Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ ) MOB WANTED Hi1 But Sheriff Creech and His Deputies Prevent Lynching. h4i> stonkd a lady, ' j And tii r Brother Shot the Culprit in^ough the Body, and the Angry ?rowd tried to Inflict ttie Death Penalty on Him at Once. A riiBpatch from Savannah, Ga., to The State says afier passing through a hair-rising experience, Deputies lteuben Jacobs and E. E. Morris of Barnwell, S. (J., reached Sa vac/1 ' Friday from Barnwell county & with/John Sims, a colored prisoner, who had been shot through the ' body before he was arrested. Sims was 1 being carried through Savannah to Augusta and thence will be taken to 1 the State prison at Columbia. The negro was arrested at Blackville Friday morning for turkey stealing and for throwing bricks at Mrs. Buiat, a sister of Mr. Arthur Dewltt When she appeared at the lot, where the negro was stealing turkeys and told him to leave. Sims picked up stones and tried to hit her with them 1 and she sought safety by crawling l uuder a house. When DeWltt return- i ed to the house he mounted a horse < and went In pursuit and overtook the < negro a short disia- ce from Blackville 1 and when the lacier showed tight, Df Witt shot him through the right side, the bullet going through the ne- 1 gro's body. Deputy Morris sent a telegram to Sheriff Creech at Barn*eU that Sims < had been arrested and that he was 1 going to bring the prisoner to Barn well. The negro's wound was hastily < dresse^l and he was placed aboard the Southern train for Barnwell. Arriving at Barnwell It was found that an excited mob was in waiting 1 and that sheriff Creech and several deputies were having trouble In keep ing them In cneck. As the train slowed up Sheriff Creech sprang < aboard add held the mob at bay until the doors to the car In which the prls- < oner was confined were locked. Conductor J. B. Eskew was surrounded by the mob and commanded not to move his train. Inside the car with the negro, Were several deputies armed with shotguns and^they bad orders to fire if any one carried the doors. Eikew succeeded in escaping from the mob and quickly signaled the en gutter aae?u uuu one brain uasueu out of Barnwell with several metrbirs of the mob still clinging to the platform. S^me of those stayed 11 the triln until the next stop. WHAT CAUSED IT. A dispatoh from Blackville says a strange negro man who was found stealing in the yard of Mrs. Ilattie Buist there Friday morning attempt- . ed to strike her with a stone and threatened to brain her if she attempted to stop him. Mrs. Buist called for help and the negro Had but was caught 10 minutes afterwards. Great excitement followed and had it not been lor the quick action on the part of the town authorities the negro would douotless have been lyi ched. After he had been arrested and was being taken to the guard house the negro was shot tbrougn ihe b.dy by a brother of Mrs. Bulsi. A deputy sheriff arrived from Barnwell two hours later to carry the negro back to Barnwell, where lie was to hex placed In jail. Considerable t ouble(was experienced In getting the negro aboard the train here, as a mob | baa leathered arouud the stat.ion anci seemed bent on lynching him. The mob followed the prisoner on the train ' to lUrnwell and the sheriff was un able to leave the train with the negro In the face of the mob. Stole a Hunhand. The Charlotte Observer says the usual order of things was reversed last Sunday, when Miss Laura Percer. the 22-year-old daughter of Mr. and , Mrs. J. 0. Percer, who lived on North Caldwell street extension, stole away ] with young Ernest Tomberlin and married the youth. The youthfu husband is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Janes ttomberlin, who are very wrathjl^er the matrimonial episode. It is an interesting story. It seems that Miss Percer and Tomberlin had been spoony for some time, but owing to the difference in their ages, their friends did not regard the spell senously. However, Sunday morniDg * Miss Perccr. who is the undisputed c head or the family, took matters In 1 her hand. She secured a turnout, drove t by for him who was to become her H youDger half, and hied away to the 1 youth Carolina line, in the natural * course of events Squire Balles received his fee and pronounced his blessing c ^ upon the couple. Upon their return 5 the bride naturally took her husband t to her parents' home, where they re- * hide. It Is understood that the par- 1 ents of the husband have not yet let c their wrath cool and the young man < has not yet dared