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VOL X.S VOL. XIX. M1ANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUS' ,105 O4 AN ADDRESS In Which Attention is Called to the Cotton Scandal. ISSUED TO MEMBERS Of the Southern Cotton Association In Reference te the Recent Disclosur es of Fraud in the National Ag ricultural Department and Work Accomplished. President Jordan and Secretary Cheat-ham of the Southern Cotton as sociation Tuesday Issued a statement addressed to the members cf the asso ciation calling attention to the recent disclosures in the cotton statistIcal work in the department of agricul ture, declarivg that efforts are being made to divert attention from the "deficiencies" of the system itself "to the thieving propensities of a few un worthy officials" and setting forth de mands to be made on congress to re form conditions. The ststement fol lows: "To the Members of the Southern Cotton Association: "The members of the association have been apprised through the public preEs from day to day of the work done by the caolers of the association at Washington. As a result of their charges the unreliability of the reports of the department of agriculture re lating to the cotton crop has been ful ly disclcsed, and the mal-administra tion of thatdepartment under its pres ent head had been made evident. "Following these exposures, efforts are now being made to divert public attention from the main issue, which is, the imperfections of the depart ment, toward an attempted prosecu tion of anybody who can be found as a scapegost. Their punishment, even if it is accomplished, is of second ary importance as compared with the reformation of the system which has made their performances possible, and the purpose of this address is to secure the co-operation of the members of this association in influencing in every legitimate way a reformation of the system, and a reorganization of the department. "The membership of this associa tion, numbering nearly 1,000,000, in cluded the producers of the most valu able product of American agriculture. The cotton crop of the United States, and its by-products is worth between $600.000,000 and $700,000,000 annual ly. It furnishes two-thirds of our an nual trade balance, and in its produc tion and manufacture employs many million individuals. No other product of the United States Is of greater or of equal importance. The practical monopoly of cotton which America enjoys, and the narrow balance which has existed for years between suffi ciency and scarcity in the world's cot ton supply, render the cotton market peculiarly and acutely susceptible to the reports of the department of ag riculture regarding the condition and prospects of the cotton crop. "Under the present circumstances a great duty devolves upon the members of the association. We are less con cerned with what has been done by a few individuals and the c:ansequences thereof, regrettable as that they may be, than with such reformation of de partmental methods as shall secure for us j.1st and ac'urate reports in future. Under the system at present In vogue, and which promises to be undisturbed unless public attention shall be aroused to the need of reform, the reports Issued by the department of agriculture are, in their last analy sis sinmply the individual opinion of a few cficials of doubtful experience and honor by which the value of the cotton crop may be, and has been, affected as much as $75,000,000 in a single day. "No such power should be delegat ed to any individual, or statistical board, except under cot ditions whicn. guarantee the must itcorruptie ex pert and intelligent opinIon, arrived at by the application of the most scienti~o methods and safeguarded by the most scientific precautions. It is, therefore, urgently recommended to the members of the Southern Cotton association that through their repre sentatives in congress, and by every other means avaliable to them, they exert their influence and that of the association toward securing the im mediate reorganiz3.tion of the agricul tural department, especially with re ference to its repor ts on the cotton crop, and that their representatives in congress be requested specifically to demand: (1) Tue establishment witn In the department of agriculture of a bureau, to be known as the cotton bureau, charged specially and solely with the duty of reporting upon the cotton crop and all matters concern ing that staple. (2) the appointment as the he-ad of that bureau, at an ade quate salary, of a man whose reputa tion and antecedents shall oe beyond reproach, and whose familiarity with cotton cultivation shall be an addi tional guarantee of his fitness. (3) An organization of the bureau so estab lished upon thorcughly scientific lines, as will insure no possible bias icifavor of either buyer or seller, or producer or manufacturer can be pre supposed or asserted. (4) The passage of a law that will be more specific in its scope. and under which government employes can be prosecuted for giving away or selling valuable information as has been done in the statistical bureau. "We have no doubt of the zeal of the of~csrs of the department, but it seems to be as misdirected in this crises as it was In the antecedent per iod. All the powers and irnfluence of the depatrtmenlt, of the lawyers and of every man of the government seems to be devoted to the attempt to drag net a lot of irresponsible speculators. That