The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, April 18, 1906, Page 6, Image 8
MANY DEAD
And Fifty Thousand People Are
Made Homeless by
VESUVIUS ERUPTION
The Property .Loss Is Estimated At
Twenty Million Dollars. Over-Eight
Hundred Bodies Recovered from
the Ashes. Number of
Victims Increasing.
A frigh:ful disaster rcurred on
Tuesday in the centre of Npics. Two
hundred people, it is estiaLet, were
buried in the ruics c! the market of
Monte Oliveto, when the rcof c.la
sed under the wight of cinders fror
the volcano. The ditsaster was appall
tug. The court yard covers six huz
dred feet squire and was roofed. TLe
space within was uswaually croded wI m
buyers and their chidren. The rec -
dent happened at an hur when tra'e
is most brisk. B.val dis cayer n( f fl,, :
era screamed their wazes ani j :ksla
with their customers. Li:tle chiar,-en
played about the stands, add.iAg gayg?
ty to the scene, the like of wich is
not to b3 witnessed ou's.d- of Nape:.
Suddenly witnq scarCly a trcmar o:
warniug there %as a terrifying crash
and the brilliant sight disappeared in
clouds of dust whiie shrieks of agn.r
rent the air.
WORSE AND WORSE.
A dispatc- rrom= Naples says a great
eruption o! cand ts observec on tne
east side of the sc crater Wcdnes
day morning. T!,ii is w rse tha.n ashes,
as It is heavier. Tue ti jcticn of as'-es
seems to have dimis'. ei:. Fash shocks
of eart-quakes ar b:-i !;:l, e.pecia
Ily in the directn o 0.:n, Som
ma and Nota. Fu'iu.;-y ine .rea
amount of zahes tn the griund em
to have coun.--rac ed the nction cl
the shocks. Antr.t r par, o. tI e cCc
of the vc.icar o La: fi:.n in, cauiLg a
great discharge t f red h...; stnes,
flames anc smdAe. E ports trem Sicil.
state that astes from Munt Vsuvaus
are noticeable there.
RESU3MG ACTIVITY.
The v->icaz-o Is re.um:.g activity,
especially at Ce:cola. The stream of
Iaa wh-ch staited anew in the cirec
tion of Torre dell Annuzziata reached
the cemetery of that tLw.2 and then
turned in the direction of Pa pf-i.
The trccps aie c. nv-irg provisions,
surgical accesoiieb and n.ateyial to te
mea for the relief of the irju:ed In
the vicinity of OtUjro. The work of
rescue is being actively prcecuad. A
violent atcrm cf sulptucus rain cc
curred Tuesday at San Giuseppe, Ve
suviana ard Saviano. Five hundred
persons have perished in the district
between 0.taj no and San Guiseppe.
MAN~Y TEREBLE SCENES.
Terrinie r p..rto a: reacning Na
ples from points througho~ut the dis
tricts surrounding 0O.t. jano.
& ports incicate that an enormous
area is turled beneath ashes and Gin
ders. All efforts on the part cf tae
press representativ-.s arnd autzaorities
tjoasceraink the exact number whot
have already fallen vict:mns to tle.
eruptions of Vesuvius have so far fail
ed. Tnis is seounted fer from thE
fact that the buried villages are not
of access and b-cause th-e people who
fled when their haires iegan to fall
have scattered thrcugeout the coun
try districts. The finaag of ninety
six bcdies it de-ermined as follows: At
San Giuseppe 49, at To: z'gno 20, at
Ottajano 27. Tire weather sucodenly
changed Tuesday af'ernoon. The wind
blew strongly toward Naples and as
es from Mount Vesuvius brgan falling
fast over the city, wnich Gcnsequent
ly soon resumed its gray app.arance.
The high wind also made breathing
difficult.
MANY CHILDEEN LOST.
Forty-nine ouaiea Lave s.izeasy b::er
taken out of ens of thre churciles atl
Ottatajano.
Tno fate Cf many children at Otta
jano Is unknown. When the mihtarl
carts arrived at the ecene of cisastez
Monday night the soldiers arranged
to have the children and aged people
get Into the carts, but when the ve
bicle had gone a few hundred feet it
was fcund that although there were
four horses harnessed to each 'wag.;n,
they could not pull their loads throigh
the deep ashes.
This caused a panic among the chil
dren, who expected to be buried in the
ashes fromt the volcano and taesy fled
In all directions in the darkness and
blinding rain anid have n-ct since beeon
heard of,
Seiarching parties went after the
children but in spite of c::ntinuat;
shouting and camng no tr: cc was
found of them anid is is feared that
the children have been smiotiered in
the ashes.
Twenty-six more dead -o-di::s nvge
been curn in the churcu cf San Giu
seppe, making a total c-f soveney nine.
The recent eruption of Vesuvius
was one of the tro-1 desructi :e to
life and property la uhe his'.ory of
that famous voican-o. D sp-i-che
from that uniouute ree4Ion on
Thursday mornirg statvd tnt tr~e
whole cf the Vesuvius dis:rict as far
as Naples, Castrta and Castellamnmare
Is one vast Sabaran desert. Thre
blockade of Icca tratfic continues sut
service on the main l1i:es of railwa.y
has been re-stabihed alihougat
. greatly disarrangea by the nesS o
able co: faion in the8 stations where
foreigners, not fuhy undierstanding
the situation, in'eign aganat the de
lays and disccmforts to wh.ich they
have been sujc cd.
A dispatch from Naples says Thurs
day was a ohqume;tig day in tuat
city. The people, alarm~ed by wniat
has happened, ceserted their shops,
and the manufactornies were nearly alt
closed. The cro-wds were in a tern
per for any excess. It would cnli
have re quired a spark to start; a co;.
flagratiotn. Tee arrival cf Kig
Victor Emimanuel a..d Q ceen Hea La!
did mucn to restore caum. Tney were
received with great j.y, esp-chaily
~ten the sovereigrns mIt a hospite.
after a visit to ;ne wounded there-.
