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VOL.^QOTar* BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1903. N0.33. PULLER BETAILS Of the Great Flood that Destroyed! Heppner Oregon. DESCRIPTION BY EYE WITNESS. Wnll ol'Waler Hushed Down Motin ? tain Side. Wagon Imads ol' Corpses Are Casted to the Cemetery. Later nows from Heppner, Oregon, show that the lirst reports ot thc dis aster were not exaggerated. The casualty list will foot up 500 and inany of the bodies will never be recovered. The property' Toss and destruction of buildings alone will aggregate prob ably a million dollars. This is re garded as a conservative estimate. One hundred and Hf ty of the best resi dences were swept from the earth. Thc debris is piled along the railroad track to the height of freight cars. The relief work is progressing lit a satisfactory pace, .lames Iver nan, the Oregon Railway and Navigation com pany agent, met his death at thc tele graph key trying to call Portland to inform thc outside world of the im ' pending calamity. Oneof the most thrilling adventures was that of Tom Shuter, who with his family, was carried down stream in his house for a mile and a half. 11 is wife and two children climbed into tile upper rooms. Below town lt crossed the creek to the west side, where it lodged in debris 150 yards from thc canyon bank. Shuter then took his two little ones and swam a hundred yards. Ile landed thc chil dren and then rescued his wife. nOHUIULE CONDITIONS. The names of 18!) persons whose bodies have been discovered or who are. missing and believed to be dead as a result of thc Heppner Hood, have been obtained. In addition to the bodies of seven Chinese, three Japanese and 21 strangers and babies, names unknown, go to swell thc list, lilias Connor, a slock raiser of lone, re turned from Heppner at 2 o'clock Wednesday morning. He left thc Scene of the disaster at 0 o'clock that night. lt is known," said Mr. Connor, ? "that at least 27f> or :1?0 people were drowned, 1 bl corpses have been hasti ly burled In wooden boxes and some were merely wrapped in blankets, 'lhere were still several wagon loads of dead on their way to the cemetery when 1 left. Heppner itself has now been pretty well searched, except in piles of debris, where it is thought c- gic?t-iiuinbors of bodies will be found. "Between lone and Heppner," said .Mr. Connor, "there are great piles of . debris, but the Hood passed so quickly that the roads have not been serious ly] damaged: lt looks strange to sec the heavy steel rails bent and twisted .like cork screws and heavy timbers .splintered like matchwood. luilepp .ner Itself the Hood swept a clean path .a mlle long and two blocks wide through thc town, going generally the , icourse of Willow creek." ASUltVlVOlt'S STOHY. Three men who survived thc Hood ..at Heppner-ll. I). Hall, J. .1. Kelley .and A. P. Bradbury-have arrived at Portland Oregon, after having wit nessed thc destruction of the town ?and assisted in the work of rescue. Mr. Kelley said: "The rain was not falling in Heppner, but could be seen some distance away. Sharp Hashes of lightning were accompanied hy the howling thunder. Then suddenly the thunder died away, and a low noise was heard, very faint at first but grow louder. The city is situated on Wil low creek, which makes a sharp turn above the city. As the noise grew louder and louder, thc people became frantic. Then in a moment the van of the Hood hurst inti? view around the curve of the creek, carrying on its crest the cabins and houses which stood in its path. Thc people made a rush to the hills, but were too late. Thc Huod was upon them. Thc little river in five minutes was transformed into a roaring torrent -100 feet wide and 20 feet deep. Houses were lifted from their foundations and carried on the swirling waters. People were car ried away in their homes and forced to crawl out on the roof. Then as thc houses moved down inc stream they caught on to the trees and hung there until morning, vhen they were rescued." nu SAW IT'AM/. David MoAtee, a business mau of Heppner, was an eye witness of the disaster. In company with Krank Spaulding be left Heppner about 10..'10 o'clock Sunday night on horseback. "On Sunday afternoon," said Mr. Mc Atec, "there had been a severe rain storm, accompanied with much wind and lightning. I was standing in front of the house and noticed that a cloud of remarkable density approached tin; top of thc bill on the cast side of the . canyon. I turned for a moment, when a roar caused me to look again lit t hc -hill. 1 saw a wall of water, the height . of which I woidd be afraid to gauge, rushing down the mountain, carrying immense trees and timbers on i ls crest .and tearing away the very rocks from their foundations. Thc ter ri Ho storm . struck the upper part of the town lirst The residence of Thomas Howard was thc lirst to fall and his entire family was drowned, lu the Krug home also . every person was drowned, as was tb?! . case in the Hale and Haling residences. .All of these houses were about four or ? live blocks above the business centre: 'Thc house of Abram llamslck was iciitirely demolished. The Palace hotel \was thc lirst building to stem the tide. ?and all the. guests were saved, hut the (houses below that structure were ?hl?wn out into the. street, overturned and wrecked. The residence ofG. A. J thea was carried away and tlitf entire family, consisting of wire and three daughters, and Miss Adkins, a cousin, were lost. "(J. E. Redfield, whose residence was completely destroyed, was absent but his wife and baby were drowned. "A. C. Geiger's house was carried away and Mr. Geiger