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VOL. XVIII. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANU1O AN AWFUL CALAMITY. Nearly Six Hundred Human Beings Burnt in a I heatre Fire. WORST HORROR OF CENTURY. Began With a Panic C.tused by a Fire that St arted on ilie Stage. The Bodies Were Piled Twelve Deep. The city of Chicago was the scene of one of the worst calamities of the cen tury on last Wednesday, when over six hundred people were burned to death; in the Iriquois theatre. the newest, the largest. and as far as human power could make it. the safest thea tre in Chicago. Estimates of the fatalities vary. The police account of the dead is 536. The estimate of the newspapers is .560. Besides this there are 55 people missing at mid night, the majority of whom are probably among the dead in the morgue and various undertaking es tablishments. A few of these people were burned to death by fire. many were suffocated by gas, and scores were trampled to death in the panic that followed the: mad plunge of the frightened audience: for exits. It was many hours before the number of dead was known and will be many days before all of them will be identified. There are bcdies lying by the dozens in tl:e undertak ing rooms, in the police stations and in the hospitals from which nearly ev-rything that can revea. their iden tity to those who knew them best is gone. Their clothing is torn to rags or burned to cinders and their faces have been crushed into an unrecogniz able pulp by the heels of the crowd that trampled them down as they fied for safety. BURNT IN THEIR SEATS. The fire broke out during the sec ond act of the play "Mr. Bluebearl,"i which was the first dramatic produc tion placed in the theatre since its erection. The company, which was very large, escaped to the streets in safety, nearly all of them, however, being compelled to flee into the snowy streets with no clothing but their stage costumes. A few members of the company sustained minor injuries but none were seriously hurt. The accounts of the origin of the fire are conflicting and aone of them certain, but the besL reason given is that an electric wire near the lower part of a piece of drop scenery sudden ly broke and was grounded. The fire spread rapidly toward the front of the stage, causing the members of the chorus, who were then engaged in the performance, to flee with screams of terror. The fire in itself up to this time was not serious and possibly could have been checked had not the asbes tos curtain failed to work. As soon as the fire was discovcred Eddie Foy, the chief comedian' of the company, shouted to lower the curtain, and tbis was immediately done. It descended about half way and then stuck. The fire thus was given practically a flue through which a strong draft was sett- . ting, aided by the doors which had been thrown open in the front of the theatre. With a roar and a bound1 the flames shot through t he opening over the heads of the people on the first floor and reachingr those in the first balcony caught them and burned them to death where they sat. Im mhediately followin.g this rush of flames there came an explosion,~which lifted the entire roof of the theatre from its walls, shattering the great skylight into fragments. SUFFOCATED 1DY THE GAS. As soon as the 1lames first appeared beyond the curtain a man in the rear of the hall shouted "Fire, fire," and the entire audience rose as one person and made for the doors. It is believed that the explosion was caused by the flames coming into contact with the gas reservoirs of the~ theatre, causing them to burst Will J. Davis, roana ger of the theatre, said af ter the ca tastrophe that if the people had re mained in their seats an~d had not been excited by the cry of fire not a single life would have been lost. This is, however, contradicted by the state ment of the firemen, who found num bers of people sitting in their seats, their faces directed towards the stage as if the performance was still going on. It was Ithe opinion of the fire men that these people had been suf focated at once by the flow of gas which came from behind the asbestos! curtain2. As near as can be estimated at the present time about L,300 people were in tt>t theatre. Three 2undred of these ..ere on the tirst iloor, the bal ance being in the two uppe-r balconies and back of them. The theatre is modled after the Opera Comique in Paris and from the rear of each bal cony there are three doors leading out to passage ways toward the front of the theatre. Two of these doorways are at the end of the balcony and one in the centre. The audience in its rush for the outer air seems to have! for the greater part chosen to flee to the left entrance and to attempt to* make its way down the eastern stair way leading into the lobby of theatre. Outside of the people burned and suf focated by gas, it was in these door ways on the first and second balconies that the greatest loss of life occurred. When the firemen entered the build ing the dead were found stretched in a pile reaching from the head of the stairway at least eight feet from the door back tO a p Jint about tive feet in! the rear of the door. This mass of dead bodies in the centre of the door way reached to within two feet of the top of the passage way. )IANY WOMEN AND CfHtIDEN. All of the corpses at this point were. women and children. The ligtt for life w hich must have taken place at these two points is sometning that is simply beyond human power adequate ly to describe. Only a faint idea of its horror can be derived from the as-: pect of bodies as they lay. Women on top of these masses of dead bodies had been overtaken by de.th as they were crawling on hands and knees over the bodies of those who had died before. Others lay with arms stretched ont in