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MILL WIPED OUT. nineteen of the Employes Were Kill- ' ed by the Explosion. A Train On the Baltimore and Ohio llailroad Had a Narrow Knoapo lrom l>OBtruotlon. The Rand Powder mills at Fairchance, six mllos south of Uniontown, Pa., were entirely wiped out by an explosion at 0.05 o'clock Saturday. Of the 32 men who went to work in the mill Saturday morning, 10 are known to 1)6 dead. Of these 13 havo been identiiied. Nine men, including CJ. M. Rand, manager of the plant, were seriously injured. Scores of people in the town of Fairchauce, within half a mile of the powder mills, were more or less painfully injured. The shock of the explosion was distinctly felt in Connellsville, 20 miles away, buildings being rocked on their foundation. At Unlontown huudrcds yf panes of glass were broken. In the town of Fairchance there is scarcely a house that did not suffer damage. Train No. 52 on the Ilaltlmore and unio naa a narrow escape rrom annlhtlatlon. It had just passed the Rand mills when the explosion occurred. The windows in the passenger coaches were shattered and passengers thrown Into a panic. Had the train been a few seconds late it would have been blown up as the mills were in a few rods of the tracks. A street car on the West Pennsylvania railroad had also passed Just a few seconds before the explosion and was far enough to . escape damage, though it was derailed. There were seven explosions in all. Every one of the ten buildings was totally demolished. Not a vestiageof v them remain Saturday night. The debris thab was strewn over the ten acres of ground were the plant was v located took tire soon after the explosion and added its terrors to the disaster. The dismembered parts of the tlead were burned in many instances. Identification of many was made by parts of clothing alone. The first three explosions were not as serious as the last four. Then the packing house, pressing room and magazine blew up, followed by two cars of dynamite standing on a nearby railroad Biding which were set olT by the concussion from the powder mill exploBions. . Two other cars remained intact and it was with dilltculty that they wore moved to a place of safety after the explosion. When the bodies wero recovered the work of identification was vet*v dl llloult. Small pieces of bodies were picked up all over the place. These were not collected together and many sections of bodies were thrown ; back Into the debris where they were found. Almost a half mile mountainward from the plant an olllce everuUrt,./. ,.,/xf ...It lx UU/xJ J oioovq, nui v?nui uiuuu wa? piuKOU up. This is tiie third explosion at the Band plant within the past two years. Three men were killed in the tirst explosion. Two were hurt in the second, which was only slight. A few \ months ago the citizens of Fairchaoce had an injunction served on the Rand powder firm asking the court that the lirm be compelled to move tl elr works from that vicinity. They claimed the t iwn of Fairohauce and the safety of it* citizens wero jeopardized by the ' location of the plant so clcse to the . * town. This h junct ion is still pending jnHhe superior court. , ' * ' WMikoy Winn. .* * .After trying prohibition two years 1 ;< Dsi^mHc, Va., on Tours ay voted to ? *v' licdr.i^i -.rrO' ms by a majority of 18 Ttip^fTjo claim that they will con4est * ' * v.ini-?i ?? iiiu w. v. i Li in uu o .1 i ga.i VUii ^ f .The uryu had a n.aj orlty of ;v "a. '* at every pfecinct iu t'ue city . aiid Hie v.cts contend that nearly one *7. * hundred of their votes wore rcjooted. ^ This action was taken by the judges . under the ruling of Attorney General >' % Anderson, but in tho face of the strongest legal opinlou In the city. t The "total vote cast was 072. It is { **". not geur rally believed that the drys have good grouuds on which to contest-, owing to the fact that they had the majority of the judges at the voling places, who conducted tho election under rulings favorable to their side Tho nlf x/ urHorl rl >*i; Kti *v?r\i?a 4 ho n ^ ??a I jl wvjr Tvtvu ui; j iii yjk^j uuau u vru hundred majority two years ago. Only One lloturiiect. A dispatch from Mobile Ala., says: "William Illburri, a former resident of that city, arrived there Wednesday after three adventurous years spent in the wilds of Africa with sixteen others In response to glowing offers by agents of a construction company building the Cape to Cairo railroad. Ililburn is the only one of the sixteen to return alive, lliiburn and his 11 f teen com pan-1 Ions accepted terms to work on the! railroad as engineers and trestle builders. They left Pensacola, Fla., on August 22, 11)02, under a promise of big wages and other flattering iuduce. mcnts. The party embarked for the Zambesi River district, north of the Transvaal, where the Caps to Cairo railroad