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ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. MAY 28, 1903. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. j
DEADLY TORNADOES
Cut a Frightfully Fatal Swath !
Through Western States.
OKLAHOMA A SUFFERER
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Towns Almost Wiped Off the Map and
Damage Through Country Districts
Will Reach Enormous
Figure.
A Kansas City special says: In the ;
storm that struck -en miles southeast j
of Dodge City, a herder, name un- ;
known, was killed and Mrs. Tibb I
Shane was fatally injured. Many i
small buildings were wrecked and ]
score's of cattle killed. The report !
that Mulvanc, Kans, had been swept j
away by a tornado proves to have boon j
exaggerated. Moro or less damage
was caused at that place but as far as j,
oaa be learned there was no serious
Joss and no casualties are reportod.
the northwestern corner of Dickinson
county eight dwellings were
blown down and several injured, but
all will lecover, the t>-ack of the storm
in his county was a quarter of a mile
wide and twenty miles in length, and
it is estimated that $30,000 damages
was done to crops.
Hundreds Homeless.
Hundreds of persons were rendered
homeless and property damages to the
extent of $300,000 was done in the
Enid, Oklahoma, bottoms alone by a
cloudburst that struck west cf the city
at midnight Saturday night. The aggregate
damage probably will be much
higher on account cf losses sustained
between Enid and the seat of the
storm.
A bank of water three feet high and
200 feet wide, swept down through the
bottoms at midnight, carrying houses
and everything before it. It came
upon Enid without warnirg, while
most of its inhabitants were asleep.
Within a few mlnu'es a hundred
houses ws?re completely submerged.
Many persons lost everything they
possessed. The means for relieving
distress are inadequate.
The rainfall for ten days was the
heaviest In the history or usianoma
and indications are that more will follow.
Reports of losses in the country
west of Enid are meager, but it is believed
that heavy damage was done.
Additional advices state that about
7: SO .o'clock Saturday night the tornado
struck Carden, Oklahoma, and destroyed
about one-'bird of the town,
including the principal business
houses and postoffico. p. F. Brown, of
Wichita representing a machinery
company, was killed instantly by flying
timbers, his brains being found 30
feet from the body. Mm Wismiller
was fatally injured. Among the building
destroyed were the Merrill furniture
store, the Carmen dreg store, the
Halstead meat market, The Headlight
printing office and Wismiller's hardware
store. The Methodist church
was set on top of the parsonage, where
it remains and can be seen for miles.
The tornado also struck Foss, a
town of 200 inhabitants on the Choctaw.
Oklahoma and Gulf railway in
western Oklahoma, early Sunday
morning, destroying thirteen residences
and wrecking many outhouses.
Three persons were killed and a number
injured, one R. P. Hall seriously.
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Storm Sweeps Illinois.
A tornado swept ncror/ central Illinois
Sunday, causing much damage, although
no fives were lost. The store;
was accompanied by torrents of rain
and by lightning. Two grain elevators
were blown over at Carlock and many
barns and structures were destroyed.
.Thousands of shade trees were uprooted
^and electric wires were blown
down.
Great Blow In Nebraska.
A tornado struck near Randolph,
Nebr., late Saturday night and caused
heavy loss.
The home of William Fredericks
wa3 demolished. Fredericks and his
wife were carried some distance, but
had a miraculous escape from death.
Many barns were blown down and
horses and other stock injured. The
home of K. Helms Js in ruins.
PULLMAN COMPANY LIBERAL.
Makes Most Satisfactory Franchise
Return to Georgia Comptroller.
The new franchise tax law of Geor- x
gia scored a most substantial victory
Thursday when the return of the Pali
man Palace Car Company was received
by Comptroller General Wright anu
promptly accepted.
The Pullman company, by its legal
authorities, acknowledges the justice
of the Georgia law, complies fully
with its spirit, and makes what is
considered by the comptroller general
a most equitable franchise return.
HANNA WONT INDORSE.
Senator is Emphatic in Opposition tr
Roosevelt's Candidacy.
According to a Cleveland, Ohio, dis
patch. Senator F lr.a has taken mucr
pains to prevent the least doubt as tc
his wishes relative to the indorse
ment of President Roosevelt's candl
dacy by the approaching republicar
state convention. He is unequivocally
opposed to such action anc
brands the attempt of Senator Fora
ker to obtain the indorsement as ma
licious.
PAYNE DESERTS ALLGOOD.
Postmaster General Refuses to Back
Up Colored Mail Carrier.
Postmaster General Payne has ordered
the immediate resumption of
service on the suspended rural free
delivery mail route at Gallatin, Tenn.
The resignation of Aligcod, the negro
carrier who was intimidated and who
refused to resume v ork. has been accepted
and the civil service has been
called upon to certify a carrier J
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I Cream of News. I
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Brief Summary of Most
Important Events
of Each "Day.
