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"Do Thou Liberty Great. Inspire Our Souls and Make Our Live? in Thy Poas^ssion Happy, or Our Deaths Glorious in Thy Just Defence. VOL. XXVI BENNETTSVILLE, S, C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1901. NO 34 AWFUL HOLOCAUST. Govoral Men Mat Death in a Roar ing Furnaces CAUSED BY AN EXPLOSION. Five Charred Human Bodies Found In the Ru ns of Water woiks Crib at Cleve land, Ohio. Five mon wore bur a od to den Mi, four woro drowned, throo and possibly four woro suffooated and sovcral injured as tho ros'ult of a firo whioh destroyed a temporary waterworks orib, two milos off Cleveland, Ohio, harbor oarly Wednesday morning. Tho dead, so far aa known: Arthur Hasty, drowned, body roooverod; Mark Strydor, drowned; Arthur Hastings, burned; Plummer Jones, suffooatod; John Martino, drowned; John Kowol sky, drowned, body rooovorod; four un identified men burnod. Tho injured BO far aa known: John LOOP, probably a brokou back, latal; O. Braddock, burned shout hands and faoe; Charles Smith, ovcreomo by gas in tunnol; D?vid Kelly, renouer, over oomo by gas. OiMi -:-1 :" |,.nnn1. u?n?nr Kauffman, Canton, probably doad; John Edging, probably doad; Adam Kont, probably doad. Twonty-cix roou oboyed tho ordora of Manager G. C. Van Deusen whon tho fiamos broko out and took rofngo in tho water on floating pieces of wrookago. Four of thom lost their hold upon their frail fl'atj aud sank beneath tho waves juntas help ro&ohcd their oomrados. Van Densen and tbieo of his men woro hanging in tho ?nter front a two inoh lino suspended (rom tho orib. Just as tho lino was burning away above tho mon's banda a yawl boat fro? tho Inigo Wilhelm, manned by two mon, dashed into tho heat and smoko that envtdopod tho orib and rescued tho four mon on tho rope at tho risk of their lives. Tho romaining mon woro picked up in tho wator and brought to Cleveland. They wore naked, exhausted and badly burn od. Many of them woro out by falling timbers. Tho orib is o total loss. It was a framo building 200 by 50 feet, the sides sheathed with iron, lt eon tai ru d valu ablo machinery. It is cow a oharrod shapolosa mass of wreckage and inia gi od with tho b?aokoDtd timbi rt arc blackened, rustod and twiatol piooos . and platts of iron and steel. Tho crib and maohinery wore tho , proporty of Shailer and Sohinglau. con traotoiH. Thoir loss will exocod $200, ^ 000. Firo ard harbor tugs with rcsouing . partios on boord roaohed tho orib toon v af tor tho flames bro o out, but whon they arrived tho structure wan tr sooth ing mass of llamen and all hopo of sav ing it was abandoned. Mon oould bo distinguished swim ming and floating in tho wator about ing for holp. Others woro dinging to ropes whioh they hud hitohod or tiod to tho rafter.', but tho tl imo t woro burning tho ropes away, whilo tho men wore stark naked, and ono ny ono thoy weiro falling into tho lake. Tho tugs oirolod around tho burning crib, pioking up mon from tho wator and meantime playing heavy ntroains upon tho llamos. After an hour's work tho fUmoa woro diminished enough so that tho firomon oould olimb up tho oharrcd stops and fight tho firo from tho interior. Thon tho horror of tho calamity was first roalizod. K /cry thing wat a total wrook. While the firoracn wero pour ing water on tho llamos thoro was A UOAIUNQ FURNACE beneath whioh oould not bo roached. But tho firemen olung to thoir placos and fought ovory inoh of tho way un til tho fire was undor oontrol. Aftor two hours of hard work five charred human bodios wero found burnod beyond recognition. Two woro in tho attitudo of M ayer. Thoy must havo boon awakened by tho firo but oould not cfioopo. Thoy wero oaught liko rats in a trap. Ono body was burned to almo?t nothing. Tho bodios of two othor men lay oloso to thoeo that woro on thoir knoos and it looked as though they ncvor know what hap ponod to thom. Thoy must havo boon suffocated boforo tho fiamos reached thom. As soon as tho fivo bodios woro dis covered tho tug Kennedy roturned to tho harbor at onoo and notified tho ooronor of tho disoovory. Whilo this was going on ways and moans woro hoing devised to reach tho mon irn prisoned in tho tunnol, whoso air sup ply had apparently boen shut off en tirely by tho burning of tho compress od air maahinory. At timos it was thought that voices oould bo heard down bolow and tho lifo savors and tho firemen peered down with cars intent, but thesoutds oeasod again. At the mouth of tho shaft it was liko a furnaoc, and tho iron work was rod hot from the damos. Finally aftor a deluge of wator had boon thrown on tho smoldering shaft entranoo, a voioe ?as hoard from tho bottom, calling for help. "For God's sake throw down a rope, thrown down a ropol'' a man called. A lino was quiokly droppod down tho shaft and as it tightened a shout of Joy wont up from thoso about, for it was quickly obsorved that tho man at tho bottom was ablo to gravp it Ho yollod again to tho rosouors to pull him up. Slowly and carefully ho was raised. His pallid faoo, oovorcd with slime, his staling eyes and hcav ing ohost, told of tho horror he had gone through in tho hours ho spont in tho tunnel. Ho wai William Curry, of Canton. As soon aa ho oould ?asp Curry said: "Ihoy aro all at tho bottom of tho shaft, hurry up." In qutok suojoHflion sovon othora were brought up fri.ni tho foul and stifling air of the tunnol. All woro in a most pitiable conditon. Thoy ro portod that two other men woro lying unconscious at tho bottom of tho shaft. A workman voluntoorod torcsouo thoso mon and ho was quickly loworcd into tho shaft, In a fow minutes tho unoonsoious men woro brought up moro doad than olivo. Tho tug that hurried out to tho noone aa soon nu th? fire v/no discovered auj