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AWFUL STORY Thf Plague and Famine Kills Thonsands in Cbina Every Day. DETAILS ARE FEARFUL !"* ' No KpldemJc Kike Plague Haa Via- j ite<l Cliinn Since the Middle Ages l < and It is Predicted That One Mil- ( lion Persons Will I>le Before An- 1 other Crop. t Both famine and plague is sweepIng China, says a dispatch from Peking, the capital of that stricken country. The known deaths from the plague number 3 0,000, and oftlcial statistics ' show a daily death rate averaging 200. But the officials have little ( knowledge of conditions in the in- , terior, or if they have they are not permitting tho facts to get out. . There are few or no foreigners in the . interior, and therefore conditions there are not attracting much public . attention. It is impossible even to estimate ( tho number of deaths from lack of food. People die by the thousand every day. Dr. Samuel Cochran, an American, engaged in the work of ' relief, writes: "One million people will die he- , fore the first crop is harvested. This will he scanty, because the people : have not the strength to till the soil ( and no animals remain for ploughing." The Chinese are directing their of forts to control the plneue rhleflv , along the railways and frontier f <r , political reasons. Since the recent Ttussinn request for permission to or ?s the border and quarantine Chinese towns nlong the Amur China -I iiDMi irying to mock the nlncuo along that border, but the Russian legation savs the work has heen done !r ffcctivoly, because no doctors 1 tore are familiar with modern methods of sanitation. Tn former epidemics the local authorities. Including the police and soldiers, left the people to die; now they do not care or do not know how to maintain adennate sanitary measures. Although the central government has issued numerous explicit orders, both supplies and funds are lacking. .Tananese and Russians have both ofered assistance, but only in a few places have these offers been accented, the Chinese not liking to receive favors from foreigners whose political motives they distrust, k Physicians oomhatlne the disease think warm weather will kill the " frma, although there may he nnlv a temporary respite. Tf the plague were of the bubonic type, summer beat would augment it. bubonic being conveved by (leas, rats and other ve-mln which thrive in n-it-tv, pi-eric conditions. But the pneumonic tvne is transmitted through tlio rosniratory apparatus, and w'<-n the Chinese emerge from their wl.itcr quarters into the oncn air they will escape much contamination. Medical nutlioritics say that such an epidemic as the present one, 1 wMch is entirely pneumonic, 1ms not vi?'ted the world since the Middle A ""ft. Owing to the political questions involved and the presence of foreigners along the railways the plague in Manchuria is receiving greater attention than the famine, hut the death rate from the famine is /many times greater ithan that from the plague. The famine is the result of the destruction of the crops by a fail of sixteen inches of rain in two days ; last August in a district where the people ordinarily livo from hand t.? ' mouth. ' As soon as the first pangs of hunger were felt the people left their homes, but many could not get beyond the borders of the devastation. ( They returned and took up the death 1 struggle beside their homesteads. ' A relief committee composed of 1 foreigners at Shanghai is collecting ' money. Japan and America are the ^?l.r ?i.? iuiciku cow nines mat Dave eon- 1 tributed so far to aid the sufferers. But even the extensive assistance 1 from the United States is entirely ina den hate. I( is estimated that 2.000,000 pen- ' pie are without food and are existing on roots, grasses or anything 1 that agords the slightest possibility ' of nourishment. Those possessing ' grain guard it night and day. t ( They Send Help. j The Chinese of San Francisco have y sent more than $20,000 to their t countrymen in the famine districts. ; Friday's donations, sent by cable, consisted of $in?000 from tlie Chi i nese Six Companies, a benevolent as- f eoeiafion, and $1,000 from the \ t7 11mn -i i iiinn Newspaper, which \ r- raised the money by arranging Chi nesv entertainments in ttie city. Mow (?