Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, April 29, 1909, Image 1
TAT: FORT MILL TIMES
VOLUME jVlII FOItT MILL, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, H)(){) NO. a
TWO ARE OEM)
A RarfJtfefl
RAN INTO A HAND CAI
14 the Darkness, Killing Mr. Janjc
Carmkhael and David IjcwIs Oil I
right, and Causing Injury to Thre
?, Other Persons, All of Whom Wer
on the Hand Car.
? A special dispatch from Mullln
to The State says Thursday nigh
k about 10 o'clock news reached th<
city of the awful wreck of the log
ging crew employed by the Mullini
(Lumber Company, Messrs. H. O. and
8. H, Schoolfleld, proprietors. Th?
physicians of the town were hastllj
summoned and telegrams were seni
to Marion for others. The new;
soon spread and many citizens hastened
to the scene to render such aid
aa they could.
The accident happened about' twr
miles northeast of Mullins and wac
caused by a misunderstanding of orders.
The mill keeps a crew of aboul
six men in the woods and thest
usually are the last of the worklnp
force to leave for the night, whet
they return on the hand car. Th<
engine usually makes three loads pJ
logs from the woods each.day, but
owing to &n unavoidable delay, the
third trip was after dark.
The woods crew under Foreman A
C. Smith waited for the engine and
finally decided that as it was bc
late the engineer had abandoned hi*
last trip and set out for town. On
the hand car were six men, Mr.
Jam^s Carmicliael and Mr. A. C
Smith and Davled Lewis, Walter
James, Delaware Murray and Jim
Spain, colored. Mr. Carmichael wasBitting
on the front of the car. The
road being very bad at that section
and the hour lat-> the hands who
were at the crank were working hard
and the car was rapidly moving
along. The engine, in chargv- of
Gngineed Rhoades, was backing down
for the woods with J 8 empty flats
when it likewise was endeavoring to
make up lost time.
There was no light on the cartas
the engine was backing. It was
dark and the noise of the hand.c&f
made it impossible for the men tc
notice the danger nntil it was upon
them. Of thp six men only one, lira
Spain, escaped unhurt, and. his escape
was nothing short of a miracle.
Spain said that he jumped just as
the cars came together, the flat, car
.striking his foot. As quickly ijs possible
he ran over to where*;hii comrades
lay buried under the mfffage.
The first one ho reached was Jaroes
Carmlchael. He picked hJra ap hi
his arms and saw that he wis^dead
He was rushed and ntanglej fear
fully. Mr. Carmichael's nocljt "arms
and legs wero broken and wad other
wise disfigured. He theft iitont ,te
Mr. Smith, who had a broken lep
and was internally injures. Dave
L.ewis, colored, was crushed inter
nally and had an arm brdW.wM&twia
died soon after the j.iccident
Walter James, colored, haifa broken
leg and other injuries. !
Delaware Murray, also! colored
received some painful, if hot fatal,
injuries in the sido and aril. Everything
possible was done tr the survivors.
The Messrs. Srhodfiold per
eonalv attended to their weds. Much
sympathy la expressed folthese gentlemen
as they seem tojregret the
e accident so much. Thelmvlves have
also ministered to the 1 inta of th<
sufferers all day and a much affected.
1 To just what extent r. Smith If
Injured is not known. Physicians
have been with him contantly since
the accident and have lone all Ir
theli power to relieve hfi sufferings
Mr. Carmlchael was buried thif
afternoon at It o'clock lit Miller's
cemetery.
Just two weeks ago yfiterday Mr.
Carmlchael was inarrledrto Miss Sadie
Oliver, of Marlon, (and to th
young bride the tenderesi sympathies
of the community go oft. She has
not lacked for attention and condolence,
for liuudreds of friends have
mingled their tears w?lh hers over
the sad fate which be&U the noble
young man to whom she had plighted
her faith and love Just two weeks
ago to the rtny. She returned to her
former home In Marion, accompanied
hv her father, Bister and brother
Mr. Carmichael was a very popular
young man, which was manifested
by the large concourse of friends whc
attended the funeral, whlcfc was perhaps
the largest, assemblage evei
gathered for a like occasion In this
section.
