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? ? . ? ' ??' ? *4* ?,*? - ^ +9 '?? */?? f T\. _ VOLUME XI CAMDEN, 8. 0., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 23, 1908 rwnm HAPPENINGS TOLD IN BHItfS * 0CCl,"Wc" * ,nler?< <Sbu?j From AH Swtiow i tk. b?.y *' ; ',fr ' ? ' Wtl IVImtUt S<?tt ? ?w a rations for state ^ FAIR. 9f Commerce Eu Many Details. Columbia, Special.-The Chamber or Commerce is progressing rapidly With preparation# for fair week. The j'outraet for#iring for street light* ?K b?i been awarded to the Perry Eltctiic company. The arrangement* to to street lighting will be different this year in that the material .put up will be (be property <>t tlio Chamber j of Commerce and not rented aa haa been the custom in t lit? post. Johnny Jones allows, which *Hl have the street attractions, carry thir own ilectrie lighting plant | and they, arc under contract with tho ('bomber of Commerce to present theii full capacity of lights and an equal number of lights will be in stalled at the side shows by the Chamber of Commerce in addition to the ones used by the eat nival. Fun, But Not Rowdyism., The Johnny .1. Jones Carnival/ COWM pany has arranged for the Street shows. Police will not permit olfce sale of whips, rubber balls, coft- j fctti, etc., and will rigidly enforce the ordinance against the practice' of throwing these things around the city. Every show that will bo pre sented is represented as a high class attraction and no objectionable shows will bo offered. \ t.Tlio Chamber of Commerce *|tL nnf pi-nut (om-esMonst to any one ex cept with the express understanding that, there can be none^of the ob jectionable features. The idea of tho committee having this matter in '< charge is that t lie fair shall be full of life and ginger with rowdinesa eliminated. ?Id Nicholas Malclier, a veteran of many fairs, will have charge of the water supply. Barrels will be ~ ' placed at the corners on Main! street and ice water can be had' by all de Biting it. The barrels have been scalded and painted and are in read iness to till the functions required ; ? cf thriii. The city has granted JJia, Pp use* of the water. ' ' Capt. H.J. Person, Jr., wb? can be found at the tt.-C. Electric company, three doors from the transfer aiu tlons, In charge of the information ' V.*? perfected arrange ments for handling the otowds. Mr. Person in addition to his experience . and ability, is a West Point 'gradu ate and ex-aimv ofttecr and by rear son of his military training, being well versed in matters of discipline, Is thought to he an ideal man for tho position he holds. v The Jonny J. Jones Carnival com pany hns nine shows and is the best carnival that has ever exhibited in Columbia. The management has just secured a new show. ' ' A Trip f^pm Kew York to the North Pole, which is an entirely new production and will probably show fpr the first tlmo TJ" "t with* the carnival when they open " tjieir engagement In Columbia. They have an animal show tbat-}8 pronounced the best ever seen in Co lumbia, and a new trainer, who ia row in charge of the animals, has few superiors in the animal business, And is no doubt the best with any carnival company. Tina company la ?l?o under contract to secure six ptfcer high elflps shows and tbey must he stellar attractions. The band with the carnival waa in rT- minmbia last vear and gave thorough ^ sanction. It consists of 10 places and li all-Italian band. It ,will jive street concerts in the a't5r???n fnd night. Two merry-go-rounds will ' be here, which, with the Ferrl. wheel,] will make things look vj^n ? free attractions will be given un Main street. A balloon ascension with ?. fttMsrces of the SUU. ?Hot. Ainol 1>?? appointed Meiers p J. Watson and A. C. Moore, of Columbia, Earl Sloan of Charleston S J E. Sirrine of Greenville as a l??ttee to prepare a statement of T " iSircB and tables