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ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. JUNE 11,. 1903. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
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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
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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.
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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!
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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
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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.
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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;
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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J SOLON'S TO VOTE ASSISTANCE.
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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
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| Flood Now Sweeps Down j
J the Mighty Mississippi,
'big levee gives way
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St. Lcuis Battles With Encroaching
j Waters and Thousands are Driven
from Homes?Immense
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Area Inundated.
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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
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: 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^
^
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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.!
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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,
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POISON IN THE MILK
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Young Bride Charged With
Murder of Her Husband.
dm
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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.