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[ FOUR MEN DEAD As i Result et the ExpUswa ?f i Gib at Navy Pwiug Groaids. HAY HAPPEN ANY TIME lieateuuit Arthur C. Oiffee and Throe Other Member* of the Gun Oew Were Instantly Killed or (Mortally Wounded and Another Wm Seriously Injured. By <the premature explosion of a 54neta gun, at the Indian Head, Md., proving grounds of the navy, four men are dead, Including IJeut. Arthur C. Caffee. who was in charge of the gun, and one man, a negro, seriously injured. The breech lock of the gun. wh Lch was being tested, blew backward into the crew which was firing the gun. The explosion probably was due to a bemt or fouled firing pin, which projected beyopd the face of the breech plug of the gun. The dead in addition to Lieutenant Oaffee. are: J. L. Brown, battery foreman, instantly kiljed J. J. Loary, ordnance man, fatally Injured, died later. Nelson Jackson, colored, battery attendant, fattally injured and died shortly afterward. Sydney Dyson, colored, a member of the gun crew, was seriously injured. % The ordnance bureau has ordered a board of inquiry to develop details of the accident, the only witnesses to which, so far as can be learned, were John C. Coleman and Sydney Dyson, both colored. The gun. which was a new one rnoin the navy yard gun factory and being tented for the first time, had already been fired twice. The ac cldent occurred during the third round, just as the breech was being r.losed. Lieutenant Arthur Gill Caffee was born in Missouri and was attached to the stag of Rear Admiral Shroc<ier on the Atlantic fleet battleship Connecticut before he was assigned to duty at Indian Head as Inspector of ordnance. He entered the Naval Academy in 1900. The assistants who were killed and inJured were all civilians and lived In tthe neighborhood of the proving grounds, 40 miles below Washington. The naval ordnance bureau has been trying for a long time to llnd some safety device applicable to guns of this calibre, hut so far without success, and if the gun captain falls to obey 'the rule to pass his - hand over the breech lock before it * closed to detect any improper projection of the tiring pin, then just such an accident as occurred Saturday may happen any time, *. is said. Every precaution ordinarily is taken to protect the firing crews from the failure of a new gun under test. It Is required that after loading tho gun- the orew shall retire to a bomb-proof In Its rear and discharge the nlM'A hv nlliptrlfllli- TV... w _ IVII.J . I lie trouble in this cast; lay in the fact that the gun was discharged before the crew had finished loading it. The brass shell, containing the powder and the projectile, had been Inserted in the piece and the breech blocks had swung Uo on its hinge. Rut before the heavy threads had interlocked, the projecting firing pin struck the primer on the head of the shell and exploded the charge, which blew backwards, 'tearing otT the breech block and killing or fatally wotindlug the crew. The omployera' liability net will come into play in this case and the families or dependent parents of the victims of the explosion will receive the equivalent of one year's pay. r , _ _ Act of Cruel Roy. His clothes saturated with oil, Flore Hanardo, Aged 12 years, was thrown Into a fire In New York by Ph'llp 8eckler, aged 16 years. The lads had a dispute over which was the leader of the gang of boys and Keckler determined to put his riva! out of the road. He will probably die. Hmallpox Among Indian*. Ninety-three Indians on the Ara pahoe Indian reservation have died from small pox within four days. The disease is manifested in its n>oBt malignant form. Officer in charge 01 innervation are fighting vainly t<halt the sweep of the pestilence Indians Smallpox Victims Nln ley-three Indians on the Arapahoe reservation, have died from smallpox within four days. The die ease la manifested In its most mnilgnant form Officers In charge ol the reservation are fighting vslnl> to halt the sweep of the (vest Hence Homicide in Pickens. Krlday afternoon, ahout 3 o'clock near Liberty, Henry Bogge shot and < killed 9am Bogga. Both were about < IB rears old. and It Is said were drlnldnjc They are prominently