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VO)IL. XX I. .M1 A NN ING, S. C., W EDN ESDAY FE BR UARY 27. 1907. -- NO 22 TO WIND UP. Spangler Predicts Fearful Disas asters to the World THIS AND NEXT YEAR, Ie says New York, M)sonl: and (*hi 'ago Will I!e letstroyed Ily Ter rible ('onvulSious of Nature ani That Later On the W1hole Worl( Will be )estroyed and Every Lir ing Animal Will Perish. An astounding prophecy has jus1 been made by the most noted proph. et in zhe world. Lee .1. Spangler, of York. Pa. Lee Spangler pr.edict ed the eruption of Mont Pelee, the election of President Roosevelt, the death of Mark danna. the Baltimore fire. Russia's defeat by Japan, the Caliyornia earthquake. the sinking of an island in the Pacific and the Kingston disaster, a year or more bef'ore any of these events occurred. lie is a- plain, unpretentious busi ness man. a grocery store keeper who apparently has a natural gift of prophecy. Within the past month he has had a vision of the destruction of the world. the di:Lppearance of the scas and the "making of a new heaven and a new earth," as he expresses it. This preliction differs from the old fashioned, end-of-the-world prophe cies whieh usually represented the world as being burned up in a migh ty flame. Lee Spangler predicts that the "new earth" will be made by natur al geological processes, earthquakes. the- rising of new mountain range and the drying up of the oceans. In these cataclysms he foresees the destruction of New York. Bos ton and Chicago-all of these cities meeting their fate in different ways. Spangler's Predictions. On a Sunday toward the close of next year, 1908. the destruction of thke world will begin. Then will be made a new heaven and a new earth. There will be no more seas. In the new millennium which wil! begin with the new earth all the sur viving inhabitants will come togeth er into one great nation, being no longer seperated by the barrielrs of seas or race prejudice. The disaster s, of San Francisco, Vtlparisi and Kingston within the past nine moinths have been but the rumblings and premonitions of the final, destruction. The next great catastrophe will be the Innihilation of New York by earthquake and fire in the Autumn of 1908. That city stands on the edge of what geologists call a 'fault.' and old crack in the world's surface. At some remote period the ground broke apart, leaving on the western side ~the precipitous Palisades Down through this gorge the waters of the mountain region to the north flowed. The Hudson River was form ed and the Island ~of Manhattan came into existence, as suddenly as new islands arise in the Pacide Ocean. ~ Just as suddenly wilt conme the disappearance of New York. There will be a rocking tremor ot Manhattan Island. The tall build ings will collapse in a moment. Fire will sweep the ruins in a few hours. In the midst of the calamity. the quakings of the earth will in crase. The old crack in the earth under the bed of the Hudson will reopen. The river will disappear in the wink of an eye. As the river and the sea flow into the heated interior of the earth there will b~e a mighty hissing of steam. The explosion following will cast the ruins of New York high into thr: sky and falling they will be engulfed in the great crack. filling it with rocks powdered as fine as the dust ot a city street. Nothing yill be left to mark the sight of the great city save a few fire-swept ruins on the outskirts that have escaped th greater catastrophe of Manhatta n Is land. Alillions of people will be killed in a few minutes. After New York's doom Chicago will meet its fate. Instead of being swollowed up in a chasm, the earth will suddenly rise up in a great mounltain.- The tall buildings will topple over and fall down the nmoun tain sides like houses built of chil dren's blocks. This -will be but the nat ura course of geologic ev'ents. guided b: the Divine Hand. It will be merel: a repetition of what occurred onc before in the Mississilppi \alley re gion. This was -the first p)art of th American continent to rise out c the primeval sea when the we' tet covered all the world, as the Itibi telis us. and. as science assures m~ was literally true. A hundred million years ago th 31Iississippi Valley was a great mioun tami systemn as high as the. Rock' Mountains now-' are. Geologists tel us how this great mountain s:..-ter was worn down to a level plain b: the actionl of the wind and water an the decay of rocks. About thirty millions of years ag the Appalachian Mountains rose t the eastward, by a crumbling ,up c folding of the earta's surface. 'l'hes poured their flood of waters dow into the Mississippi Valley ana became the great Laramjie Laxa prehistoric times. where the strang n'onsters tiourished which scientist have dug tuP in the last few year Five or ten mil!ion years ago tI Roc~y Slounltain svcl was uphea' edi h-: volcanic a('il. All these great movemlents wou. have heen considered catastropfh4 by man had he thea existed on ti ea1rth. Greater changes are no coming tha'n have ever before og witnessed by man in his brief ii on earth. l - - The convulsions in heMississi pi Valley will cause the Great Lak to rush 'tidal floods throughl the nic made valleys. The few people who can mana, to get to the staple ground oft Appalachain Mountains on the eo and th~e lof'tly platealus of the Roc .iltinfs ona the west wvill be save Thek~re have always been mounts which the righteous can tlee and saved. While these tremendous qluakin; of the earth's crust are occurrimg what we call the East arnd .