The people. (Camden, S.C.) 1904-1911, June 02, 1904, Image 1
VOL. I. NO. 18.
CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 2, 1904.
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Wilkesbarre, Pa., (Special). ? A
telegram received at the Susquehanna
Coal Company's offices in this city
states that ten miners were suffocated
by gas and sulphur fumes from a
small locomotive in the workings of
the Summit Branch Coal Company at
Williamstown, Dauphin county.
The accident waa one of the most
peculiar in the history of the anthra
cite mines, and no reason for it can
be assigned by the officials.
The victims include Michael Gol
den, general inside foreman of the
company, and nine miners and
laborers.
The tunnel in which the disaster
occurred is one mile in length and is
used by the coal company to convey
the coal mined in the workings of
the Bear v;?lljy to the breaker in the
Williams valley. The men employed
in the mines iii the Boar valley who
reside in Williamstown have made a
firactice for years to rid?* to and
rom their work on the trips of cars
that are hauled between the two val
leys by small locomotives.
About 4 o'clock in the afternoon
General Inside Foreman Golden and
about fifty miners hoarded a loaded
trip whicii was about to be hauled
from Bear valley to Williamstown.
Everything went all right until
about half of the journey was made,
when some of the men attracted the
attention of the engineer, who at once
stopped, and it was found that nearly
every man in the party on the cars
had been overcome by the gas and
sulphur which emanated from the
stack of the locomotive and floated I
back over them.
The engineer at oncc crowded on I
all the steam possible, and the un- 1
conscious men were hurried to the j
Williamstown end of the tunnel. Here
help was at once summoned and the
men were taken to the surface, where
a corps of physicians made every pos
sible effort to resuscitate them, but
aid came too late for Foreman Gol
den and the other victims.
The tunnel has been in constant
operation for more than forty years,
and this is the first accident of any
kind that has happened in it. It is
perfectly free from mine gases and the
ventilation is so perfect and the air
current so *strong and steady that
besides being ? usod *foe"4?afc|j^g
the tunnel has formed one of the in
takes that furnish air to the mines.
No trouble has ever been ex
perienced before from gas from the
# small mine locomotives, and the offi
cials are entirely at sea as to the cause
?f the tragedy.
TYNER AND BARRET INNOCENT.
Jury Brought la Verdict of Not Uailty Twenty
Two Minutes After Retiring.
Washington, I). (Special). ? |
Within twenty-two minutes of fllie
retirement of the jury in the ease of
James N. Tyncr and Harrison J. Bar-!
rett, tried on charges of conspiracy in
connection with their duties as law
officers for the postofficc department,
a verdict of not guilty was returned.
The throng which filled the court
room throughout the argument to the
jury hardly had time to leave the
building before the jury was back and
the foreman announced that a verdict
had been reached. General Tyncr. ex
pecting a much longer wait, had been
wheeled from the room, and his
nephew and codefcndant hastened to
give an order which caused him to
return.
General Tyncr appeared greatly ex
cited as he attempted to face the jury,
and- when the verdict was returned he
broke down completely. Several of
the jurors wept with him and all of
them shook hand with him.
FLAO OF LEWIS AND CLARK.
Official Symbol Chosen for Exposition at
Portland.
Portland, Ore .(Special). ? An offi
cial flag for the Lewis and Clark Ex
position has heen adopted. The de
sign i< in four colors ? red, white,
blue and \ ellow ? symbolical of Eng
land, France, Russia and Spain, the
countries which first sent exploring
expedition* to the great Northwest.
The yellow also firings out the Ori
ental feaurc of the Exposition.
The lari^e field is of bright yellow,
crossed by red hars, with the ov,eial
symbol of the Exposition, Sacaja-' ??
leading I.ewis and Clark to the West
in the center. The small li.-ld i* of
blue. In the center is a spray of < )re
gon grape, the State flower of Orc^"*'
Around this arc five "stars, repre
senting Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Wyoming and Montana, the States
of old Oregon.
Shot (lnards and Killed Himself.
Columbus, O., (Special). ? I'rank
Green, a convict at the Ohio Peniten
tiary, shot Guards Henry Gearhart
and Albert Ilublcr and then killed
himself. Gearhart is shot through
both lungs and cannot live. Ilubler is
shot in the arm and will recovcr. No
one knows the cause of the tragedy
or where Green procured the revolv
er He laid in wait for his victims,
and without a word fired on them.