oonnoetod PARIS .DRAWS KINGS ACTRESSES ARK A CHIEF DELIGHT OF THE ROYALTY. Taxes Wrung From Poor Peasant* and Worklngmen Are Squandered In Maintaining Former Gutter Children. Every king in Europe, with a few exceptions, spends a good deal of his time in Paris, squandering in the French capital the revenues wrung from poor peasants and workingmen, on favorites, who live in luxurious surroundings. Paris is full of kiugs in exile and kings in disguise. Every prominent actress in the great city boasts of a king, a grand duke or a prince atnong her admirers. Strange to say most of the sirens who tempt 'the royalty of Europe, i were children of cabiucu, peasants, , of working people of the poorest class, aud even of slum dwellers. Thus Paris brings the kings of Eu rope as slaves to the feet of her gutter children. She tempts them with ruinous delights, and teaches other nations how to get rid of them. Five >ears ago Monua Delza was earning ?it a week as a milliner's girl in Pnrls, working till her fingers ached aud walked home in the rain and snow and other kinds of weather to save the three cents omnibus fare. Today she owns fire automobiles and has become the connoisseur of the most exquisite luxuries and no outlay is too extravagant for her. She Is much admired by Alphonso. King of Spain. tit was through her suggestion that Alphonso introduced King Manuel. of Portugal, to Gaby Deslya. daughter of a drunken cabman and a washerwoman. She received little care, played about the stree's with other gutter children and learn ed the Parisian argot in all its ricn suggestions. It la teiid ?hi> ennlH I.. .. ! manner I hat wodld tnako the ave-age CHh driver blush and gasp for breath. Her career on the stage began as it singer and dancer but her rise was rapid. One thoatricai mauager declares she had remarkable business ability and keenness at a bargain. Perhaps the ex-King of Portugal can now add some observations to the same effect. The eagerness of his imperial scapegrace, the Grand Duke of Doris of Itushia, to keep Arutte Dorgere in high estate in Paris was one of itho causes of tlio llusso-Jupanosc war in u hich 200,000 men lost their lives. When the war wa3 raging Grand Dukes pocketed the funds subscribed for wounded soldiers and perhaps large sums were spoilt on ho Parisian actress. Duello I.autelme, particularly admired by the King of Greece, came uear causing a rebellion in the empire of King George, bnt the king only laughed at the folly of his people and drew an additional $200,OOu from the treasury and spent part of it for a necklace for his lady In Paris. Scor?-e of other women are kept in splendor by us many of high estate in Kurope, with Paris as the center for their activities and attentions. * DIHAGKKK ON (OKA, C1COP. Federal Fstimutv Gives Ia-ns Than F*t I mate of State. The I nitod State Department u: Agriculture and Commissioner Watson hav.' disagreed as to the corn crop of South Carolina, or at leas; their eta:l.ut!cy. have. A reef at estimate of the national departinlnt of agriculture places the corn crop of South Carolina at 4 4,7311,000 bushels Tli? estimate of Comntlsaionet Watson places the crop at 49,740,000 bushels. The difference in estimates is liable to cause considerable correspondence. On two previous occasions Mr. Wnt..on has challenged the figures of the national department of agriculture as to the corn crop ul this 8tntu. It is the intention of the commissioner of this State to challenge the "crude" manner that has been adopted by the national department in collecting its statistics for hbt State on agriculture. A statement recently Issued by I?r Seaman t\. Knnpp of the farm demonstration work, gives statistics as to th corn crop for all of the ' States o. the South and shows that f within c..c year's time the corn production i i the nine Southern Sta'?*s has been increased by 158.294.00t) bushels The increase has been brought about ns a result of the ' farm de.-onblratlon work. The average yield in South C irolina. according to the bulletin, was 18.5 bushels, as compared with 16.7 bi.'thels for last year. The d average or ten years in South Car- ' \ olina was 11.6. ' 1 ? 