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i t?o Democrat . DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MARK OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION UAI?l?Y OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE.' YOI. XXXII f BENNETTSVILLE. s. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 17. 1908 NO. 16 SWEPT BY FIRE. (_ Fearful Damage Done by Fire in City of Chelsea. O _ OVER A SQUARE MILE Of Hie Masscliitsctts Town Dcvustn ^ I Ird-Property Loss Toil Million Dollars-Twelve Persons Dead and Many Injured-Ten Thousand 'Vre Homeless-Rleven Hours Ilcqtiir* ed to (iel Flames Under Control. Fire devasled moro than one square mile of (he manufacturing business and tenement dis! rid (d' Chelsea, Mass., Sunday, entailing a loss estimated at fully ? 10,000,000. The lire started at 10.10 a.m. near tho Boston Blacking Company's works on West Third street, near tho Everett city line, and crossed the city, a distance ?d' one mile and a quarter, to Marginal, opposite tho East Bos tou shore. ; Late Sunday night lour dead bod ies had been recovered from the ruins. Halt' a hundred persons were injured, several fatally. Ton thous and persons left homeless. Among tho building burned wet?' thirteen churches, the Frost Hospital, the Children's Hospital, the City Hall, the Fitz Public Library, tho school houses, a dozen or moro fac tories and about 300 tenements and dwellings. Tho residential section of the city, whore tho wealthier classes reside, escaped the hames. In the retail sec tion, through which the fire passed, were twenty business blocks, which were destroyed. Tin? United States marino buildings were not damaged. At 9 o'clock Sunday night the Hames were under control. TILLMAN IMPROVING - j Tho Senior Senator Says He Is Feel? lng Considerably Stronger. A special from Atlant a to Tin; State says "reports from the sanitar ium Indicate that Senator Tillman is improving OVOtl more rapidly than expected when he came here. To a friend who saw him for a few min utes he stud he was feeling consider ably stronger, hut realized his (lun ger and expressed his purpose to avoid all forms ol' mental excite ment for so mo lime to come. He walks around thc sanitarium, hut has md yo ventured to thc city. Ho proposes lo lead an absolutely quid existence for thc next six weeks or two months, sailing for Europe ac. soon as he feels he is strong enough lo stand the Hip." N EH HOES NOT WANTED. Negro Baud Causes Trouble in New York State. Tile managers ol' the Watertown (N. v.,i ("handier ot Commerce are embarrassed hy the refusal of tho 9th company of the state militia to march on Friday in honor of Govern or Hughes if il is led hy the nemo ?.and ol the '1 Ith United States In fantry. The latter regiment is just hack from the Phllllpines and two battalions ol' it are quartered at .Mad ison hil racks, adjacent lo Watertown. Watertown exerted considerable ef forts to have tl" negroes sent lo some other barracks, hut in vain. Tho committee is now trying to engage a hand of while musicians. NEU KO Kl BN ABS DEBI TV. Officer Captured hy Man He Tried io Arrest, At A ludston, Ala., Acting Deputy Sherill' .1. C. Wost, who was kidnap ped hy a negro named Cunningham While he was attempting to arrest Hie negro, returned to that city the nexl day minus his revolver, money and badge. West says the negro marched him to Riverside. There Die nOgl'O made him gd into au em pty freight car. which he Mien closed up and made his escape. West n nally succeeded in getting, out of tin car and returned. OlIlCOl'S are slid searching for Hie negro. STA KV ED T'? AT At Hie Mild <>t Hu Thh'lj ' esl Pay Man Dies. Al. St. Bani. Minc. Ktidti Htoad died ni I P Cl roi ?dre Saturday, having Ut? himself lo death 111 lill H tempi i" flt 1 for forty dayl In order ti li ton strate his theory ill." th' . eon trois the body am In n? . d hi might 1er ?han mal r. >hnsf< .d's fast lasted I da , ordin t<> those In tho hom THEY ARE SCARED. THE ItttPUBIilCANS FKAH THKY WI Ll, BB BKATKN. Troubles Without und Within thu Party CAUSO Aldrin-Many Think Roosevelt Will Bo tho Nomine??. A Washington letter to the Char leston Post says Republican leaders in Congress make no pretense of con cealing their anxiety over the out come of the national elections next November, lt ls a common Hiing, to bear Republican members of tho House admit, that tho chances ure against the election of a Republican majority in tho House next. tall. Some Republicans entertain very gravo doubts over the Presidential election, but console themselves with the hope Ihal. the Democrats may .'do Ibo wrong thing at tho right, time" and Hms compensate for ex isting disadvantages under which tho Republican party is said to lie