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VOL. XVIII. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JUNE 22,1904. NO.40 Six Hundre In Fire i On Buring Steamer at New York They Perished. MANY CIIILREN VICTIMS Although the Steamer Was Not Far From Shore, Fire and Wave, in Few Minutes Claimed Many. One of the most appalling disasters in the history of New York, tragic In its immensity, dramatic in its episodes and deeply pathetic in the tender age of most of the victims, took place Wednesday in the East river at the entrance to Long Island sound, within a short distance of the New York shore and within sight of thousands of persons, the majority of whom were powerless to minimize the extent of the catastrophe. By the burning to the water's edge 1 of the Gen. Slocum, three-decked ex cursion steamer, the largest in these waters, more than 600 persons, the majority of whom were women and children, were burned to death or < drowned by jumping overboard or by being thrown into the whirlpool by the lurching of the vessel and the frantic rush of the panic-stricken passengers. It is the season of Sunday school excursions in New York bay and Long Island sound, the latter one of the most picturesque bodies of water In the cotuntry. Great preparations had been made for the 17th annual excur sion of the Sunday schoolof St. Mafk's German Lutheran church the congre gation of which is drawn frorh the dense population of the lower east and west sides. and the Gen. Slocum had been chartered to carry the excursion ists to Locust Grove, one of the many resorts on Long Island sound. THE NUMBER ON BOARD. It is variously estimated that there I were between 1,500 and 2,500 persons i .n board the Gen. Slocum when she i left the pier at Third street, East I river, though the Kinckerbocker I Steamship company, which owns the Slocum, oicially states that the num- d ber of persons was'873, that being only one-third of the vessel's capacity. It is thought however, that there1 were several hundred children in arms,i for whom fares are not usually charg ed on these trips, on board. The scene on the decks of the steamer as she proceeded up the East river was one of merrymaking, custo mary on such occasions. The mass of: flags fluttered in the June breezo, the bands were playing and the children were singing, dancing and waving handkerchiefs and flags In answer to the salutations of those on shore or 1 from passing steamers. On the ex 1 treme eastern end of Randalls island, cff 135th street, there is a stretch of water known as the sunken meadows. At this point, just as crowds were watching the gaily decorated steamer from shore, the Gen. Slocumn took fireC and as the age of the vessel-she was built in 1891-had resulted in the well seaning of the wood with which she was almost entirely built, she was soon a mass of flame. The flame is said to have broken out in a lunch room on the forward deck by the overturning of a pot of grease. The wind was high and all efforts to ex tinguish the blaze were futile. 1rOR NORTH BROTHEE ISL.N]D. At 134th street there are several lumber yards and oil tanks and as Capt. William Van Schaick, in com mand of the Gen. Slocum, started to turn his vessel towards the shore there he was warned that it would set fire to the lumber and oil and so he chang ed his course for North Brother island, one of the twin islands near the en trance to the sound some halt a mile away, where the boat partially burned was beached. She sank near that place at 12.15 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, two hours and 25 minutes after the fire was discovered. In the meantime the passengers had become panic stricken and those who were not caught up by the niames rushed to the rear of the vessel and hundreds jumped overboard into the swiftly running waters. It is alleged that the life preservers were too se curely fastened to their holdings to be available and stories are told of fran tic efforts made by strong men to cut them loose but even if they could have been torn down they were too high up for the children to reach. It is also reported that no attempt was made to get out the fire apparatus at the~ first cry of "fire" though Capt. Van Schaick says-that he immediately rang the bells for getting out the appa ratus. According to several state ments no attempt -was made to lower boats or life rafts. Capt. Van Scnaick and his two pilots, named E ward Van Wart and E. M. Weaver, have 'been arrested. An Old Sinner. Meyer Guggenheim, 77 year, old, a mnulti-millionaire and a great grand fatner, has been made defendant in a breach of promise suit, in New York. Damages are fixed at $100,000. The possessor of $50,000,000 is a very at tractive person. BY the way, what right men who have been persistent bolters when things did not go to suit them to de mand that there be no bolters when isa do go to suit them? d Die md Wreck. THE STORY IN DETAIL. ;cenes of the Unspeakable Agent on the Doomed Ship. The three-decked excursion steamer xeneral Slocum, of the Knickerbocker teamboat company, burned to the ater's edge Wednesday off North rother island, East river, at the en ;rance to Long Island sound, resulting n the death through burning or rowning of at least 600 persons, most- t y women and children. Four hundred d