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? - ^ . . ? - '"'1 THE FORT iMILL TIMES. 17TH YEAR FORT MIRE, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1908 NO. 8 SOUTH ATTACKED Republicans Trying to Revive the Reconstruction Bitterness. GETTING DESPERATE Itcpuhliran* Afraid to IaM tin* People Know How Much Money They arc ( iven by the Trusts for Corrupt legislation and Heroine* Virion* Toward* tlie South. A campaign contribution publicity bill, embodying an amendment by Mr. Crumpacker of Indiana, providing for a reduction in the representation in the house of the representatives in those States having disfranchisement was passed by the house by a vote of 150 to 125 following a lively debate. The measure was brought iip under suspension of the rules and but 40 minutes were allowed in which to discuss it. The Southern members in particular were bitter In their detiiincintlmi n( I the apportionment provision of the hill. Mr. Williams, the minority louder, was especially vigorous in his attack, characterizing the hill as being an attempt to revive the conditions of Reconstruction days. On account of the Crumpacker amendment the Democrats voted against the bill in its entirety. In brief, the provision regarding publicity of campaign contributions is applicable to the national committees of all present parties and the national congressional committees of all political parties and all committees, associations or organizations which shall in two or more States influence the result or attempt to influence the result of an election ut which representatives in congress are to lte elected. Tito Crumpacker amendment provides for the re-enactment of certain sections of the old federal election law, except that the idea of the force lull authorizing the use of troops at the polls is eliminated. It also provides that the director of the census shall submit to congress a report on population showing the number of male citizens, white and black, in eaci. State and the number disfranchised for the purpose of enabling congress to ascertain the apportionment in representation to which --- States may lie entitled. i??r. Crumpacker explained his simnndiiionic lw -? ? signed against fraud and intimidation in elections. He undertook to say, lie declared that no member of the house would object to a law whose only purpose was to secure houest elections. In thoopinion of Mr. Hacker i Mo.-, if anything were wanting to demonstrate that the leaders and managers of the Republican party In th< house were guilty of deceit and false pretense the hill supplied that want. Kxprossing the belief that Mr C'rumpacker, in including his amendments to the pu'iiclty bill, did not represent the sentiment of the leaders on the part of the majority in attempting to revive the principles of the force bill. Mr. Lassiter protested against the measure. Mr. (Jillesple warned the house that by passing the bill the condition of the negro would be made worse than at present. Following brief remark? by Messrs. Rennett and Ronynge in support of the bill, Mr. Williams madu vigorous speech against It. "The great old party," he began, "hits resolved itself into a vaudeville stock company." He charged the Republicans with not daring to face anj irrnftt imlilie niipstinn in :i I'nir nmi straightforward way, by combining several proposition In one bill "What are yon trying to do." he in<|iitredr "Does the gentleman front Indiana think he can turn the hunch of the clock of time back half a century? Does no think he can produce the days of the carpet-bagger and Heconstruction in the South once more? Does he think the Imsincss intorests of the North will stand fot a recurrence of the saturnalia?" The reduction in representation amendment, he declared, had boon added to defeat the publicity bill. "You have no idea of reducing the representation of California, Massachusetts or Connecticut. The people of the South, he said are willing to take the issue. If it was desired to ignore amendment and the Republicans were willing to restore to Mississippi the power to fix her suffrage along racial Hues, the people of that State were ready for the gauntlet. "Throw it down whenever you please!" he exclaimed. "As to the reduction of our representation in congress," he said, "in (Jod's name take it and welcome to it; but be honest when you do It." Mr. Williams declared that if the .iil.lif.lt *r urn <\f the till! should be come law "It will (lanin your Republir?n party and ho worse for you than the force hill which defeated Harrison." It was all false pretenses, he declared, and he said to the RepuhliejMis. "Like children you are playinv with flre In a powder