The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 16, 1902, Image 1
AWFUL RAIN OF FIRE
Winasl an Inlire island Destroyed
Dy ; Volcano
FORTY THOUSAND LIVES A?[ LOST
City of St Plane, Island ?>t Martin
ique, ant! All Shipping '? t',e Har
bor, Consumed.
Washington, Special. --Tho follow- !
In& cablegram !u* i: just been received j
at tho State Department:
"Point-a-Pit re, May
"iJ* < r<'inry of State:
"At 7 o'cloolt a. m., on the 8th Inst.,
a i-lorni c-f nt<-a:;i, mud and tire envoi*
ojm il the c i ! y j?n.i roads tod of Si.
Ti< no, dest toyi ug. every house in th-e
city anl community. Not more than
20 person:; creaped with their lives-'
l.lg.iiof n venseis were burned and
su?i-< will) i! ! I on l-oard, Including four
Aniciicnn vc. s.-. ]? mi l a steamer from
Quooei*, i>nii);.d Pornima. The United
Slaloa consul and family are reported
ani< ag the v|e< i a war vess'el has j
rcpu* to Caudr.p.upo foi; provisions
and will leave at ii tomorrow.
AY.MB,
"Consul." 1
The Strife Department has .been re- j
reiving dispatchc.i from commercial
houses asking (hat a waiship he .'sent
to afford relief. The matter is under !
ronf.ideraiion.
The consul at. Martinique is Thomas
T. Prenlis. He was horn in Michigan
ai d appointed from Massachusetts as
consul al Port* Ixmis, Mauritius, I
Rouen, France and Batavia. He was
appointed consul at Martinique in
IJ'00. The vice consul at Martinique
is Amedee Testavt, who waa bom ami
appointed from i.r.uisjana in IS'OX
The latest ava'd >!e figures r.how that
the total population of the island of
Martinique is D5, noo people, of wjvpiii
25.000 live;] at St. Pierre, and, accord- j
ing lo Mr. Ayine, have nearly all per
ished.
St. Thomas, IX W. I., By Cable.?
Tho French cru'r er Suchc t arrived at
Point a-Pitre, Island of Gaudaloupe,
French 'West Indies, from Fort- 1 Jo
France, Island of Martinique, this
morning, bringing several refugees.
Pile confirmed the report that the
town of St. Pierre, Martinique, was
entirely destroyed at 8 o'clock ou
Thursday morning by a volcanic erup
tion. .It i:; supposed that ui))st of the
lnl'abji?+r?t?-~c?f St. Pierre were killed,
? hat the neighboring parishes were
laid waste ami thai the residue of (lie
population of St.. Pierre is without
food Or shelter. The British royal
mail s;eamer i>i(, which arrived at 1
St. Lucia this Vnorning, reports having j
prif-sed St. FlemT' last night. Tho
steamer was covered with ashes, 1
though she was 5 miles distant from
the town, which vrns in impenetrable
darkness, A boat was sent in as near j
fls possible to the ghore, but not a liv
ing soul was seen nshoro, only flames. '
Tho Quobee Steamship Company's !
6to?mer Hosaima was seen to exploda j
nn.-l disappear. Tho commander of the :
fiuehet reports that at 1 o'clock on
Thursday the entire town of Sr. ;
moro or less burned, fi*om tho vessels
In tho harbor. His officers wdnt ashore !
in 6mall boats seeking for survivors, ,
but were .unable to penetrate into the j
town. They saw heaps of bodies upon ,
the wharves and it is believed that
not a sloglo person resident in St. j
Pierro at the moment of tho catastro- i
pho escaped. The governor of the j
colony afid his staff, colonel and wife, ;
were in St. Pierre and presumably per- J
Ished.. The extent of tho catastrophe
cannot 'bo imagined.
. Tho captain of the British steamer
RoddanY was very seriously injured
ami is now in the hospital at St. Lu
cia. All of his olficers and engineers ;
ate dead or dying. Nearly every
member of the crew is dead. Super- '
cargo Campbell and ten of tho crew I
of tho Roddam jumped overboard at '
St. Pierre and were lost. /\ i
, Tho British schooner. Ocean Trav- j
pioded and tiro from it Rwept ^Vic i
whole ""town of St. Plorre, destroying j
tho town and tho shipping there, in- j
Picrro was wrapped in llames. llo en- \
dc-avored to save about SO persons j
'eluding tho cable repnir ship GrappU^f,
of the West Indian & Panama Tole- I
graph Company, of London, which
was engaged in repairing tho cable
near tho Guorin factory. Tho Ocean
Traveler, while on her way to Domin
icla, encountered n quantity of wreck
age.
Paris, By Cable. ? The commandor
of the French cruiHor Suchct, has tel
egraphed to the Minister of Marines,
M. DeLanessan. from Fort DoFranco,
Island of Martinique, under data of
Thursday, May 8, at 10 p. m., as fol
lows : ?
