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ma img esWA VOL. XXII __MNIG .C ENSAAGS 2 98N.5 A MASS OF FLAMES. NOTHING CAN SAVE VANCOVER FROM DESTRUCTION. Fire Fighters Fleeing From Death on Train Encounter a Wall of Flame-A Fight For Life. A dispatch from Vancouver, B. C., says three days the people of Michel have fought for their lives and homes, but at dust Wednesday the city started to burn. Nothing ( can save it from ruin. A gale from the west sprung up in the afternoon. At the edge of the town 100,000 feet of mine timber owned by a coal company caught fire, and four load ed railroad cars standing on the side track were consumed. Two Canadian and Pacific locomotives were hitched to a train to carry the fire fighters away to the west to safety. The train got only a half mile on its journey when it encountered a wall of flames. There was danger of its being hemmed in and burned m with everybody aboard, so he loco- a motives were reversed and run back a with all possible speed. By the time the train returned all the houses on 0 the flat district back of th Great " Northern depot were burning and m and the main town seemed likely to 8 catch at any moment. t WIrL GRATIFY AM TION. A aE Edison To Give Himself a Roving 7 A Commission Into Science. Thomas A. Edison has begun to gratify an ambition he has cherish ed many .years, and the laboratory ec at Llewellyn, N.Y will seer com-0 paratively little- of him henceforth. Mr. Edison's ambition has been to give himself a roving commission o into pure science and to steer clear 8 of commercialism. He does not want to increase his fortune. He has got $35,000,000, which he w thinks is more than enough. All his co life he has. been turning out money 8 making 'inventions. He will devote his remaining years to investigate anything that strikes his fancy with out regard to its fnancisl produc tiveness. It is learned that the man who has achieved so many marvels in electricity has a greter love for chemistry than electricity. Chemis- ot try was the first science to captivae di his wonderful intellect but he has never had a ehance to dig as deep into its mysteries as he wanted to. an Now he proposes to give himself m the chance. 'Moreover he is going st to take life more easily. He has promised his family and his friends to give up slaving night th and day, Sundays and holidays in his labortory. Not only that but he js going to take jaunts about and see -.something of the ,rest of theT world. He has bought himself a place in Florida where he will spend se a couple of months in the late win- t ter and early -spring next year. di Toward the end of this month he , sgoing with his wife on a month's s1 trip to - the Pacific coast. He will stay more than a month if the fancy ti strikes him. -Monday, instead of be-- e ing in his laboratory, he was fun c making w14h some friends down on w Long Island where he went on Fri- .8 day to spend three days. b ETIRE FAMILY HILLED. fa - C - ot Carolina Farmer, His Wife and b Son, Slain by Lightning.- 11 A special to the Charlotte Obser ver from Sparta, Alleghany County briags news of the "death of an en tire family at Edmonds, ten miles h across the mountains from -Sparta, on Friday by lightning. -Frank Mur p hy, a farmer, and his wife and young son were in the field stackini rye when the storm came up. The I trio ran for shelter, but were strick en down before they: reached th< house and presumably instantly kll ed. The sbodies were found latei by neighbors. TILLMAN IN ITALY. 1 Wrtes to Gen. Jones for News Fron .the Campaign. Gen. Wille Jones. -chairmanl c' the State Democratic executive com mittee and Senator Tillman's sub stitute on the national Democratic cohmttee, Monday received a letter from the senator. The 1atter is nov. in Italy and finds the lakes ove' there very beautiful. Senator Tillman will be in London on the 10th of August. The State Democratic primary is on the 2 5th. Senator Tillmlan asks Gen. Jones for information from the campaign. MAN STABS HIlS WIFE. Wman's Injnries Considered Serious Husband in Jail. Tom Vick, a mill operative, is ir the county jail at Greenville charged with stabbing his wife at their cot-* taere In the suburbs of that place Friday afternoon. The woman i injuries are said to be serious. es. peclaahy the wound in her side. Viel' also plunged the plade in his wife'r throat, the wound being about ar inch deep. The affray seems to hav e been the outcome of a family row. Rolls Down, Emnbankment. The work train on a narrow gauge road running to the Rorer Iron Mines, two miles from Roanoke. Va.. Friday left the rails and rolled down a hieh embankment on the mountain side. A number of men riding on the train were caught un der the enginle and cars. Three were iled and se'Sral more seriouSlY injured.. The dead: Jam'es Tyree. ams Wertz, John Brorwn REPORT OP CROa CONDJITION. Bureau of Statistics of Agricultura Department Issue Bulletin. The crop reporting board of th< )ureau of statistics of the depart nent of agriculture in a bulletin is ;ued Friday shows that the conditior >f corn on August 1 was 82.5 pen ,ent. of a normal, as compared with 32.8 last month, 82.8 on Aug. 1; .907, and 83.1, the 10-year average n August 1. The condition in the southern States was: 1908. 