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VOL. XX. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MAY 2, 1906. BURIED ALIVE Three Weeks in a Mine and Fi nally Rescued dIVEN UP ASIDEAD Thirteen Miners Came Out of the Earth Like Ghosts. Entcmbed Men Ate Bark, lay, Oats and Pieces of Decomposed liorse Flesh. Thirteen men were brcnght up alive on March 29 frcm the Courriers coal mines, in France in which twen ty days prtvious a terrible Explosion of gases entombed and destroyed near ly 1,200 mirers. Five days later ancther, vl:o had been alcre In his underground captivity came out. For twenty days the thirteen en durE d l orrible *nffeirgs, supporting life by gnawing the bark from tim ber supports, eatIr g bits of Iccd thai had been hit hy 11 eir dead comrades, hay, oat; and the purtially decompos ed carcas t f a bc i,. From the lack of water. e) were r d ced to shock ing extreites. '11 e intense cold ded to their sffeerings. They came to the surf,, ce haggard, eyes sunken, terribly exhausted, bare ly able to walk and with hardly enough strength left to describe their experiences, yet with the exception of one in surprid.1ngly good health. Gro; iDg in the dark d- after day, stumb ling over bodies of ti;- ir fellow work men, never giving up h. -pe and sup porting their courage Ly the beliei that the mine autaorities were work ing for their rescuc, they made their way finally to an open shaft in a re mote part of pit No. 2. A salvege party was at work in pit 2 when the thirteen men broke through a distant gallery ard stag gered toward them. The superst-it ious miners, believizg it impossiblz that the thirteen could be live men, were terribly frightened. Scme or them threw down their tools and ran. Others recovering their nerve, went quickly to the help of the thirteen, who were weeping and laughirg frcm the j)y of their escape. FRIENDS WILD WITH JOY The rescued men were brought to the surface in the elevator. It was d:ffIcult for ihe mine authorities even with the assistance of the gendarmes that had been ummcned to help ir, preserving. order to restrain the crowd which rush d for the rescued mer and atteUpt z cu t mbrace tkem and foree food ano Arinkn to their mcumt'. The men's eyes had been so lcng ac customed to the gloom of the mines that they were blinded temporarily by the glare of the sunlight. They were eager totalk, and every ,.ne of the survivors had his own storj to tell of the sufferings they endured. They all declared that they oweo their lives to one cf their party, a miner named Nemy, who from the first took ctarge or the party. N~emy1 told the story of the twenty days in prisonment modestly. When the t xplosion occurred he said, he sought re uge In No-. 3 gal lery, believing that he would have a fair chance there of escaping the gas es. He was 'without a light and often stumbled over cor pses as he grcped his way to the gallery. Once be re mi mbers he scrawrblE d thrcugh at least fifty bodies. F.nally he reached the end of the working and hearc voices. He went in the direction of the voices and came upon a party of his comrades that were sheltered in a remote niche. There were twenty of themab the time. Later on sev en wandered off, and nothing more was heard from them. THEY FIND A DEAD HORSE. N~emy, from mere force of character tcck the leadership. He got the par ty fmnaly to a sort of stable where the mules of the mine had been kept.. Wnlle they were making their way to that stable they had nothing to eat save the dry bark they tore from the timber supports in the galleries When they reached the stable they found a quantity of oats, a measure of carrots and portions of food that had been intended for the lunches of ' mule men who had perished in the explosion. There were thirteen mouths to feed and even the resource ful Nemy found It d.fficult to restrain his famished followers. The decom posing body of a horse was found near the stable, and it was cut to pieces. Some of the men ate It. O~hers could nat. There were times when some of the party became nearly insane from suf fering,but in every case, the men said, N~emy csimed them, encouraged them and infused into them some thing of his own dauntless spirit. Ti ey had only a little water at the very first, and the little was soon ex hausted. It was the lack of water that so intensified their sieringe. Ti relieve their thirst they were compel led to resort to measures which can not be described. They had plenty of matches but curiously enough they did not attempt to make a light and endured the darkness all thE while. RESCUED AT LAsT, Nemy said that he was confident all the time that efforts were being made to rescue them, but they were doing all they could for themselves Nemy had a general idea where they were and gradually led the party to a gallery, near pit N~o. 2-. They brokE thrcugh this gallery, and it was Nem)~ himself who first appeared to the as tonished salvage men in the pit, shout ing, "I am bringing twelve witi me?' E emy was taken to the hospital and his wife came to the bed whern he was lying. She was dressed In deej mourning, having given him up fo: dead for two week.s. Nemy looked a her a long time before he pke Then be pointed to her black gown. "For whom are you in mourning? Raid be. "Not