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.fa'* - ' T1 16TH YEAR TWO SAD DEATHS Two Young Men 60 To a Watery Grave While Fishing. THE BODIES FOUND. ?? They Visit Their Trout Line on the Dam :ln a Bateau, and Not Returning, Causes Alarm and L<eada to a Search, Which Results in the Find-' ing of the Bodies of the Two Young Men. Early Thursday morning the news was received in Anderson of the drowning of J. C. Walker and John Dickson, which occurred at 2 o'clock that morning on the pond of the Belton Power Company, six and a half miles from Helton, on the Saluda River. Both of these young gentlemen were well known in Anderson, as it waB their former home. It seems that the two men set out trout lines across the pond Wednesday evening, and at two o'clock last Thursday morning they were in a batteau visiting the lines, when the batteau capsized for some unknown reason. Ab neither of the gentlemen returned to their home in time to go to work Thursday morning, a search for them was made. The lifeless uouy 01 air. waiKer was round on one of the hooke of the trout line.. The body of Mr. Dickson was found about noon about 40 feet below where the boat turned over. Mr. Walker and Mr. Dickson were brothers-in-law. They were electrical engineers and were In charge of the power house at the 6am. They had been connected with the company only a short time. Both were about twenty-five years of age. Mr. Walker worked at the sub-station of the Anderson Power Company four or Ave years. He left his position there about five months ago. He went down on the Laurens road of the Charleston and Western Carolina Railroad and from there he went to work at the Belton dam. He married Miss Bessie Dickson, the sister of John Dickson and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Dickson, who are now residents of Anderson. Ills wife survives him. Mr. Dickson wurked at the substation with Mr. Walker two years. He left the services of the Anderson Water, Light and Power Company last February, when he moved his family to tht Belton power dam. Mr. Dickson married Miss Rossle Kay, who, with a child of two years and a child of one week, survive him. The mother, father, sister _ and brother of Mr. Dickson went to the scene of the horrible accident Wednesday morning. The bodies of the men were carried to Anderson where the Interment took place. MATRIMONIAL SWINDLE. Victim of lilt Desire to Wed a Titled n oman. The arrest of Johann Fiedler, a tradesman, of Hermannstedt in Transylvania, am' his wife has revealed a bare-faced avindle practiced on a simple mlndid but welthy land owner of Roumanan nationality named Konstantan Irateanu. Fiedler leirning that it was Brateanu's ambiion to marry a lady of title introdii-ed him to Frau Fiedler who posed a? the Baroness Ida Kun who was unnarried and possessed of $100,000, Inher own right. Frau Fieder played her part with complete sucess, and on the day of her betrothil her husband received $15,000? as a commission. Fiedler next offered to obtain for Brateanu the title of laron from the Hungarian Government for another $5,000, nnrl thia ti\i (ha filmnla lunHnwnar paid. Then Fleder and his wife vanished and Brkeanu realized for the first time hehad been victimized. ? tka;fic in wivkm. Said to be ?Uite a Practice Arnold Frnch Peasants. The court of the Haute Loire at Paris has beore it a case brought by n peasant wio claims $600 damage? from anothe peasant for the nonfulfillment of a contract for the sale of bis wife. , The man who brought the action bargained tobuy the wife of a neighbor for $6(0. When the woman heard of thetransaction she not only refused to l?ve her husband's house but told the two men strongly what she thought ?f them. , The buyej wbb furious at not being able to (btain the execution of s contract dub drawn up and signed and he deteimlned to seek legal redress. % It Is statel that the sale and purchases of wives have taken place several timet during recent years. BITTtN BY WILDCAT. Never Flinched or Murmured Undei Preset: *e of Beast 's Jaws. J When a viMous wild cat bit Henr] T. Justice in the ankle while he wai hunting in .he Maine woods, San Prevost, aa Milde, was astonished a his employer's bravery. Justice nerer winced nor made at orlng to tear.the flesh he took earefu oring to tear the flest he took earefu aim and fired at the animal. H missed the cat and it escaped. The guide, after he had recovers from his astonishment at the wonder ful exhibition of bravery, suggests that they hurry to a doctor. "No. said Justice, "what we need la a car penter. You see the cat bit my oorl leg." if 4 - 1 jr T2; M JC Jr CITY WIPED OUT I In Mexico by a Sudden and De- i structive Earthquake. It is Reported That Fire Hundred People Were Killed by the Terrible Disaster. A dispatch from Chilpanclngo, Mexico, says that city has been completely destroyed by one of the most serious enrthniiskaa th.t ?