The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, July 21, 1905, Image 1
VOL. xxx
BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1005.
NO. m.%<)
THE SAD END
- -Ol Robert Keith Dargan, of Dar
lington Who Deliberately
COMMITTED SUICIDE,
His Brother Said to Have Been Present
When He Took thc Polsou. He
Lett a Written Statement ot
the Cause of thc Act.
And a Letter.
A dispatch from Darlington to Tho
State says Mr. Robert Kolth Dargan,
formerly president of tho Independent
OH company and of the Darlington
Trust company, commited suicide bo
tweed 8 and 9 o'clock on Tuesday night
of last week by taking oarbolio aoid.
Mr. Dargan was on tha streets Tues
day afternoon and appeared In thia
usual manner. He had been reticent
since the recent troublo of the large
concoma of which he had been the
head, and Tuesday afternoon he made
appointments to meet several gentle
_ men later In the cvoning, ono of these
~* ' Being Mr. W. F. Dargan, who states
that Mr. R. Ki Dargan told him he
would go to Mr. W. F. Dargan'a ottice
within an hour from tho time they
were talking. .
A dispatch to The State Hays there
wore no developments at Darlington
Wednesday following the tragic death
of Mr. Robert Keith Dargan by his
own hand Friday night. Tho tragedy,
and the circumstances leading up to
lt, were the almost sole topic ol con
versatlon on the streets, in stores and
Qt?lces during the entire day. It has
been raining all day long and business
seems to be almost at a standstill. In
almost every protocted place can be
seen a group of men, all discussing In
hushed voices the one subjcot that
seems to be on all minds. Tho coroner's
inquest, which was to haye been held
Wednesday morning, was postponed
until Thursday morning at 9 o'olook
In order that Mr. Pt?gram Dargan, the
most Important witness, would not be
required to leave thc house of mourn
ing until after the funeral.
Tho circumstances of the suicide
all indicate that lt waB most deliber
ately planned. There has been no tes
timony and no statement concerning
what transpired In the law c lllco whore
jJargan'f??kmHitre-iittSbeen given
out, bub the facts, ns gathered frcm
reliable men, are that Mr. Pegram
Dargan went Into the drug store of L.
B. Phillips some time between 4 and
0 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and
bought tho four ounces of carbolic
aoid. Ile was alone and did not go in
the direction of the law olilce when ho
left. The two brothers. Mr. Pegram
Dargan and Mr. Robert Keith Dargan,
went to the law olilce of their father
opposite the Darlington Guardsarmory
building before 8 o'clock and locked
themselves in. One of them poured
out most of the four ounces of acid in
a glass and the rest he poured in a
small bowl and mixed about a gill of
rye whiskey with lt. This eonccctlon
waa to be used to deaden tho pain from
the raw acid but only a part of it, If
any, was taken, as the bowl, which is
in the possession of the coroner, still
contains a small quantity.
After a portion had been taken, Mr.
Dargan remained In tho room with hhs
brother until life was extinct and then
notified their cousin, Mr. W. F, Dar
gan, who In turn quickly called Dr.
Edwards, but their arrival was too
late for human aid. Thc suicide had
left a brlof statement which stated
that he had ended his own life and
that his brother had procured the (here
he made a dash) and that he may have
mismanaged but he was not a coward
Ile also left a letter which was not ad
dressed but ls said to have been for his
wife. Robert Keith Dargan was born
In 1806, He was a son of Mr. 10. Keith
Dargan, the dean of the Darlington
bar, a successful lawyer ahd a man of
the highest character, a Confederate
Boldlor who served as an olll ier of ar
tillery In the corps of Stonewall Jack
son. The mother of Mr. U. K. Dar
gan before her marriage was Miss
. Elizabeth Woods, a sister of Associate
Justice C. A. Woods of the supreme
court. The sui J ?ot of this sketch
graduated from WofTord college and
was afterwards admitted to the bar
and practiced for a short time with
his father. After an interim of retire
ment from active business on account
of a nervous breakdown, he acceptor!
a clerical position with the Darlington
Phosphato company and exhibited
such a remarkable capacity for busi
ness that he was made general manag
er of the company.
A Mountain Horror,
John and Davo Phipps, young white
men, residing near Hutler, Tonn., are
being hunted In tho mountains along
tho border of iNorth Carolina and Ten
nessee Monday night by a pusso of fif
ty armed men, who have sworn to
take them dean or alive. Tuc Phipps
boys are charged with one of thc
bloodiest murder;: ever committed In
this mountain section, when, accord
ing to reports reaching Bristol on Sun
day afternoon, they used an axe to
ohop thc body of William Rankins to
pieces, and so wounded with thc same
weapon Filmore Moreland that he will
In all probability dlo. Thc trouble
occurred at a place called Doovlllc and
ls said toba largely thc result of mean
ll<iuur Illicitly distilled In that immc
dlate locality. All thc parties are
whito and well known in the moun
tains.
Mo Liked lt.
Abo ut a year ago a K ansas dootoi
lost a wallet containing a largo sun:
of money, lie offered a liberal rowan
for Its relurn, but the party wilt
found lt thought thc whole thin JJ
was better than the reward. Thc
other day the d ctor entered hh
coal bc vue, and thc llrst thing ht
Baw waa lils empty wallet, and pro
trialing from an end wits a card bearing
the inscription: "Doctor, please 111
this prescription again."