1 ISroiight Itig Price. C3ol. o. 0, Scarborough, i.v.elj a c Candida*. * tor railroad comin'^ioner and now an applicant for appointment to rhe Sullivan vacancy on the rommiac ?n. has sold to (J. J. ? r?f Itlaho. ville. for $50,000. his plan tat Ion in Clarendon oounty, oight i miles fro n Summerton. consisting o? ti 1,020 acre*. 720 of those improved 11, DEATH TO MANY Ote Hudrtd People Are Reported Killed ia RioU in Mexico. WAS A DAY OF RIOTING PMwr>BB?in Arrlrlng at Mexico City Relate Hlorlen of Dreadful da?h Between Authorities and Anti-Bo lectlonlMs at Pnebla. ? lleRan When Police Interfered. One hundred persons, Including the chief of police, were killed ia riots at I'uebla, Mexico, on Friday, according to the statements of passengers arriving at Mexico City Friday night from that city. The stories, told by passengers, are to the effect that the trouble began Friday morning, when a number of policemen, headed by tne chief, attempted to break in a meeting of anti-re-electionlsts, which was being held in a large hall. As Chief or Police Miguel Cabrera and his men advanced towards the building, a door was opened by a woman, who shot and killed the chief. A fight then ensued between the pollco and the occupants. A lK)mb was thrown from one of the windows In the midst of the policemen nnd rurales, the latter having been called to assist the city officers. The bomb exploded, killing manj. Tho causalities occurred in the course of fighting, which 'took place In the street. So far as known, there were no Americans killed. The passengers further asserted that from morning until tho tluu they left I'uebla, in the afternoon, there was continuous rioting and while the nnti-re-electionlsts had ' eon dislodged from the building, Terrs were entertained that the disorders were by no means at an end. From official sources in Mexico v>ny r naay night, It was learned that the l?th battalion left there late Friday for Puehla, by special train, and that other trains were In readinesfi to transport additional troops to the scene of the riot it' doomed necessary. It was olllcially stated there Fflday n^tht th.it 16 men had been killed in Puubls. Details of tlio Anti-Diaz conspiracy, alleged to have been promoted by KranclHco I. Madero. now a fugitive from Mexico, and which lias resulted within the past two days In the arrest of several co-conspirators In that city and elsewhere, came to lgh't Friady. indicating that Sunday. November 20, was the date fixed for a general uprising against tht existing Government. The conspirators appeared to aave extended their operation to the States of Vera Cruz, Hidalgo. Coahuila, San T,uispotosl, Nuevo I/eon, Puebla, Jalisco, Guanajuato, Yucatan and Zacatacas. To the authoiities In all these States ordere have been send to put down with vigor my attempt at disturbance. Circulars, which appear to have >een sent out by Madero or his gents, from Suu Antonio. Toxas. 'o variouh persons In that city, outline bis campaign and announce Mederu s Constitutional President of Mexico. Among other statements contained in the manifesto were the following: "I, Francisco I. Madero. will place myself art the head of a revolutlonai > party against the Government ol Mexico. Between the 2 0th and 30 ii >f November I nhall lead my followers against tlx* finvw-nm,... ? ? _ U 1 -*1 f* \ I CO." * MKKTS l?K ATI! IX HYIUP. l'?o> Full Into Il<>llln& Ket*l? ! of Moiled to deuth In Syrup was the ' na tutor of death suffered by tho : wo year old son of (leorfte Swl?r i white nun at Metcalfe, late Frl- ' Jay. The child, walking backwards, i el! Into the kettle of syrup, which ' va? curried by two men, and was t lUbmerged. His mother's arms were 1 >u?-ned in an efforts to rescue the t >oy. * Anotlicr Auto Victim ai >a\aniiah the flrat .'ai t> ?./ ci 1 he (frnnd prize rate coume oecurr- t >d fthfii a Sharp Arrow overturn- t d. instantly killing AU?ert Fuchs 1 he mechanician and badly Injuring f Vm H. Sharp, designer of the car t ind injuring Wm. H. Prlger, regu r ?r driver of the car on ThiirmJa\. * I'rlof. Are lower. A New York dispatch says reports r 10m various parts of the country in- i Heating a fall In the price of meats t s reflected by similar reports from d ocal dealer*. They say the decline c as already begun. The wholesale I rice of beef went down three- I f a cent in the last week.'' Trained to Steal. Th* police of Hrockton. Mass.. ar?