\lidd Wet Boston. already slowly sin :;g into the sea at a rate of a foo a century shall suddenly subside il : night and ships for a time will sai over her tallest )ujldingS. Where the Pacific is deepest grea crack will open in the ocean bed The waters will rush hissing thereid with a noise like Niagara. clouds o steam will arise covering the ear!l with darkness. shutting out 'h< light of sun. moon and stars tn days. When it clears away the hottor of the Pacific Ocean will be dry. save where mighty rivers flow througi the lowest parts. as the Mississipp now winds down through its grea valley. The greatest of these riven in the Pacific plain will be the' unit ed San Joaquin and Sacraniotnto Riv ers, which will flow westvard iasi the Hawaian Islands. which wil then loom up like mountain ieaks. I Th mighty river will flow to IhI yawning cracks in the earth wherc the ocean disappeared. It wil Ie called the great sink. San Francisco. plurified by fire nd earthquake, will rise into a city beautiful. Before her will spread the valley of the Pacific to pay eter nal tribute to her. The interior valley of the Rocky Mountain and Sierra Nevadas will at first be ravaged by floods from the newly risen mountains of the Missis sippi Valley. Their inhabitants will build arks. as Noah did. and the wis est of them will escape. After the flood subsides they will go forth upon a new and beautiful country, clothed in verdure and trop ical plants, with no more need for irrigation works, for the rains of heaven will hereafter provide then with moisture. While the Western World is thus being destroyed and made over anew equaly strange things will be happening to the en-M ward. Across the South Atlantie there is thin spot in the earth's crust. The volcanic outburst of Mt. Pelee and thes haking and "sinking Kingston.on the Island of Jamiaca. show how un stabe this part of the earth is. As a result of the convulsions in the Pacific. this part of the Atlantic will also split open. the seas will flow in. and the botton of the At lantic and Mediterranean will then e dry land. In this great fertile plain, watered by the rivers flowingi from the mnoun tains. Europe and Eastern America will come together and live as one nation. It will be the new-Garden of Eden. and here will be the new heaven on earth. Earthquakes and fire and floods will have purified mankind and made them fit for a new destiny on earth. The signs of the heaven all point to these changes on the earth. Mars has been discovered by Pro fssor Percival Lowell. of Boston. to he a world on which the seas have disappeared. where all the people live together as one nation. ' Scientific men the world over have for some time forseen some such destiny for the earth. But they have acked the courage to proclaim the coming of the new earth. They have hinted at the changes that would oc cur. but have said these things are millions of years removed. I now foresee that tihey are close at hand. The trembling of the earth's surface. the wonders seen in the skies. the crises in the affairs of men, proclaim that the new creaion is rushing upon us The calamities that have occurred in the p:ast twelve months are as nothing to what is before us. Greater things are yet to conme to awaken and convince the people my words are true. not only in this country. but throughout the whole world. There will be great sickness all over the world, such as the doctors vil not be able to wip out.. as. nox ious vapors from the earth's inter ior fill the air. Strange diseases will appear. such as never before existed. Medical skill wiii he exhausted ad the doctors will not know wha! to All these and many other things will occur simultaneously before the destruction of the world. People will laugh at my predictions. bt. I tel o they are true. They are conung thicker and faster. One right after the other, and yet the people are so blind they cannot see that it is God's hand working out the dlestimy of man. and the evolution of the world. .So T tell y-ou that there wvill lhe a new heavenl and a new earth. and there wvili be no nmore sea. Lee J. Sitangil. Two Bad Boys. The Aiken JIournal and Review says Sunday morning tw'o young men Garvirn and Kneece. of Wagner. w"ere arrested by the police oficers. upon le request of their fathers. It at' ears that young Kneece had some trouble in his family. and to esca.i. oing Garvin and he got Mr. Gar vin's b iggy and horse, and starteu of. The hutggy happened to be slightly out of 'rpairi and it was x changed for Mr. Knwe' hu-gy. rhe fathers of thle hors camieti o Aiken early Stunday mtornmPg. a:t -ing just before the oy cmUle. The police were nortilied and about a i ha f au hour attieru'uis .5 thy'v rrested in a restaurant. in' geu; emen took charge of the tea-nt. anc( s they did not wvish to piros'-' i :dui os they were released from jail. -Sad lDuck Hunt. W. L. Smith. a widely known ail -oad wain. and his son,. ea .ed 1'3, were drownfedi F ai~ y Menasha lake. Ark. Mr. Smuiir wih' ,as a menmber of the Menesha ii n'~ ng cl ub. went there with hri st Thursday for a duck humt. iE da: morning' the two. vwithl a negro en tered a skiff and in sonie itane he craft was overturned'~. and . hree occuplants were thrown ii t deep water. They made a desl.ra snort to reachl shore. but tle tv elothing worn by" ~.r. Smith and hi S E ~was too much for their effor and both were drowned. The negr escaeid. hUrt int Fie s Suter' was visited by t de ern ive fire on Friday. Ii dlest'o ed .ti r lock conrtaining lieckt ltio5 ai tt ompany's store. Trinx.'d . :e and tire Manheimu one hif floor. and a hrotel on ''''~i -foo. Collapsing w-all onun. s Chief Graham. fract utri 1s~~ a nid crushing his leas. ~ oh firemen were eachl It ll'y ernshE eC necessitating amnputa' ion S\ .ot h e e firemen were more or less- s'nto"it st jured. d G ets a Stat;in. to The house commit teo of i to ur e iat ion and urnim 'i n u" e ''" Thursdty to makC atfavorau,' r'e-" 5 on The hills apipropirigii syv" in osand dollars each for imnutirt' le tations at New Orl]eans. uav'at -an r-harlCste-n. LOCKED IN SNOW. Fifty Thousand Cattle Frozen Stif Against Barbed Wire Fences. It Ik Feared That Thousanids of Peo. p!. Have l'erished in Their Honme ('1n tite lins. While we have had a very nild and pleasant winter. in some lacet the weat h'er has beei terribly cold, and thousands of Ieo ple and ani umis ilm\(. perish ed from it. Te N-w\ York .