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FORfr MILL TIMES. ) VOL. XIV. FORT MILL, S. C., WEDNKSDAY,TSEPTEMBER 20,1905. NO. 26. ! Mil IMS Nearly Six Hundred Kill In Deepe THE ADMIRAL WAS NOT ON BOARD In La9ebo Harbor Sunday Night, the Japanese Navy Department, Announces, the Battleship Mikasa Was Destroyed by Fire Starting at the Base of the Mainmast and Subsequent Explosion of the Magazine. Tokio, By Cable.?The Navy Department announces that the battleship Mikasa has been destroyed by fire and the explosion of her magazine, causing the loss of 599 lives, including men of other ships who went to the rescue. The fire started from an unknown cause at midnight 9unday night, September 10. Before the officers could bo rescued the fire reached the aft magazine, which exploded, blowing a hole in the port side of th?* vessel below the water line and causing the ship to sink. An investigation is now being held to determine the cause of the fire. TOCO NOT ON BOARD. Admiral Togo was not on board the Mikasa when the disaster to the battleship occurred. The disaster to the battleship has cast a gloom everywhere. The Mikasa was Togo's flagship and was endeared to the hearts of the people. The ship was at anchor in Sasebo harbor when the fire started at the base of the mainmast at midnight. It spraed with great rapidity, exploding the after magazine an hour after the fire had been discovered. The Mikasa sank In shallow water, anil it <s believed that the ship C.u be repaired. Rescuing parties were sent from the various warships in the harbor and there was heavy casualties among them. CAUSE OF FIRE NOT KNOWN. Various conjectures are current as to the cause of the lire. Some attribute it to an overcharge of electricity. Great relief was felt throughout Japan when it was learned that Admiral Togo was not on board the ship at the time of the fire. The Mikasa was a first-class battle ship of 15,200 tons displacement. She was built in England and was launched in 19#2. The battleship was 400 feet long, had a speed of over 18 knots and carried a crew of 935 officers and men. She was heavily armored and carried four 12-inch guns, 14 six-inch guns, twenty 12-pounders and a number of small rapid-fire guns. She had four submerged torpedo tubes. In the battle of the Sea of Japan the Mikasa was the heaviest loser of all the Japanese ships, having 63 killed and wounded. She approuched nearer to the the Russians than any other battleship. The Mikasa vas also the flagship of Admiral Togo after the great naval battle fought off Port Arthur on August 10, 1904, on which occasion the Japanese flagship also suffered the most, but continued in the fighting line. On that occasion the Mikasa had four officers and 29 men killed, six officers and 29 men severely wounded HJici unir omcers ana z'j men siignuy wounded. Appointed District Attorney. Washington, Special.?L. L. Lewis, United States (Jistrict attortiey for the eastern district of Virginia, has tendered his resignation to the Department of Justice and it has been accepted. Robert H. Talley, of Norfolk, has been appointed to the vacancy. Mr. Lewis is the present candidate on the Republican ticket for Governor of Virginia. 150 Unior. Printers Strike. Indianapolis. Special. ? Committees for union printers and for employers of Indianapolis having failed to agree on an eight-hour day to commence on January 1, the local typographical union has ordered 150 members In Indianapolis to Btrlke at once. President James M. Lynch, of the International Typographical Union, said: "I have instructed unions tn various cities to demand contracts immediately for an eight-hour day, to commence on January 1. Wherevef the demand for the eight-hour day i.t refused the union printers have been ir nructed to strike at once." % I . 