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The Marlboro' Democrat. "DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVB3 IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." VOL. XXXl| r BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1907. NO. 311 ?EEP LAID PLOT Of Blackmailers to Extort Money or Murder Victims. DEATH WAS RESULT Ol' Refusal to Pay Sum Demanded By tho BlaekinallOi'8-One Rich Merchant Was Killed for Refusing to Pay-Ile Was One of (do Ten Men to Be Killed ll They Did Not Pay Up Promptly. Seeking a motive for the munie:- of H. S. Travshanjian, tho Armenian rug merchant, of New York, the dis trict attorney's ellice was led to an investigation of a report that Truv Bhanjlan was one of t<m weall ii?' Ar menians who had hoon marked for slaughter If they failed to give no $10,000 each to a blackmailing band of theil- countrymen. No color was given to this theory by Pedros Ham portzoomian, who killed the rug niau, when the prisoner was nrralned last. week. In court lie maintained stolid indifference, waived examina tion, and was remanded to (he coron er. Later he made a statement to a representative of tim district attorney In this he declared thal ho had como from Chicago for the express purpose of killing Tavshanjian, but the crime was justified by no ono and no Other person or sot-Hoy was involved. From other sources carefully pro tected hy the authorities, came infor mation of a startling character and said to he accurate. This ls to the effect that a secret society of Armen ians originally organized for what the members hold to be patriotic, though revolutionary purposes, had degenerated into an instrument for blackmail. The organization had dis banded, while the better elements Wi ind row from all connection with Hie society. Tile killing of Tavshan.iian and tho Others, it is stated, was planned more that a year ago. They received let ters which they interpreted as mean ing that they must pay or take the consequences. Tho threatened men discussed tho mattel- at a meeting ar ranged to decido what, they should do. Tavshan.iian was present. A number of tho merchants were In favor of acceding to the demand. "Heller give them molloy amt live," < hoy said. "No," said Tavshanjian. As a mat ter of principle we should not pay. You can do as you will. They will get nothing from nie." Mr. Oumboro, Tavsha*njian's secre tary, visited Hie attorney's ofllco, and there declared that the death of Iiis employer grew out ol' attempted blackmail. "There is no government here," cried Canillero excitedly. I cannot understand why you have such laws. In Turkey they would have rounded them all up. This mau who commit ted the murder is only the dupe In the bands of a band of blackmailers." Canillero gave Assistant District Attorney Smythe a list of wealthy Ar menians who he said had been forced to pay blackmail to this band. "This is Hie work of an Armenian In this city who is Hie worst niau in tho world," said a prominent Annen ian . "Ho has been responsible for many murders and lessor crimes, ami too cowardly to commit them bim self. Ho nets men ol' small I n I ol Icol to do the work for him tty making thom believe thal they ate working for their country." Another well-to-do A mien Inn said: "A priest who tried lo Imbi the band was murdered in odessa. Father Kasper Variar?an, killed In New York was amit lier viet lin." Kl I,UKI) IN HULK DHFIfliVCl* Voling White Man I-'orccd (o Kill a Colored Mau. A special dispatch from Spring Held to The State says Monroe (?ault, a young white man of this commun ity, shot, to death .lohn Jackson, col ored Wednesday afternoon at thc saw mill of his brothers, (?anti surrender ed to Judge Corbett. According lo reports Cuati states that some days ago his brothers em ployed a negro by thc name ol' Sterl ing Matthews. li seems thal Mat thews was under contract lo work for Jackson and left him. Wednesday evening Jackson took bis repenting lille and went down lo the mill and got into a difllculty with Matthews, during which ho attempted to Mool him. Ca ll tl, it is claimed, interfered or attempted lo provont Jackson Iron shooting when ho turned tho run or Gantt, who grasped tho barrel and barely escaped a ?.liol bred by Jack son. (inuit I heil drew Ills pistol and shot Jackson as above staled. Canil bas a large family who, With his friends. rogrol tho occurrence. KICKS IIKKSKLK. Wife Of One ol Pit ( slan g's Wt'UltllJ .Men Tire of lille. Alter channing her nurse with the beauties Of one of Chopin's nocturnes ami then asking her lo go out on tho porch so as to enjoy the music more. Mrs. Margaret J. King. ?