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VOL. XXVI. BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 4. 1908. NO. 39. THIEVES FALL OUT. &j«n Became Sore A&d Made Confes- •ion to Authoritie* "t HE WENT BACK ON HIS PALS They Ruined Themeelveii by ihting the M«n'a Riddlnic and He Now Turns Bitterly Upon Them. United States Marshal IJenr}; C. Petit, at Rockville, Ind., .noticed the department by telegraph of the arrest of Joseph M. Johns, the man charged with conspiracy in the alleged bribery of Daniel V. Miller, the assistant at torney of the postofflee department who was arrested Tuesday nlghL "Johns will be tried with Miller at Cin cinnati. The cases will be presented to the federal grand jury which meets there October 6. According to evidence in possession of the postal authorities Johns re- reoeived *4,500 as a result of the de. cision of Acting "Assistant General Christiancy that the Ryan Turf In vestment company was entitled to use the malls. Miller was an assis tant of Christiancy. The authorities jre say that Johns was pot an attor- -y of the Ryan concern but iias been a life long friend and political associ ate of Miller. The exact division of the $4,500 is not known. KILLKR UNDER CROSS FIRE. Miller was at meat Friday In Conference with Assis tant General Itobbe, who closely ques tioned him regarding the case. The case of the A mold company, turf in vestment concern, which was respon sible for the first charges against the office of the assistant attorney general and which, despite the adverse report of postoffioe inspectors.secured a fa- vorableudecision from the office, is still under investigation. Tbe cheeks wbk4c figure i a. the. al bas usually had two very light meals auc khan two, and leged paymehts to Miller and Johns, Up whpni portal scandal, was arraigned before Commissioner Higgins and gave bond for $1,500 for his appearance before Federal Judge Anderson at Indian apolis June 25, ills bond was signed, by several citizens of Rockyllle, who accompanied him to this city. He re fuses to make apy statement. The warrant under which he was arraigned charged conspiracy to receive personal com pensatkxt-for services to divers per- snns in which the United States was interested. The warrants for Miller at Wash ington, find Johns at Rockville, were drawn 4>y United States Attorney Bundy, and his assistants, on informa tion furnished by postoffice impectors who have a great mass of documen tary evidence, notably a letter to John J. Ryan, from George A. Chris- tancy asai ting assistant attorney gen- er:il for the postoffioe department, In forming Ryan that the investigation satisfied the Washington officials ,of his tight to use the majl-s hi his busi ness. In one corner are the "D. V. M.” in Miller’s handwriting indicating that Miller dictated the letter, and f ir that reason the officials say there is no proceeding against Christiancy. This letter was not t r- waided to Ryan, but it came to him through Jghns when they met In Cin cinnati. Dec. (i, 191)2, after Ryan paid Johns $1,100'cash and $3,400 in St. Louis checks. These checks, indorsed by Johns, are In Evidence. STORIES OF RECENT FASTS. AIab? I*t*o|*l«v ll«*Htor«Ml to Heullli by lidaving Off One Meal. —-— 4 That many persons have gained health by eliminating, or practically eliminating, the morning breakfast, Woodward In Good Housekeeping. Those who are more radical -iu- their trials have begun by fasting entirely, fora period of from seven to thirty days. An experience which Has at tracted much attention is that of the’ editor of one of the health magazines of New York. This man weht through a thirty days’ fast, about two years ago, and from that time to the present TOWN SWEPT AWAY. Many Persona Crushed to Death by a Tornado. AN INSANE ASYLUM STRUCK The Htatc of Iowa Swept Inceasantly fbr Twenty-four Hours by Ktornia and Tornado. A tornado struck the tpwn of Elmo, Iowa Tuesday evening,; destroying the town. Six persons are known to have been killed and several others injured. The storm destroyed a threestory Masonic temple, amd n * ne persons In the temple at the time were killed outright. Six bodies have been removed from the ruins of the initials pbullding and others are believed to be buried in the debris. The names of tliose^whose bodies were