the direction toward which lay life and safety, holding: in their hands fragments Of garments not their own. They were evidently toirn from others~ whom they had endeavored tO null down and trample underf'at as they fougbt for their own live:s. As the police and ti emen removed layer after laver of dead in these dorways. the sight becane too much even for them, hardened as they are to such scenes, to endure. The bodies were in sucb an inextricable mass, and so tightly were they jammed between the sides of :he door and the walls, that it was im;ossible lo lift them one by one and carry them out. The only possi ble thing to do was to seize a limb or some other portion of the body and pull with main strength. Men worked at the task with tears running down their cheeks. and the sobs of the res cuers could be heard even in the hall below where this awful scene was be ing enacted. A number of the men were compelled to abandon their task and give it o.ver to others whose nerves had not as yet been shaken by the awful experience. As one by one, the bodies were dragged out of the water soaked, blackened mass of corpses, the spectacle became more and more heartrending. SCEXES OF HORROR. There were women whose clotbing was torn from their bodies above the waist, whose bosoms bad been tram pled into pulp and whose faces were marred beyond all power of identifica tion. Bodies lay in the first and sec ond balconies in great numbers. In some places they were piled up in the aisles three and four deep, where one had fallen the others tripping over the prostrate forms, and all had died where they lay, evidently suffocated by the gas. Others were bent over backs of seats where they had been thrown by the rush of people for the oors and killed with hardly a chance o rise from their seats. One man was found with his back bent nearly ouble, his spinal column having been ractured as he was thrown bockward. . woman was found cut nearly in ialf by the back of the seat, she hav ng been forced over it face downward. :n the aisles nearer the doors the cenes were harrowing in the extreme. Bodies lay in every conceivable atti ude, half naked, the look on their aces revealing some portion of the gony which must have preceded their eath. There was scores and scores f people whose entire faces had been rampled completely off by those who an over them, and in one aisle the )ody of a man was found with not a estige of clothing, flesh or bone above he waist. PUSH TO THEIR DEATH. The theatre had been completed ut a short time and all of its equip ent was not yet in place. This was infortunately the case with a fire scape in the rear of the building. rbe small iron balconies to which the ron ladder was to be attached were ip but the ladder had not yet been ompleted. When the panic was at ts height a great number of women an for these fire escapes only to find Ls they emerged from the doorway ipon the little iron platform that -hey were 30 to 50 feet from the round, a fire behind and no method f escaping in front. Those who eached the platform first endeavored o hold their footing and to keep back he crowd that pressed upon them rom the rear. The effort was utterly seless and in a few moments the iron dges were jammed with crowds of romen who screamed, fought and ore at each other like maniacs. This sted but a brief interval, and the ~usn from the interior of the building ecame so violent that many of them ere crowded off and feil to the ~round in the alley below. Others aped from the platform. fracturing egs and arms, and two were picked p at this point with fractured skulls, aing been killed instantly. George H. Elliott, secretary of the )den Gas company, was in a building Iirectly opposite from the theatre coross this alley, and noticing smoke rent dowo to ascertain its; cause. ~Vhen he reached the streets the wo eni were already dropping into the lley and Elliott immediately rushed or a leadder in the effort to save as any as possible. No ladder was vailable and the only method of as ,istance they were able to devise was o hu riedly lash some planks together n throw them across the end firmly )n the iron framework. Before this ~ould be done, a fearful loss of life nsued, the women were being pushed ver every instant into the alley and V the time the bridge was completed ut few remained to take advantage )f it. However, about two dozen, it believed, made their way across this iarrow causeway. TREROOF CURTAIN FAILED TO WORK. In describing the commencement of :he fire Foy attributed the extent of :he catastrophe to the failure of the ire proof curtain to work properly. 3ecause of this, he said, the flames readily obtained access to the main art, of the theatre and were by the raft, carrying with it gas as well as ire, swept up to the two balconies, vhere the loss of life was greatest. "The fire began in the middle of he second act." said Mr. Foy. "An ~lectric wire broke, was grounded, and 'rom this the flames were started in he rear of the stage. The stage is mnusually wide and there was so great draft the flames spread rapidly. 'hey soon had attacked all the scenery the rear of the house. I never be ieved it possible for the fire to spread o quickly. When it tirst started I went to the footlights, and to prevent larming the audience said there was , slight blaze, and that it would be etter for all to leave quietly. Then Istepped back and called for the as estos curtain to be lowered. This, when about half way down, refused to o further, and thus an additional iraft was created. This swept the lames out into the auditorium and I knew that the theatre was doomed. 