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"FULL OF LIES." That 'is What Senator Tillman Says About Statements READ IN THE SENATE About the Charleston Navy Yard. The Senator Was Aroused, and He Gave Senator Dixon, of Montana, Some Old Time Thrusts in De fending the Charleston Navy Yard. Washington, Feb. 16.-When the Senate today took up the naval ap propriation bill. Senator Dixon. of Montana, *as the first to take the floor, and he continued his attacks on navy yards by reading a maga zine article, which criticised very severely the Charleston navy yard. He continued his strictures of the plan of having many navy yards on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, instead of three or four great naval bases which, he insisted, was the course that would be pursued by any great commercial establishment. He de clared that millions of dollars are annually wasted by the scattering of the work through many navy yards. Senator Tillman taunted the Sena tor from Montana with being a "Sen ator from the Rocky Mountains who has come here to tell us how to build a navy. "It is," he continued. "easier to sit on a mountain peak out in Idaho and read magazine crit icisms of the navy than to run the navy." He declared that the maga zine article from which Mr. Dixon read was "full of lies." "Whether or not it is full of lies," replied Mr. Dixon, "is .just what I am endeavoring to find out." He re ferred to a statement in the maga zine to the effect that the improve ments at Charleston, .S. C., yard, were advised by the experts, but when Mr. Tillman said this was not the case, he expressed himself as satisfied. Mr. Dixon insisted that the naval committee of the Senate was com posed almost - entirely of Senators who have navy yards in their States. He wanted to know what would be thought of having the committee on reclamation of arid lands composed of Senators from the States in which such lands are located. Mr. Hale replied that such was the case, and Mr. Tillman added that as similar condition exists in the Indian and the public lands commit tees. Mr. Dixon was again reading from' the magazine from which he had quoted when Senator Tillman inter rupted to say that if he was "going to bring muck-raking into the Sen ate" the bill would be there a long time. "If this Is- the only muck-raking brought into the Senate It would interfere very little with the dispatch of work," retorted Mr. Dixon. Mr.- Tillman returned to the sub ject of the Charleston Navy Yard on whose advantages he elaborated. * "You,! he declared, pointing his finger at Mr. Dixon, "simply are prejudiced against the Southern yards and you want to get that out of your head." Mr. Dixon replied that he was a Southern man, and had no such prejudices; so far as he knew Charleston might be the best place for a great .uaval station. "If I am- mistaken," Mr. Tillman replied, "then I beg the Senator's pardon. But there are some people who think nothing is good if it is in the South. The President himself . realizes this condition and has in his sspeches appealed for a differ ent treatment for that section. Mr. Tillman declared that there was a "clique" in the navy depart ment who wanted to break up the * Charleston Navy Yard. "I am not speaking in the interest of any navy yard,' said Mr. Dixon. * "I am only in favor of construc tion." "If I stood indicted in this article," said Senator Dixon, referring to the magazine criticism, "I would answer * It. I think that it is a matter of self-respect that the Senate and -Congress and the administration should answer these charges, which are made openly. The people of the country believe these articles whether we do or not." MA.RITAL TANGLE. The Strange Relations That Exist in a Missouri Family. St. Joseph, Mo., Feb. 15.--The probable fatal shooting of W. Smith, a carpenter, over a comic valentine, there came to light a strange domes tic entanglement. "Mrs. Cora Smith," who fired the shot at Smith, told the police that she was mar ried to Smith knowing that her mother was already his wife. The three lived together for years, the man posing ns the husband of both mother and daughter. The daughter, who is 22 years old, sent Smith a comic valentine yesterday. Smith became angry when he receiv ed it, picking up his clothes and started to leave. Thinking he was going to desert her, the daughter, wife shot him. The mother says she was married to Smith secretly in 1902 and -took * he'r 15 year old daughter by a for mer husband to live with her and Smith. A year after the marriage, she says, her daughter and Smith fell in love with each other, and the mother made her husband mar ry her daughter without getting a divorce, thinking that no one knew of the former marriage. "Mrs. Co r-a Smith" was arrested. She will be held pending the result of Smith's wouna. BRAVE FIREMIEN Rescued Eighteen Women From: Burning Building. - Toledo, Ohio., Feb. 14.