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FC 15TH YEAR. PALMETTO AFFAIRS Occurrences of Interest from All Ht/or ^Aiith r nrnlina # vjvmvi * v*?? vaniM MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS A Batch of LiYe Paragraphs Covering a Wide Range?What is Going On in Onr State. General Cotton Market. Galveston firm 11 .1-4 New Orleans steady 11 .5-8 Mobile sternly lb l.Vlti Savannah steady 11 Charleston firm 10 7-8 Wilmington linu 11 7-8 Norfolk firm 11 "?-1 (i Baltimore nominal 11 .">-8 New York dull 11.2.~> Boston dull 11.2") Houston easy 11 .1-10 Augusta steady 11 2-lti Memphis steady 11 1-2 St. Louis stoutly '..11 1-2 Louisville linn 11 1-2 Charlotte Cotton Market. Those prices represent tlicp rices quoted to wagons: < loud middling 11.15 Strict middling 11 Middling 11 Middling 11 Stains S 1-2 to M 1-2 Baltimore Produce Market. Baltimore, Oct. 22.- Klour steady, unchanged. Wheat firmer; spot contract 77> 1-4 to 77? 1-2; No. 2, red Western SO to 80 1-2: Oct. 77) 1-4 to 77? 1-2. tWn linn: spot 7>*J 7i-S; Oct. 7>2 3-8 to 7)2 7?-S; Southern white corn 54 to 7)0. Oats puiet; No. 2, while 38 3-4 to 3tt 1-4; No. 3, white 37 3-4 to 38 1-4; ? 't*7 ?? i .? ? 11IIAUU *?f I" ??< I Jtye lirm; No. 2, Western export titi to ti7: No. 'J. Western domestic 72 to 72. Butter steady and unchanged; fancy imitation 21 to 22; do creamery 27 to 28; store packed ](> 1-2 to 18 I'iggs tirin 24c. dices active and unchaugcd; largo lit b-S; medium 12 7-8; small 14 1-8. Sugar steady and unchanged. Want to Secede From Berkeley County. f Mr (Jovcrnor Hey ward lias been asked 1o older an election to determine whether or not 3"? square miles of the county of Berkeley shall not be annexed to Dorchester county. A petition was presented to his excellency and states that the citizens of Berkeley. in the section desiring to secede have complied wit hall of the constitutional requirements, that Berkeley county will not have its population reduced below lb,000. that the lines do not run through any incorporated town or city and that the remaining area of Berkeley is over bOO square ..ii -r - ? ...... .in in ?>iiifii required uutter | I lie* constitution. No action lias been | taken on the matter yet, but it i* understood that the people wish to vote on it at the general election, and atf soon as the governor returns lie will consider the petition. Militia Officers Elected. I.aurnes, Special.?At a meeting of I tie members of the newly formed militia company here, Mr. Oscar W. Habb was elected captain; Mr. \V. It. l.ichcy, Jr., lirst lieutenant; Mr. It. K. Itnbb, second lieutenant; Dr. lsadore Schayer, surgeon. Other officers wil he named later. The company is to he known a* the "Trayhnm tinards" in honor of J. II. Trayham, who has been very active in getting np the company. Fell From Steeple. I'nion, Special.?Charlie Jones, a negro carpenter, fel from a church steeple 5.1 feet high and was instant- I ly killed late Thursday afternoon in a distant section ol" the county. lie | had just put the finishing touches to 1 he job, when, sloping on the platform ho plunged downward, his nook being broken, llis body was brought hero for burial. Oil Refinery Chartered. i The secretary of state has chartered the Carolina Cotton Oil and Ke-| tfnerv company of this city. Mention was made a few days ago of the organization of this enterprise, which has been formed to develop the rclining of cotton seed products in this State. The offices of the company will bo in Columbia and a refinery in Charleston, formerly used by the South Atlantic Oil company, will bo put in operation. Mr. Fred <!. Brown of Anderson is president; .1. T. Stevens of Kershaw is vice president; J. . Lawton of llartsvillc. secretary, and B. F. Taylor is treasurer. >RT FO HAS BORROWED LITTLE High Levy For 1905 Brought Much Money In?High Valuation Will Bring in More. Tli*' Si;it of Suulh Carolina will owe les> at tlit* end of this yoar llian in many previous years. I'tider the law only -*">0.000 *-an !