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iOFm Pf the Sreet Flood that Destroyed .. Heppner Oregon. 1 DESCRIPTION BT EYE WITNESS. Wall of Water Rushed Down Moun- t ' ' v . . * y 1 tain Side. Waicon Loads or ...f Corpses Are Casted to the Cemetery. Later news from Heppner, Oregon, show that the first reports of the dis aster were not exaggerated. The casualty list wtlffoot up 500 and many Of the bodies will never be recovered. The property loss and destruction of buildings alone will aggregate prob ably a million dollars.^ This is re garded as a conservative ^estimate: One hundred and fifty of the best resi dences Were sweptf frotn the earth. The debris is piled along the railroad track to the height of freight cars. The relief work is progressing at a satisfactory pace. James Kernan^ the Oregon Railway and Navigation com pany agent, met his death at the tele graph key trying to eall Portland to iu.orm the outside world of the im- ^Xipendlng calamity. ( w Oueof the most thrilling adventures j&as that of Tom' Shuter. who with ^ his family, was carried down stream in his house for a mile and a half. His - wife and two children climbed into tiie upper rooms. Below town it crossed the creek to the west side, where i% Jodged in debris 1«»0 yards * from thS^anyon bank. Shuter then " , l * took nils two little ones and swam a Persons in his residence, although tl Ijundred yards. He landed the chil dren and then rescued his wife. BmrBTiurmxnmnNs- The names of 18W persons whose UkIIcs have been discovered or who ar? missing and. believed to be de&icl^as a result of the Heppner flood, have been obtained. In addition to the Ijodiesof seven Chinese, three Japanese and 21 strangers and babies, names unknowir, goto swell the list. Ellas Connor, a stock raiser of : lone, re turned from Heppner at 2 o'clock Wednesday morning. He left- the scene of the disaster at 6 o'clock that night. “It is known,'’ said Mr. Connor, “that least 2J 5 or 300 people wefe drowoed, 115 corpses have been hasti ly buried in wooden boxes and some were merely wrapped in blankets '1 here were still Several jffagon Ifeads of dead on their way to the cemetery when 1 left. Heppner Itself has now been pretty well searched, except in piles of debris, where it is thought great numbers of bodies will be found. “lietween lone and Heppner,” said Mr. Connor, “there are great piles of debris, but the flood passed so quickly that the roads have not been serious ly damaged. It looks strange to see . the heavy steel rails bent and twisted like cork screws and heavy timbers splintered like matchwood. In Hepp ner Itself the flood swept a clean path a mile long and two blocks wide through the town, going generally the course of Willow creek.” entirely demolished. The Palace hotel was the first building to stem the tide and all the guests were saved, but the houses below that structure were blown out Into the street, overturned and wrecked. The residence of G. A. Rhea was carried away and the entire family, consisting of wife and three daughters, and Miss Adkins, a cou&in, Were lost.' “C. E. Redfleld, whose residence was completely destroyed, was absent but his wife and baby were drowned. “A. Q. Geiger’s house was carried away ana Mr. Geiger was drowned* His family is in the east. “George Consci’s house was reached next but the family succeeded iu saving their lives by rushing to the upper sto ries, the house being carried down the creek three-quarters of mile. Res cuers found that the house had been Significant Facts - Scandals Being Unearthed. BRISTOW S REPLY TO CHARGES. but in two and Mr. Conser was stand ing in water up to hjs neck, holding Ids wife upon the roof and keeping her from slipping from his outstretch ed arms. Dr. McSwat and^J. Ayers, who were living in the same residence were drowned.