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* ' * ~|H ; _ ' ' a- A\ rll '(??!<<1 <?-- , * The Batesburg Advocate. . VOL. II. BATESBURG, S. C., WEDNESDAY, Jl'l-V 1(1, 1902. N().2<Jt t (iREAT lUSASTER. ? ' I Three Hundred Men Perish in a | Johnstown Mine. ' < BEEN IN OPERATION 50 YEARS. Cause ol' the lv\ plosion Not Known, ? liut Sii|i|>om?mI to lie tlie * Carelessness of Some * 4 Miner. ** * Johnstown was again visited by nn appalling disaster last Thursday. It is only less frightful than the awful calamity of May ttl, ISSt), in cost of life, hut in its terrible consequence it has^iought the shadow of sorrow in % lulf^greds of hoioes made desolate by a UlilW' ex elusion. which limt- nl:n e in the Cambria Steel Company Boiling < ill mine, under Westniont llill, at 12.20 o'clock Thursday afternoon. 1low many are dead it may take several days to ascertain, but that it is a long and shocking list is certain, it may redeh 200 or more men. lt>was nearly an hour after the ex plosion before any general knowledge of what had happened got abroad. Men who ? amp from the mines, escaping with their lipos. told the terrible news and soon It spread like wUd lire all over the city. Jn scores of^ homes there wereXhe most pathetic, Scenes. Mothers, wives. daughtcrs*"s6ns aw<i relatives were frantic with- grief. i Hundreds rushed to the point and. with sonbing hearts, awaited news that did not come from the ill-fated mine. 1*1 IK WOKK OJ UKSCITE. At the opening across the river from 1 lie point the Cambria Iron Company 1 poliee, with several assistants, stood guard, permitting no one to enter the mine, from which "noxious gwscs were 1 coming. It was nearly ,4 o'clock when ! all lyipe of sending rescue parties from ) the Cestui'>nt opening w;usabandoned. Two men who had escaped from the mine, llichard Bennett and John Meyers, went hack two miles to see whak assistance could be rendered, hut the frightful damp drove tliein back and they fell prostrate, and after a des|?eratestruggle readied thcmitsidc. \ The doctors gave the men a^ist ancc j and, after working with them half an : hour, restored them. Their story of the situation in the j mine made it clear that the rescue I - Wf>rk could not proceed from the Westlnont opening, and then hasty pieparation? ?vcre made to begin that sad mission at the Mill Creel: entrance. ^*^v_^Soon after the news of the explosion r&tched the CambHa ollleials Mining Engineer Marshal <>. Moore antV'one of his assistants. Al. <!. lTossciVmade an attempt to enter the mine,'' 'l'hey were followed by Mine Superimteiidcnt (Jci'ivo T. Robinson. hut (he grsos ^topped~YrrW--V.?they were compelled to return Vltlie surfa e. ItKSCI KUS llVKK* II.MK ll\ OAS. Mine Foreman Harry Rodgers. his assistant, William l'.laneh. and Fin Rosses John Whitney, John RcLnllick and John Thomas were overcome by the pases, and it is feared they perished in an effort to rescue the min rs. A son of Harry I lodgers then tried to reach his father, hut he was quickly ov rcomo by gas and was carried out unconscious. William Stibich spoilt several hours at the Mill Creek opening. He said that lie believed as many as bio men were still in the mine. In 11 is opinion, from all he could glean, not t?? e xceed 1 .">() had come out. When the news of the explosion reached the surface Marshal <1. .Moore, mining engineer, and one oi his assistants, A. <1. l'rosser. promptly made an attempt to enter the mine. They were followed by Mine Superind ent (Jeorge T. Robinson. After much trouble they'reached one of the tele phones located in the mine and communicated with the Cambria general otliec. They were unable to give any details of the etTects ot toe t xploHon, hut feared tlie loss of life was large and that the damage to the mine was serious. Their progress was stopped by the deadly gases and they stated that an attempt would at once he made to reach the scene of the accident., which is known as I he "Klondike"' in the miner's parlance. No entrance 1o tlie workiicj' no'tion of tin 111 ino can l?o eHected from tlx- main entrance. Many of the miners <scap ed at Mill Creek a shaft reaching tlu mine near tin* powei house al that point. NAltllOW IX AI'KiiK AMKItK VNS. About a score of Americans, win were at work in the Klondik* district, not iced I he presence ot the tile dami in their apartment, soon atter the ex plosion occurred and started at unci for the main entrance. They wen almost overcome b> the ^as. hut reached the outside in safety. One u the men who ^ot out safely said it wat not knc<vn what caused t lie c.