--With th< wind blowing a gale and drivini sleet in their faces, firemen early to day carried eighteen women down ladders to safety when a blaze rout ed out the tenants in a four-stor: apartment home at the corner of Adams and Seventeenth streets. Nr one was injured. The property los: LUNATIC ASYLUM iOME TALK OF HAVING IT IN N VESTIGATED. rhere Have Been Circulated All Sorts of Absurd Reports as to the Treatment of Inmates. Columbia, S. C., Feb. 15.-There ias been some talk recently about .he asylum investigation and the natters that will come before that -ommission. It is gathered that wit esses will be produced who will ,wear that they, while inmates of he asylum for the liquor habit, were ompelled to help the attendants, Corce soup and milk down the throats 2 )f patilents who would not eat, and a ,hat they saw, different men at dif L L d Eerent times, as many as two men positively kiled by the liquid being C rorced down their windpipes. Another case which reads like the l stories of old, is of a man who could 1 not be released, though there was really very little the matter with t him ,and he had been cured, because " his relatives would not sign for P his release, though notified that he was entirely cured, and he was kept in the asylum until he went crazy in fact. There is a great deal of talk to the effect that there will be an ef fort of white washing in the matter. It is said by the patients who have been released that they have tried time and again to reach the ears of the authorities with their complaints, but that they often did not see the proper persons in months and month, and then onlp on a hurried inspec tion in the wards, and that they have appealed to Dr. Babcock to give them a hearing. If an effort is made to white wash the report there is going to be a fuss raised by those who have the affidavits and who do not like the turn that things have taken. Your correspondent has been informed, however, that there will be no white washing allowed. WILL MEET IN MEMPHIS. The Old Confederate Veterans to 1 Hold Reunion in June. New Orleans, La., Feb. 15.-Adju tant General and Chief of Staff.Wil liam E. Mikell has issued from the headauarters the following general order by command of Gen. Clement A. Evans, commander-in-chief: "The general commanding an nounces that, according to the cus tom heretofore in force, which leaves to the general commanding and .the department commanders the fixing of the date of the reunion, the 19th annual reunion of the United Con federate veterans will be held in the city of Memphis, Tenn., on June 8, 9 and 10, 1909, Tuesday,- Wednes day and Thursday, respectively, those days having been named by our hosts as satisfactory. "For the iifth time in the brief life of this order, the people of Ten nessee throw open their doors and invite the survivors of the glorious armies of the Confederacy to partake of their hospitality, while the nobl9 and patriotic citizens of Meiphis a second time beg the wearers of the gray to be their guiests. "The generail commanding with much pleasure announces at the re quest of its most energetic presi dent, Mrs. W. 5. Behan, that the Con federate Southern Memorial Asso cation will hold its meeting at the same time. "The general commanding sincere ly hopes that the press of the en tire country will endeavor to sitr up interest in the coming meeting and to this end he requests that this order be published and editorial comment made thereon." LYNCHLNG IN FLORIDA. Fiend Identified and Mob Swings Him Up. Jacksonville. Fla., Feb. 13.-Jake Wades, the negro who was arrested yesterday in Gainesville. F'la., .ac :used of being the assailant of Miss Irma Newell, at Lakeland, Fla., last Tuesday, was lynched today imme diately following his identification by the young woman. A posse of twenty-five men took him fromn the train and carried him to the Newell home. Miss Newell said that there was no doubt that he was her as sailant. He was hanged to a tree and his body riddled with bullets. NARROW ESCAPE. Bullet Whizzed by a Spartanburg -Teacher's Head. Spartanburg, Feb. 13.-Miss Luc3 Riser, of Newberry, teacher in th( graded schoois, this city, narrowlb escaped being shot to death this afternoon by a small boy, who was shooting at a target with a pisto or rifle. Miss Riser wa siting by:a window in her room on GlendaE t street correcting examination papersC when a bullet from a rifle or pisto~ I crashed through the pane, barely missing her head. The accident oo curred not far from the place where Miss Myrtle Plumer, of Converse Col-i lege, awas shot several months ago.c KILLED HIS PLAYMATE. Two Boys Playing With Pistol One Is Dead. Laurnes, Feb. 19.