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ELEVEN KILLED Artilleryman Die When Big DUapear-' ing Cans Bcrst. i TEN STILL MISSING Two Heavy Cannon Exploded at lliwtli al the ttegi lining of I'r.i tiro at Portress Mouimc, Va.? j DuuisU'r Witnessed l?y Wives of Several of the Men Killed. Eleven artillerymen are dead and a number of others seriously injured. including two officers, .as the salt of t.he blowing? out of n breech block in a twelve-Inch shore gun at the Pe Hussy battery at Kort Monroe, Va., during the coast artillery practice there Thursday. The accident hanpened while stud'ui officers were endeavoring to si.'.V. a fleet of towe<l targets. represootius an imaginary hostile fleet proceeding toward Washington. The 'battery was under the immediate control of Seargent Harry lies* of the Sixty-Ninth company, U. S. coast artillery. The known dead arc: SJ-HUGUNT HARRY (i. IIKSS, of Phoebus, Va.. gnu commander. CORPORA!. CHARLES O. AO KINS. address uukuown, guu pointer. CORPORAL ALBERT BRADFORD. Dorothy. Va. VRIVATKS A. J. SULLIVAN, of Perkins, Ky.. ROYAL DUFFY of Itenovn. W. Yra.; H. A. ADRY, llran donvillc. YV. Va : C. W. KINO, of Dayton. Ohio; JOHN W. CHADWICK of Tnxeweil, Tenn.; AIiKKRU W. SMITH of New York; iUDD hi. HOt;AN' of Qeyer. Ohio, ami JAMRS II TURNER of Ripley. Tenn. One private was blown into Chesapeake Ray with the breech block. Lieut. Yran 1 Risen sustained ? broken <ieg and Lieut. Ilawes was injured about the face. Many prominent officers of the army and navy, who went-to iiump ton Roads to witness what was expected to lie the greatest practice of tliis character tJ:at had been at-J tempted anywhere, saw the accident. It was (he more horrible for the reason that wives and children of several of the men killed, no danger having been anticipated, were permitted to see the target practice. A number of ttieiu witnessed the accident. Do Kufisy hntlery. where the cxplosison took place. was located in about the middle of the fort and was equipped with three twelve-inch disappearing rides. It was named after llrig. (Jen. G. A. Deltussy, who ?i.t?i*ii v.iin uisuuciiou in Liu* civil *nr, Mid died in 1H9I. The battery was manned t?y the entire enlisted at length of the .Sixtyntntb company, which was about 10f? men. distributed among the tlir?*e rifles. About 2 2 men were in each tiring squad and were stationed upon the impjacwment of the guns, the others beiu; below in tiie uiiirar.inea. Wiiich of the three gnna exploded was not reported, but o(liceis of the const artillery say that Ine heavy death list indicated that the explosion look place after the gun ha?l disappeared hii?1 was in a reclining |M>sil(oa in the pit. They point out that had il exploded w-hile ll:e gun was up, the damage would have been cfrinpai'ati vety slight. I)\plosion* of the latter character have occurred before in the coast artillery, but never with such disastrous results. h r< po " to the war department says eight men wore kilted, two fpIaM/ injured and two others slightly injured. Thursday at l.he beginning - At. ' .... . <?s me coutu anniei) uaiue pracuco *( Fori ,?oni'ic F1.AMICS 1MGING. >Jfic(VK of Steamer Dolphin Tell ill (Jn'iU < iouilagi ation. Officers ??i" the steamer l)o!