LOCATED AT LAST.
Murphy, tho Murderer of Treasurer
Copes, in tho Army.
Penitentiary Authorities to Make
Inquirios. Brief lleiiumo of
tho Crlmo anfl lOsoaiio.
The murder of Treasurer Copes, of
Orangobur?, ia the year 1800, has
passed from the memory of the publio
now, although it created an immense
sensation in the state at the time. It
ls recalled at this time by the report,
which ls more or less well authenti
cated, that Murphy, white, who was
convicted of the crime is now In the
Philippines, a private In the army,
though what regiment or company bc
is a member of is not known.
A former penitentiary guard told a
Columbia Record reporter that a rela
tive of Murphy told bim that, now
that the whole thing was over, be
would say that Murphy was In the
Philippines, though his exact where
abouts in the islands he did nob know.
Superintendent Grlfllth said ho had
never heard the report until informed
of lt by a newspaper man, but said he
would make some inquiries, though it
ls hardly probable that anything will
oomo of thom, as Murphy most likely
ls living under an assumed name, and
possibly has so changed lu personal
appearance that it would be difficult
to identify him.
Treasurer Copes was killed about
189?, having been on a tax collecting
tour through the country. Ile was
shot with a shotgun at a lonely place
on the public road some miles from
Orangeburg, and for sometime there
was no oluo whatevor to tho criminal.
Finally, Murphy, a somewhat worth
less white man, was arrested and ac
cused of the crlmo. A great deal of
tho evidence against bim waa circum
stantial, but ho' was convicted. His
case went to tho supreme court, was
sent back, as the olroumstances are
recalled, and a second conviction was
had. Murphy was sentenced to be
banged. His aged father, however,
succeeded lu enlisting the services of
Mr. M. P. Carroll, a prominent lawyer
lu Augusta, who secured a great deal
of clieumfitautlal evidence going to
prove an alibi. Much of this evidence
was considered worthless by those
who knew the souroo of it, bub per
8onal appeals added to the alleged
evidence induced Governor Kllerbe to
commute the sentence to Ufe Impris
onment.
Murphy was during appeal taken to
the penitentiary for safe keeping pre
vlous to Ona! aotion. The governor
visited bim In his cell once or twlca.
Newspaper men were frequent callers
and penitentiary authorities were con
stantly on tho alert amV made iro
quent endeavors to get Murphy to
talk about the crime. Further than
deny his guilt he would say nothing,
and either tried to appear imbecilic
or was actually a personage on that
order, though lt was evident that be
was a man of such mental capaolty as
to be accountable for any crime lie
may have committed.
After the commutation ho was put
to work about the penitentiary and
bis life was no different from that of
other convicts in the yard. He was
placed In a oell in the old building
with a white convict named Cullom,
?ont down from Oconee for highway
robbery. Their cell was on the sec
ond Moor, facing a long portico run
ning around the building. By some
means they managed to secret tiles
and other tools about their persons or
in their cell, and after what must
have been long and tedious and con
stantly Interrupted work they were
enabled to open the cell door.
One dark night about four or live
years ago, watching when the guard
was elsewhore they opened the cell
door, crawled, likely, to the end of
the portico, sliding down ono of the
supporting columns to the ground.
Plie penitentiary yard is brilliantly
lighted by electricity and a very high,
smooth brick wall surrounds the
building. Notwithstanding this the
two men succeeded In escaping the
eye of the guards and scaling the walls
and securing their liberty. Before
leaving one of them, at least, showed
that he possessed the sense of humor
to some degree. With charcoal writ
ten on the walls wore sentences like
the following: "Sorry to leave you."
"God be with you till we meet again."
'Good bye, wo aro bound fer South
America " There were some others
on a similar order mingled with ob
scenity.
Mvory effort was made to recapture
tho men, hut they successfully eluded
detection and never were heard of un
til a few weeks ago, when the report
that Murphy was In the Philippines
reached Columbia. Penitentiary au
thorities had forgotten the circum
stance along with o very bod y else. No
Information has over been received as
to Cullom. He may be In the Pic tlc
Islands too, but as his crime was not
so serious as that of his cell partner,
perhaps be did not think lt necessary
to got so far away from home.
Homo (iloiKt tn Thom.
The State Hays all Pennsly vanlans
are not ii.curable boodlers, however
strongly tho Philadelphia Record may
uphold the theory. The other day
Capt. J. R Bricker of Warwick, Pa.,
received an umbrella that was "bor
rowed," July 4, 1870. Attached to
the batidlo was a note asking niat
needed repairs bo made as the gentle
men In whose possession it bad been
for 20 years might need lt again. A
State where men return umbrellas,
ever after the lapse of nearly the
third of accntury, cannot be wholly
' bad. _
A CnnfmlorAtn Monument.
The survivors of the Jackson
Grays, a noted company of Confeder
ate Infantry, recruited In tho Pleas
ant Grove district of Norfolk oounty
at the breaking out of tho civil war,
Tuesday uuvollcd a handsome granite
monument erected near Pleasant
1 Grove Baptist Church on thc spol
' whero thecompany was first Unod U|
' fourty four years ago.
I Hulls lor Philippinen.
i The steamer Manohurla, havlnt
s aboard Seoretary of War Taft, Mis
Allco Roosevelt and a large party o
r United States senators and congress
I men, -.ailed from San Ifranolaoo Frldai
for tho Philippine Islands.