was drowned. His family is in the cast. '.'George Censer's house was reached next but the family succeeded In saving their lives by rushing to the,upper sto ries, thc house being, carried down thc creek three-quarters of mlle. Res cuers found that thc house had been but In two and Mr. Conser was stand ing in water up to his neck, holding bis wife upon the roof and keeping her from slipping from his outstretch ed arms. Dr. McSwat and J. Ayers, who were living in the same residence were drowned. "Oscar Miner's house was next de molished and Mrs. Miner drowued. The rest of thc family succeeded in saving their lives by einging to the roof. All of thc Wells family but two were lost and thc bouse was carried away. With the Wells residence went the bouse of George Swaggcrt. Mr. Swaggcrt's two married daughters were drowned with their live children. Thc Mallory house was carried ino yards and was found lodged against a store and Mr. Mallory, a crippled old man, was found safe, holding a baby. James Mattock's was next. Mis. Matlock was drown ed but his family was saved. Dr. Higg's house also went. "Thc house of Mr. lloyd and Mr. Walton were also destroyed and both families lost. "Mr. Harton succeeded in saving all persons In his residence,, although they were badly bruised. The house itself was washed away. "Perhaps the greatest loss of life occurred at thc lleppner hotel. '?'This house, which was run under the managementof if bries & Asbbaugb, was carried away. It is supposed that there were about ?0 guests in this hotel, all of whom are reported to be lost. The proprietors themselves were saved, but their families are among the dead. "The house of Benjamin Patterson. Mr. Dunn and Mr. Noble were entirely demolished and till persons in these three families drowned, as were the families of James Jonesand Henry Birle. Thc barn of Dr. Swinburn and lhe_blg livery stable of White & Meadows were entirely destroyed. E. .J. Farnsworth and Phillip Cohn were also drowned. The entire residence portion t?f lleppner was destroyed but the business houses, being on higher ground and ticing generally built of brick and stone, were not so badly damaged. Thc school house aud court house, which stand bri a side hill, were saved, hub two churches, the Metho dist and Presbyterian were completely wrecked. "Around thc depot thc rising water left great heaps nf driftwood piled higher than the roof of the station and the rescuing parties were forced to demolish these pyramids of timber in order to extricate the corpses which were tangled in the brush. Undoubted ly many of Ur: drowned bodies were carried by the running waters down the valley. "Gangs of men are at work clearing away thc piles of debris, rocks and timbers which Ile piled in heaps in the streets and taking, out the corpses which are thus concealed." A Pitiful Story. A pitiiul story comes from Helton in this state. It told of the tragic ending of the life of Mr. Preston H. Mitchell about two miles west of Helton. For the past three or four years Mr. Mitchell's mind has been practially unbalanced. On Monday just after dinner be walked out and remarked to Mrs. Mitchell that he was going to blic bottoms to see bis corn. Later in thc afternoon she began to grow al armed at his long absence and notified the hands about the farm who began a search for him, and failing to lind him, thc alarm was given in the neighborhood and ti more thorough search was Instituted and kept up until shortly after sunrise Wednesday morning when his body was found about 200 yards from the house with thc top of his head blown off and an empty shot gun by his side with a string tied to thc triger and fastened to a bush. A False Claim. The town of Babbington, lt. I., seems to be trying bo cheat the bown at Port Mill, H. C., out of the honor of having erected the lirst monument in the United States to thc faithful slaves. The morning papers contain an account of thc unveiling of such a monument there and state that it is thc lirst of its kind ever erected. Tn 1805 Cadt. Samuel IO. White of Fort Mill erected such a monument in the park close to the monument of the old soldiers and the women of the Confederacy, lt is tall, plain marble shaft, with an appropriate inscription on thc base. On one side ol' thc die is an old negro mammy nursing a white baby, and on the opposite side a negro laborer sitting on a log under the shade ol' a large bree with ari old time scythe hi his bauds. On the other two sides are thc family names of the besb known old time darkies. Money on Colton . The Spartanburg Journal says "itls an ill wind that blows nobody good." While many of the cotton mills of thc South are in a pinch over thc matter of securing cotton and of making a profit on their goods at thc present high price or tho raw material, the Clifton Manufacturing Company has gone ahead and disposed of o.ooii bales of cotton on which lb is said that the net proiit was 9150,000. The comp any had on hand nine thousand hales of cotton when thc Hood struck their warehouses. Six thousand bales were saved, while most of the remainder is scattered down I'acolvt river for miles below the mills. This success hi sell ing cotton ab a high proiit is especially fortunate for tho mills at this time in view of their recent heavy losses caused hy thc Hood disaster. Collapse ol'a Ill idge. Ab Rauclairc, Wis., the collapse of the approach to the Madison street bridge Wednesday night while about 200 carnival sightseers were watching tile illumination of tho streets caused serious injury to many and sent scores of people to the hospital and physi cians' olllccs with broken limbs