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36ti069W ; v * V j FO 15111 VKAR. i Late r | i In "BriejF *? | f MINOR MATTERS Of INTEREST I Hundreds of (Tontedernto veterans marched in tlu* parade at the annual tt union at Koatioko. The Seaboard Air Line is to spend .isLOO.UUU in building freight warehouses in lFn-limoiid. Tlie real issue in New York is pointed out to bt corporate greed and corruption at Albany., and the task i ?>t the voters 1<? pick out tlie man bett. r able t?? serve the people in their overthrow. Pout persons art dead, eight missing, tv.K fatally injured and 50 liurt as the iv. u!t of a lodging-house (ire in Kansas City, Kan. A Philadelphia judge severely criticised Thonin* Dixon, Jr., and suslained the Mayor in refusing to allow "The Clansman" (<? be played there Three h.imdred drivers of electric cabs went on a strike in New York. Dr. Washington (Madden suggested race separation as a solution of ibo nggro problem. Humors of arrests as the result of eiiarges ?- i.ewt..! v i h the buildiug f the State Capitol at Harrisburg re curreut in Philadelphia. Three persons were killed and thre< severely hurt on Poug Island by a train strikir.li a hack as the latter returned i ron: a funeral. rwo duels were fought in Havana, hut there \uir no fatalities. 't'he Chinese Array ruuucuvrcs eante to an end. fen t ilOllS.MIIll ?C>n?K <<?* .->1/1 nrmc - - - ... ..... . ? utu iki iuu stored in the casements of Morro Castle, II. .ana. were thrown into the fci'U. The .Japanese Ambassador railed on Secretary Root and protested against the exclusion of .Japanese children from tin- public se'.voU of San Francisco. A civil service investigator exonerates l'osiuiast.ar Samuel L. Lewis, ??l* York. 1'a., of the charge of partisan activity. The Interstate Commerce ("'omission decides that railroads cannot use tickets or passes to pay for advertises. Fivt survivors out of 3.10 men who were on Fhtgolr houseboat No. 4 when he hurricane struck the Florida Keys arrived in Norfolk. Senator Camden announces the sale . i' 3.11,(KM) acres of Klkhorn coal lands '<> a syndicate headed by A. R. Chis"!m, o:' Dululli, Minn. \ .....: -i- > . .'\u>uu luuiiMHi, oioreu, is ucine tried for 1 In' second time in Henrico Court on the charim ol' assaulting until I'inolibcck, who is only 10 years Id. The Supreme Lodge of the Knights I" I *y?h i: i ^ adopted now insurance regulations. The new .1;;t,u()0,ftl?0 Catholic Cathedral in Pittsburg was dedicated, Cur 'irial Gibbons being present. Choi1' F. Murphy. thu Tammany leader, predicts that lloarst will carry New Y u*k city b\ 71,000 plurality, while Ch.iirinan Conr.or places it. 'at 148,01)0. Clinilr F,. 11 utiles, Republican candidate lor Gow-rnor in New York, spoke up Stale, and William R. Hearst, his opponent, toured Gotham. Mrs. Oelriclis and her minor son ,'ilod obi M-tion to the probating of the .viti ,o il..? i??? ii '* '-i-- ? .... .. in-, mi. in i iii.i.i i/uiuvun *i | New York. Nine men were killed in a mine explosion mc;.i- .Inhuslonwn, Pa. Tli" wrpinii suffrie i-ts arrested foi intin.^ i i I lie j?n < i:ie!s of tlie House of Commons refused U> give bail t" keep tee peace and were sent to jail. Accord i i%' to a T'erlin magazine. l,f)(i^ and Sl.iU- horses were eaten in Cennany 1;. t year. The Aj.ooina11<>v Kiver lias flooded 'he lov.er section of Petersburg. Tin* international congress for tin suppression ? * ,the '"white slave'' 'rad' convened in Paris, the United States h lug represented. A ir.nnher of women snfferagist toriti" 1 the House of Commons, and .'is a ii -id; ol" tie. disorder eight wen arrested. President I?o? etelt announced tha: Oscar . Means, ol New York, would become S evctaiA of Commerce am T.ahor; (lenrge von L. Meyer, Post