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YOL. XXVII. BARNWELL, S. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1904. NO 29 TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. In tha Stern Tnrrent of the Battleahip MiaaiourL Ease TWXVTT EIIX XU AES KILLED Twelve Inch Gan, One of the Finest la the United States Navy, Exploded Alter Three Rounds. A dispatch from Pensacola, Fla., says by the explosion of 2,0D0 pounds of powder la the &fter 12-inch turrent and in the handling room of the battleahip Missouri? Capt. Wm. S. Cowles eacmnandlng, 29 men were. Instantly killed and five of whom will die. ,, , The Missouri was on the*target range with the Texas and Brooklyn at practloe about noon r Wednesday when a charge otnowder in the 12- injured, two inch left hand gun exploded, ignited from gases, and dropping below ignit ed four charges of powder>in the handling room and all exploded, and only one naan of the entire turret and handling crew,stirvLves r ~t But for the prompt and work of Capt. Cowles In flooding the handling room and magazine with water, one of the magazines would have been exploded and the ship would have been destroyed. Capt. Cowles, completely overcome .-with the disaster, referred all news paper men to Lieut- Ilammef, "the ordinance officer." The latter gaveout a statement ' >f the explosion and its probable caus<. According to him, about noon after the first pointer of the after 12-inch officer. His wife, Mrs. Juliet L. David son, resides in Baltimore. . Lieut. Ernest A. Weichart (jmdo r grade) was attached to the Cleveland, and It Is assumed at the navy depart ment that he was aboard tbe Missouri at the time of tbe disaster as an um pire during target practice. His father J. F. Weichart, is a resident jf Danbury, Conn. ■, Lieut. Lridley was a son of tbe late *Opt. Qridley, who commanded the flagship of Admiral Dewey when he sailed into Manila bay and fought tbe Spanish ships. His mother lives at Erie, Pa. * x Midshipman Thomas Ward, Jr., was a s6n of Gen. Thomas Ward, who recently retired from the active list in the adjutant general's office in the United States army. He was ap pointed from New York. Midshipman Wm. E. T! Neumann was a "native of Califorpia. His mother Is living at Honolulu. . ... ONE MAN’S IDEA. Capt. Patty Gives His Reasoi for the N merous Murders. THAT TAKE PLACE IN OUR STATE Wanted at Kauaas. Governor Heyward has received a lelter; frouj Gen. II. C.—Gorbinr tho- rrotrappear to be aphenomenai reeord He Thinks it Started Darina Recon-, ■truetion Times and Has Grown Worse Since That Time. -The fact tliafc 222 homifcldes were committed in South Carolina during the year 1903, has been published. Capt. Charles Petty, of Spartanburg, S. C., was asked the other day what in hb bpinion were the causes leading to such a record. He replied: “Our own citizens were less shocked by the bloody record than those of other States, for we had by degrees got accustomed to homicide. * It did. commander of the Atlantic cjjvlsion stating that it te desired that some of the troops of the state participate in the joint field movements to be held at that point in September The letter states that it is impossible to mH ~ptljrvttenil of the militia of each state 0 1 in this division, that the quota from this .state would be about 1019. al though if a largex number be furnish ed it is requested that the depart-, ment be notified and perhaps arrange ments can te made. Under the ap portionment however not over 18,000 even to our law-abiding, conservative citizens. *,They understood how it was brought about. It would be well for people outside of the State to learn that this record is only the log ical result of many years’ infraction of law. “Tli® organization of the Union league, principally among negroes, four or five years after Appomattox, was the flrst“Step. It required little time for these organizations to learn the power of the mob. ^ntf they under stood that courts, would not “hurt them respect. Lynching was the propet punishment for a certain crime and when done for a misdemeanor, or for no crime, the perpetrator^ were not punished. . ,r' v t “It was only one step from killing a negro to killing a white man. So it has dome to pass in a most logical way ttiat white men are shot down with impunity these days. “It has got to be that thefe is not much respect of color In the killing business. All one has to prove or swear tb is that some one scowled at him or that he had at some time threatened him. Oftce sure of his Witness, he irtay shoot, “While the peopTS are taught by their leaders that it Is no harm to kill a negro suspected of crime or a white man who has made threats, this hom icide mania will not stop. There an thousands of good conservative peo pie who do not believe in it, but their voice is powerless against the tide whicii has been set rolling for the last ten years. “SomeiJf the jurors are always in OHOiT STORIES. Peculiar Couduct of Some Restless Spirits from the Other World. GHOST RS7EAL8 BURIED CITY. ♦d yds (h'vlHbtfi can- participator-the . for any Qutr.agy.'