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K7 W p- v. - r ESTABLISHED TWO WIPED OUT Tim if iWu d Bif Heart Breed* cdhlmMkrTwnb. FIFTEEN WERE SILLED Reports Prom Other Pisces Tell ( Death and Devastation Dealt by the Winds?Probably One Hundred Have Been Killed in Kansas, Okla/ homa and Missouri. / heavy wind storm, attaining the Telocity of a tornado, In some secf tions, and accompanied by rain, hail acd lightning, swept over western - - ^ Mlusouri, Kansas and Oklahoma Wednesday, killing 15 people, practically destroying two towns, injuring almost a hundred persons, wrecking scores of buildings and putting almost every telephone and telegraph wire in the territory out of commission. The tornado levied its greatest toll of dead at Big Heart, Oklahoma, where eight persons were killed, 10 Injured and almost every building In the town wrecked. Whiting, Kansas, was practically wiped off 'he map. Sixty buildings were blown down, 30 persons hurt and Mrs. David Stone killed. At Powhatan, Kan., a woman and child were killed. A high scboo building was wrecked at Eskrldge, Kan., a number of houses damaged end from 15 to 20 persons Injured. At Hiawatha. Kansas, a school house wsb blown down, an 8-year-old boy, named Pelton, was killed, and several buildings were struck by lightning. Several persons are known to have been hurt at Xetawaka, Kas. A boy was killed at Manvllle, Kas. The Kansas end of the tornado started near Whiting and swept in a southeasterly direction for a distance of more than 50 miles. It is thought manv more Dersons vim killed or Injured than have I been reported at this time. Telegraph and telephone crews are working. bow that the storm has abated, to get "* the wlree in shape. Two more deaths were reported : from Hiawatha late Wednesday ofeht Geraldlne Melsenhelmer. 10 years old, and a small child of Otis Mel lot t are the victims. The Mei6en- j heimer girl sought refuge with three companions in a country school house, and the building was wrecked soon afterward. The dead giri's companions were Injured. It Is not j known now the Mellot child met its death. A Topeka, Kansas, dispatch saye a tornado traveling in a southeasterly direction destroyed the town of Whiting, 25 miles north of Topeka, late this afternoon. Sixty houses were blown down and 30 persons injured. Eskrldge is 25 miles south of Topeka. The storm struck there shortly before 4 o'clock. The high school bnilding was blown down and 20 students were injured. A woman and a child were killed at Powhatan. Mrs. David Stone, wife of a farmer living near Whiting, was swept from the steps of her home Into a neighbor's yard half a mile away. 8he was picked up dead. An interrupted telephone message from Netawka says many persons were injured there. Only one telephone wire is working between here and Kansas City. George A. Scott, an Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe engineer, who was in Eskrldge at the time of the storm says at least 15 houses were blown down. After he left Eskrldge, says Scott, he could see the tornado sweeping across the country for a distance of 10 miles, overturning houses, barns and sheds in its path. He heard of no one being killed in Eskrldge. Benjamin Besch, a fireman on his engine was blown out of the cab window and fcuriea across me sireei. i The only Injury he sustained wap a light cut on hie head. While Mrs. Ray Garnum of Powhatan was sitting in her house, the torm swept the greater part of the building from over head. She was but slightly hurt. A Big Heart, Okla., dispatch say* eight persons were killed and 10 Injured in a tornado which struck that place at 4 o'clock Wedceeday nf e>- j noon, leaving but few houses standing. The tornado swept everything In it* path Houses were blown from their foundations and the occupants were whirled through the air. Tnis town was demoralised and telegraphie communication cut ofT. Relief trains were Btarted from Avant and Pawhuska. Big Heart has a population of 400. The St. Joseph & Grand Island depot and box cars at Manvllle, Kan., were blown over by a tornado Wednesday afternoon. A farm house was also wrecked and one child killed,: according to information received by j the Grand Island officers at that place. Telegraphic and telephone wires are down. Sisters Are Drowned. While driving from Rrookport, 111., to Metropolis 111., eight miles away. Mrs. Louis Herter and Mrs. James Wilford, sisters-in-law, were drowneo when a bridge across Massa creek gave way. throwing both women into the swollen strtam. The two horses the women were driving, swam to shore and thus gave the first alarm (of the double drowning. "Bad Man" Found Dead. At Lawter. Fla.. John Bennett, known In that section as a "bad man," having been arrested many times for shooting affairs, was found daad on a street Thursday- There were several ballet wounds In his jr> body and It Is supposed that ho had been killed by some chemy. m