magazine." ! Inclosed hy ask lug the Republicans il they were fools enough to believe that the Routh would ever again submit to the polices to which she submitted when she was weak and help less. ' Maftr DRINK MORE WATER. MOST PEOPLE DRINK ENTIRELY TOO LITTLE. It Should Bp Taken Chiefly Between Meals and Not While Eating?Give the Water Cure a Trial. One of the most universal dietetic failings is to neglect to take enough water into the system. When one stops to think of the many functions which water has to perform in the body, the need of a large supply is realized. The uses of water in the body may be summarized as follows: It furnishes the blood with a fluid medium so that nourishment may bo | -i Ir an ??11 nuriu ho Kn/lw the waste removed, and this causes rapid changes In the tissues. 2. It enters into the composition of all tissues of the body. a. It forms the chief ingredient of all the fluids of the body and maintains their proper degree of dilution. 4. it serves to distribute the heat of the bc-dy. 5. It regulates the temperature of 1 the body by the process of absorption ' and evaporation. , 1 It is estimated that water composes about 70 per cent of the entire ] body weight, and it is an almost 1 universal solveut. Its importance, i '.he re bo re to the system cannot be s overrated. The amount of water required by i i heal-by individual in twenty-four 1 hours is on an average between sixty- i five and seventy ounces, besides < about twenty ounces taken in us an I ingredient of solid food, thus tnak- l ing a iota- of eighty-five to n'nety ounces. J A great many people leading sod- ; entary lives take too little water, and also err in taking it for the most part when eating. A certain amount t a water should form a part of every i meal, and particularly is It necessary s to those who have very active diges- < (ions. It assists the escape from the i stomach of those substances made t ;oluble by the action of the gaitric | juice und the churning effect of the stomach, and will oftentimes make digestion comfortable when it other- l wise would he attended with dls- i tiess. 1 While some liquid should he taken r with the meals, the foods should not ' be washed down, for this interferes t with digestion (especially starch ) digestion), and may also cause the s individual to swallow morsels of food altogether too large and resisting foi i the stomach to manage comfortably. < The proper time for taking the bulk of fluid is between meals, par- I ticularly early in the morning before 1 t , ?? ?i_u. I lirt'tlKlUHl, illiu Ul Ill&HL IUIII ing. * ? JOHNSON'S IMjATFOKM. Please Wall Slwl and Hie Thieving ' Trusts. , The Springfield Republican says ( the platform adopted by the Minne- , sot a Democrats in placing Gov. Johnson before the country as a Presidential candidate, is manifestly keyed to suit the Eastern and Southern conservative wing of the party, while containing compliments and concessions calculated to concilate the following of Mr. Bryan. No one who was ignorant of Gov. Johnson's record in Minnesota would know from 'his platform how much of a radical he had been in his present office, for the platform contains no hint of .ome of the policies which, as Governor. lie has advocated. This appeal to the conservative ving of the national Democracy is 'mu'iivoi' tho Wind of nolitics which iov. Johnson's Presidential candldncx \ow Ton-Ps upon him. Ho must win he nomination, if that he possible iot by competing with Mr. Bryan li lis own line, but by sotting himself ip as a contrast. Gov. Johnson's Presidential candidacy had its origin n the growing desperation of those teinoerats who rould not endure the bought of another Bryan candidacy ;r the thought of Bryan in the Whin House, and its chief dynamic force is lerived from the bitterness felt for Bryan by the elements represented most conspicuously by the New York World. The Johnson platform will not displease those elements. They are making a stubborn contest in the hope of taking advantage of the two'birds rule, and it is upon that alone that, practically speaking. Gov. Johnson's hopes now rest. Children t'nder Treatment. The nine children bitten in Green ville l?y a mad dog were taken to Atlanta for treatment, but only five were found to need treatment. Mr. rence. who went with the children. >a.vs the physicians in charge of the institute told him the dog had nhout he worst case of hydrophobia iniagina hie. an examination showing its brain cell to he full of hvddrophobia germs. Monster Whale Caught. I A large whale was caught at Cnpe ' Lookout Sunday and was towed to r Beaufort, N. C.. where it wil, he pull' ed out of the water by the ship yard railways. The monster is about hO feet long and 25 feet around the body. ' The estimated value of the bone and 'loil is $600. DIES OF RABIES. Heard Doctors Say "You Die In Seventy-Two Hours." SWIFTLY FULFILLED. One Other Man ami a Ciirl in Hanger 5 From tIh* Same Bog, ami Are Now ' Ilcing Treated in the Pasteur In- ( atitute. Took in Stray Cur. I I The prediction of death passed up- i nn IVIIIUn. 