laboring. lt is admitted thal this is some what of a new role for Ibo Republi can parly to he playing -prospective beneficiary ot the mistakes of its op ponents. lt is pointed out that heretofore tho Republicans have won upon a policy of action, agression and progress. The great victories on the ninney question, the tariff question, the Phillipiuos question and other issues wore gained in this way. Two main ciases contribute to tho anxiety of the Republicans a? this time. They are, first the widespread industrial depression, the resulting hard times, a fertile and prolific field for Democratic growth. Second, the factional troubles within tho Re publican party in a great many States. Some Republicans in Congress are of the opinion that conditions are rapidly growing more favorable to a possible stampede for Roosevelt. They say that un loss Secretary Taft is nominated on the first ballot the way will be open for a contest. i:i the convention which will make Roosevelt's renomination unavoid able. They think that conditions are working rapidly to I Iiis end. lt is a fact that Hie average run of Republicans entertain tile opinion that President Roosevelt's renomina tion will be the outcome ol" the pres ent muss in which 'he party linds it self. Opinions vary whether in I Uni event the Repa bl ie'?ns would win or lose. Some think thal Presiden i Roosevelt is so strong willi the com mon people Cou he would override all opposition. Others believe that the third lorin question could be raised against him willi effect. Si il I other., say it would all depend upon 'he Demo cratic nominee, and on thai side of the question as io whether Hrynw or Johnson would be tho strongei mau lhere are as many opinions as there are fac?is ?o a diamond. PRANKS ot CUPID, An Old Man and Ob! Woman Can Aw ay. Mrs. Carrie KhnUOUr,, GS years ol age. who lett Plymouth, Vu . recently, saying thal she was going to visit friends in Scranton, went Instead to Dover. N. J., and was lhere married to John I' .Johnson, who is 7f> years ?dd. They mei several months ago and wore Infatuated with each other, but while their friends knew this, they did not expect they would bo married. Johnson is a whiowoi with foui children ami Mrs. Cannons, who is di vorced, hits three children. Together they have Lix grandchildren. They will live in Morristown, N. Y. BLOODY MVSTKKY. Woman Lying ?o Cool of Rlood and Her Husband shot. Mrs. Kinma Rolss, aged 32 years, wife ?d' Willirun I' Roiss, proprietor ol' Old economy hotel, al Cconoiny station, near Pttsblirg, Pa., was found dead in a pool ol' blood in a bed al her home, having been shol through the henri. On Hie floor m ar tin- bed lay her husband, With a dan gerotIS pistol shot wound through his UdUplc. Considerable mystery sur rounds the affair. PICK 101) CP AT SKA. Thrilling Rescue of Twnly-Klght Men hy a Steamship, A thrilling rescue of shipwreck ed mea was made during the trip of lim steamship Vol arno, which picked np i he i OT. floating near the al most dlsmani'ed schooner Chnpgne, which had : ll hit by a hurricane Th rescue wi malle February 27th. The steam diip reached New Yoth. on Friday. . ORDER SERVED On the D?sponsary Commission by judge Pritchard in COLUMBIA ON FRIDAY. Commission Gi reit 1'ivo Days to De cide as lo What They Wilt Do ll ls Said They Will Hold Hie Folland (Jo (<> dad lia! her Than Obey -Judge Prit chard's Recent Order. The Columbio correspondent of The News ?md Courier says the order ol' Judge Pritchard granting a sup ersodeas on conditions was not serv ed until Friday when il was received through the mail hy Chairman Mur ray, of the dispensary wlnding-up commission, and the other members of the commission, as well as hy At torney General Lyon from thc olino of the clerk of tho Federal Court, in Charleston The 01.?er is dated April S and re quires compliance within live days from dale of order, not live days from servic<i. The commission will not give tho heavy bond required by .lodge Pritchard, and will not surrender thc collateral, which requires t?> he sur rendered, so that tho commission will he in contempt in refusing to obey the order lo deposit the collateral with the Federal Court. As a matter of fact the collateral is not in the possession ol' the com mission, lon is with the State Treas urer, and has been in his poscssion for a long time, men before the .woks and records of tho dispensary were pined in ?he Treasurer's vaults. So that the commission can make answer that the collatteral is not in its posession at. all, and they cannot comply with the primary and most important condition of Judge Pril chard's order. Of course, if Judge Pritchard co.n. get hold of tho collateral he has the case in his hand absolutely, and, of course, the State is not going lo sur render tho collateral. Judge Pritchard may serve an or der on State Treasurer Jennings, hui ii. happens that Capt. Jennings is in Mississippi and not at this time in tin- jurisdiction of Judge Pritchard s order. Ile is having a pleasant visit out there ;uiil is doubtless not In II hurry to letton, ?nicas he ls requested to come hoiuo by Governor Ansel. Tho (lovel nor will not. however, ask the treasurer to colite back ;<? give up tie- collat?ral, and lu- will md. in struct ans one to gtVo it np, because the State is going to koop its hands on th?