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"DO TH, GREAT LIBHRTY1, INPIBB OUR SOU LB AND MAUBOUR Ll'/RS IH THY BOSSHSSION HAPPY OB OUB DUATH8 GLORIOUS IH THY 0AU8B." VOL. XXXIj BENNETTSVII/LE, S. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1907. NO. 18. VtRY SAD CASE. Visitor to Charleston Attempts to Kill Self and Wife. S?ID TO BE INSANE. It. Ii. Bonnoitt, of Darlington, Be coming, It Is Supposed, Suddenly insane, Attempts to KUI Himself and When Prevented Shoots Hi* Wife, ft Bride of n Few Mont Iis. To Bo Sent To The Asylum. Becoming is it believed, suddenly insano Thursday afternoon, K. I,. Bonnitt, of Darlington, who was vis iting at the residence Mrs. Laura I<J. Hertz, No. 3*1 Rutledge avenue, Char leston, attempted to kill himself and when his wife, a bride of a few months, endeavored to prevent him from committing the crime, he turn ed savagely upon her and fired bis pistol, inflicting a wound which will in all probobllity, prove fatal. A few moments later Bonnitt at tempted again to committ suicide with a knife, hut was prevented and only inflicted upon himself a slight wound. Mrs. Bonnitt was Imme diately removed to the Riverside In firmary and at a late hour Thursday night lt was said that there was lit tle hopes of her recovery. Bonnitt was arrested and taken to the police station, but was hitor removed to tho Roper Hospital, where he was held under guard. Tho man was examined by physi cians and was pronounced Insane und papers committing Honnltt to tho Insane Asylum were obtained from Judge or Probate .fudge Ooo. D. Bryan, Solicitor Jervey consenting und Bonnitt was taken to Columbia on tho early train Friday morning. The solicitor has waived the right to prosecute Bonnitt and the whole matter ls settled. Tho News and Courier says tho only assignable reason for the at tack of Bonnitt on his wife is thai ho became temporarily Insane. Soi io years ago he was an inmate of tho Insano Asylum at Columbia, his con dition being caused, it is said, by n blow on the head, resulting In M blood clot. on tho brain. About i2 years ago ho was discharged fro i the asylum, apparently cured, sud since that timo has been in good health. Mr. and Mrs. Bonnitt have been living In Darlington and came lo Charleston Thursday to pay a visit to Mrs. Hertz, who is a sister-in-law of Mr, Bonnitt. About threo o'clo ' Mrs. Bonnitt was heard to seren?1,! and Mr. Matthew Hertz, who fort i nately wns In tho house at the time, rushed to tho room in which we- ?? Mr. and Mrs. Bonnitt. and there he found that Mr. Honnltt was holding a pistol to his wife's head. Mr. Her: immediately grappled with Ronnie who, however, fired tho pistol, the bullet taking effect In his \vlfe*H sb'. A tussle Hum ensued between the men for the possession of the piste' which was finally taken away from Bonnitt by main force, In the meantime help was sm moued from tho Holice Station ?i i i tho ambulance was telephoned for While walting for tho patrol wagon Bonnitt plunged a knife In his breast, but only in dieted a Bligh' wound. Ile was taken to the police station in the patrol wagon, offorlnv no resistance, and was locked on the charge of aggravated assault and b il tory, but later he was removed to the Relier Hospital and confined i" the insane ward. Mrs. Bonnitt was taken to the Riv erside Inflnmary, where an opera tion was performed in the afternoon in the hope that her lifo would be saved. The bullet was recovered, but it was ascrtained that an Intestin' was perforated and little hope i held for her recovery . After the shooting Bonnitt became very quiet and offered no resist .inc to the officers. Ho refused to say anything about the shooting. It was stated, however, that in the room with his wife he attempted to coe - mitt suicide and his wife had pre vented him, which seemed to anger him, causing him to place a pistol to her hoad. The whole affair ls sincerely re gretted, as tho family I? ?. prominent and the members have many friends Mrs. Bonnitt ls tho dnughtor of Mr. Caleb Bass, of Darlington, and is the second wife of Mr. Bonnitt. They were married about 1 months ago. _ cAMio TOO mon. The Church Committee Hail To Oct Cheaper Attraction. Bel lev ng thal William Jennings Bryan would be a first-class drawing card, tho committee of arrangements of the Central Pennsylvania confer ence of the Methodist church wrote him for his terms lo deliver the prin cipal lecture al tho annual session, to bo held thia week in Tyrone, lils price was so high it took the clergy man's breath away. His foo was larger than a whole year's salary . f some of the ministers. The commit tee concluded lo gol a loss-expensive attraction. _ SQ r A NIBO lt I'll) A F? BTUN10 Touching Story of n Life Wrecked Through Drink. A terrible story of a life wrocko 1 ?find a fortuno squahdered through drink has been unfolded at Stepney, longland, on I be dentil of a in in known as Joseph Oibson, who had run through a fortune of $175.COO in four years. Tho widow, Dora Gib son, Stated thal she and her hus band were captured by the Reers during the war, thal she bad a per sonal interview with Mr. Kruger and oven prevented tho deceased from being shot. FOISON CAN FltriT Kills Two Boys anti Makes