?The Kiue and Gray Association of
Fitzgerald, composed of union and confederate
veterans, is arranging for a
big Fourth of July celebration, to
which prominent men will be invited.
?Six people were billed by the explosion
of a boiler in a saw mill at
Maringain Station, La.
?Coal companies of the Lehigh region
have commence 1 the enforcement
of the new age limit regulating the
employment of boys.
?On Saturday night hundreds of
pedsons at Enid, Okla., were rendered
homeless by a cloudburst, which caused
the water to rush down the bottoms,
sweeping away a hundred
houses.
?A man sitting in an open car on
Brooklyn bridge suddenly alighted
from the car in the middle of a span
and running to the side of the bridge
jumped into East River. His body
was carried away by the current.
?Two persons killed, two fatally
hurt and others injured in motor accident
in England.
?Paul Blouet (Mam O'Rell), died
Sunday night at Paris. He had been
ailing several months and had never
entirely recovered from the effects of
an operation performed some time
ago in New York.
?So many fatalities wero caused by
the automobile races in France that
Premier Combes has forbidden the continuance
of the races. About ten lives
were lost and many persons injured in
Sunday's race.
?The murder trial of Mrs. Effie L.
Careon for the murder of young Rigsby
began in Macon, Ga., Friday and
ended Saturday in a verdict of acquittal.
?Mr3. Lizzie McCormick will be
tried in Memphis. The Ohio warrant
was dismissed by Governor Frazier.
?President Roosevelt will not speak
at the laying of the corner stone oi
Mississippi's new capitol.
?The Confederate Veterans' reun
ion at New Orleans closed Friday with
the greatest parade ever known to ..he
veterans.
?Suit has been entered at Orangeburg,
S. C., to break the lease under
which the Southern operates the old
South Carolina and Georgia.
?Senator Hanna will oppose the indorsement
of the candidacy of Roosevelt
at the Ohio republican convention.
?Postmaster General Payne has accepted
the resignation of the negro
Allgood, the Tennessee carrier. Payne
will not abolish the route.
?Abusive letters are being received
by Count Cassini, the Russian ambassador,
at Washington, because of his
statement regarding the Jews.
?Governor Beckham, of Kentucky,
has sent troops to Jackson to guard
the court while the grand jury is investigating
the Marrtum assassination.
?The riots in Agram, Hungary, continue.
It is said that thirty-eight rebels
were hanged and forty shot in one
day.
?Interviewed in London, Mr. McCormick,
American ambassador to
Russia, states that the czar has given
assurances that Manchurian ports will
not be closed to the United States.
?Barney Brown, aged 50, was shot
from ambush and killed near Bartow,
Fla., Monday night.
?Henry E. Fries, who attempted to
float the southern cotton mill merger,
now states that the merger is off.
?Mrs. Lizzie McCormick will be
tried in Tennessee acording to orders
issued by Governor Frazier.
?Broker Brown, of New Orleans,
made about $40 a second during the
advance in cotton at New York Monday.
?The United States is determined
not to allow Russia to close Manchuria
to the commerce of the world.
?Deep interest is felt in Washington
in the LaGrange, Ga., rate decision,
as it marks a difference between the
courts and the interstate commerce
commission.
?The United States court of appeals
holcls that the Pennsylvania railroad
has the right to remove from its
right of way the poles of the Western
Union Telegraph Company.
?Lieutenant Walker and two privates
have been killed in the Philippines
by fanatics.
?The fine piggery at Vanderbilt's
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Biltmore esiaie was uuruwu immuajr,
but the blooded pigs were saved.
?Jefferson B. Browne, president of
the Florida railroad commission, talks
of lobbying charge.
?Clay Knobloc, a former lieutenant
governor of Louisiana, was shot down
in the streets at Thibadeaux, bis home.
Monday morring.
?The United States supreme court
has decided that the Southern railway
has no citizenship in North Carolina.
?Russia has received no protest
from the United States in regard
to the Jewish massacre, nor is likely
to. Secretary Hay does not see how
he can interfere.
?Citizens of New Orleans have sen;
$1,000 to Miss Hadley. the Indianapolis
chambermaid who refused to make up
a bed which Booker Washington had
slept in.
?Twenty Filipino fanatics have been
killed and many wounded by the force
under Colonel Taylor.
?Advices received by the state department
indicate that Russia's course
in Manchuria is ruining the American
cotton trade in that, province.
? Referring to the statement of Mr.
Tulloch regarding the postal scandals.
Senator Piatt, of New York, says those
portions relating to himself are lies.
? Hebrews in Macon. Ga.. Sunday
night passed a resolution asking the
United States to intervene for Hebrews
in Russia.
