Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FLOOD RISING + Hourly m Paris, But It Is Hoped the Worst Has Been Passed. FRANCE ASKS CREDIT More Than a Hundred Thousand >-! /-i a a a ai ih?iu^uus ociiig vorvu iur uj uiu Government And tlie Number Is Being Increased by the Hundreds Every Hour of the Day. The flood at Paris, France, continues. A dispatch from that city on Thursday night sayB another day has passed, but the inexorable tide till creeps slowly higher, each inch of water widely extending the area of destruction, desolution and ruin. Although the barometer Is rising rapidly, and bright sunshine Thursday succeeded the raging storms, a feeling of consternation, bordering on panic, prevailed when the authorities, who the day before promised the maximum of the flood for Thursday, Announced that this would not be reach until Friday morning. The city counsel at a stormy session Thursday night charged M. Lepine, prefect of Paris, with withholding the. true gravity of the situation. The prefect defended his attidude oy saying that he was governed by the necessity of not unduly alarming the people. In the meantime what is happen ing is enough to strike terror to the hearts of all. The very crust of the city seems ready to sink into the flooded subterranean labyrinth beneath. Every hour drains are bursting in new localities, , causing a subsidence of the street or bulging them up feet above their normul level, while the overflow of surface water from the river is transforming the Inundated districts into formidable lakes and the streets Into canals. In the Bercy quarter the wate* is ? six feet deep In the Btreets, and t he entire left bank of the Sein from above the islands to Au Teuil, comprising the law court Institute, the fashionable St. Germaine district, the foreign office, the chamber of deputies, and the Champs de Mars is submerged under from one to 10 feet of water. Some of the leputies left the Palace Bourbon Thursdf" night in row boats, others oa the backs of attendants, the wails of the invalides station are crumbling and both that structure and the wine x>f the foreign ofllce opposite are in .danger of collapse. The strec's surrounding the St. Lazare station have sunk three feet, and the situat.on there is regarded as despera'u. It is also feared that the founnaiion of the two big neighboring deportment stores are being undermined. The overflow of the broken sewers Into the flooded basements, menacing the health of the occupants and the smell of sewage is already permeating the buildings. Soldiers ari working desperately by the aid of torches, disentangling drift-wood above the Solferlno and Henry IV n.hllA rtf mnn unugOB, Willie Iai(;t) iuiu-9 ui men are still engaged in building dams to divert the course of the water. There was a further shut-down of electric light plants Thursday night, leaving the city in semi-darkness. The relief is proceeding bravely, none being refused food or shelter. Archbishop Aniiette has ordered prayers in the churches and a collection taken up for the victims. In spite of the crippled water supply the authorities say that the reservo! s are Intact and that there is no danger of a famine if the water is husbanded carefully and confined strictly to drinking purposes. At the same time a warnin is again issued that the water should be boiled. The situation below Paris is becoming appreciably worse. Th? stretch of water which engulfi Boulogne, Neuilli, Punteaux, Severes Malsons-I.afUte, Lnpocq, and Poissy is widening rapidly while farther be low the swollen Oise is pouring li new torrents over the Pontoise sec tlon. The weather everywhere through ont France has ameliorated and it 1 believed that the worst of the floo is past. No Americans are roporte injured. The artists and student for the most part live in the Latl quarter, which is on high grounc and the richer Americans generall reside In the neighborhood of th Rue do L/Etolle, the highest portlo of the city. The boulevard life of the gay Pai Ilslan has been suddenly sllence< Most of (he music halls remain opo but they are deserted. A hushe multitude sits In front of the boul< vard cafes. At a special meeting a few nlglil ago the board of health drew up li structlons for the prevention of a epidemic. The board especially li slits that none of the flooded housr must be re-occupied until they hav be it thoroughly disinfected, and th boUing and clothing, which hav been oontamlnated by flood wate: burned. The board announced that ther were 304,000 cable meters In th rescnrolrs, enough for several day . - ? / >./ ' ' ' S1 " |fc & g - ' ' DIED THREE TIMES 9UMERAL DENNIS' WIDOW SAYS HE HAS DIED LATELY While the Pension Office Had Him Dead Once in 1815 and Ouce Again in 1847. Zach McOee in hie letter to The State from Washington says a former South Carolinian. Sumeral Dennis, boars the record of the nearest approach to the nine lives of the cat. and the pension office is at work trying to figure out how many times he really has died. The Washington oiar prims me louewiug siory. which while the pension case is of special interest in Alabama, is still of interest in South Carolina ir there is anybody there now whose name is Dennis: "The officials of the pension