\merican says the f-iirftti conditions prevailing in the Canadian .Northwest are shown by the folowing leter received by the. daughter of a traveling man who is nlow in that region. C.l ia Hotel. Golden. 11. C.. My Pear Daughter: Golden is a village of 9m) in the Rocky Mountains. 2.701 feet above sea level. It was -I! helow zero last night and at 5::.1" this evening is 30 helow. "I am sitting by a tine open hearth room and am still n.ne too warm. The.. first train in four days broulght your letter. Since I left Toronto. on the 15th day of Janunary. the ther mometer has ranged from 15 below to 56 below and terror isinthehearts of the people of he prairie districts There is no fuel and no foodin many parts: "Railroads are unable to earry freight. As soon as they atre open they are drifted shut again. Another snow bow and all -railroads in the exIrtme Nortihwest will be blocked unti ihaw d oul; in the Spring. --1i along the line of the C. '. R. R. cattle and antelope have drift ed against the barb-wire fences. where they freeze and starve to death. At Calgary there are 54,1J00 dIcad earcasses. In fact. the ranch ing busi ness is rutinod. "I is feared that thousands of people have Ilerished on their honte steads. I is shocking to see the dlead and dying cattle-and antelope alomng the track. "rradc is at a standstill. The risk of travel is at present. very great nd will le greater when the snow mieits. You can imagine the discom forts of travel when the drinking water tank at the end of the car freezes solid. These conditions have existed since November 15. SMALL POX SCARE. Causes (;reat (Coinotion Among the Miissouri Lawmakers. lBecatuse a iember of the Mis sourt-i Legeslatture. which was in ses sion at Jefferson City. was stricken down with small pox while in his seat last Friday afternoon, a great oinimot ion has been caused in the city. The house of representatives, of which Mr. Salts. the sick nian. was a member, after the hall had been fuigated )y the state board of health. adjourned until : p. ml. Monday A resolution passed amid con fusion and with but half of the mem ers in their places. provides for the thorough fumigation of the ca)itol. 3Many boarding house keepers have refused to allow their homes to e entered by legislators. In con seruence Governor Folk has offered the use of his mansion to legislators who are unable to obtain quarters elsewhereC. Reresenltative Salts was in con ference with Governor Folk Friday morning. The Governor said: "I noticed lpimples on M.r. Salt's face but thought nothing of them at the time. Possibly I shall have to get vaccinated now. but I do not feel at all alarmed. The governor wvas vaccinated about three years ago. he said. MIEANT NO HARM1. But Admiits He Got. Twisted 1Up With the ~~Wome. (Gray. grizzled, sixty-One years old and Itwice a higamist. MIicheal Conkle ~as brought to the penitenttiary rt Coubtus. Ohio. fronm Gallie Cotuty to serve a sentence of one year. igamy was the technical charn.t tiaced on the prison books, lbut wh:en they asked Conkle wvhat he had been ip for, he couldnt't remtemiber ofi \hy," he said. "I guess I wasn't seperated right fronm one woman and uriedl another. What do you call --Bignmy?" some one suggested. "th. that's it: that's it.". said Con kle. relieved-.. --1 have been anl honest man. he said when they w"ere listing him on the ug pr'ison register. "Ihave never done any great wrotng. \ o.i see I got mixed with these womeL 'Out in Wiscotnsin abottt nineteen vetrs ago. I deeded my first wife a art andt she signed a release and I supposed the release mean ihat wewe een't married any umore. ''My secontd wife stued mue io ct vorce and got it. Yotu see that re lase htad never been recor'ded ithi -m d all the timte 1 ihouh it had. Then: (7o0 -e. ntever dami ted, moa 'i'd a h ird tinme anid this timu' :s :1n Ohtio wotmanl. ('oukl sta she hatd trete d him prent(~tIy sqlta ? an went0 ont his bond whleillen i cre tettid. Anot11her .Ilaine JDisaster'. - .-\ ableguramn fromi Cop.penhtage ays ant unknowni threte niasted yes -rll orwvegian and pre - bl ound fromt Norway ti - .emen.- went ashore oft FjaltringS - t Ihe n est coast ot J1utiantd Frida~y Owing to the violence of the gale was imtpossible. to send ou 'e life ooat. F'ive rocket lines wet e tre< at the vessel wit hout any success an< ventuaiily she broke up tompttletely H er 'trew of 1s men eilung fot' ue to t rigging bti when th masts wetnt the satilors werec 5wep away and dIrownyed - -.ot in H i'. Ollice. At Chicago. 11l-. \Vehster S. Guet tu aias louis Fisheri. w'as shot ant iied in hiis otlce Thursda(liy. Mlr \ I otnald, wie of 01 ichea! (-. :h l' Onld, wais arrested. She wvas alon it te-offtice wit h-hint at the tim c t ''.Ottg MlcDonald. wvho is r ver ritch maiu. says Guerin hdc maild his wife antd that it is tL eson she shot hli. hilled Hlerself. \li" .