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VOL. XVIII. _ __ANNLNG, S. C, WEDNESDAY. JANUA SAME OLD STORY People Plunged to Certain Death in the Darkness of Night. SEVENTEEN CRUSHED TO DEATH And Many Others Seriously Injured. The Most Distressing Scenes Enacted After The Fatal Crash Came. News comes from Topeka, Kansas. of a railroad accident on the Rock Island, California arid Mexican Rail ' way in which seventeen persons were killed outright and thirty-seven others were more or less injured. The ac cident occurred near Topeka on Tues day morning of last week. The acci dent was caused by a collision of a passenger and a freight train. It is thought that carelessness of trainmen caused the wreck. Instruct- I ed to meet a special freight train at Willard, the engineer and conductor of the ill-fated passenger noting that a freight train stood on the sidetrack at Willard rushed through, thinking that the cars they had seen were the ones which they had been instructed to pass. Upon seeing at, Willard a freight train on the siding, Engineer Benjamin threw open the throttle and under the impetus of full steam the passenger train leaped into the darkness and crashed along at a rate which the passengers declare to have been fully 65 miles an hour. DETAILS OF THE HORROR. H. G. Parsons, a reporter of the Topeka State Journal, who was on the wrecked train, arrived in Topeka at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning after driving overland from the scene of the collision. Parsons escaped with slight injuries while two persons on the seat in front of him were killed. Parsons tells the following story of the wreck: "It was in the third car of the pas senger train, the first coach having been preceded by a smoker and bag gage car, that the greatest loss of life occurred. The smoker, which was oc cupied by only two or three men, was overturned and pushed through the car behind it, which was crowded with passengers, some standing in the aisle. The first warning of the pas sengers in this car was when the sud den setting of the airbrakes shut off the lights, leaving all in darkness. A moment later a mass of splintered wood and iron was crowded down up on them. No one was thrown out of their seat by the blow. Most of those in the forward end of the car were killed instantly. Thirty in the rear end of the coach, however, succeeded in escaping from that end of the car which was still unobstructed. No one in the front half of the car escap ed. They were crushed down between the seats by the smoker. When rescue was finally possible only three living persons were taken out by the rescu ers, who were compelled to chop holes in the side and through the floor and top of the coach to reach them. ONLY THREE ALIVE. "The three rescued from this por tion were a man, a small girl and a middle aged woman, who were moan ing and begging to be taken out. One man, hurt internally, was removed through the rear door within five minutes after the collision, but died almost as soon as the rescuers could lay him down. A woman died two hours later while trying to tell a physician her name. A dozen men had worked on the place where she seemed to be befere she was extricat ed. "Bonnie Martin. a girl 11 years of age, was pinned down between the two cars, the heavy stove resting on one foot. Her cries attracted the a rescuers, and men, many of themt bleeding from wounds about the face I and arms, worked heroically to gett her out. It took two hours of steady 1 work to relieve her. When she was taken out she addressed a doctor who was bending over her as 'papa.'th "The physician did not have teI heart to tell her that she was an or phan, her father and mother having been killed. Mr. Martin was killed instantly and Mrs. Martin died ten minutes after being taken out of the wreck. The child was suffering with a broken ankle, where the heavyi stove fell on her, and severe scalp contusions. She was put to sleep by1 a hypodermic injection to relieve the plain. "Some of the bodies found in the wreckage were so badly crushed as to be unrecognizable. Through a hole chopped in one side of the car the body of a gray-haired heavy-set man and a~woman with long yellow hair were visible. Fires were built along the track at short intervals and by the light of these the rescuers, in their eagerness to remove the victims. chopped openings in the wrecked coaches until exhaustei then hand ed their axes to others. CAR CHOPPED AWAy. "The entire sides of the car had been chopped away when the work was completed. Occasionally the rescuers would desist upon an alarm being raised by watchers who declared that the chopping away of the coach was letting the smoker down upon the victims- So territic was the force of the collision that the smoker left the trucks in its backward rush, leaving the trucks still upon the track. Not a wheel in the entire passenger train seemed to be off the track. "The freight train fared differently. The four cars immediately behind the engine were crushed into kindling. Dead and dying cattle littered the right of way, while many which had escaped from tihe cars uninjured ran about, adding to the confusion. "On the passenger train, in the sleeper, was a young physician who walked with a crutch as the result of some spinal trouble. H~e was thrown down and slightly injured, but was~ the first man to emerge from the sleeper and immediately began aiding the injured, lie had a portion of the chair car and the berths in the sleeper cleared and to them the victims were carried. The physician was without instruments or medicine, and the only thing lie could do was to bind up wounds with bandages which he made by tearing up sleeper sheets and pil ow cases, arid giving the patients whiskey to deaden the pain. "The young doctor found a fireman who was injured in the ;g. An r terv was broken, and he took it up with a penknife and tied it, with a thread, probably preventing the tire man from bleeding to death. He per formed innumerable acts of a like na ture before the arrival of the Topeka physicians." The hero mentioned by Mr. Par sons was Dr. Frank M. Bell of New York. COTTON GlNNED. The Census Bureau Issued Its In teresting Report Last Week. The census bureau last week issued a report showing that there had been ginned up to and including Saturday. Dec. 12. 