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: '?DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAfcl^HJR LIVES IN 'PHY POSSESSION HAPPY, OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." .]??_' . ? :'. VOL. XXVII. BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FMpAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1903. NO. 14. FULLER DETAILS - Of the Great Flood that Destroyed , Heppner Oregon. DESCRIPTION BY EYE WITNESS. Wall ni'Water Hushed Down .Moun tain Side. Wn^on I mud s of Corpses Are Casted to the Cemetery. Later nows from Ileppncr, Oregon, show that the first reports of the dis aster were not exaggerated. The casualty list will foot up 500 and tnany of the bodies will never bc 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 lifty of thc best resi dences were swept from thc earth. The debris is piled along the railroad track to thc height of rreijiht cars. The relief work is progressing at a satisfactory pace. .James (vornan, thc Oregon Railway and Navigation com pany agent, met his deatli at the 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 Tor a mile and a hair. His wife and two children climbed into the upper rooms. Below town it crossed the creek to the west side, where it lodged in debris 150 yards from the canyon bank. Shuter then took Iris two little ones and swam a hundred yard'" He landed the chil dren and then rescued his wife. nOUIUULH CONDITIONS. Tlie names ot' 18? persons whose bodies have been discovered or who are missing and believed to be dead as a result ol the Heppner Hood, have been obtained. In addition to the bodies of seven Chinese, three .1 ap??ese and lil strangers and babies, names unknown, go to swell the list. Elias Connor, a stock raiser of lone, re turned rroni Heppner at 2 o'clock Wednesday morning. He left the Scene of the disaster at ii o'clock that night. lt is known," said Mr. Connor, "that at least 27;"? or .'IOU people were drowned, 115 corpses have been hasti ly buried 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 .-great uuUibora of bodies will be lound. "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. It looks strange to see the heavy steel rails bent and twisted like cork screws and heavy Limbers .splintered like matchwood. In Hepp ner itself thc Hood swept a clean path .a mile loug and two blocks wide through the town, going generally the ?course of Willow creek." A sunvivon's STORY. Three men who survived thc Hood :ab Heppner-R. D. Hall, J. .J. Kelley .and A. P. Bradbury-have arrived at Portland Oregon, after having wit nessed thc destruction of thc town :and assisted in the work of rescue, i Mr. Kelley said: "The rain was not falling in Heppner, but could be seen | some distance away. Sharp Hashes of lightning were accompanied by the howling thunder. Then suddenly the thunder died away, and a low noise was heard, very faint at Hist but grow louder. Tile city is situated on Wil low creek, which makes a sharp turn above the city. As thc noise grew louder and louder, the people became frantic. Then in a moment the van of the Hood burst into view around the curve of the creek, carrying on its crest the cabins and houses which stood in its path. The people made a rush to the hills, but were too late. The Hood was upon them. The little river in live 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 the houses moved down thc stream they caught on to the trees and hung there until morning when they were rescued." HU SAW IT^Al.l.. David Mc A tee, a business man of Heppner, was an eye witness of the disaster. In company with b'ratik Spaulding beloit ileppncr about lo.."io o'clock Sunday night on horseback. "On Sunday afternoon," said Mr. Mc Atec, "there had been a severe rain storm, accompanied witli much wind and lightning. 1 was standing in front of thc house and noticed that a cloud of remarkable density approached the top of tlie hill on the east side of the . canyon. I turned for a moment, when a roar caused me to look again sit the i hill. I saw a wall of water, the height . of willoh I would bo afraid to gauge, rushing down the mountain, carrying immense trees and timbers on its crest and tearing away the very rocks from their foundations. The terri lie storm . struck the upper part of the town first. The residence of Thomas Howard was the lirst to fall and his entire family was drowned. In the K rug home also . every person was drowned, as was the case in the Hale and Sal lng residences. .All of these houses were about four or . live blocks hbove thc business centre: 'Tho house ol' Abram llamsick was .entirely demolished. The Palace hotel \was the first building to stem the tide ..and all the guests wore saved, hut the ii louses below that structure were blown out into the street, overturned and wrecked. Thc residence of JJ. A. Rhea was carried away and tlie'entire family, consisting of wife and three daughters, and Miss Adkins, a cousin, were lost. "C. IO. Redfield, whose residence was completely destroyed, was absent but his wife and baby were drowned. , "A. C. (?eigor's house was carried away and Mr. (feiger was drowned. His ? y family is In tlie east. '.'George Conser's hoiise was reached next but the family succeeded In saving their li ves by rushing to the upper sto ries, the house being carried down