\lta WVest, daughter' of M - il 'irs. Williim~ R. We'Cst, residit -\. lih. .il. N. C.. commiined so d ,.;' ly takitig stryehineli. NO camn i o th.' rnsh acr can be assingeC i' We sh 'was a vounlg wyomlan( very supeior quialificationls and wvi " h ighly esteemied in, t he neigh borhoc( ;n twhich she lived. MANY KILLED By Wreck on the Pennslyvania Railroad Friday Night THE SAME OLD STORY A Fast Passenger Train Goes Over an Embankment Near Altoana. Pa., and One Hundred Passengers and Trainmen Are Repoted Kill ed, and Many Others Are Serious Hurt. A dispatch from Johnstown. Pa., says "train No. 21. known as Chica go and St. Louis Express. is report ed to have gone over an embank ment at Mineral Point. 8 miles east of this city. A relief train bearing all available physicians left here at 12.45. Officials refused to allow newspaper men to accompany the train." "A long distance telephone mes sage from Brouse's Hotel. South Fork. two miles from 3inera Point. at 1.45 a. m.. Saturday morning states that 100 livs were lost. Many others were hurt. The cause of the accident is not known at this hour. A relief train left South Fork at I."0. Punsylvania officials will not conununicate with the Associated Press here, evading all attempts to scure information." Later reports say that no one was killed in the wreck. but that over one hundred people were injured. some of them fatally. FIRE BUG RUN DOWN. A Negro Wanted for Barn Burning Captured at Last. Chief of Police T. H. LockharL. of Gaffney. captured Jim Bryant. the negro who is charged with burning the barn of Mr. J. W. Whitesides in York about ten days ago. The cap ture was made in the upper part of Cheerokee couity about six o'clock Sunday afternoon. Chief Lockhart had information that Bryant was in hiding near Mr. R. E. Linder's store on Saturday in :consequence of which he and the sheriff went to the place where Bry ant was supposed to be but when hey reached the-.place they found that the bird had flown. The sheriff was forced to return to Gaffney: but Mr. Lockhart held the fort all night Saturday night. and in the meantime Bryant had re turned to the place where he had been staying: but upon learning that the officers were looking for him. he took to the woods. Chief Lockhart. however. was camping on his trail. and after fol lowing him all day through the woods finally captured him. Bryant has been taken to the Yorkville jail. and will be tried there at the next term of court. Two more efficient officers cannoi e found in the state thra Sheriff Thomas and Chief Lockl.-:1: they will come as near tinding a fugitive a~s any other two men and when they find him you may het dollars to doughnuts on a capture. Five Murder Cases. Five murder cases will be~ tried .t the present term of court at Gaf ney. This is a had record lint it is o worse thain some other counties. Life is too cheap in this State. and unless juries wake up and do morec hanging things will get worse in stead of better. SHOT ON THE STREET. 'rhe .Shooter~ Claims thatt His \'ie timl Ruined His Hlome. At Decatur. Ala.. late Satur day night J1. A. Uuttrey, a whtelthy dry goods merchant of New Deca tur. was shot through the side by Robert Wilcox. a mechanic employ ed in the Louisville and Nashville railroad shops, as he was going down the street to his hotel. The Iwound is not serious. Both men were arrested and re leased on bond. The supposed cause of the shooting is of two year's stnding Wilcox accused Biittrey a the despoiler of his home. Both me hav e wives and several chi! dien. Recently But trey's wife sued him on this account for a divorce. Eah man accuses the other of fir ing the first shot. Buttrey says he didu't shoot at al: that he ran when Wilcox fired. and that he fell and that Wilcox took his revolver from him and struck him over the head with it when the police interfered. W\ilcox had a hole through his coat made by a revolver tball. Buttrey had a scar on his head ade by a lick fromn the revolver. Bunttrey came here a few years ago from Nashville and openfed a store. Wilcox has lived here for a iinmber of years. and has borne a good re pitationi as a hard working and honest mann. The shooting caused a great setn sationi as both men were highly toghit of. In blood10( has existed between Wilcox and hiis wife t soeC timie. bitt peole do not talk~ about the case nuch. Beas egave his wf e et a ngro, named Lippiman. shot anc insantly killed Isaiah Brooks, hit fther-in-law. at a hot sttppler- fi I mie~s from St. Georges. Saturday iht. Both ofi the negroes weri sadto have been intoxicated, and apeairs that the tragedy was th usual res~ult of a negro "hot supper. Coro ner TKizer held an inquest ove: the remais of theI negro. and th edictr was that he camne to hi: deth at. the hands of I' itial L ipunwu~ surcrender 'd Iihusel m ii th cu:,ody of Sheriff L imehouse. Iohli ng govern men; otlices in I". si . is rther a dlangerouis buitn ls5 Th pos'toflic at WVarsaw in Russia! ~olaindh was attacked Friday by hand of terrorists who shot and kill ed 1hr po.stmast '-r. two Po-! il clerk ad 'two sold iers atrding the offie and woundeiit(d a s-ore 01 hys~tander.: The terrorist s rot ehd thbe safe an Sht Her~ Lover. I. iss Nora Turner shot. and kiiie SRobert Kennedy at Harrisburg, Ill on. 3onday. They had been keepin dcompany and she killed him heeams he renued to -marry her. KILLED BY CURRENT. Young Man in Columbia Met Deatt in a Moment. InI Turning on an