"I have Just returned from St. Pier
eller. of St. Johns, N. U.. arrived at
the island of Dominica. British West
Indies, at 5 o'clock tills afternoon. She
reported that she was obliged U> fleo
from t*e Island of St. Vincent during
the afternoon of Wednesday, May 7,
In consequence of a heavy fall of
?and from a volcano which was ?rupt
lug there. 8ho tried to reach tjie Isl
and of St. Lucia, but adverse currents
prevented her from ??> doing. The
schoonpr arrived opposite $tt. Pierre
Thursday morning. May 8. While
?bout * mile away, the volcano ex
ro, which has- been completely do
etroyed -by an Immense mass of . fire,
which fell on tho town at about 8
In tho morning. The entire
it 26,000), la supposed
to hare pSrlabeJh I hurt brought
the shipping In 4be"bwrborhaa been
Tho smp^on tt^U?
'A* .''ft. . ?. ' ? _ J ' / .
LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS.
Many AlrtMcrs of (loners! Interest In
?>llort Paragraph*.
Tli* Sunny South.
I Bishop Potior confirmed a number
I of emit Is at West Point.
Admiral and Mrs. Schley visited the
j battlefield at. Lookoift Mountain.
Dr. L!. M. Palmer, the noted Presby
terian clergyman, was knocked down
! by a trolley car in New Orleans ami
I badly injured.
The battleship Gaulois sailed from
Toulon for Annapolis, bearing the
member:* of the Uochamhcau mission.
Charged with forgery of notes on the
school fund Postmaster George W.
Shoomakor, of Albany. Mo., ii under
am st.
President Hoosevclt will dine on the
French war ship GauloU while that
vessel lies on' Annapolis.
William .1. Bryan, talking to the Bi
metalic Club, of iBrmiugham, Ala., on
Saturday night, said he would not run
for the Presidency again.
llor steering gear being dimbled, the
tow boat It. It. Kin Icy ran a:vu. k near
Friar's P iint, Miss., and /ank 10 coal
barges.
Bishops of the Methodist Rpiseopal
Church at Chattanooga. Tenn., appoint
ed a commission to eonaldo consolda
tion of the church's benevolent soci
eties.
At I he Nat'onal Capital.
The Government is said to have now
and Important evidence against the
j beef combine.
Jealous of his wife. Charles Thom. of
Washington, I>. C.. shot and killed her
| about midnight Saturday.
The House Foreign Affairs Commit*
I tee hoard appeals from pro-Poors av.lc
I lug this Government to try to have tho
i South African was stopped.
It is rumored that Senator John I;.
McLaurln's flnaJ \roak from the Pern
j oeratic ranks will bo followed by a
j federal appointment.
The President has selected 11. G.
j Squires, Secretary of Legation in Chl
i na, to be Minlstod to Cuba, and (Sen.
10. S. Bragg, of Wis'-onsin, to be Con
I sul-General at Havana.
President Havemeyer, of the Ameri
' ;-nn Sugar Refineries Company, con1
i tinned his testimony before the Sen
1 ate Cuban Committee.
In deciding two Chinese exclusion
! eases the Supreme Court holds that
they did not Involve a constitutional
; question.
In tho Senate Mr. l,odg? defended the
Administration's policy in the Philip
pines, and in replying Mr. Rawlins said
l.o (Rawlins) held Mr. Lodge and oth
ers responsible for the present condi
tions.
At The North.
, Twenty persons were injured in an
explosion of natural gas at Marion,
Ind.
Now York companies In 11)01 issued
175.038 life insurance policies for ?J>35.
3.H8,K7!? Insurance.
Archbishop Michael A. Corrigan died
at 11:20 o'clocli Sunday night In Now
..York.
Three Wall Btreet firms suspended
and there was a fall In stocks follow
Ing the collapse of the Webb-Meyer bc
curltleg, but later the market rallied.
The answer of the companies In the
Northwestern railroad merger to the
Government's slut in an effort to break
It was filed at St. Paul.
Mrs. Kate Soffel pleaded guilty in
Pittsburg to aiding convicts to escape
and will bo sentenced Inter.
Union officers have little hope of
averting the strike of the 117,000 Penn
sylvania anthracite coal miners.
Michael Ichnskl, of Philadelphia,
drank a quart of whiskey in order to
win a wager and died soon afterward.
Burglars blow open the bank safe at
Waco, Neb., Sunday night, took 54000
ind escaped.
After fatally shooting his wife, Miles
R. Brown, of Syracuse, N. Y., killed
himself.
The Southern contingent won its first
fight to prevent the admission of col
ored women's clubs to the General Fed
eration, now in session at Los Angeles,
Cal.