recovered: 0. C. Calhoun, William Duff, Gus Duff, Charles Bell, T. Summers, D. L. Parker. The storm passed, on through the town, leaving but a few buildings standing. Elmo Is a small town on the Wabash railroad branch, running from Omaha to Brunswick, Mo., and lias about 200 inhabitants. BTORM-8WEFT FOR HOURS. Iowa has been storm swept for the past 24 hours. Three.tornadoes, two Monday night and one Tuesday night, Vesulted, in the loss of six lives, the fataHnjury-of three persons and the serious injury of a score of btfiersi, besides great injury and property loss. THE DEAD AT OLENAVOOD. Maggie Bietner, of Adasa, Iowa, aged 11 veare. unusual'fteverity and as a result sever al towns in eastern Nebraska are flood ed. The financial loss has been heavy and estimates place it at several hun dred thousand dollars. One of the most severe storms was a Davey, a smalltown northwest of Lincoln which resulted in the injury of thirteen persons, none fatally?* iSeveral Arsons, however, sustained broken limbs, The report received from there states that every dwelling and outbuilding in the . town was wrecked. The, storm Lincoln did great damage, the loss on building being estimated at $1.00,000. A NEW SLAVERY A Syoti in of Peonage Which OlxaliiH » \ . # in That State. At the request of the department of ustice. the United States service has -’ihdertaken the A^tyk of investigating the charge of peonage, or holding anpther in servitude to work out a debt, which has been made against- persons living in the vicinit y of Mont gomery, Ala. The punishment p:o- vided by the statute fbr this crime is a fine of not less than $1,000 nor m re than $5 0(H) or imprisonment of not ess than one year nor more than five. One mail named Robert N. Frank- in has already been indicted for keep ing a negro in servitude for at least a year. Information in the liantk of Chief Wilkie tends to show that a regular system has been practiced for lonjjf time between eertain magis trates and persons who want rfegro Khoren. ■ — It is said that the plan h» tu-hringji yoor negro before a magistrate on a Umsy charge. He is convicted, and having no money to pay a fine, the white man offers to advance him the money, provided the .negrp will make Hazel Wright, of Adasa, Iowa, aged a Tabor contract with him for a length I which are in the possession of the de partment are for $3,400. They were supplemented with a cash payment of $1,100. The checks are signed by the Ryan concern and made out to Johns's order and endorsed by him. < RYAN HAS PEACHED. Ryan has agreed to be a witness for the government. He has furnished the department witii all the informa tion in his -possession, incliiding the documents^. While the department’ cannot guarantee an immunity it will put his service in giving state's evi dence in the best light before the court. Miller had charge of the in vestigation of the Ryan case and pre pared the letter wtflch Acting Assis tant General Christiancy signettTTHTs letter, which constituted the decision of the department, allowed the con cern to use the malls and was signed December 10. The decision In the Arnold case which served aS a prece dent and whose language It followed was signed by Assistant Attorney General Tyner December L : ' rtaN-ayas sore. John J. Ryan, whose confessions caused the arrest of Miller.and Johns, operated his “get-rtch-quick” turf in vestment concern from Cincinnati, Ohio and from St. Louis, and ran win- .ter races at Newport, Ky, Other warrants have been issued as a result pf the invesUgatiQQ of the postofflee Inspectors. Ryan is here now and admits that he operated sometime at St. Louis before the inspectors got after Him and later he was called to Washington. Ryan says: “I was sore because I heard others doing business like mine stood in yrith the postoffice department by giving up $25,000 and I felt that those who were standing in with the department were behind the investigation so as to get me put of their way.” , • THE JOB HAD “TBIMHINGS.” After returning from Washington to St. Louis last November Ryan says he got a telegram from Attorney Johns of Rockrftle, Ind., that Johns could be of service to him with the de partment at Washington and later Ryan and Johns met in Terre Haute. There, Ryan says, Johns explained now close he was