11 * ?- - - ,, luiuiii 11. .niirsii lasi Monaay ny < the physicians of the Pasteur Insti- t tnte at New York was fulfilled two days after when he died of hydro- 1 phobia. Unconscious from the ad- f ministration of opium, the wealthy 1 Brooklyn manufacturer escaped the 1 last tortures of rabies t Warned by Dr. W. I#. Wheeler t two days ago that he did not have c inor than three or four days to live, u Mr. Marsh, who to all appearances s then was in the best of health, turned to leave the Pasteur Institute and u drive back to his home at No. 74 1 Ocean aenue, Flatbush. C "Before I go, doctor, tell me just t how long you give me to live. I n have things to arrange before I die," t mid Mr. Marsh without the slightest" d sign of excitement. h "You must get. all important bust- n aess cleared tip within thirty-six a hours." answered the doctor. "You may live twice that l??cg, but voul .\ ivlll he suffering then, v -i will not f he in a mental cunliiion .o attend t to business." f "Thank you. doctor." replied Mr. q Marsh. Then he turned to his son o ind said: , c "We will go homo now, boy." s When Mr. Marsh entered his home,, tl jpposlte Prospect Park, he called his 0 wife, three sons and two daughters a ind told them of the sentence of d ieath that had been passed upon him. o Then he gave his attention to l-usiless details and prepared to die. with a he one request that his end be made q leaceful by the use of drugs. a< Ramsey Marsh, the twenty-one-year tl old son. and Miss Kdna Thompson, g >ook keeper for Mr. Marsh, are tak- v\ ng the Pasteur treatment in an ef'ort to ward off an attack of rallies, a The young man does not recall being c! dttcn. but Miss Thompson was at- c acked by the dog the day after Mr. h Marsh contracted the disease, and i> >umuiui-u it imu nuc on ner cnin. ? Pour years ago, when h?* opened ^ ip his factory, he found a little dog w >n the street. ' | need u-wutchdog. and this little '( fellow is to be our mascot," he told liis employes. This was the name- 11 ess dog?each employe had a dif- s ferent name for the animal?that 'l ansed the death of Mr. Marsh. As near as the employes cnn recall, '' die dog entered the office about six weeks ago, with a cut on its side. It whined around the feet of .*ir. Marsh, ^ who was busy with his daily mail. a "Something wrong with you. old '' fellow?" asked Mr. Marsh, and he leaned over and patted him. On dis- ^ covering the wound lie dropped his r work, washed the cut and tied it up 11 with care. d "There you are, old fellow; now v run away," he said. The brute lick- il ad his masters hand, and Mr. Marsh ' commented on the action. saying ihat if ever a dog was trying to thank uny one it was this one. No one is sure. not even Mr. h Marsh, but it is supposed lie had a sore from a hangnail on one of his" ^ fingers. By this means the dreaded virus entered liis system, making the 11 third known case of Its kind in the 11 history of rabies. f Last Saturday morning Mr. Marsh a had occasion to go to the basement * of the factory to test one of the meters. He turned on a water faucet 5 and the rushing of the water seemed 1 o have :> strange effect on him. lie v commented on it at the time, hut t carried out his work. An hour later c he told Mr. Hangerter that he felt 1 sore and wanted to stretch all the > time. t "I am not sure, but I would not < l?e a bit surprised if I am suffering I from" ?Mr. Marsh did not con- i tinue the sentence, but the sudden twitching of his throat seemed to t work him into a nerous condition. ? 'I think I will go to see a doctor," ? he said, and, taking his hat, started : for the office of I?r. Henry M. Culltn- I an. No. :: Linden avenue, a few blocks from the factory. Instead of going I to the office, Mr. Marsh made a nam- 1 her of calls on friends on his way home, stopping at a road house less i than a block from his heme. Saturday evening he spent at home, si minuter 01 iiis menus, including Mr. llangerter, calling to discuss business matters. He still complained of pains and the nervous twltchj ing aliout Iiis throat. Sunday morning he realized that he was seriously ill ana Dr. Cullinan wu.