-An unfortu nate tragedy occurred at the Lau- v rens Cotton Mills at -8 o'clock this r morning, when Foster Turned, the o five-year-old son of Mr. C. C. Turner, v was accidentally shot and killed by n his playmate and cousin, Hursell p Giles, the eight-year-old son of Mr.ji J. S. Giles. The two children were b playing with a pistol, when it was t discharged in the hands of young b Giles, th's ball entering the forehead r of his cousin, causing death in thirty ti minutes. The pistol was a 32-call- lI bre Iver-Johnson, belonging to Mr. h Cleveland Giles, an elder broither c of Hursell. - i A new broom sweeps clean, but alas, it stays a new brocm such a FIRE AND PANIC. early Three Hundred People In 5E a Theatre Burned. VICTIMS ROASTED. he Intense Heat Together With the Absence of Smoke, Launches Sev- T w eral Hundred People Into Eterni- or ty by Fearful Suffering-The Piti ful Screams Heard Blocks. Mexico City, Feb. 15.-Between in 50 and 300 were burned to death Ti nd many injured in a fire which a estroyed the Flores -theatre in the tc ity of Acapulco last night. The 01 ews of the disaster reached the cap :al this morning, telegraphic com- h, iunication with Acapulco having V4 een disturbed, owing to the fact n hat the telegraph ;ffice adjoined i te theatre was burned and all wires se ut out of commission. P3 The floor of the theatre was a a ooden affair, and .ast night over n( ,000 people crowded into it to wit- sI ess a performance given in honor of tj overnor Damian Flores of the State f Guerro, who was visiting the w ort at the time. One of the num- P1 ers of the program-me consisted of m , series of moving pictures. While f( he operator was exhibiting these, sl , film caught fire, and a blaze was n tuickly communicated to bunting, tj hich had- been used for decorative g )urposes. In an incredibly short h: ime the flames spread to all parts f the structure. There were but t hree narrow exits and the panic- o tricken audience rushed to these, i nany falling and being crushed to L leath, their bodies choking the way o escape to others. Pitiful Screams. b The screams of the imprisoned t, ere terrifying and heart-rending. s, )wing to the rapidity with which I he fire spread and to its intense 0 1eat, it was imposible tu attempt res- I ue work and those imprisoned were t< iterally roasted alive, as the fire >urned with little smoke and few t ere suffocated. T The efforts of the fire. department vere confined to the attempt to save idjoining buildings and they suc seeded so that the property loss was mall. The telegraph office, post ffice and custom house were damag ?d, but all of the government rec yrds and registered mail was saved. Today pitiful scenes of grief are v being enacted in the street of the -c little west coast port. Men, women and children are wandering from place to place, hunting for relatives. Many of the dead are of the first fam ilies of the State, as the affair at the theatre was a social event of :onsiderable importance and called out the wealthiest and oldest famn lies for miles around. In some in stances entire families were wiped| ut of existance. The municipal au thorities caused large trenches to be dug and into these the remains of the dead were laid. According to the telegrams received today, recog ition of any of the dead has been an impossibility, owing to the fact tat the bodies were burned in mostI ases to a crisp. Telegrams to the American con sul at Capulco by the Associated Press, asking for the names of the Americans have as yet not been re plied to. Acapulco, on the west coast, Is one of the three important ports of the Pacific coast of Mexico. Nearly all of the steamship lines make. It a port of call, and the harbor is ae ounted the best in Mexico. WILL INE TAFT.C rhe President to Attend Banquet of Georgia Students. Washington, February 19.-After a being inaugurated President the firsta banqet that Judge Taft will attend wvill be one to 'e given In this city ~ n the evening of March 4, at the 1 Arlington Hotel, by the cadets of l :he Georgia Military, Academy and >f the Donald Frazier School, both - 3eorgia inistitutions. Mr. Taft has ~ 3romised the cadets that, although t 2e will be a busy man on March4, he will drop in on the banquet for an a our or so, and give them a litle talk. ~ bout 250 cadets from the two chools will march in the inaugural ay parade.I LEFT HIS GRIP.t C Dontaining Seventy-five Thousand a Dollars Worth of Bonds. t; Newark, Feb. 19.