One poor woman exelai:d: "I
w~uld consent to be ;cucdeli for the
sake of being kissed b-y on ee.
There is great d:mZity in acer
taining the actus: c zditi. n or affairs
In that part of tr~e strceun distrio!
nearest the volcano. Tne trama and
railway tracks are deep under sand
and ashes, the roads~ ar-c otl:Imated.
and even the fishermaen wO0 ply thir
calling on the Biy of N..pes are
afraid to venture Out on 'de waeer
'-any where in the vicknity of Ves e-vius
:o give an intellgent estimate of the
o0s of prrerty. One estimate is
:htt $20,000,000 damage has been
Ine an-! that 50,000 persons bave.
been randered homeless.
Everywhere in Naples and Castel
lammare and in the lesser towns
nearby out of the danger zone, are
beggared refugees who only a few
days ago were prospercus and happy.
though living almost underneath the
shadow cf the perpetual menaca, the
volcano of Mount Vesuvius. For
these people, wtor-e homes and crOPs
have been destroyed, there is little
crsolation in tbe statement of soien
tits that ultim3tely the valleys and
hillsides will become as fertile as ever
they were. Until ccmmunication can
be restored and search made of the
hcuies in the 01Uii-ted districts it wili
us i-eposible to determine how malt
peodle bave perished in the eruption.
I; now estimated that at least
2,000 ge rle have lost their lives as a
direct result of the eruption. Al
readv 8o bodies have been found and
every hour adds to the number. Tie
l1ss to prcperty and devastation i
gr-at an-, trrcts of fertile Ituds, esti
mated at fully 880 000, have been de
stryEd. T-le unearthing of victims
wh:oe b-dies have been covered by
.se; and cinders, or who wsre four-d
in the ruined buildings shows at
most of them died in great agony, as
terror and pa:n are depicted on thc:r
tes utes nos set in deatu. The at
ituds of others, some of whom were
found kneeling in prayer, show they
were kiled by desdly fumes coming
frcm -he volcano.
At NaICs the theatres, cafes and
p'acs of amusement throughout the
city have been closed and before all
the sacred images in the streets can
dies are kept burning, while smailer
images are being carried about, in
many cases being set down in the
open air and surrounded by candles.
Troops are ergeged in clearing the
roos of bu'lirgs of the accumul
tion of sand and ashes, which endank
er the structures. The large glas
covertd galleries throughout the city,
which are much frquented, have
been ordered closed, ilESS the weight
upon the roofs cause t-hem to c-llapse.
In the road at Torre del Greco
three persons were found dead from=
suff. c tion. The pepie who remain
i: Torre dell' Auznurz'ata are in
anger of peris ing from btarv tiou,
all the shops having been closed
Ratio-ns for 200 persons have been
sent there. Two Amerircn girls,
who had Leedlessly ventured into the
Vsuvius district, where t^e abandon
meut of the train by which they were
traveling caused them much disco:nm
fort ane no little peril, were brought
to Naples by the steamer St. Bon.
So widespread is the catastropbe
that It is estimated it will require an
a"ranizcd body of 100,000 men and
the expe:diture of many millions of
dollrs to raze .houses made unsafe
for babitation by the accumulation of
shes and cinders on the roofs, erect
temporary huts of refuge for the
thousands who have been obliged to
flee from their hcmes, clear the roofs
of buldings that may yet be saved
and extricate from the ruins of fallen
structures and bury the dead. Otta
jano, where many lives were lost on
Mondsy, is now practically buried.
It is now cfficially admitted that
Ott-jano has been buried. Toe
csualtles there and in the surround
eg villages is not known, but 300, it
is be ieved, would be a low esti'nate.
Een Cepri, a small i;!and coff the
e ast of Campania, 19 miles south of
Naples, a favorIte resort for touda~ts
and artists, has b.en covered with
ashes and h'as been abandoned by its
foreign popu:ationl, which included
seveal An erncans. Tae magnitude
of the disaster is almost indescribable
Munt Vesuvius has spread dasolation
and terror over an immense tract of
country.
The village of San Gennaro has
been partially buried in sand and
ashes and several houses have fallen.
At that place three persons were kilh
ed and more than 20 injured.
Some Idea of the difficulties en
countered by authorities in obtaining
accurte knowledge of the situation
may ce gained from the fact that
Minister of Finance Salanilra and
Under Secretary of State Derava
were olokaded at Torre dell' Annun
zi~ta by ash heaps and were compeL
d to go to Castellammare in an auts
moile, reaching that place witia
ret diffi rulty. Tiiey hoped to get
a ba: at Castellammare to take them
from there to Naples, but even the
fiheren refused to run the risk of
crossing the bay zf Naples as the'i
-sud have to p:-ss Mount Vesuvius,
wnich is situared about half way bs
ween Castellammare and Naples.
The train which brought Premier
S~nnino to Naples from Rome was
cnsderably delayed by ashes.
The distress amcng the tens of
thousnds of fugitives is appallig.
.~ne government bas forwarded sup
ties of food and money, several of
t.;e ILalan cities have done the same,
-ad private citizens are centributh-g
scney for the assistance of thre suf
fereS, b-t more hel]p is needied.
King Victor E nmanuel has plsced
e royal palace at Cappjdimonti.
s-ituated a'otv Naples at the dispou-I
of the injured refugees and early in
ce day announced his intention of
returing to Nsples from R ;me in or
er to personally direct the relief
wrk. Tne news caused much satis
'ctin and wnen their im-ajesties
tah.d Naples they received a most
entau.iastic greeting. Later the
king and queen visited the sufferers
n the hospital and were heartily
cbered as they passed through the
streets.
Couron R--port.
Seretary Hester's analysis of the
c-'toa movement for the seven
montas of the season from September
1 to March 31, inclusive, shows that,
cmpredi wit-h the crop movement of'
ist year. Texas, including Indian
Te~rriory, has brought into sight this
season in round figures 152,00C bales!
less; other Gulf states, which include
Arkansas, Lcuisiana, Mississippi,
T~ennese, Missouri and Oklahoma,
have marketed 959,000 less, and the
-roup of Atlantic states% which in
eude North and South Carolina,
Gergia, Florida, Ahtbama and Vir
ginia, are 181.000 less, making the
uet decrese in the total crop market
d .192,0(. Mr. Hester shows the~
ameunt brought into sight by groups
-f Atlnflic states for the seve n
mnts of tne season to be 4,020.541
ass. Total crop in sight, close o~
March, 9,340.388 bales. -,
Triple Tragedy.
