Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The IS .s&sxsKssszr*rsmui. ???HM? . ?h? ? s ?MHB) *'1?5,'VI : M : l "DO T?OV , ?BEAT TiBBHiy, IN8PIKIB OU? 80VI4I AND MAKE OMI LlVHft UN THY *$i8prE8SXOW HAVPY OK OUH Old AT ll ft CMiOMOUB IN ?Ht CAUSE.'* VOL. xxxi I BENNETTSVIXLE, S. C., FHID4.Y, DECEMBER IB, 1907 l?KtuVin ii 1.1. JAPAN IS MAD. She Has Recalled Her Ambassa dor Aoki Back Home. OUR BIG WAR FLEET Bailing foi- tho Pacific io Supposed to novo Something To Do With tho Recall of tile .1 mbassndor.-Both Events Happening nt tho Same Tim? Hus Created Thia Impression In Washington. Aoki. tho Japanese Ambassador at |P Washington has boen recalled by his Government. A dispatch soys ho has been summoned to Japan by his government to explain personally and in detail the preciso situation in regard to thc Japanese immigration T problem. Tho ambassador has been making very careful inquiry on his own ac count nnd through tho various Jap aness conciliar ofllclals into the ex tent of tho reported race feeling ex isting in somo sections of tho United States toward Japanese immigrants. Already Baron iBhll, one of. tho secretaries of tho Japanese interior department, has made an Investiga tion'of conditions existing not only in California, Oregon and Washing ton, but also in British Columbia on the north, upon which he lins based . a special report to his government. At tho Japan, -o embassy in Wash ington lt is stated that the ambassa dor will probably leave Washington for Tokio by way of San Francisco or Victoria In about a fortnight, a fact ol' which he notified the presi dent and Secretary Hoot. There is no intimation that he ls not to return to Washington During his absence Mr. Miyoaka, the coun sellor of the embassy, Will be in charge of his affairs, lt is thought in Washington that the recall is to be permanent and that the ambas sador will not return. Ambassador Aoki gave notice of his recall practically at the same time that word was received at Wash-' ?fc ington of (lie sailing of the torpedo section of the fleet, destined for tho Pacific. Many people may connect the things together. Whether Or not Japan connected them remains to be seen. Ile has been cautious, conser vative and friendly to a marked de gree. There ls every reason to assert thu1 *'" "'"">!'. fru'Wthe nurpose of maklng^a verbal report, ts caused by the fact, that his government thinks he has been too temp?ralo, too mod erate, two conservative, too amicable and finally too peaceable. He has been at Washington but. n little over a year, having presented his credentials on May, 8, lsOG, and his recall at this time can be taken as nothing else, than an expression of disapproval of his course on the part of the Japanese government. STORM BL A VS HAVOC. Wind Readies Velocity of Sixty Miles nt Cape Howry. The wind . eiChe<l <.' mi-'innm vc joci. - ." Cape Honro* in Thursday .light's coast storm of sixty miles an hour. lt blew from tho northwest and drove seaward rather than to ward shore any vessels that may have boon caught in its teeth, bul so fal no wrecks have been reported. Tho wind nt its hurricane velocity carried before it everything movable on shore and it ia feared that much havoc was wrought at sea. The gov ornmenl's seacoast telegraph whvi from Cape Henry southward are ?ol W*. working nnd no word could he had from the Capo Hatteras section. Nc word could bo had from the Boston yacht Mndloon, bound to JacksonVilh and stranded in Roanoke sound, N C. Several of the big battleship: Some of the big battleships head ern ports doubtless had severe ox ^ perlencea If caught within the radio: mk of the gale. Wr The severity of the gale has caused somo anxiety to bo foll for the safetj of the six little vessels of the tor pedO flotilla bound for San .luau el route to the Pacific const, but wit! three days' start, the little vessel havo probably gotten far ennugl away to osen pe the storm. Il Cit NE I > TO BEAT 11. Six Men Penned ill n Tunnel Meet: Awful Ente. Six men were burned lo deal h ant' 14 others were seriously, if liol In tally, hurt Thursday In a dlsnstrout fire ,vhlch penned them in tho bor< or the new Pennsylvania tunnel which runs between Homestead, N, .]