< prominent society woman, of Pittsburg, look ad vantage pf her absence by commit ting suicide. When the nurse from the porch heard Ililli tho music had Stopped she feared trouble and has tened inside. She could not lind Mrs. King anywhere, until al last she dis covered her In thc cellar with hoi bead nearly backed off with H razor. Mrs. King, who was the wife of ?ugone M. Klug, secretary of tho J. C. Kussel Shovel company, which wai the larges! ol' Its kind In tho world, had rocontly returned from n hosp! tal, Whore she bad been suffering from liorVOUS prostration. As she wn-; riven to spells of despondency, a trained nurse bad been engaged to keep close walch over ber. COT 1 IMO Y KA KS. Woman Defrauded Members ol Well Known Families, Ai London Mrs. Joseph Ino Leslie was found gullly on the charge of de frauding members of well known families hy false pretenses and sen tenced tO live years penal servitude. lt was her custom to represent her self aa fl friend of J. Pierpont Morgan and declared that ho guided her in vestments. SAYS HE IS ?NSANE. Operator on Ship Asks Police To Meet Him at Pier. Looses Mind Willie on Voyage mid Twice Attempts Suicide, Second Time Jumping Overboard. Arter Bending a wireless message telling of his own Insanity, John H. Quinn, Do Forest wireless operator on Hie New York and Porto Rican liner Coaino, was met at the pier when tho ship arrived at New York by tho police and sent to lils home at Bayonne, where he is recovering his mind. Quinn made two attempts to com mit suicide by jumping in the sea, one al Aguadilla, where man eating sharks abounded. Ills condition was noticed as the ship was leaving San Juan, when he paced Hie deck and talked to himself, at the same time making Hie wildest motions with his arms. Suddenly he rushed to UK rails and laped over. First Ofllcer Bernard Olsen jumped in and, after a light rescued the crazed niau. Quinn made no effort to sink, hut swam about still talking to himself.' He was pul in irons, and a passenger who knew a little about wireless tele graphy, sal ut iiis posi. Quinn recovered so far, seemingly, that at Agttadilly Capt. T. J. Dalton took tho irons off and confined him tn a room. It was only a little while till he crawled through a small hole and once moro leaped overboard right among Hie hungry sharks. Second Officer Coughltn went af- ; ter him this Hmo and dragged him back, Ho was again ironed. When the Coamo reached Quaran tine Quinn was wild-eyed, but ration al in a way. ('apt. Dalton went to bim with a singular request. ' Quinn.*' ho sahl, "we're your friends, but you can't take care of yourself. Tho man at your job can't send a mesage, and 1 want you to sond it. lt's about you, loo, and you mustn't be angry. 1 want you to have a policeman meet you. That's a good boy." Quinn never moved a musel?. In a moment, however, he got up and started for the telegraph tower. There, while half a dozen men guard ed him, he Hashed these words: , "Quinn, wireless operator aboard Connie, off Quarantine, insane, ('on line in room; not responsible for ac tions. Need police help at Pier No. :ir>, Brooklyn, on arrival." Tho crazed operator then faced his ? guards and said: "I've done my duty, , haven't I?" The operator at the Do. Forest sta tionn?t No. 113 Broadway, was startl ed. He flashed back this message. "Who's sending ibis?'* And Quinn, with a queer grin on bis face, replied: "Quinn, himself." The man was then again locked In his room and guarded. When the ? boat Hod up at ber pier, Quinn's brother Janies, was lhere with police men from the Hamilton avenue sta- ? I ion. Tho operator made no resistance and seemed rational. James took him home. Ho ls twontw-two years old, and ono of tho best wireless men in the business. SFB IFS OF QC IO IO It FIH IOS. Seven Oet't?TCd in Two Hours iii a Home of I nion. According to lim Union Progress remarkable series of seven unusual mysterious, (?ven uncanny tires oc curred Wednesday night in the short space of an hour and a half al tho home of Mr. John Wix of Buffalo. lt seems that about 7:110 it was discovered that there was a Uro in ono of the ttp-stairS rooms. The Uro was in a bed and by the time all the nial I lesses and bed clothing were gotten lo and thrown out, they were pract leal ly consumed. After everything had apparently been extinguished much lo the sur prise Ol' everyone, ill about Hf teen minutes Hie odor of something burn ing was again noticed, investigation showed thal a bed in the same room, >ul entirely apart from tho ono burn ed, was ablaze. This was thrown eu and a through search of every thing was then made. \o traces of amichos or burning material seemed Iel!. Hardly had everything settled town easy when again attention was it I meted by smoke, and it was found bat the inside of a dresser In the ?ame room was ablaze, and almost oiisumod. Following iliis mysterious fire in i lew minutes al teni ion was drawn u another room, in a closet which md been shut up for some lime, am! vhich was apparently closed, and in his lin- hcdclothing and clothes were 'nu'lid to he burning. While lilts was being put Olli Ho led down stairs was found lo hi iblazo. Following this in a few min iles the lire was discovered in one ?loset and aller it was distinguished ippiucntly altogether, another place vas discovered in the close! to he m liri'. This morning al |l!3? when Mr. \\'ix was telephoned io to continu the locutions, lime and occurrence of this lire, ii was round that ho was having dill another and his eighth fire in a down slabs room, ami that he was at dial moment at home attempting IO pul il out. For a while il was not known whether Hie lire was caused by In stantaneous combustion on account ,| the continued Intense heal, but at noon Thursday Mr. Wix save that he has inst discovered a few stumps of matches, so il seems (hat these eicht lires were caused by little rodents who seemed del erm I ned lo burn his home and all Hs contents. As il is, his loss amounts to over $ I on, par tially covered by insurance. VIOHV SAD CASIO A Demented Woman Hang Si.v Chil dren and Herself. Orlef-Strlekon by the receipt of a notification that her services would not bo required