1IIII ed and All Japan Now st Gloom BRYAN NOT A CANDIDATE. Says That He Is Not Now a Candidate For Anv Office. Chicago. Special.?"I want to make my position perfectly clear; I want to say to you that not only am I not announcing a candidacy, but I am not permitting a candidacy." In these words William Jennings Bryan administered a check to the enthusiasm which, at the Jefferson Club banquet given in Mr. Bryan's honor, greeted the speeches advocating his nomination for Che third time for President. "I am not now," said Mr. Bryan, "a candidate for any office. I have never said that I would never again be a candiate for office, but I want to say now that talk of candidacy for office does not affect me as it once did. I believe that my place iu history will be determined, not by what the people are able to do for ine, but by what I am able to do for the people, tApplause and cheers.) I think it is now too soon to choose a candiate for President to make the race three years from now; it is too early to pledge ourselves to any one man. I trust that before the time comes to name a man for the next presidential race light may be thrown upon our party's pathway and that a man may be chosen who will be able to do for the party more than I have yet been able to do." Further Insurance Investigation New York, Special.?Selling $800,000 in bonds one day and buying them back the next but one, a holiday intervening. in order to keep within statements in the New York l.ife Insurance Company's report to the Superintendent of Insurance, waa the sensational disclosure made at the session of the executive insurance nveetigating committee. The fact waa drawn from Edmund IX Randolph, treasurer of the Now York life Insurance Company, late In the dav after Attorney Charles E. Hughes, of counsel to the committee had labored for over an hour to get-a direct answer from Mr. Randolph to a direct question. The inquiry had dragged through a mass of figures almost th > entire day. but it wis not until near the hour for endit feat En hand dieat of tl year: and ted. ; in n | been thes< I ings tern: Ti dred wout the t to d< I thou i an e i was | a re | John I speei j polic ; Part i roma J were I draw ed a time upws man: ! to d ' purs; 1 Ta speci J. M< dent whll Tboi j altln mors Thei ? Ne of tl j Com j $2.50 I the < I pany quar >ferro | dlvld mon j Wail I Trus ber nu t of \* HHiHHBHlMHwaMi THE YELLOW FEVER STATUS A Good Many New Cases Developing at Different Points. New Orleans, Special.?Official report to 6 p. m.: New cases, 49; total to date, 2,462. Deaths, 6; total to date, 329. New foci. 15. Cases under treatment, 316. Dls charged, 1,817. There was nothing new in the local situation beyond the increase in, number of new cases and deaths. There were really seven yellow fever deaths, but one of them docs not appear on the record. It is the case of an Italian, who, in the delirium of his fever, secured a revolver and blew his brains out. In the country, the situation in Tallulah is improving under the management of Drs. Chassaignac and Von Ez dorf. The people there have asked the State hoard of health that Dr. Chassignac be assigned to remain there and conduct the campaign to the end. This has been referred to Dr. Chasslgnac, who will determine later what his course will he. Among other country reports were: Patterson, 20 cases, 2 deaths; Kenner 8 cases, 2 deaths; Clarke Chenier, one death; Bowick, one death. Four More Cases at Peusacola. Pensacola, Fla., Special? Two deaths and four new cases is the, report officially announced at the hoard of health headquarters, all of the new cases being in the infected area. The first man to die was H. D. Brooks, a draughtsman, who came here several weeks since to take a position in an abstract office. He had been sick live days, but during the first period of sickness refused to take medicines prescribed. On account of objections inado by Governor Jelks, of Alabama, the Marine Hospital Service camp, which was to have been established near the Alabama Wne. has been abandoned. It will be located at another point. Mississippi Fever Summary. Jackson, Miss., Special.?The Mississippi yellow fever summary for the past 24 hours is as follows: Soria City, a suburb of Gulf port, one case discovered by Surgeon Wasllu. Mississippi City, one new case. Vieksburg, two new cases. No new cases developed at Gulf Port, nor did Natchez. Pearlington nor Hamburg report any new cases during the day or any deaths at any time of the infected points. Surgeon Laven der report* that the sickness at Kemp's l.nndiug, Va., Is not yellow feven 'No New Cases at Natches. tchez. Miss., Special.