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VOL XVII. FEAttEl) DISGRACE. OeueVal Sir Hector McDonald Coin* inits Suici le in Paris. COULD NOT FACE TH J CHARGE ? Tin? Dint i n^iiinIhmI Officer Sloml High in the Ilritish Service. Wax to be Tried on Serinus Charges. On Wednesday a <li patch from Calambo, Ceylnii, said clmrjrcs of the most.seiions nature have been brought against Major (ieneral Sir Hector Mac Donald, commanding the forces in Ceylon, in consequence of which the governor of that island, Sir .loscph West llldgeway, lias been authorized to convene a courtmartial to try (Sencral MacDonald. The laferj when t he charges was filed som -1ihk* ago, went to Kngland from Ceylon to confer with his friends and superior otllecrs and he started to return and face the charges, which it is alleged, are based on immoral acts. Ihit It seems he feared to face the charges, as he committed suicide at the Ilotel Itcgima on Wednesday in Paris, lie shot himself in the right temple shortly after noon and expired a few minutes later. The general was alone in ids small chamber on the mazzanine lloor of the hotel at the time of t.hc tragedy. One of the female attendants heard the pistol shot and opening the door saw the general's ligure stretched out on the lloor with blood gushing from a bullet wound in the head. She ran screaming to the balcony overlooking the lohhvnf I 1 it? hot.pl whorn m-inu .ninolo including ;i number of ladies, were assembled. 'I'lie proprietor of the hotel was the lirst to reach the expiring man. 'idie commissary of police was notified, and, accompanied by a doctor, proceeded to a preliminary investigation. No money or papers of anv kind were found in Sir 1 lector's baggage. Two notes written in Lnglish were found lying on a table in his room and these were taken possession of by the authorities, but it is understood that their contents have no bearing on the suicide. In the general's coat, lying on the bed, were found some photographs. 'Idie llritish embassy and consulate were not!tied later, and Consul General Inglis visited the hotel and took charge of the body. Sir Hector MacDonald arrived in Talis last Friday evening from London on bis way back to Ceylon, where it was understood that an immediate court martial would beheld to clear up the charges made against him. On reaching the hotel at 11 o'clock at night he was told that only a small and indifferent room was .available, lie replied that that was quite sullicient. lie was not accompanied by any aid decamp or valet. lie said he only intended to stay a days or two in Paris. Little was seen of him sir.ee his arrival. lie was, however, in the lobby this morning about noon and it. is believed that a newspaper, printed in lOnglish, containing a resume of the grave charges brought against him and embellished with the general's portion in full uniform, came under his attention. He left the lobby, going to his room and the pistol shot followed soon after. The general's suicide has profoundly shocked the British ollicial here. Those about the hotel who have conversed with Sir Hector Mac Donald recently say lie showed no signs of excitement 01 men tal worry. Need oI'ji Bureau. The Columbia Record says letters are being received at the governor's otllce almost daily which emphasize the need of an agricultural and immigration bureau, recommended in Governor Hey ward's message. The following fronvW. O. Bacon, Danville, Mentor county, Ha., is a sample: "Dear Sir; " Will you kindly cause printed information to be sent me relative to the agricultural products, climate, resources and special advantage of dilTcrent sections of your state for settlers from the North?" The information sent inquirers of this kind in Anlti mP .? 1 - - ? ? ?.