the Moth er Sick. As a result of ptomaine poisoning caused by eating canned peaches, Mlvln ives, aged thirteen, and Leon ard Lee Ives, need seven years, si ns of Mr. and Mrs. W. \V. Ives, of ll ft ni ton, Va., aro dead and their moD'or in b tllOVCd to be dying. The mottler and boys were Stricken on last Wednesday. Leonard died Saturday and Melvin Sunday afternoon. FOUND IN WOODS. George McCormick May Have Been Dead Since Feb. 17. Man Who Killed His wife mid Shot lils Mother-in-law lins Hoon. Dis covered Dend. A lotter from Aiken to Tho Stato snys a vory tragic climax to a bru tal murder case developed Wednes day morning when tho decomposed body of Geo. McCormick was found near tho scone where ho committed a heinous crime on the 17th of Feb ruary. The body was found on Mr. Jim Green's place near Toalha. It is is supposed to have lain there slnco the day after he murdered his wife and seriously wounded lils mother-in-law. Coroner Owens went down to the scene Wednesday, accompanied by Dr. II .li .Wyman, Jr., and held an Inquest. The evidence adduced was all circumstancial, but a chain of in cidents \yas linked together which pointed strongly to suicide. A re hearsal of the murder and tho inci dents leading up to tho Unding of the body will be given below: On Sunday night, Feb. 17th, Geo. McCormick went to tho home of his mother-in-law, where his wife had down from him, and after trying in vain to induce her to return to him, he Hew into a frenzy of anger and began heating her. Her mother in terfered and McCormick pulled his pistol and shot her. Ho then turned his weapon upon his wife and shot and Instantly kill ed her. lie then went, so tho theory goos, to his own house and lhere drank two bottles of laudanum, and immediately went to tho homo of Bd. Hicks, a short distance away, and begged to be allowed to remain that night. Hicks stated that he was pe culiarly affected and was in some kind ol* a stupor. lie stayed over night there and next morning Hicks ran him off upon learning of his crime of tho proceeding night. Mc Cormick complained of feeling queer and said he thought ho was going crazy. He staggered Off and has not been seen since and it is supposed that ho went to whore ho was found, which is only a short distance from the house, and laid down and died in a Stupor. He was heard to say prev iously that IT he could kill his wife's mother he would be willing to die himself. He was supposed all along to be a fugitive from Justice in Georgia and some parties followed what they mis took for his tracks to Kat wood. The governor offered a reward for lils arrest a few days ago. The verdict of tho coroner's jury was that he caine to his death at his own hands. Tills (Mids one of Hie most aggra vated murder case that has ever oc curred in Aiken County and lt Is supposed that remorse possessed him and he died nt his own hands rather than face punishment for the brutal crime he had committed. < ASHIFH SKIIM'FD After Stealing Sixty Klght Thousand Dollars From Dank. Frank Jones, teller of the Char lotto National Hank, it is charged, lias defaulted to the extent of $68, 000. NOWS was just learned Wed nesday morning. Tho alleged defalcation will not inconvenience tho bank to any ser ious extent as it has assets of $ 1 , 000,000. There; was nothing crook ed sh spec ted until Jones loft Satur day night, saying he was summoned to Richmond. This, it ls ascertain ed, was a blind, and his whereabouts aro now unknown. Mr. Jones lias a wife and several children, ll?' was a member of tho First Presbyterian church and lo a degree was very active in church work. He was chairman of tho religious work committee of tho Y. M. C. A. here seven or eight years ago. Thc other banks of the city readi ly offered to lend aid to the Char lotte National Rank, but this was not OSpOClally needed. The Charlotte Hank has offered a reward of $1.000 for the arrest and delivery to tho proper authorities of Frank Jones, the toiler. WO.M FX SHOT TO DFAT i I. Assaulted n White Lady, Her Son And Daughter. Charged with having used a rasor With probable fatal effects on Mrs. 1311a Kiloton, n whit woman, and her daughter, and kicking ber son, a small child; about the road, two col on! women wore shot to death near McKamie, Tenn., Thursday night by a mob. According to a statement of Mrs. Uhelon, she and her two children were attacked by the negro women, while walking along tho public road. She and her daughter received knife wounds, which it ls feared will prove fatal. Tho WOllien were arrested and placed under guard al I he school house iii tho town of McKamie, that placo being without a jail and from V\'lllch thoy WOl'O removed by the mob at a late hour that night and shot to death. Ml SF HF SIGNED. Request HllUlk Feature of Dispen sary Must lie Observed, Tho request blank feature of the new dispensary law is to be strictly observed by tim new administration, il an opinion rendered by Attorney General Lyon ls heeded lt is rendered directly to State Dispensary Auditor West, and ho will see to tho enforcement of the law, The opinion Ifl clear cut and pos itive, it quotes tho law to show that any dispensoi' or other dispensary Officer who fails to carry out this part of the