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VOL.XXXII1 BARXWELL. S. a, THURSDAY. SEITEMBER 10, 1909 SAYS COOK LIED Whin He Claimed to Havo Been to the North Pole PEARY’S VAIN BOAST WHAT COOK SAYS UK DECLARES HE CAN AND WILL PROVE HIS CLAIM. Will Send for His Eskimo Coinpan- ^ Ions and Asserts That Peary Took * ~yvrxHr. a— — . —. _ r~— — Food Stored for HJni- At Copenhagen, Cook, shown Peary's statement Wednesday night stood by his gun, declined to enter into a debate and calmly asserted that his records would sustain him. He said: “I have been to the North Pole. As I said last night when 1 heard of Commander Peary’s success, if he says he has been to the pole, I believe him. "I am willing to place facts, fig ures and worked-out observations before a joint tribunal of the scien tific bodies of the world. In due course I shall be prepared to make public an announcement that will effcectually dispel any doubt, if there can be such, of the fact that I have reached the pole. But know ing that 1 am right and that right must prevail, I will submit at the proper time my full story to the Court of last resort-*-the people of the world. "I will not enter into any contro versy over the subject with Com mander Peary, further than to say that if he says I nave taken his Eskimos, my reply Is that Eskimos ars notnads. They are owned by nobody, and not private property of either Commander Peary or my self. "As to the story that Command er Peary says I took provisions stor ed by him, my reply is that Peary took my provisions, obtaining them from the custodian on the plea that I had been so long absent that he was going to organize relief stations for me in case 1 should be alive. For this I have documentary proof. ’ This is Dr. Frederick A. Cook's reply to Commander Peary. Com ing so quickly upon other dramatic incidents of the w'eek. Commander eary’s dispatch denying that Dr. Cook has achieved the triumph for which he has been feted and honored in Copenhagen, beyond the lot of any other private person, has been read there with feelings of amaze ment and concern. But Dr. Cook himself seems in no wise disturbed. He was perfectly cool and apparent ly unmoved when confronted with telegrams from the Cnited States saying that Commander Peary had denounced him as an imposter. His demeanor has not changed in the slightest from the day he landed at Copenhagen. When it was suggested to him that his chances of proving his case One of Pe*r>’* Former Surgeons m , Kht h<> rnin()(1 unle8R hp made a Defends C«>ok satisfactory statement immediately, he smiled—his usual quiet smile— Dr. Thos. H. Dedrick, of Washing- and asked how could a man be ruin- ton. N. J., who was surgeon of the Peary expedition in 1S98-1 902. promptly came to the support of Dr. Cook Wednesday. He said: "The charge (referring to Peary's ■tatement) may lesson Mr. Cooks standing in popular estimation until his defence can be heard, but the scientific world will be affected only by scientific discrepancies. Dr. That He Alone Reached the Goal ia Not Strange, Rut It is Not Accepted as True by Many Scien tific Men, Who Award the Honor to Cook Alone. The lie was hurled Wednesday centering the discovery of the North Pole, and the foundation laid for a controversy unparalleled in his tory. Commander Robert E. Peary Is making uncertain progress south ward off the coast of Labrador in his ship, the Roosevelt, but there came from him Wednesday a mes sage as direct as his homeward Jour ney has been slow. It challenges the veracity of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, of Brooklyn, and further com plicates a situation which the whole world is discussing. In effect Peary discredits Cook's claims with the intimation that ne (Peary) and he alone, planted the American flag at the [North Pole on April 6, 1909, and that Dr. Cook who asserts that he unfurled the flag at the pole on April 21, 1908, must substantiate his claims. Peary's statement reflecting on Dr. Cook's achievement came first to the Associated Press early Wednes day morning, dated Indian Harbo\ Laborador, the point through whlcti he first reported his success by wire less. It had probably been delayed In transmission and read as follows: "I have nailed the Stars and