Three masked men took about SHOO
from tbasafe at tho Lake Shore freight
depot in Cleveland, 0._
While awaiting trial for murdering
his 18-year-old wife, William Rabc4 of
Fort Wayne, Ind., hanged himself in
his cell. ;?
The. Supreme Court of Indiana lias
decided that, four cents is the legal car
faro in Indianapolis.
The Glucose .Trust has decided now
not to close its plant at Peoria, 111.
Six passengers in a Milwaukee street
ear were seriously injured In collision
with a St. Paul express on a railroad
crossing.
The drought' in central Kansas wa3
broken lato Saturday n'ght by a fear
ful electric storm. .
The body of tifeorge Coptt, who dls
appeared four W%ks ago fKom Horsey,
Mich., was found in the lake at Crapo,
Mich., with evidences of robbery and
murder.
r o
From Ac row The Sea.
Sixty-one bodies- hav& been recovered
from the scene of the flre at Mt. Oaxnr.
Egypt.
Queen Wilhelmlna's condition Ja 1 im
proved and it la now believed aha will
recover
The Chinese Government Is making
strenuous efforts to pat down the re- .
belfloa.
The first Cohen Congreaa assembled
at Havana.
Princess Beatrice, daughter of Don
Carloe, attempted suicide b* dressing
ee d throwing heiseif lulu
L,Y. ? J-aJ ?? * r?
|?.?4a)>*tttrei
tho Tiber.
?:#k
FURTHER llf'IAII.S
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4 1
Of the Frightful Vulcanic lyfiiption in
Martinique./' ^
IIRSF REPORTS NOT mG?*ATCD
Fuller Investigation Ucvenls the sit
uation as Being liven Worse J linn
nt First Believed.
.v
Fort-dn-France, Inland of Martinique,
j By Cable.? It now seeing to gnieral
ly ml in I tied that about 3o,yt>|? persons
! lost tlfelr lives an a i t suit of the r.u
! break of the Mont Peleo volcano. ?t Si,
Pierre, on Thursday last. Careful in
vostlgiitlon by competent government
officials show the earlier reports ot' the
j Associated Press wore accurate. l ho
! American consul at Guadeloupe. Ayme,
has reached the desolate spot wh^re St.
Pierre stood, and confirms the uwtui
: story In all its essential details. !? ro:n
nn Interview with Col. Ayme, who is a
j trained American newspaper man. a
correspondent of the .Nisociated l'n s
learns the following facts:
"Thursday morning the inhabitants
of the city awoke to find heavy clouds
I shrouding the Mont l'? Ice crater. All
day Wednesday horrible d ? ? t t'li i* t i ? ? ! i ->
had been heard. These were echoed
from St. Thomas on the north to iti!
badoes on the south. The cannonading
ceased on Wednesday night and fine
ashes fell like rain on St. Pierre, 'the
| Inhabitants were alarmed, but Gov
j ernor Mouttet. who arrived at Si.
Pierre the evening before, did every
! thing possible to allay the panic. The
j British steamer rioarima roach-ed s-t.
! Pierre on Thursday, with ten passen
gers, among whom were Mrs. Stokes
and three children and Mrs. 11. J. lnee.
They were watching the rain of ashes
when, with a frightful roar and ten-Pic
electric display, a cyclone of l:re and
! steam swept down from the cva?er o\ 1
the town and bay, sweeping all before
it and destroying the fleet of Is at
j anchor off the shore. There the tic
i counts of the catastrophe so far o!>
! tainable cease. Thirty thousan I eofps
are strewn about, buried in the ruin.*
of St. Pierre or else floating, gnawed
by sharks, in the surrounding scaa,
; Twenty-el; <ht charred, half <L;ad hu
! man beings were brought here. Si\- ,
| teen of them are already dead and of
j the whole number. only four are expoet
i d to recovcr.
"The Associated Press steamer char
tered in Gudelope. neared Martinique
! at 0:30 Sunday morning. The Ifclaml
i with its lofty bills was hidden behind
i a huge veil of violet. or leaden-eolo;-< ;.
haze. Rnormous quantities of th ?
wreckage of huge and small ships ::'.d
houses strewed the surface of "the ^ea.
Huge trees, and too often bodies, with
flocks of seagulls hovering above and
hideous shnrks fighting about them,
were floating here and there. From be
hind the volcanic veil came blast ; of
'hot. wind, mingled with others, ice
' cold. At Be Prt:scheur, five miles north
of St. Pierre canoes with men and
women frantic to get away, begged tor
n passage on tho steamer. The whole
north end of the Island was covered
with a silver gray coating of ashes r' -
ispmbllTUT dirty "show. 'Furious blasts of
: fire, ashes and mud swept over the.