. cyriiiqitted. pay being for 15 days. As some of | .“The second step was tlie .orgamza- the companies cannot be absent for tion of the Kuklux Klans, the object over 7 dajs and in this way perhaps; of which was to check and repress the more can go. Tbe movements are j lawlessness and. iiolence ''of the lea- to be trade under the act of 1903. sec- guers. After striking terror to the! 15 and 21 and the department negroes and some of the mbite natives anjdit’is impossible to Rnd 12, men who will convict for murder. Espec ially is this the case when the accused belongs to the party in control, and which has had jntich to do in the elec- tion of judges. Men who are good and "true under .ordinary circum stances cannot stand the pressure of the church and partisan politic when brought to bear in trials for murder. “So South Carolina scored 222 homicides last year. Our* people have been years working up to that record. It wili-be a decade or two -before-we can rctmeo-wir >»lepe and get back on a high plane, where hu man life is sacred and the man who takes it wantonly is considered a felon. ' “But just now,'when one of our Seme Spooks (That Stoned a House. Strange Reappearance of a Young Woman in Maine ' Haunted'Spot. ' ’ ■ J- Coadepec, a little village in the State of Michoacan, Mexico, ha# al ways had a reputation 1 for ghosts and spirits, In the past year, especially, inhabitants of the air or the streams or the graves of the many dead .that lie buried„all about the yjllage have been wandering about llkfe a colony of reckless night owls. They have not been the least shy, like ordinary ghl sts, for they have - - been,scen by hundreds. In fact, there sympathy wittT this seirtslment which ^ hardly an inhabitant of the place has led to the reckless oasing ol lhe, K h . t; hR , ^r^adl an acdualntahce piece had fired his string and the ^iiV^“krioW^“mIn\^ratUnd; j who^united"'With'thTmTthey ex- | leading; politicians preaches the shot- transportation and pay to be furnish- | tended their power and struck down ' E im policy for negroes at every pub ic ed. tbe number of days the companies some innocent men and began to turn meetin k t() which he is second pointer bad fired tbe third shot of his string the charge ignited. The fourth shot wi.s being loaded and from . all indication, the first half of the ^ - rammed home and or 1 ^ 01 charge had b en the second sec and whether Septem- ^ould be the most suitable against each other. Just then, N^hen ^iate for the encampment. As there were shocked and uneasy citizens d^y and answer the request at once but will ( brought its strung arm to bear on Lite; look iuto the matter. home, when ti e ga«es Dorn the shotn ! previously fir d of portions of cloth cover Igi ited the powder^^The breech was op n and a dull thud gave notice of something unusual. No loud report ws* made, but flames were seen to leap from every portion of the turret. < „ A few secorls later another explo sion sonewhat more tierce occurred. This was in the handling r xur. below Fell to Her Death. — , L After chatting merrily with the other girl's In the shirtwaist factory at No. 29 Willet street New York, Uaulide Seder, a pretty young girl, twenty-five years old, walked to the -open window during the lunch hour situation and the klans scattered like I thin mist before a driving wind. “Then came a few years of the 1 ; darkest political history that any I State ever made. Ignorant negroes, from rice fields and plantations, call- J iug themselves a legislature, inaugar- ated a system of robbery and financial fraud that has m paralleiT , , „ An , . „ and sat on the sill. ■ A moment later j “The white people endured all that, ^ l ^ l r ,' 0 "/ ter body, crushed and hleediua, »as but not without prot««t. : on the sidewalk. The skull had 11, he ld conreutiohs and .