned he was required to continue these payments upon direct written order from the postmaster. who states he was verbally instructed in his action by the first assistant postmaster general. Tha payments were made under the cashier's protest. The inspector cites payments to Catherine Endsley, Charles A. Mach en A. 13. Hurt, H. L. Lorenz, .John S. Leach and F. W. Wait. on the au thority of the first assistant post master general of per diem in connec tion with claims of letter carriers for overtime charges, aggregating $4,653. The inspector says this account, dis bursed from JIuly 1, 189i8, was disburs ed without authority of law. Machen. Lorenz and Hurt it appears were paid per diem covering the same period by the disbursing clerk of the department of justice, from the appropriation for defending suits in letter carriers' claims against the United States be fore the court of claims. These par ties continued to draw pay until the comptroller called for a statement from them. The report of Inspector Little on the investigation of the Washington olice, dated July 31, 1900, says that a number of clerks were added to the rolls without request of the postmas ter and that the postmaster states that at times it has been ditficult to fnd employment for all assigned to his rolls. Thle inspector says the roster appears to be elastic, to be ad ded to as circumstances arise whether the postmaster requested it or not. The aggregate salaries paid to those not connected with the ottice amount ed to $16,100. No Vulgar Murder. In specaking of the murder of the king and queen of Servia the Chatta nooga Times says at any rate, it is interesting to note that the alTair was not an ordinary, vulgar nmur der, committed by an anarchist. but a regular gentlemanly assaissination, conducted after the most eminent precedents and the best accepted tradi| tions of the European courts:. furnish ing us free A merican citizens evidence of the ample justitication for the mo mentous anxiety of crowned heads for their own personal safety. Got It in thc Neckc. K rousbevan. the notorious Jew baiter and the editor of the anti-Semi tic organ in Kischineff. The Bessar abetz, the articles in which are be lieved to have been largely responsi ble for th., massacre oif the .Jews ir CischintT. was attacked by a party of Jews in the street or Petersburg. R~ussia. Wednesday. lHe 'was stabbed *in the neck by one of the jews. The wound is not believed to be fatal. His assailant was captured and prov ed to be a former student of the poy technic school at Kieti'. INEARING HIS END Politically is What Senator Tillmam Says About the Negro. I DEMOCRATIC NATERIAL SCARCE. Senator Tillman Says Roosevelt is Always on Dress Parade and Always Will be While He7s President. In conversation with a reporter of the Augusta Herald recently Senator Tillman said: "I have not seen the interviews with Congressman Hard wick on his bill to repeal the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and dont know just what it is, but I do know that just such a thing is inevitable. The negro is coming down to his proper status." It was thus that Senator B. R. Till man spoke recently while watting in Augusta to take a train to Louisiana, where he is going to lecture at a cha tauqua. The senator says he will be away on this trip of lectures for about ten days. after which he will return to his home in South Carolina. "There is nothing going on in na tional politics just now except the usual dress parade of Itosevelt," he said and in reply to the question of how long he thought these dress pa rades would last: "Oh, that's going to keep up just as long as Roosevelt is President." Speaking of the coming convention and the outlook for Presidential tim ber in the Democratic party Senator Tillman said that he had never seen the country so barren of material to work upon as it is at this time. le spoke of Parker and Gorman but said he could not tell which., if either, would be the man for the place. He said they would both be mentioned in the convention and one of them may be chosen, but he could not say which it would likely be. Ile did not know enough of the standing of either to say -what their relative strength is. but thinks that Parker has the ad van tage of having no record behind him except that of a judge. Continuing along the line of the Hardwick bill that is to be presented at the next session of Congress Sena tor Tillman said: "About the only thing that is at tracting much comment in national political circles now is that Ohio plat form, and it has not gone far enough fur us to see whether it is to be a local or a national measure.". He explained that this platform is a measure that seeks to allow the ne gro to govern where he is in the ma jority or else to cut down the repre sentation of the white man, and is of the opinion that if it is made a na tional affair it will undoubtedly be brought up at the convention and met by the Democratic party. "If this is to be a national rather than a local issue it will mean the re organization of the old ante-bellum days. I mean if the red shirts make this what that would mean it will be then a question of this is a white man's country and he must rule the government, majority or no majority. 