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Markhara, flagship of the Mediterranean, admirality from isf date of t<xfey as Report that while ! pri p<>li this afternoon j Bainijerdown colli?l- 1 rSank in fifteen min is of water. 8he The C'araper :k forward of the trd side. Twenty V drowned. Two hun- ; Shre men were saved, j I the Caraperdown has all y ascertained, but is |I necessitate her going R>r repairs. I propose prvivora to Malta." lenient of officers and ictoria comprised six The list of officers ides besides Vice Ad mi iplain Morris, Lieuten Fleet Paymaster Kick Jngineer Foremans, Eu lings, Assistant Engineers, m liatberly and Seatons; povieik-J^oalswain Darnard; If Bell; Midshipmen Fa w era, Ban) bier and Scarlett; Cadet U Clerks Allen and Savage, j St dispatches concerning the j led to the belief that the dis- j occurred off the coast of North Africa. Later ad >w that the scene of the was near Tripoli, a seaj>ort the Eastern Mediterranean, ! e* Northeast of Hey root, Sy ria, nparatively a short distance i island of Cyprus. news ofthe catamitv has caused intense excitement, not only those who had frieudson hoard Mated ship, but among all classes ilation. George Hamilton, First Lord Admiralty in Salisbury's cab said V> day in an interview that out doubt the Camperdown's ram -cat aw*y the platiug on the ia <<utside of several of her verse bulkheads Had this not the case, tht> bulkheads jould ive been closed and the water kept ? one, or at rn<v-t, two compartments. Hid tbe vessel would still have floated. But with the plating torn otf or cut ?way outside of several of her hulk peads, the inflow of water would have peen enormous and there would have ibewi no time, even if it would have l? vailed anvthing, to close the hulk ? J O [bead. Arthur Bower Farwood, shipowner [ and formerly Secretary to the Admi ralty, said the Victoria had a longitu dinal bulkhead ranning through her besides a number running across the ship. She was thus divided into com partment$ on each side of the longitu dinal bulkhead, without communica tion between them. In his opinion what had occurred was this: The Camperdown had struck the Victoria a scraping blow, glancing alongside and opening ont the plates above several of the com partments. Water was then admitted : into a number of the compartments in one side of the ship, causing her to cap size by its great weight The Victoria was a jingle turret ship carrying two 110 ton guna, j mounted in the forward turret, coated with eighteen inches of compound armor: one Tinch, twenty-nine ton gun, firitrg ait and broadside, and auxiliary armament of twelve six- inch five ton guns. Of the artillery of a smaller nature she carried twenty-one quick firing and I eight machine guns. Her maximum Epeed wa.? H;7"> knots. She could to* 1.200 tons of o?il in her bunkers and her radio* <?f action at ten knots speed, with her full complement of coal, Ha* estei mated at 7,O<>0 knots. Her armored belt and bulkhead consisted of coin|?oui?d armor from sixteen to vighteen inches in thick- ; ne>s. .She was built at Elswick in ; ?Jan uary of la^t vear. l he Victoria ran aground off the ! < jreek coast near Platia, aud she was only floated off after an immense-j amount of labor and large expense. ! It wa.- said that this accident was due | to carelessness, and her commander, ( attain Maurice Bourke, was severely reprimanded by a court martial. Bourke wa? in command when she sunk. I Tlif- N timber Growing. London, June 2->. ? When Queen \ ictoria learned of the disaster to her naval namesake she ordered the post ponement of the State ball that was to have taken place at Buckingham Palace tonight. The Prime Minister informs the House of Commons of the accident and paid a most glowing tribute to the worth of Vice Admiral Tyron, who, he *aid, was one of the ablest and most esteemed officers in the ijervice of her Majesty. Gladstone said that there were tfll officers, seamen and boys and 107 mariners on board the ship. It was feared of this total, 718 souls, 430 had been l<j$t. In the House of Lords, Earl Spencer, First Lord Admiral, referred to the disaster in terms similar to those employed by Gladstone in the House of Commons. How the Accident Happened. Lontdon, June 24. ? A dispatch re , ceived at 2 o'clock this morning from i Bey root says that the collision occur red at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon about seven miles from Tripoli. The j vessels were almost at right angles when the Victoria was struck. Those { on the Victoria's deck at the moment of the collision scrambled away and j were rescued by boats from the Camperdown and several