Two Qirls Drowned.
Steubcnville, O., (SpccialV ? A dou
ble drowning occurred in Itig Yellow
Creek at llammondsvillc. The dead
are Annie IMatt, aged t.j years, and
Sadie Hardie, aged 1 2 years. It is not
fully known how the drowning oc
curred, but the girls are supposed t'>
have gone wading in the stream, as
they had their shoes otY when found.
It is probable they ventured out too
far and were swept away by the swift
current. The bo-Jies were recovered.
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caused a stir several' wl u crank who
tlie White Hoiw* f amoi,?
suicide in Minneapolis.10' ^mmit.ed
David Rothschild, the New Vrti-L- I
was sentenced* to
state prison """ >'cars '?> the
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?f (>4 soldiers who died ?! the l-in' .'
I ippines.
| Steve Iloltrich was killed and lii -4 ,
! three cousins injured in a fight at '
tlieir shanty, at fenola, Pa
Nine persons were seriously injur- j
ed in a head-on collision on the Bos- j
ton F.levaicd Railway.
Richard C. Dale, a prominent Phil- j
adclphia lawyer, died at his home, j
in Chestnut Hill.
The concluding session of the i
World's Press Parliament and the j
opening of the session of the Inter- 1
national Order of Machinists were
j held on the World's hair grounds. ,
Joseph Humphreys, for 10 years j
| general stage manager for Charles |
I Frohman, died on the American Line
( steamship St. Louis of consumption. )
j John Kedcay and John Horst were'
killed and John I). Weaver was in- 1
jured by an explosion of dynamite 1
in a stone quarry near Lancaster. Pa.
Frank Davis, colored, under sen- j
I tence of death in Fdensburg. Pa. f >r i
I the murder of Laura Taylor, confess
j cd that he also killed Susie BattL's.
The flagship Kentuckey, with Ad
: ? ? : ral Evans 011 board, which left
1 achat for New York May 1 2, ar
ri' ed at New York afiJr a record
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Foreign.
A dispatch to the Paris Temps from ,
St. Petersburg says General Kuropat
kin has cut the land communications
! between the armies of General Kuroki J
! and Oku.
Of the complement of the cruiser
Yoshiuo. recently stink in collision j
with the cruiser Kastu 1, (?,i noncom
missioned orticers and j-jo blue-jacket ?
were drowned.
Russian officials declare that the Si
berian porta opened by imperial decree
will not 4be closed upon the conclusion
of the war.
The French government has with
drawn M. de Navenne, minister to
the Vatican, as well as M. Nisard, the
ambassador and the rupture between
France and the Holy See is further
increased.
Morris Klciman, the naturalized
American who was arrested in Rus
sia, has been set free.
A German newspaper states that the
recent fire in a Cronstadt warehouse
was started by corrupt Russian of
ficials to conceal the fact that num
bers of uniforms officially scheduled
' among the naval stores there never
I existed.
COSSACKS WORRY JAPS
S?ae UtaIj Skiraiskiag ta thelitis
tf lUadnria.
JAPANESE AIE FEEUN? T1EII WAT.
Tw? HaadrH CmmcIu RmIH at TMlMkn,
L cartas z? Dw4 ? the FkM? KarayatUa
Reports a Japaaesc Mncacal WcstwaNljr
Altai Km Halcbcaf Road. Six Miles From
Fcag Waag Cheat
Liaoyang, (By Cable). ? There is
contiual skirmishing between the Rus
sian cavalry and the Japanese. Cos
sacks are harrassing the Japanese in
the hills and byroads, generally driv
ing them back. Several recent en
gagements have resulted in losses on
both sides.
The general plan of the Japanese
has not been divulged. They are
apparently making time, awaiting the
arrival of reserves from Korea, who
have been delayed owing to the im
passability of the roads.
Apparently there is good warrant
for the belief that General Kuropatkin
has a strong line extending south from
Liaoyaug and west of Haicheng pro
tecting an advance upon Kaichou and
Niuchwang
The Chinese report the destruction
of another Japanese batttleship off
Port Arthur, but the report is uncon
firmed and is not credited. Several
Japanese who lauded from the junks
near Port Arthur and started toward
trtie town with the intention of
dynamiting the docks were captured
and shot.
