The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, November 08, 1905, Image 1

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VOL. XX. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1905. NO.6. FREE Al LAST. The Air of National Liberty Breathed in Russia FOR THE FIRST TIM1. Parades and Assemblies Allowed. But the Revolutienists Are Not Satisfied. They Take Advantage of a Pa triotic Celebration. and March With Red Flags, On Tuesday of laat week all Rus sia celebrated enthusiastically the emperor's gift of freedom, which the greater part of the people riceived with deepest joy, though in St. Petenbarg, Mosoow and other cities socialists and revoluticnaries orga nized anti government demcnstra tions atd red flag parades, which, with the patriotic manifestations, led to a numter of cxiiteis between the "Rtds" and 'Whiteb" as the anti government anc royalist factions are respectfully termed. On the whole the day passed mere quietly in Rus sia than had bten expected though collisions between the pecple and the troops are reponied from various places resulting in icss of life. In each of the two capitals, St. Petersburg and MLscOw, the day was one sich as the Russiars never before have seen. The Slavc people, which during the long war jult closed and the anxitus period preceding the an nouncement c f me new era of con stitutionailsm e me d self restrained and apathetic, g.ve itself up fully to the exuberance or tue moment and spent the entire day in parades and assemblies, wbich for the first time in thedhistory of Ru.sia, were freely per mitted. Under the orders of Count Witte and Gen. Trepcff the trcops generally were withdrawn frcm the streets of the cities and the fullest reign given the people to let out their enthusiasm in cemonstrations which so lotg as they were not destructive, were not interfered with. - SIGNIFICANT OKEN. It was a sign.tizant omen that af ter a formnigna of gloomy and depres sing weatter symbolic of the days of the strike, the sun shone out bright ly to day in St. Petersburg and brought a radiant Indian summer day. The scenes in St. Petersaurg reminaea the observer of events In an Amer can university town after a great fooibali victory, but a thousand times magnified. Fom early morn ing the strts of the capital were filled with a mass of demorstrators who paradedi up and down the long anf1 broad 2Nevsky Prospect and tramp ed time and again the route bet ween the two principal centers of demon stattooc, the Kzen cathedral and university, and, constantly augment Ing, reached a grand total of fully 20)0,000 persons, while down the Nev sky Prospect late in the afternoon socialist agitators, consisting of both stucdents and workmen, and members of revolutionary organizstions iumped into the forefront of affairs in St Peteraturg and converted the cele bration into a great revolutionary de mcnstraticn. There were long pro cessions in which hundreds of red fltgs were carried and to which every one was C( mpeiled to di if the hat. A great majority of the paraders flaunted on the lapels of their coats rosettes and streamers of crimson rib bon, and sccialist orators delivered firery orations from the balconies of the university and the porticO of the cathedral or~ wherever they could gather audiences. They declared the concessions of the emperc.r's manifes to were insudficient, and thbat they. mrust have the frescom of all political prnsoners, the formation of a national militia and the banishment of Gen.| Trepoff and all the troops under his carrmand 20 miles from the capital. COUNTERt PARADES. Early in the day the "Marsellaise" suppian-ed the nat-icnal anthem as the pcpuar marching song. The loyabsts attempted to take the lead against the sccullsts and revolution ists by organizirg conter parades in which they carried the red, white and blue banners of Russia and chanted t-he national anthem; but they were drnven cif the Nevsky Prospect by the cverwhe~ming rLuzrber of theiReds" every time they appeared. In the early part of the day, great crowds of spectators filled the broad sidewalks ar d remained until the demc nstration assumed so turbulent a character that the well intentioned classes fled to their homes and the merchants hastily boarded up the windows of their stores and shops and ban~ed their doors, fearing an out break which might resuit in pillage and destruct-ion. Snch an outbreak, hcy ever, old not cccur, and the day closed withcut serious collisions. The me jor porticn of the citizens tired cut by the long celebration of the first day of Russian liberty, went early to bed arnd at midnight the Nevsky Prospct was deserted, ex~ept for crowds of rougha, armed with cuts, who paraded the avenues sing ing tne national anthem as well as revolutionary songs and who had fre quent collisions with each other, dur ing which shots were fired. The most serious encounter during the day took place near the barracks of the Semincif regiment, where a crowd of demonstrators in attempt lbg to march to the technological in stitute was stopped by troops. Shots were fired on both sides with the re suit that one man was killed and 10 woundecd. A pr nminent lawyer and a pro~essor were wounded in a collision at the polytc chnic school. Another fatality resulted from the demand made by the crowd that hats be dcffed before the red flags. All t lcers who refused to obey the demand was set on and beaten with the stails of the flags, when he drew his