i " . s. it*-*-* ' Th IN 1891. WIND AND HAIL BAD STORM PLAYS HAVOC IX EASTERN MISSOURI. Many People Were Killed and Injured by It u It Swept Over State. A St. Louis dispatch says nine persons are dead and nearly 100 Injured as a result of the destructive wind and hall storm which passed over Eastern Missouri Friday afternoon. In this city three are dead and property valued at between $i,500,000 and $2,000,000 was dettioy ed. There was a remarkable participation of hall stones. Some of these are reported as being three Inches In diameter. Hail caused the greatest damage. Thousands of windows in west-end residences were broken. Green-! houses were demolished. Churches I in the path of the Btorm did not escape and many strsined glass windows were broken. At Valles Mine, Mo., the tornado killed four persons and serjou 'y injured a score more. At Cadet, Mo., two women art known to have been killed and iu persons are reporteo injured. At Shelbyville, 111., hail stones eight inches in circumference were reported. At Anna, 111., growiug crops were badly damaged by the hail and wind. The tornado which wrought destruction in Cadet and Valles Minesswept over and did considerable damage to several points in Washington, Montgomery, St. Francis and Jefferson ? the lead belt counties ? and among the towns suffering heavily were Flat River, Esther and Elvlns. In the turee towns named fifty persons were more or lesB seriously In Jured. TORE VP THE CROPS. I Great Damage is Done in Barnwell , County by the Hail. A special to The State from Barn- 1 well says the section in and around i Zorn's mill, a few miles from Ham. ' well, was visited by a most disastrous ? hailstorm Saturday evening, which 11 lasted about 20 minutes and did ! ' great damage to tender young crops ' and gardens. A light shower of hall-1 stones also fell here during the thun derstorm of Saturday. < The stories told of the storm and 1 the havoc wrought are almost unbe- ' lievable. The stones, many of which are said to have been as large as ? i good sizen marble, came down in a veritable cloudburst, and the approach of the storm could be nearu at quite a distance. R. L. Ussery said that in ditches 1 the drifts of stones were from !2 Inches to two and three feet deep. 1 Gardens were badly damaged, but 1 luckily no crops were up in his lm- ' mediate neighborhood. 1 C. B. Swann's garden and a fine patch of- rye, waist high, were lit-1 eraly torn to shreds, as were sev- j' eral acres of beautifully growing ( cantaloupe and watermelon vines. I' **? Jhat ho had IllSt ! ' mr. owauu | fertilized some 40 acres of land, us- j1 ing 1,000 pounds of fertilizer to the j acre, and that the rain washed prac- ! tlcally all of it away. He will have ' all of his work to do over aeain, with ' the great loss of time and mouey 1 incident hereto. 1 A local physician, returning from ' a visit to a patient In the country, ' was forced to get out of his bURgy ( and hold the buggy seat over his ' horse's head to protect it from the 1 hailstones. Stones which had been on the ' ground einee Saturday night were from one-half to three-fourths of an 1 inch in diameter on Monday. T hey must have been fully one inch in diameter when they first fell. It is impossible at this time to estimate the great damage done by the storm, as many farmers living in that ' section have not been heard from. 1 but it will likely run into the thousands of dollars. Selling Human Flesh. "While the plague in Manchuria is on the decrease, there is still much suffering and want over tln-re. ?.u man flesh is being sold for food. Kumatao Hishara, in charee of ihe crematorium in Kudzuya, was arrested March 23, charged with selling human flesh. According to The Kokurain and other Tokyo papers, a search resulted in finding a larg? quanlty of human flesh. Auto Turned Over. At Kansas City Ned Crane, driving T> ' - ? ? * ?. ? An* In r% nrnot i nn f f?ct i a HUicjt raring ui m i |/i?vv.w w.>? at Elm Ridge track there late Fri- < day afternoon, preparatory to an at- ( tempt to be made tomorrow to establish a new record, was instantly killed when his machine threw two tires, and turned over. An employe of the Bulck factory, riding with Crane, was dangerously injured. Four Men Are Ix>st. It is feared that four fishermen. Otto Olsen. llolpe Johnson, Nels Swanson and Harold Olson, have been lost on Lake Superior. The party left Two Harbors in the thiryfoot gasoline fishing boat "Flyer," on March 31. bound for Isle Rovale. The boat was last heard of at Grand Marias, which point it reached April 1. Shooting Scrape. Sample Oolphin. a negro, has surrendered himself to the sheriff of Aiken county, he having killed an- j other negro, John Black, near Silverton seme days ago. The negroes met near Golphin's home, and It Is said that It was about Golphin's wife. A I shotgun was need, and Black's brains i were blown out. He died a short i time after he was shot. t E F< FC FAIL TOWORK The Democrats Block the Scheme of the Republicans to Kill THE PUBLICITY BILL Discover Just in Time that Accepted Amendment to Rucker Bill For Publicity of Campaign Contribu lions Before Election Would Apply to Primary Elections. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says the Democrats of the House of Representatives continued to-day their schedule of sending something warm to the Senate. While the latter body hab been licking its committees into Bhape, the House has been passing things which will give the Senate a lot of trouble, and to-day the Rucker bill for publicity of cam palgn contributions before election was passed. For the first time In the session, the House Republicans caught the Democrats napping and came near throwing them off their balance. The trick was worked by an amendment making the campaign publicity bill apply to primary elections also. It took the majority some hours to recover from the shock and defeat the amendment, on the ground that It would throw the primaries Into the Federal Courts. Tho InoiriATit nhnwed that tue Vj. 0. P., though down, Is still dangerous from & parliamentary point of view. But for the vigorous use of the Democratic party whip, an Important Republican amendment extending publicity of candidates for Congress would have been retained la the bill when it finally passed. As It was, the amendment was adopted over the protest of the Democratic leaders, by the support of 52 of the Democrats who voted with the solid Republican strength. Resort to a. parliamentary move enabled the Democrats later to get rid of tne amendment, but 28 of their number refused to change their attitude and stuck with the Republicans. The Rucker bill passed finally by a unanimous vote, but only after a stormy jcene. The amendment, offered by Mr. lackson, a new member from Wisconsin. provides that candidates for Congress shall file list of moneys used in their Individual campaign. The amendment met with instant support from the Republicans. Mr. Rucker, of Missouri, chairman of the committee, in charge of the bill, asserted that it would 60 change the form of the law that It might endanger its final passage. This did not deter fifty-four Democrats from supporting the Jackson amendment and the announcement of the vote was followed by a storm of applause from the Republican side. As soon as the vote was announced, Mr. Rucker moved to recommit the bill, with its new amendment, to the elections committee, with instructions to that committee to send the bill to the House without the Jackjon amendment. mis pariiuuieinai) i.w jquecze the amendment out of the bill brought about a split in tht Democratic ranks. Twenty-eight of :hem stood by their former action md voted against the motion to recommit the bill but the Democratic leaders mustered enough votes to carry their point, 157 to 14 9, and :he bill technically was sent back to the committee. Mr. Rucker gathered the members jf the committee around him and, without leaving the floor, they instructed him to report the bill again without the Jackson amendment. As soon as the vote had t>e<m announced he again reported the hill to the House with the Jackson amendment left off, and the motion carried 164 to 13?. The bill in its original form then passed the House without a dissenting vote. The Rucker bill, as finally passed, makes more stringent the campaign publicity law passed in 1910. "he Rucker bill will require publicity of funds by the campaign committee ten days previous to election and tne tiling of supplemental statements every three days thereafter. The bill limited publicity of campaign expenditures of sums of $100 or over, but Mr. Rucker accepted an amendment of Mr. Kopp, of Wlnconsin. Republican, requiring the publicity of all payments In sums of $100 or over for campaign expenses.* Ear Sewed On. At Chicago Edward W. McCarthy, 51 years old, fell down stairs in an office building Wednesday night, sev ering his left ear. He was taken to a hospital, the ear soaked in warm water for a while and sewed on again. Ambulance Physician D. M. Wall declared the ear would probably become securely attached to the heacf and said McCarthy's hearing would not be injured. Damaged by Storms. Considerable damage was done to crops and property in central Louisiana Wednesday by rain, hail and wind storms. At Covington, on Lake Pontchartrain, several residences were shaken from their foundations. In New Orleans the streets were flooded. Reports from Raton Rouge say the storm was the worst experienced there in several years. Train in the Ditch. Mobile & Ohio passenger train No. 4. leaving Mobile Tuesday morning, went into the ditch two miles south of Muldon, Miss., that afternoon. The engine and baggage car was derailed, the engine turning completely over and killing Engineer Jasper Adams ind injuring the baggagemaster, por:er and five passengers. 