>.. ??? ? ? ??? ?V M?U VfCI visited that section. Up to Monday evening the known dead number 11, and the badly Injured seven. panic prevails everywhere and people are fleeing to the open country. The earth continues to rock at half hour intervals, and many minor shocks completed the work ot destruction. All telegraphic communication to the outside world ceased shortly after 11:60 o'clock Monday night, when the first shock was felt. The telegraph operators have Installed temporary quarters In an open square. The town of Chllapa, 42 kilometers to the northeastward, has also been destroyed. As yet no details have been received as to the number of dead and wounded, but It is feared | that the number will be large. Both the volcanoes of Collma and Jorullo are In this region and the people fear that the recent eruption of the earth may cause these mountains to become more active and to debtroy much property and many lives. A dispatch from the City of Mexico says the National Bank of Mexico has received a telegram saying that 500 lives were lost In the destruction ot Chllpanclngo and Chllapa. The telegram adds that both cities were completely destroyed. In governmental circles the report Is not credited. It is admitted that both cities were ( severely damnired hut It in nnt thought that the death list will even approximate 500 owing to the fact that the houses are massive affairs, built of stone In order to resist earthquake shocks. The government of the state of Ouerrero has dispatched military engineers and troops to the destroyed district and the work of rescue and sanitation Is being carried on in a systematic way. A dispatch from the City of Mexico on Monday night says heavy earthquake Bhocks continued on the west | coast until 4 o'clock Monday morning. At that date news from the area of greatest destruction shows that the devastation was greater than at first supposed. Besides the destruction of Chllpaniclngo and Chilapa, It Is now reported that Tlxtla, between these two cities, containing about the same pop ulatlon as Chllpanlclngo, was also leveled. Messengers from the coaBt who have reached Chllpanlclngo say that the towns of Ayutlo and Ometepec have been destroyed and that the loss of life Is very heavy. It will be several days before full porticulars will be received. BAD STATE OF AVFAIKS 1 I One of tiie Troubles Small Counties I Have to Contend With. According to a letter containing much vigorous language, Governor Ansel received Thursday from Mr. W. N. Faulting publisher of the Echo and Press at Monck's Corner, in Berkeley county, somebody has been tampering with the court schedule in that neck of the woods for the purpose of securing delay in the trial of a number of criminal cases. Mr. Faulting encloses an editorial clipping from his paper, which cries out against "the shame that has been practiced against the people of Berkeley county." He sayB that for some reason, which he 1b unable to explain but on which Senator Haynes of the county may be able to throw some lght, the February term of court was massed up altogether, although the criminal docket was the heaviest in '.he history of the county. Ave murder -aces awaiting trial now. And according to the new court chedule for Berkeley, which was .rovlded for in tho last legislature here will bo no more regular terms till next September, which will be 12 months from the last term. Mr. faulting says the chief justice has signed an order for a special term to be held this month, but he wants the governor to look into the situation ' generally. In the editorial clipping some i judge, whose name Is not called. Is severely scored for enquiring when i the next train left Monck's Corner Boon as be landed In town. The edii tor says that the next Judge who ; came to hold court there should have the fact Impressed upon his mind that Berkeley is a part of the State. WAS A MAI) MAN. Champ Clark Relates an Incident lit ' Gridiron Dinner. Champ Clark of Missouri made a speech at Dea Moines the other evening in the course of which he snid r that the half had not been told of the Incidents at tho Gridiron dinner at which Foraksr and Roosevelt slashed at each other. "I was sitting a little way from the B President," he said, "and say, I have 1 seen six men meet violent death at 1 different times, but I never Raw a madder man than Roosevelt was at ? that time In my whole life." "If," he continued, "we compel the 1 Harrlman-Blise-Odel gang to tell the 0 trnth about the campaign contrlbu tions, wg would sweep the country. a If we had a district attorney in New '' York that was worth powder and ? lead to blow him to hell. Sing