- t eehing two nieu who profit through t hefts committed by a trained dog. I le remove* clothes and furs from h eck yards and carries them aw?> to e is owners ' a \ OFFER tD $100,000 TO VOTE AGAINST ANTI-HACK TRACK RETTING BILLS. Startling Statement Made by New York State Senator Before Legislative Graft Committee. One hundred thousand dollars to vote against the anti-race track bettins billa. in I9(ifi j ... State Senator Eugene M. Travis, o( Brooklyn, bo he swore on the stand Friday, testifying before the legislative graft committee. A mysterious little man. whose name he does not recall, made the offer in the lobby of the Senate, he said. In behalf of former Senator Frank J. Gardner. And Gardner, he added, confirmed it In a subsequent telephone cenvcrsation. Gardner is now under indictment, charged with having attempted similarly, though with a lesser amount, to influence Otto G. Foelker, of Brooklyn, now u Congressman, but then a State Senator. Foelker voted for the bill, as did Travis, and it was passed, notwithstanding the frantic efforts of the race track Interests and the alleged use of a fund, which previous testimony has placed at $300,000. Travis' testimony and the committee's efforts to subpoena James R. Keene and Harry Payne Whitney, millionaires whose hobby - is horae racing, were the most inteieating developments of Friday's hearing, resumed after an adjournment on October 22. Tffort8 to And Messrs Keen and Whitney, who have been mentioned in previous testimony as having been present at a conference at nelmonilco'8 at which the alleged corruption fund was raised, and the committee Is anxious to examine them, have thus far been wttho it KC.CCCf*. Travis's story Friday added two new names to the list of Senators "approached." The amount offered him. he explained, was to be paid in two installments, $23,000 down and $75,000 utter his vote had Iwen cast. "Did you ever hear of any other Senator being approached?" he was asked. "Yes, I took lunch with Senator Fuller and Senator Carpenter one dny. and they told mo they hud been approached. Senutor Dates also toM me be had been called on the telephone." "Would you know the man who approached you If you saw him again?" "Yo6. 1 think so." ItKVlHE W HOLE HCHKDII.K Senator tioro Tells What Democratic Congressmen Should l>o. Senator T. P. (lore, of Oklahoma. In an Interview at Chicago. Friday, said that at the coming session of Congress the Democrats should revise the whole schedule and also the tariff on pulp wood and print paper. He ascribed Democratic success at the recent election to dissatisfaction over the Pnyne-Aldrlch tariff law and the high cost of living. "A lower tariff." said the Senator, "would increase our revenue. During "exile' the Democrats have had nniplb opportunity to do deep thinking, but we must not. as Kipling says, "become drunk with power." s n.n.r.n n,.\sil l.\ FltA.NCK. \V'liiU< and ()u|oml AineHcau Malloitt In C/onlllcl?Ono l>ea?l. A dispute between white and colored bluejackets, ot' the American squadron under Admiral Vreeland Friday night, developed into an y Pght, iu which revolt era anil ' niies were used. The gendarmes irrented a sailor from the Kansas, who la charged with having stubbed i man from the Louisana, In the al>tomen. One negro wan sent to a loepltul in a serious condition from itnb wounds, while another negro fas wounded on the head. The auhorlties art' arranging for stronger to 1 ice patrols to prevent further d!surbance. * ? ? ? > Youthful Murderer. Arthur \ Watson, of llatticsburg. diss.. who is eighteen years ild. will serve a life sentence for he murder of his fourteen-year-aid wife. \\ atson entae^H ? ' - ...v-a V.W <i ]>ica *?i .uilty Friday and by agreement of he prosecuting attorney wum. given life trim in prison. \ ery Sail < "Mother rails ?ne: i must go to nother soon." said 10 year-old Harriot Owens last Saturday. Her nother died four years aco. Moolay she again heard the imagined all. -and one shot from a revolver u her home at Philadelphia sent larriet to her mother. Hound House (turned. At Nashua. N. H.. seventy-ft e house ltd dollars worth of locomoives were destroyed ?