8.848,747 commercial bales compared with 9.311.835 bales up to and including Dec, 13 of last year. The census found that 29,971 ginner ies had been operated this season, against 30 194 up to Dec. 13 of last year. Counting round bales as half bales, the number of bales ginned is 8, 526,244 this season, against 8,905, 503 last season. This report will be followed by two others showing the quantity of cotton ginned from the growth of 1903 up to and including Jan. 16. -1904, and a final report at the end of the ginning season, about March 15, which ivill distribute the I crop by counties, aegregate upland and sea island cotton and give weights of bales. Of the total of 8.848,747 ommercial bales for the United States 8.144,493 were square bales, 645,006 round bales and 59,248 sea island crop bales. The report by states follows: Alabama 946,556 commerc.ial bales, against 896,994 last season: 3,850' active ginneries, against 3,889 last 5eason. Arkansas 544,680 bales, against 768,861 last season; 2,509 active gin eries, against 2,510 last season. Florida 50,084 bales, against 54,443 last season; 269 active ginneries, against 284 last season. Georgia 1,208,815 bales, againt 1, 376,850 last season: 4,978 active gin aeries. against 5,046 last season. Indian Territory 238,732 bales, tgainst 372,042 last season; 485 active inneries, against 428 last season. Kansas, no crop reported. Kentucky 428 bales, against 1.027 ast season; 2 active ginneries, against 3 last season. Louisiana 686,600 bales, against 370.854 last season: 2,167 active gin rieries, against 2,143 last season. Mississippi 1,211,744 bales, against L,135,557 last season; 4,192 active gin .eries, against 4,276 last season. Missouri 28,811 bales, against 39, 185 last season; 74 active ginneries, gainst 59 last season. North Carolina 502,591 bales against i17,068 last season: 2,715 active gin ieries, against 2,683 last season. Oklahoma 155,242 bales. against [63,190 last season: 232 active gin eries, against 218 last season. South Carolina 747,82.S bales, gainst 863,989 last season; 3,173 ac ive ginneries, against 3,187 last sea n. Tennessee 210,668 bales, against 1 72,135 last season; 778 active gin teries, against 815 last season. Texas 2,310,725 bales, against 2, 67472 last season: 4,431 active gin eries, against 4,542 last season. Virginia 11,143 bales, against 12, 37 last season; 116 active ginneries, gainst 10 last season. To Stop Price Catting. Retail druggists throughout the ountry will watch with interest the sults of a plan put into effect in 'ew York city last week by the larg St manufacturers of proprietary or atent medicines to stop the cutting f prices on such articles by druggists ,nd department stores. This is the1 irst time that the proprietors them lves have taken a direct interest in he solution of the cut rate problem. eretofore they have "supported"' iovements conducted by others, nota ly the National Retail Druggists'ji essociation, but that support has been ( ore or less lukewarm. Now, how ver, about twelve or fifteen of the ( ading manufacturing houses havej me together and contributed to a bstantial fund for carrying out theiri lans, and are prepared to compel the ggressive cutter to live up to a mini iu price schedule. If persuasion4 ails to bring a cutter into line the 1anufacturers, individually, will cut f his supplies of their goods, or at east make a determined effort to do To A Doctor Soldiea. A bronze statue of the late Dr. Inter McGuire, who was Gen. Jack- I on's medical director, and one of the' ost celebrated surgeons in the south, as unveiled in the capitol square at tichmond, Va., Thursday. The veil vas drawn by his lit tie grandson. Lhere was a parade, and the Hlowitz rs fired a salute. A large crowd was n attendance. Judge George L. Ihristian, grand commander of the onfederate veterans of the State. resented the statue to Virginia, and ov. Montague received it. The ora zion was delivered by Maj. Holmes Donrad of Winchester, Va., who ;erved with Dr. McGuire on Gen. Jackson's staff. Fatally Shot. On Saturday week while Wesley Bolin, a young white man 18 years of Lge, and a colored boy named Estel] ,roneberger, aged 10 years. were out mnting near smyrna, in the western ortoin of York county, the negro boy as accidentally shot in rhe back of. the head by young Bolin, and died !rom the effects of the wound. A cor ner's inquest was held over the body f Froneberger, Dr. W. G. White of this place being present as an expert witness. The jury rendered a verdictI xonerating young Bolin from blame n he premises. A Fatal Accident. A fatal accident occurred on Tues day of last week at Kingstree. As a train was moving off from the station D. H. Parrott, of Cade's attempted to get aboard. It had been snowing heavily all the afternoon, and it is supposed he missed his footing and fell between the cars, the wheels pas-I sing over his body and inflicting in-I juries from which he died in a fewt moments. No blame is attached t the railroad A GOOD SH1OWING. The New Enterprises Started in This* State Last Year. INCREASE IN CAPITALIZATION. 