office in Washington are accustomed to receive claim for pensions which are stranger than Action. They are at work on a claim made by Mrs. Summeral Dennis of Dadeville. Ala., which caused them no end of surprise. "Sumeral Dennis, it appears on the official records, died in 1815, after serving in the American army during the war of 1812, According to the records, he also died in 184 7 at the close of the war with Mexico, in which he also did good service. Now comes his v idow and declares that Sumeral Dennis died only a few years ago, having lived . to a ripe old age. "Senator Johnston of Alabama has taken much Interest in the claim and is pushing it before the senate committee on claims with the hope of winning the pension for the old lady, who lives now in Dadeville with her son. Perry C. Dennis, a prominent attorney. "If the pension claim goes through Mrs. Dennis will receive in the neighborhood of $3,000, including the back pension which Is due her. "Sumeral Dennis has a death record that few can beat. The officials In Washington are afraid that lie may yet be discovered alive. "Way back In 1812 he lived in South Carolina. During the second war with Great Ilritain, Mr. Dennis became a member of Cap. Beatty's company in the First regiment of the South Carolina militia. He served gallantly during the war. But, avrui iiniK iu iuc rccoros on me in Washington, he died his first death in 1815. "But, in spite of the fact that he was officially dead, Mr. Dennis, who was still a young man. moved to Alabama, where ho settled and lived prosperously until the Mexican war broke out. His old spirit for war was still alive, and he organized a company of volunteers himself and Joined the army of invasion. "After this war ho was officially reported dead for the second time. However, he lived to return to Alabama and to marry Mrs. Eva P. Dennis some years later. It is Mrs. j Dennis who is now seeking the pension. The old man was 9 4 years old when he died the third time. "When the officials in Washington raise the crticism of the claim that Mr. Dennis died after the Mexican war, before Mrs. Dennis claims to have married him, Senator Johnston points to tho fact that, according to the records, Dennis was dead in 1815, and yet the later records show him to have served in the Mexican war. "The senator argues , therefore, that if the records as to his death were wrong in the first instance, they might he wrong in the second, I ii ii u iimi wr KBnnis widow snouid know, If any one, when her husband died and if she married the shadow of a man." i and therefore there was little fear . of a water famine. All omnibuses, street cars nnd - other heavy traffic on the bridges j were stopped Thursday night. Prej mier Pryand declared that persons , who hoarded up provisions in the , affected places with the intention of . j reselling them at a profit, would be n drastically dealth with. The residence of United States Ambassador Paeon has become unt tenable and the fam'ly has removed s to the Mercedes hotel, d The Red Cross society, which ha? d | received a substantial check fronr s I Ambassador Paeon, established soui n kitchens for the destitute at a hun 1, dred points. Thursday afternoon Mr y Paeon called upon Foreign Ministei e Pinohon and informally tendered tin n svmnathv of the Aomrtenn irnvnrn ment nnd people, c- J. Pierpont Morgan has cable* 1. from New York tendering $20,000 i n outside contributions to their relle d would be accepted. The foundation: 3- of the National Porcelain factory a Saveres are sinking. Ls Thursday Paris resembled a be i- leagured city. The government o n the municipality has placed the mill i- tary barracks and public school buld >s ings at the disposition of the refugee, -e who already number, It ls estimated e more than 100,000. Fifteen thou e sand laborers of the city are out o r, work, and though subscriptions an pouring in, the government ha: e decided to ask parliament for ai e additional credit tc^ be used in relle s work. J i ILLICIT BOOZE MUCH OF IT MADE IN GREENVILLE'S DARK CORNER. During the Past Tear Revenue Officers Confiscated and Destroyed Over Twenty Stills a Month. Never in the history of South Carolina his Illicit whiskey distilling been so popular as la the year just past. So busy bavo the moonshiners oeeu that luu staff of United States deputies under command of Revenue Ollicer Merrick hare been going day ind night trying to find and destroy the stills from which comes most of the so-called "tanglefoot" which certain whiles and a great many more Carolina "darkies'* consider far superior, so fur as effect is concerned, 10 the strongest government approved stuff ever distilled in Kentucky or Tennessee. The South Carolina dispensary system may or may not be responsible ."or the activity of the moonshiners but it has been suggested that "the prohibition wave has had a wonderful effect on the 'moonshiners' in the re-establishment of their illicit business." During the year 1909 the revenue officers destroyed an average of 2 0 illicit distilleries a month, confiscating over 200,000 gallons of whiskey and low wines, including, of course, the white "csrn licker" that a negro preacher once described as "pow-ful po'in tais* but pow'ful god