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voL. xvm. BARNWELL, 8. 0.. THUB8DAY, JULY 20,1906, ‘ HO, 46. THE SAD END Ofjlobert Keith Dargaa, of Dar lington Who Deliberately COMMITTED SUICIDE. time Hit Brother Said to Hare Beta Prewot When He Took the Podoa. He .* - left aWrittea Statemeat of the Caaw of the Act. And a Utter. A diap&tcfe from Darling ton to Tbe. SUte aaya Mr. Robert Keith Dargan, formerly president of the Independent Oil company and ol the Darlington Trust company, com ml ted suicide be* tweed 8 and 9 o’clock on Tuesday night of last week by taking carbolic add. Mr. Dargan was on th3streets Tues day afternoon and appeared in this usual manner. Be had been reticent since the recent trouble of tbe large concerns of which he had been the head, and Tuesday afternoon he made S appointments to meet several gentle- I V"men later In the evening, one of tbeae - being HaW. r. Dargan, who states that Mr. R. K. Dargan told him be would go to Mr. W. F. Dargan’s office within an hour from the time they were talking. A dispatch to Tbe State says there were no developments at Darlington Wednesday following the tragic death of Mr. Robert Keith Dargan by his own hand Friday night. The tragedy, and tbe circumstances leading up to it, were the almost sole topic of. con versation on the streets, In stores and offices during the entire day. It has been raining all day long and business seems to be almost at a standstill. In almost every protected place can be seen a group of men, all discussing In husbtd voices the one subject that seems to be on all minds. The coroner’s icqusst, which was to bare been held Wednesday morning, was postponed until Thursday morning at 9 o'clock in order that Mr. Pegrsm Dargan, the most important witness, world not be required to leave tbe house of mourn ing until after the funeral. The circumstances 6f the suicide all Indicate that it was most deliber ately planned. There has been no tes timony and no statement concerning what transpired in the law effioe where Mr. Dargan took his life has been given out, but the facts, as gathered from reliable men, are that Mr. Pegram Dargan went Into the drug store of L. B. Phillips some time between 4 and 6 o’clock Tuesday afternoon and bought the four ounces of carbolic add. He was alone and did not go in the direction of the law office when he left. The two brothers. Mr. Pegram Dargan and Mr. Robert Keith Dargan, went to tbe law office of their father opposite the Darlington Guards armory building before 8 o'clock and locked themselves in. One of them poured out most of the four ounoes of add in a glass and the rest he poured In a small bowl and mixed about a gill of rye whiskey with it. This concoction was to be used to deaden tbe pain from the raw add but only a part of It, If any, was taken, as the bowl, which Is In tbe possession of tbe coroner, still contains a small quantity. After a portion ban been taken, Mr. Dargan remained In the room with his brother ontHTlfe was extinct and then notified their cousin, Mr. W. F, Dar gan, who In turn quickly called Dr. Edwards, but their arrival was too late for human aid. Tbe suidde had left a brief statement which stated that he had end d his own life and that his brother had precured the (here he made a dash) and that he may have mismanaged but he was not a coward. He also left a letter which was not ad dressed but Is said to have .been for his wife. Robert Keith Dargan was born In 1866. Be was a son of Mr. E. Keith Dargan, the dean of the Darlington bar, a successful lawyer and a man of the highest character, a Confederate soldier who served as an officer of ar tillery in the corps of Stonewall Jack- son. The mother of Mr. R. Ei*-De r -y gan before bef marriage was Miss Elisabeth Woods, a sister of Associate Justice 0. A. Woods of the supremr court. The sutjsot of this sketch graduated from Wofford college and was afterwards admitted to tbe bar practiced for a short time with his father. After an Interim of retire ment from active business on account of-a nervous breakdown, he accepted a clerical position with the Darlington Phosphate company and exhibited such a remarkable capacity for bu&l that he was made general manag er of the company. Will Be Raleed. ir having remained burled in id beneath ten feet of water i years an effort Is now to be to rescue the cargo of the er Minnie B. Bergen, which ecked near Ohioomooomioo, N. ie cargo consists of 200 tons of rails, a locomotive and other lery. Oapt. John Wheal ton, of sgton, N. 0 , will build a wharf the wreck, and by the use cif a ump remove the sand and save "y Hmndreda Drowned. News has been reeejrrd from India tbe drowning of over five hundred lipase by tbe