- •* - “Oscar Miner's house was next de- mol'shed and Mrs. Miner drowned. The rest of the family succeeded in saving their llves.by ciqging to the roof. AH of the Wells family but two were lost and the house was carried away. With the Wells residence went the house of George Swaggert. Mr." Swaggert’s two marri.d daughters were drowned with their five children. Tiie Mallory house was carried 150 yards and was found lodged against a store and Mr Mallory, a crippled old man.Vas found safe, holding a baby. James Matlock's was next. Mrs. Matlock was drown\ ed but his family was saved. Dr. fiigg’s house also went. “The house of Mr. Boyd and Mr. Walton were alstt destroyed and both families lost Many Irreifularlties Are Bhown by the Official Papers Being E*- * . • . . .. . ;«v*’ '* amtried by the Govern ment Officials. •»'*- Postmaster General Payne Wtfdnes- nesday made public the reply of of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral _Ilristow to the charges of Sey mour W. Tulloch, former cashier of the Washington city postoftice, kk garding the irregularities in the postal administration, and also reports of of inspection and investigation of the Washington postoftice by inspectors between June 30, 1899, 1900, together with tiie transcript of the Tulloch charges some years ago and the conclusion therebn then reach ed by Postmaster General Charles Emory- Smith. 'These papers con stitute bji far x the[ most significant documents'yeLmade. public as a result of th€ sweeping'postal investigation. The reports show the existence of many irregularities during the period involved. The inspector .who investi gated the irregularities reports Dial the files of the postoftice cashier show direct orders from sueprior authority for the disbursement of all tiie ques tionable items cited. The inspector urged “that the responsibility for the many Illegal appointments, the pay Ury.roll," while the “military roll” shows 34 nam^s as having been paid by the oaabier of the Washington office. "7' l There wa£ also found a “special roll of employes, paid for miscellan eous allowances, said appointments being under the control of the post- office department.” This roll con sists of nine “cleaners”, with salaries from $400 to 1600 and onb-“physi cian” at a salary of $1,700. Some of these cleaners appear to have per formed very little service and others none at all. The most Important exhibit is the report of Postofflce Inspector In charge Smith of Washington division, made in July, 1899, setting forth irregulari ties whiclu he urged should be Investi gated. He names four employes on the military roll who appear not to have performed any service in con nection wit)! military postal matters and for whose original appointment ny ^^nnt.inllanoc on the rolls no good reason exists. The payment to W. S. Larnerrs military postal cleric, xm- der protest, by the cashier of $118.93, subsequent!y disallowed the au- and JulyJHt-jdJtor of theTreasury 6n Jan A 4, 1899 is gone into at length and It is shown that this matter ..was jwtirdy irreg ular and that payments were directed without proper vouchers. -ATtentioff is called to-certain items of expenditures authorized for the military postal service of supplies, furniture, traveling expenses, aggre gating 28,750.70, with the statement that the prices paid for some of tbe articles enumerated, such-as . .wash stands at $40 each appear’To have been highly excessive. Attention also is called to addi tional irregularities in connection with payrolls of clerks and laborers, and to charging premiums on the bonds of military postal clerks, notwithstand- Politically it What Senator Tillman Say* About the Negro. DEMOCRATIC MATERIAL SCARCE. Senator Tillman Hays Roosevelt la Always on Drem Parade and Alwaya Will be While , He'n President. In conversation, with f reporter of the Augusta Herald recently Senator with Congressman ll#rdwick on his bill CCTlt The house* they itself a survivor's story. Three men who, survived the flood -have arrived at Portland Oregon, after having wit nessed the destruction of the town and assisted in the work of rescue. Mr. Kelley said: “The rain was not falling in Heppner, but could be seen some distance away. Sharp flashes of lightning were accompanied by the were badly bruised, was washed away. • ” - “Perhaps the greatest loss of life occurred at the Heppner hotel. —- “This house, which was run under tire managemen t of J one s & A sh baugh, was carried away. It is supposed that there were about 50 guests in this hotel, all of whom are reported to be lost. The proprietors themselves were saved, but their families j^re among the dead. * —> “The house of Benjamin Patterson, Mr. Dunn and Mr. Noble were entirely demolished and all persons in these three families drowned, as were the families of James Jones and Henry Birk. The barn of Dr. Swlnburn and the big livery stable of White & Meadows were Entirely destroyed. E. J. Farnsworth and Phillip Cohn were also drOwned. The entire residence portion of Heppner was destroyed but the bus)Qess_houses, being