and bruised bodies. When bbc merrymak ing was ab its height a section of the approach 50 feet long suddenly gave way and a panic resulted. Cries of pain added to thc fright of the panic stricken people and it seemed for a time that a terrible calamity had oc curred. None were fatally Injurcdi 'COMING- TO LIGHT. Significant Facts About the Mail Scandals Being Unearthed. BRISTOW'S REPLY TO CHARGES. Many IrrCRUlnritles Aro Shown bj' the Otllclul Papers Boinj; I3x ' ami nea hy tho Govern ment onicials. Postmaster General Payne Wednes .nesday made public the reply of of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Bristow to thc charges of Sey mour W. Tulloch, former cashier of the Washington city post?nico, re garding thc irregularities in thc postal administration, and also reports of of inspection and investigation of the Washington post?nico by inspectors between .lune ?Mi, 181)11, and .July :tl, 1,000, together with the transcript or thc Tulloch charges sonic years ago and the cohctuslon thereon then reach ed' hy Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith. These papers con stitute by far the most significant documents yet made public as a result, of thc sweeping postal investigation. Tho' reports show thc existence ni many irregularities during tbe period involved. Thc inspector who investi gated tbe irregularities reports that the tiles of the postollice cashier show direct orders from sueprlor authority for tlie disbursement of all tbe ques tionable items cited. The inspector urged "that the responsibility for the many illegal appointments, the pay ment of two salaries to" one and bbc same person and the disbursement of thousands ot dollars for which practi cally no service was performed; should tic placed where lt properly belongs and tbe many abuses corrected." In a suiumaryot' thc several reports tbe postmaster general says: "Thc charge ot' Mr. Tulloch is in its essence against President McKinley ?and Postmaster General Smith. Presi dent McKinley is no longer living: Postmaster General Smith, who car ried out President McKinley's policy, bas answered for himself. With re gard to thc present management of the Washington postolllce and the conduct of any and all men charged with wrong doing who have been in the postal service under the present administration, a thorough and searching investigation is now being made." The postmaster general also says: "It will bc sr.cn that the whole sub ject was taken up by Postmaster Gncral Smith and investigated by bim. All expenditures referred to were allowed by the auditor and comp troller, with the exception of $100." Thc documents, made public JWed nesday show that on May 1 last, Mr. Payne wrote a letter to Mr. l?ristow calling attention to the published in terview with Mr. Tulloch, and asked Mr. Bristow "what truth if any there is in the statements." Mr. Bristow's reply dated three days later transmits reports of three in spectors relating to the Washington postolllce. Mr. Bristow says that after the in spectors had reported irregularities lie directed that reports be made in the regular way. "l>uring the progress of thc inspec tion 1 was advised by the chief in spector that George W. Beavers, chief ol the salary and allowance division, had suggested to one of the inspectors that when bc came to certain ap pointments in some of tiic stations that appeared irregular be bad better make no reference to them as they had been ordered personally by thc postmaster general. 1 told the chief inspector to instruct tiic inspectors to report the facts as they would in any other inspection; that I did not be lieve the postmaster general bad knowingly authorized any irregulari ties. "Capt. W? B. Smith, inspector in charge, submitted a special report. This report disclosed what seemed to me glaring irregularities, and I sub mitted it personally to thc postmaster general; suggesting to him at thc time that it contained matters to which I thought he would want to give his pcsonal attention. "Tiic third report sets forth a num ber or irregularities that prevailed at that time in thc Washington post olllce. 1 was informed by the chief inspector that complaint was made to thc postmaster general that inspec tor Little, who was engaged on the work, was asking unnecessary ques tions and seeking to obtain informa tion which was not. called for on in spection. 1 advised bim toinstruck in spector Little to make thc sanie kind Of an Investigation of the Washington postolllce that be would make of any other ellice under similar circumstan ces, and to submit in a special report anything which bc thought should be called to the personal attention ol' the postmaster general. This bc did." Iii the tirstof thc inspector's reports submitted by Mr. Bristow it appears that Robert V. Willett, a son ol'the then postmaster, drew two salaries from July 1 to Dec. IO. I Sits, one as a laborer at the city posfofticc at $000 a year, and the other as a mechanic at $2 per day for each work ing day on what appears to have been a special roll of the free delivery ser vice, and that N. II. Baker likewise was designated as a laborer on thc postolllce roll April 20, 1800, at $700 per annum and on tho same date as a mechanic on thc free delivery roll at $2 a day. The inspectors continu ing say that on .lune ?10, 1801), 22 em ployes were borne on the rolls and paid on what has been known as the "mili tary roll," while the "military roll" shows ?l-l names as having been paid by thc cashier of thc Washington ellice. There was also found a "special roll of employes, paid for miscellan eous allowances, said appointments heilig under thc