master-'. leneral; Cha . .7. Uonnparti AlCumy-C oie;al, Victor II. M -tcall Sec 'i.'jy . t the Navy; and (1 corgi B. < ; ; i. Si n ary ol the Trcas ury. a ivpp^npHipii \ W, >RT Fu i?iimu vim Achrcnthnl has accepted the portfolio of Austro-Hungnrian Foreign Minister, to succcdd Count GlouChowski. Government officials are doing all they can to check the anti-Japanese agitntion that is causing resentment | in Japan. Attonrney-General Moody is slated J for .Supreme Court Justice. Seere- J tary Shaw is expected to retire January 1. Major Dreyfus has sued a paper "or re fusing to retract an alleged erroneous publico t ion. Postmaster-General Cortelyou estimates the expenses of tho Postotlico Jcpartmenl next year at $208,191,01)0 in increase of $15.121,")J0. Gen. Horace Porter and a deloga: ...i 11 t> 1. Kill MIlllUll-U I H-MUVI1I ItUIIWVI'll U.> I in associate* member of Farti worth 'ost, Pi rand A any of ibc Republic.* I Congrosmnn Jones is tins week i iiaUiuir a series of speeches on the j iastern of Virrinin. I Savings Bank Closed. Washington, I). P., Special.?Thch ( Peoples' Savings Bank of this city i was closed by order of the comptrol- | ler of currency. The liabilities were $10,000. This is the second Washing ton institution to bo closed in a , week. | The girl with li'_rht hair is nlwayafraid people won't think it is uatui al. 1 Republican Campaign in Kansas. Topcka. Kan., Special.?In furtherance of the Republican campaign i:i this State, Mr. P. W. Fairbanks. Vice President ol the United States, %;liveted two addresses before very large 1 audiences. The Vice President was heartily received. Mr. S. C. Crnm- , tntr, chairman of the Republican Slate central committee, and Congressman Pamphell also spoke. Pope Collapses; Carried to Room. Rome, By Cable.?Thoroughly exhausted as the result of holding sev- j cr:,l interviews, rViTft-PhnC was forced to tfllf.i l.w lifi.l TI.~ l?? ? a in.- i <jiuiu was so greatly exhausted that he had to i he carried t<? his room and a col- < lapse came directly afterward. Ho i had received a number of English i pilgrims ngainst the advice of the Vatican doctors, who, however, declare that the Pope's indiposition, they believe, is only tempovary. Two Killed by Natural Gas. Topcka, Kan., Special.?Two persons wore killed, one is missing, four were seriously injured and 'JO more were hurt in a terrible explosion of 1 natural gas that demolished five twostory buildings at Coffeyvillc, Kan. The buildings wore leveled to the ground. A lire broke out after the explosion but. the llamas were quickly extinguished. Atlanta Man a Suicide at Gulfport. Gulf port, Miss., Special.? The bod; of a man apparently .'I.j years of age \yas found on the beach near tin Beach Hotel. The body was \v<T dressed and a watch and purse tin disturbed. There were no means o' identification except the name ".I 11. Connelly, Atlanta. Ga.," on tie c-uai lapot. I'iio verdict, <?f (lie coi oner's jury was suicide by a pistol Negro Lynched by Cowboys. Roswcll, N. M., Special.?"Slab" Pitts, a negro. who was run out of town tw<< weeks ago, alter serving 00 days for violating the Edmunds act, was lynched l>y cowboys at Toyah, Tex. The accessory, a white woman, followed the negro to Toyah, and they were living together. The cowboys went in the night arid placed a ropo around the neck of the ncero. lie was dragged to death and then hanged They Used the Tub. Douglas Watson believes that it is | the environment of a man that makes him clean or unclean, as the case | may bo. "It is all vory well," ho said. "10 say that people don't take a bath because they don't like to. Tho reaenn tfl?