- collateral. Those collaterals were deposited as security tor the deposits of the dis pensary money willi Hie various hanks ol' th.- State, and the banks will not pay out i lie moue) Withotit getting, (heir securities back. Tills poim is itu- milk in thc cocon nut, and th:. Stat?' holds the cocoanut. * May lievicw Case. Tlie State says an appeal lo the United States circuit cou rt pf appeals on som. ?round ls absolutely certain and v. li.-a i hi.-, chu ri meets ii will be presided over by Chief Justice Fuller of the I'nilcd Stales supreme court. li is believed that the chief jus tice will temporarily, a: least, hold off drastic tuition until he can hear the iirgninents, the appeal having already beeil perfected. A dispatch from Asheville to The Nows and Courier sax.s Judge Prit chard Friday recelvol a letter from .lu.-liee Kui 1er in reference to the case, bul st a tod, as it was a private letter, he Would not leter to its Con tents. While the Chief Justice is considering (lu- idea ol a special ses sion, it is Milite probable thal no move will bi- made in tin- ease here or in South Carolina by the roeolv I IVK CillBATtiHT MIA, lu Private Life Invited to Attend a ( ionferoiicc. W in. are (lie live greatest men in the Fnithed Slates not in public nie? According to President Uoose velt. Ihcy are Crover Cleveland. An drew Carnegie, John Mitchell, Wil liam .1. Ilrynn and -Innes .1. Hill. Tho President has Invited these live io attend the big conference al I he While UOU! e during I he w eek of May ll lo discuss conservation ot the natural resources ol' the country. livery Governor of a State, Oflbl aol olllcors, members of the United Slates Supreme Court ami members of Hie Inland Waterways, Commis sion are to attend ollicially, hut. these live men are singled out from Hu Whole United Stales as live Individ mils to ho Invited. They are all Doviocrats. NIGHT OF TERROR - Seven Persons Shot to Death and Many Wounded in THE CITY OF LISBON Disputo Regarding Counting of Votos in Municipal Elections Starts H ?ot lu Church, from Willoh Guards Fire, on Kcscigiiig Mob for Throe Hours Until Ahl Arrives.-Groat Incitement Prevailed. At LlBbon, Portugal, seven persons were shot to death and fifty others wounded by soldiers a fte ribo voting in tho elections in that city bad end ed. Tho rioting was widespread and such was the confusion during tho violent conflict between (he populace and thc municipal guard that the guardsmen, mistaking infantrymen who had been called out for members of Ibo mob, tired a volley into (heir ranks, seriously wounding three of tho soldiers. The night was one of terror for Lisbon, seemed suddenly aflame with seething revolt. Hands of mon ran wildly through tho streets, brandish ing wonpons, while the sharp crack of rifles was heard in various sections of the city. Thousands of the most peaceable citizens lied to I heir homos just as they did on the night after assassination of King Carlos and the Crown Prince. Tho principal rioting was tho result of a dispute between th?' Republicans and tho Monarchists regarding tho counting of votes. The Repuoocnns, who feared fraud at the various Lisbon polling places, made a deter mined stand for their rights at St. Dominiques Church, whic h is in the t entti-of the city, the district that is practically tho stronghold of Repub licans,] Both tho Republicans and Momo/ hists kept a shari) watch tjvroy ] ion.! I lie day. The voters, fol ?owhig i...* ancient custom of. vot ing in Mic churches, they flied stead ily, hui slowly, into the historic Dom iniques and deposited their ballots in the official voting boxes. When the polls closed tho Monarchist election ofllcors declared il was loo lalo lo count tin.? votes and proposed lo keep the list in thc church and count them the next day. The Republicans lid i?is refused to assent tn this, insist iug upon au Immediate count, fol lowed by ibo sealing of the boxes. The difference between the olllcers spread to the crowd thal wero in the church and iii a moment blows were .-.truck and thou a gen.