ooodod in roaouing no leno than 20 mon who woro dinging to wreckage ?nd ropos tied to the burning structure. Tho tunnel which has boon undor oourao of construction for sovoral yoars past and ia nilli far from completo, has boon tho cruise, tdl told of tho IOBS of moro than 30 lives. Four yours ago an explosion in tho se oro sootion of tho tunnol resulted in tho suffocation of 18 mon. Two your? ago in asimilar acoidont scvoral moro mon woro killod at almost tho samo plnoo and todoy'a catastrophe adds at loast ton additional eamon to the doath list. Tho Uro which dostroyod tho orib Wodnooiiay morning was duo to an overheated boiler smokostaek. Tho boilor oxplodod soon aftor tho fiamos broko out. Tho orib itsolf was of pino timbor built up straight from tho water's odgo. Tho men, who woro asleep in thoir bunks, sprang up to find thouisolvos in tho mi dot of tho fi ?mes. Tho boards all around thom woro burning florjoly. Down in tho shaft, undor tho lako, ll mon v/cro at work digging unconscious until tho air supply was out ott, o? tho awful holooauBtabovo thom. Mayor Johnson exprossod great in dignation Wednesday when he learned that no boat of lifo preservara woro pro vided as a safety moasuro by tho oon traotors at tho orib. flo doolarod that i tho caso would reo?ivo tho closest in i vodtigfttion, and th At thono found jruiuy of criminal ntgligonoo on tho matter would bo proseoutod to tho iuii extent of tho law. L?to Wednesday aftornoon Plumer Jo?os, of Warren, Ohio, an omployo of tho tunnol ooutraotors, and ono of a party of rosoutrs who dosoondod into tho shaft to look for tho missing moo, wasovcroomo by gas andoxpirod within a fow u inutOB. Hid body Hos in tho tunnol 75 feot from tho bottom of tho shatt and ia oovorod with wator. Tho lifo lino attaohod to tho body bo oamo fould and could not bo palled out. David Kelly, anothor mombor of tho roBouing party, was ovoroomo by gai and is in a precarious oondition. Mc Lau ri n's Viow. Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, passed ihrooih Norfolk Tuesday with his wifo and ohilu enrouto to tho pan i Amcrioan exposition. To tho Asso ciated Pross ?oj-rosontativo ho mado tho following statemont: "For many years tho aampaigas in Siuth Oaroliua nave boon in tho naturo of porsonal abuse bctwoon candidates. Tho pros ont oimpaign is tho first ono in whioh an i-je.no is nt stake. My sorios of apcoohos wluoh woro bogue last April, havo started tho pcoplo to thinking and they lu VJ bcoomo aroused. Sena tor Tillman has answered my argu ments by heaping pertiunal abuso upon mo. Ho throatunod to go ouc among tho mill opcratora and aroudo thom against tho mill owners if I ooutinuod urging tho expansion uol:oy .and tho oairj?ing "of Auienoau producta in Arnorio?u bottoms. "Expansion is not imperialism; tho first is a businoaa qucBiion; tho other a matter of politics, lt is foolifchnofio for anybody to claim that a mau oannot boliovo in ship sub sidy, tho oarryiDg of Amorioin expoits in Amcrioan bottom i, and expansion without being a Kopublioan. I am going into tho primarios in South Car olina noxt fall and I oxpoot to dofoat Senator Tillman." A Louo Robber. A lono robbor hold up a stago at North Uiver, N. Y., on Wodnosdny night. Tho stflgo whioh was stop pod oonnoots with a train whioh rcaohod North Creok, Warran county, a station on th J Adirondacks and Hud son railroad at 1U:2U o'clook a. m. Whon it loft tho station it oontainod sevon mon ond oao woman, bosidos a quantity of expross and mail met tor I jr Hluo Mountain lake Whon tho stago was ono and and a half milos north of Dunlap's hotol at North rivor a maskod robbor suddonly appoarod. His first move WAS to shoot ono of tho horsos. He thru orderod tho pasaongora to hold up thoir hands and alight. Six o' tho mon immediately took to tho woods, tho remaining man staying with his wifo, who waa roliovod of $20, but tho robber failed to find a largor sum in another pookot. The highwayman thou pro co oded to rill J tho mail bags and plunder tho express paokagos, taking everything of valuo. Aftor ho had done bis work ho di? appoarod into the woods and searching partios up to dark havo boon unablo to find any traoo of him. A Wiuuing Gamo. Unelo Sam is playing a ! 'lioads-I-win and-tailsyouloao" gamo with littlo Guam. Aooording to a rooont dooision of tho treasury dopartmsnt that unhap py littlo dot in tho oooan is a foroign country whon it is a matter of oollcotbg duties on artiolos imported thonoe into this country, but whon it is a mattor of paying drawbaoks to exportera of gooda on whioh import taxes havo boon col lected Guam suddonly and by somo mystorious proooss booomo domostio territory. Thus wo collect tho taxos in all instances, nnd our littlo protogo gets tho privilege of Hying tho ll ?g. Bit Fingo Off. Tho Augusta Herald says Goorgo Cartlodgo, tim youngest son of Scrgoant Oartlcdgo, of tho polioo f ?roo, was on gaged iu focdiog a horso yosUiday after noon, whon tho animal bit tho ond of tho lad's finger ott. Tho wound is a vory painful ono, but for tho IORH of part of tho fiogor, tho aooidont is not serious. Tho boy was holding a picoo bf gratis in his hand feeding tho animal whon tho teoth of tho horso cloned down on tho fingor, taking it ott oom p'.otoly. Quick Work. A dispatoh from Charlotta !uys about HOD people g ubored in front of tho jail hero Thursday night and demand ed thc poison of William Monroe, ooh oi od, ohargod with criminal assault. On a show of strongth by tho guarda tao crowd finally disporetd. J migo Hoko o:d?rod troop* to tho jail Thursday. Monroo was today triod, ooaviotod and sontoncod to bc hanged on Sept. 13. Tho jury wan out ono minuto and 20 seconds, tho wholo trial comm ming loos than two hours, SWEPT BY STORM. An Awful Tidal Wave Deotrov* Many Liv?