* JaoS ? - null i. unti uiu hid is Docause there are none in the house. Now I am building small cottages for poor people and each one has a bathtub. Now we will call on those people ono day and sec that I am right." I Mr. Watson went to one of these I roll tges and found that, the bathtub had been carefully packed with earth, and a lovely garden was abloom with fuchsias and geraniums.?Sun Fran, cljco Chroulcla # MIL HT MILL, s. C., TIILJI DEATH IN BIG FIRE Many People Cremalcd When | Tenement House Burned PROPERTY LOSS ALSO HEAVY Pour Story Buildiac of Brick and Stone in Kansas City. Kan., Con- j tnining 200 or GOO Men. Women and Children, is Destroyed at Early Morning Honr, Estimates of the Dead Varying Widely. Kansas City, Mo., Spoiial.?In the ruins of the chamber of commerce building in Kansas City, Kan., destroyed by tire early Thursday, there are anywhere from half a dozen to 30 bodies, according to estimates given ant by liremen. The actual ioss or life will not be known until a thorough search of the ruins car be made, probably nc' then, as some of the Uroinon assert that a number of bodies must have been burned to ashes. The building, used as a tenement house Mul containing 100 rooms, held, as near as can he learned, between 200 and 300 persons at the time the lire broke out at 12:30 o'clock. Most of these composed, families, many others were transients, whose uaracs are unknown. Of the injured, scattered among half a dozen hospitals ami at private homes, 25 were more or less seriously hurt. Two or three * ' these nt least, will die. The total financial damage is esti mated a! .$100,000. Of this amount, I $00,000 was on tlie building, which was owenetl by W. A. Bunker. The building was insured for $10,000, Of Erick and Stone Alone. The chamber oi.' commerce building was situated at Park and Central streets, in the River View District of Kansas City. Kan. The structure was four stories in height, with a deep basement and fared the two streets. It was built of brick and stone alone. It contained one hundred rooms, almost nil ot' which were, as far ns can he learned, occupied by families or individual laboring men or railway employes at the time the lire started. The ground floor was occupied by W. A. Ijovolane's barber shop, Fdward T. Summers' drug store, Central Avenue Gas Fixture Company, Mrs. Belle Wagner's restaurant, the Smith Overall Laundry, and The Labor Record. The fire broke out on the ground floor from some unknown cause. When the firemen arrived the entire building was in flames. So quickly lid the tllamcs spread that a few minutes after the fire was discovered all means of escape by the stairways, for the scores of occupants, was cut off. On two sides of the building the elevated railway tracks hemmed it in and made still harder work of the firemen. Five out of 150 Saved. Norfolk, Va., Special.?Five survivors of the great storm of last week wcro landed here by the British steamer Hentherpool, Captain .folia Grieves commanding, which arrived to coal, from New Orleans to Rotterdam. The survivors are: Frank Ko?, vely, foreman, of Marina, Fla.; Gus Johnson, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Ben Clarke, of r' neville, Mass.; .vbner Bell, of J unnnef, Fla., and John (Campbell, t>f Philadelphia. Thev. with aliotiv. 