., and West Hoboken. At. latest, account, the bodies of the dead men had been taken fro hi the mouth of Hie tunnel shaft ?ii Homestead, Flvo more of tho work men, still alive, had been lifted t< the surface and were all bun n il to ^ftthc. North Hudson hospital nt I nion Hill In ambulances. it ia known thal there were ;? men al work within the tunnel hore when the fire started among the pilos of tai* being used to mix with stout for the foundation of the roadbed of the tunnel. Twelve of those, Ihre? of them known lo be d?ftd, wore still within tho lube nt M Into hour. Pros! livery Month. A diary, kepi faithfully . <>n tlnuously from 1804 lo . <- ::o. by Abraham Keyser, of Germantown, Pn,. lt) now in possession of the Stile and Peile society of Cermnntown, which has placed the treasured book In Ks museum. According to tin diary every month of th? your 181 fi frost appeared, doing much damage to farm nnd garden crops. ELECTION HALTED In tho Proposed Calhoun County by Judge Gary On (he Petition of Certain Citizens of tho Territory Who Aro Denied Thuir Right to Vote. On Wednesday night of Inst weok Associate Justieo Gary granted a temporary injunction restraining tho commissioners of election of Orange burg county from holding tho olec tlon on tho establishment of Calhoun county, which has been orderod by Governor Ansel for Dec. 17. Tho injunction was secured by Mr. W. C. Wolfe, of Orangoburg, repre senting citizens of tho proposed new county opposed to its formation. Mr. Wolfo wont to Columbia from Or angoburg and appeared beforo Jus tieo Gary at chnmbors. presenting a strong complaint, in which several important points aro ruado offocting tho election laws of tho entire state. Tho order slgnod by Justice Gary loaves tho dato blank for hearing tho ?aso but it will be argued beforo tin ontlre suproine court in timo for it. to be settled beforo the dato fixed for tho oloctlon. The Coull Order. Tho order is as follows: "State of South Cnrolinn, county of Orangeburg, in the supreme court. A. H. Parler, D. H. Rush, A. C. Smith, E. F. Irlck, .G. W. Smith, W. K. Crook, T. W. Murph, F. I. Culler, C. D. Felkel. T, A. Ulmer, plaintiffs, against, W. Brooks Fogel, J. S. Bow mun, Jr., und T. J. Hurt, as commis sioners of state and county election for Orangoburg county, defendants. "On hearing the annexed verified petition, now on motion of Messrs. Herbert, Wolfe and Moss. Attorneys, for plaintiffs, it is "Ordered that the defendants and each of them, and all persons acting or claiming to act under or for them, officially or otherwise, be and they hereby are restrained and enjoined, until the further order of this court from holding, or preparing to hold, (he election upon the question of forming or creating a proposed new county as complained of in the com plaint herein, from delivering tho election boxes to the managers, or any other act whatsoever doing or attempting to do in connection there with; and that the defendants show cause, If any they eau, before the supreme court at its court room, Columbia, S. C., on the blank day of December, 1 ii07, at IO o'clock a. m., or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, why this order should not be made permnnont nnd absolute." (?round of the Complaint. The complaint sots forth a norther of grounds upon which the inunction is asked, but the princii^' 0,108 nr0 as follows: First, that the impactions sent, out to the manager ?laclare thal only qualified elect''8 olding within the prescribed -^ritory ar., registered at arecincts Within the new county shall voie vdich cuts off qualified electors sv]l, 'liv.- within proposed new county >ut whose precincts tue outside that territory. This ls a conflict between Hie constitution and the statute which has already been passed on by the Attorney General, but not by the courts. Secondly, that the registration books of Orangoburg County hnv< ?iot been revised within the period prescribed by the constitution and ? hat as a matter of fae! there is not i legal elector within the county. Tf the court sustains this point lt will affect not Orangeburg county .Hone, bul tho entire State, and will iot only vltllato all elections, but will seriously interfere will the work if the courts, since only qtiallflod electors can serve as pu rora. R?SCUE THUIR < 11 il,) > Fond Parents Found Their Daughter In Gypsy ('amp. By a writ of habeas corpus Van tonio Thompson and his wife. Of .os Angeles, (Jab. Thursday secured losession of I heir sixteen year old laughter, Marie, from a band of gypsies encamped on the outskirt: >f St. Louis. Disguised as gypsies lliomsolvo! hey invaded tho cain)) and foam! heir daughter. She threw hoi'BOl ato her mother's arms, hut a nulli KM' ol' the gypsies under the com mun! ol' King John seized the girl ind drove the parents away. The pm (nits then secured the writ Vccoinpnhled by Deputy Sheriff Hank ir, they returned lo the camp ami dllulnod the girl. Such bands af 'hese gypsies should not he allowed to roam over the country. DM,I,I \IHi B.M.Ii BLOW FATA L. Man Struck on Hem! and His Skull Frnct m ed. Al Roanoke, Va., Wyall Stanley, a voting while man, died Friday liflor noon in the city hospital as the re sult of a wound received in the head Thursday night in a quarrel with Aub Llndtimood. The mon ongagod in a difficulty in a pool pallor when IdndnmOOd threw a hilliard hall at Stanley, striking him on Hu- head ?ind ?'rael nring Hie skull. Lino 11100(1 ls in jail and claims he acted in self defence Misery Loves Company, "A Social j for Grass Widows and ffass Widowers" is tho/nnnio of thc lalesl, exclusive club in Chicago, lt has been, organized by Mj'S, Alary Hillen and only (hose who have fig tired In the divorce tonit will he ad mitted. AbOUi 'i.Xit persons have al ready applied for membership. Thc Object of (he society is for mutual benefit 80 Hint those who have mad< mistakes Will be proof ?galllSl then: noxt Hine. Labor Leaders And One of Them Fatally Hurt. SHOT IN STATE HOUSE Was Waiting to Seo Gov. Guild When Attacked.