1 don't mean that it will be a condi tion of affairs like those of the days of the sixties. Then it was a question of slavery but now it will be a ques tion simply of the negro or white man. Senator Tillman says the matter of repealing the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments is certainly inevitable and is a question of only a time. He thinks that for the Ohio platform be pushed upon the people of the coun try, asking for the guarantee of the provisions of these amendments would merely bring the matter to a crisis sooner. "We are waiting for them to play their cards or show their hand, so we will know what move to make," he said. Speaking ~of conditions in South Carolina, the Senator said: "The thing that is most interesting over there now is a few days sunshine. I have just come down from Clemson and through the upper part of the State to Columbia and I must say that I never saw the crops in such a badedition. The grass has taken everything. Why, the country is woolly with grass. The lowland crops have all been washed away and will have to be replanted. "No there is nothing going on in politics there now, you know this is an off year. The only thing going on that I k-now of is with the Governor. You know he is shooting a few tigers now. Every time hle sees one he shoots him down." Senator tillman looks the picture of health, and while his conversation shows that he is as much as ever in terested in the affairs of the Ameri can government, he seems more taken up just at this time with the condi tion of farm lands in his o wn State. The fact that he is not himself a man of a gloomy disposition, rather being inclined to be an optimist than a pes simist, when he makes the statement that the crop conditions of tile Pal metto State are worse than he has ever seen them before, it would indi cate at once that there is time for some concern. Rteviewed the Cadets. A special dispatch to The State from Lexington, Va., says Governor ). C. lleyward of South Caralina, upon the special invitation of Gen. Scott Ship. superintendent of tile Virginia Military institute, reviewed the~ battalion of cadets Wednesday af ternoon. A salute of 17 guns; the governor's salute, was fired in honor of the distinguished Carolinian. Gov. Heyward expres;sed himself as much pleased with the military bearing of the young soldiers. Bride Killed Herself. Within half an hour af ter her second marriage, having been previously *divorced, Miss Hattie A. Thomas of INew Orleans on Tuesday swallowed a dose of laudanum that proved fatal, leaving a note to her parents to pray fr her. AFTER THE FLOOD. Busy Scenes Along Pacolet River. Wrecking Companies at Work. The Spartanburg Journal says a busy scene greeted the visitors Thurs day along the banks of the recent turbulent Pacolet river where the fury of the waters worked such ex tensive destruction. At the Cliftons and at Pacolet scores of laborers are busy cleaning away debris and recover ing cotton and the mill products from the mud and wreckage. The Hitt Salvage Company has fifty to seventy five men at work, scouring the river banks and the recesses of the stream, looking for cotton, many bales of which are being recovered. The plan of the Clifton Company fdr securing what machinery they can from the river is todrain the big pond extending from the site of the de stroyed Mill No. 3 to Mill No. 1. The work will be in charge of a salvage company from New York who will put a force of men to work at an early date to drain the pond and search in the mud and debris for any machinery that can be found. The same com pany will also recover as much of the property of the electric railway as possible. The electric company will lose at least one mile of track at Clif I ton, The trolley wire aud rails are, however, being recovered as rapidly as possible. The machinery on the immediate sites of the Clifton Mills will be re covered by J. B. Garfunkel of Colum bia who will begin work on next Mon day morning. Mr. Garfunkel has pur chased all the scrap iron that may be found among the wreckage while the mill company will retain such machin ery as can be used. The big fly wheel at Mill No, 3 which weighs about 100,000 pounds has also been purchas. ed by Mr. Garfunel, The wheel was broken to pieces by the force of the flood and is absolutely useless to the company. By next Monday the banks of the river will be crowded with busy work men who will repair as far as possible the storm's work of destruction. Later on work