TWELVE KILLED.
Wholesale Murder by a Negro on
Schooner Olympia.
ONE WOMAN ESCAPED
Alis;; Elsie Morgan, After Behn? Shot and
Beaten, Jumps Overboard and Swims
to the Shore. The Murderer
Captured and Ile May Be
Lynched by Crowd.
One of the most shocking stories of
murder with r. bbery as a motive in
thc annals of crime was brought to
Now Orleans Wednesday by Capt.
Hans Holm of the Norwegian fruiter
Bratten, which piles betweon New
Orleans and Honduranean ports. It
was subsequently continued by the
ofllcers of tho fruit stoamer Rosina,
which came in later In the evening
with additional details.
Tho little island or Utllla, lying off
the Honduranean coast, whoso popu
lation ls an indiscriminate mixture of
white, CaymanltC8 and Carlbs, was
the scene of the tragedy In whioh 12
lives were sacrl ticed. Tho captain of
the little trading schooner Olympia
was about to make a trip to Ruatan,
Truxlllo and Bell?. She had about
$1,400 to buy cattle at Truxlllo
to sell at Belize. She carried a crew
of four and quite a number of passen?
gers, making the total Hst of people
aboard number 13. Among these
were two women and two children.
The vessel left tba bar bor of Utllla
at ll o'clock Friday night, June 30,
and after she had been under way less
than an hour everybody was aroused
by a shot and rushing on deck found
a negro armed with a Winchester rllle
shooting down thc men, one after an
other. This negro was Robert Mc
Gill ard, as lt afterwards developed,
he had stowed himself away aboard
with tho intention of robbing the
j captain and thou swimming ashore.
After ho had killed all but one of
them he ordered tho last survivor to
go below and scuttle tho ship. When
the unfortunate reappeared on deck
and reported, tho negro shot him to
death.
Ho then put the two women, Miss
Elsio Morgan and her sister, Mrs
Walter Roso, in tho dory with the
.Mrs. Rose's ?tlx- we?'.kold ;l?f??t' a??t?
left the boat, steering for the main
land. He changed lils mind about
allowing the women to live and killed
Mrs. Rose and her infant. Then he
began shooting at Miss Morgan and
wounded her In the arm. She jump
ed overboard and started to Bwlm
back to the island, ne tired at her
ineffectually, but his ammunition evi
dently gave out, for he promised her
immunity from harm If she would
come back to tho dory. She started
back and when within oar's length he
struck her on thc head with an oar
stunning her. Believing she was dead
he rowed away towards the main
land.
Miss Morgan swam back to tho is
land, whore she was thrown on t he
beach by the waves in an exhausted
condition. She feared that the negro
would follow her, so she hid In the
bushes and for two days she suffered
from the heat and exposure, until
found by a woman from her neighbor
hood and rescued from starvation. In
the meantime the dory had been
washed ashore and there was excite
ment on the Island, as lt was believed
the Olympia had gone down with all
hands. When Miss Morgan told hor
story an immediate search was lnstl
tuted for McGill and thc authorities
on the mainland were notilled.
Tiley caught him at 101 l\.rtvlnir, a
little town on the road to Geiba, and
there was quite a demonstration, but
lie was protected. His life was saved
through the presence on tho coast of
President Boullia, who was on an In
spection tour. The Honduranean
warship Ta Tumba, which has figured
in so many revolutions, was brought
Into service and tho murderer placed
aboard and sent back to the island.
Up to last Sunday bc was still alive,
though lt is llrmly believed that he
will bo tortured to death. The laws
of Honduras prohibit capital punish
ment, but the people will take thc
case Into their own hands. Miss Flslc
Morgan, the only survivor of tho ter
rible experience vlsi tod New Orleanf
three years ago and Isa well educated,
relined young woman of 26 years.
Dudor liook nml Key.
A dispatch from Washington sayt
tho new system of preparing tin
monthly crop report, devised sinco tin
cotton Investigation began, was pul
In force Tuesday. That report wai
made public late Tuesday afternooi
and the socretary believes that UK
steps taken aro perfeot. Karly In tin
day Assitant Secretary Hayes, Ghle:
Statistician Hyde and several oxpcrti
of thc department were placed in a
room under lock and key and the]
were not to be permitted to come ou
until four o'clock In the afternoon
The telrpones In thc room wore dis
connected, and a careful scrutiny wa
kept of the windows to avoid tho pos
sibllity of a loak through private sig
nals.
Poor Old Call.
Former Senator Wilkinson Gall, o
Florida, ha? declared himself as
Roosevelt man and Organized a Roosc
velt club at Ortegas, a suburb o
.(acksonville. Mr. Gall was a Dome
, eratic Senator from Florida for thre
terms, covering a period of clghtce
! years. He bas little, If any, politl?n
. influence left, and lt, docs not matte
t very muob Whether he ls for or agalns
j Mr. Roosevelt._
Coally Blft'?oin Cotton,
Fire at an early hour Friday mon
lng destroyed the building of tb
? Gulf Compress company at Mci ldlai
J Miss. Over 11,000 bales of cotlo
were In storage and about ? 000 bah
were destroyed. The total loss ls o
' tlmat?d at $175,000, partially Insu
ed.