|H>n Vault. s At Windfall, 1ml., robbers early d Friday morning blew open the outer n vault of the local bank and secured e $450. They failed to gain entrance i to the inner vault, which contained t $10,000 In cash. Tho robbers es- o caped. tj WILL BUY NEW CARS r%ISO NEW ENGINES FOR USE ON TIIK SOUTHKRN. ' Hie Charleston Division Will be Very Much Benefited by the Prol?ose<l Purchases. We learn from the News and Cour- . er that advices have been recieved n Charleston to the effect that the Southern Railway is in the market 'or extensive purchases in equipnent. The increase in business is issigned as the reason for this in rease in equipment. The purchases vill Include fifty-five big locomotves for l)oth freight and passenger j <ervice on the lines of the Southern. ^ It is understood that the Charles- ( on division of the Southern will be ( jnly in directly benefited by these , lew purchases, and that a majority , jf the new rolling stock will be us- , 3d on the main lines of the road. That the Charleston division will re- ( ^eive a portion of the main line roll- ( ng stock now in use on the main | line, is the opinion of many of the , 'ailroad men in the city. The South- . s at present operating very heavy ( rains out of this city, notably the | Carolina Special and the Augusta trains, and the engines now in use. , while powerful for their size, will , soon have to be replaced by heavier ( type locomotives. I Fifty-five locomotives are to lie ( purchased by the Southern in the < near future, as follows: Twenty- , live of the Mikado tpye, for fgreight traflic purposes: fifteen of the I'acl- , lie tpye. for passenger traffic, and fifteen standard switching engines. The locomotives will be of the heaviest tlive. deslvnorl for tt>?> t?w?ut ,,e.. cient and economical service. It is i believed that they would prove too ( heavy for the roadbed of the Charleston division, even were the Southern disposed to place them on any other hut the main line. ( Cliarlesepyt xekip't aoinshrdl uetn f wypj The Carolina Special trains of the Southern, operating between Charleston, Ohio, will he among the first trains to he benefited by the pur- , chase of the rolling stock. Powerful engines of the "1.100" type, ( now in use on the main line, will , haul the trains between Asheville ( and Columbia and Columbia ana , Charleston. The Southern has also placed orders recently for new passenger equipment. Including thirty-five firstclass coaches, twenty full postal ears, ten combination passenger ana baggage care and four dining ? coaches. This equipment will consist of rolling stock of the latest designs. ( Orders have also been placed for 27.1200 tons of S."I-pound steel rails, which w'll be used in track better- , inent. Of this amount 22,4 00 tons will be furnished by the Tennessee , Coal, Iron and Railway Company, 1,800 by the Illinois Street Company and 15.000 tons by the Maryland Steel Company. Important track improvements are to he m: d by the Southern In the near futi r<- between Asheville, N. C., and Morristown. Tenn.. part of the route traversed by the C irolina Sue i-ial trains on their trips bet worn ' Charleston and Cincinnati; and also i between Knoxville and Cleveland, < Tenn., by the building of eight or ten I passing tracks. The latter will > greatly increase the capacity of these 1 lines. ? * Old> VAt'l.T OPFXKD. t 1 Body of Woman Who Died One Hun- ' dred Years Ago Found. 1 1 The Augusta Chronicle says: Dead | a hundred years but unchanged by < passing years, the body of a woman t sncased in a strong metal casket has r been found on Shad Island near Sa- j vannah in an old vault In which also ( were other caskets. Tho finding of the body recalls the tld Shad fnmily, the last of whose members is said to have died more ban 80 years a?o. Every indication ' il>out. the old vault bears out the belief that the unknown woman whose face is as fair and whose hair s carefully parted over her smooth f row as it was when she was laid to '1 rest long before Commodore Peary s rought the British on the Great t Lakes, has Iain in her eofiln for a 'I entury. a In the liitle, forgotten colony of ho d ad are said to be eight caskets 1 til containing members of this c\- a inct fan ily. The other caskets will ' e examined later and it is probable 1 hat some care will be taken of the ' >ld vault. A heavy glass covers the ' ace of the vonng woman whose body I vns the first to b found. Through it v irr i ice is piainiy seen. She looks is If she had just died. ^ There are no ruins of a house vis- ' hie ou Shad plat yet it. Is said the ** niily re hied on the island for many 1 ears, prohil ly before and during the < var of the revolution. 1 ? ? 15 eaks Keno's licciiril. A record was established by the 1 uperior eourt at Macon, C'.a., Thurslay afternoon when one jury, without removing from its seats, granted ight divorces in ??."