General Kuropatkin has just in
spected seven new city mates, which
will enable the garrison to more easily
concentrate and meet an attack on any
side.
Natives have brought in news from
Feng Wang Cheng that cholera in a
particularly virulent form has broken
out among the Japanese troops. In
some cases death has occurred within
three hours.
A report has been received from
Xiuchwang saying that on May iX,
five battalions of Japanese troops
reconnoitered to the south almost as
far as Kinchou and ran into Major
General Fock's artillery, which was
strongly posted on the heights, in a
narrow section of the l.iaotung Penin
sula, and that the Japanese were en
tirely wiped out. The report lacks
confirmation.
It is reported from a Chinese source
that the Japanese have evacuated Feng
Wang Cheng, and are occupying vil
lages in the surrounding territory.
There is no explanation of this move,
thatf gn&'fthah? be onto
nccted with the prevailing cholera
epidemic.
A Defeat tor Cossacks.
T*okio, (By Cable). ? General Kuroki
reports that a section of Japanese in
fantry encountered and defeated 200
Cossacks at Toutaokou, eight miles
northeast of Kuanpticn. The Cos
sacks tied to Aiytiang Pienmcn,
leaving 20 dead. The Japanese sus
tained no losses.
Additional details of the fight at
Wang Chiitun, near Takushan, May
20. indicate that the squadron of Cos
sacks was almost annihilated by the
Japanese infantry, which surrounded
and completely routed the enemy. All
the Russian officers were killed,
wounded or captured. Natives report
that some of the Cossacks escaped on
foot, abandoning their equipment.
Many killed and wounded were found
on the battlefield.
Tried to Turn Russian Flank.
St. Petersburg, (By Cable). ? The
following dispatch from General Kuro
patkin to the Kmperor, dated May 2.t.
was received:
"'Our cavalry outposts 011 May 22
and May 2,t observed a movement of
| a portion of the Japanese forces west
wardly along the Haichcng road, near
! tlie village of Daliandiaputse, six
| miles from Feng Wang Cheng.
| "On May 21. a Japanese detachment.
I consisting of six companies of in
[ fantry and three squadrons of cavalry,
! attacked some sotnias of Cossacks on
I the height* on the right bank of the
j Sed/.i River, near the Village of
Poouteikha. When the engagement
began the Japanese cavalry remained
I under cover, and the infantry, which
declined to cross the valley, main
tained a distant and almost harm
less fire without sparing ammunition.
A small party unsupported tried to
cross the river for the purpose of
1 turning our left flank, but was driven
back by the charge of half a sotnia of
| Cossacks, and the fire of the sotnia
occupying tin: heights. % Toward even
| ing the Japanese retired. Our losses
| were to Cossacks wounded.
"Details of the engagement May 20
and 21 at Sitkhoutchind/a have not
yet been ascertained."
.The prevailing opinion at the head-]
quarters of the general staff is that
the withdrawal of the Japanese upon
Peng Wang Cheng means that the
enemy has decided to devote himself
primarily to operations against Port
| Arthur, and that the present object of
General Kuroki, with the first army,
I supported I >? General Nadya, with the
Shan, i* t>? watch General Kuropatkin
and prevent a move southward which
would take General Oku and the sec
ond army, on the Liaotung Peninsula,
in the rear.
A direct attack upon General Kuro
patkin'"* main force apparently is not
considered to be impending. Noth
ing more than outpost affairs are an
ticipated. although some of these may
be quit sanguinary.
Infernal Machine la Refinery.
Watikegan. III., (Special). ? A care
fully made infernal machine was found
Monday in the yards of the big War
ner sugar refinery and the police are
convinced an attempt was made to
blow up the factory. An explosion
followed by a $300,000 fire occurred
in the plant recently and it is now be
lieved it was incendiary. Four lives
were lost then and there would un
doubtedly have been more victims had
the bomb exploded.
Nearly 9I.OOO.OW Messages.
According t<? a bulletin issued by tbc
Census Bureau 90,844,789 telegraphic
messages were sent over American
wires in 1902.