control of thc post ?nico department." This roll con sists of nine "cleaners" with salaries from $100 to $<>0U and one "physi cian" at a salary of $1,700. Some of these cleaners appear to have per formed very little service and others none at all. The most Important exhibit ls tiic report of Postolllcc Inspector In charge Smith of Washington division, made in July, 180?, sotting forth irregulari ties which he urged should be investi gated. He names four employes on the military roll who appear not to have performed any service in con nection with military postal matters and for whose original appointment or continuance on thc rolls no good reason exists. Thc payment to W. S. Lamer, a military postal clerk, un der protest, by the cashier or $118.93, subsequently disallowed hy thc au ditor of the treasury on Jan. 4, 1899, is gone into at length and it is shown that this matter was entirely irreg ular and that payments were directed without proper vouchers. Attention is called to certain items of expenditures authorized for the military postal service of supplies, furniture, traveling expenses, aggre gating 28,750.70, with the statement that the prices paid for some of the articles enumerated, such as wash stands at $40 each appear to have been highly excessive. Attention also is called to addi tional irregularities hi connection with payrolls of clerks and laborers, and to charging premiums on thc bonds of military postal clerks, notwithstand ing such expenses arc not chargeable to the United States. An interesting feature concerns ir regularities in thc appointment, com pensation and promotion of Oliver H. Smith, (hi Nov. 20, 1897, thc li rsl assistant postmaster general author ized an allowance of $000 per annum for his appointment as laborer, stat ing that the free delivery division would allow $2 per day to cover car fare and incidental expenses. Smith drew pay from Nov. 23, 1897, to Nov. 30, 1898, making his compensation for one year approximately $1,348.00. Thc inspector reports "no one has cert!lied to the actual time Smith was employed nor has any statement been attached to his pay vouchers showing what particular service lie rendered. Ile was continued in thc dual capacity of clerk and mechanic until April I, 1899, when he was pro moted to be (?nance clerk at $1,700 per annum." Thc inspector says he knew of no authority of law for his appointment or promotion. Attention is next called by the in spector to certain vouchers, author ized to be paid by the lirst assistant postmaster general, such as expenses of Perry S. Heath and George W. Heavers, traveling on official business. Tlic inspector states that these vouch crs do not appear to have been itemiz ed in the proper manner, nor is thc necessity for the expenditure of this money hy thc Washington postotllee appcarent. Attention ls called to seven cleaners placed on thc pay roll of the Wash ington office under authority of the first assistant postmaster general, to bc charged to the appropriation for miscellaneous expenses. Thc names of these cleaners-all females-are given. - The inspector states that neither the postmaster nor any one connected with the Washington oftlec was able to give any information as to where they were employed or the nature or their work, and the inspector is of opinion that practically no service whatever has been rendered for the money expended. The inspector says that by the over lapping of a lease executed in 1897 the government lost $025, and that thc building was paid for one month beyond its occupancy. The inspector reports that when the cashier of the Washington post ?nico on letters from the comptroller suspended payments to certain per sons mentioned he was required to continue, these payments upon direct written order from the postmaster, who states he was verbally instructed in his action hy thc lirst assistant postmaster general. Tba payments were made under the cashier's protest. Thc Inspector cites payments to Catherine Kndsley, Charles A. Madl en j A. ll. Hurl, H. L. Lorenz, John .S. Leach and 1''. W. Wait, on the au thority of the lirst assistant post master general of per diem in connec tion with claims of letter carriers for overtime charges, aggregating $4,055. The inspector says this account, dis bursed from July 1, 1898, was disburs ed without authority of law. Machen, Lorenz anti Hurt if appears were paid per diem covering the same period by the disbursing clerk of the department of justice, from the appropriation for defending suits in letter carriers' claims against the United States be fore the court of claims. These par ties continued lo draw pay until the comptroller called l'or a statement from them. The report of Inspector Little on the investigation of the Washington office, dated July 31, 1900, says that a number of (Jerks were added to the rolls without request of thc postmas ter and that, the postmaster states that at times it lias been difficult to lind employment for all assigned lo his rolls. Thc inspector says the roster appears to Vic elastic, to he ad ded to as circumstances arise whether the postmaster requested it or not. Tile aggregate salaries paid lo those not connected willi the office amount ed lo $10, lOOi No Vulgar Murder. In speaking of the murder o? the king and queen of Servia the Chatta nooga Times says at any rate, it is interesting lo note that, the adair was not an ordinary, vulgar mur der, committed byan anarchist, hula regular gentlemanly assassination, conducted after thc most eminent precedents and the best accepted trad i j lions of the European court?., furnish ing us free American citizens evidence of