after Ibo ead of tho month, Mrs. Neilson, a hoousokoopor for a land-owner named Ullkjaor, of Jutland, Holland, Wednesday hanged three of her employers' children as weil as three of her own, and then killed herself by hanging. LOST AT SEA. An Appalling Marine Disaster North of San Francisco. ONE HUNDRED LOST. A Largo Passenger Steamer Hammed by a Large Jami her Vessel-Peo ple on Both Vessels Were Asleep When the Crash Carno-Many Wo men Perish, Hut Many of the Men Escape. A dispatch from Sun Francisco says in one of the worst marino dis asters in the history of California be tween ono hundred and llfiy lives wore lost as far as has been learned hy u. midnight collision between tho steamer Columbia and tho steam lumber schooner ?San Pedro in Shel ter Cove, twelve miles south of the Medocino-IIumboldt County line, be tween 12 and I o'clock Monday. The few ?letalis known herc brought by tlie steamer Roanoke ?ind the steam schooner Daisy Mitchell, which ar- , rived in San Francisco Monday fore noon. ! The Columbia, u 300-foot steel ves- 1 sel of the San Francisco and Portland Steamship company, while hound , from San Francisco for Portland, Ore.; With 189 passengers and a crow , of sixty, collided with and was rani- , med hy the San Pedro, a 170-foot , wooden steamer, south-bound, for | San Francisco. The son was smooth, , but the weather was foggy. The San Pedro looming out of a mist a j few lengths away, bore down on the Columbia at high-speed, despite frantic efforts to clear. Willi a grind- , ing crash, the San Pedro sank her , stem fully ten feet Into the Colum bla's port bow. Nearly all of the Columbia's pas- ( seagers and many of her crew were asleep in their cullins and bunks ( winni the crash came. As the San Pedro backed away the sea poured in through the ragged hole in the ' Columbia's how above and below the water line, and in live minutes the . Columbia sank to the bottom, the . deej) waters of tho sheller Cove cov ering over the lops of the Columbia's ' masts. Tin; story of that live minu tes ls yet lo be told and as it. is told by some survivors the facts of the tragedy can be but. guessed af. According to .1. S. Flynn, a pas- ( seager on tho Roanoke, ('aid. Doran, 1 of the Columbia, succeeded in launch ing four life boats and two rafts be fore tho Columbia sank. Flynn is 5 quoted as saying that eighty-eight j passengers, all men, gol away in that manner, and wore saved; that Capt. t Doran acted with great coolness in 1 the face of death and went down with ! his ship. Flynn is further quoted as Baying that none of tho hundred odd women passengers were caved. Shortly after the collision the " steamers Roanoke and George W. J hilder and the steam schooner Daisy ; Mitchell, ?ill south-bound, came on ( Ibo scene and stood hy. The Elder took the San Pedro in tow und the latest reports announce their arrival lu Eureka. The stem of Hie San I Pedro was smashed to splinters, one of ber masts was snapped off at the deck and she was settling and had ti heavy list when taken In tow. Capt. > Hansen remained on board. I The Daisy Mitchell offered assist- , unco to tho leider, bul this was de dined. She picked up a lifo boat | wad a raft of tho Columbia and | brought thom to San Francisco. Near the scone of the wreck the , Roanoke picked up a life raft and , found underneath it tho dead body ( of a passenger, supposed to be 13d ward Huller, of Portsmouth, N. II. J Tho ?Hlcors of tho Mercantile Fx- ( change In San Francisco and of the various newspapers have boon be- ' seiged since early morning by rela tives and friends of the Columbia's passengers, but the insistent, and tearful requests for information of \ the victims and HU? rescued remain unsatisfied. Beyond Hie reported facts thal Huller was drowned and that Capt. Doran went down willi his ship no details of CUSUalities have linen received. Assistant .President Frye, of tho steamship company, said Hutt the Col umbia lies in deep water and lift eon miles off shore, and that for tho pre sent al least no attempt will be made to raise hoi'. Capt Doran was regarded liv the ofllcers of the San Franciso and Port? lan?l Steamship company as one ol' the ablest seamen who ever operated a vessel on the coast. His career had hoon free from accident, anti this is Hie ll rsl disaster that has befallen my vessel over which he bold com mand. W< >.MAN FOUND D10A1), And Her Husband Found Uncon scious in Hoar of Flat. Al Chicago on Thursday Mrs. t'humilie] Bloom was mystorlouslj slabbed ami killed in her apartments, lier husband was found unsconsclous on thc ground 111 tho rear of the Hal, evidently having jumped from their Hal on Hie third Hoer. Bloom culled a doctor about I o'clock and told him his wife was apparently dying from a slab wound in Hu- abdomen. The doctor found lier dead and notified Ibo police, who found Bloom on tho ground in tho roar of the Hat. A (?EN F, BA I* SHU CH TEIL Danish People Expect IO Kill Fight Million Hats. Because Hie nils Willett infest Hie Holds and houses are doing great damage to crops and seriously Injur ing nut ll > thing In oilier ways, tho Danish government bas offered a reward of two cents for every (load dod en I brought lo tho specially un pointed ellice. Already the populace has killed at a rate of more than S nun a dav, and il ls thought that botero ibo year is out ovor X,OOO,OOO will have lakeii tho same journey. M NF, MEX