At Birmingham, Ala., as a result
of jealou-,ly, Dr. W. B. Burton shot
and kiled his divorced wife, fatally
woundAd Thaxton, a derntist, and cut
his own throat, dyIng shortly after
A ares. T:ext .n is in a critical co-n
dr ; . T.se ragedy courre1 at the
ou- of Mt s. Burt-.n. Aadivmre was!
rn. obut a month ago. T.ie par
tsax e all pnmminent.
t4 AMA .
SOME Fl-.URES COLLEECIED BY
COMVtIS'IONE~ IWATSON.
Who Writes Lbaut the orn !ontest
a::d Czher Subj -Ats of rub
lie Tnterest.
CommisMonrr Watson bas gotten
up a M sZ irtrresir'g ststement with
regard to i..e growir.g tendency to
wards div riier.if ~nm this State.
The figures dea l.ugly with O:ange
bu g C unty, w'ere Cornmissioner
Watson hs jhast :.i a close tu'iy
of the fi;:Zur s and reports from 522
fa-rmer na tbat wid-awake c,-unty.
Wat 0.Mina-ieni-r V;ttonu h&as to
say on th is suibj :t Is of special in
t-rs. a d is as fo.'v.
" in v r.atly Impr.ved
in he- egri uitr.'1 u-lork fo'r Sout
Caoonssi cs the s a 'f 1905,a
mka advr-es b expecte.'
t*is year. The '.141 f th k of
Ithe Cottin A--: c ato t- 3e:S-.t
for rtAiQning t ,if c- -"f tb . ork
done, and la c iictgte
with toe rIJ'z i.i.:n a* ast on ti
partf th. S .h fm.er a*?'e
in purCas-rg frm 1-.e W .s- supcl s
hlut he can raa e-.'ivr and b::
er r.t hwm - l a '-.s tt of cro
duvio-, Cv ar, b:.-:ied t ; btr
co.2diti...ns. Thi 'arm-r is fnirg
out t thr a-e spladid mrk.t.
fr r t,2hirz t- a t h 2 c 1 rat w i-. ba
litrue e f :, taki;gs he haS
hug'ed at h-r.tofore, ar.d all ever
ti Ste hc i-isg to his
opportunity, l,-.ng is proper
asunu of cit, bus al the same
time brnclingout on ot.::er a.d more
profitoble, lius. The tffec; of the
Drraching cf the d-c-Ane of diversifi
caion by me:2 who have th initercst
o f t: -e Sta ta .t he1rt caM s:en this
s:.ri-g 3So he- wdsasOne
ries from the slope- of OC:eo Cou-.
tv all the way to the ea at B -aufert
a.nd Ct.rhstrm. T-ne farmer is pro
serous exu.uh this year to exp-ri
men t a litte, ar~d greenca.rpeted
rain 2ad forage Iields are ev'ry where
rd cvttle c0.n to - . on the hills.
The farmers also arc fixleg up their
home , and troughcout tbe S-at
new hcvses built on mndern lines and
ealy petM %re to ! ---
NEED OF BOG AND flOMEINY.
"Srr:ki:gy iurtive of this
agricultUral rean;ernieg was the
meeting of the farmers of 0 ange
burg Couuty last Saurdy, v-hich I
h.d tle pleasure of atzending. It
we a Cotn Aisoiation mAting,
and the a::settbled farmers, in about
20 minutes, autaor:z-d the p'.yment
of an assiessment of $1 000 for the
oros:cution of tlhe Stt- A,:ciat!on's
work, bLing pr. b .by the f.rst in the
Stae to respoud to the 19'6 call. On
this occasion these men met to dis
cuss 'diversication,' the raising of
home supD.ies, and tey cald it "a
noh and hominy meeIng There
was an utter ab3ence of the usuai air
o? 'Oh, well; t'.at's all very well, but
y: u are talti.g tiheory.' Taee man
were in dead ear:e t. Tney listened
to facts and &,k- d aestimsi, and
when that active worker for the
uplif ing cf the agr-cul urailonustry
of South Carclina, Mr. J.'nn B. Wan
amaker, preserzted ard, cLod facts
as to co:diti:s tz:e like of which exist
m a'mcxt enry S->uth Carolna com
munity the facial exore siuns bore
evdrc> of a resolve to better
toem. Ir was somzewhat of a revela
tion when it was Co.on wi::t the two
prircipal towns in this lead'irng eg
retural C:u t~ were puecIasing le
Sway of -Ju;;plis tha could be
ra'sad at hom.'' Itm: izhwn that
7he town of Orag.--.: hadz b.ht
and sold to i mers a d e-4hers, djur.
ing the mo;rth of M~ca 1936. alone,
the fel.o.sing suppies, most of them
purchased far be'yond the borders of
the S:ate:
Curn.................. . 880
Hay...... ............-3- -
Gnts..... ............6
Fiour............. .....--..50i
Me- not inclu-Lng b:,ef... 13 443
Total..................830.(80
In ot.>'r er.3 tis county t:...dig
centre IS ev.n :. buyin an"' iv
omntirg the c-jli m.?n2s, $24,640
w~orh o supplAs:; ra.....ed at
om. Tie t .cfc St. M:.ttQes it
-s further bucvf .1 wil se Lhis yea~r
:e :oro'~ing ?u.li:s bough: ele
whr ad hippd an to be sold to
farmrs and ,e.ners:
25 crs of bacon, lard hams,
etc.. ... .........--. . $50 000
14 cars of corn (-t.:1 Westen ).. 6.000
10 cirs hay (decmestic and
Wster;)................. 2,000
15 cars of grits and meal... . 6 00
10 crs of rice and ric' fi-.ur 9.000
25 c::rs of tlur and bratn... 10 0i00
4 crs of oats (-.A Westerr).. 2 00')
Toal.................885,000
THE 1906 COTTON ACntEAGE.