on the re of V. SUt?. The*, ticU 2m b e presented at the Southern Slmemal eon^reee. wfciek meet. In; WwhinRton in December. Ir. Receivers Hands. Tn the case of Tompkins & Tomp . v? Edgefield Manufacturing n*nv of Edgefield, Judge Pritcb Tin the federal court made the f norarv receivership permanent ^appointed J. D. Allen special ie P n -as ordered that the re i Authorized to make a com;, fivers be ?" Louia Gilchrist $10,: promise of tu . Edgefield Man ; 0?? c^^.agComtny by tba ^try of yfacturrinf* p (ww>. The reeeivera SS?i w ?? pef?ting m%ur Ei.ct oawr* ?1 AdJOtW. WSaSlMm idani^if tirae Wertenbacke elected vice parachute drop will be given once ft day. This ic a moat spectacular aet. An aeral trapeze act will be given twice ? day. A hair-raising bicycle act, looping the loop and jumping the gap, will be given once a day. ftptcUl Traina for ftUtt Fair. The transportation department! of : the Southern and Seaboard Air Line roads have arranged for the fair ' week crowds. Announcements have ' been made of speeial trains on all lines of both roads and, in addition, the regular passenger trains will all carry several extra coaches. For the Southern railway Mr. J. L. Meek, the assistant general passenger agent of that line, has sent out the following letter to all officials: "Gentlemen: Our transportation department has arranged for extra coaches to be handled on regular trains between Augusta and Colum bia, October 20, 27, 28, and 20, also between Allendale and Columbia, Charlotte and Columbia, Spartanburg and Columbia, Greenville and Colum bia and Charleston and Columbia, to protect overflow travel on account of the above occasion. "In addition to regular train pur vice, wo have arranged for special train service, October 27, and 28 mid 20, to be operated from Winnsboro 'to Columbia and to return from Co lumbia to Charlotte; between Spar tanburg and Columbia, October 28 and 20; between Anderson, Belton. Abbeville and Columbia. October 28 and 29 ; between Allendale and - Co-. lumBia, OeToFeF 28~~ftUd 20, uud be* tween Branchvillo and Columbia, Oc tober 28, 20 and 30." Assistant General Passenger Agent. A special train will be run Wednes day, Thursday and Friday from ? Branchville, leaving there afr 7.15 a. m. and arriving here at 0.40. Special trains will be run from Allendale Wednosday and Thursday, leaving there, at 7 a. m. and arriving here at 10.15 o'clock. Special trains will be run Wednesday and Thursday from Anderson, leaving there at 5.30 a. m. and arriving here at 11 o'clock.' Re. turning these trains will leave at 7 o'clock in the evening arriving at Anderson at midnight. Special trains will be run from Spartanburg . on Wednesday and Thursday.. leaving there at 6.30 a. m. and arriving hAre at 10.30. Returning theae trains wil] leave Columbia at 7.30 p. m. and ar. rive at Spartanburg at 11.30 p. in. Speeial trains will be run fiom Winnsboro Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, leaving there at 7.30 'a. m. and arriving here at 0 o'clock. All of these trains stop at every station and are in addition to the two and three daily on every linq mentioned above. The, Seaboard Air Line will operate special trains from Hamlet, N. C., on Wednesday and Thursday. The train! will leave Hamlet at 6 a. m. and ar rive in Columbia at 0.45. Returning the trains will leave Columbia at 5.30 in tho afternoon. Specials will alse be operated from Fairfax on tb? came daya, leaving Fairfax at 1 o'clock a. m., central time, or 8 o'clock eastern time, and arrive in Columbia nt 0.30. Returning th< train will leave Columbia at' 5.30 p. m., central tlme,vor 0.30, eastern time The .tlcketi are goodfcpn all train* { and go on sale on October 24 to 28 and limited to return until Novembej 2d, State News Items. At Batesburg the fourth anno! fair of the Tri-County Fair assOr eiation wag held last week under far vorable circumstances. All