CUBANS CELEBRATE
Salvos and Fireworks Commemorate
Freedom,
DAY OF GREAT REJOICING
Cablegrams of Well Wishes and Fellcitation
are Exchanged Between
President Palrna and Secretary
Root.
A dispatch from Havana says:
The celebration of Cuba'3 independence,
the fir^t anniversary of the establishment
of the Cuban republic,
began at midnight Tuesday night with
the illuminating of the fronts of the
principal clubs, the sending up of
rockets and the screeching of steam
TT-Mctioa ThA weather Wednesday
was ideally clear even for Cuba.
Business was completely suspended
and the streets were thronged with
people.
President Palma, accompanied by
the cabinet officers and city and provincial
officials, drove to the punta,
where he reviewed the members of
the police and fire departments, and
then accompanied by Secretary of
State ZaMo he was driven up the
Prado to the palace, continually acknowledging
the salutations of the
crowds which lined that* thoroughfare.
At noon the guns of Cabanas fortress
announced that exactly a year
had elapsed since the birth of the Cuban
republic, and immediately thereafter
the rural guards and artillery
paraded on the plaza in front of the
palace and were reviewed by the
president.
Root Cables to Palma.
Secretary Root, at Washington, sent
President Palma, of Cuba, the following
telegram of congratulation:
"Accept hearty congratulations
upon the first anniversary of the establishment
of the in-dependent government
of Cuba, and upon the
strength and wisdom with which you
have conducted your great office. The
year of successful administration and
respect for law has confounded the
enemies of Cuba and strengthened the
courage and hope of her friends. You
have my sincere and earnest wishes
for rontinued nrosc-eritv."
Secretary Root received the following
reply from President Palraa:
"The government and people of the
United States are entitled to the everlasting
gratitude of the people of
Cuba who amidst the happiness they
enjoy today do not forget how much
they are obliged to the American people
for the share they took in helping
to gain independence and freedom,
and send them, through me, their slncerest
wishes for the uninterrupted
prosperity of the great republic and
the personal welfare of President
Roosevelt and the members of his
cabinet. At the same time, I send you
and family the warmest testimony of
my sincere friendship."
FOUND $10,000 BILL.
Bootblack Returned it to Owner, However,
and Got Only $10 Reward.
At Philadelnhia. Tuesday Carmine
Cammorata, a boot black, found a $10.000-bill
on the sidewalk at Twelfth and
Market streets. He returned it to the
loser and received $10 as a reward.
A few minutes later Policeman Volner
picked up at the same corner a
pocket book containing $850. He also
restored it to the owner and his recompense
was "Thank you!"
As no one saw Cammorata find the
$10,000 bill, he might have kept it. A
moment or two after he had picked it
up a young man, shaking from nervous
fright, hurriod up to tne bootblack's
stand and asked if the note had been
found. When it was given to him he
gasped and fainted dead away.
Costly Blaze in Chicago.
Fire that for a time Wednesday
night threatened the wholesale clothing
district at Jackson and Franklin
streets, Chicago, did $500,000 damage
before it was gotten under control.
FARM THAT SIMS STOLE
Sold at Auction and Brings Insignificant
Sum of $5.41 an Acre.
"Richland farm,' in Greeno county,
Ga., the magnificent plantation once
owned by G. H. Sims, the defaulting
collection clerk of the Capital City
UcillUIlcii Uplift, Ui Aiiauca, was ouiu
at auction Friday.
The entire farm, consisting of 1,936
acres, brought only $5.41 an acre, or
a total of $10,500.
The sale authorized by the directors
ol the bank included, In addition to
the land, the horses and mules formerly
used on *be farm. These
brought an aggregate of $2,100.
OBJECTS TO LEE STATUE.
Resolution of Protest Adopted by the
G. A. R. of Kansas.
The Grand Army of the Republic,
department of Kansas, the twentysecond
encampment of which was beg*M
in McPhersori Wednesday, passed
a resolution protesting against
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Virginia to place a statue of General
Robert E. Lee in the rotunda of the
capitol at Washington.
RATE CASE IS SETTLED.
Urvited States Supreme Court Decides
Against LaGrange, Georgia.
The United States supreme court.
Monday, reversed the finding of the
United States interstate commerce
commission in the case of the proceedings
of that commission in the case oi
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company and other railroad companies
whose lines constitute a contln
uous line to the cities of New Orleans
and Atlanta.
WHOLE TOWNS WRECKED,;
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Two More Tornadoes Get in Their '
Work of Death and Destruction
in West and Northwest.
A scries of heavy storms, two of
which developed into the worst tornadoes
that have visited southern Nebraska
in years, passed over portions
of Clay, Franklin and Kearney counties
Sunday evening. Fifteen persons
aro known to have lost their lives and
over a score of persons were more or
less seriously injured
Near Norman the following were |
killed: Daniel McCurdy, Robert Mc- j
Curdy, Mrs. John V/chlever, Mrs. Earl '
Bacon, Mrs. C. A. T:iple.
