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15TH YEAR.
ENTIRE CITY BURIED
BY VOLCANIC ERUPTOIN.
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mount Vesuvius Again Active. ?Rivers
of Molten Lava and Ashes Descend
Upon Surrounding Territory.?Much
Property Destroyed, but No Lives
Lost.?Panic Pervades Naples.
An associated press despatch
Sunday from Naples, Italy, says
that the hope that Mount Vesuvius
was becoming calm was dissipated
today when the volcano
became more active than ever.
The panic has spread to Naples.
Two strong earthquake shocks,
which shattered windows and
cracked the walls of buildings,
were experienced Sunday. The
entire population rushed to the
streers in terror.
No trace remains of Boscotrecaz,
a commune on the southern
declivity of the mountain, where
up to 48 hours ago 10,000 persons
lived; and Torre Annunziata, on
the shores of the Gulf of Naples,
one mile to the southward, is
almost surrounded by the invading
lava and has been evacuated
by its 30,000 inhabitants. The
people were brought to Naples by
trains, street cars, military carls
and steamships. Similar means
of transportation are being employed
to bring away the people
from Torre del Greco. The police
and carbineers are guarding the
abandoned houses and several
members of the government also
are there.
As yet it is impossible to count
the craters that have been opened
and from which streams of lava
have flooded the beautiful, tiros
perous and happy land lying on
the southeast shores of tne Gulf
of Naples. The atmosphere i3
heavily charged with electricity
and now and then the flashes of
lightning are blinding, while
the detonations from the volcano
resemble those of terrible explosions.
Counting the Rural Mail.
It is learned that an order has
been issued by the postoffice department
at Washington to the
effect that beginning April 4th,
all mail must be carefully counted
for the three months, April, May
and June, on rural routes
This is done as it appears, for
the purpose of determining a
very important matter to the
people living along the routes?
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shall be continued or not.
According to the report all
routes that do not made a showing
of 2000 pieces of mail per month,
may have the service taken away
from them. The result is not
announced as positive but is to
find out how much mail is being
delivered on the various routes,
and if the average is under 2,000
pieces per month, then the department
will decide what will
be done.
There has been a good deal of
talk from Washington for some
months about curtailing the rural
mail service of the country and
this new order appears to be an
outgrowth of this move.
Program For State Reunion.
The special committee of the
Columbia chamber of commerce
appointed to arrange lor the
coming reunion there on the 16th,
17th and 18th of next month,
had a conference the past week
with the result that the outline
of a general grogramme was
agreed upon, the details to be
worked out later.
Wednesday night, after a reception
from 5 to 7 o'clock to the
sponsors, will be devoted to
welcome addresses and responses,
which will be followed Thursday
morning by a business session, at
which the chief oration will be
delivered. Thursday night there
will be an address to the sponsors
and responses following the
street parade beginning at 5
o'clock that afternoon. A business
session, followed by the
telling of anecdotes ana stories,
will be the attraction for Friday
morning. Thursday night a
spectacular war drama will be
enacted at the theater by local
talent and Friday night there
will be a demonstration at the
theater in the nature of representatives
of camp scenes.
Polk Miller and the "Old South
Quartette" at the town hall Wednesday
evening, April 18th.
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BIG COTTON CONFERENCE
' IN WASHINGTON CITY.
I Delegates From All Parts of the World
Will be There May 1-2.
Much has been written of the
gTeat cotton conference which is
to be held in Washington City
May 1-2. Representatives will
attend from the great cotton associations
of this country and
England, from the large cotton
exchanges and those organizations
which are directly or indirectly
interested in the growth
or handling of the staple. Addresses
will be delivered by the
foremost cotton experts of the
world. Subjects will be considered
which are of vital interests
to the trade in all of its branches.
The program which follows will
give some idea of the scope of
the conference.
The sessions will be held in the
New Willard Hotel, in Washington,
May 1 and 2, from 10 to 1
o'clock in the morning and from
2.30 to 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon.
Delegates will be present
from the following named bodies:
The American Cotton Manufacturers'
Association, the New
England Cotton Manufacturers'
Association, the Southern Cotton
AssAPintinrs tVioMofinnol
ViiV VJIJIXICIO
Association, the National Association
of Manufacturers, the New
York Cotton Exchange, the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, the
Liverpool Cotton Exchange; the
Arkwright Club, Boston, Mass.,
and the International Federation
of Master Cotton Spinners and
Manufacturers.
Dethroned Prophet Up ia Arms.