other vessels. | The men below had no time to reach | the deck. The sudden keeling of the [> Victoria, caused her to begin to fill } immediately and no escape was pos sible. She went dawn in 80 fathoms of water. j Tbe Comperdown was severely damaged forward in the collision. Temporary repairs will lie made and she will start for home. It is said here that several times the Victoria had shown signs of weakness in her steering gear. One theory is that on account of this weakness she became anmanageable and could not be got out of the C'amperdown's way. the Object of Education? To this query no two persons are likely to give the same answer To one, education seems tne path by which the scientific mind may find access to the secrets of nature; to an other, knowledge simply contributes to the mental and physical needs of man; still others, (God pity them!) see no value in any attainments which do not facilitate the means of gathering Mammon. { But there are still others, and the number is rapidly increasing, who perceive the real object of education; who see the, though partially as yet, the splendid possibilities of humanity under favorable conditions and con genial occupations. They desire, j with all the strength of true philan thropy, to build up a system of devel opment which shall reach the lowly of earth and equalize social conditions as only education can. They know the weakness and lack of perfection in present modes, but realizing, a^ carping critics never can, that these lead most certaiuly to bet ter things, ? t key p?an anew and work towards the go*! which is the '-Land of Promise" to the persevering teacher. AU knowledge is fragmentary, so that at e^ery step of mental evolution j new views are opened op, new wonders unearthed, new po-sibilities discerned for the continual elevation and true progression of humanity. What then is the object of educa tion? Our nearest approach ot com prehensive definition, is "The training of human beings for the functions for which they are destined." The observance of the law of "Cause i and Effect'' will lead plainly to the conclusion that human beings were not destined to au ignorant or evil function. Therefore, that knowledge which makes a man no better is no part of real education; it is the glib chatter of a parjot like brain, which imitates great attainments, but which has no conception of the great and solemn truths which lie deep and sure at the bottom of the "Pierian Spring/' Thus a shallow rascal may repeat whole pages of philosophy or sweet lyriea, without knowing a sentence in actual troth; it is like the erode drawings of of an untrained child, the strum ming of one who is familiar with the notes and signs of music, yet who com prehends not the soul of sound, i.e. expression. Then let no indolent person enter the lists as student or teacher in the educa tion of this age;it demands the very best of oar lives; it stops not at the mas tery of languages, science and art; they are but the magic keys with which to unlock the treasures of the Universe; education is the practice of every law and spirit which our wisdom thus far sanctions. We must think earnestly, change oar theories with care, speak, act and live altogether according to the light of the present and the promise ot the nitare. THE EARTHQUAKE SHOCK. ! HOW IT WAS FELT AT GREEN VILLE. I In One Part of the City rt Was Decidedly Sever*, Whilst In Other Fart* It Was scarcely Perceptible. Gp.eknville, June 21. ? Last night a few minutes after 1 1 o'clock, Green- I ville wag slightly shaken by an earth | quake. The shock was preceded by a ; rumbling sound, which some thought was a freight train on the R. & D. R. R. This sound was followed by a rattling of windows, and then the swaying, grinding motion which struck terror into the hearts of the people in 1886. The shock was most sensibly felt along the ridge which skirts the northern part of the city. The occupant of one resideuce on this ridge reports that his house "seemed to rock." Across the central part of the city, on a line with the News office, the shock was hardly felt at all. No damage was done save to the nerves of a few j>eople wbe^auflered in 1886. A Singular Coincidence. Charleston, June 21. ? Telegrams from all parts of South Carolina re ceived by the News and Courier show that while the earthquake shock was distinct and alarming everywhere, there was no damage done' Mr. Je8unosky, the office of the weather bureau here, reports, as some of strange coincidents of the earth quake shock last night, that it occurred simultaneously with the beginning oi the summer solstice, the entrance of the sun in the zodiacal