visit his people. < Ijynchcd John Green, colored, was lynched by members of his owd race near C Memphis, Tenn., on Monday, for as- t s&ulting aoolored girl eight years old. fc He was taken by them to the scene of 1: bis crime and hanged. n A STATE'S TRIBUTE To One of Her Most Devoted and Patriotic Sons. Unveiling la Columbia of tho Monu> inent Kreoteil to Tho ljato N. O. Qonzvlee, tho Martyr Editor, Almost v ithin a stone's throw of the place wborohefell mortally wouuded on January 15, 19C3 with the shadow of S nth Carolina's capital and on tho widest thoroughfare of the city of Columbia, which he loved so weP, fc beautiful m nument was unveiled at noon on Tuesday of last week to tho memory of the late N. G. Gonzales, who nearlv three years ago was shot by James II. Tillman. There had been erected a temporary stand around tho monument for the accommodation of especially Invited guests. About this stood a large crowd of citizens who had gathered to pay tribute to the deceased journalist, soldier and citizen. Seated upon the s*and were members of the Gonzaies Monument association, members of the Lidles' Auxiliary association, mem jers of the family of the deceased, local and visiting editors, and the clergy of the city. I Members of the Columbia Chamber Of Onminprni K' . ?v. vw. n tiptuvo ui x jr ur* ?an>z itions of wnich ho was a member, the Typographical Union and employes of the newspapers of the cit> attended in a body. The exercises were opened with prayer by Bishop Ellison Captrs, Episcopal bishop of the diocese of South Carolina, followed by the hymn, "My 0 tuntry, 'Tla of Thee," rendered by a selected choir. After an address by Mr. W. A. Clark, president of the Gonzales Monument asso3iation, the monument was formally unvieled. U^v. Samuel M. Smith, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of this city, delivered an oration appropriate to the occasion. Then came the formal delivery of the monument by Mr. Clark to Mayor T. II. Glbbes, who received it in behalf of the city with a speech of acceptance. The ceremonies were olosed with a benediction by Rev. W. C. Lindsay, pastor of the First Baptist chuch of Columbia. The monument is a granite shaft, 25 feet hl^h, resting upon a base 20 feet square, giving it a total height of 40 feet. The inscription upon the west side of the monument reads: Erected By Popular Subscription rT^f\ Mio ?nrl m N. G. Gonzalez, Born August 5, 1858, Died January 10, 1003. "Faithful Unto Death." Oa the north aide is inscribed: A Great Editor, An Eminent Citizen, An Honest Man, "Without Fear and Without It3. proach" His Fellow Citizens Rear This Monument To Perpetrate His Memory, The South side bears the following lettering: Founder and First Editor of . The State. For Twelve Years He Conducted Lt With Signal Ability and Conspicuous Courage; A Potent Voice for Civic Righteous ness; An Influential Factor in Every movement For the Welfare of the People. "The mea ure of success is not what we get cut of life, But what we leave after it." Editorial D c. 10, 1000. On the eai.t side are these lines, rrom a poem by J. G. Hollar d: God give us men! A time like this demands J, ? /,?< 1,i?l. LI UlJ? milium, ^ I Id U 1 Itai to, UJ UU J til LI I and ready hands, Men whom the lust of ollice does not kill; Men whom the spoils of ollice cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who can stand before a demagogue, And down his treacherous /latteries without winking! Fall men, sun-crowned men, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking. . , For while the rabble, with their trueworn creeds, fheir large professions and their little deeds Mingle in selfish strife?lo! Freedom weeps, Wrong rules the land, and waiting justice sleeps." The moment stands at the intersecilon of Senate and Sumter streets, iverlooking the pretty parK wnicn sur ounds the state oapitol, and is erecied by the people of South Cirollna, ubscriptions for its construction havng been made from every county in rhe state. Mr. Gonzales was an ardent exponnt of Cuba Libre, and, before the Jpaniah-American war, volunteered or service in the remnant of the Cu >an army. He was appointed aide on ,he staff of Gen. Nunez, with the rank >f lieutenant, and participated insev jral battles with the Spaniards in jomez's march across the island. A boat a John Klgeman, a young man of lhattanooga, Tenn, struck an oin tedkler named Riley Hileton over the tead on Monday, fracturing his skull >ecause the peddler kicked the young nan's dog. A GOOD WAR STORY. AMtino Yankee Who Served