there have been for years leaks in the department is as well known to the trade as the existence of the de partment of itself; but these are In sinmiant as compared with the fun damental mismanagement. At thia time, however, there is a manifest en deavor to divert attention from thi radical errcrs and deficiencies of thi department itself to the thieving prop ensities of a few unworthy ciflcials. Let us not be mislead by any such misdirccted energy. Let us reform ai the top and not on the side. Let u.; root out the offenders, cleanse the per sonnel, change the methods and ren novote the department from root tc branch. Then the cause of catton and good government will alike be servec in Rooseveltian fashion. (Signed) "HARVIE JORDAN, "President Southern Cotton Associa. tion. "RICHARD CHEATHAM, 'Secretary. FORGOT TO HANG XURDRRR. man Convicted in 1869. Has Just Died Natural Death. Howard A. Cleveland Is dead at the state prison at Thomaston. after hav ing been confined there since 1869 under sentence of death. For some rea. son, never explained, the sentence was not carried out, nor was it annulled or modified. It seems to have been forgotten, and Cleveland lived on until he died a natural death. The case was one of the most re markable in this state. It was the only murder ever committed in Orrington. The records show that Cleveland was indicted for the willful and malicious murder of Warren George. A verdict f guilty was rendered in 1869. Cleve land was sentenced to death. Before fixing the day for the execution, the governor and counsel submitted the following question to the Supreme Court of Maine: "Did the jury, by its verdict, find Cleveland guilty of murder in the first degree?" The jury has merely declared Cleve land guilty of the crime whereof he stood indicted. The indictment's in tent was plain, but there was some difference of opinion among the jus tices as to whether the man hAd been legally convicted of murder In the first degree. Then .the council passed an rder "that the government be advis ed to stay the execution of sentence until further advised." The case then seems to have been dropped by the state authorities. The sentence was never commuted. lst why no attempt was made to car ry the sentence into effect does not appear. Since 1814 the laws had left the execution of the death penalty in a measure to the discretion of the ex ecutive, without limit of time. The responsibility was so great and the sentiment against the death penalty so active that at one period there was no execution in this state for nearly thirty years. In 1876 the death pen ,lty was abolished altogether. In 1883 the death penalty for murder was re established, but in 1887 it was again abolished. A GHOST STORY. The People of a Georgia Town Very Much Exercised. A dispatch to the Atlanta Journal ays the neighborhood known as Roa. oke, which is located about one mile rom Fitzgeraid, Ga., is very much xcted over the appearance of a sup osed ghost. It made it appeararnce for the first time last Sunday night ini he family of H. Sharp. It gave an xhibition that thoroughly alarmed he family. It appeared in the kitchen and fairly made the house ring with nusic from a dish pan. Mrs. Sharp ppeared on the scene and hIs ghost hip disappeared as if by magic. On eaving the room the music again com enced. This time Mrs. Sharp returned with te same result. She thought to bribe r. Gaost so she left a piece of money on the table and left the room. Again he dish pan danced about and the iihes rattled as though an earth iake had taken place. Mr. Ghost did ot accept the price off ered for his de arture, but instead walked about the lace. Oni approaching It, it disap eared and would bob up at a distance. hooting at it had no effect whatever. Monday night crowds of people vis ited the place from the neighborhood ad the city. Some claimed to have een it at a distance. From the waist p it was dressed in white. At times t seemed to be floating in the air near he grcuod. Again it would lean aganst a tree or fence. Sometimes it would appear as though approach ng the parties, but before getting in peaking distance it would disappear o bob up at some other point. It has nly visited the Sharp family, but is laimed that several neighbors have seen it. A lady from the north died In the neighborhood about a year ago and er husband disposed of their house old effects and returned to the north. Among the things so'd was the dish~ pan that has played the leading role in this story and has caused this fami ly much worry and fright. It is thought by some that this pan should be buried at the grave of the deceased and then the spirir. will confice his ghostship to the graveyard where he properly belongs. Wild Mlan Caught. A nude crazy man, who has beer hiding in the woods alongside thE Naw Jersey and New York railroad tracks, south of Hackensack, N. J., for the last few days, was capturec early Wednesday morning by Con stable Jacob Dunn. He had made a wreath of twigs and tied it around his waist, but it offered little protec tion. His body was a mass of scars from head to foot. He was nearll exhausted The wild man said he was John 'Vincent Gallagher, and that his home was in Hloboken, where he said his brother William lived in Wil low street. Beyond this Gallaghe: could tell nothing about his wander ings. He has the initials "J. V. G.' tattoed on his arm. Constable Dunt found it necessary to get clothes fron people