sign of cancer, the fi rst quarter of the moon, and when the tide was on the flood Some Additional Returns. Cheraw, S. C., June 21. ? A few minutes after 11 o'clock last night, there was a shock of earthquake which lasted, I suppose, about thirty seconds, I heard, the rumbling distinctly be fore the house and windows began to shake. No damage was done, but the shock was very perceptable. There were many persons in town who did not teel the shock, and none were frightened enough to run out of their houses. t,? Spartanburg, June 21.? Last night at 11:05 o'clock a distinct shock of earthquake was felt here, Win dows rattled, and in some places plastering fell. Most people were badiy frightened, and many ran from their houses. It Is said that the shock was nearly as severe as the great one of 1886.^ 8 Orangeburg, June 21.? A distinct earthquake shock, which bated for ope-half a minute, struck Hire last night at 11:05 o'clock. People were somewhat frightened, fearing another one such as we had in 1886, but luckily it passed away without any damage being done. Ninet\ six, June 21. ? Last night ftt 11,10 o clock our town was visited by an earthquake that lasted fully three minutes. A few persons were frightened but no damage done. Beat. fort. June 21, ? A very severe shock of earthquake, lasting eighteen seconds, was experienced here last night at ten minutes past 11 0 clock, The vibrations were from west to east, with a very pronounced shock. " f Pacolet, June 21.? A slight earth tremmor was distinctly felt here last" night abrut 1 1 o'clock. The shock was of about ten seconds duration. There was no accompanying sound noticeable. Laurens, June 21.? An earth quake shock, of ten or fifteen seconds duration, was distinctly felt here about II o'clock last night. A TENNESSEE TRAGEDY Terrible Fute of an Unfaithful Wife's Paramour. Milan, Tenn., June 21.? For some time past Dr John Hood of Aden, sixteen miles north of here, has sus pected that improper relations existed | between his wife and William Piper. | Monday night Dr Hood left home | ostensibly on a visit to a patient, but 1 instead hid in an outbuilding near the ; house. In less than an hour Piper | entered the house. Dr Hood forced | his way to his wife's bedroom and | found his wife and Piper in a compro | raising situation. | The Doctor attempted to shoot | Piper but the pistol snapped. Snatch J ing a coal oil lamp, burning on a table i near by, the wronged husband dashed t the missile at Pipers head, the glass j horribly cutting his face. The lamp j exploded, the oil running in streams i of fire over Piper's body, burning his ! right ear olf, destroying the sight of both eyes, literally cooking his breast and shoulders and burning his hair and beard. He died in less than an : hour. | The unfaithful wife threw herself | upon the charred mass of flesh and cried for death to take her with her lover. All the parties are prominent people in this section. Sixteen Bodle* Burned. St.- Petebsburg, June 21. ? In Brodski chemical works, Odess, a quantity of benzine exploded, scatter ing $re over a large number of men. Sixteen were burned to death includ ing the director of the works. A great many others were burned more or less seriously. The building was wrecked by the explosion and afterwards burn ed up with sixteen bodies. PROHIBITION MANIFESTO. i THE STATE COMMITTEE TO THE PEO PLE OF THE STATE. 4 ! They Review the Liqcor Situation and De clare that Absolute Prohibition ?s and Will Be Their Ultimate Aim. To the People of the State: In reviewing the work of the State prohibititinexecutive committee which ended with the passage of the dispen sary law, 1 had the honor to address them a communication which was published in the daily papers on the 8th of February, in whjbh I ventured to suggest that in the eyent of the law going into effect in spi^e of the ele ments of opposition vvhich it bad evoked "it becomes ! the duty ot prohibitionists to aid in ever}' proper way the enforcement of the law against violations, thus-making effective as far as practicable, the good feature in the law. To do this will require that our organization as a committee, and that of the county organizations which were so successful in the last campaign, should be maintained and strengthened, ? having also in view the securing of such legislation in the future as shall eventually rid our State of the curse of the liquor traffic." In accordance with this suggestion a meeting of the executive committee and other prohibitionists was held in Columbia Jaine 8th, and a committee was then organized to be known as the State Central Prohibition Committee, for the