*. OREAT ANXIETY I? FELT. Groat Los* of Ufa and Damag? to Proparty Is Reported From Many Part* cf tho Qulf. A dispatch from Now Orloans, under dato of Aug. 15, says tho storm whioh has boon swooping tho Gulf ooast from Pensacola and moving wostward during tho past two days, liss prostrated tolo graph and tolophono wiros to (such an oxtont that nows from tho outlying oootions is hard to got at. Tho groatojt foin havo boen on tor? tainod for the safety of tho pooplo liv ing at Port Ends, whioh ?B at tho mouth of the river, and for tho ships that alartod for aoa jaat boforo tho storm bogan. The wiros thoro have boen prostrated ?inoo Tuoaday night at 8 oVook but Tho Pioayanp reaobed a maa who loft Port Wides Weduosday. Ho was econ at Uur*3, whioh is GO miles down tho riv:?r and tho farfhnrYint point with whioh thoro is wiro oommuaioation at tho prosont timo. Thia mian dosoriboo tho Bl.or.n whinh owopt that eeotion as a regular tid*l wave, similar to tho ono whioh rosultod in ouoh awful loss of lifo in 1893. Ho Baya all tho pooplo living on tin o\sl bank of tho riv.r havo m ovoid up to the 1 j imp," whioh ia 15 miles from tho mouth of tho river. Tho house of a nun named Cobdon, half a milo ab ovo tho qu aran ti no sta tion, was owopt away, and tho 15 mem bers of tho family, ?noludiug ?) children, drownod. Tho quarantine buildings woro badly damaged but no ono injured. Tho big towboat Ohamborlain was driven high and dry in tho marah, but her orow oro Bafo, Tho government boat G choral lloiao is believed to havo boon loot. ?apt. ?brious houso was swopt away, but ho waa on tho boat, whioh w?o bolitYod to bo outside. Tke pilo drivor at Ports Eads WAS auak. . Fier orow woro tiaid to have boen aavod. Tho tugboat Vclaao wont down to Pass a L'Outro, whioh ia tho oastorn mouth of thc river, with two bargoo. Whon la3t soon sh) had hor dook awash, audit is fcand aho has gono down. If this boat and hor barges hayo been lost 20 pooplo moro havo boon drownod. There aro nuuiorous roport* of individual oasualtios all aloug tho river from Buras down to tho Paasoa. All tho atoamors whioh startod for tho noa Tuesday roaiaiuou iuaido tho Pas?os until Wednesday ovoning arid then wont biit' a^toiy,; among*^honauuli"' bor- hoing tho Oromwoll linoc Protoua, and tho British transport Mcohaniom whioh wai dynamited while in port a few days ago. Not a singlo vossol Ima pasaod up tho rivor sinoo tho storm bogan and great fears aro entertained for tho onoa whioh arooxpootod. Thero is sorious apprehension oon oorning the Uhonioro Caminada and Grand lalo sootions, on tho south Lou isiana ooaat, woat of tho Mississippi rivor, whoro 2,000 lives wore lost in 1893 by tho tidal wave. Up to this writing no word has boon roooivod from that section, whioh is largoly in habited by fishormon, mostly Uhiuoao and Malays. Up to last midnight everything soomod to bo safe at tho Mississippi eoast towns, Bay St. Louis, PAH? Ohris ti MI, Biloxi, Mississippi City and Oooau Springo, but sinoo thon not n word has boon hoard from thom. All wiro? aro down. Tho only roports of dam ago BO far roooivod aro of dootroyod bath housos and uprootod treos. Tho Louisville and Nashvillo railroad ia blookod off boyond Ohof Menteur, 30 milos from this oity. Tho big stool bridge there is safo, but boyond thoro aro sovoral washouts on tho road. Tho Now Orloana and Northwestern railroad is also blookod by washouts on tho lako and ito big trostlo over Lako Pont chartrain has boon ulmkou by thc heavy BOAB breaking against it. Thoro has boon muoh dnmago done at Sholl Baaoh, a soltlcmont on L*ko Borgno, southoast of tho city, and whioh oonnoots with Lako Ponchar train. All tho buildings thoro have boon swopt away, and thoro aro roports of loss of lifo among tho fishormoo, but tho cxaot oxtont of this is not known. A tidal wavo swopt ovor tho land thoro as it did niuo yoars ago. la tho oity of Now Orloans and sub urbs thero has boon considerable dam ago. At Milnoburg, ono of tho lako ro ports, tho railroad pior hoad running out into tho lako for a distance of a thousand yards has boon dootroyod and all light buildings demolished. Tho big buildings on shoro withstood tho galo. Thoro waa no loaa of lifo. Tho Btoamor Noptuno tiod up at thia pier head, pouudod herself to pioooa and sank. At Wost 10 ul tho lako rushed ovor tho rovortmont and dostroyod noarly all of tho buildings thoro. Tho big danoing pavilion at Lako Viow was pounded to piooos by wrookago, washed up by tho waves. Tho sholl road to Wost End was undor throo foot of wator, and "Buoktown," a gambling resort at tho ond of tho rovontmont, has boon swept away. Tho old basin CA nal coming into tho etty on Toulouso otroot ovor (lowed its banks inundating tho . ontiro aooond district. A thousand mon have boon at work on it and o raising its banka. A coal (loot of 121 bargoo, bolongiug to the Monongahela Coal company of Pittsburg and an chored at Coal Por nino milos abovo tho oity, had a rougu exporicnoo and ovorytug in tho harbor was sont to savo thom. Six of thom with an aggrogato oapaoity of 0,000 tons of ooa), sank. Tho towboat Honry Marx, bolonging i to tho Interstate Transportation oom- i prvuy, pounded a bolo in her bottom at Grotna thia morning and sank. i Tho atorm whioh developed yostcrilay oontinuod throughout thu night and a : hoavoy wind waa still blowing today. < Winds and rain woro gonoral along tho 1 ooaat and many trains aro bolatod. 1 Muoh of tho low .motion of Now Or* i loans ia undor wator and scows havo . boon brought into requisition' to onablo I peoplo lo got from thoir homos to tho higher portions. 