-?Not even a clous case of yellow fever was ted. Six patients are under treatDrs. Lavinder, Aikman and ons, who went to Kemps, I>a., toto diagnose live cases at that \ reported that tliey are not even clous. ksburg. Miss.. Special.?Two new of yellow fever in Vicksburg. I cases to date. 118; deaths 3. II patients are under treatment Patent Medicine Decision. ishington. Special.?The Commisr of Internal Revenue has renderdecision that will seriously affect a >er of patent medicines composed ly of distilled liquors. He has red a ruling'of his Dep^tment made ' years ago and now decides that nanufacturers of these medicines take out licenses as rectifiers and r dealers and the druggists and s handling them will have to pay sual retail liquor dealers' licenses, commissioner, in a letter of intion to collectors of internal revesays that there are a number of ounds on the market going under I chiefly of distilled spirits, withlames of medicines that are cornhe addition of drugs or medicines fficient quantities to change ruatethe character of the whiskey. Killed by Lightning. iano'.a. Iowa. Spo ial.?Four men killed, six were seriously burned a dozen more were stunned by :iiiiwhich wrecked a crowded rv exhibition tent at the county lore. The lightning struck the pole. splitting it in two, and teurhe sides of th* tent into shreds. Ireds of tho chlcke**** on exhibition killed. cident to North Carolina Party, ahendon, Mass., Special.?An uuoile containing members of the accompanying Governor Glenn, forth Carolina, plunged over a e on the road to Royalton here landed at the bottom of a ditch, ning the occupants underneath, e injured are: " C. McNeill, of The Charlotte Obir, badly cut about the head, y Townsend, of Wichendon, sely hurt. ectman Henry N. Raymond, cf endon. haed cut and bruised, en Hoban. lawyer, of Wichendon, injured and back sprained. VESSELS SHOT INTO American Fishermen Trespassing in Cannadian Territory HIT THIRTEEN TIMES IN FLEEING " I American Fishing Steamer Has Exciting Experience With Cannadian Cruiser Vigilant. Erie, Pa.. Special.?The fourth of the fish tug incidents of the past week t<?ok place in mid-I^ake Erie when the Canadian cruiser Vigilant riddled the big steam tug Harry G. Barnhart with small shells from the rifle on the patrol boat. Captain Nick Fassel, of the tug, admitted after he escaped that the Vigilant could have sent her to the bottom if Captain Dunn had so desired. They ran more than eight miles un- | dor full head before they crossed the boundary line and escaped from the Canadians. More than thirty shots struck the vessel, and of those 15 of tee small shells landed with telling effect on the upper parts, so that the boat careened to one side with the mass of wreckage when she came into port. Having been used formerly for a pleasure steamer, the Barnhurst is of a large size and well fitted with steam equipment. The fireman, Magnus Johnson, faited in the hold from over-exertion is keeping the steamer going ahead. He was reported killed, but revived after reaching shore. The fishermen were cut in the fact by splinters shot away by the bullets. The Barnhurst, according to Captain Kassel, was about five miles over the line drawing nets when the Vigilant appeared. The other Erie tugs, the Alma. Valiant and the Boyd, were closer to the line and ran away when the chase started. Captain Dunn ordered the Barnhurst to stop, but instead of doing so, Captain Kassel put on full steam and started for the line. H< took a southwesterly direction and lOt.ld not lie headed off by the Vigilant. It has become quite the custom for the Erie fishermen to cross the line regardless of strict orders front the companies employing them, and having exciting brushes with the Vigilance. They never think of surrender when there is a chanie to run away. The Barnhurst lost a large quantity of nets. Taft Leaves For Home. Yokahama, By Cable?Secretary of War Taft and nartv sailed at 3:00 o'clock Sunday afternoon for San Francisco on the steamer Korea, amid Japanese enthusiasm. A reception was given at the American consulate by Japanese merchants. Before sailing Secretary Taft said he thought the reports of the Japanese anti-peace demonstrations had been greatly exaggerated in America. He and liis party hail traveled all through Japan and had found no trace of any antiforeign feeling. While prominent Americans had been involved in a Tokio mob, he thought it was because the American party was caught in the mob. and not because they were Americans. Other churches besides American churches had been burned. There was several special reasons in each case, but no general anti-foreign feeling was responsible. Secretary Taft said that he had examined the Chinese boycott closely. The Chinese, he said, wanted American