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The Batesburg ^Ivocate. - * v! VOL III BATESBURG,S.C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8,1903. NO 18 THIEVES FALL OUT. Ryau Became Sore ami Made Confession to Authorities. HE WENT BACK ON HIS PALS They Ktiinctl TIiimiihoIvos I?y OniiiK III} Mhii'n llitltling unit Ho Sow Turns (Utterly Upon Them. United Suites Marshal Henry C. Petit, at Ilockville, hid., noli lied the department by telegraph of t he arrest of Joseph M. Johns, the man charged witli conspiracy in the alleged bribery of Daniel V. Miller, the assistant attorney of the postotllee department who was arrested Tuesday night. Johns will be tried with Miller at Cincinnati. The cases will he present <! m the forlm-;, 1 imnit inrv vv' 1.1. un.i.t - there October 0. According to evidence in p<issession of tlie postal authorities Johns rereceived $4,f)00 as a reRult ot' the decision of Acting Assistant General Christiancy that the Ryan Turf Investment company was entitled to use the mails. Miller was an assistant of Christianey. The authorities here say that Johns was not an attorney of the Ryan concern hut. has heen a life long friend and political associate of Miller. The exact division of the S4,a00 is not known. miller un oku cross ii uk. Miller was at the postofflcc department Friday in conference with Assistant General Robbe, who closely questioned him regarding the case. The I case ojLthe Arnold company, turf in-1 vescf5?nt concern, which was respon- | sible for the tirst charges against the ] ottice of the assistant attorney general and which, despite the adverse report of postotllce inspectors secured a favorable decision from the ottice, is still under investigation. The checks which figure in the alleged payments to Miller and Johns, which are in the possession of the department are for $.1,400. They were supplemented with a cash payment of $1,100. The checks a re signed by the Ryan concern and made out t o Johns's ] order and endorsed by him. Ryan has agreed to Ik: a witness for t.lio ihivnrnmiuil Ho hnv^ fiirniwluul the department with all the informa-1 tion ht his possession, including the i documents. While the department cannot guarantee an immunity it will put Ins service in giving state's evidence in the hest light before the1 court. Miller had charge of the in- ! vestigation of the it van case and pre- j pared the letter which Acting Assis-! tant General Christiancy signed. This letter, which constituted the decision ; of the department, allowed the con- j cern to use the mails and was signed December 10. The decision in the Arnold case which served as a precedent and whose language it followed was signed by Assistant Attorney General Tyner December 4. KYAN WAS SOKE. John J. Ryan, whose confessions caused the arrest of Miller and Johns, operated his "get-rich-quick" turf investment concern from Cincinnati, Ohio and from St. Louis, and ran winter races at Newport, Ky. Other warrants have been issued as a result of the investigation of the postolllce inspectors. Kyan is here now and admits that he operated sometime ai St. Louis before the inspectors got after him and later he was called to Washington. Kyan says: "I was sore because 1 heard others doing business like mine stood in with the postotliee department by giving up 82fi,o00 and I felt that those who were standing in with the department were behind the investigation so as to get me out 01 uieir way. THE JOB HAD ''TH1.M.MINUS." After returning from Washington to St. Louis last Novemlier Ryan says lie got a telegram from Attorney Johns of Rockvillc, I mi., that .lohns could he of service to him with the department at Washington and later Ryan and .lohns met in Terrc Haute. There, Ryan says. Johns explained now close lie was to Miller arid how Miller had accepted a $2,000 job in the postotllce department at Washington with the idea that the job had certain "trimmings," such as Ryan says Johns explained Ryan would he able to furnish. Ryan declared Johns asked $.">,000 to get from Miller a letter from the attorney general's otliceshowing Ryan was entitied to use the mails. Later Ryan says Johns came down to $2,f>00 and the proposition was accepted. A proposition to pay $2,000 for literature so worded it would pass muster if it was ever taken up in the mails was later accepted. PRESERVED THE