1 hurried back to the stage and aided in getting the women members of the ompany into the alley. Some of them were in their dressing rooms and were almost overcome by smoke before they could get down to the stage and to the doors. "The simple fact that the curtain didn't descend entirely was what saved the lives of the company al though it caused such a horrible ca tastrophe in the front of the house. After the curtain had refused to de scend, there came the explosion of the gas tanks and with the curtain down all the fire and gas would have been confined between the rear wall of he thatrea nd' the tire profi curtain in front. Under these circ 4mstances it would not have been pos: ible fur v single member of the co npany t( escape alive unless he or she. had beer -.tandincg immediately in frrnt of the door leading to the alley. As it was the draft carried the gas an:1 fire out ueneath the curtain and th. company was saved, although their salvation was the death of so many poor peo. ple in front." A FEARFUL DISCOVEI.Y. The tirst newspaper mei on the ground also carried out many dead and injured. The buildin;: was sc full of smoke when the firemen first arrived that the full extent of the catastrophe was not im nediately grasped until a fireman and a news paper man crawled up the stairway leading to the balcony; holding hand kerchiefs over their mouths to avoid suffocation. As they reached the doorway the fireman, whose vision was better trained in such emergen cies, seized his companion b:! the arm exclaiming: "Good God, man, don't walk <on their faces." The two men tried vainly to get through the door which was jammed with dead women, piled higher than either of their heads. All the lights in the theatre were necessarily out and the only light came through the clouds of smoke in the interior of the theatre. The two men immediately hurried to the floor below and informed Chief Musham of the fire dapartment that dead bodies were piled high in the balcony and prompt assistance must be rendered if any of them were to be saved. The chief at once called upon all of his men in the vicinity to abandon work on the fire and come at once to the rescue. The building w&s so dark and the smoke so thick that it was found impossible to accomplish any thing until lights had been secured. Word was at once sent to the Orr & Lockett Hardware company, two doors east of the theatre, and that firm at once placed its entire stocks of lanterns at the service of the de partment. Over 200 lights were quickly carried into the -building and the work of rescue commenced. So rapidly were the bodies brought down that for over an hour there were two streams of. men passing in and out of the doorway, the one carry ing bodies, the other composd of men returning to get more. T'ILy were carried into Thompson's restaurant, which adjoins the theatre on the east, where all the available space was given by the proprietors. THE WORK OF RELIEF. The dead and wounded were placed upon chairs, tables and counters, one woman even being placed for lack of a better place on top of a cigar case. Bzcause of the tremendous throng which surrounded the block in which the theatre building stood, it was not possible for the police to carry the dead and wounded any distance, and they were compelled to await for ambulances at the theatre. Although all the patrol wagons and every ambulance owned by the city was pressed into service, tiey were utterly inadequate to carry )way the dead and in a short time t1 -3re was a line of corpses 50 feet long ;>iled two and three deep on the sic awalk in front of the theatre. It was found ncessary in order to convey ::he bodies rapidly to thre morgue, and t> the va rious undertaking establish:me'ts, to impress trucks into service, and in these, upon costly blankets :urnished by the dry goods stores in the vicinity, and covereved with the same naterial, the dead were hauled away p-actically like so much cord wood. TJhe mer chants in the vicinity of the theatre sent wagon load after wagon load of blankets, rolls of linen and packages of cotton to be used in binding up the wounds of the injured and to cover the dead. The drug stores vurnished their stock to anybody tha.t asked for it in the name of the Det:ple hurt in tbe tire. Doctors and trained nurses were on the grounrt by the score within half an hour after the extent of the calamity was known, and every wounded person who was carried irom the building received prompt medical aid. A number of doctors waited at the entrance to the theatre with stethoscopes in hand, and as soon as a body which looked as though it might have life wais carried out it was at once examined and if dead placed on the pile lying on the sidewalk. The others were at once placed in ambulances and wheeled away to hospitals or to the otlices of physicians in tne immediate neighbor hood. CHILDREN TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT. A man who wvas in the theatre said "there were few men in attendance, but I saw several of them pulling and pushing women and children aside as they fought like manics to reach the exits. I saw a number of little children trampled underfoot and some of them arose again. In the bal cony the scene was beyond moy power to describe. There was a t-ig black crush of human beings, each one ap arently tighting everybody else. Tne balcony was so steep that many fell in the first four rows of seats. The exits to the fire escapes were chocked and those in thie rear rushed wit.h all the strength they possessed up ,n those who were nearer to the doorway. "It was alanost incredible--the speech with which the 1lames ran through the scenery, and although it was but a second after MIiss. Elm.ore jumped over the railing of our box to the aisle in front the stage was a mass of tames. As 3I started up tie aisle a man rushed into me and knocked me down. I was so terror stricken that I grew weak and sank into one of the or chestra chairs, and after that I hardly