-? IMIIJT KJl ? KlTlH lill IlillUIU ;tIK 1 CHI)IH L ofcourso cover the ground thoroughly. Shot llnr Ilotroyer. Efllc Waggy, daughter of William Waggy, a prosperous farmer, of Weston, Va., shot Kalph McDonald son of Kx-ShcrifT McDonald Wednesday near the Waggy homestead. Four years ago Miss Waggy alleges that McDonald, who studied medicine in a Louisville, Ky., college, betrayed lier. I She says slie has been-watching lie?r . aQr ' bancoever since to kill him. She tired live shots, two of which took effect in It is back and side. There is little hope of his recovery. The woman has not been arrested. Let a Church Burn. St. Joseph Italian Catholic Church in Hazel township, just outside the city limits, llazeltown, Pa., was burned down early Wednesday morning. Mayor Kcnhardt refused to permit the firemen to extinguish the flames .,) owing to the residents' refusal to join ( in an anexation movement some time ago for a Greater Ilazelton. The loss is $20,000 and the cause incendiary. \n Cut IIIn Tliront. A miin believed be Albert Gcrsola* a Spaniard, was found dead in bed in hilt room in the Union Square hotel in \New York, Thursday morning His) throat wnscut and suicide is suspectipd. Little is known about the man. ) & .i .. ON CH1CCO STREET. I'lto CruMudo int (hnrlonton Illiml Tijjfi'u arc in lCariiOHt. The Chat K s'.on correspondent <?f The State says .Governor Tillman once ordered the dispensary constable to "raise hell on Chleco street." Substitute "establishments" for the last word of t he order and then some idea may be had of the manner of the warfare the constables have begun, start jiiiK in-u ? ? il?i nu; i'j hi, n.ty ami market street places of the famous king i ot' the blind timers. It. was slated that all the blind tigers arc to tic similarly dealt with and t he work w is started with Chicco" s establishments. A gallon demijohn of corn whiskey was found hi a room over Chicco's restaurant and bar and this was con sidered ample evidence to ra (land uismantle the places. Chico iiioignanlly denied Tliur alay that "that lu cent corn wliHkey" was his. lie said that it belonged to a hoarder, and "everybody knows that I don't sell that sort of stulT. You get good goods here." At all events, when the dismantling process started, ('nice asked that he be permitted to remove the fixtures and furnishings himself, which was allowed by Howie, and the, sounds of the saw and hammer took the place of the clinking of the glasses and popping of corks at the well known and much frequented places Thursday. The fixtures will tie stored for future use. Chicco expressed his willingness to quit the retail business, provided the other tigers were similarly dealt with, and he said that Chief Howie promised to dismantle all the other places in the same way. Chicco said that he would have left I Charleston long ;i^r<> if It were not for his holdings of property here. He said thai even now he is willing to leave, provided any one will purchase all of his pioperty. lie Is willing to knock off 20 per cent, of its value to close out. (Jhicco declares that he has always condcutcd a decent place and he can not understand why the constables should have swooped down on him in the manner that they did. Ilis fellow violators believe that Chiceo's trials are largely the result of his appeal for leniency in the enforcement of the act. attracting attention to his own violation of the law. At all events, lie wants the other dealers to share the same fate, and the constables say that the raid is the beginning of a j general dismantling of the bars over j the city. LIFE OF YOUNG GIRL RUINED. >1 urri( <1 Midi in llartHville, H. C. Alter | l?Vw HajH Acquaintance. The Charlotte Observer says at the hon rfllnir Iwinco \T eo i i I I.r/uou WI iM 1.1. ?M M I I I linim'l* 1 son, in that city, a pretty woman and a bride has waited a week for the re-' turn of her husband. The woman, who is quite young and penniless, found that she was not a bride, and that the real wife of her husband is still living. The following is the sad story as related by the Observer: The girl is Miss Mary Mclnvaillc of 11 arts vi lie, Darlington county, S. C. She thought until a day or so ago that she was Mrs. Julius Man us Four months ago she met Manus in Ilartsville and became engaged to him, and when her mother objected to the match she ran away to Kershaw, S. C., and was married to Manus. That was three weeks ago. A fortnight ago the young couple came here and engaged board and lodging at Mrs. Henderson's Manus claimed that he had been a superintendent of a cotton mill and that he expected to secure work in Charlotte. 