forty-seven bodies had been recov- 1 ,red Wednesday night and divers were tt work taking bodies from the hold A the steamer. The remains of many >ersons who leaped into the river have iot yet been found, and it will be t nany hours before the list of dead is t tnywhere near complete. f The Gen. Slocum, one of the largest cursion steamers in these waters, eft Third street, East river, at 9.30 )'clock Wednesday morning, having on c )oard the annual Sunday school ex ursion of St. Malk's German Luther ,hurch, located in Sixth street. Her f estination was Locust Grove, one of he many resorts on Long Island ound. The excursion was in charge of lev. George C. F. Haas, pastor of the ,hurch. The vessel was commanded by Japt. Wm. Van Schaik, one of the )est known excursion boat captains in ew York harbor. He has commanded C bhe Gen. Slocumn for almost the entire ime since she was built in 1891. The iumber of excursionists on board Wednesday is variously estimated at 'rom 1,500 to 2,500, but a-cording to 6n official statement issued by the 1 Knickerbocker Steamboat company, wners of the Slocum, the number of assengers was 873, that being one hird of the vessel's licensed capacity. CROWDED WITH MERRYMAKERS. i The steamer, after leaving her dock C Wednesday morning proceeded up the N ast river, all three of her decks being :rowded with merrymakers. Bands N layed and the great sidewheeler was e ecorated with flags from stem to tern. s The Slocum had reached a point t iear the sunken meadows off 135th treet, Manhattan, which is at the ex- 1 reme eastern end of Lansdalls island, c hen fire broke out in a lunch room on t he forward deck. The blaze was aused by the overturning of a pot of resse. The headway of the vessel and high wind almost instantly fanned a he insignificant fiame into jury. Ef- l orts were at once directed to subduing he fire but they were futile. The blaze pread after with almost lightning rap dity. Capt. Van Schaik, in the pilot iouse, had been informed of the out C )reak of the fire, and realizing the dan- a ,er to the hundreds of excursionists, lecided to send his vessel to shore at S .34th street. At this point there are umber yards and several huge oil C anks and the captain was warned thatt o attempt to land at this point would ndanger the property and perhaps urther imperil the scores of peoplet ho had already been frightened into s state of almost uncontrollable excite- r nent. CHANGED COURsE. Changing the big steamer's course lightly he headed for north Brother sland, half a mile away. By this time he flames were rushing by leaps and e ounds from the forward part of the hip at.s The great open decks, built for the xcursionists, with little obstruction rom bow to stern, cffered a clear weep for the fire. As the Slocum Lashed forward the flames caught 1 tanchion and cabin woodwork eatinga 2d tearing their way across the yes- I The excursionits, but a few mo- I nents before in the full enjoyment of I u ideal summer's day on Long Island 11 ound, were driven to the after part f the' steamer to escape the heat, 1 lames and smcke that were constantlyC ncreasig. Policemen and deckhands 1 Loard the boat struggled hard t'>1 uiet the panic, but the efforts wereC .n ain. The wild disorder increased as ~rantic mothers sought to find ther hildren, who had been at play about he decks. The steamer's whistle was blowingi ror assistance and tugs and other near-< by craft answered the cal]. Before any a the boats could reach the burning1 steamer, however, the frantic women and children began to jump overboard. The current was strong and there are many whirlpools in the channel. The boats that always bound in the vicini ty picked many persons from the water, but these were only a small number of those that were seen strug gling in the current.' On the Slocum the first sweep of the flames cut off escape from the hurricane deck, where a great many of the women and children were crowded together, and soon burned away the light wood of the uprights which came down with a crash on those below. It is thought that most of those on the hurricane deck were burned. CROWDED THlE RAIL. As the fire increased the struggle to gain a point of vantage at the stern became frightful. Women and child - ren crowded against the after rail until it gave way and hundreds were pushed off into the river. After this there was a steady stream of persons who jumped or werte thorwn into the [continued on page 4] ] Horse Claim Allowed. A dispatch from Spartanburg says Congressman Johnson has received notice through the war department that a Confederate horse claim has been allowed to J. A. Gallamore of Greenville county under act of con gress of Feb. 27, 19J02. After the sur-i render of Lee, Mr. Gallamnore had a horse stolen from him by the umion soldiers. The money will be forwaried by the department in a week or two Congressman Johnson has many simi 1reaim pending. WORLD'S NOTABLE DISASTERS. rhe Burning of the Slocum One of the Most Heartrending. The burning of the steamer General 3locum, on last Wednesday morning, ith a loss of probably more than 500 Ives, is one of the most heartrending lisasters of recent times. The guests )f the big steamer .were nearly all >hildren and women, going upon their Lnual Sunday school picnic. Such a catastrophe cannot