-Private Score tory Grovo Grappled With the Maniac and With Others Over powered Him.-Tlio Madman Re cently Released Prom An Asylum. At Boston, Mass., on Thursday an insano man walked into tho ante room of the executive chamber of tho State House and finding Gov. Guild's door closed, turned on three prominent labor leaders and fired three shots al. them, probably fat il ly wounding Edward Cobon of Lynn, president of the State branch of tho American Federation of Labor; ser iously wounding Denuis D. Driscoll of Boston, aoorctary or the samo board, mid injuring with tho muz zlo of his revolver Arthur M. Iluddel of Boston, former president of tho Central Labor union of that city. Tho insane man, who was John A.. SI cele of Everett, and who was re leaced on parole last month from the Danvers insano asylum, was over powered by Private Secretary Chas. S. Grove and Cen. J. H. Whitney, chief of the State police. dov. Guild was in bis office only a few feet away and rushing out, as sisted in subduing Steele, then knelt by Cohen's side and subsequently di rected the removal of the Wounded men to the hospital. Cohen was shot twice through the head und was in a critical condition at tho Massachusetts General hospital that night. The third bullet struck Driscoll a glancing blow on the side of the forehead and, making a long wound over the head, rendered him unconsc ious. He recovered conscious ness hall* an hour later. Huddel's wound was quickly dressed and will probably cause aim little inconven ience. The three labor leaders came to the State house to meet (lie governor by appointment in regard to a pardon for A. .M. Kennedy, ol' Salem, who is serving a sentence in the Kssox house of correction. They reached the State house shortly aller three o'clock and lound that the governor was receiv ing a delegation from Rhode Island. Tho three labor men were asked to walt In one of the ante-rooms until tho Hho?.- cSdoud ..->.:> ..:.;,..!..; #uye; All J bree wore standing beside a long .able conversing pleasantly when nt the far end ol' the room Pr?valo Sec retary Grove was dictating a letter lo the executive stenographer. Suddenly Steele appeared al tho door ol' the room from the hallway and without announcing his mission walked by the doorkeeper and Mes senger Hood and Iben glanced to ward Hov. Guild's room, which was about 20 feel away. The door was closed, StCele turned around and drawing a revolver, bred al Cohen, who was abeu six feel away. Cohen's back was (urned and the bullet struck the back ol' tho hoad directly through, und came out ut the fore head, driving a groat splash of blood to the wall opposite and beside the picture ol' Abraham Lincoln. The wounded man turned, only to receive another bullet in the head, which also passed completely through. Cohen sank unconscious lo Hie door. Steele then swung around and tired al Dris coll, the bullet inflicting a severe scalp wound. Driscoll also foll un conscious lo the floor. ll liddell, in attompHng to close on the man, was struck on the (beek by the muzzle of the revolver and knocked down. But Steele made no attempt to lire again. By Ibis lime Secretary drove had leaped over a table and grabbed with Ste<de and al the same moment, Cen. Whitney, who bad been summoned lo tho Kentucky hearing, came through the door and rushed to his assistance, Iluddel also jumped and wrenched Hie revolver away, while one ol' the messengers dashed into tim governor's office and said: "They are murdering people in the lobby." The governor instantly went lu'o 'be lobby and helped Him. Whitney, Mr. Clove and Mr. Iluddel push '-tl cele onto one ol' (he sofas. Word was sent lo Ibo ellice of tho State po lice in tile basement and a force of officers ouickly reached (he scene and handcuffed steele, in the meantime, Gov. Guild bad krtOll by Cohen's side and was wiping his fae* with a han kerchief and towels. Dr. Owen ('opp, chairman ol' the Slate board ol' in sanity, was summoned and he Im mediately recognized Steelo, having had bini under observation for more than live years in various Stale in sane asylums. Steele was then taken lo hie office ol' Hie Slate police and subsequently seul under a strong guard to I lie Tombs. The doctor, afler a hasty examina tion of Cohen and Driscoll, expressed the opioiou that the former's wounds Would probably prove fatal, bul that Driscolls wound was only a scalp wound. The I wo wounded men were con veyed to tim Massachusetts General hospital. Iluddel was also taken to the hospital. Several of (ho Stale (,l||c-ials said afler the shoot lng