! steamer, but finally St. Pierre was
! reached,
"The city of St. Pierre et retched
nearly i^vo miles along the water front
and half a mile back to a cliff at the
: bate of the volcano. The houpfs of tho
richer French families were built of
stone. The etlll smoking volcano tow
! ered above the ash-covered hills. Tho
i ruins were burning In many places and
? frightful odors of burned flesh filled the
? air. With great difficulty a lan '
] -was effected. Not one house was left">
i intact. Viscid heaps of mud, of bright- !
I er ashes, or piles of valcanlc stones j
I weW seen on every side. The streets ,
! coiiM hardly be traced. Here and there
! amid the ruins were heaps of corpses.
Almost all the faces were downward, i 1
"In'Tme corner 22 bodies of men, wo- j
men andlchildrcn were mingled in one
awful mass, arms and legs protruding <
as the hapless beings fell in the last j
struggles of death's agony. Through
tho middle of the old Place Berlin ran
a tiny stream, the remains of tho' j
river Gayave. Clreat trees with roots'
upward and scorched by fire, were
strewn In every direction. Huge blocks
of still hot stones were scattered !
about. From under one larse stone the I
arm of a white woman protruded. 1
Most notable was the utter silence aiul .
the- awful overpowering stench from 1
tho thousands of dead. Careful Intfpee- |
lion showed that the fiery storm which j
so completely destroyed St. Pierre must ;
have been composed of poisonous J
gaf.es, which instantly suffocated every
0:10 who inhaled them, and of other I
gases burning furiously, for nearly all !
I the victims had their hands covering
J their mouths, or were in some other al
titude, showing that they had sought ;
? relief from suffocating. All tho bodies |
; were carbonized or roasted.
|
Strike of Coal fllners.
I Philadelphia. Spcelal.? Mine workers
I throughout, the entire anthracite coal
; regions of Pennsylvania to tho number
! of 145,000 formally began their strug
j gle today for Increased wages , and
i shorter hours. Never In tho hlstof-y of
hard coad mining has a tie-up been so
complete, not our of the 167 colliers In
the territory Being in operation. There
Is every Indication for the belief that
tho suspension, which was tr>*jK*TOr
oply th^ first three dayft of t'ala week,
will be niftrie permanent by the Miners*
General Cpnventlori, which will meet
Hrtzetton on Wedneaday. Absolute
gulet prevailed everywhere,
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Disaster Complete.
WMblactoB. SpeclaL-^-flecretary Hay
has received the following cibterrM
dated liny 11, frpm Consul Ayme, At
1 Guadeloupe. who went to Fort-de
| France, Martlftltt? .tor inrtmrtlnna
rfom lir? foveraaseat:- "The disaster
is oomplste. Tfcs eHy wiped out. -Con
sul- Prsntls and fcUfamlly ere dead.
3>v*roor ?*r? pertaied. |
,0? .r? tnntrr- H?
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL
ftlg mil Addition.
Tho Manufacturers' M.vojd in an
thoiltallvely informed thai (ho pr >? !
po*;ctI lulling' t?t rnpitnl of the Mil |
i Sa< husetls Mills In Georgia ha? been
fully subscribed. Tin* i? an increase
Of capita! f:o:n ? 1 ,0iu).!? -> to $?.(Mn),0'hi ]
f * ? r the pnrposo of erect lug an ;? iltl ;
tional plant. The ne.v mill will con
lain about ll.OOd swindles ( not 50,nt!ii
as was previously ?:????!>. and its con
struction a tid equipment will lo began
ami pushed to comphtio:; a?' rapidl)
as is prad leablo. Slesxr^. ixnkwaod.
lirtnu1 Co., of UottoM. Va- v, have
boon appointed architects4 ami en
place: s for the now addition Thoy will
Boon have plans rtnd spfcltb-at ions
: completed, and t bo nocosaary contra. ?s
will then be arranged.
The Mnnnfftii'nrc rs' l>Vv>id of Ap?>!
3 presented an outline uf these onlarg
intuits as? (jontli'motl in tho foregoing.
Massachusetts Cotton Mill'. I.'?w? it.
Ma sr., operates the plain of tho Geor
gia company under I < n ' " .
(Irecnr.boroV. Nov I'uterprlso,
GreerJfoioro. N. ('.. i'i e.lal ibr.'
tups orgnnizat ions hfjv last wt.-k too .
action, which it ia considered, will if
move all doubt of location In Grei n*
boro <>f a $l,uui>,nu0 co!t<>n mill w h : <? !i
.Messrs. Mom-s <? ('aoaor ('<?? .. have had
in mind for some tiiiv f ?r oMher thh
place or HoanoKo Hai^itls. The a. I.mi
taken by the orgnaifcai ions v. as ">?
formally invlt ? Mcssrfc Cone to locati
the mill here. Resolutions woie adop
ted pledging tho asroclat ions t?> ? n
dcavor to cultivate throughout t he
country a sentiment, in favor of ex
tending lo corporations the aaine rijU;i*.
and privileges accorded to indlvl luals.
