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h The Bamberg Herald. 1 :>ff ,v at ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. JUNE 11,. 1903. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. _ m ,,,, ii ? -- - - f ^ HORROR FOLL Death and Disastei Cloudburst in ? HALF A HUNDRED DEAD Great Cotton Mills at Pacolet and Vicinity Totally Destroyed by a Mighty, Swirling Deluge. List of Fatalities May Equal Gainesville and New Holland Horror, While Property Loss is Millions Higher?Scenes cf : Devastation. ? Following close up to dire havoc of the storm king at Gainesville and New Holland, Ga., came another terrible visitation of the upper elements upon the thriving mill towns of Pacolet. and Clifton, near'Spartanburg, S. C., Friday night. ' The black demon of destruction descended in the form of a .errific waterspout and cloud ourst, shortly after the shades of evening had enveloped the silent big cotton mills which support these busy textile communities. The very bottom seemed to have fallen out of~the heavens and in a few moments the celestial Niagara had swollen the great dams, three in number, lying in the narrow valley above the three big miUs, until the massive masonry could j not resist the tremendous pressure, | but burst asunder like a pasteboard barrier. On 2s quick as thought the wild wall of water swept down upon the huge brick mills with their environing rows of cottages, crushing their steel-girdered walls as though they were egg shells and carrying upon its seething, churning surface hundreds of frame cottages as though they were corks.' The property destruction was complete, the bricks and machinery of the three mills being scattered iur XillAUO | down the valley and mingled with the kindling wood de ris of the operatives' cottages and uprooted trees. Fortunately, most of the inhabitants of Pacolet and Clifton had been sufficiently alarmed by the menacing aspect of the heavens shortly before the cloudburst to cause them to flee to the bluffs and highlands above the narrow valley in which they lived, and this wise precaution saved hundreds of humand lives. A few lingered too long in the valley of death. Half a Hundred Known Dead. The latest reports place the estimated loss of life at fifty-five. The known dead are: At Clifton Mills No. 3.?Mrs. Will ? Kirby, Miss Maggie ivirby, Mrs. John Owens and her four children. Mr. Hall and his eight children, Mr. and Mrs. Elders, Garland Long, Mrs. Garland Long, Sam Swaingan, Mrs. Sam Swaingan, Miss Fleta Goss. At Clifton Mills No. 2.?Augustus Calvert. Mrs. Augustus Calvert, Lucy j Calvert, Feyhx Calvert, Robern Fin- i ley. Mrs. Robert Finiev ana xneir uvc boarders, Mrs. B. F. Finley, Mrs. B. S. Johnson and four children, three Williams children, Marie Sims. List of the known dead is now 43, and there are known to be fourteea others drowned at Satuc and Clifton mills No. 2. Total; 57. Five' bodies have been recovered, one of which has been identified as Lucy Calvert and the other two *s Maggie Kirby and three children of Mrs. Williams. B. S. Johnson, who j was reported to have drowned, after having clung to a house top from Clinton down to Pacolet, a distance of eight miles, who, when last seen, went over the dam at Pacolet, escaped by catching to the overhanging boughs of a tree, returned to Clifton Sunday i only to find that his wife and four chil- J dren were all drowned. Some of the actual scenes along the | banks of the river were sad beyond portrayal. While the flood Vas at Its height scores of persons floated down WAR SHIPS OFF CHINA. ???? * 11.1.U Cam's Significant iviovemcriia ui vnviv> w>?< ? t Vessels in the Orient A Washington special says: Coming close on the heels of a long report form Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, commander in chief of the Asiatic squadron, concerning the grave internal situation in China, the assemblage of his squadron in Chinese waters is regarded here as significant. The battleships Kentucky and Oregon and the protected cruiser New Orleans have arrived at Chefoo, the monitor Monterey and the collier Pompey at Shanghai. ROOSEVELT ONLY CANDIDATE. Mark Hanna Reiterates that He Has ; no Presidential Ambitions. The Newark, N. J., News has the following interview with Senator I Hanna: Senator M. A. Hanna, iron manufacturer and the maker of presidents. Friday emphatically denied that he was a candidate for the presidential nomination, He declared that Mr. Roosevelt would be the only candidate for the republican nomination in 1904. PUNISHMENT TOO LENIENT Old German Sergeant Spat in Mouths of Army Pecruit3 A Berlin dispatch says: An old sergeant named Warneck, of the Ninetysecond infanrr?