goods, and having already lost 000,000 by the boycott, were finding out that they were cutting off their noses to spite their faces. Miss Alice Roosevelt will return home on the steamer Siberia. The local situation continues quiet. Record Entry Closed. Lexington, Ky., Special.? The entry list, which has closed, was received by the Kentucky Breeders' Association for the hip Lexington meeting of October 3 to 14, includes 374 horses for 20 purses. These added to those kept in the stakes, brings the total entry up to (!2S horses and breaks the record for entries on American trotting tracks, established by the Lexington Association in 1S0S by nearly 700 animals. All Now Quiet. Christiana. By Cable.?Peace between Sweden and Norway being assured, a quiet feeling prevails here. News ftrom Karlstadt, however, is still awaited with the keenest interest, I and there is anxiety to learn the <le- | tails of the compromise. The press is unanimous in hoping for a speedy settlement of the questions. There is some misgivings entertained that peace may have been bought too early, but all the newspapers express relief that peace has been secured, providing it is on an enduring basis. I A Happ] T? have a happy home wjl they are great happy-home-mal^ 5? can be made strong enough t( 9 little pain or discomfort to you TCA A Building; Toni It will ease away all your H cure leucorrhea (whites), fall 9 disordered menses, backache, H ?k!tJk!.AL mm. ? A. ? J uiiiuuiiui uuuurai anu easy. H At every drug store in $: I WRITE US A LETTER M Put aside all and write ua ] freely and franJdy, in strictest confl? deooe, telling txa all yo?ir symptoms |H| and trouble*. Wowfll ?end free ndvioe (in plain, sealed euvelopcl, hove to HH cure them. Address: I.udu-s' Advisory Dept., Tlie Chattanooga Medicine Co., BB Chattanooga, Tcun. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Secretary liny d< tested nil unnecessary and wanton falsehood. King Kdwnrd is to.review tlie Scottish Volunteers xit Edinburgh. < Elihu Root has his sense of humor, wlileh gleams out now and then. It is said that Emperor William lin? a olioice selection of American slang words. l'rince ,Peter Kropotkin. the famous social reformer, now resides at Bromley. England. , The Duke of Sutherland is perhaps ] the best locomotive engineer ih the British peerage. General Booth, head of the Salvation Army, lias just returned to London after a liO.OOO mile trip. ( Contrary to tlie general opinion in Mexico and abroad. President Diaz is not a multi-millionaire. < .? .^uliti..;ii(llu... hie . .s tire < years. Emperor Francis Joseph is still greatly addicted to the oluisc. i Admiral Evans has been asked by the 1 rrew of the battleship Missouri to as- I sign a mule to the ship as mascot. The yearly allowance of the Mikado, ' which is at the same time that of the > whole imperial family, is now $l,r?<K>,- < WOO. Alplmnse Bertillon. the inventor of j the finger-print system of Identifying 1 criminals, is described as a quiet, mod- ' est man. r.y the retirement of Hear-Admiral i Charles II. Clark-, the United States 1 Navy loses another of its veterans of J two wars. Chief Justice Fuller, of the United t Stntws Supreme Court, was mistaken < for an itinerant (Senium musician at 1 the Savoy Hotel, London, recently. 1 King Kdwnrd VII has made Count Kutsura, Prime Minister of Japan, a member of the Order of tile Hath, and ' Haron Komura a member of the Order ' of St. Michael and St. George. I Report of Final Engagements. St. Petersburg, By Cable?Telegraphing to Emperor Nicholas under date of September 5, General 1-ineviteh reported that the Japanese. September 4, ( started to advance along the mandarin i road and commenced constructing entrenchments. but retired after meeting 1 the Russian artillery fire. The general also reported an offensive movement by several battalions of Japanese accompanied by cavalry ami artillery in north Korea September 3, but the re- 1 suit was not announced in time to he ' sent off in the dispatch to the Empcroe. 1 " i" 'SIW?WBW? Chinese Bride in Norfolk. Norfolk, Special. 11. Goon lias ( returned from New ^ ork bringing ( :t i<-year-oid urine w\?