>y tire In 'n? teuton and Maine railroad round iouso Saturday. The fire was cumd by an explosion of a tank, generating gas LODGE ON TRIAL Foss Demands That the Senatnr Withdraw from Senatorial Race. OR DEFEND POSITION The Governor Elect in a Published .Statement Say* the He-Election of Senator Ixxlg;e Would be a 1 Repudiation of the People'* Victory in the I*a.st Election. Governor-elect Eugene N. Fobs, of Massachusetts, has issued a ' statement. says a dispatch from Boston, i in which he demands that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge withdraw from the field for re-election. In the event of a refusal Mr. Foss declares he will go into every section of the Commonwealth in a campaign to defeat the Senator. Mr. Foss s statement in part follows: "'In the name of the majority of : the soverlgn people on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1 demand lha Henry Cabot Lodge surrender his seat in the United States Senate, by withdrawing from his contest for re-elecion. "His election to the Senate would be a repudiation of the great victory of the people at the last election. He was on trial as much, if not more, than Governor Draper, and if ho had been the candidate my majority Would have been double what it was. "The issues on which the fight was made, on which I was elected, were honest tarllT revision downward, lower duties on tfce necessaries of I life, free rnw materials, an untaxed food supply with Canada and more democracy in our form of government. "We all know where Senator Lodge stands on these issues and where he has stood all the?o years. To re-elect him would be a step backward, and Massachusetts has never learned, to walk barkward. "I shall never sign his credentials except at the end of a campaign, which will make the last one look like an afternoon tea party. "He must surrender or tight. Ho must defend his position before the people. The people of Massachusetts will not permit him longer to manipulate the Le-gislature. I am ready, and If he does not retire will be on the stump in every section of the State, and wo will find out where the people stand. Senator Lodge is not in touch with the new order of things, with the progressive spirit of the times. He does not represent the people, the men and women in the ordinary walks of life.'" fi.WK TOWN CLOSE CALL llorses Pull it Wagon Over Forty Chm'h of Dynamite. The two thousand inhabitants of the little village of Roselle Park, N. J., have good cuuse for celebra'ehrating Thanksgiving Day tpis year. That the inhabitants are all alive Saturday is little short of a miracle in the opinion of most ot them. A Junk man's horse which ran away on Main street Friday ni-'ht plunged through th? fence enclosing a freight yard and pulled his heavy wagon right over foriy cas-s Of dynamite which were being unloaded by a contracting firm. The explosion of the stuff would have blown the town to pieces. The wheels of the wagon struck the boxes and knocked several of them into splinters scattering the contents about. \1-n who saw what way the runaway was headed scam per ed in ail direction ?. expecting each moment would be their last .Mayor Droits Head. Z. T. Kershaw, the mayor of Timoionsville. dropped dead in his homo Saturday about noon from an attack of n<ute indlhbestion. No one was with him at the time and time afterwards b> a visitor. Mr. Kershaw, who was about 60 years [of age, had been ma> >r of the 'own for eight or ten y? nrs Hi leave*, no immediate family ? llar.ei-s Cause a I leal It. Four men employed at the MuiT lo Malleable Iron works, in HufTal ?, N. Y.. are under arrest charged w.ih| "hazing" Albert (lull, an unpopular i employee. They tied a piece of waste I saturated with oil about the mar. a body and then lighted it. His hums will prove fatal. * J They Did Not Vole. The New Yorl^Qlobe presents comparative Hpures which thro*? an in teroetinp light on the recent political overturn in the Kmpire State The figure* show that many Republicanrefrained from voting In the late election IteaeJl.v Samples. I A nuiutHM- of ix'oplr at Feme*. 