revolver and fired a number of shots, k iling one person. In) on affy at the Ptiloff wo-ks b-tween strikers and non strikers, several men were badly beaten. Ten or 12 -n-r were wound ed in the coti.CtS on the Nevsky Prospect. Doi-ng the cvening rumors of coil lision resulting in heavy fatalities attained wide circulation, but the AssociatE d Press is unable to confirm th m and it is (til :illy stated that Ibeyond the fatalities mentioned above, no one was killed. The au thorities, however, are more appre hensive for tomorrow, when the li q-ior sLops which for the most part were closed toda-, will be opened, and when the a gitators, after a lay's incendiary!speeches, may be able to work a portion of the popu'a'.ion to the point of a serk us encounter with the troops or with the loyalists. Tne soldiers off duty min;led freely with the demonstrators and fratern'zed with the populace. RUSSIAN FREEKM. The Imperial De claration of the Cz -r Granting It. Following Is the text of the mani. festo prepared by Enperor Niceclas and over which Russians are rc j'__c ing: "We, Nicholas, the seccnd, by the grace of God, emperor ar d autocrat of all the Russias, Grand Duke Of Fin. land, etc., declAre to all our fait! fu' sutjects that the treubles and agita tion ir. cur capitals atd in numerous other places fill our heart with excis sive pain and sorrow. "The happiness of the Ru:sian soy ereign is indissolubly bound up with the happiness of our people and the sorrow of (u- people is the sorrow f the sovereign. "Frcm the present disorders may arise great national disruption. They menace the integrity and unity of our E -pire. "Tze supreme duty imposcd upon us by our sovereign ctise requires us to efface ourself and to use all the 'orce and reason at our command to hasten in securing the unity and co ordination of the power of the central government and to assure the success of measu~es for p.c.fization in all ci: cles of public lfe, which are assential to the well being of our people. ' "We, therefore, dirr ect our govern ment to ca ry out our ii finxible will n the fIllowing manner: "First-To extend to the popula ticn the immutable foundations of liberty, based on the real inviolability of person, freedom cf conscience, speech, union and association. "Second-With. ut sLspending the already ordered elections to the state douma, to invite to particitation in the douma, so far as the limited time before the c.,nvocaticn of the dauma will permit. those classes of the popu iation now completely deprived of electcral rights. leaving the uitimate development of the pecple of the elec torial right in general to the newly established leigislative order of thiegs. "Third-To establish as an un changeable rule that no law shall be enforceable without the approval of the state douma and that it s.mall be possible for the elected of the people to exercise real participatin In the supervision of the legality of the acts of th e uthorities appoinined by us. "We appeal to all faithful sons of Russia to remember their cuty toward the fatherland, to aid In terminatIr~g these unprecedented troubles and to apply their forces in co-operation with -e to the restoration of calm and peL ce upon our natal soil "Given at Peterhof, October 30, in the elev -nth year of our reigh. NIcaonAs." PE1TRIFIXD BODIIS. Taken up After Being Buried for Many Years. in removing the bodies from the burial ground surrounding the old Wharton Street Methodist Church, Wharton street, near Third street, to West Laurel Hill Cemetery, the Philadelphia Record says, workmen have found a number of petrfied corpses. That of an unidentified ba by is solid stone, after lying for thir ty five years in tbe grave. The chub by face, the dark hair, the eyelids curtaining the closed eyes are perfec; ly preserved. The petrified bodies are from ten to twenty times as heavy as the natural corpse would be. One of the petr: fied bodies resting in the old receiving vault In front of the church is that of Lieut. George W. Kenny of the Seventy first Penn rylvania Volunteers, in the civil war. The opening of his grave was undEr Ithe supervision of John H. Hunter son, a trustee of the church, and a friend of Kenny from boyhood. Both volunteered for the war witbin a week of each other. It was with peculiar feelings that Mr. Hunterson viewed the wel-preserved face of his friend, dead for forty years, as the result of the fatal aim of a CL nft d erate sharpshooter at the battl1 of Wite Oaks Swamp, in MoCellan's peninsula campaign. Mr. Bunter son i fered a dollar to the workman I who exhumed the remains If he found the bullet which kille.d the soldier, but it was not in the coffin. The petref action is due to a stream of water which flowed thrcugh the place years ago and emptied in tre Deaware river. During the excav tion cf the southern corner property at Front street and Grand aver uc while the owner, J J. Mallon, was in spect~g the work, two reveolution~ary cannon balls were dug up fif teen feet beneath t he sur face. A petrified carrier pigeon was found a little later whIle an old chimney was being torn down. The bird had boome tightly wedged in the chim ney, and suffocating, had turned to stone. Around the leg was a silver band, bearing the inscription: "P. 1000'6."' If the curosity is not claim ed Mr. Mallon's son. Dr. Mallon, of St. Mary's Hospital staji. will pre sent it to the University of Penn sylvania. Fro!. Sylvester Judd, aged 35. com