> has been sentenced to thirty months' imprisonment and to dismissal from the army after having been convicted in ICG instances of abuse cf soldiers. In two cases. Warneck spat in the mouths of the : recruits, OWS HORROR! ? I j from Tremendous iouth Carolina. the channel of the stream. Many ot these were picked up by rescuers, who did their utmost to save those who clung to the roofs of houses and floating timbers. Early In the morning two children apparently around twelve years of age, appeared directly in mid stream. In their terrible voyage they cried out most plteously. It was impossible to get to their rescue, and both children ! were een to go over the Pacolet dam in each others arms. As the Topeka, Kans., disaster was eclipsed by the Gainesville horror, so *? A *V> /\ IrtOrt n f It now seems in turn mux uic woa wi property, If not of life, in the Georgia city will be eclipsed by the great wave of devastation which swept through j and over the great milling districts of Clifton and Pacolet with such dcstruc- ; tive violence. The property loss is placed at over j $3,000,000. The mills were the most j complete and valuable factories in the south, and were literally wiped out of existence with their entire equipment. The three dams were massive structures and represented thousands of dollars in their construction. The warehouses of the mills, with ! their stocks of manufactured goods and raw cotton went with the rest. * The two villages had their churches, school houses, hotels and other large j buildings, and their ruins lie strewn \ along the margin of the receding flood or afford obstruction to the sullen tide. Scene Beggars Description. The scene for miles below the site ! of the demolished mill towns beggars j description. The wreckage and debris is piled many feet thick in places, and thousands of people from miles around are wandering along the pathway of the storm demon searching for bodies and attracted by the ur wonted | terror of the spectacle. The scene of j devastation Could not well be mere ; complete. Victor M. Montgomery, tlie owner ! of the Pacolet mill3, has sustained nearly the entire loss as estimated in the foregoing. He was also the owner of the ill-fated Pacolet mill at New Holland, near Gainesville, Ga. Enormcus Property Less. Owing to the absolute isolation of Spartanburg, terrible suffering cannot possibly be prevented from the many thousands afflicted by the catastrophe. ' *- * oM Tn ApjwaiB\urt; uviug ocm uui ivi iuU. these appeals money is particularly re quested, as provisions cannot reach any of the points, owing to the fact that railroad bridges are down in every direction. The latest reports of damages susalned are given by those in authority as follows: President Montgomery, of the Pacolet mills, places their loss at $1,000,000. President A. H. Twitchell, of the Clifton Manufacturing Company mills, places the loss at $1,800,000. For the D. E. Converse Company, at Glendale, S. C., the estimate is $30,000. Tuca- | pau mills, $25,000. Lockhart mills, $25,000. Fairmont, $5,000. Whitney, %i,000; Lolo, $5,000. Total mill loss, $3,280,000. Over 3,000 employes in the mills of the Clifton Manufacturing Company are out of work and in destitute circumstances. At Pacolet 2,000 people are practically destitute. In the smaller mills of the county the number thrown out of employment will exceed 5,000. All day Sunday hundreds of people hovered about the scene of destruction. The survivors stood upon tbe spots occupied by the homes of their dead friends. Not a trace of half a hundred homes is now visible. In some places the sites occupied by the houses are buried beneath great sand banks and only an occasional piece of plank projecting through the sand would indicate that a house stood in that place. The destruction is awful and complete. The force of the flood has so completely cnanged the ban'ts of the river and flat borders on which numerous houses stood that it will not be possible to rebuild on the former sites. LYNCHING FOLLOWS MURDER. Negro School Teacher Shoots County Superintendent and Pays Penalty. County Superintendent Charles Hertel, of St. Clair county, 111., was shot and mortally wounded in his office at Belleville Saturday evening by W. T. Wyatt, a negro school teacher, of East St. Louis, whose certificate to teach Tterte! had refused to renew. Wvatt was immediately arrested and taken to jail. Within a short time a mob stormed the jail, jsecured the prisoner and hanged him to a telephone pole in the public square. REPORTED HORROR IN ST. LOUIS. Levee Gives Way and Fifteen Said to Have Been Drowned. Word was received in St. Louis that at 1 o'clock Monday morning a levee near Madison, on which gangs of men were working, gave way and fifteen men lost their lives. About 150 men, it is reported, aro imprisoned on a section of the levee that is slowly crumbling and all means of escape has been cut off. STEAMSHIPS IN COLLISION. Shipping Disaster and Heavy Loss of Life at Marseilles. A terrible shipping disaster occurred a little distance from the port of Marseilles at noon Sunday, when two passenger steamers, the Insulaire and the Liban, both belonging to the Fraisscnet Steamship Company, of Marseilles, came into collision. The Liban sank and over one hundred of her passengers and crew perished. I THE NEWS OF A WEEK f | IN SOUTH CAROLINA. { The Flood Horror. According to latest reports, fortyfive lives were lost, so far as known, inJhe rush of waters from the Pacolet flood. The banks of the river are strewn for more than seven miles on both sides with wreckage and debris, household goods, houses, cotton bales, pieces of machinery and the relics of once happy and contented homes. Twelve thousand laborers are out of employment and are faced by grim destitution, without shelter or food, or a change of clothing. As to property loss and damage, President Montogmerv, of the Pacolet mills, places their loss at $1,000,000; President A. H. Twitchell, of the Clifton Manufacturing Company mills, places the loss at $1,800,000; for the D. E. Converse Company, at Glendale, S. C., the estimate is $50,000; Tucat^o.,v mote' ir>s? nlaeed at $25,000; u.