law is to be removed, j Tho patron must sign or make his 'mark In the presence of the dispen ser or clerk, who must attest though tho dispensary Official may used a rubber stamp to attest. According to tho opinion lt ls thc duty of the auditor to report to thc Governor any failure to strictly on forco this and othor features. ENDS HIS UFE Because He Could Net Replace Two Thousand Dollars WHICH HE HAD USED. Ami Lost in Spreu lal inp, in tho Stock Markets. Charles Abbott, a Young Mun, Manager of Branch Oflice of a Stock Brooker in Washington, Kills Himself in the Office, Loft Letter^. At Washington, D. C., with tho probability of an embezzlement chargo Involving $2,000 or more of his employers' money facing him, (maries Abbott, twenty-three years old, the manager of the branch oflice Of Wade & Hedges, brokers, ended his life in tho oflice, at 4 00 Fifth street northwest, by blowing out his brains with a revolvor. When discovered, tho body lay in the rear ofllco of the sn I to of two blood and the revolver clutched in lind the revolver clutched tightly In his right hand. The bullet willoh had ended the life of yound Abbott entered immediately above the right temple and lodged Inside the skull. Abbott for the last three mont tis had hoon employed ns manager for the Fifth avenue branch of tho brok erage firm, which had its main ofllco at SOO G. street northwest, and was regarded as a young man of exem plary habits. Tho firs Intimation that, anything was wrong with their manager's accounts was Friday af ternoon, when Abbott was duo at tho G street office to settle his week ly accounts, but failed to put in an appearance. Repeated efforts on tho part of Wade fr Hedges to comunm ente with their employe, noy only at branch oflice, but at the homo of his rather, .Julius Abbott. 234 Four-and a-half st reid southwest, where he al so resided, proved fruitless. Convinced that matters were irre gular, the members of the Arni, ac companied hy their attorney, went to the branch oflice with tho Inten tion of going over the account, or ascertain the cause of Abbott's fail ure to settle. As they entered. Mr. Wade, the senior member of the firm stumbled against, tho body of their manager. Tho police were immedi ately not!fled and Detectives Harti gan and Evans with a number of patrolmen from tho Sixth prcclnt, went to tho scene of the shooting. Two notes were taken from the inside coat pocket of the dead man. one addressed to his father, and the second to his employers, which wer?' taken charge of temporarily hy the police. The note to Wade fr Hedges In a heavily sealed envelope writ lon evidently In a nervous haste, read as follows: "March 16, 1007." "Messrs. Wado fr Hedges, City: "You will ho surprised to leam that I am short $2,000 in my ac counts with you. The C-notes, which you will And hi my pockets, aro all bogus. H. Owes me noting, and C. owes $2f>. I would like to make good, but I cannot. 'Charles Abbott" The note addressed to his father, Julius Abbott, was: "March 16, 1 007." "My Dear Father: 1 have been an awful liar. I have not only lost $2, 000 belonging to Wade fr Hedges, but all of my own money and not a small sum of yours. To tell tho truth, 1 have not a cent I could call my own. "The Idar Charlie." The downfall of Abbott is attri buted to tho sudden fluctuation in various stocks of the New York ex change. One of tho members of tho Arm of Wade fr Hedges said Thurs day night when contents of the note left by A Idiot t were made known, thal Abbott's shortages were prob ably the result of several week's speculations, tho differences on tho books being made up by the bogus notes found In his pockets. Abbott's parents were notified hy Percy Wade, a member of the brok erage firm. They are prostrated over their son's tragic end. In addition to his parents, two brothers survive him. Coroner Novitt Issued a cer tificate of death by suicide, omi the body was removed to an undertak er's establishment, wnere It will he prepared for burial and latter remov ed to the Abbott home. LA 1 )Y ATTACK 101) BY NKOBO She Escapes But The Elend Kills Her Baby. Mrs. James Tolbert, wife of for mer Mayor Tolbert of Fairmont, Ga., was brutally assaulted and her two months old child was murdered by a negro at their homo Thursday eve ning. The negro, who approached the house when Mrs. Tolbert was alone with her child, demanded $r?o. ticing refused ho said he must have the money or her life. Then bogan n struggle during which hr followed her from room to room, until she escaped and ran to her husband's store, some distance away. When sho rot urned With fl party tho baby was found with Its ?load nearly severed from Its body and tho negro was missing. ,A posse was soon formed .and the pursuit wits kept up during the nigel tho crowd increasing ns the search continued. Tho whole country has bren scoured for tho negro bruto but his capture bas not yot been re ported. lOxcitomcnl Is running high and there is no doubt, ir caught, tho nogro will ho lynched. TI KIHI IC EXPLOSION Heard Five .Miles and Kills Two Peo ple Instantly. A dispatch from Prosperity to tho Xews and Courier says a terrific, ex plosion startled that place on Tues day of Inst week. Many ran out of