The proposed mill will be f?.?r tin* man
ufaeture of colored goods. Options on
a large part of the land necessary ha\e
alreaily been securod.
To Manufacture Denim.
I, I")isp,-.tehen fiom Greensboro. N.
during the week have st i ( <?? i that "i;
! i-s reported, thoVuii uot confirmed, tin:
Mu- is. Moses TT^Qone and Cactui'
' Cone of that city will build an lm
! mi use cotton denim oifil." However,
! I In'1 fact that the plant will be erected
! was definitely announced in the Manu
! faet'.iiej.s' Record of April 3, In accord
nnv.e wi<.h information submitted by
, Mr. Mores II. Cone. 1 To w:otc at the
time that he intended to l.uild a mill
of G0."0o spindles and 2.C0U looms for
The manufa; tare. of denims, but that
t?>e locnt'oti of tin! p!;*;jt was v< t in
1 dou'if. )t nmy be built at < Sreens! o;o
but it i* quite possible tha? fto-no'/c
Kapi.h". TC. will ba F?''eet d at the
!t. ai ion.
Ce.n>->!5 tat ion in \\'i?i?h!g<on.
..The Wilmington ^iaroast U a II road
she \\'il.n:::?".' on Htrc.-t Hi'.ilway and the
the Wllini: !-;on (Ja diiiht e^lopanlca of
Wiiminrton. I\. C.. nav^- nccn consoli
date] nailer t!v nanif of the Conroli
| dale<\^ I; lilvay, I/^ht & ,1'o.ver ('<?..
Hugh Mac!t;;e "as prceldent; A. U
Skelding. K^neral matiager; liarry'
Wnolcott, .secretary, and Richard J.
Jones, treasurer. It is proposed to eon
vrrt tljo So, -.coast Ha'.lroad into an
c leetrle llr.c. It extendg /ram Wilminu
totj to TVYfchisvilh: Mea/h. A new pow
i er plant and new e::r Mjarn? are to be
eonstructed for the Consolidated Com
pany. The deal was affect"d through
the firm of Hugh Mac-Rao & Co.. bank
ers, of Wilmington.
Textile Notes.
PacoJct (9. C.) Manufacturing Ho.,
now has it* branch mill frocently com
pleted) at Gainesville. Ga., In opera
tion with 25.000 spindles and 850 looma.
. producing standard sheetings. There
afce 020 operatives employed in this
C" ton-dollar j)lnnt, and only half of
Equipment is in operation. Jiist
ft'tho full complement will start up
i is as yet known. The company ?viM
begin jtne erection of 100 additional op
eratives' eottagC3 next week.
"Whitehurst Delting Co.. which or
ganized some n^ontbs ago, has cornpiet
ed the equipment of its factory, and is
I now manufacturing. The company will
weave its duck, using specially-design
ed looms, and later on -expect to in
st alMspindies for spinning its yarns.
Ha plant Is located at Columbia avenno
and Baltimore fo Ohio Railroad, Balti
more, Md.
R. T. Gray of Raleigh, . N. C.t has
purchased at. receiver's Hale the Pay
| etteville (N. C.) Cotton Mills at $10,700.
Tlie plant has 3100 spindles.
There Is talk of organising a cotton
mill company at Paw son. Ga.
A. J. Whitteniore of Wentworth. N.
C;, Is reported as to establish knitting
4JJ111.
Accompany Is being organized to es
tabliah a 2itOO-spJndlo yarn mill at Ho
ganavillfi, Ga.,* and Geo. W. Morgan Is
Interested.
Cross Ilill Cotton-Oil Mills of Cross
Hill, a. 0., will Increase capital to $25,
000 to provide funds for installing knit
ting machinery.
? Tho Hu?lne9s Men's Association of
ClarkesvIlJe, Tenn., has received cor
respondence from J. P. Kennedy, man
ager of the Mommoth Springs (Ark).
Cotton Mllla, which is capitalized at
UflpvOOO. The company rceka a loca-.
tlon In cOtton-growlng district, nnd
many remove to Clarksvlllc. The plant
Is one of 8300 spindles and 200 loon\?.
L. R. Cox,. 1731. Amsterdam ^venue.
New York city, cont<vnp!atea locating
a~ woolen and knitting mil) in the
South, and ia prepared to receive cor
respondence regarding suitable sites.
. Humboldt ' (Tenn). Cotton Mills
states that Its new machinery, report
ed last week, will Ihclude fifty 10- inch
looms, and wheo they are in position
the mill's output will Increase to 10,
000 jrards of sheeting per da?. About
100 operative* will be employed.