<i o x I.ockhart mills' loss is $25,000; Fair moat sustains a loss of $5,000; Whitney loss placed at $3,000. Total mill loss, $3,275,000. The loss sustained by the railroads will also reach an enormous figure. * * An Aftermath of Flood. News reached Union Monday night of a terrible accident at Broad river bridge, on the Seaboard Air Line railroad. During the dood on Saturday 700 yards of the trestle was washed away from the soutnern approach to the bridge, near Carlisle. Union county. Monday afternoon the railroad people sent a pile driver to begin the work of repairing the trestle. When the engine and driver had reached the middle of the bridge It gave way and the bridge, engine driver and crew oi ten were precipitated into the river. * * * Child Eats Glass and Dies. Little Ruth, the 2-year-old daughter of Colonel W. G. Stephenson, superintendent of the Kings Mountain Military academy, at Yorkville,.died a few dais ago under peculiar circumstances. For several days the child had been suffering from what was thought tc be dysentery. A physician was called in and made the discovery a short time before the child's death that it had swallowed glass, having got possession of a broken electric light bulb. Pieces of glass an inch in length were found to have passed through the bowels of the child. * * * Noble-Hearted Gainesville. At a mass meeting of citizens of Gainesville, Ga., the following resolution was adopted, and forwarded with cash subscriptions raised for sufferers in this state: "Resolved, That we, the citizens ol Gainesville, in mass meeting assem bled, hereby express our profound sympathy for the great loss and ?'e struction to life and property at Paco let, Clifton and other places in South Carolina. Though torn and bleeding by the great devastation visited upon our city last week, we gladly contrib ute something in behalf of those ren defed homeless and destitute by the great floods in South Carolina." * Prioleau Case Continued. A. P. Prioleau, colored, contestant for the seat of George S. Legare, oJ the first South Carolina district in con gress, was called to trial in the United States court at Charleston the pas! week, but the case was continued unti: the November term at Columbia. Prio leau. who wishes to represent Charles ton in congress, is accused of roobing the mails while a railway mail clerii on the Atlantic Coast Line. His tria comes up in November. ? ? Uncle Sam to Render Aid. Orders were received at Fort Mc Pherson, near Atlanta, Ga., from Gen eral Chaffee, commanding the depart ment of the east to send an office] from that station at once to Spartan burg, supplied with everything ab-o lutely necessary for the flood suffer ers. Rations, medicines and other es sentials were forwarded immediately This prompt action of the government taken in response to the appeal sen out from Spartanburg, will tend t< greatly relieve the situation tempora rily, as it has done at Gainesville where a similar course has been pur sued. Twice within a week Secretary Root of the war department, has receive; emergency calls of this nature fron territories situated close to each other and he has acted quickly in each case * * Pardon fcr Life-Term Convict. Governor Hay ward, a few days ago issued a pardon to Cato Gadsden, col cod. wbn bes served twenty-thre; years in the state penitentiary. Tn< crime for which Gadsden has serve; nearly a quarter of a century was tin stealing or some, cotton seen irom un other negro. For this offense the lav now has a lighter punishment, bu twenty years ago it was a matter o life imprisonment. * * ? Lumber Plant to be Sold. An order was filed in the Unltet States circuit court at Charleston ; few days ago in ancilliary proceeding! for a decree of the sale of all the prop erty of the Atlantic Coast Lumbe Company, now in a receiver's hands The property is valued at betweci five and seven millions. The upse price is fixed at one million. Th> company is the largest lumber plan in the country, with hundreds of thou sands of acres in South Carolina, es tending through six counties. The reorganization of the compan; will be undertaken by prominent oani talists of New York identified with (h J. P. Morgan interests. The heaciqua; ters of the company are at Goorgv town, Ibrowne innocent Florida Official Completely Exonerated by Committee. CHARGE WAS "LOBBYING" Acceptance of Fee Was Not Unlawful, and Charges Made Were Untrue, Says Committee?House Adepts Report A Tallahassee special says: Several weeks ago a sensation rang through j Florida occasioned by the adoption by the lower house of the legislature of a resolution providing for a*committee to investigate the alleged lobbying of Toffftrcnn T5 PrnU'Tl P rhaimiftn I 1.1 WII| u CUW1 ovu w ? cf the Florida railroad commission, to secure the passage of a bill appropriating $10,000 for the purchase by the state from Monroe county of the Key West armory and site. It was alleged that Mr. Browne was to receive $1,000 of this appropriation to "lobby" the bill through, and, being a state official, his action was reprehensible and should receive legislative investigation. The committee was duly appointed, consisting of Messrs. Mote of Lake, Finlayson of Lafayette, and Johnson cf Pasco. The committee has made its report,- setting lorth the facts and basing'its conclusions largely upon an opinion of Attorney General James B. Whitfield. The facts developed w.ere that Mr. Browne was consulted professionally on the right of the county to collect a tax to pay for the maintenance of an armory, and, as he advised that the county had no such right, under a recent decision of the supreme court, to propose some method by which the burden which the county had taken upon itself in ereenng the armory could be borne by the state. After several consultations with the county commissioners, Mr. Browne advised that the only way to reach the desired result would be for the legislature to authorize the state to purchase the property. Upon being asked what would be his charge to do this, Mr. Browne replied $l,2u0, but he was offered 10 per cent cf the amount ap propriated, a proposition which was accepted. It was understood in the contrast between Mr. Browne and the board that, in addition to rendering opinions, he was to draft a proper bill to be inaroduced in the legislature by one of the members from Monroe county, and get up the data necessary to be presented to that body, and show the necessity for the county j-aving an ar1 mory, its cost, etc.; to make argu1 ments before the committee, if necessary; and to examine and report on the title, and present proof of Its validity to the proper s.ate authorities, ' to whom the question of title would be referred; and to go into court with a bill to remove any cloud from the 1 title and cure all defects in the same, ' if necessary. 1 Senator Harris and Representatives Roberts and Knowles. the Monroe ' county delegation, each testified that 1 j so far as he knew no lobbying had | been done by Mr. Browne. The investigating" committee, in concluding its report, found as follows: Your committee, after thorough.in: vestlgation and careful consideration of all evidence, loth oral ana wriuen, brought before it, beg to report that, I they find that the said Hon. Jefferson : B. Browne did no "lobbying" in con1 nection with said house bill No. 162, known as the "Key West Armory Bill," and find that he acted within the ; intent and meaning of his said con> tract with the board of county comI missioners of Monroe county, Florida, and that his actions in the matter were I in nowise illegal, and we therefore j recommend that the said Hon. Jeflereon B. Browne be fully exonerated in connection with this matter. Report Adopted by House. The report of the investigating committee completely vindicating Hon. Jefferson B. Browne of allfgcd lobbying charges was taken up by the house of representatives and adopted unanimously. t CALLAHAN CANNOT SERVE. Fact that Sheriff is Related to Prisoner Bars Him Out. At the opening of court at Jackson. , Ky., Thursday, Sheriff Ed Callahan in! sisted on his right to act and summon 1 the jury to try Jett and White, alleged ' murderers of James E. Marcum. Callahan is Jett's uncle, and is a closj personal fric-nd of White. A motion to remove Callahan was granted and Judge Redwine appointee John Jones as elisor. Jones is at pre? ent deputy sheriff under Callahan. ] HEBREWS ARE RESTRICTED. ; Cannot Own Property in Russia Except Within Jewish Pole. ! A St. Petersburg dispatch says: The | czar has approved the decision of the j committee of ministers forbidding ; Jews to acquire real estate cr enjoy j the proceeds thereof, except in towns 3 within the Jewish pole, until the laws p i concerning Jews have been recived i There are 110 such towns. t 1 J SOLON'S TO VOTE ASSISTANCE. ? i t i Special Session cf Kansas Legislature f j to Convene Within Two Weeks. i i It is regarded in Topeka, Kans.. as [. practically certain that there will be j a special session of the state legisla| ture within two weeks to appropriate ! money to relieve some of the damage i j caused by the flood of a week ago. f i Teh^r.inis ore being sent io all the I . j members, asking them to serve witUi out pay. So far replies from twenty j have been received who are favorable ' to til? arrangement, MORE ARRESTS MADE In Connection with the Postoffice Scandaj in Washington?A Charge cf Conspiracy. A Washington special says: As a result of the sweeping investigation of affairs at the postoffice department, Thomas W. McGregor, a clerk in charge of the supplies of the rural