1 Quite a Number or Banks aiiad Oil Mills Were Incorporated in South Carolina )urin^ the Past Year. p The Columbia State says South Caro- '1 lina has seen during the year just pass ed an unusual amount of indust rial ac tivity. From the statistics now in -S the office of the secretary of state it. may be ascertained that the total sum invested last year in new enterprises amounted to over ten million dollars. 01 From the complete list of these enter prises a list of the banking institu tions has been compiled and is sub- 0 mitted: Donalds 825,000; Farmers' of Bel- S ton $50,000; Honea Path -25.000; Bel ton Savings and Trust Co. $25,000: Gaffney Savings bank $30,000: Bank a of Chesterfield $15,000: Bank of Sum- r merton $25,000: Bank of Hartsville Ii $50.000: Citizens' bank of Timmons ville 830,000: Fountain Inn $15,000: S Piedmont Trust Co. of Greenwood 8: $50,000: Loan and Exchange bank of Greenwood $5o.000; Bank of Horry ci $25,000: Peoples' bank of Bishopville $25,000: Home bank of Lexington c $3(.000; Bank of Latta $25,000: Far rers and Mechanics' bank of. Marion $100,000: Bank of Walhalla $30,000; Bank of Springfield $20,000; Easley Loan and Trust Co. $50,000: Colum- s. bia Trust Co. $100,000: Bank of Sa luda $25,000: Sumter Banking and M1ercantile Co. $50,000: Bank of Car- $1 lisle $10,000: Bank of Lake City $25 000; Bank of Rock Hill $7.5,000; Con verse Savings bank $10,000: total $1. 035,000: Bank of Clarendon S"_5,000; Bank of Piedmont $15,000. S5 The cotton mills which obtained :harters are also listed below: Toxaway $225,000; Gluck 8500,000; 81 Pendleton $65,000; Bamberg $140,000: Allendale $25,00 McGee 8100,000; Watts $300,000: Banna $100,000; Ha- 00 mer, $100,000; Maple $100,000: Marl oro $1,500,000: Issaqueena 8200,000; ,2 Arcadia 8200.000: total 83,555,000. OIL tILLS AND GINS. $1 The oil mill industry is perhaps one S >f the most prominent in South Caro [ina. The oil mills and ginneries 84 vhich received charters are as follows: Donald's $15,000; Donald's ginnery B4,000; Bushy Creek ginnery 82,000; rownville 825,000; Pendleton 865.000; A Allendale $25,000: Wilkinsville $10,- tu )00: Clarendon $25,000: Walterboro p R10,000: Independent Cotton Oil Co. F >f Charleston $1,000,000: Lydia gin Bi 3,000: Timmonsville $50,000: Coro- pa laco Oil mill $15,000: Liberty Hill be 3in Co. $3,000: Cameron Oil mill $20,- 0 )00: Westminster $20,000: Fort Motte C1 15,000: Rowesville $20,000: Pickens co 18,000: Pauline (Spartanburg county) B: 13,000: Nora ginnery $3,000: Eagle to nnery, Sumter, $3,000, Williams- pa urg $20,000: Dargan Ginning Co. an 3,000: total $1,127,000; Prosperity to ~2,000. 0 MISCELLANEOUS, BY COUNTIEs. A list has also been made of the en erprises of an industrial nature be un in each county. Necessarily this ist does not enumerate the large Si umber of mercantile. live stock, edu ational and ot her business begun uring the year. The investment by counties in mis- ''t ellaneous'enterprises is as follows: a1 Aiken-Hankinson Brick Co . $30. - 00. Anderson-The Granolithic Rootingp ~Ianufacturing Co. $5,000; Williams- o on Carbonating Co. $2,000; Domestic ne anufacturing Co. $5,000; total $12,- P; 00. Charlestn-Panknlin Neutral Co. m 1,000: Charleston Canning Co. $10,- th 00: Southern Hydraulic Brick Co. ex 25.000: Platen Press Roller Adjuster do o. $15,000: Charleston Lithograph- th g Co. $20,000; Kentucky Bridge ao lining Co. $25,000: Consumer's Beer to otting establishment $30,000: Stan- hc ard Truck and Package Co. $30,000: is sational~ Sand Lime Brick Co. $15,- fa1. 100: Simmons-3Mayrant Construct ion tbu o. 825.000: Uniqlue IDrumn and Pack- an tge Co. 890,000; total $286,000- ra Cherokee-Cherokee Publishing Co. se ~5,000; G3atiney Brick Co. $5,600: to- m :al $10,000. Chester-Neely Compress Co. $100,- te )00. an Chestertild - Chestertield Naval wi tores Co. $15,000: Clement-Rloss of Ianufacturing Co. 821.000: Cheraw izI oundry and Machine Co. 80,000; to- to :al $42,000.se Clarendon-Naval Stores Manufac- y uring Co. $50,000: Manning Tele- or; >onie Co. $5,000: total $55,000-.b Colleton-Cum mings I ron Works mn nd Supply Co. 810,000: Colleton To- 30 acco Co. 81.50'0: total 811.500. w4 Darlington-Hartsville Publishing no o. $5,000; Williams & McKeithlan ch umber Co. $300,000: Hlartsville ch~ ood Manufacturing Co. $20,000: a ~ew Era Printing Co. $3,000; total on ~328,000. Sti Dorchester-Summerville Ice and $r old Storage Co. $30,000: St. George lelephone Exchange 85.000; Independ mt Publishing Co. $500; total 835,500. Fairtield-Winnsbor'o Granite Coin--o pany 8200,000. Florence-Enterprise Tobacco Corn- ,O pany 815,000: Phoenix Iee Company ' '10.000: total 825,000. p Georgetown-The Enterprise Steam pi Laundry 82 500: Black Mingo and Black S] River Steamboat Corn pany 85,000; Mab 2( umber Company - 20.000; total 82,- t Greenville-Harris Manufacturing o ompany 812,000: Greenville Medicine ompany 85,000; Oregon Lumber Co.W 5.000; total 822,000. Greenwood-Index Publishing Corn- C' pany $6,000. Hampton-Carolina Cement Gra vel Cmpany $5,000. Horry-People's Tobacco Warehouse j ompany $1,000: Shingle Manufactur- a ing company $10,000; Hiorry Publishing ompanyv 83,000: tot al 814,000. Kershaw-Vulcan Supply Works ~ $5,000. Lancaster-Excelsior Granite comn- m nany 