to Miller and how Miller had accepted a $2,000 job in the postoffice department at Washing ton with the idea that the Job had certain “trimmings,” such as Ryan says Johns explained Ryan would be able to furnish. Ryan declared Johns asked $5,000 to get from Miller a letter from the attorney general’s office showing Ryan was entitled to use the mails. Later Ryan says Johns came down to $2,500 and the proposition was accepted. A proposition to pay $2,000 for litera ture so worded it would pass muster If it was ever taken up in the mails was later accepted. PRESERVED THE LITERATURE. Ryan asserts Johns delivered the letter and literature to him Decem ber 16th. Ryan says he gave Johns $1,100 cash and-checks dated Decem ber 17, one for $2,000 and one for $1,400. Then, Ryan says everything went along smoothly until the trouble February 9. A week later a fraud or der was issued against Ryan, and Ryan toys an effort for another shake tloAju was put on foot but he would not stand for It. He sags be received more telegrams., from ^Johns, Ryan says bo preserved all tbe telegrams " and letters. ' ' v- JOHNS GIVES' BOND Joseph H. Johns, who is charged with complicity in . the Miller-Ryan sometimes but one. He weighed wheii* beginning his fast, one hundred and ten pouuds and has since told the writer that he had at that time much sickness: was, In fa^ct an Invalid. At the present time he weighs one “hun dred and sixty pounds, is robust in every way and declares emphatically that he is proof against any form of disease, wliatsoever. lie says that be fore the thirty days of fasting was over, his skin took on a clearer hue than it had worn for years: his eyes grew brighter, his hair was in better condition, and bis teath, even, became noticeably whiter. On Lhe twenty- fourth day he took a prolonged moun tain walk with several companions, neither showing nor feeling m8re fatigue than they, —-— A girl whose home is In Morganton, -i Wetft Virginia, tells m® that although up far last summer- she 4iad always been au omniverous eater, she at that time liecamc coverted to the modern theory, and began in a practical way taking in August two weeks’ complete fast, during which time she swallow ed nothing but a little fruit juice. She then began to addopt an extreme ly light diet, to her advantage from the point of economy, since by prepar ing her own meals instead of boarding she effected a saving of from six to seven dollers a month. But the con- alderatlon of primary importance was not the pecuniary but the physical gain. She at once began to enjoy health such as she had not known for years. For several years previously her average weight was about one hun dred and twenty-four pounds. During the two weeks’ fast she lost fifteen pounds. The first week thereafter she regained,ten pounds and after that she regained at the rate bf three pounds a week, until-she, reached one hundred and thirty-nine pounds— more than she ever weighed in her life before. This girl is engaged In tak ing a university course and there fs living with her a friend who is a teacher in the public schools, this friend llsixig also pn'the same plan. 'J^bey eat no breakfast, taking In the early morning a glass of hot lemon ade. Lunch consists of two slices of brown -bread and butter and a .little fruit. The evening meal, though more substantial Is very simply cooked. Soup and one other dish from the usual dinner.. The second cltyb con sists some times Of a baked potato or baked apples, some times of a cereal and milk. They take never moYe than those two simple dishes, in addition to brown bread and milk, celery and oc casionally onions. The main point Is that thay enjoy their eating as they never did before, they have improved in general health, and Incidentally there has been the saving of time and money. 10 years. ' / ‘ Near Buxton: j. , Georgia Buckley. Herbert Rhodes. ? At South Des Moines. Russell A. Knauff, aged 30 years. Floyd Knauff, hrs eight-months-old son. ' t , ^ THE INJURED AT GLEN WOOD. ‘ ' Mary Eckert. Anna DeLaney. Myrtle Dickson. Etta Newton. Harrison Johnston. ' NEAR BUXTON. Molicutius Rhodes, fatal. Mollie Rhodes, fatal. Eliza Blakely 4 fatal. Amphy and Minnie Rlakely. Zward, Lucy, George aojd. Addison Rhodes. . * Buddie Rbeasy. Mary Walker. — AT SOUTH DESMOINKS. j Mrs. Knauff,.