The bulletin places the number of
telegraph companies in the country at
21 and gives the total mileage of wires
operated as i.24K,(x)2. The par value
of the authorized stock was $90,870,
225. The gross income for the year
was $28,490,210. The total dividends
for the year amounted to $6,084,019
and the net surplus to $2,977,812. The
capitalization of the Postal Company,
which is only $100,000, being merely
nominal, is excluded from the total
capitalization as given by the bulle
tin.
Virgioia Company's Claim.
Attorneys representing to Bon
sack Company, of Virginia, have ap
pealed to the State Department to
prefer a claim against the Mexican
government for $7,500,000 and the case
is under consideration, with the pros
pects that it will be referred to Am
bassador Clayton for preliminary re
port.
The company's claim is based upon
the use by Mexican companies of its
patents for manufacturing cigarettes,
and. it is alleged, the Supreme Court
of Mexico has denied justice in this
matter.
Leaving Brazil's Coffee Fields.
The Senate committee at Rio, Bra
zil, reports to the State Dcparment
that the station laborers, who consti
tute half of the workers on the coffee
plantation in San Paulo are leaving
Brazil for the United States because
they arc not paid their wages, owing
t<> the depressed state of coffee-grow
ing interests.
To Condemn l.and for Senators.
I The Senate committee appointed
during the last session of Congress
to supervise the construction of
a new ofticc building for Sena
tors decided to proceed to the con
demnnation of the land necessary for
the structure. This process is made
necessary by the refusal of sonic of
the owners of property to sell.
Congressional and Departments.
Chief Wilkie, of the Secret Service,
reports tlf. arrest of three person ac
cused of smuggling opium between
Seattle and Portland.
The diet kitchen of the Department
of Agriculture li a - been suspended for
the summer months.
The State Department has been ad
vised of the appointment of Morteza
Khan as Persian minister to the
United States.
The State Department has instruct
ed Consul Gumtncrc to demand of
the Moorish government that it takes
the Moorish government that it take
sweeping measures to secure the re
lease of Ion Perdicaris, the Amcrtaan
citizen captured by brigands, even it
necessary to acceed to the captors'
terms. Admiral Chadwick will receive
orders to proceed to Tangier with the
whole South Atlantic Squadron.
The board of trustees of the Carne
gie Institution effected a reorganiza
tion under the new incorporation as
the Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton.
LIVE WASMCTVM AFFAIR
Otjicti ? ? mUtotr.
To the regret of the officials here
the Colombian government maintains
it* attitude of coldness toward the
United States, and in spite of the un
official efforts of United States rep
resentatives to restore the diplomatic
relations to the old cordial basis, the
Bogota government insists on holding
aloof.
It was supposed that when Mr. W.
YV. Russell, a native of Rockville.
Md., and charge at Panama, was ap
pointed Minister to succeed Mr. Ar
thur M. Beaupre at Bogota the past
would be forgotten and with new rep
resentation for the United States 111
Colombia Dr. Thomas Herran would
return to Washington, and there would
be full restoration of the diplomatic
relations. Now, however, the State
Department has learned that an inti
mation had been conveyed to Mr. Sny
der, United States charge at Bogota,
that the Colombian government would
rather not receive Mr. Russell as min
ister. It is distinctly stated that there
is nothing personal to Mi*. Russell in
this attitude by the Colombians, for
any minister would be objectionable
at this moment, but it is simply an il
lustration of the resentment felt by
Colombia toward the United States.
It s said at the State Department that
Mr. Russell wilt avail himself of a
leave of absence already granted to
him to return to his home in Wash
ington, and at the expiration of the
legal time, if the Colombians are in
the same state of mind, another, and
perhaps better, diplomatic post will
be found for Mr. Russell.
Aaerlca Win Wars.
The State Department is preparing
to make representations to St. Peters
burg regarding the carelessness of the
Russian authorities in Manchuria in
allowing mines to float on the high
seas, to the great danger of all peace
ful shipping.
The question of how far Russia had
violated the rules of international law
in sending floating mines to sea with
out proper guardianship was recently
considered by the General Board of
the Navy, of which Admiral George
Dewey is president, at the request
of the State Department. At the
same department's request Secreary
of the Navy Moody has instructed
t lie United States naval attaches in
Tokio and St. Petersburg to ascer
tain definitely whether the mines
which have been reported afloat in the
Gulf of Pcchili belong to Russia or
to Japan. The inference is that they
are Russian, and when it is definitely
learned that such is the case repre
sentations will be made by the State
Department to the St Petersburg gov
ernment through Ambassador McCor
tnick.