\p|?.si.in and that if will probably never l>t know n, as he believed n<me of t he met at work in the Klondike district cai he saved. cakkbknsnkss ok minkiis. lie also said that only a few day a^o the ollicials issued an order to t h employees in the mines not to pla; with the ^as, and that the next day , youny Hungarian was seen pushini tils naked lump aloiii*' then >f ot 111 mine in search of it. The mine ton man, Marry I bidders, his assistant William lilanch, and I ire Mosses .loin Whitney, John Thomas and Join Hetallick were overcome l?y the #ase and perished in a heroic at tempt t rescue the miners. Mining enyinee Moore and George T. Itobinson, suj ;rintendent. arc at the head of a rescuing party from tlx* Franklin ; Slope and Couein&ugh Mine. They ire slowly working their way toward the scene of the explosion, but must i liyht the tras every step of the way. Uanvas screens are belli# used to wall all the side entrances and rooms so as to force a current of pure air ahead of the rescuers. Knglncer A. <;. l'rosscr. wlui, with Mr. Moore, entered the main opening, came the to surface at Mill Greek Thursday and immediately se t about getting men and material to assist in the rescue. It will be absolutely impossible to state the loss of life until the rescuers reach the scene of the disaster, which may be several hours, possibly midnight. TIC VI NO TO SAVE AVIUTNKY. Harry Ilodgers, the mine foreman, his assistant, William lilancli. with lire 1 tosses John Whitney, John lie-: tnllick and John Thomas, were not in t he Klondike when the explosion took j place, but started down a short time! later. It Is feared all have perishcfl. (Jritlith I'owell and Thomas Foster, two other lire bosses, carried Mr. Whitney two hundred yards in the hope of saving his life, when they were* compelled to drop their burden and save them-! selves. Mr. Whit ney was uneonsrious j while being carried by his friends, i The tiftcen-year-bld son of Harry Ilodgers. when4je heard that Ins fat her I had been overcome* with lire-damp. | started down toward the Klondike to | help rescue 11Im, if possible, and he! had no sooner entered the drift when I the deadly gas almost overcame} t he lad and lie had to be carried hack, j IIis tongue protruded its whole length from lus mouth and mn? had to force his jaws apart with a st ick to prevent lackjaW. Voting Ilodgers,. who is employ cd iii the mine,- was among those who escaped through the Mill Creek shaft. THE III HUES OK FIFTY MEN Several miners have reached the surface who were working near the scene of file explosion. They say that they passed t hrough a portion of t he Klondike district and saw the bodies of i at least fifty men. The men who j came out were foreigners and were in sueh an excited condition that it was I impossible to get a connected story j from them. Tlio. .mine has been open for about fifty years and is producing 3,000 tons per day. It is the property of the Cambria Steel Company. The families of the entombed - miners are assembled in large numbers at the mine opening, but they cannot get any definite information and must endure a suspense of many bourfc. AK.MOKV AS A MOKUI K. Tlit'armory of Company II. f?th ren- j iincnt, N. <?. 1'., will Im- turned into a churncl house. Alter a eonferonce it was an-1 tuiuuced lliat the (lead miners would | he brought to the armory Friday/ Flanks have been laid on chairs in the armory and the removal of bodies will ! bctfin at an early hour in the morn-1 inn. The ambulances of all the under-; takers in the city are at Mill Creek in readiness to henin the transfer of bodies. At midninht President Powell Stackhouse was seen at the mouth of ' the mine and na\e out the following stat enicnt: "The disaster is an awful one :utd came on us entirely unexpectedly. The' mine had been inspected only three days a no and was pronounced in satisfactory condition. In the thirty years , that the mine has been in operation I no serious accident lias occurred. The cause is yet indefinite, but 1 believe it was caused by gas escaping from the lifl.li headinn. which was closed and was not being worked because it contained gas. into the sixth headinn. Illl. M'MltKIC ol ( VSI AI.TIKS i.- l)ow placed at No list of tile names of t he dead miners can lie given, for the majority of them were toreinners. and were known only liy check and not In name. The only way their names will ever be known, if the bodies are recovered in time for identitieation. will lie by their families sendinn their names to ns. !>Ks< KICTION OK TIIK MINK. The mine in whieli the disaster occurred is one of the largest eoal mines in the I niled States. according to the statement of otliciuls touinht. From MM I !' I 1(111' ' 111 MM I I I I I I i I 1 ? I I II' ri\cr from I lit- point to the one at Mill < 'reek is a (listaiuv of i hive and I liree<11i;irlers mill's. The K loudike sect ion, in which tlif explosion occurred. is ahout two niili s hum the Miil Creek ent ranee. 