I, your husband, tha is certain." Nemy will it is said be rewardet for his coolness and couaage with th cross of the Legion uf Honor. Five days af ter the appearance o Nemy and his twelve companions z rescue corps was working in pit - when one was touched on the shoul der by a man, thin and black, a. if his skeletcn was framed witi coal. "I AM SAVED." It was Augusta Berton, who said faintly: "I am saved, thank God:" Berton was raised to the pit'1 mouth and hurried to the hospital. His wis who greeted him as one risen from the dead, was permitted to be with him for a short time. Bert on was in better condition than the thirteen other miners rescued March 26. Strange tobay he thought he bad been in his living tomb only eight days. He thus described his frightful ex periences, which he had sought to end by killing himself. "I was working with my cousin when an explosion occurred, and we became separated. Alone I groped about in the dark, trying to find an outlet. I found a dead horse, but cculd not eat its flesh. Then I found some lunch bags which had belonged to men who were killed, and I lived ,in the food I found in them and drank from pudd'cs. I suffered from the cold and took clothing and shies from the dead. I a'so found three watches and 24 sous. "At one time I gave up hope and tried to cimmit sucide by opening a vein, but it didn't bleed much. I slept ten times and tried to count the days timating that eight dsys had pass ed siree the explosion." DESTRUCTION OF SAB JYZ. An Earthquake Disaster That Has Been Overlocked. O- the mcrain of the Sn Fran cisco eartt quake the city of San Jose was practicilly destroyed in the basi ness centere, and more than one-half of the homes in the residence section was so damaged or destroyed that re pairing will be beyond question. Fif teen lives were lost and the property oss is more than $8 000,000. Five houiand persons were rendered home less and destitute, and many rich and prosperous mercantile firms were re duced to beggary. The handscmue and mass've brick building of the R -man Catholic Church of St-. Palricas, costing mre ;han 3150 000 situated at Santa Clara and 9 4h streets, was a ruin. Two blt cks away the San Jose High School a five story building - of brick and stone - rected at a ccat of $90.000, was a pile of debris. I, was along 1st, 21, 31. Market, Santa Clara and San Fernaneinc streets that the greatest ruin was .vrought. Here building after bull iDg had come tumbling to the gri und ad three, four and five story struct res of brick, stone and iron, that ad been the pride of San J.se, lay jumbled piles cf debris. The greatest loss of life was at the State Insane Asylum, situated at Ag zew's three miles north of San Jose, where 117 patients, confined in the wards, and nine officers and atten ats were crushed to death beneath he falling walls walls and floors-the mtire main building and bfth wings aving collapsed at the first succk. Late on Wedneslay afternoon mar tial law was declared. Directly all of he saloons closed, and twso hundred .pecial policemen and deputy sheriff 3 -ere sworn in to assist the regular police and military in preserving law and order. Killed Berself. At Harlem, Ga., Mrs. Tom H. Dunaway ecmmitted suicido late Thursday night by taking strychnine. She was at tome with the family, and went in the next room, and returned in a few moments and calmly said': "I have taken the dose I've wanted to for some time." In less than twenty minutes she was dead. She was fifty-five years of age and had been in bad health for two or three years, which is thought to be the cause of her rash act. She had on several occasions threatened to kill herself, but they thought she was joking. She is survived by a devoted husband, eight d.aughters and three sons. She will be buried at tho. Union Baptist chu~c i cemetery Saturday morning at 10 30. Shot kiimn Dead. A sp( c-al from- -Grdsbeek, -Texas sa~ys: Wile being conveyed togal in the custody of two cffisers, aiegrc whom it is alleged assaulted.;.e daughter'of J. A. Eastland, a of Dlta, at an early hour this no ing, was taken from the c flihrs byi posse of citizens and held until the ar rival of the girl's father. When E st and rode up he ordered abe crowd tc stand back, and emptied b-th barreb of his shotgun loaded with buckshol into the negro, killing him instantly. There is no excitement. Three at a Birth. The Greenwood 'Christian Appea says: Mr. and Mrs. C. E Balliget ,f Glbert, S. C., have three niost in teresting.cildren-younlg Me~thili We give ielow their names, ages anc weight: Es.sie, three months, weight 11 1-2 pounds, Bessie, three months weigbs 12 pounds, Lessie, threi months, we~ighs 12 1-2 pounds. I will be seen that tuese three brigh1 nd sprightly young Methodist are triplets. Mr. at d Mrs. Ba'lington are the re c1pients of much congratula tion." _ _ _ _ _ _ Shot tu-B ck. Farlev Gallops, 30 years of age whi resides five miles north of Cusseta, Ga a3 brutally assassinated near hil icme Th ursday morning. Gallop: ad a companion had gone turke; .1bunting, and some one came withil thirty feet of him and filled his bacl full of buckshot. His companioJ came to Cusset at once for a phys'c alJ t,- t stated that he would be dead be fo he could reach him. The part. who fired the