Near Upland the dfad are: Luther- j
an minister, name unknown; Mrs. John
Peters, farmer's wife; Mrs. Lamers
and mother.
At Pauline the dead arc as follows:
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Mr. and Mrs. James Mum aw and child, j
Frank Quigg, Flora Paffilmer, John j
Palmer.
Near Norman, at the homo of Daniel
McCurdy, a number of relatives and
friends were spending the day and not
one in the house escaped death or 30rious
injury.
Two miles south of Upland, German
Lutheran services were being held in
a school when the storm struck and
demolished it, kiling four of the occupants,
including the minister, and injuring
a number of others.
The storm was equally destructive
at Fairfield, but ihc people were
warned of its coming and sought cellars
for safety. Six dwellings were
blown to pieces at that place, but their
occupants escaped injury with a few
exceptions. Every dwelling and outbuilding
in the path of the tornado was
blown to pieces and the financial lo>s
thus far accounted for will reach about
$60,000.
.There Were Two Tornadoes.
There were two tornadoes, both originating
within a mile of Fairfield. The
first one moved to the northwest and
the second off to the southwest. The
one to the notrhwest did the greater
damage and all the fatalities seem to
havo been in its pa:h.
The list of injure 1 is small, in comparison
to the fatalities, as only about
twenty peaplo in the stricken section
are reported as beiag more or less seriously
hurt.
The greatest loss of property was
sustained by farmers. The heaviest Individual
loss reported is that suffered
by Charles Taylor, who places the
damage to his sto-k farm, including
cattle and horses kilkd, at $21,000.
Worst Storm in Years.
The worst storm in twenty years
raged in Rochester. Minn., Sunday
night from 11 to 2:30. The afreets
were flooded. The Sumbro river rose
5 feet in two hours and many houses
and yards were soon under water. A
cloudburst is reported at Rockwell,
and some stock was drowned. The
Chicago and Northwestern railway
track near Dover was washed out ior
300 yards.
Iowa Town Wrecked.
A tornado struck the town of Rolfe,
Iowa, seventy miles west of Des
Moines, late Sunday, killing Fong Foo.
a laundry man, fatally injuring a child
and wrecking the State bank building.
Crayon's general store, the Hotel de
Main and one other building. Several
residences were damaged.
Missouri Town Demolished.
A tornado struck the town of Elmo,
Mo., unroofing stores and littering ;he
town with debris. No lives were lost.
DUY BREAD WITH TOTS.
Bad State of Affairs in Famine Stricken
Section cf China.
United States Consul General McWade,
at Canton, trader date of April
7, sent to the state department a detailed
report of the fnmine in Hwang
Si in support of his cabled appeal lor
help.
Pie produced a mass of information
which he declares tc be reliable from
American missionary and native
sources in Kwang Ting. Wu Chow and
other places, showing the destitution
and the consequent suffering which
the consul general says is absolutely
appalling. Ho says that the heads of
families in their desperation were selling
their children from $2 to $5 each,
yet so many were the offerings and j
so few the purchases that not all j
could be sold even at this price.
POISONED BY PTOMAINES.
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Stomach Pump Saves Eighteen Board
ing House Quests in Porto Rico. j
Eighteen people living at a boarding
house in San Juan, Porto Rico, were
poisoned Thursday by milk containing
ptomaines.
Eleven doctors responded to the j
alarm and the use of stomach pump?
saved the lives of all the sufferers.
The Americans affected were Messrs.
Kellogg, Sisson, Gordon, Schultz and
Hallen and Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick.
Tho incident has caused alarm
throughout San Juan.
CASTLE AND TRACEWELL REPLY.
Postmaster General Payne Gives Out ,
More Scandal News.
Postmaster General Payne Saturday I
made public the answers of Henry A. j
Castle, the auditor cf the treasury for |
the postofficc department, and Comptroller
Traeewell, of the treasury, ro j
garding the Tulloeh charges of irregu
larities in the postal administration.
Tho answers specifically denv allegations
Ol wrongful procedure.
DENVER STRIKE IS ENDED.
i lr> Concessions Made Victory Seems
to Be With Union Men.
The strike which for several clays
i practically paralyzed the business or
. Denver, Colorado, involving nearly ten
thousand men and women, was settled
Thursday through the efforts of a
committee of the cham'ber of coni.
merce and one from the local typo.
graphical union. Though both sides
i made concessions, the victory seems
>o be with the laboring men.
ACCEPTED A BRIBE'
Attorney Miller, of Postoffice
Department, Loses Head,
PAYNE ORDERS ARREST!