thc ample Justification for the mo mentous anxiety of crowned heads for their own personal safety. Gol II In the Neck. Krousbevan, the notorious Jew baiter and the editor of Hie anti-Semi tic organ in Kischihcir. The Itessar abetz, the articles in which arc be lieved to have been largely responsi ble for Ilia massacre of thc Jews in Cischinelf, was attacked hy a party of Jews in the street of Petersburg! Kessia, Wednesday. He ?was stabbed in the neck by one of the jews. The wound is not believed' to be fatal. His assailant was captured and prov ed to be a former student of thc poly technic" school at Kleff. NMIIING HIS LAD Politically is What Senator Tillman Says About the Negro. DEMOCRATIC MATERIAL SCARCE. Soimtoi Tillman gays Roosevelt ta Alwfiys on DrcHH Parado mid Always Will bc Whilo ) Ho's President. . iii . . ' In conversation with a reporter of thc Augusta Herald recently Senator Tillman said : "I iravo not seen the interviews with Congressman Hardwick on his bttl til repeal the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and dont know just what ip is, hut I do know that just such a,thing ls inevitable. Thc negro is coming down to bis proper status"!" lt was thus that Senator li. R. Till man spoke recently while walting in Augusta to take a train to Louisiana, whereto is going to lceturc-at a eha tauq?if.- Thc senator says he will bc away ?ii this trip of lectures for about ten days, after which he will return to his home in South Carolina. "There is nothing going on in na tional^ pol i ties just now except thc usual ? ress parade of Roosevelt," he said and in reply to tho question of how long he thought these dress pa rades would last! "Oh*, that's going to keep up Just as long.Roosevelt is President." Speaking of tho coming convention and tljc outlook for Presidential tim ber in .thc Democratic party Senator Tillman said that he had never seen the country so barren of material to worl^?pon as lt is at this time. He spoke pf Parker and Gorman but said he-could not tell which, if either, would/be the man for thc place. Ile sakPtney would both bc mentioned in thc convention and one of them may be chosen, but bc could not say which it would,' likely be. Ile did not know cii??gb of thc standing of either to say what their relative strength is, hut tfihiks that Parker has thc advan tage pf having no record behind him except that of a Judge. Continuing along the linc of thc Hardwick bill that is to bc presented at the next session of Congress Sena tor Tillman said: "About thc only thing that ls at tracting much comment lu national political circles now is that Ohio plat forra^ aud it has not gone far enough for ditto sec whether it is to be a local or a national measure." Hg explained that this platform is a mesure that seeks to allow the ne gri? "Hgoyern where he is in thc nw 'ipi -pr.-else to"cut down the repre sentation of the white man, and is of thet?pl?ion that if it is made a na tional .affair it will undoubtedly be brought up at the convention and met by thc Democratic party. "If this is to bc a national rather than a local issue it will mean the re organization of the old ante-bellum days. I mean if thc red shirts make this what that would mean it will bc then a question of this is a white man's country and he must rule thc government, majority or no majority. 1 don't mean that it will be a condi tion of affairs like those of thc days of , thc sixties. Then lt was a question ! of slavery luit now it will bc a ques tion simply of thc negro or white man. Senator Tillman says thc matter of repealing the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments is certainly inevitable and is a question of only a time. He thinks that for thc Ohio platform be pushed upon thc people of thc coun try, asking for thc guarantee of the provisions of these amendments would merely hiing the matter to a crisis sooner. "Weare waiting for them to play their cards or show their band.,so we will know what move to make." he said. Speaking of conditions in South Carolina, thc Senator said: "The thing that is most interesting over there now is a few days sunshine. I have just come down from Clemson and through the upper part of thc State to Columbia and 1 must say that 1 nccr saw thc crops in such a bad condition. The grass has taken everything. Why, thc country is woolly with grass. The lowland crops have all been washed away and will have to be replanted. "No there is nothing going oh in politics there now, you know this is an off year. The only thing going on that I know of is with the Governor. You know he is shooting a few tigers now. Every time he sees one he shoots him down." Senator tillman looks thc picture of health, and while Iiis conversation sliows that he is as much as ever In terested in the affairs of the Ameri can government, he seems more taken up just ab this time with thc condi tion of farm lands in Iiis o wu State. Thc fact that he is not himself a man of a gloomy disposition, rather being inclined to be an optimist than a pes simist, when lie makes the statement that tlie crop conditions of the Pal metto State are worse than he bas overseen them before, it would indi cate at once that there is time fer sonic concern. Itevlcwctl the Cadets. A special dispatch to The State from Lexington, Va., says Governor D. C. (Icy ward of South Caral i na, upon thc special invitation of Gen. Scott Ship, superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, reviewed t he battalion of cadets Wednesday af ternoon. A salute of 17 guns, the governor's salute, was bred in honor of thc distinguished Carolinian. Gov. I ley ward expressed