-bruised and cut\ Mrs. Margaret^ Boston, skull Injured by falling brick. \ Charles McNutt, hurt by flying tree limbs. _ Mrs. John McCoy, breast and head cut by flying glass. ■ St’HOOL-EOR FEEBLE-MINDED. The victims at Glen wood were all inmates of _the school for the feeble minded. The tornado struck—the girls’ dormitory:' 1 Tho roof wos torn of time sufficient to reimburse him fbr the money and trouble he has taken to keen the negro out of jail. He Is tbereupbn taken away and be gins what is frequently a long term of cruel servitude, being frequently whipped for failure to perform work to the satisfaction of his employer. An agent of the secret service, who Is now on the ground, , will make a thorough investigation of the whole alleged system and turn over to the Inited States attorney for that, dis trict all information he may secure with a view to the prosecution of fenders. off and with a terrible crash fell back again upon the wrecked building. All the buildings of the group, including the hospital, dormitory, boys’, build ing, custodian's building, farm cot tages and the boiler room, were more or less damaged by the storm. The. superintendent estimates that the loss will be at least $75,000. There is no insurance. MARK FOR FURIOUS WIND. The hulldlngrortlre lilBtttution n situated on a slight rise and were mark for the heavy wind which swept down on the structure with terrible furyr- The boiloi room, Including some fine machinery lately installed, is ^wrecked. The eleven gifts ^ho were' injured are being cared for in hospital which is intact. The tornado neir Buxton struck before noon near what is known as No. TO Junceton, a mining settlement. All the victims were colored. COURSE OF BTOTM The storm came ftom the southwest end the destructive wind seemed to descend suddenly from a great bank of clouds which was weeping towarc the northwest. The nouses occupied by the Rhodes and Blakely families were smashed to kindling .wood. The tornado struck south lies Moines at dark tonight. It came from' the south, but after the greater part o: the destruction was wrought, veered to the northwest it approached the Junction of the Des Moines and Rac coon rivers. ^ Biff Wheat Crop. The cereal outlook was never rpore promising at this time of year. Of the 34,000,000 acres ©^winter wheat sqwn last fall, tbe agricultural depart ment’s canvass shows 33,000,000 acres standing in prime condition and promising, a yield of . 520,000,000 bushels rith nortoal success. If the spring wheat holds ills own with aver age years, tbe United States will have 720,000,000 bushels of wheat In the bin in' the autumn. ( Made a. D. 4). . ^ It was announcement of the Ken tucky Wesleyan college at Winchester, Ky., Wednesday that the honorary degi]ee of doctor of divinity bad been ^ IN SOUTH DE8MOINE8 The property in South Des Moines and vicnlty will reach $50,000. ^The Knauff home and thfrOylstian church were wrecked and about forty other buildings were- damaged. About the same time what was apparently ano^ er storm struck the packing house sec tion ofcfche town, a mile to the north west erf the scene 6f the South Des Moines disaster. Many buildings were damaged. , EASTERN NEBRASKA HARD HIT Eastern Nebraska waa. jlslted by anOter series of storms last mght €hd Wednesday several of which develop ed into tornadoes. One viaited Hast- A DEATH TRAP In the State House Declares a Special Investigatun Committee. RECENT WORK IS DEFECTIVE. The Governor U Urged to Have the W hole !lu«ilne«a Torn Oat and, New HjrNtem Inaui’iirated- The State house Indeed contains a death trap. Its bssement is polluted with foul and poisonous gases which find their w:iy into the offlces : of cer tain officials, as rep >rted In The State recently, and the State will be put to some expense to correct the evils. This condition of affairs was brought to the attention of the secre tary of state recently and he referred the matter to the governor. The lat ter. asked a special .committee to lu- vi-stigate the alleged'dangerous con ditions, and Lids committe submitted Us report to (lie governor Friday. it was charged in the outset that only the plumbing and »sewer pipes in the basment were in a bad state of repair, yet the committee found that “he work recently, ti/iished under the