Stripes to the North Pole. This is authoritative and correct. Cook's story should not be taken to serious ly. The two Eskimos who accom panied him say that he went no dis tance nf^ th. and not out of sight of land. Other members of the tribe corroborate their story." To the Associated Press Peary had sent the dispatch, replying to an urgent request for an authoritative statement and some comment con cerning Dr. Cook While Peary's assertion is of a nature that makes Dr. Cook's position one of defence, the Brooklyn explorer yet has sup porters both at home and abroad Many of the Continental scientists are marking time, pending develop ments, while those who have formed no decided opinions in this country have assumed a similar stand. STANDS BY tXX)K. el by popular clamor calling him an imposter when he had proofs of his case which could and would be published, as he had oft times repeated, when they were in proper form to be given out. / Regarding ttie <x>njnoversy over his alleged taking of-f’eary's stores. Dr. Cook asserts thatlhe has written. *k will undoubtedly have seten- oeords and observations with- proof. th abed ~ _ and other satisfact Peary took Jit a* stock hr - iff*??^**^* 1 -* ^ipvareu rational » few moments before the tragedy, but strange remarks caused bis wife alarm, and with the chil dren she ran to her father » home and awakened him. Wise met the aged man as be neared the house, and severed bis head completely with one blow of the axe. ami rushing back into the house broke up the furniture wtih the same ax# and ar ranged his own funeral pyre. The tragely occurred at 3 o'clock, near Betbpage church, six miles west of Lincoln ton. evidence, that cs. perhaps be- ’arry Whtt- t with all GRAFT CASES Called and Eleven Ken Are In dicted by Jury FOR ALLEGED FRAUDS lit the Management of the State Dis- pensary—Son»e Ihtntugiug Te^l- ntony Brought Out—Joseph R. Wylie, Former Member of Board, and Three Whiskey Men Testify. The State says the dispensary graft cases have been brought into court. Men once given commission of of fice by the State of South Carolina now stand accused of crimes and of fenses against the State. Bribery, conspiracy to defraud and other se rious crimes are alleged. Not all of the Indictments have been handed out, but the prosecution appears to have considered well Its case and to have made a move to get a conviction in the cases In which the State has the most conclusive evidence. Tho indictments were handed to the grand jury In the morning by Solicitor W. H. Cobb, representing the State of South Caro lina. Attorney General Lyon, who has been at work on these cases for three years, is assisted by Mr. W. F. Stevenson of Cheraw, former speaker of the house or representa tives, and by Mr. R. L. Abney, gen eral counsel for the Southern rail way In South Carolina, and a lawyer of recognized ability and force. The grand jury at 3:30 p. m. heard the witnesses and shortly thereafter returned a true bill in each case. The witnesses were Joe B. Wilie and Henry Hamuels of Chester, J. A. Valentine Schmidt of St. Louis, J. G. Thorpe of Aiken. T. W. Collins of Columbia and Jno. T Early of Cincinnati. Wylie is a former director of the State dispensary and is alleged to have turned State's evidence, al though, of course, the proceedings before tho grand jury were in se cret session, Henry Samuels, now mayor of Chester, and close friend of Wylie's; Schmidt is bookkeeper for the Anheuscr Busch concern, long represented in this State by Jas L. Farnum; Earley for years sold to the State dispensary .the products of the Fletschmann Company of Cin cinnati. and Thorpe and Collins were bookkeepers at the State dispensary. The Persons Indicted. The persons under indictment are: Jas. Farnum. who is alleged to have made thousands of dollars unlawful ly selling beer and liquor to the State of South Carolina: John Black, a former shipping clerk and later director of the dispensary; L. W. Boyken, a former dispensary inspec tor and later memlter of the dis pensary board; Joe. B. Wylie, who was a member of the dispensary board; Jno. Bell Tow ill, a director of the dispensary; W O Tatum, dispenftary commissioner; Jodie M. Rawlinson. a dispensaiy director, and tlie following liquor salesmen: Jno. T Earlev, M A. Goodman, II. Lee Solomons and Dennis Weiskopf. The indictments in -brief are as follows: First, State against Janies S. Farnum. bribery, the bribe being al- I lo-nt.