Sing would be so full oi those thelving He"* publican bosses that their arms and * legs would be sticking out of the windowa." V .? J * ^ yt ; V" ; **-" ' . ' % ' ': HSBk.' FORT MILL, g WHOLE WORLD Was In the Throes of Hugh Earthouaks Last Weak. THOUSANDS KILLED. The Series Has Been Most General and Severe in History and Were Accompanied By Darkness, Lightning Storms and the Stifling Odor Burning Sulphur. Authorities Trying to Suppress Real Loss of Life. Dispatches received from four continents indicated that the whole world has been in the throeB of a remarkable series of earthquakes. More than 1,000 lives have been 088 in Merlco and many towns have seen swallowed in the rents of the sarth. Violent earthquakes are reported n the Russian trans-Caspian terrlx>ry in Asia; in Southern Spain, in Tyrol and throughout Turkey and 3yria. The startling eruption of a rolcano in Chile is accompanied by larkness, lightning, storms and the itlfling odor of burning sulphur. A H lultntn). * CI ? uiopawu tiuiu t:41 r aou, i l*aub, lays more than a thousand persons were killed In the earthquake which levastated the territory southwest )f Mexico City. The list of dead may be increased greatly, according to late dispatches ecelvod Friday from the affected :ountry. New volcanoes have brokm out and the burning lava has set 9re to the forests and people and live itock are fleeing for their lives. Scores of towns lying between Mexico City and the Pacific ocean have aeen wiped out by the earthquakes In many instances the earth opened ind In the great chasms thus formed, iwallowed whole vllllges. The greatest damage done beween the City of Mexico and the Colma volcano, which seemed to be tho itartlng point of the disturbance. Coima is now in violent eruption, the lost severe In the history of Mexico, ind no estimate can now be placed >n the extent of the damage done or ret to be done. One of the most alarming feature" s the indication that there >an been i large Iobb of life in the City of Mexco, a fact which the authorities are .rylng to suppress. Efforts to comnunlcate with the authorities have tailed, but prlvat advices to comnerclal houses say that the loss of lfe has been heavy, but that no anaouncement would be made by the ifllcials. Messages received at the town of laurez, In Mexico, just across the river from El Paso, say that when all af the dead In the scores of towns and vintages to the southwest have been enumerated, tne list of dead will far exceed 1,000. This series of earthquakes was the most severe in the history of the nnl.. J < 1 ?W_ Jl.l 1 I UWUllW.T. iiUl KJIUJ U1U Lilt? UlolUI IJUllUv? extend froin Mexico City to Colima, but there was a grent disturbance on the bottom of the gulf of Mexico. Fishing boats returning from the red snapped banks report that they were overtaken by most remarkable storms In which cross tides attacked them, water spouts appeared, and great columns of steam shot from the ocean. Several of these boats were made so hot by the steam from the sea that ice which their fish were packed with, was melted. All of the railroad lines in the southern and western part of Mexico, have been practically destroyed. In scores of places the roadbed was carried completely away. This has interfered greatly with the execution of the government's measnres of relief. The bishop of Chilapa telegraphs that the destruction of Chilapa was almost complete that in many instances whole families were killed and that the need of relief was urgent. The tidal wave which swept over the town of Acapulo did great damage. The tigal waze led two meterologists to believe that the earthquake was of world-wide dimensions. HK OKTS BIG PAY. ,?ohn Hays Hammond Highest Paid Man in the World. John Hays Hammond, the mining engineer of New York, receives a salary aggregating $800,000 a year, which is more money than any other man ever received for his personal services. Men make millions on investments or by manipulations of speculations, but Hammond is the only man in the world who is paid so nearly a million dollars a year for professional advieo. Hammond is the greatest soldier of fortune of modern times, perhaps of all times, and was the model from which Richard Harding Davis drew his hero In "Sollders of Fortune." He was horn in San Francisco flftytwo years ago. and graduated from the Shoeld Scientific School of Yale. During his boyhood In California he heard and dreamed of nothing hut gold, for the Western coast was gold mad during this period. .Convict Killed. In an attempt to escape from the penitentiary at Raliegh, N. C., Thursday by three young convicts, one ol them. C. L. Scruggs, was killed and the others. Jack Williams and Dodd Wilson, were recaptured, by the guard. Killed His Son. At GAdsden, Ala., 0. P. Dodson, a