John "Alexander Dowie, with
his fighting instinct aroused to
the highest degree, will make a
last desperate effort to regain the
control wrested from him by the
administrative body of his church.
Dowie sent a telegram from his
mountain retreat in Mexico directing
Deacon V. V. Barnes, his
general counsel, to cancel Deputy
Overseer Voliva's power 01 attorney
and appointing Fielding
H. Willhite in his stead.
Willhite is Dowie's only friend
in Zion City. Voliva and his
followers do not believe that
Dowie will be willing to go into
court and suffer exposure of the
details of his Drivate lifp. Vnlivn
and his adviser have made plans
which they will not disclose to
offset Dowie's efforts to regain
control.
State Democratic Convention in May.
The State Democratic executive
comittee held a quiet meeting in
Columbia Thursday evening and
issued the calls for the State and
county Democratic conventions.
Nothing of a startling nature or
of unusual interest, except a resolution
by Mr. Magill denouncing
Thos. E. Watson, of Georgia, on
account of a magazine article in
which the Georgian said that the
proposed cut in Southern representation
in Congress would make
little difference to the Southern
States, was brought up. Mr.
Magill's resolution was coldly received
and was later withdrawn.
Senator Manning submitted
resolutions that the convention be
held in Columbia at noon on May
16 and that the county chairman
throughout the State be instructed
to call together the clubs on
the 28th day of April for the
purpose of electing delegates
to countv cnnv#?ntir?ns whipVi
will assemble May 7, for the
purpose of electing delegates to
the aforesaid State convention,
each county being entitled to
double the representation it has
in the general assembly. This
was adopted.
Twelve counties were without
representation in the convention.
Meeting of State Medical Association.
The 58th annual meeting of
State Medical Association will
convene in Columbia on April 18,
will continue for two and probably
three days. The house of
delegates, the executive body of
the association, will meet on the
day preceding the opening of the
session and will transact all matters
of an executive nature to be
disposed of before the opening of
the meeting proper.
It is expected that the attendance
will be large. ..
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LIVE ITEMS OF STATE NEWS
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The city of Spartanburg has
let the contract for $100,000
worth of street paving.
The Carr Contracting company
of Rock Hill has been chartered
by the secretary of State.
There are only 93 dogs in the
city of Columbia; at least, that is
the number on the city tax books.
W. B. Cooper has brought suit
for $15,000 against Richland
county for damages from a defective
bridge.
Rev. L. M. Rice has tendered
his resignation as pastor of the
First Baptist church of Union, to
take effect June 1.
The county officers in Spartanburg
are to be investigated. The
money has been advanced from
the general county fund.
Senator Tillman was notified
the other day of the formation
of the "Benjamin R. Tillman Literary
Society" in New York.
The records of the Southern
Railway show that 1,025 solid
cars of freight were handled in
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February.
The executive committee of
the Republican party in this State
has decided to call a State convention
in Columbia on the
second Wednesday in August.
Rev. Henry A. White, D. D.,
of the Columbia Theological
Seminary has written a school
history of South Carolina which
will be published by a Boston
firm.
The franchise tax returns show
that there are thirty-eight more
State banks in this State this year
to pay franchise tax than there
were last year at the same time.
A negro woman 75 years old
and a negro boy nine years of
age are among those indicted for
murder and who will be tried at
the the present term of the court
at Chester.
The plumbers' strike in Charleston
was settled by the master
plumbers conceding the demands
of the union for KH nor* Hov I
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an increase of 50 cents.
A. W. Jones, comptroller general,
has received from the
clerk of court of Colleton County
a check for $423.97, in settlement
of the "pension frauds"
in that county.
Senator Tillman has received
an invitation from Dr. George H.
Denny, president of the Virginia
Military Iustitute, of Lexington,
Va., to deliver the commencement
oration before the
literary societies of that institution
on June 26. He declined.
Quite a kick is being raised by
some of the county auditors and
boards of control in regard to using
request blanks as requested
by law. The auditor of Lee
county has flatly refused to comply
with the law, and says that
if the law is enforced it will drag
Lee county into the prohibition
rank.
The truck farmers in the vicinitv
Cbnrlpcfnn Viif
by the recent coid snap. It was
the most destructive spell of cold
weather in five years, and the
losses of the farmers run high
into the thousands. Several crops
had to be replanted.
Rev. Jas. Boyce, president of
Due West Female College has
had an offer of $10,000 from Andrew
Ctrnegie for a new dormitory
building for the college on
condition that an equal amount
be raised by friends of the institution.