mitted suicide by hanging near Balti more on Sunday, because he had lost his position as professor in George twn universitD. A GRAB CAME By Which Phiiar.4Iphia Lost Over Six Mllion Dollars On STREET CONTRACTS. Report of Major Cassius E. Gillette, Who Was Selected by Mayor Weaver to See low Much Graft There Has Been in the Quaker City. Six million three hundred and thir ty thousand dollars has th us far been lost outright to the taxpayers cf Philadelphia through the contracting cambination which hrs been engaged in building the great filtra',ion plant and the two b-u'sv.rds, one in the northeastern and the other in ths southern district of the cit? acc rd iug to the report just made public. This concluzion ha been reached by Mlaj r C'.ssius E. Gillette, corps of engineers, U. S. A., and John DonalC MacLennan, cxperts employed by Mayor Weaver to make a full investi gation of the centracts and the work don-,. M:j )r Gillette is the ciicr who investigated the j )bbery in the ~asunah Harbor improvements and procured the evidence by which ex Captain Oberlin M. Carter was con victEd, and against which Greene and Gynor muit shortly stard tria'. J:obn Donald MacLennan is an expe rienced engineer, who recently com pleted the construction of the gov ernment's filtration plant at Wash ington. John W. Hill, formerly chief of the Bureau of Filtration, is now awaiting trial on charges of forgery, etc., in connection with the filtration con tracts. The contracting combination which, is acc used is constituted in the main, or Israel W. Durham, Republi can boss o' P tiladelphia, and associa ted with United States Senator Pen rose, of Pennsylvania, and State Senator James P. McNichol. Taese two men, with D J. McNichol, a bother of the state senator, compose the c'ntracting fi m of Daniel J. Mc ichol & Co. Evidence brought out ,it Hill's preliminary beiring showed that in this firm D. J. McNichcl owns a cne-twelfth interest, the other eleven-twelfths beirg divided Equally bE tween Durham and James P. Mc I chol, WORK COST CONTRACTORs $10.356,000. *Umittirg from construction all 7mali contracts, say, under $30,000," the report say s, "we find for the fil .ration work and the two boulevards, as constructed up to date, the city has paid or pledged $18.761.741. Fisst lass work under the spccifi 'attens shoula not have cost over $12.430,000. which includes an allhwance of 20 per cent, cr 82.075,208 for legitimate ontractors' profits. The difference s $6 330.000. In other worid,818 760 00 in round numbers has been paid or work costing the contractors $10 , 356 000. "Of the $6,330,000 excess've cost here has gone to the c-ntractors who worked under the name of D. J. MEcichol $5,065 122, similarly to Ryan & Kelly $543 890, and to Vare Brothers $89 128. Of the 818,761t 141 there remainS uopaid about $568 000 to McN chol and $75,000 to Ryan & Eelley. "Some of these contrac's are in cmplete. The estimated cost of cmpletion of the existing filtration otracts a o contrect prices is about 1 685,000. A f.>ir price, allowing 20 er cent profit, would be $1.23 8.000. The d Iterence the city will lose if rhese contracts are completed. "The pr'ce paid for the three quir ters of a mile of Northeast Boulevard lready constructed is $552. 348, on which there wa-s a loss to the city of $27.217. There are nine and a half miles more of it laid out on the maps. I completed at contract prices the additional cast to the city would be about $6, 600,000, and t-he additional 1css at least $2.250,000. On the Southern Bhulevard the amount paid to date Is 8286 389, on which the loss n the one and a quarter miles built as teen 889,128. To complete at cntract prices would cost $350.516, and the additional loss would be $85-, 555. In other words, the total cost of both boulevards as planned at con tract prices vu id have been $7.636, 000 and the total less to tne city Of $52000 ' MIUCHI OF WORK NOT FIRST CLAsS. "Much uf the work done by Ryan and Kelley and D. J. McNichol Is not drt class. The parts which show prominently to the public are fairly ell domr; the parts that can be ex ammed with a little trouble are dis tinctly second class arnd not to the afecictions. We, of course, do not know the condition of such porti'ans as carnnot be seen without tearing up the work, but wherever we have dug into it we find it becond class or worse. The Southern Boulevard work s far as can be seen is good. As yet only the rough work of filling has been done." The report says that the crushed rock used in surfacing the Northeast Boulevard is exelient material, bout ine fcundation rock was found to be of a very poor gur~lity. Tne report also says that the investigators found fault with much of the mathrial that entered into the coostruction of filter beds and also with the workman ship. One of Ghe means by which exces sive profitis were made por~sible, the report says, was by not permitting fair competition. The advertising was wholly inadequate, scarcely more than a pretense. The report gives an exampole of the advertising for bids for a $2,000,000 contract. Tne notice appeared in local papers only twenty our dsys before the lettng of the contract. This was wholly inade qnate, the renort says the workr to be GONE 10 REST. Col. T. Stobo Farrow Died at His Home in Columbia. A GALLANT SOLDIER And an Excellent Christian Gentleman Has Passed Away After a Promi nent Career. The End Came Uncxpectedly After a Very Short Illness. The Columbia