3RT )RT MILL, S. C? TI SLUSH FUND STORY ATTOR.VEYS DISCREDIT THE DENIAL OF HINES. ? j Drawing the Lines Tighter and Tighter Around Hini and the Other Corrnptlonists. Developments in Thursday's Dealing at Springfield, 111., of the State senate committee Investigating the election of United States Senator William Lorimer were attempts by attorneys and Investigators of the committee to discredit the denial of Edward Hlnes, a Chicago lumberman, accused of having collected a fund to elect Senator Lorimer, and | the practical refusal of Edward Til- j den, a Chicago packer and banker, to produce before the committee his accounts In the various banks through which he does business. Mr. Tllden's attitude on the witness stand resulted In the serving of a Becond subpoena upon him as he stepped from the witness chair this afternoon. It commands Mr. Tilden to produce before the committee next Thursday the records of his various bank accounts In the year 1909. Refusal to do so, Mr. Tilden was given to understand by the committee, will result In an order of contempt being issued against him. The testimony given a week ago by Clarence S. Funk, general manager of the International Harvesiei Company, was corroborated to a considerable degree by Herman H. Hettler of Chicago, president of the Herman Hettler Lumber Company. Although Mr. Hettler stated that Mr. Hines said nothing of the use of money or Improper methods In the election of Senator Lorlrner, Mr. Hlnes was quoted as boasting a personal achievement In "putting Lorlrner over." Mr. Hettler said he had the conversation with Mr. Hlnes In the Union League club, the same place in which Mr. Funk testified that he met Hlnes when an alleged proposal to contribute $10,000 to the Lorlmer election fund was made to Mr. Funk. wunv Tim WAR REfi.AV. Half a Century Ago Fort Sumter Was Fired On. Thursday was the fiftieth anniversary of the firing of the Confederate forts and batteries on Fort Suinter, then garrisoned by the I'nited States troops, precipitating the civil war, culminating In the surrender of Fort Sumter two days later, are comparatively few and fast becoming extinct. The battle was witnessed by thousands of people, who crowded the water front in Charleston. For two days tht battle endured at intervals, more or less protracted and by night as well as day, the crowds of Interested and enthusiastic people lined the lo^er water front and witnessed It. The booming of the i guns would call the crowds to the water front, as quickly as a temporary termination of hostilities would 1 result in a dispereement of the spec' tators. The engagement was particularly beautiful at night with the hurling of the red hot projectiles through the air and the bursting of many bombs, causing fires frequently wherever the shells landed. A three-cornered fight was In progress. From the "Iron Battery" on Morris Island, so-called because It was constructed of railroad iron, laid at angles to deflect projectiles, from Fort Johnson, from Fort Moultrie and from a floating battery at the end of Sullivan's Island, near the wharf of the old ferry company, a steady stream of shot was poured at Fort Sumter and the game little fortress returned the fire, plucklly holding out to the last before Major An derson was finally compelled to surrender. Admit Negro Women. Jacob G. Schurman, president of Cornel University. Monday brought to an end the controversy which has been in progress for a few weeks over admitting negro women students to Saee college dormitory. In a statement Issued to Mrs. F. S. Martin of the women's advisory council, he siv3 that all negro women students are to be admitted to the privileges of the woman's dormitories if they request admission. ? ? ? Perish in Flames. At Bombay, B. I., two hundred men, women and children were burned to death Monday night in fire which destroyed a thatched structure in which they had gatherd for a festival. Five hundred persons were in the building when the fire broke out. There was only one exit and an indescribable panic ensued. Took His Own Life. A. C. Hutchins, formerly of Charlotte, N. C., president and treasure! of the Alt a Vista cotton mills at Alta Vista, a short distance south of Lynchburg, Va., shot himself through the head Wednesday, death being ini stantaneous. A coroner's Inquest returned a verdict of suicide but the evidence wirew ?u ugui. uu i ? - mu.