Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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.. JyiVi * ' i.'- ..." The iVlarlt>or "DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE OUR SOUL* AND MA RE OUR LlV?S IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY. OS OUR DEATHS GLOBIOUS IN THY CAUSE." VOL^IX. Six Hundre In Fire i On Burning Steamer at New York They Perished. MANY CHILDREN VICTIMS Although the Steamer Was Not Far From Shore, Fire and Wave, in Few Minutes Claimed Many. One of the most appalling disasters in the history of New York, tragic! in its Immensity, dramatic in Its j episodes and deeply pathetic in the tender agc of most of the victims, took place Wednesday in the East I river at the entrance to Long Island sound, within a short distance of the New York shore and within sight of thousands of persons, the majority of whom were powerless to minimize the extent of the catastrophe. li y the burning to the water's edge of the Gen. Slocum, three-decked ex cursion steamer, the largest in these waters, more than ooo persons, the ] majority o? whom were Women and children, were burned to cleat i or drowned by jumping overboard < r by being thrown into the whirlpo il by the lurching of the vessel and the frantic rush of the panic-stricken passengers. It is the season of Sunday s ?bool excursions in New York bay and Long Island sound, the latter one ol the most picturesque bodies of waler in the country. Great preparation; had been made for the 17th annual excur sion of the Sunday school of St. M irk's German Lutherau church the congre gatton of which is drawn from the dense population of the lower east and west sides, and the Gen. Slocum had been chartered to carry the excursion ists to Locus?) rivgnLi_7i?^f the many ---?-->->. ::? ..'-TT TUE NUiimsn ON-HOAKD. It is variously estimated that there were between 1,000 and 2, ?on persons on board the Gen. Slocum when she left the pier at Third street, Last river, though the Knickerbocker Steamship company, which owns the Slocum, officially states that the num ber of persons was .S7:5, that being only one-third of the vessel's capacity. It ls thought however, that then; were several hundred children in arms, for whom fares are not usually charg ed on these trips, on board. Tho scene on the decks of the steamer as she proceeded up the Hast river was one ot' merry making, custo mary on such occasions. The mass of Hags lluttered in the June bree/.", the bands were playing and the children were singing, dancing and waving handkerchiefs and Hags in answer to the salutations of those on shore or from passing steamers. On the ex treme eastern encl of Randalls island, off 135th street, there is a stretch of **" wJter known as the sunken meadows. AtTnuV point, just as crowds were watchiinlV?'^0 Ka'ly decorated steamer from sliore,^1*5 Gen. Slocum took lire and as the'ageV01 Lllc vessel" she wa-s built in 1891-Kat? resulted in the well seasoning of thc wojij wi Lil which she was almost entirely " 'lt, she was soon a mass of Hame. . . Hame is said to have broken out in launch room on the forward deck by'"- pe overturning of a pot of grease. Th\P wind was high and all efforts to ex tinguish the blaze were futile. >OH NORTH H ROTH EU ISLAND. At 134th street there are several lumber yards and oil tanks and as Capt. William Van Schaick, in com mand of the (?en. Slocum, started to turn his vessel towards the shore there he was warned that it would set tire to the lumber and nil and s i he chang ed hiscourse for North Brother island, one of the twin islands near the en trance to the sound some half a mile away, where the boat partially burned was beached. She sank near that place at 12.15 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, two hours and 25 minutes after the tire was discovered. In the meantime the passengers had become panic stricken and those who were not caught up by the llames rushed to the rear of the vessel and hundreds jumped overboard inti tile swiftly running waters, lt is alleged that the life preservers were to i se curely fastened tn their holdings tobe available and stories arc told of fran tlc efforts made by strong men t > cut them loose but even if they could nave been torn down they were toohi^h up for the children to reach. It is alsc reported that no att empt was ma .ie tc get out the tire apparatus at tin ti rsl cry of "lire" though Capt. Var Schaick says that he immediately ran^ the bells for getting out the appa ratus. According to several state ments no attempt was made to owei lats or life rafts. Capt. Van Sc aick nd his two pilots, named L1 var 1 an Wart and 10. M. Weaver, bavi ion arrest.d. _ bj !"