shot was not identified butw seen running. DARK SECRETS Of Chinatown Revealed by the Late Earthquake WAS HOME OF CRIMF. The Place Was Frrowed With Numbers of Underground Tunnet. Which Had Becn Seen by Fw White Men. Many Prisoners Were Held or Murdered. Not until the eartt quake shook the rickety houses to the earth to be de stroyed by fire did the authorities of San Francisco realize what manner of place was the much-advertised China town, the mecca of all tourists in Cal ifornia, the spot in which 25 000 OW nese lived like so many prairie dogs, says the New York Herald. When the high winds which came after the fire blew the asheg away, the yawning mouths of tunnels whaich the police had long suspected, were re vealed. Entrances to: these passagt s was so carefully hidden that only the leaders of the tongs, who used the lamp dungeons for plac s of meeting or to plot the death of a victim-the same rcom often ac'ing as the execu ion dungeon or.ca the market man was taken below the level of the street-knew. One (;f San Francisco's alert detec tives, said to be the best-posted man on Chinatown, stood at tne corner of Bartlptt alley and declared: ' F.,r years I have been trying to resca the tunnels, which 1 knew to exist under this Chinese city. What goes on down there one can only con jacture, but it is a thousand times wcrse than the sins and vices which are practiced by these Mongolians in the streets and gambling houses you cn see from this corner. Girls in the bloom of youth are rmuggled over the Cana dian border,brcu.ht here in the night, and confined in dungeons, perhaps never to lock upon the light of the sun again, although they may live for years." Very few white men have visited the underground passage3, certainly none of San Francisco's police force, for every man in the department was wat ched when he entered Clinatown and the Lurveillanc. did not cease while he remained there. Secretary Tsing, a prominent member of the Chinese aristocracy, stationed for political rea sons in the Chinese legation at the capital of Peru, was a member in high standing in a soclety of considerable politfcal influence in C'ina, with a powerful branch in San Francisco. He took two white men to the theatre n Chinatown and boastfully declared that the real secret of Cninatown had never been revealed. He conducted toe men to tie rear of the stage, slid a secret door back, and motioned for the men to follow him. For one hour, stooping until their backs were strained, the men silently followe d a guide, to lck upon a ccmn plete new uhinatownr, the tunnel lead ing past scores of doors to dungeons, against the bars of which some unfer tunates pressed their faces, to jump back from the fibe of a flickering mi:er's light which Tsirig carried. Uaier sais Cainese city ware huioi dreds of wom32a andl caildre. Tilair vic:s main.gis in g~lti refnain or ecboed t-he gl omy murmers of some who were sufft~ring. Huddled in group about a small fire, made from balls of coal dust which C-ainese prepare, were merchants wno had returned from their shops on the street le 'el to these holes in the wall to plot and invent. T he oder of opium was nauseating. Tne revulon of feeling was overpovw ering. When the street was reach~ed af ter climbing a flight of stairs to the kitchen of the chop i~e "joint," the breath of foul air even in this hole was refreshing. Hundreds of men went to their deaths each year in Chinatown with1 out an Inklirng of the tragedies being known to the police. It was easy to bury the dead under the tunnels, 100 feet deep.4n Chinatown. Members of tongs marketd for death left friends bhind, meni who reftsed to complain to the local authorities, but who, in stead sought revepge themselves in ~he same fiendlah.'manner that death had been meted out to their fellow members., F 2r years battle waged. Szores and icores were kilged, even in the streets ~til the citizens of San Francisco reatened to organ'za a vigilance mmittee ac d wipe Chinatown from he face of 'Frisco. This had its ef - ect. Tne war was carried below the streets, where dying men could 4scream in agony and not be heard. The slave tratIce has enriched many Chinese, suave merchants who led simple lives above sne street, but who retired to the subterranean passages and their slave marts to put upon the block the newest arrivat from the slave market in Canton. Gambling has always existed there. Toe gamblers c~mposed the bad ele ment. They fought for one another's gold, committed murder to obtain meas with which to enter games of fantan and other Chinesa devices of chance, and slept away their daylight hours In a bunk somewhee down be low the street, steeped i the lumes of opium, a sordid mass of human ity bntil nature awoke the brain to life. There never will be such a China town in San Francisco again. These people will be sent to a district far from the heart of the new city, -where they will be under such close survail a lance that practices of the past will be stopped when they begin. Provis 1 lcn will be made to suppress the tongs e for all time, if this can ase accomplish 1 No one will ever know how many - livs were lost in ChinatOwn. It is a moral certainty that men overcome ,with opium, the slave women in their uneons and many a. helpless