tho stores .and OfflCOS to And out the cause of tho noise, but nothing un uasual could bo soon. In about tu leen minuten a 'phone message carno to Mr. A. M. Leslie to tho effect that ; a holler belonging to Mr. N. R. Les ter, his brother, who lives near St. Luke's (Munch, about Ave miles frOM Prosperity* had exploded, and that Mr. Lester and a negro had boon in 1 stantlv killed and another negro sor ? ioitsly hurt. Mr. Lester wan a well ? to-do planler and a prominent man in his community and tho church. PIG SAVES SIX LIVES. - Swims With Linn From Wrecked Ship to Shore. Lifeboat Smashed and Vessel Going to Pieces-Tied Kopo to Porker and Tossed Kim Overboard. Bringing members of tho crow of the wrecked Welsh burk Annie Lloyd, the Hamburg-American line* Steamer Prinz Ethel Friedrich reach ed Now York from Inauga. Tile mon owo their preservation from the deep to a pig, and their ex perience explodes tho time-honored saying that a'pig can't swim. A pig that was on tho vessel was used in a rough sea. for getting a line to tho shore. The Floyd was bound for Ham burg when she was wrecked. On February 22, at night, in a hnlf-galo, tho bark was tumbled on a coral roof about twenty miles from Fortune is land. Rho began leaking almost im mediately. ("aptalu William tried to got a life boat away from tho leo side, but lt was smashed Into kindling. The sea threw the bark down on her pirt side until she had a slant if Hf teen degrees. Tho waves broke over the ship so heavily that the crow had to batten thom sol vos below. The mate, boat swain, and carpenter finally lashed lifo lines about their waists and made their way forward to where a water east was secured. They emptied the cast, and mak ing a lino fast to lt, tl)row tho cast Overboard, lt was hoped to get tho Uno ashore in that way, but tho pro ject failed. Tho lines and the cast were hauled hark on board and the male suggest ed that tho pig be tried as a life saver. The pig was big, noisy and strong as an ox. The end of the heaving lino wns placed about tho pig's midship section, and with an gry protests tho animal was ca?t overboard. "That porker was like a swan," said the boatswain, "Ile grunted like thunder when he struck the water, 1 but bo got. his compass bearings at last and headed for tho shore. "Wo thought he was a goner sov- 1 eral times, but he landed at last, and the nativos grabbed the line. They 1 gobbled up the pig first, of all, and 1 several of them disappeared up tho hench with the animal. "Oilier natives hauled ashore the j hawser, which we bent, to the heav ing lino, and we got ashore in 1 brcechos-buoy fashion. "Calita In ll uglies was the last to got ashore. Wo didn't save a stitch '' of our stuff. The bark went to \ pieces Ibo day we got ashore." lt was a mere coincidence of the pig rescue that the reef on which the Floyd struck is known as Hogsty reef. BUY AN IS I'OITIiAIl With Tho Masses Hut the Leaders Hate Him. \ "In all probability Mr. Bryan will . ngnin carry the standard of the c Dom ocr at parly next year. Ho ls ' unqucPtionnhly one of the most pow- ' erful political factors in tho country 1 today. No has grown. Conditions haye favored lils growth. ( "Ho is underated in rio well-in- 1 form od quarter. His views aro not 1 shored by Democratic leaders, but ? the great mass of party believe In ' him-Idolizes him-and will follow 1 him. Hts oxtromo views have not 1 handicapped him with the rank and 1 Hie. J "Ho occupies tho same position 1 With tho Democratic party that s Roosevelt holds with the Republican ' party. His honesty and his sincerity 1 go unchallenged, and therein is to \ bo found tho secret of his great and ' growing strength." Such is tho opinion of the Washing- 1 ton Herald regarding the probable ' candidacy of Mr. Di van in tho i ext I presidential campaign. RAINS IN THF NORTHWEST Complete Tlo Up of Telegraphic and Railway Service. Continuous heavy rains, resulting in serious washouts, violent wind storms and a wet, (dinging snow, have combined to produce a com plete telegraphic tie up in the Paci fic Northwest. The States of Mon tana, idaho, Washington and Oregon have boen isolated since early in tho day, mid there seems to ho no Imme diate prospects ol' an IhiproVOlllOnt in (he situation. Thursday night a heavy wind storm passed over Great Salt Lake, from tho Southwest to the Northeast, and by driving tho water with tor Ifie loree against the Southern Pac ific Cllt-Off across the western part of the lake, washed out an entensive section of tho tract, compelling a dis continuance of the train service. Sacramento is cut off from tho railroad communication with Hie outside world, except from tho east. No eastern train wore able to leave over the Odgon route Friday. MON I'M EXT TO HAGLEY Thc President invited to tho UllVnil" ing Ceremonies at Raliegh Senator Overman called on Presi dent Roosevelt Thursday to invite him to attend tho ceremonies of tho unveiling of a monument In tho Slate House grounds at Raliegh, N. C., to [Cosign Worth Hagley, the Inst American killed In the Spnillsll Amorlcan war and tho only naval Ofllcor who lost his Ufo bl that strug gle. The ceremony will take placo May 28. Hnslgn Hagley was killed on tho torpedo boat