-t i leading to the act. Cloaks His Calling. After the arrest of Andrew Ructus at Chicago on a charge of counterfeiting, United States secret service men found a counterfeiting plant for raising $L' bills to hidden under a pile of Bibles in Ructus' room. When arrested, Ructus said he was a Rible salesman. Booze Makers Shot. In a gun fight between the "moonshiners" of Van Buren county, and a posse led by several revenue officers Henry Sullivan, a distiller, was killed, and two others were badly hurt, according to information that reached Sparta, Tenn., Monday. Mill IURSDAY, APRIL cajllT them down PRESIDENT TAFT SERVES NOTICE ON MEXICANS. That American Soil Must be Respecte<l and Lives of Our People Not Endangered. President Taft Is determined thai battles between Mexican Federals and insurrectos shall not be fought on American soil. He is equally determined that the lives of American non-combatants shall not be endangered by the forces of President Diaz and those or uen. iuaaero. Future combats between the rebels and the forces of the Mexican Government must not be fought out so close to the American line, as to put In Jeopardy the lives and property of Americans. Through the State department, the President Friday night notified the Mexican Government that It must see that In the future no such unfortu-i nate Incident as that at Agua Prleta, when two Americans were killed and eleven wounded, be allowed to occu'* Through the war department and through the department of Justice the President sent the same sort of warning to the leader of the lnsurrec- { tos at Agua Prleta. The belief Is expressed that these warning will be obeyed to the letter. Neither the President nor any of his advisors was Inclined to regard the Incident as Agua Prleta as a forerunner of anything more serious, but they did conclude that It must not be repeated. President Taft feels now that his order sending the troops to Texas has been Justified by the deteiupdents of the last few days. He is mnro eortaln than ever that condl tlons In Mexico are alarming. He Is hoping that there will be no need for any further movement to the South, but If there should be, he knows that 20,000 American troops are near the Rio Grande and that along that river the Mexican force Is very small. The Douglas, Arizona, Chamber of Commerce has reported to the State department the casualties of Thursday's battle. In reply to this, the Preeldent said In a message: "Mr. E. P. Hill: This Government Is much distressed at the situation as you have described It. Steps will be taken by which a deplorable Incident will he avoided in the further. In the meantime, I hope that the Chamber of Commerce and the authorities of Douglas will use all Influence possible to keep all as far away as possible from the zone of fighting and to avoid taking sides in order not to aggravate the situation." NEGROES XOT WANTED. I The Lily Whites So Declare at Their Meeting. Indorsing the administration of ' President Taft and pledging him the is Hpleeatea from this State for his renomlnation and placing Itself squarely against the appointment of negroes to federal offices In the South, the executive committee of the white Republican party of South Carolina, numbering 25 men from all of the congressional districts of the State, met in Columbia Wednesday. The meeting was held by call of John G. Capers. The meeting in Columbia was held for the purpose of perfecting the organization set on foot In Columbia last October when the negroes were eliminated. The resolutions adopted .. ?re mosr tavorable and indorsed the Taft administration throughout. This white organization has not yet been recognized by the national party. HI case Satisfied. Govenor R lease said Thursday, upon his return from the Red Men's convention in Greenville: "From inquiries among the 152 delegates and the people from the cotton mills and elsewhere, I satisfied myself that I was much stronger politically with the people who elected me than ever I was before." Hlown Into River. At St. Louis an eight-story grain elevator valued at $700,000 located in the extreme northern end of tnt, city on the Burlington tracks, was blown into the 'Mississippi by a severe wind storm Thursday night. Two women are reported to have died from fright, making three deaths up to the present, traceable to the storm. Killed Himself. Jacob W. Cluie, three times mayor of Schenectady, N. Y., killed himself with a pistol in the bath room of his home Wednesday while the sheriff and under sheriff were waiting at the door with a hody execution for him, growing out of alleged irregularities in the handling of an estate. Wanted Him to Preach. "I think that the aged mother of McKinley was sorry her son was only a president, instead of heing a odist minister." said itishop Thomas : 13. Neelev of New York, before the j Vermont Methodist Episcopal conference in session at Watesburv, Vt. * Schooner Wrecked. Two more bodies of the crew of tut schooner Ottawa, which was wrecked at Claybank. Mich., Friday, were recovered. Three bodies, one of them that of Clatis Weberg, were recovered Thursday. One more man is believed to have been aboard the schooner. Glren Damages. W. H. Brown and Rosa Brown were given a verdict against the western Union Telegraph company in Charleston on Thursday for fl,50o damages for "mental anguish" for j the non-delivery of a telegram. Tev 20, 1911. LEFT THE RAIL Soothers Railway's Fast Trail Wrecked Near Blackville. SAVED BY STEEL CARS Luckily No One Was Seriously Hurt ?Cause of the Accident Not Determined Yet?The Wreckage Was Soon Cleared and Regular Traffic Resumed. Steel framed cars saved the lives of more than a score of passengers Thursday, when train No. 31, the Southern railway's "Southeastern * ' " 1 " 4% r?