that Steele was a well known character lo Ibo board of Insanity and thal be had an Illusion thal be was nol Kelling his rights, for Which In- held the governor re i sponsible. lal ward Cohen is ono of the bes! known labor leadens in Massachu setts, ile is married and has several children. Hr. Driscoll is almost as prominent . in labor circles in the State. Mr. Huddei is president of tho i local Central Labor Union, i St cede, who ls ?17 years old, was re leased from the Danvei:. Insane asy GREAT MYSTERY Surrounds, the Suicide of a Well Known Actress. Trndcgy Committed Wldlo Amil? mee In the Theatre, lu Which She Was Expected to Tiny, MY.iied. Mrs. Clam Bloodgood, tho actress, committed suicide by shooting in her room at the Hotel Stafford at Baltic moro Thursday evening. Mrs. Bloodgood's body WHS found lying on tho bed with a bullet bolo through the roof of nor mouth. Nour by lay a book, ontltlod "How to Shoot Straight," and u 38-calibro re volver with three chambers empty. . She attended a matinee porfor;m | anco nt Albnugh'a Theatre Thursday afternoon and returned to her hotel about four o'clock, seemingly lu tho best of spirits. Later, when it was time for the curtain to rise for her own show at the Academy of Music, where she waa appearing in "Thc Truth." she had not put In an appearance. Word was sent to tho Stafford and a boll hoy was sont up to her room. Just, as ho approached tho door ho heard a pistol shot. Hurrying back to the ofllce bc notified the clerks of what ho heard and an Investigation was made and Mrs. DloodgOOd was found stretched on the bed as described. Before retiring to lier room she had a talk with her stage manager. John lOmerson. who declares that he Observed nothing unusual in her de meanor. The only motive he can ascribe is that Mrs. Bloodgood feared an attack of nervous prostration. Sho had been working very hard, he said, and she feared a breakdown. Mrs. Bloodgood left a note address ed to her husband. Tho and ?once at tho Academy of Music was dismissed with the announcement that ibero would bo no performance owing to a sudden indisposition of Mts Blood? good. BIG BAN Iv KAI bl IBO. National Hank of Commerce of Kim sus City (?oes Pudor, The National Bank of Commerce of Kansas (Mtv failod to open its doors and is now in tho hands pf a national bank examiner. The bank is one of the oldest there, and is tho largest financial Institution in tho city. The notice on the door says the bank was closed by order of the hoard of directors. The directors and stockholders in clude some of the. most prominent ! MM* In the city., T'?" head of I'deiiririg*- noose ..??GV?HUOM the belief that tho f?ll tiro would not involve any of the other Kansas City hanks. When tho statement of tho Nation id Bank of Commerce under tho last call appeared, it showed that since I the statement of August 22 deposits had been reduced from close to thirty-five million dollars to $10, 952,008. Tho statement showed al so thal tho items of loans and dis counts had been cut down four mil lion dollars, Two small branches of tho Nation al Hank of Commen t', it bo Stock Yards Hank of Commerce and tho Union Avenue Hank of Commerce, also closed their doors. NOVEL SC ll KM IO. Devised lo Wipe Out a. Burdensome Church Debt. Thomas Vinnedgc, a member of the Baptist Church of Hope, Ind.. lins devised a novel plan for wiping out the debt against his church. He hat written to many persons throughout the United States asking tho dona tion of a hog from each. His first mail brought 30 replies. Among those who have a g rood to donate a hog is Mayor Johnson of Cleveland. One half of the sales money ls lo bc applied to the church debt, and the other half remitted to those who gave the hogs. lt ls expected thal at least 1,000 hogs will bo received. OVKHCOM10 BY SMOKE. Workers in the Pennsylvania Tun nel Were in Danger. [Sloven unconscious men were re moved from the New Jersey end of tho Pennsylvania tunnel, following liri' in tho tunnel at Homestead. N\ J. Thoro wei?? lao men In the tunnel whent heflr 0 began and the place were filled With smoke. AH bill I I lied to the surface, lint their com rades were overcome by Hie smoke mid wore taken out hy a rescuing pari y. niosri/rs OK I I mos. One Woman Burned and Seven Fire nien Overcome. One woman was killed ?ind seven firemen WOt'O overcome as I he result;! ol' two liri.s in New York on Thurs-J day. Mrs. Annie binaban aged ? QB was burned lo deal h .ii a (ive story brick tenement in Fast 17 lb Street Thirty others were rescued from windows and flrO escapes. Illuminai lng gas hearlyc aimed tho death o seven ilt'Omon who were lighting ; blaze in a store and office bu lld lng .if (. Ai Drowned in a llnthtiib. Appa ron tl y having fainted whiij bathing) Charlos, I.. Ferguson, was drowned in n tubal his bonn Ossinlng. N. Y.. recently. n w?