Dr. Henry W. Farnam, professor
of political economy at
Yale University has sent the
South Carolina University a
check for $500 to be used for the
purchase of books for the university
library.
Upon a formal request from
the intendant of Prosperity a
constable is to be sent to that
town. Governor Heyward's policy
has been not to send constables
to any county that has
voted out the dispensary unless
there is evidence that the constables
are wanted.
Representative Johnston has
concluded arrangements with the
United States fish commission to
send to Greenville at an early
date a car load of mountain trout
to be turned loose in the streams
of that county.
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SDAY, APRIL 12, 1906.
BULLS PAWED EARTH,
BUT WOULDN'T FIGHT.
Ancient Sport &t Thomasson's CockPit
Near Rock HiU.
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Times' article about the proposed
cock-pit for Gold Hill, the Columbia
Record has the following1 to
say of R. F. Thomasson and the
bull fight which he attempted to
pull off at his home near Rock
Hill some years ago:
"It is beginning to look as if
Governor Heyward will again be !
called upon to send the Rock
Hill military company after York
county's sportiest citizen, Robert
F. Thomasson by name, who a
few years ago attracted the atI
tention of three States by having
! the military company at Rock
Hill sent after him to suppress a
bull fight he had advertised he
would pull off near Rock Hill on
| a stated day. He advertised with
circulars through three States
and a great gathering was promj
ised. However, when the
I sheriff of York, as commander
in chief of the military forces of
that section sent out under him
by direction of the governor, arrived
on the scene, the crowd
that had assembled was confined
mostly to those living in the
immediate neighborhood who
came out of curiosity to see
Thomasson "suppressed" by the
military. The performance was
allowed to come off because it was
ludicrously tame. The two bulls
were brought and for a time
they bellowed and pawed up the
earth after the manner of some
politicians, but on approaching
each other they made friends
without even locking horns,
lickinc each Other nfFertirmntelv!
to demonstrate to the militia, the
sheriff and the crowd that the
joke was on the audience."
Leading Lady in "The Clansman" Dead.
Times readers who witnessed
the Rev. Thomas Dixon's "The
Clansman" play and got so much
worked up over it, will regret to
learn of the death of the pretty
leading lady, Miss Georgia Welles
who gave such an able interpretation
of the part of "Elsie," the
daughter of the Northern philanthropist,
whom the negro Lieutenant
Governor Lynch coveted,
but who fell in love with the
leader of the Ku Klux Klan. She
died of appendicitis in a New
York hospital last Friday, hers
being an emergency case which
had been neglected too long for
a successful operation.
Hundreds of Federal Liquor Licenses.
It may be of interest, and no
doubt will be a shock, to some of
the good prohibition people to
learn that there are three hundred
and twenty-six Federal
liquor licenses in the hands of so
many "blind tigers" in South
Carolina. This astonishing fact
is vouched for by a correspondent
of the Anderson Daily Mail,
who has made a very careful investigation
of the liquor question
in this State.
Of these 326 blind tigers only
twenty-nine are, according to
the correspondent of The Mail,
located in prohibition territory,
the balance, or 207, are located
in dispensary towns and cities.
There are 213 licensed blind tigers
in Charleston; 22 in Columbia,
and 18 on Johns' Island. The
remaining 73 are located in various
dispensary towns throughout
the State.
The article goes on to show
that these illicit resorts are situated
all around the State dispensary
in Columbia and abo
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Even going: so far as to purchase
a portion of their supplies from
the dispensaries. The police
wink at them, the cities collect
license from them, the State
constables seem to be afraid of
them and all patronize them.
Electric Lights For Clover.
The city government of Clover
are taking steps to light the town
with electricity. The power will
bo obtained from the Catawba
Power Company and will be put
in operation soon. The town
will put in arc lights in the
main streets and there will be
incandescent lights in the residences
and stores.
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Millionaire Swift Dead.
Edward C. Swift, the Chicago
millionaire beef packer, died in
Boston early Thursday morning.
He had lingered between life and
death for the past few days,
smTeriner from nnpumnnin
Steele Creek Dirt Changes Hands.
Mr. C. W. Cathey has sold his
farm in Steel Creek to Mr. Beattic
Ferris, of York county, S. C..
and bought a 165-acre tract, near
Croft, from Mr. J. B. Alexander.
He got $30 an acre for his place
and paid $5,000 for the Alexander
farm. The deal was made
through Mr. Parks Brown, of the
Southern Real Estate, Loan &
Trust Company, of Charlotte.