~f An Old Sinner. ) Meyer Guggenheim, 77 year, old, a ultl-mllllonalre and a great grand rainer, has been made defendant In ? reach of promise suit, in New York ages are fixed at $100,000. Thc DaTfr^sor of $50,000,000 is a very at posse tractive^.. ...lat right men win HY the waym^,ent bolters whei have been pcivdlftL SIlU, , i^n to de things did not go td^jiL bolters whei mariel ttiat there be n^ things do go to suit them! La bl d Die ind Wreck. THE STOEY IN DETAIL. Scones of tho Unspeakable Agent on tlic Doomed Ship. The three-decked excursion steamer General Slocum, of the Knickerbocker Steamboat company, burned to the water's edge Wednesday off North Brother island, East river, at the en trance to Long Island sound, resulting in the death through buming or drowning of at least (?00 persons, most ly women and children. Four hundred and forty-seven bodies bad been recov ered Wednesday night and divers were at work taking bodies from Hie hold of the steamer. The remains of many persons who leaped into the river have not yet been found, and it will be many hours before the list of dead is anywhere near complete. Thc (!en. Slocum, one of thc largest excursion steamers in these waters, left Third street, Ehst river, at ii.:io o'clock Wednesday morning, having on board the annual Sunday school ex cursion of St. Mark's German Luther church, located in Sixth street. lier destination was Locust Grove, one ot the many resorts on Long Island sound. Tile excursion was in charge of Rev. George C. F. Haas, paster of the church. The vessel was commanded by Capt. Wm. Van Schaik, one of the best known excursion boat captains in New York harbor. Ile bas commanded the Gen. Slocum for almost the entire time since she was built in 1891, The number of excursionists on board Wednesday is variously estimated at from 1,500 to :2,f>00, but according to an official statement issued by the Knickerbocker Steamboat company, owners of the Slocum, the number of passengers was 87M, that being one third of the vessel's licensed capacity. CHOW UKO WITH MEKHVMAKEHS. The steamer, after leaving her dock Wednesday morning proceeded up the Fast river, all three of her decks being crowded with merrymakers. Hands played and the great sidewhecler was decorated with Mags from stem to stern. The Slocum had reached a poiut j near thc sunken meadows off 135th 'street, Manhattan, which is at the ex I treme eastern end of Lansdalls island, when lire broke out in a lunch room on the forward deck. The blaze was I caused by the overturning of a pot of I grease. The headway of the vessel and 1 a -high * 4 almost Instantly faVn?d ThtiThprgnfJicaMfflffl^r) foi ts v.-?re at ?mee di rioted .to^flBHS the flh^ut- ijhey v%? f ? ti ie. TLteulaze spread af ter with almost lightning rap idity. Capt. Van Schaik, in the pilot house, bad been informed of the out break of the lire, and realizing the dan I ger to the hundreds of excursionists, I decided bo send his vessel to shore at 134th street. At this point there are j lumber yards and several huge oil j tanks and the captain was warned that ; to attempt to land at this point would I endanger the property and perhaps further imperil the scores of pei.pie i svho bad already been frightened into ! a stale of almost uncontrollable excite ment. UUAXUKD ( (H USK. Changing the big steamer's course j slightly beheaded for north -Brother j island, half a mlle away. By this time : the Hames were rushing by leaps and i bounds from the forward part of the [ ship aft. The great open decks, built for the I excursionists, with little obstruction ! from bow to stern, offered a clear sweep for the tire. As Hie Slocum dashed forrard the Hames caught stanchion and cabin woodwork ealing and tearing their way across the ves sel. The excursionits, but a few mo ments before in the full enjoyment of an ideal summer's day on Long Island .som,i, were driven to the af 1er part '?f the steamer to escape the heat, I flai??? :iIK^ smt'ke thal were constantly I increasing. Policemen and deckhands aboard the-boab struggled hard t> [quiet the panic, bub bhe efforts were in vain. The wild disorder increased as [frantic mothers sought to lind their I children, who had been at play about I the decks. The steamer's whistle was blowing j for assistance and tugs and other near j by craft answered the call. Before any of the boats could reach the burning Steamer, however, the frantic women I and children began lo jump overboard. The current was strong and there are many whirlpools in the channel. The I boats that always bound in bbc viciui I ty picked many parsons from the I water, but bliese w*y only a small j number of those that j se ni strug gling in the current. On t he Slocum the li rut swe p of j the Hames cut off escape from thc hurricane deck, where a great many i of the women and children wen crowded together, and soon burned away the light wood of the uprlghb which came down with a crash oi I those below, lt is thought that most of those on the hurricane deck wen burned. i cuowoEO TIM: i:AH.. . j As liiii lire increased the struggle U gain a point of vantage at the steri became frightful. Women and child ren crowded against the after rai j until it gave way and hundreds wen . pushed off into the river. After this : i there was a steady stream of person! I j who jumped or were thorwn into tin [continu?e1, on page 1 1 Horne (Jlnim Allowed. A dispatch from Spartanburg say! Congressman Johnson lias receive! i notice through the war deparlmen . that a Confederate luirse claim ba! ; been allowed to J. A. Gallamore O . Greenville county under act of con gross of Feb. 27, I?U2. After the sur render of Lee, Mr. Gallamore had i ) horse stolen from him by tile unloi i soldiers. The money will bc forwarder - by the department in a week ur two i Congressman Johnson has many simi larclaims j .nding., WORLD'S NOTABLE DISASTE KS. Thc BuruiiiKoflhc