10 very morning during his stay here he would leave the house early, taking his dinrer with him, and would not leturn until the late afternoon. A weak ago?Saturday, the 14th inst,? Manus disappeared. Prior to his departure he had taken from the woman he illegally man led all the money she had, about $2f>. In a conversation with chief of police Irwin and an Observer reporter Wednesday afternoon Miss Mclnvallle stated that she would leave Thursday morning for Martsville, her former home. Her mother had wired to Mr. J. II. Weddinglon, chairman of the county commissioners, asking that her daughter be j#;nt buck home; and the young woman said she would never have another moment's peace until she again saw her mother. Manus not onlV left her nenniless. but failed to pay any part of the board bill due by t lie couple. "I want to make Mr. ManussulTer," said Miss Mclnvaille to the chief of police, "lie must be arrested. He has ruined my lite completely." "And I want my mother," said the young K'bl. with a wail. Another. It'aJlAcy. ^ There were 007,000,000 passengers carried by the raUro&fls of the United States in 1002, which means that, on an average, every man, woman and child rode eight time durhiK the year, notes an exchange. That's another popular fallacy, like this thing of every man, woman and child in the United State having $29.05. As a matter of fact we know a man who rode only twice and has only 95 cents left. A I^iUa! Trip. The irccent llood on the Mississippi Valley has caused great loss of life and property. One day last week a skilT containing four drummers and two negro oarsmen were swept under the railroad track near Memphis, Tenn., and all six men were drowned. Itf Pi CONWAY, i AN EXPERT VIEW. The Medical News, of New York, on the Race Issue. ( THE NEGRO VIEWED MEDICALLY i t The New* Hays Unless All the 'acta Are Wel?lie<ls ll?o \ South May be Done | t ( eeat I oj it si Ico. I The Midital News, a widely known t journal published in New York eily. is aroused by the recent discussion of the race issue to comment upon ^ "Ncpro Supremacy fro n a Medical , Standpoint." In an editorial upon > I hut subject in its Issue of February 'v 2# Ilie Medical News states that in ^ leading papers of the North und | South have appeared editorials of | great acumen and power, "hut none ^ see n as yet to have dealt, except in a ^ superficial manner, with the race 0 problem as seen from a biological, | ethnological or medical standpoint." v The News continues: .. One cannot intelligently answer !. ' <1 the (|uestion whether the negro can take a pi ice in the social and ccono- ^ mlc progress of the nation without () being in possession of the main mor- |, phological dilTerences between the ^ (Caucasian and the African, since v these are the fundamental bases for a mental and moral discrepancies he- |, twecn t he races. p That the negro more nearly approaches in body to the quadrumana (( or anthropoid apes is shown by the Si following points: The arm is abnor- j, mally long in the erect position if N, often reaches the knee-pans, and on r an averse exceeds that of the Cauca- c sian by about two inches. The facial alible, which Is granted by all to have a a definite ethnological bearing, even ^ if the function of the frontal lobes Is j, still but little known, average 82 degrees in the Caucasian and 70 decrees ? in the black. Coincident,ally with this is the fact that in brain weight the white man exceeds the negro by fully 10 ounces?almost as much as he in turn exceeds t he highest gorilla. Another point of dl(Terence anatomically is seen in the lower extremity? this is not so well developed as t he white man's, the foot is broad and Hat, the great toe prehensile and divergent, the heel often projecting so far backward as to merit the term 11 "lark heel." 11 is needless lo dwell longer on v Hie well known dilTerenee which ex- { ists, or to urge that they demonstrate a distinct race of mankind and show " conclusively in the negro an inferior t type. Among tlie fair-minded this a is axh^iatic. o Sonn? years ago we were all alarmed < over tlie "yellow peril." Now the f< "black peril" confronts us. r The article quotes the late Prof, hi Ogden S. Rood, of Columbia, as ask- ( ing: "How can there he any ques- t tion of superiority or inferiority l?e- 11 tween two peoples who develop men- o tally are separated by a chasm of v 20,000 years?" Kugcnc K. Corson, in a his contribution to the Wilder Quar- t ter Century Rook, states that as a re- n suit of a most careful study of the b census, and dependent upon personal v observation in the city of Savannah, p he is contldcnt that tuberculosis and alcoholism are madin stultifying In- n roads on the making negro, poor, n weakened product, that he is, of mis- c ccgenatlon. o Sir Spencer St. John says of the in- d habitants of I lay tl: "After a resl- f dence of over twenty years in this d Island I ain forced to the conclusion i; that the negro Is incapable of holding an independent position. 