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CHEATHAM CHARGES
Hyde With Being Just as Quilty as|
Holmes Was.
flo Haye Soorctary Wilson Brought
In i'l l o (3 to Turn Aiton tlon
Away From Hyde.
7 he Atlanta Journal tmyt* according
to Secretary lt! oh ard Chea th am, of
the Southern Cotton Association, who
made the ohargo of fraud against the
United {States department of :ig ri cul
ture, rolating to advance Information
being glvon out, Statistician Hydo and
his private seorotary aro just ai guilty
of tho offense of giving away depart
ment scorots as Holmes, the man who
was discharged.
Mr. Cheatham says further that
Secretary Wilson brought the name
of Theodoro Price Into the affair to
turn the attention from Hyde. Every
effort was made, according to Mr.
Cheatham, to bring Theodore Price
into the affair, buttheso efforts failed,
and now his belief is that tho depart
ment of agriculture has rung Price
into it to shield other favored em
ployes.
Seoretary Cheatham returned to
Atlanta Monday afternoon. Since ho
first got ovidonco of tho leakage In
the department he has been hard at
work securing evldenoo to present to
tho department of agriculture. Now
he baa fully convinced the department
officials as well as tho whole world
that the department had been tamper
ed with, that tho secrets of tho do
partment were sold to Wall street
spectators, who played the tickers on
tho ad vaneo Information received, and
and made thousands of dollars.
Mr. Cheatham was in ohargo of a
number of the government secret ser
vice men, and they went right out af
ter all the necessary evidence. When
they got it and turned lt over bo Sec
retary Wilson Holmes was promptly
fired out, and, In thc opinion of Seoro
tary Cheatham, Hyde and his private
secretary should go too, for they were
Just as much in on the deal as Huimos
was. And Mr. Cheatham discovered
further that this leakage had boen
going on for some timo.
When President Jordan, of the
Southern Cotton Association, returns
to tho ol ty Mr. Cheatham will present
the evidence which he has against
Hyde and his seoretary, and will re
quest President Harvle Jordan to lay
tho whole matter In tho hands of
President Roosevelt. In that event,
Mr. Cheatham believes that the in
vestlgatlon will result not only In tho
further dismissal of Hyde aud his
?oretary, but of Secretary Wilson
s</. ' lu u ding oi' tho Status ur tho
oase Mr. Cheatham said:
"We found a terrible state of af
fairs. You known that Holmes has
been dismissed for his dupllolty lu the
matter, but, in my opinion, Hyde and
his seoretary should also go. The evi
dence against them ls strong, and if
Mr. Jordan will take the matter to
President Roosevelt, I believe that
even Secretary Wilson will be dropped
This thing has been going on for a
number of years. After we showed
our hand and told what we know
there was considerable excitement In
thc department. And when thc re
port of tho secret service agents were
made you never saw such excitement
as there was In Washington.
"Secretary Wilson has brought
Theodore Trice into this thing for the
purpose of shielding Hyde and his sec
rotary. We did our best to find some
evidence against Price, as we wanted
to show, if possible, that he had been
getting rich out of speculating on ad
vance information furnished by offici
als of tho department of agriculture,
but we couldn't get enough evidence
to connect him with the affair. Willie
we have no love for Price, and while
we would have liked thc best in the
world to have gotten him mixed in
this affair, yet we clo not think Sec
! rotary Wilson has done tho fair thing,
; nd believe that ho is using it as a
blind altogether."
A Close Call.
During a severe thunder storm at
Klngstree Saturday evening lightning
struck the olllce of thc Peach Rlyor
Cypress Mills, of which Mr. P. B,
Tnorne ls the proprietor. At the time
a heavy rain was falling and the ( nice
was crowded with hands from the mill
waiting to bo paid off. The fluid struck
the brick Que, touring it completely
away, toro off tho weather boards on
ono side, knocked /our holes through
the lloor and tumbled tho negroes over
right and loft, burning two them bad
ly, but miraculously all escaping with
tholr llvos. Mr. Thorne, sitting at
his desk ten feet away, experienced
no shock whatever. A pile of silver
on the desk was scattered, the lamp
put out and the Inkstand upset. The
setter dog lying on the lloor was
Stunned and blinded In one eye. Hy
Sunday morning none was thc worse
for the experience, except the dog,
which is still blind.
Fixed t ho ?) ury.
A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C.,
says J. Rowan R igors and L P. Sor
rell, who are now In Jail serving a
sentence of .'JO days for contempt of
court in Influencing jurors in favor of
President Kllgoof Trinity colledge
and il N Duke of the. American To
bacco company, during their trial on
thc charge of malicious libel against
T. J. GattlS a Motbodlst minister
Thursday pleaded guilty In open
court to embracery. The ontlre
jury In the caso against Duke and KU
go ha* boon summoned beforo the
grand jury to seo If other partlos art
involved.
Ahirly-Nino Ktllod.
A Ure has broken out In the Horus!?
coal mine, Prussia, caused hythe caro
less handling of a lamp by boys. Thc
lamp explodod, Igniting tho timber
of tho shaft which burnod rapidly
Two hunbred and fifty miners escapee
through an air shaft, hut .'111 wore cu
off ami thier death ls regarded as cer
tain,
Fooling With a lMetol,
Georgo and Wosley Price, colorci
children aged nevon and eight, wer
playlmg with a pistol at Johnston 01
Monday when tho thing wont off
thc ball entering tho abdomen of tb
older. Ho died next day.
