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Mm r I T+tn-fJ -1! BARNWELL, S. THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1906. NO. 4H. afe' BRYAN ON ISSUES. «n Certain Bills and Why He Stated-— v AT tat ifa« Wit I* foond In the S« Journal, 10OS, paft 143. 1 ‘'Wltb refmnM to my posltio the Qaaghmao aot of 1900,1 will ■ X tons agalnita bill in 1892 w-L.. pro Tided for a partition in oar, but, H H nn Thrt _ a tvs.. gave no aeparate toilet aooommoda-1 nC Has Surprise for Inose WHO Mon for the agxaa, which would bare «*vrf'w*4p : ;iicry m* Matt Agalaef u4 Give* - All the . Cut la the -1 ter or ng atetement from Sen 7 : explain! itwlf: not propoee to be drawn ‘ IBY of campaign or ‘ into any opnerorerar. hut I intended te eowduct my campaign on a high without mad-alleging for I do intend to aek fox the andrage of the pecple of Sooth Carolina by de tracting item or ihlnrlng the charan potation of my opponente. Bach u mention bu been By totes In the leglelatufe on measure!, I feel it neeeuarj keep*the reocrd straight. I will bare to correct certain white bate been midi. . j “Mr. Bleme in hie speech in Oulupa- Waepoke with a great deal of feeling , whan dtoeuning the work of the In* TWtlgatli g oommltue of the cruelty Injuring a man’s reputation by in* rcMuspluiuas. <le hu net this rule In bis reference to ’ me, for it wih be foond that In git a log my record tote on certain meu area he has gleen only a part of that record on thou matters, and hu done ice an injuetlce and created a wrong imprikMon. He may not haTeintend * ed this, snd tewidto me lApt he „ wanW Wsoealf mk atbeeomcC ooat white 1 called bis attention In a per / sonal ooi Teraation, but he bu not yet done so, and I will therefore set this record straight myself. I wish Co say, With reference to the bill regtilakog tbe rate cf Interest in 1893, . reducing the rate of Interest from 8 to 7 per cent., that I roted against that bill. My only business at that time wu farming. 1 wu a borrower of money annually, bat I felt that If money lenders could not get tbe caritnt rates for money from farmer* that they would lend money elsewhere, and the farmers, Instead of getting n ooey from banks with white to conduct ttelr basinet a would be forced to get edyences from commls sion hierteants on a Hen at a rate of Jntan^LJBcning l*em-te-le 4«-fler cent, for adTtr ces. For tbls reason, I-tetad. against the reduotion In the rate and beiieTe that that action lus proud to be in the Interest of the ag ricultural class. "On the child labor bill of 1900,1 Toted against tbe bill because of an understanding bad with Ooi. Jas. L Orr, Mr. Lewis Barker, Cspt. Ellison Smyth, that they would use their ef forts to base the milll regulate this matter themselTM, if we did not the liw. I then on that understanding voted tgafbst the bill. They made tbls ifTjrt with the mills, but failed. Tbe following year 1901, the aot wu again introduced and 1 voted for the bill, ted strenuously for Its pasuge and apnkkiMMgort of the bill, u will be found InBetetrJoumal, 1901, pages 295 and 340. "On the bill to prohibit trusts, Sen ate Journal 1902r pages 462* 473, my reasons fox voting ss I did are u fol* Iowa: There wu aweetioo tar the bill exempting agreements with regard to tbe aale of agricultural products. Be fore Mils, an act bad been passed in Tennessee and Ttxas containing similar provision. The act of Texas bad been thrown into tbe oenrts and bad been pamed on by tbe supreme court of tbe United States. . Tbe de eisibn of that ocurt wu to tbe effect that tbe whole aot wu invalid, inu mate u this discriminating claose af footed the whole aot in favor of one class and rendered the aot noil and void. "In tbe senate, I moved to strike rut that section, beoatue it would make tbe bill ucoonetltntlonal, noil and void. I wu trying to save the bill. Tbe senate refused to strike oat that section and I thm said that in tbe face of tire decision of tbe supre me court of the United Statu,-white wu so clear and positive, it wu aim ply-ehUd's play to pan an set when we knevy that tbe aot would be nail and void. -i "As I said, my purpou was to hkve a bill that would stand tbe test of tbe courts snd prohibit trusty snd monop olies "Mr. Blease again quotes from tbe reeoid In part and dees me an Injus tice In the matter of the relief bill, epioaed tbe blU when it wu intro duced bccaou it wu stated, both by the railroad authorities and the em pioyeie of the road, that it wu en tirely optional with tire employeee wbethex Urey Joined this relief depate meal Ot not. Bat Mr. Bleau fails to itate say vote on the bill the nex i «nteP • "In the neaatlne, I had tnvesM gated this matter and made inquiries among the railroad men themaelvU. ~ 1 supported the bill in 1908, . v| *ne ntlsded that it wu not option al w llhtlra e^loyeea, bit wu prac tically a matter of eompnlslon that they should Job) this department bear Indeeent. This bill failed be cause of Its glaring defects. The Reparation cf the races wu pro vided for by the set Of 1898, when 1 wu not a member of the legislature. When the bill wu before the sen ate, I to 1900%) amend this hill, I voted against an indefinite postponement, white would fcave meant the death of the bilL Certain amendments were put in in the aenate white did not nrut my approval, and I voted against tbe bill at amended. Oa the report of tbe committee of confer ence, the bouse refused to agree to tire senate amendments. Oj motion that tire aenate recede from lie amend mente. It wu moved to lay that mo tloa on the table and on that mo to table I voted "Nay” white shows that I favored the blllu pawed by tbe house and u finally pseud, with one miiibr amend meet, and which amendment I agreed to in committee ot free oonferepoe. SenafiT^Wurnai 900, page 412. "I wu than pat on tbe committee of free oon'ferenoe on the Csugbman >111. That committee recommended that the senate reoed from some of Us amendments. 1 u one of this com mlttee, of free conference, approved tiro bill u passed, which wu satlsfao tory to tbe author of tbs bill, and 1 •oted for it u it passed. With reference to my vote on tbe repeal of the charter of the Virginia- Carolina Ohemloal company, I desire testate that the hlll pravlded for repul of the charter of that company without any process of law, T wliite wu a proposition for white T felt that 1 cou.d not stand, inumnte si such in action would be entirely llle- gat and un; perty rlghu In an onoonstituttonal manner and would be a violation of my oatih. "Richard 1 Minnlng." mi F1R80RB KILLED. Think He Has CHANGED POSITION. D1 Metro us MeeUng of Trolley Care Near Baffelo, N Y. Five persons wars killed and about twentyii Jiredlnaoolllssioo between two trolley trains on tbe InternaMon- Rallrokd company’s line between luffelo, N. Y., and Lockport Wednee- day night. A train of two trolley oars, west bcuad from Lock port, and doe at Tonawanda at 9.15 o’clock, ran Into open switch at a siding j ist cut of Martlnvlll* snd crashed into a trolley freight motor and a train of seven freight oars white were lying on the siding waiting for the pawen- ger train to go by. Five persons were killed outright and a score lijired, some of whom may die. __a_ Tbe paaunger oars were going at a high rate of speeedrwhen the accident occurred, and tbe impact wu terrif ic. Tbe foremost car wu utterly demolished. Tbe wedge-shaped end of the freight motor out it in half, and the rear car completed tbe work of destruction. The rear oar remain ed On the tracks. Tbe dud am. Jonh JiLtUftman, jockport, N Y. mortorman: Charles T. Hutchinson, Lockport; unknown workman, bead crushed; girl and boy^ supposed to be brother and sister names unknown, and Mrs. Henry Eitellanoi fi.yur old son. Tbe most seriously injured ire: Theodore Neetman, Buffalo; Dr. E A. Wleland, Biffslo; H. J. Wait, Buffalo; Mrs. Emma H. Maloney, buffalo. Mr. J. D. H-ath, Niagrs Falk; Lu Johnson, srptorman will probaly die. Tbe awitoh into the siding wu not I, for tbe puunger came thun dering along, took the tom and crashed upon the freight engine. More Red leal Thu Ever, sad Still Be lieves la Principle of BimetaNism But Says Question Hu Beta Settled by the Discovery — .1 Mi. ' J William J. Bryan, who is stM. in London, having bad the opportunity of reading American newspapers, con sented Thursday to discuss some of the questions which have bun raised ginoe he hu again become prominent as a presidential