Incande.scent Light He Received a Shock Which C:aus ed His Death. People should. be carc'Lil in tuir ing off and on elect ric lights. Two young men were killed in Collumibia in the last two weeks by being elec trocuted wihile turning on lights. The State says John ). Lake. of Union. a young man employed a the Powell Supply company's woodyard at east Blanding street. was electrocuted Wednesday morning about :4-5 o' clock, while he was in the act of turning on an incandescent light in the engine room. of which he was in charge. One of Lake's duties was to fire the boiler early in the morning and Wednesday while he was starting a fire -a negro employe came in and said that he had just received a se vere shock while turning on a light. The young man. presumably think ing the negro was in errow. or. pre haps, through curiosity. shortly af terwards caught hold of the snap and the globe at the same time and cut on the light. As he did so his body writhed anid he began to moan. Several noen rushed into the room and found the unfortunate man on the darmip ground with the bulb firmly grasp ed in his hand, but the wire attached to it had been jerked- from the sock et when he fell. Elorts were made to restore the young man and medi cal aid was summoned. but Lake never regained consciousness. The globe socket which Lake caught hold of under ordiniary cir cumstances 'should carry only I 13 volts, which is not a strong enough current to prodtce death. The sur mnise is that there was a cross cur rent or a short circuit somewhere on the corcuit and that the voltage had been increased through some connec tion in the transformer. Mr. W. H. Powell says that Tues day night he received a severe shock while turning on a light in the wood house and that he afterwards jerked the wire from the socket to prevent others from getting shocked. Wed nesday morning other persons re ceived quite severe shocks in both the store room and the wood house. several being knocked down as they turned on lights. Mr. Tarrer. who runs a butcher shop on Blanding strret, near the railroad. got a very severe shock Wednesday morning. as did several others on the same cir cuit. About ten o'clock Wednesda morning Mr. XV. .l. Perry. electri cian. tested the current at the Powel Supply cormlpany's establishment and found that the wires in the building carried only the required 11:3 volts. He expressed his opinion that wires had become crossed by the wind or of the voltage being at least tibled at the time of the heavy shocks. ac cording to the voltage of the wires being in contact with each other. The State says i bis is the second factal ity occIt rring in 1e city wit lh in he last wek in almiost a simil ar manner. the death of young Clyde iope. who was eleotrorcuted -in the h:.smntt of t he Granny Methodist church building Sunday night being nirought about in very near the same manner. It is thought that there is nothing wrong with the wiring in the city. hmt the twvo instances were local cases of short circuiting of wires carrying a total of about 1 .000 volts. If electric globes and sockets are in good condition, the high voltage produced by crossed wires will have litte- or no effect when the light is turned on. Where globe sockets are not screwed up tight or where the copper plated threads of the globe protrude, the coming in contact of the threads on the globe with any part of the body wvill produce a shock. If the parts of the sockets -are loose or not properly insulated shocks ca~n also be received. By be ing careful not to touch the globe or the socket. but merely the snap. no shock will b recmived. But abo~ut the best way to insure against danger is to use only a light voltage fuse in conneting the wires. ad in case a short circuit is produe ed. se-di a higher voltage through the w'ires than the fuse will carry tefuse will be 'blown" or burned out and the current broken. Such occurrences, however. as the to instances where death was pr'o duced are very rare. and a ittle pro pi ety and care in handling lights is all that isnecessary to insure against danger. and citizens of the city need not he worried on account of the tin fortunate occurrences in the last few Tired of' Living. ' t WXalnutt Grove. Spartanhunrg County. on Thursday night. Mrs. Besie Thomas. aged ::: years. com mitted suiicide by joinping into a wel in hier back yar-l. She left her oom durintg the nighn and going to the wiell riemoved part of her eloth' ing and lifting a biox fron the toll of the well 1 and jumped in. Iletr btody w as founid head downwalrd tt rhi well F riday moru-ig. Ill heal t h supposed to have 'caused her to end her life. F-ive Men lDead. IIlugh Sutton. a fo'iran. att-fou other men emiployed,. by the Louis ville and Nashville railroad in lay ing a double track at tunnel No. north of H-azel Patch, Ky..wr Tuesday by the explosion of -. sticks of dynamite. wvhich t hey wer1 blowin up and instantly kwe~d ut thwing around a lire. The bodie: wer e blown to atoms. fragmnicts 0 fleshd being founid itn the I ops o narby trees. Three of the victim: were1 negr-oes. IlTh' lenadly Ninet. A dlispatch fromii l.adr E.sper!tanz-at Cahuhila says that :19 men~t ari >kown\ i to be dead and 1 2 itnjure' a at resutlt of01 an exptlosioni o gil 5 the coahli miue at that place. 