free delivery service, and C. Ellsworth Upton, of Baltimore, one of McGregor's assistants, were arrested Friday on the charge of conspiracy, with Charles E. Smith, of Baltimore, to dofraud the government in the purchase of the leather pouches furnished the rural carriers throughout the country. Their cases make seven arrests in all since the investigation began. Other arrests are expected later. The story of the arrests is best told in the following official statement given out by Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Brlstow Friday evening: '"T" rrr -Ml H V1!q. 1 UUUUctO >V . WLVjicgui uiiu \jworth Upton were arrested this afternoon upon warrants sworn out in Baltimore by Inspectors J. D. Sullivan and R. D. Simmons, charged with conspiracy, with Chas. E. Smith and others, to defraud the United States government in the purchase of pouches from C. E. Smith, of Baltimore. The complaint sets forth that McGregor and Upton agreed with Smith to obtain for him orders for many thorn sands of leather poaches, such as are used by rural letter carriers. The price agreed upon was 90 cents per pouch; the actual value was less than 50 cents per pouch. It is stated at the department that the actual number of pouches which were purchased exceeded 20,000, for which the government paid 90 cents each, or $18,000 in all. Smith received and retained of this for his own use $10,000. The remaining $8,000 was paid to McGregor and Upton The government could have bought the entire number of pouches from the manufacturers for $8,000." * EX-GOVERNOR CANDLER TALKS. His Opinion of the Calamity Visiting His Home City. Ex-Governor Candler, whose home is in Gainesville, Ga., and who had just returned from a trip to "Washington, expresses himself regarding the frightful cyclone calamity as follows: "I cannot blame the people who are at a distance for not believing all the reports which have been sent out by the newspaper men from Gainesville. After being in town for two whole days, I am just beginning to realizo the devastation that has been wrought. Since my arrival Tuesday afternoon 1 have been in a semi-dazed condition, seeing and feeling without realizing fully just to what extent the horror extended. "Thp Gainesville cyclone, population taken into, consideration, was worse than the Galveston tidal wave. "Financially considered, it was worse than the Jacksonville fire, where $12,000,000 in property loss was suffered. "I have walked over the entire course of the s^orm, from its beginning to the Pacolet mill, where it appears the storm lifted and divided. "Without fear of contradiction, I am free to say the disaster of last Monday afternoon was the worst of its kind that ever visited the southland. I know of no parallel in the country where a village has suffered the frightful loss of one hundred and more dead, three to four hundred injured and a property loss of $600,000. j "The sufferers were the least able ol all to meet the disaster. Their loss I ronrpcpnts evervthine1 in the world they possessed. The victims are in that class of citizens to whom a dollar is worth five times its purchasing value to the successful business man or the rich land owner. They lost m the twinkling of an eye what had re quired years to get together. To them it is irreparable and means more than to us." New subscriptions reported Friday: Lavonia, $45.00; Moultrie, $170.00; Jewell. $50.80; Madison, $200.00; Hart well, $100 00; Blue Ridge, $100.00; Cal houn, $40.00; Maysville, $148.45; Ho gansville, $100.00; Waynesboro, $100; Fayetteville, $50.00; Wrightsville $100.00; Ellijay, $55.00; Covington $75.00; Fort Valley, *138.00 PRESIDENT AGAIN AT HOME Receives Glad Welcome from a Large Crowd at National Capital. President Roosevelt returned tc Washington Friday night from his memorable trip of over two months throughout the west. He was given a hearty reception by the people of the capital, who lined the sidewalks as his carriage was driven to the white house. The president cordially responded !c the greetings given him and repeated ly stood up in his carriage and waved his hat and bowed his acknowledgements. He locked the picture oi health. ROOSEVELT IN ROCKFORD. Attends Dedication of a Memoria Hall?City Takes a Holiday. The feature of Psesident Roosevelt'; visit to Rockford, 111., Wednesday wa: the dedication of Memorial Hall, t $00,000 structure consecrated to th< soldiers and sailors of Winnebagc county. The city was decked in gal: garb. Thousands of visitors flocked ii and local business men and manufac turers joined in a movement makin: the occasion of the president's visit i general holiday. MACHEN BRIBERY CASE Is Presented in Court at Washington by the Grand Jury. A Washington dispatch says: The case of August W. Machen, late super intendent of the free delivery service of the postoflice departmnt. who is charged with having received bribeto the amount of $20,000. was present ed to the district court Thursday. | Assistant District Attorney Taggari ' represented the government. RIVER ON RAMPAGE i i j | Flood Now Sweeps Down j J the Mighty Mississippi, 'big