in de geelln's it gen'rates." It is in Greenville county, one of tho most prosperous cotton manufacturing centers in the Southern States that the appropriately named "dark corner' is found, and it is declnred that every half hour the moon stays behind a cloud means a gallon of whiskey for every minute. Revenue Officer Merrick says there is scarcely a day that his mon are not tipped off that some new still has started operations and is running full blast. Raids are of daily occurrance. The distilleries range from ten to 80 gallons in capacity and some are said to he tho finest copper stills ever manufactured. The "dark corner" of Greenville, however, has not a monopoly of the illicit whiskey trade by any means. Big outfits have been discovered and destroyed in Pickens, another of the mountain tier of counties, within the last few weeks,<and there was a "tip" a few days ago of a fine plant near Springfield, in Edgefieid county, the home of United States Sena tor Tillman. * LEXINGTON MAN'S CLOSE CALL. County School Superintendent Martin Comes Near loosing Life. County Superintendent of Education A. D. Martin of Lexington, came very near losing his life a few days ago, while attempting to cross Wateree creek in the Dutch Fork. Mr. Martin was on his way from Chapin to Spring Hill, and was not aware of the depth of the creek which was considerably swollen by the heavy rains of a few days ago. and before he had gone very far into the stream the current carried the horse and buggy down, and Mr. Martin had to swim to the shore. lie rushed to a house nearby and told of his experience, and two young men went to the creek to save the horse. The horse and were found Bome distance down the stream, and by heroic work the animal was cut loose from the buggy and hi ought to the bank in safety. The buggy was a complete wreck, and Mr. Martin went to Lexington horseback, arriving there about 6:30. This is said to be a very treacherous stream, others having had similar experiences. The heaviest rain of the season I fell in Lexington Friday morning, nccompanied by lightning, and reports form all over the county indicate that the streams are rising. Suicide Over in Sumter. Major Marion Moise, a leading lawyer and financier of Sumter, killed , himself with a Colt's revolver Sunday afternoon about 6 o'clock. He I had l?een iu bad health recently and this is supposed to have been the , cause of the tragedy. Shorty after 6 , o'clock this ovening, Dozier Lee, son j of R. D. Lee, Major Moise's partner, went into the office and discovered the major's dead body on a settee in P the centre of the office. In his right s hand which rested on his hip, was a . Colt's revovlver and in his right temple was a bullet wound that showed j conclusively the cause of his death. f Davis Moise, a son of the dead man f was summoned immediately and he s in turn called in Dr. Walter Cheyne. t the family physician. I)r. Cheyne said that death had resulted Instant. iy. f C., C. and O. Employees Killed. A dispatch from Bristol, Tenn., s says Rrakeman F. A. Thomas and , four laborers on a construction train - were killed a few nights ago, when f the train on the Carollaa, Clinch a field and Ohio railroad ran into a s slide near St. Paul, Va. The cai boose, in which the men were ridf lng was thrown over a high embank ment and landed in a river. * % CASH COT OFF Junketing Trips by Members of Congress Does No Good But WASTES LOTS OF MONEY Immigration Commission Scored Storm of Protest Aroused by Request for 9125,000 More?L*te Senator Latimer, of This State. Wns a Member. By cutting; off a deficiency appropriation of SI25,000 for the National Immigration Commission, the House Monday lent its support to seveial members, led by Representative Macon of Arkansas, who denounced the commission and its work and threatened it with immediate extinction. Unless friends of the com mission succeed in having the item restored to the urgency deficiency bill in the senate it will be compelled to suspend for lack of funds. The commission asked for the $125,000 ap propriation which it needed to wind up its work. Senator Dillingham of Vermont ie chairman of the commission, the other members being Senator Liuge, Representative Howell of New Jersey, Bennett of New York~and Burnett of Alabama; Prof. J. W. Jeuks of Cornell University, and William R. Wheeler of San Francisco. When the paragraph making the appropriation for the commission was reached during the consideration of the urgent deficiency bill Mr. Macon made a point of order against it on the ground that it was not a deficiency. Following this action came a general assault against the cum mission oy several members, Mr. Macon making a scathing attack on the body. Ho charged ihnt the commission had gone on a j.inkcting expedition abroad, had spent $657,993 and had accomplished practically nothing. "I am advised," said Mr. MacoD, "that this commission went abroad during the summer of 1907. and that no report of the trip has ever been published, and in my judgment will not, for it seems the trip was a pleasure junket for most of the members, rather than an informationgathering trip. The commission made no progress until forcei to do so by the late Senator Latimer ?