fail to -ecall the recent holocaust in Chicago, vhen at a matinee on the last day of E903, the Ircquois theatre, just csm >leted, was seized by the fire fiend and n less than thirty minutes more than 00 people, largely women and chil tren, were burned to death, and more han 400 others were maimed for life. Such disasters call to mind the ,heatre fire of Richmond, Va., in 811; the burning of the Conways rook playhouse in 1876, and the fiery lestruction of the Paris theatre a few rears ago, in which the leading actress nd many others lost their livEs. While such catastrophes are horrible o contemplate they do not approach be horror of other disasters by fire, Lood and volcanic eruption. All will recall the eruption of Vesu 'ius in A. D. 79, which buried in sand .nd lava Pompeii, Herculaneum and ;tabiae. The lossof life was 150,000, ,nd the cities have never been rebuilt. Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, suf ered an eartbquake in 1755, which ft the city in ruins, and took 60,000 ives. Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, st 12,000 lives from an earthquake 1812. Manila, Philippine Islands, was vis ted by an earthquake in June, 1863, ausing a loss of nearly 10,000 lives. Certainly the mest destructive fire a the history of this country, if not a the world, was the Chicago fire of )ctcber, 1871. Beginning in a barn a DeKoven street, it spread with ightning rapidity, and raged for two lays and nights. It swept over 2,100 .cres, destroying 17,450 buildings he exact number of the deaths has ever been ascertained, but it went ato the hundreds; 70,000 people ne-ffth of the entire population vere left homeless, and property vorth $190,000,000-one-third of the alue of the entire city-was destroy d by this fire. Bostcn had a fire in 1872, which de troyed 50 acres of the business sec io Uat a k ss of $75,000,000. The Johnstown, Pa., flood in May, 889, was a frightful disaster. The am across South Fork, a branch of he Conemaugh river, 12 miles east of ohnstown, broke, releasing Cone naugh Lake, whose waters thundered [own the valley, engulfed Johnstown ,nd neighboring viilages, causing a ss of 2,235 lives and $10,000,000. On September 8, 1900, Galveston, [ex., was th'e scene of a great flood. L West Indian hurricane, with a 'elocity cf 135 miles an hour, swept ver the .ity and flooded the streets, ,nd in less tian five bouls destroyed 000 lives and prcperty valued at 18.000,000. More recent still was the eruption fMont Pelee on the Ibland of Mar inique, French West Indies. On fay the 8tb, 1902, the mountains elched forth and overwhelmed the own of St. Pierre at its base with and and lava which overran the sur oundirg country, and destroyed 30, 00 pecple. On August 8th, 1902, Mt. Pelee rupted again and 2,500 lives were Every one recalls the recent cyclone if Gainesville, Ga., and the burning >f the Park Avenue Hotel in New ork, each disaster causing so much uffering and the loss of life, in the atter 157. Well Worth Seeing. One of the most interesting ex ibits among the many of all kinds ,t the Louisiana Purchase Exposition n St. Louis is that of the Winchester epeating Arms Company, of New aven, Conn., manufacturers of re ~eatng rifles and shotguns and all :inds of ammunition. The exhibit as in readiness and was opened on he first day of the fair, a fact that learly illustrates the enterprise and ip-to-date methods of the company ehind it. It is the aim of the Win hester Repeating Arms Company to how at their exhibit the high develop nent which they have reached in the naking of guns and ammunition, and ne needs only to see the exhibit to ealize how near to perfection that Ievelopment has come. There can e seen the new automatic repeating -ife all kinds of shotguns, the modern ~mokeless powder shotgun shells and ie cartridges; in fact everything ,hat can interest the devotees of hunt ng and trap and tra and target shoot .ng. Don't fail to see the exhibit t the Manufacturers and Fish and Jame Buildings. It's well worth iour while. Killed a Tyrant. Gen. Bobrikoff, governor general of Finland, was shot and mortally wounded at 11 o'clock Thursday morn ing at the entrance to the Finnish senate at Helsingfors. The assassin, a man named Schaumann, a son of enator Schaumann, immediately commtted suicide. Bobrikoff was shot in the stomach and neck, three shots being fired, one of which inflict ed a serious wound. The attack is ascribed to Finnish patriotism. The last recorded act of Gen. Bobrikoff was in March of this year, when he issued a proclamation forbidding the people to darken their vwindows at unusual hours." People who chose to go to bed before 10 o'clock at night were subjpet to heavy fines. Thais step was due to tbe neglect of the Finns to illuminate their houses in honor of the beginning of the war with Japan. Life Crushed Out. At New York one of the big auto mobiles used to take sight seers about the city, ran over and killed an elder ly unknown man in Broadway Thurs day night while memters of the mer ry party were laughing and singing. Before the body of the victim could be taken from under the car several of the women passengers became hys terical and had to be lifted to the ground, while others jumped down nnd ran way from the scne. FATHER KILLS SON The Youth Plans to Frighten the