"T.s: figur..s w.J e.t -e waken
in ng:racer an3 t.beir eftet as
mark"d. How many tradie centres in,
th State are in an~y tetrer caditior.?
"But all wts not gloom~y. Oher f g
re, coairaed airecrly fr. me~ plaa
.s, were pressoc'rd tLat I trust are in
io'ive of the~ entire S'.ate, as they v
:culd be, considering that Orange-I
burg is the largest c son producing
count y in the mat and tne large':,
but one, In thte c :ttonl belo. Fro~in 522
frm, some as larme as 5 000 acr~s,
rporting to Mr. Wannamker, the
cotton acreage of 1906 shows a decrease
s cpreti t'' list yet-r- The tigures
r: 1904, 29,758; 1905, 26.510; 19C6;
"At the sa~ne time the corn acreage
hs materially 1rciense", the figures
ei. 1905, 18 823; 1906, 29.388.
"This is gratifying, exceiing grat
itng, when it is conside:-ed that the
1C6 uavy pu: chas-: of fertl.zars has
gne in larg.e m'eaure under tue core
:d sliar crops. Lasa ye3.r these 522
0:ngebrg farms plnntted 4,756 acres
o ats, T.-.is yzar there has been a
nkei lrc:.as , tut the figures are
"T:ese facoa are quoted because
the'y are sis.-Anii:t~u tue rapidly de
vlopig new orde"rc' thiogs, whichib
sure to b:ih:g oCoat a w'ons:f-ilreviV
al agriult.r 3,carrying with it conf
COtN CONTEST'S DOUBI.E OBJECT.
" .I 1 urge t'e GreneralAssem
by to ma "'n appogrtion to en
ae Sut2 C roi* famars to cnter
yar it we n. 0's the r:-at becefit
toscmto ~cuCth ' - ia ad~ved:Is
iugwwat bel-g .-he ouat Southern
SStte to Secu-Ce~ alibiliiy-thaut
pr~mpted tht r-Ommendation. One
o the chief pur pm~Cs we t * mulate
the raing of corn, and takrm a stepJ
tward the muuh ne.:ded1 e va:-.ii
Jia of crop-the rai-:ing cr -pplies
a t home. Wien the com s mt
dmne the method~ of d .rlbu
ti of pr zs a purtion of the mo'cney
. w~s et asid e s.kr~ eo l children's
prlzes, the members taking the view
that the contest would have a splen
[:id Eff-!ct i the direction indicated
r.bove by fsmiliarizing the future far
mer of the State with the methcds of
corn culture.
FOURTEEN COUNTIES IN THE CONTEST.
"It !& with gratification that those
interested in the future rt South Car
olina note already that 23 representa
tive farmers from 15 of the counties
of the State having filed their entries
in the corn growing contest, and that
ss many more have indicated a purpose
to enter. And one has gone into the
naticnal oat growing contest. The
counties already represented in the
corn growing contest are Bamberg,
Barawell, Charleston, Clarendon, Col
leton, Fiorence, Hampton, Kershaw
Lszeaster, Marlboro, Marion, Orange
burg, Richland, Sumter and Williame
burg,
The entries from t! e school children
have not yet begun, but this was not
exp:cted so early.
"it looks ro7 as if nearly every
o-unty will be in the contest, and as
if South Carolina's corn crop of 19C6
w:iil be m ich greater than for many
years. 72 here is no question that the
gra Iu crops of 1936 will materially ex
cued those of last year.
TnUCKING INDUSTRY GROWING.
"I have rccently visited tte truck
!rg sectien. ,l the State and the de
n.rzment is now making a census of
is inou:.try. Both observation and
the reports sent in by the individual
piamiers snow that our truck crop this
gear is far in excess of that of last
year, and so far things look as if this
is to be a very successful truck season.
I';e trucking and melon industries
are devaecping rapidly and substan
illy. Just at this time also there is
more interest taken in cattle raising
c.an at any period since the civil war.
Tne figures received show that the
people are becoming interested in this
industry, and active steps are being
-:ken to eradicate the worst Stumb
clng block, the cattle tick.
"The 3arge purchases of fertilIzers
this spring does not mean a large cot
t .n acreage. It does mean the plant
ing of larger diversified crops, the in
trod"uction of the more intensified
forms of agriculture and the raising
of more to the acre in consequence.
The scarcity of labor has been a ma
tenal ele-nent in bringing about these
improved conditions, aud in this sense
is pro.ving somewhat of a blessing in
dsguise."_
F3ARFUL EXPBEIENCE.
Two Garman Balloonists are Caught
In A Gate.
The progress of balloon experlmcnts
in the Geraaan army has jusi received
a severe setback by the fearful exper
Jences of two members of the Aero
static corps, named Wolff and Braud.
who have returned to Berlin after hav
ing been g4ven up for dead, following
a balloon ascension, during which they
completely disappeared. The two men
were blown all-the way from Berlin to
the Baltic sea, where they were driven
by a gale clear across that body of
water, and finally landed, half dead,
in a little village in Sweden, traveling
alogether m-ore than five hundred
mies. Tee story of their filg~ht Is one
of the most thrilling in the history of
ballooning in Earope.
The two balloonists, caught in the
gale in the upper air, were blo wn at
terrflc speed for three days/'unable to
make a descent without being dashed
to death. As the wind seemed to
s cken, the balloonists opened their
valve, preparing to descend. What
was their horror noon seeing as they
dropped from the clouds that the open
sa was beneath them. They tried to
cu; tha valve, but were only partly
sucesful.
When within a few hundred feet of
he water, the velve was closed by
Wiff, who climbed up the cordage
surrouding the gas bag to do it. But
the balloon still dropped nearer the
sea. Finally, desperate, the balloon
;sts climbed Into the balloon's rigging
a'd cut the basket from under them.