■hadlgoted. Hrequartorareresound. f crushed, and ed and t very man of the ship nsp)nd- 1 meeting to which he is invited, in this State and abroad these homicides will continue. The old proverb, ‘Like priest like people,’ is as true as the other. . “But South Carolina wiU rise one day and free heiWT from this charge of wanton killing. The disgrace does not attach to the State, but to those men of power and influence who hold' murderers up to-honorable men, and give them great ovations when ac- S ed and elect them to high and rable offices. The State of South ina is not disgraced by the bloody ed and the magazine Amt handling rooms were .flojded with water In less than live seconds after the first explosion, two streams of water were being played into the rooms and when volunteers were^called foWevery , and shcsavr m) prospect of marriage for herself. The gifl's sis ter. Mrs. David Freedman, with whom *s'ie lived at No. 340 Eist They open- I ly held conventions and begged the death was Instac-j carpetbag government to hold up, teneous. Although none of them could But It was too late, s »y whether she had jumped or fallen, “The State government, like the tne girl’s friends believe she died a Kuklu^ had become unmanageable. syjclde from the fact that she told They would not listen to reason or some of them she did not want to live argument. Their only idea was that Eigth street, ^aid Miss Seder bad plenty of admirers, and she wa4 con vinced the deatti was accidental. man of the ship responded, eager to go Into the turrets and lescue the crew. * •_ . - Capt. Cowles gave his commands and but for b>s presence of mind to gether. with ilie officers of the ship u the Missouri would»have gone down. The second explosion occuried near one bTibe magazines and so h >t was the fire that the hrasswork of the magazines was melted. Smoke and the fumes of the burned ponder made it arlmoet impossible to enter either tbe turret or handling room, but officers and men—with hankerchiefs over their faces made efforts to rescue tbe men inside. Leading the rescuing party was CapJ. Cowles. The officers endeavored tokeepliim from going below, as men fell unconscious as they entered and had to be pulled out by their comrades, but unheeding their advice the com manding officer rushed below follow-1 ed by Lieut. Hammer, the ordinance. officer, and Lieut. Clelaad and Davis, j Capt,, Cowles caught up a dying blue jacket-in his arms and staggered any longer, as all of her sisters were ] so long as there.v.as a dollar, to steal da ‘ ‘ - record.,’’—New York 7 Sun. that has not made an acquaintance with some spirit or other from the past. Jose 'Miranda of all the people seems to have profited most 'by~Thelr acquaintance. One night severa weeks ago as he was coming home from a neighboring village a ghost all in whitb, ils-gray cowl falling back from its shoulders leavlnjrita head ex posed to view, met him. It was standing between him and the moon, which was shining brightly through the hollow sockets-of its eyes and a bullet bole tn-its skull. , ' —ItTftood 1 still and-pointed with one bony hand toward the mountains. Moranda was unable to move, but the horse, as soon as it caught sight of the ghost made for tbe*vHlage as fast as It could run. ' A week later Miranda was riding along this same rea l when tbe ghost met him in the same place. Tills time It seized the animal by the bri dle with one hand and pointed with the other In the direction of the hills. Jose thought he had better" humor the ghost, and turning round went in the direction Indira ted. In about a quarter of an hour they arrived at the fbothnis. Tha ghost stopped and pdliited to, a hugy stone at the foot of a tall tree and then im mediately disappeared. It was twe' weeks before Miranda could persuai e any.person .to o with him to the so >t. which he hai * mafk- distracted by the demonstrations. When they '.told their st »ry a former resident, who now lives n Hartford, announced that he had known for years that the place was hauhted. He had not told any one for fear of the ridicule of bis neighbors. . -V > The demonstrations were not only in the house, but In the barn and around the premises, ftjgularly dvery night at 12 o’clock a team of horses rushes from the direction of the vil lage, rumbles over the little bridge at a slashing gait, and then disap pears. It never reaches the house. Instead, ghostly voices Address the members of the family who have