* ^ ■ y.. been given ' — iph HAVOC OF FLOODS PRIESTS BRING NEWS OF RE STRICTION IN MEXICO. DIVES l.NRKK STEAM ROLLER. Man. Mentally Deranged, Meets Iteath I’nder Machine. Leaping from beside his watchful keeper, who was accompanying him on a walk in Asheville, J. R. Giles, of Wilmington. N. C.. an Inmate of an Asheville sanitarium, Jumped headlong beneath the wheels of a lo-ton steam roller Wednesday af ternoon and his head was crushed out of shape by the ponderous wheels of the machine, operating on the French Broad river road four miles from Asheville. Temporary aberra tion for which Mr. Giles arts being treated caused this remarkable mode of suicide. Tells Thrilling Story. ‘" A thrilling- etory , of theescape from death of the captain and crew of the Brltteh schooer Florence M. Hewson. which lie* at tbd bottom 'of the AUanipc. twenty-fly# mtloa northwest of Havana. Cuba, where ■be was wrecked In Monday's bur- rlean preached Key W y ‘.'iaCo, „„ whR«jj Tpg i n , z r r,- ®T»ntn adriM/t _ !* AwSeTr. 0 !!! ^ ^ ^ M ( ~r‘ Towns Entirely Wiped Out and Thousands of People Drowned by JlexJcap Freshet. —^ Ad-vieea-lrom Monterey. Mexico, is to the effect that a numbe?~ of village priests, after making jour neys over miles of devastated coun try, have arrived there, bringing the first news of the destruction wrought by the recent floods in the outlying districts. Their stories indicate that the havoc is more widespread and terrible than was at first be lieved. The priests of Arramberi have informed Archbishop Lenares that Arramberi was destroyed, and today his people are wandering over the country in search of food. The de struction of the roads has made it impossible to send on relief sup plies. The story brought in by the priest of La Ascension is to the effect tb»t this town and Its population of 2,000 souls have entirely disappeared. The people, he says, may have taken to the hills, or they may have per ished. "Not a stone was left upon a stone in La Ascension," the priest said. "Where there was once rich farms is now nothing but water.” Another priest from Allende says that place also disappeared with large loss of life, and that the neighboring fields have been con verted irfto lakes. The priests were more than a week in making their way Into Monterey. They describe the destruction as the most awful ever experienced in Mex ico. Aid is urgently needed in these outlying districts, particularly as the authorltes are busy with Monterey and its vloinlty. Bustamemnte and La Escondlda have been added to the list of de stroyed villages. DEATH OF A HERMIT. For Forty-six Years Had Not lyeft His Premises. Basil Hayden, who died recently at Greenbrier. Ky., had not stepped outside the picket fence that bound ed ,his yard since President Lin coln freed the slaves. It is said that he shut himself in a little room that day in 1 863, after his sweet heart died, and looked no more up on men. An overseer of Hayden's estate named Borders was the only human being whom the anchorite raw, and he took care of Hayden s property until a mistake In account ing made by a bank clerk exasperat ed the hermit. Thereafter the re oluse hid an estate which wi'l amount to nearly $1 00,000 In chinks and pillow slips and cast off cloth ing fast »s (bey can market It. When gets below that price, if It should, then they should not sell a t>uie. The spinners are organizanl for cur tailment In production. They mean to bear the market. Why cannot the farmers organize? Everybody else has. am a ’ i a,,Dorr »al people, I any, when the T. -rrr>—_ —w pog -7 p— 7 ‘W'--»h e , nJv b ?r ly ' ,ad ’ n he ^MzJd^^nS Harley's bridge. The midy was found ' uee — r. To Disprove Peary. , Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the arctic •xplorer. said to the Associated Press at Philadelphia on Thursday: There Is a mistaken impression that I am bringing the Eskimos to New York to prove that 1 have been to the pole. The real reason of their coining here is to disprove the siory hey were made to tell by Command er Peary' and his party.” Cannibals Eat