Bryan Will S|?eak.
A Tallahassee dispatch says Speak
or Farris. of the Florida House o
Representatives, Monday received i
communication from Wm. J. Bryai
accepting the invitation tenderer
him to address the Legislature.
Tragedy In Virginia.
A special from Gate City, Va.
says: Isaac Fulk, 32 years old. wa
shot and killed early Monday h
Garland Compton, near Owens Chap
el. The shooMr-s > > ed figli
00 NOT NEED IT
TAUNTS I'HOTKCTIC
Said Cotton Seed Oil Men Want*
| Protection and Senator Tillnit
Made Characteristic Itepl jr.
s In the United States Senate c
Wednesday cotton Beed oil was tl
r 8ul>ject of u!i exchange or oplnlc
between protectionist. Ropublieai
e and tariff-for-revenue Democrat
q Taunting members of the mluoikl
by stating that the cotton seed c
industry of the South had appeals
B to him for tariff protection, Senatt
Aldrich suggested to Mr. Hacun tin
if the Senator Iroin (Jeorgia and oil
p er Southern States should get ti
- gether in favor of placing that pn
j duct on the free list, as was tin- ca;
I when the bill passed the Hoise i
Representatives. he thought n
5 agreement to that efTect might t
r reached.
t This suggestion hnd been calle
j forth by a statement by Mr. Hacoi
. who said If the 25 per cent ?
I valorem levied on Importation* o
cotton seed oil din not produce ai
income he thought it should go 01
the free list.
Senator Simmons. of North Caro
Una, protested against such action
declaring that he was free to sa
that he was not it favor of placlnj
cotton seed oil on the free list.
Stating that tht importation o
cotton seed oil 1i 1008 was 20
gallons, worth $i 1. and ytaldng i
revenue of $ 8.2 Mr. Aldrlrh sai(
the tax on that allele was "for pro
tectlon, pure aid simple."
"Any pretenci," declared Mr. Till
man, rising In his place and speak
lug In vigorous'angauge, "that then
is protection on cotton seed oi
through such . duty Is a humbug
Cotton seed cJ producers do uo
want any proection at all."
Mr. Aldrlehsaid he had been ap
pealed to by such producers fron
the South, aid Mr. Tillman retorte<
that he "did lot represent such peo
pie."
Mr. Mone- joined it) a declaratlor
that the Sodh did not want protec
Lion on cottin seed oil.
cm 13 PEI? TO noes.
IncaiiKMl Si en-Mot Iior la?f'
Him at Homo.
r Incensei because his step-mothei
had left hm at home, near Opeloua
I *s. La., 11 charge of his young step
brothers and sisters for the day
Tom Godfrey, a 12-vear-old negr<
boy. fed the youngest of his charg?
'o the logs, and later, with an axe
inflicted what will probably prov<
fatal wtnnds on the heads of th<
other ?hlldren.
Thrte children were Injured. Tin
step-nether reported the triple crinu
today to the parish authorities anc
Pom was palced la jail at Opelousas
She says she founu'the baby In tin
pen with the hogs when she returnee
hon^> late yesterday. Its hands am
'oe( had been eaten off, but it wai
still alive.
She straightway whipped Tom nni
when she went for a doctor to attem
'he baby, Tom seized an axe and at
arked his six-year-old step-brother
inflicting several deep wounds. Hi
voung step-sister interferred and h
rushed her skull with the ave. Th<
<irl is dying, and the other twi
thildren have little chance for re
covery.
AM Kit KAN KILLED IN I'KRSIA.
II. <\ Ilaskerville, 21 Years Old, Slali
at Head of Tnnips.