on higher ground and .being generally built of brick and stone, were dot so badly damaged. The school house and oo urt house, which stand on a side hill, were saved, but two chgrches, the Metho dist and Presbyterian were completely wrecked. “Around the depot the rising water left great heaps of driftwood piled higher than the rqof of the station and the rescuing pasties were forced to demolish these pyramids of timbeF^-ki order to extricate the corpses which were tangled in the brush. *Undoubted- ly many of tin drowned bodies were" carried by the running waters down the valley. “Gangs of men are at work clearing ^ame person and the disbursement of thousands of dollars for which practi cally no service was performed, shpuld be placed where it properly belongs and the many abuses corrected*" i In a summary of the several reports the postmaster general says: “The charge of Mr. Tulloch Is.In its essence against President McKinley nfid postmaster General Smith. Presi dent McKinley is ho longer living: Postmaster General Smith, who car ried out-President McKinley's, policy, has answered for himself. With re gard to the present manag^yent of the Washington postofflce and the conduct of any and all men charged with wrongdoing who have _heeniu the postal service under the present administration, a thorough and searching investigation is now being made.” The postmaster general also says: “It will be sren that the Mtule sub ject was taken up by Postmaster Gneral Smith and investigated by him., All expenditures referred to were allowed by the auditor and comp-' trailer, with the exception of $HH*.” Tiie documents made public Wed nesday show that on May 1 last, Mr. Payne wrote a letter Ur Mr:. Bristow calling attention to-the published In terview with Mr. Tulloch, and asked Mr. Bristow ‘what truth if any there is in the statements." Mr. Bristow's reply dated three days latex, transmits reports of three in spectors relating to the Washington postofflce.. v . Mr. Bristow says that after tiie in- at Heppner—U. D. Ball, J. J. FpIW I ^ay the piles of debris, rocks and • and A. P. Bradbury—have arrived at timbers which He piled in heapsin the* streets and taking, out the corpses which are thus concealed." howling thunder. Then suddenly the Umnder died away, and a low noise was heard, very faint at find but grow- .louder. The city Is situated on Wil low creek, which makes a sharp turn above the city. As the noise grew louder and louder, the people became frantic. ’Then in a moment the van of the Hood biirst lnu> -^lew around No Vulgar Murder. {>In speaking of, the murder of the king and queen of Servia the Chatta nooga Times says at a fly rate, it Is interesting to note that the affair was not an ordinary, vulgar mur der, committed by an anarchist, but a regular gentlemanly assassination, conducted after The most eminent precedents and the best accepted tradlj the curve of the creek, carrying on Its crest the cabins and houses which stood in its path. The people made a rush to the hills, but were too late. The flood was upon them. The little river in five minutes was transformed into a roaring torrent 400 feet wide and 20 feet deep. Houses from their foundations and-carried on the swirling waters. People were car ried away in their homes and forced to crawl out on the roof. Then as the houses moved down the stream they caught on to the trees and hung there until morning, when they wejre rescued.” : HK SAW JT ALL. David McAtee, a business man of Heppner, was an eye witness Of the disaster. In company with Frank SfMulding lie left Heppner about 10.30 o'clock Sunday nigbt on horseback. “On Sunday afternoon,” said Mr. Mc Atee, “there had been a severe rain storm, accompanied with much wind and lightning. I was standing in front of the house and noticed that a cloud of remarkable density approached the top of tBe bill on the east side of the canyon. I turned for a moment, when a roar caused me to look again at the bill. I saw a wall of water, the height of which I would be afraid to gauge, rushing down the mountain, carrying immense trees and timbers on its crest and tearing away the very rocks from their foundations. The terrific storm struck the upper part of the town first. •The residence of Thomas Howard was the first to fall and bis entire family 'was drowned. In the Krug home also every person was drowned, as was the case in the Hale and Baling residences. All of these bouses were about four or five blocks above the business centre. Af Abram was re specters had reported irregularities he directed that reports be made in the regular way.