LITEllATl"HE. Ryan asserts Johns delivered the letter and literature to him December 10th. Ryan says lie gave Johns $1,100 cash and checks dated Decem)>cr 17, one for $'2,000 and one for $1,400. Then, Ryan says everything went along smoothly until the trouble February 9. A week later a fraud order was issued against Ryan, and Ryan says an elfort for another shake down was put on foot hut he would not stand for it. lie says he received more telegrams from Johns, Ryan says he preserved all the telegrams and letters. JOHNS OIVKS BOND. Joseph II. Johns, who is charged with complicity in the Miller-Ryan postal scandal, was arraigned he for Commissioner llippinsund pave Imni for $ 1 ,f?00 for his appearance be fori Federal .ludpe Anderson at Indian upolis June 25. 1' is bond was sipnei by several citizens of lioekville, win aeeompanied iiim to tins city. lie re fuses to make any statement. Tin warrant under which lie wasarraipnet j chaipcd conspiracy t ? receive persona i coin pens it ion for services t.o divers per I sons in which the United States wai I interested. The warrants for Miller at Wash ; inpton. and lohnsut Kockvillo. wen ] drawn by United Sta tes Attorney Itnndy, and his assistants, on inforiua t ion furnished hv unstotlice innjeclon who have a great ma .s of dorunicn 1 tary evidence, n tubh a letter t< John .!. r.yan. from George A. Chris j tancy asac'ing nsMstuntattorney gen end for ihe posts.Pico ilepai t mint, in forming llyan that the investigatioi satisfied tiie Washington otllriuls o his iiI I lo use the mails in Ids busi ih'.-s. In one corner are the initial: "1>. V. M." in Miller's handwriting indicating tiiat Miller dictated tin letter, and for tliat reason theotllclab I say fit re is n proceeding against | Christiaiu-j . This letter was not I r warded to llyan, but it came to hin through Johns when they met in Cin einnati. I?v. >. I".'after llyan pah Joins il.ltio cash and $."l.4u0 in St Louis checks. These checks, indorsee by Johns, are io evidci>ce. STORIES OF RECENT FA STB. >t?ny People It? store<l to llealtli lij I.caving; Oil'One Meal. That many persons have gainct health l?v eliminating, or practically eliminating, the morning breakfast seems an established fact., writes Ann; Woodward in Good Housekeeping Those who are more radical in theii trials have logon by fasting entirely for a period of from seven to thirty days. An experience which bar at traded much attention is that of I hi editor of one o; the health magazine: of New York. This man went througl a thirty days' fast, aliout two year ago, and from that time to the present lias usually had two very light meal: each day. Never more than two, anc nuiiicuiuH-n uui. one. nc weigneo wnei beginning his fast, otic hundred situ leu pounds and has since told t'n writer that he had at that time mud sickness: was, in fact an invalid. A the present time In- weighs one liun died and sixty pounds, is robust ii disease, whatsoever, lie says that lx>fore tiie thirty days of fasting was over, Ids skin took on a clearer hue than it hud worn tor years: his eyes grew brighter, his hair was in better condition, and his tcath, even, became noticeably whiter. ? hi tlie twentyfourth day lie took a prolonged mountain walk with several companions, neither showing nor feeling inori fatigue than they. A girl whose home is in Morganlon, West Virginia, tells me that althougli up Lu last summer she had always been an omnivorous eater, she at that time became coverted to the modern theory, and began in a practical waj taking in August two weeks'complete fast, during which time, she swallow ed nothing but a little fruit juice She then began to addopl an extreme ly light diet, to her advantage fron the point of economy, since by prepar big her own meals instead of lioardin^ she effected a saving of from six t( seven dollers a month. Hot the consideration of primary importance was ret the pecuniary but the physica gain. She at once began to enjoy health sueh as she had not known fo years. I-'or several years previously nuraverage wergild w as annul one lain drcd and t wenty-four pounds. During the two weeks' last she lost tifteei pounds. The tirst week theieafter sin regained ten pounds and after tha she regained at the rate of threi pounds a week, until she reached on< hundred and thirty-nine pounds more than she ever weiplied in her Ufi before. This