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The Marlt>o Democrat ?6, as 'DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES! IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY FOR OUR DEATIIS GLORIOUS IN TIIY CAUSE j-"-" - VOL. xxX> BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., , MAY 19, 1905. cv. NO. 2?. % TERRIFIC STORM. rown of Snyder, Oklahoma, Swept By Tornado. ONE HUNDRED LOST. Not More than a Score of Houses Left in Tact. Relief Being Sent from Neighborinjr Towns. Fire Followed in the Wake of thc Storm. A dispatch from Snyder, O. T., Thursday night says that uptodatc the number of known dead as a re sult of the tornado has reached 100. Arrangements have been made to convey all thc injured, who can bc moved, to hospitals at Oklahoma Olby and Lawton. The havoc wrought hy the tornado is astonishing. Out of a town that housed 1,000 persons not more than a score of houses are induct while two thirds of the buildings are wrecked. The storm f urn d south of Olustee, near the Texas line, and took a north easterly course, through a well settled region. At 8 o'clock lt was observed by the people of Snyder, but the usual funnel-shaped formation was lacking, and though the roar WHS plainly heard for some time before the storm broke, many were cf tho opinion that it was a hailstorm. Within a few minutes the sky sucdenly recame dark anda terrific downpour of rain began, last ing for several ulriutis. Then the rain stepped almost as suddenly as lt started. For a few moments, an omi nous calm f llowed, and then Hie tor nado struck, tearing buildings to pieces as though they weie made of paper.. Eighty-five bodies have been recov ered, a dozen persors aro missti g and giveu up for dead, and of the 41 se rlously injured, several aro likely to die. More tban 100 persors suffered less severe inj-ries. Belief is going from neighboring towns. Oklahoma city liassent 100 men to dig graves and seek the dead still In tbe ruins, and a dozen under takers with 100 c. tib-.s. OlT.:rs of financial assistance have come from numerous cities. Gov. Ferguson of Oklahoma has is sued a proclamation calling attention to. the needs of- the stricken town. It isstill dlf&Wlt to obtain infor mation from Snyder. A single tele graph wire furnishes ah outlet, hut iL is blocked private messages concern ing the dead and the Injured. To add to the general confusion and distress after the tornado had passed, fire broke out and horned up all that rem lined uf thc buildings in one of the business blocks. S J far it has not b en ot&ible to lind out whether any belies v ere cremated, but lt is possible that such is the case. An unidentified wi man was picked up dead, having been p nloned tu the ground by a large sliver which enter ed her left eye and came out through the bacit of lier hea l. Clarence Don ovan, a railroad engineer, and Miss Nina Fesspnden were to have been | married last night, hut bad jus.t post poned the nuptials until morning. Both were instantly killed by the storm. . Fred Crump, a boy, had start?d to a cellar whet- a flying timber dt cipi tated him. Debris was carried north west as far as Coopertcn, 12 miles, and it ls reported that there aro more fragments at that town than in the tornado iath at Snyder. '-'"The mayor of Snyder ls having much trouble arranging for the burial of the chad. The confusion is great, owing to the faut that tnere are num bers of unidentified bodies at the morgues. Tnere is much suffering owing to lack of provisions aud places to stay. What houses remain in thc town are in bad condition and aro unsafe for habitation. Besides there is not reo m enough to eire for tue home less. Bedding and wearing apparel are both lackb g, and (ki.-pito tho ef fort to sucjor toe unfortunates they are still in a pitiable condition. Many of the Injured could n it be cared for or given medical aid until morning, and by that time the won uris were aggravated. Dr. fork of Hobart who was active in relieving the suf fering, hays that 20 per cent, ot* the Injured will die. Kill? (I hy Ni rvoilH Shook. A dispatch to the Augusta Clironi cie says Mrs. J. I Cam pb !1 i f Fitz gerald, Ga., died Wednesday after Ill ness superinduced by nervous shock. A few-moulliH i ld b:iby giri had a narrow escape fiona death beneath the luofs of a runaway horse, and since then the mollibr has been in a state of fear for the suit ty of the lit tie one. The incident which precipi tated the at I a. k inuL terminated In death nccurrt d two weeks ago when an auto, driven at full .spi ed, c.ime suddenly to a stop directly in front of Mrs. Campbell's home. Thc baby girl had bien playing on the porch and,struck by the thought that she had wandered into the street and bad been run di v?n by tl e mi c line, Mrs. Campbell rushed out of the ht use, but before she reached thc street she fell and was picked up unconscious. She never rallied fri m the shock and grew weak ir till thc pnii_ ll/ I ..ur lu liOltltotAIIA. Last week a vessel hi ought 771 Italians from Palermo to Now Or leats All but about 2o were permit ted to land. Those refused wert afflicted with disease or did not meet the requirements of t ho law in some other particulars. Tie. immigrant* were lan (Ld at New Oi l. ans at thc suggestion of the li al ian ambassador, through whom southern planten made an app al for Italian