825.000.w Laurens-Laurens Milling' Co. $10,000. N~ Lee County Mfg. Comnpany 825.000. j. Lexington--Lexington Water Power I company 8.i000l. Marion-Marion Water, Light and Powm- comp- an 1000. Sa r Pubisch-. ng company $2,000; Kemper Tobact varehouse $2,000; the Rogers compar 5.000: total $109.000. Marlboro-Marlboro Tobacco War, ouse company 4,;0O. Orangeburg -- Rowesville Tie an 'imber company $3,000. Richland-Columbia Metallic Ro ompany :510,00I: Tannopiline comp; y $25.0o0: Carolina Fire Brick comp: y $:7,000: Carolina Clay company $50 00: Acid Iron Mineral company $50 x0: L. B. )Dozier company $25.004 :eenau Yarn Mill '60,000; total $337 0'0. Spartanburg--Enoree Bell Tek hone company 6i;25: Morgan Wooi nd Iron works $40.000: Green , 'homson company $20,000: Heral 'ublishing company %15.000: Pie( ont Builders Supply company $20 )0: Roebuck Gin company (saw mil !.500; total $98,125. Sumter-Sumter Jce, Light an ower company $70,000: Sumter Luin: er company *12,00: John 11. Size umber company $20.000: total $102 )0. Union-Buffalo Lick Springs con iny $10,000: Alman Manufacturin ynpany $5.000; total $15.00 York-Carolina Furniture compan 10,000. INCREASES. Another remarkable fact is th nount of the capital invested in th creased capitalization of South Carc na concerns. The Bank of Dillion increased fror 5.000 to $50,000: Bank of Mario: 5.000 to $50,000. The textile establishment which ir eased their capitalization as followt Anderson Mattress and Spring Bei >npany $10,000 to $35,000. Orr Cotton mills $400.000 to $800,00C Monaghan mill $200,000 to $700.001. Gainesi ille cotton mill $600,000 ti 50,000. Clearwater bleach2ry $100,000 ti 00,000. Brandon mills $150,000 to $450,000. Libery cotton mills $75,000 ti 75,000. Alpha mills (Jonesville) $150,000 t 50,000. H. Norris mill'Cateechee) $50,000 t 50,000. Newberry Knitting mill $15,000 ti 0.000. Woodruff $250,000 to $500,000. Lydia mills (Clinton) $100,000 t< 60,000. D artsville $250,000 to $500,000. Easley $200,000 to $500,000. Clifton (J uly 18th) $500,000 to $1,750, 0. Pacolet (July 18th) $550,000 t< ,000,000. Brogon (Anderson) $500,000 t< ,000.000. Royal Bag and Yarn (Charleston: 25,000 to $475,000. This gives a total increase fror ,325,000 to $10,825,000. MISCELLANEOUS INCREASES. Kershaw oil mill $25,000 to $35,000 derson Spool and Bobbin Manufac ring company (Charleston) $4,000 t( ,00o; Rock Hill Water, Light anc >wer company $150,000 to $650.000 )rt Motte oil mill $15,000 to $20,000 -ooks Improved Steam Valve com ny $12.000 to $60,000; Mullins Lum r and Brick company $15,000 to $30. ) Stono mines $15,000 to $50,000 arleston Door. Sash and Lumbei mpany $20,000 to 850,000; Cowpen tton Oil company 84,000 to 820,00 Lmberg Cotton Oil company $35,00( $75.000: Johnston Cotton Oil com ny .15,000 to -$35.000: Merchants d Farmers' Bank of Cheraw $30.00( 8-50,000: Williamsburg oil mill $20, to $30,000; Cheraw Door and Sasl: mpany $12,000 to $20,000; Carolina re Brick company $27,000 to $50,000. CAUJSED A STRIKE. r Painters Were Discharged for Re fusingr to Work Sundays. Tbe Aug ista Evening Herald says ecause refusing to work on Sunday 2alf dozen painters were discharged, ree hundred workmen, painters, imbers, carpenters and wood-work mn, who had been employed at the w tourist hotel "The Park In The nes" at Aiken, laid down Gheir tools terday afternoon and walked out ving the contractors without work m and thus delaying the progress o: e work. The strike was wholly un~ pected and coming at the time it es, is an almost destructive blow tc e contractors and the owners of the tel who have made all arrangements complete the work and open the tel on January 15. Contractor Ong paying a forfeit of $50 for every day >m January 1, until the completed ilding is turned over to the owners, d the strike will, unless quickly ised, fall heaviest upon him. For eral weeks past the force of work n employed at the hotel have beer rking on Sundays in order to has a the completion of the building, d on last Sunday night the paintern o are working under WESley R~.yal Aiken held a meeting a2d orgon d a unian, agreeing at th3 time noi work on Sundays on the :;ame wagi Lle as during the days of the week. sterday the half dozen painters wht anized the union, were discharged Mr. Royal, and an indignatiot eting at which were galhered the 0 work men followed. Demand: re then made that Contractor Ong t only take back to work the dis arged painters, but that he also dis arge Wesley Royal, and when thi: L refused, the workmen struck at e man." The authorities shcou!c > the Sunday work i2 the hotel nev gets finished. Physicians aVanted. The United States civil service omission announces that an exam ation will be held in Spartanburi .nuary 27-18 to fill yacancies in th4 sition of~ physician in the Philip ne service at salaries ranging fron ,200 to $1800 per annum. Age limil to 40 years. Persons who wisl stand the examination should ap y to the secretary of the local board examiners for application blanks ich should be properly filled ou id forwarded to the Civil Servic< ymmission, Washington, D). C. Peculiarly Sad. Mrs. Herbert T. Ilames died a nesville in Union County last weel ter a few days sickness. This wa: deed an unusually sad death. Dr id Mrs. Hlames were married on thi ith of September last, just threi onths and three days. Mrs Ilame: as before her marriage Miss Fannia eCravy, daughter of Rev, and Mrs W. McCravy of Cro~ss Keys,an ved the greater portion of her lif' th her uncle and aunt, Col. an< rs TT. D. Floyd of Spartanburg. STEAMER WRECKED w ;I