girl is engaged in tak inp a university course and there i I livinp with her a friend wlio is ; i teacher in tlie publir schools, tlii friend livinp also on the same plan j Tliey eat no breakfast, I ikiiip in th early morninp a plass of liot lemon ade. bunch consists of two slices o hrown bread and butter and a littl fruit. The eveninp meal, thouph mor j substantial is very simply cooked ; Soup and one other dish from th usual dinner. The second dish con sists so nc times of a baked potato t baked apples, some limes of a ceres [and milk. They take never more tha 1 those two simple dishes, in addition t brown bread and milk, celery and (h easioiially onions. The main point i that thay enjoy their eatinp as the never did before, they have improve in peneral health, and incidental! there has been the savinp of time an : money. < Itiu V> lical Crop. The cereal outlook was never mor promising at this time of year. < me .14,000,000 acres of winter when sown hist fall, Mie n^rictilt oral depart I ment's canvass shows :i:i,ooo,ooo acr< standing in prime condition an . promising a yield of 520,000,01) i >11 si ids v i t li normal success. If th spring wheat holds its own wit h ave j a^e years, the I'nited States will ha\ j 720,000,000 bushels of wheat in tl : bin in the autumn. Itlniti' a l>. it. It was announcement ol the Kei tocky Wcsleyan college at Wincheste Ky., Wednesday that the honorai j decree of doctor of divinity had bee conferred upon Uev. .1. L. Stoke oastor of the Methodist church i Yorkvillc. ?I TOWN SWEPT AWAY. J , , Many Persons Crushed to Death by a ( Tornado. i? j ] AN INSANE ASYLUM STRUCK ! i s The Slulo ill' Iowa Swept IiicohhhiiIly ' I'm- Twenty-four 11 dims liy j i StiirniM and Tornuilo. I A tornado struck the town of Klmo. Iowa Tuesday evening. destroying I the town. Six persons are known to have been killed and several others ' - ; injured. The storm destioycd a - i threes!ory Masonic temple, and nine 1 j poisons in the temple at the time ! were killed outright. Six bodies have j been removed from the ruins of toe i > building and others are believed to be I : | buried in the debris. The names of : ; those whose bodies were recovered: t 0. C. Calhoun. William Inilf, (Jus null, t:;iarles Hell. T. Summers. 1). L. Barker. Tile sioriti passed on through i i the town, leaving but a few buildings -{standing. Elmo is a small town on 1 the Wabash railroad branch, running . | from Omaha to Brunswick, Mo., and ) 1 has about 200 inhabitants. STORM-SWKIT KOK IIOU'KS. Iowa has been storm swept for the | past 24 hours. Three tornadoes, two1 Monday night and one Tuesday night, ! resulted in tlie loss of six li\es. the ' fatal injury of three persons and the serious injury of a score of others, | besides great injury and property 1 | loss. f T1IK PKAl) AT t! LBN WOO I). , Maggie Bietner, of Adasa. Iowa. : v aped 11 years. j . ; Hazel Wright, of Adasa, Iowa, aged r | 10 years. , Near Buxton: Georgia Buckley. ' Herbert lihodes. ? At South Des Moines. , Kussell A. KnaulT, aged JO years. ii Floyd KnaulV, his elght-mouths-old < son. L Til K INJl'KKD AT OLKNWOOD. ji Mary Eekert. 1 ! Anna DeLaney. Myrtle Dickson. ' Etta Newton. J Harrison Johnston. NEAK BUXTON. Molieutius Rhodes, fatal. t Mollie Rhodes, fatal. Blttkcly, fatal. 1 /.ward, Lucy^Heorgt^fnfff?^^^^* I Rhodes. j , j Buddie Rheasy. j Mary Walker. AT HOl'TII DKSMOINKS. ; \ i Mrs. KuautT, bruised and cut. j Mrs. Margaret Boston, skull injured 1 by falling brick. Charles McXutt, hurt by Hying tree ! limbs. i Mrs. John McCoy, breast and head : ; cut by dying glass. [ SCHOOL KOK 1KKIU.K-M1NDKU. The victims at Glenwood were all' , inmates of the school for the feeble I r minded. The tornado struck the girls' dormitory. Tho roof wos torn ! olT and with a terrible crash fell back j again upon the wrecked building. All the buildings of the group, including j the hospital, dormitory, boys' build. ! ing, custodian's building, farm cotr } Lages and the boiler room, were more | or less damaged by the storm. The ' . : superintendent estimates that the loss | s! will l>e at least $75,000. There is no ' 1 ! insurance. MARK KOK KUUIOUS WIND. i r The buildings of the institution are >' situated on a sligiit rise and were a i I mark for the heavy wind which swept j ' down on the structure with terrible . 