1 N. C., arc victims of an apparent : poison caused by ufriug advertising; packages handed out on the Btreets there las* week by agent* of x pot ent medicine bona*. ? POLICE BAFFLED OORPSB SKAhED IN TRUNK FOR OVER KIUIIT YKAK8. The Victim to Probably a Worn?. On Account of the Hmallncs* of Booas. Pending an inquest planned for Friday Oh the body which was found In an hermetically sealed trunk In the cellar of a West Thirty-fourth street apartment bouse, the authorities were not inclined to theorize on who the victim of the mysterious murder might be. Even the sex of the victim wan not known, the five or more year* during which the body ia known to have reposed in its hiding place, having reduced it to a skeleton almost bare of flesh. From outward indications. however, the authorities are of the belief that the body is that j of a woman, the smallnoes of the [ bones chiefly leading them to that coucl union. The body?discovered by Philip Meagher, when he was preparing t? ntovo after eight years' residence in the house and opened the neglected trunk?wnB taken to the morgue Rriday. It was found it had l>een Jammed in the trunk and surrounded with quantities of plaster of Paris and paper. A zinc tank Inside the trunk fitted perfectly. The newspapers were dated from Febru ary 18 to April 17. 1902. The only clue is the name of "W Lewis," which appears on the out side of the trunk. Lewis was a boarder in the Meagher family up to about six years ago. He told Meagh er on going away that he would leave the trurk and call for it *om? time. At the morgue. Coroner's Physi clan Iveban, and Prof. John McAllis ter, of Bellevue, made an examina tion of the body and found it to be ; that of a man. The surgeons declare I'that the victim was placed in the trunk while still alive and death re suited from asphyxiation. The con dltion of a portion of the right lung, which still remained, indicated this.* 1N>KTL.\NI> XKD" WANTED. South furolina Will Hoard llim for Ten Years lxiuger. Governor Ansel has made requlstion upon Governor Hrown of Geor j gia at the request of Sheriff White of Spartanburg for "Portland Ned." alias James Johnson, whose term of burglary in the Federal penltentiar> at Atlanta will shortly expire and ' - , .. .?w ta naiiiuu in mis ?ia:e to serve a ten year sentence for house bre..ki Ing and larceny. "Portland Ned. "Detroit Nibs, rexas Dutch," Jae on Johnson aui Cub Deford wore all sentenced at Spartanburg in 190" to serve 10 years each for cracking of Enorce Manufacturing company s safe, from which they got $8,817. CORN CHOI* MKASl ltKli. J. >1. Cuhlwell Make K1 Itushrls by Dynamite Method. J H. Caldwell, the Spartanburg farmer who sprang into fame by dv namitlng his corn land, raised on his acre of dynamited land 85.">i bushels of corn. These are the hg1 ures given out Friday night by Messrs. John Wood and John M. Nicholis, who as a committee, weighed and measured Mr Caldwell's corn. Every ear of corn was pull led, shucked and weighed in the presence of the committee. Mr. Caldwell has entered the State corn con' t ctr. ? ! FORTY-FIVK IJACKItS V.l 1C\til). Norms Yulued at feiltO.OUO Perish In Fire at Wichita, Kan. Forty-five race horses, valued at $30,000, were burned at Wichita. Kan., Sunday in the stables of the Wichita and Southwestern Fair Asso lotion. The horses were lieing wintered there after a racing season on the fair circuits of Kansas and Oklahoma. The stables, which were fully destroyed, were valued at $13,000, half insured A further less of $10,000 was due to the tunning of racing carts, harness and oth er accessories. The origin of the fire has not been ascertained. Five Children IMed. Five children died on the steamer ( arpatnia durinR that vessel's vow ate from Trieste. The C.irpathis was held at quarantine at Now York for transfer from tin* steerage of f>n children, all ill with rontac; ions diseases. The} were sent to Hoffman Island for treatment The bodies of tlie children who died n route wore hurled nt hob (iunrtl tlie >lnil. At \iiKiistu. (la., .T. William Murray. who killed Thou. Mitchell, a young white man Saturday night, wn captured Sunday. The polio* feared trouble and nndc hasty preparations to prevent his being lynched.. At midnight it war aunounct-4 by the police that danger of a lynching wan over.