-ral light, fol fowed. Suddenly t lie municipal guard arrived and cleared Cue edifice of tho struggling combat ants al the point Of the bayonet. In tho meant hue the Cl'OWd outside Ol' tho church had been greatly augmented and tho guardsmen's appearance lit tho doors after tho) had forced the people into tho .streets was the signal l'or a show er of stones, under which they were forced lo retreat. As tllO> retired they tired a volley froai luolr rifles, bringing down several of the rioters. The mob steadily increased and shouts and imprecations and cries of ?inger were hoard on everyside. ! The rioters armed themselves anew ?ind soon the . dilue was literally shr I rounded ..nd bcscigcd bj a maddened moh. Tin guardsmen fired intermittently through the doorways, but the volleys wore feeble ami ineffectual. Bven tually, tin- commanding either placed :i detail on Clo balcony over tho main portal, from which point of vantage the guardsmen flied roponl edly int" the surging populace, and wounded a largo nuiubor. Still the mob did not give w?iy, but only at tacked He- church the moro furiously. Several ot the guardsmen wore wounded, but the;, wei.' replaced on Hie balcony by others and for three hours I he light cont inned. Then three companies of infantry ?ind a troop ol cavalry, with one but tery appeared, driving all belote t hem. WAS AFRAID OF HANKS. So Hid His Money in Wall of His House. Lacking tail h In banks as places ot deposit for lils savings, William ll. Wilkins, of Whitestone, L. f.. who died recently ?it the age of eight-five, devised a unique arrangement for the safekeeping of Iiis money. Ile caused a sort of repository to he built in the wall back of his kitchen door fac ing. After it was once sealed ho had no way of opening his homo made bank and he dropped money through a slot from time to time. Prom tho day he had the pl nco built n,i to the time of tho death lie nevar dis turbed lils hole in the wall savings ihauk, in which Wits found t7,G8L\ MAY GO IN ARMY MAJOR MK Ali JENKINS MAY GET PROMOTION. ills Prosent OlBc? Is Wanted for a Mau Who Will Hustle for Taft Voles. Zach McGee, Washington cor respondent of The State, says Maj. Micah Jenkins, collector ol' internal revenue, is about to got involved in the adininist ration's fight for dele gates to (he Republican convention, imt hy thc now popular process of elimination. The following "hand out'* attests: "ll is linderst ood thal (he secre tary of war. nt the request of Com missioner of Internal Revenue Cap ers, contemplates the restoration in the army of Maj. Micah J. Jenkins, now collector of internal revenue at Columbia, S. C., in such a way as to he not. only congenial to the major, hut lo operate as a distinct, compli ment and promotion. This would necessarily vacate the ellice of Ibo collector of internal revenue at Col umhia, now held hy Maj. Jenkins, and il is also understood that Maj. 14. W. C. Ulalock and R. R. Tolbert would he appointed, according lo the recommendation made in that, con nection by Capt. Capers." It will he remembered that Major Jenkins is a personal friend of one T. lt., having been closely associated with him in the Spanish war, be cause of winch friendship he was ap pointed to his present position. Ile has performed the duties of in ternal revenue collector acceptably to his chief until now when, being a Democrat, he is unable to perform the principal duty of that office which is to corral Republican dele Kates. He can serve his country better in the anny. Now one H. R. Tolbert is an ideal mun for collector of internal revenue, his especial qualification be ing that at. this moment he is going up and down in the State of South Carolina trying to oust Capt. Capers from tho high and- potent job of na tional commtt?e?man, foy tho express purpose of sending an anti-admin istration d(d gent ion to Chicago. Hut .Mr. Tolbert would, of course, rather lu- collector of internal revenue. * A SAD ANNIVERSARY. (icu. I.ee Surrendered ai Appomattox .Ul Years Ago Thursday. Forty-three years ago last Thurs day (len. Kobi. Iv Lee surrendered to tho federal officers at Appomattox. Col. r. lt. Brooks, whose memory serves hint as well as his patriotism and bravery served the "Lost. Caneo," says Tho State, called attention on last Thursday night to the fact that this is the anniversary of I ha', occa sion when the South's proud and beloved commanding general unused his sword over to Grant and j-, ?ve up, for the Confederates lae g?eat strag gle against overwhohnht ? odds. "Ho surrendered D,000 men and muskets that day." says Col. Brooks. . to a weil fed. well equipped irmy ol 200.000. ll was useless to con tinue thc hattie longer." PRIEST COMMITS SUICIDE. Keilor of Catholic Church Shoots Himself Through Head. The Kev. Father Joseph A. (?ra-j ham. rector of tho Kornau Catholic Church of the Blessed Sacrament, in I Albany. W Y.. shot himself twice in the heail Friday afternoon In his study. Ile died almost instantly, th the opinion of Dr. Burke, who was called soon after the suicide was dis covered, father Graham was not in his righi mind. Ile was a native ol' Albany and a biol her ol' National Hank Examiner Fdward .1. Graham. Father Graham was about 4.'