A telegram from Tabriz, Persh
<ays a young American, H. C. Bask
rville, until recently a teacher 1
he Presbyterian school at Tabriz;
vas killed a few days ago outsid
Tabriza while leading a sortie c
Nationalists from the city. The ol
ject of tlu expedition was to ope
i way for the bringing in of provii
mis. of which the city stands grea
ly in need. It was not 6iiccessfu
The situation at Tabriz is despe
ite. The Christians of Tabriz ai
arming themselves and will put U
:i strong defence during the blood
disorders that are expected to brea
out auy dny. The English residen'
have sent a telegram to Foreign Sei
retary Grey, at London, appealing ft
immediate help.
1 The Russians have taken refuf
at the Russian consulate.
A FIENDISH WOMAN
' Pleaded Guilty to Torturing H<
?
Little Child.
Under sentence of six months ir
' prisonment and a fine of $f>00, Mr
Joseph Sager, wife of a physician
Celina, O., a few days ago becan
an Inmate of the Toledo Woi
House.
( Mrs. Sager pleaded guilty to tl
1 charge of torturing her ten-year-o
1 adopted daughter. A few days ag
1 the child's teacher found many bur
on the little girl's back and lef
An Investigation was made and as
result Mrs. Sager ^vas arrested.
, The child said her foster moth
s had recently used a red-hot pok
7 on her as a means of punlshmei
i- Unless Mrs. Sager's fine Is paid s
be compelled '.o remain in t
THEY WILL MOVE
>N
Southern Powers Company Locates
in Columbia
- LEAVES CHARLOTTE
)n Itwmiso of What it Const nun to lie
>n Hostile legislation on the I'art of
18 ,
g the City (jovcrnninit?Will Mean
tv Much for Tills Section of South
il
>d Carolina.
For some/lime past there have
j. been rumors afloat that there was a
a- possibility amounting to a strong
probability that the general ofliees of
IO . . r. ?
nit- Duumeru rower company would
be lost to Charlotte, and the Indicate
tions were that Columbia would secure
them. When it was first talked
, i
" about the people of Charlotte derided
the Idea that the institution
' would seek a new home for its headquarters.
The newspapers had cartoons
making sport of Columbia.
11 The Columbiu Stute says a day
or two ago a prominent business man
of Columbia was in Charlotte, and
' iu conversation with Mr. W. H. Twltty,
cashier of the Charlotte National
c
Hank, was told that It was an open
y secret that it had been definitely de?
termined to transfer the offices to
^ Columbia.
Since then It seems information
has been given out from the management
itself that the step had been
decided upon, and that within the
next eight or ten months conditions
, would so shape themselves as to adI
uiit of making the permanent removal
to Columbia.
( There are two principal reasons
given for the contemplated action of
this great corporation. The first is
j stated to be thui the new charter ot
I the city of Charlotte empowers the
board of public works to regulate
public service corporations, with esj
peeial reference to rates to consumers.
This action, it is claimed, has
the effect to interfere with the Bale
of bonds, and the company felt that
is rights and privileges have been so
impaired as to make it expedient for
Lhem to relieve themselves of their
' public utilities franchise.
The s*cnnd reason assigned Is
that the power at Lang's shoals on
r the Catawba river about 28 miles
- from Columbia is the next property
- to be developed, and that therefore.
. Columbia is the logical place for the
i esiamisnmeni or its omces, being so
> much nearer the point of opera.
tions.
? This company, which is rated at
? $11,000,000, has acquired all the
riparian rights along the Wateree
and Catawba to within 15 or IS
? miles of Camden, and less than 3u
1 miles cross-country from Columbia.
and their plants are of enormous
1 magnitude.
1 On the line of water power dei
velopment indicated, the Wateree and
s Catawba, there are now six valuable
properties that are owned by
1 this company. On the Wateree canal
1 just above Camden there is a fall of
- 4,376 square miles, giving 20,000
horsepower when developed.
s At Rocky cr-ek. Great falls and
' Fishing creek are other powers bep
longing to this corporation that have
3 a total fall of 173 feet. Of these the
development of Great falls has recently
boon completed and that of
the others will follow as the demnnd
for power warrants.