was under construction. In due time they arrived. At this time Ililburn states their hardships began. What was expected to be scene of activity and wealth turned out to be a desolate railroad camp in the jungles. No Ni'Kro?H Wanted. In the great council of the Improved Order of Re/1 Men in session at Nashville, Tenn., a resolution was offered on Tuesday by the West Virginia delegation against the organization of negro tribes of Red Men, and requesting that the ritual b* oopy righted. / i *. / r * (i POISON IN OUR ROOD. Kills Dors, llal>t>tts and Other Anl* mmls In Expert Test. To demonstrate the effect of Impure foods on the human system, Professor Eugene Glrard, one of the ohief chemists of the International Stewards Association, which 1b in session at the Hotel Rudolf, Atlantio City, startled the delegates and a large number of the outsiders by showing the effects of a remarkable experiment ho has been making on animals fed with impurities found in food sold throughout the country. Prof Girard had on hand a collection of rabbits, guinea pigs and dogs. Professor Girard extracted the coloring matter used in breadstuff* and fed a healthy New Jfoundland dog from day to day on this substance, mixing it with his food. To day the dog is thin and emaciated and it will have to be killed on Thursday. Other coloring matter that Professor Girard fed to guinea pigs and rabbits killed the animals in a short time. The tissues and every organ was found to bo polsloned and discolored. Profesor Girard stated that the adulterations in the foods sold to-day are having the same c ff^ct on thousands of persons. There is a big exhibit of pure and and impure foods in the grotto of the Hotel Rudolf, and Professor Girard explains the methods used in analyzing the various products. The Stewards' Association lias become so strung wiat many corporations dealing in food stulT* make no attempt to place their goods on the market unless they are first subjected to an anaylsis by its chemists. BOUAIDAND TORTURED, Wealthy IIHuoIh Fanner h Iiatlly Treated l>y Three IlamlitH. A dispatch to the Chicago itccordIlerald from Elgin, 111., says: Bound, gaged and tortured by fire by three bandits who sought to make them reveal the hiding place of a treasure they thought concealed In the house, Andrew and John Fohren, old and wealthy farmers living near Spring Lake, twelve miles north of there, are in a serious condition and it is feared that the shock and lnjuiies may prove fatal to Andrew, the eider of the two brothers. Andrew, after the robbers had searched the hi use and taken $.'100, managed to free himself from the thongs which bound him and started aoroiss the lields to secure help. The soles of his feet were blistered, however, and before he had gone far he fainted and fell into a ditch, where he lay until after daylight. Finally he revived and made his way to a oheese factory, where he gave the alarm, hut the bandits had gained a start of several hours and could not be found. The bandits appeared Tuesday night and when refused admittance battered in the door and overpowered the old men after a brief struggle. They saarched the house, and dodiug only 8360, ooncluded that a larger sum was concealed somewhere. Th- y beat and choked their victims and dually ap plied lighted papers to the cole of their feet to io&ko thenu toll where the supposed treasure was hidden. After haif an hour of excoriating tort ure John Fobren fainted from pain and the robbers left. John was unconscious when assistance arrived, but revived and is in a loss sorioub condition than his elder brother. Hollo Girls to Go. I A dispatch from Allent.own. Pa., says deciding to spend 8200 000 in installing girltss telephone plan's here and in IP zleton, the maragemeut of the Consolidated Telephone company deprived more than 100 telephone girls of their jobs. They will be out as soon as the new plants are ready, December 1. The 00 girls got so cross about it that many left instantly and the service is greatly luopared. The directors of the syndicate say they are sorry for the girls, but they calculate on running each pirilrssex change at a saving of 820,00 j a year. If the trial plants are as successful as it is believed thev v P.1 ho., t.ho girle3S Rystem will be Install'd in the entire Consolidated territory, which includes Scranton, Wllkehbarre and the ten other largest oltiis of Penn sly vania east of the Susquehanna river. More than 400 girls uro employed In the exchanges. Blew Up whip. On Sunday morning a boat belonging to the Russian customs service discovered a 300 ton steamer twenty miles outside Jakobstad. Tho captain, who spoke in English declared that the steamer was loaded with rifles and cartridges, and thereupon the customs ofliclals ordered the captain to take hlB vessels into port. Suddenly several explosions