In the / Confederate Army. "1 was up In the northern part of Maine the other day and heard a story which was a little out of the ordinary line of civil war stories I have read about," said a drummer whose territory is New Midland. "I , had noticed i funeral in the town, the ; turnout of which indicated that the deceased must have been a promluent man in his life time. , "A citizen said in answer to my in<l'iiry that the man had retired from business several years before ills death 1 The citizen added, 'His funeral to day is muoli larger than it would 1 have beeu some years ago. "I then beard the story. "When Lincoln called for troops there were few men in the state of Maine who opposed coercion of the south. This mau was an exception. "Although a New Englander from | a colonial family whosi History goes back to the colonial wars, this man was at the call for troops, what was known in the North as a copperhead, lie was an < nicer in the mlllta at the time of L ncoln's election. Every man in his command except himself volunteered In auswer to Lincoln's proclamatian. "lie not only refused to go, but he bodilv contended that it was au outrage*) oppose the secession of the southern states. He was ostracised socially and' commercially. His business dwiudled away. "During the second year of the war hp. left. th A nnmmiintlu WnSnrlu I WMUU UUtVJ i-1 J seemed to care where ho went. 'Two years later he returned. He ' was a physical wreck. The feeling In the community was not quite so bitter as in the beginning of the war. However the man was not cordially received. "He had not been back long when it was learned that he had beau in the Confederate army and was discharged on account of his uabiiity to do duty. This imformatlon did not tend to Increase his popularity. "He came into possession of consld erable money soon after his return. Meanwhile some of the shattered remnants of the Maine companies be gan to drift home. Most of them were broken in health and most of them were oennlless. "This man began contributing to the relief of the needy. A majority of the benefioialrs did not know the source of their help. "After the war was (var It leaked out little by little that the benefactor was the man who had been oeoraciaeci. ro toe credit of many he was again admitted to fellowship and his business began to thrive. He became Independant. "A few years later he was eleoted to otllce on the republican ticket. The nomination came to him unsought. U to that time he had never alllllatcd with the party that eleoted him. "He served his term of otllce, but whenever there was a township or county election he voted the demo cratic ticket. This was understood to be his right. It was never ques tlorred. Before he reMred from business he was on one ocsaslon visited by a man from the south who had been the col onel of the Confederate regiment of which be was a member The ex Confederate was down at the heel in every way. "No one knew what happened during his visit In Maine, but a few years ago it became known to a few people in the vicinity that the Maine man helped his old commander to re oup his fortune. That man until 1901, *as a successful'broker and banker In that city and his silent partner for nearly fifteen years was the Maine Yankee who as a democrat held a republican cilice. "I have traveled all over United States, and mst all sorts of people, bud 1 have never heard a civil war tory that was anything like this My Informant is at the head of a big industry in Maine, he told me that only a few persons knew the facts as I have stated them. "?Washington Star. fc'imul Heavily. Fines aggregating $1,400 were 1m pcwed on four at Greensboro's most prominent youxg men by Jud^e Ward in superior court for violating the gambliuK laws. Julius W. Cone, secretary and treasurer of the White Oak and Proximity mills, and his brother, Solwiiaon, the president of the American Cotton company, were lined $500 pftph whllp Kurinov I I/anfm?n o. ?l V?VM| ff v? J V4WV/ l? ?U ' mmig C%IJU W. L. DllTiy were fined $200 each. The young men were recently playing poker in a rear room of the Ilufilne building at Greeasboro, N. (J., when a policeman, who had learned of the incident, climbed a telephone pole on the opposite Hide of the street and gaining an unobstructed view of the room arid its occupants, procured warrants for their arrest and the case was called to trial Tuesday. Tobacco Men Fltflit The tobacco factory at Elkton. Ky. owned by Mrs. M. ii. Penyck and operated by the American SnutT com pany, was blown up