>? borrowed in one year u> mwi debts that are contracted and cannot he met hy lh? tax niouey reeeived. I'p to this \ear tho lull :iiu<>11111 Inn- 11ail to ho obtained from hank- in tlio North, but this time only $32.*>.000 was borrowed, which means a eonsidorable saving in interest. Tho reduction ran bo partly aeeountoil for by tho raise in tho tax levy ) in which was tho money uso<i this year. Kor tho present year tho levy was put haok at its former litrurc and until the returns from tint auditors ennimoniv to oome in it was thought that uo.xt year would moan that tho State would have to <*o baok to (ho old wax- and burrow tho full amount in 1!*07. Tito returns, however, iinlioato an ?oipm|n.\ at]| ut oSuo.t.uii snouuoua of property and when all the enmities are hoard from there are indication* that business may ho ooiiduolod on a cash basis next year. Two returns received hv the eomptrolled general showed increases of l'J and 1"? per rent. respectively. The total valuation in l.exinjjton ?1" all properly for ltW.1 was t'tio and for 1 !)0(i is Jj?4.SlI. a t?ain >f $<i24.2Si?. Ir. Aiken coutuy. where the assessments have always boon hieh. the valuation of property in !!) ) "? vr?s $!), l?)i: i r - ,m.V .w.i i.? unu mm 1000. a .tain of Other counties have shown gains fully as great. especially in the IVo Dee section of the State, where, it is sai<l, the land has always licen placal a low valuation nj? to the present year. The fact that the State did not pntvidc a llexible levy as advocate.! ty the comptroller general, prevented wen fuller returns, but the start has been made in the right direction, and there is a general desire on the part ?l' county auditors to abide by the resolutions adopted at their convention here last year, when it was decided to rigidly enforce the law. lieturns are not yet made at the full value, hut it is thought that with changes recommended in the tax laws (his ran eventually he done and all property epuali/.ed. Columbia Stale. True Bill Returned. Ureenville, Special.? In the tinted States court here a true bill was found on an indictment charging Sheriff Jennings of Dickons with allowing certain federal prisoners to escape from his jail. The ease will not be tried at this term. It is pointed out by the sheriff's friends that he did not actually allow bis prisoners to scape, but gave them the freedom 11>!' the jail promises, which, tlit* courts have decided, call be constructed as an "escape." The practice of treating petty federal offenders pretty much as free people has been common in the upper counties in past years, it is said, but Judge Urnwley is doing his best to bring about a change. Sheriff Limehouse Suspended. The law requires the Governor to remove from ofiice any sheriff indicted by a grand jury for malfeasance in office without waiting on the result of the trial, and in the ease of Sheriff l.imehouse, of Dorchester, indicted this week hy his grand jury for allowing a negro to be taken from him and hanged, this will be done. I The Governor is merely waiting to be judicially notified of the indictment I before"(swing the order removing Linudiouse. Three Negro Women Drowned Beaufort, S. C., Special?A small lierrvboat, plying' between Beaufort nitl Ladies' Island, swamped during the stonn with six men and four women, all negroes, on board. Three women weiv drowned. A skitT from J i pilot boat anchored in the stream, ! in charge of Tom Washington, a negro sailor, rescued tlio other passengers at considerable risk. Child Drinks CarbcJic Acid. Richmond. Special.? Five-yea r-old Charlie Howard, -c:i of Mr. ami Mrs. Henry Howard. West Li igh street, drunk two ounces of carbolic acid thinking it was his whooping cough medicine. Dr. K. Lester Ilndgins, of he City Hospital, s:;i<l there is litle chance of his recovery. The cough medicine and the acid in bottles very \ much alike, had been left on a table I II the sitting room. Mrs. Howard | InTil t l?? l*-?? ? ' m m ...i mi; un_y aionc in ton room with the medicine. A few minutes after 1 leaving she heard