It had been the intention of the au
thorities to wait until some accident
happened to a neutral ship through one
of these mines, but upon further con
sideration it has been decided best to
take action before any serious Catas
trophe occurs. In the meanwhile it is
understood that Great Britain is pre
. pared to take similar steps, and there
is also a possibility that Japan will
make representations to the neutral
nations in regard tr? the case.
YAZOO CITY BURNER
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DM htllag Witt FUacs.
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l?l>H Slacc Ike War? Caartkaasc Saved.
Jackson, Miss., (Special). ? AH the
business houses of any importance,
a large number of private residences,
the principal hotel and the passenger
depot in Yazoo City, a town of 6,000
people, forty-five miles from Jackson,
were destroyed by fire.
The fire started at 8.30 o'clock A.
M., and burned until 5 o'clock P. M.,
destroying a total of 200 houses.
The financial loss will be the
heaviest in the history of Mississippi
since the war, and has been estimated
to be from $1,250,000 to $2,000,000.
The fire was three blocks wide and
twelve long.
The city was putting in a new sys
tem of witer works and the old sys
tem, which had been wooden mains,
was wholly inadequate to meet the de
mands. Pipes burst all over the city |
and it was impossible to get the water, j
even to the first Hoors of buildings. |
The fire stated in the residence of !
Mr. Wise, and though there is some j
dispute as to how it originated, the j
general belief is that it was caused j
by defective electric wiring.
Early in the day the authorities of ;
Jackson were callcd on to render as- J
sistance, and did so by sending a hose- j
cart and one of the large engines, the j
run of forty-five miles being made in j
forty minutes. The Jackson firemen '
worked hard, but could do but little 1
good.
A man named Chambliss. a e.iti/.cn ;
of this place, was killed by falling j
walls, and Mayor Holmes was very 1
badly hurt. I
Among the homes destroyed was i
that of Hon. John Sharp Williams, i
the democratic leader in the lower
branch of Congress.
In the afternoon the fire jumped a j
bayou and reached Latonia, a r?-si- j
dcnce suburb, where it destroyed some '
of the finest homes.
Governor Vardaman ordered out the
flrecnwood militia company, directing
it to go to Yazoo City to protect prop
erty. He ami Adjutant General
Fridge followed on the next train
and are doing what,they can to relieve
tl|<? sttujtf ion?f ? V- ^ jr. #
The only communication with Yazoo
City is by means of a long distance tel
ephone which District Manager Naff
rigged upon a fence.
Among the buildings which were 1
not burned are the Yazoo courthouse '
and the Ricks memorial library. Both
were in the path of the fire, but for j
some reason escaped.
According to the latest advices re
ceived the banks succeeded in saving 1
their money and securities, the vaults j
of the banks in which they were lock - 1
ed being fireproof. The government |
funds in the postofTice were saved j
in a like manner. 1
Banker's Widow Commits Suicide.
LaPorte, Ind., (Spcci.il). ? Mrs. Ju
lius Conitz, wife of a Wanatah bank
er whose fortune was wrecked by rail
road speculation and who went West
and died in a hopeless effort to re
trieve his lost fortune, has committed
suicide at Wanatah by hanging her
self. The act was the result of de
spondency over the death of her hus
band and the loss of their fortune.
Sally's Assets. S4.II9.6Z7.
New York, (Special). ? The sched
ules of Daniel J. Sully & Co. were
filed in the United States District
Court. The show liabilities of $.1,
5(>d,0.?<> and assets of $4.1 19,027. < )f the
liabilities $1. 309,46.! is secured, $2,147.
960 unsecured and $50,000 of inorsed
paper which should have been paid
by others. The assets consist of notes
of $50,000 stock margins, $-'9,100 rep
resenting $1,298,250.
??Alkali Ike" Is Dead.
Grand Encampment, Wyo. (Special)
? Daniel Burrows, familiarly known
on the frontier as "Alkali Ike," ir, dead
in his cabin, near l'ort Steele. lie!
came to Wyoming 40 years ago from
Independence, Mo., and was a friend I
of I* ill Nye. As "Alkali Ike" he* was I
a well-known frontier character and
was with General Miles in many- of
his Indian fights.