'Ihl list of dead and injuredl maty be eN Stendedl to it, as that nuitber of' me Sar bt leliev''d to have hon'i iu rh imine at the tinma of the at-t'uletl whit-l occur ired at :I o'clock in thi - a fternooun. e i-illed by Stahiniug. Vi wsuacinte ai ther ('ia nesday.g whit ont I' rittfo te' noa - e fda. L~ohertsoui t* f o1 dworkiatn. at a sa'\ ilitaAso ,whom Stimmers statbb'd to death g the saw mill. The cause of the ftg e is not know-n. Rober'tson died1 i half an hotii after he was~ stabb.ed. STATES OF DISPENSARIES. They Are Now Closed But Will Soon Reopen. The County Dispensary Bill was ratified by the General Assembly at an hour well toward daybreak Sun day imoinmug. although the legisla Live clocks showed only I 1.;.1. Five niinute-s afterwards Governor Ansel made it a part of the law of the state by affixing his signature. Under the act, all the dispensaries must now remain closed until com missioners and county boards of di rectors may be appointed. Gov. An sel Sunday night issued the follow in, proclamation: "All dispensers in charge of local disptusarie s. by virtue of an act kneown ais the 'dispensary law' re pealed the 36th day of February: I907, are hereby ordered to close th"eir dispensaries and are required to ke ep thei closed until the ap poi'nient of the new boards pro vided for in the act approved the 16th day of February. 1967. and until such tine as said boards shall have take n stock and shall have made arraigements with the board the board of commissioners to be appointed under the terms of an act 'to wind up the affairs of the state dispensary,' etc., which board will issue orders for reopening the local dispensaries." The following is thealignment of he Counties: Dispensary-Abbeville. Aiken, Bamberg. Barnwell. Beaufort, Ber keley, Charleston. Chester. Chester ifield. Ciarendon. Colleton. Dorches ter. Fairfield, Florence, Georgetown, Hampton, Kershaw. -Laurens, Lee, Lexington. Orangeburg, Richland. Sumter. No Dispensary-Anderson, Chero kee, Darlington. Edgefield. Green ville. Greenwood, Horry. Lancaster, Marion. Marlboro. Newberry, Oco fnee, Pir-kens. Salude. Spartanburg. Union, York and Williamsburg. In Laurens there was an election upon the issue of "Dispensary" or "No Dispensary," but the election was questioned and the matter is still in the courts. the dispensary remaining in operation pending the order of the courts. The counties which have dispensaries will have their dispensaries running again within ten days. Several of the county Itgislative delagations have already voted upowi the members of their count" )oards, and by next Monday it-is likel, sev eral of the local dispensaries vill be running. When reopened these dis pensaries will run until voted out. In prohibition counties prohibition will continue. It is provided that there may he elections in Laurens and Edgefield in 190S. and in Dar lington. Horry. Marion. Newberry and Union this year. But there can he no election except upon petitions now provided by the Brice law. NEWB1ERRY SENSATION. city Policeman confesses to Sell ing Blind Tiger Booze. Quite a sensational turn was ta kon in lie Newlerry inunic'ipal court on \'ednesday morning dur ing the trial of Dan Brown. color ed, on the charge of storing and selling contrahaud liquor. A quan tity of Elhisk'ey had been found in his place of business by Policeman F'ranklin and Adams, and Brown was brotught before Mayor Brown answer to the charges. A fter all the testimony in the case had been given, Police Officer I. B. Ouzrs arose and announced to the court that the liquor was not the property of the negro but be longed to him (Ouzts; lie having left it in Br'ow~n's place unftil i: could be taken to his home. V'a this statement being made ny 0O' ficer Ouzts. Mayor' Browvn immedi ately susipendled himt, pending an in restigationl by the council. A case was inmmediately made otut aginst the orlendinmg officer. charg ing him with "storing, selling and keeping contrab~and liquors." and he was Thursday morning br'ought be fore the miunicipial court to answer to the charge. Outzs pleaded guilty to the charge. and was fined twenty five dollars. which he paid. It is, said that Out'zs made some sartling s~ tatements. concerning oth er xmees of the p~olice force and the zity conneil. but these he denie~d a t th e tiaml Thursday morning. No acioin has yet .heen taken by the counci, but it is not thought that any thing more than the remv' ali of the suspended officer will be done. A1 Million ivorces Prieiinilary estimates made by the bureau of census as a result et' the investigation of marriiage: and dioc statisties, which began -last sunmmer. indicate that the number of appLlica.tions f'or divorce filed throughout the United States during the twemty year period fronm '18%~ to 19I wil;'cl 'each the enormous total of 1.4111,000. It is estimated that three-fourths of time applications Ihave ben granted. so that the sta tistics w'hen 'ompl)eted will show that in the period stated more thaita miin diu vor"ces have been allowed. (Child Was in Coma. A cntion. N. J1.. undrtakeri wa cld to~ . prep ate t he body~ of ch111ildfr bur~iiai. He comlpleted th rr eiinary arr'angenments for clmi '01oiinig the corpse5 andi was atboul to make an incisont for' mhis poison ions flds whben he "as astonlished to s0 th'- e little figure mnove. Tin v'stiatio show'ed t hat' lbe child w'as stil 'diivo. .