> uuti ,iu>t nr- i rived from China Sunday. She is ' the only Chinese woman here and , (Joon, who i> a laundryman in ('uui- ' herland street, keeps her hidden, ae- j cording1 to the Chinese eustnm. Slie I is pretty ami Coon is proud. Prominent Man Dead. Lyn liburg. Va.. Special.?N. Ft. Rowman. president of the Lynchburg common council, and a prominent business man, died Sunday morning, after a long illness. He was a Confederate soldier and for some time was president of the Lynchburg tobacco trade. At ids death he was interested In a i real estate company. Hp was 09 years ( !.! ami is survivdor by his widow and sov. n children, all of whom reside here evrjH the el.lest. Walker Cowman, of j New York City. An American is suing his wife for a living, under an ante-nuptial agreement in an Edinburgh Court. 3uch a suit, comments the Baltimore American, would not have much of a chance In an Ame-ican Court. I I I ic For Women. I pain, reduce inflammation, ing womb, ovarian trouble, B headache, etc., and make B Pry it. B [ .00 bottles. B "DUE TO CARDUI I ami nothing else, is ray baby girl, now 3Hj two weeks olJ," writes Mrs.'J. Priest, HE of Webster City, Iowa. "She is a flno, Mfc healthy bab? and wo aro both doing niecly. I ant still taking Cardui, and ^B would not b without it in the house, ^B as it is a gr at mediciuo for women." ^B B ?B?di NEWSY GLEANINGS. The Irish language is now being taught in 3500 schools in Ireland. He 1 pi inn is making preparations to celebrate this year its diamond jubilee. In Cincinnati the women are beginning to take up the fad of goiup sbopplnp without ilielr hats. Shells filled with oil. intended to calm a stormy sea when fired into it. have been invented in France. "Codflali cheese" is the name given to f? canned jpepiiration of fresh cod, now put up in Newfoundland. The University of Paris has established a number of traveling scholarships for women students. The Kaiser lias given orders that dancing is to he taught in all the military barracks in Germany. Kudu IVsih lias a street which no me will 1 it because of the abnormal ' 1 til 1 . . . V eva||, a ther**. I A few <lays ago a man in Baltimore teas sentenced to two months in Jail for pounding bis horse on the head with a lirick. Kev. G. W. MePherson plans the aiiildinp of a great, evangelistic hull mating 5000 persons, in New York City. it is sta4ed that the new pattern field in 11 s for the Itritlsh artillery are practically* useless for the rough work of ivar. Government revenue officials are worded because more Havana cigars are 11 the market in this country than is instilled by the Havana tobacco crop. It appears that spies in the form of inrses have been introduced in eonsld rable numbers Into the families of Tench officers by some unnamed Eur?<?ean power. :\ < <>rmiin woman named Kathft Schmidt wrote lier name in a viHltors' look of a hotel just below the signature if the King of Saxony and sh? was misecuted for lese majesty. Gov. Glenn Entertained. Boston. Special.?Gov. it. B. Glonn, if Forth Carolina, was entertained at iinner at the Algoquin Club. The dinler was given under the auspices of the American Invalid Aid Society. S. S. Pierce and General Charles 11. Taylor. Fro;i?ht Depot Burns. Bristol, Special.?The freight depot here, owned jointly by the Norfolk & Western and the Southern Railways, was destroyed by fire. The loss will probably rea< h ^50,000. Fatal Boiler Explosion. IMconning, Mich., Special.?By tlio >xplosioii of an alleged defective hoil>r in the stave mill of Edward Jeniings here five men were killed and S ?r 10 in jured. Thirty men were at work in the mill Alien the explosion occurred. The con us.--.ioii was so terrible that windows ,v< : > broken a mile from the mill. Tho s.Jios of the five men killed were hadv mangled. None of ihe iniiir<-.i nrn i n light to l?e dangerously injured. A Maid of Honor In Fact. The late I^ady Bloom hold was a maid of honor and published a book of reminiscences relating some very intimate incidents of her years at court. The result, the London correspondent of the Manchester Ouardlan i tells, was that the queen forbade her A ladies to keep dairies while they were ^ in waiting, and from that rulo grew , one of the neatest repartees that" the heart of the profesional diarist could desire. A young lady who had just be n appointed a maid of honor was receiving congratulations at a party, ar 1 her host said: "What aa lntepv esur.g journal you can keep!" 1*L girl told him that Journal keeping wrs forbidden, and the answer was: "But I think I should keep one all the same." "Then," said the girl, "whatever you were you would not be a maid of honor."