the l>oy groaning :m<i found him writhing upon the floor. ...v * Mil RT MILL. 8. C., THUR DEAD BY HUNDREDS Great Storm Seriously Wrecks Gulf Cities GREAT DESTRUCTION REPORTED Coral Formation Near Line to be Followed by Flagler Railroad Extension Across Straits to Key West is Scene of Terrible Loss of Life, Tidal Wave Sweeping the Islet Clear of Inhabitants and Killing 25 Out of 100 Persons on Steamer St. Lucie, of Tampa. Aliami, Fin., Special. The report of the loss of the steamer St. Lucie, Captain Bravo commanding, has proven true. One of the extension steamers arrived in port, bringing (il) wounded, who were taken to the hospital. It is said there arc 228 dead bodies, which will he brought up. It is believed ttow that a portion of the Florida Fish \ Produce Company's tleet were drowned. Mauaget Adams sent one one of their boats to look for the men and on their return they reported no signs of the fleet. The fishing nets wore found strewn upon the shore.. All 250 Islands Lost. Captain Bravo says that he anchor ru 011 me jce sine ot IMIiott s Key, 25 miles south of Miami, and that soon after a tidal wave engulfed the island. He says there were 250 residents on the island, all of whom were lost. The St. Lucie was crushed by the same wave and of the one hundred persons on board 25 were killed. Captain Bravo was seriously injured. The St. Lucie's home port was Tampa. Fla. She was built in Wilmington, Del., in 1SSS, and was of 105 net tonnage, 122 feet long, 24 in breadth and over four feet depth. She was usually manned by a crew of 13. The St. Lueic had formerly been in service ati New Haven. Details were la eking. Fort Pierce, Fla.. Special The conductor on train No. !?S. just in from Miami, reports terrible destruction there by the hurricane. Fully .100 houses were blown down and the cityis in a demoralized condition. The handsome churches of the Kpiseopal Ijuul Mothbdist dbiuuninations -wore both blown down. The concrete jail was leaning with danger oi' turning over and the prisoners had to be removed. The ear sheds arc down and the top was blown off the Peninsular & Occidental steamer sheds. A two-story briek building, occupied as a saloon, completely collapsed. Hurricane Hits East Florida. St. Augustine, Fin., Special.?Frequent messages have been received at the wireless telegraph station here giving the progress of a severe hurricane which swept from Cuba to the lower cast coast of Florida. Early Thursday morning the suoitn was rcported in the vicinity of Havana, doing great damage tin re, but details are lacking. Later the storm reached Key West, blowing down small houses and trees, being particularly severe along the water front. As the day wore on the storm reached Jupiter, where it is stated the wind blew 70 miles an hour. Wires are down south of Jupiter and no wireless report lias been received from the Miami district. The storm is fast moving iir this direction. Residents on Anastasia Island have been warned and some of them have moved over to this city. $750,000 Iron Ore Deal in Alabama. Barminhnm, Ala., Special.?It is learned here that the Republican Iron and Steel Company a* purchased a big tract ol' ore lands on Red Mountain. west of Birmingham, from Mark L. 1'otter, of Brooklyn, X. Y. The property is rich in hematite. The consideration was something like $750,000 Investigating Condition of Murphy Branch. Asheville, N. H\, Special.?As a resuit of complaints of poor service from people residing along the Murphy line of the Southern Railway, Corporation Commissioner Rogers passed through Asheville for Murphy for the purpose of making a thorough investigation of existing affairs on the Murphy line. The complaints from people on the Murphy line have been forwarded to tho corporation commission and it was decided that investigation of conditions should be made. X SDAY, OCTOBER 25,15 FURTHER TORNADO WORK One of 49 Survivors of an East Coast Railway House BoatDcscribes Terrible Experience During Storm Wlicn Boat Turned Over Thrice, Each Time Reducing