possibility. He said: "I notloe that i jam now described as a-conservative, and in order that there may bum misunderstanding on that subJeoFpermltP&e to uy that in on* sense I always have bun a con servative. Tbe Democratic policies are conservative In that they embody old prtnoiplu applied to new opndl tions. There wu nothing new in prin ciple In either of the platforms on white I stood. We were accused of attacking property, when in fact the Democratic party Is. the defenner of property because ft mduvurs to draw tbe line between henest accumulation by honest methods on the one side snd predatory wealth and Immoral methods on the other. It la to the hones should Jw exposed anA pon- ishedf other wUe the deserving are apt to atffir for the uadeurving. If, however,'* by the word conservative they mean that I have changed my position on any public question or moderated my opposition to corporate aggrandiz ement they have a surprise waiting for them. I am more radical titan I wu in 1896 and have nothing to withdraw on economic 4 questions white have been under discussion. "Tbe only question we discussed in 1696 upon wnite there bu been any apparent change, is the silver qau- tion, and that hu not been a change in the ad v^cites of bimetallism bat in conditions. We contended for more money end urged the free coinage of silver'as the only means than in sight of securing it. The Increased produe tion of gold hu brought in part the benefltwe expected to secure from the restoration of silver. The par capita volume of money in the United States is almost 5 per oenti greater now than it wu in 1896, and the benefits brought by this increase have not only vindicated tbe quantitive theory of money but have proven the benefl' of the larges amount of money. No advocate of the gold standard oan claim the triumph of his logic. "I believe in bimetaUtam,- and 1 believe that the restoration of silver would bring still further p besides restoring par In exchange silver using ooub- other DEIFIND BUND | were so from ohUdhoodluoder 2C yean 36 per cent, fron cut of consideration. The worker who came late would, if honest, be too modest to aacume an attitude cf supe riority over thou who had toiled dor log tbe earlier hours. While tbe quutlonlaoneof purpgei,B man who | c .. .j .. | vr» wjo p** umi •uuud vum- reoogn'z s the dangers that threaten | tDC l nited States 08 Reported | third became deaf before they were of age), and 36 per oe&t. from birth. More than one hslf of tbe totally deaf lost all power of bearing before they I were 2 years old. Of tbe partially deaf about one- our country and is anxious to avert I them will not find it d-ffioxltte estab 11th friendly relations with thou who | taw dangers at an earlier date. "If the d.ffdrenou betwun the sin- cere and the pretended friends reform cannot be discovered before, they will become apparent when the platform is written, for, it preunt indications count for anything that platform is likely to be eo plain that no one oan mis rake it, and eo strong that no ene my of Democratic principles will be ] drawn to the Fatty.” Mr. Bryan added that he would dia- nuu the trust, tariff, railroad, and la bor questions, imperialism snd other leroee at length when he read America. — Mr. and Mrs. Bryan were the guests] of Ambasudor and Mra. Raid at lun eheon at Dorchester house Thursday. Among thora invited to meet Mr. and Mra Bryan were Sir Edward Qrey, the Rev. Dr. William Boyd Carpenter, the foreign ueretary; the bishop of Rlpon and Mn. Boyd Carpenter, Charles Page Bryan, D. O. Mills snd Secretary Bldgely Carter of the American embamy. by tbe Census NUMBER THOUSANDS. The Total Naobir at Bilal b Nearly Sixty-Five Tboeseed, sad, the Total Number ef Deaf Is Nearly j-- Nioety Tboesud. TEX LOST FOUND. of The Rst. Wm Aiken Kelly Yarns Up In Charleston. Ret. W. Aiken Kelly, formerly pas tor of Craoe Methodist church, North Auguste, after being lost to his con gregation for nearly two years, hu been found, and the opinion preyall- ing at the time of Mr. Kelly’s disap pearance that he wu suffering men tally is pnotioaUy substantiated. Ik Mil be recallsd that during a pe riod when efforts were being made to erect a new tenrte in North