? minutes, hear- P ng all of the evidence and signing I he verdicts in that time, an average k >f one divorce for every three min- a ites. ii WILL BE SHOT Forfy-Fire Supporters of Zelaya io'Nicaraugaa to be Executed. ARE AGAINST ASTRADA riiese Men Are Charged With Having Conspired to Overthrow the l'resent Xic?rngunii (Government and Heeall Ktiaya, Who Fled to Europe a Few Mont lis Ago. According to cable advices received lere from Costa Rica. Dr. Rudolph Sspinosa. well known throughout Central America, and forty-four others are to be sho? by the Estrada government of Nicaragua for alleged 'ompli !ty in the plot against the administration. No ofhclal announcement of the executions has l>een made and friends if the condemned men fear that official announcement will he delayed until after the executions are accom|)llshed. As that is generally the way hey do things down in South America. The \fnited States ministers to Costa Rica, It is said, has been asked to make official request of President EsLrada for definite information of his intentions towards the prisoners and cablegrams will be sent to President Taft and Secretary of State Knox seeking their assistance. The forty-five members of the Liberal party in Nicaragua who have been eond-.-ninvd to death for participation iti the plot to kill Pr> si dent Estrada and overthrow the government. include many who were prominent in N raguan political affairs during tl. t gn of Jose Santos Zelaya. Mail ad\i - received at New Orleans say that the men are now In chains in various penitentiaries in Nicaragua. T le date of execution f? bpin? kept secret. Dr. Ra-iolfo Hspinosa is accused of heing the leader in the plot and with directing: the destruction of the ammunition barracks at Managua recently. Many of the men under death sentence are Masons, and the Masonic Grand Dodge at San Jose is using every means to prevent the executions Others of the forty-live condemned men are Dr. Octavlo Gomez, Adam Hspinosa, Dr. Ducian Gomez, Felix Pedro Zelaya, Dr. Manuel Maldonado, Dr. llildebrand Castollon, Dr. Renjaniin Zeledona, Jose Maria Dessage. Telemaco Darn, Dr. Solomon Delgado, Dr. Rostran, Jose Maria Zelaya, Antonio Fonzca, Jose Santos Ramlre, Gen. Fernando Rlvas and Dr. Jose Dolorez Gomez. Dr. J. Iiasillo, a German, is also said to he under sentence of death for complicity in the plot, lie is in the penitentiary at Greneda. STANDS ItV HIS FRIFNDS. Please Appoints Commissioners Who Voted for llim. Hon. J. M. Rengnick, chairman of he Mean fort legislative delegation, -tates, in reference to the local conn iv appointments. dial tlie nominees :>f the primary wore, all endorsed by die delegation and appointed by the governor. The delegation recommended township commissioners, as required by law, hut the governor lid not appoint, as required by law. instead he appointed commissioners recommended by Mr. Thomas Talbird. representing a faction which opposed the present delegation in the ast primary and supported Candidate Mease. The delegation's recommendations for township commissioners were by custom based on the recimmendatioiis of the several clubs. I'he Talhird recommendations disregard the clubs where they do not fav>r his faction. * r.M'SKD SMAI.L I'.VMC. inds His \\ if** With Another Man and llow Mnsues. Frightened guests fled from a ashiounble Atlanta restaurant Thursday night when a qniet lift' aipper party was suddenly converted nto the scene of a duel with knives. The supper party consisted of a man ind another man's wife. The participants were two well noun Atlantans, A. I,. Hendricks, i real estate man, and C. It. Burtilatn, auditor of tlie Southern Bell Tel phone company. The fight toe owed ; quarrel over Mrs. Burnham, he husband accusing Hendricks of laying too much attention to his vife. When tic 11.lit \v:is at Its height .'rs. nurnhani rushed in between the wo men and tried to stop them. 11 r leove and waist were out and ripped >y the knives of the combatants. >tlier guests finally interferred and iendrieks and Hnrnham and his wife > ere sent to a polieo station where barges against all three were enered. * Killed t?y Boiler. At Niagara, N. Y.t a boiler oxloded in the plant of the Ontario 'ower company Friday morning, tiling three men. fatally injuring not her and more or less seriously njurlng six to ten others. DESERVED LYNCHING MANY CRIMES TRACED TO THE HAND OF ARTHUR YOUNG. 