- “I)urlng>-the progress of the inspec tion I was ad vised "r>y' Ttt6~ < r !rK r f~fn* specter that George W. Beavers, chief of the salary and alluwance division, had suggested to one qf the inspectors that when he came to certain ap pointments in some ut- the* stations that appeared irregular he had better make no reference to them as theyj opinion had been ordered personally by the eraf. 1 told the chief Inspector, to instruct the Inspectors to report the facts as they would in any, other Inspection; that ! did not he-. Uoqb of the EaropeAn qwirtr-. furolgh-1 of the ample justification for the mo mentous anxiety of croWned heads for theirown personal safety. j~ Got It In the Neck. ~ Krousbevan, the notorious Jew baiter and the editor of the anti-Semi tic organ in Kischineff. The Bessar- were lifted-jirbetz, the articles in which are be lieved to have been largely responsi ble for th„ massacre of the Jews in (Jlschineff, was attacked by a party of Jews in the street of Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday. He >was stabbed in the neck by one of the jews. The wound is not believed to be fatal. His assailant was captured and prov ed to be a former student of the poly technic school at Kieff. Reviewed the Cadet*. ... «£ A special dispatch to The State from Lexington, Va.,. says Governor D. C. Heyward of South Carolina, upon the special invitation of Gen. Scott Ship, superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, reviewed the battalion of cadets Wednesday af ternoun. A salute of 17 guns, the governor’s salute, was fired in honor K>f the distinguished Carolinian. Gov. Heyward expr^«ed himself as much pleased with the military bearing of the young soldiers. - i A (Steamer Bank* Part of the crew of the Belgian steamer Rubens, which sailed from Sunderland on June to for Pillau, Prussia, were, brought here today, The men reported that their vessel had capsized and sank. Six of to tiie United States. An interesting feature edneernair regularities in the appointment, com pensation and promotion of Oliver H Smith. Oj? Nqy. 2o t 1897, the first assistant postmaster general author ized an allowance of $(>00 per annum for his appointment as laborer, stat ing that the free delivery division would allow $2 per day, to cover ear fare and incidental expenses. Smith drew pay from Nov. 23, 189T, to Nov. 30, 1898.,. making his compensation for one year approximately $1,348.00. The tnspwtnr - reports ban certified to the actual time 4Smitli was employed nor has any statement l)een attached to his pay vouchers showing what particular service he rendered.- He was continued in the dual capacity of clerk and mechanic until April 1, te99, when he waefe pro mqted to he finance clerk at $1,700 per annum.” The inspector says he knew of no authority of law for his* appointment or promotion. Attention is next called by'the in spector to certain vouchers, author ized to be paid by tiie first assistant postmaster general, such as expenses of Perry S. Heath and George W. Beavers, traveling oir official business. The inspector states that these vouch ers do not appear to have been itemiz ediajhe proper manner, nor Is the necessity for the expenditure of this money by the Washington postofflce appearent. , - .. Attention is called to seven cleaners placed«3n the pay' roll of the Wash ington office under authority of the first assistant postmaster general, to be charged to the appropriat ion for miscellaneous expenses. The names of these cleaners-all females—are •gtven, TlMi inspector states that neither ties “Capt. W. -B. Smith, inspector in charge, submitted a special report. This report disclosed what seemed to me glaring Irregularities, and I sub mitted it personally to the postmaster general., suggesting to him at the time that it contained matters to which I thought he would want to give his pesonal attention. > “The third report sets forth a num ber of irregularities that prevailed at that time in tiie Washington post- office. 