Anguate, when the patter and a committee of the members of the ohotte were work ing dllllgently toaocomplishthat pur pose, Mr. Felly suddenly disappeared and no positive trace oould be foond of hip. Tbe morning of Ms disap pearance he wu in tbe oity of Augus ta and visited several supporters of his church, some of tbe members and several friends. Late the same after noon he wu eeen to hoard the car bound for North Augusta and Jut be-, , - ^ tll , , , fore dark wu noticed by two or thru bUnd fsmalu were to- people to be wandering about listieu- blind, The bureau of census hu Just issu ed a special report of tbe blind and deaf in the United States In 1900. The Inquiry wu conducted under the | direction of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who determined the soope of the Invutigatlon snd wrote the text of the report on the deaf. .The report on the blind gives not only data oonoerning color, sex, na tivity, marital condition, school at tendance, and oooupations, but also much Information in -regard to the age when blindness occurred and the cause of,blindness. Tbrtotal number of blind persou In the United States in 1900 wu 64, 763—or about ,tee in every 1,200 of total population. There were 35,646 totally blinS, and 29,116 par tially blind. Theu figures, however, oan be considered only u the mini mum, u an unknown proportion the blind were not located'by enumerators. Tbe number of partlal- ly blind by no maani represents the facte u to defective eyesight, but re presents only "verified oases.” Of the total number of blind, 37, 064, pr 57 2 percent, were males, and 27,709, or 42 8 par cent, were females Slnu In the general population only 61 1 per oent. were males snd 48.9 p$r oent ware females, it is/ evident that blindness occurs more frequently suing males. Aboot 66 per oent of the blind re ported were totally blind and about 46 percent, were partially bUnd, A ■lightly smaller proportion of blind 20 years old, one-third between 20 snd 140, snd ooe-tblrd after reaching 40. Of tbe 89,287 peraons returned u deaf, 66,601 ware able to speak well, 9 417 were able to speak Imperfectly, and 24,369 could not speak rat all. Practically all of those who spftk m- perfectly or not at all lost their heu- log in jftildbood (under 20 years of age.) Oa the other hand the majority of deaf who speak well lost their hear- | in* in adult life. Gf the deaf anff dumb, more tban 16 per oent. were reported u totally deaf. It will thus be seen that the ability to sneak is de pendent largely upon two factor—the period of life when deafness occurred and tbe degree of deafness. Djaf- interferes rather with the ac quisition of speech tban wltli its re tention after It bu once been acquir ed. r. Beware of the Undertow. . A fe w weeks ago a promising teach er. edueated, earnest, and refined, wu drbwned at Charleston. 'He went In bathing and wu drawn out by the undertow. A few days later a soldier at 'Wilmington, N. Cf, iras caught In tbe undertow and circled to the place of death. .In commenting on theu sad events the Carolina Spartan uys: "The undertow Is not discernible on the surface, which appears safe and fmooth. Very few of thou caught by it have power to resist. The pull out ward and downward is too much for them. 'But there are a hundred vie time of the undertow on land to one In the sea. Wasted hours, vicious babltk, ugly tempers and selfishness draw many people downward. Then ■aony a man falls a vietim to Intem- decetved SHE KNOWS NaW. A White Woman from the North Assaulted Near Aiken BY HER NEGRO PET, ly a considerable distance from his home. Later, daring the night, when Mr. Kelly did not oome home, Mrs. Kelly appealed to several mends In the vil lage and a search wu instituted, bat no trace of the preacher could Jbe found. The following morning further search was mad 9 , and telegrams were sent to nearby towns, but u the day wore on there weie.no results. A dispatch from Charleston uys the Rev William Aiken Kelley hu been discharged from the Roper Hos pital and is now at home recuperating from the eff.o&s of tbe operation upon nis brain, removing a dot of blood, white it is thought, will result in his complete restoration to health and enable him to resume