living near where Gallaghei was captured, in order to dress the stranger before taking him to the jail there.......... Killed by Train. Mrs. Ellen Carnes, aged 24, wife o Rbert Carnes. of the Mancheste: mills, Bock Hill, was struck by a trali on the Southern road on Tuesday a a wae and Istantly killed. A DEADLY BOLT. Five Persons Killed Outright and Nine Injured IN A THUNDER STORM On Coney Island. Storm Plays Havoc With PeoDles' Nerves. Men, Wo men and Children, Terrified, Seek Shelter in Bath House Which Was Struck. During a thunderstorm of terrific intensity which passed over New York Sunday afternoon five persons were struck by lightning and instantly killed and nine were seriously injured at the Pa.rkway bath house, Ciney Is land. At the same time one man was killed and three were prostrated at Gravesend beach. Those killed: George Dunwoodie; Buffalo; Jacoo Frankel, Manhattan; Robert F. Wasch, Bronx Borough; Charles Bennerle, Brooklyn; Henry Ransweller, Brooklyn. The injured: David Willis, James J. Dunne, Tina Chrilstiansen, Harry Krohn, Clara Thiel, Mary L. Curley, Isaac Raffe and wife, Amelia Schone, Wm. Ransweller, John Apple, Daniel McCauley, all of Broklyn. The Parkway beach was thronged with bathers and spectators. The rain descended in torrents and hun dreds of men, women and children sought shelter under the big giant bath hcuse, which is elevated above the sand on piles. The lightning was incessant and terrific thunder claps shook the bath house to the terror of the crowd huddled together beneath it. A few minutes before 5 o'c1cck a bolt struck the flagstaff and grounded in the very thickest of the crowd. gearly 50 persons were prostrated and the rest, screaming with terror, rushed out Into the storm. Those who had remained in the water were also panic stricken and fled in all di rections, not daring to enter the bath house, which appeared to be on fire Ambulances were summoned from all the nearest hospitals and on their arrival five persons were found dead and nine unconscious under the bath house. The bcdies of all were scorch ed. The nine injured were remcved to a hospital, where it was said that some probably would die. Many per sans less seriously hurt were taken home by friends. A slight fire in the bath house was quickly extinguished by the rain. Henry Ransweiler was struck and killed while sheltering under a tree at Gravesend beach and his son William, with John Apple and Daniel McCau ley were rendered unconscious. Light ning struck at various points in the city. A store in Flushing avenue, Brooklyn, was burned anid a car in Sixth avenue, Manhattan, was set on fire, but the occupants escaped un hurt. The electric light and the tel ephone wires in Bellevue hospital were struck several times, extinguish ing all the lights and causing much alarm among the patients. Not Allowed to Joke. The yellow fever liar is to be made to suffer in Charleston, as he Is pun ished in other communities, the board of health having Wednesday memor ialized- city council to pass an ordi nance meting out severe penalty to those who think that there is some thing funny in joking about the fever. There is no yellow fever or even the most slightly suspicious csse, and the board of health does not propose to have the jokers joke about It. There is a class of people in every community ready and disposed to joke on matters of serious moment, but time is to be called on the fever jokers in Charles ton, for it Is not intended that they should be allowed to jest about a mat ter of such concern to the city. Shoe Dead by Rival. Maurice Francis, a well known young man of Roancke, Va., while on his way to visit his fiancee, Miss Grace Link, In Floyd county, Thurs cay, was shot from ambush and killed. He was driving In a buggy, and was within one mile of his desti nation, when two loads of shot and slug hit him. He lived long enough to say that his assassin was John Rich ards, a young school teacher, who was a rival suitor for Miss Link's hand. Richards was seen in the vicinity with a shotgun just before the murder, anid has no; been seen since. A posse is scouting the county searching for Richards, and lynching is openly threatened. Both men were mem bers of well known familIes. Rich ards was a medical student at the University of Virginia during the last session. Fever Causes Panic. Since a report of a suscicious case of fever at Texarkana, Texas, a sort of panic is seizing some of the towns and counties In northeast Texas and shotgun quarantines are being put into effect. Gregg county has givcen orders that trains shall not stop in the county either from the north or south and that all stations must be approached with doors locired and windows tightly close, while all car doors in freight trains must be sealed whether the cars are empty or loaded. The terror appears to be spreading and railroad odicis~s fear serious re sults. Crushed to Death. Robert W. Criswell, editor of a weekly publication, who was arrested recently on a charge of criminal libel, preferred by Representative Joseph L. Rhinock of Kentucky, was killed Thursday night In New York by an express train at the Seventy-second street station of the suo~way. The libel charge against Criswell grew out #of the publication of an article reflect ing upon Mr. Rhinock and censuring rRepresentatives Nicholas Longworth rof Ohio for having Introduced Miss SAlica Roosevelt to the Kentucky con gressmnan during the visit of the presi