|?hiti. which arrived from SkuRway. Al.tsJia. at Seattle. Wash.. Friday, tell of tremendous forest fires, a hundred square miles in extent, whioh ttiey judg? d to he twenty-five miles m shore from the Straight of Georgia, north of llowe sound. "This was the biggest forest lire I have ever j seen." said First Otlleer ldeneen. "Wei werr nearest to it on Wednesday of-j tenioon. The air was perfectly still and tremendous clouds of smoke rose in the form of a cauliflower, narrow at the bate ami gradually spreading all over the heavens. Along idle .horizon was a broad streak of flames. I judged the flinines to he several hundred feet high." Damages by Forest Fire*. General rep.its from all parts of Itritish Colufhia confirmed by dispatched to Premier Mcltride, l.unu Minister Klliaon and other olhcials at the capital, place the aggregate loss of the present week by forest fires at not less than (1.000,000. with fully half millirhi more will be lost in the enforced suspension of afltcted ^adustries. ? DEPUTIES Kllili KKtiKOKS. Resisted Arrest and the Shooting BeRnn.?Two Wounded. Five negroes were killed and two others wore mortally wounded on Thursday, when the seven, taking issue with Deputy Shr.IIT Sid Cauley. at Elliott, Miss., who was endeuvorIng to take theiu into custody on a minor charge, advanced on the onicer with farm ling implements as weapons and with the avowed intentiou of "cutting him down." Currying a warrant charging the " 'f.i ?--1*h assault, C&uley and two i i/i i.s deputized to assist him, wont to i.'ie home of Henry Heck, a colored farmer, near Elliott Thursday afternoon. As the o sse annroched the negroes ceased their work In the field and, grabbing pitchforks, and other farming tools, made for the deputy. CauJey, however, opened fire with two revolvers before the belligerents came within striking distance and, before the others of the posse .had regained their wits, five of the attacking party were dead and the remainder wounded. The deputy surrendered, but was release 1 to appear for formal hearing. Several days ago an attempt was made to effect the canture of the negroes, but the arresting officer withdrew when they employed sltni.ar tactics to those of Thursday. 1'ilKill; CUIIiDltKN 111 KMC]>. l.o<ks ller Children in House With Fatal Results. A negro dwelling on the plantation of Mr. J. E. I'rivett. In the lack Swamp section, ahout six miles north of Florence, was destroyed by lire ahout 10 o'clock Monday night, in which threo children lost their lives and another was so badly burned that it will probably die. Mitt Kefy, the mother of the children, locked them up in her house and went to church, leaving them ?n the charge of the oldest .gtrl. ahout 8 years old. Not long after the woman left, the house was seen to be on fire and assistance was given, but before anything could be done the three children were roasted alive. The oldest child managed to get out? of the house and being frightened, ran to a neighbor for assistance, forgetting about the other four in the liou.se, one of which escaped, after considerable effort, in a horribly burned condition. TENEMENT F1K1C. lt<?y Missing :i?il >tO<) INttpIo Driven Out by Mames. One person was killed, another is missing ami three hundred tenement dwoljers were driven from their homes in a panic, as the result of a tire which early Thursday at New York burned out the three upper stories of an eleven story factory building at Lewis and Rivinglnn streets, near the Manhattan eud of the Williamsburg bridge. The dead man was Parrish Kged. a watchman, whose burned body was found on the sixth floor where he had fallen while trying to escape. An unnamed hoy, who was given permission to spend the night on the roof, is believed to have perished. ItOY I'.I KD TO DKATII. SHnguiee Sl.oots ItnrlitHl Spine Into llis Neck. At West Palm llench. Kla., death in aa almost unheard of form wailed for Laurence S. linker, aa eleven year old ,ln< ksonvil'e lad, when he dived from a boat while swimming otT Lake Worth. A stingaree, a huge flat bodied gruesome specimen of salt water lish. was lurking Just under the boat. One of the barbed spines whirl, this fish carries on its whip-like tall pierced the hoy's neck, cutting into the jugular vein. lie i ose to the surface crying