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BARNWELL, S. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY' f, 1904. NO 15 B4|tan With a Panic Caused by a Five that Started on the Stajce. The Bodies Were Plied Twelve Deep. \ ( jr' The city of Chicago was the scene of 5M - one of the worst calamities of the cen- ‘ ■ lory on last Wednesday, when over six ~ hundred people were burned to death in the Iriquois theatre, the newest, the largest, and as far as hunqan power could make it. the safest thea- . tre in Chicago. Estimates of the P fatalities vary. Toe police account l Of the dead is 536. The estimate of rj the newspapers is 560. Besides this . there are 55 people missing at mid* i night, the majority of whom are probably among the dead In the morgue and various undertaking esr Y tahHsnments. A few of these people were burned to death by fire, many were suffocated by gas, and scores were trampled to death in the panic that followed the mad plunge of the frightened audience for exits. It was many hours before the number of dead was Icoown and will be many days before all of them will be identified. There are bodies lying by the dozens in the undertak ing rooms, in the police stations and in the hospitals from which* nearly everything that can reveal their iden tity to TlHi8^Wtro1tnew-them beet is . gone. Their clothing is torn to rags * or burned to cinders and their faces . have been crushed into an unrecogniz able pulp by the heel? of the crowd that trampled them down as they fled 'for safety. XAffT WOMEN AND CHILDREN. All of the corpses at this point were women and children. The fight for life which must have taken place at these two points is something that is simply beyond human power adequate ly to describe. Only a Taint Idea of its horror can be derived from the as pect of bodies as they lay. Women on top of these masses of dead bodies had been qvertaken by death as they were crawling on hands and knees Over the bodies of those who bad died before. Others lay with arms stretched ont in the direction toward which lay life and safety, holding in their hands fragments of garments not their own. They were evidently torn from others whom they bad endeavored to pull down and trample underfoot as they fought for their own. li ves. As the police and firemen removed layer after .ayer of dead in these doorways, the sight became too much even for them, hardened as they are to such scenes, id endure; The bodies were In such an inextricable mass, and so tightly fferfe they jammed between the sides of the-door and the walls', that It was impossible to, lift them one by one and carry them out. The only possi ble thing to do was to seize a limb or some other portion of the body and pull with main strength. Men worked at the task with tears running down BURNT IN THEIR SEATS. ~ The fire broke out during the sec ond act of the play “Mr. Bluebeard,’*< which was the first dramatic produc tion placed in the theatre since its erection. The company, which was very large, escaped to the streets in safety, nearly, all of them, however, being compelled to flee into the snowy streets with no clothing but their stage costumes. A few members of the company sustained IdinhiTlnjuries but none were seriously hurt. The accounts of the origin of the fire are conflicting and none of them certain, but the best reason given is that an electric wire near the lower part of a piece of drop scenery sudden- ke and was grounded. The fire spread rapidly toward the front of the stage, causing the members of the chorus, who were then engaged in the • performance, to flee with screams of terror. The tire in itself up to this time was not serious and possibly could have been checked had not the asbes- • tos curtain failed to work., As soon as the tire w£s^discovered Eddie Foy, the chief comedian of the company, shouted to loner the curtain, and this wfcsimmeiliatdv done. It descended about balf-wa.'Aftd then stuck. The _Jfire thus was given practically a flue . through which a strong dreft t*6S set ting, aided b - the doors which had been thrown open in the front of the theatre With a roar and a bound the flames shot through the opening over the beads of the people'on the first floor and reaching ttnse in the first balcony caught them and burned them to death where they sat. Im mediately following this rush of flames there came an explosion, which lifted the entire roof of the theatre ^pon the little Iron platform that A from its walls, shattering the great Skylight into fragments. _1 J ' ~ -’%thm oab. As soob as the flames first appeared ‘beyond the curtain a man in the rear of