HE A?4 VICTIMS
Two Infants Perish in Their Mo
therV Arms in Street.
TWE?-ONB DEATHS.
J? .
The PasBC^g'era .on o Crowded Elevated
Train Se j a Victim Fall In the Car
and ihV. Over Fifty Prostra
V;
linns In Oae Day.
According to tho Now York Amerl
eau Monday of last weok lu that city
was a dayfyjt torrlble, overpowlng heat
whloh rolled up an appalling Hst of
dead aud yjjfbstrated, was checked and
tempered ronly for a time in the after
noon by aj violent storm, which Hood
ed collarsj^sowors and Subway, aud
loft a trail of disaster aud ruin lu Its
wake. Aj nltfht lt was again Intoler
ably hot. Nineteen persons, moat of
them chjldren, were killed by the
sun's merciless rays aud stilling hu
midity. ' flcorea of others were over
come, and at midnight new eases wore
still belnfif roportcd.
First lt was tho extremely high
temperature which assailed tho city
almost ab break of day. At 0 a. m.
70 degree}}, and from that time on the
mercury kept ollmbing steadily. The
climax crime at 2 p. m., when 8i) was
readied, jliut it was the extraordinary
degree o? humidity which caused must
of the djjJtress. At 8 a. m. the densi
ty of tl? air registered thc very high
mark o$39. Relief came in the after
noon wltfm the heavy rainstorm sent
the moiwury tumbling 16 degrees in
less thou an hone. The rainfall in
that time was 1.20 Inches.
Lightning also came along with tho
rain and struck thc City Hall Hag
staff in Brooklyn, outtlng a spiral
ribbon from lt. Tho bolt tore tho
Hag to jilecos, Hung dowu the eaglo
aurmou&tlug lt Bhookcd Hf ty persons
in tho building, besides cutting out
tho cloQWlo switch board and extln
gulshtt|f all of tho lights.
Tuevj&ln came so suddenly and ii
such banding volumes that the streets
were sbeedlly converted into running
streak*. For the Hrst time in a good
fl,ys lower Manhatten received
eshlng drenohiug.
nd Oentro streets the
heaVy onrush of waters' swept back
from tl o ?logeod sewers and tilled thc
adjoining cellars. The back waters
swept down tho streets and over tin
aide walks, and within Ufteen minutes
there was two feet of water in tho
basement of tho Griminal Courts
Hu lld l iv- For a thee lt? seemed as If
the engine room would be swamped
aud the elevators shut down.
At thc South Ferry terminal of tho
Subway the water poured over the
curbing and down the entrances In
NUgara like volumcH. The sudden
cessation of the rain alone saved seri
ous trouble. As it was, lt took the
pumps ovor an hour to clear the tube.
Hut the worst phase of the storm de
v?loped at Elm and Duane streets
where Hf teen men were entombed in
the collapse of an excavation under
mined by the heavy rainfall.
In Now Jersey and various other
sections of outlying and adjoining
suburbs lightning struck in several
places, but no one was killed. At
10111s Island two bolts struck thc ad
ministration building and the last one
toro out ton feet of the roof, besides
demolishing the skylights.
Yet, despite this disastrous effect,
the storm was welcomed as few storms
have been welcomed this summer.
The excursionists who had lefc New
York on Saturday and Sunday aod
had congratulated themselves on tho
manner in which they had escaped
the heat, came hack only to Und con
ditions worse than those from which
they lied.
Thc Buffering, of course, was the
keenest on the crowded Fast Side, lt
always ls. Yesterday the sidewalks
were packed with suffering, panting
men, women and children, in all states
jf dress and undress, trying to lind
relief, that was not to be found, lt
was to tlust) sections that the ambu
lances worn kept going most frequent
ly, and it was from the ranks of the
suffering Fist Shiers that death and
thc hospitals gained their largest list
of recruits. The deadly rapidity with
which bibles succumbed was heart
rending.
Two Infants died In tho arms of
their mothers before the seriousness of
their condition was realized. Another
baby died In the carriage hi front of
the door, where it had boen tempera
rily left standing. In almost every
instance the end came so swiftly that
parents had little or no warning.
Whereas the children predominated
In thc Hst of fatal cases, tho grown
ups praotically comprise the entire
roll of prostrations. Brooklyn suffer
ed equally with Manhattan, and In
both boroughs ambulances were kept
busy taking the stricken ones to the
hospitals. The majority of those
ovoroomo In Manhatten went to the
Hudson Street Hospital. Tnere
almost every cot was Ulled before
night, and several physicians them
selves narrowly escaped falling ex
hausted from their exertions. Heat
victims fell unconscious on tho stroels
in tho Subway and on the elevated
trains.
John Falvy, formerly a foreman of
Fire Department Truck No. 14, lo
cated on 10ist One Hundred and
Twenty Fifth street died in a Third
avenue elevated train. Mr. Falvy,
who weighed over two hundred pounds
had given his scat to au agod woman
and a few moments later ho fell to
the door. At Thirty- fourth street he
was carried to the station, where an
ambulance was callod, but ho was
dead whou tho surgoon arrlvod. Ile
had beon In the Uro departmont foi
27 years.