'I lie mine is divided into a larye numlier of headings, levels and seet ions. The seel ions run oil to the left anil riyhl ol the headings, and are known as rights and lelts hy the miners. The men who escaped t his afternoon have spent years working in it. otherwise they eould never have readied ti: 'surface. Lights were out and t here whs im wa\ for I hem tolind their way to the top had they not s known I lie mine ticrfeetly. I.I i i:< r <>r TIIK I.\ ri.isiuN. ' The few survivors who have escap1 ed from the depths of the mine describe t he condit ion as fright I n . i hit iide of the "Klondike"- the mines art s safe and uninjured. Witliin t he fata i- limits of tic mi lie t he havoc wrought \ hy the explosion is such as hejfirar; i description. Solid walls of masonry ir three feet Ihmuyli were torn down a: thoiiyh harriers of piper. The roof; of the mine were demolished and not . a door remains standing, n I'.rave attemptsat rescue were madi n here. Mininy Ifinyiiieer Moore an< s his assistant. Aid. lTosser. tried t< o make some headway toward the im r prisoned miners three and a half mile: i- away, hut they were driven hack hi the deadly gases. Kichard Heunett and John Meyers, two miners, were similarly driven back. Then the attempt at rescue work from the main opening was shifted to Mill Creek, live j * miles from this city. Husiness in the city was practically at a standstill. "They arc not all dead. We ran across some of them alive," stammered Mr. Swan Tylar, at 1.II "? o'clock tonight, when he staggered out of the shaft at Mill Creek. ! '' .lust how many, though, dead or 1 alive, he was uftablc to say. He had Ihhmi down in the mine since 2 o'clock j in the afternoon with thg,, rescuing party. The lirst victim brought to j the surface was William Itohertson accompanied by I>r. John 1!. I.owman. "We have f(?nr with us." said the ! M doctor. Kobcrtsun is in the worst . (| shape, lie is unsconscious and badly | j, hurt. We passed twenty-live bodies j ? while getting out these four, who are t| vet alive. We counted them as we a went along. They lay In all kinds of (i positions. One man was leaning j ;l against a door, not far from Uobcrt-j0 son, just where lie had I wen thrown i j, by the force of the explosion. Froth was running from his mouth and lie \ had undoubtedly died in preat agony. i .'j Others were partly standing, partly j, reclining;. They were in heaps and ' ? singly. The paity with us lias nearly ' f, reached tne actual scene < I the explosion and the work of hrjngiup out the y poor fellows ought to progress rapidly )| from now on.'' ! It was nearly 12 o'clock before tin' ,,j (list four live men and one corpse was L.; brought, up and laid 011 mattresses, s) rnyrs and comforts on the ground. |. They were not left long outdoors, as n it was 100 cold I here, hut were carried into the lioiler house nearliv, and fludoctors went to work on them, giving them restoratives and administering oxygen in the plate ol the I Ires from the open furnaces. " At 12.1."? A. M.f this (Friday) morn- [' ingi ! li tlKNKItAl. M A N A OKI* MOOKK, of the mines, who, with Superintendent llohinson, had penetrated to a considerable distance in tin- Klondike, "J had reached a telephone station and " notified men at the main entry that , he hud found live of t lie bodies up to T" that time and had been only in the!" right rooms. From the brief report V it was undersbHwi tiiat Mr. Moore had s pone as far as he could without en- J"1 dangering his life from tire damp, and " had decided to go to the Mill l J reek entry from there without further i111 search. ; Further news catue a few moments l.' later that Mine Superintendent ll<>- 11 hiuson, who had gone into the mine with tieiierai Mamper M""?" lout Iteen ovt?i\snne witn lire damp and ?v.is ' unable to talk. He had been carried '' to t he Mill Creek entrance. The mine i ^ employees stationed at the mine entry stated that the fact that Mr. Moore had penetrated so far into the . mines showed that the lire damp was;" beinp cleared rapidly and with every ' prosper! of l*ing entirely driven l'roin [ " tlie mine before morning. ; j A Convict Itcwui'dt'il. (Imv. M(Sweeney Wednesday re- ^ warded a convict for the saving of a (i guard's life near this city, granting him a pardon. The pardon was grunted upon receipt of the following from ! Supi. -(Jriftith of the State peniten- .'i tiary: Dear Sir: 1 respectfully ask you to give Walter Anderson a full pardon for the reason that on the loth day of March, i'.uio, while on detail o work on farm, several prisoners over- ! v powered and took Mr. Harling's gun ' 1' lrom him. (Darling was the guard.) I* Some of the prisoners had Darling A down 011 the ground w hen this eon- ' vict.. Walter Anderson, rushed to his < relief, pulled the convicts off of him ' and saved him from being killed, for j 1 which I at once made him a "trusty," 1 and he has ever since, as well as tie- t fore, been a fine prisoner, humble. < obedient and a good Worker. , ( ( rnU l.oss of 1'ropcrty. . 