Kl 11 LED. Harbor Strikers and Police Hare Fight lu H?lenos Ayres. Nine men have boon killed and many Injured in a fight at Bahia Blanca, Buenos Ayres, betWOOll the harbor strikers and tho police. DEADLY LIGHTNING Loss of Life Much Greater Than Commonly Supposed. Animals Hush Under Trees und Are Caught-Moil Also Forget It Is Unsafe Under Field Shelter. Lighnlng luis done a great deal of damage In different parts of tho State this summer. Many people hove heen killed by it and many animals have boon killed. People ought to uso tho ordinary precaution to protect them selves from the deadly bolt. lt ls very foolish to expose yourself to lightning, when it ls so easy to go in a house and out of danger. Some people think it cowardly to tty and protect yourself from lightning, but it is not. lt is just as sensible to avoid the lightning bolt as it. is to got out of the way of an oncoming train or anything else that might hurt. you. In America there is no means for ascertaining precisely what is the amount of damage done by lightning. This much also is certain, that scarcely a day passes but tho news papers contain accounts of strokes of lightning which have proved fatal to man or beast. In France, Germany ?md longland completo static)les are kept of all fatalities with the view to reducing the number if possible Po accomplish this end ii hus boon recommended to attach iron rods to LhO trunk of trees with one end near tho top and the other running into the ground. Lightning rods arc also recommended for all buildings. The ibjocl is to have the electricity from tho clouds conducted to the earth without the terrilic force of the bolt, jumping from tho. sky to the earth brough the air without a conductor. Cattle and sheep are killed in the ;realesl numbers by lightning. The reason assigned for this ls that they run for trees as soon as they see a .torin coining. Trees are conductors if electricity, but are" not so good as lie body of an animal or a man. The .CSUlt is that when the current coni ng down the tree and linds a better .(inductor it leaves the trunk and lumps into tho body of the living .reatures under the tree. Men as .veil as animals have failed to learn hat lt is dangerous to bo under a reo in electrical storms, as lt is rvidenced by the number of fatali t?s reported. According to the lightning rod con cronce held a few years age in I.on ion, the solid rod is tho best, sort of .onductor. Such a rod should bo lu mo piece and run from the lop of he tree to the ground. The same mould oe used on houses. Tho ro uilt would be that when animals .un under a troe in a thunderstorm hey would not be rushing into groat jr danger. Tho rod would also bo a iroLection to moir who forget m l ;;.> inder trees in similar storms. The ron rod should be pointed. The Ightning rod is intended to carry electricity from the earth to the .louds or from the clouds to the mr th, as the case may he, without my disturbances in the surroundings if tho rod. SCAHF.I) TO DMATH. Lightning Flash Hevealed Dig Mc phail! Before Her. Mrs. Fanny Mordor died early Thursday morning from an attack of mart disease brought on hy sudden right when the huge hoad of an ele ihant loomed up during a Hash of lightning under a covered bridge at K?thel, Maine. A circus was in town, and just be fore the show ended a thunderstorm ipped si:me of the canvas and knock id a few of the tent poles down. A great many of the spectators nought refuge from tho downpour under tho mered bridge, and among them was Mrs. Mercier, who was in an auto mobile with some friends. The (Irons men started the ele phants and camels for tho train as iOOU as the spectators left tho ground iind the line of animals tiled into tho inidge unseen by many of the people who sought refuge there. The MK dephant of the lol found tho automo bile in front of him and putting his head against it, pushed it to one side to make a passage for himself. The occupants of the machine did not know what was happening until a glare of lightning dispelled tho gloom and When Mrs. Mercier saw the head nf tho elephant she gave a scream and fainted. Two physicians at tend ed her during the night, hut she did not recover consciousness F I,I'M "IKK' STOKM. Does Considerable Damage in City of Augusta, (ia. A terrilic wind, rain and lightning storm passed over Augusta at 7:;i0 o'clock Thursday night doing such damage to electric wires thai tho city was in darkness and all elect i ii' current turned off. Trees through out the western section of tho city covered tho streets with debris. naniago to the electric company ls rmi)1,lily estimated by an official at $15,000. Five hundred telephones wore burned out. Pool's of several building were reported torn off. I,ightning sot lire to the residence of M. O'Dowd and lt was Impossible to turn In an alarm, tho wires being down. From the companies which ro . p.led four firemen wore injured by falling walls. Titi 14 D TO WK IOC K Tit AIN. Two v Young Negro Kays Charged With Serious Crime. Two unie negro boys, ngod ton and eleven, were placed in tho county jail at Fayetteville, N. C., Thursday charged with attempting to wreck a passenger train. Sunday afternoon on tho Atlantic Coast Lino, fourtoet, milos south of that eily. Oro; I les placed on tho track were discovered by tho engineer in time to provent a wreck. 