for help and hied to death within four minutes alter his companions bud lifted him front the water. WO.MKN TYPIST NOT WANTKD. Government l*refei*>> Men, Who Will OkIcis. Women stenographers apparently are no longer wanted in the (loventinent service. This annouueement was made Wednesday at the civil service commission in an eff >rt to put a stop to a steadily increasing llood of letters front women throughout the country who seek information about an examination for stenographers to lie had next Tues lay in all the State and Territories. Tnis examination is for the purpose of recruiting only men stenographers and typists, the demand fir whom the civil service commission tins been unable to meet. Practically all the various departments of the Government are seeking to replace women steuogrphers with men, on the plea that the latter are mote amenable to discipline. .Many Cattle Cost. A stampede of cattle at Columbus, (la., preparatory to being loaded on a river steamboat, resulted in the drowniug of all hut ten of the number. y | ALMOST A LYNCHING WHTTK MAX CHA11GKD WITH MISTKK UINO A CHILD. The Crowd Disagreed as to Method of His Death, tuid tl?e Sheriff (?ot the Fieud to Jail. The lynching of a white man. Thomas Y arborou ' h. w it: prevented in the Silver S-re*t section of Newberry county early W ednesday tnorn; ing only by disagreement among the I crowd as to the manner of death and probably the lack of a leader. Yarborough is charged with nil , attempted criminal assault on a 7: year-old white child on July 2. the i matter did *?ot becr.me public until | Wednesday night, and then it is said i through a letter which the wife of Y;trl>;rough wrote to the mother of the c.hild, which led to an investigation. Some of the crowd which gathered during the early hours of the morning wanted to swing Yarborough to a limb, riddle his body with bul lets and then cut him down and let his body be carried away by the river. Others favored other tno 'es ot sending bim to the grout beyond. Magistrate llenlrix ,iot in communicatton with Slier?IT Hul'"rd. and the Lheriff with his deputy. Pope Ibiford, was on the road within fifteen minutes after receiving the me-sage and carried YarboroUoh to the Newl>erry jail. Acting on advices received as to the feeling of the commui ity. Sheriff Flu ford got In communication with the governor's office and it was decided tVat it would he best to take Yurborough to the State penitentiary for safekeeping, and. this will be done. Yarborough Is between fifty and sixty years of age. and has Jiis third wife. The crime is alleged te have happened near Ya rborough's home, in a secluded path. Yarborough win j formerly an operative In the Mollo! lion mill. He hns been living for I some time on the Spearniau place, ' near Silver Street. He claims that the charge is a result of spite work. WH1TP. 1TKM> WAXTKll. He Is Clunged With AssauH ing a Young Girl. Charged with criminally assaulting Irene Fratus, the twelve-year-old adopted daughter of John Haslord and wife, Paul Combel!, a white man of prominent family, is surrounded in tiie Pinewoods, north of Wpveland, reer Hiloxi, Miss., by a posse of citizens of Hay St. laiuis, who are bent on Coinbell's capture, and may lynch him it their search is successful. Darius Conibcll, brother of the hunted man, promised to deliver Conibel! to the posse if they would agree to protect him from violence. Headers of the posse agreed, hut lut er Com bell had no. been delivered. The ciinie which Cmihell is alle..:I ed to have committed occurred a j month ago, but not utuil Thursday j cl 1.1 the child inform her foster pari ents of what is alleged to have occurred. Hearing of her confession. Comhcll, it is said, fled to the forests. l.l<;ilT.MN<? STltlKKS