Slocum Onenf thc Moat li< a rt i ciul? nt:. The burning of the Bteainer General Slocum, on last Wednesday morning, with a lois of probably more than 500 lives, is orrtrrjf thc most heartrending disasters of recent times. The guests of the big steamer were nearly all children and women, going upon their annual Sunday school picnic. Such a catastrophe cannot fail to recall the recent holocaust lu Chicago, when at a matinee on the last day of 100:1, the Iroquois theatre, just c m pleted, was seized by the lire tiend ;?nd in less than thirty minutes more than 000 people, largely women and chil dren, were burned to death, and more than !00 others were maimed for life. Such disasters call to mind the theatre tire of Richmond, Va., in KS lt; Hie burning of the Conways* brook playhouse in 1870, and the tiery destruction of the Paris theatre a few years ago, in which the leading actress and many others lost their liv s. Wliile such catastrophes are horrible to contemplate they do not approach the horror of other disasters by lire, Hood and volcanic erupti in. All will recall the eruption of Vesu vins in A. I). 79, which buried in sand and lava Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. The lossof life was 150,000, and the cities have never been rebuilt. Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, suf 1 fe red an earthquake in 1755, which left the city in ruins, and took 60,ono lives. Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, lost 12,000 lives from an earthquake in LS 12. Manila. Philippine Islands, was vis. ?ted by an earthquake in June, 1863, causing a loss of nearly 10,rino lives. Certainly the most destructive tire in tlie history of this country, if not in the world, was the Chicago ?ire of October, 1871. beginning in a ham in De Keven street, it i pread with lining ?upidiiy, and raged for two days and nights, lt swept over 2,100 acres, destroying 17,450 buildings The exact number of the deaths bas never been ascertained, but it went into tile hundreds: To.ooo people one-llfth of the entire population were left homeless, and property worth $190,000,000-one-third of the ' value of the entire city was destroy ed by this tire. Posten liad a lire in 1ST2, which de stroyed f?o acres of the business sec tlon at a h ss of $75,000,000. Thc Johnstown, l'a.. Hood in May. 1889, was a frightful disistcr. The dam across South Pork, a branch of the Conemaugh river, 12 aries east of I Johnstown, broke, releasing Coi e maugb Lake, whose waters thundered down the valley, engulfed Johnstown atid neighboring villages, causing a .iuss ot "i -cs;aun ?ru,ooo,ooo. \ *^it$?p&1$mtt Gal veston, "Tex., was the sceile bf a great Ho d. A' West; "Indian hurricane, with a velocity of 135 miles an hour, swept over the i i y and Hooded the streets, and in less tl aji live-hours destroyed i'> ooo lives and property valued at $18 000,000. More recent still was the eruption of Mont Pelee on the Island of M:ir Unique, Freddi West Indies. <)u ; May the 8th, r.?o2. the mountains j belched forth and overwhelmed tie town of St. Pierio at Us bose with sand and laja which overran Hie sur rounding country, and destroyed 30, uno pei pie. On August 8th, 1902, Mt. Pelee erupted again and 2,500 lives were lost. Everyone recalls the recent cyclone of Gainesville, Ga.. and the burning of the Park Avenue Hotel in New York, each disaster causing so much .suif ring and the loss of life, in the latter l.*<7. Well \\ 011 ti s,-cii)?. One of thc most interesting ex-1 hi bi ts among the many of all kinds at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis is that of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, of New Haven Conn., manufacturers of re pealing rides and shotguns and all kinds of ammunition. The exhibit was In readiness and was opened on Hie first day of the fair, a fact that ' clearly illustrates the enterprise and up-to-date methods of the company behind it. lt is the aim of the Win chester Repeating A rms Company to show at their exhibit the high develop ment which they have reached in the making of guns aird ammunition, and one needs only to see tile exhibit lo realize how near to perfection that development has come. There can be seen Hie new automatic repeating rille all kinds of shotguns, thc modern smokeless powder shotgun shells and ritle carl ridges: in fact everything that can interest the devotees ol hunt ing and trap and tra and target shoot ing. Don't fail to see the exhibit at the Manufacturers and Fisli and Game Buildings, lt's well worth your while. Killed u Tyrant. Gen. Ilobrikoff, governor general pf Finland, was shot ?.nd mortally , wounded at I I o'clock Thursday morn illg at thc eui ranee to the FinnUli ? senate at llclsingfors. The assassin, ? a man named Schau mann, a son ol Senator Schaumann, immediately ', committed suicide. Ilobrikoff was shot in the stomach and rieck, three shots being tired, one of which Indict ed a serious wound. The attack is > ascribed to Finnish patriotism. 