tho creek three-quarters of mlle. Res cuers found that the house had been but In two and Mr. Gonser was stand ing in water up to his neck, holding his wife upon the roof and keeping her from slipping from his outstretch ed arms. Ur. McSwat and J. Ayers, who were living in the same residence were drowned. "Oscar Miner's house was next de molished and Mrs. Miner drowned. The rest of the family succeeded In saving their lives by einging to tits roof. All of the Wells family but two were lost and the bouse was carried away. With the Wells residence went thc house of George Swaggcrt. Mr. Swaggert's two married daughters were drowned with their live children. Thc Mallory house was carried lf>0 yards and was found lodged against a store and Mr. Mallory, a crippled old man, was found saie, holding a baby. James M ti tieck's was next. Mis. Matlock was drown ed but his family was saved. Ur. lligg's house also went. "The house of Mr. Royd and Mr Wai ton 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 the Heppner hotel. "This house, which was run under thc inauagemenbotJones,& Ashbaugh was carried away, lt is supposed that there were about f>0 guests in tills hotel, all of whom arc reported to he lost. Thc proprietors themselves were saved, but their families are among the dead. "The house of Renjamln Patterson Mr. Dunn and Mr. Noble were entirely demolished and all persons in these three families drowned, as were the families of James Jones and Henry Birk, Thc barn of Ur. Swinburn and the.-blg livery stable of White & Meadows were entirely destroyed. I1 J. Farnsworth and Phillip Cohn were also drowned. Thc entire resident* portion of llcppner was destroyed but the business houses, being on higher ground and being generally built of brick and stone, were not so badly damaged. The school house and court house, which stand on a side hill, were saved, but two churches, the Metho dist and Presbyterian were completely wrecked. "Around the depot the rising water left great heaps of driftwood piled higher than the roof of the station and the rescuing parties were forced to demolish these pyramids ol' timber in order Lo extricate the corpses which were tangled in the brush. Undoubted ly many of tin drowned bodies wen carried by thc running waters down the valley. "Gangs of men arc "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 pitiful story comes from Helton this state. It told of the tragic ending of the lire of Mr. Preston H. Mitchell about two miles west of Helton. For the past three or four years Mr Mitchell's mind has been practia unbalanced. On Monday just after dinner he walked out and remarked tu Mrs. Mitchell that he was going Llie bottoms to see his corn. Later the afternoon she began to grow armed at his long absence and notiti the hands about the farm who began a search for him, and failing to lind him, the alarm was given in the neighborhood and a more thorough search was instituted and kept until shortly after sunrise Wednesday morning when his body was found about 200 yards from the house with the top of Iiis head blown oil* and empty shot gun by his side witli string tied to thc triger and fastened to a hush. A Illirie Claim. Tile town of Babbington, R. seems to be trying to cheat thc Lowr at Port Mill, S. C., out of the honoi of having erected the lirst monument in the United States to the faithful slaves. The morning papers eontaii an account of thc unveiling of such monument there and state that it the lirst of its kind ever erected. 1805 Gadt. Samuel 10. White of F Mill erected such a monument in park close to the monument the old soldiers and the women of tl Confederacy. It is tall, plain marok shaft, with an appropriate inscription on the base. On one side of the die au old negro mammy nursing a whit baliy, and on thc opposite side a negro laborer si ttl hg dil a log under thc shade of a large tree with an old time scytl in his hands. On the other two sides are the family names of the best known ol tl time darkies. Money on Colton . The Spattanbtirg .loumal says "it an ill wind that blows nobody good While many of the cotton mills of South are in a pinch over the matte of securing cotton and of making profit on their goods at thc prcscnl high price of the raw material, Clifton Manufacturing Company gone ahead and disposed of (5,000 h of cotton on which it is said that the net prolit was 9180,000. The comp any had on hand nine thousand hales of cotton when the Hood struck their warehouses. Six thousand hales were saved, while most of the remainder is scattered down Pacolet river for miles below the mills. This success in sell ing cotton at a high prolit is especially fort?nale for tho mills at this time in view of their recent heavy losses caused hy the Hood disaster. Collapse ol* a Bridge. At Ka nola i re, Wis., thc collapse of the approach to Mic Madison street bridge Wednesday night while about 200 ca rid val sightseers were watching the illumination of the streets caused serious injury td many and sent scores of people to the hospital and physi cians' ofilecs with broken limbs and bruised bodies. When the. merrymak ing was at its height a section of the approach f?0 feet long suddenly gave way ami a panic resulted. Cries of pain added to tin; fright of the panic stricken people and it seemed for a