AlltSIIII*. While Flying Along High l*p Willi One .Man Alxwial. While be was taking a cross eoun| try tlltht Wednesday, tear Hareelo' na. Spain. Aviator IOhnnann's aeroplane was struct by lightnit.g ami fell blazing to the ground. The aviator escaped uninjured, which is j regarded as almost miraculous. There has ne ver been a more startling aeria*i exhibition than that ' which Khrmunn's unwillingly afTordj ed aui th se who witnessed it could hardly believe their eyes when the ! airman emerged from the singed framework, none the worse for his exp?riet?ce. Khnna.ni was sailing along at a moderate height when he got in the path of a sk\ holt. Instantly the aeroplane was enveloped in tlatnes. its canvas winds shriveled up and clinging to the skclet >n of his craft. Krhmunn came down with a thud. | Shot llis Mnii. 1 Asked to return a borrowed pistoi. Tump Klllson, returning at day light, drunk, from drinking and gambling all night. .Monday shot and killed ; >> ;11 Aioore, in .Ni'tt'iiiin y County, I near the imureus county line. Jioth j parties are negroes. ? Dispute liniN Sniily. Following a dispute relative t' the settlement of .'tis lather's est **e, .Otis llr.wn. a prominent yoi.iv: s !< iet., man of ()> ion!, \. ('., on \1onI day sliot and dangerously wounded his step mother, Mrs ..I, S. Ilrowti, and then blew out his own brains. Succumbs to Pellagra. At Colombia. Allen C. Wyse, aged twenty-nine, a graduate of the University of South Carolina in 1901, editor of the Southern Furniture IJourival of High Point, N. C.. died (early Wednesday morning at the Co' luuibia hospital of Pellagra. 4 Ct ISSIHEU COLUMN | I Wanted?To buy Hides. Wool, Hoe? 1 wax. Tallow. etc. Write for priced Crawford & Co., 508-616 Keyuold . Street. Augusta. Ga. : ( I wunt "><) principals for rural and j village schools and 50 young la- , dies for grade and rural positions : now open. Act immediately. W. H. Jones. Columbia. S. C. , 'Hoys and Girls?Sell 12 pkgs Blue-| ] ing and 12 pkgs. CoUrt Plaster for!, 10c, each and receive catchers mitt and ball, camera or doll free. Write today. General Supply Co.. J Dept. 21. San Pierre, lnd. Wanted?To sell ' heap, scholarship for e.titer single or combined I , course in the Carolina*' leading I business college. For full information write Southern l?mpluvnient Agency, Winston-Salem, N. C.. Box 509. Kxcellent country lanital in the l and of the Sky at Meiford Farm, one mile from Clyde. N. C. Good table, comfortable rooms, invigorating climate, tine spring water. good roads, conveyances furnished. $L\> per month. 11. C. Me.lford, Clyde, N. C. ! Wanted?Hardwoods, logs and luni br. W# are cash buyers of poj lar. cedar and walnut logs. Alt* want poplar, ash. coltonwood, cy pi ess and oak lumber. Inspectio: at your point. Knsy cutting. Writ* ; us. Savannab Valley l.utnber Oo Augusta, frit. I SUMMER RESORTS ; Althelwold Hotel?Sixty rooms. Private baths. All conveniences. New management. All outside rooms. The place to spend the summer. Address Atbelwold. Brevard. N. C. < Suntmer Houi-dett. Wautetl?Kates ' $7.00 to $8.00 per week. No consumptives taken. Mrs. Wade Harrison. McAlpiu House, Saludu, X. C. 111 n<t Height* Hotel Opened June 15; hot and cold baths, and lighted with acetylene gas; rates reasonable; our location ti.ie; also j summer homes for sale. 1). \V. I Johnson. Prop., Mountain City, (la ! Maplehurst, on the Asheville ami ! Lake Toxaway rnilroad. Three i hundred feet from station. Mod- j em Conveniences. No consuinp i tlvea taken. A. L. & L. E. Uaven ' port, Ilorse Shoe. N. C. Cellar (liuve Farm, m icdcrvc U'WIWj'V-JUP Jl_ 1 J North Carolina's Cherry Red Swine, j Entire lot of .