roads if the threo counties led to Batesburg fair, and every effort possible wai njnde to prevent disappointment tc any attendant. Two Hanging* In South Oftrolisft. Columbia, 8. C., Special ? Lawrenec Hampton, colored, was hanged at Greenwood Friday for the murder o! Robert White, also colored, in 1906 Hampton confeaaed his crime and said that he waa prepared to die. At Barnwell, Elliot Greene, colored, wa< hanged for the murder of Olive* Smalls, also colored, in February last. He confessed his crime. . Items of State Interest. Orangeburg's Main street wilL b?j paved with vitrified brick, the eitj 1 couneil having decided that., this it] the best material for the purpose. Belton, Special. ? The conoret< stand pipe for the waterworks i% it. course of construction and when com pleted wilr be 100 feet high with ? capacity of 150,000 gallons of .water ^ Work I* being rapidly pushed ot the new graded school bnilding by thi Vaughn Contracting company. It will have nil modern improvement! And. will be something of whieh the patrons of the town and communits [ will be proud. It will cost $10,000, IflttU Is Ortroffl*. bfii SpaeUL- Ruby, Of. twj BULLETIN ON AUGUST FLOOD Interesting Figures Given on Precip itation During That Mouth. Jn the monthly weather bulletin on conditions in August, just i??u<ul, Hco. tion Director Bauer gives Homo inter* eating figures ou the rainfall, espec. ially at the time of the great flood, The report Bays : /'The average precipitation waa 0.11 inchea, which U 4.01 inchee above the normal. The greatest local monthly amount waa 10,52 inchee, at Greenville | the leaat waa 9.10 inchee, at Yemaeee* The greatest 24-hour fall waa 11.66 inchee, at Anderson, on the 24th-25th. The av?r*fte ???? ber of daya with rain was 10, ranging from aix daya at Blairs and Jackson boro to 15 daya at Effingham and Winthrop college. 4 'Excessive Precipitation. ? At An derson on the 24th-20th, 14."31 inches iii 34 hours; at Blaira on the 24th 20th, 8.04 inches iu 00 hours; at Cal houn Falls on the 23d-20th, 0.02 inchee in 03 hours; ut Camden (1) on the 25th-20th, 0.05 inches in 23 hours; at Catawba on the 23d;20th, 10.12 inches in 05 hours; at Cheruw on J he 24th-20th, 0.64 inches iu 02 hours; at Clemson College on the 25tb, 2.81 inches in 24 hours; at Col umbia on the lOthj 3.15 inches in 0 hours; at Conway on the 20th, 2.83 inches in 14 hours; at Dillon on the 10th, 3.00 inehes in 24 hours ;nt Greenville on- the 23d-20th, 10.94 inchcs in 78 hours; at Greenwood on the 24th-20th, 7.00 * inchea .in 00 hours; at Jacksonboro on the 20th, 4.00 inches in 24 hours; at Kingstree on the 2/, i?.ou~1rnc)ieB itr-ttbmtf- :V4~ hours;. atj Liberty on the 24th-20lh, 11.12 inelies in 24 hours; at Little Mountain on the 19th, 3/21 inches in 24 hours; at Mt. Holly, N. C., on the 23d-20th, 11.10 inches in 58 hours', at Pclxcr. on the 24th-20th. 5.14 in chcs in i: hours; at St. George on the 20th, 2.00 inches in 4 hours; at Saluda on the 0th 2.00 inches in 24 hours; at Santue on the 23d-2.">th, j 10.83 inches in 58 hours; at Spartan burg on the 24th-20th, 0.33 inches in 72 hours j; at Ferguson on the 20th, 2.59 inches in 24 hours; at Walter boro ;on the 19th, 2.51 inches in 10 hours; at Winnsboro on the 24th. 25th, 7.85 inches in 48 hours; at .Win throp college on the 24th-25th, 7.10 inches ?P 48 hours. Report oq Tobacco. Columbia, Special. ? Commissioner Watson has received a summary of the tobacco situation In this tSate, prepared specially for the depait* ment by Hartwell M. Ayer, aa fol lows: 44 Amount produced In 1008, 24,000, 000 to 25,000.000 pounds. "Of this 75 per cent is bought l>y the American Tobacco Company and the Imperial Company. The former's grades consist of cigarette and granu lators (for smoking) and wrappers 1 for American trade. "The latter company's grades con stat of cigarette and plug tobaccos, which are