himself as much pleased with the military bearing of thc young soldiers. Bride Killed tfcrsoir. Within half an hour after her second marriage, having been previously divorced, Miss Hattie A. Thomas of Now Orleans on Tuesday swallowed a dose of laudanum that proved fatal, leaving a note to her parents to pray fojr her. AFTER THE FLOOD. Busy Neones Atonp Pacolct Uiver. Wrecking; Companies at Work. Tue Spartanburg Journal says a busy scene greeted thc visitors Thurs day along thc banks of thc recent turbulent Pacolct river where the fury of the waters worked such ex tensive destruction. At the Cliftons and at Pacolct scores of laborers are busy cleaning away debris and recover ing cotton and thc mill products from the mud and wreckage. The II Itt Salvage Company has ilfty to seventy five men at work, scouring the river banks and the recesses of the stream, looking for cotton, many bales ol which arc being recovered. Tire plan of the Clifton Company for ticcuring what machinery they can from the river is todrain the big pond extending from thc site of thc de stroyed Mill No. 3 to Mill No. 1. The work will be in charge bf a salvage company from New York who will put a force of men to work at an ear)y date to drain the pond and search in the mud and debris for any machinery that can he found. Thc same com pany will also recover as mitch of brie property of" tlie electric railway as possible. Tlie electric company wi'll lose at least ono mlle nf tracie at Clif ton, The trolley wire and ra,U.s ure, however, being recovered as rapidly as possible. Thc machinery on tho immediate sites of tlie. Clifton Mills will be re covered hy.I. U. Garfunkel of Colum bia who will begin work on next Mon day morning. Mr. Garfunkel has pur chased all thc scrap iron that may be found among the wreokage while the mill company will retain suoh machin ery as oan be used. Thc big Hy wheel ab Mill No. 3 which weighs about 100,000 pounds has also been purchas ed by Mr. Garfunkel. Thc wheel was broken to pioees hy the force of the Hood and is ? absolutely useless to the company. Hy next Monday thc banks or thc river will be crowded with busy work men who will repair as far as possible tlie storm's work of destruction. Later iori work will hq started by the mill company repairing Mills Nos. 1 and 2. The .Southern Railway was one of the heaviest losers in the county by the Hood of .lune ('?. A prominent railroad man says that tho Southern alone will lose half a million dollars. Tlie reads will lose moro than their not earnings from tlie entire state for thc current year on account of th? Hood damage, trestles washed away, etc. lt ls now. estimated that 25 per cent of the mill operatives havq left the Clirton Mills and Pacolct having secured other jobs. At one time last week there were no less than seven teen mill representatives at Clifton and Pacolct who had come to secure mill labor from the ranks of the opera tives. It is said that some of the operatives have evinced a tmvrkcd de gree of unwillingness to leave their homes for other mills, thinking that if they remained they would be thc recipients of aid from thc relief com mittee. The time of the year at which the Hood occurred has proven a very for tunate circumstance for had it oc curred in winter or early spring much , additional suffering would have been entailed. Thc cars of thc electric comany continue to carry many visi tors to Clifton, hut it will probably he only a few weeks before thc signs of wreckage arc completely obliterated and thc big storm will have been a thing of tlie past._ We Arc Not Carpers. A negro lynching in the city of In dianapolis has quickly followed the affair at Belleville, 111. Just what degree of guilt attaches to a negro's act in apparently forcing his remarks I upon awhile giri in thc street is not easy to decide perhaps. At any rate, reasonable people would say that the girl's testimony as to the character of tlie ol?ense. should lirst he taken be fore resorting to su ni mary measures against the negro. The Indianapolis mob, however, on the mere fact that the negro was seen to address the girl in public somewhat persistently, al though he soori passed on, pursued him at once to lils death. One fel low in thc mob carried a pistol and he completed the job. No arrests, ac cording to the reports. The middle West is now a fair mark far Southern criticism. - -Springfield Republican. Seed louring. Tiic seed plantations around San .lose, Cal., are said to receive $3,000, 000 a year from thc sale of ser-d. The first experiments of the planters in this line were made less than half a dozen years ago. Ouc onion patch now covers 3,000 acres, with furrows almost two miles long. A single plot of sweet pea occupies 800 acres, a bed of yellow asters 210 acres, a lettuce bed 2,100 acres. These are .within a radius of eighty miles around San Jose, 14,500 acres devoted to raising plants and Mowers for their seed alone. A Hud Record. Otic hundred rulers of countries have been assassinated since the year 040, when Edward I, of England, was stabbed with a dagger. Or the num ber seventy-three were assassinated (luring the century just closed; which marked it as a singularly unfortun ate hundred years for royalty. Al ready, in this new century, there have been four heads of governments as sassinated, and the century is not four years old. A Sicamor Sunk l'art of the crew or thc Belgian steamer Rubens, which sailed from Sunderland on .lune 10 for Pillau, Prussia, were brought herc today. The men reported that their vessel had capsized and sank. Six of thc sailors the captain and mate were lost. Seven of the crew drifted