wretch unconsc!ous from morphine were kill ed when the tremor of the earth top ple: the buildings down to be ccon sumed in a short time by the fire. Citizens who have visited the re mains of this plague spot were aston 1-bed at the catacombs which lay ex posed It is improbable that any at tempt will be wade to reich the bodies of Chinese victims. E Irth will be thrown into the gaping abyss, burying for all time the victims of the disaster and blotting out forever the sites of these dns of vice and horrible chambers o' sin. A?1%R TILLM&NS SuALP. Said Railroads Will Try to Defeat Hm for Senat6. A letter from Washington to the Columbia Record s-ys the first gun shot of oppositIon to Senator Tillmwan's renomination to the senate came Wed nesday in a letter from Detroit, i, which it is stated that the railroad, are understood to be preparing to de feat him for reelection and to try to send some man to Washington that they can manage. While there has been speculation as to whether or not there was any onc in Soutsh Oirolina who carcd uo meet the senator on the stump during the present summer to contest his seat in the senate, and while several local mno bave been suggested from time o time as possessing the ntesssary requirements, etc , the railroads have >een waching him, and kcepng track if the fight he has been maiing for >etter rates since the senate bill was iurned over to him to manage. T.bi as not suited the railroads of the )untry. These gigantic corporations, ooking ahead in the future, see tba. ae is making trouble for them. They ave agreed that they cannot stand or this, and he has been notified, rough people in the far West, that ie may lo:k fcr defeat if it is in their power to carry out their plans. He has been asked the point blank uestion whether he prop ses to cmn inue to wage war against the rail oads and corporate interest, and the. eople who hav3 inaugurated the novement say that they demand of im a categorical answer to many nestions that they will shortly put to While the roads are playing Senator Cillman, they are at the same time aking others dance to the music, one f these being Representative Cnarles 3. Townsend, of Michigan, author of ne Esch-Townsend rate bill. The outh Carolina man is ready for any igt the roads may make in their ef rts to unseat him. BIG BURN AT BAMBERG. veral Bai'dings Dcstroyed Before The Fire Stopped. Bamberg was visited early Thurs lay morning - by one of the most estructive fires in its history. The cses and insurances are as follows: The Bamberg Cotton Mill Co., lost me mill which, with its contents, is stimated at. $17 000. The irsurance mouted to $13,100. Mr. G. B B.mberg lost three build gs. Mr. Ramberg deals in horses, ragons and mules, etc , and succeed d in saving hi' live stock. The loss a his case Is $15,000, and the insur ~nce $13,200. Mr. J. P. Ott suffered the loss of is dwelling, value d at $1,250. In urance $950. Mr. George F. Hair lost his dwell ng, a cottage and stabl:; a loss of 1500. Insurance $1 200. Mr. G-. A Gzeen lost a cottage, val ld at $700. Mr. B. J. Beik lost a grist mill and -agon worka, valued at 35 000. In urance $1. 500. Mr. J. B. Folk lost a small dwell ng, valued at $400. Mr. J. E Jennings loses property valued at $150, no Insurance. Mr. G. W. Wilson, L. B Fowler, J. 3. Murphy, D. J. Harizog, Mrs. aunders and several other citizens ustained small losses fromn hurried oving, eto. Their losses were not overed by insurance. It is not known how the fire origi ated. The watchman at the mill ist discovered the blazs, but there ias no means of checking the fla.mes, wing to the fact that the mill fire ~ngine had blown out a cylinder head he day before. This unfortunate currence forced the property owners o allow the fire to burn itself out with only slight resistance. .~.oar Sihake. A dispach from San Francisco says tthree o'clcck Wednesday af ternoon shock if eartl quake was felt. It Lasted nearly a minute and caused ~onsderable alarm. A number cf als of burned buildings which were ~tandng were thrown down and frail uildings were considerably shaken p but the damage done was slight. 'he shock caused the death of Mrs Lnnie Whitaker, aged 25 years. Mrs Whittaker was at work in the kitchen f her home on Shotwell street in the lssion district, when the shock ame. The chimney which had been eft in a tottering condition by the heavy earthquake crashed through the roof on the woman and fractured her scull. Ph)e'calsy k'orfet~o. The New York American says Apol 1, If alive Thursday, would have to hare laurels as a physically. Ideal man with John F. Logan, aged twenty-five i No. 83 Tavlor street, Brooklyn, who received one hundred per cent. in his examination for membership in the Greater New York police force. This is the second time in the history of the .Police Department that a can didate has been pronoiuncedl physically perfect, the case being all the more remarkable in that only one other ap licant in 30,000 examined has come within fifteen per cent. of it. Prospec tive Patrolman Logan travelled three years with the Buffalo Bill show as a bareback rider and spent t wo years in Cuba as a United States cavalryman ii Troop K. Laid 10 Rest. Admiral Paul Jones' be~dy, brought from Paris, where it had lain burid for nearly