11 ay ti n shows no sign of improvement?on the . other hand, it is constantly rctrograd- I ing, and without external influence a the inhabitants will soon fall into the c stage of the dwellers of the Congo." v The Medical News thus continues its c comments: p if it is true. ilS some lliivn norhnnu -? t well said, that the time Ik ripe for a f recognition of the negro, in substance \ rather than In theory, earnest thought v should be given by those who would e liberally interpret our laws, and they ? should be well versed in the opinions a of such men of science as we have ? quoted. They must know and recog- i ni/.e that profound dilferences do exist j ?that one race, is 20,000 years i>ehlnd ? the other. They must know that c ethnologlcally, physiologically, anato I mlcally, the negro and Caucasian t must always lie widely different. If ( the negro is advancing, which, thanks i to the noble efforts made at Tuskegee and similar institutions, he surely Is, c what, meantime, is the Caucasian do* i ing? Advancing? Yes, with Ids r pliant brain case, capable of permit- a ting progressive development from e birth to death, lie is thundering ahead with a rush and a speed which no alien race can hope to follow. Unless these facts arc weighed in a . true balance bitter Injustice may be done the South. It is no doubt true, as Carson .assumes that the irrevoc- ' able law of the "survival of the fittest" will wipe the negro away, hut 5 this will take centuries. There i-> a * real and immediate peril, as the Sena- J tor from North Carolina lias well said. Science, education, religion, philan- . thropy may well focus their bright 'v rays upon it, and unless our leaders 11 follow where these trend the South J will surely suffer. I.nverH Drowned. ( Walter Chlsm, Luther Owen and < Jennie George were drowned in the * I'emiscot Ilayou, Ark., while return* ' ing from a prayer meeting in a canoe. , Miss George and Owens were to have < been married within a fortnight. < own 3. C., THURSDAY,. NEQR0E8 ON THE MOVE. The lOinlKTAtIon from the Southern I Sfutctt to Mexico llt'Kiiii. Advices received at the Mexican embassy at Washington toll of this resent importation to that country from ,1)0 United States of 100 negroes who vill be employed along the line of the I"era Cruz, and I'acllie railroad. This novo is experimental and Is being vatched with considerable interest If successful results ensue, it is said hut large importations from the ;nuthern States will follow in the et or I to solve the present problem ol haling laborers in M? xico who are ilike competent, and willing to work. 'I o an Alabama negro named McKcl 'in is given Ilie ere lit for inducing neinbers of ids race to emigrate to Mexico. McKelvin was at one time mployed on a large Alabama plunta ion, but later went to Mexico, where ic claims to have found bettor wages, le returned to Alabama and distribued large circulars amon^ the negroes oiling of the advantages of the Slexlan country and of the opportunities I offered poor negroes who wanted irork in the country. His circulars i lso contained as an inducement the ssuranee that the negroes would not e subject to the order of "white rash." This last feature apparently roved a drawing card for Mr Kelvin ad no trouble in persuading 100 no- | roes to return to Mexico with him. r'here he found work for them at #1.50 day. Most of this llrst importation ave been employed on the La Junta ; lantation of (Jeorge C. Sanborn. So far the negroes, it is said, are ulie .satisfied and are in turn proving I atisfaetory to their employers. Mc- > Lelvin has made the claim that he i rill be able to induce a million of his .