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|S_ _ KING DEAD Edward, the Seventh, of England, Passes to His Eternal Reward AFTER SHORT ILLNESS Sarrvundpd by Queen Alexandra and Members of the Koyal Family His Majesty Succumbed to Attack of Pneumonia Following Ilronchitis. Prince of Whales Become King. King Edward VII, who returned to England from a racatlon 10 days' ago in the best of health died at 11:45 Friday night In the presence of his family after an Illness of less than a week, which was serious hardly more than three days. The Prince of Whales succeeded to the crown immediately, according to the laws of the kingdom, without 1 official ceremony. His first official act wae to dispatch to the lord mayor the announcement of his father's death, In pursuance of custom. His telegram read: "I am deeply grieved to Inform you that my beloved father, the king, passed away peacefully at 11.45 tonight. (Signed) "George." The physicians soon afterwards issued their official bulletin, which was as follows: 1 "May 6, 11.50 p. m. His majesty, the king, breathed his last at 11.45 tonight in tbv> presence of her majesty. Queen Alexandra, Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Royal, the Duchess of Fife, Princess Victoria and Princess Louise, the Duchess of Argyll." Pneumonia, following bronchitis Is believed to have been the cause of death, but the doctors thus far have refused to make a statement. Some of the king's friends are convinced that worry over the critical political situation which confronted him, with 816*1)1688 nights, aggravated If It did not cause the fatal illness. Besides the nearest relatives In England, the Duke of Fife and the Archbishop of Canterbury were in the death chamber. The king's brother, the Duke of Connaught. with his family, is at Suez, hastening home from Africa. The king's daughter, ^ueen Maud of Norway, will start for England at once. The Intelligence that the end of # King Edward's reign had come was not a surprise at the lust. The people had been exptctlng to hear it at any moment since the evening bulletin was posted at Buckingham palace and flashed throughout the kingdom. The capital received it without excitement, but sadly, for the kind with his own people was unquestionably one of the most popular rulers in the world. They regarded him as one of the strongest forces making for the stability of the peace of the empire. The fashionable restaurants were Just emptying and a few groups of Sate theatre-goers were making their way home-ward through the ruin, while a small crowd still hung about the palace, when the streets were filled suddenly with newsboys shrilly crying: "Death of the King!" The papers were quickly seized and tht people discussed the momentous event quietly and soon dispersed. The streets were deserts by one o'clock. i 'V/ithin a few moments after the deaMi of .he king the home ofllce telegraphed the intelligtnee to the heads of other governments and the diplomats and colonial offices over the world. Almost to the end, the King refused to take to his bed and was sitting up Friday in a large chair, so the palace stories go, corrol>ornting the description of him as an unruly patient, which Dr. Ott gave at a Vienna reviewer In the evening. One of the last utterance attribute the King: "Well, It Is all over; but I think I have done my duty." lie seemed then to have reached a full realization that his end was fast approaching. The queen and others of the royal family and four doctors had been constantly in the sick room throughcut tho day. Several hours before his death, the king was In a comatose condition, hut he rallied slightly between 9 and 10 o'clock, and aptpeared to recognize his family. Then Le lapsed in o unconsciousness. which ended in his passing. They Are Held. The Servian government has rek ceived a dispatch from Uskuh stern tion that a number of foreign ? wejj|6 paper men r?i>orting the war in Albanla were seized by the Albanians at Katchanik Pass some days ago and carried off to a lonely and almost V inaccessible place in the mounW tains. ' Attacked by Pirates. Moro pirates attacked a settlement in the Ceieebs, and killed a number of tradors and natives. The pirates are now surrounded on the Island of Mnnks. A Dutch cruiSei is assisting in the attack upon the pirates. FOUL