direction of Architect Milburri Is also in had shape, Thb members of the committee were men who are entirely disinterested; Dr. T. Grange' Simons of Charleston, -president of the State board of health; Dr. James Ivans, secretary of that board; Dr. J. W. Babcock and Mr. U N. Gunter, at torney general and the legal adviser of the State board of health. This committee not only condemns the s?nitary arrangements, but calls attention to the heating apparatus which distributes air through the jbuild’ng in the winter. This air, It is shown in the report, is not tit and some changes are necessary. The legislature Tefused to make an appro priation for a heating apparatus, but something .must be done next winterT The governor has no funds with which to undertake this work and may be forced to borrow the money With which to meet the expense of tearing out the rotting piping and the now naelesfi and filth hiding false walls in the basement^ ’ f ( - NEW WORK CONDEMNED. . . , . • -yjK-aiAA-, Intakes be provided for tli rooms and basements. “We would urgently; recommend that an experienced sanitary engineer be employed to devise a proper system of heating, ventilating and pufftbing the buUdlng.” * The committee expresfed their obli gation t*> Assistant Surgeon General H. 1). Geddings of the ITnlted States public health and marine hospital service, who marie the inspection with them, for valued suggestions made in the preparation of the report. c - - SEWER MAIN STOITKD UP. The report of the commission sub-, stantiates the reports made by sani tary inspectors recently. Mr. Stall ings, an expert plumber and sanitary inspector, and Mr. Edens, the sanitary inspector for the city of Columbia, practically covered the same ground in their reports. In addijfaon Mr. Edens calls attention to a mitter upon which the committee was not called 1 upon to investigate: “Your sewer frpih the building to | tbe river, is nosKcoroplctely stopped and discharging Its foul contents into I -he open gRiters of Gervais street'. This Is a dangerous rondilioh of idlings afid wants Immediate remedy. I respect fully recommend that the plumbing in-the Stale house be over- hauled and made to conform to the iflumbiiig laws of the city and that the system be connected with the' sanitary sewers in Gervais street, where it will be systematically flushed nd inspected.”—The State. '“"H MANY UYE8 LOST And tli* Town of Malnskord, Totally * f *'• •*.. Destroyed by larthqnnfci A MOST AWFUL OCCURRENCE 'ysv' A Military Officer Becomes Ins*ns Over the The of His GREAT DAMAGE hY FLOODS. Over Two Thousand People Home- ' —-X ?— less in Topeka, Kas. J Battle With Strikers. The first serious outbreak since the; ate strike order was issued occurred is crude and the work is done >T» committee regretted that they found much to condemn. “The whole at the big y mines on Ladrel creek not far from Thurmahd, W.V. For severaf days the strikers at that point have been jpaking an effort to induce the non-union men to join their ranks. Wednesday, evecrtrifbthe strikers gan marching tu a bod£ toward the mines. The guards on duty, tyalf a dozen in number, at sight of the marching body opened—tire^ The-L 6 **? strikers quickly returned the fire, but as they wgr? at long, range the shoot- ng was not effective and only ope per son, Marshall - Brown, and a guard, was killed in battle. Several received minor injuries. Brown was shot through the stomach, the bullet be ing from a .Winchester and he lived but a short time. More than 100 shots were tired before the strikes re treated. More trouble is anticipated. imperfectly in many particulars.” As to the new work just completed under the direction of Mr. Milbtirn the report says; “The urinals under the new porticos were choked up.bnd the flushing appar atus defective; the ventilating siiaft too small and its frequent change ofrjirectiqn should be m^de by gentle res and-not by sharpVyiglesj-Lbs- veutifation of the toilet room Is de- fectlvefsthe rtresh air inlet at side of steps allowed no current of air upon lighted cahfllef we could discover no back venting of the water closets on account of concealed plumbing; the reducing couplings of water pipep in dicated inferior'plumbing.” The State of Kansas is suffering terribly from a great flood. At 9.30 o'clock Friday