1 Mulatto Who Shot Policeman Gunnels at Greenville and Who Was ^ Lynched for Killing a Conductor. The last chapter in the checkered ^ life of Arthur Young has been written with the sending of his body from IGreonvlile to Flountaln Inn. where the remains will be interred hy his family, says the Greenville correspondent of The State. The correspondent goes on to say: Wiithin the last seven days the shooting of Policeman Gunnels, the robbery of the postofllce at Easley, i the robbery of the depot and a num- t ber of stores at Willlnmston, and j numerous other crimes in the Pled- t mont neighborhond have been traced h to this mulatto and the guilt finally j and positively fastened upon him by ] a most unusual chain of circum- t stances. j Two weeks ago when the Pinker- t ton detective reached Greenville to ( ferret out the murderer of Policeman t Gunnels, he made brief examination ( of the probable clues found in this , city, and then made a short trip to ( AYilllamston and later went to Easley, where he secured sufficient evi- , dence to lead him to the belief that , the man wanted for the killing of the ^ Greenville officer was none other , than a bright mulatto named Arthur ( Young, alias \V. R. Ross?the latter being the name under which the no- , gro had ordered his make-up mater- , in Is and his yegg outfit. ( The evidence leading to these conclusions was gathered piece-meal and when finally collected under the guid- | auce of the local officials dovetailed , so closely and well that it was do- , cided to start the limit at once for \rthnr Young. Officer Rector of the j lo al force, who had arrested Young . on several previous occasions, was , dispatched on the hunt, finally lo- ^ ating his m in in Augusta. On the night the officer reached the Georgia city, however, he heard 1 of the lynching of a bright mulatto In Warren county, Ga., he having 1 shot without provocation a conductor , on the Georgia railroad, lie left Au- , gusia i\t fliico for tli?? scene of the | lynching. On his arrival, however, ^ he found that the hody had l>een sold to a medical college in Atlanta. doing to that city ho had little | difficulty in Identifying the negro, though his hody was considerably mutilated. Otflcer Hector immediately made arrangements to bring the hody of the lynched negro to Greenville. After i<3 arrival In this city the , hody was Identifird by a number of citizens, by the Rasley postmaster, . by Williamston people and the final result is that another mystery has been cleared. HI KNKI> Til KM A I.I V K. Some Awful Scenes lleiug Koucted in < l Chinese Towns. IMade desperate by hunger, hands 1 of hundreds of starvin1 refugees a' roving through the famine area of ' China plundering and 1 illing. and ' a reign of tt-rror prevails, according to persons who have just arrived here from the Orient. At Kuoshan. a walled village fifty miles from Shangai, the villagers, ' after a raid in which stores were ' looted and many killed, meted out punishment peculiarly Chinese in its ; callousness to the raiding refugees. ' A band of more than uftO are report- '' ed to have been surrounded in a ' compound and burned to death. Thn rnf iur<\rto *??. .1 ? 1- ? * 1 ...v. mill l llhi'll pOSHCSSlOn of Kunshan and for two days ransacked the stores of everything eat- 1 able, killing or wounding all wno resisted. Many villagers were slain and others were taken prisoners and hold for ransom. When the raiders moved on to plunder the next village the Kunshan people held a council of war and offered to pnrue the fugitives, i They came up with them in a small , village and surrounded the houses. \ The gates were locked and the < houses fired. .1 The refugees took five prisoners ( into the compound in view of the besiegers and threatened to kill them r unless the siege was raised. On the t villagers pressing them hack to the \ burning buildings, they slowly \ hacki I the live men to dea'h. ; Three other prisoners were tied to y stakes in the burning building and burned with their captors. * s ^ Itiirns Two Horses. "! A colored renter on the plantation h of C. It. Dunbar, near Millettsville, I1 Harnwell county, was plowing In a c l?rooni p>'dgo field and becoming thirsty went off in searcli of water, first setting fire to the sedge. He left his two horses hitched to a plow n and when lie returned in a short a while both horses were burned to <1 death, still hitched to the plow. n Five Die in Fire. h Supposed to have been caused hy the explosion of a lamp, fire during tlie night burned two houses at. Oneida. I*a., occupied by Gabriel' C Oerotsky .and Michael