the Number of the Living. Key West. l'lu.. SjKvi.il Survivors from one ol' the house boats of the Florida Kast Coa-t Railway extension along; the keys tell a harrowing- tale of death uiul destruction during the storm of Thursday. W. 1*. Dusenbury, civil engineer in charge ol the work on l.oitir Ke\. \n ho miraculously escaped death, arrived here on the Russian steamer .Fcr.Mie.ninong other survivors rescued, lie says liouse l?oat No.!, on which were lot) men, was struck by the storm nt " o'clock Thursday morning a ml was driven out into tin' (iulf through Tawk's Channel. At t> o'clock the house boat began to break uj>. anil as the ureal waves hit her men. singly and in bunches ot' two or three, would he washed into the sea and drowned. Some went below tor protection, but when the top of the boat was carried mvay the waves rushed and the boat soon went to pieees. IMF or 40 of the men being erushed in the collapse, the others grabbing timbers to save them from drowning. F.ngineer Duscnhury wa*> | in the hold, but succeeded in getting I a log, and tloated until Friday night, when lie wps resetted. On one piece of timebr Hi men were clinging and were hanging to another. The side of the house boat was crowded with men. It turned over three times, each time reducing the number. The Russian steamer Jennie sighted the wreckage ami succeeded in rescuing the 49 men who were brought 1 _ no in*re. i iiroe oilier steamers with yrnrohlight - were picking up dead ami living when the .leunie left the scene. There was another house hoat with 150 men on lionril at Long Key. wiheh Mr. Dusenbury thinks was also swept to sea. There were in ail 10 boats at I .one: Key, mortar tuixers, dredges ami othjjy .b'oat*-ctugagcd in the work. The survivors were I'urnisheii fopil I ami elothim; from the Kast Coa>l Kailway eotnmissary here and were given medical attention. The extension work, of the railway along the keys was not damaged. Burton Starts For Jail. Abilene, Kuu., Special Joseph Ralph Burton, formerly 1'nited StateSenator front Kansas, whose sentenee to serve six months in the county jail at 1 ronton, .Mo., recently was upheld by the Tinted States Supreme ] Court, left hi) home for St. l.ouis, where, on Monday morning, he will surrender to the District Court propaved to go to jail, lie was aceompatiji'd hy Mis. Burton and their adopted daughter, who will live in Iron ton during Mr. Burton's incarceration. Sunday evening numerous towsnien railed on Mr. Burton to hid him good-bye. He seemed thoroughly cheerful and laughingly said t<> :i reporter: ''I've paid my laundry bill j and looked utter some other smalt matters, but I don't suppose that would interest the public." Sunk by Mine, 180 Drowning. London. By Cable.- A dispatch received here t'rom Valdivostoek by Lloyd's agency says the Hussion wooden coaling steamer "SVaj'.jagin stifiek a floating mine and foundered on Oct. 20. Some of her passengers and crew were saved, but ISO persons were drowned. Another message received by a news agency says two hundred passengers perished on | board the Warjagin, only one being j saved. Hurried From Gadsden. Gadsden, Ala., Special- John Moso ley, the negro arrested charged with the murder of Kngincer Joe Cobb at the steel plant, Sunday, was hurried to Armiston. Threats of lynching i were heard all dav. Cohh \v.<? vera popular lure sni<l in Alabama City, where he lived. The engineer was brained with a hanmiar. Sulphur Water Floods Town. San Salvador. My Cable. -Telegraphic communication wit It interior points has been restored and news of the disaster wrought by the terrific *torm which ha< swept over the country is beinjr received. Over 100 per- , sons have been drowned in Catcpenpue. A vast quantity of sulphur water was thrown out of the Chulo volcano and inundated the town of 7'anchinnlco, killing most of tlie inhabitants. From other points also reports of terrible devastation are j coming in. j riME km;. A DISASTROUS FILE The Town of Seneca, S. C., is Almost Wiped Out sensational report of origin Concensus of Opinion is That Bum- j ing Was Inspired by Negro President of College Which Was Recently Dynamited. < ireonville, S. Special.'