all shipped to England. "We have a very small per cent of twist and plug tobaccos grown in cur State. We have about 20 per cent, of a crop of semi-bright strips that are shipped to European markets, mainly to England by indendent buy ers. The. remainder, 6 per cent of the cro^: consists of scrap tobacco* that are manufactured b vtho Ameri can' trade into smoking tobaccos. The. independents buy from ten to fifteen per cent, of the crop of wrappers American trade; principally shipped West. This is as near the informa tion as va can give it. as all tobacco are manufactured in Virginia and the West. What per cent of our grades and kinds goes into the different out puts we eannot give vou. 11 Edlito County it on the W ay. Columbia, Special.? -Governor An sel Saturday issued a proclamation for In election on the Question of tbe formation of Edisto county to be held December 15. There has been consid erable contest over this matter, the aera o fthe proposed countv being formed out of portions of Lexington, Aiken and Orangeburg. \ Killed by Fall From Tree. ^Monek's Corner, Special. ? Mr. Geo. Mims, a well known mechanic, met with an accident which resulted in his death a few hours later.. He v. as at a baptising at Canal Bridge and bad climbed up* a tree to get some berries for the children, when a limb broke and he fell a distance of 30 feet. Dr. W, K. Fishbourne was hus tily summoned, who used all msdical skill to revive him, but without avail. THE STATE'S SCHOOLS www ItT I'MOr. WilAIAM II. H AHD. Vulver^ty ofHouWrarvlhis. r*p*r Number HI*. Chang* of Traohcir*,*? The frequent shangepf teachers is a constant break snd clog in the progress of (ho sehoOls. It robs then of auytbing ilke An unbroken courts of work and Ax adpess of policy. Every new teacher introduces seme new feature into the work of the tschcol ? perhaps a good feature in itself, yet no better thnn what it displaces. It requires read justment to install anything new, end the time and friction arc a lost*, unless the change is decidedly for better. (Jenenjlly speaking, our bent school* aro I hose which have tho fewest changes in the teaching force. It re quires ut Jeast one lull session for a teacher to occome acquainted with his patrons. JJy " becoming acquainted with patrqns for more than mero so cial knowledge of them. I mean an appreciation of tho tastes and their ideals and their ambitions, and a knowledge of their peculiarities, if you pleaae. Until lie understands these ho is not in a position to serve them and to lead tljem, and a teaehcr vvlio can not lead is of but little force. Not until after a teacher has tauxht from four to six years in a commun ity Is ho prepared to give it his bust services. Yet how few ? teachers re main in one schcol three years. Some places change teachers every year simply because they have acquir ed the habit of doing so. Like any other bad habit, this one grows upon people. The trustees. and the patrons frequently realize, that their school is far inferior to eome other school, and rush to the conclusion that they need -a-chengo-of t<<a<4**ig^ wluui ilm tuiljj. is that they have alrradv injured their school by too many changes. Have anyof my readers ever seen a pupil, or an entire class set to work in the same place, in arithmetic for in stance, at the beginning of each of three successive sessions ? each time by a new teacher f Is it probable that this would have been done by any. one* reasonable tcachen teaching the .school the three sessions? This evil of change reip-ns in the town and country schools alike. I have in mind one Ipwn'in this State which had 'six principals in eight yeors. Change was tho only remedy it knew, and it believed in heroic doses., A great many rural schools rarely have 'ho same teacher two years in suc cession. Many of these chunks, in both town and country schools, are due to the neighborhood