Them. Advices received from the French Congo say that cannibalism is ram pant in the Matab and Sanghar re gions, where the blacks arc in com plete revolt. They have killed and eaten a number of factory employes and n telegraph operator was slain s»: his key -££oured Native r.tachments, nffirers. have <. J 0 S'vUiUli-h the ca^ Ut)or ^ - 1 * * r DODGED TARIFF That is What Mr. Bryan Says of Presldant Taft IN SPECIAL ARTICLE WILL BE PROBED SHOOTING OF MRS. G. C. BIGHAM LEADS TO ARRESTS. In, the Atlanta Journal the Great' Commoner Dlscnsses tho Differ ence Between the Words Revised and Reduced and Puts Tariff Out rage Up to the Republican Party. In a letter to the Atlanta Journal discussing the tariff, Mr. Bryan says the Republican platform was ambig uous, and the Democratic party plat form specific. The Republicans in their tariff plank used the word "re vised.’’ The Democrats in their par ty platform demanded a reduction of the rates. The word revision is subject to a double Interpretation, while only one construction can be placed upon the word "reduction.” The Democratic senators and rep resentatives who had voted for the Imposition of duties bad made a mistake, and whether elected upon or before the adoption of the plat form of the party, ought to feel bound by its declarations. I most heartily approve the reso lution offered by Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, proposing an investiga tion as to the responsibility for the high cost of living. Senator Gore is entirely right. The high tariff Republicans have tried to shift the responsibility from the manufacturers to the mer chants. This Is Important, and It is only right that the public should know the truth. It has been found by experience that unless a party formulates a platform, Its representatives in office cannot agree upon a definite policy, owing to the influence brought to bear by favor-seeking corporations. Even when there are platferms they are miKOonstrued unless they are positive and specific. Sometimes positive and specific platforms are violated, but a positive and specific platform is not apt to be violated, and when tb y are violated the guilt can be fixed and the guilty punish ed. The trouble with the Republican platform of last fall was that It was not specific and definite. The tariff plank used the word "revised'' In stead of the word "reduced," and now Senator Aldrich and his crowd construe it to mean an increase while some of the western Republicans insist it contemplated a decrease In the rates. Mr. Taft dodged the question So far as 1 could learn from his speech es the nearest he ever came to a construction of the platform was to declare, when in the west, that it meant an "honest revision,’’ at one time declaring that while some schedules ought to be raised and some lowered, the revision would probably be downward. Ttie Fcpublican national conven tion was at fault In accepting so indefinite, so evasive and so decep tive a word as "revision" as a suf ficient promise. The voters ought to have known that "the friends of the tpri.~ •/ will neve- .give us any ma- Goroner Swears Out Warrants for W. B. Avant, who Shot Mr*. Big- ham, and for —A^^Ufstch from Georgetown to The News and Courier says Coroner' C. J. Fletcher TiTeaifty'yworB *trat- a warrant for William B. Avant as principal, and for Dr. J. C. Ulgham as accessory for the killing of Mrs. G. C. Glgham, wife of the latter, a Murrell's Inlet, on Saturday night last. The verdict of the coroner's Jury reads as follows: "That the de ceased came to her death by a gun shot wound at the hands of W. B. Avant and G. C. Blgham as accessory thereto, both men laboring under great mental excitement and fear at the time of the deed." It is the strong opinion of every one in this neighborhood that the shooting was Inexcusable in Its gross carelessness, and deserves to be In vestigated to the bottom. It is re ported that one of the probable caus es of the men shooting at the un known object was because Sunny- side house was said to be haunted, and they thought It a ghost. The deputy sheriff is expected to arrive with the two men tonight. Dr. G. C. Glgham, of Georgetown county, who was implicated by the coroner and Jury In the killing of his wife at