'I 11 1 last recorded act ot Hen. Ilobrikoff ? was in March of this year, when 'ie 1 issued a proclamation forbidding t ic ; people to (birken their windows at s "unusual hours." People who chose < to go to bed before in o'clock at night ? were subject to heavy lines. Tills step was due to t he. neglect of t ie Kin nil lo illuminate their bouses in honor of the beginning of thc war with Japan. ? Clio Crushed Out. I At New York one of Ll ie big auto I mot iles used to take sight seers about .? the city, ran over and killed an elder f ly unknown man in Broadway Thu s - day night while merni ers of the in- r - ry party were laughing and singing, i Before t he body of thc victim could 1 be taken from under the car several 1 of the women passengers became hys terical and bad to be lifted to Hie - ground, while others jumped diwn and ran way from the scene. FATHER KILLS SON. The Youth Plans to Frighten the Elder Man by Playing Bandit WAYLAID HIM IN LONELY SPOT And ls Killed Before He Can Cry Out. Father IMungcs a Knife Into tlie Hoy's Heart. At Riverside, N. J., Frank Rein ecke, a boy of sixteen, playel that be was a highwayman Wednesday night and did it so realistic illy that bis father, whom be held up, plunged a knife into bis heart, killing bim. intercepting bis parent in a lonely spot upon the banks of Rancocas Creek he suddenly stepped from behind a bush, telling Reinecke, Sr., to bold up his bands. The next Instant be was lifeless. Thursday thc father is raving in d?lirum, and it is feared that be may never recover from the shock. The motlier and sisters are prostrated, and the little community mourns thc death of a popular youth. Half a dozen holdups have occurred at Riverside and thc adjoining villages within a month or so, and the resi dents have been generally arming themselves. The place is on the Am hoy division of the Pennsylvania Rail rcoTD, but twelve miles from Camden, and large numbers of tramps pass along on their way to and from Phila delphia and New York. The recent crimes have been attributed to these wanderers. Fran!; Reinecke conceived the idea that it would be a tine thing to mas querade as a highwayman and Lighten Ids neighbors, lie carried out lils idea and succeeded in making half a dozen staid residents jump fences and scuttle for home within a week. Thursday night he tried thc experi ment upon bis father, Walter Rein ecke, a well-to-do insurance agent of that place, whose home is on the out ski rts of the village, above tile batiks of Hie creek, in a lonely spot. Father and son started out early in the evening, the older to transact some business at the village tire company's house, ol' which oiganization be is a member, and the boy to visit bis young friends, Willie and Laura Kellock, who live near thc Reinecke home. ( >n tbe way thc youth regaled Iiis father with sloriess of recent holdups. When 1U::?0 p. m. came Mr. Rein ecke started tor borne. He was ap prehensive, remembering that lidiad recently bad words with a negro, who had threatened bim. He also remem bered what his boy bad told bim about highway men. So be drew a larg? Knir? irom ins pocket; -t-.penod the blade .and walked on with senses on the alert. Young Reinecke bad bcon watching for his father. He was peeping out from behind a bush that stood beside the path In thc loneliest part of llie roadway. The trees grow thick there, and thc black water of the creek is just below, making it as loneley and dangerous a spot as can lie imagined. .I ust as the elder Reinecke reached the shadow a dark tigure stepped into the half gloom and a hoarse voice cried: "Hold up your hands. Now I've got you." At the same instant the tigure laid fast bold upon the frightened man's coat, sleeve. With a cry of terror the father lunged forward and buried '.. knife in the breast of the supposed highwayman, who sank to the ground gasping, "t )h : Fal bei !'' The voie ' ol the boy recall d the anguished father toa realization of the awi ul tiling that he had done. With a cry that was beard far oil by neigh bors the distracted man felton his knees beside tile body of bis boy and besought him to speak. Ile raised the head of thc boy only to lind that lie was already dead. HUM.lin Heavy Loss. A dispatch fr. m St. Petersburg says Emperor Nicholas li :s received the. fol lowering telegram from Lieu. (len. Baron Stakelberg. "A batt'e began at no iii ar. und the Russian position four and a half milt s soul li of t be sta tion of Wafanhoon (Vafangow), the enemy making repeated attempts to dislodge our left flank. Theattak was repelled and we retained our position. The tirst regiment occupying tbe left. Hank of cur posit ion sustained severe loss- s. Its commander, Col. K ha vas I ton no IT, and Adjllt. Sub-Lieu. 1 ?ragos j lat'f Nadochinsy were killed. Gen. (Jerngross was wounded, a sharpnel bildet shuttering ilie right side ol' ttic lower jaw, but he remained on the Held." A Wmiiaii Lynched. At Lebanon Junction, Ky., Maria Thompson, colored, who Wednesday night killed John Irwin, a wealthy white farmer, was taken Irom the jail Thursday and hanged to a tree in the jail yard. She weighed 255 pounds and Hie rope broke. As.she ran awa> the nioli tired a fusila le after tier un til .she fell and was left for dead. The otllccrs, however, lound signs of life and removed the women tu a physi cian's attlee, where it was found that she had been shot in several places and could i o' recover. Irwin had re proved M.ni t Thompson's boy who worketl for him. Afterward Maria came Milo irwin's melon patch and slashed irwin until he was dead. Three Killed In