8ovor?l faotorioB havo boen aoinpollod to shut down. Lako Fontiohartrain has boon back od into tho old and now oanal. Both overflowed thoir banka for a oonsidor ablo dis<anoo. Tho rear, or low portions of thia oity, a thiokly populatod torritory two milos in width, is floodod to a dopth of two foot. Thoro is oonsidorablo suf fering amoog tho poor. ALouisvillo and Nashvillo traiu from tho oast, duo at 7:25 a. m., has not yet arrivod, nor have the ooaot trains ovor that road. Tho high water in tho lako and tho ibod in the rear of tho oity havo oauaod tho dolay. Hundreds of buainoos mon of New Or leans livo along tho gulf coast during tho summer and thus far havo boon unablo to rcaoh tho oity. Many Louisiana pooplo aro spoud iug ibo summer at Grand lalo, whioh is adjaoout to tho Ohonioro. Over 2,000 livoB wero lott at tho later plaoo when that nook of laod waa swopt by storms a fow yearn ago. Afc Milnoburg tho oxoursion Bteamer Noll (JAntila eapni/. jd at ita wharf dur iog tho Btorm aod is pounding heavily i a&ainBt tho pior. Thone aboard os oapod. Tho tug boat Noptuno is alao roportod to havo oapsixod. Tho Mississippi ti vor in front of tho j oity today resembled a miniature gulf, j Noarly every harbor or*ft had to hug j tho shore in oidor to avoid hoing swamped. llo&ular westbound Tex ia and Paoi ?: - ?_.:.." _1.1 _U- _i u_ HO UIIIIID UUUIU HUI UD OOUV VUU UU' causo tho trannfor boatp whioh carry tho trains aorosa tho river wero unablo to make thoir landings. Ail tho tugs in tho hal bor aro en gaged today io trying to oavo tho floot of about 200 boats lying above tho oity. Botwoon six aad ton bous havo al ready boon lost. TUB LATEST. Tho latest nows from tho storm is to tho oSoot that it did not do as muoh (?amago as just reported Many ships wero wrcokod on tho gulf and on the Mississippi, and thoro was oonsidorablo loss of lifo, but later nows will havo to reveal how many pooplo woro drowned during tho Btorm. Out in India. According to the Indian Lanoot, a medical journal, a oatiafaotory do orcase in tho numbor of peoplo and oattlo killed by wild animals in tho Punjab ia shown bv tho ropori for 1900. Tho ubiquitous Roako is, of oourao, far and avvay tho worst of those illa, but in a provinoo whore oonsidorably moro than hali! a million pooplo must inevitably dio ovcry year, in tho ordi nary OOUIS3 of nature, it is reassuring to find that only 803 pooplo roooivod thoir quietus from anftko bito. lt is ourioua to note that moro doaths from ousko bito ooourrod in houaos than or.her in tho hold or in tho jungle. Tho only human doaths from wild auimalo woro thoso oa.uBod by.mad dogs ,an4:,?iad,.lRoka)!t, which /nufcShsrod ?%% ?XlV?Vi/>:-:.:.?V.'-,,v..>.i.... ' y/j^'JAU-fy-^ loopards and 01 by^wolvon. It Booms'; strange that no miaohiof should havo boon oausod by tigers or bears-porhapa they aro boing killod off too fast. Pur ing tho year in quootion 1,374 wild ani m?,)a woro slaughtorod, including ll tigors, 186 boars, 181 leopards, and 99 wolves. Moreover, 13,272 snakos woro killod. Thousands Drowned. Groat floods oauaod by tho overflow ing of tho Yang Tao havo oausod tho death of many thousands in Ohma, Tho river han risen 40 foot and for hun dreds of milos tho oountry ia a great lako with only tops of trooa and an oo easiom-.l roof showing. At Ankingtho town ic Hooded, porno of tho bouaos to thoir roofs. At Kui Kiang, tho nativa town io Hooded and two foot of water statnds in tho foroign oettlomonts. Iiowor down tho river towarda SHU lluo, tho destruction waa groator and boatmen estimate that 20,000 woro drowned in tho district. Chong Tho was wipod away by floods and 10,000 drowndod thoro and inundatod involv ing awful losa of lifo and groat destruc tion to proporty. it ia foarod an em bankment built by Chong Chou Tung near Wu Chang would break and oauae tho drowning of thousands. Tho Naval Station, Tho Unitod Statos govornmont took formal possessen of the tito, whioh has been soourod for tho naval station and tho raising of tho flag Wodnoaday afternoon marked tho first acoupation. Pijmaators who arrivod boro Tuoaday night gavo ohookn to Mayor Smyth for tho city's share of tho park and to Mrs. Lawton, who disposed of valuable lota adjoining, lt waa not stated at what timo aotual oonatruotion will bogin, but thia will not bo long delayed. Tho diy dook, tho plano for whioh have already boon approvod, will bo erootod first at oost of $1,250,000. Appropriations amounting to $250,000 available for immodiato work and tho navy depart ment's plans calla foran oxpondituro of moro than $6,000,000 on tho navy yard in its entirety. Senator Tillman Sued. The Columbia Stato rooently pub lishod the following moagro and un satisfactory artiolo. Tho pooplo will naturally want to know who J. Young dones id and what Sonator Tillman has dono to him or said about him. This is what appeared in tho Stato: "It is stated that Mr. J. Young Jonos, form erly bookkeeper of tho house, has flied a suit for $10,000 da ungo against Sena tor Tillman, charging him with slandor. Mr. Jones allogOB that tho senator oast reflections on his montai attainments, lt is understood that tho shoriff will coon excouto tho papors on tho Rona ?or. Sonator Tillman would uot dia jusa tho matter ?non informod of it. .'ho rosult will bo watohod with intor OBI." Killed Iflach Other. A dispatoh from Greenville, N. O., aayo: "Nowa roaohod boro Wednesday of a double murder noarGardoor's cross roads, in tho southern aeotion of thia oountry. Wm. Gardner, Maok Dixon. boUi whito, quarreled over aonio small matter. Gardnor drew a pistol and shot Lhroo balls into Dixon's abodomon. Thou Dixon knooked Gardnor down, took tho pistol from him and shot the two romaining balls into Gaynor's body Both mon diod in a short whilo." HATE EACH OTHER. Evan? arid Latlmar Bald to bo Open Political Enemies. ?T I8 ?N OLD TROU8LE. Each of tho Abovo Gentlemen - {Vindo Hits