time that a terrible calamity had oc curred. None were fatally injured. COMTNtt TO LIGHT. Significant Facts About the Mail Scandals Being Unearthed. BRISTOW'S REPLY TO CHARGES. Many Irregularities Aro Shown by thc Oltlcinl Pupers Being 13x * unlined hv tho Govern ment onicialB. Postmaster General Payne Wedncs 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 the irregularities in the postal administration, and also reports of of inspeetion and investigation of the Washington postolllec by inspectors between .lune :?), 185)11, and .Inly Ul, 11100, together with the, transcript ?if thc Tulloch charges some years ago and the conclusion thereon then reach ed ' by Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith. These, papers con stitute hy far the most, signlllcant documents yet made public, as a result or the sweeping postal investigation. Thc reports show tlie existence of many irregularities during the period Involved. The inspector who investi gated thc irregularities reports that thc liles of the postotlicc cashier show direct orders from sueprlor authority for the disbursement of all thc ques tionable items cited. Thc inspector urged "that the responsibility for thc many illegal appointments, thc pay ment of two salaries to* one and thc same person and thc disbursement of thousands of dollars for which practi cally nu service was performed, should lie placed where lt properly belongs and thc many abuses corrected." In a summary ol the several reports thc postmaster general says: "Thc charge of 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, has answered for himself. With re gard to thc present management of tlie Washington postotllce and thc conduct of any and all men charged with wrong doing who have been in the postal service under thc present administration, a thorough and searching investigation is now being made." The postmaster general also says: "It will be sren that the whole sub ject was taken up by Postmaster Gneral Smith and investigated by him. All expenditures referred to were allowed by thc auditor and comp troller, with the exception ol' $1(50." Thc documents made public - Wed nesday show that on May 1 last, Mr. Payne wrote a letter to Mr. Bristow calling attention to the published in terview with Mr. Tulloch, and asked Mr. Bristow "what truth if any there is in thc statements." Mr. Bristow's reply dated three days later transmits reports of three in spectors relating to the Washington p?stodlce. Mr. Bristow says that after the in spectors had reported irregularities he directed that reports bc made in the regular way. "During thc progress of thc inspec tion 1 was advised by the chief in spector that George W. Beavers, chief of the salary and allowance division, had suggested to one of the inspectors that when he came to certain ap pointmen is in some of tlie stations that appeared irregular bc had better make no reference to them as they had boen ordered personally by thc postmaster general. I told thc chief inspector to instruct the inspectors to report the facts as they would in any other ' inspection; that I did not be lieve thc postmaster general had knowingly authorized tiny irregulari ties. "Capt. W. B. Smith, inspector in charge, submitted a special report. This report disclosed what seemed to rac glaring irregularities, and I sub mitted it personally to thc postmaster general, suggesting to him at thc time that it contained matters to which 1 thought he would want to give his pesonal attention. "Thc third report sets forth a num ber of irregularities that prevailed al, that time in thc Washington posL oilicc. 1 was informed hy thc chief inspector that complaint was made to the 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 him toinstruck in spector Little to make thc same kind pf m investigation ol' the Washington (lostollice that lie would make of any jthcr olllcc under similar circumstan ces, and to submit in a special report uiything which bc thought should be jailed to thc personal attention ol' thc postmaster general. This bc did." In thc first of the inspector's reports submitted by Mr. Bristow it appears that Hohei t V. Willett, a son ?d' the then postmaster, drew two salaries from .Inly 1 Lo Dec. IO. 1808, ano as a laborer at the city postolllcc it $000 a year, and thc other as a mechanic al, $2 per day for each work ing day on what appears Lo have been i special roll of Lite free delivery ser vice, and that N. II. Raker likewise was designated as a laborer on the. postolllcc roll April 20, 1800, at $700 per annum and on thc same date as a mechanic on the free delivery roll it *2 a day. The Inspectors couti mi ng say that on June '10, 1800, 22 em ployes were borne on the rolls and paid m what has been known as thc "niili .ary roll," while the "military roll" ?hows :I4 names as having been paid >y the cashier of thc Washington .lllce. There was also found a "special till of employes, paid for misccllan lOlis allowances, said appointments icing under thc control of thc post ?lllce department." This roll con ists of nine "cleaners" with salaries rom $100 to $(?00 and one "physi lan" ata salary of $1,700. Some of hese cleaners appear to have pcr ormcd very little service and others tone at all. Thc most important exhibit is Hie report of Post?nico Inspector in charge