laborers. They will be employe ! largely on the plantations of Louisiana and othci Southern states. A STBANGKE TALE. A Man and His Wife Found Bay ing in their Home After Four Days of Ireatmnnt by a. Pair ol California I'a ki in, Who Raoapcd. The police of San Jose Cal., are engaged upon a weird case of crime and hypnotic suggestion. On a re cent afternoon Frank A. Drew, a marble cutter, whoso ho .e ls lu Mil ford, N. H., and his wife were dis covered by the police barricaded in a cottage, which they recently rented at 393 Eist Sb. John street, both rav ing mad. After a struggle Drew and his wife wore overpowered and taken to a local sanitarium, and since then, as they have gradually n gained their ni< ntallty, the strange story has been drawn from them. As a result warrants have been Is sued for the arrest of Professor Anton Weber, a German clairvoyant, who re cently occupied rooms at the Angelus house, and the woman companion, who is supposed to be his wife. Professor Weber went to San Jo.te from no one knows where, and has de parted with his companion as mys teriously. Professor Weber succeed'd in obtaining $2,000 in gold from Mr. and Mrs Drew and has three days the start of the (til ce rs. Mrs. Drew is still prostrated from her experience. Mr. Drew, a mau of Kreat pbysicil strength, ls apparently perfectly well again. As Mrs. Drew told her story she appealed frequently to him for corroboration and tog ther the couple told a lucid tale of their dealings witb Professor Weber and his wife. "We first went to Professor Weber on M< nday a week ago," Mrs. Drew said, "upon seeing his advertisement in the papers. We had had some trouble lu Oakland and went to con sult Ulm aboutit. Professor Web >r ind 1 is wife treated us kindly and told us to call Wednesday. "Wednesday we went to his office and he suggested to us that he coul i aid us greatly iinanciall. if we had $2,000 to invest lo corn, pork, lard ur w/-e.:t. We talked about the matter and then Weber suggested that; he could give us a treat m nt which would be an effective relief from the trouble about which we had tirst consulted him. "We consented and from my hus band's head and my own he clipped a sn.all wisp of hair, and he also took a piece of the nailr. of our forefingers flu se he placed in a receptacle with some powder and Ignited ob?ra. Tlie result was a heavy incense, which he swung at us with the command that we inhale lt. We both did so, and the result was a sense of strangulation aud tickbng of the throat, which w.s followed by a feeling of exbilaiation. ''At Professor Weber's suggestion we then went directly to our home and remained in the house, without seeing any one. On the following clay Mts. Weber came to the house and gave us a treatnu nt. These treat ments consisted of p issing the hands tirmiy over the forehead and drawing Mn m away, snapping the linger-; after every strobe. The result was a sense of relaxation and res.fulness which was very pleasant. "Friday Pi of. Weber told us to go at tnce to Oiklaud, draw 82,000 frc.m tlie bunk Lhere and returu at once to Sanjose. Wc drew the money f nm the bank lu gold and returned on the afternoon brain to San Jose and took the money to Prof. Web r's otlloe. " 'Take this money lu me, place it under your pillow tonight and return it to me at ll o'clock tomorrow," be told us and we followed out his in struct ion s to the letter. We turned the money over to him the next day, and were then advised to remain ia the house until we received a tele g;*am telling us where, to meet him in San Francisco to get our money back. "Tb s was on Saturday morning, and from tho Thursday b"fore we bad scarcely anything to eat. We did not seem to care for food. We stayed ri^ht lu the house Saturday and did not see anyone. On Sunday morning Mrs. Welter came to the house and gave us both another treatment, and that was the last we saw of her or her husband." When the police broke down the barricade at tho Drew home, on Mon day, they found the couple in a condi tion of actual religious (Lmentia. "I am the Queen of Heaven," Mrs. Drew declared, "and my husband ls the Kh.g of Heaven." Only by taking o.ith that they were emissaries from the King of Kb g> could the officers approach to remove them ttl the samarium. Fur twelve hours their ravings continued vloleut. The police believe that both were subjected to hypnotic lnlluen.ee and while in this condition were prevailed uopti over their money. A Negro Killed. Saturday as a special freight train passed Lockhart junction in Union County it v/as b larded by a young ne gro named Con Hyas As the train passed by that place the uegro was seen standing on top of one of the freight cars. The spout of tlie water bank struck the negro on the head and it is supposed knocked him sense less and he fe ll ll it on top of the car. About a quarter of a mile farther up the track the young lloaro rolled < ll the top of the car dead. Toe negro worked around the depot at Lockhart junction and has been In the habit of riding to Sparlauburg on local freights the past year. When the I t rain pa^sjd Lockhart lt was going at about 35 miles an hour. Were Slfl Hourn Wit Inuit Food. I Four men were at the mercy of the waves for thirty-six hours in an open boat on Great South Hay, while wo; . men on the shores prayed for their \ rescue and brave men fought against . odds to lind them. They were din ; covered and rescued Thursday by a . party of three In a power launch. The rescuing party Itself suffered severely , fri m the buffeting of the waves. When taken from their frail craft tho , men were nearly exhausted, having '. had no food or fresh water since very early Tuesday morning. BANK BANDITS In New York Act Just/Like the Old James Gang. TOWN HiiJLD AT BAT By Masked Alen, While Their Confeder ates Blew Open the Bank Vault and Carried Off One Hundred Thousand Dollars In Cash and Bank Notes. Millionaire citizens of Gllbertsville, N. Y., are planning to offer a big re ward for tbe capture of live masked bandits wbo on Tuesday nlgbt, May 2, blew open and ribbed the safo jf the town bank, and then at pistols' points made good their escape via Mount Upton and Norwich. This reb'oery, wi i ib netted the thieves upward of Sioo.ooo in oa3h and negotiable secu rities, was one of the boldest that has ever been perpetrated in New York State, and ranks with the deeds of Jesse James and the Dalton Brothers for skill and daring. . A fl >od of telegrams and telephone messages have been sent all over the c ?untry, givlug a dialled description of two of the bandits and a general description of the other three. De tectives in the larder cities who have been consulted df clare that the men who dj uamited the safe were expert* at the work, aud that they have be fore now converted their securities Into money, divided their cash and disappear; d. ''lt ls a case of dyramite, division and silence," said the Sheriff of Chen ango County, aa he announced lil search for the men had ended at tbe depot at Norwich. "They had every move planned; they knew ev. ry train .incl every foot of the ground, and as soon rs they bad turned the trick, ann had tbe money in their pocket?, \ hey s mply dusted and got clean a vay." The fact that every telephone and telegraph wire that led out of the town bai been cut s lows that thc men knew exactly the lay of the land. Wt.cn tbe first explosion wa heard by thc cit zens of .Gllbertsville they made frantic attempts to call the police of aoj hiing townships, but the wins were, severed and they could not even call tbeir next door neighbors. Tbe bank which was roibcd is In a private institution owned by E. C. Prower, ?nc cf the wealthiest men In the town. A number of New York millionaires have residences here, and tney make use of the bank safe to store their securities, jewels and even their cash. Owing to the large sums that are generally drawn by the richer depo i i ors tbe bank makes ita rule to nave a iargc sum of cash on hand all the time. All Lids the safe blowers seemed to know full well. They slipped into town on Tuesday night as soon as the live hundred inhabitants were in bed. l hen they cut the wires, and then effected an entrance Into the bank itself. All live of the men w;-re masked. Two of them stu d on guard outside the bink, while the otber three went Inside to .superintend the blowing of the safe. lt took four heavy charges i-f dynamite to finally wrench the doors from the big steel box, and while these charges were being exploded the two guarus on the outside, held the town at bay with six sho iters. When tile noise of thc first explo sion roused the sleeping inhabitants, l?dward E. Stockwell hurriedly dress ed and ran In ta the street, lie ran into thc arms of one of the bandit guaras who threw him to the ground in an Instant. With the aid of his companion he bound and gagged Stockwell, and then..cooly robbed him ol a large sum ol money and his watch and chain. Stockwell had .vlth him the money belonging to the store he conducts, and it ls reported that his loss will seriously embarrass him unless the company charges the sum to profit and loss. By the time the bandits had dis- , P'>SLcl of Stockwell other citizens be gan to pour from their homes, only to be met with six-shooters in the hands of cit sperate men. "Keep back from here," said the bigger of tue guards. "The lirst one wno approaches will be shot full of boles." The citizens wc ref awed, and as they paused a suet nd and then a third ex plosion was beard in the bank. Then came the fourth explosion and the suund of the three bauk roi bjrs ripp ng the broken safe to pieces willi crowbars and pickaxes. The Inner compartments of the safe were easily wrenciied upen and thc large store of mulley and jewels quickly taken from their resting places and thrust into the pockets of the thieves. As soon as thc last of thc valuables had been swept up, the bandits r.