i Elder Man by Playing Bandit WAYLAID HIM IN LONELY SPOT I And Is Killed Before He Can Cry Out. Father Plunges a Knife Into the Boy's Heart. At Riverside, N. J., Frank Rein ecke, a boy of sixteen, played that he was a highwayman Wednesday night and did it so realistically that his fatner, whom he held up, plunged a e knife Into his heart, killing, him. Intercepting his parent in a lonely spot upon the banks of Rancocas Creek fe suddenly stepped from behind a bush, telling Reinecke, Sr., to hold up a his hands. The next instant he was I lifeless. t Thursday the father is raving in delirum, and it is feared that he may never recover from the shock. The mother and sisters are prostrated, and I the little community mourns the v death of a popular youth. d Half a dozen holdups have occurred t at Riverside and the adjoining villages f within a month or so, and the resi- Q dents have been generally arming b themselves. The place is on the Am- a boy division of the Pennsylvania Rail road, but twelve miles from Camden. d and large numbers of tramps pass 1 along on their way to and from Phila- b delphia and New York. The recent crimes have been attributed to these b wanderers. S: Frank Reinecks conceived the idea t that it would be a fine thing to mas- b querade as a highwayman and fi ighten a his neighbors. He carried out his n idea and succeeded in making half a dozen staid residents jump fences and scuttle for home within a week. Thursday night he tried the experi ment upon his father, Walter Rein ecke, a well-to-do insurance agent of that place, whose home is on the out skirts of the village, above the bariks of the creek, in a lonely spot. Father and son started out early in g the evening, the older to transact some business at the village fire company's b house, of which oiganization he is a member, and the boy to visit his v young friends, Willie and Laura u ellock, who live near the Reinecke t home. On the way the youth regaled o his father with 'storiess of recent 'I holdups. f When 10:30 p. m. came Mr. Rein- u ecke started for home. He was ap- 81 prehensive, remembering that he had 1 recently had words with a negro, who bad threatened him. He also remem- h bered what his'boy had told him about r highwaymen, So be drew a large v knife from his pocket, cpened the v blade and walked on with senses on f the alert. Young Reinecke had been d watching for his father. . He was si peeping out from behind a bush that v stood beside the path in the loneliest ii part of the roadway. The trees grow thick there, and the black water of p the creek is just below, making it as t: loneley and daingerous a spot as can a be imagined. Just as the elder Relnecke reached d he shadow a dark figure stepped into t he half gloom and a hoarse voice C ried: "Bold up your hands. Now n 've got you."d At the same instant the figure laid fast hold upon the frightened man's t oat sleeve. With a cry of terror the ' father lunged forward and buried his 2 knife in the breast of the supposed b highwayman, who sank to the ground c gasping, "Oh! Father!" a -The voice iof the boy recall d the b anuished father to a realization of the il awful thing that he had done. With a cry that was heard far off by neigh- a bors the distracted man fell on his s knees beside the body of his boy and b besought him to speak. He raised the I head of the boy only to find that he was already dead.t Sustain Heavy Lose. A dispatch frc m St. Petersburg says f Emperor Nicholas has received the fol- a lowering telegram from Lieu. Gen. Baron Stakelberg. "A battle began 1: at noon ari~und the Russian position s four and a half miles south of the sta tion of Wafanhoon (Vafangow), the enemy making repeated artempts to i dislodge our left flank. The attak was repelled and we retained our position. I The tirst regiment occupying the left fank of cur position sustained severe losses. Its comtmander, Col. Khavasa tounoff, and A djut. Sub-Lieu. D'ragos laff Nadochinsy were killed. Gen. ' Gerngross was wounded, a sharpnel bulet shattering the right side of thee lower jaw, but he remained On the 1 ield."1 A Woman Lynched. At Lebacon Junction, Ky., Maria Thompson, colored, who Wednesday night killed John Irwin, a wealthyC whte farmer, was taken trcm the jail Thursday and hanged to a tree in the jail yard. She weighed 255 pounds and the rope broke. As she ran away 1 the mob tired a fusilade after her un til she fell and was left for dead. The officers, however, found signs of life and removed the women to a physi can's office, where it was found that she had been shot in several places and could not recover. Ir win had re proved Maria Thompson's boy who worked for him. Afterward Maria came into Irwin's melon patch and slashed Irwin until he was dead. 1 Three Killed in Duel. At Bryan'sville, Ind., three men are dead and t wo wounded, one fatally, as the result of a pistol tight on the,1 streets of that village Tuesday. The I dead are James and Charles Rout and Milton Tow. James Tow is fatally1 wounded and Frank Two is badly urt. The fight was the culmination of a feud between the Rout and Tow families. Deadly Hot Supper. Tuesday night at a hot supper and1 dance given by the colored people of Walterboro, Gus Green, btcoming jeal ous of William Haynes, deliberately pulled his pistol and shot