levee gives way i I St. Lcuis Battles With Encroaching j Waters and Thousands are Driven from Homes?Immense i Area Inundated. i j The terrific force and the destruc- | tive magnitude of the great flood that | is sweeping down the Mississippi is steadily increasing in volume, and now ' is being felt in St. Louis ana vicinity ] ''to an alarming extent. I At 7 o'clock Friday night the stage ' 1 - * -'' OA O O /"if 7 ffre f : ijuu rtra.. ou ot.?i icci, a uGv wi .1 since 7 o'clock Friday morning. Government Forecaster Bowie issued a bulletin in predicting a stage of 35 feet by Saturday noon, 3G feet by Sunday and 37 feet on Monday. The Mississippi north of the mouth of the Missouri is rising still, but the rapidity of the rise has been diminished because cf the breaks in levees. The great Sny levee, which extends j for miles along the Illinois shore from | Hannibal northward, broke Friday and j the waters devastated thousands of | acres of fertile farming lands. Possi. bly seme lives may be lost, but no deaths had been reported up to 8 ' o'clock Friday night. Later in the day the flood forced a passage through the levee at Madison, Ills., just north of St. Louis. This levee is 15 miles long, and for days men have b>en hard at work endeavoring to strengthen it. Carloads of [ bags c? sand and all other available material were dumped in, out the flood ! washed out the filling and the break is constantly widening. West Granite, a town of 2,000 people. is under water. In St. Louis the buildings along the river front have practically been abandoned, as the j first floors are over a foot under wa' ter, which stood two feet deep on the '. top of the steamboat levee Friday I night. | The town of Venice, Illinois, is under water. I In South St. Louis fully 100 families, living near the mouth of the river Des Peres, were forced to leave their houses. Men. and in some cases even . women, worked to their waists in the cn-iriine' waters, anchoring their , ~ ' . homes to high ground GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS Made for Flood Sufferers in Kansas City?Waters Fast Receding. ' At dark Friday night the water in ( Kansas City had receded from onej tenth of the flooded area and the un, covered property was promptly reoc cupied. The territory reclaimed in, eluded the union station and a portion i of the railroad yards. The recession (' of the flood has caused a lively de , mand for unskilled latorers. !? George Gould forwarded $5,000 to : the Kansas City relief corps and President Bart, of the Union Pacific, sent , $1,000. There were other liberal con1 tributions of money and supplies and the total cash received in ooth cities ! is about $75,000. , i Not all the 30,000 people driven from ( their homes have received assistance from the public, but food and shelter I and clothing were given to all who II h needed them Nearly all the sufferers |; had been industrious and prosperous and they will return to their employ, ment and homes as scon as the water will permit. ' ! GAINESVILLE MINISTERS APPEAL. i! Gerorous People are Atked to Open Their Hearts Still More Widely. t The ministers of Gainesville have Issued an appeal to the ministers everywhere for aid for the storm sufi ferers. The introductory reads: . j "To the Pastors and Clergy of Our Common Country: We, the ministers of Gainesville, Ga., beg a generous peo! pie to open their hearts more- widely j for the assistance of our stricken community. Liberal contributions have already been made, but these have only sufficed for immediate necessities." HAYWOOD OUT ON BOND. ? Slayer of Ludlcw Skinner Wins Out in , Habeas Corpus Hearing, j At Raleigh, N. C., Wednesday, aftei , a hearing in habeas corpus proceed t ing lasting nearly a week, Ernesl ( Haywood, the Raleigh lawyer, was re , leased on a bond of $10,000, On the , 21st of February he shot and kille.'l Ludlow Skinner and was arrested and i indicted by the grand jury for murder The trial is set for the July term c; | L'UUl t. illC JJUUilV/ CA^VV.I.VU uv..>w . tlonal developments In the hearing go r ing to show the cause of the shooting but neither defense nor prosocutoi went behind the actual killing.. FOREST FIRES ARE RAGING. Dense Smoke Hovers Over City of Bal3 timers and Blocks Navigation. 3 A smoky pall so thick it obscured I the sun and rendered navigation on j the bay and river difficult, hung ever j Baltimore Friday. Forest fires in j New England and New York caused . this heavy volume of smoke. Down > the river and up the bay the conditions j were much worse, and after noon the smoky pall became so thick as to render navigation dangerous. TAFT'S REPLY TO MILE^ ^ ?? s Philippine Governor Admits State ) ments of General is 'Correct. The war department Monday made ' public a report received from Gover . nor Taft, replying to sratemer.is i:ndr by Lieutenapf General Miles alter r.i visit to tl>e islands last year. The re port is /lated at Benguet April IS, and admits that statement of General -Mite* is correct in all essential details, $ I tCream of News.! *? * T Brief Summary of Most Important Events of Each Day. ?Miss Mary Stevens, of Hall county, Ga., died shortly after eating bread, into the dough of which a spider had been kneeded. ?John Tanner, of Hall county, Ga.. swears out warrant for daughter in law's arrest, charging her with poisoning her husband. ?Fast train No. 97 and a freight train cf the Southern collided near Charlotte, N. C., Monday. Three postal clerks and an engineer hurt. ?Five negroes are reported as hav-1 ing been shot to death in Smith county, Mississippi, Monday, on account of the killing of two white men by two negroes. ?The flood situation at St. Louis is not improved. About twenty deaths 4.