Probably tho most dramatic Ind
ii.M ?i i in ni:.iii ii by tile i : 11 mil-, heat
wave was when Albert Kacsick tried
to drown himsolf in the North River,
ills attempt was mario only a few
blocks above tho spot where another
man who had been drlvon insane by
the heat tried to kill himself in a
similar mannor on Sunday night.
Kaeslck had been wandering along
tho wharfs for some hours when he
suddenly Jumped over the bulkhead
between Piers 39 and 40. Then fol
lowed a dramatic struggle to bring
him to Bhore by a longshoreman who
had seen him make tho leap and had
dived after him. Finally, when lt
seemed that the heat crazed man i
must carry his would be rescuer down
with him, Patrolman Hagan, of the
MoDougal street station, reached the i
almost exhausted longshoreman with
a ropo. Both men were brought to
shore, and Kaeslck was Hont to Belle
vue Hospital.
Not among the least of these who
8uiTered intensely from the ovorcharg
ed atmosphere were the cats and dogs.
In some sections ?theso animals were
almost entirely exterminated and
pollcomen were frequently called to
shoot those which lt was feared had
gone mad. One of thc districts said
to have been almost depopulated In
this regard Monday was the vicinity
covered by the West Forty-seventh
street police station.
BRIBING DISPENSERS
To Push Cortnln Ili-muls ol Wlilekoy
In This St ?tc.
A dispatch from Columbia savs a
special system opening up largo pos
sibilities of graft has been discovered
by Commissioner Tatum at the whole
sale dispensary in Columbia and he
has written a letter to tho state di
rectors calling their attention to the
facts and requesting that they buy no
more whiskey from the houses that
have been guilty, lt seems that some
time there has been a disposition by
certain retail dispensers to push cer
tain urands of goods. Orders were
constantly coming in from oertain
dispensers for these goods while at
other dispensaries there was no sale
at all for the same goods.
About the same time letters began
to come In from some of thc dispen
sers stating that theso brands of goods
contained too many bottles to the
case. As a result Commissioner Ta
tum had nearly every ouse of goods at
the wholesale dispensary opened and
found nearly $3,000 worth of certain
brands over and above what had been
ordered. These extra bottles had
been placed In thc cases and should
the dispenser push this brand the ex
tra bottles belonged to himself and ht
was that much lu on Its salo.
Some of the dispensers were not
slow to see the scheme and took ad
vantage of lt. Others eltl er did not
see. it or would not, as a result Com
missioner Tat?en fouud them out.
He has written the board and here
after all cases will bo examined before
they are shipped out. All tags oi
cards or extra bottles that might see rr.
to be an Inducement to push U?? sal?
of any certain brand will be removed
The state ls In, however, abouf^ $3,000
as a result of the discovery.
LOST ON A YACHT.
Hunk in tho II mirum ltlvor hy Nov
wolffian Trump Stoamov.
Three lives were lost by the sinking
of the steam yacht Normandie, which
was run down Wednesday night In the
Hudson river of Dobbs Ferry by the
Norwegian tramp steamer Volund
Those who perished were Miss Gladys
Dodge of Now York, a guest aboard
thc yacht, the captain William Story
of Hyde Park, N. Y., and the engi
neer Stewart tirade of Brooklyn.
Their bodies were not recovered.
.John II. Rudd, who chartered thf
boat, his guest John R. Greene and
.Joseph Hannigan, tho deck hand ol
the yacht, managed to keep alloat by
clinging to wreckage until they wore
picked up by a boat from the Volund.
Mr. Rudd made a statement today In
which he said that as the Normandie
was running down stream In tho mid
dle of the river, a tramp steamer was
seen coming up, head on, about OOO
yards away.
Tuc pilot of tho yacht gave one
whistle but tho steamer continued to
come until within 150 feet of the yacht
when she whistled twice and then
swerved to p'jrt striking tho Norman
die amidships. An explosion followed
immediately and the yatch went down
within live seconds.
Coroner Frank Russell of Westches
ter county visited tho wreck of thc
yacht Wednesday and found long
strands of hair streaming from one of
the port holes. Coroner Russell Wed
nesday night oaused tire arrest of
.lost ph Hannigan, tho deck hand, and
Issued an order for the arrest of Mr.
Rudd.
lilot 111 i I AVAIIU,
Two deaths have resulted from the
ountllots at Havana between Cuban
artillerymen and civilians. The first
conlliot occurred botweenartillerymen
and policemen and tho toughs who lu
fCSt tho locality. Thou the company
of soldiers who wero sent to reston,
ordor mutinied and ll red on the Po
lice. General Freye A nd rade, secre
tary of thc lntorior, is rigidly inquir
ing into the, Identity of the Ofliolal
who ordered tho company or artillery
men to t'a at district and is also en
deavoring to lind out who ls respon
albie for tho lack of discipline.
Down ?rn Tolmooo.
"Tho vory fumes of burning tolmo
co are au Incentive to i m m >ral and
pernicious conduct," said Mr. lt >bert
li. R.iainy, of Baltimore, In an ad
ri ress to tho Rp worth Leaguers the
other day. "A smoke laden room" he
continued "ls moro harmful by far
than tho smokers Imagino, and lt In
spires a spirit in those who inhale the
.smoke which is tho doorstop to sin."
, uivo Thom A Kt Ht.