|is several hours later when Mrs. Fe gason awoke and found the hod Tho coroner decided that Ferguson had fainted and his head slipped h low the water. lum Nov. 13, l ist, upon solicitan of his mother, tim institution's o clals believing thal !io had show almost positivo signs of recovery never showed any Blgn of violet! whllo In tho asylum. a lb (I ta cc TERRIBLE DIS?STER. Ho? the Earthquake Destroyed the Town of Kiiratagh. < Mi . / I? ^oss Than xi Few Hoare It Passed VWOM a Thriving Coymmuiity Into ipp Silent ?ravo o? 4000 Souls. '.'ne destruction of . Karatagh, TOi^ishtan, lins beon dosorlbod as ono of tho most appalling natural 'nlu.j?troLihoa on record. A short finn ugo a nourishing community, it ii? now tho gravo of 4,000 dead. /l> ?loudly four struck tho hoarts of bo people of Karatagh, on tho ?'. tho dlsasto/r, Oct. 20. whon a 'wept over* the place. A cor ?rt. .,Yi??eiit, at tho sceno gives tho TIX'T?J detailed account and Bays: ' Wmly in tho morning tho whole! 1 oW |i scorned to shuddor. Tho earth triM1lors woro froquont, but fow of the'townspeople wore sufficiently dls 1 "n ?d to louve? their houses. Fifteen mm-utes later a terrille shock re sou,uling with weird noises. Then tho town Boomed, to bo ropoatodly '"'Vi high in tho air and set down "'?.yilly. ?Ui?dingc woro crumbling and ^ral jting to ruins. In scores of places Uiej ?round burst, open and boiling Sj spouted upward- Many houses WC1 ? battered down by tho falling roc m Others, with their oeeupants, sund^ bodily into great, tissues In ,Mfi'$nrth. Tho populace, or such of *nR!Vi as escaped instant death, ap ,)01,red to bo mad with terror. From ?V?3c 8lc?e aroi5? awful shrieks. ..Ja''9 storm had como, on again reno wed force. Maddened ani inaR toro aimlessly hither and thlth 3r?,Roniinuous peals of thunder and ll:ts'u.;s of blinding lightning added l() 'ile frenzy. Many fugitives por lshPjl under tho hoofs of tho ani inalf .> CASTAWAYS lUCSd'EI). *d\Kt." Mell Picked l p on a Ilareen wit .V Island in the Pacific '? .\teon castaways from the lone mwa^g Hvjtiai, Dundonald, wreck ed 111 i .ie Pacifie ocean nine mom bs ugo. rt-oi'^ yoscued Inst woek by the New ^oa.)and government steamer lJino "u,\ and taken to muff Harbor, N. y-- Tho mon were in a distressing "l'Vji of emaciation, ?They had spent l^inoiiths on an uninhabited island little wutor, scant vegetation i aninialn. Several of the. mem .>.cunib?d from tho privations. irirv"1-' -u,"Med on Inst from Now . ..<ues; "Cnpt. 'i n'oi'burn UMII V ijf'oft??. AU seoips to have gone ,v( ll ?j?tll they reached tho Auckland sl.vin/s when tho ship experienced a torlos of gales. She was finally drlv m ashore on an unnamed island and vroeked. Many members of the :rew wore washed away with the ,v reek age. As months passed and lhere was io sign of rescuers the crew gradual y dwindled until only ll! of the sturdiest survived. The joy and nirprlse of tho coming of the good dlip Hinemoa eau be told only in leart lending stories. All the men ?Vere,in need of medical assistance leforo they could be brought lo Hie ?hore. The long expected relief CttUS .d a relapse alter the party was ta ten aboard. WANTS TO COME HACK. lld Directorate of Equitable Lift Seeks a Settlement. .lames Hazen Hyde and oilier mom >ors of Hie old directorate ol' tho Equitable Life Assurance society of Vow York, have offered to turn hack nore; than $1.000,000 into the treas ury of that. Institution. Apparently >?IO of the purposes of the proposed restitution is to get tho attorney general to cull off Now York state's mil. begun against the old directorate two years ago. Tho attorney general le not inclined to settle the suit and it pushing tho investigation. When ono director was asked what had Influenced Hyde to make tho of fer ho staled that tho Directors' com mit I en had been in a position where i was able to convince .Mr. Hyde tint this would bo the wiser course. I, o refused to answer.when asked ll ;?iy criminal transaction had boon ? (mod up which might have forced ajen greater suer i fices. Mr. Hyde has sold most ol' his woporty in this country, including bis country place, and all his horses and carriages, ll has been reported 'repliently that bc Intended lo make Iiis home in France for the rest ol' bis lifo, but this has been denied. siNcri.Ait ACCIDENT. 'I'lied lo Stab a Hog and Killed a Mun. 13, IO. Prince, a farmer living about (Ince miles north of Cairo, (in., while killing hogs Monday, assisted by Jim Lewis, a negro, accidentally stabbed Howls. They had hit u hog in the head and holli men caught the ani mal to stab him. Mr. Prince holding tho knife, .lust as ho stabbed tho hog. Which wa sa very large one, the hoi; made a lounge backward, I h cowine Mr. Prince who held (bc knife in his hand back on Ibo negro. As he foll Hie knife .struck tho negro just (*ver the heart ami penetrated lu. Medical assist niu o wns summoned bul before lt arrived tho negro wns dead. Tho negro made a statement to the effect Hint lils stabbing was an accident boforo ho dlod. Coolish tari?. Five working giris of Bristol? Va.i attempted lo commit suicido at the same hour by de samo moans laBt week, and ono of them ls likely to sauced, lt ls believed that tho fivo young women belonged to a suicide Club, They all took polHOU. In Fearful Disaster In a West Virginian Coal Mine. FOUR HUNDRED DEAD Tho Catastrophe Was the Hen ult of ? Fearful <Gus Explosion, Wli'-h Hurled tho Unfortunate' Men Be neath Tons of Coal, Rock nnd Other Debris.