the temerity to live there, the voices coming from all partarof the house, but never so clearly that they can be located. * On one memorable night a member of the family went tb the barn just at dusk without a lantern. A figure stood at the corner of the building, and he ran to learn wh&t the straggler wanted about the the place. The figure sileh'tly and mysteriously melted into tbe shadows and was gone. —The- foundation of the story was AN AWFUL DISASTER. A Russian Pattieship Biliks With lix Hucdred of Her Crow. THE SHIP TOUCHED A HUE. laid seventy-five years ago. At that time a young woman, handsome and apparently happy, was betrothed to marry a neightxiring farmer. One evening she went into the vil lage and late' that night she was found dying*b/ the roadside in front of the house. She was buried In the little private jurlal ground, and the general opinion seems to be it is her umiuiet spirit which Is disturbing the peace of the dwellers in the old house. Two are in district in Ulster, Ireland, a stale of great excitement bwiniJ to suppcsedsirpftFfiftrtinil VtSll&- tlons. In Qwurty Cavan no one stlrn out after dark, and the people are said to be in a state of ierror, flg for weeks past the most unearthly S'.unds have J>een heard every night. In the farmhouse of a man named Thompson in 'Jounty Tyrone, stones und bricks have been hurled through |lhe windows, and churns, milk pahs and other utensils have disappeared from the dairy, although the doors 1 have been locked and strict watch kent,. v. ' ■■ ' .-re, l '* . - The RuMlaa Squadron HadOooaOnt fro in Port Arthar to Meet Ja panese Fleet, and Wm Returning. *‘ H’s A dispatch from Port Arthur to the Czar says: ‘ ‘The Fetropavlovsk struck a mine, which blew her up gnd she turned turtle. Our squadron was under Golden Hill. The Japanese squadron was approaching. Vice Ad miral Makaroff evidently wai lost. Grand Duke Cyril was saved.. Be la slightly injured. Capt. Jakovleff was saved, though severely injured, as were five officers and 32 men, all more or less injured. The enemy's fleet haa -disappeared.—Rear "Admiral Prinea Ouktolsky lias assumed command of the fleet." Another dispatch from Viceroy A1-' exleff to the Czar says: , “According to reports from the commandant at Tort Arthur, the battle ships and cruisers went out to meet the enemy, but in consequence of the enemy re ceiving reinforcements, making his total strength thirty vessels, our squadron returned to the roadstead, - whereupon the Petropavlovsk struck a mine, resulting in her destruction. . Grand Duke Cyril, who was on board, was saved. He was slightly injured. The whole squadron then re-efitefWT T the port. Tlie Japanese are now off Cape Liao-Sban. No; reports have Goes for rievelanU. \ • In the House of Representatives Thursday Mr. Cochran, Democrat of Missouri, attacked ex-PresidebtCle'-e- land'for forcing his,' tininci.il polic es on the country which, -he said, were at variance with those x>f the majeri- ty of voters, and said thaV Mr. Clce- tt was their pm.iege to grab it. This.. land’s arbitrary way of doing so wa! a ! high handed rapine and robbery under menace to Const!tuticnargovernment. ! the name of the law was a thirdstep ' Mr Cleveland was a man whose in this downward course. friendship means destructh n, whose (—“Tlien came Ute famous campaign j touch means paralysis and e hose si p- 1 of 187(i, when AVade Hampton was ! port means dishonor.”^ The ex-presi- elected governor. After the election dfiut had been exiled never again to . an open boast was made as to the use reinstate Iilmself in the confidence of Forfeited their iiat.l> ^ , - of tissue ballots./It was considered-a his countrymeo." He said thatnvw The ColumhlaJiecprd says thecoun- j jjig j 0 ke for minors to vote. 7 the country was returning to patriot- ty of Richland is richer by $1 000 by I “All this seemed well enough until i sm vanity, he would commend to ihe order.of Judge Gary Thursday a f e w years later when the same r those in charge of tbe booms of c?r ed by a cross. He sucoeded'fc persuading an liidiiin and a ary from Mexico City .to aa impany him. When they got to the pia e they tried to movi the big stone, b it could nQt. They then dug under ( uc side of TVttbd let it roll down the-1 ill. After ahutit an hour's wi rk Urey came upon a circle of skullr stone axes and relics of a Ion A college story that is often told-at Harvard is cited sometime^ asshow- ing the effect of an apparitloa upon the one who beholds It. The story is of a youth who toek lt into his wlsj} head to endeavor to con vert an infield companion of his by appearing as a ghost before him. He Examination'showed thkt>tbe big [ stone had carved upon its sTrfacea gigantic hand and that the (.ircle^Tr Skulls, as tht place is now called, was- { part of the r« mains of a great ancieirt - city which tud been'hurled by land slides. • years morning. The case against John Hays i methods used against the carpet-bag I and J. Ti. RjeeVwill bejemerobered as governfneni were used in our primary the second pickpocket affair during Elections. It was evident that men List fair week.