at One? An other at fha Union v Meeting. J. C.. Abornathy, who attondod tho Union and Ohoator mootinga for tho Oharlotto Obaorvor, aaya thoro ia no danmor that tho senatorial oampaign in this fifnto will laok hoat, ovon though Sonator MoLaurin should withdraw from tho ra oo, for tho notablo do vol op inent in thoniootings horo and at Union for tho last throo dajs, aside from tho strong donunoiation of tho junior noun tor, waa tho faot that whilo both aro lighting what thoy eon oidor tho oo el mon onoiny, A 0. Latimor and John j Gary Evana aro at daggoro' points, and it would not turpriso mon who know tho two politician* to. seo tho ox gov ernor and tho oongroasman oomo to blows on tho stand whon tho oampaign is fairly un lor way. Evans is a alon der .follow, about fivo feot ' nd ton iDohoB tall, with sharp foatures. a bright oyo, blaok mouataoho and hair, slight ly tinged with gray, and thoro is aomo i liing about him that will mako a North Carolinian think of Marion Huller as soon as tho ex governor takos tho stand to mako a spoooh. Ilia politioal an tagonist, Congressman L'.tinier, is rooog nizod as hoing ono of Sonator Tillman's oloscst friends, and ho oortainly ro oombiet! tho senior sonator in moro ways than ono. In comparing tho two mon, as thoy sr:t together on tho speak ers' stand, I mado tho following deduc tion: Squaro tho congressman's jaws, punch out ono of his oyes, lot him fill his mouth with quinino and to all out ward appoarauooB tho result will bo a aooond Bon Tillman. Aa to tho Abili ty of Latimor, aa oomparod with Till man, I. oannot say, for it may bo that ho is only following tho loador aa Mar ion Butler followed Col. L L. Polk in North Carolina. In faot, bia politi ohl enomioa torm him "one of Till manV hands." I oan add, howovor, that he has a more ploanant addroas than his ohiof, and would probably create a bettor impression among atrangora, providod ho did not too oloso ly. follow Tillman's style Thoao aro tho two mon-Evana and J J ?'.vi mor-who gavo it out by thoir worrln and notions that thoy distrust ed inch other. In assuming his sharo of tho responsibility for tho "olootion of ftoLaurm to tho sonate, latimor said that two ovils woro offered the pee plomad Ko votod for tho junior sonator ?pji?i? lesser, of tho two. : John Gary w i^PP^m^?oth?tv^^At^tj?et.- ; timos ^e. mo^&if?! .: wmoh all South Carolin ines understood, On tho othor hand, tho; ox-governor mado it plain to his hes rom that ho meant Luimor whon ho apoko of tho aotion of oortain "poli tioal traitors" who had refussd to tako noto of tho warnings ho had sounded in regard to MoLaurin. Ho warned tho people against turning out ono traitor to put in another. Mr, Evana has bcon out of polities for quito awhilo, having sonto timo aftor tho expiration of his torm aa govcrnoi removed to Spartan burg, whoro ho has boon praotioing law. and it was not generally known until tho mooting at Union that ho would oa ter tho held as a senatorial aspirant. Tho ex governor, by tho way, is tho man whoso namo was formerly printed in a Columbia papor thus: "John garyovano." South Carolinians oan root aaaurod that should all others drop out of tho raoo thoso two performers alono will bo worth tho price of ad mission. Wauted Too Much. Tho oaroer of Phillipa, tho corn king of the Chicago grain raarkot, contains within itself a lesson to young mon who aro oagor to got iioh quiok. Ho wont into tho oom pit at Chioago with $500 OOO, Garnered tho market, mado millions of money and wont on with his wild speculations and is today a bankrupt. Kc vol al ion toadies us that "tho love of monoy is tho root of all evil," and it aooms to bo truo. Had thia man not boon faaoinatod with tho gambling spirit and stoppod at tho right timo, if there was a right timo in suoh a nefar ious business, ho might have had a oomfortablo competence for tho balanoo of his lifo. Hut for Union mado by wreck ing othor people's fortunos aro ill-got ton gains and aro moro than likoly to tako unto thomaolvos wings. Poor Sampson. 'Ibo quostion aa to who thor or not Hoar Admiral Sampson will appoar aa a wit nos s boforo tho oourt of inquiry aakod for by Sohloy appoars to be sur rounded by myatory. Tho navy depart ment is Biiout on tho oubjoot. It ia olaimod by some that tho ploa that Sampson must tako a vaoation is mado with a viow of making it appoar that ho is too ill to go boforo tho oourt. How ovor, it has boon known for nonio timo that Sampson is in a terriblo physical oondition, and it is rumorod that his mind may have boon affootod. This, somo reports havo it, ia aooountablo for tho cot ll leting orders ho aont Sohloy boforc tho battlo off Santiago. A Big Steamer. The now stoamor Celtio, whioh ro oontly mado her first trip aorofls tho A tl amie, ia a nino story floater, with four open or promonado dooks, ono of whioh oontains the dining saloon for oabin pannoo gor?, abovo the wator lino. Most of tho trans-AtUntio liners havo only one, and very fow two, Sho is 721 foot long, will oarry and aocom modato 3,000 pooplo, including tho crew, and boing built for comfort runs with littlo rolling in rough woathor. Could Not Wait. Tho tobacco trust oxeoutod a mort gogo in Now York for $150 000,000 on Juno 15th, on which it had to pay in stamp taxos $75,000. By waiting fif teen days, whon tho law waa ropoalod on tho 1st of July, that muoh monoy could havo boon saved. Evidontly, a littlo itom like $75,000 oannot stand in tho way of a $160,000,000 trust. THE GOVERNOR S VIRW. What Ho Think? of tho OTdinanoe Paiaod in Charleston, Tho Columbia 8tate says thoro has boon oonsidorablo spooulation io tho last fow days nineo tho adoption of tho now ordinance in tho pity or Cbarloston by tho oounoil of that oity hoking to tho onforoomont of tho