purpose indicated in the said suggestion. The committee thus organized, in structed its chairman to prepare and issue a communication to the people of the State, setting forth the purposes, and in obedience to that request; and as representing the views of the com mittee this paper is submitted. ^The effort has been industriously and persistently made in some quarters to create the impression that the prohibitionists who do not favor the dispensary, have allied themselves with the saloon element and those who oppose the present State administra tion, with the purpose of establishing of dispensaries and obstructing the operation of the law when it does go into effect. It would seem hardly necessary to say that the imputation is utterly baseless, or tor reiterate the denial which was publicly made in the first suggestion of this charge in the com munication from which the foregoing extract is made^. It is untrue now as it was when first made and can have no application to the class of prohibi tionists represented by this committee. We reaffirm the principles and pur poses set forth in the platform of the convention of prohibitionists which met in Columbia May 29th, 1892, and inaugurated the prohibition movement as expressed in the following passage, "We therefore earnestly favor, and will work for the enactment of such lawg as will prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage in our State." And as distinctly affirming the non factional features of the movwpefit "We cordially invite the co-operation of all Democrats in this laudable effort for State prohibition irrespective of their opinions on other issues as already made up in this State." We occupy today the same ground that, in view of the universally recognized evils to society resulting | from the sale of intoxicants /as a | beverage, it is a great wrong for the State to legalize such traffic and it is the imperative duty of good citizen ship to discharge and prevent it in all the ways by winch the influence social, political and moral can be brought to bear upon it The principle of prohibition is too well established to be successfully chal lenged by intelligent men at this late day. It is the basis of every law by which society seeks to regulate the conduct of its members, and the power "to command what is right and pro hibit what is wrong" is essential to its i very existence. We therefore acting strictly within the line of the best citizenship in seek ing to secure legislation which will save ourselves and fellow citizens from the "wrong" of the liquor traffic. While holding firmly to our views on this subject we have had careful regard for the opinions of those who differed with us and have ever repu ; diated the use of intolerant, extreme or unfair methods to secure our end. We have declined to countenance the organization of a separate party or faction in this State, or to unite with any party outside of the State for the purpose of asserting the doctrines we hold on the siibject, because we believe j it is perfectly consistent with the | fealty to either existing taction of the ' Democratic party here, to maintain I these views without affecting our relations to either as Democrats. The correctness of our position was fully recognised by the party in the last campaign, which in tull view of the nature of the question, we were allowed to test the strength of our views by a vote of the party at its reg ularly oppointed primary election by the same means by which all other is sues were settled at that time. The result of th?L test is well known, and fully justiftea our confidence in what was the sentiment of the majority of our voters on the subject, and should be accepted by all true Democrats as conclusive. It can be regarded in no j other light than a command by the | people, by their representatives chosen j at that election to enforce their will i thus expressed by proper prohibitory j legislation. The logical effeet of thai election wa&to declare that "prohibition" as affirmed by the prohibitionists in con vention and settled by a majority vote in the Democratic primary was a plank in the platform of the party which must remain of force until abro gated by the action of the party as such. The dispensary law is not the legislation demanded by the vote of the people. On the contrary it is the expression of opposition to prohibition as set forth in the "Roper Bill" passed by the House and is distinctly and avowedly a law for the sale of intoxi cants as a beverage and a substitute for prohibition. For this reason it cannot be acceptable to those who look to prohibition .jis the only remedy. t We