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VOLUME XIV. > CAMDEN, S. C? FRIDAY, J 12, 1903. NO. 22. FAIR MILL SETTLEMENTS ' " DEVASTATED BY FLOODS. Spartanburg Section Meets Frightful Disaster ( By Cloudburst. TERRIBLE LOSS IN LIFE AND PROPERTY The Counterpart of the Johnstown and Galveston Horrors Takes Place in the Piedmont Manufac . *7;;-';; ; ?~esfr* *"1*. * ? ? * . .. ' _ turing Section --Niagara of Death Sweeps Over Section and Busy Spindles Cease to Hum. Not since the close of the civil 'war has any section of th<* South suffered a greater calamity, with the posa.ible exception of Galveston, than that "which struck the prosperous manufac turing section near Spartanburg, S. C., early last Saturday "mottling. The | disaster was the imn^ediate result of A cloudburst just at the foot of the mountains. In a few minutes time the - . ? ..... ? - I swollen stream ^ had picked up great 'buildings of Iwick and 3tone, and car ried them Aojfia like houses of straw. The number, near or oveif borers are i of lives lest Svill reach a hundred. Tho property loss is appalling. Six thousand la lie and starvation seems / ? - ? -M -vmmhuvii iJCVJIUO almost inevnable. The business of the Southern Railway's main line is crip Pled for perhaps a month. Six busy ?cotton mills are gone, with the cora V/ .... Plete lofis of all their machinery and .. ... four to five thousand hales of raw cot ton, together with as much manufac- 1 itured goodfe. No fair estimate can yet be placcd upon the entire losS." - # The Sunday and Monday issues ofj ~tKe~Cfai?lotU; Observer, ~wBteh"~86nt ~ ?psiH gtaff correspondents to the acene, have the following graphic ac count of the disaster: As i result of the heavy rains six cotton mills? the Clifton Mills Nob. '1, 2 and 3, the Glen dale Mill and the Pa colet Mills Nos. 1, 2 and S ((he Pacolet Ml 11a Nos. 1 and 2 are one plant)? have been swept away. Two Sou them Railway bridges near Spartanburg, s. C., have been destroy ed. #nd three other bridges are badly _^jfi?jriaged; there are washouts at . a i 'jf. n places along the main Une in the piedmont section, and at Landrum, 18 miles of track are submerged sMtd partial It ruined. . r ." jlt ls. reported that 50 people are kill v ? ?<|, andoeye-witnesses declare that they as 10 or 13 bodies floating down the. Pacolet river. Those who |ire kqpwn to b^dead are Maggie Kir Augustus Clave and wife, Miss ? Llixlu Clavert, -M. Felix, Mrs. W. B. _ Tinlayk Marie Sims, Mrs. B. F. John 4 - eon and four children;- Mrs, - John,! ! .77 .'Ow*ni, Roy Owens. Garland Long. Mi's, 1 Long, Miss Fletia Goal. IMMENSE LOSS TO RAILROADS. jR tw ?'.rr i-r The loss to rapray and industrial property is almost incalculable. The ' Jcotruotlon of t h ti~ mills means ^ a loss of at least $5,000,000. The flnan ? cial damage to the Southern is enor mous yd cannot be ectlmated at this timaf Apar Ip^rt from the direct injury caused bj* the loss cf the expensive bridges, tho Southern will sustain a great blow In- the blocking of traffic bvcrjis maiu line and branch lines tudoftftWely: ? DESTITUTE PEOPLE, j * . KWf Clifton, S. ~C? alone, 500 people ? are homeless and 4,000 are out of em ployment. A CLOl^pBURST . - The sudden and unexpected rise in the Pacolet river was the dlTCCt caueo of most of the disaster. On this stream ?are located the Clifton and Pacolet nlllsv Mne Olendale Mills 'being <m N^awson1 Fork. All the plants aro Within > radius of seven miles of *p**ta?bhrg, 8. C. r the past 30 houiu the Pacoleyi had shown the effect of the ron'- 1 rinar-bwt 4ha -ilvor. swollen ] eawe any apprehea alght fba mills wtre. on I above stood the test ware tboagM to be perfeotly safe against any torrent. But, If all accounts are to be be