jealousies and quarrels already discussed. Manv a community has its chronic critics of the school*, who are dyspeptic by nature and soup, by liabit. A teacher never satisfies7 them longer than one year. They know all about schools, and their own children are paragons of perfection. If any teacher finds one of these children anything but a paraxon, stratehtwav thcro is trouble. To listen to these disgruntled fatliern and mothers with their tales of woo requires patience and grace. In their eyes there is but one remedy ? change teachers. Not two months ago I heard a man not for from sixty ycari of age declare that he intended to "break up" tho only school in his district, unless the trustees dis missed the present teacher . It had never occured to him that perliap* the trustees were in the right. Such a man is in a small way on anarbeJst. In some instances fault finding and dissatisfaction are unwittingly ' en. eouraeed by the board of trustees. The board, either ignorant of it* function or disposed to dodge an un pleasant duty, asks the patrons to elect the teacher. Such a course is an invitation to division and tho dis appointment consequent to defeat, and will inevitsbiv bring about dis cord. What is the board apnointcd for, if not to manage the sclicol by lessoning the occasions for discord t A good many towni make it a rule to employ only young inexperienced teachers, and at the end of each year drop those who , have failed, keeping the moro successful ones un til they have become really service able, ineo let them go because the trustees and the people are nnwill ing to pay for good teaching at par value. Somo places boast that their schools are the gatewy to the promo tion of their teachers. This may be a eredit to the school, and a discredit to the people. ? It is not creditable, if the people are simply letting effi cient teachers pass out: from their schools in exchange for crude, inex perience, because the latter is cheap. A few town school boards aro given to tho indefensible habit of advertising every year for applicants for position in the School, when the board does not intend to elect a single new teacher. The king who marched his army up th? *htl^~tlren "marched it down again, did no more childish thing than these boards do. The thing is not only indefensible, but it is hurtful to the school, unjust to the teaehers and diahonest to possible ap plicants. What meaning does such advertisement cenvey ip every t?acb ?f in that school, a? matter how cf. foie&t cho may bof Whan the teach ers ask for ita meaning, they sr* told that it is aftly a matter of form, and tbat they need not, be concerned. Kg gro>n business men pby JJfr ren^ ^Then what about a Me^applicitiona^in ansver if ply for ?>ne of tlnse placed, if he know that no vacancy existed- and llmi the incumbent ?x(HcloJ tcc'Uc I i? n f Is the boa i <1 playing a K?me in diplomacy? Poos it i nt ?'iad to hoe it' it can secure better teachers, but jf not, re elect tlie incumbent t Knoh I'ahic would be dishonorable. If a school hoard wishe* to change teach ers for r? n v l< Vitiinate reason, it has a perfoet loyal ami moral right to do so. Hut the change ibdulH be made in a manly straight forward manner. Let (ho boar-1 frankly tell the teacher not to ask for re-election, de^laro a vacancy, then advertise for ? appli cations? if that is the beat way to secure teachers. Tcachers themselves must bear their part of the responsibility for so many changes. There are some teach* era who ought not to expcot any school to keep them loader than one year. The captious (sometimes mis called spirited,) the eccentric, the frivolous, the giddy, and the ignorant ones jnuy expect to float about lik%? driftwood. Then there are some teacheis who have an incurable mania for becoming birds of passage. I once knew a teacher to resign her work to po elsewhere on the ground Hint she bnl been in her present position threo years. Then thcro is ? hot <lass of i est lees mortals who 'ave more ambition than ability. They apply every time they hear of u vacancy, and if thby hoar of no vftcnnov, they ork when the next one h to be. They toll von very frankly 'hat they ;ue \rortli a great deal more j hen thev nre getting, and that they ?re prostituting the profession when !hey work for so little. Once more, 'here is that foxv diplomat of ^a. 