^ Hays and Rice were w jio had been familiar with election arrested on-a street car while endeav oring’ to rob Mr. Newham and were first committed to Jail in default of *1,000 bond each,.-"This was after^. wards reduced to *500 each and this was deposited in actual cash by the stagge to the deck with him. The bluejacket with two others from the handling room had crawled partly from their place pf duty when they had been overcome. , Before the fumes of the burning powder had left the turret, officers and meo were lifting out the dying and dead mett. Three minutes after tbe explosion all w^re on deck anil the surgeons from-the MIssoiirf, Texas and Brook lyn were attending to these not dead. The 25 men of Jhe turret were found lying Inji hea^— They had starfedTfar the exit when tbe first explosion oc curred and bad just reached there when the mere terrible explosion ifi the handling room occurred, which burned and st -angled them to death. Lieut. Davidson", tbe officer io charge of the turret, Jiftj.. evidently men's friends the two men being -£e»-ftrust each other, leased. Wnen the case was called at this term of court neither was pre- sent. Solicitor Thurmond made mo tion for a forfeit of the cash to the bounty and this morning J udge Gary issued the fornuU order requiring the clerk of court to turn over the money to the county treasurer frauds from their youth would exer cise the same met iiods in closely con tested elections that concerned only the white-people. It came Id pass that election laws had to be made rig id siiowing that our people could not tain men seeking nomination to bear the I):mocratic in mind that one At NasOpv lie, in the towfv of Bur- rillville, R. 1, there was a large house whlcli badTocapme time been bom barded with bowers of stones. The people of the wrought-up vill age, af iitlhn rdlngty dTSssed himself up in the ' * " ^ usual ghost attire, having previously extracted the ball from a pistol which always lay nearthe head of his friend’s, bed. Upon first awakening and seeing the appawtlon, Brown, the youth who wa* to be frightened, very coolly looked his companion, the ghent, in • the face And said: p< ~' * “I know -you; this is sjfood joke; you see 1 am not alarmed. . Now you may vanish.” i The gnost stood atill. ^JiGcTon now,” siid Brown. “That is enough. 1 shall become angry. I Get dtH^of here. Still the ghost did ndt nove. “By ,”burst forthBrown, you don’t get out of he e in minutes I’ll show you ” r* “h three of thd-mr^t eircuitous routes possible , weeks of careful iuvesLigaliuu aud or imaginable was a certiflcate of good character from Mr. Cleveland, “late Republican president of the United SUites.”' With the ^inauguration-ot. Hampton government came understanding between-the two races, for Hampton was the governor of all the people.. Then followed Hugh S, Thompson, now living in New York, and Gen.- Johnson Hagood. good and many conferences with , their neigh bors, are at a loss to explain where the stones could have come from. They had dl heard the bombard ment often, and as many as fifty men. women and childf^n had surround 1 It is practically certain the diver ] the.house, looked behind every imprisonecTunder seventy feet of wa- and stone wall within a hundred Sad Fate of a Diver. He waited theJLimc sta ed, deliber ately leveled his pistol and fired. When he saw that the immovable fig ure stood stock still Brown uttered a shriek of fright, became convulsed and soon after ward died. The very moment he. believed It to be a ghost his human nature gave w ^v. r? - r • , — ter at the bottom of tire Jersey City Is dead? yet Tnen at the pumps on the raft are still pumping away with a forlorn hope that they are giving him the breath of life. The efforts of.rescuers, including four divers and oilier • experts, aided • by scores of landsmen, to save one 4«A OiH rhe Ra<«. Here is a farmer’s mode for ridding bis premises of rats and mice: : lessness was not encouraged. Lyncli- | ing was not advised in public’or pri able men, wiio earnestly desired and i . labored for the welfare of the- whole ] Itfe, have been ceaseless for tire thirty -— ——henre that the unfortunate man lias adminiitration law- been.lying on his back * * "Stale: ‘During their given some comm* he was on top of tbe heap of men, having fallen there after he bad al lowed them t pass him to get out of tbe turret. The bodies were hardly recogniza- able, theterri ile arid quick tire having burned dlothit g from the bodies of the men and the flesh hung from them in_ shreds. The faces were mutilated by the smoke anc flames. Onl&one man was breathing when the turret crew was. rescued ind be died a moment after be reached deck. WHO THE OFFICERS WE A dispatch from Washf&i&ffn^aays both MidkhlpmerrNeumann and Ward are understood to have been engaged to be marHet. It is said that M id* shlpman Neumann was to be married to tbe sister of Midshipman Ward. The two midshipmen were classmates and intimate friends. At their re quest they were assigned to tbe same ship. Lieut. Wm. C. Davldsontra native of lad Una aid was appointed from South Dakota He was assigned to the Missouri when she went into com you will sprinkle sulphur on your barn floor and through your corn as you gather it, there will not be a rat nor mouse bother it. I have done this sever al years and have never been bothered with rats or mice. 1 have some old corn in my crib at present and not a rat-nor mouse can be found. In stack- ibg hay of oats, sprinkle on the ground and little through each lua and my Word for it, rats or mice can’t stay there."" A pound wlllbe sufficient to preserve a large barn of corn’, and it is good for stock and will^nbt hurt tbe corn for bread. ' -— Htolen PortatWe la Btaaipa.^ W r ith the arrest of Eddie Fay, Post- Inspcctor James E. .Stuart nks the mvsteery as to the Identity ‘the men who some months ago rob bed the Chicago postoffloe of *74,000 In stamps, has been fully cleared up. Inspector Stuart said that be was sure Fay planned the whole affair and pro fited most by It. Fay is now In jail at Superior. Wis., and is to be tried for robbing the postofflee there. Of tbe others implicated in the robbery “Liud” Howllhan is in tbe peniten tiary at Raleigh, N. C., “Tom Turke” and “Australian Mac” are now at> large, and “Jo” Hopkins is dead, having been killed by “Dan" Kipley in a fight over a woman. vate. They soughtjto enforce the law impartially and UT preserve good or der. “For ten-years or longer it looked as" if the State would retrace the downward steps she had made .from 186»90 1878, ^nd that the white peo pie would get back to the good old ion of conducting elections fairly an\i having a high regard for human lifq. It was a hopeful period. ut for various reasons there was unrest among the people of the State. Theyvhad lost confidence in them- selvesVnd every tiling. It was then that a shjyrp, shrewd man, understand ing weil'their cot dition, took ad\an- tage of die situation and assumed with one foot caught between the huge lead and wooden bait and iron flange of the b g exhaust pipe. This ball valve had been lowered over the mouth of the exhaust pipe to act as a stopper.* It did oet-itt exactly, but established a powerful current, which suclpd the diver's foot into a crevice and held him fast. He was trying to repair the leak when he was caught. Since 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon no signals Iiave come from him. ^ - ~ yards, and had even, scoured a distant grove of trees, but they had never b^gn able to catch a glipap^ of any kind of being either flesh oj in spirit that could have been suspected ot throwing stones? Finally, the owner of the bouse of- man's] fered a reward of *25 for the solution of the mystery. Then the bombard ment ceased." M.auv people ar gued that a human being wa-» at the bottom of the whole affair, contend ing that ghosts would not stop their devitmeut'simply because price had been set on their apprehension. “But if it isn’t ghosts,” asks one man who Isn’t afraid of being called “bughouse*’.Vwhat then is it?" tHnbUs, Gft., the Fottuae. place where the city carts was Infested -by . The North Woods Cemetery, Haines street and York road, Phila delphia, was the scene Of much ex citement among