were heard from the steamer. and the CustomR fitflrerfl. nn rAt-.nrn. Ing, found the vessel sinking and her crew In lifeboats disappearing hurriedly toward the south. The steamer grounded In shoal water. Iler name was painted over, only the letters "John Hash Fton" being visible. American aod German Hags were found on the vessel. - - ? Generous Woman. Mrs. Harriett Murohison Beckwith has subscribed $20,000 toward the fund raised by Bennettsvllle to induce tbc Presbyterian college, now at Ollnton, to locate at Bennettsvllle. She la the woman who presented the towr of Bennettsvllle with a thirty thousand dollar schoolhouae a few yean ago. 80*1 GOOD ADVIC1S. Given the Farmers by the Southern Cotton Association. The ilrst annual convention of the Southern Cotton Association dosed Saturday night at eight o'clock with a bouquet tendered to the executive oommlttee by Knilworth Inn. The afternoon and night sessions were oorilaed chielly to the passing of various reselutlons, ohief of which was ono looking to a raise in membership dues from 25 cents to $1 a year. Col. J. McMartin's resolution, which was adopted, recommended that greater jublicity be given to artlele 1, section 1, of the constitution, which calls attention to the fact that the Southern Cotton Association is an organization composed not only of growers, but also of manufacturers. Mr. McMartin's resolution further states that the chief object of the as sociation is "the industrial development and supremacy of the cotton States," and to this end the governmen sht uld be urged to build better Southern harbors. aii important feature of the after noon session was the adoption of a motion made by E 1). Smith, of South Carolina, to the effect that all members of the association be urged to market their cotton, even at the minimum price, as slowly as possible, so as to distribute the sale of the staple over the entire year, Instead of marketing the crop In ninety days, as has been the custom. In this way the highest price possible above the minimum could be secured. After some discuFston as to the next meeting place of the association's excutive committee, Hot Springs, Ark., was chosen. This was ejected by a ct mpromise made between the advocates of Asbeville and llot Springs, by the terms of which the winter meeting convenes at the latter place, while Ashevillo gets the summer meeting. Kindly act. lb Is an old saying that corporations have no souls but those who manage them have, and they are entitled to credit for the kindly acts they do. One of the largest threshing machine companies in the country sold an outfit to a Nebraska farmer last spring. Before time for shipment the company's No braska agent notitied the e< mpany that the purchaser, though responsible. wanted to Cflrir.pl t.hr nrrW ho. cause his wife had commenced suit, against him for divorce on account of the purchase. The secretary of the company having a proper appreciation of married life wired buck that the order would be cancelled if the wife would withdraw her suit, adding "Whom God bath joined together let not man put asunder." The wife withdrew her suit and the secretary is enjoying the consciousness of having restored harmony in a family?the only alloy being tbat another farmer heard of the telegram and bought the ontfit, so that the secretary is denied the pleasure of doing good atv 'oss. Must bo Numbered, Tho postotllce department has is sued an order which will go into effect on September 30th requiring all rural houses to be numbered the same as the houses in the city. Tho i orders state that all of the boxes must , bear the number instead of the names , of occupants of the houses to better facilitate the rural delivery work. 1 The carriers have a certain route to go every day, andJto goerf the same way daily, and the order states that he will have to number the first box on his route "No. 1," and so on to the end of his route. i Three Killed. Three trainmen were klllel and two injured in a collision fc? Ydten , freight trains of the PhUacieJph a and Heading and Central railroad ( New Jersry. The d^sd are John R Ran kin, of Jcrsej City, engineer t.f the Central traiL; Henry Baker, of Bayonne, N. J., conductor (f the same train; Frank Bond, of Philadelphia, brakeuiQii on the Philadelphia and Reading. Tho wrr ck occurred at Ta l)Or Junction. nnrir P Uu/?ol nhlo Those injured were not sericusly Lurt. Cletnaou Crowdc it. There are over 300 students at Clcmson already, and they cont'ru to come. Over 250 of these are r.ew students, and the others are old stud cnts with work to make up. The ap plications went above 800. Of course nearly 200 had to be refused. Sbrru: are leporting who have never put in applications. Dr. Moll can do nothing, of course, but send these back ou the next train. About a dczon have already b^en sent borne! because