10-years. exas.. ...--.--.--78 78 leorgia.. ........ ..S9 S6 Centucky.. .. .. ..83 85 'ennessee.. .. .. ..85 84 Alabama. . . . . . .87 84 :orth Carolina. . . - 91 87 Lrkansas.. .. .. ..79 83 ississippi.. .. .. .. 86 80 outh Atlantic . .89 86.4 Preliminary returns indicate a eld of winter wheat of about 14.3 ushels per acre, or a total of 425, 40,000 bushels, which compare ith 14.6 bushels and 409,442,000 ushels, respectively, the final esti tates of last year's crop. The aver ge quality of the crop is 90.1 gainst 90.5 last year. Average condtion of spring wheat i August 1 was 80.7 pe rcent. o :rmal as compared with 80.40 r onth ago, 79.4 on August 1, 1907: 5.9 on August 1, 1906, and 82.7. te 10-year average on August 1. The condition of the oat crop on ug. 1. was 76.7 per cent. of normal compared with 85.7 last month. 5.6 on August 1, 1907, 82.7 on ug. 1, 1906. The proportion of the oats crop o! st year in the hands of farmers o1 ugust 1 is estimated at 5.0 per cen, luivalent to 38,000,000 bushels, at mpared with 7.1 per cent. and 68, )0,000 bushels, respectively, the rrresponding figures of a year ago. The condition of rye of August 1. at the time of harvesting, was 1.3 per cent. of a normal. The average condition of tobaccc Aug. 1 was 85.8, a scompared ith 82.3, the 10-year average. The ,ndition of flax on August 1 wat Li. IWO KILLED BY LIGIiTN1IG. ectric Bolt Plays Strange Pranks in New Jersey Home. Two persons were killed and twc hers severely injured by lightning tring a severe electrical storm that rept over Eastern Pennsylvaiia id New . Jersey Friday, caiusing uch havoc. Robert Heimbach, a farmer, was ruck and instantly killed, neat e fields, and. Walter Cattell, aged wisburg, Pa., while working in e filds, -and Walter Cattell, aged years. was struck and killed, ,ar Glassboro, N. J. His sister, Mabel, and Rebecca irner, were also struck and severe injured, the latter being in a rious condition. Cattell, his sis r and Miss Turner were seated un r a shed watching the lightning. hen a bolt hit the peak of the Led, where they wree sitin;. The lightning broke the legs of .e chairs and rendered the trio un inscious. The charge passed down ttell's biack and he was dead hen picked up. The shocs were pped from the feet of his sister, ,t she recovered consciosuness af-. *r a short time, and is seriously ill om the shock. One corner of the attell home was torn out of the siding by the ligntning. Buildings of all sort were struck various sections and destroyed ad many districts suffere-l from oding. Philadelphia, in connection ith the storm, was pelted by onc Ithe most severe f alls of hail tha as occurred in a number of years. * FOLLOWS BRYAN'S ACTION. aft Makes a Speech to a Phonograph to Have it Reproduced. The use ojf a phonogarph by Candi ate Tait as a means-for dissemina ion of his speeches. as reported in he dispatches from Hot Springs. 'a., excited the liveliest Interest of V. 3. Bryan, so much as that he gave t the following statement in re ard to it. "The republican papers hive beet ikting fun of me for using the -r.nograph as a means of rethir e public, but since the renablie:" andidate has followed my examp" presume thet the critic'smt wi! 'ease and that this will no'. he re raded as a dignified method of dis sussing public questions. "I looks as if the democrats werf oing to have a hard time this yeal rarotecting their patents fr'om in fringement. The republicans seem: to be ent upon imitating not onl: 'ur platform. but our campaign me thods. There is, however, some ad vantage in the fact that we are set tig the pattern this year." SHOOTING ON STREET' CAR Negro Passenger Refuses to Pa Fare and Row n~esuilts. At Pensacola. Fla. Wednesday on an fatally wounded and anothe painfully injured, is the result of fght between negroes and stre railway employees on a Bay Shot car. Win. Johnson. colored, was sh< in the momth and abdomen. wbi Chief Inspector Mclung, of . I street railway. suffered a painf' wunS in the hand. The negro had had a picnic at Palmetto Beac wwich lasted far into the night. spcial car, with half a dozen traile were bringing thoem back when o: negro refused to pay his fare. general fight followed betw'een t! eght or ten conduztors and soce the neres. FLIES THROUGH AIR. TWENTY-FOUR HOUR VOYAGE BEGUN BY COUNT ZEPPELIN. The Ascent Made Very Successfully Traveled Orer 250 Miles, Wilth Only One Descent. A dispatch from Friedrichschaf en, Germany, says