Mr. Cathey is one of the leading
young farmers of Mecklenburg
county. ? Observer.
Thornwcll Gollegc Commencement.
A number of parents in this
section will be intesested to know
that the commencement exercises
of the Thornwell College for
Orphans at Clinton will be held
on the 17th-20th of June. The
baccalaureate JJ sermon will be
preached by Rev. Richard Orme
Flinn of Atlanta; the baccalaureate
address, which will also be
a dedicatory address of the new
Carolina Memorial chapel, will
be made by Rev. S. M. Smith,
D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, Columbia, on the
19th.
The board of trustees of this
institution is composed of seven
representatives from the synod
of South Carolina, five from the
synod of Georgia and three from
the synod of Florida. This body
will meet on the 19th of June at
3 o'clock p. m.
End of Green-Gaynor Trial This Week.
The famous Green-Gaynor trial
at Savannah, Ga., on Monday entered
its fourteenth and probably
last week in court.
Arguments for the defense will
perhaps be concluded by today,
immediately after which Judge
Speer will deliver his charge to
the jury. It is expected that the
jury will conclude its deliberations
and report its findings before
the week ends.
Mr. A. H. Merritt of Upper
Fort Mill, who has been seriously
ill, was on the streets Saturday
for the first time in several
weeks.
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our ads. as
we have
something
pleasing in
store for you
when we
get into our
new quarters.
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Pay Up Promptly.
NUMBER 2.
EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS.
Every man wants a square
deal in life. Also a good deal.
?Somerville Journal.
There is not so much in having:
a surplus of brains as in knowing
how to use the little that one has.
?Waxhaw Enterprise.
Between cheap liquor and
patent medicine it seems that we
will be damned if we drink or be
damned if we don't.?Bamberg
Herald.
The women's hats this season
are smaller than they were last,
and there is something to be
thankful for in that.?News and
Courier.
Statistics show that Georgia
and South Carolina are now using
more commercial fertilizers than
were used by the whole southern
states ten years ago.?Edgefield
Advertiser.
Petitions are being circulated
in Charlotte asking for an election
to decide whether that city shall
cut out prohibition and go back
to barrooms. That would be a
blow to the drug store saloons. ?
Rock Hill Record.
The statement that a producer
is fond of his own product is not
always true. No man likes to
eat his own words.?Washington
Post.
Mr. Carnegie has generously
put it up to tlie friends of Amherst
college to raise $75,000.
Then he will see the raise. It is
the regular Carnegie game.?
Boston Herald.
At the rate the dirt is flying at
Panama we of this generat ion are
quite as likely to enjoy the millenium
as to see the completion
of the canal.?Times and Democrat.
It is a toss-up which w;-? thfc - ?
longest? Senator Tillman's mani*
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lcoiAJ ui liic answer 01 vne Columbia
State thereto. It is ,x fact
that some people butt in where
angels fear to tread. We believe
Tillman will still be able to sit
up and take notice.?Rock Hill
Record.
Somedody has discovered that 4*
church hymn books are full of microbes
and likely to spread disases.
Why is it that nobody has
ever found any microbes hanging
around the poker table and door
knob of the individual whiskey
locders in the various clubs.?
Times and Democrat.
Goob-bye, the juicy plum and
the toothsome peach! Good-bye
for many a long day! And as we
pen the words, our tears roll
down in torrents, Niagara is but
a xill compared to them! And oh
God! spare us now the seedy and
ungenteel blackberry and the
desultory and delusive apple.
And we would be immeasurably
thankful for even the haw and
the may-pop. Remember, oh
Lord, that wc arc going to have
a hot and burning summer?
that Ben Tillman is going to consume
our inmost vitals with dispensary
fire?that we shall have
no X, XX,XXX?to moisten our
parched tongues. Woe is upon
us! This morning, March 21st,
the ice is a furlong thick in
Edgefield, and the earth is spewed
up a yard high. Lord have mercy
upon us, and vouchsafe unto us
the blackberry and the may-pop
?and the stringy collard and
the watery squash.?Edgefield
Chronicle.
Meach&m & Epps' Opening.
The spring millinery opening
Thursday at Meacham & Epps
was perhaps the most elaborate
and embracing of any seen in
this establishment in years.
Everything in the millinery department
seemed to harmonize
with the prevailing shades and
styles. Tne general arrangement
of the stylish Parisian creations
together with the efficiency of the
force seemed to be an added attraction
at this establishment. .
Miss Warlick, the accomplished
milliner, exhibited a distinctive
and well-worth-seeing array of
milinery furnishing.