DEN OF VICE WHERE YOUNG GIRLS WERE ENTICEI) AND RUINED By a Man Who Claimed to be the Special Representative of God on Earth. Oom, tho Omnipotent, alias Peter Coon, alias Pirro Barnard, higb priest of the Tantrik Order of Worship. was hold in $15,000 bond for trial In the Court of General Sessions at New York, on charges of seduction under promise to marry. "I And that the charge has been fully sustained," said Magistrate Breen Saturday, at the close of the preliminary hearing. "There was not only systematic but scientific seduction. This girl, (Gertrude Leo,) of Seattle, oae of the two complainants. has been inveigled Into a den of iniquity for the purpose of perpetrating a shameless outrage. She has been murderod, I say, in every respect, save physical murder, and I shall not reduce the bail I fixed when I first read the complaint, before the testimony showed the dangerous character of this man and his practices." Tho testimony of Miss Leo went into details, which made the girl's sister, Mrs. Edward H. Miller, who Introduced her to Oom in good faith, believing that he ootild restore her health, weep with rage and shame as she listened, and during crossexamination grow so beside herself that she made a motion to hurl a glass of water at the head of counsel for the defence. Court attendants led .her from the room and she apologized when she re-entered. LMiss Leo said she met Oom first on met Oom in Seattle on January 0:1 January 21, 19u?), and that he induced her to come East wltn him by promises to give to her free treatment and a musical education in return for her services as his stenographer. She understood that she would Live with his sister. In point of fact, when she came to New York she was quartered in a flat with two women inmates of the Tantrik order, one of whom was known by one of Oom's aliases. Oom took her down to the Battery the first day she arrived and talked, while they looked out over the sea. of tho differences between "simulative and real phenomena." The ability to produce deceptive appearances, he said, was a simulative phenomenon, the power to influence tho souls of others was a real phenomenon. He had both l>owers. "I am not a real man," Gertrude Leo testified Oom told her; "1 am a god, but I .have condescended to put on tho habit of a man that I may perform the duties of a yogi, and reveal true religion to the elect of America." |m ivais, win coniinuea, "have sacred nautch girls. In my sacred capacity I cannot marry, but our nauch girls ? eve us as wives. It is the duty of the palest to give her all the world's best goods. She Is looked upon as sacred." Gertrude consented to become a sacred nauch girl, she testified. She jabbed a steel pen into the palm of J\er haud and wrote her name In blood on the roster of the order. I l?oth feared and loved him, she swore. He made mo l>elieve he could communicate with priests of the Order all over the world, who would sit in council at his command and take away my mind if I did not obey him. I complained but I submitted." The girl described the rites of the Order, which was based, she said, on sex worship, as they were practiced in the large room, where, on the night of the raid, the police found a class of men and women. Further testimony was that the Order of Tantrik worship is widely spread in America, and that the international journal of the Order has several thousand sul>?cril>ers. who pay two dollars each annually. Copies ol this magazine were found in the house when it was raided, * (iAVE l l? T1IK FICillT. "Whi?n a Man's IH>\vn and Out Iff Time to yiiit." At Chicago J. Henry Hall, a carpenter, 5P. years old, committed suicide in his room at a lodging house Tuesday by drinking carbolic acid He left a letter addressed to a fellow carpenter, which reads: "When a man is down and out, in a land of plenty, and cannot even gel a meal, it is time to quit. I went lasl night to the Moody church and aftei the servico I asked one of the minis ters for aid. "Ho opened his pocketbook, as h( did his heart, and gave me 25 cents l nought the acid with t.hat 25 cents If you ever see him thank him foi me. I ought to write to him t< thank him. but I have not the time.' Meet Horrible l)eat!?. Answering to the call of Juty three of Macon's best firemen me ? a horrible death at an ear?y nou Friday morning, being killed oul " right, when the tire on the city' ' new auto engine exploded on th 1 , way to a Are. ( UI1'.. -1X1) nil l I0i I II mill I mi irp - I-J- iru-.