a hundred years, was plac ed in Bancroft- hall, Annapolis, on Tuesday amid imposing ceremonies, including a speech by the president 01 the TUnited States. I BADLY ABUSED. Horrible State of Affairs in District Hospital. CRUEL TREATMENT Of the Defenceless kmates of a Goverr ment Institution in the City of Washington. People Not Insane Confined in the Bull Pen, A Typical Case. An investigation of St Elizabeth'i hospital, Washington D. C., the homi of many aected government employ ees, army and navy fflaers and mem bers of the marine corps, by the hous( committee on the District of Co'ux bla, has disclosed a horrible state c aff irs. Speaking of the discipline at thii Istitution, the committee in its re port spys: "It would appear fron cmplaints and statements made to ui that strait-jackets, handCuf3, etc. are in frequent use; that the 'feeding tube has been upon occasions thrus1 down the throat as a method and dis eipline, as well as of alleged necessity that 'wiring' out by wet towels ane 'toweling' with dry towels placee about the patient's ueck and twistec from behind until the patient falli over semi-conscious (sometimes witt soap in the moutb) is not an uncom. mon practice; that the "saddle" ha been used at times, a contrivance upor which refractory patients are said tc be placed in a reclining position, fas tened, hand. foot and neck, and sc that no movement is possible except to roll the-eyes around a circumscribed area of the ceiling, And thus left foi hours. 'Kicking and cuffing by attendant; for failure to ,ibey orders or do work properly, or for taking an extra spoon ful . f beans at table, etc,, is alIegi.. An incident is told of an attendant, dsturbed at night by a somnambulis tic patient, striking him in the mouth, and knocking him down, and carrying 2a own hand in a bandage for several days in cons( quence; and of another attendant breaking a patient's leg in diciplining him. ".Chere are different ways of train lng a hore-but one attendant made the statement that he was intructed to make patients fear him as he would a horse, etc., and he commenced doing o his first day on duty, by knocking a patient down and chocking him, af ter which he had no trouble with that one. "Many other like cccurrences are eported, but these are more than suf~ cient, If true, to present a vivid con trast to the methods of gentleness and ympathy carried out in other insti. utions." Many attempts have been made re ently by Inmates of the hospital tc c.ire the services of attorneys to ef et their releace, such attempts have nvariably been followed by brutal and nhuman treatment. One case in point Is that of an old man named Wilisi who was not insane and wanted to be released. (: this case the commitcee says. "Tne Willis case is no doubt ex~ eptiona; this Is a brief of Its history. n old man, but vigorous of body and intellect, was prevailed upon to deed valuable property to a relative. He was drugged in N~e York, taken1l,000 miles to a soilders' home at Milwau kee, Wis., f rom there to St. Elizabeth; there rNgarded as Insane, and hie statements taken as proof positive o1 "perst catory mania." He was punish ed in the hospital for his attempts tc secure legal release; his pension oi $12 per month used by the hospital; nI pension of $50 per month for life a~s an old employee of Arnold, Consta' ble & Co., commuted and released by the relative to whom he had deeded eie property for a cash payment; he is now penniless and friendless, and his prospects for escape from life im prisonment from among the insane are exceedingly small.-. "A womnars believing this man's story secured a writ of habeas corpus for him and the case came before Jus tice Wright, of the supreme court of the D.strict of Columbia. He held the commitment unconstitutional and ille gal, and said 'One might as well argue that a policeman could be authorizec to arrest a citizen, charge him witi murder, pronounce him guilty, and riang him to a lamp post.' Willis wai then discharged after having been helc in the hospital two years and wassen1 out without one penny. "In the Shaffer case, it appears he was too religious to suit the taste oj an cffcial In the hospital ward at the soldiers' home, who commanded him to stop praying with the sick inmates his refusal caused immediate trans fer to St. Eizabeth. Taere he show ed no signs of Insanity, but his re quests for discharge were refused ane his release by habeas corpus resisted Finally he managed to have his ca brought into court and he was fouas perfectly sane in every respect and or dered to be discharged. There are about 500 IndIgent pa tints at St. Elizabeth's, and these the committee says, are confined il the bull pen. "The bull pen Is a triangular endls ore of abcut three acres, of whicl about one-half Is occupied by build igs. It is surrounded by brick wall and high paling fences, through whic] the Inmates can be seen trampini wearily back and forth like caged anj mas, or siting listlessly waiting to bell for meals. Some have been ther for a decade or over. Oae old soldle In this pen stated that he was treate as well as any old dog shut up in back yard with water to dri:x and. tough chunk to gnaw 0-; if he did nc attempt to dig out, or jumip the fenc4 or howl at the moon, he was left