^4 by drowning nave Deen reportvu. ?Georgia lias been allotted a little over $27,000 as her share of the $2,1000,000 appropriated by congress for tne militia. ?Owing to troubles at Valparaiso, United States war ships have been ordered' to Chilean waters to protect' American interests. ?The Groff brothers have been indicted for alleged complicity in the postal scandal. The grand jury is now considering the case of General Tyner and wife. ?Chauncey Dewey, a cousin of Admiral Dewey, is in danger of being lynched in Kansas on account of his alleged connection with the killing of the Berry family. ?The French shelled the town of Fiugig, in Morocco, Monday. Women and children have been killed. ?It has been decided in the Transvaal that municipal suffrage is not to be allowed to the negroes. ?Judge Emory Speer is asked to deliver in Atlanta his lecture on "Robert E. Lee" for the benefit of the Gainesville sufferers? ?Whila drawing a check tin a Montezuma, Ga, bank Friday to pay his life insurance premium J'. B. Farrill fell dead. ?A mob of citizens at Wynne, Ark., tarred and feathered two Memphis men, one of whom was charged with intending to elope with the wife of a Wynne merchant. ?Forest fires are still raging in New England and New York. ?The flood situation along the up?! : rorv nrif-ipfll Al p(?r ALitSM&biyyi is ?j ? ready immense damage has been done. ?At Washington the massing ol United States warships off the China coast is considered significant in view of the alarmist report of Admi ral Evans on conditions in China. ?A German sergeant has been sen tenced to .prison for brutality to pri vates. It was proven that the ser geant frequently spat in the mouths oi recruits. ?At Paris a fight is in progress be tween the mother and wife of John C. Breckinridge for control of the per son of the California millionaire, whc is alleged to be insane. ?The south is asked to send flowers to decorate graves of confederate deac at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio. ?According to an official statement I issued by the relief corps at uaines ville, ninety-five are dead and rt is be lieved that twelve more will die. ?Work has stopped on the mam moth Mohaw-k steel plant at Bruns wick, Ga., the constructing company claiming that payments are overdue. ?Solicitor Pottle, of the Ocmulgee Ga., circuit, is working to have th< bail of Mrs. Lizzie Griffin, chargec with the murder of her husband raised. ?The case of August W. Machen accused of accepting bribes while ii the government service, has been pre sented to the court by the grand jur: at Washington. ?Hon. Jefferson B. Browne, chair man of the Florida railroad commis sion, has been exonerated of the lob bying charge preferred against him. ?All the property of the Atlantii Coast Lumber Company, of South Car olina, has been sold. v ?Judge Niles, of the Mississipp ' federal court, has reopened the lumbe: rate injunction hearing, assuming tha his court has jurisdiction. ?Passenger trains collided nea: Stillwell, Kans., Thursday. Nine per , sons were killed, and twenty-eight in I jured. [ ?The Ohio republican conventioi . nominated Myron Herrick for governoi ! and indorsed President Roosevelt ?o; i a second term. ?The total number of dead at Tope , ka has reached seventy-eight and man: are missing. ?A decree has been issued at Bo gcta stating that order has been re stored throughout Colombia. ?Bashi-Bazouks burned a - villagi near Monastir, in European'' Turkey and butchered the inhabitants. Man: women and girls diedyfighting for thei: J honor. ' ' ?Russia has ordered Jews who wisl to ov.*n property to confine themselves to the pole. ''There is only 110 towns in Russi^ where Jews can own rea estates / x - ./venue order rescinded. Jett and White Get no Change anc Will be Tried in Jackson. A special from Jackson, Xy., says: The order changing the trial of the Jett and White murder cases to Mor gan county has been withdrawn, j The court's order of Tuesday to hole i their trial had not been entered anc 1 upon the suggestion of Commonwealth . j Attorney Byrd of inconvenience anc f danger to witnesses entailed, the courl Wednesday directed that the order be I! not entered and that the cases go t< , trial la Jackson, a,;-j-... ' - POISON IN THE MILK " " ? / Young Bride Charged With Murder of Her Husband. dm I :*C3 jA SENSATIONAL AFFAIR J State Chemist Analyzed Contents of Young Man's Stomach and Found - * Traces of Strychnine?War rant Immediately Foflows. John W. Tanner, father of Wiley F. Tanner, who died under suspicious cir- ^ cumstances at his home in Clinch dU- .. < trict, Hall county, Ga., Saturday, May 23, swore out a warrant Monday a?