*>0 pigs for July <le- | | livery sold except a few boar pigs, j Have IS sows to farrow July and I August. We will hook orders for i 100 pigs, Sept. and Oct. delibery and guarantee satisfaction or money back. I Trice, pay now, $8.50 each, or $2.? for three. If you wish the best type of Durocs, buy pi^s from these Western hied sows. Single Comh It. I. Red Eggs always on hand, from uniform fowls, fancy strains of the breed. W. A. THKiTKX, CONETOK. t. ?UX<; TO A IJMIt. Ami Riddled Willi It'illei* for At- j talking l-ndies. Ending :. tao days pursuit, a mob j during las* night took Evan Hob-| j erts. a negro, from Constable C. V. | I Riggs, in a lower part of SyKnnio j county, (5m., strung the negro up to j Ute limb of an oak tree and poured at least 500 bullets into his body, t The negro attacked two white wo| men who were (hiving along a lone| ly road Saturday afternoon in a bug-' | ' try. The home became frightened i and ran away and took the women ' 1 out of danger, though the negro purj sued them with a pistol. Constable | Riggs captured Roberts and hid Jiim i from the mob for twelve hour.' I Short work wrs made of the negr* i (? h oil U So K i - I ?? --- - *' -- * m i* nin IH'IK K |?IH?T WJIS 1U11I1CI. | SOLDI Kit SilOl >TS N KOI JO. Shooting \sctil?od to Stion<* Uncial 1 i I'Vclinj; That llatl l>e\eloped. The r 111horitles ;<t Fort Myer, no.tr Washington, are aiding tin W ishin:tttn police in an effort to apprtMend a soldier, presumably of the post. ( who Monday ni^bt sli t : negro on j the bridge lending from Georgetown . to the f<>11. The negro, Win. I? ' Smith, is in the hospital in a dying; j iniifl il inn \ inmi I.nnt I| 1? . vi-.n ii i ?n- u u n ilpun the renin \\;is unprovoked The j aoidier, who v as unknown to the. negroes two companions, first struck | the vh.t'in with his tist and tlien : flee I tinon hint ns he lay prostrate. Then tin- soldier fled. The shooting i is ascribe I to strong racial feeling I that has developed among some of i the soldiers at t.he fort. Knife IIuivm l.ightntng. An electric current attracted by a large butcher krii'e in the hands of Mrs Joseph iihar. of Princeton, N. J., rendered the woman unconscious. MAY HAVE HE EN Ml'IU>KR. c ! Peculiar Appeurait .e of Corpse IiMMi* t Coroner to Hol<l Inquest. c "Because of suspicious oircumstnn- t :cs surroundinR the death of B. A. , Jackson, a farmer of Cedar CreeK ' township, near Fayetteville. N. C.. reportei to the Coronet since the event, July to, a coroner's inquest was held Tuesday in order to ascertain the nature of Jackson's death. Kvideuee was produced that Jack-on t jeven months auo married a widow, t Parker, whose children sirenously c objected to the ma ni aire; that one ' Burdnco The Great Sou! =hOK < LIVER TR biliousness, Constipation, Dyspepsia [aundice. Nervous and Sick HeaJacl and all Stomach Diseases. 1 eaches the I.iv Clears the ( Sold F. very where 1 Has sine*- 1S94 given "Thorough Instrt influences -at the lowest possible cost RESULT: It is to-day with it* faculty its student body of 400, and its plant wo THE I.PAItlNt: TBAiMive sruo, $150 pays all charges for the year, inelu heat, laundry, medical attention, physic? except music and elocution. 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Grover Parker, who rer.entjjr escaped from the county ehalc-ranR nude threats against his stepfather, cho died suddenly, without apparent anse. last Sunday during the pros>nee at home of another stepson, vho left immediately thereafter. iLspioicns ot' foul piny wore aroused >v the peculiar appearance of the torpse. <*hiid Drowned In Tab. J Hazel Best, twenty-one month's A >ld was drowued In a water tub at ^ lis parents home Tuesday The :hild was playing t%> mt the t-iti and rev Powder I .hem Remedy A.LL = OUBLES i. L C5S of Appetite, Indiprstion, ie. 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