< ace now in the southern States lo i migrate to Mexico and so /era I rail- I itad contractors are endeavoring to i rrango with him to return to the t tates and canvass the south for la- j orers. McKelvin,'it is understood, I III make a return trip within the < ext few months. i TO BE HONORED. I ( Lolls of (lie Hout h Carolina Tr??o|?? In < I tlio Civil War. I ( Iril'ltrnril* I I .. ?r nr.. ?./! M'viviuMi nvj nuiu ii enay nuni ( tie following letter to Hon. Kllliu 1 Loot, secretary or war: "Absence from my olllee has pre- . en ted my replying earlier to your | ummunlcatlon of March loth. I note 1 if Ii much pleasure that It is the in- 1 cut Ion of your department to compile ^ tid publish, as a continuation ( f the publication known as "The ( miclal Records of the Union and Oon- | sderatc Armies," a complete list or aster of the olllcers and men wlio , crved in tiiese armies during tlie | llvil war. 1 feel sure that tills aoion on the part of the general govern- ( lent will meet witli favor through- | ut tiie entire south, and that those . dio served in the Confederate armies nd their descendants will appreciate his opportunity of having their ames handed down to history, I shall ie glad to give to your department whatever cooperation lies in my ower. : "You request that I should desig- i ate some one from this State to com- i nunieate with Hrig. F. 0. Alnsworth, ' hlef of the record and pension olllee i f your department, relative to the olails of the work. I would respectully suggest Col. M 1*. 'fribble of An- i lerson, S. C. I will request Col. Trlb>le to correspond witli you." The governor also sent Col. Tribblo , letter as follows: "I liave been notified by the Hon. 31ihu Hoot, secretary of war, to name .ii oflieial from South Caiollna locoi per a to villi Ifilg. (iei . F. C. Aln:vorth, cliief of the record and pension tfllce of the war department, in coinliliug a full roster and list of I lie others and enlisted men who bore arms or the Confederacy during the great var. This roster and list of names vill he complied and published as a ontlnuatioii of the publication known is "The <illlcial Itccords of the Union ind Confederate Armies." In com pi i iin-c wiiii me request* or secretary loot, I have the pleasure of naming 'on for this importint work. I feel urc that with you the work will resolve loving and faithful service, and am very glad to name so true and ,ricG a citizen for the discharge of this luty which means so much for tin? iistory of our State. "Secretary Hoot requests that you ommunicate with brig. Gen. F. C. Vinsworth, chief of the record and tension otllce at Washington, 1). C. aid I have written him that you will lo so." Itovn HlAiiKhter. During the big Kansas City shoot 8,000 defenceless doves whose natural lectncss of wing had been dulled by :oop life, were, to the disgrace of ,liat city, thrown from traps and shot it "Just for fun." As Longfellow ays: "A slaughter to be told in (roans, not words." Many crippled ilrds escaped, to die a lingering leath, with broken legs, beaks shot iway or bodies ripped open. For Initance, I found near ttie gun club (rounds a dove with both legs shot off luttering helplessly about hunting 'ood. Surely this dove was paying learly for somebody's "fun." It causes pain, hardens the public con* icience and above all Cultivates cruelin the hearts of the young, than which there is nothing more dangerhis to the future happiness of our >wn race. APRIL 2, 1903. SETTLED AT LAST. Interesting Suit Against the Charles ton and Seashore Railway SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS l>ninnu<'N Awarded Mis* Annie Carroll, Who Cell Through tlifl I'ompaiiy'm WhuiTuud Wiih Very Seriously IiiJuml. The supreme court lias lately atllrmod a decision of the circuit court In (l.angeburg, awarding a verdict or $(1,000 to t li?' plaint ill", in the case of Annie It. Carroll vs, the Charleston and Seashore It ill road company. This case is quite an interesting one and has been thoroughly investigated under the law, having been three times brought to t rial in the lower court, and then appealed by the railway company. On the 2:trd of August, 18DH, there was to tie a dance at the Isle of Palms. Miss Carroll left Charleston, attended the dance and returned when It was over. < >n the way back she alleges that while leaving the Mount Pleasant wharf to hoard the ferryboat she fell through a hole in the wharf and Into the water and was rescued only with great dittlculty. The complaint further alleges that though it was at the time of the accident about 1 ..'10 a. m. that there was no light on t lie wharf, and thus it was that she failed to see llic hole in t lie planking. Miss Carroll claimed that alio suffered so from sickness and from shock, caused hy her sudden ll.ingeand from remaining in her wet clothing until die got home, that she was practically incapacitated from ever earning her living again. She asked from the railway company for her disability Mo,(100, and in addition $250, which die had paid t he physician who attended her. Five thousand dollars was also demanded because of the legligencc of t.li?