Swirling, Storm-swept Sea. Fifty d two People Drowned. Fr NOT A WOMAN OR CHILD SAVED, 1- for But it was Not th Faulit or the sai sai Brave Men on Board. Who Tried to Save Thim. ura u ni Boats swamped. ex d The steamer Claim of the Se-attli - I- Victoria Ileet went down eai"y Satu:- sur day morning midway betwe- a Smith, cei Island and Jungernress. in tl Strals C, ha : of Juan de Fura. ho Every wo nan and child a' oard t-e erc r Claim perisied. Within three niles c - of shore and at a time when it ap- for peared certain the ClaIm had been saved a desperate effort was made to I save the women and children in the life boats. They were placed in the th first boat to leave the ship whien Captain Lawrence, a Yukon pilot. th volunteered to command and which . was manned by deck hands. The frail - e craft went down within sight of the as Claim and a second life boat tilll] wa with male passengers and in com man - a of Second OUiicer Currin was probabi; beE lost a few rriautes later. wh Aboard the Claim watchers se. 1,5 waves sweep passengers from their , hold on the ieats and hurl them int) dui the waters. Though the life boat wa; . righted later, diligent search has of failed to fit d a trace of her. M'r, cre ) passengers and members of the crew am were lost when a third life boat was 9 swamped in an attempt to launch it. I Three passengers were pieked up b. tio ) the steamer Bahata who had fastene 3fn life preserve-rs around their bodies. col] > They had died from exposure and cha their bodies were brougnt to Seattle ) Saturday. wh. The ClaIm was a staunch new pas- pr )enger boat on the Seattle-Victoria pe run. She left Port Townsend for Vic- u toria Friday noon, facing a terrific Sta gale. When in sight of her destina- of 4 tion a huge sea overwhelmed the lit- coi tle steamer smashing in her dead cre lights, flooding her hold with water, $90 extinguishing the tires beneath her boiler and placing her at the mercy of TB a howling gale. Efforts to save the vessel being futile, the safety of the passengers, Co particularly the women and children, was looked after and all who desired were put off from the steamer in the '] ship's boats. so < The heavily laden boats were thrown pas about wildly in the choppy sea and On one after another, after succeeding in res getting away from the vessel, they of< were either swamp2d or capsized. The em terrible fury of the storm is attested the by the fact that not a woman nor child of all those aboard have lived to h tell the tale. An apparent discrepancy idT in numbers from the list of fatalities - following is accountable by the fact io that only such children as paid half- S-50 fare were enrolled in the passenger ea list. In the meantime word had come tha from Victoria of the vessel's predica- her ment and a fleet of powerful tugs were dispatched from Seatle to render commsandce. The Richard Holieke, in anc commad ofCaptain Rjbert Hall, was a the first to reach the ClaIm which hisl had by this time careened partly over his from the inrush of water which hadha put the engines out of commission. att The Hlolyoke reached the ClaIm about 11 o'clock Saturday night and about 1 a. in., succeeded in getting a hawser bhe aboard with which she started tosh tow the Claim to safety. The Claim took a heavy lurch and those remain ir~g aboard were com pelled to climb up the the side to safety. finally reaching thein roof of the pilot house. Without a moment's hesita: ion, theme life boats were lowered and ine workm of rescue commenced. At ti-is point liev the tug Sea. Lion, Captain Hlunter,pr arrived and her men rendered :aluablepr assistat:,ce. Before all the st -ugglin people had been taken off. t -e C apr commenced to break up and soon af pr terward went dojwn. All possible assistanpce to the rescued people wasde given by the two ship rnasters and bill their crews and thle two tugs hurrierd to Port Townsend. The passengers pr surviving and the remainder of the m crew then took pasage on the Dirngo' dee bound for Seattle.ex .A Strange Railroad Accident. ton One of the strangest railroad acci. cull dents on r ?cord, is reported from me Hammond. Ind. A hotel- keeper. Chas. ray Stahlixohm, was driving home on-3 'Jtl night last veek, and, coming to .t . railroad track, tried to drive his horse across ahead of the fast freight. Th-3 2 engineer did~ not even know that h i tria had hit an 'thing, but kept up th a for speed of hi ; engine until he pulledl the into a statiol tif teen mites beyond the Ha: scene. Theni he got down to oil his end engine an 1 vas lightly started to see cou Stahlbohm s tting on the cow-catchei, hell a whip in c-ne hand and the end cf at1 some reins in the other. lHe shoot Thi him a few times, and when the h~tel sai< keeper came to lhe asked where his dec hat and horses were. Hie did not me know that the train had made them cas into soap stoCk. sta -- -- Bre.pla The Augusta Chronicle says Mrs. eitl Charley Lane, of Poweiton, Ga., was ten frightfully and, perhaps, fatally burn- cha ed. at an early hour this morning. ILt seems that she had arose and gone down stains and while waiting i tor breakfast had kneeled before an b open fire in prayer. as was her custom- Eri While thus engaged hen clothing lar( caught fire and she was enveloped i1i ton nlames before realizing her peril. She tra made an effort to wrap some bed-cloth- nan ing around her body, but the tire whl burned so fast that the was unable to nat ext'guish it. She is quite young, be- 'of iog not over eighteen years of age, and gi. has been married but a few months. Tecrific F~xidmiion. Fourteen men were killed and sev eral were injured by an explosion say .Wednesday at :he nitro-glycerine do- o'cl Spartmenit at the National Explosive J. Sworks. eight miles from Penzance, anc SEngland. The whole district was en- uni Sveloped in a cl'oud of black smoke and ten .nearly every window at St. Ives, three hot i miles from the scene of theC explosion. a c Swere shattered by its territic force. ber i Many windows were also smashed at ma Penance I ro DRK OF THE CONSTABULAR iefConstable Hunmett 'Makes B Report to the Governrr. Thief Constable U. B. Hamme day sent to the governor his repo September, October and Nover of last year as compared with tl ne months of 1902. 