deant's augnehter in C"incihnnati. SAVES A TRAIN Filled With Passengers from Awful Doem and When Offered High Education Her Fearful Love Marries Her to Prevent Her "Growing Up a Lady." Little Nannie Gibson, a 15-year-old mountain girl, saved a whole train load of people from being dashed down the mcuntain-side in front of her home in the mcuntains of North Car olina not far from Asheville. In recognition of this heroic act, the Southern railroad promised her a college education. Her mountaineer lover, finding it out, married her by stealth, in hopes to prevent her going. Her future is now depending >n a suit for divorce which her father is bring ing for her. Nannie lives in the mountains, 20 miles east of this city. The dream of her life has been to receive an educa tion and grow up a lady. Its realiza tion had always seemed to be as far away as the skies. Now it seems to be at hand, and she has been simply d-,zed by the fairy-like prospect. It all came about one day when Nannie discovered that a landilide had blocked the track at a sharp curve of the S uthern railway near her home. Even as she looked there sounded the whistle of a passenger train thundering down the mcuntain. Nannie met the emergency by send ing Patty Gibson, her 13-year-old sister, down the track to guard against the remote possibility of a wreck from that direction. She chose the post of danger, iunning with all her might to meet the coming train. When it drew into sight she frantically sig naled the engineer to stop. He hesitated. But her earnestness was so great that he realized a diss ter was imminent. The airbrakes were applied and the train brought to a standstill with a sharp j At only a few rods from the blockade. When he saw the danger big Con ductor Weaver snatchei her up in his arms and swore sh was the bravest girl in North Carolina. Grateful pas sengel2, learning of their narrow es cape showered her with money. As a preliminary tribute the company in a day or two sent her $25. The railway offcials, however, rightly surmised that to a girl reared in the freedom of the mountain wilds money meant little. So one of their number was delegated to visit the cabin in the hills to ask Nannie the momentous question: What did she most desire in the world. Nannie's little face, tanned by a southern sun and wind, turned pale. Tnen her story came out in a little gush of tearful words. She didn't want money; she didn't want clothes, for her father, with growing pride in his pretty daughter, had made sundry trips to Asheville and returned with wonderful "creations" of white and unwonted shoes and stockings; but she did want an education ;and to row up a lady. The papers are now going the ounds of the railway cffiaials, with one favorable recommendation after aother, and it seems as though Na ure's great wish is to be gratified. Tere is one serious obstacle in the way, though it will probably be re oved. Nannie has been married. She had a lover, Abe Smith, an pen faced, laughing, careless moun .aineer, eight years older than she. n almost startling contradiction to :h1s burly swagger and incessant ciga ette smcking is his gentle, caressing voice and his courtecus and kindly manner. To this sturdy mountaineer the realizatio)n that Nannie was going to leave for years, probably and that e might lose her, was unbearable. He must marry her and prevent her oing.. He sent a friend to town to et a marriage license. Then with he friend for a witness and a magis trate for the ceremony he went to Nannie's home one morning when he knew her father was away and mar. red her. Little could Nannie have to say, for in the absence of her father he knew no law except that of her impetuous lover. The enraged father was quick to action. He caused the arrest of Smith and the man who had prccured the license on the ground that Nannie was not of legal age. He also began mit to have the marriage set aside. Upon the success of this suit will de pend largely whether Nannie is to get an education, the one great dream of er life. Four at a Birth. The Florence Daily Times says that H. P Brown, manager of a large mer on tile company at, Gourdin, says that his little town has been brought into prminence through the agency of none other than a negro woman about 28 years old, who Wednesday startled that community by giving birth to four children, all of whom at last ac counts were living. The woman is the wife of Louis Green, who is today a much prouder man than a poh~ce man in a bran new uniform. Mr. Brown remarked in telling of the var us remarkable fact, that is such kept up the labor question in Gourdin would be effectually solved. Sen; Papers Back. Lieut. Lally of the Detroit detec tive department has recolved a mys terious package which contained checks, notes and other important pi pers aggregating in value about 825 000, belonging to the Crystal Salt Company of St. Clair, Mich. The ofices of the company were robbed several weeks ago and the papers stol en, together with what money could be lccated. It is supposed that the uglars found themselves unable to dispose of the valuable papers, and, deciding to return them, shipped them to Lally. They have been sent to the firm in St. Clair. Desperado Caught. Chas. Long, the Trenton negro mur derer and outlaw, who for the past couple of weeks has been hunted through the swamps and woods near Plainfield, N. 3., was captured about 10 o'clock Wednesday morning by the police. He was