1-1Y others, were constructing a concrete viaduct for the Florida Fast Coast Railway, through the Florida keys, and were aboard bouse boat No. 4, which lay anchored off the coast on the night of Oct. 17. Griscoin to be Russian Ambassador. Washington, Special.?Tt has been stated in high ollicial circles thai Mr. Lloyd C. Griseom will he appointed ambassador to St. Petersburg when Ambassador Meyer enters the cabinet. It is quite possible that Mr. Meyer will not enter the cabinet until Secretary Shaw quits in February and it is not yd announced which post Mr. Meyer will got. England to Reduce Navy. London. By Coble.?It was announced at the Admiralty Oflico that nrra J i arc me nts are being made for t lie laying; ru4.' of eight fir? t class battleships and four armored cruisers and to strike eight first-class battleship*, from the sea-going list before the end of the year. The result of this will he that the ships in home and nearby waters will number 1ft to 20 instead of 24, and ft instead of 12 armored cruisers. There will he 5 ships in the Mcditcrrean Squadron instead of 7. The strength of the fleet will be reduced about one-fortb, ) X 1 tSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, PAIMIIO AFFAIRS ! Occurrences of Interest From AH Over South Carolina - I MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS ? I A Batch of Live Paragraphs Covering a Wide Range?What ia Going On in Our State. General Cotton Market. I Galveston quiet 10 1-10 New Orleans easy 10 7-8 Mobile steady 10 1-2 | Savannah quiet 10 3-4 Charleston quiet 10 3-4 | Norfolk steady 11 1-10 I Baltimore nominal 11 1-4 ; New York dull 10.05 Philadelphia quiet 11.20 j Augusta, steady 10 15-10 Memphis steady II 1-4 I St. Louis, steady 11 3-4 | Louisville tinn 11 1-2 Charlotte Cotton Market. These prices represent the prices I quoted to wagons: Good middling 10 3-4 | Strict middling 10 5-8 Middling 10 1-1 Tinges 0 3-4 to 10 Charlotte Produce Market. Chiekens?Spring 12 to 25 Hons per head 35 to 10 Keggs 20 I lye SO Corn 72 to 75 Cotton seed 21 Oat s ? Feed 50 to 55 Out> Seed 55 to 57 1-2 isaitunore produce. Raltimore, Oct 'J!'.?Flour quiet unchanged. Wlu-at firm: contract 75 1 4 to 75 11?t; Oct. 75 1-4 to 75 3-S; Southern hy sample 55 to TO. Corn lino; spot 51 7-S to 52; Southern white corn 52 to 54. Oats steady; No. 2. white .'IS 1-2 to 30; No. 2 do 37* to 3S; No. 2. mixed 37 to 57 1-2. Wye linn; No. 2. Western export 07 to OS; d?> domestic 73. Ruttcr steady, unchanged; limey-Imitation 21 to 22; do creamery 27 to 2S; store packed 17 to IS. l'ggs firm and higher, 2Gc. Cheese active and unchanged; larg 15 5-8; medium 13 7-S; small 14 1-S. Sugar steady and lower; coarse granulated $5.00; line $5.00. Mr. McKinney's Statement. Seneca, Special.? Mr. Z. T. McKinliey. supcviujteiulcnt of the Seneca Cotton Mills, was interviewed relative to the report which left CJreenville the day after the big lire here, as coming from him, that it was tlie consensus of opinion of the whites that the town was lirfd by negroes. Mr. McKitiney was highly indignant I that his remarks should have been so misrepresented. lie slated llmt ! /> t??l?i 1 lie reporter of a Greenville daily newspaper t lie eireumstaucos of I lie tire and did not intimate that lie or any one else thought the work was done by negroes, lie showed a copy of the paper containing the interview with himself, and it contained no reference as 10 the cause or probable cause of the fire, but the reports that were sent from Greenville under cover of his name were highly misleading. and did a great amount 01 damage to the name of the town. Therseems to be absolutely no e inncction whatever between the tire and the attempt the week before to dynamite I he rc'r'i eollge. 