< called. Mr. Marsh still failed to confide his suspicions to his family or to the physician, and it was not until Monday morning that l?r. Cullinan had a chance to make a complete investigation, i nrn it was that he told his patient lie thought he was suffering from rallies. Calling a carriage, they made a hurried trip to the Pasteur Institute in Twenty-third street. It required but a few seconds for Dr. Wheeler to make the test, and then came the HAD CLOSE CALL. MR. \V. S. BROWN WAS DISCOVERKB J 1ST IN TIME. To Save Him From llciug Asphyxia! ?1 at Wright's Hotel in Columbia on Friday Morning. The Columbia State says: Mr. W. 3. Brown of Lancaster was found iu room 264. Wright's hotel, Friday nornlng about 7 o'clock in an unconscious condition, due to the ininlation of gas. It is possible that le would have been asphyxiated withn half an hour if the odor of the ;scaping gas had not been discovered. Many seemed to think tnat Mr. Irown had deliberately turned the sas on in an attempt to end his life, nit Mr. Robert C. Wright gives it as lis opinion that Mr. Brown turned he gas on and forgot to light it and hat his near call for death was accidental. Mr. Brown left the hotel ibout 10 o'clock, before he could be een by a reporter for The State. Mr. Brown registered at Wright's ibout t o'clock Thursday morning, ie asked what time the train for 'harlotte left. On being informed he time of departure of the t> I'clock train for Charlotte he told he clerk, Mr. Cronenlmrg. that he lid not care to get up that early and eft a call for 7 o'clock. - He paid his light's lodging in advance and was ssigned to room No. 2t?4. When the porter went up to call ir. Brown he received no response roin his knock on the door. The ransom was slightly open and the limes of escaping gas were detected, 'he matter was reported at the office < f the hotel immediately and a hnrrid investigation was made. No reponse came to repeated knocks on he door and it was Anally forced pen. Mr. Brown was found lying cross the bed in an unconscious conition and the gas jet was turned full n. Dr. Mcintosh was summoned and fter working with Mr. Brown for uite a while restored him to conclousness. It is said at the hotel lint Mr Ui'Att'n hn/1 Uttlf* i e\ env rn_ urding tlio affair and at 10 o'clock c alked out of the hotel. d If Mr. Brown turned the gas on in ti deliberate attempt to commit suiIde no reason for his act is known in I olumhla. Tt is said that he is an z iburanee agent. but nothing could o e learned about his affairs. * H . n utal sentence that the oteur cure ? 'ould be of ho help to -?r. Marsh, t ie was told that he had waited too v mg. Dr. Wheeler Informed -o pa- ^ ient. that an effort was being- made 0 ow by the Paris brunch of the in- f titution to find a cure for a man in is advanced stages. \ "No hopes of that man returning |< I time to help me?" he asked. i; "None." the doctor replied. e i iieii came the drive to the pretty r ome in Brooklyn, where his wife a nd children were anxiously await- v iig him. p After telling his family that the t octors had hut little hope of his a ecovery. he asked his son. Ramsey, r lie had come in contact with the i og. and gave instructions to send f >'ord to the factory at once to warn f II employes to hurry to the Pasteur a nstitute if they had come in conact with the animal. , <1 Mr. Marsh had many business de- t ails that he wanted to arrange and i I?- WM3 HIIXIUIIH HIIQUl H pillOUl IlOl St"- S ess gun that .Mr. Bangerter had f ieen working on for some time. "Father tried to cheer us up," said ine of the sons yesterday. "He had lopes that he might live, but the Irst stages of the disease had passed ind when he realized this, he knew le could not live." it was not until Monday that Mr. rfarsh had to give up and go to bed. Phe convulsions had set In. and it vas only with the greatest effort that te could keep his mind on the vari us subjects he wanted to clear up. I'uesday saw a slight change for the vorst, and then came the refusal of ill food. The family called In a orps of doctors who labored over the atient, but medical skill could do tothlng. , Tuesday morning. telegrams, elephone messages and letters began arriving at the Marsh home by the wore. People drove up in carriages ind automobiles, all declaring they had a sure cure if but given a chance. Cranks, attracted by the first published accounts of the story, declared lhey could cure by prayer, by digging up the dog and other methods. Physicians seeking advertisements wired to the family offering their cures.) and from San Francisco came one message that read: "God and His miraculous powers will cure you." So frequent, became the telephone calls and the messages that the family bad tlie telephone and front door bell disconnected. About noon Tuesday the suffering of Mr. Marsh became so