The amount of horsepower d ?
veloped at Great falls is 32,000, with
i probable total when developed of
67,000 horsepower. Rock creek and
( "isiiing en cr wiii auoru id,uuu and
20.000 horsepower respectively.
At Landsford, near Lancaster, anr.
^ >ther power belonging to this eommny
there is a fall of 40 feet, draining
an area of 3.425 square miles
and affording energy of 12,000 horsepower,
as yet undeveloped.
At Rock Hill, on the Catawba, the
j company has a in.000 horsepower
. dant in operatio'n, supplying power
to Rock Hill, Fort Mill, lMncvllle
Charlotte.
At Nlney-Nino Island, on the
Rroad river, is a plant having a 51,j.
foot fall, the full development of
which is now under way This powor
will form one of several powers
)r belonging to this company which will
he electrically connected hy a system
of transmission lines furnishjc
ing power to all the large towns In
the northern central part of this
State anil to a number of towns in
\orth Carolina.
The coming of the Southern Power
Company to Columbia will mean
there will soon be located there also
offices of the large electrical machlnn"
ery and manufacturing concerns.
H which will augment the business of
the city to a considerable extent.
10 The office force of the company
1 k will be a valuable acquisition to the
city and to them fair Columbia exh"*
tends the glad hand of^a cordial wel1(1
come. The acquisition will not only
:?- he In the fact that all of the force
na are high salaried people, but that
Columbia society will have a wel*
come addition to Its ranks.
pr Get* Four Years.
*r Samuel T. Stevenson, convicted of
embezzling funds of the New Orht>
leans Typographical Union, was toll*'
day sentenced to four years In the
penitentiary.
TRIES ONCE MORE
STARTS OX EIGHTH JOURNEY
FOR HIS RACHEL.
Arthur Hurke, of Mlllsberry, Mass.,
(iocs to Montreal to Propose to
Ills "Heart's Desire."
Jacob served seven years for
Rachel, then seven years more.
Then he got her and served still
another seven years for good measure.
Now comes a modern Jacob?a
Missachusetts Jaenh who has
cheerfully served three times seven
years without getting his Rachel.
Every three years for 21 years.
Arthur Burke, of Miilsberry, Mass..
has journeyed to Montreal to ask
the question: N
"Will you marry me now?"
Every time the answer has been
"No." Sometimes there was a laugh
accompanying the word, sometimes a
sigh, sometimes she hesitated as
though reluctant to refuse the devotion
so liberally offered.
llut in the end the answer has
always been "No."
Now Burke Is off on his eighth
love pilgrimage. lie Is as lighthearted
and confident as he was the
first time.
"Somehow I think this is the
time," he told his intimate friends
before he started. "1 think this time
she'll say yes."
Burke was a young man Just
turned 30 when the st*:.r.ge courtship
began. Now he is a middleag
d man of F?l. His nair is turning
gray, his step is less elastic.
Who the Rachel is. Burke won't
tell. He will describe her in glowing
terms, but the words he uses
aren't the ones which would aid a
Bertillon bureau to find her. To
him she Is sweet and pretty as when
a sober-eyed slip of a girl In her
teens, she listened to the old love
story.
She. too, in the lapse of time,
must have rounded out to mature
womanhood, but you can t make gallant,
gray-haired Arthur Burke, who
has loved her for years, b lieve this.'
Burke canned his bri 1< groom's
clothes in his grip. "There's lots
of opportunities you lose liy not he- 1
iiig ready for 'em," he argued. "If 1
ehe says the word, won't give her \
iny time to change her mind. We'll
hurry to the nearest church."
it fore he left Mlllsberry, Burke
sketched the history of his Marathon
wooing.