telegraph operator, shot and killed his three-year-old son Thursday while In a demented condition, and at the game time tried to kill his wife. He escaped to the woods, but was lateel captured by aid of dogs. Mil J. C., THURSDAY,, POISON PLOT May Kill Three Little Children In the City of Chicago Father and Mother Slain. All the Victims Suddenly 111 After Eating Oatmeal. ? - ? Three of the surviving members of the ill-fated Mette family, of No. 2849 North Harding avenue, are dying at the Swedish Hospital, Bow mauTine, xjiucaKu, uti a result or a second poison plot discovered Thursday by the Irving Park Authorities, in the poison mystery that haB already resulted in the death of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mette, father and mother of the latest victims. One member only of the family which consisted of father mother and four children, is now in danger of death. This is Mrs. Mary Sladek. the married daughter, who is now at Dunning being examined for her sanity. The names of the victims of what the police believe to be a new attempj to exterminate the entire Mette family are: Joseph Mette. nineteen; Rudolph Mette, thirteen; Frank Mette, Jr., ten. All of the victims became suddenly ill Thursday after eating oatmeal for breakfast. The boys were unconscious when the policeman arrived and placed them In the ambulance. It was dlB w?ciou iucik who iiu room ior me victims in Dunning Hospital. The police took them on to the Swedish Hospital in Bowmanville, the institution where their father died. "The condition of the three boys is so serious that they are likely to die at any time," said Captain Haines. "One of them will not recover and there is little chance for the others." Lieutenant Collins, of the Irving Park police station, detailed a dozen policemen and detectives on the case. ^ quantity of the oatmeal found on the table was given to a cat. which at once was thrown into spasms. The police are now certain that food in the house is Impregnated with poison. Mrs. Mary Sladek, who was taken to Dunning Hospital, was again examined for the "third degree." Coupled with this renewal of activity by the police came the report that Emil Sladek. husband of Mrs. Mary Sladek is about to bring suit for divorce, having left her and gone to Los Angeles. The police say the woman was on 5 the verge of a breakdown and a confession was expected momentarily. The Coroner says the woman is not insane. MILLION DOLLARS ASKED Ah a Hansom for the Little Stolen Marvin Boy. A dispatch from Dover. Del., says one million dollars is the ransom asked for little Horace Marvin by Salvotore Antone, of Hoboken, from whom Dr. Marvin received a letter Thursday morning. Antone says he has the child in his custody, and if an advertisement is Inserted in a New York paper telling where Dr. Marvin will meet him, he will deliver the baby. On the back of Antone's letter, a large black hand was drawn. Dr. Marvin received about thirty letters Thursday morning from all parts of the country. Most of them ofTered condolence, the w Titers expressing the belief that the child 1j dead. One writer suggested that D*\ Marvin advertice in the papers of 10 largest cities cf the country. Cleveland was underscored several timed. Dr. Marvin said he would advertise in all the Cleveland papers. Dr. Marvin was informed Thursday morning that the Pinkerton detectives, who had been working on the case, since the child was reported missing, had withdrawn. The distracted father wad hurriedly summoned from the Capitol Hotel Thursday morning by the report that hia baby had been found dead in the woods near the farm at Dover, Del. The rumor proved to be untrue. MANY WAIt SHIPS. Will Be in the Fleet During the Kxposltion. Never In the history of the United States Navy has there been such a formidable array of warships as that will Rather in Hampton Roads this month to participate in the Jamestown Exposition , The largest fleet ever previously assembled under the command of one United States naval officer was that which was reviewed by President Roosevelt in Long Island. September 3. 1906. While the Jamestown aggregation of fighting sea monsters will not quite equal that of Oyster Bay In number of numerical strength, it will surpass it in fighting power, and counting the foreign vessels of war, i which will form a part of the naval display, the Jamestown fleet will be ! superior to the review last fall. I Visitors to Jamestown, however, I will be given the opportunity to see > both fleets, for the navy department has decided to place in the government building an exact reproduction by model of the Long Island Fleet, i Rear Admiral Evans will be in comI mand of the Jamestown fleet, which 5 will consist of 36 war-vessels. There ) will be 16 first class and one second i class battleship, whereas the Oystei I Bay fleet contained only 12 battleships. i LL T U'KII. 25.1907. THE OLD VETS Program of the Reunion to Be Held In Columbia WILL HAVE BIG TIME. The Sponsors Are Provided For. Thejr Will Be Given Reception and Ball. In Most of the Events, However, Place of Honor Has Been Reserved for the Old Confederate Veterans. Mr. E. B. Clark, chairman of the committee of the chamber of commerce which has charge of the preparations for the Confederate reunion at Columbia May 7-9, has completed the detailed program. It is as follows: Tuesday, May 7. 