>f South Carolina, who thn?atvtiu-1 to return home on the next steamer and inform the government on the floor of the senate that the commission intended merely to deiav immigration investigation. Messrs. Latimer, Burnett and Howell of the commission were allowed to go to work while the chairman told Mr. Wheeler, Bece.4. y uf the commission, to come wi*a inn. and enjoy himself, that to? immigration problem had been th ?roughl> investigated by the Indust:;*! commission OIlH thai nnl? ' ? * ?..u uuij uo nuu out* other knew the real purpose ot the commission. "I have heard that the au-llf.oi for the State department has rntered a protest against a certain moraber of the commission for charging up as part of his expense account amounts paid out by him for laundry, hair-cuts, shampoos, shines and r utomobile rifles for pleasure on the Appian way." ? Mr. Tawney, chairman of the appropriation commission, which reported the hill, condemned the principle of creating commissions with "permanent appropriations," but said he never had been able to stop that practice. Mr. Sabath of Illinois, Rutler of Pennsylvania, Rurnett of Alal>ama. who is a member of the commission, and others a'so spoke against the appropriation after which it was stricken out on Mr Macon's point of order. DOCTOR GAVE MAX POISON. He Won Asked l>y the Patient to Administer Deadly Drug. A dispatch from Rudapest, Hun b?says a sensational murder charge, involving the ever intricate problem as to the right of a doctor to kill an incurable patient, is absorbing public attention there. The accused man is Dr. Josept Fekete of Rosin jo, Hungary. H< admits having given poison to a pa tient at the latter's request. The victim has endured appallin; suffering f*>n ten years, and, hii malady being without remedy ant probably likely to entail many nion years of torture, the doctor admin istered poison with the full consen of the family, who were assembler at the bedside. A nursemaid had been listenlni at the door, and on her evidence Dr Fekete found himself charged witl the capital offense. The case is without precedent li the courts there, but with publli opinion wholly In favor of the pris oner It is not likely that he will b< severely punished. It's oetter to have a foolish belle that comforts you than a wise our that pains you. You cannot tell what a womai alms at by what she hits. " vv TT7'11 rv win uye Ladies' or Men's' Garments Cleaned Cleaned as C. C. Laundry a OOLUMBI Southern States but rm COL.U M E ENGINE STKIKKS WAGON. Two Mules Killed, Driver Hurt and Wagon Demolished. An engine on the Atlantic Coast Line struck a team of Mr. E. Albert Muldrow's at the Mount Hope Cemetery crossing near Florence Thursday afternoon about 2 o'clock, killing the two mules Instantly, demolishing the wagon completely, cutting off the leg of the negro driver of the team and seriously injuring Switchman Wilson. The engine, which was a switcher, was carrying a carload of coal to the Jersey's Creek pumping station, and was Running extra, with Engineer Herbert Rowell at the throttle. Tke. mules had gotten almost enfcierly across the track when the engine struck them. The mules were rolled along the track for about a hundred yards, and were killed outright. The wagon was scattered, in Darts. for twlfn that rllKtar it was a most miraculous thing that Wilson, the switchman, was not instantly killed, as he was sitting on the front of the engine when it struck the mules and wagon. The negro driver and Wilson were placed aboard of the engine and hurried hack to the city for medical treatment. At this time the driver is in a precarious condition, and it is doubtful if he will survive. THK NEW FKHTILIZKR. A discovery of far-reaching impei tance to the farmers of the South 1? the new fertiliser which has beei perfected on one of the islands near Charleston, S. C. It has long been known that lime te an essential food for plants of all kinds and that they cannot live when it has been exhausted from the soli. It has also been known that old worn-out lands are extremely deficient in lime, and that sour, badly-drained laadB have their lime is a for mthat is not usable by growing crops. Farmers' Bulletin No. 124, U. S Dept. of Agriculture, says: "All the applications of lime increased the yields The best yields were I obtained with the lime In the form of carbonate, the finely ground oys- > ter shells standing first Lime j ' with fori 11 Uov iwoo ? ' n <>o uiurv pniiliume I i than depending upon fertilizer alone." This new fertilizer which presents lime in itB most usable form Is made by a new process of burning oyster shells and using a burner that can supply potash. The result is a high grade fertilizer costing the consumer only $7.00 per ton. It reclaims worn-out lands in a marvelous manner if applied broadcast two month*' ahead of ammoniated goods. It's sweetening effects on sour lands Is almost magical. Charleston freight rates apply on this new fertiliser. The factory is located on Young's Island, S. C., hut all letters should be addressed to E. L. Commtn*. Sales Agent, Meggetts. S. C. Free descriptive circulars will he sent ?o any one on request. BARGAINS! BARGAINS! While They l?8t. ! 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