1 i fury. The Injiler room. including ' e, some line machinery lately installed, I b ( is wrecked. The eleven gifls who j e were injured are l>eing cai d for in 5 1 the hospital which Is intact. The 1 tornado near Buxton struck before i e' | noon near what is known as No. 10 - .luncelon, a mining settlement. All ; OIIC Y IVylllUn tuiuiuu. COITUSB OK STOTM. ! The storm came from the southwest I ^ ! end the destructive wind seemed to i | descend suddenly from a great bank j I of clouds which was weeping toward I , the northwest. The nouses occupied . i by the Rhodes and Rlakely families; I ! were smashed to kindling wood. The' ! tornado struck south l)es Moines al . |dark tonight. It came from the I ir south, but after tlie greater part of j (l the destruction was wrought, veered n to the northwest it approached the ' 0 junct ion of the lies Moines and Ita--1 .. | coon rivers. is IN' sol'Tii l>Er>MOINEn. \ The. property in South Des Moines and vicnity will reach $.">0,000. The ('l KnautT home and the Christian church were wrecked and about forty other buildings were damaged. About the same time what was apparently anotli(> er storm struck the packing bouse sec,, tion of the town, a mile to tlie north- 1 lt west of the scene of the South lies' ,. Moines disaster. Many buildings were i ,K ; damaged. d KASTKKN NKItltASKA IIAIID HIT. >0 Mas tern Nebraska was visited by ic anoter series of storms last night and r- Wednesday several of which develope ed into tornadoes. One visited Ilast-! ie ings, near tlie scene of Sunday's heavy storms and blew several buildings to splinters. Another struck Herman, 2f> miles i i- north of Omaha, and the scene of a r, tornado live weeks ago, killed a dozen ' y j people. The home of 1>. it. Parish, n l demolished and Mr. Parish, his wife, s, and a child were seriously hurt, it | Accompanying the severe wind in I every instance, was a rain storm of unusual severity ..id ;is a result several towns in eastern Nebraska are tlood?d. The financial loss has tieen heavy and estimates place it at several hundred thousand dollars. One of the most severe storms was a l)avey, a small town northwest ol Lincoln which resulted in the injury if thirteen persons, none fatally. Several persons, however, sustained | broken limbs. The report received | from there states that every dwelling j md outbuilding in the town was: wrecked. The stonn Lincoln did ! k'reat damage, tlie loss on building j lieiiitf estimated at $100,000. A NEW SLAVERY \ sii.li in U'l.hd. ' iii That State. At the request of the department <>f lustiee. the foiled States service has i nidcrtaken the work of investij.Mt.ifi; the charge of peonage, or holding toother in servitude to work out a iebt, which has been made against i persons living in the vicinity of Montgomery, Ala. The punishment provided by the st it lite fur this eriov: is , i line of not less than *1.000 nor m re | Jian *5.000 or imprisoiiment of not ess than one year nor more than live, i, Otic man named Uoliert N. frank- | j in has already b en indicted fur keep- j ng a negro in servitude for at least a , rear. Information in the hands of' ( Jhief Wilkie tends to show* that a regular system has been practical for , i long time between certain rnagis- ( : rates and persons who want negro ( a borers. It. is said that the plan i> to bring a poor negro before a magistrate on a| llmsy charge, lie is convicted, and laving no money to pay a tine, the white man offers t<> advance him the noney, provided tlie negro will make 1 i labor contract witli him for a length ; if time sufficient to reimburse him for' die money and trouble lie has taken to <eep tiie negro out of Jail. j, He is thereupon taken away and be- , jins what is frequently a long term of rruel servitude, being frequently whipped for failure to perform work , ?o tiie satisfaction of his employer. \n agent of tlie secret service, who is low on the ground, will make ai thorough investigation of the whole illeged system and turn over to the United States attorney for that district ull information lie may secure with a view to the prosecution <of offenders. ( Buttle Wllti Striker*. 