night the water hacT surrounded the whole of North To peka and more than 2,000 people are homeless. The river is rising fast and it is estimated that fully 10,000 will be homeless. Thetinion Pacific rail road station is flooded. - Late Friday afternoon the Kansas river bridges at Maple Hill, Rossville, Silver Lake, Belletoe and St. George wefe washed-out. -The new steel bridge at 'Wilfrid is imaged beyond repair and at Topeka the street rail way TruseleiB. several hobdred-catr tle have been drowned. Fifteen inches of water in Abilene Friday night and more Saturday. Business houses are collapsing and the entire town Is panic stricken. The More flascalitjr. fhe Philippines are having their postal scandals as well as Washington. Two cases were reported by mall to the war department Wednesday. One Is that of former Postmaster Milne, at "Tadoban, Leyte, who is accused not only of taking $2,QUO current coin of the United States, but even the 400 pound safe which is supposed to have contained the money. Postmaster Karelsen Of rj.la.mlia, Ln/nn, Is also under arrest. Some time ago $2,000 disappeared from the mails between the hour it left his office and when it should have reached Manila. Treas urer Jones of the province of Tarlace, likewise reports robbery. He says h? has been losing from • $25 to a month. His honk* arc, all riirht. but the balance in the cash drawer comes short regularly. Decapitated Him. A special from Newcastle, Wyo*, says: W. C. Clifton, murderer of Mr. aqd Mrs. John W. Church, lynched by a mob from Gillette Wednesday night. The mob battered down the jail door, holding up the sheriff and deputy the while, and hung Clifton to a bridge west of town. Clifton’s head was cut off by the fall of 40 feet. John W. Church and his wife, who lived on homestead claim 75 miles southwest of Newcastle, were never seen alive after March 14 last. Clifton, whose }^ri#anch adjoined that of Church, was arrested on suspicion and on April 17 be confessed that he had killed Mr. and Mrs. Church. Their bodies were found at the place indicated by him. Clifton claimed he had killed the couple in self-defense. Hilled by Lightning. Durlhg » heavy rain and thunder storm TuesAaiMiight on St. Helena island an electrin^bolt entered the shanty of Posey DavisTTw^aged De gress, and killed her while^she^ was near ap open window. Her—bed was also torn. A small girl who was asleep on another bed in the room ^e-. malned unconscious during the storm OLD WORK A DEATH TRAP. In regard to the conditions in the basement, work done about 13 years ago, the committee says: All roontys in cellars #ere foully kept, iirsmelllng, and showed lack of ventilation. The room used as a water closet now used as a store room for old records were dark, damp and foul smelling and their air shafts ve their gases into the rooms above. “In these rooms not&fhg efeemsW have been done except to renaove the bowls of the old water closets,leaving the soil pipe connectlohs as dead ends Imperfectly plugged.' ^’Concealed “plumbing prevented careful scrutiny of work under.flours. ^Tfie private water closet on first floor above basement was filled with foul air which Is discharged IqtO: the main corridors and no fresh airringress was provided for. The flush to the closet* was insufficient. —“A deacL wall was behind the eastern water closet in which iron grating were placed for ventilation drawing air from the interior of tbe building. Open lead pipes supposed to be back vents discharged Into the same space.” HEATING APPARATUS As to the~'fieating apparatus the committee reported: “Air supply totally inadequate and derived from the basement with no direct outside fresh air, intake, the whole central cellar being dependent forfair' supply on two small doors at east and west ends. “The entire cellar was without flooring and very dusty. —“Therefore, all air distributed to the building was cellar ~alr and con taminated with dust and ground emanations.” RECOMMENDATION. ^Jpon ther above findings the com mittee made the following recom mendations: “That all water closets In tbe mkin bulking with their pumbing, pipes and fixtures be. immediately'renewed aud all connections leading to these ^ be cut off outside the build- “ “That the"new waiter-closets police and fire departments in Topeka are