captured while plow i~g on the Van Hize farm, which kirts the diamal swamp. COLD IN DEATH A New York Broker's Body Is Left in His Hall WHERE HE IS FOUND By His Wife, Who May be Made a Maniac by the Shock. The Dead Man Had Been Robbed of a Dia mond Setting in a Ring that he Wore. New York has another murder my! tery. Brought home in a covered ex press wagon and dumped in the vesti ble of his house by two express men, the body of James A. Clary, a real estate broker, worth $250,000, was found Thursday by his wife when she returned from a shoping trip. The wife stumbled over the corpse as she entered the vestibule and is now on &he verge of insanity. An investigation of the case was be gun immediately, with the result that there is a strong suspicion that Cleary was murdered. He wore a two and a half carat diamond ring, which some one had tried to tear from his finger. Cutting the finger, but failing to get the ring, the robber took some instru ment and bent back the prongs of the ring, stealing the diamond. The case is a deep mystery, and a half dozen detectives have already been put to work on it. Coroner's Phy sician Riegelman believes Clary died of alcoholism, but his friends say he drank but little, and the doctor has not yet held an autopsy, and conse quently the police are not willing to accept the alcoholism theory. The circumstances surrounding the return of the body to the Cleary home n the express wagon were partially leared up, but the detectives expect that before they get through they will learn enough to show that mur er was committed. Cleary, who was forty-two years old, was in the real estate business with wo brothers at No. 196 Varick street, and lived at No. 1224 Woodycrest venue, the Bronx. He had made a reat deal of money in the Bronx om, and is widely krown. Thursday morning he left his home as usual and Mrs. Cleary went out. he returned at 1 o'clock and as she ntered the vestibule she stumbled against the door. Throwing the outer loor wide open to let the light in she was horrified to see the body of her husband. "What's the matter with you, Jim," he asked, anxiously, dropping to her knees. There was no answer. An odor f whiskey was in the vestibule. She hook the body for a moment and then relt the face. It was cold. "Oh, Jim, you're dead!1" she scream ad, rising and rushing from the vesti bule. The horror of the situation had awned on her, and her shrieks brought the neighbors to the windows, and in , few moments dozens of them were t her side, trying to quiet her. A hysician was summoned by a neigh bor, who thought she had gone Insane. Finally some one entered the vestibule, and, seeing the body, understood. Former Police Captain Brown, who ives directly across the street, was In the crowd, and he bogan an investig ation at once. It was learned that an express wagon had backed up to the door and a child had seen Cleary car ried up the steps by two men. A search for the expresi wagon was begun at once, with the result that Harry Black, of No. 58 Sedgwick aye e and James Wilson, of No. 2455 ghth avenue, were found to be the men who had carried the bcdy up the stoop. At first it was thought that these men could tell the story of how Cleary had lost his life, but after hear. ug their stories the police accepted their statements. They both admit ted carrying the body Into the vesti bule and leaving it there, saying that they believed Cleary was intoxicated and that they were doing him a kind. "We were driving along Ogden ave nue," said Black, "when we saw Cleary sitting on a low stoop in front of a candy store at No. 1154 Ogden ave "I happened to know him by sight nd thought he ought to be home. We looked on it In the light of a joke to take him home in an express wagon, so we lifted him into our rig and drove to his hotse. "Carrying him up the steps we rang the bell and waited for some one to nswer, but there was no one at home, nd after making him as comfortable as possible we left, never having the slightest suspicion that It was any thing but a case of intoxication." Both men were closely questioned about the ring but they denied abso lutely knowing anything about it. They said they had not noticed if the diamond was in It. or if the finger was injured when they found him. They said they were positive that he was not dead when they left him, and that he was breathing heavily, ike an intoxiested man. Cross-exam ination failed to bring out any further information. Tneir story was partially substan tiated by others who saw Cleary on the candy store stoop, and thought he was intoxicated, and the express men satisfied the police that they had told all they knew. Chandelier FelL. AtbCarleston one of the four large heavy chandeliers, containing about 50 gas jets with glass shades, fell Thursday afternoon from the dome of the custom house to the marble tile fioor beneath with a mighty crash causing great consternation among the officials and clerks In the building, The fixtures were broken and some of the tiles damaged. Fortunately no one was passing in the lobby at the time. The chandelier was probably held In place for these many years by the gas pipe which had corroded and refused o bear the weight a.ny lnone. TU JNED LOOSE@ Aaron Williams, Colored, Who Was Convicted is Xow Discharged. The End of an Important and Signi ficant Case in Which Lynching Was Once Threatened. A special dispatch from Camden to The State says last year the county, especially