Duel. At Uryan'svlllc, ind.. three men are dead and two wounded, on? fatally, as I he result of a pistol light on the stru ts of that village Tuesday. Thc dead are Janus and Charles Loni and Milton Tow. Janus Tow is fatally wotinde I and Frank Two is badly hurt. The tight, was the culmination of a feud between the Bout and Tow families. Deadly Hot Supper. Tuesday night at a hot supper and dance given by the colored people of Wal ter boro, (his deon, becoming Jeal ous of William Haynes, deliberately pulled his pistol and shot him dead. Creen was captured and lodged in jail at 2 o'clock next morning und this fact enabled the ollichils to discover so early that Adams and Stephens had escaped. ? J^tEAKS JAIL. Adam*, i?urderer, and Another Pri soni'r, Filed Their Way Out. AN APPEAL HAD BEEN DENIED And Adama Wu? Awaitiu? a Ko-non ionM. The 'BhorliT and a ? POP a o Aro Pursuing the Escapes. . v.l. A- dispatch from W?lterboro to Tbe State under date of June 14 says quite ? sensation was caused in Walteiupro Tuesday morning when lt was" kui. wn that B. A. Adams had escaped' from jail. Adams was con victed tor the murder of Henry Jaques and seiltenced last June tobe banged. I lis sentenced was stayed pending an appeal ?to tbe supreme court, which ap peal, was dismissed. Adams was tn have been resentenced at tbe next term ot court, which meets the tirst Monday in August. At 2o'clock Tuesday morning when dus Green \ s brought to jail by Policeman Johnson a rope of blankets was discovered banging from the win dow above the portico on the side of the Jail. Upon investigation it was found that Adams and a negro, Jasper Stephens, incarcerated for larceny, bad tiled through one of tbe iron bars and escaped. Deputy Sheriff Henderson imme diate1-' stai Len In pursuit, but so far no triais of the escaped prisoners bas been found. Ad...ns is about ;*> feet 10 inches higb, weighs about 145 pounds, dark skin, dark bair and eyes, with mous tache and a long, sharp face with very heavy jaw and large neck; fast talking and winks eyes rapidly while talking, nervous and'quick movement. * WEATHER AND CROPS. A Foiv Isolated ScctioiiH Still SufTor f, inj; from Drought. Mr. J. W. Bauer, section director, says 'n his weekly report of the crops, gathired from correspondence: The week ending 8 a. m., June 13, had a mean temperature of 7f> degrees, which ls about 4 below normal, due to nearly normal temperatures during the first four days and abnormally cool weather during the last three. The cool weather was accompanied by fresh to brisk northeast winds and unusually low relative hu oddity. The sunshiue was normal in pinces and be low lu others. The greater portion of the State had from one to over two inches of raip *\ three days. The upper Sa y valley had.less than an Inch, "wbl . vc, Plrt.s .nf Tcrk county and a fewareas in other sections the dro; 's unbroken and crops are Snutjtfng for moisture. Streams are very low and nany wells are tailing in the central counties. A destructive wind and hail storm passed through Bickens county; the track of the bail storm was about half a mile wide an i all crops in this path were destroyed. There were also damaging wind storms in Spirtan burg and Sumter counties, and bail occurred at various places in the northern and northeastern counties, doing some damage to crops. The weather was generally favora ble for cultiv?t ion of held crops, but with large areas where the ground ? *oo wet to work and where tieldB have becouiC foul. As a rule, corn, cotton, tobacco, rice* and minor crops are clean and well cultivated, and have made marked improvement dur ing the last week. Corn mude steady improvement in all parts of the State, and, although small, is growing nicely and lias a i healthy color. Earliest com is being ! laid by. With few and unimportant excep tions, cotton bas now attaine 1 full stands, although somewhat irregular ones as to size. The plants are small j for the season, but have good color ! and are growing nicely. Lice are re ' ported from Abbeville county. Squares have been reported from nearly all sections, and a few blooms have been noted in Orangeburg county. In places tields are becoming foul. Sea island cotton shared in the genera! improvement, and now has full but Irregular stands and good color. Tobacco Impproved and is being "primed." Rice planting continues and abe crop ls making satisfactory growth. Wheat and oat harvest is nearing completion: the yields of wheat are best In the extreme west j ern counties and only fair to poor in the central ones. The oat crop is best in the eastern counties, where in places the yields are heavy. Late oats sin w some improvement. Both graitis have been housed in good con Iditton, where cut, with only slight damage from the rains. It \VHH Brutal Murder. The State says Nathan Truesdale. uncle of the negro killed at Oloud'fl creek on Saturday week, swore out a warrant before Magistrate Little at Saluda on Wednesday for Sion Miller, Joe Miller and Russel McCormick. Thursday the Millers and McCormick surrendered themselves to the sherill and are now in jail. The Miller boys are,22 and 23 years old, respectively, : and McCormick looks to be the younger of Hie three. It was stated ' that McCormick did the shooting but I tiie report cannot be confirmed. The 