'eacher who seeks a place in March, accepts. it fn Juile. and holds it until ?ibout two weeks before the school is ?o open, then telegraphs the board that she- haw accepted elsewhere (at 'wo dollars a m'rntlr more salary.) ^?Iie cnllx this resigning; in law end '(mnon sense it is a violation oT "ontiaet. ftucli conduct under ordi nary ciiYua.stancrB is reprehensible,; mid whoilv unworthy of an honest (CPU or woman. . prominent people. Kpsaker J. G. Cannon haB Bold a 700-acre farm In Nebraska for $49, 000. . Dr. ,T, Loudon, new Ni In Inter of the 'Netherlands, arrived at Wash ington. ? H Count Hayashi In a Toklo inter* view denied the Japanese are seek ing territorial expansion, -i President Roosevelt will present the bodies of ?minials shot in the i:uuiso of l.is csml r g African h?nt to Ihe National Museum In Washington. The (Grand Duke Constantino is by far the moat versatile of the Rus sian's Czar'a relatione. Not only is he a playwright, but he Is also an actor. Ferdinand, Czar cf Bulgaria, made his entry in Sofia and was warmly greeted by the people; no foreign representatives attend^ the cere monies. v y The Rev, Dr, rarlt.hurst, in bis sermon, declared that 'American hustle Was blighting everything thai deserved to be called substantial American progregB. \ David IlelasM Is* 'the* hardest worker of all of the Ainericau play wrights, it la not an unusual occur rence for him to rehearse a company fbr ten to twelve hour#,. Admiral Dewey, looking the -Did* ture of health and showing a decided Increase in weight, paid his respects to the President after* a vacation spent in the Allegheny Mountains. v John D. Rockefeller never signs any. personal checks. .Everything go?s tbroug'a the regular channel, and is made out by some of the Standard Oil peopls a* >6 "Broad way, .1 l Captain S. L, H, blocurn, the American mlllti-'-y attache at St. Petersburg, has left Ot. Petersburg on leave of absence. He will visit Germany and theu travel in South* eastern Europe, FKMJXINK KRW'B KOTICfl. Mme, 6chumann-He1nVc sailed for Europe to bea;ln a .year's concert' t6ur, Thirty-flve entries were received for the national women's golf cham pionehip. The rtainy Daisies were told l>f Mme. Klenner that tight corsetft spoiled the voice. Suffragettes who tried to register in New York City were threatened with the police reserves. Miss Mary R. Sanford, a member of a wealthy family of New York City and New Haven,, has become a Socialist. Ministers and women church-goers did not approve entirely the order of a Brooklyn pastor that women remove their hats in church. A storm of protest followed the removal of the Professional Woman's League from its fine club-house in New York City to humble quarters in a hotel. Miae. Curie, who helped her hus band to discover radium, has just bssQv. sleeted a corresponding mem ber of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Mrs, Carl Muck, wife of the s?w dlreotor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, ii so fond of AmerlG* that s ha says she fc?? do desire to return to Bsrlia, Mil?. Gansiei* M, D., was sppotnt* sd director of t eJlMc of Montpeltsr University the otfcsr dsy. It is the first time sue a an office has ever b?n given to s rfomai?. Mies Anna Morffap, daughter of J> P. Moriau/Tialress to^flOO.MCr* -Vienna paper, was driven out ^MfisrlDjr^hera she hoped - to ritu (l y . poll tico -Joeing conditio ng^by, M ^?he13ss lUb;a_K.fpf has^ finally consented 2 BATTLE SHIPS RETURN A*lh I MM^"f ot th# OIob? we Arrives at ? Porta. ? QnLNv Hk" ?? ?J? , ^ y.?, c Ve?el? Dover soi n? S" 36 000 Mi,M <" "? age Co??ujued In Iho Voy riv.4 U uZ,y Ju A": docl1 ?" tioned?., i\" ! 