Murrell Inlet, was ar rested at the home of his mother, Mrs. M. S. Blgham, at ForestvlUe, Wednesday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Harrell. Dr. Glgham was carried to Florence and placed In Jaii upon telegraphic Instructions from the sheriff of Georgetown. GONE TO REST Col. Jlmet T. Bacon Passat Away on Wodnosday WAS BRAVE SOLDIER -And Brilliant Writer, Ool. ..W ^ •>»*—~ . _ PHLSICIAN8 FIGHT PELLAGRA. Campaign Against Supposed Germ of the Disease. Alarmed by the number of cases of pellagra that have occurred at Durham, N. C., the physicians of that city began Wednesday experiments to locate the origin of the disease. Six deaths from pellagra have oc curred in that section. A dispatch from Durham says: "An examination of the blood of a powerful negro who has the dis ease in' most aggravated form re vealed a distinct organism and speci mens were sent to Richmond and to Johns Hopkins for more careful analysis. "If a germ Is found, as physicians are Inclined to believe, some ani mal will be inoculated and a cam paign against pellagra on the germ theory will be waged. The theory that the disease has Its origin in corn has been abandoned by the physicians at Durham, but a fierce war against the Importation of Wes tern corn is being conducted. "Dr. McCampbell of the State hos pital has written a paper treating with 12 cases of pellagrous Insanity and death. Three-fourths of the cas es were among women, which Is un usual. It Is said, as the disease oc curs more frequently among men. None of the cases which have devel oped In that section has been trace- ahje to cornbread. One victim was oarding housekeeper, but none of boarders contracted the disease. Wants to Move Away. A committee of three from the Aiken city council has been appoint ed to confer with Mise Mary V. Kirk, the alleged leper, or her agents in regard to the sale of her property in the city of Aiken to the city au thorities. It Is stated that Miss Kirk desires to sell her property and move away from Aiken. Charged With Bigamy. Oscar Alexander, an operative at the Brogon mill*. Anderson, has been arrested on the charge of bigamy. He married the 17-ycar-ohl daughter of Mr. C. N. Prince 00 the 2nd. hav ing a wife already, who Is living in GalneevHlor- Ga- Re is years old. Recovered Damages. Mrs, Robert McLee* obtaluc ▼erdlct in the ctrcuiycourt. derson on Wednesday city for |80A. She wa« fit; en y j streets some time l^ .wbeel dropped IDutf 1« nsel fcro to sicrw up vrJt by Mr. Joff Hamilton, who was In a boat and was sounding the bot tom with a long pole To-.* man was on the opposite side of the river from Sallle Drake and Rills Hayes, colored women, w'ho were fishing. Sallte Drake offered to sell him some fish she had caught, aud he plunged into the river with shackles on, and attempted to swim across for them, bud failed to reach the shore. He died in plain view of these women and others of the ebaingang. MURDERER tX)NYHTED. Killed Young Woman Who Refused to Marry Him. At Douglass, Qa., late Wednesday night the jury In the case of Wil liam McLeod returned a verdict of guilty with recommendation to mer cy and the defendant was at once sentenced by Judge T. A. Parker to life imprisonment in the State pen itentiary. On August 18 Mcl^eod killed Mias Mattie Graham. Accord ing to the evidence he was insanely Jealoua. He asked permission to shake hands with the jury for sav ing him from the gallows. Evi dence was Introduce^, Indicating the weakness of McLeod's mind. Much Damage at Rome. A terrific rain, wind and hall storm of fifteen minutes duration shortly after F "6*Cluck Thursday alteruoon, smashed thousands of windows, in cluding plate glass store fronts; up rooted trees, tore roofs from build ings In all parts of Rome. Ga.. and wreaked damage generally. It Is believed that crops io that section have been practically ruined. The street railway and electric light sys tem are out of eommlsstou. Hall stone* as large aa oranges fell. ueaeee about 7 o'clock Thursday night. Al Barnes, a prominent cit izen of Denmark. Madison county, was killed, and Mrs. Barnes hurt. Their home was wrecked. Tom Helm was killed In Lincoln county, near Mulbery, and Homer Ashby and wife were severely hurt. Carter Arnold, returning home