Charge is that Turf Operators Paid
Large Sum to Induce Him
to Declare Their Busl?
nCss Legal.
Postmaster General Payne, Monday,
summarily dismissed Daniel V. MilI
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ior, assistant ttiiuuiey jjcuciai ii_?i m*>
postoffice department, for accepting a
bribe in connoctioh with the case of
John J. Ryan & Co., charged with
fraudulent use of the mails. A warrant
was at once issued for Millor's
arrest.
Another warrant has been issued for
the arrest of a man who is charged
with being the partner or go-between
in the transaction. The bribe is alleged
to have been accepted at Cincinnati
last December.
Miller is from Terra Haute, Ind., and
was appointed by former Assistant Attorney
General Jamos X. Tyner about
two years ago.
The charge against Miller has been
under investigation for three months.
The Ryan company was a turf investment
concern wlil'h operated at St.
Louis and Covington, Ky. Its methods
and working operations arc said to ce
similar to these of the Arnold company,
which has figured conspicuously
in the postoffice investigation. The
inspectors have been quietly at work
on the case and action was delayed so
they might get together all the papers
and evidence which, in their opinion,
was necessary.
The Ryan company was the beneficiary
under a decision of the assistant
attorney general of the postoffice
department made several months ago,
subsequent to the derision in the Arnold
case and couched in practically
the same terms as that decision.
Those decisions declared the concerns
named to be free to use the
mails. The Arnoid decision, it is
stated, was signed by Assistant Attorney
General Tyncr and the Ryan
decision by George A. C. Christians,
the law clerk of the department, who
was then acting assistant, attorney
general on account of Mr. Tyner's protracted
illness. Mr. Christiancy was
at the postofhcc department on a summons
from the department and was
closely examined regarding the case.
It is stated that ike amount offered
Miller as a, bribe aggregated several
thousand dollars and was in the form
of a cash payment, followed by a
check".
MARK HANNA HOLDS ALOOF.
Scouts the Idea cf Indorsing the Candidacy
of Roosevelt.
Senator Hanna, in an interview at
Cleveland, Ohio, concerning widely circulated
reports as to his position in
connection with proposed resolution to
be introduced at the coming state republican
convention indorsing President
Roosevelt for a second term,
made the following statement to the
representative of the Associared
Press:
"I have seen the reported interview
with Senator Foraker with reference
to the proposed indorsement of the
nomination of President Roosevelt by
the next Ohio republican 'state convention.
At the outset I want to deny
that Mr. Dover, my private secretary,
or so far as I lrnow, any of my
friends, had anything to do with
raising this question.
"The first I knew of it was when I
read in the papers a previous interview
with Senator Foraker, which I
construed as an oxpressicn of his own
personal views. This was followed by
a:t interview with General Grosvenor
along the same line. These made it
apparent that there was a disposition
on til? part 01 some j.eopie iu auggcoi
such action by the convention.
. "I certainly have no criticism to
make of any individual as to his rights
to entertain or to ?>xpress such vie .vs.
but I certainly do criticise the propriety
of action along that line by the delegates
to the state convention who are
chosen for the purpose of nominating
a state ticket. It dees not appear to
me to be entirely pre per for this convention
to assume the prerogative of
the one to be chosen in 1904 and upon
which one will rest the responsibility
of representing and expressing the
sentiment in our state for any candidate.
"It would seem unnecessary for me
to say that these conclusions are in no
way influenced by any personal desires
or ambitions of my own.
"I have often stated !ioth privately
and publicly that i rm not and will
not be a candidate for the presidential
nomination."
LIST OF AUTO VICTIMS.
Complete Returns Show Six Killed;
Two Fatally, Ten Seriously Hurt.
A special from Paris says: It is
now possible to assemble trom the
many reports from along the route of
the first stage of the Paris-Madrid
automobile race a complete list of the
casualties. This shows six persons
| killed, two so dangerously injured that
i they may die end ten seriously i:i!
jured.
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i ANOTHER LINE FOR SOUTHERN.
! Report that Merger With Mobile and
Ohio Will Occur in July.
i The Atlanta Constitution states that
j the Southern railway and the Mobile
! and Ohio railway wili consolidate July
1, if there is no hitch in the present
plans of the management of those
reads.
This information has not yet. been
officially announce 1. but it is learned
J on good authority that such is the ini
tention of the controlling interests oi
j the two railways.
1 DEATH-DEALING AUTOS. '
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Great Race in France is Called Off
After Many Frightful and Fatal
Accidents Result. i
A dispatch from Faris states that,
in view of the number of accidents,
some fatal, in the first stage of the
Paris-Madrid automobile race, from
Versailles to Bordeaux, Premier
Combes has forbidden the continuance
of the contest on French territory.