1 A sandstorm has caused damage 1 estimated at $l,tU?(Looo in the ludio j valley on the Southern Facilie railroad ^ in Die Colorado desert. An artitieial oasis of nine hundred acres had been |! niadc 1iy digging artesian wells and planted in melons. Judging bv last year, when only sixty acres were in cultivation, a protit of more than ! ( *l.oou an acre would have been made. Three hundred carloads of melons, for I w hich * 1,200 a car iiad been olfercd. were almost ready for shipment when the storm broke. For three clays it raged with the thermometer I2U in I In- << 11 ;| 11 (. ulnll it vv:is li\il I'l'lTV hit. of vegetation had l>cen destroyed". | Works of 11 <'loud hurst. A special from Paris, State of ('hoahnila, says A cloiidhiirst visited this section today,covering an area of .'?( sifuare miles and doing damage to the extent of *100,000. The big , I'atagolana dam, the largest in northern Mexico, broke with all the ilood gates open and was completely de- I st roved. The San Lorenzo (lain, w hich has been standing for over tt">0 yctirs was also washed away. This dam was built of solid masonry about 1.".To and was in perfect condition until Weduesdax. Three Mutilated Itodies. Near Prudence, Knid, (>. T. :to miles , southwest of here, the bodies ot a man, a woman, two children, appars ently members of one family, mutilat ! i ed into almost unrecognizable masses l were found today. The Imdies had been st l ipped of all clot hing leax iiy; no ! {means of identification. It is sup-j I posed that the family were strangers > traveling overland and that they; ' were robbed and murdered by men s | who then made oil with their team r | and belongings. KKNATOK.AL RACE. he Candidates Speaks to a Large Crowd at Orangeburg. LATIMER GOES FOR EVANS. 'Ih'kc Two CniuliilulcH Attack I'.arh Other Mini Indulged 111 < 'i-iminat inn uiiil Kccrimiiiation for Some Time. The senatorial campaign meeting as held at this place on last Thursay. The party eame over from Sinner. where t hey had spoken on Wedci day. The following account of lie meeting was furnished The News nd Courier by its regular correspon- 1 cut. lie says Orangeburg never floes ...dhin.. lot Iw,|,.ao It U. th..t ii > li ii i ik "J nanrn, u i ii?ii uin L,) I act ion and confidence of her people t each other that makes < IraiiKchurtr nc of the lincst counties in the State. ' lotliin^ (4ives these people more pleas* re than to attend a campaign ineetiH. no when the announcement w;is I mde that hitr und brainy candidates 1 ?r the Senate would speak at OrangeiiThursday fully J..VM people ' athrrcd around the stand, erected on : lie east side of the Court I louse, and avetlie candidates the greatest in- : [dration they have received on this impugn. Kvery body expected "hot ' ill!" and they were not disappointed, j 1 Ivory candidate made votes, hut how 1 lie ballots will add up no one knows. ; Til K MKKTINO. . The Senatorial meeting was ealled | t order hy Count 3' Chairman \V. O. | 'alum at 11, to a. in., and an earnest < ivoeat i?ni was ollered hy the Kev. II. i. I'.rowne, a presiding elder of thelet hodist Kpiseopul Church. The rst speaker introduced was COh. WM. KL.MOTT. Col. KUiott was at the disad vantage ] l lieing the lirst speaker, knowing; liat his speech would lie criticised hy . is able competitors, who would note | verything he said. Col. lClliott saitl , lat the old I (lack District had at | arious t imes covered nearly half this | Late, and if lie had represented half i it. why not trust him further and | take him Senator for the whole State? . le told of Ins record in the civil war , ml 11is work in behalf of hi-, home | L-ople in tlie dark days of i t construe- | on. lie was chosen tolea-U a forlorn ght in liis district and terrible con sts followed e;ic\li electloiv yet 11is , ongrcssional record of fouriKen years I III MM i | 4.1 j? o,-e Id ? .TUffuVti J hie. The total amount of apjpropriaoiis obtained is in round numbers f?,OOC,OUO. j' Col. Kliiott spoke of the wonderful nprovements in the manufacturing , ltorests of the county and, as we are eeoming a nation of exporters, it is ecessary to improve tht-'Dtraiisportaion facilities on "Cod's hghways." iespokeof the Appalachian forest cservc