Winslow early in tho war, while directing some of tito movement? of tho vessel. The Proaidonl said ho would like very much te accept the invitation, but il would not be possible foi him lo do so. TR A1 XING SHIP OVERT URNS l-'roin TerllTlc Storm and Fifty Men Aro Missing. At. Copenhagen , Denmark, while -tOO workmen were ovorhaullnk tho Danish training ship, Viking, In tho shit) yard, the vessel overturned dur ing a severe storm. Betweon forty mid fifty men are missing and believ ed to bo drowned. A number of hod les havo been washed ashore and acores of thrilling rescues have boon ntado. TABLES TURNED. A Lady Came Home and J.aid Out Matters. Shoots Ono mut Heats Another Foa malo Visitor of Her Husband in Hov Absence. : Returning borne suddenly and not finding tho door open, Mrs. G. M. piark, living down in tho southwest om part of Joplin, Mo., forced an entrance and with a revolver opened .Aro on a woman she found in tho house with Mr. Clark. Throe shots were fired, ono groz .ng tho shoulder of Victoria Wilde. Afterward she struck her butt of the weapon nnd turning on Julia Messln *<er, heat her so badly sho is confin ed to bed. Mrs. Clark was informed by neigh bors of visits of women to her home during her absence nnd watched foi na opportunity to catch them there. Her husband ls a seml-invulid, and tjent his wife down town after medi cine. I While away the women went to ho Clark home. Mrs. Clark watched ind saw thom enter, and hurried tonio. Tho shooting and beating fol ded. . No arrests have been made RURAL CA Ititi 10HS I HON EFIT Recent Act of Congress Greatly In creases Their Poy. . Under the recent act of Congress making appropriations for the pos tal service for the ensuing fiscal Tear, tho Postmaster General may fix the salaries of carriers lu the rural service at a rate not exceeding ?0OO per annum after July 1, 1907. I The highest rate now paid is $720 nor annum. The readjustment of &)arles under the new law has not tjoen fully determined, but lt is pro ijosed to til low the maximum rate, $900, to all carriers on routes twenty 6mr or moro miles in length, as ?hpwn by tho records of tho depart ment. This will give approximately '42,900 or about 00 per cent of tho randers an advance in salary of $180 A substantial Increase in pay for ither carriers in contemplated. Car llers on the shorter routes, ranging irom 12 to 14 and form -14 to IC miles In length, now re?oive $fi04 ind $f>40 per annum, respectively, being proportionately better paid Jinn carriers on routes of twenty or more miles. This advance In pay for carriers md substitutes, it is estimated, will .osiilt in an approximate increase of 15,900,000 in tho cost of rural do ivory service. REFUSED TO UK HLUFFED ?Jonie Republicans Wanted to Jump on Senator Tillman. According to a story vouched for ?y several prominent mon of Win ihester and Martinsburg, W. Va., a lersonal encounter was imminent .arly Sunday morning in the Herke oy Club, ?it Martinsburg, botweon i number of Hs mom hors and Sena or R. lt. Tllman. of South Carolina. After lecturing there on the race luestion Saturday Senator Tillman ivas taken to Martinsburg by How ird Emmart in an automobile, While waiting for a train to go to Co!nin nis, Ohio, tho SenatdY was enter niued by Mr. Rnunarl and others lt tho Berkeley Club, which is colo nised principally of Republican bus ness men. During il discussion of Vat Ional affairs Senator Tillman Is laid to have made a remark rellect ng upon Prosldont Roosevolt, which nany club men took as an Insult hey hoing staunch admirers of the President. It is stated the men jumped to their feet and angrily demanded that lu? Senator's remarks ?md har-di crit [clam of tho President lie withdrawn, lint Mr. Tillman refused to take hack a word of what he had said. Tho difllc.iilty wits finally smoothed jver. WANTED FROG ARRESTER Negro Woman WIio Thought She Had Reen Conjured The Greenville Nows say tho po lice of that place had a call from "The Cower Dine" ol' the burry up description ami two of the coolest ?ind best Officers of the reserves were Immediately dispatched to the neigh hood from which the call caine. They arrived fully expecting to timi in progress a family row or rough house but lo their great surprise tho request was from a negro woman that they arrest another woman for attempting to conjure her, She al leged that the WO Ul il ll had placed a frog under nor door-step and this had prevented lier from sleeping a moment during the whole night, she hogan to dig about the slop to prove to the ofllcers that Ibis was a fact but was linallie to produce the ani mal. She was very much in earnest about the affair and slated that ber intention was to bring out an Indict ment against the a Hoged conjuror, WRECK Ol' A FURNACE. Hundred Tons of Ulick and Mortar Rury Workmen. A message from Ressemer Bays timi the lining of the new furnace of tho Woodward Don Works, at Woodward, Ala., foll in ?md a hun dred lons of brick ?ind mortar bur led ?i number of workmen. Five dead bodies have been taken out from tho debris. Dempsey Hayes, a white man and four negroes are tho viet hus. Will Raise Moro Cotton. A dispatch from Carlo, Rgypt, says Ibo Council of ministers has adopt ed