remember anything. In some way I reached the main entrance, where men were kicking against the doors and shattering the glass and panels in their attempt to aiford a larger space for the exit of the people. "Slany fell as they reached the doors where a few steps more would have carried them to fresh air and safety. As 1 look at it now I must have been walking on prostrate bodies e' struggled through the opening. All of our party escaped in about the same manner as I did, but all of them suffered so terrible in the matter of clothing that the first thing they did was to rush to the stores to buy wraps to ovr them." A DE PERADO ARRESTED. Tried to Kill the Town Marshal o1 Woodford Last Week. The Columbia State says, John Sal ley. a desperate negro, who has beer hunted for a year. was captured in the town of Denmark Wednesday. The captor, Mr. T. W. Watts, one of the deputies of Sheriff Dukes of Orange burg, came to Columbia and claimed the reward which will be paid upon Sal ey's conviction. Last night he told the story or the crime, of the chase and of the capture. On the Sth of Nov3mber last year Mr. John Chavis, town marshal of Wo->dford, Orangebt.rg county, was shot and desperately wounded while in the discharge of his duty, and Salley, who intended to murder the marshal, tied for his life. Mr. Chavis had ar rested another negi when Salley stepped up and wit iout a word of warning tired into the abdomen of the otlicer. The double load of squirrel shm would have inificted a mortal wound but for the oticer's belt, and as it is Cbavis is said to be bedridden. In April of last year Gov. Heyward offered a reward of $50 for the cap ture of the negro, and later, upon pe tition of people of the town of Wood ford, the amount was increased to $150. It was stated that the negro was in another State defying arrest. Watts says that he traced the fugi tive through Georgia to Alabama and back to Florida and tinally back to South Carolina. "I jumped him twice," said Deputy Watts. The first time was in August, when the depera d was espied in a cabin in Lexington county. le took to the swamp and could not be captured. Three weeks ago the depaty again came across him in Lexington county at a negro frolic, but could get no one to go with him to make the arrest. He then waited his time and came upon the fugitive in the streets of the town of Bamberg Wednesday morning. The deputy had shaved off his mus tache and had disguised himself in other ways or he could not have made the capture, fur Salley always carried a Winchester rifle with him and was thus armed when captured. He had passed by the deputy when the latter grabbed the hand in which the rifle was held and thrust the muzzle of his revolver'into the face of the negro, who then wilted. Watts claims that the negro had threatened never to be taken alive and when arrested he had his rifle and 24. cartridges, showing that he was ready to maintain his dc fiant position. The negro admitted his guilt of t'e attempted murder, and declared that he would do it all over again with the hope of making a better shot next time. le is now in the Orangeburg county jail. It is said that Salley's name was a terror in certiu parts of Orangeburg county. Once he made himself obnoxious at a picnic at Norway and the white men wore out four buggy whips on him, but the negro never wilted. His ar rest is equivalent to conviction. How People Are Robbed. How many hundreds of thousands of p3ople in the Uaited States have >een taken in and done for during the ear jo it ended, we shall ne ver know. n closing out an estate in Philadel pia the other day, 400 shares of stock r certaini companies which had a mar k.t value of over $3,000 at t;he height f the boom, brought thirty-tive ents. Over 700 shares in another ompany at one time quoted as worth 2,100, brought $1.10. What shall be aid of tinancial conditions that enable hese pretentious organizations to im ose upon the creduility of hundreds f thousands of people? And would uch "publicity" as Republican physi ians prescribe hate robbed them of heir meritorious fascinations? Hard ly. What is needed is, that all swin ler:;, whether they deal in "high inance" or the ordinary plain flam ame, shall be punish ad. All should e treated alike. 'The three card :onte thief, who robs his victim by eception, is not a >it worse than en of the Pierpont Morgan stripe, who rob people by paliing off' on them worhless stock in all :,orts of wild cat ororations, like ti~e busted steel omine, for instance. Regarding Sufteage Law. The secretary of state has received rom Indiana several requests for in formation regarding the suffrage re uirements in the state. The trend f the letters indicates that the sub ject is being used as queries for chool and college debates. Among he points upon which information is esired are: What per cenit. of the axes are paid by the negro popula tion; has there been any increase in he appropriatiun for educational pur oses since the adoption of the presentI uffrage laws. The secretary of state ave to some of the applicants such nformation as could be obtained without any great amount of research, whie others were referred to Senator Tillans speech which was delivered bout two years ago in the senate. Goes Over Falls. At Niagara Falls a rowboat con aining a man who was waving his rms wildly was carried down the river and over the Horseshoe Falls Thursday af ternoon. The little craft and its solitary occupant were noticed first at some distance above tbe cata ract. The man was gesticulating frantically all the time, but persons wo assembled along the shore and ran toward the falls were as helpless s the doomed passenger. With bated breath they watched as the boat tipped on the brink and disap peared in the waters below. The man went to his death crying