'home of the Miller boys ls not far from where thc homicide occurred, while McCormick balls from Lexing ton county. lie joined the Ml 1er boys at Huteshtirg and was going on a visit to bis brother, whose home is in this county, lt ls not known whether application will he made for ba'l or not. The older of the Miller boys is married. At ttl? Top. The Columb a State calls attention to the fact that of the six "star" stu dents graduated from West point this year, one isfrjm Virginia, OIK each from Tennesse !, Mississippi and Colo rado, ard two from North Carolina. Ttiey are all so itbern boys except one, and their records are goid cause for pride In the section they have so well represented, lt ls really an unusual showing. WILL BE A CHANGE. Mr. Fred Wann a mn ker Will Appoint New Civil Service Board. The Columbia State says: 'Jpon the retirement of Mr. A. P. Wilson from the postofllce to seek health on bis farm near the city a negro named Nix was appointed to succeed Mr. Wil son as secretary of the local board of olvil service examiners. The appoint ment has been the subject of com plaint, and Congressman Lever has succeded in having him removed. - The objection tu this colored man may be best stated by an example. Recently a young lady informed Dr. Ensor that she wished to stand thc examination for stenographer in the government service. Sbe was referred to the secretary and with indignation she refused to Btand the examination when she found that the person to whom she applied and to whom her papers should be submitted is a negro. This incident, among others, was brought to the attention of Mr. Lever. lt was also brought to his attention that, white men as well as women were refusing to go before an examin ing board the secretary of which is a negro, and as a result the postoQlce was being tilled up with negro clerks and carriers. When Mr. Lever took the matter up with civil service commission, he was told that the commission had de cided to create a southern department with headquarters In Atlanta and willi Mr. Fred Wannamaker in charge. Friday Mr. Wannamaker was in the city for a short while and promised Mr. Lever to give the relief a?ked for. It is not known who will be members of the new board, but they will be employes of the federal government, of course. Thc appointment of the local examining board has been mac-e by the commission In Washington upon recommendations from Columbia, and it is understood that Dr. Eu??i did not recommend the negro's appoint ment, but in a way approved the pro posed appointment when his opinion was asked. Mr. Lever says that the change will not cause Dr. Ensor any worry as thc elllciency of the postal service in the city maybe promoted thereby. The postmaster employs his clerks and carriers from a list of eligibles and this list ls made up with the exact standing of every applicant standing examination. If non^'but negroes apply, none but negro-: V wjU j be appointed. Mr. Fred Wannamaker, -who to be secretary in charge < or southern di vison o? the elvi commission, isa native of Ora and conducted a newspap ing to Washington whet ? an applntment in the.'tifflE?^ civil service commission tion has been rapid,' ati^-thls^BK recognition rrom the tiepaxtmeiflTisA' matter of gratification to his friends in South Carolina, Udeer t ie new plan, the local boards of examiners will he abolished In every town In the Sti.te In the district. The manager of the division, In this case the h .'th division, will have under him a ft.ree of examiners. These examiners will bc sent to every town or city where examinations are to be held, and at the conclusion of the ex aminations, the papers wljl be sent to Atlanta, instead of Washington as has heretofore been the rule. UndBr the new rule, the work of holding the examination will be greatly simplified.. Instead of each place having Its local board of examiners, an examiner will be sent from the division headquar ters and the examination papera from all the States lu the division will be sent to Atlanta instead of Washing ton, thus doing away with the con fusion. OniiHcd a Panic. At New York i i a panic among the passengeis in a Brooklyn car on the Fulton street, linc Friday nine persons received severe injuries, most of them requiring attention of physicians. The panic was caused by the blowing out of a fuse while the car was running at a high rate of speed. The front platform and forward part of the car were at once enveloped In llames, arid the passengers made frantic efforts to escape. Many jumped, others were pushed otf the car and others fell and were trampled on before the the car could be stopped. Nearly every pas senger su lier ed some Injury. Mrs. Julia Caiman, "JI years old, with a six months old baby in her arms, was pushed from the car and received a fractured skull, a broken ankle and severe concussions of the body. The baby was unhurt and was found asleep in I be mothers arms, by an ambulance physician. .