aim now ueneuciai us i-stan- j sliincnt will prove to the South in I lie prevention of destruetivc overflow j f niir Southern rivers. THE HON. J. .1. II KM 1*1 If I.E. Col. Hemphill threw handsome bouuets at the ladies. A voice: "Praise the tfals if you lon't tfeta vote." We will do ourselves an injustice if nir representatives content t heinselves j villi netting appropriations: we need j caders in Washington from the South vhu can protect our political intcrsts. He charged that the Democratic I 'ommittcchad reported adversely on >ne occasion, hut Col. Klliott called lim down and reminded him that he I nade such a statement before and it] .vas not true. Mr. Hemphill yielded o Col. Hlliotl's correction and passed; <i to the Philippine islands, dcnounc- | np colonial expansion and spoke of j ?ur? h icntal trade, especially the small! returns accruing to us from the Philppine.s. He said that in the discharge ; >f his duties as a lawyer he has often j >een called away from South Carolina 1 to attend to professional matters, j some of his competitors want to say I thai lie had ^ivenuphis citizenship, hnt attain lie deemed it expedient to t?dl ot his home connections in Chester the same statement he made at Chest orliod Conrt House. Col. Hemphill received a beautiful bouquet of dowers. KX-UOY KiiNlllt KVA NS. Mr. Kvans felt the Inspiration of an old-time orderly campaign audience, lie told why lie entered this and the former Senatorial campaign, it took fiis. etminetitors live vears to tree Me Lauriii, and imw they all coino here and want U> l>e Senator. "I?an Henderson went all over this country cussing old I'.en and everylody connected with the Reform movement. Now he eoines here preaching unity, hut give me the peas and Henderson the cake." lie spoke of Latimer's charge that it was said of him he took $15,000 out of the hond deal, lie denounced it again. If anybody will lind it I will divide and give them two-thirds of ltLallmer says that his record is clean. We shall investigate this little matter. "lie denounced the transportation trusts." said Mr. Kvans. "hut that pure, honest , I >r. Stokes, whom you all loved" A voice: "Let him alone now; he is dead." I>111 Mr. Kvans went on to read the charges made hy l?r. Stokes in the Yorkville Kmiuirer, and which have already heeu printed. Lat imer was uj at Tir/.ah claiming all the credit foi the free rural delivery, when Mr. Urist reported his statement in a daily papei and thus caught up with Mr. Latimer i claiming what did not belong to him t Hi that trip to Cuba he (Kvans) wiu down there, and Tillman and Norton Liiini*-' with Mr. Latimer. Tillman told liim that lie was Latimer's ?uest, and supposed tliat Latimer was pavi"e f??t it. "Tillman had been caught tip with once witii a free pass and yon win rest assured that you could nevci catch that old laill in a similar scrape attain." You are asked to believe Stokes a liar and to believe him." Mr. Latimer answers all this by saying that h" brought a few Yankees [Jown here, and pleads the Charleston Imposition as one of his excuses, Mr. Kvans said that Mr. N. I>. Harris, one if Latimer's ijest friends in Helton, had written him that Latimer had told him that he had offered Stokes an annual pass, and that Stokesaeeepted it. Also that Latimer had offered Mr. It. A. Lewis, of Helton, a pass to Mexico, hut ho had refused it. Again. Mr. Latimer offered Mr. Ilufus Hill, if Anderson. and his brother-in-law. Rlarencc Itrown. free transportation to Mexico, and that Imth accepted. Mr. Lvans also charged that Latimer a as in favor of turning over $.'t.noo,ono worth of property In tyaahiugtoii to the Pennsylvania Hallway. In these things lie had simply responded to Latimer's invitation to inspeet his record. Mr. Lvans said that lie was president of a little railroad nine miles in length between Pickens and Anderson, He it. proud of this, for . very cent of money in this little road belongs to South Carolinians, He is now living in Spartanburg, l(id has the confidence of every man, woman and child in the eit.y, besides the support of the two papers, and believes that lie will get s.000 out or the ".i.ooo votes in the county. He vpoke of his opposition to the Cuban war. and said that we ought to swarp !'uha off for a "nigger"' and then kill Lite "nigger "* 11? is standing on his record and asks the vut.es of Smill Jarolinians, I.ATI M Kll IN UIU'I.Y. Mr. Latimer started out l?v saying that I c is not responsible for tills let ter being brought into the campaign ind therefore, the consequences must rest with tile man who is using it. Mr. Latimer's denials and admissions were the same as made at Conway, but as to the new mat ter, the charges loneering, or coming from. Helton, lie was as silent as the grave. Also bile matter of giving that property, valued at t't.uoo.ouo, in Washington. Lo the Pennsylvania Railway, lie admitted all the junketing trips and vaid there was no law against accepting free transnorations as the LegislaI.iho ??.?,! 