his ministerial duties. Mr Kails? spent some time lo Virginia and wu for a long time at Charlotte befdfl coming to ’Char- lee ton. His whereabouts ware estab lished shortly after he deserted his pastoral charge, but In view of his *ffllctlon, bis family snd close perso nal friends kept tbe matter quiet and it wu not until bis coming to Char leston recently for the operation upon his brain that his movements became publicly known. His trouble restoring between gold ao(J trice, but I recognise, Os do all bonriharemet abroad, that tbe unexpected and unprecedent ed Increase in gold production hu for tbe present removed the silver ques tion u an issue. ^ "While the money question hu waned in importance other quutlons have been forging to the front and to these questions we must apply the same principles we applied to the money question, and seek to securei- - ----- - tbe greatest good to the greafceet dl,k « n0 * d b J * Ok" 1 **™ 1 surgeon to I number by legislation white conforms I *» blood Prwsuie upon the brain, and There were about forty pas engers on the two oan and most of them were rilled or Injured. The motorman of the first passenger ooacb wu killed, and bis body wu still. In tbe wreck late Thursday night. ^ Fell From Trestle. A caboose snd two paaunger coach es, left on the our vs of tbe long over head bridge by which the Seaboard enters Columbia from tbe south, were knocked off and thrown into a heap of epllnters twenty feet below Wed nesday morning, by a freight coming into the oity. Conductor Soqad wu fatally hurt, bat It is thought that Flagman fiurgnay. who wu carried down with him, will recover. These were the only oocupante of the coach es. Tbe ooeobea were part of tbe first section of the through freight white crashed into them snd ban bun left only for a few minutes, in order to divide tbe load going around the curve. Eagineer Rogers, on the second section, stack to bis machine snd wu uninjured. His colored fire man was only slightly hurt. Flag man Burgnay wu waving at tbe ap preaching train as the orate oame. Wife Beater Killed. Oliver Bryant, a ooal miner of Vpnderburg ooonty led., drank to exoeu and when be went home he quarreled with his wife and ended by giving her a beating. Neighbors heard the aoreams of the woman, and a mob wu organised, and white Bry ant wu Bleeping off the efieot of the liquor, they broke into his hcuje, took him out, and Beat him so terri bly that he died. Bryant wu practi cally helpless in tbe hands ot the mob, hat he wu kicked, beaten %lth clubs snd pounded over the head with the fists of tbe arowd. The orobis said to have been led by A. J. Gtelett, a proasment fanner and fruit grower, and he wu arrested, charged with ■under. to the doctrine of equal rights for all and special privileges for none. "Oa the new questions many will aot with us who were against us on the money questions, for, uotwith standing the discussion of that ques ttte, mUliohs did not understand it and were frightened into opposition. We oannot expect the support of any one who is interested in taking ad vantage of the people either through trusts or through any other iUegltl' mate form of business. Our efforts should be to distinguish between those corporations which are legiti mate and those aggregations of wealth white are orgaalzed for purposes of publfc plunder and appeal for support to thou only who are willing to have the government protect each person in the enjoyment of his own earnings. "The newspapeis have been trying to create Motion between what they call ’old friends’ and ’new friends’ in politics. Tnou are friend* who are working towards a common end, snd each campaign brings to some extent a new alignment. In 1896 tbe party lost many Democrats and wu re cruited by a great soany who bad been Republicans up to that time, and we welcomed them. In 1900 some oame book who were against ns in 1896, and we did not tent tbe door againat them. I have no idea that tee party will require tickets of admission in the coming campaign. Usually par- tlu are so anxious to secure rptyralte that past differences are not emphk- slzedlf there isaafnoere agreemcbt on preunt imues. I do not know that we oan find a better plan than the Bible plan, white admits the eleventh boor oomeer to a plan in the vineyard and to share the reward with thou who began earlier. think this is eouni politics u well u sound religion, provided tee new recruit eomep to work and not toin- ter fere with the other laborers. Rat ot owns when an overseer hu to bo Pi III upon the opening of tbe head tbe oan dltlon wu found to exist, u stated snd tbe operation wuj successfully performed.