him dead. Green was captured and lodged in jail a 2 o'clock next morning and this fact enabled the officials to discover so early that Adams and Stephens had BREAKS JAIL. Adams, Murderer, and Another Pri soner, Piled Their Way Out. LN APPEAL HAD BEEN DENIEI and Adams Was Awaiting a Re-sen -tence. The Sheriff and a Pome Are Pursuing the Escapes. A dispatch from Walterboro < he State under date of June 14 say! uite a sensation was caused it Valterboro Tuesday morning when 11 vas known that R. A. Adams hac scaped from jail. Adams was con icted for the murder of Henry Jaque .nd sentenced last June to be hanged lis sentenced was stayed pending at ,ppeal to the supreme court, whict ,ppeal was dismissed. Adams was t< iave been resentenced at the nex erm of court, which meets the firs1 fonday in August. At 2 o'clock Tuesday morning whet rus Green was brought to jail b3 oliceman Johnson a'rope of blanket ras discovered hanging from the win tow above the portico on the side o1 he jail. Upon investigation it wa ound that Adams and a negro, Jaspe Itephens, incarcerated for larceny ad filed through one of the iron bar nd escaped. Deputy Sheriff Henderson imme iately started in pursuit, but so fai o traces of the escaped prisoners ha een found. Adams is about 5 feet 10 inche. igh, weighs about 145 pounds, darl kin, dark hair and eyes, with mous ache and a long, sharp face with veri eavy jaw and large neck; fast talking nd winks eyes rapidly while talking, ervous and quick movement. * WEATHER AND CROPS. L Few Isolated Sections Still Suffer Ing from Drought. Mr. J. W. Bauer, section director, ys in his weekly report of the crops, athered from correspondence: The week ending 8 a. m., June 13, ad a mean temperature of 75 degrees, rhich is about 4 below normal, due tc early normal tempeiatures during be first four days and abnormally ool weather during the last three. he cool weather was accompanied by resh to brisk northeast winds and nusually low relative humidity. The anshine was normal in places and be. )w in others. The greater portion of the State ad from one to over two inches of sin on three days. The upper Sa annah valley had less than an inch, rhile in parts of York county and a w small areas in other sections the rought is unbroken and crops are affering for moisture. Streams are ery low and many wells are failing 3 the central counties. A destructive wind and hail storm assed through Pickens county; the rack of the hail storm was about hall mile wide and all cros in this path rere destroyed. There were als0 amaging wind storms, in Spartan rg and Sumter counties, and hail curred at various places in the orthern- and northeastern counties, ing some damage to crops. The weatber was generally favora le for cultivation of field crops, but rith large areas where the ground ras too wet to work and where fields ave become foul. As a rule, corn, otton, tobacco, rice and minor crops re clean and well cultivated, and ave made marked Improvement dur ag the last week. Corn made steady improvement ir 1 parts of the State, and, althougla mall, is growing nicely and hasa Lealthy color. Earliest corn is being id by. With few and unimportant excep ions, cotton has now attained full tands, although somewhat irregula nes as to size. The plants are smal or the season, but have good colo: ad are growing nicely. Lice are re orted from Abbeville county. Squares ave been reported from nearly al ections, and a few blooms have been Lted in Orangeburg county. Ii ilaces fields are becoming foul. Sea land cotton shared in the genera rprovement, and now has full bul rregular stands and good color. Tobacco impproved and Is bei 'primed." Rice planting continues nd the crop is making satisfactory ~rowth. Wheat and oat harvest i earing completion; the yields oj vheat are best in the extreme west n counties and only fair to poor ir he central ones. The oat crop I >est in the eastern counties, wher n places the yields are heavy. Lat ats show some Improvement. BotJ rains have been housed in good con ition, where cut, with only slieh1 lamage from the rains. * It Was Brutal MXurder. The State says Nathan Truesdale mcle of the negro killed at Oloud' reek on Saturday week, swore out warrant before Magistrate Little al aluda on Wednesday for Sion Miller Foe Miller and Russel McCormick Chursday the Millers and McCormic] urrendered themselves to the sherif Lnd are now in jail. The Miller boy: tre 22 and 23 years old, respectively, tnd McCormick looks to be the ounger of the three. It was state( ~hat McCormick did the shooting bu he report cannot be confirmed. Thi 1me of the Miller boys is not fa: prom where the homicide occurred ~vhile McCormick halls from Lexing on county. He joined the Mille oys at Batesburg and was going on isit to his brother, whose home is i his county. It is not known whethe tpplication will be made for bail o ct. The older of the Miller boys i narried. At the Top. The Columbia State calls attentio1 o the fact that of the six "star" stu lents graduated from West point thi rear, one is from Virginia, one eac] 'rom Tennessee, Mississippi and Colc ado, and two from North Carolina hey are all southern boys except one mnd their records are good cause- fc pride In the section they have so wel represented. It is really an unusus ihwing. WILL BE