"I went tip to Montreal on business
21 years ago," he said. "There
1 met her. I fell In love at sight. !
Within a week I proposed. She
turned me down, but so sweetly that
I didn't feel discouraged. 1 told
her I would come back again. She
laughed.
"Business affairs interfered with
:uy plans. I wasn't able to return
for three years. Then I asked her
again. Attain she refused me.
Right there I told her 1 would come ^
hack every three years unless she
married someone else.
"She laughed again. I guess she
didn't believe nie, didn't realize how
nturh I wanted her. She must know
it. by this time.
"Now I'm going hack again. This
lime I think I will win. The last
'IIHt- MM' rtllltUM UMIM'IlirU. Oil*' *?
more beautiful in my eyes now than
,-i.e wa?* 21 year- ngo. ! m going
to tell her so. She has stayed
single all th's time, 'Hint's a goo.
sign."
MI ST <;o TO JAIL.
V Charleston Blind Tiger Ciets in
Trouble.
Nicholas Kantos, the alleged Charleston
blind tiger, says the Columbia
Record, who was ordered to appear
jefore the supreme court to show
cause why he should not be attached
.or contempt?the attorney general
laving charged him with violation
of an injunction restraining hint from
the further sale of liquor?and who
failed to so appear, though he hud
accepted at Rock Hill the service of
the court's summons, was a few days
ago by per curiam order sentenced
to pay a line of $f>00 and serve three
mouths in jail.
Kantos is the second Charleston
tiger to feel the heavy weight of th "
court's displeasure, In connection
with these liquor injunctions. James
I'. Carroll Is now serving in the
Charleston county jail a s ntence of
six months' confinement. He was
ordered to pay a fine of $f>00 and
serve three months or in lieu of the
fine to servo three months additional.
BOY WEARS TAG.
Crossing Oreun and ("outincut With
Sweets Barred.
A sturdy 7-year-old English lad,
carrying a big basketful of eatables
started from New York for Blsbee.
Ariz., recently on the second and
last stage of a lonesome journey
from England, says a New York
special to the Philadelphia Record.
Pinned to the boy's coat was a big
tag reading: "This boy Is going to
a loving mother In Arizona. Treat
him as you would have your own boy
treated. Don't give him any Jam."
The boy, Jimmy Holland, who came
to New York Saturday on the Teutonic.
Is traveling in care of the
| itewaid.
WILL BE PAID
The Pension Board Has Completed
Its Work
VOUCHERS SENT OUT
And Pensioners Will Soon tJet Their
Money?There Ane Nine Hundred
and Fifty on the ldst, the Pensions
AiuoiiutliiK to 9247,702.50.
Spartanburg heads as Usual.
The State pension board has completed
its work and the vouchers are
being sent out to the various clerks
of Courts for settlement In the counties.
This year there are 9,504 pensioners,
an increase over 1908 of
188. The total amount to be paid
out tills year is $-4 7,702.50, out of
an appropriation of $250,000. It
will be recalled that at the last session
of the Legislature there were a
number of resolutions relative to artificial
limbs, these being paid out
of the lfmb fund, which is turned
back to the pension fund when not
used up.
In the list of pensioners there are
151 in Class A, each receiving $96;
in Class It, there are 171, each receiving
$72; in No. 1 of Class C,
there are 690, each receiving $48;
in No. 2 of Class C, there are 4,04 4,
each receiving $19.75; in Class C.
No. 3, there are 719, each receiv- '
ing $48; in Class C. No. 4. there are
3,738, each receiving $19.75.
Pensions by Counties.
The following is a list of the num- 1
l?er and amount of the pensions in
the counties. Spartanburg leading, <
as usual:
County. Number. Amount.
Abbeville 163 $ 4.4 24.00 t
Aiken 368 9,218.50 <
Anderson 531 15,002.50 ?