-.n out to reinforce the guards at the I ont of thc bank. Ueblnd them they lett a wreaked building, before thom waj. a crowd of timid, badly scared citizens. All the money and valua tes were trans'ened to one of thc gang, and tiien the other four sur rounded him a* a budy guard, and the break fur liberty was made. G rei. ps < f men i-tood in the street hut they opened the way for thc live men who ian lcd six shooters in their hau ls as ttiey marched by. "The tlrst man who attempts to follow us will be shot likes clog," was the last stern warning the. robbers gave as they left the village. They made their way easily to the out skirts o? tho town, where they got in to a wagon that they had stolen and started on a gallop for Mount Up'.on, five miles away. Several small posses were organized at once, and the chase began. The robbers were followed until tiley reached tho hills. There they left their horse and wagon in the re ad and took to the woods, ef fectually throwing their pursuers oil the trail. The Sheriff who was sleepy. ?luitr tlie chase and with his deputy returned home to finish his nap, and tho robbers lay close In the woods ali day. That night they stole a team from a nearby farmer and drove to Ohenango County, nine miles across tbe hills. They reacbed there short Iv after midnight, and as the Sheriff of the county had not received word of the robbery he bad no one watch ing the trains. About 1 a. m. the bandits boarded a train for Ctewego and got safely awa>. PRI80NEK SHUi' HIMSELF. Held Deputy Sheri iv nt nay' Until Ho Committed Suicide. A dispatch from Anderson says Tillman Weatderall, a young negro confined in the county Jail on a charge of housebreaking, committed suicide about noon Wednesday by shooting himself with a pistol. How he manag ed to procure the weaaon Is a mystery to the olllcers. When Deputy Sheriff W. N. Scott opened Weatherall's coll dour Wednes day night to place some water in the cell the negro suddenly thrust a pist il Into his face and command id him to s'and aside. Mr. Sc itt slammed the door shut, and the prisoner crept hack into a corner of the ceil without fur ther attempting to make immediate use of the pistol. The deputy sheriff secured two gentlemen to asnst him In disarming the negro, and when they attempted to do so lie fired one shot at them. Fortunately it went wide of its mark. Tue officers then left thc prisoner securely locked without sue ceedlug in disarming him. He remain ed in posses-ion of thc weapon durlug thc night and Wednesday morning and held th6 olllcers at bay until he ended his life by his own hand. About noou Wednesday the olllcers at the jail were attracted hy a shot, and an investigation showed tba' Weatherall had shot himself through the breast, In tl leting a w;.n:id that caused death in a short time. Weatherall was a bad neuro, and had served a term on thc county chaingang f >r housebreaking. HP would have been tried at the sessions court at Anderson next week on a sim ilar charge, for whioh he wai bein? held at the time of his suichie. Ho had heen ci nfl ied in j ill for a month < r more. Hjw he secured the pistol hy whi ?h to try to effect his escape ls a m> story. RUR IL MML R'jrjL?? CJSTLY. Govern mo ii I'M LONH lor Present Fia oat Year 1M $12,000,000, The net loss to the. government ot operating Che rural mail routes of thc United Stat.s in the fiscal y:ar end ing June 30, 1006, will nut be less than 83.800,080, ?.nd probably several millions in excess ol ttiat amount. The minimum estimata of loss is obtained after allowing to thj credit of thc rural servie:- every cent of revenue derived from mail sent hy patrons of the routes and from m.Ml received hy them, but as a matter of fact, utily a part of those receipts are due to the establishment of rural ser vice. lt ls impossible to tell what propor lion of the rural mall business shoulrl b *. credited to the establishment of rural service, but lt is estimated by competent authorities that the rea! loss f.ir the fiscal year will be nearer $12,000,000 than $8 800:080. The la.v rasirg the salaries of rural carriers is in effect in the present fis cal year. It Increases the most of service to $08 per month for each route, exclusive of the expenses of the field inspection service. It is the cost of rural mail facilities that pre vents the financial waistcoat and pui taloons from meeting in the postoffice department. Without this endless and increasing expanse the depart ment practically would bi self sus taining. Society Woman Suicides. Death by suicide, while suffering from what her physicians say was temporary insanity, lnouced by poor health, was chestu by Mrs. Benjamin Strong, Jr., the beautiful and talent ed daughter of .lohn Li Blutillier, a merchant prince, of New York city, at her home In Knglcsvood Thursday. Unusually pathetic circumstances surrounded the case. Mrs. Strong had been stiff ?ring from nervous ex haustion f.>r sonic time, and, although her illness had not ben regard id as acute she never had fully recovered her health after the birth of her fourth child six months ago. Mrs. Strong shut hers. If through thc heart with a revjlver that bad been it her home since a burglar soire, some time ago. Caituar .And MIN Wile. There arc husbands whit, among their male companions, like to have lt supposed that they ; r<: just a i I ttl e ti ran.deal at home. O ic sucn m in who had two or three friends at his house one evening, remarked, as they were, chatting together ci mfortably at a rather lat J hour: "Yes, I do what I like at home. My wife, she has to l end to my will, 1 oin tell you. In my house I'm a regular Julius Caesar I" His wife came into the room in time to hear the lastsentence. Tile tyrant of his household locked a little uneasy, but his wife neither frowned, nor apparently paid any at tention tu the remarie. Hut after a moment s' u remarked very positive ly: "Gentleman, lt ls late, and Julius Caesar has g it to go to bed!" Where upon the husband arose, slam mered his excus: and retired, leaving hhs gue-.ts to And tin ir way out as bel as they could. UAH it?: Two v\ iv. hV G.orge C. Buggs, a barber from Chattanooga, was