lieved, there waa a veritable cloud burst Saturday morning at about 6 o'clock, and the river rose, visibly, higher and higher. In two hours, it is declared, the river rose 50 feet, mak ing it 60 feet higher than the usual water level. MILLS SWEPT AWAY LIKE STRAW Before thia fierce tide the mills went like straw. The first to go were the Pacolet Mills Nos. 1 and 2, a tflant that is near Pacolet station, on the Co lumbia/and Asheville branch of the Southern Railway. Half a mile down I tho river Btood the Pacolet Mill No. 3, a smaller mill than Nos. 1 and 2, and that, ahfo, was soon torn to wreckage and carried away in the stream. Of the' Clifton Mills No. 1 was first destroyed and was soon followed by mill Nd. 2. Clifton No. 3, the largest of the mills that were lost, was situated At Con verse station, six miles north of Spar tanburg, on /the Southern Railway. I The mill stood 200 y?J^"above the teatle. For an hour it, resolutely withstood the mad ouslaught of water, and then gave way. gradually, trow ing into the current large PlW?a of jiyiww that gerloualy 'injures- _>tid threatened to destroy the big trestle at Converse station. . BRIDGES WASHED AWAY. The steel bridge, over Lawson's Fork on the Pacolet river near Spar tanburg haa gone. It was one span and was 350 feet long, Including the ap proaches. The bridge over the ' Middle Tigetjf; river, between Duncan and Wellford; is destroyed. It waa t^ree flpnns and 142 feet long. 1 The bridge over North Tiger river cannot be used. It Is damaged, Ihiough the full extent of the Injury cannot be ascertained yet. <ts The big bridge over the Pacolot river, six or seven miles this side of Spartanburg, Is said by railway offi cials to be very unsafe. It is still standing against the fierce tide, but is badly damaged- and is In a very serious condition. The bridge over the BJipree river Just south of Spartanburg ? damaged and impassable. ? - ? The Seneca river bridge Is also use less. The bridge over the Pacolet river is 107 feet high, one Of tho highest bridges on the Southern system. It is 342 feet long and made of steel. The Pacolet Mills had 15&Q00 spin dles; the Clifton Milld, 112,000; the new Glendale 30.000 Bpindles, making a total of 306,000 spindles and a total ! of nearly 8,000 looms, according to I the estimates made by Capt. J. H. | Sloan and other well-known cotton j mill men who were seen by a re porter. This estimate make3 the mills worth over^ f 6, 000, 000. THE FIX)OD carribd every thing before IT. t Attendant upon the passing of the ! mills there waa inestimable loss. Four thousand bales of cotton and XoOTMTb* "of *ioih were ckretsff >way with the debris of the Pacolet Mills. At Pacolet, thp Presbyterian church, the hotel, th^-lnlU -office, mill stores, cotton gins, grist mill3. blacksmith fhops, a large number of operatives' cottages and all the warehouses of the company were destroyed by the J stream. jlfce ..warehouses were built of brick apd stone, one warehouse betas bultt. entirely of ntono. - r - -Tim population ol Pacolet Is 5,00ft. mil af wbom were dependent upon the mills far ?frpport. " or Sui is<ulutftwils^ was destroyod BatsrawlTOfia^ bar tkls city. Flftesa Bulgarian* were MAN AND BIUDE DIK A GLORIOUS DEATH. Sam Swanguaro and his bride (He in ft way that seemed glorious to the spec tators. Swanguare seized his wife by the hand and when they came clear of th^ wrecked house ho clutched her citxser to him and swam to a tloating moss of driftwood. ?Thero, in plain view, they clung to each other and sr.ng togother, so that all on the hanks heard. The driftwood rushed against a large mass and separated, and fiwanguaro and his bride went under the water locked' in a la3t embrace,, Flela Gosa -boarded with a