will be started by the mill company repairing Mills Nos. 1 and 2. The Southern Railway was one of the heaviest losers in the county by the flood of June 6. A prominent railroad man says that the Southern alone will lose half a million dollars. The roads will lose more than their net earnings from the entire state for the current year on account of the flood damage, trestles washed away, etc. It is now estimated that 25 per ent of the mill operatives have left the Clifton Mills and Pacolet having secured other jobs. At one time last week there were no less than seven teen mill representatives at Clifton and Pacolet who had come to secure mill labor from the ranks of the opera tives. It is said that some of the operatives have evinced a marked de gree of unwillingness to leave their homes for other mills, thinking that if they remained they would be the recipients of aid from the relief com mittee. The time of the year at which the lood occurred has proven a very for unate circumstance for had it oc urred in winter or early spring much additional suffering would have been etailed. The cars of the electric cmany continue to carry many visi ors to Clifton, but it will probably be nly a few weeks before the signs of wreckage are completely obliterated and the big storm will have been a hing of the past. We Are Not Carpers. A negro lynching in the city of In ianapolis has quickly followed the ffair at Belleville, Ill. Just what egree of guilt attaches to a negro's act in apparently forcing his remarks upon a white girl in the street is not easy to decide perhaps. At any rate, reasonable people would say that the girl's testimony as to the character of the offense should tirst be taken be fore resorting to summary measures against the negro. The Indianapolis mob, however, on the mere fact that the negro was seen to address the girl in public somewhat persistently, al though he soon passed on, pursued him at once to his death. One fel low in the mob carried a pistol and he completed the job. No arrests, ac cording to the reports. The middle West is now a fair mark for Southern riticism.-Springtield Republican. Seed Farms. The seed plantations around San Jose, Cal., are said to receive $3,000, 000 a year from the sale of seed. The first experiments of the planters in this line were made less than half a dozen years ago. One onion patch now covers 3,000 acres, with furrows almost two miles long. A single plot of sweet pea occupies 800 acres, a bed of yellow asters 210 acres, a lettuce bed 2,100 acres. These are within a radius of eighty miles around San .Jose, 14,500 acres devoted to raising plants and flowers for their seed alone. A Bad Record. One hundred rulers of countries have been assassinated since the year 946, when Edward I, of England, was stabbed with a dagger. Of the num ber seventy-three were assassinated during the century just closed; which marked it a~s a singularly unfortun ate hundred years for royalty. Al ready, in this new century, there have been four heads of governments as sassinated. and the century is not four years old. - A Steamer Sank Part of the crew of the Belgian steamer Rubens, which sailed from Sunderland on June 10 for Pillan, Prussia, were brought here today. The men reported that their vessel had capsized and sank. Six of the sailors the captain and mate were lost. Seven of the crew drifted about for 22 hours. Before they were pick ed up three of them died from expos Fourteen Killed. A territice and fatal explosion oc curred in the lyddite factory at Wool wich, England, Thursday morning. Five buildings were completey wreck ed Reports of casualties are conflicting but the latest places the dead at 14 and injured at 13. The killed were blown to atoms and their remains weraer gthered up in buckets. - LEOPARD SEIZED HEP. Mme. Pauline Attacked by a Wild Beast in Cage. A di-pacth from Baltimore Wednes day says: Mme. Pauline, the famous trainer of wild animals, was attacked Tuesday by an infuriated leopard. If blood poison sets in she may die. ThE leopard is one-of the East Indian ani mals recently brought to this country. The two, one a male, and the other a female, reached the exposition ground Saturday evening and were placed ic a cage specially prepared for them. Although the leopards are about fouz years old they have never been trained and are as savage as they ever were in the jungle. Mme. Pauline who has gained a reputation as a trainer of lions panthers and leopards, entered their cage Sunday for the first time. She had made a preliminary inspec tion from the outside, an' decided that as the female, the smaller of the two, be seemed to quiet and meek, she would not have her tied down as is the custom when a trainer enters a cage of wild animals for the first time. The male was tied, and when Mme. Pau line entered he showed a savage spirit, trying to free himself