'r' ' ? ' t r< wl ait lie in ea | he eo lit w as PL ,190(5. AN IMPORTANT RULING j Prosecuting Attorney To Bo Excluded From Jury Room. Caiumbiu, S. C., Special?At Greenville in llie Federal Court Judge William 11. Brawley rendered an important decision, which affects the practice in crminal cases materially, and is therefore of interest to Fed veal Court proeacdurc throughout tha eountry. It was argued by an attorney that an indictment against some of the attorney's elicuts should be (Mashed 011 llic o-r.iloii <l>? trict attorney was present in the I grand jury room while the jury was deli bratin,; on (he ease, which was against the spirit of the constitution 011 the subject. Judge Brawley refused to quash the indictments but he did rule that hereafter the custom which had prevailed in the Federal courts in this section for the past quarter of a century of the district attorney or his assistant being present during: the actual delibrations of the jury should cease, though it. was perfectly proper for the district attorney's otlice to be. represented hefore the jury before il began its delibrations to point out the law and see to the swearing of witnesses. Militia Funds Unexpended. Columbia. S. C.?Maj. Patrick .T. Drew, divi!ibrdir.jr oflicer of the I State military establishment, recently presented to (lov. 1 Icy ward his report of 1 lie expenditures on account of tlie annual encampment of State troops at C'hiekamauga and tlie tiip of the State team to the annual national tarjret tournament at Sea Girt, N. J. The total expenses of the ('hioknnuuura encampment were .-rl It.'fj-l.-ls, divided as follows: Third regiment, J. |s; Second rc inu-ni, >7f>,70; First reoriment. $4,.Y2S.11); special detail, $.r>S(i.l 1. The total expenses of the Sea <Jilt team, including f.erviees at t'harlesion for competition for 400\.l: th at ion., were $1,2'2S.!I"). After deducting these amounts from his funds, Maj. Drew had h it to his erodit. out of the speeial appropriation of .S1S.000 l'rom tin- federal p?vornmont, the sum of .fd, 11 d.oT, which he forwarded at once to the assistant treasurer of <lie 1'nited States in New York city. Will Become A Great Port. fltcenville, Special. - - President Samuel Snencer, of the Southern Uailway, passed through Greenville on his way to Montgomery, Ala. In a.. - -o .. L_!.e in*- loin-r "i ji mit'l cnnvi'rsauon with u newspaper representative at the station, Mr. Spenee. said that lie lxdi vi'd Charleston was destined to become a trroat port, sit no distant day. This may be considered a sicrnificent statenn nt in view of (lie Southern Railway's connections with the South Carolina metropolis. *'A *rreat many tilings have worked to Charleston'* disadvantage in the past,'' said Mr. Spencer, "but such a splendid liarl *n cannot escape notice." Law and Order Lcajpie Meets. < ulinnbia. Special.? The annual meeting of the State Terni>cranee Law and Order Lea nu' was held in Main Street Methodist church. There was en a larjje attendance, Inil a ore at deal of interest was shown in the rk ilie organization is doino. The port oi' \V. C. Allen as organizer is read, showing progress in the oanization of leagues all over the ale. \V. Ilamel, of Lancaster, as re-elected president, Dr. If. A. IfMs'i'f. nf I i 11 11 111 f 11' i a-no ' l.**l..,l <v president and Howell Marrell, liichhind, was re-< lectod secretary. cccpt? Pastorate of Ycrkville Church. Yarhvil'.e, Special. b'ov. I. CI. Mnr.y, of LaFayette, Ala., lias si^ni:d his acceptance of a call recently the Ymkvillc Rnptist clnnli, ami pects |o arrive about Dec. 1 -1. The jui"h has been without n pastor nee the middle of but December. ; i Rural Mail Carrier in L.bubo. (i I'rcn villc. S (' SIi-.w iiot'klcy, a rural mail currier of I.nuns eouniy, w::s broirjpit to (Jroon?llo I?y 1 niled States 1 ?uty Mar.?I Philips ami lodged in til - enmity i!. Shock ley is chained with irn nriiKs in (he conduct, of his j . ti irinena on his route, lie v. ill l.o von a hearing before commissioner 1\ '.he, alien the l'aots connected ii'i the ease will he brought out. If 10 eommiasiotier flooioec { . send tlie so up f?