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DEALT DEATH ui Destruction to Hundreds of Miiers Down in the Mine WITHOUT ANY WARNINf Nearly Two Hundred W' ^ers Are Buried Alabama Mine. There Is Very Iiittle Hope that Any of the Vnfortunate People Escaped Death and Are Alive. Pnrt v.flvo orhlto moti nn/I hot oroon 13 0 and 145 negroes, are entomb- 1 ed In No. No. 3 coal mine at Palos, ( Ala., as a result of an explosion oc- , curring Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Palos Is forty miles west of I Birmingham, and the mines are owned by the Palos Coal and Coke Company, controlled by Drennen , Brothers, of Birmingham. State iMine Inspector blames Hillhouse, who is on the scene thinks all of the men in the mine are dead. Two bodies were found early Thursday night, but it Is expected that 1 few of them can be recovered before morning. The flames reaching from the explosion shot into the air from the mouth of the slope for two hundred feet, and the shock was felt, for miles around. Timbers from the slope were hnrled several hundred feet ' from the mine's mouth, and rocks from the roof of the slope caved in ana mane access 10 ine raouin very difficult. The fan machinery was badly damaged, but air Is being pumped into the mine in the hope that some of the men are still alive. Local rescuers at Palos began at once to do what they could, but relief work was not started In earnest until the special train from Birmingham arrived In Palos, shortly after four o'clock. This special train carried State Mine Inspector James Hillhouse, J. J. Rutledge. Government expert, In charge of the geological station at Knoxville, Trnn., w.ho happened to be in the district investigating the recent disaster at Mulga; eight physicians and surgeons, four undertakers and a number of special helpers. The hospital relief car of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, was also take?. This car contained helmets and all of the other necessary paraphernalia for entering gaseous mines. The first rescuers who went into the mine after the explosion, were overcome by fire-damp and had to be carried out. Mr. Rutlege was among the first to enter, and after working his w?y 1,400 feet down the slope, found a second right entry cave-in. The two bodies recovered were in the main slope. (James Gousby, a mall carrier, war killed thirty feet from the mouth of the slope, and his body was hurled thirty feet. It was judged from this that the force of the explosion was such that none of the men on the tuuer mile cuuia iKissiuiy oe aiive. There are a number of mining camps within two or three miles of the Palos mine, and within a short time after the explosion a great crown had gathered about the 11)fated slope. Hundreds of women and children were around the mine, wringing their hands and crying piteously. The Palos mines have been worked for a number of yearB, and the entries were extensive. The only hope that some of the men have escaped and are still alive lies in the possibility that they were far enough away from the explosion to have missed its force. It is thought that the explosion was caused by the accumulation of gas in some of 'he old abandoned entries, which are rarely visited. The Palos Coal and Coke Company is owned entirely by the Drennens, of Birmingham. The mines havo a capacity of over 600 torn and have done an enormous business for the past two or three years working night and day. The com pany was one of the few in the district which has always signed up with the miners" union, and they have always worked union miners only. The mines are in what is known as the Warrior bnsin, and are within two miles of Flat Top and thi Bessie mines, two of the larsrest anc most valuable mines in the district The disaster Is regarded as espe dally dlstresBln.g as coming so soot after the Mulga explosion, Thursdaj April 21, In which 41 men lost the!-, lives. The Red Cross and other re lief work for the widows and or phans at (Mulga has not yet beei completed. Two Government ex perts, J. J. Rutledge and George F Rice, have been in the district sinc< the Mulga explosion, investigating its cause and both of them hav< gone out to Palos. Big Shipment of Egg*. FYom Hickory Harris & Little on Monday shipped 180 crates or f>,100 dozen eggs?a big carload. This it said to be the largest shipment evei going out of this leading egg emporium of North Carolina. WASTED PUBLIC MONEY 3B5N. BOYD MAKES THIS CHARGE AGAINST BROCK. Ind Calls for an Investigation of the Expense Account and Action of that Gentleman. A statement issued on Wednesday it Columbia by Adjutant General Boyd, asks that Governor Ansel appoint a court of inquiry to investigate the expense account of Col. W. r. Brock, the assistant general, that was incurred by inspecting the militia of the State. n is cnargea oy ueuerai juoyu that Colonel Brock has wasted the money of the State. It is asked that Colonel Brock's other actions as an officer of the State ?e investigated. Both are in the race for adjutant general. General Boyd recently attacked Colonel Crock in a statement with reference to politics. Colonel Brock Immediately asked for a court of inquiry. Governor AnBel refused to discuss the situation. The statement follows: To the People of South Carolina: "W. T. Brock, my assistant during the past several days, has spent Beveral hundred dollars more than was necessary in making the inspections of the State militia. "He has wantonly wasted the State's money, and I hereby call upon him to give proof that he spent $12 and $33.50 (for two dayB) for hotel hills at at any hotel in South Carolina. "The United States has made the inspections of the State militia for the past several years. His expenses traveling over the same route as C lonel Brock's were as follows: 7. $140; 1908, $144; 1909, "'.