collapse of an over* owdsd mat shed oo the bnnkaof tbe c* river, near Canton. LOCATED AT LAST. ■vxphy, Ike Murderer of Treasurer Copsk, la the Am j. Penitentiary Amtborttlee to Make Inquiries. Brief jAeswme of the Ortme and Eeenpe. ' The murder of Treasurer dopes, of Orangeburg, in the year 1896, has passsd from tbe memory of tbe public now, although It created an Immense sensation in the state at the time, It is recalled at this time by the report, which is more or less well anthentl cated, that Morphy, white, who was convicted of tbe crime Is now in the Philippines, a private in the army, though what regiment or company he Is a member of ie not known. A former penitentiary guard told a Columbia Record reporter that a rela tive of Murphy told him that, now that the whole thing was over, he would say that Murphy was In the Philippines, though his exact where abouts In the Islands he did not know. Superintendent Griffith sgtd he had never heard the report until Informed of It by a newspaper man, but said be would make some Inquiries, though It Is hardly probable that anything will come of them, as Murphy most likely Is living under an assumed name, and possibly has so changed In personal appearance that It would be difficult to Identify him. Treasurer Oopes was killed about having been on a tax collecting tour through the country. He was shot with a shotgun at a lonely place on the public road some miles from TWELVE KILLED. Wholesale Murder by a Negro on Schooner Olympia. ONE WUHAN ESCAPED Miss Elsie Morgan, After Beieg Shot sad Beales, Jsmps Overboard sad Swims to the Shore." The Marderer Captured tad He May Be Lyached by Crowd. Q range burg, and for sometime there was no clue whatever to the criminal. Finally, Morphy, a somewhat worth less white man. was arrested and ac cased of the crime. A great deal .of the evidence against him was circum stantial, but he was convicted. His case went to the supreme court, wss sent hack, as tbe circumstances are recalled, and a second conviction was had. Murphy was sentenced to be hanged. His aged father, however, succeeded In enlisting the services of Mr. M. P. Oarroll,a prominent lawyer In Augusta, who secured a great deal of circumstantial evidence going to prove an alibi. Much of this evidence considered worthless by those who knew the souroe of It, but per sonal appeals added to the alleged evidence Induced Governor Ellerbe to commute the sentence to life impris onment. * HL Murphy was during appeal taken to the penitentiarv for safe keeping pre vious to final action. The governor visited him in his cell once or twice. Newspaper men ware frequent callers and penitentiary authorities were con stantly on the alert and made fra quant endeavors to get Murphy to talk about the crime. Further than deny his guilt he would say nothing, and either tried to appear Imbecillc or was actually a personage on that order, though it was evident that he was a man of such mental capacity as to be accountable for any crime he may have committed. After the commutation he was put to work about the penitentiary and his life was no different from that of other oonviots In the yard. He was placed In a cell In the old building with a white conviet named Cullom, tent down from Oconee for highway robbery. Their cell was on tbs sec ond floor, facing a long portico run ning around tbs building. By sbme means they managed to secret files and other tools about their persons or in their cell, and after what must have been long and tedious and con stantly Interrupted work they were enabled to open the oeH door. One dark night about four or five yean ago, watching when thy guard was elsewhere they opened the cell door, crawled, llkaly, to tbe end of the portico, sliding down one of the supporting columns, to the ground. The penitentiary yard Is brilliantly lighted by electricity and a very high, smooth brick wall surrounds the building. Notwithstanding this the two man succeeded In escaping the eye of the guards and scaling tbe walls and ssourlng their liberty. Before leaving one of them, at least, showed that he possessed the sense of humor to some degree. With charcoal writ ten on the walls were sentences like tha following: “Sorry to leave you." “God DC with you till we meet again.’’ “Good bye, we are bound fer South Adiarlea " There were some others on a similar order mingled with ob- soenlty. Every effort was made to recapture Mm men, but they sue carefully eluded detection and never were heard of un til a few weeks ago, when the report that Murphy was In the Philippines reached Columbia. Penitentiary au- thoritire had forgotten the dreum- stance along with everybody else. No Information has ever been received u to Cullom. He may be In tbe Ptc’ flc islands too; but as his crime was not so serious as that of his oeH partner, perhaps he did not think It necessary to gat so far away from home. A doafMlerate Monument. The survivors of the Jackson Grays, a noted company of Confeder ate Infantry, recruited in the Pleas ant Grove district of Norfolk oounty aVMMbfiaHnjrflftorthc ttttt war, Tuesday unveiled a handsome granite monument erected near - Pleasant Grove Baptist Church on the spot where ths company was first lined up fourty- four years ago. 8*11* for petllpplam. Tbs steamer Maoehurla, having •board Secretary of War Taft, Mias Alice Roosevelt and a large party of United States senators and congress man, sailed from Sen Francisco Friday for the Philippine Tslinfis One of the tpost shocking stories of murder with rtbbery as a motive In the annals of crime was. brought to New Orleans Wednesday by Oapt. Hans Holm of the Norwegian fruiter Bratten, which plies between New Orleans and Honduranean ports. It wss subseqbently confirmed by the officers of the fruit steamer Rosins, which came In later In the evening with additional details. The little Island of U tills, lying off the Honduranean coast, whose popu latlon- Is an Indiscriminate mixture of white, Oaymanitee and Garth#, the scene of the tragedy In whloh 12 lives were sacrificed. Tbe captain of the little trading schooner Olympia waf about to make a trip to Ruatau, Truxlllo and Belli 1 ). She had about 11,400 to buy cattle at TroxlUo to sell at Belize. She carried a crew .of four and quite a number of passen gers, making the total list of people aboard number 13. Among these were two women and two children. The vessel left tbs harbor of Utllla at 11 o'clock Friday night, June 30, and after she h»d been under way less than an hour everybody was aroused by a shot and rushing on deok found a negro armed with a Winchester rifle shooting down tbe men, one after an other. This negro was Robert Mo- Gill and, as It afterwards developed, he had stowed himself away aboard with the Intention of robbing the captain and then swimming ashore. After he had killed all tut one of them he ordered the last survivor to go below and scuttle the ship. When tbe unfortunate reappeared on deok and reported, the negro shot him to death. He then put the two women, Mire Elsie Morgan and her sister, Mrs. Walter Rose,' In tbe dory with the Mrs. Ross’s^six-week old Infant and left the boat, steering for the main land. He changed his mind about allowing the women to live and killed Mrs. R we and her Infant Then he began shooting at Miss Morgan and wounded her in the arm. She jump ed-overboard and started to swim back to the Island. He fired at her Ineffectually, but his ammunition evi dently gave out for be promised her Immunity from harm If she would oome back to the dory. She started back and when within oar’s length he struck her on the head with an oar stunning her. Believing she was dead he rowed away towards the main land. . — Mire Morgan swam back to the is land, where she was thrown on the beach by the waves In an exhausted condition. She feared that the negro would follow her, so she hid In the bushes and fer two days aba suffered from tbs heat and exposure, until found by a woman from her neighbor hood and rescued from starvation^, In the meantime the dory bad been washed ashore and there was excite ment on the Island, as It was believed the Olympia had gone down with all -. 4 ' 1° Price to Tom Attention Aw»jr Proa Hyde. — Hie Atlanta Journal says according to Secretary Richard Cheatham, of the Southern Gotten Association, who made the charge of fraud against the United States department of agrloul ture, relating to advance information being given out, Statistician Hyde and hlaprlvate secretary are just as guilty of the offense of giving away depart ment secrets as Holmes, the man who was discharged. Mr. Cheatham says further that Secretary Wilson brought the name of Theodore Price Into the affair to turn tbe attention from Hyde. Every effort was made, according to Mr. Cheatham, to bring Theodore Price Into the affair, but these efforts failed, and now his belief Is that the depart ment of agriculture has rung Price into It to shield other favored em ployes. Secretary Cheatham returned to Atlanta Monday afternoon. Since he first got'evidence of the leakage in tbe department he has been hard at work securing evidence to present to the department of agriculture. Now he has fully convinced tbe department officials as well as the whole world that the department had been tamper ed with, that the secrets of the de partment were sold to Wall street speolatore, who played the tickers on tbe sdvsnoe Information received, and and made