State of Thursday made the sad announcement of the death in that city of Col. Thomas Stobo Farrow on Wednesday night afterin Illness of only 24 hours. His death was due to an attack of uremia, which followed a first attack just a month ago and which came near prov ing fatal. He was tiken ill Tuesday night and although his condition did not at first Lcxite alarm, he steadily grew worse from yesterday morning until the end last night. Col. Farrow has been identified with the history of this State in time of war and of peace and the greater part uf his iffe.has been in public service. He was engaged at the time of his death in cimpiling a history of the Reconstruction period which but for his untimely end wiuld have been completed in a short time. He was a son of Patillo a-d Jane Stobo Firrow and was born in the village of Laur as on October 12, 1832. At the age of 16, he entered the South Carolina college and graduated In the class of 1852. He then read law and was admitted to the bar the fol :owing year, and began to practice in Spartanburg with his brother, James Farrow, who afterwards became a member of the Confederate congress. For a number of years prior to and up to the beginning of the war, he served as master in Equity of Spartanburg county. He entered the Confederate army as captain of the Forest R'fles In 1861 and serv-d on the islands along the coast unril after the surrender of Fort Sumter. Before going to the front this cempany was presented with a silk nattle flag by the young ladies of the Limestone Female college, which was at that time the leading educational institution for young ladies in the northern part of the State. After the reorganizition of the Confederate forces he was elected lieutenant colon el of the Thirteenth South Carolina infantry; Gregg's brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. He was engaged in most Lf the important battles and was twice wounded, once at the second battle of Manassas, where he was struck in the body by a fragment of a shell and seriously wounded. He was again wounded at the bagle of Fred rcksburg. After the close of the war he moved to Atlanta, where he resided for tour years. He then returned to Spartan burg to live, in time to assist in the redemption of his State from radical rule. He was in Columbia during the stirring times of '76 and acted as a ourier between the headquarters of Gov. Hampton and the cifcials of the famous Wallace House. In 1877 he was elected c erk of the senate, which place e held until 1886, which he tendered bis resignation to accept the position f second assistant auditor of the war department in Washington under the irt administration of President leveland. Dairing the term of Pres dent Harrison Col. Farrow was out f offce but when Cleveland was elec ed for the second time he was again appointed to the same position he ad occupied during Mr. Cleveland's first term. A fter the election of President Mc Kinley, Col. Farrow returned to South arolina and opened a law offce at aff dey. He remained here until his marriage to Mrs. E. Adele Ellerbe in 1900, when he moved to Cheraw and from there they came to Columbia about three years ago. For the last two years and a half, he has devoted his life to his work on his history of the Reconstruction in South Carolina fr-m '68 to '76, which had he lived, a few months longer, wor'ld have been given to the world. Col. Farrow was married three times; drst to Miss Laura Henry of Spartanburg In 1854. No children of this marriage survive. He was married to Miss Janie Beden of Walterboro in 1861, and by this marriage there were eight children, three of whom survive. His third mtrriage was to Mrs. E Adelle Ellerbe of Gaff.aey on January 11, 1900. He Is survived by his widow and two daughters, Mrs. Richard Ged dings of Asheville and Miss Julia Far row, also of Asheville, and one son, Mr. Patillo H. Farrow of Charleston He is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Julia McGowan, who resides with her sun, Mr. Samuel McGowan, in Wash ington and one brother, Col. Henry P. Farrow of Gainesville, Ga. Col. Farrow was a Christian gentle. man and was distinctly a representa tive of the old school of southern man hood. He was a merr.ber of the First Pesbytrian church and has for 40 years I (en a 1 elder in the Presbyter ia chi rch a cadferent plac-s. He. was also a 3zad -egree Mason and was a member of the Scottish Chiefs, his membership being with the order in Washington. Bis remains will be taken to his former home in Spartanburg Friday morning for interment. Tne funeral services will be held at the residence this city at 5 o'clock Tnursday after noon and will be conducted by the Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith of the First Presbyterlad church and the Rev. Dr. W. C. Lindsay of the First Baptist church. Gaone Wrong. Geo. WN. Dewees, for twenty-one years ticket agent of the Southern in Charleston, was arrested on Monday for embezzling $3.321 of the road's money. The shortage covers a period f six months. Dlewees has confessed. MORE RUBAL ROUTES. '.h Yumber in Eouth rarolina Re flects 'redt On Us There Are N->w on File Over One Hun dred Petitions for Additional Routes. Namber in Operation. The Washington correspondent of the Columbia Record says on accouit of the c fforts the people of South Car olina living In the rural districts have recently been making to get better mil facilities, and owing to the gcod work