* company. I n answering t lie complaint the rail .vav company said that Miss Carroll tad left the regular passageway and limbed over a pile of lumber, placed specially for the purpose of guarding persons from the hole in the wharf. The case was brought up in Charleston in November, 1890, before.lodge Jage, but resulted in a mistrial. It was again brought up In November, IUOO, In Charleston, before Judge Ihidianan with the same result, it, was then transferred, on motion of the plaintilY's attorneys, to <irangeburg, where It was heard in May, 1002, before J udge < lage. The jury at that time, after hearing the evidence, rendered a verdict if $0,000 for Miss Carroll. The defense then asked for a new trial on the ground of excessive damages, and lllll.rn Ci.r,. u..O.,ln<wl ll?U. I ' v.u^v nu.itann *? 1/111.1 HUM l"ll, recommending ;i new trial unless the plaintilT should remit $11,000 of the verdict rendered. The attorneys for the defense appealed on the ground Lhat Judge Gage should have granted i new trial without the option of the reduction of the verdict. The case] was heard by Judges Tope, (Jary and Iones, and the decision atlirmed. New Clitof CoiiHtnhlCH. The matter of Governor I ley ward's appointments to the position of chief constables has been agitating a large number of olllce-seckers for some time. The governor has received hundreds of letters applying for positions on the force. After much thought and a careful selection be Wednesday made the following appointments: C. L. Curcton. Pickens. J. C. Hall, Greenville. J. It. Pant, Spartanburg. A. S. Osborn, Columbia. S. V. Delgar, Sumter. S. T. ilowle, Charleston. W. F. Holmes, Iteaufort. ()f the old force Constables Howie, I*ant and Curcton are retained, the other appointees having never occupied such positions before. .1. C. Hall has been lirst sergeant of the police force of Greenville, S. V. Delgar a business man of Sumter, and W. F. Holmes a farmer of Harnwell county. A. S. Osborn who will have Ids headquarters in Columbia is a merchant of Ninety- Six. The appointments become effective April 1, when the officers will take up temporary headquarters at the places indicated and proceed to enforce the law. A Club ofHIIence. There is in Paris a society of deaf mutes who maintain a club called the "Club of Silence." The servants are deaf and dumb, and arc summoned, It Is said, by slight electric shocks Instead of bells. When the club members arc bavin# a particularly gay time the servants are so heavily charged that the electric sparks drown the popping of champagne corks. Killed l>y a Train. J. C. howling and \V. A. Cooper, farmers, were killed by the eastbound Southern railway train eight miles west of Durham, N. C., at Scarlet crossing Thursday. The men were in a wagon, which was struck and were carried some distance. It Is supposed that because of a deep cut the men did not hear the train. I ToCi I Take Laxative Bro I Seven MQfion boxes toM In past 12 1 Id. A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. A Litilo Hoy Fell Thirty Feet Intr an Unused Well. I In an open well, 30 feet deep, f??i fifteen hours, without any means ol escape, was thu harrowing experience of Henry Miller, the seven-year-old son of S. C. Miller, a machinist foi the National Furniture company, win; lives at 12 l'onders avenue. The cnlld fell in the well a'tout H o'clock Saturday mumlng, ami was not found until II o'clock that night, cold, injured and almost unconscious. He had in ide <1 .p rata elf irts t g?