by, dynamite early Tuesday morning. There was no loss of life, but the damage to to the factory Is complete. There was no In surance on the plant as the insurance company had only a few days ago cancelled the policy, owing to the excitement occasioned in this locality by the tactics of some tobacco growers. The force of the expl sions was felt for a long distance. Several houses in the vicinity were damaged as was the depot. ? JEWELS SAVED BY DREAM. SaloHtnaii Woko I'p lit Timn to Frighten IturKlar Away. Louis P >pkin, a Jewelry salesman of Kaiuas City arrived in New York four days ago, with 12.300, which lie carried in a belt around his waist, and a satchel, which he says contains ill, 000 worth of samples, lie hired a room in the boarding house at 142 Clinton street, and made no seoretofthe treasures he carried. At night when he went to bed, lie put the belt under the pillow and the sat chel under the bed. Karl)* Thursday morning, as l'jpkin described it afterward, lie had a terrible dream. He thought the house was revolving around, while a tierce tornado raged without. Then suddenly the roof caved in, and he woke up just In time to see a man groping under the bed. The burglar tied, and Fopkin ciulcklv placed his ! TO BE LOOKED INTO. The Body of Dargan May Yet Be T&ken Up. Coroner of Darlington Ordered to Show Cause Why Now Inquest Should Not he Hold. A dispatch from Darlington to The State says upon petition of certain policyholders In the Fidelity Insurance company of Philadelphia, in which company Robert Keith Dargan, deceased, hold a policy for $25 000, .) udge Watts has ordered J. L. Clanton, corof tills county, to appear before him at Cheraw Saturday and show cause , why the inquest held by him Immediately upon the death of Robert Keith , Dargan should not be set aside and a new one held. The Fidelity Mutual policyholders will he represented by Stevenson & Matheson and E. R. Molver of Cheraw and Spears & Dennis of Darlingtin. J. L. Clanton will be represented by Miller & Lawson of Darlington, F. , II. Calkins of Pniiadelpbia will appear as petPionor for the policyholders. The Fidelity Mutual has persistently refused to pay the $25,000 to the wife of the insured on the ground that there Is no satisfactory proof of the death of R. K. Dargan. Attorneys for company will likely argue that the , inquest was Improperly held, while those for the coroner will hold that it was properly conducted. Considerable interest is centered in the decision of this case. Robert Keith Dargan carried only $40,000 insurance at the time of ills death. Tne entire amount was held in two companies, $15 000 and $25,000, in the Equitable of New York ? l I.SJ J ^ I i ^ if ..4. i -a 1 - ? ?uu tut) rfutility mutual ui x'uiiaaeiphla, respectively. Messrs. A. R. Bruce & Dunn, representing the Equitable, came here in August to look into the matter and paid the policy held against their company. The local agent, Mr. Byrd, aided these gentlemen in their investigations and ho stated that the policy of $15,000 was promptly paid. Mjssrji. T. II. Calkins of l'niladelphla and W. L. Williams of Columbia representing the Fidelity Mutual, were also here at the same time investigating the case. Of the above amount ($40,000), $5,000 goes to his daughter, $25,000 to his wife and $10,00 to his estate. E O. Lide and L. E. Williams, Jr.. who were appointed receivers of *he Darlington Trustcompany at the time it failed witli the Independent Oil company last summer, have been enjoined by the court not to sell the real estate at present in possession of this concern. The receivers have about wound up their dutlesiand wished to up 11 t.hft mul nwtat.p fur a final hpf.t~.la. ment but a protest was raised by some of the creditors and stockholders. Soma of the property Is in litigation and it was considered inopportune and impractical to sell at present. Special J u ige Henet was applied to hold up tne sale and acting on the testimony in the case he has ordered it not to be sold. A later dispatch from Darlington says Judge Watts refused to have the body taken up. Jan1! Handle Skunk SkiiiH. A man can not sell polecat skins and deliver the United States mall from the same wagon at the same time without getting in trouble with the Postotlice Department. This was es tablished when Mr. DeOraw, the fourth assistant postmaster general, received a complaint from a farmer living at Little Hocking, Washington county, O lio, who declares that the rural free delivery carrier who brings bis letters and newspapers disposes of polecat skins