A CHANGE. Mr. Fred Wannamaker Will Appoln New Civil Service Board. The Columbia State says: Upoi the retirement of Mr. A. P. Wilsoi from the postofce to seek health o: his farm near the city a negro name Nix was appointed to succeed Mr. Wil son as secretary of the local board c civil service examiners. The appoint ment has been the subject of com plaint, and Congressman Lever ha . succeded in having him removed. The objection to this colored ma may be best stated by an example Recently a young lady informed Dr Ensor that she wished to stand th, . examination for stenographer in thi government service. She was referre to the secretary and with indignafioi she refused to stand the examinatioi when she found that the person t whom she applied and to whom he papers should be submitted is a negrc This incident, among others, wa brought to the attentiou of Mr. Lever It was also brought to his attentiao that white men as well as womel were ref using to go before an examin ing board the secretary of which is negro, and as a result the postoffic was being filled up with negro clerk and carriers. When Mr. Lever took the matte: up with civil service zommission, h was told that the commission had de cided to create a southern departmen with headquarters in Atlanta an with Mr. Fred Wannamaker in charge Friday Mr. Wannamaker was in th, city for a short while and promise Mr. Lever to give the relief asked for It is not known who will be member of the new board, but they will b employes of the federal government of course. The appointment of the loca examining board has been made bi the commission in Washington upoi recommendations from Columbia, an it is understocd that Dr. Ensor di not recommend the negro's appointr ment, but in a way approved the pro posed appointment when his opinioi was asked. Mr. Lever says that thi change will not cause Dr. Ensor an3 worry as the efficiency of the posta service in the city may be promote thereby. The postmaster employ his clerks and carriers from a list o eligibles and this list is made up wit] the exact standing of every applicani standing examination. If nona bul negroes apply, none but negroes wil be appointed. Mr. Fred Wannamaker, who is tA to be secretary in charge of the fifti or southern divison of the civil servic commission, is a native of Orangeburg and conducted a newspaper before go ing to Washington where he was givex an appintment in the office of thi civil service commission. His promo tion has been rapid, and this last recognition from the department is 2 matter of gratification to his friendi in South Carolina. Udeer the new plan, the local boards of examiners will be abolished in ever3 town in the State in the district The manager of the division, in thih case the fifth division, will have unde him a force of examiners. Thes4 pexaminers will be sent to every towi or city where examinations are to b4 held, and at the conclusion of the ex aminations, the papers will be sent tC Atlanta, instead of Washington af has heretofore been the rule. Unde: the new rule, the work of holding thi examination will be greatly simplified Instead of each place having its loca board of examiners, an examiner wil be sent from the division headquar ters and the examination papers frori all the States in the division will hi sent to Atlanta instead of Washing ton, thus doing away with the con fusion. Oaused a Panic. At New York in a panic among thi passengers in a Brooklyn car on the Fulton street line Friday nine persona received severe injuries, most of then requiring attention of physicians The panic was caused by the blowinj out of a fuse while the car was runnini at a high rate of speed. The fron latform and for'vard part of the cai were at once enve3loped in flames, an< the passengers made frantic efforts ti escape. Many jumped, others werl pushed off the car and others fell an< were trampled on before the the,ca: could be stopped. Nearly every pas senger sutfered -some injury. Mrs Julia Calman, 24 years old, with six months old baby in her arms, wa pushed from the car and received fractured skull, a broken ankle an< severe concussions of the body. Th baby was unhurt and was found aslee! in the mother's arms, by an ambulanc physician. No Cause for Alarm. The State says Mr. Kert Berie, th United States Civil engineer and ai chitect, has about completed his es amination of the capitol dome and es pects to leave for Washington Wed nesday. Hie will report to the gove1 nor from there next week. Mr. Berl would not say whether he would re a port the building safe or unsafe, by that does not signify that from th a examinations and investigations h .has made so far that it Is or is not. I -merely means that he Is guarded i E expressing himself before he report i formally to the governor. He did say Showever, that there was no cause fc Simmediate alarm. He is said to hav expressed the opinion that the nei i work is shoddy by comparison wit a the old. Whether this will be brough a out in the report, however, cannot 12 r said. Reward for Adams, r Gov. Heyward Wednesday offered a reward of $500 for the capture of E a A. Adams, who escaped Monday nigh2 r from the Walterboro jail. Adam is r white man, who was sentenced las a June to bang for the murder of Henr Jacques. His appeal to the supren: court