the Jjall shouted “Fire, fire,” and the entire audience rose as one person and made for the doers. It is telleved that the expk'Sion vis caused by the „ flames (Qming Into oonrtacv with the gas rest rvoirs of the Ideal,'6, <XU9lng them to hurst Will J. Davis, mana ger of the theatre, said after the ca- tastropoe that if the people had re mained In their seats and bad not been excited by the cry of fire not a ^ gtngle Hfe would have been lost. This • Is, however, contradicted by the state ment of the firemen, who found num- - Hiers of people sitting in their seats, their faces directed towards the stage as if the performance was still going on. It was (the opinion of the fire men that these people had been suf- located at once by the flow Of gas which came from behind the asbestos - curtain. * - ■ As near as can be estimated at the ^ present time about 1,-300 people were in the theatre. , Three bund these were on the first floofrAfie bal ance being In the two upper balconies • *nd back of them. The theatre is modled after the Opera Comlque in Paris and from the rear of each bal cony there are three doors leading out to passage ways toward the front of the theatre. Two of these doorways are at the end of the balcony and one in the centre. The audience in its rush for the outer air seems to bate for the greater part chosen to flee to the left entrance and to attempt to make its way down the eastern stair way leading into the lobby of theatre. Outside of the people burned and suf focated by gas, it was in these door ways on the first and second balconies that the greatest loss of life occurred. When the firemen entered the bond ing the dead were found stretched in a pile reaching from the bead of the stairway at least eight feet from the door back to a point about five feet in the rear of the door. This mass of dead bodies in the centre of tbs door way reached to within two feet of tbs top of the passage way. ,, : -- their cheeks, and the sobs or the res- -^h® theatre and the fire proof curtain cuere could be heard even in the hall below where this awful scene was be ing enacted. A number of the men were compelled to abandon tbeir task and give it over to others whose nferves had not as yet been shaker! by the awfyl experience. As one by one, the bodies were dragged out of the water- soaked, blackened mass,of corpses, the spectacle became more and more he&rlrggding. SCENES or HORROR. ~ There were women whose clothing was torn from their bodies above the waist, whose bosoms had been tram- to pulp-and whose faces were I beyond all power of Identifica tion. Bodies lay in the first and sec ond balconies 1n great numbers. In some places they were piled up in the aisles three and four deep, where one had fallen the others tripping over the. prostrate forms, and all had died where they lay, evidently suffocated by the gas. Others were bent over backs of seats where they bad been thrown by the rush of 'people for the doors and killed with hardly a chance to rise from their seats. Ooe man wap found with his back bent nearly double, bis spinal oolumn having been fractured as be was thrown backward, A woman was found cut nearly In halfby the back of the seat/ she hav ing been forced over it fitce downward. In the aisles nearer the doors the scenes were barrowing in thegxtrepe. Bodies lay in every conceivable atti tude, half naked, the look on tbeir (aces revealing some portion of the agony which must have preceded their death. There was scores and scores of peoplfe whose entire faces had been trampled completely off by* those who ran over them, and in one aisle the body of a man was found with not a vestige of clothing, flesh or hone above the waist. . , PUSH TO THEIR DEATH. The theatre had been completed hut a short time and all ofUts equip ment was not yet in pjace. This was up fortunately the case with a fire i scape in the rear of the bunding. The small iron balconies to which the iron ladder was to be attacbed were up but tbe ladder had not yet been completed. When the panic was at its height a great number of women ran for these fife escapes only to find as they emerged from tbe doorway the rear of the stage. The stage is unusually wide und there was so great a draft tbe flames spread rapidly. They soon had attacked all the scenery in the rear of the house. I never be lieved it possible for the fire to spread so quickly. W oen it first started I went to the foot.lghts, and to preveot|£“^j alarming tbe audience said Lbore was a slight blaze, ind that it would be better for all tq leave quietly. Then I stepped back tnd called for the as bestos curtain to be