thousands of dollars. Mr. Cheatham was In Charge of a retary Wilson has done the fair thing, and believe that he is using It as a blind altogether." * When Mire Morgan told her ,. ... ^— storyan Immediate search was insti worldtO have gotUn tuted for McGill and the authorities on the mainland were notified. They caught him at El Portvlnlr, a little town on the road to Oelba, and there was quite, a demonstration, but he was protected. His life was saved through the presence on the coast of President Bonilla, who was on an In speotion tour. The Honduranean warship Ta Tumba, which has figured lu so many revolutions, was brought into service and the murderer placed aboard and sent back to tbs island, Up to last Sunday he was still alive, though It Is firmly believed that he will be tortured to death. The laws of Honduras prohibit capital punish ment, but the people will take the case Into their own hands. Mire Elsie Morgan, tbe only survivor of tbe ter rible experience, visited New Orleans three yean ago and Isa well educated, refined young woman of 25 yean. He Liked ltf> About a year ago a Kansas doctor lost a wallet containing a large sum of money. He offered s liberal reward for Its return, but the party who found It thought the whole thing was better than the reward. The other day the doctor entered his coal he use,-and the first thing he saw wss his empty wallet, and pro- this prescription again." Poor Old OalL —. Former Senator Wilkinson Call, Florida, has declared himself as Roosevelt man and organUad a Roose velt dub at, Ortegas, a suburb of Jacksonville. Mr. Gall was a Demo cratic Senator from Florida for three terms, covering s period of eighteen years. He has little, If any, political influence left, and It doss not matter very much whether he Is for or agatnat Mr “ CHEATHAM CHARGES Syde With Being Jut as Guilty u Holmes Wu. Be Baja Secretary WUaon Brought vies men, sad they went right out af ter eU the necessary evidence. When they got It and turhed It over to Sec ratary Wilson Holmes wu promptly fired out, and, In the opinion of Secre tary Obeatbam, Hyde and his private secretary should go too, for they were just u much In on the deal u Holmes was. And Mr. Cheatham dine ivered further that this leakage had beeh going on for sometime. * _—— When President Jordan, of ' the Southern Cotton Asaoclatlen, returns to tbe city Mr. Cheatham will present the evidence which be hu against Hyde and his secretary, and will n- quest President Hsrvle Jordan to lay the whole matter In the hands of Presldeut Roosevelt. In that event, Mr. Cheatham believes that the in vestigatlon will result not only In the further dismissal of Hyde and his secretary, but of Secretary Wilson also. In telling of the status of the cue Mr. Cheatham said: “We found a terrible state of af fairs. You known that Holmes hu been dismissed for his duplicity in the matter, but, In my oplnlojn, Hyde and bis secretary should wlso go. The evi dence against them is strong, and If Mr. Jordan will take the matter to President Roosevelt, I believe that even Secretary Wilson will be dropped. This thing hu been going on for s number of years. After we^ghowsld our hand and told what we know there wu considerable excitement in the department. And when the re port of the secret service agents were jnade you never saw such excitement u there wu In Wuhlngton. Secretary Wilson hu brought Theodore Price into this thing for the purpose of shielding Hyde and his sec retary. We did our beet to find some evidence against Price, u we wanted HEAT VICTIMS. Two Inffiotf Perish in Their Mo* thers’ Arms in Street.. TWENTY-ONE DEATHS The Passengers 'os a Crowded Elevated Train See a Victim Fall la tlw Car Die. liver Fifty Prostra tions is One Day. According to the New York Amerl can Monday of lut week in that city 8een“bim make”the hid wu a da? of terrible, overpowlng but " whloh rolled up an appalling list of dead .and prostrated, wu cheeked and tempered only for a time in the after noon by a violent storm, which flood ed oellare, sewers and Subway, and left a trail of dlsuter and ruin In Its At night It wu again Intoler- wake. ably hot. Nineteen persons, most of them children, were killed by the sun’s merciless rays and stifling hu midity. Sooree of others were over oom. «nd M mldBluht M.MM thloh'H still being repotted. First It wu the extremely high temperature which assailed the city almost at break of day. At 6 a. m. 76 degrees, and from that time ou the mercury kept climbing steadily. The climax came at 2 p. m., when 89 wu reached. But it wu tbe extraordinary degree ef humidity which caused most of tbe distress. At 8 a m. the densi ty of the air registered the very high mark of 89. Relief