Hu* proposition to Increase the height of Hie Assuan Dam. It Is cal culated Dial this will give RUfflClonl new Witter to Irrigate another mil lion acres, which, it ls estimated, should Yield an increased cot lon crop to tho value of $ I 7,MU?,0(10 to $20, I ooo.ooo annually, it win take six years t<> complete. Prices to Advance A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala. says at a mooting of southern alovc manufactures lt was practically agreed to advance prices live poi cent, becauso of tho high price ol Iron and stool and the lncroused ?,osl of labor. One Thousand Reported Killed in the Salvadorean Army, THREE DAY'S FIGHT. Tho Nicaraguan Army Completely Triumphed Over tho Salvadorian Army, Which Was Routed, And Left tho Field in Great Disorder. Tills Battle Will Llkoly Fud the War. A dispatch from Washington says tho Stato department received the following dispatch Friday from Jose D'Olivorez, tho American cum>ul at Managua, Nicarauga. j ""Thia government reports that on March 18 an army of 5,000 Salvado reans and 1,000 Mondurans, com manded hy Con. Prosa, a Salvador ean, attacked tho Nicaraguan van guard near Namisque, Honduras. "'/rim battle lasted three days re sulting in the completo rout of tho Salvadoreans, who lost t'ooo killed. "Nicarauga has 20,000 troops at the front and will commence an im mediate attack on Chatlutoca and Tegucigalpa." Senor Coren, tho Nicaraguan min ister, has received a cablegram from his Government confirming tho press report to the effect that tho Nicara guan navy has captured tho impor tant Honduran Carribbean port of Colba. The naval vessels aro now on their way to Puerto Cortex, where they probably will repeat t hoir success, and as/frujllli already has fallen in the hands of the Nicaraguans, prac tically the whole north coast of lion duras ls in their possession. Tho cruiser Chicago, which has been patroling tho Pacific sido of tue Isthmus and Central America, has gone from Acajutn, Salvator, to Aca pulco, in Mexico, a thousand miles northward. This voyage is made nec essary from tho fact that coal is scarce in Centra! Amorten. Tho movement for intervention is gaining strength and Assistant Sec retary of Stato Paeon strongly Im pressed upon tho minister from Cos ta Rica and Nicaragua tho wisdom of speedily terminating tho warfare In Central America, ns it promises to In volvo all tho other Republics, and It Is almost certain. If prolonged, lo lead to tho prosenco in their wn tors of European naval vessels, with possible Intervention in behalf of their own citizens. SCHOOL HOUSE BURNS. Ono Teacher and Eight Children Crushed to Death. Nine persons, eight of thom school children, were Instantly killed and many others injured nt Durango, Mexico, by tho collapse of tho roof of the public school building, while tho rooms wore crowded with pupils The dead lncludo one of tho teachers and eight members of her class. Scores were burled under tho wreckage and debris, and there mny ito additional deaths, as many of the victims are seriously hurt. Tho teacher's body was pinioned beneath a heavy rafter ami lt was evident that death had been instantaneous. The Injured children were hur ried to the hospital and some of them to their homes, whllo the dead were taken to tho morgue, where heart-rending scenes were enacted as grief-stricken parents searched for their loved ones. WIPED OUT IN BLOOD. Shot Rel rayer of His Sister, but. Was Also Shot. At Hilloar, Ky., on Wednesday of last week Frank Dutton was shot and killed by Sam Rose, who was soon afterward shot to death by Fi las Dutton, brother of Frank Dutton. Elias escaped to tho mountains and a posse ls now lu pursuit. Sometime ago tho Dutton and Pose families lived In a village in South-western Virginia. Aleono Rose was the belle of the town, and fell in lovo with and was botrayed by Krank Dutton, with whom she fled to Kentucky. Sam Roso, her brother, determin ed upon rovonge, hunted for his sls '4>r's betrayer, and finally discovered him. They met on tho street and i>Ogun shooting . After killing Frank Dutton, Rose, "-hen near his sister's house, on .ountered Ellas, who shot him down, .lose dragged himself to his sister's door and died in her arms. MADE MONKEY MAI). And Ho Scratched a Little Girl Very Badly. John William's two children and a small friend of theirs thought they would have some "fun" with an organ grinder's monkey. They handed a hot penny on tho end of a stick to the monkey, when It climb ed to the second story window of Mr. William's home, in Richfield, N. J., The monkey politely doi*ed his hal anti took tho penny,then screech ing loudly, dropped lt Instantly. Chattering with rage, tho* animal sprang at the biggest child, a girl of lon years. It. blt and scratched her hands and although she fought lt, rot routed only when Its master yank ed with all his strongth on tho cord that bound lt. Returning homo Mr. and Mrs Williams found their daugh ter suffering from shock and nurs I lng her hurts. Mail Bag .stolen. lt has dovelopod that tho stolen niall hag said to contain about$4 00, 000, was not. on La Provonco but on Da Sayoio. and lt ls virtually estab lished that the registered mall was abstracted after the bags roached the