are not prepared tofassert that there is no good in the dispensary law or that in its operation it may not | prove to be a step in the 'directum of prohibition, but we affirii a proporti on. the truth of which mint be patent to both friends and foes of tke measure, .that without the dispensary it will prove a good prohibition law, while with a dispensary there is no prohibi on. . The dispensary it is true closes the saloons and clubs and rids us of many pernicious and corrupting influ ences social, pohticial and moral, which they engender, but it provides another way by which liquor is sold as a bever age and the work of demorilization is perpetuated, j Prohibition not only closes the sa loons but stops the sale of liquor as a beverage thus reaching the evil at its source. The dsipensary act not only fails to stop the sale of intoxicants, but with every package which it stamps and delivers to the dispenser to be sold as proper and good for use as a beverage, it sets the seal of condemnation on the public sentiment, which has long since by the restrictive and prohibitive con ditions which it imposed on the liquor traffic marked it as a business danger ous and pernicious to society. Our convictions eompel us to the conclusion that all traffic in liquor as a beverage is wrong and hurtful to the best interests of our people, and that only the legal prohibition of such traffic promises any appreciative abatement of the evils which flow from it Therefore, under a pressing sense of duty to ouffcelves and those who are to come behind us, we are bound to continue the fight in which we are engaged as long as the evil exists or there is a promise of ultimate success. This is the purpose of our orgaaization, and we earnestly call upon all who value the right an?h would aid in preserving our houses from the curse of this destroyer to help us byjtheir influence, their prayers and the>r active co-operation. ,f * I id f). Childs, Chairmaa State Central Prohibition Committee. Call to Form Camp* of Confederate Veter ans? Birmingham Reunion. General Ellison Capers, Major Gen eral Commanding tbe^ Sooth Carolina Division, United Coafederate Vete rans, has issued the following order: ^Headquarters So. DiV. U. C. V., Columbia, June $2, 1893. General Order No 2, 1. Lieutenant General Gordon, commanding the United Confederate Veterans, announces the fourth annual meeting and reunion of the veterans on the 19th and 20th of July at Bir mingham, Ala; and immediately thereafter an excursion to the World's Fair, at very reduced rates. 2. The general commanding the South Carolina Division of Veterans calls upon all ex-Confederate soldiers and sailors to be represented at the reunion at Birmingham, and urges the importance of prompt and immediate action in the formation of "camps" of veterans under the consti tution of the order. 3 To facilitate the organization of camps, Brigadier General Stanley S. Crittenden, commanding the Second Brigade of United Veterans in South Carolina, is assigned to the special duty of directing their formation under the constitution of the United Con federate Veterans. 4. All ex Confederate soldiers and sailors are hereby earnestly invited to respond to such appeals and directions as Brigadier General Crittenden may make from time to time. By co-operating with him in his jmtriotic endeavors our ex-Confederate brethren will form a union of veterans, designed to perpetuate friendships, preserve the records of a glorious strug gle, protect the character of the brave people who maintained it and promote the unity and prosperity of our coun try. By order of Ellison Capers, Major-General Commanding. " Thomas S. Moorman, Adjutant General. RELIEVING THE STRINGENCY Payment of Interest on United States Bonds Anticipated. Washington, June 22. ? Secretary Carlisle today directed Treasurer Mor gan to anticipate the payment of the Jaly interest on the 4 percent, United j States bonds and the Pacific railroad | bonds. Checks in payment ot the in- j ; terest will be placed in Ihe mail Satur- ' day afternoon, and all sub-treasuries in the United States will be instructed to j cash them on presentation. The total interest on both classes of bonds aggre I gates 87,534,000, of which $1,900,000 is tor Pacific railroad bonds and $5, 634,000 for 4 per cent, bonds. This action Secretary Carlisle has taken to relieve the tightness in money centres. j TIS PRESIDEFTCRAIGHEAD / CLEMSON COLLEGE GETS A HEAD MAS TER AT ' tAST. Woflbrd't Young Professor the Lucky Man? A Sketch ol H.u Life. KJeoted on the Tirst Ballot? Other Notes. V After much deliberation the board of trustees of Clemson College has at