1 ATAK FAIL. Two .Men Killed and Several WotllUH ed in Ohio. Twa inen wore killed and live B6v4 lously Injured by the falling ol' scaf-j folding upon rome work at the Pltts-^ burg and Connoaut dock Thursday} The dead are: A. Matson and D', Hiilek, of Cleve* land, structural Iron workers. Commander Hansen ls Charged With Gross Inhumanity. Many Moro Lives Could Have Hoon Saved if l?o Had Taken on Moro of Rescued. A dispatch from San Francisco says aftor tho tales of heroism sur rounding the Columbia wreck-tho glorious doatli of Captain Doran, and tho self-abnegation of the girl May hello Watson- comes tho other side of tho disaster. A ehargo of gross inhumanity and the ..aerifico of many lives has for um Hy boen mado against Captain Hanron of the San Pedro, by tho third officer, Robert Hawes of tho Columbia. It has been made to Local Inspector Holies. It is part of the record of the Uni ted States. If that charge be true, tho women of San Francisco would be justified in meting out to Captain Hansen the fate of Captain Ireson, of Marhlehead, celebrated in song: Old Find Ireson, for his hard hoart, Tarred and feathered, and carried in a cart, By the women of Marhlehead. Ireson sailed away from ti sinking ship. New comes thc accusation in HO many words that Captain Hansen was the cause of many men and wo men; struggling in the water by re fusing to take any more of the res cued on the San Pedro-a steamer that could not sink because she car ried a cargo of lumber. Tho fearful charge is calmly made under oath by Third Mate Hawse. Ho solemnly says to Captain Holies that he brought a boat load of rescu ed passengers up to the San Pedro and requested that they be taken earn of. He declares that ho was met wtli a refusal to receive any moro of the Columbia's passengers. "J repeatedly asked them to take r.ho women --one of whom was half nuked and delirious," says Hawse lu Iris sworn statement. Snell aa appeal would ordinarily molt the heart of bronze, but Hawse declares that the man in command of tho San Pedro refused to shelter any moro passengers of tho sinking Columbia. Then comes the fearful accusation : "If the San Pedro had taken these passengers, I could have saved many moro 'lives." Hawse says his boat was so full he feared, to take any more lu lt, lost it ho swamped. Ho saw many more men and women struggling in the water "and all ho needed was his cuupty boat to go to their assistance. That is a dreadful accusation for Captain Hanson to face, particularly .. his HteHUW'" '-..?lato in tho harbor of Eureka and the photographs show that sho could have taken away many more mon and women aboard with out endangering Hie lives of any. But Third Officer Hawse does not stop with his charge against Captain Hanson. He has a sea dog's con tempt for the mon whom he rescued in his boat and did not show tiny evi dence of chivalry in Hie hour of hero ism. Ono of the four women he had picked up was out of lier head. All tho women were scantily attired but throe of thom wore heroines, and Hawse ia his sworn statement, says: "I desire to speak in the highest terms of praise in regard to the three noble women and in lowest terms of contempt for the men passengers who would not inconvenience themselves to make the lot of tho women more comfortable. And thoa come a tribute till around to the man who was on his bridge when through a fog and not in bed, as was Captain Hansen. This tribute conies from all sides to Captain Peter Doran who did everything that a man could do to save the people, and then went down with his ship to his deatli rather than crowd some of his pas sengers from a life boat or a raft. FATAL ACCIDENT. One Man Killed and Two Others Hurt in Auto. Dr. ,r. T. Killebbrow, ono of the most prominent of tho younger phy sicians of Mobile Ala., was ground to pieces under the wheels of a moving freight train, Perrin Restore, a prom inent young attorney was seriously, and W. t'. Horn, a well known bus iness man, was slightly injured in an automobile accident Thursday af tor noon. They were driving in an automo bile and when crossing a railroad track the approaching train was seen. Although the automobile crossed the track, Dr. Killebrew jumped and was caught beneath the Wheels Of the train. Dr. Killebrew was president of tho Mobile County Medical society, a lec turer on the diseases of women in the University of Alabama and an assist ant in tlu> Ingo-Hondurant infirmary at Mobile. Ho was born and reared al Nashville, Tenn. ENCIMO DITCHED To Prevent Colllssion With a Pas senger Train. Engine No. 71 on the Richmond, Frodoriekshurg and Potomac railroad was derailed at Frodericksburg, Va., Thursday, pinning Engineer Reuben O'Brion beneath it. Tho locomotive was purposely ditched In order to prevent it from crashing into a pas senger train on the bridge crossing tho llnppahannoek river at that place. Had a colllssion occurred, the pas senger train on a portion of it, prob ably would have gone into the river and the death and injury of many of tho passengers would have resulted. O'Hrlen was seriously but not fatally injured. POWDER EXPLODED Causing Hie Death of Three Men by Burning. I Throe men were burned to death i Friday by un explosion In a powder j house al Two Lick coal mine near I Clarksburg, W. Va. Tim dead: fl Doshla Bartlets, age 2'.