-Only Four of thc Day Workers Alive. Tbreo charrod and blackened bod ies lying in the improvised morgue prepared near the entrance to tho mine, four mon 1 overing between lifo and doath from the awful bruises sustained and tho deadly gases inhal ed in a temporary hospital into ono of the companies buildings has been transformed, and 3GO mon Imprison ed by tons of coal, rock and debris in the depths of tho hills surrounding tho mining town of Monogah, W. Va., with tho chances all against a single ono of thom being alive, is the mostf accurato summary obtainable of tho result of a mino explosino Friday, Which in all probability was attend ed by grouter loss of lifo than any disaster in the history of the bitumi nous coal mining Industry of Amer ica. The explosion occurred shortly af ter ton o'clock Friday. The full force of 3 80 men had gone to work in the mines affected. These mines are Nos. G and 8, ot* the Consolidated Coal Company, located on opposite sides of the West Fork Uiver at Mono gal, but mergod in their underground workings by a heading, and on the surface hy a great steel tipple and bridge. The finding of the three corpses and the four badly injured men it. the only roward for streu- th nous and interupted work on the part fe nf the large rescuing forces that, im- m mediately set to work at every pos- ar slide point. co The four living mon are unable to th give any details in regard to the af disaster or even explain how they reached the surface. They state that oc Immediately hack of them when they th began the fran tics trugglef or liber- th ty there was a largo numbor of men vb engaged In a similar struggle, while tu: further back in the workings n.o.-o, was a. hu ge number of whom j they knew nothing. lt is the opinion of the mine olh L'ials and others familiar with min ing that the seven men had not pen etrated as far ns had the majority of lie the day shift when tho explosion oe- m< pured, and that they headed for and er? reached the main entry beforo the n? lieuvy cave-in that now blocks the ce ?ntrance more than a hundred feet da lioyond tho main opening of the mine pe \'o. G. tm As to the miners referred to hy is tho rescued men as having been alive th Alien last soon, it ls believed that th hy were caught hack of a hoaVJ tu inve-in of coal and mine roof, and that they could not. have survived st< more than a few minutes in the ls lead ly gases with which the entry ov tilled as soon as the ventilating" ays- fo Loin was interrupted. There ls more di hope for those in more remote sec- ta lions of the mine ns they may have by icachcdw orkings where fresh air if al nipplled by other openings, os Evidencing the terrific force of the la explosion, props in the entry of No. $'j i> mine supporting the roof were not th mly shattered and torn from their pl position, but were blown out of the th antry andi o the opposite side bi an tho river. on Other evidence of the force is on mown in every section of the mines ge that has been reached by the res- a miers. Huge quantities of conl and <*o rock hove been loosened and hurled se Into eve?;" opening, and all tho un- lb ilerground structure is wrecked he- tu youd semblance of Its original shape. The entry of No. G mino, 3 00 feet | from tho mouth, ls plied high with the wreckage of two strings of cars and two electric motors. Homo of the rescuers have climbed over this and found dead bodies beyond, but have made no attempt, to remove thom to Hl( tho surface, partly hocause it would ho nlmost. impossible to carry tho bodies over the dobrls, but more par ticularly because they do not want to lose any Hmo in reaching other sections of the mine, whore lt ls possible men still living may bo im prisoned. The cars are being righted as fast as possible and removed from the entry together with all other ob? st' uctions. All of tho heading lead ing off from the main entry are ho ing cut off by canvass and barricaded as fast as they aro removed by the relief workers, so that tho Innermost ! workings of tho mine may bo given tho benefit of the ventilating system to sustain any that may bo yet living and make possible nn early explora tion of theso workings. Wives and mothors and sweet hearts, together with children and members of tho stronger sex, move from pince to place, vainly seeking Information and making no attempt to conceal tho grlof that ovorwholms them. But little news can bo glvon Hiern and such ns they do got. is bad. No ono ls encouraged to