his de spair. No one has reported a missing boat, and the name of the man has not been learned. Much Small Pox. A special dispatch from Gordon, Ga., to the Augusta Chronicle says the small pox situation there is as summing a critical aspect. As yet no steps have been taken to quarantine the town, though the postollice is practically closed an account of the mail clerks on the train refusing to exchange mails with the postmaster. The postmaster and several members of his family are down with the small pox. Up to this time only ten cases hve dleAvelopedl. HE WAS FIRED. James A. Luna Was Fred from the Customs Service. A SCHEME TO ROB CHINESE. Recent Attempt at Blackmail or Celestials in Charleston Be- f lieved to be Cause of C Lunn's Dismi:isal. James A. Lunn, one (f the inspec tors of the United States customs de partment, has been dismissed from a >ffce by the Treasury Department. v It is understood that the dismissal C grew out of the recent attempt by -ertain parties to levy blackmail upon 1: a number of Obinamen ia this city. It is said Lhat there is at least one t )ther Federal employee who was con- a nected with the scherme that was C practiced upon the celest ials, and that ae will probably -also lose his job. t It will be recalled that some weeks v ago several Chinamen appealed to v Magistrate Orlando Levy for protec- 0 tion, believing that they were being t for~ced to pay money illegally to cer- r tain agents, on the threat that they ii would be deported to China, if the 0 money was not paid. It was shown C that about fifteen Cbinamen had paid _ sums, varying from $10 to $20 * each, il for certain papers, which they had t been told were necessary for them., if s1 they would continue their residence p in this country. The charges for the t papers ran up to $100, in some cases, li but it is not known whether any of b the Chinamen were muleted to this i extent. Magistrate Levy pronounced p the matter a swindle and told the Chinamen not to pay any money to v the agents. He explained -to them a that the papers which had been given %N to them were not authorized by the 5 government, and that there was no i intention of the government to deport v; them, if they could not produce the g papers. The magistrate further ad- p, vised them to take the matter up with cl Mr. Rennick, the representative of the commissioner of immigration, as he was powerless to give them any . relief. It appears that the Chinamen did C carry their troubles to Mr. Rennick, n and according to the understanding t which Mr. Rennick refuses to affirm or deny, he reported the matter to the department at Washington, with b the result that a secret service man " was sent to Charleston to investigate a the fraud. His report was filed last . week in Washington, and on Christ mas Eve a telegram was received by t Collector W. D. Crum, instructing him i to take up the badge of office from t Lunu. This was followed !y an offi- 1 cial communication through the mail ' on Saturday afternoon, dismissing 1 Lunn from office. b Deputy Collector Withers stated W Tuesday that the department at P Washington had acted on its own in formation throughout the entire mat- " ter. He said that the badge was first P taken up and he presumed that an I opportunity had been given to Lunn ti to expliin his connection with the matter with which his name was mentioned, and for reasons which the TI departnient considered suffcient, the ki later communication was received at I the cu;tom house, dismissing him ei from the service.-Charlaston Post. e T0 AVOID FREEZTG. h Two Men in a Boat Boxed Each a Other All Nig it.a The New York World says William it Donaly, proprietor of a shorefront h hotel at Lindenhurst, L. I., and John al Laplig, of New York, left Lindenburst b< before sunrise on SaturdaLy for a day's tt running on the Great South Bay. ti larly in the forenoon theby started for bh bome, saow squall having~ set in, with Ie e very i-hdication that the day was a going to be rough. They had gone but a s iort distance a when the mast of the little boat snapped, with great diffculty they rescued the sail and rishipped the. [ast, bat the gale soon whipped the 10 sail to ribbons and they were forced di to scud east before the breeze. At d nightfall the ice close] Iin around b them and prevented tt e boat from di dirifting further. The mnercury drop- a ped below the zero markc. The men P had not the slightest shelter, and for P twelve hours they had to jump up lc and down and spar with each other to fr keep from freezing. Si At daybreak Sunday Donaly hoist- a: ed a flag distress on an oar. The as signal was recognized by Capt. Philip it Sammis, who, with his brother An- ai drew, went to the rescue. When ti they reached the men Laplig wast nearly dead, but Doualy was not b. much worse for the exposure. g Chester O. Ketcham, of Babylon, gi and Capt. "Taid" Sammis were shoot ing on the bay on Saturday in their acht Virginia. In trying to make arbor they found their sheet ropei frozen and the blocks choked with ice. They abandoned the boat and with't difficulty got ashore in a small boat. he ice cut the Virginia's cable andg she drifted high up on the ice and, it ' is feared, will be a total wreck.g The Way to Farm. lb The Columbia State says: "The I Orangeburg farmer-told of in The State-who got a check for $17,040.01 t for his cotton crop and has more A than suffcient supplies to run him E next year, all home raised, is as well C lixed as a man can reasonablly wish to be. The high price of cotton is of Id little advantage to the farmer who buys his supplies in town and gives a lien on his crop in advance, but it is aiC tine thing for the fellow who tirst 1 raises his own supplies and planlts cot ton as a money crop. Be the price s5e high or low, he is on the safe side ofd the