With the basket went all their pro
viions and instruments. Clinging to
oue cordage about the balloon, the two
men hung between hope and fear for
a few moments as the bag seemed to
bovor uncertainly. Then, slowly, it
began to rise once more.
After clinging for hours to the cor
dage, thousands of feet in the air over
the sea, the two soldiers made out
the land. As soon as it was safe, the
valve was opened again, and the bal
on was allowed to descend slowly.
Te two men landed in a snow back
within a few miles of a little S wedish
village. They had to walk two miles,
almost exhausted, through the snow,
and collapsed just as they reached the
frt cabin. Tney were given food and
frsh clothing, and were able to bor
row money to get them back to Ber
A dispaltc2 from Plainsfield, N. Y.,
says every train that has arrived dur
ing the last 30 hours has brought to
znis city delegates to the meeting of
the Church of God and Saints of
Crt. When it was annonc d some
time ago that this denomination,
which consists of negroes, was to as
emble here, it was supposed that the
meeting would consist of a hundred
r so delegates in addition to the lit
ole band of followers here who have
been locally known as "the feet wash
ers." Instead, however, they have
been pouring into the city by hundreds.
M~ny of the strangers failed to fir d
accommodations and tonight at least
five hundred men and women are
walking the streets unsheltered. The
municipal authorities probably will
have to relieve the situation. Dele
gates are here from Richmond, Lynch
burg and Fredericksburg, Va.
With a Crash.
At Pittsburg Pa., with a crash that
could b3 heard for Equares the five
story building at 622 Liberty avenue,
recently vacated by J. G. Lauer, the
toy dealer, cllay-a The building
was being demolised and about 25
workmen, mostly foreigners and ne
groes, were caught by the falling
wals The majority escaped with
slight injuries, but several, just how
many is not kiown, were buried under
the debris. Up to 2 o'clock one body
had been recovered. It Is believed
that at least f:.ur men and a team of
horses are still in the ruins.
Uuhtappy Princess.
The tragic death of Princess Louise
&f Schaumburg-Lippe, which occurred
at the castle of her fatber-in-law,
Prince William, in Nachod, Bohemia,
WVednesday, has aroused the deepest
sympthy for her owning to her un
ampy married life. She was tte eld
Sd?.u.;er of the present king of
Danmark, and her death occurred only
tve hours after Prince William expir
ed at the same castle from an attack
THE SOUT'S MOrOPOLY.
Andrew Carnegie Says She Has the
World at Her Feet.
Andrew Car..egie, one of the world's
greatest manufacturers, says to the
south:
"You have the .greatest monopoly
on earth, in the growing of cotton,
and you have the world at your feet."
There is an estimate worth con
sidering says the Atlanta Journal.
It Is a statement the truth of
which we to whom it is made only
balf realiz,. We have the only cil
mate and soil on the round eartb
capable of producing in any markot
able quality and quantity the greatest
commerclal commodity in which man
kind deals. This we all know full
well, but what are we doing with it
that proves our knowledge of it?
We raIse cotton, pick It, gin it,
bale it, and then let it go for what
the outside purchaser wants to give
us for it. All the time, toil and
trouble incident to bringing the stapie
to a marketable shape Is ourn; the
outside world must have It from us;
we let it go at whatever figure they
offer. Such a situation is nothing
short of a reflecision upon the south's
bu-siness ability. Men like Andrew
Carnegie come bere amongst us and
repeat time and after time that we
have the "greatesr monopoly on earth
in the growing of cotton," but each
succeeding season finds the south
marketing the crop just as though it
grew on every soil and was common
to every nation under the sun.
As Mr. Carnegleintimated, though,
there is a gleam of hope ahead for the
south. He names one of the condi
tions here that promises to evolve
for the suth a full measure of reward
from the natural monopoly which
she enj ys.
"Even in my day ycu have b-come
a great manufacturing center," he
says, "and this indrstry is leaping
ahead with tremenduus bounds."
The south Is beginning to manufac
ture her own product in the rougher
and less costly form, and therein lies
the hope that some day she will be
able financially to manufacture it
into the finer material of which the
cotton staple Is capable, and thereby
cme into her full reward. At pre
sent the mills of the north, and of
Eagland, France, Germany, Jaran
and other nations reap the profits
from the manufacturing of the finer
grades of cotton goods-profits which
in comparison to those the -scuth re
ceives from the raw material and the
rcugher manufactures are simply en
ormous.
The first question to which the
cotton growizng states must apply
hemselvAs, according to the best
-..uthorities, is that of markting the
crop. The several states have learn
ed the art of growing cotton. That
is the monopoly of which Mr. Car
negie speaks, because no other nation
and no other section of thiq n.tion
knows this art or t as the natural en
vironment even if tney should acquire
the knowledge. Now these states
must learn the business of marketing
the crop so that a profit may b3 gair.
ed commensurate with the time, tol
ad natural difficulty attendant upon
the growing, together with the com
parative rarity of the staple.
Until this lesson is well grounded;
until the aims cf such organizations
as the Soutnern Cotton Association
are realized, the scuthr cannot hope to
enter upon the full measure of her
reward in connection with her "mon
poly." In the first place, she will
not be financially able to develop her
manufacturing plants to their full
capacity of turning out the flaer pro
duct of cotton goods. Though six
undred millions of dollars are poured
into the south annually for her cot
ton, still it is not enough to enable
the cotton producers to become cot
ton manufacturers of the higher type;
that is, of the type which enj ys the
geater profits from the Industry.
M ist of that enorm aus sum goes
right back to the source whence it
con es, and mainly for the purpose
f bringing back to the south the
finished prcduct manufactured from
her own raw material.
Should the cotton states ever reach
the point where the cotton crop could
be marketed in a business-like man
ner, then we may hope to see the
mnufaturing enterprises advance in
even a greater degree than Mr. Car
negie describes as "leaping ahead
with, tremendous bounds."
As the situation now stands, the
suth offers magnificent opportuni
ties for the investment of capital in
cotton manufacturing enterprises of
the higher type. Andrew Carnegie,
one of the world's greatest manufac
tures, publicly declared himself along
these lines, and well known men in
the commercial world have said so be
fore him.