Give all horses or tho placo at
least a thrco weeks' . .icatlon In the
i Holds. Thc grass will be good for
! their foot and asa feed will help to
??et all the old grain out Of tholr sys
tem, bosldes giving them a good rest.
Horsos that aro worked rv ?ry day
> must bo given a diet of ?rain. On
I Sundays and days when not lu usc
turn work horses into the Holds.
HOW IT WAS DONE.
Van Biper Exposes the Cotton Manip
ulators* Basoality.
Makes Hnmntionai Dlsoloauree, ?nd
Shown How llolmoB WAS Un
Iminnorcd in Hie Work.
A dispatch from New York says L
C. Yan Ul pur, whose name was men? j
tloned in Seoretary Wilson's report as
having received advance Information
on the condition of tho cotton crop,
made a public statement after the
publication of Secretary Wilson's re
port Saturday in which he deolared
that, he had nothing whatover to do
with plans to manipulate the govern
ment ojtton report. Ho amplllied
Secretary Wilson's report and called
upon the secretary to make publio
Mr. Van ttl por's entire statoment to
him. Mr. Van Wiper's statement ls
as follows:
"It came to my knowledge early In
tho year, without solicitation on my
part, that plans were being laid to
In?uecoa or manipulate the figures of
.die government reports on cotton dur
ing thc summer ''month* beginning
with June, lt was planned by cer
tain interests, including parties tn re
sponsible positions in tho bureau of
statistics, to usc luilucncoto have Mr.
Hyde sent to Kuropo so that Mr.
Homlcs would be acting hoad of the j
bureau of statistics, and In this posi
tion would have a free hand to furn
ish such reports as wanted.
"I wa1" alr>o cognizant of tho faot
that said Holmes had previously furn
Ished advance Information to certain
brokers from time to time, but when
their plans for changing or manipul?t
lng the cotton report figures were ex
posed to me, 1 Immediately consult?d
my attorney regarding the matter,
aud upon his advice, listened to their
stories and kept track of their plans,
In soma cases having witnesses un
known to them, until the Juno re
port ou acreage and condition on cot
ton came out.
"It was planned, as early as March,
to use oyory elfort they could to se
cure figures that would be as bearish
is possible, so as to break the price of
cotton to a low point where certain
Interests could make large profits on
tho short sido, and then load up and
make an enormous scoop on the long
sido, lt was understood that, lu some
cases, government agents reports
would be iniluenccd lu that direction,
or even Uctlclous reports used.
"OJ June 1, I was informed that ll
was impossible to get the condition
higher than 75 per cent, and the
acreage reduotton to show a decrease
of loss thau 13 per cent., in spite of
all they had tried to do, but that at
tho fi quest of a certain large market
operator, tho go between was going
back to Washington that night to try
ind have the figures stretched a little
further, and to my knowledge said
go-between took tho 12.15 train on
th?-Baltimore and Ohio railroad for
Washington on thc night of June 1,
ir rather the morning of June 2.
"On the morning of June 31, said
go between reported that he had suc
ceeded in arranging to have the con
dition ligures given 77 or higher and
the acreage reduction about Hi per
cent., which would be construed as
oearlsh and enable them to break the
market. 1 received this advice before
9 o'clock on June 3d and the public
knows what the ligure were when an
nounced at noon.
"The notoriety attached to this
matter is far from agreeable to me,
and I was personally assured by Sec
retary Wilson that In bringing this
natter to his attention I had done thc
lepartmcnt a great service and that
ny name would not be mentioned in
any way. Now that ho Ins men fit
to publish or to give out for publica
tion certain letters and documents
that were entrusted to him confiden
tially, 1 think it only fair to ask him
to give for publication my entire
statement made to him, of which the
above ls. a part, but which has been
omitted In newspaper accounts that
have, been called to my attention.
"From what 1 know of their vari
ous conversations and the plans that
.vere laid months in advance, I be
lieve that a thorough investigation of
? tho bureau of statistics would show
that the real acreage reduction was
from 18 to 25 per cent and not Iii as
announced on June 3d. I would sug
gest, or ask, that a further statoment
be made or asked tor from thc agricul
tural department as to what they
found by investigating the records ol
said bureau. As long as part of the
matter has been made public, why
not the whole?
"My attorney and others will back
mo up in the. statement that I had
not hing to do with the plans made by
these paities to manipulate thc gov
animent ligures, but merely on lega'
ad v oe and in thc hope of doing a greal
public service, followed tho plan af
outlinod and advised by my attorney
and at the proper time took BUOI
measures as 1 deemed right and Jus!
to the Cotton trade and tothcagrlcul
tural department. "
Shot Him Demi.
Major General Count Shouvaloff
prefect of police Af Moscow, Russia
and formerly attached to thc ministry
of the interior, was assassinated Wed
nesday whllo receiving petitions
One of the petitioners drew a revolve
and tired throe times at tho prefcot
who foll fload. The assassin was ar
rcs:ed. Thc assassin, who was dress
ed as a poasant, has not been identitl
od. Ile was recently arrested as i
political suspect, put escaped from tin
police station before hi" examination
Thc assassin awaited In thc ante
room of the. prefecture till tho otho
petitioners had been received am
then entered the audience room, II
advanced towards Count Shouvalol
and ll red throe shots at close range
Thc bullets passed through tho bod
j ... Uilv |/ivlvOW.
Twenty Killed.