*l out of the well, hiving <1 g sieu> in ! the dirt half way up to the suifi1 , only to fall hack agalm Til! wi'll i ito which I ho hoy had {fallen was 01 the property of the Ware Furniture cnmpiiiy, on West Fourth street, ah ait one huo lied and tlfty yards from the residence of the hoy's fat her. A building of t he company was burned some time ago, and since t hat time there has been nothing on the property. About, h o'clock Saturday morning while flying Ills kite, the hoy fell Into the well, lie was running backward at the time and did not know of the opening, lie stumbled hack ward .and fell to the bottom without anything to brake the force of the fall. There happened to he no water in the well, and the hoy's fall, on the hard tx)ttum , was one which rendered him unconscious. Nothing was known of the hoy's fall, and Ids father reported the matter to the police aud askeJ them to help him in lidding the lad. Me stated that the boy had left home to see the cadavers which had been deserted on the river line and had not been seen since. When found the. 1 h?y was in a semi-conscious condition and almost frozen, the little water In the well t'lllllimr III in fi> li.? mufpikui ^^ i/w tm. 'iiui n/u, When lie was taken from the well the little fellow could hardly speak, and it was some time before he was resuscitated, lie said that the fall had rendered him unconscious and regained his senses that afternoon, lie then begun making desperate cITorts to get out of the well, digging steps In the side of the well, using only Ids hands to cut, Into the dirt. I lis hands were bleeding and lacerated when rescued. Ills efforts to escape, however, had proven fruitless, the well having caved in about half way up, and he could not. pass the eaved-ln-place. Atlanta Journal. \ Thrilling kncA|)?. A mother, father, infant and servant were rescued by tlrcmcn from suirocatiou in a lire which occurred at Richmond, Va., last Wednesday morning. The family were all asleep at the time their lives were endangered. The household consisted of It. Ij. Charles, his wife and infant son, and a servant named Rosa Carter Rireman K. II. Harris reached the third Moor by moans of a ladder. lie found Hie room dense with smoke and the family fast becoming suffocated. He | snatched up the baby, wrapped it in | his coat and handed it to another lireI man. thou (III t.lio larldor wlm < irrU.il it, to a place or safety. Returning, the lirst lireman wrapped Mrs. Charles in a <111 i 11 and then carried iier to the window and handed her to a third lireman, who landed her safely. Mr. Charles was then awakened and descended the ladder with the assistance of the llrcmon. The servant, when aroused, became so excited that she started to climb down the ladder head lirst, and would have been dashed to pieces on the ground below, but for fireman No. I, who set her right and assisted her In reaching the street. I,OHt Flnr llnlr Miss Eva Merrell, a pretty and popular society girl of Carrollton, Ga., lost her beautiful hair Thursday night through the combination of a lamp light and a celluloid comb. She was reading and became so Inerested in her book she did notice that Iter head was nearly against the lamp on the table. The flame of the lamp heated the comb site wore in her hair and i>efore she. was aware of her danger the comb had ignited and her head was enveloped in a mass of fire. She attempted to brush the flames from her hair and badly burned her hands. Finally she conquered the flames, hut her magniflcient suit of hair was gone and one side of her face was badly burned. A KaiI Acchh ni. At Cocoa, Fla.,ata Charavarl parf 1/ iri unn Yf r ?? r\/l VI r*j I ??? ? /dd \jj *?* . uiiu lum. i^uuv/Hf <H1 <J1U cannon used in tiic serenade burst. Mrs. It. B. Holmes' le# was so shattered that amputation l>clow the knee was necessary. Arthur Lapham's ley was fractured. The knee of W. M. l'aterson, and the thltfh of his wlft were injured. Ccortfe Whate, Will Itansom and Hugh Connor were als< Inirt. The cannon was an old one rescued from the wreck of the British steamer off Sebastian. Killed by * Fall. Chas. Marsch, 40 years old, died Thursday in the yard of the Consolidated Has company, Avenue A and Twenty-tirst street, New York, from the effects of a fall received while wrestling with a chum and lifelong friend, Thomas J. Bowers. I'owert was detained at the police station, and Is heartbroken. ire a Cold In Oi mo Quinine Tablets. month*. This signature, 'I P' % * NO. 35 A GliAIN IiOUSK , , ' And Not the Hessian Fly U the Thing That is M DESTROYINO THE OAT CROP. I: I In- I.liilo I*i mi IIiih Done Much i Dumnuo to the Orowlnir Gn(?, Itut Dm Dttyn Are \ u tube roil. l'n?r. Charles 10. Cham bliss c?f Olemon college, an ex per ionised entomologist. wis in Orangeburg for a few hour.s Wednesday and has encouraging tidiug.s for the farmorsof Orangeburg, Itambcrg, Clarendon, Sumter, Floieneo, I >ai lington, Marllmro, Lee, llichlau I and Saluda counties, where the so-called Hessian lly has been playing wild havoc with the oats and other small grain crops. In some sections of these counties tiie crop has been almost totally" dcul.iU.Ad 1 ? ?