Mrs. llalley, whero also lived Mr. and Mrs. Kir by and J. E/Grlcr. Miss Gosa and Mrs. Klrby were carried out Into the water and drowned speedily. Mrs. Bailey was caught in a whirlpool just below Converse and, swinging to a Piece of plank, revolved In the eddy until sho was drawn In by a rope that had been thrown to her rescue, Grler Caught the branches of an oak tree and remained there till he was rescued by a boat that was bravely manned. Mrs. Katiq Long and her son, Garland Long, and his brido, and her son, Richard, were hurled Into the current. Mrs. Long and her younger son were saved by catching the branches of a tree, but Garland Long and his bride were drowned. The bodies of none of those people have been recovered. . 50 DROWNED AT MILL NO. 2. Tho greatest loss of life is at Mill No. 2, the furthest mill down the river. It is said that at least GO operatives here lost their lives. The only naniM of tho deki) that are obtainable npw aro Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Johnson and four children, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Fin Icy and five children. Several of the children of T. M. Masscy were drown ed, but he end his wife escaped. Mas sey himself had an extraordinary oscape. lie was carried through the No. 2 mill out through tho opening at the far end of the building and swam to the shore. , THE CLOUD-BURST A MXSTERY. That phenomen, the cloud-burst, fe nuiinH a mystery bo far as origin la con cerned. Residents here state that the -rain was not heavier than It always ia at this time in June, and everybody is sure that at Borne place close to Con verse a clottd opened and emptied Into the Pacdlet river 20 times as much wa iter. aa.lt usually carrier It im posed that the cloud burst close to the Blue Ridge Mountains, about 20 miles from here. * 6C OR MORE MILL OPERATIVES DIE. .In tie confusion that necessarily pre* vails here it will be several days before the full ldfes of life Is reported. Con servative estimates make a death list 4>f at least 60 among the mill opera tives alone, though only four bodies are known to have tftien recovered. OTHER MILL LOSSES. / It Is reported here that the D. E. Converse mill at Lawson's lost 1,000 bales of cotton and four house*. It is also said the Campobello Oil Mills and the Tucapaw Mills on tho Tiger river have been destroyed. A Comprehensive Statement. Spartanburg, S. Cv Speelal.? Below are the mills that suffered In Saturday morning's floods: * Arkwright (slightly), capital $200, 000, spindles, 20,266, looms 604. - Beaumont, capital $100,000, 8,888 spindles, no looms. Clifton, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, capital $1. 000,000, spindles 101,232 'looms 3,254. Paeplet, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, capital $1, 000,006, spindles 59,332, looms 2,20&. ^^JWntney, capital $200,000, spindles 10,000, loom 8 3#. To Furnish Rations. Washtlnjftqn, Special. ? Absolutely ncccssary relief in the way of rations, modlcinos, etc., will be given "by the War Department to the sufferers by the disastrous *floods in South Carolina yes terday; An appeal to Secretary Root from the local authorities resulted In orders being given to General Chaffee, commanding the. Department of the East, to this effect. Ho will authorize an offlcei\to proceed north from At lanta with supplies to relieve Immedi ate necessities as' was done for the suf ferers at Gainesville, Qa. ttellcf Funds. Funds fur the ImmudlutH lulluf ot the suffering have been started in a number of nearby towns and cities Spartanburg. Juis taken tho lead with a largo subscription. ' , Mayor Brown, of Charlotte, immo d lately issued a proclamation calllnf upon tho people of that city for aid. Columbia has started a liberal fund t hrt flf lA-lwlifcM u 11 vt? tf? b'TIT?5 vflff null dred dollars. Omr. Heyirhrd, of South Carolina lu u 'Issued a proclamatlor calling a pea the whoU State to help Other assistance 1st,* Imperatively StLevfa. 