-A man dressed h ts a priest walked into police head- u iuarters and said that he. had been u obbed of securities worth $75,000. n e presented a card on which was p nscribel "Rev. Charles Policsek, di- 3 ector of St. John's Kneipp sanitor- si um. Alpha. N. J.", He said he lost cl he missing securities in a satchel in N Srestaurant. Detectives were sent iz o the restau~rant and found the sat- 11 :hel with the securities In it. The h >roprietor said the man came in the w estaurant, took a seat at a table at cc hich two young women and a man h were already seat'ed, and after eat ng, walked away, leaving his sat STARTED YOUNG. ixteen-Year-Old Husband Divorced From Girl Wife. a Although only 16 years old, Ed- at yard Klaser, of Evansville, 0., mar- in ied and the father of a child, has tI btained a divo:-ce from' his child- bi rife, who is only 14. The girl's ame is Lonise McCormick, and the 0) air were married on February 20, 0f 907. Klaser claimed that he was ul ypnotized at the time he married as ie girl, and the court, after hearing bi is testimony, concluded that he bi lust have been, and ordered him nC go on his way single, but to be a ca tle more careful the next time m e married. The one-year-old child tb f the couple was awarded to the nC ttle mother, and she was also al- 0r wed to resume her maiden name. * t Sil A bulldog isn't always fighting pi FAKER LIKE TEDDY (OULD NOT BE ILOfUNE FROM CRITICS, ys Senator Tillman, But He May Not Expose Him in a Set Public Speech. Washington, D. C., Feb. 13.-The ly thing that will cause Senator Ilman to prod President Rosevelt .th his pitchfork will be any effort t the part of Senator Lodge to .ss the gag rule which he recently oposed and which is now pending the rule committee. If the gag rules remain dormant the committee, it is likely that llman will excoriate the president, he has threatened to do several nes since Mr. Roosevelt attempted implicate the South Carolinian in regon land scandals. "Many of my warmest friends mve urged me not to jump on Rose 4t," said Mr. Tillman this after >on, "and I am undecided whether will expose him as he so richly de rves. I realize that the office of esident of the United States is, id should be, above criticism. but ) faker like Theodore Roosevelt ould be immune. The office and te occupant are different. "It is a question in my mind hether I should humiliate the peo e of this country by showing the an in his true light. I have in >rmation about him that would iock the people of the country, but Ly friends tell me, and I believe lat way myself, that the senate sub mmittee rebuked him severely for is attitude about the secret service." It was suggested to the senator is.t perhaps he might be deprived the right to criticise Mr. Roosevelt, the rule proposed by Senator odge. Vas adopted. "Just let 'em try it," snapped the tefhorker. "That rule will never e adopted, I tell you, and if they *. o .mIt it through I wil make my peecn - .:ut Roosevelt sure. I think could add materially to the interest f a filibuster against the rule, and 'll do it; too, if any ei:ort is made ) pass it." Senator Tillman did not indicate e nature of his information about 'heodore Roosevelt. CUTTING MAN'S WHISKERS. [ayor of New Orleans and Several Others Indicted. New Orleans, La.-A sensation ras created in the United States ircuit court this afternoon when a rand jury returned indictments gainst the mayor and other promi ent citizens of Kenner, Jefferson arish, charging them with "conspir ag and agreeing to arm themselves rith pistols, guns, scissors and other reapons to injure, - oppress and hreaten certain voters." The Indicted men are: Mayor Paul elix, Dave Meyer, John T. Fitzger Id, Moxie Wildenstein. and Frank lall. The indictments grew out of the utting off of the whiskers of E. A. )Sullivan, a prominent attorney of few Orleans, at the Keener Polls at he last national election. Mr. O'Sul ivan went to :he polls for the avow d purpose of giving legal sadvice to ertain clients opposing the Felix Re ime. As he approached the' voting oth he was seized and his flowing hiskers, witi. a state wide reputa ion for their luxuriant growth, were ummarily cliped. An incidental timation of other parties, it is al eged, figured in today's indictments. TEDDY AMD BILLY. hum Matter Said to Have Caused Them to Disagree. Washington, Feb. 19.--The Wash ngton correspondent of The News nd Courier says it has just leaked ut that when President-elect Taft 7as in Washington last Tuesday and Vedlasday he showed a draft of is inaugural address to President oosevelt, and that whenw the latter oticed that Mr. Taft would not lace negroes in office, where such ppointments would be objeted o, he demurred. The position that Mr, Taft will ssume on this matter is not in eeping with the views of President ~oosevelt on the sam-e subject, and is said that the conference went ito the matter very deeply. An ccurate statement of what really yok place cannot, of course, be se ured, but it is believed that the resident and his successo~r differ aterially on this question. Crum's case, it is understood, was ken up and Mr. Taft is said to ave intimated very forcibly that nless other negroes seeking office nder his Administration could show Lore fitness for receiving sucn ap ointments than Crum that they 'ould not be considered. Unless mething unforeseen occurs to dange his attitude on the subject, [r. Taft will state positively in his augural address just what he be eves to be a real fitness for office oldieg under his Administration. 