->6.62. The first year that Color' ! Brock made the inspections of the State militia he spent $400. Bast e:r he spent $420. This year he ".lew out $500. His accounts on the surface appear to be in a tangled condition. "I would like for him to explain the matter of lending the United States army officer who accompanied .him the sura of over $180. By what right did the State of Sou'h Carolina have to defray the expense of a regular United States army officer? His itemized accounts show that he claimed to have purchased fni?r milpurp hnnlro I wnnlH lilro for him to show to the public of South Carolina where he traveled 4,000 miles in making the inspections. "He has extravagantly spent the money of the State and his Itemized statements of expense will not bear investiga ions. "I hereby call upon Governor Ansel to appoint a court of inquiry to make an investigation of the expense accounts and other acts Colonel Brock hub committed while in the service of the State as assistant adjutant general. J. C Boyd." BOY KIDXAI'lTl) 1UMEEF. Started for the West After He Had Seexi Moving Pictures. In New York Harry Spindle, a bri9k little boy of 13 years, is being held by the Children's Society on his own confession that he kidnapped himself, terrorized his parents with blackhaud letters, and then, when they failed to procure the money he needed toget west, invented a get-rich-quick scheme that netted him $100 in lees than a week. A string of sad little girls, his tools, and their angry mothers, his victims, corroborated his story. 'Harry's plan, as told by himself was to find some little girl on the street, atter her with news of how her father had Just been elected president of a lodge, and then get the mother to borrow $3, $4 or $f? from the corner grocer to buy flowers for a surprise to father when he came home. Then Harry would offer to run to the orists with the money, but he never came back. With his pal, Arthur Gulden, 12 year3 old, Harry left home more than i week ago, fired with an ambition to go west, after having seen a thrilling moving picture show. The Iloyd-Hrock Itow. The Boyd-Brock row continues to jxcite a certain measure of interest it the State House. Thursday Adjt 3en. Boyd sent Col. Brock a comnunication stating that his resignaion would be accepted. Col. Brock leolareB that he will not act upon .his request, and he does uot contlder that Gen Boyd Is qualified to nake It, holding that such *a reluest should come from the Govern>r, and for cause. Elephant Kills Trainer. One circus employe was killed and mother fatally Injured as the result >f an outbreak of an elephant at Vlarietta, Ohio, Monday. Samuel Montgomery, an animal trainer, w.ib rampled by the infuriated beast and fatally hurt. Wm. Evans took refuge on top of a wagon but fell from t during the excitement, suffering a thuahed skull. He died a few minites later. A thing of beauty is a Joy until the styles change. % SAVE THE GIRLS White Slaves Are Beiog Bought and Sold on the New York Market. DEALERS RAN TO EARTH Two Young Earnest Women Workers Make Most Pevolting Discor erics and Uncover the Vilest and Most Horrible of TrafTics and Bring the Guilty Fiends to Justice. The New York World says white slavery in that city was shown to t>e a real, hideous Tact in the last f *w days. The following proof of the above we take from the World: After three months of careful planning by District Attorney Whitman and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., foreman of a Grand Jury now in session. four girls were bought in NewYork by an Assistant District-Attorney and two courageous women, graduates of Smith and RadclifTe Colleges, who had worked with the Rockefeller Grand jury on the cases. The girls were purchased in the open market The IVistrict-Attorney has the receipts for the money paid for them. The were sold with the direct understanding that they were to be carried to Alaska for immoral purposes. They were sold as slaves, without any reservation, according to the evidence in the possession of the District-Attorney. lEaeh of the girls gave her age officially as sixteen and seventeen years old. One girl when found by tho authorities cried bitterly for a half hour because she had been taken so quickly from a home of vice that she did not bring her doll. Another little girl cried equally hard for her Teddy bear. Three arrests have already been made in the cases and other arrests are predicted by the District-Attorney within a short time. The first was that of Harry Levenson, 2 7 years old, living at No. 16 East 3rd street. The District-Attorney charges that through the agency of Assistant District Attorney James B. Reynolds. and the two college women two girls were purchased from him. The second arrest was that of Belle Moore, a negress, living at No. 34 8 West Forty-first street. The District