Slovak, Ilun- ii garians. Five members of the Gerot- o sky family lost their lives in the 7 flames. y DWELL IN CAVES \ Steamer Boarded by Strange Tribr in the Magelliin Straits. ARE KNOWN AS ALACUFS IVcnrs No Clothing and Dive on Haw Fish?Do Not Know How to Make a Fire?A Hint to Civilized Mothers Whose Hahies Are (liven to l Crying. I The Ilritish steamer Strathesk, 1 vhich is discharging a cargo of ferili/.er at the foot of Columbus street, 1 tad a most interesting voyage boween Iquique and Charleston, and , the encountered many strange peo- ( ales, says The News and Courier, lot the strangest of these was the ribo of Alarufs, met by the vessel n the Straits of ^Magellan. This ribe came out to meet the ship from he north shore of the straits, while he vessel was lying at anchor. The }Ulcers were thus enabled to learn many of their customs, and to exchange gifts with them. it was at a late hour of the night that It was reported to the captain of the vesst 1 that a party of strange looking natives were approaching the ship in "dug-outs," uttering loud ries and gesticulating wildly. Their actions were easily described by the ivntch, because of the fullness of the moon. All hands were called on leek, and they prepared for trouble. I'owi ver, tlie natives came alongside, and showed signs of wishing to have friendly intercourse with the men on he vessel, and they were accordingly allowed to come aboard. The men only came on board, leaving the women in the boats. All that any of the natives wore was a very serene smile. The men on the Srat ttcsK Dr.-an a search for old clothes lo Rive to the natives, but when the garments were finally distributed, the natives were iRnorant of their proper use, and many ludicrous situations resulted. For instance, when the second officer presented one man with \ pair of old sea boots, ho immediately took them to the spouse and the latter held them up for a short inspection and then placed her baby In 1 one of them. One tall, swarthy fel low drew a stiff hat from the pile of plothing, and went away with the hat an his head and a very satisfied look on his face. The officers did not state whether or not he had nnythinR on the rest of his body. These natives were most primitive In their mode of living, and appeared to be little removed from monkeys. They dwell in caves, and, as has been mentioned before, wore no clothing whatever. The men of the Stratliesk are not sure whether or not the natives have yet acquired the art of making a fire. At least, they did not see any fires from the ship, and they lid see that tlie people never cooked their food. They appeared to live phiefly on raw fish, which they aught by diving into the water, and Llieir principal beverace was a kind >f tea brewed from lierbs, which they called mati. Their inventive or rreativo art appeared to be at its highest in the rawing of rude mati cups from grounds. Those were the only things In sides raw fish, which they had to 1 affer the men of the Srathesk. The latter noted many queer customs among these primitive people, one sf the most singular of which was the ( notion taken hy a mother to stop the Tying of her baby. When the infant began to squall, the mother immersed it up to its neck in the ley water along the shore, and this treatment would hush the cries at once. * SCHOOL H.\Its CIIILI) MIFF. '1 I.Ike My Tenelmr," I'leuds Little Mrs. Stump, Aged III. "1 want to go to school: I like | ny teacher," pleaded little Carmelia t Mtimari Stump, twelve years old, vho was denied the privilege Friday ; >f attending the baby grade at tne | lackson Public School in Cincinnati, < )hio, because she is married. \ Her short dress did not nearly i each her shoe tops as she bent over | be table to show how well she could 1 vrlto. The - i rl had he<?? min-i..,! sMth the consent of her parents in a Centucky to Frank Stump, nineteen S ears old. j Principal O'Donnell of tlio Jack- | on school holds that iiecause she s married she cannot attend school, i tut t ie child wife wants to continue 1 ier studies, and the matter has he n >rought to die attention of the sup- i rintendent of schools. * 'I ? Tliey Fight for According to dispatches twenty- '1 lie persons were trampled to death 1' t Shah-Yang, lltiapeh province, Fri- ' lay when a horde of starving Chi- ' icse fought for the food which misionarivs were attempting to distriute. A great many were injured. * p Nearl> Four Thousand. The population of Darlington, S. I In Iftlh was 2,7Sft, against 3.0S3 r n 1 ftoO, according to the