11 a. m.?Presentation of Gen Johnson Haygood's portrait at Columbia theatre. 12 m. to 5 p. m.?Band Music on Main street. 5 p. m. to 7 p. m.?Reception to Sponsors at Metropolitan club. 8 p. m. to 10 p. m.?Concert on capitol grounds by Columbia Brass band. 8.30 p. m.? Columbia Theatre. Wednesday, May 8. 9:30 a. m.?Assembly of all who will occupy seats on the stage at the Columbia theatre. This will include all specially invited guests, the may or and aldermen of the city of Col- , umbia, participants in the program. , members of the reunion executive and reception committees and the auxiliary executive committee of ladles, the commander of the army of . . orthern Virginia, and staff, commander of the Btate division and staff urigade commanders, commander of the state division, sons of veterans and staff; president of the state organization of Daughters of the | Confederacy, and the department, division, brigade and regimental spon- , sors of the U. C. V. 10 a. m.?Opening exercises of the annual reunion of the state division. United Confederate veterans, the pro- ! gram being as follows: Overture, Columbia ochestra; dox ology, assembly called to order, Capt. . W. D. Starling, commander of Camp ] Hampton; opening prayer, Rev. Dr. j J. W. Fllnn; address of wescome on , behalf of the city of Columbia. Hon. , T. H. Glbbes; music, Columbia or- , chestra; address of welcome on behalf of the Columbia chamber of com- , merce. Gen. Wilie Jones, president; j music, Columbia orchestra; address of welcome on behalf of Camp Maxey Gregg, U. S- C. V., Hon. Porter McMaBter, commander; music. Columbia orchester; address of welcome on behalf of Camp Hampton, Col. U. R. Brooks; music, Columbia orchestra; address of welcome to the Confederate veterans by his excellency, Hon. M. F. Ansel, governor of South Carolina: resnonse on behalf of the South Carolina division, U. C. V.. by General Thomas W. Carwile; music, Columbia Orchestra; reunion formally opened; ceremonial tribute of respect to the Confederate dead by the assembly; presentation of credentials and calling rolls of camps, annuoncements, adjournment. 4 p. m.?Reunion assembles at Columbia theatre; visit of children of the city schools. 4:30 p. m.?Business session. 8 p. m.?Presentation of sponsors atColumbia theatre by Hon. George Bell Tlmmerman; music, Columbia orchestra; response on behalf of the sponsors by Miss Grace Lumkin. 9 p. m.?Presentation of the comedy drama, "For Her Country's Sake. Thursday, May O. 9 a. m.?Reunion assembles for business. 12 m.? Delivery of the anual address to the division by Hon. Andrew Crawford. 5 p. m.?Annual veteran's parade headed by military and flower children. Line of march from postottlce to state house. 5:30 p. m.?Reception to the Confederate veterans by the ladles and children of Columbia on the eapitol steps. 8 p. m.?Reunion assembles for business. 8:30 p. m.?Experience meeting. 9 p. m.?Confederate war tableau and camp scenes, "Auld Lang Syne;" final adjournment. 10 p. m.?Annual reunion ball at Craven Hall. nfii ikiuuuvuA IIV Til AlkV iillm i/ior mioaiiA a a?i What Was Taken During the First Month. According to figures which State Auditor W. B. West has Just checked up, the gross sale of the Carey-Cothran dispensary liquor throughout the State for March, the first month of business since the new system was inaugurated, amounted to $153,444,66. There are now only nineteen countios under the new system, and some of these, particularly Charleston, did not get started under the new system at once. The sales by counties were: Abbeville $ 5,553.85 Aiken 7,917.19 Bamberg 2,668.90 Barnwell 2,015.25 Charleston 17,991.83 Chester 6,900.12 Clarendon 3,826.40 1 Colleton 1,537.10 Dorchester 3,328.10 Fairfield 3,lf7.32 ' Florence 6,3 43.65 Georgetown 9,014.95 Kershaw 7,325.35 1 Laurens 4,466.95 ' Lexington 1,669.90 I Lee 2.769.85 Orangeburg 16,756.85 Richland 38,438.30 8umter 11,805.98 ' " '. "V - *. '. J> ' ? ?