Attorney charges that two white twirls were nnrchased from her last week by the same agents. In connection with the woman's arrest the District Attorney stated that not o?ie-quarter of the facts could be made public at this time. Dnter In the evening Alex Anderson, who is employed in the Union Cafe in Broadway, near Fortieth street, and which is said by the officials to be under the management of George Consldine, was arrested. The officials admitted that warrants are out for several other persons, but said they did not expect any more arrests before morning. While the arrestB were being made the police were searching all the hospitals in the city for an eleven year old girl, who had been bargained for and who, it is declared, would have been sold but for the fact that she became so ill because of mistreatement in an immoral resort that she had to be sent to a iuospital. There is reason to believe that the girl has been found and will tell her story later, but her whereabouts are being kept secret. The investigation was made by the grand jury and Mr. Rockefeller, who each devoted a large sum of money to the search for the root of the white slave trade. It was found for them by two young college women who had devoted thems"lves to the interests of their distressed sisters. They went to Alaska, where the traffic is fierce, and there got acquainted with thcunder world and with the people who trafficed in debauchery. They got in touch with their correspondents in all parts of the country, and iinally got letters to parties In New York, the state for which they were working. They returned home, took the district attorney's office into their confidence, and with a member of the grand jury nailed the trafticers beyond question, as reported above. They found that fownerly white girls could be bought for $5 to $r?0, but the activity of the grand juries all over the country had made the price of these articles of commerce rise, so that the dealers claimed $200 for the great risk that they ran. They found also that little white mns were orougiiT ana soul lor debauchery to white men or negroes. They found many things most revolting and sensational, but they will not talk much until the cases are brought to trial. The recitation of much that is published, even now may well mak?? one question w.hether this is a christian country or not? Village destroyed. The village of Plymouth, six miles southwest of Emporia, Kansas, is reported to have been destroyed by a tornado Monday night. Plymouth is a small town with 400 population and on the Santa Fo railroad. All wires are down. / THAT COTTON POOL SENATOR SIMMONS ARRAIGNS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Which, He Said, Had Only Undertaken to Prosecute the Boosters of Cotton Prices. In a speech delivered in the Senate Wednesday Senator S?mmons, of North Carolina, attacked the methods of the department of justice in tb?e matter of its prosecution of the cotton pool. He did not complain because of the suits, but because the cotton producers and spinners had been inovlved in the matter. Compla'ninp of partiality in the enforcement of the Sherman antitrust law, Mr. Simmons said that in undertaking: to prosecute the bulls and not the bears, the department had undertaken only a partial prosecution. He said that the proceeding; amounted to a usurpation of authority. Senator Simmons made oitter complaint against a course which he said had had the effect of placing the real cotton men iu the light of speculators when the efforts had been in exactly the opposite direction. "If the cotton spinners of the country will co-operate in the same line which ihe cotton spinners of the South are pursuing, all the exchanges of the country will be on a spot basis instead of a paper basis." he said. He contended that contracts for future sales of cotton should be for a real and not tJ^sham delivery." The Attorney General's attitude toward the price of cotton was sharply criticlced. He said that official had attacked prices not because of the pool, but because he considered them a national evil. "He has the whole matter wrong: prices are not abnormally high," said Mr. Simmons, they are certainly not above the level of prices fixed by the tariff and in the interect of monopoly." He said there had been no protest from the Attorney General when the bears had squeez ed $15 out of the price of sotton. He contended that the hiprh prices of the present day were due to short crops and other natural causes. He said prices were not high enough, and he thou&ht they would go higher. "And the Attorney General cannot prevent that, whatever proceedings he may institute in the interests of foreign buyers," he added. Mr. Simmons refused to concede this Government the right to interfere with the purpose of affecting the price of the staple. "It is as startling as it is unpatriotic and it Is as unpatriotic as it i6 untenable," he declared, speaking of the Attorney General's course. As our chief article of export, he declared, that the price of cotton should be kept up. He said that while the South always would be the tirct to receive the benefit of any increase the whole country would profit. DElHiOUKS CHRISTIAN DIVISIONS llishop Anderson I'rges Unity in K v an gel i zu t io n. "Enough energy and money are wasted by rival railway