the portion Kershaw coun ty bordering Sumter county, was thrown into great excitement on ac count of a reported case of rape, which was said to have been committed upon a Mrs. Langley. white, by one Aaron Williams, a negro, of the pure Afri can type. Very peculiar circum stances surrounded the case. The citizens became indignant and threat ed lynching, and Aaron Williams un der protection of law was escorted to the penitentiary for safe keeping. The tusband of Mrs. Langley com mittsd suicide. Aaron Williams at the February term of court was brought back and placed on trial for the offense. He was without counsel, and by appoint ment of the court, Hon. W. B. Trantham, of the Camden bar con ducted his defense. The jury con victed him upon the testimony of Mrs. Langley, and he was sentenced to bs hanged. From the testimony de veloped In the case and the circum stances connected with the affair, many of the very best white people of the county believed in the innocence of Aaron Williams, and a petition was gotton up and submitted to Gov. Heyward asking for a reprieve'until satisfactory proof could be procured, which would establish the fact that Aaron Williams was not guilty of the charge. Aaron Williams was without money, but he was not without friends and their efforts in his behalf suceeded in having the execution of the death sentence stayed, and the case came up before Judge Prince at the April term of court at this point for a new trial on after discovered evidence. Judge Prince from the showing made very promptly granted Aaron a new trial, and his case was placed on the docket for trial last week. When the case was called for trial the witnesses for the prosecution were not present, Mrs. Langley, it is claimed, having absolutely refused to appear any more in court to testify against him. She now resides outside of the State. It was impossible to secure a conviction in the case without the testimcny of Mrs. Langley, and as she is now be yond the jurisdiction of the court, and cculd not be brought here against her will, and she having sent word that she would not come, it has re sulted practically in the acquittal of Aaron Williams, for he has been dis. charged without bond from the cus tody of the sheriff. He is now a free man to go wheresoever he may desire. After Aaron's conviction, the white people in this community who be lieved in his innocence had the law firm of Clark & Von Tresckow to look after the accused negro's interests. When the case was called for trial on the session's side of court last week Messrs. Clark & Von Tresckow de manded a trial for their client, and the State not being in a position to try it because of the absence and re fusal of Mrs. Langley to come here, the attorneys had spread upon the minutes of court their demand for Im mediate trial, and this under the sta tute entitled Williams either to a trial or his discharge, as he has been con fined in jail over three terms of court. Juige Ernest Gary Thursday after noon signed an order which liberates Aaron Williams from jail on his own recognizance under the section of the stat-utes above referred to. This ends the case which created so much dis cussion at the time In the newspapers, and the man who has been living in the shadow of the gallows for nearly a year is now free. This case is one of the best exemplification and justi fication of the moral plea of letting the law take its course that nas ever come under the observation, know ledge or information of the writer, At the time of the alleged commis sion of the assault Aaron Williams came very near being the victim of a mob, and a few weeks later he stood up in court, pleaded for mercy and heard the death sentence pronou -iced upon him. Today he Is breathing the life of a new man with no restrictions on his movements, inclinations or peregrinations. The D)ifference. Apropos of the recent race riots in New York, The New York Tribune is~ frank enough to say: "We are given to criticising the lawlessness which in southern communities leads to race vendettas and wholesale lynchings, but in the south such outbreaks usually follow some fiagrant crime and aim at punishing known or suspected crimi nals. In Friday's disturbance this excuse as a resort to violence was wholloy lacking. On trivial grounds, or without any grounds at all, whites attacked blacks and blacks attacked whites. Both classes seem to have acted on the merest impulse of race prejudice and race rancor." Called Oat the Militia. At Visolia, Cal., it was necessary to call out the local military company Wednesday night In order to protect private property and restore order. The trouble started by three fires which were accompanied by pillage followed by determined efforts on part of citizens to protect their property by force of arms. While the fire raged, different parts of the city were in darkness, during which time thieves got busy. The total losses by fire are about $30,000. Country Boy No Fool. A boy sat on a rail fence enclosing a corn field. A city chap passed by, said: "Your corn looks kind of yel law, hub." "Yep, that's the kind we planted," replied the bub. "It don't look like you will get more than a half crop," said the city chap. "Nope; we don't expect to; the landlord gets the other half," retorted the young ster. The stranger hesitated a mo ment and the yentured: "You are not very far from a fool, are you, my boy?" "Nope, not more'n ten feet," said tue