-r-rr *1u- M. FIFTEEN KILLED And Fifty Injured by a Fearful Explosion at Powder Plant GROUND WAS STREWN With Headless, Armless and I/crIchs BotWes, Iloniains of tliosc Watching Fire at Kxplosive Works 1 before Flames Heaehed Main Magazine. Mimv lliiililimru UrMu<lriwl An explosion, wliic.h late Sunday afternoon wrecked the plant of the General Explosives Company of Canada, situated a mile from Hull. Quebec., and four miles from Ottowa, kilkxl 15 persons and injured 50 others. The force of the explosion was ferifllc. The country for miles around was laid waste and many small dwellings In the city of Hull, ou the side nearest the scene, was flattened to the grounds. A baseball game was <n progress a short distance from the powder works, when a fire was seen in one of the small buildings of the powder plant, and the crowd began to swarm up the 'hill to get a better viow of the blaze. Warning of the danger came to t.he on-lookors in two minor explosions, soon after the Are got well under way. A shower of sparks and fragments of the wrecked building fell among tho spectators, an-d there was a scurrying out of what was considered the danger zone. "Some men in the crowd, aware of the |H)ssibilities of the danger when the main magazine was reached, pleaded with the crowd to go still farther back and many of them heeded the warning. The baseball game broke up and the remainder of the spectators and the players rushed up to join the crowd at the fire. It was then that tho magazine exploded. There were two stunning detonations. Everything within a radius of a mile and a half was torn and shattered. Gigantic trees were snapped off close to the earth; learns and dwelling houses were converted into kindling wood and even in Ottawa, four miles from the scene, hundred of plate glass windows were broken. 'The scene where the crowd from Phe ball field stood resembled a battlefield. Headless, armless and legless 'bodies were lying about among si-uri's 01 uuconscious rorniH. 10 me few who retained a flicker of consciousness it appeared as tho more than a hundred had been killed. The terrific shock brought thousands of terror-stricken people into the streets of Hull. Some thought it was an earthquake, while others cried out that Halley's couiet had struck the earth. In Ottawa, four miles from the scene of the explosion, the terror-inspired was scarcely less than at Hull T.he earth trembled, buildiugs shook and hundreds of windows were shattered. The great c'.oud of siuoke, which mounted in a column over | Hull, quickly Lndicated the tru--1 cause of the terrific shock. Hideau Hall, the official home of Karl Grey, and the buildings on Parliament Hill caught the full force of the explosion, being two miles nearer tho powder plant than the main section of the city. Every window in Kidean Hall was blown out and two great stone chimneys toppled over. The Parliament buildings was also greatly damaged. Rideau Hall is still occupied by Karl Grey and his family. The whoi ? vice regal establishment fled panicstricken to the street. Thev were soon assured that tliere was no fur( titer danger. As soon as K irt Grey i learned of the extent of the disaster he ordered a detatohment of troops sent across the rivet to help the authorit ies. The building In which the main explosion ocurred was built of solid stone, t'he walls being two feet thick. Fragments of stone weighing tip to a half ton shot through th-^ air for a quarter of a mile, shattering frame dwellings of workmen, which run to within an eighth of a mile to the factory. In a homo just north of the works two sisters named Carrier, 18 and 19 ' years old, were killed while sitting a< the supper table. John Blanch' field, was sitting with his wife In 1 the door of his home, when a frag1 ment of rock snufT d out his life, but [ left his wife unharmed. T.he head of a lad named Fabien was cut clean from his i?ody. Louis McCain, a ? laliorer. was crushed hv a fallina fragment. A little boy and a girl, round dying together, crushed ber yond recognition, have not so far 5 been identified. Very Heavy Itain. The heaviest rainfall in years fell in Greenville for the