railroad stations at Paris, France Close Call. An east, hound Donver and Rio ' tirando passenger train left tho tmik ' ?10 miles west of Antlnlo, Cal., Fri ' day night and 35 passongors had fl ' miraculous oscapo from death. All t tho passougors wore hurt, but non< Horlously. A WHITE FIEND. Go vernor Ansel Offers a Reward for one Goldberg. Who Is Charged With Criminally As saulting a Mero Child lu Colum bia. Tho State of South Carolina ls very anxious to catch ono Leon Gold berg, who is charged with criminal ly assaulting a ton year old Belgian girl who came over in tho Whitte ll i nd a few weeks ago. The outrage took place in a hoarding house in Columbia kept for Immigrants by Goldberg. Tho girls parents aro working on a farm near Columbia. She ls not badly hurt physically; lt is said, and hos been taken by interpreter Fnm aey of tho department of immigra tion to her parents' now homo in the country. Thero ls deep feeling among the immigrants over tho matter, and while there was no talk of violence, particularity after it was ascertained that tho girl was not badly hurt phy sically, thoro was and ls a genuine and general contempt for the man and ho will be sevorely dealt with if caught. Goldberg ls an Austrian. He came to Columbia about ono year ago from Canada, nnd had boen from time to time employed by Commis sioner Watson as an interpreter but had boen discharged sometime ago and had no connection with tho im migration department whoa he com mitted his dastardly crime. Insomuch aa tho crime waa com mitted upon tho child of one of the Immigrants brought over on the Whltteklnd, tho immigration depart ment ls diving everything possible to apprehend this man and will nn sist the logal authorities if ho Is cap tured and brought back to Columbia. Gov. Ansel has offered a reward for the scoundrel, and every off ort ls being made to catch him. Tho Columbia authorities are doing every thing they eau In the matter and will not let up in their efforts until Gold berg ls found and brought back for trial. Should ho bo caught ho will bo severoiy punished. In fact, he deserves Hanging. j CAULKS HEYWAHD TO COME. 1 Col. Wats?n Sends Him Word That - He Is Badly Needed. ? Ex-Governor Heyward Thursday ' received a cablegram from Commis sioner Watson in which he urged ( Mr. Hey ward to sall for Bremen on ) tho 2 6th. Tho cablegram reads: "Sall 20th all hazards. Need you badly." lt is doubtful, however, if Mr. Heyward will - bo ablo to get I away at that time, ns ho has some ' matters of great importance to tho Immigration movement which he has not yet been able to get in shape for ( presentation to the North German ' Lloyd Company In reference to the j permanency of tho Immigration lino to Charleston. Thero aro also per sonal matters which might prevent Mr. Heyward leaving next week but . he would ondeavor to put these out of the way If the other affairs were . in shape for presentation. It is like ly, therefore, that ho will not sall 1 until the boat leaving New York on J tho 2nd of April, and when he goes he will be prepared to make a strong pull for the Interests of the whole ! South in general and Charleston and ! South Carolina in particular. Governor Heyward has just re turned from Atlanta, where ho wont oh business, and while thero ho had the pleasure of renewing his ac quaintance with Governor Terrell, whose interests ho has enlisted In the Immigration movement. Ho alno had a talk with President Finley, of the Southern Hallway, and put in a good word for Charleston, of course. Mr. Hoyward found Mr. Finley very friendly to the port of Charleston os well ns to tho whole immigration movement for tho South. KILLED TWO WOMEN Mother and .Daughter .Booten and Chocked to Death. Last -Friday week ago about 12 miles from Newberry a double mur der was committed by Will Sanders. All tho parties connected with thc affair aro colored. It scorns that Will Sander? haB for some time boon living with a woman, Aurelia Mat thews and had boon jealous of hor. Friday afternoon late ho went to his house and told the woman to go with him and seo a garden patch bo had selected. They went off together, and In about an hour he returned and told tho woman's daughter, aged 15, that her mother wanted her and to go with him to her. ITo shortly returned without her. Tho body of tho mother was found Saturday morning with the skull crushed In with some blunt, instrumen und signs of choking. The body of tho daughter was found Sunday morning and it waa shown that the girl had been choked to death. After killing the girl San ders returned to the houso and re tired. Getting up about daylight, ho commanded another young negro woman and girl In tho house to go with him; they refusing ho locked thom In the house and loft and has aol Veen aeon nineo. BOOZE AT ALL 1IOUB8. Tho WllUnniston Authorities Report Tlio Express Agent. The chief of pollco of Wllllamston, makes complaint to tho govornor thnt tho express companies at that place aro delivering liquor after of fico hours and on Sunday. This ho ing lutorstato business it is not thought that tho state authorities cnn interfere but lt is believed thnt if tho mnttor in callod to tho atten tion of the express pooplo thoy will bo