* The surgeon is said to hate given it his opinion that return of Mr. Kelly’e former brain trouble, and hie numerous friends through the State share in the hope that his condition will continue to improve, and that he will be soon able to resume bis jpinletenal func tions in the eburch white be served eo well. r Lost at Sea. Clyde steamer Apaohe arrived lu Charleston Thursday afternoon from New York with one psmenger short, Walter Irving of Florence. He wu migecKl at the .breakfast table Thurs day morningJukI investigation devel oped that he wu not aboard the ves sel. His berth bu not been occupied and the presumption 1a that be fell overboard or deliberately elected- tbit method of tbe ending of bis existence. He wu seen about midnight sitting in an auy chair on the deck bright spirits and gave no indications of any mantel trouble white would have induced suicide. He is Mid to have been drinking and it la passible that he sat on the dote rail, tost his balance and fell overboard. ' f~ ■' ■■ ' Be la Locked Up. At Ohsriwton on Thursday Aaron P. Priolsan, tke* hegio congressional aspirant, surrendered himself at the United States msrshal’aoffice snd wu takes over to tee county Jail to begin his sentenoe tor tampering with the malls whan ha was running u A rail way oleteen tbe Atlantic Cute Lina. He baahMh &d WeehingtOHoonteet- Uig the seat of Oongreuman Legare, but his non tut having bebn dismissed he now deearte the walls of the capi- tol for the steel eagee of the county prison. He Is to serve thru moathe and oot month additional, if he does nol' pay h flat at MO. * Almost 65 pm cent, of tee blind be came blind after 20 years ot age, and only a little more than 30 per oent. before 20 years. Thus it is seen that blindness is chiefly a defect of adult life. It Is Interesting to not* that about one fourth of the peraons blind from childhood, or about one tenth of the total number of blind, were born MtOlt T-— The number of blind per 100,000 of population wu greater among the negroes tban among the whites, and greater among tbe* foreign bom whites than among the native bora whltee, the difference In each case being more marked tor tbe totally-hUnd than for tiie partially blind. Tbe difference In the proportions for the native snd the foreign born whites are da* large ly to the difference in tbe age distri butions of the two olasaes; the greet -joLtba foreign born whites being edolte, among whom blindness is more common. The most Important causes of bUnd- nese were, oateraet; Injuries, acci dents, and operations; congenital blindness; old age; and aore eyes. Un irnnnn oan sea ware r—possible for a slightly greater proportion of than any of the above causes. The principal eaoaes of occurring after birth and under 20 years of age were, Injurlu, accidents, ted operations; sore eyes; catarrh; measles; snd scrofula. The principal esuau of bllndnees oocurlng in adult life wer, oatanot; injuries, accidents, and operations, old age, affections of apparatus, military aer vice, sore eyes snd neuralgia. _ Tbe report on the deaf glvu not ! rapidly u possible. only tne date concerning color, sex, race, nativity, marital conditions, school attendance, and occupations, but also much information In regard to deafness u a defect snd to the ability of the deaf to communicate. According to this method of olaa- ideation, the total number of dea' wu finally determined to be 89,278, or one in every 860 of tbe general population. There were 37,426 total ly deaf and 51,861 partially deaf. Among the total number of deaf 2,- 772 were also blind and 24 369 dumb. Of the. total number of deaf, 46,- 916, or 52 5 per oent. were males, and ,42,372, or 47 6 per cent, were femalu. Since In*the general population only 61.1 per osaA were male* and .48 9 per oent. were females, it would seem that there la some truth in the hypo thesis that malm are mu* exposed to aooidente than femalu, or more sus ceptible to the dleusu which pro duce deafness Negroes constitute 11 6 per oent. of the general population and («tlyl.2 per oent. of the deaf. That tbe ne groes seem leu susceptible to deafneu than the whites is probably due in part to ten complete returns from the negroes desri. The proportion of ne grou is larger among thou becoming deaf in childhood and also among the totally deaf than it lain the aggre gate deaf population. , t The age when deafneu occurred Is definitely stated for 81.