arising from its floating dock on the dark green waters of Lake Constance early Tuesday morning the great dirigible air ship of Count Zeppelin was sent away for a 24 hour journey in the air to Mayence and return. Late that night the apex of the triangu lar flight had been turned, and the monster of the air, with nose point ea southward, was reported speeding along under starry skies toward Friedrichschafen, where It is hoped the journey will end Wednesday. The flight to Mayence, however, was not an uninterrupted one, for something was wrong with a propeller while speeding along above the valley of the Rhine and Count Zeppelin was compelled to bring the air ship down to the surface of the river at Nachen heim, eight miles frorm Mayence, dirigible again was sent on high and the trip that probably will prove a record one was recommenced. The weather for ...e ascension was most auspicious. The ship of the air rose majestically to a height of 400 feet, and crossing the lake circl ed the town of Constance, then turn ing retraced the path of its flight, and describing a perfect circle, pass ing over Friedrichschafen aiid then soared westward over the lake to ] Basle, on the Swiss frontier. Turn- ] ing the vessel slightly toward the ] northwest Count Zeppelin steered it ] over Muihausen, and then directed I its flight northeasterly to Strass- 1 burg, thence followed the valley of Rhine norhward to Mayence, a dis tance altogether of 250 miles. Everything was going smoothly i when the trouble to the propeller occurred and somewhat impeded the progress of the air ship, but when ne balloon had been brought down1 Count Zeppelin found the defect so slight that he telephoned his secre tary at his office in Friedrichschaf en: "We will start again some time l to-night and complete the trip." His expectations were realized, l for in less than four hours every thing had been made perfect. The people gathered. on the banks of the stream and sang patriotic songs and cheered Count Zeppelin. At 10.15 p. m., the air ship rose again and turned her bows toward ayence, where she arrived at 'clock, and passed over the gas Ad city almost beyond the view of the populace, which had gathered in the streets expect.ng to witness tne passage of the balloon. Soaring onward fo:- a short dis tance, the air ship was turned home ard. Whether it will follow t;he terary laid down by Count Zeppe in, reracing its outward path to arsruhe and thence flying south easterly over Stutgart to Lake Con stance, Is not known. If the air ship maintains the speed at which t was travelling today, ' it should arrive in Friedrichschafen tomorrow forenoon. The quiet villages and small towns along the shores of Laste Cosntance woke this morning to find that .the great event for which they had wait ed for weeks and months had occurred d-Count Zeppelin's air ship had started on an epoch making journey. A. majority of the 'scant population f Friedrichschafenl, however, de spite the strict secrecy of the Count's associations, got wind that someth ing was about to happen and as sembled before daybreak at Mun :ell. opposite the floating balloon shed. In this shed, throughout Monday night workmen had been busy making everything ready for the journey. At 6 o'clock that morn ing, everything was in readiness for the exit of the air ship. Count Zeppelin could not have chosen more delightful weather for a start. A glorious sunrise inau gurated the day, and there was not a cloud in the sky. The lake was as smooth as a mirror. Meets With Disaster. Count Zeppelin's airship, which descended on a plateau near the vil lage of Echterdingenl, five miles south of Stuttgart, shortly before 8 o'clock Wednesday morning, owing '.o a defect in one of tne motors, ',roke away from its moorings during a storm at 5 o'clock that afternoon hurst into flames and exploded. Four persons were injured by the flying debris.. Count Zeppelin es caped uninjured. The airship was completely wrecked. The storm blew up unexpectedly. A fierce gust of wind tore the balloon from its anchorage and drove it in a uthwesterly direction for some -50 yards. Here the rear end of the -great fabric dropped and smoke and flames were seen to burst out from one end to the other. Then in a fe' seconds came the e'xplosion and a great column of flames shot upward into the air. This was followed by the crashing down to the ea-rth of the motors and frames that had been attached to the under side of ethe airship. Several bystanders weri rknocked down. It was necessary to land the air 4ship at Echterdingen owing to thi verheating of the piston box of th B ANK~ AT UNION CLOSES. IIDepositor' Ar" said to B" Fully P'rr Itected. The People's Bank of Unio-1 clos ed its doors Tuesday pending volur ct~ar liquidation. In a statemen Aissued by the president. the gon"er deprsin is the reason. assigne teSt3 