and to bound upon her. The female lay quiet in a corner of the cage. Mme. Pauline again entered the cage Monday and received a slight claw wound on her hand. But still the female remained quiet and gave no evidence of being displeased by the visit. When Mme. Pauline -entered cage Tuesday, one of the guards had thrown a rope around the neck of the larger leopard and held it, but the smaller one was not bound. The train er gave more attention to the larger leopard, whose eyes glared like balls of tire and whose restlessness at her presence was plainly apparent. The door- of the cage had scarcely been cloised when the smaller leopard, crouched in an opposite end of the cage, sprang upon the trainer. Her hind feet struck Mime. Pauline- near her waist. while the fore claws sank into her neck, and she seized the wo man by the throat with her teeth. Blood gushed from all the wounds and it seemed as though the woman would be killed. Mme. Pauline lost neither her cour age nor her self-possession, but at once began struggling with the animal, whose furry seemed to increase with the smell and taste of human blood. Pushing the muzzle of her revolver to the eyes of the leopaad, Mme. Pauline discharged blank cartridges in quick wuession, which caused the animal to release her hold. Several attend nts seized iron bars and beat the ani mal to the floor of the cage, while ime. Pauline, with blood flowing rom 14 wounds, retreated from the ;age. Either the teeth or claws of the animal pierced her lower lip, and be ;ides she was bitten and clawed in the eck, shoulders and back. Half faint ng, she was placed in her bed in a ent in the rear of the animal show Lnd -the surgeon of the exposition ressed the wounds, inserting nearly ~hirty.stitches in all. .WANTS HIS MONEY BACK. Passenger Who Was Held Up by Floods Sends in Bill. - A dispatch from Columbia says: he railroad commission is sometimes aken for a collection agency by peo le who have bills, or who think they ave, against a railroad. Wednesday he board received one from an insur nce agent in Florence, it being for 8 against the Southern Railway. The man had a ticket on train No. 36, on the Atlanta and Charlotte lvision. When the train got to Greers it was found that the Tyger river bridge was down and it couild not proceed. Some pressing business evidently made this particular pas senger want to get to Spartanburg at any cost, so he took a hack at Greers nd drove to Woodruff, expecting to take the Charleston and Western harleston line. The bridge of that company across the Tyger river was also down, so nother hack was taken and Spartan urg was reach at last, after many trials and much tribulation. The assenger secured a statement from the conductor of 36 that he had a ticket to Spartanburg, and this was attached to the bill, which follows: Hotel bill at Greers, 50c; hack to Woodruff, $1.75; Dinner at Wood ruff, 50c; hack from Woodruff to Spar anburg, $5.25-Total 88. The passenger says he put on no harge for time and trouble. The ommission has not yet taken action n the bill, but it will hardly do any nore than transmit it to theiSouthern. Dynamite Used. The fight between the people of P~etersburg and Winslow, Pike Coun ty, Ind., regarding the location of the county seat is becoming more bit ter than ever. Petersburg is the pres ent county seat. Unknown parties placed dynamite and a keg of powder n the hallway of the court house ear y Wednesday and attached a lighted fuse to the powder. There was a ter rible explosion, but no great harm was done. The dynamite failed to explode. The people of Petersburg say that while they have no direct clue as to who is responsible, they have every reason to believe sympa thizers with Winslow in the fight for change of location of the county seat did the work. Will Now Hang. John Brownfield, colored, who kill d Deputy Tax Collector Jas. 0. Scrry while in the discharge of his duty three years ago, and who appeal ed to the Supreme courts of the state nd the United States, was resentenc d on Tuesday by Judge Gary, the date of his execution being set for Friday. A Moving Matter. Down in Texas the other day a man named Whele married a Miss Barrow, and the editor of the local paper had no more sense of the fitness of things than to print his account of the wed ding under the head of '.Whele-Bai SCENES OF CRIMES In Belgrade Palace is Red With Blood of Royal Victims. THERE WAS NO WAY OF ESCAPE. The Royal Bed Chamber Where the Soldiers Slew the King and Queen Described in Detail. The correspondent of the Associated Press at Belgrade, Servia, was on Wednesday allowed to inspect the place in which King Alexander and Queen Draga were murdered. The room, which was furnished in empire style, remains in the same condition as when the king and queen fled from it on the approach of the assassins. The French novels lie on the queen's table