boy, and the city chap moved n-X. AWFUL EXPLOSION Which. Carried Instant reath and Destruction Over Wide Area. Remarkable Accidents Due to Flying Iron and Rock. Woman Blown Into River. Man Scalded. Exploding and flying high In air, a big boiler of the New York city sub way tunnel palnt'near the North river recently scattered jagged iron and in jury for blocks around and left in the ruins behind it a man scalded almost to death. Brave volunteers answered his calls for help and forced their way to him and out again through heavy steam and rain of minor missiles from the sky. He died later in the J. Hood Wright hospital. Oher men, too, were carried out, two of them near death, and there were other rescues in stranger places. One of these was of a woman whom the concussion lit erally blew into the river, another a motor boat race to a hospital with three wounded boys. One b:zarre effcct of the blast was the t%.ppling into the river of forty bath houses that floated away, leaving twoscore of bathers in a predicament as to clothing and homeward journeys that only night and a deal of charity solved. The physical shock of the ex plosion was felt for a mile around. Its after effects were felt by the whole ity. It stopped all work on the west branch of the subway, the rcck tunnel under Washington heights. The boiler was one of four in a long sheet iron power house that furnished light and ,ompressed air for the deep rock work Lngsof the uptown subway. The ex plosion destroyed the other boilers Lod much of the machinery and set )ack the completion of that section .ndefinitely. A former accident, a ave-in, had already delayed -the work ieriously, but it had been planned to )pen the subway to its uttermost limit n the fall. The cause of the explosion was not lefinitely know, but two men were laced under arrest. Had the acci lent occurred on a week day, with nore than 500 men working in the iunnel, there might have been great oss of life. Air would have been shut if from the workers. The explosion ccurred in what is known as Mc [abe's power house, which lies just ast of the New York Central tracks. Chree years ago McKabe failed and old out to a man named Hunt, and Lfter that John B. McDonald, the ;ubway contractor, gained control of he works for the purpose of finishing ,he long subway tunnel at that point. The power house consistedot a sheet ron building the length of three city ots and running back a distance of .50 feet. Four tall chimneys rising ifty feet in the air stand at the cor. ters of the building, which contained >esides the compressing plant and lynamos a battery of four eighty iorsepower boilers, and it was one of ihese which blew up. It was just at 6:30 o'clock that the quiet of the Sun lay afternoon was broken by the ter ific roar of the bursting boiler. It w'as followed immediately by an up ising cloud of dense black smoke, hrough which pieces of rook, stone 1,nd steel shot up as much as 300 feet n the air in all directions. The shock was felt over a mile away, where folk on the cars to and from l'ort George .were almost shaken from iheir seats by the concussion. Patrol nan George Kethman was on duty rear the scene, and, instantly realiz .ng that a great accident had hap ,ened, he telephoned first to police 2eadquarters and then to the 3. Hood Wrignt hospital for ambulances and can to the water front. Before him whbat a second before had been a great, strong building was nothing but a oroken and twisted mass of smoking ruins, from which came shouts and screams for help. "Let me out! Let mue out!" shricked a voice from the very center of the wreckage. "I'm boiling to death! Do anything! I want to die! I want to die!" By this time a large crowd had gathered near the smoking ruins, and as the agonizing cries broke out afresh scores of faces blanched. Three men jumped forward and pressed ttneir way Into the building toward the screaming man. As they disappeared ia the smoke and dust women who were present called to them to come back and not to risk their lives in what seemed to ba vain hope. For awhile nothing was heard of them, but after several minutes they were seen to emerge from the steaming clouds bearing in their arms the body of a colored man practically stripped to the skin. He was Joseph Morgan, a fireman, who had been in the pit stoking when the boiler exploded. With the exception of some shreds of underwear Morgan was naked. His head and body were Scalded in a dozen places where the boiling steam had caught him, and one arm was stripped of flesh almost to the bone, yet the man was conscious. His screams only made the work the harder for his res cuers. He was laid on the ground and after a few minutes was whisked off to the J. Hood Wright hospital, where he lingered in agony until early morning, when he died. The men who braved death to saye him were Edward L. Byrnes, Albert Hildebrand and Andy Marshall. These men im mediately after getting Morgan to safety turned back again to help the other poor wretches who had been caught in the building. Meantime in the vicinity of the accident other persons had been hit by the flying rocks and iron plates and more or less injured. One of the worst sufferers was Edward Altensea, a thirteen-year old boy. He was walking along the New York Central tracks when a piece of sheet iron swirling through the air fell on his left foot and severed three of his toes as if cut by a knife. Charged with Murder. Will Cabe, charged