1*111 1 : I - - - L1IIU llji'I IVIJIl'll It, UUL >1 11(11 .>11. Kvans took lilm up on tliis he admitted that the Legislature had killed it. hut the <iovernor had vetoed it. Mr - JL'-V.ihid goiv >Vest Iti this it was understo.r-* jV . . referred to his Mexico trip, but who went with him was not staled. Mr. Latimer turned on Kvans and said: "You were charged with taking $ la. 000 in that bond deal. You have jjone down into the grave to briny something up against me. but the man that made that charge still lives. Why don't you bring him here? (Cries of "Hurrah for Latimer.") ition, ot Augusta, knows about it. Why did you not bring him?" Kvans: "1 could not get him. tint 1 got an atlldavit from his denying it, and read it in the campaign." Mr. Latimer said that it' anyoiu could prove that he tendered I ?r Stokes an annual pass over a trunk line that he would withraw from this race. He spoke of his personal friend ship for Dr. Stokes, and said thai three weeks before l>r. Stoke's deatl because a letter from I >r. Stokes stating that ho wanted to come u| and visit him. If there was am enmity he never knew it until thesi letters were produced, lie said thai Kvans got into the Kxecuti ve Mansioi by swinging on to Tillman's coat tails To this Kvans replied: "You neve would have got into t .ingress with out Tillman." Latimer: "Alter all Hen Tillmai has done for you, you said that h had lined bis pockets with rebates." Mr. Kvans denied this. Mr. Latimer went into his Congro sionalreeord and toldw hat he had don including getting an appropriation u $if>.000 tor Newbeirv College. A | though he bad been warned inSumte \V??? 1 in?vi 1:a v t lit t 1 it* si i*i ? t lit it In rctH'ii Mis goat story, lie did repeat it her j to-day and applied it to Mr. Ileiii| hill, lie told of his transaetions i ! eopper slock and thought it a fair an j legitimate way of making money. II iobtained an option on a eertain hloe I of it and sold it at an advanced prio lie did this after Congress adjournec In conclusion lie said: "If you i not think that I did right. don't vol j for me. 1 wiP not have tin ollice e: copt 011 honor." (Cheers.) tilk hon. 1>. 1iknokuson. Mr. Henderson was at last put t ! his metal and made the best .speech I has made on the campaign, lie w , itorn, he said, in Colleton, and not ! dishonest dollar has ever passu | through his hands. iHliott, l.atiin and Hemphill, who have been in en gress so long, have not brought salv l ion toSout b Carolina, hat liner pos I as a fanner, saying two words alwa i for himself and one tor the tarnn Col. Klliott tells that he has foiig negroes for fourteen years and uow , a reward, asks to In* sent to t he Senal He told how t bey settled the lie},' Ullestion in Aiken forever. Mr. Hell ' hill has been in congress ten years did not set 1 lie world on lire, but aft all these years he comes hack a . wants to go to t lie Senate. Kvaiis s; . that lie deleaked him ^Ilendeison) Aiken, but lie del not. Hon Tillin defeated him and not Kvans. lie i II on the Shepard I icket and Kvans li Tillman at bis hack, iteii Tillm knows him and respects him and r licves him 111 elide i son) to be an liom , man. "The campaign," said Mr. Hi 4 [(,'ontinl'kl> on i'aok 4.J i MURDERED AT SEA. I I j One Man oltlio Crew Shoots Down I t i ! Another Wit lion t Warning. A special from L'ensacola, Kla. says ! , I The American schooner, Mary, Sail-j j ford, which arrived Saturday afternoon had an eventful voyage from Hlueticlds. Nicaragua, to IVnsacola, ! I during which time one man killed anI other and the crew were almost in , 'constant mutiiiy for the man's blood, 1 wiio murdered their shipmate. Caplain McDonald was^lad to reach here, ! and as soon as possible had the murderer in jail. The Mary Sanford left Mluetields on June 21 and when four days out in latitude 1 f>.40 and longitude st.4o, i A. (1. Nicholson, tlie llrst mate, kill-1 j ed Fred. Meed a West Indian seaman 1 I at I a. m. Meed, it was learned, had heeu | ordered to some duty ahout the sails. I I.lit tlin tend S.oiI.ih '-.I. ' 1 I ...V, |>ll 1 IV II |>l I JWll Mil* lllll OIlOC Uecordhig to the liking of Nicholson.! who orde red I teed to ?lo the work I , over. The latter <1 irl not relish this ' and made insulting remarks to the j mate, who without any bandy of words, w I lipped out a 14-calihre re vol- j i ver and tilled tho nogroe's body with four Indicts, eit