-690 persons, and of tbsu 59 par cent, became deaf before the age of 20 years, 48 per oent before the age of 46 years, ted 40 per sent, before the age of 6 years, and 18 per sate, were bora deaf. Of the tolaUj deaf, Ol/fier peiteoei .being deceived by the de lightful aensatlons of therUfsE plunge before he reaches tbe irresistible pow eroTthr undertow. “ Ufe of debauchery suddenly. Few In tentlonally prostitute mind and body to a career of vice. It la the captiva ting superficial appearance that lures them on to Irreparable ruin B swart of the tieaoheroos, deadly undertow In social life.” * • "** Work of Fiends. In the wreck of the westbound freight train on tbe Southern railway Ind., Fireman Man ning. of Pripoeton, Ind., and Brake- man Gapehart, of Winslow, were klled. Engineer MoWllliame was eoalded ted Crushed u. badly he will die. After the wreek it wu dlsoovgr- ed that both ends of the switch wer* spiked. The cut bound passenger train was delayed and thus escaped being wrecked. Bloodhounds have been sent for and an effort will be mane to boat out tbe wreckers. The railroad company owns the Mi Ooal mines which paid the advanced seals by the miners recent ly and caused some resentment in tain quartets. Seven Die in. Flame*. Hit Wife and six children dead and hie home destroyed and blmselt badly, if not fatally burned, is tbe fate o! Solomon ftohha, whnu residence wu oh the outskirts of Lafayette, The dead of the family are: Rt- ohsel,* 16; Frebman. l&; Guy, 16; Mar quis, 8; Filth, 5; Brooks, 2; and8a- rah, th* mother 38. Gabba was In ths yard and saw fitmas coating from the upper part of the bouse. He oalled to his wife and together they rushed up stairs to awakan the chil dren. Both were overcome by smoke. Gobba managed to crawl to a window and in an effort to raise it fell to tbe ground and smtaiasd palnfill injuries. Dtatruo tive Oiond b ant. A cloudburst and landslide on July 16 at Ocampo Ohlbnahus, Mexico, al most completely destroyed the city and killed seven or moro persons Many others were Ir J ired snd it Is ox peoted some of them will die. All tbe killed and Icj jred are Mexicans. Toe American retidonte are alleviating the suflerlng of the wounded and are recovering the bodies of the dead as Robert Brooks, Who Made His .Escape, cad Ike Offi cers are Trying te Catch Hiss. She Wu a Great Priced fp ^ The Ne^e ftecd Oefr trait). .. . - ' •. / ' w -T""' - 1 — '.-vwfn; A dispatch from Aiken uys news of a hofnbie crime that wu perpetrated about live milts from that pteoe reach ed there Wednesday afternoon, hot a coherent account oould not be obtain ed until this morning. Oa Monday morning aboot 3 o’clock Mrs. L. S. Chapin wu usaulted la her homy by a negro mao named Isaac Knight. The foot that Mrs. Chapin is an old lady, years of age, makes tbe more revolting. The negrb 1 •aulted her had been in her employ tor over three years. Mrs. Chapin lived in the house with no white person. The negro man, who lived in a room St the side if to* house next to >the Kitchen, and a negro family living in tnersrd, were the only ones wno stayed near her. . IsaaaKalght had been off all day Sunday and did not oome back to Mm. Chapin’s home until early Monday morning. Hearing a knock at the en- ~ m the door to see who it was. She opened tbe door and found it wu Knight. She went into the dining room and wu fixing toe negro seme at least 65 crime all’the urcjwbo as* of the W.O. Greene Gtid & Silver Co., at Oeompo, Is In charge and % hand ling matters mttxfsolorlly. Battle ti Midair. »app*c when be committed the assault, i’na negro left tne