'I deem it unnecessary," says M mmett, "to comment, as the fi ,s show for themselves, but I w >lain that the sales of the beer di isers have not been taken into co eration in this report for the re i that so few rep->rts have been r ved.I was not able to tg.re ju at their ;ales would amout t0. ve the best of reasons to beliov never, that there has. beer. na i ase of about :30 per ceat. 'I will add that the c:nstibulai ce is working smoothly and harm usly, and I have every reascn to I ased with the situation. Phe salaries and total 2xpemses, constables for the three monti 1903 were 815.607.96, wnile in 19( total was $13,138.93. Last ye 76 gallons of whiskey were seiz( against 2,519 gallons in 1902. T! ue of whiskey seizul s last y'.a s $4.114.50, an increase of 8244. r 1902. In 1903 853 galions r valued at. S407.44 wve seize< ile the 1902 seizures .mo*ited 1 44 gallons valued at 8741.3Z. Dhe total sales in the dispensz'rii ing these three mor ths in i, ounted to $868,724.32, an incceaf $112.865.38 over 1902. The it ase in the State dispensai unted to $90,448.29, the sales j 3 being $823,675.47. L comparative statement of prosec1 2s shows for 1902, 76 conviction! s of $6,491. of wbich $1.316 7vi ected, and 21 offenders sent to tt ingang, while last year thprs wei convictions, tines of. 84,920, ich $1,615 was collected, and ons sent to the chaingatig. 'his is Mr. Hammett's quarterl imary: Increase in cost of cot bulary, $2,469.05; decrease in valt eizures, $99.83; increase in sales < nty dispensaries, 8112,865.38; i. se in sales of State dispensarj ,448.29. E MEXICAN BOLL WEEVI] igress]Appropriates a Large Sua or Money to Fight It. be Mexican boll weevil, which wa lestructive to cotton in Texs th t year, is to be fought to a finist Friday the national house of rel mtatives raade available the sui '250,000 to be used to meet ti .rgency calsed by the ravages cotton botl weevil and other it :s and liseases affecting cottot measure had the support of bot s and was adopted without divif , The sum is diverted from th 0,000 aporopriated last year t licate the foot and mouth disease >ng cattle. Er. Burleson of Texas explaine t the bill simply diverted mone tofore appropriated for anothe pose and did not make a ;new a] priation. He urged :.the import e of the passage of the bill to th son growing sections, ,giving tt ory of the boll weevil and whati done. [r. Gillette, of Massachusetts calle mtion to another insect-th ptian moth-which had bee ight to New England and whic said was equally dangerous an' Lld receive attention with a vies itermination. [r. Robinson of Arkansas spoke fo bill. Mr. Slayden of Texas in urg its passage said he hoped the bi] Id not be jeopardized by amend t. [r. Gardner of Michigan said be be ed it would be establishing a ba :edent to pass the bill. tr. Gillette of Massachusetts offere amend ment for an additior.al a] priation of $250,000 for the eradica Sof the Egy ptian moth. 'he speaker sustained a point of 01 against the amendment aad th was passed without division.I vides that the sum matde availabl i be expended by the secretaryC iculture in such manner as he sha m best, in co-operation with Stat eriment stations and p.ractical col growers if the secretary of agri ure shall deem it advisable, t t the emergency carised by tb ages of the cotton boll weevil an er insects affecting cotton. A Grafter Escapes. t Omaha, Neb.. on Friday tb 1 of Senator Charles HI. Dietric alleged bribery, in cor. nection wit appointment of a postmastera tings, Neb., came to an abrui ,when the United States circui rt, Judge Vandevanter presiding I that Dietrich was r ot a senatt he time the alleged acts occurrec opinion was a lengthy one and to be a precedent. Upon thi sion, District Attorney Sun s entered a nolle prosequi in otho ~s against the senator, with ti ~ement that the constructio ~ed on the law by the court pri Sed further proceedings agains ier Senator Dietrich or Postmas Fisher, both of whom were di: rged. Forty-three Victimsq. 'orty-three persons have been kille he explosion of the boilers oni th ish cruiser Wallaroo. The Wa >o is a third class cruiser of 2. 5 s displacement used in the Auf ian service. She was former) ed the Persian. The Wallarot ch was proceeding to Hobart. sig ed Montagu island, 2:30 mailes sont Sydney. reporting the disaster bu. ig no dletaIs. Held Him Up. Sspecial dispatch to The Stat s Wedneslay night about eigh ock two raasked men walked int i. Dickson's store near Society Hi at the point of a gun made hit ock his safe and hand over the coi ts. something over $20)0. Bloot nds have been telephoned for ar rowd is preparing to hunt the rol s. Dickson is a respect able colore n and runs a large farmi three milt 'n town. A GOOD ROADS BILL It Calls for the Expenditure of Twen ty-Four Million Dollars. BUREAU OF PUBLIC HIGHWAYS. Outline o the Provisions of the Meas ure Just Introduced in the Senate by Senator Latifner. A special dispatch from Washing ton to The State says twenty-four mil lion dollars for good roads, to be ex pended at the rate of $8,000,000 a year during the next three years! That is, the amount of appropriation carried in the good roads bill which Senator Latimer of' South Carolina has just introduced. His bill sets forth a-i elaborate.scheme for federal aid of the good roads movement, for which purpose he proposes to estab lish in the depa; tenet of agriculture a bureau to b.