8**f?f.~T!i* peopla ot> the Uii?a4|n*Jtw Mhalaiipjki *t* atui p? ?*< w> ifcirtr-Wet wm hi a tnr T*# river kaa thread around tha lalaad Tr iij * lfyj\ria^!SfcM!i!fc T*H?jr^a wnler water WKl homta FAST MAIL WRECKED ; A Serious Wreck on the Charlotte* Columbia & Augusta Division. ? COLLIDES WITH A FREIGHT TRAIN. Misinterpretation of Orders Causes a Disastrous Smash-Up? Several Narrow Escapes. Cbarltte, N. C., Special ? The South ern Railway's fast mall from I ho North, which left Charlotte at 5;X0 o'clock Monday afternoon, going South, met with a hoad-on collision with freight train No. 74, coming North, one and one-half mile of Fort Mill, S. C.. and one-quarter of a mile from Steel Creek bridge. Tho freight train had a "time order" to wait for 97 nt Fort Mill, but the engineer and con ductor misinterpreted the order and proccedod northward. Engineer W. A. Wilson, of Columbia, was In tho cab of tho freight train and Conductor Drake was In charge of tho train, T). A. Vaughun was the engineer on tho fust mall. IVoth engineers and firemen jumped. The freight train was flrQt seen approaching by Track Supervisor W. A. Fort, of Columbia, who was in the engine of No. 97. Ho gave the I alarm to the engineer and fireman and al| three saved their lives by Jumping. The engines were turned completely ovor th? embankment. The trains met on a "fill" between two deep cuts. ?There Is a sharp curve at each end of the approach of the fill, nnd the en gineer ol' each train only had very slight warning. Tho engines are complete wrecks and several ears of tli? freight were de molished. The first mall car of No. 97 was torn to atoms. Tho remainder of Uio mall cars were not Injured. F. M. Dykman, chief clerk of ihe mall train, was looking ouf the front door of the mall car. He saw the freight train and ran back to his fellow clerks and gave the alarm. The clerks held fast to the rods In their cars and only received Blight Injuries. Mr. Dykman was badly shocked and brulo e<t and he may be hurt Internally. Mr. Dykman la from Atlanta. Thp feat mall only consisted of three cars, the u3?al number of this train being only four cars, but one of them was dropped off at Charlotte. Among the mall clerks Injured are: C-. H. Butts, of Atlanta, slightly bruised. D. H. Dagnall, of Atlanta, bruised, but not seriously Injured. ^ The mall was sjived except a portion qf the aocond-claaa - toatiwv mostly newspapers, for Louisiana cftles, which was completely destroyed. Vory little of the letter mall wu lo*t?* Engineers Wilson's ankle was brok en. Numbers of ladles and all of the physician* of Fort Mil went to the sceflrte of the wreck, and gave every at ; tention possible to the injured. Fifty- Elpht Dead. Spartanburg, S. C., Special.? Fifty- . eight ia the death record to Monday night. Three bodies .were .recovered during the afternoon along the river bank under the sands 'and debris. Be-, aider the known dead, from 10 to 15 operatives are xm^ccouttted for. Following is a complete list of the dead: John Owen, tHfe and four chil dren, Sam Swerengeft and wife. Miss . Stella -Gosa,. Miss Kirfey, Joe Hall and famllyr-Mrs. :Woddet4iand child;- Mrs. Johnson and four chlTtfcen, Gus C*l- \ vert, wife, daughter and son, Ed Robbs, wife and two children, Jim Elder, wife and child, A. Emory, J. Blggeratnff, ; Tom M|Lsfiey*8 four children* Robort Tinsley and family, Novis Sims, Alex, and Lucy Calvert, Mr. and Mrs. Gar land Long. The matoriifr losses aggregate be tween 1 4)000, 000 and $4,500,000, which includes the estimates on everything known to have felt the effects of the floods. The directors of the destroyed Clifton "rtf ills will TiOTd "fiTttiCMing here at which the question of rebuilding will be discussed. It is thought that work ^111 be begun on Clifton Mills 1 and 2, part of which are standing, at once. What will be done at No. 3. is ?Kttil probffmnttcal;* w "tM~dS8tructicn la complpte. Nothing can bo learned as to the future movements to be mado at Pacolet. President Twltchcl!, of.tho Clifton Mills, could not estimate hla louses, but figures sent to the press are net exaggerated. Funds for the relief of destituto nnd homeless are coming In from all parts of the country, insurance companies, I wholesale concerns and fraternal or- ! dcrs responding by wire.. President Twltchell has received $3,000 from business houses North. The grand to- 1 tal of oontrlbutlonstd storm sufferers ! at thoJIlifton mills and the Pacolet up tc 10 :S p. xa. was J10.1CS.24, Union Still Cut Off.^ Union, S. C., Special.? ^T. J. Beten- j baug, county supervisor, said that the i total flood loss to the county was be tween $10,000 and $15,000. -Bridges wcro destroyed at Cedar Blijff, Skttll Skoals. Grindle Shoals and at Grist. fbese bridges connect Union, Spartanburg and Cherokee counties. The Lockhart Mills have austalned about $1JQQQ dam ages by water entering tho cloth rooms. arch, stopping It tor several days. The other mills will run extra ttme so ma to help the sufferers at Pacolet and Cllf .ton. The tialna running between Spar-, tan burg and Carlisle carry onlya ca boose ami box ?ar? No malls have reached here since 1 p. Saturday. Pgiiaa n n ,, UMI MOwi, Topeka, ?pedal. The pontoo* bridge ?BKS*cU*ff TWrtt Topeka wltk the north approach* ike Mg , Melaa iwwrtm im*f ig*B* m.nw; ^Mwetteg joth ^ariM^ cg^ the ^ town. SOUIU CAROLINA CROPS Abundaut Rains, But Cultivation Is Needed. ?The week ending 8 a. nt., Monday, Juno 8th, had a in csn temperature of nbout 72 degrees, which la C degrees below normal. The winds were light taster Jy, ox<;eyt high in places. accom panying thunderstorms. There was moro than the usual amount of cloudi ngs. The incipient drought wan broken in nil parts ^except Georgetown ?? county. Tho avorijgo precipitation for the en. tire State wee 3. Jin inchrn. Tho follow ing excessive amounts were reported: Andeison 5.65, Batcsbur 3.45, Chester 4.50. Columbia 5.82, Crcenvlllo C.82, Greenwood 3.03, LlttlVkb Mountain 5.12, Longshore 4. 87, Pinewood 8.00, St. Matthews 7.90, Statehurg 7.82, Seivorn l>.83, Spartanburg 6.37, Sumter 3.63 inches. Owing to interrupted mull com munication 'reports from tho extremo western parts of tho State are missing. These excessive rains did groat damago by washing lands, and flooding bot tom-lands. All crbps avo destroyed on bottom lands in the western part of tho Stat* by floods. The ground is too wet in all parts to permit cultivation, and fields are becoming foul. Qn the night of the let, damaging hail 'occurred in Abbeville, Barnwell, Hampton, Lexing ton, Newberry, Oconeo, Orangeburg, Richland, Saluda and Sumter counties, causing tho total destruction of hun dreds of acres of eorp, tobacco and Bomsf cotton, as well rtS ruining many aero%,.of uncut oats. The rainfall was of great benefit to crops where it was not excessive, and where not accom panied by .hail, causing a marked im provement in tbeir prospects. Cotton Improved in stand, color and growth. Chopping and CUlliVHon made ?low progress. Lice have appeaVod In a few places. The plants are generally small, but are healthy. Tho formation of squares has been noted. Sea lBland < otton is thrfying. TTie rains improved corn materially, but it needs cultivation and