1 was informed by the chief inspector that complaint was made to the postmaster general that inspec- to* Little, who was engaged "on the work, was asking unnecessary ques tions and seeking to obtain informa tion which was. not called for on in spection. I advised him to instruck in spector Little to make the same kind of an investigation of the Washington postofflce that he would make of any other office under similar circumstan ces, and to submit in.a special report anything which he thought should be called to the personal attention of the prtstraasfter general. This he did.” In |he first pf the inspector’s reports submitted by Mr. Bristow it appears that Robert V. Willett, a son of the then postmaster, drew two salaries from July 1 to Dec. , 10. * 1898, one as a laborer at the city postofflce the pustmasier nor any with the Washington office was able to give any information as to where they were employed or the nature of their work, and tiie inspector is of that practically.^ no service whatever has been -rendered for the money expended. ^ The inspector says that hy the over lapping of a lease executed In 1887 Dm government lost. $<>25, an d that the building was paid for one month beyond its occupancy."" The- Inspector reports that when the cashier of the Washington post office on letters from the comptroller suspended payments to Certain per sons mentioned he was required to continue these payments upon direct written order from the postmaster who states he was verbally instruetec in ids action hy the first assistant' at $600 a year, and the other as a office, dated July 31, 1900, says that were lost. Seven of the crew drifted about for 22 hours. Before they were pick ed up three of them died from expos ure. postoftice roll April 29, 1899, at $700 the per annum and on the same date as a mechanic at $2 per day for each work ing day on what appears to have been a special roll of the free delivery ser vice, and that N. H- Baker likewise was designated as a laborer on the at $2 a day. . The Inspectors continu ing sayuthat on Jude 30, 1899, 22 em ployes were borne on the rolls and paid on what has been knqwR as the “mill- postmaster general Tha payments were>made under the cashier’s protest The Inspector cites payments to Catherine Endsley, Charles A. Mach en, A. B. Ifurt, H-Jj- Lorenz, John S. Leach and F. W. Wait, on the au thority of the, first assistant post master general of per diem iuoQitoiec*. tion with claims of letter carriers tar overtime charges, aggregating $4,655 The inspector says this account, dis bursed from July 1^1898, wasdisburs ed without authority of law. Machen Lorenz and Hu ft it appears were paid per diem covering the same period by the disbursing clerk of the department of justice, from the appropriation for defending suits ' in letter carriers' claims against the United States be fore the court of claims. These par ties continued to draw pay until the comptroller called for a statement from them. The report of Inspector Little on the investigation of the Washington number of clerks were, added to the rolls without request of the postmas ter and that the postmaster states that at times it has been difficult to find employment for all assigned to his rolls. Th$ Inspector says the rtater appears to be Elastic, to be ad iilman said: ^ “T havg not see r^fthe interviews to repeal the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and dont know Just what it is, hut 1 do know that Just such a thing is inevitable. The negro is coming down to his proper status. ” It was thus that Senator B. R. Till man spoke recently while waiting in Augusta to take a train MS Louisiana, where he is going to lepturc at a cha- tauqua. The senator says he will i>e away on tills trip of lectures for alxtut ten days, after which he will return to Hs home in South Carolina. There is nothing going on in tional polities just now except "the usual dress parade of Roosevelt^” he said and in reply to the question ,of M>w long he thought these dress pa rades would last: “Oh, that’s going to keep up just as long as Roosevelt is President.” Speaking of the coming convention and the outlook for Presidential tim- ber In the Democratic party Senator Tillman said that he had never seen 4>he eoqjntry so barren of-'material to Work upon asHt is at CTits time. He spoke of Parker and Gorman but said he could not tell which, if either, would-be the man for the place. He said they would both be mentioned in the convention and one of them may be hosen, but he could not say which it would likely be. He did not know enough of tiie standing of either to say what their relative strength is, but thinks that Parker has the advan tage of haying no record behind him except