The second stage of the race, which
was to have been continued Tuesday,
included a run over French territory
from Bordeaux to the Spanish frontier.
Premier Combes' action probably
will lead to the race being abandoned.
It is reported that the Spanish government
has also forbidden the continuance
of the race on Spanish territory.
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Versaile* to Bordeaux, 343 miles, finished
at noon Sundav, when Louis Renault
-dashed at a furious pace Into
Bordeaux, having made a record run
of eight hours and twenty-seven minutes
for the distance named. An hour
later M. Gabriel arrived with a still
better record of eight hours and seven
minutes. It is estimated from the
time made that these automobiles
covered 62 miles an hour on the road
outside the cities. In some Instances
eighty-nine tpiles veie recorded.
Dispatches arriving from points
along the course added to the list of
fatalities and accidents. The most
terrible occurred near Bonneval, nineteen
miles from Chartres, where a
machine was overturned at a railroad
crossing and took fire. The chauffeur
was caught underneath the automobile
and burned to death, while two
soldiers and a child were killed.
A woman crossing the road in the
neighborhood of Ab'.'s was run over
by one of the competing cars and
killed.
The illumination fixed for Sunday
night In Bordeaux in honor of the automobile
race, was countermanded as
a sign of mourning for the persons
killed during the contest.
Most of the London papers of Monday
morning comment with satisfaction
on the stoppage cf the Paris-Madrid
automobile races. They dilate on
the dangers of racing, but offer no
suggestions as to the prohibition or
regulation of such racing in general.
CUBANS SIGN TREATY.
After Months cf Delay, Compact With
vlnited States Favorably Acted
Upon by Island Congress.
A special from Havanna says: The
permanent treaty between the United
States and Cube, in which are all the
provisions of the Piatt amendment was
signed Friday afternoon.
The act of signing the treaty occurred
at half-past four o'clock in
the office of the secretary of state.
The signers were Secretary of State
Zaldo and United St3tes Minisier
Squiers, who were constituted special
plenipotentiaries for that purpose.
The permanent treaty contains no
^ nviVInn fnr tfre alimontlfiTl JUld nf> OX
traneous conditions of any kind. It
seemly incorporated the entire Piatt
amendment into the form of a treaty.
The lengt'j of time consumed by the
negotiations was principally due to the
fact that the Cuban government desired
to include in the treaty various
extraneous conditions, especially one
to the effect that there should be no intervention
in Cuban affairs by the
United States except through the initiative
of the president of Cuba. All
these conditions were rejected.
The Associated Press correspondent
saw a number of senators with reference
to the prospects of the ratification
of both the permanent and naval
stations treaties duiing this session
of congress, but they were not inclined
to be communicative. It remains evident
that there is an inclination to allow
the treaties to go over this session.
It is believed that an urgent
message from President Palma which
will accompany the sending of this
treaty to the senate will have a strong
influence in the direction of ratification.
It is now expected that an agreement
covering the details of the United
States naval stations will be reached
by President Palma and United
States Minister Sqaiers wJthin three
weeks.
CURTIS JETT 18 HELD.
Alleged Slayer of Marcum Falls In
Habeas Corpus Proceedings.
Curtis Jett, charged with the murder
of J. B. Marcum, was brought into
nourt at Winchester, Ky., Tuesday on
a motion to dismiss the habeas corpus
proceedings. The county attorney
was not present, but Jailer Boone,
against whom the relief measure v/as
directed, conducted his own case.
The court decided to hold Jett and
made the statement that to return him
to Jackson, Ky., would be in effect to
release him. He will await the action
of the Breathitt grand jury.
LITTLE CHARLIE WON SUIT.
Boy Claiming to Be 8on of Broadway
Rou?s Given Big Verdict.
A Chicago dispatch says: The jury
In the suit of Charles Broadway Rouss,
who was suing the Charies Broadway
Rouss estate for $100,000 for maintenance
and support, returned a verdict
for the full amount Thursday, with
$5,766 interest. The boy in suing
claimed to be the son of Charles
Broadway Rouss.
CRANK LETTERS GALORE
Being Received by Russian Ambassador
and by Secretary Hay.
A Washington dispatch says: Crank
letters are now appearing in the mail
of the Russian ambassador, Count
Cassini. Tnc-y criticise his utterances
and attack his arguments concerning
the character of the Russian Jews
Secretary Hay is also getting hir.
share of such letters. The letters,
however, give no serious concern tc
either secretary or the ambassador.
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MRS. CARSON FREE
- Macon Woman Who Slew
j Rigsby Acquitted by Jury.
| HER STORY OF KILLING
^ She Tells How and Why She Used
Pistol?Great Demonstration In
Court Room When Verdict
Was Announced.