great that drugs were given to him. which had the result of lessening his pafn. An effort was made to give him liquid food, hut the doctors decided that was useless. Shortly before fi o'clock Or. Cullinan discovered that the patient was sinking fast and that the pulse was growing weaker with every beat. He notified Mrs. Marsh and the children that the end was but a matter of moment. At 5 o'clock the end came. * SOLID FOR BRYAN Delegates Instructed For Him By the State Convention. WITHOUT ANY DEBATE The Iron Clad llesolut ions Instructing for the Great Commoner Were Passed Without Any Discussion or Division.?Tho Bryan Sentiment Was Xeurly I'nanimous. The State Democratic Convention [>ut itself squarely on record for William Jennings Bryan on Wednesday is the Democratic candidate for Presdent. The convention, whicn met at loon in Columbia on Wednesday, to . ci^mccu ueiegai.es 10 me l>emicratic National Convention, four at arge and two each from the seven longressional districts, voted in fav>r of instructing its entire delegation o vote for Bryan at Denver, "first, ast and all th"o time." A resolution o this effect was adopted without llvision. Kx-Speaker of the House M. >mith was made permanent chairman ind made a patriotic address to the convention. after which other pernanent officers were chosen. The present secretaries were reelected. Senator Clifton was made treasurer tnd J. S. Wilson sergeant at arms. Permannct. vice presidents were hosen as follows, each going iu with>ut opposition: Fifth district. C. M. Viggins; second district. I>. S. lienlerson: third district. It. A. Thompon. fourth district, Howard II. Carisle; fifth district. J. Harry Foster; ixtli district, I)r. Olln Sawyer, sevenh district. It. I. Manning. Immediately after organizing a esolutlon was introduced referring 11 the resolutions to the resolutions ommittee, but while this was intmeliately amended so as to oxcopt the esolutions referring to instructing r not instructing the delegation to )enver, the Bryan people ins'sting hat it was much more manly and ourageotts to t n this question llrectly and unbiased by any cotnnittee report. The first resolution culling for Irynn came from Editor W. K. tJonales, of The State. Several it hers ffered resolutions along the same ine. Mr. llerndon introduced a reslution carrying out Senator TiIIaan's idea of instructing the dolor alon'to adopt the unit rule. This ras voted down, and an effort was hen made to carry the whole matter ver to the evening session, but this ailed. Finally a substitute was offered by V. P. Pollock that the delegation be nstructed to vote for Bryan first, ast and all the time, the resolutions ommittee to suitably draft such a ' nuiuuuil U III I US II1C <11 Vvl !IUw li MM doption in the evening session. This t'as adopted amid cheers from all ?ortions of the hall. The convention hen took a recess for dinner and ressembled at 8 o'clock. After the convention reassembled n the evening the comimttee on preterm and resolutions reported the ollowing, which was unanimously idopted: "We heartily endorse, as the canlidate of the Democratic party for (resident of the United States, Willnm Jennings Bryan and hereby inli net and direct that the vote of louth Carolina in the national condition at Denver be cast as a unit or his nomination until the sume s secuerd." By the terms of this resolution the >outh Carolina delegates are bound o support Bryan on the first ballot is well as on every subsequent balot unless his name should be wlthlrawn. The meaning of the resolution s that he, Bryan will get 18 votes Tom South Carolina "first, last and ill the time," as declared in the Poloc.k resolution adopted in the morning. The convention then proceeded to sleet delegates to carry out the above instructions. Senators Tillman and riarv were elected by acclamation as two delegates at large and Gen. Wilie Jones and Col. 11. if. Walkins were elected as the other two by the convention. W. F. Stevenson. T. B. Crews, J. IV Grace and Jt. F. Smith were elected alternates. The nominations for district delegates were then announced as follows: First district?T. It. Waring and Dr. F. .J. Carroll; alternates, J. E. McCoy and VV. E. Kirhy. Second district?L. J. Williams Hnd J. E. Hurley; alternate, N. Christen son, Jr. Third district?Kenneth Raker and VV. J. Stribling: alternates, H. C. Tillman and C. I?. Mann. Fourth district- R. F. Townsend and W. C. Rlack; alternates,Clarence Cunningham and S. J. Nichols. Fifth district?John (?. Richards, Jr., and J. M. Cherry; alternates. VV. W. Dixson and N. VV. Hardin. Sixth district?J. H. Manning and I). H. Traxler; alternats, VV. H. Andrews and D. A. Spivey. Seventh