Bamberg 81 2,283.25
Barnwell 171 4,199.25 <
Beaufort 50 1,015.75 1
Berkeley 13 7 3.321.50 1
Calhoun 36 896.00
Charleston .. .. 230 6.014.25 I
Chester 153 4,596.50 1
Chesterfield .. . 257 6,630.75 I
Clarendon 122 3,316.25 1
Colleton 359 9,564.50 '
Darlington .. .. 218 5,712.25
Dorchester .. .. 1 21 2,836.00
Kdcofielil ?'?<> *? c.a-7 on I
Fairfield 128 3.543.50 1
Florence 207 4,804.25 '
Georgetown .. . 57 1,399.75 ?
Greenville 559 14,314.25 1
Greenwood .. .. 131 3,676.25 (
Hampton 213 5,105.50' 1
Horry 277 5,881.75
Kershaw 1 48 3,781.75 '
Lancaster 24 8 6,381.00 (
Laurens 274 7,897.25 1
Lee 127 3.402.25 1
Lexington .... 282 7.918.25 1
Marlon 260 6.565.75 I
Marlboro 151 3,723.75 '
Newberry 1 48 4,581.75 '
Oconee 272 7.339.50
Orangeburg .. . 109 4.643 50
Pickens 249 6,313.25 '
Richland 369 9,945.75
Saluda 158 4.54 4 IT
Spartanburg . . . 774 20.287 75
Sumter 156 4.073.75
Union 238 6.495.50
Williamsburg ... 1 84 4,898.00
York 31 6 8.4 82.50
Cherokee 217 6,064.00
Total 9.504 $247,702.50
Pension Requirements.
The requirements In order to obtain
a pension are as follows:
(A) If a man:
1 Ht That h(? tvn? a linna Ode Kill
dirr or sailor In the service of the
State or In the Confederate States
in the War Hot ween the States;
2d. Either (a) that while in such
service he lost, a leg or arm, of
sight, or received other bodily injury
whereby he has become disabled,
or that he Is totally disabled
by paralysis, and, neither himself
nor his wife has an
neither himself nor his wife has an
Income exceeding one hundred and
fifty dollars per annum, nor property
sufficient to produce such an income;
or (b) that he has reached
the age of sixty years, and that
neither he nor his wife is receiving
an annua) Income of seventy-five dollars
from any source, nor poss"ssed
of property sufficient to produce
such an Income.
(11) If a woman:
1st. That she is the widow of a
man who was a bona fide soldier or
sailor in the service of the States or
of the Confederate States in the War
Retween the States; and
o _? rr 1 i -1 1
Jtl. 1 11(11 Hilt? IlrtS* IM V? I I' Mlfll I I'-M,
nr. having remarried, is again a widow.
SHOOTS HERSELF.
Young Woman is Spartanburg
Attempts Suicide.
Miss Hattie Plumbey, daughter of
a prominent farmer in "the upper
section of Spartanburg county, attempted
suicide late yesterday afternoon
by shooting. After milking the
cows she entered a closet in her
room and closing the door behind
her placed a pistol at her left breast
and fired, the ball passing near her
heart and shattering her shoulder.
The arm had to be amputated at the
shoulder. It Is thought she will die.
The only explanation she offered was
Mhat she wanted to kill herself.
* - -
BLOW AT THE SOUTH
BA(iGING AM) T1RS TAXED BY
REPUBLICANS.
Senators Bailey and Aldrirh Lick
Horns in a Short IMmle on
Tariff.
The consideration of the duty on
gas retors In the Senate Thursday
caused nu oratorical explosion. The
committee on finance had increased
the rates on these articles from $3
as provided In the house bill to 30
per cent ad valorem, the new duty
being; on large retorts three times the
amount levied by the house bill and
the present law.
This course was denounced by Mr.
Bailey as evidence of failure on the
part of the Rcpuidlcan party to keep
faith with the people in their demand
for a revision of the tariff
downward.
Mr. Bailey rend from President
Tnft's inaugural address to show that,
he had favored lower duties and Mr.