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In the trial of Mrs. Carson, in Macon,
Ga., for the murder of the stuttent,
Rigsby, the jury returned a verdict
of "Not Guilty." Instantly a dozen
strong men were leaning over the
chair in which Mrs. Carson was sitj
ting, each extending a hand and all ex[
pressing congratulations, while she sat
mute with joy and with tears streaming
from her eyes. From all sections
of the room men stepped forward to
have a word with the woman who had
gone through such trying ordeal, and
for a second it looted as though a
stampede in that direction was sure,
but Judge Felton's gavel quickly
brought the crowd to order and within
a half minute Mrs. Carson and her husband,
accompanied by her father and
Judge Ross, were leaving the court
room.
For half an hour Friday afternoon,
Mrs. Carson, charged with murdering
J. C. Rigsby In Attorney Bayne's office
in Macon, Ga., last January, held
the undivided and almost breathless
attention of a packed court room.
Men, young and old, strained every
faculty to hear her every word, watch
her every jesture, and tc miss nothing
of the look of mental agony
shown in the defendant's face. From
a note book Mrs. Carson gave her version
of the killing and of the conversation
leading up to it and to this
she made frequent reference, though
at no time was her delivery in the
slightest halting or her manner the
least confused.
The defendant referred to the dam
aging remarKs maie ny riigsoy auuui
ber and told how this information
came to her. She told how she had
attempted to secure a retraction from
bim and related the conferences held
in Lawyer Bayne's office at which
others were preseut, telling minutely
what had occurred.
She told of the meetings Saturday
morning and Saturday afternoon, and
when she described the scene in which
Rigsby declined to right the wrong
he had done her there was a deep si
lonce throughout the court room. Of
the purchase of the pistol Monday
morning just before the killing she
told, saying that she made the purchase
because she frequently drove tc
ber farm and had always carried a
pistol with her.
Immediately after buying the pistol
r.he went to Mr. Bayne's office, where
the trouble was discussed with him.
as her attorney. The appearance of
Rigsby in the office after Mr. Bayne
had been to see him was described,
as was the withdrawal of the attorney
and his stenograph leaving her and
Rieshv alone in the office.
"It was then," sa.d Mrs. Carson,
"that Rigsby start-?! to lock the door,
I did not like tha:, and advancing
from the rear of tin office, where 1
had been sitting, I asked him not tc
lock the door. To my request he paid
no attention. Thin he went to the
desk and spoke of drawing an agree
ment or a paper for me to sign, say
ing that one of us would have to beai
the shame of this i rouble,, and that ii
could not be him."
Here Mrs. Carson ijrew absorbinglj
interesting.
"When Rigsby closed the door," she
said, "he had one hand behind him
When he demanded that I sign the pa
per and I refused, he shoved me bach
against the window. The second time
he pushed me. The pistol was still ir
the window, where I had put it when i
first entered the room and I grabbed
it and went to shooting."
Mrs. Carson recited the opening ol
the door and her remark to Lawyei
Bayne, who was in :he hallway. She
told of her inquiry as to the locatior
of the sheriff's office, and of her sur
render to that official.
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Montreal People are 'walking.
The employees of the Montreal,
Canada, street railway went on strike
again at an early hour Saturday and
the road is completely tied up. When
a ballot was taken on the quegtion,
only about half a dozen of some 1,500
voted against strike.
Soldiers Sent to Frankfort.
Governor Beckham ordered that two
companies of state troops leave Lexington,
Ky., for Jackson to preserve
order during the special term of court
there, to look into the Marcum assassination.
ANDREWS REVERSES HIMSELF.
Chancellor No Longrer .Favors the
Free Coinage of Silver.
A special from L.ncoln, Neb., says:
Free silver has lost an advocate in
Dr. Benjamin Andrews, the chancellor
of the University of Nebraska.
in an address before the ciass in
ethics, the largest 111 the university,
he practically announced that he nc
longer entertained the views he nad
once held concerning silver coinage.
This change in views had been gratl
"al in its development.
! CLEVELAND GETS INVITATION.
Ex-President is Wanted by Hebrews
to Address Monste- Mass Meeting.
Former President Cleveland was
visited at Princeton. Friday by a par
ty from Philadelphia, which presentee
him with an invitat;on to speak at the
Jewish mass meeting to be held ir
Philadelphia at an early date for th<
purpose of discussing the present Jew
ish troubles in Russia. Mr. Clevelanc
took the invitation under advisement
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ill?NEWS OF A WEEK 'f
| IN SOUTH f AROUNA.?
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Explosion Kills plumber. G.
K. Russell, of Walhalla, a plumber,
was instantly killed last Monday
at Union by the exposion of the drum
of a soda fountain, which was being
!recharged.
More Charleston Navy Yard Bids.