?-Vs a result of the race troubles at Seneca, thai town is is ashes, being the work, it is claimed, ol inceiulinr.N neg'ocs seeking revenue for the dynuniiting ?f the ni",'i'i> college there last Saturday night. The chief conspirator in the trouble appears to have been one Rev. J. F. Williams, president <>f the dynamited college, whieh was supported hy Northern white people. The lire broke out sit one o'clock Wednesday morning and burned rapidly consuming almost the entire business part of tbc town, which lias si population of something like 2.00lt. N<? fire-light in.tr apparatus was available and the citizens were powerless to stop tlie llaiucs. As a last resort dynamite was used and by this method a few bouses were s;i\ ed. Mr. F. 11. MeKinuey. superintendent of the Seneca Cotton Mills, whr. lives in tlreenville. brought the lirst news of the burning of the town to ibis city on No. .'hi. Ho was an eye witness to the contingent ion and says tt is the consensus of opinion there that the town was herd by the negroes. Among the buildings burned are bolli hotels: .Mrs. M. \\". Coleman's residence; two store rooms adjoining the hotels and a hardware Ohio ly damaged. The tin- \v:w out at Jour o'clock. The hotel people were all saved. The lire started in the basement of (lie Ocotu e Inn. Kverytliiu.it is quiet though feeling is still shown by the negroes. No arresls have been made. The projiorty loss at Seneca is estimated at *150.000 with *50.00 insurance. No causalties are reported though both hotels were burned together with the business portion of the town. Temperance Hosts Assemble. lloston, Mass.. Special.?-From faraway Japan and Australia and front more than 50 other countries in both the eastern and western hemispheres, thousands of women interested in the temperance reform have come to this city to participate ii the triennial world's convention *( the Women's Chvistian Temperance Union, which opened here. The convention will continue through the remaincdr of litis week and following Sunday, coming (o a close tm Sunday night. In addition to the business sessions many public meetiMes have been arranged at which prominent women temperance workers from this country and abroad will deliver addresses. The convention proper and the principle additional meetings will be ltehl in Tromoul Temple. The principal feature of the convention will he a ''welcome" banquet in 'Fremont Temple. In the absence of the 1'rcsidcut of the world's union, Lady Henry Senior- ' set, the presiding officer at the business sessions will bo Mis. Lillian M. N. Stevens, president of the National **. t . 'J'. U. and vice-president .'it large of the World's body. A Total of SI'2,000,000. Havana, Culm, By Cable.- .Major Hadd reported to Hoveruor Mouoou that he bad finished^ counting the funds in the Cuban treasury and found that they totalled a little mere than $12,000,000, mostly American gold. Hooks balar.eed exactly. Didn't Poison His Wife. Tom's Uiver, N. ,1., Special. After a trial lasting about lit day-, Hr. Frank L. Brouwcr, indicted for the murder of his wife, by poison, was acquitted. The jury brought in a verdict of ''not guilty'' inside of an hour. The court room was crowded when Judge Hendriekson ascended the bench to bear the finding. A Chilft T-itall" TJn J Asheville, NT. Special News wa?i brought here by Or. I A. Harris, ul Ili?? burning 1?? death ?l' tla- li"le (laughter of Mr. and .Mrs. Wesley Edmunds, near Houiersville, in Flat Creek township, and I he serious is not fatal injuries sustained by the mother in attemptimr lo save her child from death. Or. Harris says that Mrs. Edmunds is in a critical condition and that should she survive she will be maimed for life; that several fingers were terribly burned as to necessitate amputation and that other injuries about the face and neck will laave stars. 