the residents of that A Great Country. The latest census bulletin estimates the Increase in the population of the i a rly United States since 1900 at 4,000,000, Hole, a dump Its garbage, negroes who would search there for articles which they might be able to use, but which had been discarded by the people of the town. But the “ha’nts" are on the place now, and no colored manVitl go within blocks of it. % The old pine coffin which contained the body of Charley Sparks a negro murderer who was hanged, had been thrown Into the hole, Hla v mother bought him anothercoffin, and when the colored undertaker refused ' the okTpine one in exchange dumped it Into Fortune Hole "ATITtlle" peifrb bby Soured a piece j of tbe Sparks coffin and, congratulat- at 1 ing-iiimself upon having such a fine piece of kindling, carried it home. As ’ soon as his mother found out that It was a piece of a coffin, she^bad it thrown into tbe river, and ever since has resorted to divers voodoo methods been received from tile acting oom- npmder of the fleet up to tire time this dispatch was sent” _ DETAILS OF THE DISASTER. A dispateb-from St Petersburg • says: The awful disaster to the bat- — tie ship Petropavolvsk at Port Arthur, witii tire loss of almost her entire crew of over six hundred men and the death of Vice Admiral Makaroff, has been a terrtffc blow. It trotrtd have fallen less heavily .if the ship and the commander-ia-chief of the fleet had. been lost in battle, but to be the re sult of "another accident, following upon the heels of a succession of tragedies of* which the Port Arthur fleet lias been the victim, has created _ something like consternation. ““Reverses we can endure,” said a prominent Russian, “but to have the Petropavlovsk meet the fate of the Yenesei and the Boyarip la heart breaking.” Besides, it has Just be come known that tire battle ship Pol tava, several weeks ago, had a hole rammed in tier by the battle ship Se- vostopol while the latter was manoev- uring in the harbor of Port Arthur. The day lias been one of intense ex- _ citAment in St. Petersburg. Tire first 4,inkling of the catastrophe leaked out ^on account of a telegram to Grand Duke Vladimir, from his son, Grand puke Boris, announoing tire loss of tire Petropavlovsk and the wounding of Grand Duke Gyrii l .who was first officer. The Grand Duchess Vladimir was almost*rant ic on the reoelpt of tire telegram, being convinced that t>ie_message was only a precursor ot worse news, as it was signed by Grand Duke Boris/instead of by the aide to Grand Duke Cyril, Lieut. Von Kube. Lieut. Von Kube had gone down with the ship. ? * - ANOTHER BOAT SUNK. Rear Admiral Prince .Ouktomak? wired from Port Arthur Tharsdxy thattbe^pezstrttshnl one of tire Rus- during the night to reconnoiter, be came separated from the rest of the fleet, owing to the bad weather pre vailing, was surrounded by Japanese sd td^ake mge, ihe M \ neighborhood. Many people declared that they had seen spiioks. ( to coqjnre the evil spirits away from The suppoeed ghost appeared regu- h . I darkness fell, and motion- of walking v? V J yw people, be- th tireM- Disaster in British Navy. T^e British torpedo bolt destroyed, Ueaser, which ranias /ashore during pre naval manocuvers* off Porstndbuth Thursday night, has been tbwed off and docked. During a sham battle during the night the Teaser’s officers were, dazzled by tbe searchlights and the boat ran at full speed* Into** sea tod was aerving aa a turret italls. All of the crew were asv«S.; 'as-'**'- . v '•'*•-. »-* >*. •• r ' ' leadership. “The famous campaign of 1890 be gan when the former administcations fromTA78 to 1890 were abused for in- compentcy,. dishonesty and every pos sible political crime. The ing greatly dissatisfied with nancial condition, began to look Benjaman R. Tillman as- thB Mos f s who was to lead them out of the wil derness. -7*- “Never was a man So much praised and/dolized in this State jutiie was. The people followed him with a and unreasonable zeal. They repudi ated Hampton, Thompson and hun dreds of other true and gyod men be cause they were thus Instructed. “The teaching of the campaign of 1890 and subsequent ones was that all whe. were opptsed to the Tillman movement were' enemies, moccasins, dogs, for all these epithets were used by their leader. It was publicly taught that a negro had no political rights that a white man was bound to tion of 80,000,000 souls. The London -Spectator makes inter«»tibg