'hether the applicants be white or lored. He will tell the people just aw he stands on the question.* CAN'T PUBLISH NAMES. f the Victims of Fiends in the News papers. Columbia, Feb. 19.--The Senate id House have passed a rather cur us bill. The Senate passed the bill id it today received its second read g in the House. Mr. Ayer opposed e bill, but it was unavailing. The 1 provides: Section 1. That whoever publis;hes causes to be published the name 'any woman, maid or woman-child, >on whom -the crime of rap'e or an sault with intent to- ravish, has en committed or alleged to have en committed., in this State in any ~wspaper. magazine, or other publi .tion, shall be deemed guilty of a isdemeanr, and upon - conviction ereof shall be punished by a fine of it more than one thousand dollars, imprisonment of not more than ree years. Provided, the provi ,ns of this Act shall not apply to QUAKE SHOCKS Play Havoc In Turkey, Killing a Great Many People. PROPERTY RUINED. Thirty Are Known to be Dead at Sivas and Others May be Dead in Ruins-Many of Inhabitants Are Now Without Shelter-Houses and Government Buildings Collapse. Constantinople, Feb. 16.-A num ber of houses and government build ings at Sivas. the capital of the Vilayet of the same name in Asiatic Turkey, collapsed today as a result of an earthquake. The los of life has,not been ascer tained, but reports say that thirty people have been killed and others in jured. Many of the inhabitants are with out shelter. Sivas has a population of about 6,000 families. What damage was done in the surrounding country is not yet known, as communication is poor. A dispatch from Rudopest says an earthquake shock lasting for ten seconds was felt today in the dis trict of Keeshemst, Nagy, Koros, Czegid and Feligyhaz. The inhabitants fled in terror to the country. The walls of a num ber of houses were cracked, but oth erwise no damage was wrought. CAPTURED SAFE BLOWER Says Charley Silas Was Name of Laurens Yeggman. Jacksonville, - Fla., Feb. 1.-A professional safe blower, giving his nams as John Simpson, of Curtain Bay, Baltimore, was arrested M'-.day morning at 3 o'cioek, while in the act of blowing the safe in the store of Charles H. Burnett, in the heart of the business district. Policeman Ammons, in walking his beat, heard a noise in the store and, finding the door unlocked, crept in and was directly over the safe blower before he was aware of his presence. Scattered about him on the floor were nitro-glycerine, saws, chisels, fuses, revolver and all ship ments carried By professional burg lars. - The' man pffered no resis tance. 'Simpson made a confession at po lice headquarters, saying that he has ben operating for some time in Jacksonville and was a pal of Char ley Silas, the yeggman who was kill ed by the policeman at Laurens, S. C. Simpson said he would have killed the policeman this morning but he thought there was more than one of them. FIRED IN'TO TRAIN. Two Passengers on Atlantic Coast Line in Danger. Fayetteville, N. C., Feb. 16. Hon. J. G. Shaw, ex-Congressman of this district, and Col. Sol W. Cooper, manager of the National Bank of this city, returned from a business trip to South Carolina last night, and report a thrilling experience, the re suit of an outrageous act. They were on the train bound for Columbia and at 11 o'clock, when a short distance from Florence, a bullet crashed through a window, which Mr. Shaw was sitting next to, and not six inches from his head, and only a lit tle further from Mr. Cooper, who was sitting next to Mr. Shaw. A second before .that a ball had crashed through a window of the' second class coach just ahead, but fortu nately no one was hurt in either case. Only a short time ago a promi nent citizen of South Carolina was kiled in this same manner. This sort of thing makes one feel unsafe to travel throuigh South Carolina. The train was not stopped and the person who committed this fiendish act was not seen. ACCIDENT ON [LLINOIS CENTRAL Four Pasengers Killed and Thirty six Injured in Wreck. Murpheysboro, Ill., Feb. 16.-Four passengers were killed and thirty-six injured today when an Illinois Cen tral traina bound from St. Louis to .New Orleans was wrecked on a tres tle by running into a broken rail, six -miles east of Murpheysboro. The dead: Mrs. Grace Pery, Carbondale, Ill. Sheriff Aiden and Mrs. Alden, Union county, Ill. B. Brinkley, Carbondale. The injured include: The Rev. H. M. McClellan, of Murpheysboro, and sixteen members of the Perry Hastins show troups slightly hurt, and Miss Helen Yelewe, of the show troupe, back injured seriously. None of the injured will die. COST HIM. HIS LIFE. Went to Rescue a Woman and Rooi Fell TIL. Richmond, Va., Feb. 15.