'i The lirst serious outbreak sirJee ate strike order was issued evernl days the strikers at that print ' lave been making an ctlurt to'induce ! be non-union men to join their, r inks, j iVedncsd.iy evening the strikers be- ' ran marching in a txidy towarci lite : nines. The guards on duty, half a ' lozen in number, at sight of the ( narching body opened lire. The ' Inkers quickly returned tlie lire, but 1 us l hey were at long range the shoot- ' ug was not effective and only one per- ' on, Marshall Iirown, and a guard, ' vas killed in battle. Several received ' ninor injuries. Iirown was shot ? ,hrough the stomach, the bullet be- 1 ng from a Winchester and he lived',' nit a short time. More than 1001 ihots were tired before the strikes repeated. More trouble is anticipated, i More IluNcalily. The Philippines are having their jostal scandals as well as Washington, l'wo cases were reported by mail to die war department Wednesday. One is that of former Postmaster Milne, it Taeluban, Levte, who is accused * :iot only of taking $2,000 current coin >f tile United States, hut even the 100 pound safe which is supposed to have contained I lie money. Postmaster Karclscn of Calamha, Luzon, is also under arrest. Some time ago $2,000 , disappeared from the mails between the hour it left his office and when it diouid have reached Manila. Treas- ! urer Jones of the province of Tariaco, likewise reports robbery. He says he has been losing from to ' a month. His books are all right, but tin- balance in the cash drawer comes short regularly. l>ccapititt?Ml II i in. A special from Newcastle, Wyo., savs: W. V. Clifton, murderer of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Church, lynched by a mob from Gillette Wednesday night. i iiv jiiuu uaiiurcu mmii uiu dim uuui, i holding up the sheriff and deputy the while, and hung Clifton to a bridge west of town. Chi ton's head was cut off by the fall of 40 feet. John W. i Church and his wife, who lived on a! homestead claim 7."> miles southwest of Newcastle, were never seen aliv. after March 14 last. Clifton, whose ranch adjoined t hat of Church, was j arrested on suspicion and on April 17 he confessed that he had killed Mr. and Mrs. Church. Their bodies were found at the place indicated by him. 1 Clifton claimed he bad killed the couple in self-defense. Killed liy (iIkIiUiIiik. During a heavy rain and thunder storm Tuesday night on St. Helena island an electric bolt entered the shanty of Posey Davis, an aged negrcss, and killed ner while she was near an open window. Her bedding was also torn. A small girl who was asleep on another bed in the room remained unconscious during the storm and was unhurt. On awakening Wednesday morinng she found the woman dead on the lloor. Five IIoIiocm Perish. it is now reported that in addition to the eight train bands who were killed in Southern railway freight : wreck at Iiryan, Ala., Wednesday live I tramps, four colored and one white, I were killed Their bodies were burned. A DEATH TRAP jj In Ihe State House Declares a Special Investigatiin Committee. RECENT WORK IS DEFECTIVE, j f P The (iovrrnor in Ur^'il to Have j ^ the Whole ISusIik'sh Torn t Out anil New System Inaugurated. 8 The State house indeed on tains a deathtrap. Its bisotociit is polluted j, with foul ami p ?i.-oiious gases which j, find their way into the ottlces of cer- p tain otlleials. as rep tried in The State j, recently, and the State will he put to j. siune expense to correct the evils. w This condition of affairs was ? brought to t he att? ntion of the secrelaiv of .-late tvenlly and lie referred u the matter t<> thegovernor. The lat- a Ler asked a special committee to in- (j v. si igatc t he alleged dangerous con- 'i jitkns. and t lii s commit to submitted y I's report to the governor Friday. I It was charged in the outset that p t<uthe plumbing and sewer pipes p in fite hasinent were in a had state of p repair, y t the committee found that jj lliev.jlk ri'Colltlv tillislipd under t ho riiic-t ion of Architect Milburn is w Id ii.nl shape. The members of the ; | L'oiDiu.itee were men who arc entirely disinterested: Dr. T. (Jrange Simons Charleston, president of the State boaru of health: I)r. James r vans, seen tary of that hoard; Dr. J. W. Muiicock and Mr. IT X. (luntcr, at- (l torney general and the legal adviser of the State board of health. This committee not only condemns the sanitary arrangements, but calls attention to the heating apparatus w iieh distribute* air through the o' building in the winter. Thisair.it is si shewn in the report. is not tit and p some changes arc necessary. The h h (Asia Lure refused