came in the after noon when the heavy rainstorm sent the mercury tumbling 16 degrees in than an houe. The rainfall in that time wu 1.20 Inches. Lightning also came alonfe with the rain and struck the City Ball flag staff In Brooklyn, cutting a spiral ribbon from It. The bolt tore the flag to pieces, flung down the eagle surmounting it shocked fifty persons n the building, besides cutting out the eleotrlo switch board and extin guishing all pf the lights. The rain came so suddenly and In such blinding volumes that tbe streets were speedily converted Into running streams. For the first time In a good many days lower Manhatten received a good, refreshing drenching. At Elm and Centre streets 'the aeavy on rush of waters swept back from the clogged sewers and filled the ad^olfilng cellars. The back waters swept down the streets and over the side walks, and within fifteen minutes .hero wu two feet of water in the basement of the Criminal Courts Building. For a time it seemed u If tbe engine room would be swamped jpid the elevators shut down. -At the South Ferry terminal of the Sob way the water poured over th* ourblng and down tbe entrances in Niagara like volumes. The sudden cessation of the rain alone saved seri ous trouble. As It wu, it took the pumpe over an hour to clear the tube. But the worst phase of the storm de veloped at Elm and Duane streets where fifteen men were entombed In the collapse of an excavation mined by the heavy rainfall. In New Jersey and various other vanoe information furnished by offlol sis of the department of agriculture, but we couldn’t get enough evidence to connect him with the affair. While We hare no love for Prloe, and while we woadd . have Uked tha best In the him mixed In this affair, yet we do not think Sec- A Oloae Call. — •_ During a severe thunder storm at Kingstcse Saturday evening lightning struck the office of the Beach River Cypress Mills, of which Mr. P. B. Tnorne is the proprietor. At the time a heavy rain wu falling and the office wu crowded with bands from the mill waiting to be paid off. The fluid struck the brick flue, tearing it completely away, tore off tbe wuther boards on one side, knocked four boles through the floor and tumbled the negroes over right and left, burning two them bad ly, but miraculously all escaping with their lives. Mr. Thorns, sitting at his desk ten feet away, experienced no shook whatever. A pile of silver on tbe desk wu scattered, the lamp put out and the Inkstand upset. Tbe utter dog lying on tbe floor wu stunned and blinded IQ one eye. By Sunday morning none was the woru for the experience, except the dog, which Is still blind. \ • orusla Ihirtj-Nlne Killed. A fire hu broken out In the Bo coal mine, Prussia, caused by the care less handling of a lamp by boys. Tbe trading from ah and was a card.hearing, tamp exploded, Ignitl og the timbers inscription: P leM * fll1 of the shaft whlpb burned rapidly. Twohunbred and fifty miners escaped through an air shaft, but 39 ware out off and thier death Is regarded u oer tain. -Fatal Kanawmy. _ A special dispatch to The News and Courier says a distressing accident happened at Batesburg Monday morn ing. A mule driven by Robert Koeeee ran away. . Kneeoe got tangled up In the linee and wu thrown fro& tbe wagon with mneh fores and killed He laaresa wife and several children He for cated on Eist One Hundred and Twenty Fifth s tree tidied In-aTJUrd avenue elevated train. Mr. Falvy, who weighed over two hundred pounds bad given his seat to an aged woman and a few moments later be. fell to the floor. At 'Thirty-fourth street he wu carried to the station, where an ambulance wu oalled, but he dead when the surgeon arrived, had bun lu tbs fire department 27 years. . Probably the most dramatic Inci dent furnished by the terrible beat wave wu when Albert Kseslok tried to drown himself In the North River. His attempt wu made only a few blocks shove tbe spot where another man who had been driven Insane by the heat tried to kill himself in a similar manner on Sunday night. Kaeslck had bun wandering along the wharfs for some * hours when he suddenly jumped over the bulkhead between Piers 39 and 40. Then fol lowed a dramatic struggle to bring him to shore by s longshoreman who dived after him. Finally, when It turned that tbe beat crazed man must carry his would bsjrgscuer down with him, Patrolman Hagan, of the MoDougal street station, reached the almost exhausted longshoreman with a rope. Both men wer^ bright to shore, and Kaesldk was sent to Belle vue Hospital. Not among the least of these who suffered Intensely from the overcharg ed atmosphere were the cats and dogs. In some sections {these animals were almost entirely exterminated and