ar fully protected. SENATOR ALLISON DEAD. Heart Failure Removes Iowa's Grail old Man. United States Senator W. B. All son died at his home in Dubuque Iowa, Tuesday afternoon. The imm diate cause of his death was heal failure. The end came as a resul of a serious sinking spell due t prostatic enlargement, complicate with kidney disease, and during period of unconsciousness, whic: had lasted since Saturday afternoor Two weeks ago the Senator lef his home in the city to escape th heat. He went to the home of Mr: Fannie Stout, a friend of the family living on the Asbury road a fes miles from town. For a few day days his conidtion seemed to improve but he later began to grow worse Medical advisers urged that an opera tion be performed to relieve thi prostatic enlargment, which wa: bringing his condition to a crisis Saturday morning the Senator was brought back home. Soon after wards he relapsed into a conditior of semi-unconsciousness. Except foi brief periods of partial recovery hE remained in this condition unti) death came Tuesday afternoon. YOUTH SHOOTS SWEETHEART. Girl Fatally Wounded Because She Refused His Company. A dispatch from Greensboro, N. C., says news has reached that place of the shooting in Wilkes county Sunday of Miss Mary Ball by Free and Tharp. Miss Ball was teacher [n a rural school and Tharp had >een paying her attention. She re ,used to go with him to church but vent with his brother instead, while Freeland' Tharp escorted -another oung woman who lived at the same touse with Miss Ball.- When they ad returned from cnurc., just as t,iiss Ball was entering tne porch, 'reeland Tharp drew his pistol and ired three shots at her. One of the )uilets entered her left breast about n inch above the heart, inflicting fatal wound. 'Tharp was captur d, relieved of his weapon and is now n jail at Wilkesboro. TOO MCCH HARD CIDER. 'hite Man Kills Two Negroes Near Lynchburg. Near Concord, 10 miles east of Lynchburg, Va., Monday night Jack bee, white, shot and instantly killed everely Cardwell, colored, and mor ally wounded his brother Samuel, ;rho died Tuesday morning. The nen, whites and blacks, were drink ng hard cider and had a drunken isunderstanding. Lee was arrest Negro Hanged in Mississippi. After having. been twice respited )y the Governor, George Toombs, an )ld negro, was hanged at Waynes oro, Miss., Tuesday for the murder )f his brother-in-law. Owen Pitt aan. thirteen months ago. Eorward motor and the escape of ~onsiderable gas, owing to the fact that Count Zeppelin tok the airship o a height of about 6,000 feet. The Zeppelin airship completed the most remarkable voyage in the bistory of aerial navigation. It left the Lake o'f Constance Tuesday Enorning for a trip to Mayence and eturn. The flight was successful in a great many ways. The machine responded absolutely to the control f its pilots and was navigated ovei the Lake of Constance, down the alley of the Rhine, over Strassburl nd several other cities and was ex pectd at Friedrichshafenl, its start ing point. Count Zeppelin has devoted hi! ifetime and his personal fortune tc the development of his airship. Th4 vessel that was lost Wednesday wa: te fourth he has constructed. Whex sis own money had become ex hausted the German reicaistag vote experiments. The governmen agreed to purchase this ship on con dition that it fulfilled certain re quirements, the principal one beini hat it remain in the air 24 hour and land on terra firma. A nsis stipu lation had not yet been fultilled. The airship was 443 feet long with a diameter of about 45 feel It tapered to a blunt point at th bow, while at the stern were variou rudders and frames used in steei ing. It was fitted underneath wit a motor capable of developing 14 horse power. As many as 16 pa! sengers had been taken aloft i one tine. Sleeping accomnmodi tions wre provided for th crew and apparatus was installe for the dispatch and receipt of wirn less telegraph messages. The infla ig gas was dstributed among I seperate interior compartmen which were contained within the on - rigid envelop of aluminum. The accident to the zseppehin ai ship recalls the end of the Frenc mnilitiar'y airship Patrie, in Decer her. 1907, which was then conside ered the finest dirigible balloon eitence. The Patre was underg in repairs to machinery at Verdu A sudden gust of wind struck ti iirship a"' .ie 200 men who we holding the guide ropes were dna ged alng for several hundred yar before they let go. the balloi 1then shot up to a great height a. dipeared and *was never hea from. -AUTOMATIC DOFFING MACHIlN Invention for Cotton Mihs~ Design by South Carolinians. An automanrt'il offing. machine he. .oint. inv~oen of . C. Bo of Greenlville and 'Gorge Hill Tucaall. The machine is now - successful operation -at ljucapau ir - in Spartanburg county. The ne t of a machine for this work has 1c 1 been an important one. for the h i to do the doffng an the spinai - lants has always, been diffiult cune.70 CIGARETTE CAUSED KILLING. When Youth Approached Fathei Smoking Quarrel Followed. The killing of James A Riddle by his son, Thos. Riddle, which occurred Sunday at Cotton, a cotton mill town seven miles south of Fayetteville, N. t C., is said to have been the result of t a quarrel which the boy had with o his father about smoking a cigarette. 