hopo thal any ono tn tho mine has survived the oxplosion and the suffocating goa that thereafter filled tho mines. Work of Outlaws. John Schultz, of Marionette, Wis., was found In bed mortally wounded tho other day. Ills abdomen had hoon cut and the Intestinos severed and thrown on the floor hosldo a rusty knife. Before ho died he said ho had boon stabbed by two mon who Wimted to get his money. ni or di Ol w to in cc tl to te ni w PREACHES HARMONY. In Speeches at Tremont and Chi cago on Friday. Ilryuu Expresses Tho Opinion That Itoosovoit is thu Only Itopuhlican Who dan Ho Elected. A. dispatch from Tremont, Ul., says William, Jennings Bryan opened ri? Illinois campaign for tho nomi nation for tho Presidency on tho Domooratic ticket there on Friday light In two rousing speeches, do ivered boforo mass meetings, and ater at a Banquet at. which nearly roo prominent Northern Illinois Dem tcrats assembled. Mr. Bryan spoko m tho "Vindication of the Domocrat c Platform since 1896." "The Republican party," said Mr. Iryan, "has been steadily falling rom popularity, until to-day but ono nun cnn win tho Presidency, oho tho will break away from precedont nd nccopt u third term, und ono -'ho has only gained his popularity y taking for his issno plunks from ho Republican platform. Ho pointod out that the present naucinl stringency wns the result of urning down Democracy's bimotall im issuo and declared the trusts, ?rlft and labor arbitration probloms oro hoing solved according to the nes embraced In Democratic plat >rms. Speaks at Chicago. A dispatch from Chiengo says Wll am Jennings Brynn Friday at a inohecn given by the Iroquois Club lade a notable speech, the keynote f which was harmony. "Where un agreoinent has boon Niched among mon as to what ought i be done there should be forgetful Bbs for the past," he said, and his intiment was applaudued. "Mon should havo good forgetting achines so fur as Individuals aro mcerned. 'Forgive us our debts ns o forgive our debtors! ls a good doc* ino to follow. Resentment and 'Venue uro the most foolish of Jugs." Men who hen rd tho words took om to mean that Mr. Bryan's dlf renccs with National Conunittee an Roger C. Sullivan nre at au end, id thnt there will be no Anti-Bryan ntest. Mr. Sullivan hus declared nt he will not renew the strife resht Mr. Bryan declared that the Dem rntic party ls moro united today an lt has been for years, whereas o Republicans, ho asserted, are ril led. NHW KIND OF SWINDLE. dumbie' Police AVarns MorchnitH Against This Fellow. Tho State says that Chief of Po e Carthcnrt desires to warn tho ^reliants of this State against a 3ok whose operations are entirely w in this section. Tho mun suc ssfully worked lils gnme tho other y and the police authorities ex et him to attempt it ugnin on some (Suspecting merchant. Ills Identity so far un unknown quantity and 0 police will have to depond upon e merchants to help offed, his cap re. The modus operandi of this my orlous knight of the swindler's art as follows: He will call a merchant er thc 'phone und give an order r certain articles of merchandise, reeling that they bo sent to a eer ie number. This ls accompanied . a request that Ibo bill be sont ong with .the goods; nlso tho noc sary chango for u five or lon dol r bill. For Instance, ho will order ! worth of merchandise and ask nt $3 be soul ulong ns change, ox aining that he has nothing less an a five dollar bill. Tho goods id Ibo required chango ure sent it and the mysterious stranger ls 1 hand nt tho number indicated. He ts tho goods nod the chango, hands noto to the messenger, supposedly ntalnlng the $5 bill, and tho mes nger goes back to tho store to td thnt he lins boen worked to the ne of $r>. Tl th th Tl ml ih OH to to WI W of Iii fo bl pc Al rc .Il W ol BC ec o\ bl Of cn bj : DEATH OF COL. ELLIOTT. nilli Carolina Looses One of Her Noblest Sons. Col. William Elliott, Sr., comnils .nier for the government lo l?ente ul mark the graves of tho Confed ale dead interred in tho north, ed suddenly nt his hunting lodge i Buzzards Island, near Beaufort, hero he lind como from Wnshlng n sovornl days ago. to shoot ducks. Col. lOllintt wns boin In Beaufort If?;i8; was educated ut Hoaufort ?liege, Harvard university, and Ibo diversity of Virginia; was udmltted i Hie bar nt Charleston In 18615 on red the Confederate States nrniy, id sorvod as colonel throughout tho bolo war. In i SRO was elected a member of io legisla lure; wns a delegate lo ie national democratic conventions i I 87G und 1888; was democratic residential elector tor tho state at irgo in 1880; served six terms in ingress ns the representativo of tho Irst district of South Carolina, and i 1902 was d feat od by A. C. f.ntl lor for the United States senate. cv Y i fa k( th Hi tl' ja I" id fe ?1 'll Ol 01 qi c( bi HAD TO Kiss PRETTY OiiiL. usted Methodist Minister Said He Couldn't Resist Her. Caught with his arms about a pre! t girl, whom ho was