last succeeded in selecting a president for that institution. The successful m&n is Prof. E. B. Craighead, of Wofford College, Spartanburg, one of the ablest young educators in this section of the South, judging from what those who know him have to say. He was selected on the first ballot at the last meeting of the trustees. The meeting was held at Clemson College on Wednesday evening. All the members were present, as were most of the candidates for the presi dency. ' The new president is said to be ex ceeding bright, possessing a good executive mind as well as ability as an instructor. He was born upon a farm in Missouri. He had great ambition, and being a hard student, fought the educational battle in the academic schools of his native State and in Kentucky. Then he went for three years to Emory College in Virginia, where he graduated. After some teaching in the public schools he be came a professor in Vanderbilt Uni versity in Tennessee. Shortly after wards he went to Europe and remained three years studying in the University of Paris afcd at Leipeic. Upon his re turn to this country he went to Vander bilt Univertity, and was still there when elected in 1890 to the chairs of Greek and German in Weflord Col lege. Here here he ha? ~t?ea very successful. He is now in the prime of manhood, being only thirty-four years of age. The board think they have secured the right man in the right place, and expect much from Professor Craig head. He will hardly have time for much teaching at Clemson, but will probably take the chair of Greek. He will not assume the duties of his office, the Governor says, till July 6, the day for the opening fo the col lege. The board found the work on the building at Clemson progressing well, an<* say everything wili be in itjadi ness by the time of the opening. Pro fessor Stonewall Tompkins of Virginia, recently elected assistant professor of mechanical, civil and electrical engi neering, has arrived at the 'institu tion. Present Indications are that the col lege will open with 457 young men enrolled. The trustees will not meet again till July 5. ? The State. A RUSSIAN CHURCH HORROR. More Than One Hundred People Killed in a Panic. St. Petersburg, June 21. ? While the ancient Church of Romane at Bori sogleblk, on the Volga, was crowded with pilgrims, a panic was caused by a false alarm of fire which had been raised by thieves in order to facilitate their operations. When the firemen arrived they found the door locked. Breaking it in, they witnessed a fear ful sight. In the mad rush for exit hundred had been knocked down and j trampled on, while others had been suffocated by the presure of the great throng of terror-stricken people. The bodies of 126 women and ten men were taken from the church. Nor was this the total number of victims, as several other persons had been killed and twenty fatally injured by leaping trom windown thiry feet from the ground. Kd win Booth's Will. New York, June 20. ? The will of Edwin Booth was filed today. He leaves the bulk of his property to his daughter, Edua Booth Grossman. The value of personal is estimated at ?6*00,000. He gives his brother, Joseph A. Booth, $10,000; his neice, Mary Booth Douglass, 810,000; other neices and nephews, 5,000 each; his cousins, Charlotte Mitchell Boltman, Robert Mitchell, of North Carolina, each S 10,000, and to several friends $5,000 and $10,000 each, the Actors' Fund and other actors' societies 000 each. A South Carolinian Honored. Nashville, Tenn., June 20. ? The board of trustees of the Vanderbilt University t>iay by an almost unani mous vote elected Dr J. H. Kirkland chancellor to succeed the venerable L. C. Garland, who, for several years, has desired to retire. J)r Kirkland is a single man, thirty-four years old and immensely popular among his colleagues in the faculty and with the boys. He is a graduate of Wofford College and took the degree of Ph. 1). at Leipsic. He will be formally in stalled tomorrow at the close of the graduating exercises. A Hat Kite Proves Fatal. Richmond, Mo., June 2<>. ? Mrs. J. T. Ford died at her home, one mile ea3t of this city, yesterday, from blood poisoning, caused by a. rat bite, ten days ago. She was the mother of the notorious Bob and Charley Ford who killed Jease James. DEATH DEALING CYCLONE IN WEST ERN KANSAS. A Score or More of People Killed and Many Seriously Injured, Several Fatally? Billed Horribly Mangled. Perry, Kas., June 22. ? The most destructive and death-dealing cyclone that ever visited Western Kansas paw ed through Williamstown and the sur rounding country, in Jeflerson county, about 7 o'clock last evening. It trav eled southeast