her one of which would have proved fatal. The seamen died : within 2u second after heing shot. When (,'apUiln MclJonald saw what had happened, he ran and overpowered Nicholson, took the pistol from him and threw it overboard. The j mate was then placed in irons and kept so confined, and under strict guard until the vessel reached the I'ensaeola quarantine station, when j t he t nited States marshal's otllee was ! told of the murder on the high seas and N ieholson brought here and lock-| jed up. lie will he given a preliminary trial before I*. S. ('oinmissiotier Tunison tomorrow morning. Since he has engaged legal advice he refuses to talk and give his side of the occurrence. To The Journal's representative one of the ship's otticers stated that immediately after the killing four West Indian seamen, countrymen of the dead man. openly resented the murder j of heed, and many times did things ! lookiop as though t he mui. orer would ! (swing from a yard arm. Tlie captain, two inulys and steward were the only white men on the vessel, and the j (combined watchfulness of this uver; worked quartette prevented a marine 1 J session of .ludpe l.ynch's court. The , I West Indian were said to have been a ; most revengeful class and various con- i I spiracles were nipped in tiieir in-' icipicney t>y ttie white crew, who | : gleaned knowledge of the plots by the i Ooastlnpof the eoncoiraters who on I .MtM vo iiitc utttvatcii- | ed to have the lives of all the ship's j utlicers when they were prevented from j laving hands on Nicholson. heed's body was wrapped in sails and buried at sea. a few miles from the location of where the shooting oc- i 1 cur red. lie had repeatedly made trouble for the ship and is spoken of< ? as having been a dangerous man. Nicholson belongs to a prominent 1 family at Halifax. Nova Scotia, and lias followed the sea for many years. The Mary Sanford, living the , American Hag, is a frequent trader here. The murder will necessarily have to he heard in the 1 nited States I I.,,nrl vvlit.m / Iinv.iniic lior,. nnvl : mouth. And this is the lirst capital > crime to he heard <?r docketed in the - federal court of t his dist ri? t for years. A Simple Itemed)'. ' The troublesome little red ants that appear a., if by magic about niidsumnier, and take complete control of the pantry at the time when summer heat | makes other trials hard to endure, may now be routed by a very simple remedy. A practical housewife made '' the discovery by accident, and it has been found satisfactory in every instance in which it has sii ,-c been tried. Simply mix live cents worth of tartar emetic in an equal amount of white L sugar, make it quite moist with cold water, put it into.small dishes and set it on the shelves where the ants are troublesome. The ants will disappear j quite as mysteriously as they came. I and there will l?e no dead ones lying around on shelves and lloor. ho not ( throw tlie mixture away, hut save it !, for further attacks, as it can easily he i moistened and used again when we go to the pantry some warm, moist I morning and tiud sugar lmwl, cookies l(> and all sorts of sweets and cereals. I .-.warming with the troublesome summer pests. L'. | Mcl.atiriii May Decline. lo i Some people iu the South Carolina Le circle in Washington who claim to x- have inside information as to alTairs in this state seem to think that, after all. Senator Mcl.aurin may not heappointed to the federal judgeship of 111 1 I,.. ......rl . .f ,*l*i I ma V,,? |u.i>'iiic. as t.hry <1?? n??t think the president would a : appoint tin- senator if he desires tlie i'd honor, tint lieeause they believe that er 1 after all lite talk concerning the senator that he may not eare to accept the ,l" plaee. lie may prefer to remain in the senate until the end of the next ;r session of congress, when his term wil 1,1 expire, and then to reenter the prac as tieeol his profession, either in Soul I le. Carolina or in Washington. Tin :ro senator, it is stated by his friends P* has reeeived many tempt inn olTers. hu i lie has aeeepted none of them, and i 1is said he may decline the iudgeshi| (J(I if olTered. in An Indian Hanged. An h Conlev. an Indian, and INcI '"! Fleming. were handed upon the sam sealTold in Salesbury. N C. last Tues i?. day. Con ley paid the death penult est for the murder of a young negro las en- November. Fleming was hanged I'd ? committing an assault on .1 whit woman last February. rHE OREGON OUTLAW. Who Has Killed Six Men Since June 9 ? Still at Large. BLOOD HOUNDS ON tflS TRAIL. Fully u ThouHuutl Mon ure in I'urHuft or Him Incltidinx n I'ohm? Wliiclt Taken Train to Cut Hint nfl* I'm in < 'otlur Mountain. Marry Tracy, the convict