lowered. This, when about half way down, refused to go further, and thus an additional draft was created. This swept the flames out into the auditorium and I knew that the tneatre was doomed. I hurried back to the stage and aided in getting the women members of tbe company into tbe alleys Some of them were in their dressing rooms and were almoss overcome by smoke before they could get down w the stage and to the doors. / “The simple fact that the curtain didn’t descend entirely was what saved the lives of the company al though It caused such a horrible ca tastrophe In the front of the house. After the curtain had refused ^'de scend,. there came the. explosion of tbe gas tanks and with the curtain down all the fire and gas would.hata been confined between the rear wail’of in front. Under these circumstances It would np.t have been possible for a single member of tbe company to escape alive unless be or she bad been *tatidihg immediately-In front of the door leading to the alley. As It was the draft carried the gas and fire out beneath tbe curtain and the company was saved, although tbeir salvation' was tbe death of so many poor peo ple in front.” A TBARTUt DWGOVERX. The first newspaper men on the ground also carried out many dead and^ injured. The building was so full of smoke when the firemen first arrived that the full extent of the catastrophe was not Immediately grasped until a firemanj&nd a news paper man crawled up tbe stairway leading to the balcony; bolding hand kerchiefs over their mouths to avoid suffocation. As they reached the doorway the -fireman, whose vision was better trained in such emergen cies, seized bis companion by the arm exclaiming: N, “Good God, raah, don’t walk on their faces.” — : -t—— The two men tried vainly to get through the door which was jammed with dead women, piled higher than either of tbeir heads. All the lights in the theatre were necessarily out and the only light came throUgti the clouds of smoke in the interior of the theatre. The two men immedlatel) hurried to the floor below and Informed ChICf-Musham of the Are dapartmjnt that dead bodies werfl pjled rt ass away to hospitals or to the offlets of physicians in the Immediate neigh x>r- hood. ' * CHILDREN TRAMPLED UNDER TOOT. •* A man who was in the theatre :ald “there were fe* men' in attendance, but I saw several of them pulling pushing women and children aside as they fought like mantes to reach the exits. I saw a number of little children trampled uncerfoot and some of them arose again. In the l)al- cony the scene was beyond my power to describe. There was a big black crush of aumao beings, each one ap- arently fighting everybody else; The balcony was so steep that many fell In tbe first four rows of seats. The ebeftk to the fire escapes were chocked stud those in jhe rear rushed with all the strength they possessed upon those who were nearer to* the-4eei way. “It wis almost increlible-^ttre speech with which the flames ran through tbe scenery, and although it was but';, second after Ml&. Elmore jumped o/er tbe railing uf our box to the aisle i i fropt the stage was a mass of flames. As I started up tbe aisle a man rushed into me and knocked me down. I was so terror stricken that I grew weak and sank into one of tbe or chestra chairs, and after that I hardly remember anything. In some way 1 reached the main entrance, where men were^kicking against tbe doors and shattering tbe glass and panels in their attempt to afford a larger space for the exit of the people. “Many fell as they reached the doors, whore a few steps more would have carried them to fresh air and safety. As I look at it now 1 must have been walking on prostrate bodies as I struggled through the opening. All of our part) escaped in about tbe same manner as I did, but all of them suffered, so terrible in the matter of clothing that the first thing they did was to rush to tbe stores to buy wraps to cover them.” • Wanted Ten Million. The New York American says Cash ier Flandreau, of the New Rochelle City Bank, was astonished Wednesday morning when a man walked up to tbe window and threw dotrn a check for ten million dollars. “Give me the money quickly,” said be, “I have no time to wait. I’m on my way to the North Pole, and my automobile la waiting for me outside.” Flandreau~thought tbe man was joking, but when he refused to budge until he got the money, the cashier sent for the police. At tbe police sta tic n the man f said he was Edward Havey. He declared his automobile was so hot it could burn its way th.