Wt»rtr-of -a judge. Continuing along the line of the lardwick bill that Is b£ presented at the next session of Congress Sena tor Tillman said: ‘About the only thing that is at tracting much cq.nmcnt in national political circles now is that Ohio plat form, and it has not gone far enough for us to see whether it is to be a local or*a national measure.” HCj£*plaincd that this platform Is a measure that seeks to allow Che ne gro to govern where he is in the ma turity or else to cut down the repre sentation of the white man, and is of the opinion that if it is made a na tional affair it will undoubtedly be brought up at the convention and met by the Democratic party. -If'this is to be a national rather ]tban a local issuc-R will mean the re organization of the old ante-bellum days. I mean if the red shirts make this what that would mean it will be then a question of 4his is a white man's country and he must rule the government, majority or no majority. don’t mean that it will be a condi tion of affairs like those of tiie days of the sixties. Then it was a question o? slaTciy but'Tiow it* * wHTbe a TpYeS- ttorr simply of the negro or white man. -—_ - Senator Tlllmap says the matter of repealing the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments Is certainly inevitable and is a,questlon of only a time. He thinks tliat for the Ohio platform l>e pushed upon-the* people of the coun try, asking for the guarantee ot the provisions of these amendments would merely bring the matter to a crisis sooner. “We are waiting for them to play their cards or show their hand, so we will know what move to -make,” ke -ggldr ~~ Speaking of^ conditions in South Carolina, the Senator said: The Spartanlmrg Journal says a busy scene greeted the visitors Tlmrs-, day along the banks of the recent turbulent Pacolet river where the fury of the waters worked such ex tensive destruction. AC the Cllftons and at Pacolet scores of laborers are busy cleaning away debris and recover ing cotton and the- mill products from the mud and wreckage. The HJtt Salvage Company has fifty toseventy- Hve men at work, scouring the fiver banks and the recesses (it tiie stream, looking for cotton, many imle$ ol which are being recovered. The plan of the Clifton Company for securing what macldnery they can from the river is to drain the big pond extending from the site of Obe de stroyed Mill No. 3 t6 Mill No. 1. The work will be in charge of a salvage company from New York who will put a force of men to work at an early date to .drain the pond*and search In the mud and debris for any machinery that can be found. The same com pany will’also recover as much of the property of tiie electric railway as possible. The electric company wdl lose at least one mile of track at Clif ton. The trolley wire and rails are, however, being recovered as rapidly as possible. * , , ■ _ The machinery on the immediate sites of tiie Clifton Mills will be re covered bvJ. B. G&rfunkel (>f Colum bia who will begin work on next Mon day morning. Mr. GarfubRel has pur chased all the scrap iron that may be found among the wreckage while the mill company will retain such machin ery as can be used. The big fiy wheel at Mill No.-3 which weighs about 100,900 pounds lias also been purchas ed _hy Mr. Uarfuuicel. The.wheel was broken to pieces by the force of the flood and is absolutely useless to the company. .. , * By next Monday the banks of the river will be crowded with busy work men who will repair as far as possible the storm's work of destruction. Later on work will be started by the mill company repairing Mills, Nos. 1 and 2.' The Souther^ Railway was one of the heRvleaMosers in.;the county by the flood of June 6. A -prominent- railroad than says that the Southern alone will lose half a million dpllars. The roads will lose more than their net earnings from the entire state for the current year on account of the flood damage, trestles washed away, etc. It is now estimated 'that 25 per cent of Hie mill operatives have left the Clifton Mills and Pacolet having secured other jobs. At one time last week there were no less than seven teen mill representatives at Clifton and I’acolet who had come to secure mill labor from lfieTanks of the opera tives. It is said that some of the operatives have evinced a market! de gree of unwillingness to leavtv their jiomes for other mills, thinking that if they remained they would,lie recipients of aid from the relief com-’ mlttee. The time of the year at which the flood occurred lias proven a very for tunate circumstance for iiad it oc curred in winter or early spring much additional suffering would have been entailed. The cars of the electric comany pontinuc to carry many visi tors to Clifton, but it will probably lie only a few weeks before the signs of wreckage are completely obliterated twd- the Wg storm -will have been a thing of the past. Belgrade Palace i« Red WlUi - - , ' '■ x". ' ■ i* Blood of Royal Victims. THERE WAS NO WAY najor lat is i ‘The thing that is most interesting over there now is*a few days sunshine. 