and overlapping of the different denominations in America to preach the Gospel to the entire world. We must get together and stop this waste.' Thus spoke Hishop Charles P. Anderson, of Chicago, before the 'Men s National Missionary Congress in that cuy weanesaay. "Our divisions are unohrlstlanllke and unstabcsmanlike, the speaker continued. "They are unchristian, for Christlike Christians cannot be kept apart. A reunited church posessessed with faith and zeal would be irresistible. It could evangelize the world in a generation. Let us spend our lives and money unifying the church and in universalizing the Gospel of Christ." Ml'KDKIlKltS IDENTIFIED. By One of the Men They Attempted to Assassinate. It begins to look as if the two negroes who held up a car, murdering the motorman, and dangerously wounding the conductor, near Atlanta, Ga.. some time ago has been causrht. Willie .tohnnnn nnd fhnrtio Walker, haye been identified by Conductor Walter (Bryson as the assailants of himself and Motorman S. T. Brown. Brown was killed on spot. Almost by a miracle Bryeon, who was shot through and through, ia fast on the road to recovery. He will be released from the hospital within a day or two. Bryson, who never faltered once In hiB identification, says the negro Jackson shot him and tnnt Walker killed Brown. A Fatal Fall In the collapse of a scaffold on which the bricklayers were working at the new Central of Georgia Railway shops (Monday at Macon, Ga., four men were injured, one of them dying a few hours later at the Macon Hospital. Without a moment's warning the temporary structure gave way, and the men fell a distance of about fifty feet. / FARMERS UNION Meet in Convention at St. Loais to Discuss General Matters. W. J. BRYAN WILL SPEAK The Assembly Represents Millions of American Producers.?President Barrett Sounds High Note for the Planters.?Farmers Should Command nnd Not Beg. The joint convention of the Farmers' Educational and Co-operative I Union of America, the American Society of Equity and 400 subsidiary organizations opened in St. Louis on Monday morning. Ninety addresses are on the program, which concludes Saturday night, with an address by W. J. Bryan. Samuel Compere, president of the American Federation of Labor, spoke Monday afternoon and outlined his plans for bringing about a new political party through an affiliation of the farmers with the laboring men. President Barrett in opening the meeting made an e-xcellent speech He began his speech by saying that as the "representative of 3,000,000 militant American farmers, whose organized army rests one flank upon the Atlantic and the other upon the Pacific ocean, 1 give to you a cordial greeting, which shall know no boundaries of State or section, no narrowness or political partisanship or bigotry, but a tolerance as broad as justice and as wide as that sincerity that underlies our common heritage of American citizenship." Among other things he said: "the American farmer of tradition has been the farmer of the more of less humorous cartoon or caricature, variously represented as fair pr?-y to the green goods man or the gold brick artist. And the farmer has been slow in awakening. His environment. in the first place, was against his awakening. The tardiness of facilities for communication, the infrequency with which newspapers penetrated to the far rural districts, and the natural suspicion, which is a part of his temperament all militated to keep him in shackles as to his own power, and his duty of self-government in the premises. "The CTa of sleep is at an end' The era of wakefulness to self-duty, to the obligation of self-help, to the obligation of duty to country is already dawning! I do not say that the farmer as a class is roused to his national importance and to his notional obligations. Rut I do assert, with all the emphasis at my command, and supported by all the experience of a lifetime, that, the leaven or readjustment of revolutionary change is stirring throughout the mass of the American farmer." After stating that vandalism and gTaft are being eliminated from our political iife, the speaker said: "We are standing more resolutely each day for a literal interpretation of the doctrine of the 'square deal.' We are determined that the people and not the politicians shall rule. The Farmers' union is responsible both for the awakened farmer and the awakened nation, as regards the farmer. Pleading for sincere, constructive leadership among the farmers. President Barrett said in the degree thnt this pervails, now and in the days to come, "we shall solve the agriculf il rn 1 nnrt\lovl n cr f h ? Iwiet and most consecrated thought of this country." He said the seltit.h leadership is inevitable incendiary and destructive. "For it is almost criminally selfish aims it is willing to turn the farmer against his neighbor against his merchant, against the banker, against the resident of the city. It is ledership for revenue only, without one redeeming aspiration. "A distinct part of t.he rural problem is the cultivation of a better and a more cooperative spirit between the citj man and the country man. After all, they have almost everything in common. We are both interested in the curbing and purging, not the destruction, of great agencies of civilization. We are i>olh interested In building