alor and kept out of trouble." W, W. PRIC SERIOUS CH4.G R. THE LEGISLATIVE INVESTIGAT ING COMMITTE CRITICISED. It is Asserted That It Is a Political Machine to refeat Eenator Tillman. Mr. W. W. Price, the Washirgfon correspondent or the Columbia Be cord, sends the following to that paper: - "The legislative committee appoint ed to investigate disptneary affairs ii fast developing into a mere adjunct of the- macbine in South Carolios that is trying to defeat Senator Till man," was the important statement made here Wednesday by a prominen man from that state. "It is too ap pa reAt for even the most opaque mind to remain ith ignorance, and there is much feeling in the state among the senator's friends." Then the South Carolinian, who has been an intimate friend of Sena tor Tillman for years, went on to say: "I suppose the leaders of the outfit have come to the canclusion that nc body in the state has sense enough to see what all :!s means. I do not know a worse example of apparent in tentional desire to involve Senator Tillman in trouble than has recently been shown. It is getting so open that It begins to look as if the whole ooject of the committee was to find som thing that would hurt the South Carolina senator. 0: course they can't do this, as there is nothing to fiad. Why doesn't this committeE handle the important and knotty affairs they have in hand-the illegal purchases of supplies for the institu tion for the last two years? I do nat believe that a drop of whiskey h& been legally bought for the dispensary in two years. Yet I don't see any profound Effort to get busy on this subject. If this committee was ap. pointed to make an impartial investi gation and leave personal and politi cal bias out of it there is plenty cf room for a complete change of p 0 gram. "While this new outfit that is try ing to come into power in the state is bitterly hostile to the dispensary its whole game is to involve Senator Till. nian If possible, no matter whethsr it has to be done by dirty insinuations abnut piano purchases or any other -ay. W -11, I imagine that before Ehe senator and his friends get through with some of these chaps there will be something doing. "The game the people of South Carolina want to watch now Is the little one of how we are going to set tle up the question of these illegal payments. This is full of more possi bilities than all the trips to Cincinna ti and elsewhere to find whether Senator Tillman returned rebates thirteen years ago. It's funny how earnestly some of these people are digging after matters thirteen years old, yet with .wha5 ponderous slow ness latter day affilrs are being.gone into. Isn't it strap g<. ? "The next 1, gislature, if it repre sents the voice of the people, as I be ileve it will, may take a new tack at the investigating business. I do not wish to go Into details now, hbut 1 should not be opposed to a blanket investigation,' taking in everybod3 and everything right on down to the present moment That might bring out some interesting things." The statement is made that Sena tor Tillman's friends in South Caro ina and out are writing him letters|1 indicating that there is getting to be disgust in many quarters with some of the present metnods and that there is not the confidence there was some| time back. I do not know anything about these matters except what I hear. I do know, though, that people coming up from the state, both friends and op ponents of Senator Tillman, rather agree in the idea the prime object in some directions seems to be to hunt bhe earth over for matter that may injure Senator Tillman, no matter what the expense or how it is done. The purification of the dispensary, it is declared, is simply a secondary af fair. "Anything to get Tillman in trouble," was the way another South Carolina maun put it. Mu3lrderer Wanted. The Columbia State says: Mr. D L. Boczar of Chester was here Thurs day to consult with Gov. H~sy ward re lative to having additional effoart made o captume Will Perry, co'tan m 11 op erative, who shot Langley Bocz r, the son of Mr. R aczer, at Wylie's mill, in Chester, aboua a year ago. Tue gov ernor has already c~ffred a heavy re ward and will try to do all that he can to locate the fugitive. To the $600 already off red, Mr. Boozer has added $400 on his own account, but be says he is willing to give all of the $1,000 himself if the murderer can be captur ed, dead or alive. He has sent out cir culars with a description and photo graph of Perry. Deadly Gasolene. Near Savannah on Thursday morrn lg while the schooner Jennie Tuomas was putting to sea, en route to Balti more, an explosion occurred on board. Gasoline was carried as fuel for a hoisting engine on the schooner. One man, a sailor, whose name is not known, was l:,tantly killed, and an other so badly injured that he it dying. Tne schooner caught fire from the explosion and it required a hard fight to extinguish the fi ames. The schooner is now putting back to the city and will arrive during the after noon. Two tugs are towing her. The Thomas was lumber laden. She - isr owned largely by Savannah parties. I Mana Kfueiljiim. -Because he sever'ed-~ connection with and refused tounribute to the 3 Mafia Society, Antonla Saspo was I shot three times at an -ltalian camp - near Seymour, Conn., Thursday efn ing. Francisco Culpino, who dldkthe e shooting, robbed the, dying man of r $500, which he had saved- to brfng his wife and children to this' coutry. a Culpmno, who Is eighteen years old, terrorized the whole camp and threat ened to shoot an, one who attem~pted " to detain him. Be boarded the 6 15 e o'clock train an d escaped, and it was two hours later before any of them ared inform the police. DEADL Y TORN AO. TWELVE TO FIFTEEN PERSONS RE PORTED HILLED. Irany Injured at d Missing in Belle vue and Stoneburg, re struction Great. A dispatch from Fart Worth, Tex as, says a tornado has swept away the town of Bellevue and damagei the town of Stoneburg. Mesgre advices received state that the town of Belle ue is totally destroyed, 12 or 15 per sons have been killed, and many injar. ed acd missing. FAre is destroying the ruins caused by the tornado. A special rain has been started from Bowie, ft xas, 125 miles distant from the scene. Bellevue is a town of 1,500 in tabitants. A dispatch from Bellevue says a tornado which swept through that piace 'I hursday night destroyed every thing in its p .th and as a result prac .Ically the entire town is a mass of :uins, only three buildings now stand ing. At least 11 persons are dead and a number are injured. The tornado was followed by fire which conaumed the wreck.ge. This report is being sent from the bop of a telephone pole a mile from Bellevue, but it is as close as a wire :an be had. The town of Bellevue con isted of over 200 houses. Among those who are known to have been killed are: E L. Russell, wife and four chil Ir-n; A. D. Barr, Tim Munt, W. W. B -11, candidate for county treasurer of Clay county; two members of the Gray family. The sericusly in jured. Two daugh trs of N. E. Smith of Bowie; Mrs. Gult, Mr. Gray, and seven memruers if his family, two nf whom have since iled; Ars McGraw. The whole business section of the town and all stocks of merchandise were destroyed. Among the business ouses destroyed are Nelson and pivey, M.- Spradley, Ogontz & Bob ey's flour mill. A. D Carr was caught in -a build ng, mabbed to death and his body is i e.lieved to have been cremated. The tornado was a mile wide and i raveled over the earth for a distance )f eight miles, leveling everything in ts path; ruining crops and destroying L11 farm houses and barns on the way. i E'his section is thickly settled and it I Nill ba tomorrow before there are i omplete reports of the dead. The fact that so few were killed is ( wcounted for by the fact that practi- 1 ally every house was equipded with a torm cellar and people went to :them s soon as they saw the tornado ap )roaching. Those who had no storm I ellers or who could not reach them i rere the ones who suffered. I Last winter many lives were lost in i he same neighborhood by a tornado. I CUr TO PIBCES. ?eil Be' w3en the Cars While Steal ing a Ride. A dispatch from Darlington to The tte says: Emery Miller, a bright ov about 12 years old, met a hogrible eath here Saturday afternoon about o'cl'.ck, when a shifting train near he -cotton factory literally cut his dy in two. At the time of the ac ~ient the little fellow was swinging ~n o a moving box Car. Losing his ~rp, he fell sprawling on the track, here the life was cvushed out of him )y ti~e wheels of the tender and big ~ngne. The wheels of the train ~assed over the lower part of his body, :utting his figure almost in half and hen found a few minutes later his ead and body were on one side of the ,rack and his lower limbs on the aer. Oae arm, was also badly ,rushed. Alert on foot and active in body, :he boy was caught by car after car s they were shifting from the main rack to the switcak and had hardly ore than leaped on this one when e met his tragic end. About three r four witnessed this awful death and it was not without warning from iis elders that the deceased sode at he peril of his life. E nery Miller was the sen of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Niller. His father is superintendent f one of the card roams at the cflton ill In Darlington. That which makes the death of oung Miller peculiarly sad is the fact mat nis mother and others were mak Lug ice cream for a festive occasion when tcld of the unexpected ano orrble death of her boy. A jury was drawn this afternoon and the body viewed. The inquest will not be held until Sunday. Killed His Brother. A dispatch from Homer says there was a sad tragedy at Gaddys' mill, a place about six miles east of there, hursday morning. Two brothers, about 10 and 12 years of age, became Lnvolved in a quarrel, and the young-. ar securing a shotgun fired on his i roter at close range, the load tak-C ug effect in his back ranging upward md comil g out just above the collar one. Tue boy died two hours later. They are sons of Bryant, the man that killed Prevatt at that place sev eral years ago, and after being placed in the penitentiary .under a life~ sen tence committed suicide by opening e jugular veins ila his neck with a pair of scissors. Cat To Pieces. James M. Thompson was killed by Shirley at 24 Berean avenue, Atianta1 Thaursday night at 7 o'clock, .being iteraly cut to pieces. Thompson was feaafu~y slashed and died in two min utes. The killing resulteel from a quar rel