to make an appro- it t>riation for a heating apparatus, but > something must be done next winter, rt '1 he governor has no funds with which to undertake this work and ri may tie forced to !?orrow ttic money S with which to meet the expense of w tearing out the rotting piping and h the now useless and tiltli hiding ri false walls in the basement. w tl new wo uk condemned. The commit tee regretted that they F found yni yh to v, mdemn. "The whole E ^ B^amttheworkhwlom^e he direction or Mr. Milburn the tl eport says: ri "The urinals under the new porticos were choked up and the Hushing appar- tl it us defective; the ventilating shaft p< s too small and its frequent change in >f direction should he made by gentle hi urves and not by sharp angles; the et ventilation of the toilet room Is de- Tc fective: the fresh air inlet at side c< >f steps showed no current of air upon h ighted candle; we could discover no h back venting or the water closets on recount of concealed plumbing: the le reducing couplings of water pipes in- V heated inferior plum ting."' d OLD WOUK A DKATIl THAI'. In regard to the conditions in the n basement, work done about 13 years n ago, the committee says: "All rooms in cellars were foully 1 kept, ill smelling, and showed lack of .( ventilation. The room used as a water closet now used as a store room for old records were dark, damp and foul , smelling and their air shafts vented f. their gases into the rooms above. "In these rooms nothing seems to have been done except to remove the bowls of the old water closets, leaving [ the soil pipe connections as dead ends ' imperfectly plugged. "Concealed plumbing prevented , careful scrutiny of work under lloors. 'l "The private water closet on first ! Hour above basement was tilled with , l'oul air which is discharged into the main corridors and no fresh airringress ^ was provided for. The Hush to the " closets was iusutlicient. "A dead wall was behind the , eastern water closet in which iron | grating were placed for ventilation, drawing air from the interior of Llio building. Open tvad pipes supposed!! to be back vents discharged into the ! i same space." I IIKATINO AlT'AHATl'S. t As to the heating apparatus the 1 committee reported: "Air supply totally inadequate and !' derived from the basement with no j 1 direct outside fresh air intake, the j 1 wlmle central cellar being dependent!' frii't'iii* cunnlir nn 1 tun umttll Hntirt; fit I 1 nupyij v.. Ktrwxw nuiuii "Win ?*t- , cast and west ends. < "The entire cellar was without 1 tlooring and very dusty. "Therefore, ;iU air distributed to I the building; was cellar air and conlaminaled. with dust and ground | emanations." UKCHM MKNDATION. Upon l be above findings the comi unit tee made the followtng recommendations: i "That all water closets in the main ( ouiidinn wiih their pumbinK, pipes ind fixtures be immediately renewed and all connections leading to these I I .ixtures be cut otT outside the build ! inc. "Tliat the new waiter closets bo connected at once with the new cily : sewerage system. "That i he new water closets under the main steps north and south have j | special ventilation secured by electric or other appliance. "That all cellars and passage ways in the basement be thoroughly cleansed and afterwards floored with asphalt or cement. "Tli?t independent outside fresli air : ntakes lie provided fur the furnace ixims and basements. 4,We would urgently recommend hat au experienced sanitary engineer ie employed to devise a proper system f heating, veutHating and pumhing lie iiuildiiig." 'i'lie committee txpresfed liieir obllation to Assistant Surgeon CJeneral I. I), fieddings or the United States nblic hcaltti and marine hospital ervlce, who made the inspection with hem, for valued suggestions made in he preparation of the report. SEW Kit MAIN STOPPED UP. The report of the commission subtantiates tlie reports made by saninry inspectors recently. Mr. Stalligs, an expert plumber and sanitary ispector, and Mr. Kilt ns. the sanitary ispcet?>r for the city of Columbia, radically covered the same ground 1 their reports. In addition Mr. idens calls attention to a matter upon hicli the committee was not called pou to investigate: "Your sewer from the building to tic river is now completely stopped nd discharging its foul contents into ie open gutters or Gervais street, 'his is a dangerous condition of lin^s and vanls immcdia'e remedy. respect fully recommend that the hitnhing in the State house be over- , auled and made to conform to the luinhing laws of the city and ttiat lie system bo connected with the initarv sewers in Gervais street, here it will bo systematically Hushed ad inspected."