had been dismissed and he wa to be resentenced at the August tern of the court. sNegro Child Killed. b At Simpsonville Tuesday afternoo Jim Thompson, a 6-year-old negi .boy, while playing with a pistol shc , and instantly killed a 6-months-ol r infant in the arms of his young sis L ter. The ball entered the infant l head and grazed the breast of tb2 ong negro holding the child. Japs Claim Sweepi - JAPS LOSE TERE SHIPS. f . The Loss in Lives is Estimated at - One Thousand. A dispatch from Toklo, Japan, says 1 all doubt as to the sinking of the transports Hitachi and Sado by the Russians has been removed. Three i hundred and ninety-seven survivors of a the Hitachi have arrived at Moji and 1 153 survivorsof the Sado have arrived i at Kokura. Details of the destrue tion of the two transports and the y full extent of the casualties are not r obtainable. A later dispatch says details obtain g able from the survivors of the ill-fated Japanese transports show that the Hitachi and the Sado met three Rus i sian warship near Iki island at 10 . o'clock Wednesday morning. The Russians fired on the Japanese ships and stopped them, and soon afterward they torpedoed and sank the helpless transports. The captain of the Sado and several other men were captured. More than 100 men escaped in the - boats and landed at Kikura. A message has been received here from Hagi say ing that the survivors of the Hitachi had drifted north to Shimonoseki and a been saved. The transport Izum is I still missing. It is reported that the transports Hitachi and Sado carried only.1,400 a men. If this Is true, the loss in lives is probably less than 1,000. The transports, however, had many horses L and large quantities of supplies on board. The steamer Katsuno was sunk off jMoji Friday night as a result of colliT I ing with the steamer Yamatokan. Both vessels were on their way to Tiescu to rescue the survivors of the transports Hatachi and Sado. A STEAMER BURED. L The Highlander Totally Destroyed by Fire Near Georgetown. The State says "Manager T. D. Love of the Highlander was greatly surprised and profoundly shocked Thursday night by a telegram which came to him at midnight from Capt. J. C. Smith saying the boat had been burned 25 miles above Georgetown. The telegram gave no particulars and nothing is known here as to the origin of the fire. The telegram was dated Georgetown and simply said: "High lander lost by fire 25 miles above Georgetown. Total loss." "The boat was on Its way to George town at the time and had no cargo. The vessel was practically new, hav ing been built only three years ago, and was valued at $12,000. It was in sured for only $3,000, with J. H. Boatwright & Son at Wilmington, N. C. Although the telegram says "total loss," Manager Love Is of the opinion that much of the machinery may be saved. The loss falls heavily on Mr. Love--he and not the Chamber of Commerce being the owner. "The Highlander was the first and only -boat on the line the Chamber of Commerce instituted this spring to give Columbia water connection with the coast. The business has steadily increased since the first trips, and ar rangements had just been made for hauling cotton, which would greatly relieve the situation and for which the Chamber of Commerce had been working for several months. Just what steps will be taken to put an other boat in commission on the river cannot be said at this time, but there is no doubt but that this will be done as quickly as the Chamber of Com Smerce can make the arrangements." Many Lives Loot. A dispatch from Santiago, Cuba, says the worst storm of a decade begat Friday and culminated Monday night In 14 inches of rain which fell in five hours, accompanied by a hurricane. The lower village of El Cobre has been Sdestroyed. Forty-five persons are known to be dead and scores are mis Ssing. Bodies are floating in the Cobre . river. Twenty bodies have been recov ered by boats patrolling the bay. All Lthe bridges on the Cobre railway are Sout and many bridges have been lost Son the Cuba railway. A train which Sleft Habana Saturday is held between Swashouts for eight miles inland. A re Slief train bringing mail and passen Sgers was wrecked at Moron. The fire man and mall agent were- killed and two of the employes 'were injured. The passengers are safe. The mines at e Daiquiri are crippled and six of the - employes have been drowned. The pie] has been damaged. The city's proper ty loss is enormous. ..Negro Cotton Mill Failed. e The Columbia State says: "The Wilmington Messenger calls our at t tention to the fact that the defunct e Coleman cotton mill, the failure o: e which was lately noted In these t columns, was not only operated but a owned and managed by negroes. It s that case we do not think that the ,evidence of the negro's failure as a r cotton mill hand was as conclusive as e in the case of the Charleston mill, v which was financed by white capital a and managed by skilled white cottor t mill men. The case of the ColemaK e mill is, however, equally interesting in another way." in A Cow's Maw. a At Aiken while slaughtering a bee: .on Saturday, Messrs. Lamer & t Thorpe's butcher found a lady's goic a clasp bracelet in the animal's maw, t The bracelet is of 18 karat gold and y is a handsome piece of jewelry. Th4 e cow was purchased