-ough the ice and reach tbe Pole, but if there was too much delay, it would cool off, and he woulcf have to poupone. the expedition. He offered to take all tbe police with him if they WAS FIRED. Jams* 1. Lana Was Fired from tho Cutoms Service. A SCHEME TO HOB CKIHESl. Recent Attempt at Blackmail cf Celestials in Charleston Be lieved to be Cause of^ Bunn's Dismissal. James A. Lunn, one of tbe Inspec tors of the United States customs de partment, lias been dismissed froti office by th; Treasury Department. It is understood^that tbe dismissal grew out iff the recent attempt b. certain part es to levy blackmail upon a number of Cblnaiben in this city. It is said that there is at least Om other Feden.1 employee who was con nected with tbe scheme that wa. practiced up m tbe celestials, and tha he will prob ibly also lose his job. It will b£ recalled that some weeki ago several Ubinamen appealed to Magistrate Orlando Levy for piotec- tion, believing that they were being forced to pay money illegally to cer tain agents, on the tftreat that they would be deported to China, If the money was not paid. It was ahown that about fifteen Chinamen had paid sums, varying from 110 to 120 each, for certain papers, which they bad been told were necessary for them, If they would continue their residen9e tn this country. The charges for tiie papers ran up to 1100, In some cases, but it is not known whether any of the Chinamen were mulcted to this extent. Magistrate Levy pronounced tbe matter a swindle and told the Chinamen hot to tbe agents. He explained to them dipobtavt discovery. New Treatment that Will Make Cot ton Absolutely Waterproof. The Saturday Evening Post says the recent discovery of a metliod by which any ordinary cotton cloth can be made as waterproof as sheet tin is regarded as a marked achievement in chemistry. Subject to the new treatment the flimsiest of fabrics becomes so impervi ous to water thaVU buldged or folded in the Shape of a bowl or pocket it will hold water for days without letting a drop escape through Ita nr eshes. The significant process in the new treatment is liberat ion of a gas, such as carbonic dioxide, simultaneously! with the precipitation ujon the fabric of various chemical reagents. The result is that this | as, in a fine ly dividedTstate, merges v. 1th the inso luble compound employed and is held fixed in this chemical costing in such a way that water, even under pressure, cannot pass through it. In the tests cotton cloth was passed through two bifehs. The first of these was prepared by adding to 100 parts of water 10 parts of stearic acid, one ahd one-half parts of sodium hydrate and two parts of sodium bicarbonate. This mixture was then boiled untif it was iincomplete solution. Then 500 parts of water were added and acetic acid comprised the second bath. — ■' jin the reactions caused by the meet ing of the ingredients of the twohat hs two insoluble compounds, aluminium stearate and aluminium hydrate, were precipitated upon the fabric, while at the same time carbonic dioxide was iberated and was found to be distri- >uted and held by the chemical ooat- ng that, as stated, water could not pass through the fabric. —— fw?! W, ri/r l?Tg THE HILL TROUBLE. The Reorganization of tho Columbia Mi ls Ma How Proceed. DECISION FILED WEDNESDAY. What ment would let him out. Havey’s wife ap ed high in the balcony and j f sa * d „ th , a I t b f was cr ? zy * i8tanc3jnustbe.renderedrf JuJ « e Phel P? held h,m for prompt any of them werc to be saved. Tbe chief at once called upon all of his men In the vicinity to abandon work ou the fire an<Bcome at once to tion. A Tbe Murdered His Wife. dispatch from Harrell iHlll to State says, Bob Fields; a well- the rescue. Th( building.was so dark ! known negro of this vicinity, com- and the smoke o thick Lhat-it wasifaitted ab awfut crime near here sev- they were 30 to Teel from the ground, a' fire behind and no method of escaping in .front. Those who reached the platform first eodeavored to hold their footipg and to keep back the crowd that pressed upon them from the rear. The effort was utterly i seless and in a few moments tbe Iron hdges were jammed with Crowds of women who screamed fought and found, ImpoAsibl to accomplish any thing until ligh s had beep st cured. Word was at ot ce sent to tbe Orr A Lockett Hardv are company, .wo lours east of t e theatre, im* that firm at once placed Its entire stocks of lanterns at the service o' the de partment. Over 200 lights uere quickly carried into the building ;nd the work of reset e commenced. So rapidly we e the bodies brought down that for )ver an hour there were, two strears of men pasting in and out of the do trway, the one carry ing bodies, tbe other