district?T. F. Rrantlej and J. H- Clifton; alternate, J. S Wannamaker. These nominations were confirmee by the Convention. Dr. Sawyer nominated Senator Till man as member of the national exec SENATOR TILLMAN HAILED FOil EVROI'K FROM DOS- ( TON OX SATL'KDAV. Kays We Have (lie Republicans Beaten and (hat Bryan Will Be Elect ?l in November. A special dispatch from Boston to the Charleston Post says Senator Till- * man. in an interview just before he stepped aboard the Canopic with Mrs. Tillman for a European trip. Saturday morning said, referring to the presidential election, "We have them licked. Tho other fellows are in a broken and disgruntled state." Regnrding the outlook for the coming Presidential election the Senator r said: "I am going to Europe for two c reasons. One is to escape the Pres- s idential CH mnnl trn .....J ?t vi me omor is f t:? have a rest and a Raid time, f ? am tired and am going away to get t hack my health. I am going to p Spain to see if they can cook garlic c the way 1 like it. No poking around i\ for curiosities or beautiful paintings p for mine." Mr. Tillman also in the course of the Interview likened President Roos- ^ eveit to Caesar. "While the President ,| may. be the wisest man in the United t| States today, 1 am not willing to ac- ? knowledge it." lie declared. "I tl think there is no fear of Mr. Roose- it velt's being the next President. Wil- p Ham Jennings Bryan is the man who n will next occupy the White House." Accompanying the Senator is his physician, Dr. J. W. Uahcoek, of Co- c; lumbia. , SENT BAUK HOME. n The Times Says Morcnre Police Aid J' in l(?*s?'iie Work. zi The Florence Times says a very sad case was brought to the attention w of the town authorities there Sunday o< morning when two young girls, Mag- aj gle Smith and I.illie Campbell, ages jr about 16 and 1 .S years appealed to the police to help them get back to w their home in Columbia. ti Lillle Campliell told the story to 0| Ofltcer Cain of how she and her (.t friend had been pttrsuaded to come a to Florence l?y a woman who lived 0| there. Saying thai everything had t0 been misrepresented to tliem. They |^ were told that this was a line place p, to live and that they could easily ol obtain employment and would get along well. h, I.illie accepted her story and came down here with this woman Friday. t|. When they arrived at this woman s at house they at once realized that they ,i. could not be satisfied at such a plae \ j-r They became dissatisfied and wanted ai to leave and were ill treated tliis (() woman who tried to force them to a stay. They said that they were determined to leave that place and so back to their people in Columbia if 0> possible. , They went to the residence of a | citizen about 10 o'clock Saturday night and were allowed to spend the ^ night. The next morning tlieir case j was reported to the police and the ;(| result of the whole thing was that 'fi the woman who had pursuaded them to come down here was made to pay a, their way back to Columbia. * l1; pi MIST RK-KMiOI.L cc tl All Who \\ ant to Vote .Must Wet New P( Tickets. s\ In order that the electors may m properly understand the act passed ' by the last legislature in regard to ^ the re-enrollment of voters we publish it below: ^ "Section 1. He it enacted by the General Assembly or the State of \ South Carolina. That the Supervisors of Registration in each County of the State are required to re-enroll all the qualified electors In this State during the year 1908. "Sec. 2. That at the same time M the said Supervisors shall register all persons who may make application ' therefor and who may ho entitled thereto. "Sec. 3. That for the purpose of 11 such enrollment and resist ration the n said Supervisor Rhall keep the books '' of registration open at the several ' County seats every day (Sunday ex- ' cepted), between the hours of nine a. m. and six p. in. during the months ' of uly and August. 1908; and in addition thereto they shall attend, during the month of September, 1908, v at least one day in each township, in their respective Counties, of which 1 at least ten days' notice shall he giv- 11 en by advertisement in a newspaper f publish in the County; and in Conn- ' ties containing fifty thousand itihab itants they shall attend in each city, ' town of Indnstiral community, containing three hundred or more in- ' habitants, at least one day upon similar notice." ' Fires Jail and CJets I/ong Sentence. 