-Mrs. Robert Skipwith, an aged woman, belonging to a prominent family, and a man named Johnson, were burned to death in a fire, which destroyed an old manSion near Clayville, Powhattan county, last night. John son and his wife were tenants ir the house, which was the property o: Mrs. Skipwith. Johnson returned tc rescue Mrs. Skipwith when the roof fell in. FIFTY-TWO BODIES Recovered From .the Wrecked Steam er Penguin on Tuesday. Wellington, N. Z., Feb. 14.-Fifty two bodies have been recovered from the wrecked steamer Penguin of the Union Steamship Company, of Wel lingon, which went on the rocks. Fri day night -off Cape Terawhiti. Six of those aboard the Penguin are un acounted for. In all, the passengers, and crew numbered about one hun WORK OF A FICE. 3IGHT CHILDREN AND ONE MAN BITTEN Ind Are Now Taking Treatment at the Pasteur Institute at Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta, Feb. 15.-Eight children, 6rarying in age from 3 to 12 years, all rrom the same neighborhood in east rennessee, are now at the Pasteur [nsdtute in Atlanta on account of one little black and white spotted ice dog that went mad and ran amuck, last week. They were join ed at the institute Friday afternoon by Winfield S. Lewis, a farmer of the same neighborhood, who had been bitten by the same little ani mal. A whole countryside seems to have been ranged by the diminutive spreader of terror. The eight child ren who have been compelled to make the long trip to save them selves from. a horrible death, repre sent seven different families. The two little Stanberry children, whose pet the dog was, are the only ones of the group who come from the same household. Their homes are scattered on the outskirts of the little corporation of Newport, Tenn. When the children were joined at the Pasteur Institute Friddy after noon by Winfield S. Lewis, a farmer who lives six miles out from New port, the eighth family of that com munity had sent its representative. The children were all bitten last week, between February 3 and 6. Mr. Scott was bitten on Saturday. How many other -victims the little fice claimed before he was killed, has not developed. There may be as many others before the whole tale is told. Mr. Lewis is the last on the present record. The little brute entered' the kitchen of the farn house, and Mr. Lewis, stooping tc pet the visitor, was bitten in thE fingers of one hand.' The dog es caped and was killed later in Wil sonville. An examination of it head showed that it had rabies anc the wholesale migration of a com munity of children followed. Bruct Stanberry, the father of two of them -is in charge 'of the party of young sters. MANY DROWN As Result of -the Collission of Two Vessels. Algers, Feb. 15.-An unknowl sailing vessel rammed the Belgiaj steamer Australia during a storm o' February 12 near Alboran Island ii the Mediterranean, 100 miles fror Bibraltar. Both vessels foundered The total known loss of life was 30 14 men from the sailing vessel an< 16 from the Australia. Ten mem bers of the crew of the Australia who had put off from that 'steame in a small boat, were picked up b the German steamer Liberia an brought in here today. -Captain Norman of the Australix who -was the last to leave -his shil states that he left Oran on Wednes day in heavy weather. On Frida morning the fog was so dense tha It made navigation almost impossiblE Suddenly a large vessel loomed u and- struck the Australia on the pox bow. The st'eamer immediately sel tled and sank within three minute! The crew had just time~ to scran ble into the boats, during which tim the -'boats became separated frot each other. When the men in th captain's boat were about given a the steamer Liberia was sighted an she responded to their frenzied sig nals. Captain Norman estimates the tc tal number of victims at 46. So fa as is known only TN of the crew c the Australia, which niumbered 2( were saved and the sailing vessel wa of the class usua.lly manned by 3 men, all of whom, it is believed, pex Ished. TWENTY MIDDES DROPPED. That Many Naval Cadets Fail to Pas Examinations. Annapolis,' Md., Feb. 19.