smiBhine. Some being laid by in tho southeastern counties. The stands have improved* but worms continue troublesome. To bacco is still small and Is buttoning low, although a number of places re port improvement) in both conditions. Many acres were totally rujned by hail, especially In Richland county. Rice is growing well in the more Southerly districts, but is unsatisfactory in tixa Georgetown district. The crop as a whole needs sunshine. June sowing underway. What and oats harvest was interrupted by the rains, while much )B in the shock and damaged by the wot weather. Much of that that it unci \y was lodged by the heavy ratios wld high winds. A general improvement is vindicated in. the ...minor ?rop*; e*e?pi that the wet weather Uas caused peaches to rot as they ripCffir *? ? The Markets. COTTON market. _ These figures represent prices paid to wagons: Strict good middling .12.00 Good middling 11% 8trict middling Stains and tinges .. . . ........ .11.15 PRODUCE MARKET. Onlohs . . $ 70 Chicken*? spring ,, 12*,g Hens ? per head : . . 30 Eggs 12?4 Beeswax . . . . . ........... 20 Turkeys ... Corn . . . ? 00 DuckB 2214 Wheat WKwL . 60 Wheat ? scod . 1 00/ Oats . . .V V. : . ...... 43 Rye :. 100' sides - . . . .u . ?;rr t~" A Narrow Escope. # Newberry, S. C., Special? Th?? Con garee river at Columbia Monday morning woe 29 feet t?ovo low-water mark. Six spans, about 100 feet, of the Columbia, Newbert*y & Tjnurens nail road trestle near Columbia are washed away. The bridge across Broad-river between Alston and Peaks, 20 miles southeast of Newberry, is reported gone. The flyor which lift Atlanta at 12 o'clock Saturday night passed Now berry Sunday afternoon ftt about 5 o'clock. When It roachod Cedar crcck, we3t of Columbia, the trestle was considered unsafo, as a result of Which the train i^turned fo "NewberryT| and atterwarda jjfrocecdod to Colum bia, via the Columbia, Newberry & Laurens ? road. The train, consisting of ten coaches, passed over the ill fated Columbia, Newberry & Laurens trestle at i a. m.. and at 2:40 a. m., the trestle fell. The passengers on the train were were loud in their praises of the engineer who refused to cross the Cedar creek trestle, wJMch was later swept away. It is said that a con siderable sum was made up for him in recognition of his . bravery. All tele graphic communication between New berry and Columbia)* cut off, honco the facts of the aJ&tructlon betwoea these poiuis^aru burd to procure. H'ncrs Arrested. "Knoxvllle^ Special. ? Twenty-seven miners. mem1>ers of the United Mine Workers of Amcrica, marched from the depot to the Jail at Clinton, Tenn.; Monday with a miner at their head bearing an American flag flying at half-mast, They were arrested on; the thaige of having violated an Injunc tion granted by Judf? KyJe, la coanec | fttfftyti mndj? to rMumo work ! vt tho mines of the Tennessee Coal Company, at Brieerllle, Tmb. It i? probable that 100 artfcat^ -will be made In tho next few days. No attempt w?? . mnde to resume wort. The United Mines Workers pQel^la demand that the union be reoefsliM. Ati??fc by Arawa mttl. Topeka. Kant.. Spcclal.? Reports armed men are assembling |t coi I a id I rowboyi, Ml* [mm#**** ere considered a against Chatmcsy Depew LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS. Many Matters of General Interest in Short Paragraphs. Down In Dixie. , Two young men were killed and mother wounded ffom ambush l>y' un known ^oiKons In LaUrul county, Ken tueky. It Is ?aid that North Carolina has at laat got rid, of all the slot machines and othor 'gambling dovices in the State. 