mnarket. and stands to win. r Killed His Sister. A dispatch to The State says while, a little son of Mr. M. A. Chapman of Cross Hill in Laurens County was loading a parlor rifle Saturday after noon last, the gun was accidently r discharged, killing his 3-months-old C sister, who had just been put in her 5 bed in the room a few moments before s by the mother. It was a deplorableh tragedy and much sympathy is felt s fo ten afflcte faniiy I IMPORTANT D SCOVERY. q.:w Treatinent that Will Make Cot ton Absolutely Waterproof. The Saturday Evening Post says the ecent dis.covery of a method by which mily ordin try cotton cloth can be made Lb waterproof as sheet tin is regarded - a mark3d achievement in chemistry. Subject to the new treatment the limsiest of fabrics becomes so impervi >us to water that if buldged :or folded n the sha pe of a bowl or pocket it will iold water for days without letting a Irop escapie through its meshes. The sigaificant process in the new reatmen.. is liberation of a gas, such s carbonic dioxide, simultaneously .iti the precipitatio, .pon the fabri, f various chemical reagents. The result is that this gas, in a fine 7 divided state, merges with the inso able com)ound employed and is held xed in this chemical coating in such way that water, even under pressure. annot pass through it. In the tests cotton cloth was passed brough two baths. The first of these ras prepared by adding to 100 parts of rater 10 parts of stearic acid, one and ne-half parts of sodium hydrate and wo parts of sodium bicarbonate. This 1ixture was then boiled until it was i.complete solution. Then 500 parts f water were added and acetic acid )mprised the second bath. j In the reactions caused h the meet ig of the ingredients of the two'baths wo insoluble compounds, aluminium. :earate and aluminium hydrate, were recipitated upon the fabric, while at be same time carbonic dioxide was berated and was found to be distri uted and held by the chemical coat ig that, as stated, water could not ass through the fabric. It is predicted that the new process, hich is protected bylpatent, will work revolution in the 'manufacture of -ater-wroof garments, inasmuch as it -ill enable the people engaged in this idustry to turn out a much greater iriety of mackintoshes and other rain irments and at a lower cost than is assible in the making of waterproof othing at present. Wanted Ten Milion. The New York American says Cash ir Flandreau, of the New Rochelle ity Bank, was astonished Wednesday torning when a man walked up to ie window and threw down a check >r ten million dollars. "Give me the money quickly," said e, "I have no time to wait. I'm on I ty way to the North Pole, and my atomobile is waiting for me outside." Flandreau thought the man was iking, but when he refused to budge otil he got the money, ;he cashier .t for the police. At the police sta on the man said be wias 'Edward avey. -He declared his automobile as so hot it could bum its way irough the ice and reaca the Pole, it if there was too much delay it oald cool off, and he would have to astpone the expedition. He offered take all the police with him if they ould let him out. Havey's wife ap eared ard said that he was crazy. dge Phelps held him for examina 'Vrdered His Wife. a dispt.tch from Harrell Hill to .3 State says, Bob Fields, a well-~ : .wn negro of this vicinity, comn- 1 : ted an awful crime near here sev S1 days ;ago. He and his wife, Em-; :Field&, had several fights and1 n .rrels p':eviously, but it seems that( 2this occasion he had fully made up :mind >eforehan d to commit thE a' ful crinie. It appears that "Bob" ad a Mr. Daniels had been out on a uirrel hint and on returning stepped 1 ti a neig:hbor's house where he and s wife became engaged in a desper- 1 e fight. His step children, who are I th of age, joined in the fight with eir mother and were about to whip leir fath er, when he ran out, seized t s shotgun and shot his wife in the ft side, c ausing death immediately. 1 e has est aped. It was reported last 1 rednesda r night that he was seen at I "frolic" near Eastover. Free from sentimentaity. Stories yr betrothed lovers marry g when one of them was going tc] e immediately have always a gooc al of pathos and romance in them., it nothi ig like the practical pru ~nce and wisdom of the one in whicht Hoboker girl recently moved as the incipal figure. She went to the;I bilippines to marry her soldier boy ver, found him -pretty nearly dead * om consumption, took the first eaer back, and on her way found iother wooer, whom she espoused soon as they came ashore. Start- ( g off with such a fund of good sense id freedom from sentimental notions, ey ought to "live happily ever af r according to the formula of story; oks, which ofttimes take things for;C anted with more liberality than the neral run of experience justifies. A Big Save. Ic The State says: "It seems that I ~ery variety~of graft has prospered in:i b. Louis. The city has been paying 30,000 a year to a political contrac'@ r for the removal and reduction of ( trbage and now, through the annul ent of the contract by proceedings -owing out of the celebrated bribery( iarges, it is found that the work can Sdone for nothing. A company that is been doing the work in Denver'C r several years proposes to take over 1 i job in St. .Louis on the same terms.I reduction of $130,000 ini a city'si arly expenses is no sma.i item, and ircuit Attorney Folk's vigorous in-', stigation;s have done that much at ast.' A Freak Prisoner. The State says the authorities of ross Hill. Laurens County, have sent enry Brown, a footless negro farmer that section, to the couty jail to -ve a sentence of 30 days for being runk and disorderly and iesisting ar ~st. Brown is about 35 and lost his et several years ago in a railroad ~cident. He walks on his knees and:1 a rough character when drinking. Lost Entire Family. 