\, single, of I Bethlehem. Pa. I Nicolina Plenorltes, 21, single, of J Henwood, W. Va. ; Frank Coff, 21, single. Clarksb'.rg. ! The powder ignited from a pipe ? one of the men were smutting. Tho ' building was demolished. I WRECK HORRORS As Described by Two People Who Were on the Columbia. DROWNED LIKE RATS. Mrs. Liddell Who Was On 111 Fated Columbia Delates of Drownings and I*or?8 of tho Night on Haft Graphic Description of tho sinking 'fold by Ohlei Engineer Jackson Screams pf Doomed Woro Awful. Tho Pacific Coast Steamship com pany's passenger steamer Pomona ar rived in San Francisco from Eureka at i 0:30 Thursday, bringing from the latter place one of tho surviving pas sengers of the wrecked steamer Col umbia and the thirty two members of Die Columbia's crew, who wore saved out of her total complement ol' iii) The passenger ls Mrs. O. Loidoll, of San Francisco. The crowd was made to stand back and keep a laue open while tho Pom on'a passengers caine ashore. Each was stopped at the foot of the gang plank and asked excitedly "were you a passenger upon the Columbia?" With one exception the answer was "No." The excoption was Mrs. Leidell. Clothed from head to foot in u dark brown ulster and her features hidden by a brown veil tied over her hat and under her chin, she came falteringly down the gang plank and made her way uncertain through tho crowd. She held her hankerchief to her face as she walked and when asked by newspaper men for a recital of her experience, she broke into tears and turned, shaking lier head. "I don't, want, to say anything, I don't want to talk," she murmured. Later Mrs. Leide)! consented to talk and in describing lier experience said: "When the crash came 7 got out of my stateroom. F very one was ox cited-every one except tho captain. He stood on the bridge, his anns ex tended, begging the passengers to be cool. The crew stood nt the boats, cutting away nt the lines that held them. There was no chance to lower them. All who could piled into tho boats. Lots of people jumped over Hie side, trying to climb onto bits of wood which wore doa ti og in the wa ter. 1 did not have time to think, I ran to the side. There under the side was a raft. There was nobody an it. I jumped and struck on the raft. Other women got on it also. One crawled from tho water, others jumped from the boat. "Thou the Columbia went down, bow lirst. The raft drifted around and "..'liter washed over us. Two wo men and a little child were washed :>ff and I nover saw them again. One woman was left. Her hold was weak. She begged nie to help her. I tried to hold her on, but I was too weak. She died before my eyes. Oh! I can't forgot that, I'll never forget, that. She drowned and I could not help her. Who she was 1 don't know. Now and then I got a glimpse of au nt her raft or boat. We got some pieces of wood after awhile and used them for oars, and Anally-lt must have boon hours afterward-we climbed on the San Pedro. IL was a terrible climb up her side. "Men helped, but I felt so odd and weak I never thought I would got over it. The waves kept striking iv er us. Wo were dripping wet, and it was so cold. On the San Pedro we wore sittiiiK Oil two little narrow pieces of lumber. Suddenly a wave carried away the lumber we were sit ting on. "We managed lo stay on the ship, however, but lhere WOK; some who not that far, who got no further, for without any warning, the roar mast of the San Pedro gnve away and swept several into tho sea. One or two were brought back alive, but. of the others we saw nothing. And the darkness banging over everything made lt terrible. We did not know If tile San Pedro would hold together, although the ollicers and crew did their best to cheer us up. The day broke. The fog still hung low. and the light univ appeared gradually, but then wo could see who was saved, and who was not. That sight. I can't tedi you about it. Everything about it was so desolate and dismal. And thon the Kider came up. They got US a bond i cared for us. and at lOureka I secured the only remaining berth on the Pomona to come back here." Chief Engineer J. V. Jackson gave the following account of tho wrecked steamer Columbia in an interview to the livening Post. "I was in my stateroom when tho crash occurred, and I scrambled into some clothes and came up on deck. All was confusion and turmoil. The roar of tho water as it poured Into the bole In tho Columbia's side was deaf ening. Then desperately swimming away I caught a rope thrown from the San Pedro. From there I looked back at the Columbia just in time to seo her plunge beneath the waves. As she sunk 1 could dimly soo many men dash across tho dock toward the San Pedro; the next moment tho fog had hidden tho dreadful scenes. "I am sure that many steerage passengers did not leave their state rooms SS the interval was so short between tho time she was struck and tho time she sank that the men had not Hmo IO gol to the deck, and those thal did jumped overboard and were sucked down by the vortex created by tho sinking vessel. "When I rushed across the deck il seemed to ho deserted, but I knew that ninny were about mo, for the screams and cries wore awful. I thank Cod that I am safe, but I would have willingly have given my life, as Captain Doran did, lo save those that perished. I did not. real ize thal tho cud would como so soon as it did. and I believe Capt. Doran was Of tho same opinion." SIX DEATHS. Following the Stings of Dlack Flies in Canada. A startling tale of fatalities lins roai bed Aurora. N. Y., through .lohn Crljn. who