- - ? ? 1 - numjiu, <uiii one pui^ue is or sucn a serious nature that the State ixiard of entomology sent Professor Chambllss out to study the destroyer and, If possible, to advise some means of exterminating it; and lie lias been successful in Ids research. Professor Chambliss lias visited Darlington, Florence, and Orangeburg counties so far, and finds tire cause and conditions the same In each. Professor Chamblhs says that the damage has been done, not by the Hessian lly, but oy a small grain louse. This enemy obtains Its fond by Inserting its jointed beak in the stem and leaves of the oats, by which it sucks the sap and if it does not completely kill the plant, will cause the grain to be severely injured and shriveled. There is no practical remedy, but this need not cause alarm for, at present, the natural enemy or the louse has checked Its ravages* These natural enemies will keep tl.*e louse in hounds, and If there were a practical remedy there would lie no need of applying It. These natural enemies of the louse arc bugs of foi.r species, and not unlike the potato bug] These bugs feed on the louse and ale rapidly exterminating them. Dry or cyol weather retards the work of the louse, so that with favorable weather, aided by the bugs, It Is not thought their ravages can continue longer. The broadcasting of air-slacked lime when It strikes the Insects will kill them, but not in sufficient numtiers to make this remedy pay. The appllca* tlon of nitrate of soda at 75 pounds per acre w ill unquestionably stimulate the plant to vigorous growth which mli/lit nunliln It t/> r?ul^? . ? viitvi/iv i v ww vniou tin; illtilLii UI the louse, ImL (to Immediate results could he obtained by Its use and it would prove a needless expense, as the natural enemies have already so greatly reduced the numbersof the louse as to remove the fear of further Injury. Professor Chamhliss says that all volunteer oats should Ihj destroyed, and that In planting next fall It must he done on land not now Infected. However, full instructions for future guidance will he given in the bulletin to he issued this summer. Professor Chamhliss urges as much publicity in the weekly papers as possible, so that the farmers may he informed speedily, thereby saving them expense and worry. Mid Cheers and Hisses. A dispatch from Detroit recently says: Senator Hen. it. Tillman of South Carolina was greeted with alternate storms of cheers and hisses when he delivered an impassioned address on race problem at the Light Guard Armory, the audience being evidently divided between upholders of his ideas and strenuous opponents of them. He said the North demanded majority rule and with a sneer added that there were 2:if>,000 more negroes than white people in South Carolina. "It will mean that more blood will Mow than was shed in the civil war if you persist in trying to subject us to the domination of the blacks," he said. "You butchered the Indians and shut out the Chinamen, hut hud It been known by the soldiers who surrendered with Lee that it was your ; devilish intent to set up the negro over the white man we would have fought you till now." Upon the sena1 tor's reference to some of Sherman's s army us hummers, chicken thieves and carpetbaggers, his northern audience broke out Into such violent hissing that the speech was Interrupted and some of the more timid ones in the audience feared trouble. The Htato* Claim. ! The Columbia Record says there Is considerable misunderstanding among , the newspapers of the country in reI gard to that 189,120 war claim which , Senator Tillman secured recently from , the government and the Philadelphia ' Press recently stated that the sum grew out of a claim In 1812 on which only 34 cents was due. Phis misunderstanding grew out of a statement I made by the auditor of the treasury . in regard to a claim which the governI mi'iiL hud ai/alnat t.hlu furrtoai r/w i in# government property in Charleston . at the betflnuinK of the civil war. Tho r aiuiitor stated that if tills claim was ( paid by the state a balance of 34 cents I would be due. No attention was paid to the claim however. tie Day 1 J /TV / on every ?j STrj&rirtrj^ bo?. 330. |