\dctor' "'as sum monted and tile child was fully reviv' ed. The hoise had now been chang e'di fr'om one of so'rrow to one of re hilled byl rin. A kg~ratn has been received a \mndersonl say~ing that uMonroe Crom erha b leeni killed by' a piassenige tin of the Soutthernf railway i: on hm 1 5. deserting his young wvif und 1wo\ sall c:hildren. Hie w'a: n 1 mi oprat ive. His wife aind chil -'re ad his maother' ar'e all livi: n' thel lrogon mill vilage. He wa a1 bout 2:t years of age. lHe F'ooled Thiem. .lInhn Colbert, of Amenia. N. Y as) toldl by a New" York speciali> list. September that hr (conia ml liveC a moitnthI. lie tiipped th s-h at :;2;. e told thespwl'ifit 'I a ll i t ad' ice of the obl fam'lyhyian It went on a ski. milk di. II' u thans nearl 1he s0a '1 "d EIGHT BURNED To Death on the Little Steamei Marion Near Charleston. She Left the City Late Thursday Night for Edisto and Took Fire Off Hart's Island. Fight colored passengers aboard the steamer Marion, Captain Fergu son, were burned to death early Fri day morning, when the steamer was near Hart's Landing. all of the ten white passengers, if reports be true, having escaped with slight injuries. Capt. Ferguson was burned severe Iybut it is understood that he is be yond danger and that he stands a good chance of recovery. The fol lowing particulars of the disaster we take from The News and Courrier: The steamer Marion. with 10 Swhite nd thirty colored passengers aboard. left the Union wharf at 11 o'clock Friday morning, and was proeceding rapidly on her way, when after being about four hours from Charleston, fire was discovered in the forward part of the vessel, and, fanned by a strong breeze, made such rapid headway that it became impossible for all the passengers, many of whom were asleep. to es cape. When the flames were discovered every effort was made to reach Harts Landing. and, seeing that the vessel would be practically consumed be fore the landing was reached, the boat was turned towards the beach, but so rapidly did the flames advance that the passengers were being scorched before the vessel reached shoal water, and, despite the fact that every effort was made to save the passengers, eight of the colored people aboard were burned to death. When the heat of the advancing flames became painful, the colored passengers became frantic with fear, and efforts to save them were ren dered futile by the blind terror by which they were possessed. Capt. Bulwinkle, of the steamer Atlantic City, came into port Thurs day night with a large number of the Marion's passengers- aboard. but as the fire had broken out svhen most of them were asleep, and as they were heavy with slumber when they had to escape for their lives, few connected statements could be secur ed from them. No white passengers, it was learned, were burned and 8 colored passengers were burned to death. The first news of the disaster reached Charlston early Thursday morning, when Mate John Foster telegraphed to relations in the city that th' Marion had been burned acid that a number of negro passen gers had been injured. He, himself, so the telegram said, sustained only slight burns and was in no danger. The steamer Marion was of 206 tons register, 24 feet beam and 250 indicated horse power. She was buit at Pregnall's shipyard in 1905 and was an excellent boat for the purposes intended, that of carrying freight and passengers in between Charleston and Edisto. It could not h!, ascertained Thursday night wether or not any insurance was car ried. The colored passengers who lost their lives were understood to be residents of the islands and the names were unobtainable.. CU'T STEAMER IN TWO' And She Sank With Several of Her Crew at Once. in hazy weather the French cruis er Kleber Wednesday night rammed and sank the American fruit steamer Hugoma in the Mississippi river just f New Orleans. Captain Lewis, of he Hugomia, said that s~even coal passrs and firemen had been drown ed in his vessel. Most of them were Japenese. James O'Neal, of New York. suffered a broken leg from the inmpact. The cruiser was but siightly damaged. The Kleber just arriving from Ha vna wais rounding a sharp turn and the ugoma drifting with the six mle eddy ing current. turned direct ly into the man-of-war's path. Cap tan Lewis, of the Hugoma, says thit his signal was mistaken by the waship. The latter struck the f ut shin admidships on the port side nearly cutting the vessel in two, and w ithin live minutes the Hugoma plunged to the bottom in more than 10 f~ eet of water. Several of her crew scram bled uponO the bows of the. cruiser betorl the latter b~acked free. while others loeed boats antd one or' two .jump 'ed into the rivecs The launching of ba ts was extremely diflicult, for we'n they struck the Hugoma rolled far to the starboard remaining there until the cr'uiser backed, when th. fruit sh'ip immediately hastened tc port andi began to go down. Tb" Hlugomia was bound for Port< Rican ports, carrying a cargo of rice. iour 'and cross5 tics. The vessel war of smcafl tounage and was built in I ' I ct Wyandotte. Mich.. and is owed by the New York and Porte Lost Both Hands. Toy .lac'kson, a negro emiploye at Comcer' Jaimes' sa~v mill on the plan. ion of Mr. lB. W. WVoodwar'd ao two miles from Taylor, lest i'oth hanids and one foot by bcein' brown into the running saw whilt egi'ged in moving away the lumbhe! as~ it wais sawed. Mr. JIames was rnigthe mill himself when the ccident occurred. The man alsc *sutaned a severe cut in the righ1 side. cut doctors say- he wvill recover About Land lDeals. Hlar~y J. Crouch, a young far'mel 'iving neai' Gay, Ga.. was shot ai" killed Thursday morning by his COUS in, Gecorge P. Brown. The shootili is rep~orted to have been thme resul of a mcisunderstainig as to a lant del. Brown claims self defenC Coneh(1 leaves a wife :ind one chil Murder ail~ nd ucide Ir fIH. Mundell of' Conier'svis l -i a~ -~ o\loudlay killed het ud. agced' -->- oigt'd four and sevet codu hes. a'eV~v and1 then :om 0 ~ hie. he had appeared t< rethealth of mind and othe rime of the' deed. The s well-jo-do. Se'riou1s Charge. 