0nJ tboM ?rn' lonx.a C,.""1 *"v* V*"' Co The battleship Maine on swinyimr y?.rJn.Cn^ *! thei Po,t8raout?> . navy Ihiu A\*u ' Ke her W|th ih* batilc. York ? U'h ar,lvi'<l ?t New 111. ?'.,M 010 a round tlie-worju cruuo ever made by u (|,8t ofcus modern warship. Unri.ur the J<i>a ge, which was storted from Hampton Roads and which consumed *>? 'lays, th? (Wo vessels covered ?nore than 35,000 miles. mm.Ih o*tl|f8,,iP w*11 remain at Ports the n f.r.*l ySi ' dwckinK ?nd will then further Remonstrate her sea woithincss by going on the North At JJntiq st at, on a? the flagship f?r ? month or two. Following this she veara ?f 1 f 'omiiiiMJoii after three yeais of arduous service . lehght over the jlomc coming was exp?8R, .rf on tl)u faco Qf K m??l i? K0P"' A tk^vor machinist's ;,propa:ml.a ][i*lovy <>f <b? s;. Wfl?;in it* form of ? blue data of priph 0t' . *lvi,,K complete r# b"t,,?hin.'4-t perform E\fli t^T" the but,b; ,8inp had steamed a total , of 30,111 gfe although the aggregate- dis milra m" iP lo F?n w" 3$2?2: ? Z "voluUu"" & f ? 000 250 shovels were worn out. I he Maine brought home before t L r g? number of short ,y fl-?tcn? f,on! % ?,i,or of the fleet Seventy of ||,em left ns roon as possible after the nhip docked. While nearly two hundred of the wnrJ C .* ,n"Ht mndo *ho et,tire weii with n V uWC,,V0 of <l,e start Tt *-r UP from ,l,e ii? . ' ? Malnjo went out from n ?n<lt ",u1"r oc*nnjond of Cantoln IT Harper. At Manilla Harper reliquished com ir,:'" pot,?"- *???? ratal Row In Restaurant. I , Washington, N. CC., Special-News | was brought to this city of a shoot ing scrape resulting in the murder of of nS*a,K 1a? 8enoue wounding of another Sunday night at Green tl ae'.w rr^WCVty'flvo miIcs *">m the Pfllm a A %tl** took 1,1 the I aim Garden Cafe run bv J. B SflTw oTT8 that A- B- Kittrel! ?.Ki I ;? 8tnrko-V wated at a \vm! i rc"tnurflnt when C. P. hnd boen dl{nWng( at and feH fl? th^ Cflfe' sturob,?^ ? '*"? Starkey laughingly told St?rklv'fet ?"P J?nd Whit0 mi8fook Starkev ? voice for that of Kitirelt nnd thinking that Kittrell was ridi culing him attacked him with a wkh6' &ttre]\ doffind^ himself with a chair and White then drew a revolver, remaking, "I can reach yotr m!1 m"' nnd flred three shots at Kkt'rn]pW0| ?a thfm t0?k effeot in hflnif *A hody, one just above the KittLnnf? i? IOr J" '^e ftbdom?n. Kittrell then dropped the chair and, pahing upon White, snatched the re. volver nnd flred one shot into White's "?"j0?6",, Wbilo foil but woverM vui m"- to " offlce. Jho?H .'t, repw]''<1 ,0 <11^ shortly afterwards. Sheriff C. W. Tticker, of Pitt eounty, arrested khi . i\ *.r,rlved ln ,h" ?"v wilh , ^ln?, h|m ?" ,'Ho W.dhlnglori IIoppltaT, where Tie is now held nn dervuard appointed bv Sheriff Hteltg, of this city, who hns him in cuatody. Vclcsnc^Befini Raining Aihei. " Rnssc Terre Onudeloupo, Bv Cable. (t 4,81,08 fa,,'n? here Tuesday from one of the volcanoes of St. Vin cent Islands ha* thrown the people into a panic for frar of a repetition of the Mont Pclce eruption of si* years ago, which destroyed Martin ique. Tries to Erd His Life. Spartanburg, S. C:, ? Spjeial.? ' Will Rurnett, a well-known \oung man who was arrested several days ago on a ehorge of rjot in taking1 part in the mob that attempted to lynch John Irby, (ho negro charged with making an assault upon a youug lady, attempted - to. commit suicide Sunday j at hia home in the suburbs of ??ty FyjiHdotlng. Ke flred a pistol ball into the right side of hie bead, inflicting a wound- that may cause death. Battleitip Ncrth Carolina Acceptcd Waabingtom SpeolaU- "Ship and ttachiner?taliefsctoryM waa the sage reeeivetl at U* Navjr Department Triday prom Ceptato Thoma^ C. the prw-idojit of tho actval board of inspection a*d aoney. " ' ' Jtftej PiMfo trial of tho flret ?wjif^ln'shcd - "VeaacI author tb JL .3"^ ? - ? - A- ? - > ? -- V *C7. FOREST FIRE DEATHS Forty One known Victims and Probably Many More ENTIRE ULLAGES WIPED* OUT The Death Lift Now fttandi at 41? Other Bodies Recovered? Several # Persons Reported Dead Save Been Fo?n&?No Town In XmmlMSt Pamtoyfc^^, Ki Bay City, Mich., Special.