Gainesville (Ga). Cotton Mills, com
pletes' recently, has 10, 0W spindles sad
120 looms In operation producing cloth,
sod In Another month will have Its fitft
i complement of 25,000 spindles snd 750
[looms running. At prsSsst HI s?wm
tires srs employed, sad tills will tte
nearly trebled when sll tfes ssschln
ary is In operation, w
It J. ftobsr of Athens,
THAT BOOK MATTER |
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Methodist General Conference Takes
Mooted Question I p.
?
A HARD PROPOSIHO.N TO TACK 1.1:
? ...
What the Outcotnt' '?f lite 1h
to l?.' kiin.riis Prnhiemat'cm I' lie
Oilier Proceedings,
I Ii.UIup, T?'\.. S !?????>:> I II. Warner I
i Hill, of tho Not I !i (Iu'.kI.i Coti/-reil< <?, i
in ??( - i pi i hum! it spiniel 11 w minutes do
li.it o on 1 o w ar riaiin u sue in ih?
.Mi-thodixt (uMw r.il Conference b> a j
(??solution r. ? <; 1 1: ?j t > liuttni.'t the com
tnitioo on publishing ii!l? i? !*?>< "? hold
t ontinuous sessions cntil tic matter be
Kettlod, bocaus ' of t lit? ipipo tanco of
I'.t' mutter and the unixersal inten st
( f tlx- Church in it. On motion of Dr. I
Kar.kin, the resolution w.u i i
n;n ti? cs. I
>'f/on after t!:is \ote was taken J. 1'. i
Mi >ther. of I, os ?Juries, p' t-K ' mi i ? il a I
P .< i ? *.' i to be Msi'lvt.' t Sn* open C 'on f or !
i iii o ;n l ? rtr." of tho altitude of t luv i
minority of tlto hook committee ;it |
Callimorc i;t INKS on lh" war claim. |
One of tho moat acrimonious ib bst.^s j
since the Conference open* d resulted.
Tho paper \va-< llirilly rorrjod to tho
publishing committee.
Dr. Wilson, of South C:ij ollim,- pave I
notice to reply from tho uiijoiitv tnont- '
hers of tho hook commit top of IN'Jv
A rctfolnt ion signed hy A. Coke I'miir ;
. of Virginia. < xpi osslng grn'iliealh n .11
tho visit and addresses of tin- Paternal
delegates of tho Methodist I'.'plsi up il
Church, North, and endorsing the sen
timonts contained in th" addresses w is
adopted.
A ?; root i from the Southon Hap
list Convention at Ashcvlile, N. C.
was read and accepted. Anions; the re
ports of committees was one from the
: educationiil oommittro urgl)i? closer
and more careful study of the Hlblo in
theological seminaries. 'Fhe report
j enlisted unustial inte:e:t. The l/.>ul3
! vi'le Conference recommended tie1
I uundr.'enninl mooting he hc.Jd in l^ouis
I viJle. The request was ?ef. ried to the
I commit tee on onloi tainment of the
(ieneral Conference.
ltev. fl. H. I'nrks. missionary fiecre
tnry und fraternal delegate of the API
i can Methodist Church, was presf'iJed
to the Conference and r-r-r'x <\l b>\ tl
delegates rising. Only one se.<si<^;i ol
tin- Cjnfoicncp was held, IlisLt^p H< a
dtleks. of Kansas City, prosi/Tlng.
Hishop ". i'. Pit /.;??? aid. ia a e n.nnu
nii a'joit do the Co:W'oron:,.\ r< (jUi'slecK
to he release*! from active s"rvi'<? be
cause ol advanced ago and feeble phyv.i
: cai condition, li was referred to tho
\ committee on episcopacy.
Passenger 'train Wr.c'cetl.
Lynchburg, Va., Special --Train Ni>.
j 37, Washington Soul Ir.Nostera vrsti
| hule, in charge of Conduct ir .1 M.
' CireRj; ami KiiR.'ncer .1. II Mcfjo irffek,
was wrecked WedtuBday tnoinii ^at
? minutes part 5 O'clock at Lawyer's.
; about twelve mllcn south of this city,
j A fr"i.",ht train, soiith-hountl. Conduit
: to: .: > : .Johns and Krislijcrr C. Tiiorn
I ton. by some mistake oaaipled tho
main track and was struck by Xo. 37
j which had tho rlKht-of-wny. Tho p:i^
t Kcnser enpine, two postal cars, cl.ib
I car and Pullman ftiet-pcr IJavfla were
wrecked and burned to aahefi. l-'nglnoor
MoCornilck and Pifctnan Ahc Gordon,
j when they saw that tho collision was
Unavoidable, Jumped fo;4 their liveg
! and escaped with cuts and bruises. V?\
! T. Hr.eker. chief clerk, and J. I). King,
colored porter, were slightly inju ed
The freight caboose and five or six enre
loaded with lumber nnd (lour were
wrecked and burned. Not a p:t3??en;',c;
was hurt.
Help Tor Volcano Srf .'erers.