as a side line. The complainant further says that his letters and newhpapers exude a very disagreeable odor as a result of this contact with the skins, and that he thinks tne department should make the carrier cut out the side line or resign from the government service. Tne rules of the department allow a rural carrier to carry on other business, provided it does not Interfere with his deliveries, and Mr. De Graw is trying to figure out whether this Is a sufllclent "Interference." M tiru*5re<i and lloDned, Physicians have found that chloroform was used to kill Mrs. Morris Naftal, the aged woman who was murdered and robbed yesterday in her apartments at Asbury Park, N. J. Her husband and her four sons announced that HI ,000 in cash was secured from Mrs. Naftal. The wo man's ears were badly lacerated by her assailants who violently tore a pair of diamond earrings from her. Jnttt in Time, Captain Georgenzn and the crew of twelve men who were on relief lightship 58 at Nantucket shoals, which sprung a leak, are now safe. They were rescued by Captain Gibbs and crew of the Azoleo and were landed at Now Bedford, Mass., at 2 o'clock Wednesday morning. The lightship went down ten minutes after the crew were taken (if. The men were in an exhausted condition. Who Killed Him. The correspondent of the Evening Standard at Virenea wires that news received from Novesta, Russia, says that assassination of General Sakarog was by a blacksmith disguised as a woman. He pretended to be deaf and dumb in order to reach SakaharolT. It is said that after he was captured the assassin was freed by the revolutionists and sent across the frontier toward Novselita. bands uuder the pillow and found that the b>lt was gone. He ran down | tne stairs In Ills night cloths, but the s burglar was nowhere In sight when g he reached the street. ( lie found a policeman at the next r corner, and when they went back to ( Investigate they found money strewn , In the halls and on the stairways k leading to Popkln's room. Tnoy gathered up $1,."100, which the burn- | lar must have dropped out of the belt , as he ran. Tne satchel was safe. Max Adler, of 1(53 Broome street was subsequently arrested on suspicion of being the thief. Kol'uacit to {VXnriy H.er. Miss A. Chaffee Drake, who claims to be a wealthy young woman of Hendersonvllle, N. C., arrived in Chester, Pa., Thursday night after coming one thousand miles from Fer nandzz, Fia., to become tne bride of Ilawkcs S. Thomson, a youth of eighteen years of age, who came to Chester two mouths ago from Forlda After the woman arrived In the city, her Intended husband refused to have anything to do with her, stating that his peoplo would not allow him to marry. Miss Drake went to & local boarding house, and although she made every effort to interview the young man, she was refused admit t.anoe to the house of his aunt, Mrs. Thomas A. Devers, where he Is stopping. Thomson says he never intended marrying the woman. Miss Drake is thlrty-tlve years of age beautiful and very retined and educated. She has telegrams and letters from Thompson asking her to come here to be married. JaII Uromklnic. Sheriff T. Lt. Blount Thursday night was overpowered by prisoners in the Mcintosh County, Qa., jail awaiting a guard from the State penetentlary and James 11 In ton escaped. Dick WHhou and lllnton attacked the slierlfT and the deputy. The sheriff i had to shoot Wilson before he oould subdue him and keep him from fpRo nIng lllnton. Another prisoner ntfmed Nasworthy gave the alarm and did not try to escape, but assisted the sheriff. 1 A posse went in pursuit of lllnton, b"t returned after an unsuccessful search. 1 MiflH Alien Ih KfigAgod. Formal announcement was made late Thursday afternoon by the ProiIdent and Mrs. Roosevelt of the engagement of their daughter, Alice Lee R losevelt, to Nicholas Long worth Representative In Congress from the First district of Ohio, one of the Cincinnati districts. Coupled with the announc :ment that the wedding will take place about the middle of next February. While arrangements for the wedding have not been nude, it Is expected that It will occur at the White House. Pardon lleliised. ( 1 AtmrnAr 1 I tt aio wrl ? i A \ a yj \j i 11 \j i j 1 Trti'j r i may luiuacu to tako any acti >n In the petition sent in by the friends of R. F. and .J. il. Rickey, of Anderson. Tnese brothers b came involved in a row with Sher.il Green last summer on the day a speech was made In that town by Senator Tillman. The sher iiT was dangerously cut and the brothers were tried and