twenty-four \ .hours ending at 8 o'clock Sunday 1 morning, eight and one-foalf inchet r ring locoiu d by the Government weather man. Many bridges have s been washed away in Oreenvilh e county, and crops are badly dam I aged. JAP OFFICER A*HERO LIEUTENANT TAKES RLAME FOR LOSS OF SURMA KINE. His Note Found in the Conning Tower When the Vessel Was Raised to the Surface. Death news from, the bottom the sea. showiuc a deeree of h^r.iicm and self-humiliation seldom encountered even ia naval circles, is recountored in connection with the loss of the Japanese submarine, No. fi, when it foundered while maneuvering in Hiroshima bay, all on board being loss. In the message, which was fouud in the conning tower, Lieut. Tsutomv Sakuma, commanding ofllccr, explained that he alone was responsible for the disaster to the craft and the death of his fellow officers ai-d men. He tells of the desperate struggle made by the men and then ; include* "It is with the deepest regret that I write this message to describe the loss of th's boat, with my fellow officers and men, due to my own tault. I wo aid here especially mention that all stcpB have been taken to ;a\ie her. comrades a.in men working earnertly and calmly '; J the end. I ordered the shi,? to uive with the engine running, but, as I found she went down too far, I tried to shut the valves which admit the sea water, but unexpectedly the chain working these valves broke, and I was left helpless, unable to control the boat. "I earnestly beseech His Majesty to grant me forgiveness and to succor the families of my comrades and men who have lost their lives in this perishing boat. This is my only wish?12.30 p. m. "It itl with th?e utmost difficulty that 1 can breathe, though I am sure we must have blown out the gasoline entirely front the tanks. I cannot continue any more?12.40 p. m.* OON'Jl'HED 1JY HMll ENEMY. Negro Ciirl Thinks She Was Made to Eat Smoke Dust. (Leila Davis, a colored girl at Durham, N. C.. has been very ill under the belief that she has been conjured by 'her rival. The girl and her Llaek beau quarrelled some time ago and patched up a miserable peace. Not long since the Davis girl l>egan to complain that, internally there wore living things that hit .her. She found out that her rival had conjured her. Thereupon she went for Silas Hamilton, and old conjureJbreaker of Raleigh. a negro with forty years' experience. His diagnosis was that the girl had eaten snake dust which her enemy must have powdered up and giv< n her in liquid fortn. Dr. Silas says that snake dust will invariably evolve itself into live reptiles as soon as it finds moisture In the human economy and that unless one gets it out quickly, he must die. |He has cured thousands, and he thinks the Davis girl will recover. The snake dust is made by powdering the dried 'hide of the serpent fine. As a medication It is said to he something fierce and the woman who administered it evedently knew what it would do. A STHANdH ACCIDENT. Klustrd Stone Fulls oil House Killing Two I'?ople. A 500-pound blast of stone from an overcharge of dynamite used in blasting at the Evans quarry, 6 miles from Murphy. N. C., on the L. and M. road, landed on the roof of Chas. Guthrie's dwelling Saturday ahout 1 o'clock, crashing through the light roof, instantly killing Mrs. Guthrie, and her 8-year-old child. The Guthrie home stands near the place of Masting and frequently through the day large quantities of stone .have fallen upon the housetop. Mr. Guthrie and wife had just finished dinner when they entered the bed room, next door, and sat down for a rest. The .heavy mass of granite seemed to have kept compact in the air. It made splinters of the roof. Mr Guthrie and one of the children escaped with their lives alhtou&h the> were only a few f et from the victims. * Made I tig Until. At C-harleston on Friday the dis l> nsary constables cantured thre< trarrels of half pints and 50 quartc of whiskey, hidden among a lot o meat in the market. Tin? constahlei also captured about 50 gallons o liquor at a farm, in the suburbs o the city, making a total of al>ou 100 gallons which the force has pick ed up in two days. 1 Shot for Ten CViits. In a dispute over ten cents, whlcJ i arose While the parties were gamb ling, Mel Wicker Sunday mornin i shot and probably mortally wounde s