1 have just cotne down from Clemson and through tiie upper part of the State to Columbia and 1 must say that 1 never saw the crops In such a bad condition. The grass has taken everything. Why. the country v Js woolly with grass. The lowland crops have all.beeu washed away antPwill have to be replanted. “Np there'is nothing going on in politics there now, you know this is an*off ycar. _The only thing going on that 1 know^tf is wilh the Governor. You know he 1} shooting a few'tigers now. Every time he sees one he shoots him down.” Senator tiilman looks the picture of health, and while his conversation shows that he is as much as ever in terested in the affairs of the Ameri can government, he seems more taken up Just at this time with the condi tion of farm lands in his o wn State. The fact that be Is not hlpirelf a man of a gloomy disposition, -rather being inclined to be an optimist than a pes simist, when be makes the statement that the crop conditions.of the Pal metto State a^e worse than he has ever seen themPbefore, it would indi cate at once that there is time for some concern. .* “ - - - Bride Killed Heraelf. Within half an hour after her second marriage, having been previously We Arc Not Carper*. A negro lynching in the city of In dianapolis has quickly followed the affair at Belleviiie. 111. Just what degree of guilt attaches to a negro's act in apparently forcing bis remarks upon a white girl in the street ts not easy to decide perhaps. At any rate, reasonable people would say that the girl's testimony as to the character of the offense should first be taken be fore resorting to summary measi against the negro. The Indianapolis mob, however, oo- tbs-msce fact that The Koval Red Chamber W - Boldiera Blew the Klnjc and Gneen Described In Detail. ' , , _ ~T"' The correspondent of the Associated Press at Belgrade, Servia, was on Wednesday allowed to Inspect the place'!n which King Alexander and Gueen Draga were murdered. The room, which was furnished in empire style, remains in the same condition as when the king and queen fled from it on the approach of the assassins. The French novels lie on the queen’s table and the queen's tollet articles, perfumes and cosmetics- covered her dressing table. ‘ 7 - r The costly silk bed coverings are full of hullet- holes, the conspirators hav ing shot wildly In all directions, through and under tiie bed, chairsand tallies In their efforts to find their victims. A simple wardrobe room lead ing directly from the bed room was Die scene of the final act io the drama. The apartment is lofty but scarcely seven feet wide and fifteen feet long and Is fgrnlshcd only with three great wardrobes. The officers who attended the corespondent showed the latter the blood-stained floor at one end of the ro >m where the king and queen fell and the broken Venetian shutter at the window through which their bodies were thrown to the groqqd,below. A secret stairway leads through the floor to rooms In the southern end of- the palace. By this stairway the bap- 1 ‘ss couple might have attempted to escape, but they were unable to do so because the opening of thla stairway was covered by a heavy chest. Escape in any event would have been impoesi- b'e, as the soldiers who had surrounded the palace were so dfltarrajnefl to kill the king and umegn’fhat they had even placed cannon^^front of the palace and were pre^areef to destroy the build- mg in thee vent of failing to find their prey. Each of the three roomrbetween the vestibule and the bed chamber show* d marks of the tragedy. Mirrors were shattered, pictured were shot through, furniture was brokon,' there waa bul- j£tJioles in the ddprs and in the oil portraits of the king which were lu every room and most of the latter were otherwise mutilated. Contrary to the general understand ing liut