?The State. GREAT DAMAGE I Y FLOODS. ivcr Two TI1011<<U11<I People Ho.in;- ' lens In Toprku, Khh. The State of Kansas is suffering jrril.y from u great flood. At b.30 clock Friday night ttie water had jrrounded t Ire whole of North Tocku and more than 2,000 people are oincless. The river Is rising fast ar.d , is estimated tliat fully 10,000 will e homeless. The Union Pacific rail- 1 jad station Is Hooded. Late Friday afternoon the Kansas iver bridges at Maple Hill, Kossville, ilvcr Lake, Uellevue and St. George : 'ere waslied out. The new steel 1 ridge at YVIIlfrid is damaged beyond spair and at Topeka the street rail'ay is useless. Several hundred catle have been drowned. Fifteen inches of water in Abilene 'riday night and more Saturday.: justness houses are collapsing and the j ie Hood on the north side ver. The conditions in "'Little Russia,"' 1 ie Russian settlement in North To- ' ika, are serious. The entire settlelent Is under water and a current as started through the district. Sev al houses already are twisted on t heir mndations and they probably will jllapsc. Every family has had its ' uusehold goods damaged and some 1 ave lost everything. Thirteen inches of water have fal- ! n in Clark's creek valley in the past 1 welvc hours. The whole valley Is esolated. Many houses in Skiddy i rere washed away, and crops are 1 uined. Two thousand feet of rail- j ay tracks in this vicinity were rashed out. So far as known, no ves were lost. The loss by Hood in Morris county ? estimated at * 1,000,000. Four peri?ns were drowned here Friday night, id ward Clements perished while eneavoring to save hisdaughter. Ralph! 'hillipps. while trying to rescue a lit- ! le girl named Woods, was drowned nth her. A baby was found dead in lie Missouri Facitic yard. Slacking 1 ime set tire to the M. 11. Smith lum- ; icryard, which was burned together rit.h the Fanners anil Drovers bank nd llobbin's drug store, the loss be- I ng $.">0,000. The big Main street ridge over the Meosho river went: lown. All the business houses were looded. Miles of Missouri l'acitic and ] rllssouri, Kansas and Texas tracks! vere washed out. More than 100' louses are under water and 20 have I loatcil away. T?> lit' Drought Hack. After lieing out of the state six i noullis, II. L. Lloyd, of Darlington.! las been arrested in Texas and will lie irouglit back to this state to stand rial for the forgery of a promissory Kite to the amount of $162 on the People's bank of Darlington. Lloyd, t is alleged, on November IS. 1902, 'urged a note in the name of his brother, W. c. L'oyd, E. F. Story ind other parties and the bank cashier, knowing Llovd. naid out the monev it once. When it was found that the note was a forgery, which was not until it became due, thirty days afterwards, Lloyd had left the state, lie was located in Texas and the authorities in that state no titled to look out for him. A ('omiiiK lteform. The legislatures of twenty-one states have passed resolutions in favor of tlte election ot I'nted States senators by the people. Unquestionably popular sentiment has grown very strongly in recent years in favor of removing the election of United States senators from Lite state legislatures. The purchase of senatorships I?v millionaires and tlie deadlocks which have left states without representation in tlte senate, have created strong dissatisfaction with piesent methods. Instantly Killed. G. U. ltusscll of Greenville was killed in Union by the explosion of a soda fountain in the drugstore of II. L. Scaiie X Son. lie had gone to Union for tile L. L. liar re company to dt some plumbing. MANY LIVES LOST And the lown of Malazherd, Totally Destroyed by Earthquake ' \y A MOST AWFUL OCCURREHCB. j *'-7 ? A .Military Officer lteconie? Innaii* v v. Over the The Umh ol HI* * Futility. Other Particular!