To See -'U.scie R ems."
Thre visit af Andrew Cirnegie to
Atlanta, fou:: of whose institutions
have been chre beneficiaries of his gen
erosity to-the extent of more than
$200,000, was memorable in more ways
than ene Friday. Returning from
the Tuskegee anniversary, be made a
stop of about s'x hours, with the
avo'ed rurpose of meeting Joel Chiar
dler Harris, Uncle R imus." Mr. Car
negie was accompanied by a party of
csiderable siza,includihg R iv. and
Mrs. Lyman Abbott, Robert (2. Ogden
Isaac N. Seligman, George A. Plimp
ton, Dr. H. B. Frizzell, president of
Hampton institute, and Mrs. FrIzzell,
Willace Butterso, Mr. and Mrs. J. G.
Phelps Stokes, Mr. and Mrs. Oswald
Vllard of New York- and several
others.
Wanted to Enow.
An old Pennsylvania farmer while
on a visit to Philadelphia la~tely was
s'zed with a violent tootuache, says
The Pniladelph~ia Ledger, and, calling
on a dentist, was informed that the
tooth must be taken cut, but that he
had better have gas for the operation.
He agreed to this, and then started
to count his money. Tnle dentist re
marked: "Ona, you need not pay me
until .I have finished." "I reckon
not," replied the farmer, "but If
you're agoing to make me unconsci
ous 'd jest like to see how I stand."
A Centre Shot.
The Columbia Evening Record
quotes "a leading business man" as
denouncing the attempt of the police
cmmision to enforce the Surnday
law. He says: "This town is too big
for that sort of thing, an-i it can't af
ford to be held down in this way."
The Newberry Observer says in reply
Columbia is a pretty big town; but It
isn't as big as Sodom yet; and Sodom
has been held down pretty effectively
for the past several years.
SaloonS Abolished..
The townof Abingdon, Va., Friday
abolished sal-oons by popular election
and endorsed the dispensary system,
an il be.i effect before May 1st.
SNUBBED BY BOARD
COMMITTEE AND STATE BOARD
OF COUMISSIONERS
Fave Some Interesting Correspond
ence About the VWhiskey Bills
and Samples.
The state board of dispensary
directors has "sat on" Senator Chris
tensen and Representative Lyon, o'
the dispensary Investigating com-1
mittee Jr the rratter of the latter's
dem-nd for a list of the purchases
made at the last meeting with prices
and amounts ordered out, and has re
fused to keep the samples "intact."
Director Black replied throuuh
Clerk Mobley to the letter from Mr.
Cnristenscn along this line, to the
effeci; that while the board was at all
times ready and willing to assist the
committee In protectivg the interests
of the state and that the books and
records of the board are open at all
times to the members of the commit
tee, "they do not feel called upon to
furnish you with a copy of the orders
for purchases," and "they wish to say
that the board is the custodian of the
samples."
Mr. Christensen was not satisfied
with this and wrote to ask that at
least one other member of the board
pass upon his demands. This is the
reply he got, dated yesterday:
"Dear Sir: I am diTeeted to say
that the board concurs with Maj'r
Black in my letter to you of Marc:
31st."
These purchases have been referred
to a number of times in the recent
spirited controversy between Senator
Tillman and Mr. Lyon, Senator Till
man Intimating that the investigat
ing committee Is trying to assume
the purchasing power and needs in
vestigating itself and Mr. Lyon ia
sinuating that the purchases have not
been made to the lowest bidders.
Here is the correspondence in full:
Beaufort, S. C., March 28
Mr. M. H. Mobley, Clerk State Board
of Control, Columbia, S C.
Dear Sir: Kindly furnish me at
your earliest convenience with the
copies of the list of purchases last
made with the pencilled memoranda
as to amounts awarded, ordered out,
etc., so that they will be exact dupli
cates of the sheets you showed Mr
Lyon and myself.
Who are the Belroy people ?
Is the proof of liquor furnished gen
erally given on the invoices of the
firms from whom the state has bought
during the past few years ?
Does the Anchor Distillihg com
pany liquor bear the labels of that
concern ? and has the state bought
from that concern the M3.natee brand,
or the Henrietta brand or both?
I presume you have informed the
board that the committee wants all
samples submitted at last meeting
kept intact. -
Very respectfully,
N. C'ristensen.
Columbia, S. C., March 31.
Hon. N. Chriatensen, Beaufort, S. C.
Daar Sir: In reply to yours of the
28'b inst. beg to say Major Black be
ing the only member of the board in
the city at the time, I laid your let
ter befors him, atd he directs r's to
say that the board will assiet the
committee In every way possible to
protect the interest of the state, ar.d
that the books, records, etc., of the
dispensary are at all times open for
inspection by the committee or~ an?
member of it, but they do not feel
called upon to furnish you with a
copy of' the orders of our purchases.
In regard to the samples, I am di
rected to say that the board is the
custodian of the samples.
In reply to the q'iestion "who are
the Belroy paaple?' will say style of
frm Is Beiroy Distilling Co., of Louis
ville, Ky.
Replying to question "Is proof of
lIquor furnished ?" will say it Is not
generally given on Invoice, but ap
pears on barreL.
In answer to question, "Does the
Anchor Distilling company's liquor
bear the labels of the concern," wili
say the Anchor Distilling company's
goods bear the lab'els of the firm, Hen
rietta being one of their brands. Can
not find where they sell such a brand
as Manatee.
Very respectfully,
M. H. Mobley, Clerk.
Beaufort, S. C., April 3.
Mr. H. M. Mobley, Clerk State Board
Control, Columbia, S. C.
Dear Sir: Yours of March 31st to
hand. Ple.ase have same passed on
by at least one other member of the
state board.
Kindly mail me copy of my letter
to which yours above referred to is In
reply. Very respectfully,
N. Christensen, ,Tr.
Member Dispensary Invest. Corn.
A HOUSE RUN AGROUND.