statistics* h f tlie 13th census. This is a gain of h Oft, or 22.ft j>er cent, in the past ten 1 p ears. * t CIVIL WAR STORY ABOUT TWO JU1XJKS THAT BEADS LI UK PUBK FICTION. It Tolls How Judge Hurl an. Federal, Hanged Away at Judge Lurton, Confederate, Fifty Years Ago. Cen. John II. Morgan, the raider, along about 18G3, swooped down upon the Federal garrison at Hartsville, Tenn. Morgan had only about 1,200 men, while the Union forces numbered about 2.000, Still. Morgan usually knew what he was about?result: Several hundred Federals killed and the rest captured. As soon as the hattle was over, says the Chicago Inter-Ocean, tlio Confederates recrossed the Cumlierland River. Among the rear guard was Private Lurton, of the 2d Kentucky cavalry, lie was the last tn.in ?n reeross the river and just ahead of him was the last Confederate wagon, loaded with Federal muskets, and other captured articles. In the meantime the sound of Morgan's guns had disturbed the slumbers of another Kentuckian. This one was a Union soldier. Harlan by name, and he was colonel of the 10th Kentucky infantry, at Castaliun Springs, six miles from Hartsville. He immediately started with his regiment to the relief of the garrison at Hartsville. Harlan and his regiment reached the top of a bluff hack from the river just as I,urton and the last wagon of the Confederates was in the niiddlo of the Cumberland. Harlan had a Held piece along, and he pointed it at the Confederate cavalryman and banged away. Tie didn't hit the cavalryman; so he tried again and kept t rving. Nevertheless, Harlan's shells hit the river in the immediate vicinity of cavalryman and wagon, and they made a mighty splash. The driver cut loose his mules and made record time to the shore. If I-urton tarried, there is no record of it. Today, in black robes, the colonel behind the cannon and the private on the horse sit side by side on the bench of the most august tribunal of the world. For the Federal was John Marshall Harlan and the Confederate was llnraco lltirmrm 1 urtnn ?and both are Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. This United States of ours is a great country?and it is just such things as this Harlan-Lurton affair that make us sure of it. When one of these Kentuckians banged away at the other our country was in the throes of the fiercest and bloodiest civil wars of all history. And that was just about half a century ago. In these r>0 years we have grown to be the wealthiest and most powerful nation of earth. Hut. better still, we have outgrown the things that set Union soldier against Confederate until the presence of these two fi-'hting men of the civil war side by side upon the Supreme Court bench is truly typical of a sectional strife forgotten and a country reunited. It takes a great country and a great people to make such things not only possible, but actual realities. * k11.1.I'D HV A NKtillO. ( rent Incitement Caused by Tragedy ?.. Through a dispatch to The Ptate we learn of a bloody tragedy which took place Friday at .Ino, C. Ilipp's Did Town plantation, 12 miles west >f Xewberry, in which James S. (Jiiliam, a white man, cut a negro woman, Maybell Rook, on the neck and (aw and her mother, Clayton Mooter, >n the hand with a knife, (lilliam limself was shot and killed by Sam Itoozer, the husband and father of lie women. (i'lliam lived on Mr. Ilipp's place, is did the negroes. This morning '.oozer and several other negro men >n the place came to Xewberry and vere in the store of (Jco. C. Hipp geting plantation supplies when John lipp cot a phone message tii.it (lillani had cut a negro woman's throat, md telling him to come at once. Ilo ind the negro men loft on the 2: IS louthern train Friday afternoon and t was shortly after th y reached the dace that the shooting occurred. \ large crowd has gathered and here Is inn h excitement. The sherry and < >roi r have just gone to tho ci hp. Mr. Ciiliiam was I", years old I'd I ive | U I'e mil '' in* ? !? 11 "he diflloultv si 'rtod 1?\ Mr. C, 111 i a m cfusinsr to 1ft the woman wash at ho W"!1. II is s.ii<! to have been rinhin-'. W'itm. i that Clilliani ut his hand hohind him as if to raw a pistol, but he had no pistol, toozor niado his oscapo. * (liven hunger Holiday. Through an aniondtm lit to the ostofTloo appropriation hill, offorod y S nator Swan -on, of Virginia, 'riday and adopted, rural letter cariers throughout the < mntry will loreafter he entitled to thirty dnvg cave of absence each year, with full ay. At present they are entitled o hut fifteen days. |