Smith of Washington division, mado in July, 1809, setting 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 of $118.911, subsequently disallowed by thc au ditor of thc treasury on Jan. 4, 189!), is gone into at length and lt 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 thc military postal service of supplies, furniture, traveling expenses, aggre gating 28,750.70, witb the statement that thc prices paid for som? of thc articles enumerated, such as wash stands at $40 each appear to have been highly excessive. Attention also is called to addi tional irregularities in connection with payrolls of clerks and laborers, and tb charging premiums oh the bonds of military postal clerks, notwithstand ing such expenses are not chargeable to the United States. An interesting feature concerns ir regularities in tho appointment, com- , pensation and promotion of Oliver ll. Smith. On Nov. 20, 1897, the llrst assistant postmaster general author ized ari allowance of $000 per annum for his appointment as laborer, stat ing that the free delivery division , would allow 82 per day to cover car ' fare and incidental expenses. Smith drew pay from Nov. 2a, 1897, to Nov. 110, 1898, making bis compensation j for one year approximately $1,348.(10. Thc inspector reports "no one has , ce rt i lied to the actual time Smith ' was employed nor has any statement ? been attached to bis pay vouchers , showing what particular service he rendered. Ile was continued in thc , dual capacity bf clerk and mechanic j until April I, 1899, when he was pro moted to bc finance clerk at $1,700 , per annum/' The inspector says he ' knew of no authority of law for his appointment cir promot ion. Attention is next called by the in- ( spector tb certain vouchers, author- , ized to bu paid by the li rsl assistant i postmaster general, such as expenses ; of Perry S. Heath and Ceorge W. | Heavers, traveling on oOiciul business. The inspector states that these vouch ers do not appear to have been itemiz- . ed in the proper manner, nor is the j necessity for the "expenditure or this money by thc Washington postolllcc | appearent. J Attention is called to seven cleaners ! placed on the pay roll of the Wash- J ington olllce under authority of tho llrst assistant postmaster general, to . bc charged to thc appropriation for , miscellaneous expenses. Thc names t of these cleaners-all females-are | given. - Thc inspector states that neither the postmaster nor any one connected with thc Washington olllce was able to give any information as to where they were employed or the nature of their work, and thc inspector ls of opinion that practically no service whatever has been rendered for the money expended. Thc inspector says that by the over lapping of a lease executed in 1897 the government lost $02:1, and that thc building was paid for one month beyond its occupancy. The inspector reports that when thc cashier of the Washington post olbcc 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 bc was verbally instructed in his action by thc lirst assistant postmaster general. Tba payments were made under the cashier's protest. The Inspector cites payments to Catherine Lndsley, Charles A. Mach en, A. lt. Hurt, H. L. Lorenz, John S. Leach and K. W. Wait, on the au thority of the lirst assistant post master general of per diem in cou ncc i tion with claims ol' letter carriers for overtime charges, aggregating $4,055! Thc inspector says this account, dis bursed from July I, 1S98, was disburs ed without authority of law. Machen, Lorenz and Hurt it appears were paid per diem covering the same period by the disbursing clerk of thc department of justice, from the appropriation for defending suits in letter carriers' claims against the United States be fore the court ol' claims. 'These par tics continued to draw pay until the comptroller called for a statement from them. The report of Inspector Lillie on the investigation of thc Washington ellice, dated July ai, 1900, says that a number of clerks were added to thc rolls without request of the postmas ter and that thc postmaster states that at times it has been ditllcult to lind employment for all assigned to bis rolls. 'Thc inspector says the roster appears to be elastic, to be ?Ki ded to as circumstances arise whether thc postmaster requested it or not. Thc aggregate salaries paid to those not connected with the olllce amount ed to $10, loo. So Vulgar Murder. In speaking of the murder of the king and queen of Servia thc Chatta nooga Times says at any rate, ibis interesting to note that the affair was not an ordinary, vulgar mur der, committed byan anarchist, buta regular gentlemanly assassination, conducted after thc most eminent precedents and the best accepted tradij lions of thc lOuropean courts, furnish ing us free A mcrican citizens evidence of the ample justification for the mo mentous anxiety of crowned heads for their own personal safety. (?ot ll in t lie Neck. Krousbcvan, the notorious Jew baiter and the editor of thc anti-Semi tic organ in Kischiueir. The Hessar abet/., the articles in which arc be lieved to have been largely responsi ble for thj massacre of the Jews in Cischincff, was attacked by a party of Jews in the street of Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday. I To ?was stabbed in thc neck