Aldrich responded that the pending
bill proposed to fulfill that pledge absolutely.
"I have heard It said," added Mr.
Bailey, "that the present administration
aims as one of its chief accomplishments
to disrupt the solid South,
and it Is endeavoring to accomplish
that result by flattering the w?ak
men among us in the South by conceding
to them an invitation to the
White House or by giving them a
portion of the patronago of the
country.
"The president wastes his time and
wastes Iris breath when he gives
heed to those men who tell him that
they can disrupt the South.' he said.
"Theiv is in the South today, as
there was before the war, a sentiment
that is not Democratic. In
the olden times they were Whigs
and in this May they are Republicans.
But some of them are asham- (
?d of their associates down there.'
Mr. Bailey said he deprecated the
effort of th^ Republican party to
ivin the South by appealing to selfish
ntereafs.
"At the same time." he 1 ri. "thi
Irill is full of sectional dtscriminaions
The farmer's binding twine is 1
dared on the free list, hnt In this
.*ery same bill tlio nagging of the 1
'otton planter is highly protected. 1
That costs the cotton planter of the '
3nuth yearly more than % 1.250,000. '
tnd that burden should be lifted '
from his shoulders, even If every '
'actor.v of the cotton bagging trust 1
should be compelled to close. If you *
svant to find a way to the hearts of 1
mr people of the South, do not 1
rent them unjustly."
Senator McT.aurin, declaring that '
he duty on cotton ties is extortion 1
>n the cotton farmers and is not a '
arlff for revenue, announced his in- (
ention of offering an amendment to '
place cotton ties on the free list. '
Despite the contention of so-called 1
experts, said, the duty adds 50 1
*ents a hate to the cost of bagging <
ind tying cotton, which he said is <
i tax on the cotton farmer who re- i
elves no protection on his product. i
TOKNAIM) SWKMI'S OHIO.
. I
Death and Hutu in Wake of TerI
rible Storm.
Probably four deaths, scores of
persons injured and hundreds of
thousands of dollars' worth of damage
marked the path of a tornado,
which passed across the northern
part of Ohio at noon Wednesday.
The storm consumed only five
minutes In passing a given point, hut
during that brief period it. was as
dark as night, hail battered In windows,
lightning set fire to hundreds
of building*, one-fifth of an Inch of
rain foil, and tho wind, which reached
a velocity of sixty-six miles an
hour, razed buildings and chimneys,
tore off roofs, laid low many telegraph
and telephone lines and demolished
traffic upon the steam and
electric railawys.
Tn neighboring towns considerable
damage was done. Ton dwellings
were reported to have been blown
to the ground in the southwestern
part of the city. Many homes were
burned, as the fire department could
not attend to all of the calls.
An unidentified young woman is
reported to have been thrown into
a pond at Wade Park by the force
of the wind and drowned. Three
men are reported to have been killed
by falling walls in tho flats.
St. Rtanisians Catholic Church was
demolished. Tho loss there was upwards
of $ 1 00,000.
KINGS COME IIIGIf.
Alfonso Kece'ves Sixteen Times as
Much as Taft.
A recent compylcatlon of the moneys
paid to the members of the royal
families of Spain, Including the
King, shows that Tlis Majesty receives
a salary more than sixteen
times great r than that given the
President of the United States.
The total of $1,540,533 paid by
Spain to it* royalty annually Is divided
as follows: King Alfonso,
$1,211,058; Queen Victoria, $77,802;
Prince of the Austrlas, the twoyear-old
heir to the throne, $86,547;
Infants Maria Teresa, sister *>f the
J King. $25,064; Tnfant Isabel, aunt,
$43,273; Infant Pas. aunt. $25,964,
Infanta Kulalia, aunt, $25,961, and
the Queen, mothor, $43,273.