At Warsaw, Poland, throo blood
encounters hetweon troops and strlk
lng shoemakers, In which about twcii
' ty persons were killed or wounded, ex
curred Tusday. Tho strlkors wer
marching through tho city from nous
to house demanding the lowering c
rent by 20 por cent. Many proprie
i tors emt of feat compiled with the d<
manda of tho sttikors.
One Hundred and Thirty Men Die
in Welsh Disaster.
VERY FEW ESCAPE.
Explosion Caused by Fire Damp. PIU
ful Scenes at the Mines. Heroic
Efforts to Reach the Unfortu
nate Men Were General
ly Unsuccessful.
A dispatch from Cardiff Wales, says
an explosion of tire damp in No. 2 pit
of the United National Colliery com
pany at Wattstown in tho Rhondda
valley, the oentre of tho great Welsh
ooal ?olds, Wednesday morning, ts be
lieved to have resulted in the loss of
at least 130 lives.
The explosion was followed immedi
ately by the belobing of olouds of
smoke and dust from the pit shaft, in
which 150 men were working, The
force of the explosion wrecked the
maohinery at the mouth of the pit.
AU communication with the doomed
men In this direction is completely
cut off. No. 1 shaft, adjoining, ha*
ordinarily afforded communication
with No. 2. The 800 men in No. 1
and the few who escaped from No. 2
were drawn up.
A rosene party descended, but its
work was seriously impeded by the
foul air and the falling masses of
oarth dislodged by the explosion. Al
together 59 bodies have been recov
ered.
Heroic efforts have been made for
hours to reaoh tho entombed mon, but
the absence of all sound from the in
terior :>f the mine told the tale of the
worst disaster that ba * taken place In
South Wales since 1894.
The news of the explosion spread
rapidly and hundreds of women and
obi ld i on and thousands of men throng
ed the head of the pit seeking infor
mation. The mountain roadways
were orowded all tho afternoon, and
tiicrc were streams of people in tho
neighborhood of the mine all contrib
uting to the pitiful scenes.
Efforts at rescue were still in prog
ress at midnight and ourrents of fresh
air were being dr iv JV through the
shaft, but the rescuers are now work
ing without hope of reducing the list
of fatalities.
THE CATAWBA WRECK.
Arrest of Cjoorgo Owen? Charged
With Wrecking tho Train.
The arrest of George Owens near
Osceola, S. C., Monday by Sheriff B.
A. Horn of Union county and Mr. W.
lt. Newman of Chester, S. G., is ex
pected to result in tho clearing up of
the mystery that has sui rounded the
catastrophe whioh occurred near Ca
tawba Junction early on the morning
of September 9 h ot last year, when"
passenger train No. 41 of the Seaboard
Air Line was precipitated from a
sinking bridge 30 feet to the ground
below, falling with a fearful oraah.
Only a few minutes later, to add to
the torriblo confusion that already
prevailed, an extra freight oame
thundering along and was hurled
headlong upon the debris of the pas
senger train. As a result of the acci
dent five lives were 1 s i and more
than 35 were Injured. I
This donb'.e wreck was said to be
due to a tampered track. Evor sinoe
the accident occurred the officers have
been working on the oase. A week or
more ago the wife of George Owens,
ina tit of jealousy, disclosed the seoret
which had been so long sought for.
Owens was at once arrested and ls
now behind the bars of Union
county Jail. The warrant on
which ho was taken was not
that of train wrecking, but for
the robbery of Mr. B. A. Deaton's
store at Stouts. All the facts have
not yet been secured to connect Owens
with the wrecking of No. 41, but the
detectives have the case in hand and
tho developments aro expected very
shortly. In the meantime Owens re
fuses to speak and ls resting safe and
secure behind the bira.
Death Valloy Tragedlos.
Nine men dead and tholr bones
bleaching on thc Nevada desert, two
unknown men found wandering naked
raving mad from thirst and heat
while trying to walk from.Lus Angeles
to Indio, pioked up by a passenger
train which he stopped by standing
on the traok; two prospectors, them
selves nearly dead from thirst, finding
the skeleton of one who died on the
desert a year ago. These are some of
the horrors reported from the desert
during the last three weeks.
Will Oo Unison. '
After having remained burled in
tho sand beneath ten feot of water
for iive years an effort ls now to be
made to rasoue tho cargo of the
schooner Minnie il. hergott, whioh
was wrecked near Chlcomooomloo, N.
C. Thc cargo CG?BISW? ?? 200 tons of
steel rails, a locomotive and other
maohinery. Capt. John Whcalton, of
Washington, N. C., will budda wharf
out to tho wreck, and by tho use of a
sand pump remove the scud and save
the cargo.
Tho Uer ni an Way.
The other day a Berlin miiler, his
tongue loosened In convivial oompany,
remarked : "All is not Solomonto wis?
dom that drops from tho Kmperor1
llps." And now for three long
months In the seclusion of prison the
miller will have opportunity to exalt
the blessing of Amorloan freo speech.
For, aa tho Statosays, evan under the
reign of the Great and Good Theodora
it is p.risible to whisper a doubt of his
divine inspiration without landing lp.
tho look-up.
Hundreds Drowned*
News has been rece I ved from India
of thc drowning of Ove? uve hundred
Chinese by the collapse of an over
crowded mat shed on the banks of the
West river, near Canton.