Knoch Bridges in the St. Phillip' - section of Newberry county, l>ot, parties being colored. MANY ARE DEAD Fifteen Hundred People Were Crashed to Death at Cartago by VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE I Citizens Caught by Hundreds and Slain.?Thousands Panic Stricken. Troyo, the Great Costa Kiean Poet, Among the Dead.?People Pinned Under Timbers Died Horribly. The terrible earthquake at Cartago, Costa Rico, was more destructive than at first reported. The list of dead now tinmhorn n<u i?od than 1,500. The city was destroyed by an earthquake which lasted four seconds. It was a tremendous movement which followed a few minor shocks, during the day. It occurred at seven o'clock Wednesday evening. No one had time to run out of the houses, which fell crushing to the streets. Had the great shock come during the sleeping hours hardly any could have escaped. The railroad and telegraph lines were broken and the electric light wires fell, leaving the city in darkness. Thousands ran panic-stricken in all directions, in an effort to save themselves. Every house was totally destroyed, including four churches and the imlnce of the American peace court, the gift of Andrew Carnegie. Some Americans are reported to have been killed, but Identification, even by the records, is at present impossible. The foreign colonies set at>out at once to organize rescue movements and worked strenuously to save those who were pinned down by the wreckage. No medical aid could be obtained and the survivors suffered greatly from the lack of food and water. Many died, suffering terribly. Entire families have been wiped out. Rafael Angel Trovo. the Costa Rican poet, whose works are known in many countries, is among the dead. Tht college of the Sllcsian priests fell w.hile the priests and children were at prayer. Two priests and ten children were killed. The earthquake, which brought almost total drakness and great clouds of dust from the falling buildings, was followed by a roaring which came apparently from deep down in the earth and for six hours the disdur\)>ance continued. ps'o groater disaster has occurred in the history of Costa Rica and perhaps in all Central America. President Gonzales Viqiez and President-elect lticharde Jlniinez are personally in charge of the rescue work, hut there is little hope that those under the ruins can escajs*?. Some days must elapse before the rea^ situation can be determined. The monetary losses reach into the millions. Help is needed badly and must be prompt, if good is to come of it. Thousands are homeless and without food. Fires that broke out immediately after the destruction of the town added to the horror of the situation and heavy rains that have fallen since have made the conditions almost unbearable even for those es caplng. Hundreds of survivors are camped around the ruins of their homes which they refuse to leave. Some reports place {he wounded at several thousand. Nearly all Costa Rica is afflicted as more or less damage has been caused by earthquakes al San Jose and other points. * Il.\l? ROW ON TRAIN. >lol? of Four Hundred Negroes I; Awed With C>uns. The Journal says from Line Creek 0a.t to Atlanta, the crew of Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic train hac its hands full in keeping ordei . among 400 riotous wegro picnickers late Monday afternoon. During the course of the larg?i part of the 4 5-mile ride the crew seven men in all, faced the negroes with loaded guns. The train crew on tro* morning train going to tin picnic had muc.h trouble with th< - same crowd of negroes, but manage ' to quiet it before Line Creek wai reached. On the train at the start of th< . return trip, several negroes starter a crap game, which quickly resultot in a fight. Will Hoot, a well-knowi 5 character of Pitisburg, was shot ant f instantly killed by Will Johnson, al 3 las" "The Soldier." During the melei f a negro woman was shot in the le f and slightly hurt. Juhnson was cap t tured after Ji returner! t.i Atlnntn - A negro named Hurley is being hel * as an accomplice. Killed by Train. h Jack Hall, white, aged 83 yean >- was killed by a south-bound Centri S of O orgla jmssenger train at Ive: d Ga? at an early hour Friday morr s ing. Mr. Hall had been fishing an h was caught on the trestle and knocl ed off, dying Instantly. ! ' % I WHERE THE VICTIMS SOLD IN WHITE SLAVE TitADE ARE PROCURED. New York Trmlor In the Awful Bus* Iiiphs Tells of the Inside Workings of the Hellish Came. Harry Levlson, a white man, who is under arrest in New York for selling young girls into lives of shame told the district attorney Friday that (here nro a* ? - ?