1 The regular term of the Circuit Court began nt Jackson, Ky., nnd tlio alleged aesassinn of J. 13. Mareun) w rte bipught into court. Witness ok have been subpoenaed at Westminster, Md., to appear .before the grand Jury in the cn3e of ex-Supenn tend^nt of Freo delivery A. W.* Ma cben. Paeolet and Clifton, S. C., cotton manufacturing village, near Spartan burg, were almoBt wiped out by a cloudburst and flood. Twenty-five per sons were reported drowned. A telegram waB rccolved aj the of flco of the poatofflce Inspector at Chat tanooga, Tenn., yesterday, stating that Wni, O'Donnell and W. J. Hrockraan, had been arrested at Fitzgerald, Ga., charged with embezzlement of money from tlio government and with receiv ing stolen property? At The National Capital. The Suprenfe Court adjurned for the term. President lloosevolt -5has directed Postmaster-General Payne to push the postal Inquiry to the end. President Roosevelt returned to Washington Friday night, after hlfl long trip through the West. The application for a writ of babftgg. corpus in' tho of Whltaker Wright v. as deulod by tho United States Su preme Court. The grand Jury found a truo bill against MnMien, the man accused., of robbing the postofilce department of over $13,000. At Tho Nortli. Spot cotton sold for thirteen cents In New York Monday. ? The disabled OH dominion liner Monroo reached Now York In safety, j Toxtlle workers in Philadelphia ap pealed to Mayor John Weaver to use JtRK good offices to end the strike. fcathan Longbart, a tailor: 1ir\New York, starved himself to death In order to^aeewnulflte^mough money to bring Fire at Wilmington, Del., In the building of Garrett, MllleV & Co., elec trical engineers, caused a loss of about $36,000. Miss Cora Lyman Oliver, of Albany, and Joseph H. Choate. Jr., son /of United States Ambassador Choate, were married at Albany.- ? j~ At Kansas City, Topeka and other points the floods hare greatly subsided nnd the work of repairing the damage Is vigorously prosecuted. The number of "persona - certainly killed by the. flood- at Topeka, Kan* Is now put at 34.. At Kansas City also a considerable number of lives have been lost, r Parts of St. Louts and East St. Louis are under water, many thousands acres of farm lands are submerged, levees continue to break and the "water keeps Steadily rlslns. - It is told as a true story that John Chapman, at Galena, Kas, f^Jl down a twenty-foot tramway at the Blind Tiger mino and dlsIocnteiThrs shoulder, He went home and stumbled ~*di>#n the callar steps, and In falling his shoulder was thrown Jsack into place. He-took-a-drink-and returned to-wofkr From Across Thr Sea. . -l: ? Hypnotism was employed successful ly In a surgical operation In London. Rev. J. J. Harty, of. St- l<oiiis, has J been appointed Archbishop of Manila. The rfcvolt in Yun-Nsn, China, grows worse. The commencement at Princeton Trniverstty attracted a"iarBR> nH0mireir'0Ti alumni. / The War Department has ordered warships to Chile on account of dls? turbanccs roported1 there. Tho Chilean Congress was opened at. Santiago by Vice-President Luco, tho resident being too ill to do so. Edna Tolfener, niece of Mrs. John W. Mackay, was married in Rome to Sig nor Glno de Martlno. The Porte appointment of commis sion to investigate the mnssacro at Smerdesb, Macedonia. Speeches aimed at Josoph Chamber lain's preferential trade policy con tinue to be , made by prominent lingllshmen, ' f< "y-j jviucsllnaeouf natters. Tbo smoke pall from the northern forest flreB now extends 600 miles out to sea. ?' ' The Leglslatire Coxinfcll of th* Orange River Colony adopted a tariff giving preference to British goods. The British armored cruiser Berwick . httalned # spccd ot know an haurj making her the fastest of her class It thr wwld. ? " ~ wilVHVU ?NU VVUI * 1IUIHI.WVU | ie civilization of the whit* ma* o one would tklttk him of sborJ stock, except fpr his foal hlack _ , and the suggestion cower hue. | The engages aeatef Airtisy Hawkins, the novelist, to Wm abeth, ' 11 wadding of MltS fJu ^ jt L-t,.