composed ff men returning to get, more. They w&re carried into Thompson’s restaurant, which adjoins the theatre on the cast, where' all the available Space was given by the proprietors. THE WORK OF RELIEF. tore at each other like maniacs. This listed byt a brief Interval, ana tbe msh from the Interior of tbe building tiecame so violent that many of them were crowded off and fell to the ground in ths alley Tielow. Others Haped from tbe platform, fracturing legs and aims, and two were picked up at this point with fractured skulls, haying beep killed instantly. George H. Elliott, tecretary of the Ogden Gas company, was in a build direotly opposite from the theatre across this alley, aod noticing smoke went down to ascertain itq capse. When he reached the streets the wo men) were^afready dropping into the lliott immediately rukbed a leadder in the effort to save as many as possible. No ladder was available and the only method of as sistance they were able to devise ‘was to hurriedly lash some planks together and throw them across the end firmly on tbe iron framework.- Before this could be done, a fearful loss of life ensued, tbe women were being pushed over every Instant into the alley aod by the time tbe bridge was completed but few remained to take advantage of it. However, about two*dozen, it is believed, made their way across this marrow causeway., FIREPROOF CURTAIN FAILED, TO WORE. In describing the commencement of -the fire Foy attributed tbe extent of tbe catastrophe to the failure of the fire proof curtain to work properly. Because of tbia, he said, the flames readily obtained access to the main part, of tbe theatre and were by the draft, carrying with it gas as well as fire, swept np to the two' balconies, where tbe loss of life was greatest. The dead and wounded were placed upon chairs, tables and counters, one woman-«ven beUig placed for _ lack of a better place ou .top of a cigar case. Because of tbe tremendous-, tobpg which surrounde 1 tbe block in Wiy tbe theatre building st*od, It was not possible for the police to carry tbe dead and wounded any distance, and they were oonpoefled to atoi.it.. for ambulances at tue theatre. Although all t ie patrol wagons and ambulance Owned by the city as pressed - Into service*, they, ,,were utterly Inadequate to carry away the dead and in a short time there was a line of oorpses 50 feet lohg piled two and three* deep on the sidewalk ip front of the theatre. Jt was found necessary in order to convey the bodies rapidly ,to the morgue, and to tbe va rious undertaking establishments, to Impress trucks into service, and in these, upon costly blankets furnished by tbe dry goods stores In the vicinity, and covereved with the same material, the dead were hauled away practically like so much cord wood. The mer chants in the vicinity of the theatre sent wagon load after wagon load of blankets, rolls of linen and packages of cotton to be used in binding up the wounds of tbe injured and to cover the dead. Tbe drug stores furnished their stock to anybody that asked for it in the name of the people hurt in the fire. ’ Doctors and trained nurses were on the ground by the soore within half an hour after the extent of tbe calamity was "known, and every wounded person who was carried trom the building received prompt medical aid. A number of doctors waited at the entrance to the theatre with stethoscopes in band, aod as soon as a body which looked as ~t though It might have life was carried g !i “The fire began in the middle of out it was atohee examined and if the second act,” said Mr. Foy. “An electric wire broke, wai grounded, and from this tbe flames were started In dead placed on tbe pile lying on the sidewalk. The others were at once PIMM in ambulaaoe(i and wheeled 5. raldays ago. He and his wife, Em ma Fit Ids, -had several fights t nd quarrel; previoisly, but it seems t lat on this occasion he had fully made up h s mind beforehand to conmit -he awful crime. It appears tt&t “B<'b” and a Mr. Dan his hadUbeen out bi a Squirrel hunt and on returnTfig Sthpi>ed into a neighbor's house where hejnd his wife became engaged In a desper ate fight. His step cbildret., who vre twth of age, joined In the fght with their mother and were abou; to whip their-father, when he ran out, sel/.ed his,shotgun and shot his wife ini,he left side, causing death immediately. He has escaped. It was reported last Wednesday bight that he was seen at a “froli^” near Eastover. ...