*- " ~ ?V ruj>? LUI^ SbUt'KUUt'B ?i. New York, In each of wliic-li ' ? m five to ten yo in;; girls ;n ? k-pt ready night and day f?>: Instant, delivery wherever they may !?c wanted. Little effort, said Levison, Is made to recruit wome.i from the str?*et. The stockades are fllle 1 from the host of young girls v\v? are unhappy at home, or who live narrow lives on their own earnings, and long for leisure, good clothes, gaiety and freedom from restraint. Well-dressed women make it a business to frequent cheap restaurants, moving picture theatres, sentimental m&tinoes aud the bargain counters to single out such cases, and, first winning attention with an invitation to dinner, then describe the ease and pleasures of the alt-Mnetive they propose. The girl delivered to the stockade, it th-n become the business of the proprietor to place his merchandise. It was in this end of tlie traffic, Levison told the district attorney, that he was a specialist. '1 he business was to find a house where the girl was wanted. The houso paid the stocate-keeper a lmup sum and allowed Levison a ten per cent, commission on the girl's earnings. He and others like him kept In touch with the charges, he said, and often transferred them from house to house. He had little to do with recruiting. That was almost wholly in the hands of women, who found it easier to get a hearing. Levison aud others arrested with him for engaging in this hellish business, will soon be tried and It is hoped he will get what he richly deserves, a long term In prison. WILL SOON HANG. Men Who Committed Murder Near Atlanta Confesses. Phnrlos VVnlbor i , v/uu ui im; i 11 i co negroes arrested in connection with the murder of Motorman S. T. Brown and the desperate assault upon Conductor W. H. Bryson, made a full confession to the polioe on Saturday morning. He implicated Jim Black aud Kd Weaver as .his associates in the crime. All three negroes are now in custody and it is not unlikely that all 'hree will be hung 011 the same gallows. When tine confession was made. Weaver had not yet been arrested, but detectives in an automobile, made a hurried trip to the grading camp where the man war employed and secured him. 'V; Iher, th mner negro involvoi in the crime, was identified several (lavs ago 'by Conductor Bryeon as one of his assailants. Will Johnson. another negro of whom a partial identification was made by Conduc1 tor, has proved an alibi and has been 1 released from custody. The police 1 feel assur- d that they have the guilty . parties. 1 I DEATH OF G. 1>. liKLLINGKlt. 1 ? Prominent Columbia lawyer Passes 1 to the Other Side. The Hon. O. Duncan Bellinger, . formerly Attorney General of the State, died at 9: JO o'clock Wednesday night at his .home in Shandon, a suburb of Columbia. Gen Bellinger had been sick for some time, but folJ lowing a trip to Florida, it was thought that his condition was much Improved. However, last Sunday he , was taken suddenly ill and .his recovery was despaired of. Showing , a slight improvement Wednesday, his condition became grave that afr t rnoon and death came that night. 5 Chronic dysentery and liver trouble was the cause of his death. STIlt'CK l?Y LKillTMNCJ. s Mm 1'artinlly Destroys Chattanooga > Oourthouse. ^ 'At Chattanooga, Tcnn., the county Court House, valued at $ISO,Ooo, ? was damaged by fire Saturday night 1 to the extent of at least $75,000, and i if the valuable r cords arc found to 1 have been destroyed the loss will * reach in t.he neighborhood of $1, 000,000. The fire was caused by a e bo 11 of lightning, whioh struck the g flagpole on top of t'he dome, contain ing the big clock. The entire upper i. ""'-tlon of the huiiding was consutnl ed. * * ? ? Abduction ('barged. D. Barra, a telephone lineman, ' who has a wife and children in Virl' ginia, has been Jelled in Columbia ' charged with abducting Miss Ruby l~ McGlnnis, who has been missing six (l months, She is a daughter of John l" McGlnnis, who signed the warrant. Barra denies his guilt.