with a bunch of s cattle from a Tennessee market. How n the animal happened to absorb suct valuable food is of course hard tc guess. ________ Little by Little. oOver a billion five-cent fares were t paid last year to the transit companie d of New York city. Fifty million dol s lars! Paid in five cents at atimle! .A ' veritable confirmation of the "little e drops of water, little grains of sand' * tachingr ing Victory. Left Five Hundred Rus sians Dead on the Battlefield. LOST FOIJIIEEN ENS. Russians Wanted to Attack Jap anese Left, But Was Fore stalled, Forced Into a Defile and Routed. A dispatch from Toklo, Japan, says the Russian hope of relieving the pres sure on Port Arthur by threatening the rear of Gen. Okui, the commander of the Japanese forces investing the Russian stronghold, came to an end Wednesday at Telissu, a point on the railroad 50 miles north of Kinchou and 25 miki north of Vafangow, when the Rusians were out-manoeuvred, en-c veloped and sweepingly defeated. The left more than 500 dead on the field and the Japanese captured 300 prison ers and 14 quIck-firing field guns. Te Russians retreated hastily to northward. The Japanese charge that the Bus-,- t - slans violated the Japanese flag. tain officers aver that during fighting a body of Russian soldiers peared carrying a Japanese flag and that the Japanese artillery, decived' by this flag, ceased firing on that par ticular body of Russians. Official dis patches fram the Japanese command-v ers made specific charges of this flag violation. Early estimates of the Jap. anese losses at Telissa say that 1,000 men were killed or wounded. The. Japnese attacking.force was dividef int 'right and left colums and began the advance on Tuesday along both sides of the railroad. They en. countered the Russians east of Vafan den and drove them back. At a late hour in the afternoon the Russnan held a line between Lung Wang and Ta Fang Shen. The Japanese aI tillery opened on this line and Russians responded. The shelling tinned 12 hours and It wis Molow i by the advance of the Japanese line td a position extending- from Lung Chia Tung to Yu Hotun. Darkness put- an end to the fighting. The Japanese dis patched a column to the westward to ward Fu Chan for the purpose of cov ering - the Russian right wing and to - protect their left and rear. During the night it became ap pearent that the Russians were being re-enforced and so decided to make a general attack in the morning and force the Russians Into a defile back of Telissa. When morning cameit was - discovered that that the Russians held a line extending from Ta Fang Shen - to Cheng Tsu Shan, with a force esti mated at more than two divisions. The Japaus planned to envelop the Russians n aTalissa and they suc ceeded admirably. While the main Japanese force was moving north along the railroad col ums were swung to the left and to the right and finally converged at noon on the main Rnssian position. The Bus sans in this position were at a dis advantage, but they held It with de - termination until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. At this hour they were routed. The Japanese cavalry continu ed to pursue the enemy and probably inflicted severe punishment. BUssIA ~s ADMIT DEFEAT. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says Emperor Nicholas has received the following telegram, dated June 16, from Gen. Kuropatkin: "I have received the following dis patch from Lieut. Gen. Baron Stakel berg, dated June 16, 12.20 a. mn.: "'Yesterday I had intended to at tack the enemy's right flank but just as our troops had been assigned for the purpose and were beginning to successfully envelop the enemy's right lank, the Japanese in their turn at tacked my right flank with superior forces and I was compelled to retreat by three roads to the north. "'Our losses are heavy, but they are not yet completely known. "'During the engagement the third and fourth batteries of the first ar tillery brigade were literally cut to pieces by the Japanese shells. "'Of 16 guns, 13 were rendered completely unseless and were aban doned. "'The conduct of the troopis was excellent, a large proportion of them refusing to retire until after they had - been repeatedly ordered to do so.'" The Russians deny that there 'was anything in the nature of a rout. The enemy had over four divisions in action._________ Lynched by Negrees. News has reached La Grange, Ga., that an old nergro by the name of Jonah Wcods, who lived in the coun try near Texas court grounds In Heard county about 25 m11les from La - Grange, was lynched by other negroes. Wood was a deacon in his church and a pious old negro. It is said he dis covered a number of negroes playing "craps" and threatened that he would report them to the grand jury. After wards the church was burned down and two days later, while plowing in the fields, he was seized and strung up to a tree nearby. Negress Kills White Wornan. News was received Tuesday of the lling of Mrs. Halliday, a white wo man, by Addle Smith, a negro girl, at LoachapAta Monday night. The slayer was caught as Notasulga, a small town near Montgomery. A large crowd soon gathered and fearing violence the sheriff of Lee county took the negresn o Tuskegee for safe keeP 'Ing. The woman acknowledges kill-*3 Ing Mrs Holliday.