of her several representatives In congress, there are at this.time in op eration in the slate 516 free delivery routes. During the year there hav been presented to the post; fe de partment 1,160 petitions for routes irn different parts of the state, and ei these 501 were adversely reported for one reason or another. On June 30, 1905, there were in op eration in the state 476 routes, and, as ststed, there are now In operation 516 -an increase of forty-two since the first of July. There are now pend ing before the department 143 peti tionE asking that additional routes be established in South Carolina. Can sideri-g the short time in wh'c' free routes have been' in operation, the number wh'ch South Carolina now has speaks walh f r the reop'e of the state The showing made by South Carolina camparas favorably with that of many other sections of the coantry. In the first congressional district 71 petitions have been referred to the de partment; of these 45 have been ad versely reported. Tnere were in oper ation in this district on June 30, 1905 14 routes and on N.vember lt, 21, and there are five petitions now pend ing. In the second district 103 petitions have been referred to the department and of this number 43 have been ad versely reported. On June 3), 31 routes were in oper ation and on November there were 35, with 25 petitions pending. In the third district there. were 229 petitions pre sented during the year, of which num bared 89 were unfavorably reporteet 0.: June 30th there were 118 routes in operation and on No rembar 1, 122, with 18 petitions pending. In the fourth district 238 petitions have been presented, and of this number 113 were reportz d adversely. On June 30, there were in operation 103 routes and on November 1, 118, with 23 petitions pending. In the fifth district 224 pe uitions have been presented, with 83 1 adverse repoIrts. On June 3) there were 103 routes In I operation and on November 1, 118 1 with 23 petitions pending. Tae six h I district presenttd 116 petitions and of this numbEr 42 were adversely report I ed. On June 30, there were in opera- z tion 49 rou-es and the same number 1 on Njvember, 1, with 25 petitions c pending. In the seventh district 179 petitions have been presented, and of t this number 86 have beefreported ad- c versely. Oa June 30, there were in t operation 63 routes and 72 on Novem- z ber 1, with 21 petitlons pending. I During the year the total number t of petitions referred to the department~ E in the United States amounted to 50,C 868 and of this numb-r 12 585 have 4 been adversely reported. On Juee 30, 1905, there were in operation a totalI of 32,055, and oni November 1, 33,948, with 4,335 petitions pending. Of the I 4A $35 pendlr g 536 have been assignedf to be established prior to December 31, le'ving 3,789 unacted upon on No 2 vember 3. The Significance of the Hlarvast. "God hath visited his people" that is the deepest reading of the tharvest, that the spiritual Interpre tation of its significance. The pro vision of bread Is not the final issue of our wisdom, and Ingenuity and toil; It is still the good tire gift of the good Father In heaven. All our ingenuities and devices and triumpl a of mechanical contrivance have not brought usi one whit nearer to this possibility. When we have done all, we can but stand with dumb trush and in helpless dependae before the face of God. Every bit of our fcod we take from his hand, and whether we see the hand or not makes no dif ference to the fact. Wherefore let every man to-day confront the reality see the thing as it really Is; then shall we bend before His high throne with lips full of gratefull songs, be-1 cause our hearts have had the vision of a mercy that reaches to the heav sus and of a goodn~ess that covers every human need, Fatal Accident. James H. A. Brcoks, a well known manuf act urer of Philadelphia was killed; Michael G3. Price, a business asscciate was seriously injured, a'-d their gives were painfully hurt in an automobile a..cident Thursday near Absecon, N. J., about 50 miles from Philadelphia. Tne accident was caused by a tire slipping cff one of the; rear wheels of their automobile whilei they were riding at high speed. 1 L'quor in Oconee. The Grsenville News says the re cords of the United States court show that fifteen cof Oconee county's citizens were convicted of violations of theI revenne laws during the past term. It seems that the business was popu lar there in spite of the state dispen sary, and-now that the latter has been voted out, it will hardly be fair to snatch up the next man caught with a jug and start tihe cry that Oconee is breaking faith with the spirit of pro hibition. Murray Has Skipped. A dispatch from Sumter says a bench warrant was issued for Geo. W. Murray Wednesday afternoon by Clerk sof Ccurt Parrott, and turned over to Sheriff Epperson to serve. Nothing is known of Murray's present whereabouts, but there Is a persistent rumor that he left for Canada four days ago. If he is still in the county he will be arrestedi at once and put on the chain gang to serve his sentence out. Many Drowned. The Swedish steamer Joahan and the Ruasian schaooner Antores coll! ded Wednesday morning. Both boats sank almost Immediatly and all but 1 three men of the two crews, number ingr thirty men, were rowned. rine was very complicated .and very d.flicult to estimate. The specifica tions were voluminous and vague, covering 112 printed ppges. The