has just returned from the Algonquin Park locality ol' Can ada. Griffin expected to be gone fur several weeks on a hunting trip, but the fact that six deaths resulted from blood poisoning, following the stings of black Hies, near his camp, drove him honio. Ulta IKTINU IU rLT. Christian Scientist Plunges Four Stories to Street. Wife Clings to His Ankle As Ho Hangs Prom the Window Until She Faints. Eugene llawo, of Now York, was a planter and pol labor of hardwood parquet floors, aad did well at hi? trade up to last May. At this timo Mowo and his wife, Hertha, moved their belongings into tho top floor of tho four-story and basement brown* stone residence of Dr. Gregory Costi gan, at G3 West Sixty-eight street. At the Central Park, west of tho block on which tho Costigan houso ls situated is tho Second church of Christ Scientist. Howe dropped in ibero to seo and hear. The husky floor planer became deeply interested in the teaching of Christian Scionce. Ho tried to interest ids wiro in the tracks and hooks he obtained at the library of tho church. Mrs. Howe would have none of the teachings. Sho says that sinco her husband began to read Mary G. Ed dy's "Scionce aad Health," he has had little Hmo to attend to his trade. He ?ave up smoking, changed most of his habits of lifo, and not. long ago decided that eatlhg breakfast was all a mistake. At 10 o'clock Sat urday night Howe came home and ctuiitod for ash'M't timo with Dr. Cos tigan. The physician says4 Hie lloor polisher was perfectly rational. After talking with Dr. Costigan but a short Hmo Howe went up to his apartments on the top floor. He un dressed and got Into bed, taking with him a book he had bought. It was "Science and Health." Along after midnight Mowo, so his wifo says, began to act in a manner queer even for him. He finally made for a front window, climbed out on the sill and announced that be was going to fly out on the night air. Mrs. Howe ran to the window and managed to grasp him by the ankle Just as he leaped. She held lils weight With all the strength that was in her arms. Her arms wore badly cut and bruised hy coming in contact with tho shari) edge of the stone window ?iii. Finally the woman's strength gave way, and, .with a shriek that arroused the neighborhood, she fell back Into the room in a faint. Howe's skull was fractured and his x body and legs were lom and crushed. He died in Hie' ispltal without regaining conscious, -s. When he leaped from the Window Howe had carried with bim Mrs Ed dy's book. Dr. Costigan is of the opinion that Howe was suddenly seized with an Insane notion that he could leap from the window, land on the sidewalk be low without,, injury, and liven euler the house and display himself lo the physician as a converting argument in favor of Christian Science. Mrs. Howe says that shortly before her husband made for tho window he had told her that Dr. Costigan had been practically converted to Chris tian Science and Co m tem plated giv ing up his practice. CA Ll I OCX COI NT V. Two Proposed Counties Waul to Use Hie Name. A dispatch from Columbia to Hu Augusta Chronicle says the commis sion which ls seeking to form a new county with St. Matthews as Hu county seat willi Calhoun as the name of the new county met herc Wednesday and organized by electing M. I). Keller and .1. S. Salloy penna neut chairman and secretary, respec tively. Tho commission secured the maps plats and petition from tho governor's office and will ttl once get to work on Hie business ol' the commission. There is another scheme looking to the formation ol' a new county to he called Calhoun. This hopes to make Dillon, in Marion county, comity seat. The commission which finishes its work tirst in snell a way as to war rant an older from (he governor foi an election will win out on the name if the election carries. SEA L WAH IS OX. Between the Kassians ami .laps in North l'acide. News was brought by the steamei Empress ol' China lo Victoria, H. C. last week, of a fatal attempt by Hu Japanese sealers lo rail ("tipper Island where tho Russian seal rookeries an located, beyond the end ol' Hie Alon lion chain in Ibo North Pacific. A Japanese Sealing eslioonor fro Tok io reached Copper Isiad on the night of June ii 7 ami dropping anchor sheri distance from the seal rocker ies, sent a number ol' boats asher With their crews armed witli lilies Tho landing was made and while par of tho sealing company was engaged in skinning seals on the rockeries the Russian guards opened fire on thom anti drove them off after killing one. A JAPANESE SPY Arrested Taking Photographs of Hal terios in Action. A Japanese was taken into custody Friday at the Texas state military en campment ai Austin, lt is charged he was taking photographs of bat teries in ucl ion and oilier features ol' the camp. He ls being held ponding an Investigation on (lie part of the state anti federal authorities, LAl XCII CAPSIZED. Only Two of the 'l'on on Hoard Are ' Saved. j\ gasoline launch CU psi 7.0(1 in a storm ai Sunny Side Toronto, on tario, and ol' Ute ten men who were in lier only two aro known to be sale Three bodies have 1)0011 washed ashore. DEATH IX A MINE. Over Four Hundred -laps Meet Death by Explosion. There was a fatal explosion Sat urdny a the colliery at Toyooka, In Bungo province, Japan, lt ls report od that nearly all of the four hun dred, and seventy miners in tVto pit nt tho Hmo were killed. ft PAUPER'S S 3ov. Johnson, of Minnesota, Came From Low Rank. FATHER A DRUNKARD. 