> ... ' 7 ' ** 1ME FELLED BY MANIAC. Paroled Lunatic Attacks An Old Lady and a Man. Hie Old Lady Struck in the Head And the Man Assaulted With an Axe and Knife. While In a fit of violent insanlty and thinking, as he said, that some one was trying to kill him, Joseph W. Hagood Saturday made a murderous attack upon Mrs. Eugenia Smith with an axe, fracturing her Bkull, nnd with a long knife stabbed Mr. John J. Riley in the back in Columbia. Mrs. Smith and Mr. Riley are now under care at the Columbia hospital and some doubts are entertained as to their recovery. The State says Hagood has been on a parole from the Insane asylum for just 30 days and up to his tragic deed Saturday has been conducting himself commendable since his relief. But Saturday morning he was seized with a terrible malady and getting an axe he went to the house occupied by Mrs. Smith, Mr. Riley and others, nnd battered down the door of the roon in which the helpless was. With a blow he felled Mrs. Smith across the bed, inflicting a serious fracture of the skull, and then he went to the room where Mr. Riley was in bed. Mr. Riley, a one-legged man, hearing the noise in the back part of the house got out of the bed and started ' to leave the house when he was seen by Hagood. The manlnc gave chase to Mr. Riley and soon overtook and overpowered him, dealing him a blow on the hip with the axe and then 1 stabbing him in the back with a knife 1 near the backbone. About this time a general alarm hnd hoon clron Ku M?*e A A ^ ??r>?*" 1 who was In the house at the time, and Mr. J. H. Faulk and others over- ( powered the maniac and after summoning the police patrol placed him In the wagon, where he was carried to the station and locked up. ' Dr. C. F. Williams, the city physi- 1 cian, who is attending the injured 1 people, said he can not say just yet 1 what will be the outcome of their in- 1 Juries. Mrs. Smith's fracture is of a 1 very serious nature and may prove ' ratal. Mr. Riley will probably get ' well, unless the knife penetrated into the lung, which the doctor fears. 1 Both parties were resting well late ' Saturday night. Saturday afternoon ' the unfortunate man was remanded ' to the State hospital for the insane ' again. 1 He was carried to the hospital In ( the patrol wagon and was very order- ' ly and quiet, the only thing that seemed to worry him was that he ! feared some one would at any time do him harm, it seems. Hagood is a ' huskster by trade and is married. 1 His wife saw a part of the sad affair and tried to control her husband, but ' could not. She seemed not to be 1 afraid of him, as she had seen him undergo spells at other times. ( l>KliI(j!!TFl'L MEETING The Doctors Had a Pleasant Time at ltennettNville. The State Medical Association met at Ilennettsville this year and the members had a most pleasant time. The following officers were elected to serve for the ensuing yeur. President, Le Grand Guerry, Columbia; vice presidents. R. A. Marsh. Edgefield, J. Adams Hayne, Greenville, Mary R. Baker, Columbia; secretary. Walter Cheyne, Sumter; troas iirnr P Alninr PhorlAotDn State medical examiners, 1st district, W. P. Porcher, Charleston; and oistrict, J. A. Rosamond, Easley; 5th district, R. A. Hratton, Yorkville; 7th district, J. J. Watson, Columbia. The members from the other districts hold over. State board of health, Robert Wilson, Charleston; H. T. Hall, Aiken; C. C. Cambrell, Abbeville; J. A. Hayne, Greenville; W. J. Burdell, I,ugoff; Janirs Evans, Florence; C. S. Williams, Columbia. Committee on scientific work, G. A. Neuffer, Abbeville; J. T. Taylor. Adams Run. .Committee on public policy and legislation, C. B. Earle, Greenville, T. Grai.ge Simons, Charleston; J. H. Mcintosh, Columbia. R. A. Marsh was elected alternate to the American Medical Association. The delegate, J. H. Hamilton, was elected last year. F. II. McLoed was elected delegate to the North Carolinn Acunrlntlnn The resolution to make Columbia the permanent meeting place was defeated, and Anderson selected for the next meeting. DON'T IIKMKVK I.N WAR. Bryan Makes Notable Speech Before the Peace Conference. William Jennings Bryan was the last speaker before the New York Peace Congress on lust Thursday night, lie said: "War comes from misunderstandings. At the flnlsh both parties will tell you that it was a defensive war. When they will submit to having a through understanding of their grievances, war can be avoided. "I helleve one of the subjects of this convention is to cultivate peace and to dispel the idea that man must die In the battlefield to be a patriot. And this convention will not do ita duty unless it impresses upon the world the idea that it is as much a man's duty to live for his country as it is to die for it. "I expect to see the world loved into peace, Ixive is the great force. Don't tell mo that to secure peace you must build great armies and navies. I want to see peace by love and not by force. NO. 4. LITTLE SHOCK i Of Earthquake Was^Felt in Charlaetnn 1 ??* Cridau iw?