by one of the jews. The wound is not believed to be fatal. Ills assailant was captured and prov ed to be a former student of the poly technic SCiiboi al iv iel". NEARING HIS END Politically ia What Senator Tillman Saya About the Negro. DEMOCRATIC MATERIAL SCARCE. Son nt or, Tillman Says Roosevelt is Always on Dress Parado and Always AV 111 bo AV hilo v i' He's President. . . .:. I . In conversation with a reporter ot thc Augusta Herald recently Senator Tillman said: "I have not seen the Interviews with Congressman Hardwick on his bill tt) repeal the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and dont know just what if; is, but I do know that Just such a&liing is inevitable. Thc negro is coming down to bis proper status." lt was thus that Senator ll. ll. Till man spxikc recently while walting in Augusta to take a train to Louisiana, where he is going to lecturc-at a cba tauqu.r. The senator says lie will be itway (Ju this trip of lectures for about ten days, after which he will return to bis home in South Carolina, "There is nothing going on in na tional;.'polities just now except thc usual dress parade of Roosevelt," he said and in reply to tho quostion of how long he thought these dress pa rades ^ould last: "Ob', that's going to keep up justas longini} Roosevelt is President." Speaking cf tho ouraing uonvention iud thc outlook for Presidential tim ber in.the Democratic party Senator Tillman said that be had never seen the country so barren of material to work.upon as it is at this time. He spoke pf Parker and Gorman but said lie .could not tell which, if either, would; bc the man for the place. lie saidfJtney would both be mentioned in Lhe Convention and (?ne of them may be .'.hosen, but he could not say which it would.' likely be. He did not know mo?gh of tiie standing of cither to say Wlfat their relative strength is, bub.thinks that Parker bas the advan tage of having no record behind him except that of a Judge. Continuing along thc linc of the Hardwick bili that is to be presented it thc next session bf Congress Sena tor Tillman said: "About thc only thing that ls at tracting much com input in national political circles now is that Ohio plat form," and it has not gone far enough for us?tp sec whether it is to be a local ir a national measure." He-explained that this platform is i m.^ajsure that seeks to allow the no ire o govern where he is in the mu lo' -.or...else td" cut down bbc repre ?C??ijja'on ol' the white man, and is pf. me opinion that if it is made a na tional .affair it will undoubtedly be )rought up at the convention and met jy thc D?mocratie party. "If this is to bc a national rather iban a local issue it will mean the re ?rganization ol' the old ante-bellum lays. I mean if the red shirts make ibis what that would mean it will je then a question of this is a white nan's country and bc must rule thc government, majority or no majority. L don't mean that it will he a condi tion of allai rs like those of thc days of ,be sixties. Then it was a question >f slavery hut now it will be a ques .lon simply of the negro or white nan. Senator Tillman says the matter of epeallng the fourteenth and fifteenth .monuments is certainly inevitable md is a question ol' only a time. He J ll h ks that for the Ohio platform be lushed upon the people of thc couti ry, asking for thc guarantee of the irovisions of these amendments vould merely bring the matter to a risis sooner. "Weare waiting for them to play heir cards or show their hand.,so wc viii know what move to make," he aid. Speaking of conditions in South karolina, thc Senator said: "The thing that is most interesting iver there now is a few days sunshine. have just come down from Clemson md through the upper part of the ?tate to Columbia and 1 must say bat I never saw thc crops in such a ?ad condition, q'lie grass bas taken ?.very!.liing. Why, the country is voolly with grass. Thc lowland crops lave all been washed away and will nive to bc replanted. "No there is nothing going on in ?blitics there now, you know this ls .n ol? year. The only thing going on hat I know ol' is with thc Governor. Ton know he is shooting a few tigers low. Every time be sees one he boots him down.'' Senator tillman looks the picture of lealth, and while bis conversation hows that he is as much as ever in crested in the affairs ol' the A merl an government, bc seems more taken ip just at this time with the condi ioti of farm lands in bis o wu State. The fact that be is not himself a man if a gloomy disposition, rather being nclined to be an optimist than a pes imlst, when he makes the statement bat the crop conditions of the Pal-1 netto State, are worse than he luis vcr seen them before, it would indi ate at once that there ls time for onie concern. Movie wad Hie Cadets. A special dispatch to Thc State rom Lexington, Va., says Governor ). C. I ley ward of South ?a rall na, i pon the special invitation of Gen. icotti Ship, superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, reviewed bc battalion of cadets Wednesday af ernoon. A salute of 17 guns, thc overnor's salute, was fired in honor I thc distinguished Carolinian. Gov. Icy ward expressed himself as much libascd with the military bearing of lie young soldiers. Urida Killed ll eis ell'. Within half au hour alter her second