1 I 1 V I NO. 30. WANT ITEMIZED REPORTS j Much Valuable Information Sought , . By Railroad Commit fan. Columbia. Special.? i L? railroad commission i< semliut; ot.t t auks to tlio telephone comp:HHP J? i reports on exchanges in eveiy tc *wi. The blanks include the \ali* ( I the properly. i he number of 8i.lu-CMl.ers, debt of the company, geiui;.j v>}? riser and >n fact, aii informal.! i. i Minllv obtained 1'ioin sueli eoif't in* U'tis. The reports w111 be itemi/.ui )n the annual report of the eonm .ss rn. Blanks have also been sent tin railroad companies l'or reports ? : the m pro Yemen ts made during tin y :u including llie ears nurdi:.-"!;. Ibe depots ercried. trestles buiit a ail i..ds lain, j This is the tiisl year ;. repert of this | kind ha- been attempted and mrn li I valuable information i < < tore r.eh ! given will be made J d.,n. Fire at Y/ilisttii. j Willispm, Special.- < .-it. M T. IMiillips lost liiv by 1li< Thuisday morning. / uicn n r ol tinfamily was awakem-d at i < vlock l>\ Hi'' ember*- of ?lu> ( : i tali.iv cm ihe ( filing above her {. ad .' 'lie then alarmed ine other p , pi,- ... lo hous< . They barely had tin* '< ? i; pe ami saved practically in, itu '! in re win insurance ..a liie h. i.* i.oiou: iii ta .-'1 m?. li is iu.; km ni what insurance was placed an 1lu luiilure, which was a total los*. Clemson-V. P. I Gam . ?Meinsuii. Special ?Si ..i l;mi i.ijr will in all probability roup ivci 1 *? Clen,son college a larjjo d? n ^ala n to tho Cleinson-V. I'. 1. jjaine, win n is scbeil uled for Saturday. Then . e many Clemson alumni in the ?-.tv and not :? few who have attended V. 1' 1. 'flip pa me expected by th? Spai tanburr enthusiasts to be the lbj best. order . and v ill draw a pood attendance from this city. Fatal Type of MalanaJ 3 ever Willislon. Special. ? Mr J. M. Clrubhs. a highly respected lilizen of, the Tinkers Creek section was buried iu the family cemetery, tic is supposed to have bu n tin- vidua of a peculiar!;. fatal typo of n.aia i.il fevei. On Saturday be was in ha . eeuston ed health, but was taken \\.;h a chill and lapsed into a state ? l et uia, from which he never recovered. Cotton Fire Near C'j.:j.?le. Carlisle, Special.- Pirn I?"> 1?' l.*>0 I bales of eotton. most ol wlw. h hebma* <\l to the Pixie Cotton e? mpany of thai place, wore almost totalS ?lestroye?f by lire Sunday UV>rnin?r tu :'iv al'tei: ! !t o'clock at 1 lerbci I. n small station j on th<? Southern about s? \? 11 miles lx j low lien*. Tin* cotton, wl.u li w;i- oit j a platform near the nuimatl, was found to In* on lin? ?i : u i'ffrr tlx: I movninx train tiiitn < i not a. passei | n??l it is tlioiijr'.i a spark in in the ? ?.i ttiue caused it. Criminal Reports Ceiling Zn. Columbia. Special.- Tk? attorney general i< bejfiiinim; to iceeive tint primiiin 1 reports from tin Herbs ntj. court for the year 11)0(1. As ninny ?>< the counties ; ,!! have aroliu 1 term ? tl court it will impossible to prepare summary i.util some time 11 1 -i r.mh r, The reports iucliulc the number ?>l! trials, tlit* convictions anil tlic crimes committed iti Icounties jind flu- 1c-r tals are iul< restimr tor comparisons with tlie previous year. Cotton Damaged in York. YorUvillo, Special.- The reeer.t hoaw i'ros(?s have caused threat dan a're to the cotton crop as w< II as neatly all v< trtion. Reports of damage i-umo fioin .ill si? lions of York conn- t t y. In w.i'king tlirouuh the eotton liehls iln> leaves appear dead and thes ern.-li in he hand like hurncd pap< r. Sawmill Burned Near Kershaw. Kershaw, Special.? A sawmill owned l v Mr. A. Rollins, loratrd about lit uiih - .fronr town, was <!n?f royed I 1... I . . . - I i.> fTTjuu! Jt js supposed to be vlu' work of no" ndiur>. The loss is several hundred donar* with no insuiance. New Bank for Gaffney. / flnffney. S. ('., Special.- It is ni~.. mored that Gaffncy is in the near fiilure to have another hank. The do- j tails have not been announced but tin- \ 1 gentlemen who are at the head of the. ' * new enterprise are amply able [t\ open a strong institution.