1 William Oarrity, arrested for a boyish prank and locked in the jail at Derby, Conn., set fire to the I building causing flames which overcame officers and enabled him to ( make his escape. He was reoupturr ed after a long run and is now serv- | ing eight months in jail. utive committee and he was elocted i I by acclamation. Resolutions of regret at Senator i - Tillman's sickness and absence was - passed. \ ?? TERRIBLE WRECK Caused* by an Express Train Crashing Into Another. SIXTY ARE KILLED lefetlitc Switch Throws Fast Mail Against I,oral Traiu Carrying Pilgrims to the Shrine at Turnbout, all of Whom Were Killed or Seriously Injured. One of the most disastrous rallond accidents In recent times ocured at Contlch, a station six miles . nuthcast of Antwerp, Belgium, on lie main line at 8 o'clock Friday lorning. The exact number of rlcims had not been determined up to ite in the night owing to the difttulty of removing the bodies from lw> ui iMies, DUt the latest estimate laces the number at sixty killed and ne hundred wounded. The catastrophe ajtpcnrs to have ecu duo to a defective switch, where lie main line crosses n local line. At lis point a train carrying n large umber of pilgrims on their way to ie Shrine at Turnbout. was staudir. into this the Antwerp-Brussels * press dashed at a speed of fifty liies an hour, literally leaping on ip of it. The heavy coaches of the express rashed ti. guter train into splintrr.. The sides of the express cars ere torn from their fastenings, the nors practically collapsing, thus recipitating ihe passengers to the Ule uninjured, when they tied freuted across the field. | But for this fact the death roll ould be niucn greater. Few of the Si zcupants of the local train escaped I live. Those not killed were badly j| ijured. many of them mortally. I The rescuers, even the doctors, ere sickened at the sight that mot I icir gases. Evidences were found I r horrible death struggles that oc- H ired in lue coaches. At ono place dismembered hand was found gS Utching one of the supports of the I irn car. One body was lying across |? ie boiler of the locomotive crushed B to a shapeless mass. The majority iM ' the dead could not be recognised. B ther being decapitated or their B ads being terribly crushed. I The signal man at Coutich saw B iat his switch was not working Just ; the Antwerp express came thun- B ring down the line. He leaped B om the window of his signal station B id heroically ran down the track B ward the oncoming train, waving B red flag. His effort was too late to &S ,rert a disaster. ||| The engineer and fireman of the B cpress were ki 1 l?*d at their post. he judical authorities of Antwerp B ton arrived on the scene and opened shF t investigation into the disaster. B he v ordereH ?! ? ? ...... iuuii ill ['jrji targe of the switches under arrest, 1H though It Is believed by the authori- ij|| ves that they were blameless. ^gB Prince Albert went to Contlch this $$? ternoon and visited the wounded. |??j? iving cancelled an engagement to H eside at a banquet j? t Antwerp. fl With regard to the cause of the llision, a railroad offieal stated 1|S lat the switches were being repair- |$| 1. and that fne workmen who had ^ en placed J>t the temporary hand H vitch appeared to have made a D istake or the switch failed to act. > he engineer, it was stated, saw the linger and applied the brnkes, but was too late to avert the disaster.* ^ ATIONAL CAMPAIGNS COttTLY. H mounts S|?'iit l?y Parties in Presl- ^ dential Klrrtion Years. |i| Reecnt debates in Congress on a ?Sj ational publicity bill have revealed 1|| jmo interesting facts, not the least |j| f these being that as far hack as H 890 when Lincoln and Douglass Hj ere tie- oppe.tng candidates of the H Republican and Democratic parties 'Jy. [ spectlvely, tremendous amennts of ioney wore expended for campaign J| urposes. In only two Presidential % lections sice 1880 has the Repub- Jg - spent less than the Democrata. 9 'hose two years were in 1HS4, when ||j antes (5. Illaine and drover Cleve- ||| and were the candidates, and In j|S Sit2, when Harrison and Cleveland IS :ore the nominees of their party. gg The following, which is believed to H as accurate as it is possible to H nake it. shows the total expend!- f| ures of both the Republican and the || temocratic parties since i860: ||| ISfii). Abraham Lincoln, $100,- ^ >00; Douglass, $50,000. 1 1864, Abraham Lincoln, $125.000; I dcClellan. $60,000. I 1868, i s Grant, $15t>.0O0; 8ey- I liour. 175,000. /' 1872, U. S. Grant, $250,000; Horice Greely, $50,000. 1870. R. H Hayes, $050,000; Tillen. $900,000. 1880. Garflold. $1,100,000; Hanrook, $355,000. < 1884. James G. Blaln, $1,300,000; Cleveland, $1,400,000. 1892, Harrison, $1,850,000; Cleveland. $2,350,000. 4 1890. McKinloy, $16,500,000; Bryan, $675,000. 1900, McKinley, $9,500,000; Bryan. $425,000. 1904, Roosevelt, $3,500,000; Parker, $1,250,000. l