Sbol Her Tormentor.
Indianapolis, I ml., (Special).? Jos- 1
epli Hastings, 45 years old, was shot1
j and killed by Mrs. Frank llicks, 831
Washington avenue. She says she
had known Hastings about two years. I
He came to see her this afternoon, she
says, and she could not make him go 1
away. She says he insulted her and
she got a revolver and li ?t him.
Kilted His Son and Himself. 1
Pasadena. Cal., (Special). ? Terrell
Thomas, local manager of a lumber j
I company, killed his eight-year-old j
son Paul, paralytic, by stabbing him |
in the back with a hunting knife, and
then took his own life, shooting him- '
self in the head. Thomas is supposed |
to have been temporarily insane.
Three Killed In Fight.
Myersdale, Pa , (Special) In a
dispute over dandelions at F.Ik Lick
mines, one mile east, three Italian
miners met dea'h and the fourth par- 1
ticipant escaped. An Italian named
I I.otiie was gathering dmdelions at
I dusk in the rear of a boarding hou?e
run by Dmninick Dill*. Hills ordered
Louie away, jestingly. Lottie cursed
Bills, at which Bills pulled a gun and
shot him. An unknown Italian inter
fered, taking Louie's part, shooting
Bills and hi* cousin. Samuel Bills, who
was coming alon* on a bicycle.
fab mum hunmsl
Aankaa PNiacti N?t F?i Stock W??th
KjUMyHt
Washington, D. C. (Special). ? The
Department of Agriculture has issued
a report on "The Nation's Farm Sur
plus," prepared by George K. Holmes,
chief of the division of foreign mar
ket. It gives $4,500,000,000 as a con
servative estimate of the value of the
farm products of this country not fed
to live stock in 1903. on the basis
of the census valuation. The value
of the exported farm products of this
country was, in 1903. $378,479,451. and
the highest value reached during the
last 11 years was $951,628,331 in 1901.
due chiefly to cotton. The value of
the exported farm products of this
country is concentrated mostly in a
few principal products. Of it in 1903
cotton constituted 36 per. cent., grain
and grain products 25 per cent., meat
and meat products and live animals
24 per cent., these product* equaling
I over 85 per cent, of the exports of
farm products last year. Adding to
bacco. whose exports were valued at
over $.<5,000,000. oil-cake and oil-cake
meal $19,839,270, fruit and nuts over
$18,000,000. and vegetable oils over
$16,000,000, gives a total of eight
classes of products, each with an ex
port value of over $ 1 0.000,000, that
comprises almost 96 per cent, of the
entire farm exports of 1903.
Within recent years, ending with
1903, the cotton export* have been be
tween three ami four millions of
pounds, and the exported fraction of
the crop lias been between (?2 and 71
per cent, for a long series of years.
The fraction of the wheat crop ex
ported in t lie last dozen years has
I been about 31 to 41 per cent . and the
exported wheat and wheat tlour have
I yearly averaged somewhat more than
200.000,000 bushels since t8o7. before
which period for many year- the quan
1 t it y was t'sually 5o.o<io.ooo to 100.
000,000 bushels less Only a small
portion of the corn or mai/.c crop is
exported as corn, the highest per
centage, 11 per cent., being for 1S98.
Notwithstanding the small percentage,
; the exported bushels reach 100,000.000
to joo.ooo.ooo. The beef exports
J weighed 3K3.000.000. pork exports 551,
000.000, lard exports 4<x>.ooo.ooo, oleo
| oil exports 126.000,000 pounds, and
tobacco 3(>S.ooo,ooo. Butter and cheese
exports have decidedly declined with
in two or three years.
'1 he report aUo takes up the com
petition of this country in foreign
markets, showing that this country
furnished 32 per cent, of the United
Kingdom's imports of farm products,
thus leading in these imports. The
United States has a long lead over
its competitors as a purveyor of meat
and meat products and live animals,
is likewise pre-eminently conspicuous
in the United Kingdom's .imports of
cereals and cotton, but is far behind
its competitors in dairy products. In
German imports the United States :
leads, with 22 per cent., in all farm ;
products. 58 per cent, iu cereals, fur- [
nishes barely three-quarters of 1 per
cent, of dairy products, contributes the
principal portion of imported maize,
two-fifths of the oil cake and oil-cake
meal, but is exceeded iu wheat-flour
supply by Austria-Hungary and makes
a bare showing in barley and only
little over 2 per cent, in fruits.