with the mur der of a man named Plumley in up. per Greenville County in 1896, has surrendered to the sheriff. The grand jury at one time found "no bill" against Cabe, but subsequently return ed a true bill. Cabe will have to standl trial YELLOW FEVER Has Made Its Appearance in the City of New Orleans AND OTHER PLACES. Three Hundred and Four People Have Had It Up To Tuesday in New Or leans Alone, of Which Number Sixty-Two Persons Havea Died of the Disease. Yellow fever made its appearance in the city of New Orleans last Thurs. day, and since that time up to Tues day there has been three hundred and four cases. Of this number sixty-two cases have been fatal. The authori ties are doing all they can to sop the disease, but up to Tuesday they had not been very successimu. Tua.. e were twenty-one new cases on that day and five deaths. Qaarantines ,everywhere are being drawn tighter. A number of towns In Mississipvi and Louisiana are .cut ting themselves off from the world and the shotgun quarartines are being rapidly extended. Guards and in spectors are being multiplied and trav el is being made increasingly difficult. Even gasoline is apparently bared from Vicksburg. Many people have left New Orleans for the interior. While the feeling is constantly growing more hopeful, there Is appar ently no abatement of the excitement and there Is a panicky feeling in the country districts of Louisiana and Mis sissippi. Local business houses are beginning to feel the leffects of the scare. They are receiving letters from traveling men telling of the cancella tion of orders in Mississipbi and else where because of the reluctance of the country people to patronizs stores which receive goods from infected dstiicts. Much distress is beginning to appear among the Italian population growing out of the practical expulsion of the fruit business from Louisiana on ac count of -the quarantines, and relief work is one of the tasks which the Italan societies and citizens commit tees will now have to address them selves to. A meeting of representa tive Italians- has been held and per manent organization formed. A special to the Age-Herald from Meridian, Miss., says: Five Italians were shot down by the guards of the detention station near Lurberton Monday morning, two being kiled and three seriously wounded. Dr. Donald, state health officer at Hattiesburg, gave out the first intimAtion of the oc curence over the long distance tele phone chortly before noon and later the details were obtained from other sources. A case of yellow fever was developed a few days ago among Italian refn gees from New Orleans in the suburbs f the town and the house in whleh he patient lay ill was isolated. The state health authorities took care of the case while those who came in con act with the sick marr were detained nder guard at a camp provided for the purpose. Five of these, early Monday morning, made an attempt to escape. The guards repeatedly called upon them to halt, but no attention was paid to the order. The pursuing guards fired a volley at the fugitives, all of them falling in their tracks. From the best 'ob tainable inform-ation two of the Ital ans were instantly killed by the vol ly and the other three more or less seriously wounded. Lumberton is a town on the New Orleans and Eastern railroad, about 80 miles northeast of ~ew Orleans and contains the only ase of yellow fever thus far developed in Missspi Hatched Out a Rattler. The Charleston Post says a tiny rattlesnake, hatched from an egg in a glass jar in the window of F. Von Oven, on King street, is attracting notice from the pedestrians of the street. The rattler's eggs were re ceived by Mr. Von Oven from a friend at Hell Hole Swamp, which Is filled with rattlers, and for the sake of see ing what would happen, Mr. Von Oven put the eggs, which are small and solishelled like the turtle egg and of mottled white color, in a big white jar and exposed them to the sun Wednesday. At noon the young rat ter now in the jar broke shell and came forth. He is about twelve inches long, and the size of a slender pen holder, with the diamond marks on his back, and a slender squirmmng ton gue. His head is disproportionately large, and the rattler already shows his vicious rature by striking at a finger twiddled at him. Where Are They? Mrs. W. H. Cook, an aged lady of Monroe, La., and her six-year-old granddaughter, who arrived in At lanta Saturday night, are both mys teriously missing from the Kimball. house, where they were stopping and the police have been asked to insti tute a search for them. The disap pearance is said to be a strange one, and noclue toit can be found. ;Mrs. Cook is 76 years old, She anid her granddaughter left the Kimball pre sumably for a short stroll on Monday, and since then nothing has been heard of them. Their baggage and other effects are still at the hotel. On arrival in Atlanta, Mrs. uook,'who en route to Edgefield, S. C., announced her intention of remaining in Atlanta only a day or two. The hotel authori ties are unable to account for their absence. Wanted Breat. A number of German immigrants who recently passe:1 through Charles ton to work in a saw mill near Colum bia, have returned to New York, al egng as the refusal to work in this State that they were not given wheat or rye bread. They were given rice and pork which they did not care for and upon the refusal of the mill peo ple to supply bread, they laid dowR the tools and quit work.