tried at Dalton, Ga., Thuisday on thc charge of big amy. Ile is said t.0 have married wife No. 1 In Soutn Carolina twenty seven years ago, and to have five liv ing children by his first wife, and three grandchildred, who reside at Calhoun, S. C. Ile is alleged to have married his second wife, who was Miss Nellie Coney, in Dalton, Ga., last Christmas. Bogga, it is reported, deserted bl i family ab nit a year ago. The maiden name t.f his alleged tlr.st wife was Mauldln, and abo has a brother in Atlanta, who was a wlt I ness In the co.se. Bogga was bound i over to court on a 8200 bond. Tornado Kills Twenty Six People at Marquette, Kansas, THE TOWN WRECKED Deaf li and Destruction Followed in the Work of the Terrible Wind and Kain. Many Residences and Public Buildings Blown Down and Wrecked. A dispatch from Marquette, Kansas, uncle* dato of May 5), siys when dark ness fell upon thai st ricken town Tues day night it was known that 20 lives] had been lost in the tornado tba! wrecked part of Marquett e carly Tues day and did much damage in that vic inity, and that 44 pQrs> ns had boen injured. Of Hie injured 35 were seri ously hurt, and some of them may die. .During the day two victims died of their injuries. Several of the others are suffering from broken limbs and lntp.ri.al 'ujur?es. In st varal cases entire families have b?en killed. A man named Switzer, a night watcbm;u at the railroad yards, lost his three children. N. P. Kelson and his wife and three children were found dead. Two other children were not at hum? and escaped injury. Tuesday nlg:>t order bad practicad j bern brought out of the chaotic cou dition that prevailed Tuesday and a relief committee had begun dispensing aid. Among the relief hint from out -ide were 25 pupils from Bethany col lege, who acted as nurs;s* L'ne tornado struck the sou thorn nnd or tho town and cut a clean swath 100 yards in width tb tough its entire 1 >ngth. Coming as it did at mldulgnt all tho people were caught w:Uv..u?. a r.oment's warning. A heavy ra'r storm had pr ced td tho wind. When dayl ght broke over the to 1 n lt found the entire population in a state of panic. Buttai was enl ireh suspended and e very ono who esc pe injury turned his attention toward aiding the injured. The tornado seems to have formed three miles south of Marquette ant did not spend its force until it har passe l many miles north of thc town, in Marquette the residence pt rtb n weit Sf the main street hv.tTercd the prin-^pAl damage. Thc bourn's in ti e I course br "the tornad o were all, with) two or three exceptions, completely wrecked. In this section there were a number of modern residences, of which only one was left stanrhiiwr. The Swedish Lutheran atjd Metho dist churches were amo ig the tir?t buildiugs struck, and they, t get' with tbe parsonage ac j lining thc Me thedist church, wore demolished. Mondiy afternoon was hot a nd op pressive. Late in the evening a ter rlflcraln storm broke over tue to n Thc rain continued to fall In torrents until midnight, when th"; tornado struck. Within less than liva minutes lt bad wrought its terrible wo'k an passed on. Telegraph and tc1, p ii a .vires were cirried down, and it '.va-; several hours before, the outside world could be apprised of thc plight of the city. It was not until 8 o.clock Ttiesd iy morning that physicians anr* surgeons I began arriving from surrounding towns. In the meantime dozens of vol mitten set to work to clc-n away the debris and extricate tho dead and in jured. The Swedish Lutheran parson age atid several private reside ct were turned into temporary hospitals. The dead were taken to a storeioom nearby. Dr. Lund, the Lutheran pastor, pa-sed about among thc sud iii ministering to their comfort, while ?10 or 40 other p us ins, working urdir ir, direction, cared for the Injured at other points. There were many narrow cscap.es ? from death. The infant daughter ol Charles Sallen was lifted in h.r bei and carried to the middle of thc streel receiving only a few scratches. S lilon and his wife were seriously injured. The mattress upon which tue baby daughtor of the Rev. Smith lay was doubled up In such a manner as to cover the child and protect lt from falling limbers. In spite of the de struct ion e>f the Sruhh bouse, thc en tire family escaped uninjured. Mr. aud Mrs. O S. Kovin wore car ried un their bed a distance of 500 f et and laid down without ueing s rien ,i> injured. Want the DlapuiiMary. A disparch from Washington to The Columbia Record says Secretary Shaw and Iowa people in Was ilogton are deeply interested in th au non nee mont of E. W. Weeks, a prom noni member of the Iowa legislature, t a. ne proposes to introduce Into thc nex session of the legislature ai d pu h io utmost ability a bill establishing a dispensary law io that state m ni d closely af'er the South Carolina law. Mr. Weeks lsiecr.:tary of the Natl n< al Association of Republican cai and stands weil lu the leg s ature. He has recently maeL a vi it to South Cirolh a, where tie h is studied ?he operations of the dispensary system ard ls pleased with lt. Uc believes that the long standing cona-..' lon i f 1 >?a poople over the control of liquor can be settled by thc introduction ol the South Carolina H-a, O I ASH UlOWl TH twilit. As the result, of trouble am mg glass blowers at thc Chattanooga glass p:..:-t Wednesday