-? A dia* patch to The Hay City "Tribune froin a staff correspondent nt Alpna says: Thu certiftvd known death list re- .-re sulting from forest fires in Presume Itile and Alpcnu countie*, stand* nt 41> with several people still reported missing and a growing probability o? severe loss of life in northern PulflW *ki and Krakow townships in Prcsquo Isle county, the first indication of which <111110 with the reporting of six dead bodies in Pulawski including thoso of Mrs. Herman Krke and chil dren. Two woodsmen found the skeU oton of Mrs. William D. Rose, livjn# near Oequeoe. The woman *8 husband wns away working nnd she was alpna. in her home surrounded by the forest. At least sixty families wefe. living? near the shoro of Lako Huron in the northern half of Pulawski and Krakow townships and practically . ["irnttrtwg hfff been heard from them since the fU'es. It ib difficult to get into this district, as the country ia cut up by many streams and th? bridges have bcon "burned while ^ fal len- ~^reesf-4*l<*4t-44?*-aiaada~ja__fll^^ direction! It is said that t ho (lames swept all through this district to the water's edge ami it is feared more bodies will bo found. Christ Griger* a fisherman, escapcd in nn open boat badly scorched. At Grand I^ake, a farmer- aud wifa nnd four children flro known to hAvo tnken refuge in a boat, and nothing has been heard from them since. A. dozen school children sent home by teachers havva not been heard from. Near Posen Mr. and Mrs. IIines are still missing. Of those previously-' reported killed the following wer? found in the woods or at their? friends' hbme. Johh Konieczny, who was reported 'C& tvlth his wife and children in the gondoja car at Met*. Three Nowicki children and Mary Nowicki, their aunt. Anthonv Wagner, Mrs. Charle# Loihke. Mr. and Mrs. Pachinski an<t\ Ave of the Duest children, only onn of the latter being killed. The Dues* children fled through the w<Jods whil* their parents were fighting the flntne* and one dropped behind a?d wait overtaken by the flames. The others; reached a farmer's heme in tin* clearings. ' Thaw Afain Summoned. I Flshkill Landing, N. Y., .Special/** Harry K. Thaw has agalit been sum moned to Pittsburg to appe'ar in tho bankruptcy proceedings trending in that city. Ah order from- the federal oourt at Pittsburg was served upon the. authorities of the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminal In eane. commanding Thaw to appear i?l the Pennsylvania city. The order ii similar to that served recently upn'? Sheriff Lane of Westchester fbnntv, which the sheriff declined to honor ci the ground that Thaw was in the cur tody of th?T New York courts. Judg* Archbald, however, held that the.jur* isdlction of the United States ove* Thaw could be exercised a# soon vi the habeas- cornuflLmetlsr ? was dn* posed of. Thaw is now at Matteawsn. Tornado Vlsiti Hew Mexico. | Clayton, N. M., Special .?Four per sons were killed in and near Clav ton as the result of a tornado an<1 Cloudburst. Twenty, persona were in jured, three of rr'r> ^5^S35"cbunty court house, which cost $40,000, was wrecked and a scor* of houses were demolished or torri from their foundations. K& ii iPrWbf&wN* Synod of Virginia A> journc. Roanoke, -Va.t Special .? Tho one sion of the Presbyterian Synod ct Virginia, which of Virginia, West Virginia ai land anA the - ' adjourned lug wlji be year at >r town that raBUngifjte