1 There were some pathetic incidents corded o f the Chicago theatre horror. linton G. Meeker, clerk in the reg t-y division of postotice. living in a iburb of Irving Park, has probably i in the lire bis entire family, con s'ng of his wife, two daughters and1 m sons. SONE BIG SALARIE3. Enormous Sums Paid, But Meril Always Counts. Salaries paid to public officials in the richcst countries often compare pocrly with those which public func tionaries receive in the realms nearest bankruptcy. The Turkish minister of finance has $40,000 a year. Even he, however, is less well paid than the oticial who is in chaige of the admiralty. His salary is $85,000 a year, and the pickings are so plenti ful that the present holder is said t have piled up the neat little fortune of $12,000,000. Without doubt, however, the best paid statesman on earth is the grand vizier of Morocco. Ben Famed, the recently deceased holder of the viz ierate, left a sum equal to nearly $20, D00,000. It fvas stored in gold bul ion in the cellars of his palace at Harakesh. Compared with riches such as those f these eastern statesmen, the $50, )00 which the President of ihe Uvited States receives is a poor sum, even though it is backed by free residence in the White House, and a handsome llowance for entertaining foreigners )f distinction. A very few years ago the great in :omes of state officials were looked pon with envy as quite unapproach ble by salaried workers in private life. Today there are a. number of the latter.whose emoluments absolute y dwarf even such a salary as that of the President of the United States. There is a man who received an ffer of the large salary of $200,000 a. year, and, incredible as it may seem, refused it. This is Herr Ballin, the gifted German, who is managing director of the Hamburg-American line of steamers. A dozen years ago the public had ever beard of Clinton Dawkins of London. Then he became Mr. Go ;cben's private secretary, ard in 1895 ;ecretary of finanhce in Egypt. There, mnd later on in India, he made a great 2ame as a financial expert. His fame ttracted the notice of J. P. Morgan L Company. He now draws $200,000 L year in their service. His is said o be the biggest salary paid by any ank. There are not more t:an three ank managers in England who get >ne-fif th of Mr. Dawkins' salary. The great life insurance companies ay very high figures to the men who :ontrol their investments. The two argest in the world each allow their resident's $150,000 a.year. The richest corporation in the vorld is said to be the Staadard Oil Crust. John D. Rockfeller is its )resident. But the $15,000,(00 which orms his yearly income from the oil ioldings is not salarly, buliuterest. lis vice president, howdver, Alexan ler McDonald, a Scot with a marvel us head for finances,.receives a reg lar salary of $200,000 a yea:, and has iis fare paid to Russia or Burmah henever he wishes to inspect the oil lelds of rival companies. Railway companies are not stingy. Pierpont Morgan paid Samuel pencer $50,000 a year to give expert pirions on the railway properties ke was buying up. As managing director of the Con olidated Gold tields of South Africa, ~imited, Mr. Rhodes used to get about 225000 a year. The suguar trust pays it~s officials vel. A notable instan~ce is the $50, 00 a year which their chemist, 1. 0. )onner, gets. But Mr. Donner has o work hard for his money. Sugar ro every part of the world, cane .nd beet, comes before him, and he uas to exercise expert opinion on it. The great experts in all of the irincipal commercial lines are well aid. Fifteen thousand dollars a 'ear is the salary of the chief tea-tas er and blender of one great British ea firm. This gentleman has all the xpenses of a three months' holiday aid yearly. He needs it badly, for eatasting is most trying to the erves and helth. T wenty thousand dollars a year is he remuneration of a lab< rer, A. J. )ay, who is employed as "roller" at he Pittsburg mills of the Steel Trust he is the best man at his special york-the rolling of steel :ails-and s paid accordingly. Great singers like Patti 1.ave made he astonishing record of $5,000 -a light. .This she did at New Orleans. ut neither she nor any other prima lonna ever kept up that sort of thi ng ,t a steady income. The amounts to be made by lec uring rival the salaries of prima onnas. Ian Maclaren once made $50, '00 in six weeks. Sir H. M. Stanley id even better. Opposed the War. In defense of himself and his sub rdinates, Admiral Cervera has made ublic the correspondence with the panish government relative to the Laval features of t!- Spanish-Amern an war, in whict te pointed out be ore the beginni' ; of the war the itter hopelessne a of Spain holding ts owdf against the United States, ,nd showed that, inevitably in event f war, the American navy would ripe out the Spanish fleet. He ad ised against war and urged that suba be relinquished, if necessary, to vert a war with the Ujnitedi States. his advice was not heeded. It was .nly when the verge of war bad- been eached that the Spanish government dicated that it realized that Cuba ras not worth the sacrifice. It was 0 late, but had the Spanisi govern. tent listened to the comnon sense dvice of such men as Admiral Cer 'era instead of the fatuous promptings f men like Cardinal Herrer~s y Espi osa, it could have evaded ;he issue f war and have served its honor far etter than it did by engag'ing in a onilict that exposed its helplessness, ,nd which led to its utter hutailiation. Sixty-Two Barrojm. A dispatch from Macon s;ays only ixty-two barrooms applied for license o do business in Macon in 1904. ['he number receiveing licenses dur g 1903 was 70. It is thought there vill be a similar showing by the