between Thompsons son and Shir leys younger brother. The oldi r men took it up, the lie was passed and re :.urned, and Shirefy0llaims Thompson cut him first and -tli.t he then pro ceeded to .use his knife. I ved Tillman. ;A dispatdh-from Washington says ttii~ fact has leaked out that Senator Timan was Invited to the White House last Monday afternoon to meet th French naval (ifli ers who were received by the President, prior to the John P.Lu' Jones ceremonies at An napolis, Tuesday. Senator Tillman id not anet the Invitation. HARD TO KILL. Dr. Dean on Recent Slaughter of the Dajas IN THE PHILIPPINES The Doctor Missed Beiag at the Scene a Day or Two and Talks lterestine ly of the Fanatical Natives Who lie Says Will Never Yield. Dr. F. W. S. Daan, a young Green villian, who has a commission In tk army, and who has seen a deal of ghting in the Pallippines the past :ew years, was in Columbia a few. lays ago on his way home from the slands. Dr. Dean talked In an In teresting way to the representative of The Record concarning the much talked of battle of the crater of JoJL, where some 600 native men and wo men were surrounded by Uncle Sam's men and shot to death by direcion of Roosevelt's pet, General Wood. "I had just left jolo at the.time of Lhe battle," said Dr. Dean, "but I mow something about that so called >utrage. Yes; the women were kla gong with the men as they should iave been killed. Those people were i band of thieves and robbers, who ollected themselves in that crater .nd sent word -to Governor Scott de. ying him and telling him that if 13 wanted anything of them. that he mew where they were. "It was a case of killing them or aving our men killed. These peopi 6re Mohammedans avd fight to the ieath. There is no conquering themi ad the women fight the same as the en. A native will not hesitate when le is pushed to it to throw himself-= bunch of American soldiers with ti ertainty cf death before him. B6 loe not hope to get out alive, but hi bhinks that if he can kill omediristlai te will go straight to gloty. Thoui eople don't surrender. -"The only way to pacify the WiB1n s to exterminate the malIontent jhoroughly. Things will never bi traightened out down there unless here is a decided change in the ML"-' iude of.the people of the States. It 3E 6s with the negro in this country, one ction of the country pulling one *ar ad the other the other way. There Is. o much politics In this Filipino bui ness. And the strangest thing to m. a to see Southern people.taking side.7 with the natives. The Panlippinea. bould be sold or taken out of pohtiU some way.. "Our sentries are shot from ambus& rhenevar there Is an opportunity prg. ented to these wild fools. 1A 12as been ifflult recently to get guns to themn ire of late, but even now they come' and are bought uppromptly. A r~If worth t200 in goldlin that sect30a ow, but even at that price the ns Ives got hold of them, Pulled lisa Ttiethi M. Labourraye, a dentist of Paris, as found insane and sent to the Sal erere for observation and tireat' ent. A few days ago the secretary f one of the deputies entiered Libor' aye's dental of::e to have a tooth ere racted which had caused him consid; rable pain. The dentist asked the pa lent to sit in the operating chair, nd then, drawing a revolver end' onting it at the frightened secreary hose toot 2ache disappeared as by agic, exclaimed: "If you move & usce when I am taking out your eit, you are a dead~ man." ne maniac then proceeded to pull he secretary's teesn. One after the ither hie removen with great sklli hile the patient lay motionless is he chair. When eight teeth had been ulled out, the dentist said, "That: will do for today. You have boeok rery quiet. Fifteen francs, pleasePF ue secretary paid without hesitation hnd staggered out of the omale. He ent to the nearest police stiation andI old his story. A force of police was ment, and when they entered the oom the madman opened fire og .hem. He shot one of te pnnlcem a the arm, and another in the leg efore he could be knocked down and andcffed. Wants Another Queen, 4 The N~ew York American says wheo dele Bitchie, of the "Social Whirl,':. bt the Casino, was confrontied Thuzer a night with an offer of marriage. rom a real live Prince, she confesad fterwards that she felt deoldedl~ 'fustered." It really made-her disi hen she learned that this scions c t oyalty had actually fallen in lovi with her picture in far away Singa oro. But when sheheard from L - ek Seng, the emissary sent to sad ~Ilss Ritchie to "design to not!ke .his jonorably humble master," that the ovelorn Prince was One Sarong Tebek f Slam, and that he already has a arem containing sixty wives, the a. ress saw her visions of princely glory Eading. She reserved her decision... Burned to Death. Three children were burned to. deatd in the destruction .by fire Sat-. rday night of the Presbyterian Hia on school at Lawson, Raleigh coune ty, W. Va. Tne school accomodated both boarding and day pupils. The 'cims were two sisters named Me A Barned City. A map just publishedof the br4 district of San Francisco showanar86 covering 453 city blocks, II1of whb& are south of 1arket street and 342 a the north end. It is estimatied tishi the buildings destroyed will be in the neihboroo onfa sit thoand.na