1 (abe!. commander of th< Trn-lsssip dpartment of th 1-nited Confederate Veterans, wa arre-ste'd in Dallas. Texas. on Tues a and put under $5,000 bon'd un di the charge of being connecte< .'it te Honduras lotterv. MANY DROWN. The Steamer Berlin Goes Down Off the Holland Coast. ONLY ONE IS SAVED. And One Hundred and Forty Persons Perished With the Nessel, Which Goes to Pieces in a Heavy Storm. The- Lifesavers Were Power less to Save the Crew and Passen gers of the Ship. The Rotterdam- mail steamer Ber in, from England,-with 141 passen grs and crew, was wrecked off the Hook of Holland, at the entrance of. the River Maas. leading to Rotter- - dam, shortly before six o'clock Thursday morning, and with one' ex ception all on board perished. A teriffic southwesterly gpIe was blowing in shore and drove the Ber lin on a sand bank close to the north ern jetty as she was trying to enter the new waterway. Heavy- seas quickly pounded the vessel to pieces. She broke in two, her fore part sink ing immediately, while the doomed passengers and crew could be seen for a brief space of time clustered on the after part. The afterpart slippdd off the ledge and disappeared in the mountainous waves. Tugs and. life boats when the alarm was first sounded prompt ly put out to the assistance of the Berlin, but *the violence of the gale and the heavy seas made it impossi ble to approach the wreck, and' the helpless would-be life savers saw the steamer break up and the crew and passengers washed away without ing able to render the slightest as sistance. The Berlin left Harwich at ten o'clock Wednesday night, upon the arrival there of the London train with the greater number, of passen gers, who subsequently lost their lives. The steamer should-K have reached the Hook of Holland at 6 o'clock Thursday morning and would have then proceeded for. Rotterdam As the Berlin- was .entering .the waterway at the entrance of the River Maas, she apparently became unmanageable bn- account, of- the force of the wind and 'was driven ashore. - The al'arm was giien -and life boats from the shore- went to the assistance of the stricken steam er but the seas were so high. that the boats were unable to approach the Berlin close enough to take off any of the passengers or crew and the life boat men had to sit helpless while the steamer pounded until she broke in two and. every soul on board was carried down. The steam er apparently struck about midships, as her fore part broke off and sank immediately, while heir after part could be seen for a considerab!e period of time afterward. The waterway in which the disas ter occnrrd is a new one on the north side of which is the pier andi railroad station. The steamer must have been within a few minutes; of tying up after her rough passage' across the North Sea when she was ovrtakeni by the disaster. Land was but a few yards away, and except in the roughest weather those on board the Berlin could have been rescued without diffculty, specially as the waterway Is' navigable at' all tides.-\ Th Berlin was a steel steame~r, 12 years old and popular with travelers ito the north of Europe. In summer she usually was crowded with pas sengers but at this time of the year her average was about as it was Thursday night, the number being equally* divided between first and second class. Much diffiuty is be ing experienced in obtaining the names of the passengers, as. the tickets were- purchased ifrom many agents in London and other cities, while some of the travelers may lyave had return tickets. The only names the company can be sure of are those of passen gers. who secured reserved berths T he company's agents are being asked to send. in immediately to headquarters the names of all such. persons. The members of the crew, numbering 50. were mostly English men from Harwichi. The- officers' were Capt. Precious, First Offier C. Morsley: Second Officer J..Wyatt; Chief Engineer Bennant; four .as sistant engineers and four steward esses. . RLMAN LD3IBS FOUND. eet and Parts of Limbs Discovered in New York City. lu New York on Friday the feet portions of the legs of a man or wo man were found in a box in a snow bank in the hackyard of a te'ement house on third avenue. . The. legs had been chopped off aparently with an axe. From the-appearance of the feet and legs it is believed chat an attempt was made to destroy ie by fire before they were placed in the 'box and thrown where they were found. The limbs were taken to a police station and an investig-~ io was begun. 3cur adh ioniced threa lmbs were cut from the condy of a nprobably an Ital the. bo uspena thep man may have wn mdered aind his body cut up in oneorthe tenements in the neigh noehod It is possible the person borood ~ing the feet' to the East er eame intoxicated ~ and lost fro his possession this evidence of a crimle." DetectiveS sifted the snow where the box wvas found and discovered ihe photograph of a young woman on the back of which was written the name "Faber." Mary Vasquez, the janitress of the building behind which the bones. were found,. stated that she was sure the box wag not there Thursday. She did not rec ognize the photograph or the name, but said that for several days lettery Iadresed. to "Faber"~ had come .to the house.which she had refused tO receive because there was no one o. that name in the building. Schooner .Lost. News received from Grand Banks, -: F. Wednesday reports that the shooiers Mlollic MI. and Tubal Cain have been given up for lost, with wele men on board.