Frederick Cummins was shot and killed; Win. M ac am was spot in the thigh and Albert Mcacham was struck on thc head with a heavy wrench and may die. Toe Bb oiling was done by Albert Meicham, Torc man of the plant. Thc Jitllctilty occur red in the ottlce. Wm. Meacham who was shot ls a brother of the man WIM did thc shooting and thc manr ger of the plant. Albert Me tcham was ar rested and is confined in thc hospital ward ot thc j iii. The coroner's jury placed the blame for the killing on Cummins and Albert Meacham. PENSION LIST GEO WS. Bolls Show Many Additions Since- the Last Report. Formerly Kcstduo Wan Returned to Porndon Fund, But Now Goos to Goner?! Fund. Over 800 names have been added to j the pension rolls of South Carolina since thc last report. Therewere517 deaths during thc year but there was a net Increase of 247. The pension funds are distributed as well as they can be apportioned by cOrxptroller General Jones. The work of the pension bureau is extensively arduous, ar> there are so many statis tics and cocdltions to be recorded. Wednesday the comptroller with the aid of his ?ludent pension clerk, Mi-s Kate Maher, made out a state ment of the distribution as follows for the year 1905: COUNTY AMOUNT. Abbeville.$ 3,540 00 Aiken. 6,828 SO Anderson. 11,130 50 Bamberg. 1,664 00 Barnwell. 3,207 50 Beaufort. <i.02 50 Berkeley. 2,340 on Chai lesion. 3,017 50 Cherokee. . 5.001 50 Chester. 3.628 00 Chesterlield. 5,0:?? 50 Col loton. 07.112 00 Clarendon. 3,287 50 Darlington. 4,041 00 Dorchester. 1,678 20 Bdgclicld. 2,823 50 l-.iirflcld. 3,237 00 Florence. 3,8:55 50 Georgetown. 007 00 Greenville. 10,928 50 Greenwood. 3,248 50 Hampton. 4,111 50 1 lorry. 4.387 00 Kershaw. 3,341 60 Lancaster. 5,81!) 00 Laurens. 0,050 60 Lee. 2,882 60 ! Lexington. 5,084 00 Marion. 5,436 00 Marlboro. 3 450 0 ? Newberry. 3,575 001 < >eoncc. 6,835 00 ( hangeburg. 4,305 00 Pickens. 5,200 0 ? Richland. 5,650 50 Saluda. 3.701 00 Spartanburg. 17,410 50 Sumter. 3,030 00 Inion. 4,081 50 Wi liarasburg. 3,034 00 York. 7,5(51 50 Total.8100,583 00 STATISTICS. An interesting table follows: Names on roll 1004.8,544 New names added l!)05. 820 Total.9,3; Less those who died 1004, 517; those oir for other causes, 65; 582 Names on roll of 1005.8,7!)1 Net. increase. 24 Number of pension?is on the roll In 1005. showing as compared with 1904 showing increase and decrease by classes. 1004 1005 Incrs Class A. 07 74 Class B. 202 102 *I0 Class C, No. 1.. 572 583 10 Class C, No. 2..4.O20 4,002 42 Class C, No. 3... 728 750 28 Class C. No. 4. .2,051 3,124 170 *l)ecrease. Tho above classes cover4.862 soldiers in IU04, and 4,011 in 1005, an increase Of 4'.?. Paid expenses of the department amount to: .loin! resolutions and legisla tive expenses.$ 84 00 Expenses St at o hoard. 110 00 Stat ionery and stamps. 102 35 County boards and commis sioners . 2,342 30 Salary pension clerk. 000 00 Balance on hand. 160 35 Total number of widows on roll loot, 3,i?S2, and in 1005 3,880, showing an increase of widows drawing pen sion, los Formerly the money left from the lund in each county was returned by tho clerks of court to the pension fund Of thc next year hut it now goes to the gi ne ra I fund o? the State and last year$0,600 was returned. Great Forest KiruH. One thousand men, including flre rxen, laborers and volunteers, strug gled Wednesday night with the forest tire which, starting near Plymouth, M.i-s , f ur da j s ago, has extended rito four towns and shifting fr* qi] ntly v.ith the wind, has threaten ed first one settlement and then an other. The front of the lire extends I two miles, while its side lines reach bick six miles, lt has laid waste seventy- ti ve square milt s and is by no means under control. Nothing but. a heavy rain, will, the tire tighter.-, s ;y permanently stay the prognss of tiie llimcs. The land burned over includes valuable tracts of timber and thousands of cords of cut wood S >me small buildings have been humid hut tho tire.-lignt.eis al led by favora ble winds, have saved the villag s n ar thc tire zone. Tne loss will be large. _ Made ol' Kalibit Hair. ( ino of the strangest of modern in dustries is that can i :d on in the. Jura district in France, lt consists in taking the fur from live rabbits and weaving il into a textile fabric which malo s the warmest kind of clothing mail.rial kno*n, The specks of rab hits whit h furnish the "raw" mate rial for thc mp.nufaoturing process is be Angora rabbit, wi.ich has rec ;ive:? the name of the silk rabbit. Every three ramths the rabbit shoos its fur, and Si v. ral days before this lakes plac? nature is anticipated by female i an . . which remove the long silken hairs by gentle friction. Thu skin ls a rt a ly '"ripe," and the fur comes off . a ily and without the rabbit suffer io the slightest ptin from the oper atiou. In fact, "bunny" appears to enjoy lt, lying quietly In the lap of the operator uuriug the manipula tion. _ Negro Ooiuiultfl Suioitlo. "Wright Baker, a negro man living in Hopewell township, Andersen county, committed suicide Wednes day m 'ruing by shooting himself with a shotgun, ile was working alone in the fluid and when found his body was torn across the abdomen with a frightful wound anti life was extinct. Baker was a half-witted negro. The or.mer went out Into the country Wednesday afternoon to hold an In quest over the body. There