carriage, having been previously liyorced, Miss Hattie A. Thomas of "few Orleans on Tuesday swallowed a lose of laudanum that proved fatal, ?skving a note U) ber parents to pray or lier. AFTER THE FLOOD. Busy Scenes Atong Pacolet Uiver. Wrecking Companies nt Work. The Spartanburg Journal sajB a busy scene greeted thc visitors Thurs day along the banks of the recent turbulent Fucolet river where the fury of tho waters worked such ex tensive destruction. At the Cliftons anti at Pacolet scores of laborers are busy cleaning away debris and recover ing cotton and tlie mill products from the mud and wreckage. The Hitt Salvage Company has fifty to seventy live men at work, scouring the river banks and the recesses ot the stream, looking for cotton, many bales ot which are being recovered. Tlie plan of the Clifton Company for securing what machinery they can from the river is todrain tho big pond extending from thc site of the de stroyed Mill No. 3 to Mill No. 1. Thc work will bc in charge of a salvage company from New York who will put a force of men to work at an early date to drain thc pond and search in the mud and debris for any macblnery that can bc found. Thc same com pany will also recover as much of tho property of the electric railway as possible. Thc electric company will lose at least ono mile of truok at Clif ton. The trolley wiro and rahs arc, however, being recovered as rapidly as possible. Thc machinery on tho immediate sites of tho Clifton Mills will be rc. covered by .1. U. Garfunkel of Colum bia who will begin work on next Mon day morning. Mr, Garfunkel has pur. chased all the scrap iron that may be found among the wreckage while the mill company will retain such machin ery as o?n be used. The big Wy wheel at Mill No. 3 which weighs about 100,000 pounds has also been purebas? ed by Mr. Garfunkel. The wheel was broken to pioces by the force of the Hood and is absolutely useless to the company. Hy next Monday the banks of thc river will bc crowded with busy work men who will repair as far as possible the storm's work of destruction. Later on work will be, started by thc mill company repairing Mills Nos. 1 and 2. Thc Southern Railway was one of thc heaviest losers in the county by thc Hood of dune G. A prominent railroad mau says that tho Southern alone will lose half a million dollars. The roads will lose moro than their net earnings from tlie entire state for the current year on account of thc Hood damage, trestles washed away, etc. It is now. estimated that 25 per cent of thc mill operatives have left the Clifton Mills and Pacolet having secured other Jobs. At one time last week there were no less than seven teen mill representatives at Clifton and Pacolet who had come to secure mill labor from the ranks of the opera tives. It is said that some of the operatives have evinced it marked.de gree of unwillingness to leave their homes for other mills, thinking that if they remained they would be the recipients of aid from the relief com mittee. The time of thc year at which tlie 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 the electric comany continue to carry many visi tors to Clifton, but lt will probably be only a few weeks before thc signs of wreckage are completely obliterated and thc big storm will have been a thing of thc past._ Wo Are Not Carpers. A negro lynching in thc etty 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 Iiis remarks upon awhile girl in thestrcet is not easy to decide perhaps. At any rate reasonable people would say that the girl's testimony as to the character of thc offense should tirst be taken he fore resorting to summary measures against thc negro. Thc lndianapoli mob, however, on the mere fact that the negro was seen to address the girl in public somewhat persistently, al though ho soon passed on, pursued him at once lo his death. One fel low in the mob carried a pistol and he completed thc job. No arrests, ac cording lo thc reports. Thc middle West is now a fair mark f?r Southern criticism. - Springfield Republican. Seed I/UI'IIIH. The seed plantations around San .lose, Cal., arc said to receive iii,000 000 a year from tlie sale o? seed. The tirst experiments of the planters I this line were made less than half dozen years ago. One onion patch now covers 3,000 actes, 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 radius of eighty miles around San .lose, 14,500 acres devoted to raising plants and Howers for their seed alone A lind Record. Ono hundred rulers of countries have been assassinated since thc year 04(5 when Edward I, of England, was stabbed with a dagger. Of the nom ber seventy-three were assassinated during the century just closed; which marked it as a singularly unfortu atc hundred years for royalty. Al ready, in this new century, there ha been four heads of governments as sasslnatcd. and thc century is not foti years old. A Steamer Sank Part of thc crew of thc Heigh steamer Hubens, which sailed from Sunderland on .lune lu for Pillan Prussia, were brought herc today The men reported that their vess had capsized and sank. Six of t sailors the captain and mate were lost. Seven of the crew drifted about for 22 hours. Ref ore they were pick ed up three of them died from expos ure. Fourteen Killed. A terri lice and fatal explosion curred in thc lyddite factory at Wool wich, England, Thursday morning Five buildings were completcy wre< ed Reports of casualties arc conlllctlng but thc latest places thc dead at and Injured at 13. The killed were blown to atoms and their reniai were gathered up In buckets. LEOPARD SEIZED HEB. Mme. l'nuline Attacked hy a Wild Beast in Gage. A dlspacth from Baltimore Wednes day says: Mme. Pauline, tho famous trainer of wild animais? 