-. " Regarding Suffrage I aw.f The sec etary of state has recei- ed from Ind ana several requests for In formation regarding the si ffrage re- quirementoth the state. The trend ufthe-tetters indicates that the sub- 7ecf* TS t eing“"nsed—as -queries—for school anl college debates ' - ,Among the points upon which information is desired ar-: What per ceat of the taxes are jaleTby the negn popula tion; has :bere been any increase in the appropriation: few educational pur poses since the adoption of the present suffrage laws. The secretary of state ave to some of the applicants such ufdrfhtLtToh ’ as could be obtained without any great amount of research, while others were referred to Senator Tilltogh’s speech which was delivered about two years ago in tbe senate. Goes Over Falls. At Niagara Falls a rowboat con taining a man who was waving bis arms wildly was carried down the river and over the Horseshoe Falls Thursday afternoon. Tbe little craft and its solitary occupant were noticed first at some distance above tbe cata ract. Tne man was gesticulating frantically all the time, but persons who assembled along the shore and ran toward tbe falls were as^helpless as the doomed, passenger. With bated breath they watched as tbe boat tipped on the brink and disap>- peared in the waters below. Tbe man went to bis death crying bis de spair. No one has reported a missing boat, and tbe name of tbe man has not been lesrned. Four Thousand Idle. A dispatch from Philadelphia says as a result of the high price of cotton 4,000 men, women and children em ployed In textile mills in that city have been laid, off indefinitely. This enforced idleness will continue until cotton quotations tumble. Several other textile employee have been Idle since Christmas while tbe mills and machinery are being repaired. It 1* predicted tiiat the new process, pay any money to wtrfcTrts protected by/patent,- wfii work for UmOlympiamill*, thecourt re. a revolution in the ^manufacture of J ** * -1 “ water-wroof garments, inasmuch as it will enable the people engaged in this industry to turn out a mucli greater variety of mackintoshes and other rain garments and at« lower cost than is ible In the making of waterproof cldthing at present. that tbe papers which bad been given to them were not authorized by the government, and that there was no intention of the government to deport them, if they could not produce the papers. Tbe magistrate further ad vised them to take the matter up with Mr. Rehnlck, the representative of the commissioner of immigration, as he was powerless to give them aay relief. It appears that tbe Chinamen did carry their troubles to Mr. Uennick, and according to tbe understanding which Mr. Rennick refuses to affirm or deny, he reported tbe matter to tbfe department at Washington, with tbe result that a secret service man was sent to Charleston to Investigate the fraud. His report was filed last week in Washington, and on Christ mas Eve a telegram was received by Collector W; p. Crum, instructing him to take up tbe badge of office from Lunn. This was followed by an offi cial communication through tbe mail on Saturday afternoon/ dismissing Lunn from office. Deputy Collector Withers stated Tuesday that the department at Washington had acted on its own in formation throughout the entire mat ter- He said that the badge was first taken up and he presumed that an opportunity bad been given to Lunt to explain Ids connection with the matter witli which bis na ie wat mentioned, snd for reasons w ich the department •sonfidered suific: nt, the later coinou nication was received a’* the custom ' house, dismiss! :tg bin from the ser /ice.—Charleston Post. TO AVOID FREEZING. Two - Men In it Boat Boxed Eacl O her All Nlffhr. ~~ The New York World says Willlan ponaly, puprietor of a sborefron lintel at Lindenhurst, L. I., and Jbbt “The The otel at Lindenhurst, L. I., Laplig, of Nt w York, left Lindenhurst before sunrbe ou Saturday for a day’* gunning on the Great South Bay Early in the forenoon they starteiHae* home, snow i quall having set in, wltt every indication that the day' wai going to be i augh. _ ; "They had tone but a short distauct when the a ast of the little botol snapped, wbh greafi difficulty fa T er , m rescued the sail, and reshipped tht Inlowft «Hi fives mast, but ttu gale soon whipped * A tht UN sail to ribbo is and they were forced to scud east before the brefze. At nightfall .the ice closed in arounc them and prevented the boat fronr diriftlng further. The mercury drop ped below the fiero mark. Tbe men bad not tbe slightest shelter, and for twelve hour* they had to jump up and down and spar with each other to keep from freezing At daybreak Sunday Ponaly hoist ed a flag distress on an oar. The signal was recognized by Capt. Philip