%UII uiiji i i luaj* IN SUMMERVILLE TOO. But Nowhere Did Any Damage Result and There Wus Little Alarm Over It. Probably a Keflex of the General Disturbance Over the Karth Some People Were Awakened. A little shock of earthquake was felt in Charleston Friday morning, causing some alarm among those who experienced it, hut the seismic disturbance was not serious and did no damage except to scare timid peojle. The Post says the shock occurred at 3:30 o'clock and was said to have lasted between eight and ten seconds and to have been accompanied by a light roaring sound, puff of wind and wave motion, the disturbance seemingly moving from southeast to the northwest. , The shock was more distinctly felt in Summerville than in Charleston. At the pineland resort, it is said to nave been attended with the breaking of ornaments which fell from maniels. but this was exceptional. While the shock was naturally more generally felt in Summerville than in Charleston, at neither place ilid the disturbance reach any decided proportions or cause exits from houses or any stampede. The shock was quite perceptable but it was not comparable to the shocks which preceded the great earthquake of Tuesday night, August 31st, 1886. There is no seismograph n Charleston and no register of the undulatory motion of the earth could be recorded. The weather bureau has many delicate instruments with needles, dipped in ink, moving over tabulated sheets, recording wind and rain variations, but node of these was affected, by the disturbances, which goes to show how mild the tremor really was. The fact that a slight tremor was felt should cause little if any uneasiness for the press reports have been toting these disturbance for some line. Only a few days ago, reports >f similar occurrences were heard Trom Tennessee and Kentucky and at different times and places report of earthquake shocks have been made. The fact that Charleston was itrlcken with a big shock nearly 21 ^ears ago has no significance and it does not follow that there will be mother terrible earthquake there. Another may strike some other city >r section of the country and prehaps visit those places with greater destruction than was ever wrought at Charleston. Earthquakes are things which can not be avoided and run away from. People may flee from an epidemic of fever or other disease, but they can not run away front an earthquake. for they never know where one will occur. The disturbance at Charleston Friday was probably caused orconnected in some way with the disturbances in Mexico and the tremor of the ground may probably be sinmlv the settling of the uortions within the earth and the resumption of normal condition, after the violent shaking up in Mexico. The Evening Post received a number of telegrams and long-distance telephone messages from newspapers of many cities making inquiries about the extent of the damage by the earthquake. Some of the inquiries said that it was reported at these places that Charleston had been destroyed and that property which the earthquake had not shaken down was being devoured by flames. These exaggerated reports were of course promptly denied and messages were put on the press wires as- ft suring the people of the country that Charleston was unhurt, that not the slightest damage had been done to property, and that the shock was in fact so light that most people did not feel it and did not know that it had occurred until they heard it talked about during the day. K ILLKD BY i'llONE. Turns on l,ight Hearties for Itcccivcr And Fulls Dead. At Marlboro, Mass.. Miss Anna Greenwood, aged twenty-nine, wiih killed by electricity while using the telephone at her home. An examlna- > Hon showed a sngni mini mi me wrist, indicating that a cuff button had touched the switch as she turned on the light, the current passing through her body into the telephone instrument, which she was touching with her other hand. After dinner she ieft the table laughing at a remark made by her father and stepped from the dining room to telephone to a friend. There Is an electric light directly over the telephone, and she reached to turn it on she started to ring for central tral. Instantly all the lights In the house were extinguished, and Mr. Greenwood heard his daughter fall. He hurried to her but she was dead. Girl Defends Self. Entering a farm house six miles south of Decatur, Georgia, where Ada Smith, a fifteen year old girl was alone with a three year old child, Jim Elliott, a negro, threatened to kill the girl with a knife which he carried threateningly. Miss Smith retreated across the room and seizing a shot gun leveled it at Elliott who Jumped through a window to escape two shots fired by the brave girl. El; liott was given a hearing and held for trial. *