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 thc 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 Hons panthers and leopards, entered their cage Sunday for thc first time She had made a preliminary inspec tion from the outside, and decided that as the female, the smaller of the two, be seemed to quiet and meek, she would not have her tied down as is tile custom when a trainer enters a cage of wild animals for thc lirst time. The malo was tied, and when Mme. Pau line entered he showed a savage spirit, trying to free himself and to bound upon lier. Tlie female lay quiet In a corner of the oage. Mme. Pauline again entered tho cage Monday and received a slight ciaw wound ou her hand. Bub still the female remained quleb 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 gave more attention to the larger leopard, whose eyes glared like balls of fire and whose restlessness ab her presence was plainly apparent. The door of thc cage had scarcely been closed when tho smaller leopard, crouched iii an opposite end or tlie cage, sprang upon the trainer. Her hind feet struck" Mme. Pauline near lier waist, while the fore claws sank into her neck, and she seized tlie wo- tl man by the throat with her teeth, tl Blood gushed from all the wounds and p lt seemed as though the woman would a be killed. ?r Mme. Pauline lost neither lier cour- p ige nor her self-possession, but at once began struggling with the animal, v< whose furry seemed to .increase with n the smell and 'taste of human blood. s| Pushing the muzzle of her revolver to n .he eyes of the leopaad, Mme. Pauline ]t llscharged blank cartridges In quick p '.uccession, which caused the animal 0 M release her hold. Several attend- 0 mts seized iron bars and beat the ani bal to the Hoor of the cage, while [ Mme. Pauline, with blood flowing 'rom 14 wounds, retreated from the age. Either the teeth or claws of the I tniinal pierced her. lower Up, and_ be': | ildes she was bitben'and clawTd'hrthe' leek, shoulders and back. Half falnt ng, she was placed in her 'bed in al .eui in the rear of thc animal show ' md the surgeon of the exposition Iressed thc wounds, inserting nearly Jiirby sbitches in all. WANTS HIS MONEY BACK. I'nsscnKer Who Was Hold Up by Floods Sends in Bill. A dispatch from Columbia says: Thc railroad commission is sometimes | aken for a collection agency by peo ple who have bills, or who think they w tiave, against a railroad. Wednesday D! thc board received one from an lnsur- D1 ince agent in Florence, it being for a< $8 against the Southern Railway. " Thc man had a ticket on train No. "j51 on the Atlanta and Charlotte le division. When the train got to 81 Greers lt was found that the Ty ger w river bridge was down and it could il not proceed. Some pressing business K evidently made this particular pas senger want to get to Spartanburg at any cost, so he took a hack at Greers and drove to Woodruff, expecting to s? take tlie Charleston and* Western si Charleston line. ti The bridge of that company across tl the Ty ger river was also down, so t' another hack was taken and Spartan- s( burg was reach at last, after, many h trials and much tribulation. The d passenger secured a statement from "f> thc conductor of 30 that he had a ri tiel.'-G lio Spartanburg, and this was c attached to tlie bill, which follows: q Hotel bill at Greers, 50c; hack to h WoodrulT, $1.75; Dinner at Wood- a mir, 50c; hack from WoodruH to Spar- b tanburg, $5.25-Total $8. c The passenger says he pub on no c charge, for time and trouble. Tlie n commission has not yet taken action e on the bill, bub it will hardly do any more than transmit it to thc'Southcrn. Dynamite Used. Tlie tight between the people of f? Petersburg and Winslow, Pike Coun- 3l ty, Ind., regarding the location or ir tlie county scat is becoming more blt- a ter than ever. Petersburg ls the pres- a: ant county seat. Unknown parties B placed dynamite and a keg or powder hi in thc hallway or the court house ear- ai ly Wednesday and abtached a lighted 01 fuse to tho powder. There was a ter- w rihle explosion, but no great harm tl was done. The dynamite railed bo I] explode. Tlie people ot Petersburg it say that while they have no direct slue as to who ls responsible, they | have every reason to believe sympa thizers witli Winslow in the fight for r< \ change of location of thc county 0 ?eatdid thc work. t' B( Will Now Hang. h John Brownfield, colon d, who kill- k cd Deputy Tax Collector Jas. C. J* Scurry while in the discharge of his duty three years ago, and who appeal ed to thc Supreme courts of thc state and thc United Sbatcs, was rescntcne ed on Tuesday hy Judge Gary, bbc date of his execution being set for Friday. A Moving Matter. Down in Texas thc other day a man named Whole married a Miss Barrow, and thc editor of thc local paper had no more sense of the fitness of things than to print his accounb of the wed