Sammis, who, with his brother An drew, went to the rescue. When they reached the men Laplig was nearly dead, but Doualy was not much worse for tbe exposure. Chester O. Ketcham, of Babylon, and Capt. “Taid.” Saipmis were shoot ing oh the bay on Saturday in tbeir yacht Virginia. In trying to make harbor they found their sheet rope frozen and the blocks cboked with ice. They abandoned tbe boat and with difficulty got ashore in a small boat, the ice cut the Virginia’s cable and she drifted high up on tbe ice and, it is feared, will be a total wreck. - .I. y Much Small Pox. special dispatch from Gordon, Ga., to the Augusta Chronicle says the email pox situation there is as- summing a critical aspect. As yet no steps have been taketrto quarantine the towm ^ltough the postoffioe is practically closed an account of the mill clelrks on the train refusing to exchange mails with the postmaster. Tbe postmaster and several members of his family are down with the small pox. Up to this time only ten oases hare developed. Free from Sentimentwlliy. 1 Stories of betrothed lovers marry- og when one of them was going to die immediately have always a good deal of pathos and rofioance in them, but nothing like the practical pru dence and wisdom of tbe one in tobicb a Hoboken girl recently moved as the principal figure. She went to the Philippines to marry her soldier boy lover, found him pretty nearly dead from consumption, took the first steamer back, and on her way found another wooer, whom she espoused as soon as they came ashore. Start ing off toitb such a fund of good sense aod freedom from sentimental notions, they ought to “live happily ever af ter” according to the formula of story books, wblcb ofttimes take things for granted with more liberality tban the general run of experience justifies. -~ A Biff Save. The State says: “It seems that every variety-/)! graft has prospered in Rt. Louis. Ttie city has been paying •130,000 a year to a political contrac tor for the removal and reduction of garbage and now, through the annul ment of the contract by proceedings growing out of the celebrated bribery charges, it is found that Die work can be done, for nothing. A company that has been doing the work in Denver for several years proposes to take over the job in St. Louis on the same terms. A reduction of $130,000 in a city’s yearly expenses is no small item, and Circuit Attorney Folk’s vigorous in vestigations have done ttiat much at least.” the Olympia Mill la Required to Do. i ' V No Receivenbip for the Preeeflt. • * ' • ■ • . * • ' „, , In tbe United States circuit court at Charleston Wednesday Judge Si mon Lon and Brawley rendered tbeir opinions in tbe suits against the Co lumbia oottoo'mills, which were ar gued last week, tbe opinions allowing the plan of reorganization of the mills to continue; T’~~~ —' In the first case, commonly spoken of as the Hearings suit against the Granby and Olympia mills, wblcb pro vided for tbe Granby and the Rich land mills to be recognized as credi tors of the Olympia, tbe judgerslgn- ed tbe compromise agreement drawn up by tbe attorneys representing tbe Deariogs and tbe defendants, provid ing for tbe setting sside of 50 per cent, of tbe mills’ holdings of Olympta stock, $150,000 10 the case of Gretfbf aod $75,000 injhe case of Richland ^ mills, in the first morts&age hoods, which are to be issued according to tbe plan of the reorganization, the same to be held by the court, pending the adjddlcatton bf the claims and differences between the mills, which are in process of adjustment, the mills to share like all other creditors 4n all further proportionate distribution of bonds aod settlement of tbe pending claims. In tbe Phinizy suit, foi a receiver served its opinion on the appointment of a receiver but will grant the tem porary injunction, unless tbe defen dants enter a bond to the sum of $20,- 800, ibe amount of tbe holdings pt stock by Phinizy and Hull, for this performance, of such decrees as may be issued io tbe case, which is now to be given a full hearing. Tbe decision of tbe court allows tbe plan or reorganization to proceed and the promoU rs of the scheme are given the opportunity to demonstrate its successiul working. The decision'in the Phinizy read as follows^ “t- The Way to Farm. The Columbia State says: Orangeburg farmer—-told of in State—who got a check for $17,040.01 for his. cotton crop and iias more than sufficient supplies to run him next year, all home raise 1, is as well fixed as a map can reason ibly wish to be. The high price of cotton Is of little advantage to Die farmer who a lien on his crop in advance, but it la a flrie thing for the fellow who first raises his own supplies an 1 plants cot ton as a money crop. I>e the price high or low, he Is oft' the safe Side of the market, and stands to win.” An Engineer’* Error; — At Fort Wayne, Ind., one wa»lull ed, two seriously Injured and seven others more or less' hurt in a headon collision between Pennsylvania limit ed train No. 5/ westbourffl, and easb- bound freight train at Larwill, station last Wednesday. 