* - 1 W of ttie Disauter. A dispath from Washington says Vice Consul OJalvo, at Erzrura. Turkey. reports to the state department tli.it a:i tartJiiiimkp in the Mnt/m nt Melazherd, district of Bltlls, oo the 29th ult., caused the death of 500 people and left the city In ruins. The . shock was strongly felt In Krzrum, a < journey of 38 hours, and threw the 4 people Into a panic. Many of them turned their stables, which are built level with the ground, Into deeping apartments for greater security. PLACED AT TWO THOUSAND. A dispatch from Constantinople says advices which reaehed there Wednesday from Asiatic Turkey show that a terrible earthquake occurred April 2!) at Melazherd, in the vilayet of Van so miles southeast of Krzrum, on the Kuphrates. The town was totally destroyed, with its entire population, numbering 2,000 souls, including 700 Armenians, as well as the troops forming the garrison of Melazherd. In addition over 400 Souzcs in neighboring villages collapsed. A GARRISON WIPED OUT. A dispatch from London says the foreign office here received some details from the British consul .at Arerum regarding the recent earthquake at Melazherd, according to which & strong earthquake, lasting 30 seconds, was felt in the morning of April 29 throughout the entire district between Lake Van and the Russian frontier and as far west as Kharput. The town of Melazherd, consisting of 500 houses, was destroyed and much havoc was wrought in the surrounding village. Col Khalil Bey, commanding the garrison of Melazherd, with his whole family, three officers and 80soldiers, perished in the ruins. Lieut. Col, Taybld Bey, whose family was lost, A telegraph [| operator who sent the news uf the cat lhjcii mi1l-u. i iii 11111 m. 11 iiiiii i wp pealed for subscriptions for the relief >f the destitute Mohammedans and Christians of the Mcl&zherd district. Jumped in a Chimney. The Atlanta Journal says Ira Davis, about 35 years of age, who has been working on Itev. It. II. Smith's farm near Gainesville, Ga., fora number of years, was brought to thiB city and lodged in llall county jail for safe keeping. The negro is affected with a peculiar form of insanity, supposed to have been produced by the extremely hot weather. Wednesday night he was suffering from the delusion that bloodhounds were on bis trail, and began a wild race for life and liberty, which ended in one of the most remarkable captures on record. For a mile he ran, disrobing as he ran and throwing articles of clothing along his path pieceby piece, until he was entirely nude. He reached the two-story dwelling of W. II. Howington about fl o'clock, after part of the family had retired for the night, lie scaled the chimney by climbing up the lightning rod and mounting the roof, jumped down the chimney. The fall was a distance of 25 l'eet or more, and he landed on some boards which had been placed in the tireplace. With great difficulty he was extricated and drawn out the top of the due by means of a rope, and he was found to bo terribly skinned and bruised, but calm and willing to be taken in charge. The Mystery Solved. ^ City detectives claim to have un raveled the mystery of the $7,000 robbery of the union depot ticket : office in Birmingham, Ala., which oocurred May 10. As a result two young men, one of them being the I sou of J. M.lMbb, superintendent of bridges and buildings of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, have been arrested and are now lu Jail. ^ No one will t>e allowed to sec them ^ and not even the name of the second man arrested can be ascertained. It is claimed that the robbery was accomplished by boring a hole through j tire ceiling over tire ticket office from A a vacant room on the second floor of fl the union depot, and through this fl hole the robbers looked with a magni- w fying glass and watched the employees a of that office work the safe corftblna* B tion. It is said that on the. night of ! the robliery they entered the office while the night ticket seller was asleep ^ and worked the safe combination. I A 4'oliiiiihlu Hanging. The execution of Winter Cantey in Columbia last Friday was very quietly done. He was hanged for murdering a Ell/.a Ker-haw. lie made no outcry and mounted the scaffold without any assistance, after having pasaed a morning ana ntgnc witn ooiorea preachers calmly, lie ate, as Is the r practice of murderers sentenced to be - banged, a hearty breakfast, and passl ed a comparatively quiet morning. In fact he seemed to be very much mora i at rest and peace titan some other* > prisoners in the Jail. Caotey and his victim were both colored. .