-As result of the recent semi-annual ex aminations at the Eaval academ3 twenty midshipmen were found to b so badly deficient in their studi-e that they' will be dropped, and thei resignations have already been callei These will resign. Second Class-Fenelon Canno-' of Galveston, Texas Third Class-Charles C. Jaulian of North Carolina; Frank G. Peters of Pennslyvania; Harry Wreiner, o New Jersey. Fourth Class-Eldward F. Croker of New York city; Robert H. Gray 'son, Alabama; James M. Lott, Geor gia; Roy Pfaff, Oklahoma; Mortox L. Savage. Illinois; Henry B. Dawsc-. New York; Frederick W. Grube Wisconsin; Harry J. McDonald, -Ken tucky; Jerome L. Reeves, North Car lina; Ralph Vaill, Montanna; Olive) L. Downes, D'saware; Lloyd R. Gra3 California; Michael. Hudson. Norti Carolina; Grady R. Oakley, Alabamx William J. Russell, Pennsylvania; Charles N. White, New York. Edward F. Croker, of the fourtl clas is the son of Chief Croker, o! the New York fire department. SWEPT TO DEATH IN SEA. First Mate of Schooner Dragged Overboard by Wave. Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 15.-Capt. Meader of the schooner George A. McFadden, which arrived in port to day from Norfolk, reports that First Mate Helon Cook was swept over board at midnight Sunday, February 7, 50 miles northeast of Fryig Pan shoals, by the heavy sea.' The ves sel hove to until 7, a. in., b-ut nothing was seen of the body. Capt. Meader reports a rough voyage all the way down the coast. Boiled to Death. Quitman, Ga., Feb. 19.--Didmus. the nine-year-old daughter of B. W. Furney fell into a large cauldron of boiling water at Tallakos, near here, and death soon foliwed. l~4r. Furn sy was preparing to kill hogs and the child sat on the edge of the furnace.* Of PC in an an using it has i deuce that he sweet and perfe whol ~ad against thech a egreatest menacento h ROYAL 1S TE ONLY MADE FROM ROYAL SRE LIQUOR REPORT aANUARY STATEMENT FROM DIS PENSARY AUDITOR WEST. Columbia Dispensaries Sell One Seventh of Stock *of State-Ex penses and Breakage. Dispensary Auditor West has Is sued' a statement of the total sales, the breakage, the expenses and the stock on hand at the variois county dispensaries for the month of Jan uary. . The statement shows that Richland county leads with a total of oyer $42,000 in sales, with Charleston next, having- a little over $41,000. The sales of Richland county - amounted to nearly one seventh of the sales of the entire 21 counties now having dispensaries. This county also has by far the larg est stock In the State. - Sales and Breakage. The statement of sales and break age is given as follows: - County. Sales. Breakage. Abbeville .. .$ 13,036.70 39.10 1 Aiken ..... 24,900.31 152.50 1 Bamberg .. 7,504.42 55 59 Barnwell . 12,934 20 1M3.75 Beauforc .. 9,264.15 28.77 Berkeley .. 5,232.10 20.40 Charleston 41,349.82 46.68 - Colleton . 6,192.21 39.60 Calhoun . 5,393.23 46.75 rDorchester . . 5624.05 49.85 Fairfield . .. 6,522.87 67.82 SFlorence . ..12,360.25 116.70 Georgetown . 9,015.05 . 19.77. Hampton . . 4,701.00 11.10 Kershaw . ..11,256.:75 53.10 -Lee .......... 8,293.80 52.52 SLexington . . 6,655.36 9.55 SOrangeburg .16,405.65 70.45 Richland . ..42,304.80 257.40 Sumter . ..17,362.25 52.45 SWilliamsburg 7,118.83 14.45 -Total .. ..$273,427.80 $1,363.30 Expenses and Stock. SThe statement of expenses and stock for the- month of January Is as follows: ~County Expenses. Stock. jAbbeville . . $ 266.10 4,830.55 -Aiken . . . . 1,233.19 21,353.06 Bamberg .. . 327.51 .10,730.94 -Barnwell . . 723.02 29,649.20 Beaufort . . 802.85 14,075.50 Berkeley . . 403.13 12,976.40 Charleston .2,968.78 27,539.55 Colleton . .. 382.89 7,914.96 Calhoun .. 226.36 7,283.01 -Dorchester . 604.90 16,194.90 Fairfield . . 295.92 6,847.08 Florence .. 618.46 10,6a5.85 Georgetown. 798.92 12,592.55 Hampton . . 311.19 ,17,416.15 Kershaw . . 315.37 20,130.40. Lee .. .. .....319.53 16,034.82 Lexington .. 564.18 9,030.78 Orangeburg. . 575.50 14,629.85 Richland . .2,482.03 48,461.60 Sumter . .. 626.07 18,030.45 Willianisburg 787.40 10,209.46 STotal .. .$15,636.30 $336,567.06 I DEATH DEALING STORM. Two Persons Reported Killed and Seven Badly Injured. Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 14.-In formation has just been received in Birmingham that two were killed and seven badly Injured at West Point, Miss., this afternoon as the result of a heavy windstorm which passed over that section of the State. The information comes here through Meridian and wire connec tion failed before detals could be procured. It is stated that one of the dead is the m': f a West ern Union Telegr o.perator as Meridian. The v- .,i and rain ap pears to have been general over Mis sissippi and norda~rn Alabama this afternoon and tonight. An uncon firmed report here is that one per son was killed at York, Ala. INJURED BY MONEY. A Child's Face Made a Mass of Torn .Flesh. SavannahC Ga., Feb. 14.--Attack ed by "Nellie," the largest of the monkey colohy at Thunderbolt, f6ur year old Frank Beasley was very se riously injured this afternoon, the boy being rushed to a hospital after he was freed from the animal, with his face a mass of torn flesh where? the monkey's teeth had been. The monkey fought for its prey after I the rescue and a half dozen men1 were hardly able to repel its at-i tacks. There is no suggestion that i the monkey was rabid, but the wounds it left were carefully treat If the juries keep up the good work j they will make mnrder a rather ex pensive luxury in this State.