disponsary law by polioo foroo in rogard to tbo oil jot this aot of tho municipal authorities will have on tho attitudo of tbo board of dirootors of tbo Beato disponsary and tho o thor 9 tato authorities. It was impossiblo WodnoBday to soo any of tho mombors of tho Stato board but Govornor MoSwoonoy was askod what ho thought of tho aotion tatton. Tho govornor exprossod himsolf frooly. Ho said to a roprosontativo of Tho Stato "I think tbat tho oity oounoil of Charleston has shown oxoollont judgmont and I boliovo that Mayor ?Smith and his oounoil havo dono tho vory bost thing for Charleston. Thoy havo, as I said, displayod excellent judgmont in adopting this ordinanoo and placing Cbarloston in tho position that sho dosorves to bo placed in, With this aotion of tho oity oounoil tho Stato board of dirootors, if the polioo oarry ont tho law and onforoo itandproscouto tho blind tigors in tho polioo court, should placo Charleston in tho position oooupiod by tho other towns and oitios, and givo her baok hor share of tho profits. I boliovo that sho will bo put baok on that basis. Just hore pormit mo to say that I think Columbia should follow in lino and adopt just suoh an ordinanoo. "Au I havo said all along, on tho stump and olsowhoro, 1 would bo in favor of taking tho oonstablos out of Charleston altogotnor if tho municipal authorities in Charleston would show mo that thoy aro enforcing tho dispon Bory law. I havo always takon tho ?round that thoro ought to bo no oon stablos in any oity whoso municipal authoritios will ouforoo tho law; that tho polios ought to onforoo tho law. Tako tho onso of tho town of Anderson ; I am assured that tho polioo thoro on foroo tho law absolutoly and that thoro aro no blind tigers thoro now. Tho pooplo say thoy havo no need for tho oonntabhn. I boliovo that this oan bo dono Charleston with a first olass polioo foroo not afraid to do its duty. Now let tho polioo foroo do its duty as has boon dono in Andorson and as othor oitios and towns aro doing," Askod as to tho result of tho enforce ment of tho law in Columbia sinoo tho extra polioo woro gi vin tho constables, tho govornor romarkod: "Ohiof Hato man's report shows that tho result so far has been lint rato. It spoaks for itself." _ A Bad Failure. With a capitalization of $20,000,000, and owing to frauohiso which gavo it tho privilege of operating oabs and omni lunes in any stroot in tho oity of Now York, tho Gouoral Oarringo company, tho ii took of which at ono timo sold for $201)i ? -sharopafl'sod into, tho'hands of ^t?^iC^nlli-, ^v-.C.KO -.KltVC' bi r*fe' rorn?in?og that tho rec?wor s bona ts only $5,000. Tho company at its organization had the "moral support of Riobard Crokor, and among the stock holders aro Edwin Gould, Josoph Loiter, General Samuol Thomas, Louis Wo rm sor, Cyrus Kiold du ns on and Edwin M. Post. Riobard Crokor's Auto-truck company too a largo blook of stook in tho oonnorn and transforrod to it tho privilogo of hauling passongors about tho oity. Tho Gonoral Carriage coinpnny had a praotioal monopoly undor its ohartor, and less than ono yoar aftor its formation its stook bo oamo aotivo in tho markot, In Novem ber, 1899, tho stook was soiling for $40 a share, and two months later it was advanood to $80. Noxt day it was quoted at $135, and two days later it soared to $200 a sharo. Within a wook aftor tho $200 mark was roached tho stock alumpodand was soiling for $50 a share Thon began a most remarkable manipulation to oompol an intorcst own ing 8,000 sharon to Boll out to thoso in control. Tho stook was forood down to $2 a sharo when tho minority interest capitulated. Tho liabilities of tho oon oorn woro not statod in tho application. Followed it Too Closely. "I and my'fathor boforo mo have boon roading your papor for 50 yoars or more, and I wouldn't miss a copy of it for anything-it wouldn't seem nat ural to go without it," wroto a man to tho Columbus, Ga., l?nquiror-Sun, "A yoar or two age tho paper had a aura bor of pcintod editorials urging farmers to raiso ovorything they nocdod at homo. 'What's tho uso of buying any thing,' it said, 'while you oan raise it at homo i * Woll, that thing struok mo. Protty soon I noodod some oom whis koy for mooical (?nd othor) purposos. and I made it. I havo just finished working out tho non toe co. I guoss you moant woll, but you didon't know what troublo you woro gotting your roadors into." Too Much Politics. Tho Columbia S'.nto says a halt is oallod somowhero it looks as if thoro is to bo a gonoral sonatorial oampaign of oducation aftor all. Announoomonts havo alroady boon mado as to tho moot ings arranged for Spartanburg and Greenville. Now comes tho announoo ment that Andorson has arrangod for a similar mooting 911 tho 30th, and that tho oommittoo will invito tho samo spoakors as tho othor plan JO. Tho an ouneomont also oomos that Walhalla and Spoarman'e Springs, tho lattor in Nowborry country, want suoh gather ings on tho 2nd inst,, tho only ono of tho four oonsooutivo datos opon to tho spoakors. lt is not yot known whioh of these places will got tho orowd of politioal laoturors. A New Englaid View. "Tho solo dofondor of MoLaurin, or what thoy oall "Cornmoroial Demo oraoy' at tho Union 8. C. politioal pow wow last weok was John B. Clovoland, prosident of a cotton mill. He favored imperialistic oxpansion, for tho sako of markets, and doolarod that thoro was not a mill in South Carolina today with possibly ono exooption, whioh was making a cont. But if imperialistic ex pansion is effootivo for markets, how oan this bs? Mr, Clovoland had evi dently forgotten that the country for more than two yoars has boen onjoying tho allogod benefits of markets foroibly annoxod."