kissing, tho ;ov. M. M. Blouse, of Tuscaloosa, la., n leading member of tho Ala amac onforonco, said ho couldn't olp hor. Ho has boon unfrocked nd expelled from Ihec. church. Ho t a married num. "I don'! bellovo ny mun could havo helped doing ns did under tho otrcumstanceV' sold lloaeo. He I? 40 yours oh'. Mrs. IIORSO blames tho girl. DIED IN ? jloslons Kills forty-Seven M ers at Naomi, Pa. DIES ARE LOCATE!) Ami Are Being Brought to i he Sur? furo by tho Rescuers Who Have Reen at Work liver Since The Terrible Catastrophe Happened On Lnst Sunday Evening Without tho Slightest Warning <o the People, A dispatch from Naomi, Pa., Bays tho fate of tho American ami forty two foreign minors, while not de finitely known, was pretty well es tablished by tho Anding of a body at <x mino pump near the 22nd entry af the Naomi miue of tho United Coal company nt Fayette City, in which an explosion occurred Sunday light. Tho man had died from suf 'ocatlon. Judging from tho two fatalities hus far known, both having been taused by poisonous gas fumes, it s almost certain that tho forty-seven ninors still entombed in the mine lave succumbed to the doadly after (amp. Slowly winding their way around t deep spiral stairway which leads lo wu into the main heading of the nines, rescuers aro carrying to day Ight tho bodies of tho men who met loath in a terrific explosion which hook surrounding villages. Tho rescuers bogan carrying up ho bodies at 10 o'clock and the re nnins of 3 5 victims have been locat d and carried to the foot of tho fairway at that timo. By noon all the victims will have een taken to tho surface. All pre nutions aro taken to provont grlef trlcken mothers, wives and children .om viowing the bodies until they in bo made moro presentable. In carly all Instances tho bodies can 3 identified. If tho best Information obtainable bourne out, the romnlnder of Ibo idios will bo found In some of the T-headlngn or butt entries which ive Leon so far found Impassible. SATTLE BETWEEN ANIMALS. Igor Rills Polar Rear ht Circus Performance. A dispatch from Tinnnonsville tb e Slate says durjngt he progress ol' 0 performance presented Miere nirsday afternoon at tho wild aui nl show which Us hoing offered by e Jo hp n'y. Jenes Exposition ?bows ie of t he J i :... i : , death* known to animal history ok place. Whllo ono of the acts is taking placo, Iii which Herr von aldo,- the noted German trainer, fers four African lions, two Bengal ;ors and two Polar bears, all per rin lng together, Romeo, one of the g tigers, became angered and 1 ll peed upon one of the Polar bears. Tier a terrible battle tho tlgor suc eded In sinking its fangs Into the igular vein of the Polar bear, h Ich died almost' instantly. The her animals became miraged by the ent of blood and von Waldo show l great, bravery nt tho risk of his vu life in subduing thom. The Polar >ar was valued at $2,000, being ono the largest and host trained In .ptivlty. The fight was witnessed ' hundreds of spectators. iE<)PARR'S TEETH EXTHACTED lice Eninta When Last of Twelve ??3 Yanked Out. Alice, a nine-month-old leopard lb hi the Central Park Zoo, New mit, liad 12 teeth extracted and lnted' under tho operation. The. sopers had noticed for several clays iat Alice did not seem veli and lally she rofused to eat. Investigation showed that the lit c leopard's baby tooth in tho lower .w had not been shed und that tho umnnent. teeth had grown In front them. Several dentists were tolephonsd ir to draw tho teeth, but none ro londod to tho call, so tho keeper rew them himself. When the last io cume out Alice f .luted, and sev .a) large drinks of brandy were ro il ired to revive her. She soon ro ivered ahd tho keepers say she will 3 in her usual spirits in a few days. TJ???EE MEN KILLE 1 ). little Stealing a Ride on a Freight Train. As tho rosall of ii derailment on a estie over a small crook Just be >vv the station of Blairs, twelve irs of freight train No. 54 Jumped ie I rack and six cars crashed to tho i eh below tearing down the trestle nd killing three men. The accident, occurred about four 'clock Wednesday morning, tho train oing bound for Columbia, and In bargo of Engineer Bird and Cot? uctor Summers. As none of tho rew was Injured lt was understood nd reported that no ono was hurt. Ilowover, when the wrecking train rrived and the dei l iri; lifted some ( tho Wrecked cars, beneath tho ebria wore found tho bodies of throe /hilo men.. Two ol thom wore Idon Ified ns the Queen brothers of Un ?>n, and the other as Cray, whoso arenls reside In Augusta, Ca. Held Up hy Woman. An automobile containing two ivomlnont New VTorX men and wives iras held up al dusk last week hear Vatorbury, Conn., by a Smartly Ivossed young woman, who, with a irotty throe-inch revoker, demanded nonoy. She got $8.GO and thou put purs to a pretty Mexican pony and/ ?.as off. She told tBo men she want id "just a lon spot," as she was hun ay. thirsty and Immolons.