#Ani? mllna I Liimuea, icil tut? uativ iuui ui*?vw south of Barnwell, 8ays Joe Sparks In the Columbia State. The train was running over 45 miles an hour. The officials failed to determine the cause of the accident, i There were 43 passengers on the train, but none were seriousiy injured. The passengers were slightly Jarred. The train was In charge of Conductor J. W. Blanton of Charlotte. All of the seven cars were thrown from the track except the two Pullmans. Not one of the train crewwas Injured. The wreck occurred at 10:10 o'clock Thusday morning, and the track was cleared at 8:45 o'clock the same night. The following Is a list of those injured as announced by the officials ot the road. Mrs. Alice Hard, Allendale, hip sprained. Mrs. Etta G. Hahn, Chattanooga, nervous shock. M. S. Iverman, Cleveland, Ohio, bruised about forehead and leg. C. C. Ferris, Winston-Salem, N. C., knee sprained. Employes Injured Include the following: J. E. Buster, expresa messenger, ankle sprained. N. H. Bullock, special agent, left hip bruised. B. A. Overstreet, mall clerk, right hand cut. J. P. Thompson, mall clerk, right arm Bpralned. Sam Millen, colored, porter, bruised. "No one can tell what caused the wreck, and It Is very probable that the cause will never be known," said Henry Williams, the veteran railroad man and superintendent of the Columbia division of the Southern rallv.-ay, who personally looked after clearing away the wreckage. Vari oils theories as to the probable cause of the accident were advanced. John G. Richards, Jr., a member of the railroad commission, inspected the wreck. He failed to find the cause, and sa'.d that it was a wonder that all on the train had not been killed. The general conclusion Is that, the wreck was caused by a decayed crocstie, a broken flange or a broken rail. There was no testimony to support any of these theories. Train No. 31 is the Southern railway's fast flyer from New York to the Florida winter resorts. The train was composed of two Pullman cars, a dining car, passenger car, combination car and a mail and an expresB car. The engine was No. 1913. The engineer was D. G. McAllister of Columbia, considered one of the best men in the service of the company. All who witnessed the tumbled heap of wreckage along the track for over 500 feet wondered how it was possible that no one was killed or even seriously injured. engineer McAllister said that he was running about 45 miles an hour. He heard a grinding noise. Turning in his seat he saw the front wheel of the tender leave the track. Th- engine tore itself loose from the train and was brought to a stop several hundred yards away. Seeing that the tender had jumped the track the engineer applied the emergency brake. This brake is almost instantaneous on the new type of locomotives used between Columbia and points South. The mail car. Just behind the lender, gave a sudden lurch forward and landed 75 feet away from tne track in a cotton patch. The coach fell on its side. E. O. Overstreet and J. T. Thompson, the two mail clerks were not injured. It happened so I quick that they did not realize that an accident had occurred until they tumbled from the side of the coach through a door to the soft sand. The express car was thrown across the tack. It required some time to remove this car. The combination passenger and baggage car, used by negroes, was thrown from the track and one end was buried several feet In the Boft sand. There were a number of negroes in the rear car, all of which were very excited. The passenger car, occupied by about 20 passengers was thrown off the track. The dining car left the rails. The two Pullman cars did not leave the track. Although there was a general shaking up, not a windowglass In any of the cars was broken. The trucks of all cars were torn away and massed into a heap. A wrecking train was hurried to the scene as soon as possible. The through trains were delayed for only one hour, having detoured by the way of Fairfax, over the teaboard Air Line. Twenty \\>re Drowned. It is belived 20 lives were lost when the little wooden steamer Iroquois, plying between Sydney, Vancouver Island, and the Islands of the Gulf of Georgia, capsized soon after leaving Sydney Monday. Buys Land. The turstees of Clemson College have bought three tracts of land ad Joining the college property, aggregating 235 acres, paying for it $18.000. The college now has over 1,50 acres. 