drawins covered no less than forty three large sheets of complicated work, each sheet over ten equlare fee' :n area. NOT SUFFICIENTLY ADVERTISED. Advertisements for bics for the constructirn of the northeast boule vard were published fourteen days before the ordinance authorizing the advertisements was approved and the bids were opened three days before the ordinarce was approved. "A c crful analysis of all flitration avertising,' the report continues, ind ates that everything possible was dcon.e !o avoid any real publicity with out letting that fact appear too pro minently in the records. The bu reau's preliminary estimates, Instead )f being freely furnished to bidders wcre rigorously guarded secrets so far as the general bidder was concerned, except that they were furnisbhd in the specifications for filtering materi als, where they were very little need ed. The specifications in many par ticulars were unfair to bidders, and gave excessive and unnecessary power to the city officials. In short, the specifications were so drawn that the engineer in charge could harass an un welcome contractor to an almost un limitcd extent without the contractor being able to prevent it or secure legal redress." CONTRACTS FOR rAVORED BIDDERS Tho report. which mikes more than twelve thousand words, goes into de tails to show how contracts were let to fav::red bidders, and how other methods were used to help favored contractors. A fr qutntly used method of guiding contracts into the desired hands. the report says, was to readvertise them whenever others were the lowest bidders. In some cases contracts were iez to the firm which promised to do the work in the shortest time and not to the lowest b:dler. The McNichol bids always proposed strikingly short periods for the completion cf contracts, and in one case notice to brgin work was g-van to Mc.Nicbol fi ur months after ae started the operation, so that the firm would have four more months in which to complete the contract. In many instances, the proposed time was exceeded by from 10 to 200 per cent. In the aggregate, the report says, McNicbol could have been as sessed for liquldated damages for over time about $532,000. He was actu ally assessed $3,255. "We have received testimony from many contractors," the report says in c anection with favored contractors, "that the conditions described kept them from bidding. We have also received statements that city officials directly discouraged bidders from -ubmitting bids. Thi3 field has not yet been fully explored." The report says the filtration sys tem ought to have been completed o-. January 1, 1904; that since June 6 1904, when the West Pailadelphia district began receiving filtered -watei there have been only ten deaths from typhoid fever out of a pcpulation of 'orty one thousand. At the same proportional rate the deaths from typhoId fever in the whole city since January 1, 1904, when the filtered water system ought to have been comn pleted, sheuld have been fifty seven or less, whereas 1,257 have died from the disease. Since January 1, 1934, the total number of cases of typhoid, including deaths, was 11 978 The difference bet ween 57 and 1,257, the report says, represents the loss of life due to tbe methods that have been employed in conducting the filtration works. Crazy Man Killed1 At Phelima Ga. 2 miles from Lees burg great excitement was created Wednesday night by a shooting affray in which J. L. Darby who precipita ted the trouble, was killed and three other people narrowly escaped with ehier lives. Darby, who is said to hiave been drinking heavily, went to the residence of L. W. Mims and be. gan shooting through the windows of tihe house, narrowly missing Mr. Mims, his wife and W. C. Manning. The two men rushed out of the house to ir.v stigate the sudden attack, when Darby fired first at Manning, wounding him in the leg, and nexti at Mims. Minms then opened fire on his assailant, and nut four bullets through his head and breast, killing him inbtantly. He deeply regrets the killing and only acted to save his own life. The two men are reported to have been g.ood friends. Judge J. M. imes went over to Pnelima and te'.d a coroner's inquest. Tne var dict of the coroner's ju1ry was justifi abl homicide. An Anitzlng Story. This amaz!Dg story comes from In diana. A t Williamsport in that state last week 200 husbands whose homes ntad fallen into neglect and discom fort owing to the idle and gadding nabits of their wives formed a pro cessian, marched around to all the clubs and unions wnere the women were and cmplained loudly of their worthlessness. The most surprising thing about this uprising is that many or the women were moved to confession and some of the organiza tions were dilbanded on the spot. Town Wiped Our. Fire started shortly after 1 o'clock Wednesday morning in tne Pine Grove, W. Va. hotel from a natural gas explosion, and it destroyed prac tically the whole town. The buil dings destroyed are: Pine Grove hotel, Cmmercial hotel, Pine Grove bank, Methodist church, Morgan's business block, seven stores and ten bwellings. Dynamite is being used to stop fur ther progress or the flames. It is re ported that several persons lost their lives in the hotel, but in the excite ment this cannot be verified. No Use in the World. An Indianapolis Ind.desponent be cause he felt that he had outlived hIs usefulness Capt. James G. Wright eighty aive years old killed himself Wednesday by