comment on this growth. The Spectator says: “X population of 80,000,000 of whom 70,000,000 are white men and most of them of exceptional energy and in fact. If the union, as we trust and believe she will, escapes internal con vulsions, she - must rise in tbe next, quarter of a century—that is, before middle-aged men alive today are very old men—to a position of power and Influence to which history hardly ^*"4affords a parallel.” - Named tbe Man. During the stsdon of the house on Tuesday Representative Bartlett of Georgia, in tbe course of a apeecb, said be knew who would be nominated fpr president by tbe democrats. Upon being asked by a republican member who it would be, he answered; “Judge Parker of New York.” The announce ment elicited considerable applause from the democratic aide. afe soon as with an .^uncanny upOh air, to another. There was no conven tional groans or clanking of chaioaf hut its appearance was so uncanny as to draw crowds of awestricken people night after night. -/ A horseman named Etfward Hogan awaited the..spot’s arrival, and when Taylor’s Opinion of a Candidate. The Hod. Bob Toylor. of Tennes- see, describes the man who aspires for | public office as follows: “Every hon est man who runs for office Is a candi date for, trouble, for the fruits of po- Htical vlcifiry Jyrn to ashes on hfs | lipsT To me tiiere is nothing in this j world so patbeJc as a candidate. He torpedo boat destroyes and ^ in the tight. Five men were sav«lr Admiral Ouktomsky adds: “I have taken command provisionally of the fleet since the disaster to tbe Petro- pavlbvsk. During some manoenvex ing of the battleship squadron the Pobleda struck against a mine :C amidsliipi on tiie starboard side^- Sbe - was able to regain port by herself. No one cm board of her was killed or wounded.” THE JAPS LURED THEN. dispatch from Cbefoo says it haa been learned from Japanese source here "that the attack on the Russian Port Arthur fleet of Thursday morn ing was piapned and put into effect in tbe following manner: At day light the Japanese torpedo boats made a demonstration before tbe port and at the same time laid mines acroaithe outer entrance to the x ££ irbor. They then retired and Joined the main squadron. The squadrCn then ad vanced and as it drew near the Rus sian ships were seen coming eutKTlMi battleship Petropavlovsk struck of the mines laid by tbe Japaneee 1 pedo boats and was destroyed. telligence, speaking the English ^ language and living under Ahgl^^^^^ran Uiward lt. il/re ghost is like a mariner without a compass, Saxon institutions, is a tremendous prove ^ pg the refleetionj^an asceto- drifting qn the tempest to-sed waves -- J len g lam p The light rtilected on a of uncertainty between the s large polished granite monument, was cliffs of hope-und the YroWning crags distributed about as the gasolene of fear. He ([fc^a talking petytloa and flickered and gave the appearance of a living prayer. He is a pack horse a ghostly moving picture. of public senUment. He Is the drom iedary of politics; and even if he Killed by aa Editor. Will Hawkins, soh of Jexry .. Hawkins, of Hal, county, diedTbur*- uncertainty between the smiling flay at his home in Lawsop, QUft- . , ^ i-* boma. as the result of woundt inflicted Aboypt two inlles from the village of reaches the goal of bis ambition, he - will soon feel the beak of tbe vulture In his heart and the fang of the ser- Canton, Me., is a cosy, old-fashioned farm house which is located directly opposite B^ffraveyard, 1 with no other house in sight. From the window of this little house nothing can be seen except the graveyard with its gleam ing stones, and tbeiiills and moun- talns round about. Tbe family that has been occupying the house moved out not long ago, declaring that they could not stand it any longer, that they were wellnigb pent in bis soul.” Foand Mia Match. E. P. McDonald, member of a pro minent family In Birmingham, waa shot and killed in a 'street fight op Monday night by Alex Lawaon, qua employe of the L. A N. road. Lawson was; badly wounded. McDonald had previoualy killed two men. by the editor of the newspaperM that, place In a difficulty. The body will arrive in Gainesville on Friday and he buried here. Mr. HawfciDB waa a sergeant-at arm* in the territory sembly at Lawson, and a of prominence. The shouting about beoaoaeef oeitel llshed by tbe editor antf i fleet upon Mr. Hawkhae. Pete who tailed in * tbe BffcMt at ‘ ,r v ,. r '. . - ^