3 Young Riddle approached his a father, in the presence of others, i smoking a cigarette, when the elder remonstrated with him, bringing on t a quarrel. 3 The father attempted to strike him - with a board, when the young man drew a revolver and fired four shots into his father's body, the first caus ing instant death. Thomas Rid-dle immediately sur rendered to the police. Coroner J. Vance McGougan ordered the mur derer held without ball. Be was taken to Fayetteville late Sunday nigh. and placed in jail. He made a statement for publica tion in which he claims that his fath er was under the influence of an in toxicant Sunday afternoon, and that, according to a statement made to the prisoner by his mother, a short while before the tragedy, James A. Riddle had left the home to secure a pistol with the threat that he would kill the family upon his return. The young man came in contact with 'his father before the latter's return. The prisoner also says his father had him hemmed in a jam and was about to slay him with a board. 3ThLION DOLLAR FIRE. So Hot That the Firemen Had to Fight Flames a Block Away. At Chicago Monday afternoon 'fire which was so hot that the firemen could not get nearer than a block of it, and which made it neccesary to play streams of water on buildings three and four squares away, des troyed the Burlington elevators "E" and "F," the. dock transfer ware house of that road and either burned or rendered useless -100 box cars. The loss on the grain in the two elevators is placed by Armour & Co., who owned it, at $700,000. The total loss Is placed at $1,000,000. The fire started at 1 p. m., in Bur *lington warehouse, supposedly from a cigarettes dropped near several barrels containing chemicals. At the first explosion the 250 men employed in the warehouse and ele vators Led and it is believed all es caped. Eighty fire engine companies and three fire tugs had all they could do to confine the conflagration to its original limits. At 3 o'clock, Fire Marshall Horan declared that furth er spread of the flames was not to be feared. However, several engines are pouring their streams into the glowing wreckage. BABY BOY A HERO. Saves His Companion From Death Under Auto. At Spartanburg a little child is thei hero in an automobile story, which has just become known at that place. Two little boys of about three years of age, Gilliamn Harris, son of John Harris, and Glenn, the son of Mrs. J. E. Evins, were playing on the edge of tne sidewaar on South Church street with t;heir nurses. Suddenly a large tourIng car came down the street at a great speed and little Gilliam Harris ran out in front of it. Several ladies were sitting on the verandas and, seeing the child, ran out, as the nurses had not seen tie children. Of course they could not reach him in time. But just as the car was almost on the little fel low, Glenn ran out and catching him around the neck fairly dragged him away. It was wonderful and the little fellow was the object of much praise from the ladies. There is a funny side to everything. After the danger was over Glenn still kept his hold on Gilliam's neck until he was fairly gasping for breath. There they stood. Glenn. with a tight hold around Gilliam's neck, and the latter with his dear little mouth hanging wide open. HARD RUDE AWAKENING. S Young Man's Nap in Railroad Yard Results in Loss of Arm. Dewitt Clement. a young man of Ashevill, was injured by an engine in the Southern Railway yards at e Spartanburg Tuesday night, and his d left arm had to be amputated. -Clement and a friend were asleep -on a hnad car in the railroad yards. 6 A passing engine woke Clement up, s and he jumped up suddenly ahou t- halp asleep and got in the way of the engine. His left arm was badl: - crushed and the member was ap h maputated. He also sustained scal' 1- wounds. n FEUDISTS IN BIG FIGHT. . Two Men And a Woman Killed ir Kentucky. SThe bloodiest feudist battle 11 iyears took place at Layman. Horlii m 'county. Ky.. late Thursday afternooi iThree persons were killed, one be ding a woman, and one woman wa wounded. The trouble dates bac1 for generations between Blanton - and Taylors. Tfie immediate caus of the shooting was a dispute ove a school elect:ion. BARBER STABS WIFE. is er 'arrowly E;scapes F'eing Lyoiirhe in by A";:ry Mieb. ed At Burlington. N. J.. angered an ng jealous because his wife wishedi alp Igo for a walk, Adam Popiel, a