- ' jgji ternoon against Mrs. Onie Tanner, wife of the young man who died, charging her with murder. The warrant was immediately turn- - -~i?|g ed^over to Sheriff Gilmer, of Hall - fhA '^-51 j county, ana tne omcer ien. . home of Frank Duncan, father of the young woman, where she was staying, , [ to make the arrest and return her to J&| Gainesville to be incarcerated in the ' /M I Hall county jail. I The state chemist Monday morning forwarded the result of his investigations to Dr. J. D. Mauldin, of Flowery 3ranch, who immediately communicaI ted the same to John W. Tanner at ") his home near Chestnut mountain. * \ ? | Tanner at once hitched up his team .^?3 and went to Gainesville, where the. warrant was sworn out at 5:30 o'cloek p. m. The result of the chemist's ana- ' lysis showed nine-tenths of a grain of strychnine in the stomach and glass from which milk was drank. Tills was sufficient to satisfy Tanner, and he |?S at once proceeded to swear out a warI rant, .charging his daughter in law ||j I with murder. j The case is one of the most sensaI tional ever occurring in the county, and has aroused great interest. ' SatI urday, May 23, Tanner sat down to , his noonday meal, apparently In the & ^ I best of health and in the enjoyment ^ I of a contented home, with his bride of * two months. She had already parta-. ken of her meal when he arrived, but, I like the happy wife she was supposed ; J to be, sat down by her, husband and ^J| talked pleasantly to him. The meal I had only proceeded a short time,when I Tajnner tturned to his wife and ro-... marked that there must be something I the matter with the buttermilk, at the^&^H I same time asking her to taste It, I which she did. She spit out what she ' Jfwg I drank without swallowing any, and .;5p8 I Tanner poured the remainder in I slop tub, which was afterwards given I some hogs, .which, after drinking of; 11 the milk, also died.- / In a few moments Tanner was * \J|S '(deathly sick and, screaming to hl*?\||? 11 wife that he was poisoned, Tanner ran LI to the home of his uncle, Henry Tan- . I . I ner, a short distance away, crying to I him that he was deathly sick. Wiley's I uncle ran toward him and caught him J in his arms as he was about to sink to ,1 To his uncle John Tanner repeaced'^^K ' I what he had said to his wife?that he ' -J I had been poisoned. All was done for yM ' J him that his people knew what to do, I but in forty-five minutes life was ex' J tinct, his body assuming a rigidity<|SS 'I that usually follows the administration . I of strychnine or similar poisons. rho 51 young man's death being so peculiar,,-? 11 John Tanner, his father, had.Coroner ' ^ I Dorsey to hold an inquest over the ./> I body the Sunday following. . I During the investigations, it was de-;; . I cided to have an analysis made of the -|| I young man's stomach. Accordingly the inquest was suspended' unut . body of physicians made the teat, j which was done Monday, May 25, byir^gSB Dr. E. P. Ham, Dr. K. A. Smith and J l>. T. C. Gower, of Gainesville; Dr. I Cooper, of Hoschton, and Dr. Kennedy, " of Bellmont. *3 /The test made* by these physlclajos' f^fl ' did not disclose any poison in Tan-'']}?.m ner's stomach, and the physiciHMy^ made known their investigations to * 1 the coroner's jury at the investigation* Kilt on Tuesday following the young man's :|||| The coroner's jury failing to ascer- ? ' tain the cause of young Tanner's, ! death, John Tanner decided to hare -\;jH > an analysis made by the state chenjiat < of his son's stomach. BODIES FOUND IN MUD. % j Receding Waters at Topeka Revealing /| r ^ur>;aca ??. rm ? "TT h ?I | The dead in the Topcka flood now number seventy-eight. A boatjjrfaiT Friday afternoon reported that.isevefc r bodies had been found near the north end of Harrison street. Th? un/ortdHates weic: Mrs Jessie,Shaw and four - J children; a man and woman named -1 2 Shunkwerter. all from Sherry. r The body of a/man named Edward#: was picked up by a party near Soldier creek. Other bodies found durs ing theuday were those of Mrs. Nellie ; f WatsofC Mrs. Minnie Prayers and , George McDonald. t COTTON SPECULATOR SUICIDE3/ gg 3 Health Shattered by Loss cf Fortune Emmett, Departs Hence. y His health undermined by business lj|8 r worries and his mind unbalanced for several days, Frank Emmett, a promi] nent cotton broker who retired from , business a few days ago, has ended ! his life with a pen knife at New Orj leans. ., ??25 Emmett was a member of the Cotton \ >! Exchange and had been successful In business. Ho leaves a wife and six v children. JEWS ARE NOW ARMED. Both Men and Women are Prepared to Resist Bloodthirsty Russians. .':7rk , Advices received in Berlin from [ Odessa, under date of May 28, saya -../j , the Jews there are now prepared to j defend themselves intelligently. SevI eral thousand revolvers have been lm? "; v|l ported since tue Kishinef massacre, so } that at present almost every Jew, man or woman, it armed.