little effort has been made to renovate the apartments except where the caVpen.ers were making two new doors to replace those which ^ad been blown to pieces at the time the con spirators forced their way into, the rooms occupied by the king and queen. The royal apartments wereaimply Mid tatefully furnished chiefly in Oriental style and presented a homelike appear ance. The. interior of the palace might have been that of a country house belonging to a prosperous American. The house of the king’s adjutant, Lazar Pexovics, which wan the first attacked, is even a greater wreck than the royal apartments in the palace. The entrance was com pletely destroyed by dynamite. The adjutant then escaped unhurt, but he was killed later in the veotlbule of the palace. A large blood stain marks tbe spot where the officer died. It was in a bare, white washed room of tbe com mandant’s quarters, adjoining tbe pal ace, that Queen Draga’s two brothers were shot while sitting on wooden chairs, which bear marks of the| bul lets. The proceedings in tbe palace showed the same absolute callousness which has characterized the actions aqd demeanor of everybody in Bel- V' delivery-roll ded to as Giroumstaoces ariae whether divorced, Miss HatUe.A. .Thomas of the postmaster requested It or not. New Orleans on Tuesday swallowed a, no more sense of the fitness of things The aggregate salaries paid to those not connected with the office amount ed to $16,100. i the negro was seen to address'the gTrT in public somewhat persistently, al though he soon passed ottc pursued him at once to his death. One* fel low in the mob carried a pistol and Pc' completed the job. No arrests, ac- cording to tbe reports. The middle West fir-oow a fair mark for Southern criticism.—Springfield Republican. Heed Farm*. ' The seed plantations around Safi Jose, Cal., are said to receive $3,000,- 000 a year from the sale of seed. Tb£ first experiments of the planters in this line were made less than half a dozen -years ago. One onion patch now covers 3,000 acres, with furrows almost two miles long. ' A single plot of sweet pea occupies 800 acres, A bed of yellow asters 210 acres, a lettuce tied 2,100 acres. These are within a radius of eighty miles around San Jose, 14,500 acres devoted to. raising plants andjlowert for their seed alone, v A Bad. Record. _ , . One hundred rulers of countries have been assassinated since the year 946, when Edward I, of England, was stabbed with a dagger. Of the num ber seventy-three .were assassinated during the century just closed'which marked it as a singularly unfortun ate hundred years for royalty. Al ready, in this new century, there have been four heads of governments as sassinated. and the century is not four years old. A Moving Matter. Down in Texas the other day a man named Wbele married a Miss Barrow, and the editor of the local paper had ~ Village* Destroved. The British consular reports of tbe recent earthquakes in the vilayet of of Van confirm previous advices that* twenty-three villages were affected and some completely destroyed. Seven hundred and" eighty-five lives are known to have been lost and it Is feared all were killed in outlying dis tricts not yet enumerated. Fourteen Killed. A terrifiee and fatal explosion oc curred in the lyddite factory at Wool wich, England, Thursday morning. Five buildings were completey wreck ed Reports of casualties are conflicting but the latest places the dead at 14 and injured at 13. The killed were blown to atoms and their remains were gathered up in buckets. dose of laudanum that proved fatal, leaving a note to her parents to pray for her. r* '■ /i. \ . than to print his acooui ding under the head of row.” account of tbe wed “Whele-Bar- i “■ Will Now Haag. John Brownfield, colored, who kill ed Deputy Tax Collector Jas. C. Scurry while in the discharge of hi# duty three years ago, and who appeal ed to the Supreme courts of the state*, and tbe United States, was resentenc ed on Tuesday by Judge Gary, tta date of his execution being set tor Friday.. ■ . / ■ 1 ■—---r- A Bad Death. John C. Harveley of Greenwood,who was acting as telegraph operator at Hamlet, N. C., was run over and kill ed there by a train Oh Tuesday. He was only nineteen years old. Gave up tbe Straggie. J. H. Williams, a farmer of Lan caster county, aged 35, committed suicide on Tuesday night with a shot gun. He was despondent on account of 111 health and inabtHty to work crops. ■IBM 3