oalled to gone mad. One of tbe districts said to have been almost depopulated In this regard Monday wu the vicinity covered by the West Forty-seventh street polioo station. A MINE HORROR. /»'• - ’ '# v'' .i*f i One Hundred and Thirty Men He in Welsh Disaster. VERY FEW E8CAPK. Explosion Caused fol Scenes Efforts ute Men A dispatch from Cardiff Wales, reys an explosion of fire damp In Ho. t pll of the United National Colliery eo» pany at Wattstown in tbe Rhondda valley, the oentre of the great Webb -.r coal fields, Wednesday morning, tsba- lieved to liave resulted In at least 130 lives. The explosion wu followed 1 ately by the belching of shreds of. amoks and dust from tbs pit shaft. In which 150 men were working, Tbs force of the explosion wrecked tbs machinery at the month of the pit. AU communication with the doomed men In thb direction is eomplsloly out off. No* 1 shaft, adjoining, hso fiST ordinarily afforded BRIBING DIBPSN8XRS To foish Certain Brands ol Whiskey In This State. A dispatch from Columbia save a special system opening up large pos sibilities of graft hu bean discovered by Commissioner Tatum at tbe whole sale dispensary In Columbia and be hu written a letter to the state di rectors calling thslr attention to the facte and requesting that they buy no more whiskey from the houses that have bun guilty. It sums that soma time there hu bun s disposition by certain retail dispensers to push cer tain orends of goods. Orders were constantly coming In from certain dispensers for there goods while at other dispensaries there wu no sale at all for the ume goods. About the<sajna time letters began to corns in from soma of the dispen sers stating that there brands of goods contained too many bottles to the case. As a result Commissioner Ta tum had nearly every ease of goods at the wholesale dispensary opened and found nearly 63,000 worth of certain brands over and above what had been ordered. There extra bottles bad bun placed In the cases and should the dispenur push this brand the ex tra bottles belonged to himself and he wu that much in on.,its sale. Some of the dispensers were not slow to see the scheme and took ad vantage of it. Others eltl er did not see It or would not, U a result Com misstoner Tatum found them out. He hu written the board and here after all eases will be examined before _ they are shipped out. All tags or under^ l°* rd8 or extra bottles that might sum to be an Inducement to push the sale _ __ of any certain brand will be removed to show, 17possible, that hie bad bun Isections of outlying and adjoinlDg | The "tate Is In, however, about 63,000 getting ridh out.Of speculating on ad suburbs lightning struck In uverei M 4 resun o» tne oiicovery. places, but no one wu killed no one wu killed. At Ellis Island two Twits struck the ad ministration building and the lut one tore out ten fret of tbe roof, besides demolishing the skylights. Yet, despite this disastrous effect, the storm wu welcomed as few storms have been welcomed this summer. The excursionists who had left New York on Saturday and Sunday and bad congratulated themselves on the manner In which they had escaped the beat, came hack only to find con ditions worse than those from which they fled.. The suffering, of course, wu the kunest on tbe crowded East Side. It always Is. Yesterday the sidewalks were packed with suffering, panting men, women and children, in all States of dress and undress, trying to find relief, that rt^ not to be found. It wu to these sections that the ambu lances were kept going most frequent ly, and it wax from tbe ranks of the suffering Euji Slders that death and the hospitalf gained their largest list of recruits. The deadly rapidity with which babies succumbed wu heart rending. ' Two infants died in the arms of their mothers before the seriousness ^ their condition wu realized. Another baby died In the carriage.In front of tl.e door, where it had bun tempore rlly left standing. In almost every Instance the end oame so swiftly that parents had little or no warning Whereu tbe children predominated In tbe list of fatal oases, tbs grown ups praotioally comprise the entire roll of prostrations. Brooklyn suffer ed equally with Manhattan, and In Undnr Look anti Key. A dispatch from Wuhlngton says the new system of preparing tbe monthly crop report,Revised since the cotton investigation began, wu put in force Tuesday. That report wu made public late Tuesday afternoon and tbe secretary believes that the steps taken are perfect. Early In the day Assltant Secretary Hayes, Chief Statistician Hyde and several experts of the depsIPtment'were plaoed In a room under lock and key and they were not to be permitted to oome out until four o’clock In