Washington, Special. ? An additional
appropriation of $300,000 was made t >
the Senator for the stricken people o!
the Frkph West Indies. Tho appropri
ation was made in accordance with the
recommendation of the President, whe
had asked that the amount of relief W
$.r?00.000. Tho Joint resolution earryinv
the appropriation was adopted with
out flel)ate. Mofore proceeding to the
consideration of the Philippine govern
ment hi I KM ho Senate passed the agi i
cultural api>ropriation bill.
$>?500,000 in (loltl Lost.
Val|>aralso, Chill. Hy Cable. ? Tho
(Iritnian stoamer Rakliarah, Captain
Pivnl,^. has become a total loss at
Muamhlin Island, off the coast of Chile.
The fate of the steamer's crew and
passengers is not known. The cargo of
the Sakkarah included $1, MX), 000 in
gold specie, which was being demlt'ed
by the Chllllan government. The
steamer left here April 24 for Ham
burg.
The Shcradan llorror.
Pi:?^burg, Special. ? A careful and
systematic search for the dead and in
jured i'.'. the Shcraden horror reveals a
list of 23 dead and 202 Injured. The
complete list of injured will never be
known as many were able to get away
without assistance. A conservative
timate, made by thoso thoroughly fa
miliar with the situation places the
number more or less serlouajy hurt at
not less than 3000. The scenes In and
around Sheraden were pitiful In the ?-x
treme. Practically every house In th?
village had one or more injured Inmate
and In many homes famlllt-n were ?jath
ered about the charred an< dlstor?d
remains of loved ones who were vic
tims of the terrible calamity.
. To R?tlr? tlobfton. .
Washington, Special.? The sub-com
mittee on naval affairs baa under con
sideration today the bill to plaoa Oapt.
Richmond R Ilobaon upon the retired
llat, bat no copeltfsloa waa raaelUc
Capt. Hobaoa .iHrwil Cba mboqmk
rolttee. aayla* btr1' ? * *
tlw rsciiW uat< ^
CI.BISON MATTER SETT! ED
Cadet I Uornwell Reinstated liy tUti
Hoard of Trustees.
Clornson College, Special. ? The lu
vesttgat Ion of t lit* recent trouble in the
follow has boon concluded and tho
trustees have adjourned and gon?
hom?>. The not rosults of tho Inveatlga
i ion n 10 t hi ?$<? ;
Cadet Thorn woll h?? been relnstatod.
The sophomore class will he allowed to
return and resume their studies, on
tho r U<iit[on that they will be ready to
stand their examination in September
for entrance to thO Junior class. The
chaigca which were preferred by the
committer of students against Presi
dent lluru i)] were withdrawn. Presi
dent llait.oj; fia<* tendered his resigna
tion, to take effort at the pleasure of
the trustees. The resignation wll not bo
considered or acted on until the regu
lar moot id* of the board In June, at
commencement.
President, Hartzog's resignation \vas
placed in the hands of the board sev
eral days ago. He said he tendered it
*\> the trnfetocs n>iglu not feel any em
barrassment or lu'flHeui y on his fte
count In making the mo?t riuld and
i borough i nvest lgn Hon.
When tho trustees met Cadet ("nude
Douthlt, chairman of the student :om
milteo which preferred Cn> charges
against the president, submitted tlx*
following f'r.ned statement:
"Whereas, The students of Clomaon
col lego have preferred charges against
President Hartzog, and these charges
have developed sufficiently to show to
the board of trustees that there is a
wide-spread disaffection against Presi
dent llartzog on tho part of the stu
dents. we are then fore willing to leavrj
tho further investigation of this mat
ter in the hands of tho trustees. Pend
ing this Investigation we will not prd&
our charge*).. (Signed) Claude Douthlt,
M. 10. Helglnr, J. T. Roberts, Jr., S. M.
Ward, Jr., J>avld Kohn, 10. H. Bokyin,
W 10 (} Black, H. 11. Gardner, Newton
I). Walker."
1 understand," asked Senator
Tillman, "that the committee proposes
to drop these charges and ioavo this
whole matter now to the trustees, wil
ling to ..accept, and abide by our decU
Ion ?"
pouthit said that was the Intention.
"Then," vald Senator .Tllliuan, "tnero
! In nothing for the board to do but to
Into executive session ami make *iy
Kits declslou regarding young Thorn
j well and the sophomores. That is un- J
: Igk.s Prca'dcnt Ihu'tzog wants to go j
I 011 with the investigation of the j
j charges. What do you say, Mr. Hart- I
, zog?" j
j President Harl/.og replied that he
was ready and willing now, as ho had j
i bora all along, to go Into a full and i
j complete .investigation as to his con- (
duet and administration of the collie, j
j "The eominlttee baa withdrawn their I
' charges on their own volition, not in I
, any way at my suggestion," ho ?JilU,
I "and it Ip not a cfompromlstf? on my
part. I am willing to go on with an
i open Investigation, .or 1 am willing to I
: leave it ail In tho hands of tho trim- [
i tecs. I Ijellovo they 1 1 1 i!o Juctloo and I
j that Iw all 1 want. The matter rests en- i
: tirely with thorn."
