The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, July 20, 1905, Image 1
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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
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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,