\<i Cause for Alarm. The State says Mr. Kort Berle, the United States Civil engineer and ar chitect, has about completed his ex amination of the capitol dome and ex pects to leave for Washington Wed nesday. Ile will report to the gr.ver nor from there next week. Mr. I erle would not say whether he would re port the building safe or unsafe, but that does nol signify thai from the examinations arid investigations he has made .so far that it is or ls noo. It merely means that be is guarded In expressing himself before he reports formally to tb2 governor. He did say, however, that there was no cause for immediate alarm. He ls said to have expressed the opinion that the new work ls shoddy by comparison vith the old. Whether this will be brought out in the report, however, cannot lie said. # Howard for Atlnum, Gov. Heyward Wednesday 0 ?Tc red a reward of *">on for the capture of lt. A. Adams, who escaped Munday night from the Waltcrboro jail. Adam Isa white man, who was sentenced last June to hang for the murder of Henry Jacques. Ills appeal to the supreme court had been dismissed and he was to be resentenced at thc August term of the court. Negro Child Killed. At Simpson ville Tuesday afternoon Jim Tho upson, a (i year-old negro boy, whll play h g with a pistol shot and Inst; ntly k lied a ti-montbs old Infant In tho arms of his young sis ter. Tho ball entered the Infant's hoad and grazed the breast of the young negro holding tho child. Japs Claim JAPS LOSE THESE SHIPS. The LOBB in Li vea is Estimated at .One Thousand. A dispatch from Tokio, Japan, fays j all doubt as to the sinking of the transports Hitachi and Sado by the Russ lana has been removed. Three hundred and ninety-seven survivors of the Hitachi have arrived at Mojl and 153 survivov?of the Sado have arrived at Kokura. Details of the destruc tion of the two transports and the I full extent of the casualties are not ' obtainable. A later dispatch says details obtain able from the survivors of the ill-fated Japanese transports show that the Hitachi and the Sado met three Rus sian warship near Iki Island at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. The Russians fired on the Japanese ships | and stopped them, and soon afterward they torpedoed and sank the helpless transports. The captain of the Sado1 and several other men were captured. More than 100 men escaped in the boats and landed at Kikura. A message has been received here from H ag? say ing that the survivors of the Hitachi had drifted north to Sh?monosekl and been saved. The transport Izum is still missing. It is reported that the transports Hitachi and Sado carried only 1,400 men. If this ls true, the loss "in lives is probably less than 1,000. The transports, however, had many horses and large quantities of supplies on boaroT-- , - Tfie^-B+eatt?er Katsuno was sunk off Mojl Friday-night as a result of collid ing with th? steamer Yamalokan. Both vessels were on their way to Tlescu to rescue the survivors of the transports Hatachl and Sado. A STEAMER BURNED. Tho Highlander Totally Destroyed lr aorgctown. .r.T. &u wa?'OUats way*tQ taSuryc-" town at the tinao and had no cargo. The vessel was practically new, hav ing been built only three years ago, and was valued at 812,000. It was In sured for only $3,000, with J. H. Boatwright & Son at Wilmington, N. C. Although the telegram says "total loss," Mane ger Love is of the opinion that much of the machinery may be saved. The loss falls heavily on Mr. Love- he and not the Chamber of Commerce being the owner. "The Highlander was the first and only boat on the Une the Chamber of Commerce Instituted this spring to give Columbia water connection with the coast. The business bas steadily increased since the lirst trips, and ar rangements had just been made for hauling cotton, which would greatly teliev-j the situation and for which the C lamber of Commerce had been working for several months. Just what steps will be taken to put an other boat In commission on the river cannot be said at this time, but there is no doubt but that this will be dene as quickly as the Chamber o.' Com merce can make the arrangements." Many Liven Lout. A dispatch from Santiago, Cuba, says the worst storm of a decade began Friday and culminated Monday night In 14 inches of rain which fell in live hours, accompanied by a hurricane. The lower village of El Cobre has been destroyed. Forty-live persons are known to be dead and scores are mis sing. Bodies are floating in the Cobre river. Twenty bodies have been recov ered by boats patrolllng the bay. All the bridges on the Cobre railway are out and many bridges have been lost on the Cuba railway. A train which left Habana Saturday ls held between washouts for eight miles Inland. A re lief train bringing mail and passen gers was wrecked at Moron. The lire man and mail agent were killed and two of the employes were injured. The passengers are safe. The raines at Daiquiri are crippled and six of the employes have been drowned. The pier has been damaged. The city's proper ty loss is enormous. Negro Cotton Mill Failed. Tlie Columbia State says: "Thc Wilmington Messenger calls our at tention to the fact that the defunct Coleman cotton mill, the failure o? which was lately noted in these columns, was not only operated but owned and managed by negroes, lc that case we do not think that thc evidence of the negro's failure as a cotton mill hand waa as conclusive i* in the case of thc Charleston mi 1, which was tinanced by white capital and managed by skilled white cotton mill men. The case of the Coleman mill is, however, equally Interesting in