disposed to conform to tho laws of tho atato. Against Clgnretts. A Texas fnrme. decimos that a laborer wno does not smoak cigar ettes is worth at loast $2.50 per 1 month moro than ono who does. ' Farm labores who dosiro to amass . - wealth should therefore out out olg ( arotUs. Eighteen People Perish At a Fire at Wheeling. THE WATER SO HIGH On Account of tho Flood that the Brave Firemen Were Compelled To Uso 13onts to Fight tho Flames and Rescue Those Ju Ranger. Many Other People are Relieved to Bo Demi. Elghteon persons are known to have lost tholr HVOB in the oarly morning fire that occurred Saturday at the plant of the Warwick Pottery Compnny which ls located In tho Hood dlstriot of Wheeling, W. Va. Following is a partial list of those who were drowned: Mike Bretries, aged 30, Btore keepei. Rosa Bertas, aged 22, single. Elias Mitchell, aged 18 mouths. Allen Bertas, aged 2 years. Frank Holmes, watchman at tho Pottery. Simon Elias, proprietor of a dry goods store. Julia Moses, aged 7 years. Waldor Moses, ogod seven years. Charles Matthews, watchman. Because of tho water surrounding tho burned district lt was impossi ble for tho fire nppuratus to reach tho scone. Tho firemen pressed in to sorvlco all tho boatB that could be socured. They did heroric work and not only fought tho Are, but assisted in rescuing many persons. Tho crow of a boat that was moor ed across tho river from tho building manned a yawl and rescued nbou? 100 persons. The mon were offered all kinds of rownrds and big sums of monoy foi* tho work that they had done, but they refused to accept a cont At times tho big yawl was filled to over flowing nnd it >#fis with di ide ult y Lhat tho rlverman prevented tho fran Lie Syrians from upsetting the craft. During tlie process of tho fire the jcone was most frightful. Tho icroums for help of those in tho milding could bo heard as far as ho steel bridge, a mlle north, where Jiousnnds of persons, unable to lend my assistance, watched the blaze. The work of rescuing tho bodia? )f those who had drowned has been iolng on all day. Tho current has )ocn vory swift and the impression is that moro bodies will be recover ed when tho flood subsides. Tho building occupied by the un? fortunato victims was not touched by the flames. Tho explosion that started tho Aro ls what terrified the icoplo living in tho vicinity. No sooner had the report of the explosion occured than people coni nenced to leap from windows inb> :ho water. Not all of those who met loath woro drowned by jumping into tho wator. Five of them were droWnv 3d by the upsottlng of a boat that was carrying them to a place af safe ty. Tue majority of the persons living In tho vicinity of tho wholesale dis trict aro Syrians and after the fire they refused to return to their homos They are being taken care of in the City Hall and county jail. There ls scarcely a family that did not lose a mom her, and the survivors aro fran tic. RODE A CROCODILE AT SEA A Queer Exhibition Given nt Palm Bench, Florida. Warren Frazier, hotter known as "Alligator Joe," trcatod society folk at Palm Beach, Fla., lately to a new sporting sensation. Ho towed a croco dile weighing 200 pounds well out into the Atlantic Ocean, had a wrest ling match with it, mounted it bare back, and brought lt back to shore. Tho crowd, mostly women, gasped until it was over, and then applaud ed smartly. The crocodile was about sixty to seventy years old and perhaps twelvo feet long. "Ho's a young ono," said Fraizor, and ho spoke truly, for the patrtorch of his tribe is declared to ho more than 4 00 year old. After towing it out Frazier released lt, then made a (mick jumpi and land ed stomach down on tho creature's b?ok. Over and over thoy wont, like boys wrestling. The tail of the ani mal lashing about could bo scon, and at times lt? forefeet wore exposed as Frazier tilted lt up. Cradnally Frazier worked tho rep tile to a stoop bank. A rope was thrown to him. Keeping the croco dilo under wator he tied tho cord around Its long snout in two places. It was then dragged ashore and its tall was tied to its head so that it could be lifted to a cart. The rep tHo toward tho ond appeared to be completely fagged, but Frnzior show ed no exhaustion. RIVAL BROTHERS FIGHT Both lioved tho Samo Woman and May Dlo From Wounds. At. New York two brothers who loved tho samo woman fought with knives and clubs in an East Side sa loon arly Thursday, until both were so desperately wounded that thoy probably will dlo. Tho men aro (leorgo and Civannl Francesco, who came to Now York from Palermo about two years ago. There thoy I had both hoon rivals for tho hand of tho same girl, who oventually ac cepted Oeorgo, tho older. Got It at Last. A man at Now London, Conn., Swallowed a plo ^ of glass thirty years ago, and it has just boen re covered by a surgeon to whom ho complained of a pain In the shouloor Gets Twenty Years, .loshua Hartlson, at Elizabeth City N. C., wa? sentenced to twenty years* imprisonment for tho kidnapping and murder of Kenneth Bensley, a young lad. Die? From lllecoughs. Dennis Simon Briggs, a prominent lumbr merchant of Wilmington, N. C., died suddenly Thursday from hic cough? *hllo on JA bur mess trip to Washington, N. 0.