who has killed six men ami wounded several others since June it, is being hotly pursued by men and dogs in the country southeast, of Seattle and will probably be slain or captured. Ilis pursuers who have with them two tine bloodhounds are lillJv :t ?linrt rllnt;i m'hind him, Traeey made another extraordinary escape from one of the posses after him Wednesday afternoon. Word was received at the sheriffs otllco that Traoey had been at the house of a Mrs. Herald near Kenton for five hours. Fifty armed men at once hastened to the scene. When they reached the place they scattered and t<H?k possession so they could watch the house to the hest advantage. The peculiar actions of Mrs. Herald convinced the men t hat Traeey was still in the house. >)n the arrival of Sheriff Cudilice the posse closed in on the house only to learn from Mrs. Herald that Traeey had given them the slip. lie had left the house by a rear door ton minutes previously while the posse were taking up positions to watch the place, led for a few minutes in some of the hushes and then quietly slipped through the woods toward Calmer. Till: WOMlKKKt'I. COOL.XKSS and daring of the convict was never more fully exemplified than in this instance. In the back yard of the Herald home. Anderson, the man whom traeey had kept a prisoner from the time lie left Port Madison, was found Lied to a tree Traeey had tied Anderson while the posse was in full view of tlieliousc. The bloodhounds were let ' loose on his train and are reported t<> lie only a few minutes l?chind him. Fully a thousand armed men are now cii^mcd in the pursuit, including a posse which lias taken the train for Palmer to intercept Traeey in his iliglit toward Cedar mountain. News was received at the sheriffs oitice Wednesday that llarry Traeey was at llanclier Gerald's house, below ^ Ltcno, on the Cedar Mountain road. 9 11" 1 " old soil or Kaneker GeralJ arrived at ~ the sheriffs office witli a gold and a > silver watch, saying that. Traeey had [ arrived at Fis father's house at 10..10 * o'clock Wednesday morning" eating a hearty meal liad sent luiii to a neighbor's house with the two watches, with Instructions to try to 4 sell them. Traeey said if they "were given away" he would kill tlie whole family, the !x?y included. The boy, knowing that it was Traeey, concluded t<> bring t lie watches to the sheriffs office, hoping that t lie desperado would remain there until a searching party could arrive. The watches answer the description of those stolen from .Johnson. Voung Herald described Tracev accurately, and the otlleers think lie is trying to make the Palmer cuioit i?y tne ( eciar .Mountain roan. Johnson's white boat, used by Traccy in his escape from I'ort Madison, has been found on t lie ll a us. near Seattle. SEVENTY FIVE PER CENT. Stale Hoard Fixed that Standard of Valuation for Taxation Purposes. The several committees of the state board of equalization charged with the equalization of assessments of real estate in South Carolina for taxation, and also with the assessment of cotton mills, fertilizer mill and cotton oil mill plants, worked all of Tuesday afternoon and evening and all of Wednesday morning as well, and it was not until I o'clock that they were ready to report their action to the full board. The important "per cent committee" recommended the adoption of a 75 per cent basis of market value for taxation of all property subject to cqunli/.ntion by the tioard, provided that after obtaining proper information from the counties the hoard may lower the percentage if not injurious 1 to the several counties. A strenuous el fori was made to change this so as to make the basis of valuation 05 per ; cent, hut this failed by a vote of 14 to 11, the chairman easting the decisive vote in favor of the committee's report. This report was then adopted ? 11 ... . as II?IIU?S. "Your committee appointed to ti:< t he precentage on property Ix-g leave to report that they recommend that t he following resolution Ik* adopted: "Itesolvcd, That all property sub' ject to equalization by this board be put on a Itasis of 7."i per cent of its 1 market value, and that the county auditor and county chairman of each " county bo required to furnislt- the 1 'comptroller general, before tlie next 1 meeting of this lioard, a sworn slatemcnt, according to their best knowledge and belief, showing what per cent of its market value property was k assessed at in their county. Provided, e i Thai when this information has been - obtained, the board may lower this v percentage to such a figure as will t .'dualize the taxes and at the same ir time provide a sutllcient amount to e meet tlie requirements of the various , counties."