about for 22 hours. Before they were pick ed up three o' them died from expos ure. Fourteen Killed. A terri lice and fatal explosion oc curred in the lyddite factory at Wool wich, England, Thursday morning. Five buildings were completcy wreck ed Reports of casualties are conlllctlng but the latest places the dead at 14 and Injured at 13. The killed were blown to atoms and their remains were gathered up In buckets. LEOPARD SEIZED HEB. Minc. Pauline Attacked by a Wild H en Ht in Cane. A dispaoth from Baltimore Wednes day says- Mme. Pauline, tho famous trainer of wild animals, was attacked Tuesday by an Infuriated leopard. If blood poison sets in she may die. The leopard is one of the East Indian ani mals recently brought to this country. The two, one a male, and the other a female, reached the exposition grounds Saturday evening and were placed in a cage specially prepared for them. Although the leopards are about four years old they have never been trained and are as savage as they ever were In the jungle. Mme. Pauline who has gained a reputation as a trainer of lions panthers and leopards, entered their cage Sunday for the first time. She had made a preliminary inspec tion from the outside, and decided that as thc female, the smaller of the two, ho seemed to quiet and meek, she would not have her tied down as is the custom when a trainer enters a cage of wild animals for the li rat time. Tho malo was tied, and when Mme. Pau line entered he showed a savage spirit, trying to free himself and to bound upon lier. The T?male lay quiet In a comer of thc cage. Mme. Pauline again entered tho cage Monday and received a slight claw wound on her hand. Put still the female remained quiet and gave no evidence of being displeased by the visit. When Mme. Pauline entered cage Tuesday, one of the guards had thrown a rope around the neck of the larger leopard and held it, but the smaller one was not bound. The train er nave more attention to the larger leopard, whose eyes glared like bails of lire and whose restlessness at her presence was plainly appavent. The door of the cage had scarcely heenclnscd when tho smaller leopard, crouched in an opposite end of the cage, sprang upon the trainer. Her hind feet struck" Mme. Pauline near her waist, while the fore claws sauk into her neck, and she seized the wo man by the throat with her teeth Blood gushed from all thc wounds and it seemed as though the woman would be killed. Mme. Pauline lost neither her cour age nor her self-possession, but at once began struggling with the animal, whose'furry seemed to .Increase with the smell and-taste of human blood Pushing thc muzzle of her revolver to the eyes of the leopaad, Mme. Pauline discharged blank cartridges in quick succession, which caused the animal to release her hold. Several attend ants seized Iron bars and beat the ani mal to the door of the cage, while ?Mme. Pauline, with blood flowing from 14 wounds, retreated from the cage. Either the teeth or claws of the animal pierced her lower Hp, and_ be sides she was bitten and clawed in the neck, shoulders and back. Half faint ing, she was placed in her bed in a tent in the rear of the animal show and the surgeon of the exposition dressed the wounds, inserting nearly thirty stitches in all. WANTS HIS MONEY BACK. Pnssenjier AVlio Was Held Up hy Floods Sends in Bill. A dispatch from Columbia says: The railroad commission is sometimes I taken for a collection agency by peo ple who have bills, or who think they have, against a railroad. Wednesday I the hoard received one from an Insur I ance agent in Florence, it being for $8 against Ute Southern Railway. The man had a ticket on train No. lill, on the Atlanta and Charlotte j division. When thc train got to Greers it was found that the Tygerj river bridge was down and lt could not proceed. Some pressing business evidently made this particular pas-1 senger want to get to Spartanburg at I any cost, so he took a hack at Greers | and drove to Woodruff, expecting to ] take the Charleston and' Western Charleston line. The bridge of that company across I the Tyger river was also down, so| another hack was taken and Spartau burg was reach at last, after, many trials and much tribulation. The! passenger secured a statement from ' thc conductor of :iC> that he had a I ticket to Spartanburg, and this was ] attached to thc bill, which follows: Hotel bill at Greers, ?Oc; hack to j Woodruff, S1.7?; Dinner at Wood ruff, ?Oe; hack from Woodruff to Spar tanburg, $5.25-Total $8. The passenger says he put on no J charge for time and trouble. The j commission has not yet taken action on the bill, hut it will hardly do any more than transmit it to thejSouthern. Dynamite Used. Thc light between the people of Petersburg and Winslow, Pike Coun ty, Ind., regarding the location of the county seat ls becoming more bit ter than ever. Petersburg is the pres ent county seat. Unknown parties placed dynamite and a keg of powder in the hallway of the court house ear ly Wednesday and attached a lighted fuse to the powder. There was a ter rible explosion, but no great harm was done. The dynamite failed to I explode. The people of Petersburg say that while they have no direct I clue as to who is responsible, they have every reason to believe sympa-1 thlzers with Winslow in the light for I a change of location of the county seat did the work. Will Now HaiiR. John Brownfield, colored j wno kill ed Deputy Tax Collector Jas. C. Scurry while in thc discharge of his | duty three years ago, and who appeal ed to thc Supreme courts of the state I and the United States, wa;; rcsentenc cd on Tuesday by Judge Gary, the