community nu not bun seen since. Mrs. Cnapio nu no near white neighbors; so she oould not report the case at once. When the sheriff learn ed of it yesterday morning, he went to toe community at odoi and tried to capture the negro, hut he cook! find no traces of aim. Toe crime had not oeoome generally known jp Aiken Ha ul late yes ii or day af-erojoa, wnen a posse of about 50 men under tha lead ership of tne eneriff orgaols d for tbs purpose of catching the negro. Itwu dUUnotly understood before they left here that there would be no lyuoilng, hot that they would do everything possible to catch tne negro and have him placed injOL They left here late evening and country thoroughly, but could gad no traeu of him. Farther search will be made for him, Mn. Gbapin wanted the oau dr6p- cud not wien to appear la court in ? sucu a case, bub, of ooafte, tne sheiiff snd the psopie of tne oak- munity will not allow an* negro to go if it is mumble to capture aim. Every Sffjft will be made to bring tbe ■ojundrei to Jmtiles, but the people nave agreed that there will os noivnetiiM. The, * nignt so as to be prepared to any opposition, for it that the negroes to tbe ooi intended to give some tronote. Mrs. Cnapio is a Northern lady, i before her misfortune did not stand the negro. 8he had pal uuit in Kaight and had evwr ered him the eau&l of tha white man. She had treated him u well as she could have treated tag white parson, thinking that he was a gentleman. She even declared on one occasion that he wu a perfect gentle- m*n. Knight wu always to Mrs. Chapin, hat it eoald ha by nix afttiowy among otoer negroes that the treatment mat he wu re ceiving wu giving him a false 1dm of nis importance. On Mtoday morning toe nature of the negro averted it self; it oould be held In check no ger. Mrs. Chapin wu originally Manchester, Vermont, bat she «->Ss*3 At New York eight stories above! b« r hoau near Aiken for a nom- the street, oa s fi.msy flooring of planks laid aorou girders, nearly one hundred anion iron workers employed on s hotel building st Fifty ninth street and Fifth avenue, attacked three special policemen, who were kept then to prevent trouble betwun anion and non-union work xien. 04 of the special police men, Miobael But ler, wu thrown from tbs platform and f*n two storiu to the tilth fl for, being fatally 1 j ifel The other two werw-eeriously bat not fatally 1 - -;s : ri ' 1 -T*'- KUlad In Battle. Gen. Regalado, former president of Salvador and the leader of the Salva dorean troops in the present 00dfilet with Gnatemsls, wss killed in battle Thursday. Tomu R-galado wu president of Salvador from 1899 to 1903. A provision of the Salvadorean eonetltntion prevented him from hav log a second turn immediately fol lowing b% first, but he wu a candi date to auooied President Ewaloo, whose term will expire next year, doubtless would have been elec ted u be wu a popolas idol who had achieved much fame u a soldier. Kni«Kt the SheriF. Sheriff Charles Wileon of Clay •oontf. Fla., was shot and killed on a train near Green Oove^ Sprlfigs on Tuesday by a negro prisoner. The sheriff's deputy then shot snd killed the negro. WUson wu vary MWilw{naviBg her of jeers. White people have wax** ed her several timsa that she should hut stay alone with no one near bar except uegroaa, but she would pay no attention to them, thinking that MM . □egro wai worthy of trust. She cease South with the New EiglaodertUMB- al idea of negro ooaraoter, and no am gumeot that Staid oe pat torso coaid shake the negro from the which she had placed bias.’* the whit* pfOpte of not in Sympathy with pin’s treatment of the negro determined that be shall be t J mica: A white lady hu hem tea sailed—that te enough, punishment must follow. Woen the posse oolleoted last night thero were no algae of mob violence, lacy were a quiet determined body of men bent upon the eaptoroef the scoundrel who had darod totasnltA lady. Although they did not 1 in capturing him lut night, determined to search for kite is cap&red. ~ ~. A dispatch from Vice Admiral Qkoaketo, of the Bleak Sea fl*t, who Thursday supposedly by a 1 battleship Oisbakoff, d! morning without regaining < oeu. Toe gardes ral Obooknln'e villa |s •'4 , n*. ■T ■