endeavoring to rescue people from the flood on the north side of the river. The conditions in “Little Russia,” the Russian settlement in North To peka, are serious. The entire settle ment is under water and a current has started through the district. Sev eral houses already are twisted on their foundations and they probably will collapse. Every family has had its household goods damaged and some have lost everything. ' - * Thirteen Inches of water have fal len in Clark’s creek valley in the past twelve hours.. The whole valley desolated. I Many houses in Skiddy were washed away, and crops are ruined. Two thousand feet of rail way tracks in this vicinity were washed out. So far as known, no lives were lost. v ^—=. ' The loss by flood in Morris county is estimated at $1,000,000. Four per sons were drowned here Friday night. Edward Clements perished while en deavoring to save his daughter. Ralph PbHlipps,JthUtJjying to rescue a lit tle girl named Woods, was drowned with tjer. A baby was found dead in the Missouri Pacific yard. SI lime set fire to the M. R. Smith lum beryard, which was burned together with the Farmers and Drovers bank and Bobbin's drug store, the loss be ing $50,000. The big Main street bridge over the Meosbo river went down. All ’thebasinefw houses flooded. Miles of Missouri Pacific and Missouri, Kansas and Texas tracks were washed out. More tbao 100 houses are under water and 20 have Family. Other Partlcwlara of the Diaaater. * . A rilspath from Washington says Vice Consul Ojalvo, at Ererum, Tur key, reports to the state department that an earthquake in tbe canton of Mclazherd, district of Bitlls, on the 29 th ult., caused the death of 500 peo ple and left the 1 city in ruins. The shock was strongly felt in Ererum,*a journey of 38 hours, and threw the people Into a panic. Many of them turueH their stables, which are built level with the ground, into sleeping apartments for greater security. PLACID AT TWO THOUSAND. A dispatch from Constantinople says advices which reached there Wednes day from Asiatic Tuikey show that a terrible earthquake occurred April 29 at Melazherd, in the vilayet of Van 80 miles southeast of Erzrmn, on tbe Euphrates. The town was totally destroyed, with Its entire population/ numbering 2,000 souls, including 700 Armenians, as well as the troops forming the garrison of Melazherd. In addition over 400 Souzesjn neighbor ing villages collapsed. A GARRISON WIPED OUT. A dispatch from London says the foreign office here received some de tails from the British consul at Are- rum regarding the recent earthquake at Melazherd, acoordiog to which a strong earthquake, lasting 30 seconds, was felt In the morn lug of April 2$ throughout the entire district between Lake Van and the Russian frontier - and as far west as Kharput. Tbe town of Melazherd, consisting of 600 houses, was destroyed and much havoc was wrought to tbe sunoundtnf vil- -OoL Khalil Bey, commanding tbe garrison of Melazherd, with hit whole family, three officers and $0 sol diers, perished in the ruins Lieut. Col, Taybid Bey, whose family was lost, became insane. A tmm* operator who sent tbe news of the cat astrophe said himself was badly In jured and that bis wife and slater had been killed. Tbe foreign office has ap pealed for subscriptions for tbe relief of the destitute Mohammedans and Christians of tbe Melazherd district. •lamped in a Chimney. The Atlanta Journal says Ira Da vis, about 36 years of age. who has been working on Rev. R. H. Smith’s Gainesville, Ga., for a num ber of years, was brought to this city and lodged in Hall county jail for safe keeping. The negro. Js affected a peculiar tofm of insanity, sup posed to have been produced by the extremely hot weather. Wednesday night he was suffering from the de lusion that bloodhounds were on bis trail, and began a wild race for life and liberty, which ended in one of the moat remarkable captures on re cord. For a mile he ran, disrobing as be ran and throwing articles of clothing along his path piece by piece, until he was entirely note. He reached the two story dwelling of W. R. Howlngtou about 6 o’clock, after part of the family bad retired for the night. He scaled the chimney bf climbing up tbe lightning' rod and mounting tbe roof, jumped flown the chimney. Tbe fall was a