10 Is Now a Prominent Democrat and May Do His Party's Nominee for the Presidency Next Yenr--Ho ls Very Popular With AH Classes And Was Elected Goveruor of Ills State Twice. Gov. John A. Johnson, of Mlnncr otu, ls the son of a paupor father, ie ls now sorvlng his second torin tis hlof exocutlvo of the stuto and ls no of the most popular ofllcors that Nnnesola has known. Ile ls a Dom erat lu a state that ls overwhelming f Republican. In his election Roose olt carried tho state as a candidate ar tho presidency by a majority of 61,464. Johnson ran 92,453 uhead f his ticket and was elected by a lajoriiy of 7,826. In tho olection ist fall his opponent was not "In tho nuning," though all other Ropubll ans on thc state ticket were elected. dov. Johnson is 4 4 years of age. Ie started lifo handicapped by odds hat would have proved insurmount ble obstacles for a man or boy with nss stamina and direct ambition. His allier was a blacksmith, a doscoud nt of tho peasantry of Sweden. In 853 he emigrated to this country in 11 effort to get away from his old labits. For several years ho lived without touching whiskey and mar led, but it was not long before he .egan to drink worse than over and lis family bec?me a burden on tho ommunity. Finally Johnson was do lared a pauper and taken to the loorhouse, where lie died from al oholism. Then the mother hogan to struggle for tho life of tho family, t is a matter of record that in Gov. ohnson's first campaign for tho gov rnorship his opponents carried signs 'hieb read. "His Father was a Pan er," and "His Mother took in \ ashing." While a boy Johnson aided his io! lier before and after school hours, nHI he reached the High school, nt ;> yeai.s <?f ago. Then he declared e would learn a trade and prepared ) become a druggist. From that nie he was the chief support of tho tmily. In all those years tho uu ertaker was tho only creditor of tho milly. Three deaths served to take ll the spare money from tho family nd ruined Johnson's opportunity of iking a course in pharmacy. Later e sought employment in a depart ?ont store, a position which yielded etter pay, but less opportunity for Indy. At one time he sought om loymenl ouii-ddo of his homo town, ie village of St. Peter, hut Ho de- . tared he would live down tho repu tion of his father and remained at onie with his mother. Tho day aime when he was enahled to pay off io mortgage on his father's old cot ige and pay for tho education of his rother and sister. After several years a friend intor sted Johnson in the St. Petor Her id, a Democratic newspaper in a lepublican community. Johnson took p with tho proposition and >-n?amo ditor of a country newspaper.8l>iV'e ecame an officer in tho State Press ssociation. Here bogan his political spiratlons. Twice he was defeated s candidate for state sonatorshlp. >n his third trial he was elected. His ecord as a minority member brought dm into prominence, and hitor Into he chair of Hie cele!' executive. Ho s the Idol of the people of the state ie is serving, simply, because as he mts it-"I just tried to make good." JILTS MOTHER; WEDS GIRL Nebraska Man Now In Jail on Com? plaint of Elder Woman. Because he eloped to Columbus vitli 15-ye?r-old Dirdio Buchanan ind made her his bride there on the lay set for his marriage to tho girl's nether, M.rs. Ida Buchanan, Herbert 3, Stapleman, a wollknown business nan of ('(Mitral City, lias hoon arrost >d and lodged in jail at Central City, s'eh. Mrs. Buchanan swore out a variant, on which Stapleton was ar rested, alleging that in order to wed 1er daughter he represented that sho vas 18 years of age, whereas she ls inly 15. Mrs. Buchanan, a handsome mld lle aged widow of high social staini ng and dignified family connections, ui y s she hacame engaged to marry Stapleman, who is about her own ige several months ago. Stapleman mid assiduous court to hor and tho .veddlng was set for Thursady. Sov ?ral weeks ago, however, Staploman iteen nie enamored of his flnnncee's ire tty, attractive young daughter and began to pay more attention to hor than ho did to the mother, tinnily de claring his love for her, and, on tho [lay he was to havo wedded Mrs. Buchanan, persuaded her to elope with him. WOMAN DAS LEPROSY. The Sixth Case Discovered in Boston ami Vicinity. The State board of health of Mas sachusetts has confirmed the report that tho young woman who was re cently removed to tho Massachusetts douerai hospital after being employ ed as a domestic for several months in some ol' the wealthiest families in Heston is a victim of leprosy. Sho will he removed to tho loprosy colony at Fenlkese Island off tho coast near New Bedford. Tho pa lient, whose name ls concoalod, had been under treatment during tho past, year for skin disease before the roal nature of the affliction was discover ed. This ls the sixth caso of leprosy discovered In Boston and vicinity during the past twelvo months. DC YS A TOWN TO Knock to Pieces Willi Dig Chins and Shot. In order to experiment with vari ous new guns and projectiles, tho Austrian government has purchased outright the Bohemian village of Miada. All the Inhabitants havo loft, and soon all the latest acquisitions in the Uno of guns will he trainod on tho defenseless homes, and the effoct o the bombardment, will bo made serious study by tho Austrian office