- . nown as the bureau of public bigh y:)s. The object of this bureau, accord ing to the terms of the bill, shall be to cooperate with the- various States in the improvement and construction of permanent public roads in accord ance with the scheme set forth in de tail in the bfll. This bureau Is to consist of three commissioners to be known as commissioners of highways; two of them shall be appointed by the) president, one from each of the two leading parties; these to be men who have had practical knowledge of-road engineering and construction. The third mem-ber is to be an officer of the engineer corps of the army of rank not below captain. Each is to recef compensation at the -rate of ',000 per year for their servicr- These commissioners shall be urder the gen - eral supervision of tbyretary of ag - - -2 riculture. After the erpiration-of six months from the time of the passage of this act, any State, through the proper officers having jurisdiction of.public roads, may apply for aid in the im provement or construction of 'ublie roads, under general rules to be made by the commissioners. No State shall be entitled'to receive the bene fits of this act until it shall have es tablished to the satisfaction of the commissioners of highways: First. That the highway or sec tion thereof sought to be improved or constructed is of sufficient public use to come within the purview of this act, taking into account the use, loca tion and value of such highway for the. purpose of common traffic and ~* travel, and for the delivery of the mails. Second. That the requisite right of way shall have been secured. Third. That the highway will be improved or constructed in accordance, with the regulations of the bureau and when so improved will be main tained and kept in repair without re course upon the United States. Fourth. That the State has pro vided for the payment of its portion of the total cost. One half the expense is to be borne by the federal government, the other half being borne by the State, but it is provided that the States may dis tribute their portion of the expense among the counties directly benefited. It is further provided that no money shall-.be ad vanced by the United States in payment of its proportion of the expense except as the work of actual construction progresses, and in no case shall the payment or payments made prior to the completion of the work be in excess of 80 per cent. of - the work actually performed. To carry out the provisions of the bill an appropriation of $24,000,000 is provided, $8,000,000 for 1905, and $8, 000,000 for 1906. If any part of this is not expended in the year named it shall be available for the succeeding year. And is further provided that no State shall receive in any one year a larger proportion of the sum appro priated than its population bears to the total population of the States of the United States. Deadly Work of Dynamite. -- At the Lis -Laureles mines, west of Guadalajara, Mexico, a large num ber of boxes of dynamite stored in a powder house exploded Thursday, kill ing 20 men and injuring 40 others. Tie detonations were heard many mles away and an American mine owner, working in his mine three miles away, was killed by a falling rock that had been jarred by the con cussion. Details are lacking but it is reported that the disaster was caused by the explosion of a dynamite cap in the powder house. Mfiss Cleveland Dead. Ruth. the eldest daughter of Ex Presient Cleveland, died suddejilly. at their home at Prinecetown Thursday morning. Mrs. Cleveland, who ha been in poor health, is prostrated by the ..bereavement of the death of her daughter and her friends are alarmed. Her daughter's illness was not thought to beserious. She was about 1l years old. Mr. Cleveland issued this statement: "After a brief ill ness of tonsilitis, diptheria developed Thursday and Ruth died early Fri day morning." Gave Leg Bail. Nine negro prisoners escaped from the Wake county N. C., jail at an early hour Tuesday morning. Most of them were awaiting trial on charg es of larceny, but one was a federal prisoner, and another a prisoner awaiting trial for an alleged criminal assault on a white woman. He had been sent here for safe keeping. The escape was made by prying ofl a sec tion of a steel cell in the corridor and removing the bricks in the outer walls. There is no trace of the men. Enforcing the Law. The Columbia State says "the un lawful dealers in liquor in Columbia probably realize by this time that their remarkable activity in the last municipal campaign has not had the desired effect-through no fault of their friends, perhaps. The decent people of Columbia are opposed to the violation of any laws, and the dispen sary constables seem to be working under men who have not permitted themselves to be bought. There has certinly heen a remarkrahie chanoe. NEGROES TO GET MAIL. : Congressian Lever Wa:.ts Them to Receive Benefit of Rural Delivery. t A special dispatch from Washing rt ton to the Greenville News says until n. very recently the Post Office Depart le ment has ruled that the negroes of South Carolina were not to be con r. sidered as worthy of notice in the establishment of rural free delivery routes. That they are now counted s~ in this matter is due to the efforts of 2- Representative Lever. In e v e r y a- locality where rural free delivery was e- applied for, the inspectors, acting t nder orders fr:;m the Post Ollice De lartment, would make an adverse re port where there was not a certain number of white people, say about 75 per cent f the whole population. 