distance of _25 feet or more, and be landed on some boards which bad been ptaoed la the fireplace. With great difficulty he was extricated and drawn out the top of the flue by means of a rope, and he' wis Touhd to he'terribly skhmed and bruised, but calm and =*--4 — willing to be taken In charge. floated away. ,u BO ,— v,.,. - ^ ~ connectedly onoe'WRh the n storms and blew several buildings far oesday morinng she found theAvomatr sewerage system. . . sva* et>Sk Hs-w-vw 1 * rflL. n +■ + t-hSk n A rar ings, near the scene of Sunday’s heavy ,$nd was unhurt. On jtwakening Wed- splinters. Another struck Herman, 25 miles north of Omaha, and the scene of a tornado five weeks ago, killed a dozen people. Tbe home of D. B. Parish, demolished and Mr. Parish, his wife, ; r Conferred upon Rev. J. L, Su4t&, and a child were seriously hurt. ^ _, pastor of tbe Methodist church at Acoompanylng-the severe wind in Yorkville. t * _* every Inststrae, was s rain storm of To Be Brought Back. 1 After being out of the state six months, H. L. Lloyd, of Darlington, oas been arrested In Texas and will be brought back to this state to stand trial for the forgery of a promissory note, to the amount of $162 on the People's bank of Darlington. Lloyd, It Is alleged, on November 18. 1902, forged a note in the name of his brother, W. C. L'oyd, E. F. Story and other parties and the bank cashier, knowing Lloyd, paid out the money at once. When It was found that the note was a forgery, which was not until it became due, thirty days af terwards, Lloyd had left tbe state. Hi: was located in Texas and the au thorities in that state notified to !< dut for him. A Coining Reform. The legislatures of twenty-one states have passed resolutions in favor of the election oi Unted States sena tors by the people. Unquestionably popular sentiment has grown very strongly in recent years In favor of re moving the election of United States senators from the state legislatures. The purchase of senatorsbips by mil lionaires and the deadlocks which here loft states without representa- The Mystery Solved. City detectives claim to have un raveled tbe mystery of the $7,000 robbery of the union depot ticket office in Birmingham, Ala., which oo- cqrred May 16. As a result two young men, one of them being tbe sou of J. M. Bibb, superintendent of bridges and building? of tbe Lonlt- vllle and Nashville' railroad, have been arrested and are now In jail. No one will be allowed to see and not even the name of the man arrested can be ascertained, is claimed that the robbery was ac complished by boring a hole through the ceiling over the ticket office from a vacant room on the second flodr of.,. - the union depot, and through title ^ ole the robbers looked with a msgni- ^ fying glass and watched the employees of that office work the safe ootnbina* tion.. It is said that on the night of the robbery they entered the office while tbe night ticket seller was asleep and worked the safe combination. dead on tbe floor. That the new water closets under the main steps north and south have special ventilation secured by electric VTCUftJfolXMM Perish. now reported that in addition! or other appliance, to the eight train hands who were killed in Southern railway freight “That all cellars and passage ways jo the basempnt be thoroughly cleans- wreck &t Biyan, Ala., Wednesday five od apd afterwards floored with tramps, four colored and one white, asptfaitor cement. were killed Their bodies were burned. “Tbst Independent outside fresh air A Columbia Hanging. The execution of Winter Cantcy In Oolymtyk last Friday was very quietly done.. He was hanged for murdering a EUze Ker-hawi He mate no out cry and jgounted the scaffold without tion in.the senate, have created strong I any assistance, after having passed a dissatisfaction with present tnethods. | morning and night with colored lustantlv Hilled. G. 0. KQsseU^of Greenville was kill- edfin Union hylte'eMlosloh of fountain in tbe drugstove^of H. L. ficaife & Son. He had gone^far Union for the L. L. Barre company to some plumbing. -——,— preachers oaHuly. He ate, as to the practice of murderers sentenced to be hanged, a hearty breakfast, and ly quiet morning, fact he seemed to be very much at rest and peace than wtoM In the jail. Qanteyl vlcam were both colored. -** /