NEGRO FAILS
To Establish Successful Government
in Liberia
AFTER GIVEN START
Tlic Government Founded Over In
Africa by the United States for
the Advancement of the Negro
Falls Hopelessly Flut and Must
He Taken In Charge.
Shouldering one more task of the
White Man's burden, the United
States government will send thre?
commissioners to Liberia next Saturday
with the object of ascertaining
by what means and in what manner
the little Mark republic on the west
rn:ii;? * ?-- ? -
w. .n.iiv.it can no maintained In
her independence and the country as
a nation improved generally In the
administration of its government, the
development of its natural wealth
and the elevation of Its citizenship.
The task is assumed by this government
primarily for the reason
that Liberia was established and set
in motion as a independent republic
by the United States because of
Congressional acts almost a century
ago. affecting the slave trade and negro
Immigration to Africa at the
instance of American colonization
societ ies.
The commission will leave on the
new scout cruise squadron made up
of the Birmingham, Chester and Salem
recently placed in commission
and is expected to make the trip to
Monrovia, the capital and sea port
>f Liberia bv way of the Azore Islands.
The commission Is scheduled
to remain in Africa about six or
eight weeks during which time thev
will confer with all the Liherian
government officials, foreign ropre-i.
utntives and residents and inquire
into any and every thing which
might assist them in formulating a
comprehensive report to their homo
government.
The present step of the American
government is viewed with the utmost
satisfaction by both Great Britain
and France who have possessions
?n either side of Liberia, as they believe
they at last see an end of the
order disorders and the unsatisfaeory
condition generally which have
>xisted In the republic for some years
last. To Great Britain especially is
no appointment of the commiHsion
iceeptable because it will undoubtedy
relieve her of taking possible drasic
action in collecting the bonded
ndebtedness which a number of her
dtizens have coming to them from
he Llberlan government. Probably
lie only world power which might
find some cause for dissatisfaction in
Sermany. Tills country practically
controls the foreign trade of Liberia,
iwns a perfect rubber monopoly and
runs things commercially just about
is she desires.
A great deal has been written and
oiid about Liberia since the passage
r>f the act by Congress in the early
part of March providing for the appointim
nt of the commission and the
appropriation of $20,000 to carry on
its work a' the instance of former
secretary Root, and especially has
this been true of the country's natural
mineral wealth and the vast
and valuable agricultural opportunities.
both neglected by the inhabitants
primarily through sheer laziness
and secondary because of the
lack of capital.
So rich was Liberia been said to
he by those who are in a position to
speak intelligently, that It Is ostimat
d tho country could support a
population of 2rt.000.00rt persons and
.at the same time sustain a very
large export trade In coffee, tobacco,
cocoa, rubber, palm oil, palm kernels,
passave, mahogany, canwood and
other tropical products. At the present
time Liberia has a population of
about 1,700.000 persons of which not
more than 20,000 can be truly said
to be cvilized, her foreign trade hovers
about $200,000 annually, but
about which there is no absolute certainty
and the administration of her
officials about the weakest, most incapable
and Irresponsible imaginable.
Reports from the seventy odd white
persons in the country, including a
number of missionaries, confirm tlio
statements pf the absolute incompetency
of the courts, their corruption,
the corruption of the legislative
branches of the government, the eustnm
Aniriaio nnft tbe chronic dread
of work from rtno end of the land to
the other. The schools, or rather the
few institutions which bear that
name are the worst, possible excuses
for places of learning and the moral
iders of the inhabitants seem to be
sinking to a lower and lower ebb
year by year until In some localities
they are not far removed from those
of the aborigines with whom many
of the Llberlans have Inter-marrled.
A comparison of Liberia with the
rirltish colony of Sierra Leone and
the French I very coast colony, Its
neighbors, is really pathetic because
of their vast superiority in every
respect, even though Liberia possesses
the richest territory of teh
three, and is the source of humiliation
to the small number of men
in the republic who seem to be struggling
almost against fate to hold
the country together within bounds
of the world powers" approval.