ding under the head of "Whele-Bar row." SC?NES OF CRIMES :n Belgrade Palace ia Bed With * Blood of Royal Victims. ?HERE WAS NO WAY OF ESCAPE. ?ho Royal Red Chamber AV li ero tb o Soldiers Slew tho Kin/; and Queen Described-in Detail. The correspondent of the Associated 'ress at Belgrade, Servia, was on Vednesday allowed to Inspect the' dace i n which King Alexander and iueen Draga were murdered. The ?om. which was furnished in empire Lyle, remains in the same condition s when the king and queen fled from t on tiie approach of thc assassins. Che French novels lie og thc queen's able and the queen's toilet articles, lerfumes and cosmetics covered her I lessing table. The costly silk bed coverings are full if bullet holes, the conspirators hav ng shot wildly in all directions, brough and under the bed, chairs and ablcs in their efforts to lind their ictims. A simple wardrobe room lead Qg directly from the bed room was he scene of the tlnal net in the drama. ?he apartment is lofty but scarcely even feet wide and fifteen feet long nd Is furnished-only wi Ih three great vu rd robes. The officers who attended he correspondent showed.the latter he blood-stained floor ut one end of the oom where the king and queen fell .nd the broken Venetian shutter at he window through which their bodies irere thrown to the ground below. A. secret stairway leads through the [Oar to rooms in the southern end of lie palace. By this stairway the hap iss couple might have attempted to sea po, but they were unable to do so ccause thc opeuing of this .stairway 'as covered by a heavy chest. Escape i any event would have been impossi ?e, as the soldiers who had surrounded !ie palace were so determined to kill ie king and queen-that they had even laced camion in front of the palace nd were prepared to destroy the build lg in thee vent of failing to find their rey. Each of the three roomr between the estibulc and thc bed chamber showed larks of the tragedy. Mirrors were iiattored, pictured were shot through, jrnlturc was broken, there was bui st holes in the doors and in the oil ortraits of the king which were in very room and most of the latter were therwise mutilated. Contrary to the general understand ]g but'little effort has beca made to movate the apartments except where - ie carpenters were making two new ?ors to replace those which had been , lown to pieces at the time the con- ' Orators forced their way into the )?ms occupied by the'kidg"and queen; ' 'he royal apartments were simply and itefully furnished chiefly in Oriental iyle and presented a homelike appear- . tice. The interior of the palace light have been that ot a country ouse belonging to a prosperous merican. The house of the king's Jjutant, Lazar Perovics, which was ie lirst attacked, is even a greater rreck than the royal apartments in ie palace. The entrance was com letely destroyed by dynamite. The 1 ju tant, then escaped unhurt, but he as killed later in the vestibule of the ilace. A large blood stain marks the spot here the officer died. It was in a ire, white washed roora of the com landaht's quarters, adjoiulng the pal ie, that Queen Draga's two brothers ere shot while sitting on wooden lairs, which bear marks of the| bul its. The proceedings in thc palace lowed the same absolute callousness h ich has characterized the actions nd demeanor of everybody in Bel rade since the tragedy. Many Midshipmen. A dispatch from Anapolls, Md., lys nearly 700 candidates for admis i?n to the naval acad?my are here to ike the examinations. About200 of lie youths have been here for some ?.ne preparing at thc preparatory mools of Werntz and Wilmer. The icoming trains of the past several ays have brought dozens more, fearly every State in the Union ls sprcscnted. The candidates have unsidcrable trouble in engaging darters, as the hotels and boarding mises had but few spare rooms, and number of them have been taken in y private families. The new fourth buss, wiilch the successful ones will nter, will number upward of 300 ?cmbcrs, and will be thc largest class vcr at thc institution. A Fiendish Murder. Henry Betts of South Cumberland, Id., age 23, shot his mother and step ither, Rone, with a double barreled ?otgun Wednesday evening. Tho tother's face and breast were torn way. She will die. Rone's right rm was mangled, but he will live, etts docs not live at home, and, on sing refused money, procured a gun nd returned to tho house and fired i his mother and stepfather. Betts ent td a physician and told him iat two people were shot at his home, le then surrendered to officers and ls i jail. _ Villages Desire?yeti. The British consular reports of the jccnt earthquakes In the vilayet of f Van confirm previous advices that, weuty-tlircc villages were affected and )inc completely destroyed. Seven uhdrcd and eighty-five lives are nown to have been lost and it is jared all were killed in outlying dis ricts not yet enumerated. A Sad Death. John C. flarvcicy of Greenwood,who ras actinic: as telegraph operator at [amid, N. C., was run over and klll d there, by a train on Tuesday. Ile /as only nineteen years old. Cinvc up tho Struggle. j. H. Williams, a farmer of Lan astcr county, aged 35, committed ulclde on Tuesday night with a shot tin, ile was despondent on account f ill health and Inability to work his rops.