ENDED WITH A BULI.ET.
Suicide of ? Ruined Georgia FitMder ? Two
Banks Failed.
Macon, C.I., (Special). ? Robert H.
Plant. president of tin* First National
Hank and owner of the I. C. Plant's
Son Bank, both recently placed in the
hands of receivers, committed sui
cide on the back porch of his home
in College Street. He had been ill for
two months, during which time came
the collapse of his financial institu
tions, the oldest in the city. He had
told his nurse that he wished to lie
down. Twenty minutes later he ask
ed to be assisted to the bathroom.
This she did, and waited 15 minutes
I on the outside, when she heard a pis
tol shot. She rushed into the room,
but Mr. lTlaut was not there. The
bath room had two doors, one open
j inn upon the porch. There she found j
the capitalist with a ..iS-ealibcr pistol j
in his hau. I dead. The bullet had ,
passed through the right temple and!
out of the I ?ft. flattening itself upon
the wall. Death probably was in
stantaneous. The < "r >sier w is at once
summoned, and upon the te,t:ino^y of
the nurse and a phy-icrm a verdict of
death by his own hand* was rendered.
Mr. Plant leaves a wife and nine
children. Wallace Mcl'aw, presi
dent of the McCaw Manufacturing |
Company, :nd M. Felton Hatcher, a
prominent attorney, are sons-in-law. j
The I'I'int banking institutions arc
the oldest tu the city.
Mr, Plant. i : 1 audition fo being
identified with various manufacturing
enterprises and formerly largely en
I gaged with the New York Life Insur
| me* Company, wa> known throughout
the trofti:*; wor'd, and his h >rs'\s for
year.- have raced i:i the (irand Circuit.
1 '|e owned Cirattan l'?oy, l>t:lce Cor,
Miss Wil.amont and other well-known
horses.
George II. T'latif. viee-presi |en? of
'he 1 -" 1 r - 1 National, is a br >'!ier.
Has been Sleeping 24 Days.
M- 1 1 :. ??.il >, 111, (Special). ? The case
of Mrs. W. I?. Caldwell, wife of Dr.
W. H. CI idwell. is attracting the at
tention of physicians through "?ut Cen
tral Illinois, She h.is been ".leaping,
for 2 1 days and night?, and a 1 2 efY irfs
to awaken her have failed. She is '
much cma< iated and little I ?;>e of her
recovery is entertained.
financial.
? _
Western report-, arc all favorable
on the wheal crop.
I The Panama Canal payments, both
to France and Pan air. 1, arc completed. 1
Porto Rico wishes to borrow $5,000.- |
I 000. Another chance f ?r the Ameri- |
I cm investor.
It 1-. said fh*t 'he F.lkins e*ta?e i*
now trying t > market a very large*
block of Philadelphia Traction at 'f>
If Lehigh Valley d ?e?n'l get that j
1 dividend in July, those who ire pay-!
ing ,tS for the stock now wi'l b.' d:?- j
I ii)? liutcd.
DABiHTEt TELLS STORY!
of Late Ttjtar InnM tj
Ida 4e Ka j.
SAW FAUCI'S tEMAINS MSUDEH9L
Tto OW Related tkc Details at the DtapaaMaa
at tkc Body Wklck Were at tke Maat KtnU*
la( Ckaracter? Her Mather, Ska SaM, Cat
all Taytar'a Head Wltk aa Asa aad Pat It
la tke Stave.
Monticello, N. Y., (Spccial). ? Ida
May de Kay, daughter of Mrs. Kato
Taylor, who is undergoing a second
trial for the murder of her husband ?
Lafe Taylor ? told the story of the
killing of her step-father as witnessed
by herself.
In her testimony the girl aserted
that her uncle, Peter Yerkins, was at
the Taylor house on the night of tha
murder and assisted Mrs. Taylor in
dismembering the body. She testified
that she was awakened from sleep
by a shot. Going into the next room
she saw Taylor holding the door lead*
ing into the kitchen with one hand
an trying to pull on his boots with the
other. She saw her mother trying to
open the door in order to get at her
husband.