4 The wreck was due $o a mistake by Engineer Crowell, of the freight train, in reading orders. He had been given orders to meet the limited at Larwill at 5. JO but misread his orders as 6:30 and was taking his time to make the meeting point; ^ Killed Hia Stater. . - A dispatch to Tbe State says while «little son of Mr. M. A. Chapman of Cross HIU in Laurens County was loading a parlor rifle Saturday after noon last, tbe gun was accidently discharged, killing his 3-months-old sister, who had just been put in her bed in the room a few moments before by the mother. It was a deplorable tragedy and touch sympathy is felt for Dm afflicted family. A Freak Prisoner. The State says the authorities of Cross HIU, Laurens County, have sent Henry Brown, a footless negro farmer of that section, to the county Jail to serve a sentence of 30 days for being' drunk' and disorderly and resisting ar rest. Brown la about 36 s ad lost bis feet several yews ago., in a railroad accident. He walks on bis knees and Is a rough chancier when drinking. This case comes up on a bill for an Injunction and receiver,-a rale to show cause, the return theretO/End affidavits filed on both sides. Tbe case as made by tbe bill la that tbe complainant* purchased preferred stock in tbe Olympia mills from tbe agent of the mills in Augusta, that is to say, Leonard Phinizy 12 shares for $12,480. ami Mrs. Alice S. HuU eight shares for $8,320; that before they would purchase they required assurances that tbe Olympia mills company would never execute a mortgage of its property so as to create a lien antecedent to tbepre* ferred stock. That this assuranoe was given by the production of a cer tified copy of k ; resolution of the Jtookbolders of tbe Olympia mills to this effect fortified by the opinion of W. H. Lyles, Esq., counsel for and a director in the mill company, as to tbe binding force of the riaolutioA and its enforcement by injunction were It violated. This having been shown them, * and in consideration thereof, they paid their money which went into tbe treasury of the com pany. The bill then chargee that notwithstanding this resolution and contract on tbe faith of which alone complaints purchased and paid for tbeir stock, the directors proposed to the stock hoktaseaad the stockholders ~ resolved to execute a mortgage an all the property of the Olympia mills for the puipose of funding ita debts to the amount of $1,750,000. The bill does not deny the solvency of tbe company. It charges gross mismanagement on tbe part of tha directors, all of whom, hut two, bare resigned, and, i then hare been ap pointed in. their stead. Tbe return is voluminous. It denies tbe allegation ff the_bill as to tbe tbSoom- -—A purchase of the stock from" pany; and denies the validity of tore resolution and conttect under which tbe stock was purchased. To go into a detailed statement of the affidavits would be as tedious as It toould be unnecessary. It is enough to say that complain ants prlma facie have made out their case as to tbe purchase of tbe preferred stock from tbe oompany, the assur ances under which it was purchased, the production of the resolution of a meeting of tbe stockholders agreeing not to put any mortgage upon the, property of the mills, so long as any. preferred stock was outstanding; that this was the moving consideration for tbe purchase by them, and that tbe money they paid went into the treas ury of the company. w Under these circumstances, as the rnatfer sow presents itself, they are entitled to s temporary injunction no- less they are protected from toss on tbeir purchase. It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged and decreed, That a temporary in junction as prayed for in the bill do is sue, unless the defendant, the OlyttK pia oottoo mills, do, within 15 days from the entry of this ord« enter'itt- to bond, approved by a judge of this court, to stand to, abide by and per form such decree as may he entered in favor of tbe complainants, snd < of them, as tbe result of a full 1 ing of this cause. The matter of the appointment of a receiver is reserved. , —.. . Charles H. Siwontoe, Circuit J WM. H. BRAWLBT, r jto U.M Dee. 2M»03. ~ Y me Wm,