up a more staunch American citizenship, free of pollution from damneing alien strains, bred and brought up to fulfill the ideal of pure and militant Americanism. And unless we realize this close mutual relations we shall both suffer." Speaking of the campaign of the Farmers' union for the enactment of certain national legislation, Mr. Barrett said: "Politicians in general have paid and are paying more attention to the farmer, and that is because the farmer is paying more attention to the politician. Once let the public officer conceive the idea that be is being watched continually by his constituent, and that the latter is carefully comparing promise with performance, and we shall elevate the standard of public service in this country. "I have urged upon Farmers' un: ion members to refuse to let their I attitude toward their congressmen I be colored by any trival gifts on the j part of the congressmen, the bribery of a petty office for a relative, or a cordial hanshake from the great man TILLMAN IN AUGUSTA IS Ql'lTK FKEHLR RUT IS LOOKING VERY WELL. The Visit of the Senior Senator Was of a Personal Nature, but Took a Shot at Teddy. The Augusta Chronicle says Senator Tillman was in Augusta for a few hours Tuesday, and while there ** was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Morrison. Senator Tillman was accompanied by his wife. The object of his visit was of a nersonal mitnro to look after the improvement of certain property of his in the city. ? nntor Tillman was seen by a reporter of The Chronicle just before boarding the train Tuesday afternoon for his home. The senator, though somewhat feeble, and lacking the accustomed heartiness of handshake, was very cordial in his answers to questions regarding his health. Having found that his visit was purely of a personal nature, the reporter asked Senator Tillman if he had kept up with the happenings of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt. The senator's look and silence spoke more than any amount of sarcasm or ridicule could have done. After a few minutes he mildly replied that he no longer tried to keep up with Roosevelt, that in his family the newspapers were read to him, but all reference s to Roosevelt were skipped. "He is the grandest fakir in the world," said the senator, "and he has the best staff of press agents that there Is In the world." IWhen asked to talk further upon topics of the day, especially the switch of Republican strongholds to Democratic strongholds, the senator asked to ' ercused, pleading weariness. His friends in Augusta were glad to learn that the senator was well enough to make the trip to Augusta. He came to Augusta from his home in Trenton, S. C., and returned there Tuesday afternoon. Sl'MTKlt MAX SITCIDKS. Charles S. I'oole Knds His Life by Taking Poison. Anothern suicide has occurred at Sumter. leaving a sealed not addressed to his wife, the contents of which is unknown, and with no known reason for the agt, Charles S. Poole died (Monday at the Hotel Sumter, at 3 o'clock, from the effects of a large dose of bicloride of mercury. which he administered to himself. Mr. Poole, who is a native of Sumter, but who has made his homo ^ away for the past several years, was in the city on a visit. To all outward appearances he was his normal self, and there was no reason to suspect his rash act. Sunday night he registered at t-ho Hotel, was assigned to a room, hut oefore retiring, he went into tho writing room and there wrote a letter, which afterwards proved to bo the one addressed to his wife. Ho went to .his room after 2 o'clock, and shortly before three, a bell boy was summoned to his room. He was found in a horribly nauseated condition, and Instructed the boy to phone for his w'fe, and to luform her that .he was dying. Mrs. Poole was summoned and a physician sent for at once, every possible effort being made to save him, but he succomed to tho terrible ravages of the drug at three o'clock Sunday afternoon, Just twelve hours after it was administered. Poole was twenty-seven years old. KKl'MOX OF VKTKKANS. The Old Confuds Will Meet in Spartanburg in August. Spartanburg is getting ready for 11.r^.,1 raunlnn At -l ir.int meeting of committees from Camp Joe Walker, of the Confederate Veterans, the city council and the Chamtier of Commerce, held Thursday morning, August 17 and 18 were tho dates set for the annual reunion of Confederate Veterans, to be held in that city. These three bodies will cooperate in making all arrangements for the entertainment of the old soldiers and arranging a programme for the reunion. It is thought t' at reunion this year will tie the lnrgest that the Veterans have ever held in this state, and the city of Spartanburg Is making plans for giving them a royal welcome. Alulmmn l/Ocal Option. Alabama had an ?lection on Tuesday and the returns from sixty-seven counties show that Emmet O'Neal? local optionist was nominated for Governor in the Democratic primary held in that State by a majority of 1,200 over his opponent, H. S. D. Mallory. Mallory ran on a state-wide prohibition platform. himself. The test of worthiness of continued endorsement at the polls is deeds, not flattery, and that man is a traitor to his country and to bis Ideals who betrays his fellows by considering a public obligation cancelled by a private favor.