date of his execution being set for Friday. A Moving Matter. Down in Texas the other day a man named Whole married a Miss Harrow, and the editor of the local paper had no more sense of thc fitness of things than to print his account of the wed ding under the head of "Whole-Bar row." SCENES OE CRIMES In Belgrade Palace IB Red "With* Blood of Royal ViotiiuB. THERE WAS NO WAY OF ESCAPE. Tho Koval Dcd Chamber Whom the Soldiers Blew the King and Queen Described In Detail. The correspondent of the Associated Press at Belgrade, Servia, was on Wednesday allowed to inspect the* place In which King Alexander and Queen Draga were murdered. The room, which was furnished in empire style, remains in the same condition as when the king and queen fled from it on the approach of the assassins. The French novels lie on the queen's table and thc queen's tbll?t articles, perfumes and cosmetics covered her dressing table. The costly silk bed coverings are full of bullet holes, the conspirators hav ing shot wildly in all directions, through and under the bcd, chairsand tables in their efforts to lind their victims. A simple wardrobe room lead ing directly from the bed room was the scene of thc ti nal act in the drama. Thc apartment is lofty but scarcely seven feet wide and fifteen feet lung and is furnished-only with three great wardrobes. The officers who attended the correspondent showed .the latter the blood-stained floor at oncead of the room where the king and quee"* fell and the broken Venetian shutter at thc window through which their bodies were thrown to the ground below. A secret stairway leads through the floor to rooms in thc southern end of thc palace. By this stairway the hap less couple might have attempted to escape, but they were unable to do so because thc opening of this stairway was covered by a heavy chest. Escapo in any event would have beeu impossi ble, as the soldiers who bad surrounded tlie palace were so determined to kill the king and queen-that they had even placed cannon in froot of the palace and were prepared to destroy the build ing in thee vent of failing to find their prey. Each of the three roomr between the vestibule and the bed chamber showed marks of the tragedy. Mirrors were shattered, pictured were shot through, furniture was brokon, there was bul let holes in the doors and in the oil portraits of the king which were hi every room and most of the latter were otherwise mutilated. Contrary to the general understand ing but*little effort has been made to renovate the apartments except where the carpenters were making two new doors to replace those which had been blown to pieces at tho time the con-' spirators forced their way into tho..,; ' rooms-occupied by the king and queen.' :'" The royal apartments were slmv?'y and tatefully furnished chiefly iii Oiiental style and presented a homeiut: appear ance. The interior of thc palace might have been that of a country house belonging to a prosperous American. Thc house of the king's adjutant, Lazar Perovics, which was the first attacked, is even a greater wreck than the royal apartments in the palace. Thc entrance was com pletely destroyed by dynamite. The adjutant then escaped unhurt, hut he was killed later in the vestibule of the palace. A large blood stain marks the spot where the officer died. It was in a bare, white washed roora of the com mandant's quarters, adjoining the pal ace, that Queen Draga's two brothers were shot while sitting on wooden chairs, which bear marks of the| bul lets. The proceedings in the palace showed thc same absolute callousness which has characterized the actions and demeanor of everybody in Bel grade since the tragedy. Many Mhltthipmcn. A dispatch from Anapolls, Md., says nearly 700 candidates for admis sion to the naval acad?my are here to take the examinations. About200 of the youths have been here for some time preparing at thc preparatory schools of Wcmtz and Wilmer. The incoming trains of the past several days have brought dozens more. Nearly every State in the Union is represented. The candidates have considerable trouble in engaging quarters, as thc hotels and boarding houses had but few spare rooms, and a number of them have been taken In by private families. Thc new fourth class, which the successful ones will enter, will number upward of 300 members, and will be the largest class ever at the institution. A Fiendish Murder. Henry Betts of South Cumberland, Md., age 23, shot his mother and step father, Rone, with a double barreled shotgun Wednesday evening. The mother's face and breast were torn away. She will die. Hone's right arm was mangled, but he will live. Betts does not live at home, and, on being refused money, procured a gun and returned to the house and fired on his mother and stepfather. Betts went to a physician and told him that two people were shot at his home. Ile then surrendered to olllcers and is in jail. _ Villages Destroyed. Tlie British consular reports of the recent earthquakes in the vilayet of Of Van confirm previous advices that twenty-three villages were affected and; some completely destroyed. Seven hundred and eighty-live lives are known to have been lost and it is feared all were killed in outlying dis tricts not yet enumerated. A Sud Death. John C. Harvclcy of Green wood,who was action as telegraph operator at Hamlet, N. C., was run over and kill ed there by a train on Tuesday: Ile was only nineteen years old. Gave up tho Struggle. J. H. Williams, a farmer of Lan caster county, aged 35, committed suicide on Tuesday night with a shot gun. Ile was despondent on account of ill health and inability to work lils crops.