shooting himself in the head. Wright had been a steamboat captain o boats plying the Ohio and Mississipi rivers. He was a man of means having been at different times a banker at Madison Ind. and Fort Wrth Tex. NUST PAY LIIWNS. Bomething Strong is Sold Under the Label c f Essences. Having taken a fall cut of the pa ent medicines which compete with whiskey and which are composed large .y of alcohol, by deciding that drug. [ists selling the same must take out jovernment li:enses as retail liquor 3ealers, Commissioner of Internal ERvenue Yerkes has now turned his ttention to so-called essences and ex nrc's ahere it is self-evident that )mly sufficient flavoring is added to ibgulse somewhat the character of he drink it has been reported to the oternal revenue bureau that in pro 2ibition communities large amounts .1 alleged essences of lemon, vanilla, :innamod and ginger are sold by coun -y merchants and others as "flsvor ng extracts" which had practically 2o sale whatever outside of such pro iibition communIties. Iavestigation showed that some of these essences sontained as high as 80 per cent of Llcohol. The commissioner has there lore decided that where such essences ire made for sale in prohibition dis Dricts for use as beverages every mer 3hant sellng them must take out a government license as liquor dealer or be subject to the usual penalties. This action by the commissioner Is heartily endorsed by both the straight out whiskey dealers and by the prohibi tiors, although the latter were great Ly surprised to learn that under the guise of patent medicines and essenc es, whiskey was being sold in prohibi 4ion communities as freely as ever, al though at somewhat higher prices. it is said that consumption of such goods prevailed largely in Kansas, Indian Territory, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas and elsewhere, while in South Carolina the state dispensary authori bles have held that as many of these medicines and compounds were nearly ill whiskey the should not be sold by ruggists except on brescription by a reputable physician. WOMAN STALTED BY LIONS. Mdventure with Six of the Big Brutes In Africa. Mrs. L. Hinde, whose husband is iubcommissioner of the British East Africa Protectorate, has had the re narkable experience of being stalked )y lions, and still more remarkable ortune of living to tell the tale. It was on the Uganda Railway, in a spot Alstoric for the ravages of man-eating ions, that Mrs. Hinde mst with the ihrilling adventute which she relates. Camping out, the party In whi h drs. Hinde was could hear with hor Id regularity the screams of the retched victims as they were carried f for the man eaters' nightly repasts. The camp was seventy miles from he nearest connecting link with the utside world, and c:>mmunication had o be kept up daily by native mail car lers. It was the habit of the lions * keep pace in the long grass with he runners on the track, and having elected the most appetizing member f the party, to pounce upon him and arry him cif into the bush. On one, occasion, when out map naking, Mr. and Mrs. Hinde cam ipon a party of a dezan lions, possi ly the man eating troop. Mr. Hinde ired twice, dropping two of the >easts. He then suggested that Mrs. inde should ride back to camp, while te approached the two lionm, who night be dangerous, even though mor. ially hit. After riding for half an hour Mrs. inde looked back and saw six of the ions following her. The two native run bearers ran away, leaving her un armed, alone with her sals, an hour rom camp. She set cif at a fast aallop, the sais -unning by her side. In their path rouse an angry rhinoceros, which fled rom them on to the lions. Mrs. Hinde reached camp in safety, while Mr. Hinde was held up by the hinoceros, on which he did not van iure to fire for fear of turning it on Ers. Hinde. Oatraga Near Gaffney. A dispatch from Gaffney to The tate says a petition is being circu ated in that city asking for signers or the purpose of forwardidg it to hie governor of South Carolina with 1 request that he offer' a reward for ie apprehension of the parties that ired Into the hcuse of Wash Lips somb, a negro living near Gaifney, Wednesday night. Wash Lipscomb s a respectable, hard working negro. e thinks that about a dozen shots were fired through both sides of his 2ouse, in an effrB It is said, to draw Wash from the inside. No one was jured by the shooting. In addition Go shooting with shot guns around the reises, the marauders by the use >f axes, knives or some other kind of mn instrument cut a buggy belonging :o the negrc entirely to pieces. The auggy was a new one and was entirely at up, being a cmplete wreck. Thre etton had no lack of signers and it s probable that the reward wili be .ffred. It Is thought that the shoat og and cutting must have been done by quite a number. ShoI a Woman. At Knoxville, Tenn,, Charles At da, aged 25, son of Chief of Police J. J. Atkins, shot and almost Instant y killed Esta Ecbles at 11 o'clock Wdnesday night. Atkirs had gone nto a resort kept by the woman and tcording to the story of inmates of he place had begun to iralse a distur 2ance when the weman ordered him i be quiet. Stepping towards him iS f to eject him from the place. .tkns pulled his pistol and fired rhe bullet entered the woman's 2eart and In eight minutes she was lead. Atkins is said to have been Iidnking heavily. Young Atkins was rrested soon after the tragedy and :ommtted to