The witness said she went out on
the stoop for a few minutes. She told
I of hearing a second shot, and going
in saw he'r father's body on the floor
with her mother standing over it with
a revolver in her hand, which she tried
to tire again.
The girl related the details of the
disposition of the hod)', which were
of the nurtt revolting character. Her
mother, she said, cut off Taylor's head
with an .ix and put it in the stove.
Then the older woman took a lighted
lantern and swung it around three
limes from the doorway. Tim brought
Peter Yerkins to the house, t lie wit
ness continued. He asked if I .ate
was d?*ad :?nd received an affirmative
answer
Mrs. Taylor again took the ax and
tried t<> cut off one of Taylor's legs;
then laid the ax down before she
had succeeded. Yerkim took the ax
and finished cutting oft" the leg.
Ida says she went to bed and left
Yerkin> and her mother together with
the body. When she arose the next
morning Yerkins had disappeared and
her mother was still burning the body.
At the previous trial tt was brought
out that Mrs. Taylor cut up the trunk
of the bodv and put it in a cloth sack
and placed the sack in a wash tub.
which was put in the cellar. Mrs.
Taylor took the ashes and bones from
the stove and pounded up the bones
and fed them to the chickens. The
skull was not burned' and it was
brought back to the house and put ia
the stove :<gain.
SEVEN BLOWN TO DEATH.
Plvc Others So Seriously lojored That Tbeir
Recovery is Impossible.
Findlay, ()., (Special). ? As a result
of an explosion in the two drying
rooms of the Lake Shore Novelty
Company's plant here, seven person*
arc known to be dead, fivo are so
seriously hurt that recovery is believ
ed to be impossible and twelve or fit
teen arc injured badly.
From reports of the physicians tea
of the less seriously injured may die
an a result of blood poinsoning from
the potash that was driven into their
bodies.
The Lake Shore Novelty Company
works covered nearly ten acres o?
ground in the southwestern yart of the
city and employed nearly 200 men.
women and children. Railroad torpe
does and Fourth of July explosives
were manufactured.
Owing to the large rush of orders
the official-* of the plant requested the
employes to report for duty Sunday.
About thirty complied with the re
quest.
Sunday morning the residents of
Findlay were startled by two explo
sions that shattered windows through
out the city. The concussion was felt
for miles aroun I. Two magazines, in
separate rooms at the novelty works,
let go simultaneously with terrific re
ports. The exact cause of the explo
sion is not definitely known. It is
surmised that one of the Sherwood
brothers, who were the only persons
in the drying rooms, dropped a large
box of torpedoes, but this theory can
not !>?? confirmed.
The explosion occurred shortly be
fore the employes assembled for duty,
At least twenty persons were on their
way to the factory when the ex-'
plosion occurred.
Human forms were strewn consid
erable distance s apart on the fvtory
site. The remains of the Sherwood
brothers were found in drying room
No. 1 mangled and almost unrecog
nizable. Their clothing was blown
from their bodies, save a stocking on
the right foot ? >f Jay Sherwood.
The body of Kdith I>illon was pick
ed up two hundred yards from whero'
the explosion occurred.
The news of the e ato strophe spread;
like wildfire throughout the country.;
Kvery train and int-rurban car that
has arrived in the city for the past ten
hours was crowded The ! i; g ? plant'
is shattered into fragments, not one
single wail rcma:uing llri'ks and'
timber can he found for half a milo^
around.
Ten KillcJ oa Ore!.
London. ( l?y fable). The Si. Pe-.
ter-bnig < ?re*p?n -lent of the Central
News civs was damaged, and it will
take weeks to effect repairs. The ex
plosion, according to the disp-iteh,
was the result of an accumulation of
gas in the bunker-.
Man BuriwJ to Death.
Vineland. N J < Special. ) ?Alfred
Morgan, ag.'d seventy-live years, said
to be a r .dative of J l'i.o pont Mor
gan. was buvue.l to dea'h at his home
here. His hoitso wa < discovered on
lire, and an af'emp' was made to
rescue hiir., but t!ie I'iutm spread so
rapidly that this was impossible. Mr.
Morgan was a graduate of the Uni
versity of I'ennsylv.tni 1. lie was a
lawyer, and gave up his practice
thirty years ago. when he cagnc hero
to live a retired life.