Bids were opened at the navy department
in Washington for the equip- ':|
| ment building at Charleston navy yard*
i The lowest bid was that of the Clark ~r||l
Construction Company, of Chicago, lor
$130,000. ''
Sanders is Out on Baif.
! F. Toy Sanders, who killed Willie
Lutz, near Barnwell, on the 10th of
May, has been granted ball by Chief
Justice Pope. In granting nan, justice
Pope said: "If I thought his conduct
prompted by malice, I would re^
fuse Sanders bail."
Farmer Is Killed by Negro.
B. F. Blackmon, * well-to-do farmer
of Lancaster county, was shot and In- '
stantly killed near bis home, seren
miles from Lancaster. Sandy Evan* ;
the negro who fired the fatal shot,
j went Immediately to Lancaster and r
! gave himself up to the sheriff, stating B
j that he shot Blackmon in self-defense, * J
and wished protection.
Sues to Break Lease.
John Cart, of Orangeburg, has filed
| suit in the state courts to annul che
lease of the old South Carolina and
Georgia railroad to the Southern railj
It is alleged that the Southern ac- -"J|
" quired possession of a competing line,
! whieh is prohibited by the laws of ?|8j
South Carolina. -
Cart demands about $150,000. or
! $100 a day since the lease was ratified.
If a verdict is awarded one-half the
* amount will go to the state treasury. v '^|8
Spain Kelley Surrenders.
Spain Kelley, who killed W. E.
Creech on the road between Camden %
and Bishopville, on May 6, has sur- .SM
rendered to the sheriff of Sumter. "
Only the day before the governor decided
to offer a reward for Kelley's arrest,
but the sheriff of Sumter county
did not know this, a;:d is not entitled
to the reward, as the official proclamation
had not been made public. Kelley M
shot Creech with a double-barreled //~S
shotgun, and then pursued his victim
! for three miles, fnally overtaking ^
him, finishing the job by firing several
i pistol balls into his body.
, Sleep-Walker Badly Injured.
Groans just outside the house awoke
[ the family of W. T. McFall, at Picki
ens, Pickens county, at midnight Sun-,
day night, and upon investigation the "
1 unconscious body of Craig. Mauldin, a
i college student and nephew of Mr. Mc
Fall, who was spending the night with .;*|g
him, was found lying on the ground un- : _ |B
[ der a window. Being afflicted with 119
somnambulastic tendencies, young
, Mauldin walked out a second story
, window while asleep on to a shed, and -1|
; from there fell to the ground, a dis[
tance of 20 feet, sustaining serious Ini
juries.
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' Imported Cocaine Habit.
"About three years ago," said a well '
known pharmacist at Spartanburg re;
cently^ "six negro -girls came here
from Atlanta, Ga. Tiiey were users of ||g
' cocaine and began teaching the use of , 5
this drug to other negroes in the town,
) and as a result there are today at least
. half a hundred users of this drug in
- Spartanburg. '-r/JM
: "I am confident that the habit waa
5 introduced here by the Atlanta hel
groes," continue the speaks?,1 "for prei
vious to their arrival "there were none /?||
I or very few here who made use of the few
drug."
i Bank at Greenwood Closed.
i The sensation at Greenwood the ,. ^
past week was the wholly unexpected Jpsfl
suspension of the City Bank. The foi- 3
lowing notice was posted on its doors r
* "A combination of circumstances, J|3
coupled with heavy demands against
us, absolutely forces the City Bank to
suspend. Depositors and creditors will
be paid in full, but it requires time.
J. F. Davis, president."
At a subsequent meeting of the dl- "
rectors the information was given out '
that the stockholders alone are losers. ''Spg
A meeting of them was called to con- ~
sider a proposition for reorganization
and resumption of business, which, It ^
' is' believed, will be perfected with only
a few days' delay and inconvenience to ' ' 38
depositors.
No dishonesty is even suspicioned.
The offlelals are among the most trusted
oitizens and are above reproach. A
series of heavy losses, covering a period
of several years, is said to be the
cause. The Citizens Bank began busi- * |||
, ness about fifteen years ago, on a capital
of $60,000, with the late D. A. P. n
Jordan as president and J. F. Davis,
, cashier.
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I NEGRO CONVENTION CALLED. -Jl
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> Movement for Purpose of Preventing .-V|
i Disfranchisement In South.
At a conference of negroes at the
Henry Harland Garnet Club, Brooklyn,
N. Y., Tuesday, it was decided to is- i|
sue a call requesting all the negro voters
of New York, New jersey and New
England to send representativee to a
1 convention to be held on June 3 in
Brooklyn.
The object of the call, which is signed
by Bishops Derrick and Walters
' and many clergymen, is to take measures
to prevent the disfranchisement
: of southern negroes and to elect delegates
to the national suffrage convention,
which will be held in Louisville ||j