"I would like to aay,' said Cadot i
: Douthlt, "that our committee hag
i taken this step only after mutual con
sideration and with the good of Clom
i Bon college the nolo purpose in view."
"Then," bald Senator Tillman, "I
! move that the board now go into ex-'
j erut.lvc session. This was carried nnd
the board rotlred. They were In sc83ion
'? over two hours. Finally when it was
j stated that the trustees were ready
! to announce their decision the faculty
and students reassembled In the ehapoi.
The decision were read by Senator
I Tillman, lie read them In a most im
J presSlvo manner. The students choercd
roundly the decisions in regard- to C 3
J det Thorn well and to the sophomoro
class, but thero was no disorder or un
? seemly demonstration. The decisions
I are aa follows:
The board after most searching In
vest i t Ion Into the causes which led
to tin: suspension of Cadet Thorn tfell
land the action of the faculty In refus
ing the j titlon of the chlss for roii^
abatement. lU>d as follows:
First. That the offenae was ndt of
such magnitude and .seriousness as to
warrant the sentence imposed, and that
the punishment was entirely dispro
portionate to the seriousness of the. of
fense. Thr>. evidence shows that tho
faculty was iu ver In possession of all
tho facta in tho ease, and whilo there
was some grounds for its action, wo
feel that the trial was not conducted
with that seriousness and thoroughness
which should obtain in any case which
Involves the character and good name
of a cadet. Th? nfcageraeaa of the
minutes and Inability of the faculty to
present to the board In written form a
record of ihe proceedings Is censurable
and we shall expect It never to occur
again. We can undeat&nd how there J
might be a difference of opinion, as ap
pears to have existed in the faculty,
on account of the Incomplete evident'#
before it. The faculty divided evident*
lv on t&e question of intent. Qn the
<4** hand, there was a belief,, that the,
students understood their' obligation ill
regard to this property. On"Ue ether,
tho .contention of . the cadeta.that cus
tom had lead them to bellevethey had
tho right to take these test tubes in
fluenced the judgjtsat of soft>4 mem
bers of the faculty to the e*t?nt tfcat
the vote' for suspension was 13, white
those who voted against such punish
ment were 13. and the error was la sot
jiving the btaelt 'of the doubt to the.
It is also an . ytwritlii etream- _
HAM'S HORN BLASTS.
Tk 1 1 r, wavoa ft to
V a I ways-. sUllert
whevt! i he. Mas
1 1 1 r wiUkti.
, It is ft Kioater
thiiiK to prownt
u (Ukouho tlvnu to
in von t its <upp.
The KOQil aUop?
honl thinks moro
of bin flock than
of his (1?
AtfnotfUclf.ni in
]<?><:?? i'il to luiit
will, riot prevent tho blister from lot
lowiiiV the l>ui ii.
There i.-< ii K<>t)(l d on 1 of dlfferenco
between havhm a mission before men
UM(1 llUVIIlK OHO fOV tliei-l.
Peace i.* i }?<* poise of tho soulV. per*
foil acflviih'j;.
Crutches become a riii.se when wo
inlRht have wlngS. '
II ( * Ik < is< v <loos not grow ovil it
cannot bp put on.
Kiiiiiti'ou.vnesa will not '.come by
role.
? lis need makes another my nc'.uhr
boi*.
1 l^lils a:e more important than
la iii ps.
A creed n ay bo made a casket for
a faith.
J!e loses ail who i.t unwilling to lose
any.
Tho corrupt man cannot be cour
<l'l 'Oil k.. 0 v' ,
N'o man can run away from his own
heart .
I i.iavcn does not. wait for earth's ap
pin U8o. ' .
Tho oil for the ni?bt mur.t bo
boiiKbl in (lie da.v. ^ .?,?
'J'liat which ?aatiatcH cannot fcatia-'
fy. J? VI ?
Sweet fruits prow from bitter need.
I'repaiatioa in tlu> best prayer (p
J'i ovldon-'o.
Kvery blcEfdns received creates an
obligation.
Relish, a is not in us unless it jjoes
out from urf.
It takes u Hinail broojse to raiae a
rtorm in a puddle.
To cultivate a callous heart will uot
insuro cairn. .
There Ik no virtue in the-; bottlo
without the medicine.
b'xploslons have killed 172 person?
iu Chicago in ten years.
Seaboard Air Line Ry,
Double Daily Sorvice
Pctwccn Now York, Tampi, Atlanta, Now
Orleans and Points South and West.
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