-- t In Texas there is a man who car ries on a regular trade in rattle Are Thousands of millions cans of Royal wder have been making bread, biscuit. I cakein this country, I every housekeeper -estd in CCOP r food woudbe ight; esome. Royalisasafe lum powderswbh are althof thepresentday. BA-N -POWDE mPE QAM OF TARTAR LITTLE IRENE WADE EUaWED While Her Mother Was Attending the Sunday Sshool Convention. A special dispatch to aThe-State says Irene, the little 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. D - Wade of this place, was runover-by a freight on the Southern here this morning and so badly crushed ad mangled that she died about three hous after the distressing hor ror. The little girl, with a younger sister, aged about 8, was on her way to school. They were coming from the:.r home, on Lee street, and were-inth. a-t of, crossing the- railroad tracs; at the lower end of -Hampton avenue, near Beaudrot's shop. A freilit trsin, on the 'Charleston Weselrn Caiolina was coming ,Wa.sthey be gan. crossing and the wo ittfe glIs were watching that. They wer rectly behind the. caboose of Sout ern freight No. 66, which badA 'fiew' minutes before -come in from Green ville. This. freight suddenyimoed back, and without waiing th e, tle girl was pushed down, Tun.oer and mangled. -Her left-leg was practicall cush off above the knee. Her et=dA' was run over. and also crish'a Her screams attractedImmediat tention.. Dr. J. B 'wens, w lives near, was the first to r her., Messrs. Geo. Anderson, Bea droa and Ed. Hunter were alsogquick ly at hand and. thelittle ,suere *as carried to her- hoine 'frm whence she had only :a' shirtwhle before left hap'py and. content. Her mother was away from home. ~attending the. Sunday school conven tion held in Orangeburg. Herff|th er, superintendent ef' the .Green-'" wood .cotton ;mills, 'was in thea mill. He 'was soon-- at home. The best surgical skill was rendered hera but she never survived theterrible shock. She died about noon. Mr. and srii Wade have been- living her .only a few months. ?her came from Pel zer, where- Mr. Wade was. supel V tendent of one of the mills' Microbes In Everythig This is surely an age of microbes. Tihey seem to be in nearly everything you eat and drink.. They. say if,'you eat and drink microbes youdr 421 surely. die, and ijf you::don'.t eat. and drink-you-will-still- more surely die. Bound to surely .die I-inanyf event, you had better pay no more atten tion to microbes. than your.grand dadles did. They ate and drank everything they wanted and' they i ed long, and prospered. What dfd 'Methuselah know about microbes in..his time? -Eat and,'drink every thing you want, 'microbes rand all and you will .live until you die and that it what old Methuselah did he lived until 'he died. Take Time to Walk. -'The hurried 'movement incident' to modern commercial life interefere in more ways than one with 'hygenic living. The urban resident who bolts his breakfast and hurries off to his indoor' business - or professional en gagement deprives him~elf- of onle of the most Important elements in the maintenace of his vital energy and mental activity. Vigorous wslk ing is a good form of body exercise.. It tends to increase the normal ac tivity of every organ and function of the body. Were it more generally and actively engaged in by both sexes the necessity for gymnasla ant..other official substitutes would not be ap-' parent. Drop Dead on Train. Chicago, Feb. 15.-An unidentifi ed man, 45 years old, believed by the police to be F. L. Woodruff, of At lanta, Ga., dropped dead, supposedly from heart disease, on a Michigan Central passenge'r train bound for Detroit last night. The man who owns his home Is in a position, that the reliter can never reach. The renter uisually finds that his rent Is too high, or he is dissatisfied for some reason, and s restless, and discontentment stalks before him. He wants to move. He does not take the same interest in municipal affaris as in his own affairs nor is he as solicitous of his neigh bors, as the man who owns his home. There are pillows- wet by sobs; there are gentle sensitive nature seared and warped; there are old time friends separated and walking heir lonely ways with hope dead and memory but a' pang; there are cruel isunderstandings that make life bare these are but few of the sorrows' :hat come from the crimes of the :ongue. The Hartwell Sun thinks that the roman who .gets up and builds the ires in the mornings should be al ored to vote. And the man who tllows her to make the fires all he time should be disfranchised. A strong solution of potash will