? years old and was re garded as one of the most brilliant men in the Albany diocese. He had been poor in health and despond ent. * AN OLD BRIDEGROOM. Iowa Anil-Saloon Leader Weds Mrs. Nellie Ingalls al Dctl'iot, A dispatch from Fort Dodge, tova, says: L. S Collin, founder of Hi pd Hall and former president ol' Die An ti-Saloon League of Iowa, wis ir? ried Friday lo .Mrs. Nellie Ingall ol Do* ?ot. Mr. Collin will celebrate bi. eK?hly-flflh birth da: (oday, and upon ?his arrival ;il his uintry homo will be given a reception by friends. Ten Miners are Kl.'lcd. A pedal dispatch te Batl Bng land, says len miners lost their lives in the Norton Hill colliery In Somor IsetPhtro, Monda as a resul' of coal Pirate Crew Capture Vessel anti Murder All the Officers. IN THE SOUTH SEAS. Tho < 'apt ?.in mid the Moto Aro Driven Into tho Sen With Tomnhnwks by (he Seamen, Who Are Afterwards Captured on Hoard a Derelict Ves sel in Gilbert Island-They Will Ile Doab With by the Authorities. News has been brought to Victoria, C.. by tho steamship Maroma, which arrived one day last week of a remarkable piracy and murder in tho South Seas. The Captain and nude of ?1 Callao schooner were at tacked with a tomahawk and forced to jump overboard by Joseph Mor timer, a Rolglan; J. Taylor of Man chester, and G. Jackson of London, who then atole the schooner, tho N'ouvre Tigre, of Callao, and started for Australia. Tho vessel was wreck ed in the Gilbert Islands, where she wuH found by Captain Marshall, of tho trading schooner Laurel, who re j ported the piracy and murder to th? authorities at Suva, where the men were mndo prisoners. Jackson later confessod. Ile said: "The schooner sailed under tho Italian flag, being owned by tho master and mate, both of whom wero forced to jump overboard. "The schooner sailed out of Callao early in November last, having on board a crew of five, the captain and mate, the cook (a Belgian) Joseph Mortimer and myself as cabin boy, and J. Taylor. "The vessel had only got about 14 miles off the coast and the first day from Callao when tho cook made an attack on the mate and captain. Ho rnhsed at the mate first and struck' him in thc bond with a tomahawk. Ho was ?foiled by tho blow but . j quickly recovered himself and took to the ridging. The captain, hearing the scullle, came out of the cabin and he was Immediately foiled by a Plow. "Immediately afterward tho cook got bis gun and forced first the mate and then the skipper, to jump over board. The mate sank, but tho skip per struck put for the shore, distant fourteen miles, and Jackson threw him a plank. The cook threatened Jackson, who agreed to assist in working the schooner. The cargo was jettisoned and they started for Aus tralia. The vessel finally went asboro In the dilbert group." (?Ol' OFF LIGHT. ('leek Accused of Improper Conduct Toward Two Young Girls. Al Savannah. Qa., R. Rhett Wever, a clerk in a shoe stott; was lined $;">() hy tho recorder last week for having written two notes for young girls asking the principal of the school they attended to excuse them for tho day as they were unwell. He signed Hi names of the girls' patents to tho notes. The recorder looked upon the matter as a very serious ono and lined Wovor $50. Ile was unable to pay it for several hours and had to spend about halt' Hie day in jal' he idie he secured the desired amount. Ono of the young girls ?old her fatti er some very bad stories ol' Wovcr's conduct toward ber. ON LAST IJBG OK JOUKNEV. licet Left Magdalena Ray for Cor onadt in Four Divisions. Tho Atlantic flee! of IC battleships bogan Sunday the last leg of Its originally planned cruise from Hamp ton Hoads to tho Golden Cate. Tho lour divisions ol' the fleet weighed anchor at 4 o'clock that afternoon, and three-quarters of an hours later were threading their way out of Mag dalena Hay in the wake of the flag ship Connottcut. WII<lJ I'UT IT BACK. Certain Words to be Restored to tho .Jackson M?otinMM ' A dispatch a? iden. <s. Tenn., says the won' ; 'The I .< M st. Ho Preserved." a/0 to be 1 orod lo tho monument 01 Andrew Jackson in court house square. "Darli - dvll war a local nfedt rate 1 ok j a chisel ai.., 1*0113 vd M ds from tho monun ni. sahl - wallo way, a member of lie p rk commis sion. "Now that Hi? f Iv is long past, and we ar' al' . |> al of ;ho union, lt seems > m that it would he only prober J Hie liaguogo hack. *