*.- .a, . jv. . i"i m MAKES A BIG HAUL Washington Clerk Pilfers $60,000 la Cash. PLACED PROMPTLY UNDER ARREST Another Instance. Where tttCQovern* ment Qets Robbed By a Trusted Employe. Washington, Special.? Jajjies M. Watson, Jr.. a clerk in the office of the auditor for the District Of Columbia uud tho son-in-law of a wealthy re tired railroad dirootor, was Arretted Tuesday on a chargo of embowjlemcut of government funds. Tho amount la estimated at from t&0?00? Jttl 'f?6|O0O.. The wurrantmakw tire specific charge of embezzlement of (8,000, which rep resents only a portion of the alleged speculations. Watson was not bonded and in case he or his relatives, several of whom are sold to be wealthy, fall to make good the alleged fosse*, Au ditor J. T. Petty will be held responsi ble for the amount. The auditpr'fc bond is for $20,00,0. * , The money alleged to have been ein bessKled was part of the fund&Wlepqsit ed in the office of the auditor oy prop erty-owners, who are willing to pay half or all costa of Improvement* to streets abutting on their property.?, such as paving sidowalks, alleys and streets. ThJs embraces deposits by railroad companies, electric light conj-._ pnnles, telephone companies, for side walks, for sewers and water mains, and it) ontlrely separate from the other accounts. This account 18 frOTiin>JGe? to review by the Treasury Department, but it is checked by the clerk in charge of tho corresponding account tn the District engineer's department, and he reported It corrost- as lats as February^ 1903. The depositors, it 1s said, have the right to recover Jtom the District through suit Thenaudltor's office If-;; under the supervision or the board bt . commissioners of tho District Of CO- , lumblat Auditor Potty has complete charge Jof"~lhe7?fc?3efeiment &cd pormlt U fund^jToposltin* tno money in a bank to-?Ts own credit. Mr^ Watson, it 4 'allegcd, has been entrusted with tn& the deposits and hasreturnc pass hookrln apyurentJiy proper^..... tlon in eachvtostance. He has beep em ploy o op tie District for four-'jrettsw and the alleged defalcat' posed to have occui most of this period. - - Audits Petty sold that the ... had been manipulated in thatirrJME exact sltnatlon until ? was a Joint publisher of tin. issued in thls diy. running the paper, he shop, which be ba iwxmtly, Is promot etne concern and tL^ ? is* known as the District ,4i t f -- yjrif from employee on oat aftta it tbe Dfc In the ssi over enthr pftrso^? ? . ???n ling ban* bbolttp- v . Several months ago 8 the chief oTp??ce * Watson's reoortPinUr ^ found that Watson was _ ? fonm school white to SillO charge of forgery. THf * ujEf thrco Uvea *r? n?a!4 During tho Hood of ?? B^oiwf yards of tjre'sUe was wubid s from the gonthem amwoach to - nwr Carlisle. Union ^ Monday afternoon the railroad sent a pile driver. to begin I repairing the trestle. The froth the north ?MT?> tactj ^he driver had to .be across to begin worlf~af plies on, thiaaldc. Wbea and drlyer had reached the the bridge It gave way.andihft 1 -?nrlTift, drlvnr and crew of tea precipitated, Into the river. It to learn at this, time the ac bef killed, aa the rallrtftd ,? not seem to care to talk, but It 1 they report the loss of threat Only White* to Vote. Pretoria, Tittnayaal,. By Cfc^V-,. conscqucncc of t b e op position , ta . xr.^nlcipal enf? men, tho ^vornment ha# amend the municipal to exclude alietu aa men, this restricting "hit* Brltlah at Clearfield, ; , tore killed and qtbV a between freight thri* mifoe the Pennsylvania' are Ogel Barley, eft^cOi4_ S the