ba g bar. Thursday night rtabbod the w< to man and in turn w'as almost l:'nche b7 an angry mob. OUTLOOK HOPEFUL. DEMOCRATS HAVE GOOD CHANCE IN NEW YORK. Chairman Mack Holds Conflerence With Murphy, Senator Daniel, Ex Senator Pettigrew and Henry Wat terson. An important conference to out line a plan of campaign in New York State was held Monday by Norman r:. Mack, chairman of the Democratic national committee, with Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall at New York. The conference con- 1 tinued for some time and it was said that the part which the national De mocratic committee will play in he campaign in this State was determin ed. After a donference lasting over two hours, Chairman Mack said: "Mr. Murphy and I talked of the I situation In the State and what is t being done to elect the national ticket. A more active campaign will be made here after the State conven- s tion. No mention was made of I gubernatorial candidates. "The State committee will direct s the campaign in this State and as d long as everything is satisfactory- s and everything has been so far- a the national committee will not in- a terfere. "Much has been said of Mr. Bry an's speaking campaign. It is Mr. Bryan's intention to speak in cen tres of doubtful States, though he s will not make the number of speech es that he made in his former acm paigns. As has been announced, he will speak twice in this State, once in Greater New York and once in I Buffalo, but I shall try to persuade v him to speak also at some point in the. centre of the State. He will not speak in the State until some time after the State convention, which I understand will be the latter part p of September or the first part of October. "I believe New York to be the s battleground where the Democratic b party has a good chance of success." Senator John W. Daniel of Vir- b ginia, Henry .Watterson and Former C Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota o had a conference with Mr. Mack. 3 Senator Daniel will leave for b Europe tomorrow to be away .a month attending to his duties as a C member of the monetary commis- b sion. On his return he said he" will 1 take an active part in the campaign. a Mr. Watterson is engaged in the l formation of his committee of edi tors throughout the country favor able to Mr. Bryan's candidacy Chair man Mack, accompanied by secre tary Urey Woodson, left for Chicago 1 Thursday and will not areturn until after the Bryan notificatioh. On his arrival in that city he will announce the makeup of the subcommittee which will have control of tie cam paign east of the Alleghanies. STRIKE OF COAL MINERS. Wednesaay the Most Tubulent Thus Far in Birmingham District. A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala., says Wednesday has been by ~far the most turbulent of the coal miners' strike. 'The lynching of the negro Will Millans, a union miner, charged with ,dynamiting at Brigh ton, early Wednesday morning, was followed that night by the arrest of two deputy sheriffs. Lon Tyler and Bruce Tyler, charged with killng the negro. Strong feeling over the strike followed by a quarrel, led to the kill ing of Albert Fletcher, a negro at New Castle, by Constable Will Ellard Two deputy sheriffs were kidnap ped by strikers at Jett Mines and tied to a tree. Another house was dynamited at Wylam, the shock be ing so severe as to throw the inmates out of bed. Sheriff Higdon, after a conference with Governor Corner, issued orders that no assemblies of men are to be allowed near the mines; that marching groups are not allowed to go along the highways from mine to mine; that all meetings will be attended by deputies and in cendiary speakers will be arrested, and that discharging of firearms will not be permitted. Governor Coiner will place the entire 1st Alabama regmfent in the district before the end of the week. W. R. Fairley, leader of the miners, issued a state ment Wednsday, in wmich he ar raigns the Governor, charging him with being in with the mine owners and doing all in his power to injure the miners. BURNED TO DEATH. Young Lady of Chester County Meets With Horrible Death. A dispatch from Chester, says Miss Etta Melton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Melton, Sr.. of the Louisville neighborhood was burned to death last Saturday at noon while preparing the family dinner. In handling a kerosene oil can for kind ling the fire the blaze reached the can of oil, causing explosion and quickly enveloping the unfortunate young lady, and her tragic death medical treatment was secured, but the fierce flame completed its fatal work in four hours. Miss Melton was 16 years old, a most estimable r oung layd. and her tragic death causes much sorrow in her home community. Victim for the Gallows. At CullnmarL Ala.. John Holland d a Thursday found gilty of thej mordlor of 14. D. Futnam