1ES. SI A POPULAR SENATE HOl'SE VOTES FOR DIRECT ELECTION* BY PEOPLE. First Bill on the Democratic Program Rushed to Its Passage Over Protests of Republicans. The house of representatives, by a vote of 296 to 16. early Thursday evening- passed the Rucker resolution proposing a constitutional amendment. for the direct election of United States senators. This Is the first of the Democratic program measures passed by the house. Backed by a solid Democratic phalanx, It went through without modification and with a speed that brought protests from the Republicans. The resolution, as the house approved it, is in the form of the Borah resolution reported out of the senate Judiciary committee in the I closing days of the last congress. Re publican opposition to the Rucker resolution in the house was based | on the fact that It did not contain the change afterward made In the fight In the senate, which assured to congress continued control over elections In the several states. After six hours of debate, In wniei. many demands were made for this change In the resolution, all but 15 of the Republicans voted for the passage of the resolution. Mr. McDermott (111.) was the only Democrat voting against the resolution. Jos. O. Cannon, former speaker, Jas. R. Mann, Republican leader, and others of the Republicans who voteu against the measure declared that Its form was such as to threaten federal government with the loss of the control over senatorial elections In the States given to safeguard the Integrity of these elections. They Insist, lad did other Republicans who ultimately voted for the resolution, that the direct election amendment should be offered without any language attached that might be dangerous to the future congressional supervision of senatorial elections. Democratic leaders declared that the resolution was open to no such construction and that It offered the most nearly perfect constitutional amendment that could be devised. \n amendment offered by Representative " /**1 "** x ? J .1 I ^ Inn into tra fVlflf YOUng (Alien.; auuiii? iau;uat,u resembled that of the Sutherlana amendment adopted In the senate two months ago. was defeated by a party vote, 121 to 190. The Republican Insurgents, led by Representatives Lenroot and Cooper of Wisconsin, forced a record vote on the final passage of the esolution. The house voted overwhelmingly in favor of the measure when Speaker Clark called for the viva voce vote, but the Insurgents demanded a roll call In order to put the house on record on the subject. The Democrats quickly seconded this demand. It was a day of lively debate. Practically every man who spoke favored the direct election amendment. The difference arose mainly over the constitutional argument of whether the powers of the federal government were in any way threatened. HE DECLINES TO GO. The Governor Is Invited to Go to thf Hot Place. While at Greenville on Wednesdaj Gov. Blease made the following state ment: "I will show the people that f county officer like Goodwin can't tel the Governor of this State to go t< Hades. I expect to pursue the regu lar course in presenting papers foi the collection of the salary of Detec tive Head, and, if the county ol Greenville refuses to pay the money I will secure the services of a lawyer and take the case to the State courts. If that fails, I will take it to the Supreme Court." The statement was made In connection with the Supervisor Goodwin's refusal to pay the salary ol Officer Head, dispensary constable ap pointed by Governor Blease, for the reason that the county delesatlor failed to make appropriation for the i salary and therefore the county hat no funds to apply to this purpose The Greenville view is that the Governor has misunderstood the situation. Supervisor Goodwin, in an in! terview savg he has always treated the Governor with utmost respect, especially in the matter under discussion. Bitten by Mad Dor. Two boys and one man was bitter by a mad dog at Beaufort on Fridaj week ago. The dog was killed and its head sent to the Pasteur institute [ In Columbia for inspection. A telecram was received promptly, statin? that the dog had a bad case of hydro: phobia, and that the bitten one: , should bo treated at once. ^ a ^ ('nilglit Ilirn at fast. Followed from St. Louis for sever years by a negro detective, William r?nQ<dp Francis, who is charged with 1 murder and rape In that city, wat taken from the chaingang at Durham N\ C., Tuesday and held for Missouri officers. Francis had served five years for highway robbery and v.m serving sentence again for larceny Serious Charge. E L. Large, a rural mail carrier ol Society Hill, Darlington County, waf arrested on Saturday on the charge o) breach of trust with fraudulent Intent?receiving money for money or dera and failing to turn it la. Dead on Lonely Road. With a bullet hole through hi head. Aqulllna Diaz of the firm o ' s Diaz & Co.. cigar nianufac t rcr.