seems n' doubt that the death wound was solt indicted. MILLARD SET FREE from the Charge of Bigamy by Judge BruoBon. Ho Says That Ho and Miss Kenyon wm bo Married Over in December. Kenyon V. Millard, who was arrest ed in Orangeburg on pr il 21st on the charge of bigamy and who was confined in the Orangeburg County jail until last Sauurday was released on that day. It will bo remembered that Millard, who claims Indianapolis, Ind., as his home, and Miss Sallie Kenyon of St. George cn mc hero on April 19th and were married by Rev. E. M. Lightfoot. The next day there was published an account of the en gagement of Milla-d and Miss Kenyon, and slated that Mr. Rankin of St. George liad declined to marry the c uple because Millard was a married man. Rev. Mr. Lightfoot, who married the couple, did so thinking Millard bad never before been married, and when questioned on the subject after wards hy Mr. Lightfoot, Millard t dd different accounts each time as to his former marriages. Tn is together with the fact that Mrs. Kenyon, motlier of the bride, found a letter from his California wife intimating t.bat Millard had still another wife, caused his arrest for bigamy. Magistrate Bruuson held the prelim inary on Tuursday May 4, took the natter under advisement, and as a result Saturday dismissed the case and discharged the defendant from cus tody on the ground that the prosecu tion did not nave a eas:-strong enough to warrant binding Millard over for the criminal court. lt was shown at the preliminary 'hat Millard was divorc-?d from wife NJ. 1 years ago and that an interl cu tory divorce was granted the Cali ferula wife in December, 19U4, which prevented either party marrying for one year. Millard states be and Miss Kenyon will be remarried, next Deoem ber at the expiration of the time set in the interlocutory divorce. The foll iwing correspondence be tween Miss Kenyon, of Sc. George's, And Millard, at thc Oraogeburg ?ail, H nd between Mrs. Ada Millard, the California wife of Millar 1, and Miss Kenyon, will no doubt, prove of in terest to those who have b.;en keeping up with the interesting case against Millard: St. George, S. C., May 9, 1905. My dear Isaac: I just got this let ter from Cal. and has en to send it to you. Perhaps it will throw some .light on tho . divorce and your knowl edge of same. Hope you will soon be released. Will expect a letter this evening. Your REBECCA. Herewith is printed the letter en closed in the one sent as ablive. Eureka, May 2, 1905. Miss Sallie Kenyon. St. George, S. C.-Dear Madam: Your letter just, received and I hasten to'reply, so it c?u go out on tills boat. I have not a copy of my divorce, as it is just an interlocutory decree, but when Mr. Millard left here ti-cre was no law concerning an interlocutory decree. lt was p:ist two years ago, and conse quently knew nothing of it. I would not be frre lo marry in this State until next December, butoth-.rs nave got the decree here and gone to other Stabs to marry.' Mr. Millara bas not deceived you in this ma1 tar, is his son wrote him, telling him 1 had a ciivr r.-e granted. I was marrie> 'o him twenty-five years ago, aud he vas divorced from his first wife seve ral years before I married him, aud from all I cm find ou:; lie had a good cause. I know nothing about her, oor whether dead or alive. I am very sorry this , baa happened, and hope dds letter will relieve your mind, and that Le may' be released, and I sin cerely hope that you may be happy with him. As fur my" divorce, I will only say thai he has asked ru 11 cjnr:e to him -ince hr* left here, but 1 feel it my duty to stay here with my childr n, and.dl l not .feel Uk? travelling around anv more_ 1 got a divorce on plea of failure to provide. I haven't lime to j write more as the bo it leaves In a few m .ments, but 1 don't think it iieces .ary. Try and make his li'e pleasant. I tried and failed. Pro-ably jon are hotter suited fur him. If y m will ?..rite I would like vj'y much to hear the outc. mo of the matter. Y-~>urs truly. A DA M ILLA Kl). P. S.--I received a letter from the postmaster," but will not need to answer, as l have written to you. bravos .?iiI lion io Harvard. Harvard university will receive 81,000,000 or more by the will of the tate William F. Milton, a retired tea importer of Pittsfield, Mass. The balk of the estate will oe used by the widow during tier life, and will re vert to Harvard alter her death. Mr. Milton died at his home there, ?iou Madison ave ue, on Feb. 28. His .viii was tiled at Pittsfield. His prop rtv is hu gely in real estate ana its value in uncertain, but it i-. estimated at considerably more than $l.Gu0,00u. -New York Sun. . Killed by l.'jcln oin,;. Mr. George Hearn, a prominent North C .roliua farraor, was struck and Instantly killed by lightning Fri day afternoon, at his borne, about four indes from Charlotte. The same bolt that killed Mr. Hearn knocked unconscious his nephe.v, Neely Hearn. They were out lu the orchard gather ing chen les at Hie time. !> ,.uno Dead. Au unusually tragic death was dis covered at Union on Friday morning, when Thomas Howze, the son of a prominent business mau, was found dead, in a gasoline house. Ile had spoken Thur?