af H4an'e vile, .Ala.. nn July 2. and was sen d tenced to be hanged September is, o Holland was townmarshal forHance - ville. and after telling friends that - he was going to Futnam's house to His Dirigible Balloon Goes Fi Miles, Making Complete Circle. "We sighted the enemy." The: words were shouted by Capt. Balt win at Fort Myer Friday, says a di patch from Washington, as he pilo ed his balloon to the ground afte making a successful flight of nears five miles in an effort to demonstrat the usefulness of an air ship in wa time. Rising from the ground like monster bird of the air, slowly bu buoyantly, at 6.21 o'clock Frida, evening, the aerial s...p, built _.,r the United States army, was headed into :he westerly wind by Capt Baldwin A. complete circle was described, th< ,alloon rising gradually to a heigh >f 200 feet. Again pointing to th< rest, ' and attaining at estimate ;peed of twelve miles an hour, the ;hip voyaged In a direct line fo] Learly two miles. The trip was made with the wind Qhich was blowing at the rate of niles an hour. The throttle was hrown open a little wider by Mr. Xurtiss, who again operated the en ine, and the ship flew along at e peed of eighteen or twenty miles aL tour. When the dirigible passed over the tarting point it was about five hun !red feet in the air. -Bringiig his hip against the wind, Capt. Bald Tin made a landing much the- same s pilots of water craft bring their essels to the side of a dock. ROBBERY AT EUTAWVILLE. tore of M. Marcus Entered and Some Goods Stloen. On Thursday morning -last -Mr. M. larcus, a merchant of Eutawville ras aroused by the chief marshal f the town, who informed him that ame one had broken Into his store. r. Marcus hastened down to his lace of business and, in, approach 1g it he saw. that the robber had rolen a hole in the front of his tore, which being of glass, was not ard to break through. As ne en red his store and looked . around .e supposed that he had. only lost ne or two pair of shoes and a suit r two of clothes, but luckily he had ust taken stock the day ;before, so .e again checked up his goods and )und hat he had lost- several suits f clothes,, a few pairs of shoes, a .at, some- underwear, socks. stock ags and some few other. things, all mounting to about $50, more or ess. The robber has not yet . been ound. JEALOUSY CAUSES SHOOTING. Lecused Man of Impropei Conduct Toward His Wife and is Shot. A dispatch from Richmond, Va., as Jacob L. Hechler is believed to le mortally wounded, and Royal E. llison, in the .city jail on the' char :e of attempted murder. The shoot ng took place- in. Hechier's homi 'uesday. Hechler accused -Ellersoi f improper conduct toward his wife, nd Ellerson shot him three times wice in the face and once in thi ungs. Friends of Hechler tried tc ynch Ellerson, and' six policemet ere engaged for nearly an hour it ~etting the man to the station, sev ~ral persons trying to shoot him. A SEVERE STORM. ightning Strikes Residences, Chun ches and Stuns Several People. At Spartanburg, lightning struel ~our residences, two cha rches an< tunned several people during a se ere electrical storm Wednesda: ifternoon. -Three 'of the residence that were struck were badly damag e and- one was set on fire. Silve ill Methodist church was struck il three places. and the tower. demolish ed. A small colored church o3 Charles street was set on fire by olt of lightning, and the fire depart, ment had to be called out to extix guish the flames. HEADQUARTERS AT CHICAGO. Chairman Mack to Open There Finance Committee. The Democratic national -head quarters opened for the season the Auditorium Annex Wednesda: Chairman Mack. of the national con mittee, accompanied by Roger Sullivan, off illinois, have arrivE in Chicago. Chairman Mack is expected to a' nounce the membership of the fina c committee and various sub-col mittees not yet appointed. - TICKET TAK~ER ARRESTED. Southern Employee in Trouble f Drawing Pistol on Passenger At Spartanburg, W. R. Luc~ ticket taker on Southe-rn Trrainl, w arrested Friday-night when t train pulled into the station on t charge of drawing a pistol on 0 of the passengers. On the tra from Greenville F'riday at~ernlO about two hundred base ball fa were aboard returning to Spartu brg from the ball game in GreE ville. Trouble arose about fares a a diffiCUlty was narrowly avert' Lucas drew his pistol and when train pulled into the station he ' arrested by the police. Suicde at Savannah. Capt. D. G. Purse. prominent c zen. noted developer industrial wI er and pro-moter, and having c nections in New York. Pittsburg other centres. committed suicide SSavannah Thursday by snoaeting. ,jc,.re is ien for the dee'd. ArtAL5 FUR FUNDSU BRYAN CALLS AGAIN FOR CAM M PAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. t Johnson's Manager Calls and Assur. es Bryan of Johnson's Wilingness e to Take