The Curious Condition of Things on
L ang Island.
A dispatch from Baschon, L. I.,
says the running aground on a mud
bank of a big house, with a tower
four stories which,. is -an occurrence
probably never before recorded. Yet,
It is a fact that the large dwelling
house owned by Commodore Adolph
Mollenhauer, of the Penataquit Cor
inthian Yacht Club, Is standing in the
mud at the mouth of Awixa creek and
can not be moved until it is floated by
some unusually higb tide. ..
The building, which weighs about
two hundred tons, is being moved
from the site af j ining the Mollen
haer country seat In Awixa avenue,
to a site in Maple avenue, a half mile
to the west. It was impossible to
move it overland, owing to the long,
circuitouis route that would have to
be taken, and It was decided to at
tempt conveying it by water.
The structure was placed on skids
and slid about one hundred feet to fig~e
big ecows, on which It was safely load.
ed. The scows were then floated down
the river but when opposite the coun
try seat of' Charles C. Coddington they
ran aground In the mud. Now noth
Ing remains'to be done than to await
rescue by some unusually high tide
when, it is hoped, the task of mov
ing will be completed.
Swept By A To.-nado.
A special to The Statesman from
Bertram, Tex., says: The town of
Briggs, about 18 miles north of this
place, in this county, was swept by a
tornado about 5 o'clock Thursday
afternoon and almost completely de
stroyed. T'.o persons are reported
killed an 30 i'jued.
THE "irresistible impulse of con
science" seems to ha~ hardly strong
enough with the great majority of
Republican Congressmen to make
them give the people a square deal by
r is aincr the tarifft
LN9ZI Mlrder.
It is charged by the Appeal to Rea
son, a SoociaUst paper published at
Girard, Kansas, that the Stlie a-a
thorities of Idaho are getting ready to
legally murder three men by the name
of Mayer, Hayward and Pettibone, of
ficers of the Western Federation of
Miners. According to the facts as pub
lished in the case these men were ar
rested on the most flimsy testimony
by detective hired and paid by the
Mine Owners Association in connec
tion with the murder of ex Governor
Steunenburg, of Idaho The case grew
out of the strike of the miners in Col
orado and Idaho a year or two ago. It
will be remembered that the enemies
of the miners used every means in their
power to crush them then in Colora
da. They were charged with almost
every imaginable offense. But juries
would not convict them, because the
evidence was so plainly perjured and
unreasonable. The juries surely would
have convicted if there had been the
slightest excuse, for they were in near
ly every case seleted by courts under
the inflaence of the mine kings.
Failing to convict in Colorado, the
mine owners -found in the murder of
the ex-governor an excuse to haul the
union officers into Idaho. There they
are now held without regular process
of law. There their accusers will con
front them with all the testimony that
professional witnesses can invent.
There, with the machinery of the law,
in the hands of their enemies, these
union workingmen will be tried. If it
is possible to find in Idaho twelve men
with hearts -f hyenas to sit as jurors
those union miners will be convicted
and slaughtered. That they will be
killed by the agents of the mine own
ers is practically certain. The legal
butchery of these men might be pre
vented by united effort on the part of
the decent newspapers and. the people
of the nation who believe in at least
a semblance of justice.
From what we have read of the case
we have no idea that these men are
guilty of the crime of which they
are charged, and they should
be saved. It must be remembered that
the detectives who are to furnish the
testimony upon which these nLocent
men are to be legally murdered are the
paid bgents of gold-besotted law break
ers, who stand ready to violate every
law that stands in their way. We all
remember how the owners of the coa
mines in Pennsylvania afew years ago
used detectives to oppress the poor ig
norant miners because they refused to
obey their masters. The mine owners
of Colorado and Idaho are rich and
powerful. They have unlimited money
at their command, and it is possible
for such a powerful class of men to
hire witnesses, pack juries and convict
innocent men in a trust ridden State
like idaho, but will the American peo
ple stand by and see it done without
raising a hand to save the victims. We
do not believe they will.
Fooling The Voters.
The trusts and tariff protected cor
porations are in high glee at the turn
political events have taken, by the con
centration of public opinion upon rail
road rate legislation. Mr. Payne, the
Republican ]eader in Congress and
chairman of the committee on Ways
and Mcans, which controls all revenue
legislation, has declared in a signed
statement that there will be no tariff
bill reported at this session of Con
gress. This Republican stanidpat policy
was agreed to last Fall by President
Roosevelt acid Speaker Cannon, .and
he personnel of the Committee of
Ways and Means was selected by
Speaker Cannon, so that a majority
were ardent protectionists. Thus those
Re-ublican voters, who favored the
revision of the -tariff that fosters
trusts and allows them'to charge plun
dering profits, were again fooled after
voting for many Republican can
didates for Congress who promis
ed to vote to revise those tariff sche
dules that protected the trusts, pre
vented competition, and allowed the
trusts to sell cheaper abroad than
here.
'When those Republican Congress
men who were pledged to tariff reform,
elected Mr. Cannon as Speaker of the
House and adopted rules that gave
him autocratic power over legislation,
they knew they were selling out their
constituents to the protected monopol
ies, and giving the party machine the
power to defeat or pass such legisla
tion as it pleased. The same condi
tions will obtain at the election this
Fall, and the question is, can the vot
ers be fooled again to vote for Re
publican candidates for Congress who
will stand pat and let the trusts con
tinue to plunder the consumers? Prom
ises of Republican candidates are of no
avail unless the pledge is given to
keep out of caucus and vote for a
Speaker who will agree to give tariff
revision the right of way. That Mr.
Cannon will nevei accede to, for he is
an ardont protectionist. The member
ship of the next Congress will be more
evently divided between the parties
and the-result in any district may de
termine which pa-ty shall control.
The trusts and corporations will pay
money to the Republican campaign
fund with the understanding that
their interests are to be protected, but
none but the voters themselves will
furnish funds or efforts for the elec
tion of the Democratic candidates.
Tat alone should be their recommen
dation to independent voters, if they
measure up, as they should to the Jef
fersonian requirements of ability and
honesty.