they had put in no applications. Conductor Killed. J. W. Allison, conductor < n through freight No. 75, southbound, was found dead at Spartanburg under his train Saturday n'ght He had probably stepped from < fT a car or was caught while coupling. His body was terribly mangled. Deceased was 40 years of age and unmarried. lie was from Statesville and for years ran as , freight conductor on the Southern's Jl-l l V^MUHULLO U1Y1N1UIJ. Can't Bo Done. 1 The legislature appointed the court 1 of general sessions for Cherokee and Spartanburg counties on the same 1 day?the last Monday in October? apparently forgetting that Judge, solicitor anl stenographer cannot be in ( two placet at the same time. | It Waw Fair. Special Referee Boggs has made , his report to the supreme court In rei gard to thi Pickens dispensary eleoi tlon, in wkioh he shows that more than one* fdurth of the voters signed i the petitlonand that the election was fair. Fixtntc the Price. The Southern Cotton Association a Its meeting held in Ashvllle, N. C. last week, decided to make the pricx of cotton eleven cents per pound fo the crop now being marketed. Ther< was a hard light on settling the price some of the members wanted to pu If of foM ~ V.-1# 4 1-"- -41 iu ou uou auu a nan uouitt wiuie uiiuwri did not believe eleveu cents quite big! enough. Not only cotton growers but manufacturers, were representee In the convention. The associatioi bases Its price upon certain estimatei made by members supposed to be ex ports. In commenting on the action of th< convention the Columbia Record sayi "they may or may not be right ii their fcrcasts. If tb^y are, ther they will yery likely be able to secur< the price. If not right then hardli anything they could do would brir* the price demanded. Supply and de mand inevitably affect tho price Speculation also plays a large part ir it, and so it is a very difficult thinj, to 11 x a price in advarco and ther bring about all necessary condition* to get it. A thoroughly organized body of all the cotton growers coulc do more towaids effecting the purpose than anything else, and the assccla tion thinks there practically now exists such an organization. ''We shall see later on whether the agreement as to holding and sale is carried out sufficiently to accomplish the purpose intented. That is really the only salvation of the cotton growers that is In sight, and it is a very signillcant fact in the industrial his tory of tho country that the cotton farmer is to make some effort to have some influence in determining what lie shall receive for his product. It gives great hope of a successful outcome in which the whole civilized world Is interested. "We have seen some slurs cast upon the movement by Republican papers as belllg a gil/antift trust., atralnot. all of which Southern Democratic farmers are arra)ed, and that the organization of this association shows the most tlagrant inconsistency. The organization may may have some resemblance to trusts in its purpose, but it is entirely different. It it not organized for the few, but for the many? farmers, merchants, manufacturers, in fact, everybody. If it is a trust it is a benevolent one, and we wish it much success and hope that its efforts to get a fair, reasonable price for cotton will be entirely successful." The Long Ago. Our readers who now have "silver threads among the gold1' can well remember the good old fashioned home where upon a stormy night they would sit by the old hearthstone while the groat t lire up the chimney roared. They can yet see reflected from the ever changing golden sheer of the blaze the images of merry boys and playful girls, cr with their slates and pencils and school books solving by the dickering blaze the problems as* signed them by Hie old schoolmaster. What, visions they cau sec in the tiro, visions of the forgotten long ago, of joys and sorrows strangely mixed; visions of romping boys and laughing girls, visions of loves llrst dream, of eyes that caught the broken story from lip j that cc uld net speak it, visions of the bridal queen crowned with c ?ronet of maiden.fclushes, visions of life's stern battle; visions of sorrow's ilrst shadow; visions of all life's checked pathway as it winds through tiowery Holds or pains, hot desert sands, fragrant spice groves of joy 01 over'.sorrow's mountain crags. "We woull not be an Mold fogy," but our modern aud beautiful homes of today, with their darkened parlors so the sunlight will not fade the carpets: where a nurse instead of a mother amuses the children If perchance there be any, are not to be compared to the homes of long ago. As one recalls tc memory theso incidents and picture* of the far distant past, it brings t sigh for a return of the good old day* before wealth and fashion united it robbing home of half its real enjoyment. Ho Shot to