Stump. Of more than usual significance was the visit to Fairview Wednesday a of Frank B. Lynch, of St. Paul, De mocratic national committeeman from dinnesota, and manager of Gover nor Johnson s campaign for the Pre sidential nominati n at the Denver Convention. Mr. Lynch - arrived about noon in company with B. F. Nelson, of Mnneapolis, president of the State Fair Association.. Mr Lynch's presence at Fairview was at the special request of Mr.; Bryan. he lost no time in conveying to the Demcratiic nominee Governor John son's assurance of, loyal support of the Democratc ticket and his inten tion to take the stump in Mr. Bryan's behalf. "There is' no animosity toward Bryan in Minnesota," sad Mr. Lync. "While- I do not promise .that the Democrats wil carry Minnesota ts year, I think they have god chance." Mr. Lynch declared that nothing' rankled In Governor Johnson's heart because he was defeated for the no minaton. "He feels all right abot'" it," said he "and all Minesota De- . mocrats are for Bryan." The business which brought Mr - NesontoFairview was-to *invite3r Bryan to 'attend the State Fair in St.;. Paul and deliver an address the i. vitation was accepted, the date beng' * fixed at August 31, but wth the.in derstanding that there should be no : . charge for admission on the groand on that day. Mr. Bryan Wednesday nght caused n to be given. out "for publies .the'_' ": following appeal for campiinm "Wanted-Campagn contributions "From citizens of the Repubnc d who favor these Democratc, proposi * "Tarff revison by .reprsentave of , not by the. agents of those who make exorbitant profits by manufacture and sale of highily protected ro ducts. "Election of United States Senator by 'popuar ote, ,thus breakig u - the Senatorial oligarchyheaded Y ~ Standard Oil, whch is strongenough successfully. to resist all measurers., offered in behalf of the public .'we fare. "Guarantee of all national . bank deposits, thereby preventing 'al absolute congdence in all banks. "Destructon of private 'monopoly and the enforcement- of law -against' trusts by the people'who are opposed by the trustsand notby-the agents o the. trusts. "Publicity of campaign contributions - r before election- day, so that the peo ple may know who is paying :she e penses of candidates, and whypaying. "Adopton of an neome tar because it is 'just, and under what may' bar its proportionat~e share 'of the -bur dens of the .Federa':Government "The punshment '. of -menn' who manipulate railroad stocksand-owne ships;-the encouragemnent of railroad construction upon a business-like bias is and railroad operai~ion wtb far';re turns In wages and profits to workers and owners, on ,honest valuation an. honest labor/' but not on watered stock and faise bond Issues created by exploitation." . The -appeal closes with .a copy of th'e resoluton adopted -by- tie IDemo crac national committee upon ".the . occasion of their visit to' Fairview f July 14, declaring for'- publicity of contributons before ,the electon individual contributions to '$10,00 Sand providing for, the -publication of all contrbutions over $10-0. Mr. Bryan outlined the subjects - a which he will discuss in his forth coming speech of acceptance. The r speech wll be confined practically to a the questions, ''shall the people rule" - and "the measure-of rewards." The Sother issues of the campaign, such a as guarantee of, bank depostors, the -tariff, the' trusts, etc., will be treated in the several speeches he will make * in the next thirty days and his let ter of acceptance. COW WRECKS 'A TRADL. Four Persons Ejiled in Accident on Texas Tram Road. t Four persons were killed and four 7, others were injured, two probably 1 fatally, when an engine on the tram 3road of the Livingston Lumber Comn- - dpany struck a cow and plunged into Sa deep ravine, near Livingston, a- Texvs Friday. SThe dead: Watson Scott, en gineer; Fayette Rogers. Breman; Finis Peebles, Henry Young, color ed. Brad Hickman and a young man named Clark, are perhaps fatally ) injured, while the negroes are less seriously injured.. BABY'S NECK BRO~idN. aLittle Child in Laurens County Killd 1by Fall From Doorway. S.News has been received that a lit >t tie child of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Smith, na who live several miles out from n- Gray Court, in Laurens County, fell n. out of a door Saturday afternoon ad and broke its neck. Tc seems from d. what can be learned that the child e was standing in the doorway, which as was only two or three feet from the * ground, when it lost its balance and fell to the ground, breaking its neck. .i Ferish in Snow Storm. SAccording to a telegram received --from Copenhagen, says Mylus Eri- - m-d chsen, the Danish exployer, and two ndmembers of the part3g that sailed at with him to the unex red regions No of Greenland, have pefshed in & * n'z storm.