end >f 1904. Thbe license is 85(0. It is half of tbis amount after July first. (he city council declined to regulate he Macon saloons under the Atlanta lan. A hard fight was made, but :ouncil decided that the laws, govern ng saloons are already sufficiently THE 1MIL TROUBLE. The Reorganization of the Columbia Mils Xa Now Proceed. DECISION FILED WEDNESDAY. What the Olympia Mill Manage ment is Required to Do. No Receivership for the Present. In the United States circuit court at Charleston Wednesday Judge SI monton and Brawley rendered their opinions in the suits against the Co lumbia cotton -mills, which were ar gued last week, the opinions allowing the plan of reorganization of the mills to continue. In the first case, commonly spoken --- of as the Dearings suit against the Granby and Olympia mills, which pro vided for the Granby and the Rich . land mills to be recognized as credi tors of the Olympia, the judges siga ed the compromise agreement drawn . up by the attorneys representing the - Dearings and the defendants, provid ing for the setting aside of 50 per" cent. of the miils' holdingsof Olympia stock, $150,000 in the case of Granby add 875,000 in the case of Richland mills, in the first mortagage bonds, which are to be issued according to the plan of the reorganization, the same to be held by the court, pending the adjudication of the claims~ and differences between the mills, which are in process of adjustment, the millsN. to share like all other creditors in all, further proportionate distribution- ot2 bonds and settlement of the pending claims. - In the Phinizy suit, for a receiye for.the Olympia mills, the court-r.... served its opinion on the appoin of a receiver but will grant the, porary injunction, unless the d dants enter a bond Z~o the sum of 800, the amount of the holdlb ? stock by Phinizy and. Hull, fbr performance of such decrees as ma be-issued in' the case, which~ be given a full hearing. The decision of the court allows the plan or reorganization to proceed and*the promoters of the scheme are given the opportunity to demonstrate its successful working. The decision in the Phinizy case read as follows: This case comes up on a bill for an injunction and' receiver, a rule 16 show cause, the return thereto, an affidavits filed on both sides. The case as made by the .bill is .h.. the complainants purchased prefe stock in the Olympia mills from the agent of the mills in Augusta, is to say, Leonard Phinizy 12 for $12,480. and Mrs. Alice S. eight shares for $8,320; that they would purchase they requiied', assurances that the Olympia mill company would never execute a mortgage of Its property so as to create a lien antecedent to the pre ferred stock. That this assurance was given by the production of a cere tified- copy of a resolution of thei stockholders of the Olympia mills to this effect fortified by the opinion of W. H. Lyles, Esq., counsel for and a :irector in the mill company, ds to - the binding force of the resolution ~ and its enforcement by injunction were it violated. Thia having been shown them, and in consideration thereof, they paid their money which went into the treasury of the cornm ' pany. The bill then charges that notwithstanding this resolation and contract on the faith of which alone omplaints purchased and paid for their stock, the directors proposed to the stockholders and the stockhoders n% resolved to execute a mortgage on all the property of the Olympia mills for the pui pose of funding its debts to - the amount of $1,750,000. - - The bill does not deny the solvency -, of the company. It charges gross mismanagement on the part of the :irectors, all of whom, but two, have resigned, and, others have been ap- - pointed in their stead. The return is voluminous. It denies the allegation of the bill as to -the purchase of the stock from the comn pany, and denies the validity of the. resolution and contract under 'which the stock was purchased. To go into a detailed statement of the affidavits would be as tedious as it would be unnecessary. It is enough to say that complain ants prima facie have made out their ase as to the purchase of the preferred stock from the company, the assur ances under which it was purchased, the production of the resolution of a meeting of the stockholders agreeing not to put any mortgage upon the ~ property of the mills, so long as any preferred stock was outstanding; that this was the moving consideratioh for the purchase by them, and that t.he money they paid went into the tress ury of the company. Under these circamstances, as the -- matter now presents itself, they are -. ntitled to a temporary injunction un- - less they are protected from loss on - heir purchase. It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged and decreed, That a temporary in junction as prayed for in the bill do is sue, unless the defe.ndant, the Olym pia cotton mills, do, within 15 days from the entry of this order enter In o bond, approved by a judge of this ourt, to stand to, abide by and per form such decree as. may be entered in favor of the complainants, and-each - f them, as the result of a full hear ing of this cause. The matter of the appointment of a receiver is reserved. CHARLEs H. SImouroN, Circuit Judge. WM. H. BRAWLEY, U. S. District Judge. Dec. 29, 1903. - An Engineer's Error. At Fort Wayne, Ind., one was kill- - d, two seriously injured and seven others more or less hurt in a headon ollision between Pennsylvania limit ed train No. 5, westbound, and east bound freight train at Larwill, station last Wednesday. The wreck was - due to a mistake by Engineer Crowell, Iof the freight train. in reading orders. lie had been given orders to meet the limited at Larwill at 5.30 but misread his orders as 6:30 and was taking his time to make the meeting point.