from sotiool at War- trace, was caught In the storm and has not been heard from. Many resi dences were wrecked In Tennessee. RAGGED BY TRAIN. tornado pasaed over sections of Editor Kills Assailant. In a pistol duel at Harrodsburg. Ky., Wednesday night between Edi tor John F. Pulliam and John W. Robards in Pulliam's office, Robards was faially wounded and Pulliam may have to have his arm ampu tated arar result of a bullet, which crushed the bone. Robards is said to have entered the office of the Har rodsburg Herald and opened fire on Pulliam, who returned it. A trival quarrel is believed to have been the cause of the affray. Both are promi nent. Wanted to See Him Hung. At Wllkesbarre, Pa , on Thursday, Stanley Nazarko. a Slav, was hung for murder. More than the usual interest waA take* in th© execution of Nazarko. whose wife came to the Jail with the man she intends to marry and requested permission to witness the hanging Tho request was refused by the sheriff, although the condomfied man was wURng that his wife and her future husband should see him die. Leaps Into a Well. Temporarily- deranged by 111 the Btate llbraraln, the secretary and assistant secretary of State, the as sistant labor commissioner, the State fire warden, the assistant fire mar shal, the deputy public examiner, the secretary of the dairy and food com mission, the assistant clerk of the supreme court, the secretary of the board of control. Both political par ties have recognized the capability of the country editor for official po sition from the earliest history of the State, and he has always been an active force in legislative coun cils and In the minor places under the national and State government. FIREMAN IS KILLED. And Eight Persons Are Hurt by Ac- t blent to Train. Fireman O. J. Sutton was killed and eight persons were Injured when an engine and two cars of the Aus tin & Northwestern railway plunged into a burning bridge over Watters creek. The seriously Injured are: Benj. Coyne, mail clerk, skull and spine Injured; B. Willers, brake- man, McNeil. Tex., two rlb« broken, as a heavy mist obscured the fire and the engineer could not atop his train In time to avert (The accident. stroyed. The proffer this section Is estimated at $100.- 000. Wire communication with Stan ton vllle, where 13 lives are reported lost, has not yet been re-establlahed. At Russellville, Ala., 27 people were neriously. several fatally, in jured. X property damage of at least $50,000 is estimated at Cartersville, Ga , while that at Atlanta will run between $80,000 and $100,000. One life was lost at the former place. Rome, Qa., Gadsden, Ala., Hunts vllle, Ala., Decatur, Ala-, and other smaller towns in the path of the storm report heavy property dam age. * KILLS WIFE, THEN HIMSELF. Insanely Jealous Man Commits Mur der and Suicide. At Erie, Pa., Fred F. Link, of the Link Manufacturing Company, of that city, aroused his wife from her slumber Sunday morning and a quarrel ensued, during which. It Is said. Link announced that be bad decided to end both his own life and that of his wife. He drew a revolver and Mrs. Link seized him Hanged Man’a Policy. and fought for her life, but the The question whether an ordinary insanely jealoua man overcome her insurance policy Insures a man and shot her four times, one ballet afataat• death by lefal hanging Is penetrating her heart. Link fired raised In the rase of the Muraal TYhA remaHMeg-hulVaL thrpngh Life Insurance Company vs. J. WI1- own bead, dying Instantly. 11am McCue and others, which was 1 presented Monday to *’ ■ .©me court of the Unlu^,, A RGK N( ?Cu© health. Miss Carrie Hunter. 26 yearn;la one of the cbildt * flay- 1 Killed by Train. ^ j-a B d wan aim . . v PllAMn.. C old. Jumped Into a well at the home of her sister. Mrs. B. F. Gullodge. In or McCue u**r \v given thatvv v ~<»ign*d aa A ’“'or of yfm of her sister. Mrs. B. F. Gullodge. in was s Mli 1 the southern part of Anson cwnty^ pos *4 Ah N. C*. at midnight Thursday nlgbt.v J’Joe so jo hn K y, I '® o L000a and was almost Instantly-.t killed., brother, who divined | TTn ne tlr u '« rega r s ***! 