Kill. Two men dead arid a woman seriously injurod, was the result of a shoot ing affair Tuesday night in southeast Washington. The dead are George T.Morgan and Charles Souder and Lillian J. Souder, wife of the latter wounded. Souder and his wife were not living together and the womar was living at the place where Morgar boarded. Souder met his wife as si f waa coming home from her work ant I accompanied her home. Loud talh was heard by the neighbors, followed by the shooting, and when the iirsl persons arrived the men were deac and the woman wounded. She wat removed to Providence hospital, but was too weak to make a statement The police theory is that Souder shot and killed Morgan, shot his wife and then committed suicide. 8 ? i AIJGIIH' Bookkeeping,"''Shorthand, Typ< 1 guaranteed course 20 weeks. Sing i hand, 8 mos. 12 calls for graduates s maud. Write. Machinery Supply E ? WE SELL E 1 Headquarters for EVERYTHING i All kinds of Injectors, Lubricators, Supplies for Saw Mills. Oil Mills ant Large stock of Well Pumps and Cyl f nAT rn w - ? . UUJjUMWIAH Columbia, S. O. The mn ; i The Guinard ' ? COIvTJMB ' Manufacturers Brick. Fire Proof 1 o Flue linings and Drain Tile. Pre 1 J> or millions. X f > ??? ?? > <> > ? ? ? ; ?? i ii n an mi ii WniH*e | idoroniuo I Olgaret Habit, | Habit | Habit Ourcd by .!<.*??? A ??3r J > 132k Lady St. (or P. O. liox 75^ oio , go ci td. mmmmmmmmmmmammmmmii i ? i i ' Piano Removal Sale. i i We move about September 16th, tc No. 1432 Main Street, almost opposite Masonic Temple. We want to close out every PIANO and ORGAN in stock, and have marked down price . an inducement. ' Wrile or,call quickly if you desire a big bargain either in a PIANO or OIK;AN. For catalogues, prices and Lcims address: Malone's Music House Columbia, S. C. is,000 KR"sn J KRKR Cwr?es >a8?^^<WUH0ai B oar ;m Coal *r;rlto^.v. FaW>?%>.ftljSlNF.SSCOUJKOSC 11'Kti liaiuled Outrage. Several days ago dispatches from the west said that war between the cattle and sheep men of that sect ion had broken out afresh. This time the trouble is in Wyoming, where a raid j of cattle mm resulted in the destruction of 8,000 sheep. It is said t! at the ' sheep men are preparing to retaliate, | and that both sides are ready and anxious U r more trouble. It is claimed I that revenge will not be taken in the 1 courts, but with pistol and ritle. For years the cattle men and she p i men in the west have been at d;;g;,points, the former claiming tiuat the 1 herds of the latter completely destroy ' the ranges by denuding them of all i grass and vegetation. Tnere is no roa 1 ton to doubt that the sheep do c >n t siderable damage, but this fact can , not justify such high-handed proceed- i .. o ~ * 1.1-.- -I iufcr> ?o unv YioiHUg Ul Hie HUCCp mOli'S 'j camp at night by armed and maski d ( - men, who kil<eci tho herders' horses, j burned their camp and destroyed 8,000 ? valuable sheep scattering the rest J of the herd fo that they will be a total 1 loss to the owners. ! > After the raid the sheep herders s were given two days' ratlot s and were t . turned loose with the warning that If * ' they ever returned to the range they ? would be killed, and the same fate ' ! would be theirs If they disclosed the I 5 identity of any member of the cattle ) > gang. The Augusta Herald very aptly 1 j says if such an outrage had been com- t mttted In the scuoh, the newspapers ; L in the north would have published col .. ' umns In denunciation of the lawlessi ness of this secth n of the country, and its lack of civilization. However, if such outrages as have happened In Wyoming cannot be checked by the forces iu control of tho state, the gov- c ernor should not hesitate to ask for a , troop of United States cavalry to cap- i / vuiu tiiiu mguuanaea outlaws aad i i bring them to punishment. , ? ? 1 I Divtilt m Hih h'oo. ( \V. J. Bryan has divlried all of the f ? fee allowed him for services as execu- j * i tor of the will of Plillo S Bennett,' ^ x according to a letter by him to a ! ? friend at llardford among interests i not personal. lie was allowed $2,500 ] ; out of wliioh he had expended about I $800 to meet the Inheritance tax, i $800 for a bust of Mr. Bennett to he I placed in the Salem, 111., Public Lii brary and about $400 will be sent to , Rev. Alexander E. Irvine for the edu, oation of h)s two sons. Tha remalnd- , ) er went for lawyers' fees. Mr. Irvine I conducted t.\e funeral servioes of Mr. | Bennett and Was his friend in life. < V T*CHr A..* ?-writing, English branches, Full le course of ?itlior Business or Shertin about 20 days. Can't,]supply de 1 [onse for the State. VERYBODY. in MAOIIINFRY SUPPLIES. Pipe, Valves, Fittings. I any one in Machinery business, inrlers. Get our price. UPPLY 00.. cliinery Supply house of the State Brick Works f ?2V, o. !! 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