-Springfield Ropuhlloan. HELD UP A TR ft IN". Robbers Laughed and Talked as They Bobbed a Train. A train was bold up ard robbod nour Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuosday night. TU ) express oar was blown opon, tho safo wrecked and ibu mail saoko rifled. All tho passongors woro robbod of thoir money. El Caney, wkoro tho robbory ooourcd, is a sido traok thirty-nino milos north of Donison. It is io tho Ohootaw nation ot tho Indian Terri tory and tho population surrounding tho station is only 125. Tho train doos not stop at Canoy exoopt on signal. As tho tho proper signal was given tho engineer whistled his reply, and tho train slowed down for tho stop. In stoad of tho hurriod signal to go ahoad, tho onginoor and ?roman woro con fronted by two mon with masked faoos. About tho samo timo tho oxpross men songer and tho mail olork woro oom munioatod with through tho olosod doors of thoir OHM. Th roo of tho rob bers shot wildly and thoo tho call wont to tho me st! on gor and olork: "Open up horo! Open up and don't bo too slow about itt" From within oame no responso and the robbors again oalled out; "Opon tho door or wo will blow it opon and blow you to bollt" There wai no re sponso to tho sooond oall and tho firing again bogan, fully twonty shots boing diiohargod. Still thoro was no ro Bponeo, and tho tl roo mon proparod a -11 Li.-i .e j_? .._. ii,-, _ Diuuu umov uv ujruKiutbu ngamal) tuu uni' door. In tho moantimo tho shoot ing had awakonod thopassengors. Tho oonduotor, brakomon and porter ran through tho train, and as thoy oallod out: "lt's a hold-upi'' Tho passongors tried to hido thoir moDoy and valuablos. Tho dynamito was at last exploded. It was a small ohargo a ad was intondod moro for fright than anything oho. A larger blast of dynamito was proparod and explodod. This toro tho sido elf tho express and mail oar a id tho robbors loapod through tho oponing, and, ovorpowered tho mes senger. Ho was ordored to open tho safo, but ho oould not, as tho combina tion was nt ond of tho run. Tho rob bors thon pul; a ohargo of dynamito to tho safe and blow it opon. Thoy de molished tho safo, but scoured only $1.50, as tho monoy bad all boon loft at Muskogoo to bopiokedup by tho "Katy fiyor," whioh runs through tho torritory by day, Tho mossongor and olork woro forood to assist tho bandits in their work. Every mail pouoh was omptiod and tho mail oonsidorod valuable by tho robbors was tatton, Thon with Postal Clerk Tulloy 1.olding an ompty mail saok. tho robbors wont through tho co.-.obca and robbod overy passongor. Thoy secured $280 in ono ooaoh. A negro wVi ref unod to give up hib money was tow roly bonton. The passongors wore oompoltod to throw thoir valuable into tho pouoh, After tho work was dono tho robbers, who seemed to rejoice in tho situation, sat around and laughed over tho matter. ^fM^bididgJ h>.trat? ?w?^houM, tho robfw>i ?of/.,\? soi nj? ea'^t Vhto'tb?.^??it bottom' timoor, for whioh tortuous (Janey orook is noted. The trainmon out out tho wrecked oxpross oar, ran down to Canoy station and advisod ofli oors up and down tho road. In two hours a poico of United Statos marshals with blood hounds wore on tho trail. Tno cxpross oompany said it lost noth ing, and tho oounduotor estimatos the passongors* lees at about $400, not oounting tho jowolry. TUE ROBBERS CAUGHT. A dispatch from Donison, Tex , says: J. B. I)vais, deputy marshal at Colbert, I. T., airivod horo Wed nos day night from tho soeno of tho robbery at Canoy. "Tho following men havo boon ar rostod on tho ohargo of oommitting tho robbery," said Mr. Davis: "C. E. ltiohmond, Bob Alford, Goo. Brown, John Gibson, Tom Edwards and Jack Barr, Thoso mon wore arrested at Caney and takon to Atoka Thursday morning. Tho oporator at Canoy, whon he hoard tho shooting, suspeotod tho train was boing held up and put out tho light in tho dopot and tolographod Atoka, ll milos away, for oflioors. Within two hours af tor tho robbory blood hounds had trailod thoso mon to their homos. Wo found tho wot cloth ing idontifiod by passongors as that worn by tho robbors. Wo also found thrco masks and found in tho firo box of tho oook stovo when tho arron ts woro made tho shoos of the mon arrostod. Tho traoks woro measured and fitted the shoos oxaotly." A Mad Tom Oat. A uno who has just roturnod from the up country to Charleston brought 'back as a souvenir a thrilling story of an attaok made on a whito woman by a mad tom oat. A coord in g to his ao oount tho woman was walking in tho yard when, without warning, tho oat mado a vicious lungo and plantod its sharp olaws just bolow hor throat. Tho grip was so strong and poworful that tho woman oould not break it. Her orion nttraoked mombors of tho family. Whon they attoraptod, ho wovor, to take tho oat away tho grip had ovidontly turned to lockjaw, and tho animal could not bo roraovod. Tho woman's suffer ing was tembl?. A final effort was mado to froo hor from ibo oat, but this was not accomplished until the ani mal's hoad had boon oomplotolv sovorod from its body. Evon af tor doath tho tooth olung to tho fhsh in a vioo-liko grip. Thc wound was oautori/.od and at last roports tho woman was improv ing, lt was said that boforo attacking tho woman tho oat had bitton ito or animals, aod in tho samo neighborhood othor eats had assaultod thoir owners. Tho fear of hydrophobia was so groat that all dogs in tho immediate vicinity of tho woman's homo havo boon, blooked and chained. Desperate Encounter. A Charleston dispatch says: "Sorgt, Bondt, ono of the party of polios of ficers who had the desporato onoountcr lastweok with tho negroos suspected of killing the chief of polioo of Sholby, N. C., had a narrow osoapo again Wed nesday. Ho and Sargt, llaloy oamo upon John Bellinger, a notorious nogro oharaotor, who is wanted in Oolleton