the afternoon. The teleponu In the room were dis connected, and a careful scrutiny wu kept of the windows to avoid the pos sibility of a leak through private slg nals. Fixed the Jary. A dispatch from Raleigh, N. 0., says J. Rowan Rigors and L PI Sor roll, who are now in jail urvlng a sentence of 30 days for contempt of court lu influencing jurors In favor ol President Kilgoof Trinity colled<e and B N Duke of the American To bscc'j company, during their trial on the charge of malicious libel against Gattis a Methodist minister Thursday pleaded guilty In open court to embracery. The - entire jury in the case against Duke and Kil go hu bun summoned before the grand jury to are If other parties are Involved. Down ob Tobacco. “The very fumu of burning tobac co are an Incentive to immoral and with No. 2. The and the few who < were drawn up. A rescue party work wu seriously u foul air and the falling earth dislodged by the explosion. Al together 59 bodies hare beta rteov* •red, . j Heroic efforts hare been reads for hours to retch the entombed men, hoi the absence of all sound from the In terior 3f tbs mins told tbs tala of tbs worst dlsuter that hu i South Wales slnoe 1894. Tbe nows of the explosion rapidly and hundreds ol children and thousands of i ed the head of tbe pit mat!on. The mountain were crowded all the there were streams of people in neighborhood of tbs mins all i utiog to tbs pitiful sosnos. Efforts at rescue wen still In at midnight and i air -were being drti shaft, but the reeeuers are now tng without hope of of fatalities. Htoc in Hctm*. Two deaths hare resulted (rare tbs conflicts at Havana artillerymen and civilians, conflict i and policeman and tbe toogfao i feat tbe locality. Then of soldiers who were sent to order mutinied and fired on the Fo> loe. General Fraye Andrade, secre tary of tbe Interior, ie rigidly tnqutr- og into tbe Identity of tbe offrett —fwho ordered tbe company of artUlory- “* men to that district and dcavorlng to find oat whorls siUwfdr tbe lack of direlpUnir Death Valley §jmJp3C* Nine men dead and their boom bleaching on the Nevada deeert, two unknown men found wandering naked raving mad from thirst and heat while trying to walk frosa.Lia Aigslss to Indio, pinked op by a-j train which he stopped by on tbe track; two proapsoton. thus* jUlves nearly dead from thirst, iaddkg the ffirpioton of ons who died on desert a year ago. There are eoree of tbe horrors reported from the desert during tbe lut three weeks -i- SomeGood la 1 The State saye all Fenneljvaalaas are nut It curable strongly the Philadelphia uphold the theory. Ttn other dig Oapt. J. R. Brioker of Warwick, Pa., received an umbrella that was "bor rowed," July 4, 1876. Attached to the handle wu a note asking tkal needed repairs be made u tbs i min in whom possession it for 29 years might need it sgaln. ▲ State where men return um v ndlas l V3r after tbe lapse of nearly tha third of s century, cannot bn wholly bad. J bis ^ pernicious conduct,” said Mr. Robert botfrWoaghs ambulances were kept ^ 10 40 *£'- busy teklng the stricken ones to the “ “ hospitals. Tbs majority of those overoome In Manhatten went to tbe Hudson Street Hospital. Taere almost every cot wu filled before night, and uverei physicians them selves narrowly escaped falling ex haosted frofs their exertions. Heat victims (nil unconscious on the streets In the Subway and oo tbe elevated ttalns. John Falvy, formerly a foreman at Fire Department Track Ho. 14, lo- «#*■> dress to the Epworth League is the other-day. “Asmoke laden room" be continued “Is more harmful by far than tbe smokers Imagine, and it In spires s spirit in those who inhale tbe smoke which Is tbe doorstep to sin." Fooling With a PtetoL George and Wesley Price, colored children aged seven and sight, were plsyimg with a pistol at Johnston on Monday when tbe thing went off, the ball entering tbe abdomen of tbe older. He died next day. The German Wetf The other day a Berlin ■ tongue loosened in convivial *—m j. remarked : “All la not Solomonic wis dom that drops from tbe Ups." And now for three months in tbe seclusion of prison tbe miller wil) have opportunity to esail the blessing of American free For, as the State says, even reign of the Great and Good Tbscdoss it Is passible to whisper a doubt of Mi divine inspiration without **"**"g In the look-up. -— -r- ^ Give Them • HeeS, Give all hones on tbe place to leut a three fields., The grass will be | their feet and as a feed will get all tbe old grain oat of Horses that an must be given* dial Sundays and day turn work betsse Into I Ouetly i Fire at an eariy boor ing destroyed tbe Gull Oomprees oompi Mis-. Over 14,000 store in storage and were destroyed, ttmtoto at 6175,000,