An Adamless E:1en.
A traveller In Slam is sale to have
discovered an Adamless Eden-a town
of 9,00Q nhabitants without a single
man. 'he last man who ventured
into this' exclusive circle, was stuck to
death, each of the inhabitants using
a hat-pIn 100 tImes on him. The
Spartanburg Journal says: ".We are
sorry the report of this discovery is so
meagre. We would like to know how
many clubs they have, If Bridge or.
ginated there;4if bargain counters at
tract, and something about the spring
openings and Easter decorations. We
have a pretty fair idea of what Spar
tanburg would be if all the women
were transported far beyond the deep1
blue sea. It would be no Eden.
LITTAER. the New Yort Congress
man, who figured a few yeais ago in
a rmy glove contract, has announced
his determination of returning at the
end of his present term. He evidently
Another RepublIcan eandal
The exposure of the scandal of the
shameful doings of our Convuls in the
East is further proof t f the degeneracy
of Republican poloticlans. When
President Roisevelt appointed these
consuls on the recommendation of
Republican Senators and Representa
tives, he knew they were political
strikers for those Republican leaders.
He was on notice that they were most
ly grafters or the Republican politi
cians would not be urging them for
aupointment. The only palliation for
the Administration Is that Mr. Pierce
Assistant Secretary of State, was de
tailed to make aspecialE investigation
of the Consular Stervice in the East,
and his private report made to the
President and lately called for by the
Sena e exposes the scandals. S me of
these consuls are stated to be drunk
ards. others grafters men who accept
ed office merely to fill their own pock
ets legally or illegally. The President
has, no doubt, endeavored to cleanse
and improve the service by forcing the
resignation of some of the grafters for
"the good of the service" but many
worthless incnmbentsstill remain.
-While there has been much- prog
ress", says the New York Post, "there
are many consuls who do not reflect
credit on the country. There was the
one at Ceburg, for instance, who turn
ed the consulate into a disreputable
resort and made every exporter con
tribute a "sample" for use in furnish
ing the consulate, or to be disposed of
for the benefit of the consul's pocket.
Careful investigation would have
shown the man ur fitness for office be
fore his appointment. The State
Department removed him for the
good of the service,' but Mr. Boose
velt, in the eyes of the CoburgeIrs,
added insult to Injury by appointi- g
as his successor one Saylor who obtain
ed unenviable notoriety by trying . to
defraud the Statp of Pennsl Ivana
when serving in its Legislature, and
who was officially denounced by the
Govergor. There are-plenty- of ather
cases on record in which the Pre.ident
or the State Department convinced at
the appointment of unfit men.
Their records and the disgrace they
have brought on the country, make
the ears of every American, when
traveling'abroad, tingle with the re
marks of foreigners, who :point tothe
official representatives of this country
as typical citizens of the United -
States The demoralization of the
Republican politicians seems ublqult
ous, yet there are plenty honest Re
publicans who would do us credit but
they seem to have no chance in the
race for office as they do not generally
belong to toe polittal machine,
Went aganhem.
Prior to the city: elections -in the
fall of 1905 representatives of both
parties in Columbus, Ind., signed an
agreements prmisingthat e.uther
money, llqaor nor anything of alu
would be used by eitherside for the
purpose of infiuencngvthe-vot~eof any
elector. It was further agreed that
escu committe would, prior tjoelection
day, submit a full re,.ort to the -other
of the money collectied and thisource.
of the same, and that after this repor
had been made no further cnerthu
tions would be received by eithercom
mrittee. Also that within ten- days
aiter the elction each committee
would make a report showing the dis
bursement. It was further agreed
that there would be assessment of
candidates for city offices-except such
as essments as would be agreed upon
by the final agreement of both parties.
Walter 0. Galbraith, editor of the
Columous Democrat, writing to-The
Commoner says: "This agreement
was carried out to the letter and It
rebonceed to the Interest of the dem
ocratic party, just as the same thing
would all over this country. Our coun
ty committee has adoptied the same.
plan for the campaign this year, but
the republicans will refuse tio sign iti,
and will retiurn to the old methods of
corruption. The honess~ votie-of this
nation is with democracy. Leti us all
do what we can to displace corruption
with honest and moral principles, and
thus elevate the moral standing of our
country as well as to restore democra
tic principles. The Bepublican-party
naver has and never will stick to hon
est methods in elections. That party
thrives on corruption and bribery in
elections.
A Great speech.
Senator Bailev of Texas made a
great speech in the senate on Tuesday
on the railroad rate bill. The Asso
eated Press gives a good dealof space
to the speech and the Washingtion
representative of The State pronoun
ces It a great effort, and quotes a
-'prominent senator" as saying, "The
speech winl take ranzk in bisaory
alongside the great speeches of Web
ster and Hayne." Senator Bailey
spoke for four hours, and during the
whole time nearly every senatior was
in his seat and the 'galleries were
crowded. A t the conclusion of the
speech the senator was heartily con
gratulated by democrats and republi
cans. _ _ _
Aged Paupers.
Weak from exposure and starvation
and with nowhere to go, a woman 103
years old and her son, aged '73 years,
were picked up by the New York po
lice. More than fifty years ago they.
came over from Italy and until recent
ly had been able to make a living.
But in the richesti city In the country
in their old age only the streetis re
mained for them.
Binled BimselL.
ev. J. R. Badgett, for many years
promient In the Methodist ministiry
of Texa, was taken Into custody at
Wilboro in that State suffering ap
arently from a mental derangement,
and Friday morning his dead body
was found hanging from a -bar of the
sell window, a blanket haing been
used as a rope.
Accidentally Killed.
Mrs. Lena Crabb was accidentally
killed by the sheriff of Laurens coun
ty, Georgia, on last Thursday while
being ca-ried by him tio Dahlin jail
on the charge of abandoning her
hildren. His pistol fell from his
pocket and exploded, the ball striking
the wom"n. b11Unc7 haP Inetantly.
A MISsOUBI docter says that death
is abad habit. We don't know so
much about the habit but It is a thing