-(Uy of being sick, and it is s:ip, o.'cd that descending the few steps Into thc tank pot, the fumes ol the gasoline overcame him. He was not found until hours a'ter^ard. Water After l>.xoro?nti fatal. At Lancaster, N. Y.,' Dr. A. W. Martin, aged for-elght, died this ev ening from neuralgia of the heart, .?roduoed by drinking large quantities j if water after violent cxerolse. After Collision Two Cars o? Dynamite Exploded. FIFTY FATALITIES. More Than a Hundred Hurt. A Passen* ger Train on Pennsylvania Road Runs into a Freight Train. Oround Strewn With Dead and Dying. A dispatch from Harrisburg Pa., says that ti ft v passengers on the Pennsylvania Express train No. 19, from New York and Philadelphia, were killed and more than a hundred injured, some of them fatally, In a dynamite explosion, which followed a collision of tue express train and the east b und freight in South Harris burg at 1:10 Thursday morning. Of the 169 passengers on the express train n:>t one is reported to have escaped injury. Following the Brat explosion there came two others, eaoh greater in violence than the one pre ceding lt. Then came fire which seemed to start in every one of the overturned coaches at the same in stant. The lire found its way to thc - " dead and dying and injured pinned under, the wreckage. The wreck was caused by the burst ing the air hose on the freight. The second section of tho Cleveland and Cincinnati express plunged into the wrecked freight train, exploding two cars bf dynamite and strewing the ground with the dead and mingled bodies. The explosion broke all of the windows of the city of South Har risburg. The engineer of the passen ger train was H. K. Thomas, of Phila delphia, who was killed instantly. His Oreman, R. H. Dickey, of Pnlla delphia, was thro vn clear of the wreck down the embankment and escaped with a few slight scratches. Mr. and Mrs. Tindell, the latter a daughter of Senator Knox, are among those of prominence reported to be Injured. Many who escaped death were bad ly burned; in some cases, the clothes were almost entirely burned from their bodies. Samuel Shubert, theat rical manager, of "New York, jumped from his berth just in time to save i himself from -burning to death, but his legs .were bady burned. Nearby, shanties and other places of shelter were found after the wreck, for many of the passengers were scantily at tired in their night clothes. All were provided for the best possible. In all 50 OOO pounds of blasting powder exploded. The entire passen ger train of nine oars and the locomo tive wore destroyed as well as nine freight cars. Found in tho Itivt r. A dispatch f-om. Laurens to The State says the d.-.ad body of a man was fouud In the Enoree river about two miles below Eaoree Manufactur ing ompany Weuu'jsday evening by some parties seining in the river. The jody appearei to be weighted and was only slightly exposed, lt waa not disturbed, but the cjroner was noti fied and went to the scene, it is no o positively kuown yet whether the budy .s white or colored. One week ago K.sec Mureil, a negro man 40 years of .-ge, in the employ of the Eaoree Manufacturing ompany as a farm hand, disappeared No one seemed to attach auy consequence to his ab sence, but some nf the negroes in .-.peaking of the nutter said tnat they believed he had been killed and thrown in the river. NJ importance was attached to the spc ch uuiil this uody was found. It is the opinion among s imo of the clt'zens of the neighborhood that tue body is that of M irrit, and it is the prevailing opin ion that he was killed ny some of his own raci, but the intimation is very strong that some white man is re sponsible for it. it is said that the negro was a worthless sort of a char acter, but that is not suggested as the callee of his death. l'mycd vviin Death. A dispatch from Au ?ersm to The State s?ys Cor.-nur P.-uitt was called to toe plantation of Mr. J. ll. Bow den Friday to hold an inq lest over tue body of Bub Watson, a young ne gro, who was snot a fe w days ago by his comp anion, Alonzo Thomas. The circumstances attending the shooting were rather unusual. Tne two boys were playing, one with a pistol and the other with a knife. A tliscuisijn arise as bj the relative merits of the .veapous as instruments of destruo Lion. A playful bjut ensued, which became too realistic. Watson was shot in the abdomen, the ball passing turough his body and lodging In tho ?piual column. Tue ball coull not be located and Watson ling red a few d '.ys and died. Thomas will be tried f. r murder at the term of court there next week. l'coular Aocitlont. A very peculiar and serious accident occurred at W. 13. Rust's factory Monday evening of last week at Swan sea. K illis, tile 14 year old eon of Itiohard Cartin, was boriug with an augdr that was turned by machinery. To steady the short board he was pressing his bjdy against it. The hoard was a thin one, aud the auger west through and into his groin on the right side live or six inches. He pulled the auger out himself by press ing dis body from tne machine and in coming out lt brought the grooves full of flesh. Thc boy had only a few minutes before the accident been told to keep away from the machine. His condition is critical. Stato Su m m ci- School. Tho indications are that the com ing session of tho State Summer s.TiOol at Clemson will oe the mist successful ever held. Tue applica tion* arc pouring in on the State Su perintendent and it is thought that i thore will bo between Ave and six hundred, * ^