>r trial il will probably be 'ard at tin: present term ol' Federal mrt DOW i:i session in this city. I Ni A i/ UKOWN IN ISKi) w ? ? . . Load'j of Passengers Dumped Into Deep W^fer W T* I } \ } " I I the * iri sh. ) Id. g lirst may reach the total of 7f> wheu ail is known. While crossing over * drawbridge spanning the waterway known ase "the Thorough fare," which Separates Atlantic City from the mainland, the train left the track and plunged into !he water, with one or two exceptions, were drowned. Up to midnight. 25 bodies have been recovered and it is believed that at least 25, and possibly 50, more bodies still are in the submerged couches. | The disaster, the worst that has happened since the terrible Meadow wreck of July ">0. ISOti, occurred nt half-past 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. The train, made up of three heavy roaches, which left Camden at 1 o'clock in the afternoon carried at least SS passengers, as that number of tickets arc held by the conductor. That ollicial is uncertain, however, I list now many passenger were ou Hie train, ami until all tin bodies* have linen taken from the auhinergcd rats, it will not. be possible to give the true figures est' tins dead. Rocners Could Do Little. The nerideut was witnessed bv many persons on sltoWand assitance was proinotly sent i'min Atlantic City. Little could Ise done, however, towards saving the lives of thoso imorisoned in the submergod roaches. The water at the point where the train plunged in was not deep etiou^J to cover the coaches at first, hut' sJ; they quickly settled in the mud, and , as the tide rose, they were soon hid-1 den lr?m sight except for the trolley noles. Divers were sent down to try to reaeh the dead bodies iti the coaches, but as darkness set in and as the tide ran more swiftly, they were un hie for a long time to reach them. '.ate in the even in;* a wrecking crew ? ?.!rived on the scene and with their .d and t' " use of a derrick, a dozen or more bodies were taken out and brought to the city. Of the 25 hod . >uiiimii n:ivc u'wn nU'iitmed, I tnd it is 1). lioved no difficulty will be j xpcrieneed i.i ostsiblisliMjr the idon ilv of the others. (uMiernl Alammer W. Atterbury f the Pennsylvania Railroad Coni any, arched on the scone and will make n thorough investi puion inl? ho pause 01 (he accident. Until this miwsIi'?ation sliall have boon made, Mr. Attcbury declined to innkn any dntement. T. ('. Smith, of N v.fh-ld, ninl A. If. 'fellcy, of .Toffirsonvilk', N. Y., who wore pns-on. *rs on the train, not. off at Pleasant villo for no other rca vi! than that soniotbintr told thom to eiinryo their mi .ds about coining to \tlnn'io City. About l"> people got ?fl' at Pleasantville, said they, and nearly us many more got aboard. They said ftillv 100 passengers were >n the train, n great ninny women. John Kachs, of "I IJ I lay street, this itv, a parlor ear man, was on the train and escaped by crawling through a window of the rear ear anil swimming ashore. The old man who attends the bridge, in speaking of the aceident, declared that the bridge had been >peiied about three minnt > before I lie train caine aloii!*. A > ; ?-!it passed Uin?M?/h. lie says that h< saw thai the bvidire was properly < ! sod ami that the tracks were inspected. lie . r; why .i bclMted a i is they did. * Cotton Warehouse U -rns. Kut.aw, Ala., hjierial. A disasr.mis lire heie v. pi iiujj the astern 'all' <>!' the I'iateers' Wa ' mse & iiree' inn ('en.paiiv *s wan-house h-Hi.-yiii/ property e tileal <1 at 'rum $7">.0rt() t > . 100,0011. The wnreoesfr e< t 'it 1 I'reiil 'J.Owo In 3,000 ales of en! I hi. About 'J." 'I hales t'ireil in the western side and about "iilO hales mi the pint form ai'jnitiiujr1 in* vv.t"'! "ie-e, were saved. Possibly \ inly fiB't hales nrc insured. The ori^- i hi of lire i-> uuknown. but it is M it t to have hy a I apart' from a passing locomotive. ( ' 1J