0y Now. in the lower part of South Car e olina there are some black belts, and > the representatives from those dis tricts could get nothing but adverse reports on routes applied for in those belts. So Mr. Lever concluded to )2 make a -,pecial trip to Washington ir and talk the matter over with Fourth d Assistant Pastmaster General Bristow. e When he got there M. Bristow was r disposed'to laugh at him for his pains, 5 but in unmistakable terms Mr. Lever reminded the postal offlicial that be and his party had held up their hands in holy horror at the suffrage laws of 'South Carolina, and that if they per s sisted in not a lowing the negro free I delivery the country would be remind c : hat the R spublicans could force the negro do% n the South's throat, - but would not accord him the privi 1 lege of other ci 'izens when it came to getting mail; bat they seemed to think the colored man fit to vote but not to receive his practical service s from the government. .Mr.'Bristow e was too smart not to see the logic of e the position of the South Car:linian, and not to realize that his party would not look well -19 such a light, so now matters are being handled -otherwise I in South Carolina. e THE ALLIANCE CASE. >f Supreme Court Dismissed the Appeal in Receivership 3atter. . The State says the celebrated Brookshire case came up in the su n preme court Friday and an order was issued dismissing the appeal. The case is all in a tangle, certain members of the Farmer's alliance seek .e ing for the appointment of a receiver I. for the funds of the Farmers' Alliance >. exchange. n The supreme court Friday issued te the following order in the now famous >f Brookshire case: 1. "The order of Judge Gary made at i. chambers, from which this appeal was h taken, provided for the appointment ;- of a receiver unless the defendant cor e poration entered into a bond in the o penal sum of $33,000, with sufficient s surety. "It is agreed by counsel on both d sides that the cond provided for in y the order of Judge Gary (pursuant to :r section 265, subdivision 8, of the code - of civil procedure) has been given by -the defendant corporation and approv e ed by the clerk of the court of comn e mon pleas for Richland county with t in the time required. It is therefore the opinion of this d court that the hearing of this appeal e is unnecessary, as the entering into n the bond on the part of the appellant b vacated the order of Judge Gary in so i far as the appointment of a receiver v is concerned. "It is therefore, upon motion of the r appellant's attorneys ordered that the -appeal herein be dismissed." 1 Stopped the Train Five hundred striking miners of the Merchants Coal company in Somerset Scounty, Pa., gathered at Garrett, Saturday night and held up a special atrain carrying ab~out sixty negroes to .the Bosell mines of the company, on . the Berlin branch of the Ba.timore and Ohio raihtoad. The switches .were naised do . n and under but one e consideration were the men willing to t permit the engiine and cars to be e switched upon the Berlin branch. rThis consideration was that the cars Sbe emptied. By this time the negroes were in a terrible state of excitement and many of them jumped through the wirdows and made off. The min o ers made no attempt to injure the ne e groes, bait were determined that their d importation into the iield should not be accomplished. Robbed of Huge Sum. e Chicago mus'. be an awfully wicked h place. With rersons busy in offices h all about him. David' Freedman, a tjeweler with oflices on the sixteenth tstory of the Masonic Temple building, was held up by two men Wednesday and robbed of S4,:300 in currency; dia Smonds and wa ches. A dagger was pointed at Freedman's heart and he swas threatened with instant death, s he says, and forced to go down on his -knees and open his safe. The men r forced their victim to open bis safe as Le well as the show cases containing the n jewelry. Hie was then locked in a small closet used as a lavatory. No tone saw the marauders, their quick Iintimidation of the jeweler being fol lowed instantly by drawing down the curtain covering the large window looking out of the Masonic Temple Irtu d An Engineer Killed. .In a collision between two freight 1trains on the Atlantic Coast Line at S.Orange Pa'rk, Fla., at 5 o'clock Friday afternoon, Engineer Tim Welsh of Vtrain No. :332 was killed. An extra freight train, southbound, ran into the engine of No. 3:2, northbound. has the latter was backing into a blind t siding. Both engines were badly damaged. No one besides Welsh was injured. Bad1 fOr a Preacher. tAt Winchestor. Teno.. Rev. B. A. SCherry has been found guilty of sub 1 ornation of perjury and sentenced to Sthree years imprisonment, Hie was charged with an attempt to collect in sarnce for furiture alleged to have dbeen burned but which he really never possessed. lIc brought his brother dinto the case uiider an assumed name, sand induced him to make a false affidavit and for this he was indicted.