05 *or tb* Office r Commits ftukJde. Lieut. Carl. A. Rlcbster. N., stationed on the Marietta aQaamit- ted suicide by hanging Wmaalf in his quarters sboarfi tb« Uartetta. HI* body was fonntf; bwiffig from tvo bell straps In b^t room at 8 o'clock Thursday morning. Ha had ashore vntil. f _ 1 __ _2' haa hash __Fo«fht Bravely for the Booth Isom ing the Civil War and Ably Lo> bored for Booth Carolina With His Pen for Many Years. Col. Jas. T Bacon, after a linger ing Illness, died at hit beautiful home In Edgefield on Wednesday af ternoon, and a dispatch says all Edgefield and throughout the district is sorrow and shadow, for he was the best known and most universal ly beloved man In the county, and hla name was synonymous with alt that la pure, generous, noble and good. Col. Bacon had attained hla 78th year. He waa descended from splendid Revolutionary stock. Hla ancestor* came from Virginia, where the family had been prominent among the colonists for over a cen tury. Edmond Bacon, for many years a brilliant member of. thf Edgefield Bar, and the "Ned Brace" In Longstreet’s Georgia scenes, was hla grandfather. Edmond Bacon, although a Geor gian by birth. In early life moved to South Carolina, and he, with CoL Arthur Simklns, settled the town of Edgefield- He had four children, the second, Edmond Speed, being the father of the subject of this sketch, his mother being Sarah Bacon, a cousin to her husband, she having married twice, her last husband be ing the Rev. Arthur Wlgfall. Tb# Bacon family has been closely con nected with the county^a anlitate’s hlatory. ' — CoL Bacon had one brother, the Hon. John E. Bacon, who waa secre tary of legation at St. Petersburg when Governor Pickens waa minis ter, and afterward* minister to Uruguay and Paraguay under Pres ident Cleveland, and a full sister, Mr*. Baker, of McClsHanvllle, 9. C., and two half-sisters, Mrs. Kate Wi •' Cheatham, of Edgefield.‘and Mrs. Dr. Trezant, formerly of Columbia. A dispatch from Edgefield to The News and Courier says Col. James T. Bacon waa born here, and hla long and useful life was spent amidst , the scenes of hla nativity. * After receiving an academic education at this place^..'^completed his studies In Germs o'- <© gking a specialty of music, he excelled, and which T©'' v-jJ’ of the Joy* of hl« beautifuFvjfe. After hie return from Germany, he taught music here, aad at Anderson, but it was to JournaDy^ ism that he devoted hla splendid * talents. In which field he won for himself a name and reputation, sel dom equalled In this country. After serving with conspicuous bravery In the War Between the States, he re turned home, and assumed the edi torship of the Edgefield Advertiser, and the files of that paper will beet tell how ably and hrflliantly he performed the duties of that office. Gentle as a women, yet brave aa « Hon, he could write with all th* JPft> neas and sweetness of Washtogtoa Irving, but when necessity and iK’ty demanded It, with all the boldne<8i« and fire of Wendell Phillips. ®'‘construction times, ^ troops negro of gasoline ia~ a meat, destroyed the Pine street, caused a 1c 000 end Injuring two fires Is believed that a negro tempted to fill the gasoline ^ with the flames on lost hlsW The buildings destroyed Included t Commercial hotel, lose of I12.00W. Smith’s tailoring establishment, loss $3,000. Firemen Homer Watters and James Parrott fell through th* hotel roof and were badly hurt. Tenneeeee Did Not Escape. That a destructive storm of wind and hall swept over West and Mid dle Tennessee and North Alabama, early Thursday night, is evidenced by- the fact that no communication of. any character can be had with these sections. Telegraph and telephone wires are down and report* from small towns in the extreme wearer*-- counties of Tennessee at at© that a severe wind storm occurred at f o'clock Thursday night , unroofing houses, leveling telegraph poles and doing other damage. No loss of Ufa is reported from these points. Scarlet Fever at Columbia. A dispatch from Columbia says la... view of the fact that there la ffinMu scarlet fever la that City other parts of the State, the board of heeltb has issued a ■tatemeat, setting out the beet; of preventll|g tb* spread of about tbejpiyaiiotTtKeTh. 1 of healt)} dfsirtng only to be •afeaitfa. . - Motive for tim .-Tb* 1 Dr. bore until a 1^1 04 <2, kt Por wife at Is ao« Bingham good* • sofc 1 r |he 1 bars are