and the queen's toilet articles, perfumes and cosmetics covered her dressing table. The costly silk bed coverings are full of bullet holes, the-conspirators hav ing shot wildly -in all directions, through and under the bedihairsand tables in their efforts to find their victims. A simple wardrobe roomlead ing directly from the bed room was the scene of the final act in the drama., The apartment -is-lofty but scarcely seven feet wide and fifteenfeet long and is furnished only with three great wardrobes. The officers who attended the correspondent showed the latter the blood-stained floor at one end of the room where the king and queen fell and the broken Venetian shutter at the window through which their bodies were thrown to the ground below: A secret stairway leads through the floor to rooms in the southern end of the palace. By this stairway the hap less couple might have attempted to escape, but they wereunable to do so because the opening of this stairway was covered by a heavy chest. Escape in any event would have been impossi - ble, as the soldiers who had surrounded the palace were so determined to kill,, the king and queen that they had even placed cannon in front of the palace and were prepared to destroy the build ing in thee vent of failing to. find their prey. - Each of-the three roomr between the vestibule and the bed chambershowed marks of the tragedy. Mirrors were shattered, pictured were shot through, furniture was brokon, there was bul-- . let holes in the doors and in the oil portraits of the king which were in every room and most of the latter were otherwise mutilated. Contrary to the generanderstandi ing but little effort has been made to renovate the apartments except where the carpenters were making two new doors to replace-those which had been blown to pieces at the time the con spirators forced their way into the rooms occupied by the king and queen. The royal apartments were simply and tatefully furnished chiefly in Oriental style and presented a homelike appear-. ance. The interior- of the palace - might have been that of a country house belonging to'- a' prosperous American. . The house of the king's adjutant, Lazar Perovics, which was the first attacked, is even a greater wreck than the royal apartments in the palace. The entrance was com pletely destroyed by dynamite. The adjutant then escaped unhurt, b'ut he - was killed later in the vestibule of the palace. - A large blood stain marks the spot where the officer died. It was In a - bare, white washed room of the .com mandant's quarters, adjoining the pal ace, that Queen Draga's two brothers were shot while sitting on wooden chairs, which bear marks of thel bul-~ lets. The proceedings In the palace showed the same absolute callousness which has characterized the actions and demeanor of everybody in .Bel grade since the tragedy. Many Midshipmen. A dispatch -from Anapolis, Md., says nearly 700 candidates for amis sion to the naval academy are here to ~take the examinations. About 200 of the youths have been here for some -- time preparing at the preparatory schools of Werntz and Wilmer. The incoming trains of the past several days have brought dozens more. Nearly every State in the Union is represented. The candidates have considerable trouble in engaging quarters, as the hotels and boarding houses had but few spare rooms, and a number of them have been taken In -- by private families. The new fourth class, which the successful ones will - enter, will number upward of 300 members, and will be the largest class ever at the institution. A Fiendish Murder. Henry Betts of South Cumberland, Md., age 23, shot his mother and step father, Rone, with a double barreled shotgun Wednesday evening. The mother's face and breast were torn away. She will die. Bone's right --- arm was mangled, but he will live. Betts does not live at home, and, on being refused money, procured a gun and returned to the house and fired on his mother and stepfather. Betts went to a physician and told him that two people were shot at his home. He then surrendered to officers and is in jail. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Vilnages Destroyed. The British consular reports of the recent earthquakes in the vilayet of of Van confirm previous advices that twenty-three villages were affected and some completely destroyed. Seven hundred and eighty-five lives -are known to have been lost and it is feared all were killed In outlying dis tricts not yet enumerated. A sad Death. John C. Harveley of Greenwood,who - was acting as telegraph operator at Hamlet, N. C., was run over and kill ed there by a train on Tuesday. He - was only nineteen years old. Gave up the Struggle. J. H. Williams, a farmer-of Lan caster county, aged 35, committed suicide on Tuesday night with a shot gun. He was despondent on account' of ill health and inability to work his.