another way." In A Cow's Maw. At Aiken while slaughtering a beel on Saturday, Messrs. Lamer & Thorpe's butcher found a lady's gold clasp bracelet In the animal's maw. The bracelet is of 18 karat gold and ls a handsome piece of jewel. \ Thc cow was purchased with a bunch ol cattle from a Tennessee market. How the animal happened to absorb sucl valuable food ls of course hard tt guess. Little by Little. Over a billion live-cent fares wert paid last year to thc transit companlei of New York city. Fifty million dol lars! Paid In Ave cents at a tl rael A veritable confirmation of the "little drops of water, little grains of sand' teaching. a ng Victory. Left Five flttiidred Rus sians Dead on the Battlefield. LOST FOURTEEN HUNS. Russians Wanted to Attack Jap anese Left, But Was Fore stalled, Forced Into a Defile and Routed. ? dispatch from Tokio, Japan, says the Russian hope of relieving the pres* sure on Port Arthur by threatening the rear of Gen. Oku, the commander of the Japanese forces investing the Russian stronghold, came to an end Wednesday at Telissu, a point on the railroad 50 miles north of Kinchou and 25 mijes north of Vafane-' ?-, when the Russians were out-manoouvred, en veloped and sweepingly defeated. They left more thnn soo dead on the field and the Japanese captured 300 prison ers and 14 quick-firing field guns. The Russians retreated hastily te the northward. The Japanese charge that the Rus sians violated the Japanese Hag. Cer tain officers aver that during the ii gb Liui; a body of uussian soldiers ap peared carrying a Japanese Hag and that the Japanese artillery, decived by this flag, ceased firing on that parr ticular body of Russians. Official dis patches from Mic Japanese command ers made specific charges of this flag violation. Early estimates of the Jap anese losses at Telissu say that 1,000 men were''killed or wounded. The Japanese attacking force was " left colums and h Tuesday along They' ??v t of Vafan ~ AVa late e' Russians Wab1g*Tiao ap??ese ar tillery opened line and the Russians -responded.' .mg con tinued 12 hours and it wr^s1 followed iiy the advance of the Japanese line to . i lotion extending from Lung Cbia .Tuu? to Yu Iletun. Darkness put an end to the lighting. The Japanesei dis-. " patched a column to the westward to ward Fu Chau for the purpose of cov ering the Russian right wing and to protect their left and rear. During the night it became ap pearent that the Russians were being re-en forced and so decided to make a general attack In the morning and force the Russians into a defile back of Telissu. When morning came lt was discovered that that the Russians held a line extending from Ta Fang Shea to Cheng Tsu Shan, with a force esti mated at more than two divisions. The Japanese planned to envelop the Russians near Talissu and they suc ceeded admirably. While the main Japanese force was moving north along the railroad col ums were swung to the left an/! *- *' r right and finally co? jn the main Rug?.Ml- . Rus sians in this . c a dis advantage, buffiJ$.TiS02*7with de termination until 3 by? ck in the afternoon. At this hour they were routed. The Japanese cavalry continu ed to punine tue enemy and probably inflicted severe punishment. RUSSIANS ADMIT DEFEAT. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says Emperor Nicholas has received the following telegram, dated June 10, from Gen. Kuropatkln: "I have received the following dis patch from Lieut. Gen. Baron Stakel berg, dated June 10, 12.20 a. m.: " 'Yesterday I had intended to at tack the enemy's right Hank I * j list as our troops had been assigned for the purpose and were beginning to successfully envelop the enemy's right Hank, the Japanese lu their turn at tacked my right Hank with superior forces and I was compelled to retreat by three roads to the north. " 'Our losses are heavy, but they are not yet completely known. " 'During the engagement the third and fourth batteries of the first ar tillery brigade were literally cut to pieces by the Japanese shells. " 'Of 10 guns, 13 were rendered completely unseless and were aban doned. "'The conduct of the troops was excellent, a large proportion of them refusing to retire until after they had been repeatedly ordered to do so.' " The Russians deny that there was anything in the nature of a rout. The enemy had over four divisions in action._ I,y nehru by NoRPwea. News has reached. La Orange, Ga., that an old nergro by tho name pf Jonah Woods, who lived in the coun try near Texas court grounds lu Heard county about 25 miles from La Grange, was lynched by other negroes. Wood was a deacon in his church and a pious old negro. It is said he dis covered a number of negroes playing "craps" and threatened that he would report them to the grand jury. After wards the church was burned down and two days later, while plowing in the fields, he waa seized and strung up to a tree nearby. Npjrrcsa KIHH White Woman. News was received Tuesday of thc killing of Mrs. Halliday, a white wo man, by Addie Smith, a negro girl, at Loachapjka Monday night. The slayer was caught as Notasulga, a small town near Montgomery. A large crov/d soon gathered and fearing violence the shcrliT of Lee caunty took the negress to Tuskegee for safe keep ing. The woman acknowledges kill ing Mrs. Holllday. *