and took in a scope of country half a mile wide and about six miles long. Not a house, barn or tree was left standiug in its path. It was accompanied by a terrible rain storm and midnight darkness. Eleven dead bodies have so far been recovered, and it is known that at least five more persons were killed. The dead art: L. F. Evans, Emery Evaus, Mrs. John Hutchinson, Samuel lvincaide, Clara Kinc&ide, Sadie Kincaide, Walter Kincaide, Eva Kincaide, William Kincaide, Samuel Stewart. Their bodies are all horribly mangled. Mrs. Hutchin son's arms and limbs were found in a tree a mile from her house. Eva Kincaide's head was severed from her body. Three persons are known to be se riously hurt. The fatally injured are James Baker, Willi au^ Geoffert, Mrs. Geoffert. Seriously injured: Rose* Gray, Horace Jones, Walter Mc Craken. Probably at least twenty persons killed and thirty houses blown down. Fearful Cyclone in Missouri. St. Joseph, Mo., June 22.? News has reached this city of & disastrous cyclone at Conception, Mo., sixty miles north of here. The house of John Doyle was blown down and Doyle and his wife and an old man were killed, the latter being decapitated. The solid front wall of the Abbey of NewL Engleburg, being erected by the Benedictine Monks, was blown down. -? Ten thousand feet of brick wall tum bled inside the structure. Torrents of rain completed the distruction of the edifice. Houses and barnes were blown dowu and a number of people hurt The Omaha and St. Louis Rail road depot was unroofed. Atlanta Rarely Escapes. Atlanta, June 22. ? A cyclone swept for fifty miles across the counties above Atlanta this afternoon. Dallas, a small town on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, thirty five miles above Atlanta, was badly wrecked, and the following buildings were destroyed: Residences of T. J. Foster, D. W. Ixjwrance, Mrs. Haiden, J. B. Hunt, Connelly & Connelly's drug store and Owens's brick hotel. Iwenty houses were unroofed, but no lives lost. Crops are mined over a large track. As the storm approached Atlanta many people here became frightened and ran to cellars. Two hundred people collected under the new Forsyth street iron bridge for safety. The cloud split on the western edge of the city and passed to the north, and south, unroofing small buildings ami destroying telephonic communications. s FIRED FOR FRAUD. Wholesale Dismissal of Federal Officials In the State of Washington. Washington, June 20.? Patrick H. Winston, United States Attorney, Thos. R. Brown, United States Mar shal, Andrew Watson, United States Collector at Port Townsend, C. J. Mulkey, I nited States special agent, and six special inspectors of custom in the Puget Sound district, all in the State of Washington, have been dis missed as a result of reports made to Secretary Carlisle by Special Treasury Agents Wood and Lewis. They are charged^with being oonnected with one of the most extensive and successful of conspiracies ever formed to smuggle i Chinese and opium into the United States across the Northwestern terri tory. Scandal for the past twelve or fif i teen years have attached more or less to those officials in the I'uget Sound district, whose duty it was to guard against the violation of the law as to the ellicit business of Chinese and opium smuggling into the United States. Politics has never entered into it, but the immense profit in the busi ness seemed to have corrupted many officials. More than two months ago Agents Wood and Lewis, new men from the East, were detailed to secretly investi gate these alleged frauds, with the re sults as stated. Uninfluenced by local j surroundings or affiliations, they went ; to work and unearthed what is regard - j ed here as one of the greatest conspira | cies in which government officials were ever implicated. Not to deieat the j continuance of the investigation, all the prominent government officials named were removed by the President and their successors appointed with the usual announcements l>eing made, The purpose was to keep the public i in ignorance that other implicated per : sons might be caught. The new men appointed in the place ; of those removed were; James L. j Saunders, collector at Port Townsend; i Janies C. Drake, United States mar | shal; W. H. Bunker, United States attorney. Other removals are yet to ?ome, and the matter in due course of time will find-its way into the courts. " Four Students Drowned. Montreal, June 21.? Four stu dents, Edward Kelly, J. N. Clautier, Edward Revard and Camelle Magnan were drowned at Joilette, Quebec' ; day by the upsetting of their boat while they were enjoying a pleasure 1 ride. Cv ...