-5. was found Monday 17 mile ' Tampa, Fla., on a lonely read J 's oat. had been neatly folded ant ' is h?ad placed on it. .25 PER YEAR. TOOK A HAND i Uncle Sam's Bays in Bine Cross Border and Stop Mexican Fight. PROTECT OUR PEOPLE Shots From the Battlefield Endangered Douglas, Arizona, Where a Number of People Were Killed by Stray Bullets, and American Soldiers Put an End to the Battle. A dispatch from Douglas, Arizona, says during a battle which lasted all Thursday afternoon and resulted In the capture of Agua Prieta, by the Mexican rebels, the American troope crossed the border and stopped the fighting. The action was taken after three men had been killed and several wounded in Douglas, and the continued firing was endangering the lives of Americans on United States soil. Douglas was under constant fire for three hours. A dispatch from Agua Prieta, Mexco, says the rebels have attacked Auga Prieta and a fierce battle is In progress. Two Americans havi been shot. One of them, C. W. Crow, is ( dead, and the other, Ben Armstrong, I has been taken to the hospital, icrl ously wounded. Both were on tho American side of the line and v?re struck by stray bullets. Americans rushed to the International line, but as the firing contlaueded, they had to seek shelter behind buildings and in ditches. About 15 minutes after the firing on the town began the headquarters of the commissariat blew up with a terrible report. It Is not known whether a rebel bullet struck the magazine at the headquarters where the dynamite was recently stored or the federals blew up the magazine to prevent the rebels getting supplies. The rebels arrived on the train they captured at Fronteras earlier in tho day, and their appearance was entirely unexpected. The federal garrison of 65 men had Btood Its ground well, as is Indicated by tha fierce fighting. The rebels attack Is from the west. Detraining Just below the town, they marched to the west and then with little rushes took shelter behind the railroad embankments, resting their rifles over the rails as they shot into the town. One fedeal office on top of the i cnmmissarv at headquarters remain ed and directed the movements of the federal troops. The federate Hied from doorways and from any barricade that could be u.eod. Two groups of rebels advanced until they were in the shadow of the American custom house, where they continued to fire. The federals, a few minutes later, essaysd a rush from the centre of the town and took possession of an adobe almost within the rebels' ranks. The rebels retreated before this 1 sortie. One dropped within the shadow of the custom house and is still lying there. His faithful dog lies beside him watching over the body. The rebels, cheered on by the cries of "Vivia Madero" from a thousand , Mexicans lined up at the American custom house, repulsed the sortie af- , ter a few minutes' firing. Soon a thin line of federals began pouring out of Agua Prleta straight for the American boundary. At this juncture, with a cloud of 1 dust, the United States First Cavalry ' troops, under Capt. Guajot, chargod ' down the line from their headquart" ers, and the fleeing federals stopped. Some took refuse in the adobe house on the line, while others dropped into trenches partly filled up some i time ago by order of MaJ. Garnder, then commanding in Douglas. Later a third American was shot in Douglas. In an adobe building near Forth street a man was killed. 'Many bullets fell in Douglas, ?h the | rebel force of the southwest fired Into northwest Douglas where the Mexicans live. Cries of "Viva Madero" were stopped by the Americans 1 as it was feared the federals might fim nn the American custom house. ! Twenty minutes after the battle bet?an a squad of rebels took their station at the American custom house and fired from a distance of 10 feet from the sight-seers. The rebel commander claims that reinforcements ' are coming Immediately. ? ? ? Fell Into Boiling Soap. While playing with other children in the yard of her parents' uome, 1 near Friendship Baptist church Wednesday, Gertie Hargrove, aged 12, ' stumbled and fell into a kettle of boiling lye soap, sustaining burns from which she died early that day. : |The child was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hargrove, a proroi' nent family of Stokes county, N. C. Paid Not to Marry. Three New Haven, Conn., girls, the 1 Misses Belle, Henrietta and Marion 'Feuchtwanger, will receive $10,000 1 each from the estate of their uncle, 5 Meyer Feuchtwanger, who died in New York Anril 6. for not marrying 1 durin* his lifetime. The young women have just filed a petition, saying ' that they had complied with their uncle's wishes. Found Dead in Stable. Dr. D. M. Hollingworth, one cf the 1 leading physicians of Mt. Alrey, N. C., was found dead In his stable *sr' ly Tuesday. He nal Just returned ' from a professional visit and was putting up his two horses when he was stricken with ne&rt disease. A wife and two childm survive s ? f Fatally Injured. At Chevreuse, France, Lieut. s Ralsson, of the navy, while making an aeroplane flight Friday fell with I hie machine and was mortally lnjur1 ed.