county. Tho nogro oponed fire, with a 44-oalibro pistol,on tho o finora. Sorgt: Bondt returned tho Aro, putting two balls in tho negro, bellinger was sent to tho oity hospital? Ho will probably rtoovor" USES OF CORN Plant That ls Becoming More Valuable. SIDE PRODUCTS OF PLANT, The Government Mdklng Expwl monta With the Plant tj In* crease Its Yield. Means Much to tho South. Most porooDB probably imagino thai about tho only produots from oom aro hominy, raoal and whisky. Tho pro* duotB of tho oom plant aro almost ao numorous and variod as thoso of tho oottoo plant. An oxhibit of tho agri cultural department in Washington shows that in oaso of nooossity oom oould bo dopoudcd upon for food, olotdng and strong drink, and a num bor of artiolos of virtuo and luxury bo sidos. A ohomist of tho department j has gono so far ai to produoo from oom a substituto for rubber whioh cannot bo I told by an inoxport porson from ' tho fonuine artielo. It looks Uko rubbor rom Brazil, fools liko it, aots Uko it aad has ail of tho ?haraotoriatlo proper ties of it. So far tho invontion has not boen made "oommoroially orno tin ablo," that is, tho proooss ooBts too much to m*k<t tho oom rubber a oompotitor of tho real rubbor. It is to bo expootod how over, that tho timo will oomo whon rubbor for tiros will bo grown in oom Holds. Another er dolo of ospooial intorost in tho agricultural dopartmonts oxhib it is oom oil. This is likoly to oomo moro or loss into oompetition with oot ton sood oil of tho higher grados. Tho oom oil is said to look prooisoly liko olivo oil to tasto Uko it, and to bo good for any uso in whioh olivo oil is om ployed, Only tho most oxport \>an distin guish oom .oil from too highost grado of Italian olivo oil, Tho produot has boon turnod to oommoroial aooount and already largo quanti '?es of tho oil aro sold. Thoro aro somo pretty and lustrous, though not very strong, cloths from oom libro shown. Thoro aro also hats, baskoto, oto., mado of tho fibro, No groat storo, howovor, is sot upon tho .:, possibilit?s in tho lino of papor mak-'.-rvf ing. A morohantablo quality of pa por has boon made from lt, and oxpori monto with it are being continued. The pith of tho oom stalk as wo havo previously noted is hoing usedAh largo quantities in making colluloso, for paakiug tho sidos of warships. - Those are just a few of tho produots of tho oom plant. Ono of tho officials of tho Agricultural department in authority for tho ajtatoment that all told thoro aro . not far from one hundred produots to bo had from oom, . . Ii will interest farmers to know that .ibo.d(\?V.rtui.iOAti.vboiaUiotin>? inv'M?'V tiona ann oxpoiimonts "with a "vio'w'.to largely inoroasing, if not doubling, tho production cf oom, wilho?t ouy in crease in oxpenso of cultivation or of aoroago. It is hopod this eau bo ac complished by a systom of solcotion of corn for planting is said to bo a most important matter, , Probably 999 farm ers out of ovory 1000 iuako thoir soleo tions of ears aftor oom is in tho barn. This is said to bo wrong. This soleo ?don should bo mado ;n tho Hold, tho health, vigor and strongth of tho stalk' being takon into aooount. By o sro ful ly s ole o tin g tho sood oom. from tho stalks in autumn, a considera bly inoroasod yiold it is said, may bo soourod, whilo by orosB breeding tho host spooimonB tho nitrogen oontonts of tho oom will be inoroasod. Tho de partment has now "produced several thousand hybrids. Within tho next year ir two it hopos to o volvo a oom whioh with propsr oultivation ?nd fir-, tilization will produoo 100 bushols to tho aero on land that now bringa forty to fifty bushols. A Dog's Long Fast,. Qn July 27th Mr. ?Jones Wilson, of Millville, wont out in tho Earoka neigh bor hood on businoss. His little dog, a rat tcrrior, accompanied him. On his way homo ho missod tho dog, and as it did not appear aftor ho reached homo ho supposod it had boon stolon. Last ?Sunday ho got to thinking about tho d)g, whon suddonly it o scored to him that ho might havo looked tho dog in a room in a houso whioh ho visited.' He drovo ont to tho plaoo and wont to tho houso. On oponing tho door ho found tho dog. It was alivo and, whilo not vory frisky, was able to wag its tail and walk out. Ho brought it homo and fed it and it showed very little signs ot its long fast. It had gono without food or wator for sixtoon days.-Andorson Daily Mail. _ Tho Nogroe's Best Friend. , A Nogro preaohor is quoted as say ing at tho IOmanoipation Djy celebra tion in Wiso county, Va., the othor day: "Ooo thing I cannot understand is that the samo whito man who votos in lliohmond to take away tho voto of tho Negro will bo tho first man to help tho Nogro whoo ho gots into tvoublo." Tho Augusta Ohio ulolo says tho ox? planation is oasy. Tho southorn whito man is tho boat friond tho Nsgro has. Ho is always ready to hol p him in nco tl, but ho doos not oDnsidor tho ballot safo in his hands. Imitating Bhorman. Arnold Whito, tho woll known nows* papor mon ongagod in writing English nows for Ainorioan papers, doolaros in his most reoont lottor that tho Boor war has vouched suoh n state that "Uberman's' march through Goorgia is tho favorite historical today" booauso it is rogardod au "a lennon in devastation." How interesting this truth so plainly stated must bo to northern oritlea and southorn dofondors of British methods! But wo aro sorry for tho Boors if Kit ohonor io to apo, Sherman. Wo aro alec sorry for tho British statesmen who aro rosponslblo for suoh barbarity. A Good Law. William ' K Curtis report? a condi tion of ? mugil in o wu mm Itt uv tablo. Ho writes that in that country tho saloons aro olosod on Saturday, whioh is tho univowsl pay day? whilo tho savings banks romain opon until midnight Saturday night.