jail. To Aid Science. Gen. Isaac J. Wistar, founder and yatron of the qlstar Instituue of Lnatomy and Biology at the Univer s' y of Pennsylvania, who recently di 3ot only leaves the greater part of is estate of $2,000,000 to that insti ition, but also bequeaths to it his -ght arm and his brain to aid the aue of anatomical' research. FEARFUL DEATH A Woman Falls from a Soaring Balloon in Anderson. INSTANTLY KILTED. The Woman's Husband Makes a Saccess ful Flight. A Crowd of One Thousl and People Witnessed What May or May Not Have Been an Accident. A most horrible death occurred at Anderson on last Thursday afternoon, when Mrs. MXude Broadwick, wife o Charles Broadwick, aercunant with Riddell's Southern CarnivalCompany fell from a balloon and was instantly killed. Mrs. Broadwick was an exper. ienced balloonist herself and had made two ascensions while here, but war not to go up this afternoon. Her hus band was to make the ascension and parachute drop, and she was standing by to give the signal to cut the ropes when all was ready. She gave 'the signal all right, and when the balloon shot up Into the air she was seen hanging to the ropes be. tween the balloon and the parachute. After, she had reached a distane of 200 or 300 feet she dropped to the earth, striking on the hard ground and was instantly killed, The balloon went straight up Into the air and she fell withn a few feet, of the spot from where she started.A. crowd of possibly 1,000 persons wit nessed the tragedy. Broadwle, who was fastened into the parachute with a belt, went on some distance higher and then out loose and descended In safety. Most of the carnival people are In. cluded to the opinion that Mrs. Broad wick's death was due to suicide rather than an-accidant. They say -Broad wick and his wife had been quapeling for a week or more and this together with the fact that she was an experi enced aeronaunt and there were no projecting ropes about the balloon har ness liable to entangle a person, lead them to the suicide theory. Broadwick admits that he and his wife had quarreled, but says they made up, as they had done before. He says though that she knew all about balloons and that he does not see how she could have been accidentally en tangled in the ropes. He has been in the balloon business 15 years and says his wife had been in the business eight years and that she was quite as expert as himself. He says that as she fell she called to him to ctch her, but that he could not do so. He thinks it was an accident and not suicide. Broadwick says Cincin nati Is his home. He says his wife's people live there, but that they were bitterly opposed to her marriage and have never become reconciled to their daughter since her marriage, and for that reason he has not notified them. of her death and will have the inter menit take place here Saturday. He Ia almost completely prostrated. Mrs. Broadwick was about 22 years old and was very popular with the member of the carnival company. Conresse s Crime. At Valdosta, Ga., J. G. Bawlings has m~ade a confession of hiring Alf Moore to kill W. L. Carter, but he says that the killing of the children was not in the "trade." He says that he particularly cautioned the ne gro not to harm the children. Joe Bently and Mitch Johnson made a trade with Alf Moore to do the bloody~ work and Joe Bently and Alf Moore wanted to kill Carter on Sunday night before but that they could not get a buggy at Hahira to go to Car tes 'couse. He says tihey tried to h a b. ggy but that the liveryman w.-inot hirelit to them unless tbey would tell him where they were going. Eawlings says that his confessio came without knowledge of his law ers as he had reached the place where he could not keep qaiet any longer. He says that he is tnoroughy indiffer en to the supreme court so far as he is concerned but he wants his sons saved. Old Man Finde Nugget. Miles Fetterman, an old prospector who has been working around Wyo ming gold mines for many years, Thur'sday morning picked up a nugget of almost pure gold weighing nine pounds and valued at mor 3than $2, 000. The cli man Is almost crazy with joy and the whole country Is out looking for nuggets. Fetterman has prospected all over Wyoming without more than a grub stake. Far the last week the old man has been working on a claim several miles ont of town, but had found nothing until Thursday morning. Cost of Paper. The cost of making paper from corn stalks from $22 to $25 per ton, while that from rags or pulp reaches 860 tio $75. At present it Is estimatied that 53,000,000 tons of corn stalks rot an nually in the fields. In the new pro cess every part ci the stalk will be ut ilized. Fine paper will came from the pulp, while coarse wrapping paper and box board 'will be made of the hard outer covering. O~saer portions of the stalk will go into varnish, pow der, gun-cotten, papier mache, cellu lose, lubricants and other material. The Wages of Sin. Edward Bearden, money order clerk in tne Augusta, Ga., postoffice, com mitted suicide on Monday by shooting himself through the head with a pis tol, just after having been detected in using postoffice funds in playing the bucket shops. The amount of his shortage is not stated. Ihirteen Drowned, Thirteen persons were killed instimt ly and 30 others Injured, some fatally in a wreck on the A. T. & S. F., road near Kansas City on Monday. The train going fifty miles an hour jamp ed ine track and ran Into the side -f arnnk cut.