sentenced to one and three years respectively. The petition presented to the govei nor was for a commutation to a tine, but as the case is now before the supreme court he followed his usual custom and declined to Interfere. Death KoyoaIh Komaiioo. The death of fifteen-year-old Annie Helfenbine, a student at Mount Dechautal reveals a pathetic romance. The girl was loved by John Amsler, a wealthy oil operator of Bellaire, Ohio, and they married some months ago. The girl's desire to secure an education, however, impelled her to enter the semlnery at Wheeling, W- Va., under her maiden name, her husband posing as her unole. A few days ago, Mrs. Ansler, in running about too seminary grounds for exercise, burst a blood vessel in her throat, death ensuing Friday. Four Drowned. n ?? - * - - ? ruur persons were urownea in ine Montaghela river as the result of the passenger steamer It osehlte colliding w th the towboat John F. Klein, and sinking in fourteen feet of water. All the dead were employed on the steamer as deck hands and were drowned while asleep. The boat carried four teen passengers, but all were gotten to shore safely. 8l*fihe<l His Wife. At Philadelphia, Pa., after an all night quarrel, John Meyers, age 45 years, stabbed his wife, aged 39 years three times in the breast early Thursday morning and then plunged his knife into his own ohest and slashed his throat. Both will probably die. % I \ A MOB KILLS I:ive Hundred Jews, Being Incited By the Priests TOTHEBLOODY WORK, Ihe Church (indorsed the Slaughter of the Poor Helpless People. Soldiers Meeting at St. Petersburg Demands Strike Settlement. A dispatch from St. Petersburg* lussta, says a report of a fresh mas;acre of Jews, In which over ."iOJ perions were killed, re ohed here Thu?slay morning from Turkish Volhynla. Toe massacre was incited by a local priest, who called on the Christians lo rise and exterminate the Jew.*. A ;reat mob attacked all Jewish shops, killing and abusing all Jews that fell Into their hands. The few Jews that escaped from the mob are destitute. Following the massacre, the priest, who incited outrage, preached a sermon, in which he praised the awful deed. Tholccil ecclaslastlcal authorities ordered an account printed and distributed broadcast throughout the couutry. It Is feared the result of this action will be to tuclte fresh massacres of Jews. Mutluy has broken out among the soldiers in the city, although it is impossible to say how seri >us it is. Four regiments have joined in a notice which was sent to worklngmen, in which th y say: "You need not fear the bureaucracy any longer. We are with you and you are resolved to annihilate all reactionaries. If ordered to tire on you we will not do so. We will not spuare cartridges, but they will not I>s directed against vou." The St. Petersburg bourse Thursday sent a deputation to Count Wltto to urge him to settle the postal and telegraph strike at once. The delegation told Wltte that the government should surrender to all the demands of strikes if that was the only way to end the strike. The action of the c/.ar in issuing a decree whereby the powers of local provincial governors add greatly widened, is hailed by the revolutionists as a great victory for thorn. The conferring of such powers, the resolutionlsts state, is an admission that central government* no longer exists in Russia and that the czar is unable longer to direot provincial affairs from St. Petersburg, and accordingly has delegated his powers to local authorities, many of whom are supporters of the revolutionary movement. Revolutionaries declare that by this act the czar has practically dethroned himself everywhere but in St. Petersburg. Russia is no longer a cohesive state, but simply a collection of provinces ruled by a hosts of little czars with widely divergent views as to how to deal with revolution. Leaders of the revolutionary move ment intend to try to isolate all provincial governors. Revolutionists here have received a letter from Henry Sienwiewlcz. the P dish author, and 30,000 Poles, in which they declare that Poland has no desire to establish an independent country, but wlshea to remain in union with Russia. The letter has created an excellent imprecision. It has been read in numerous meetings where resolutions have been adopted declaring that it is the ambition of tbe Russian people to work, with the Poles for liberty Sioauior Arfiioro. The Belgian steamer Antigoon, lumber laden, from Mobile for Laroclielle, Franc} went astiOiC on a reef near the Little Island life saving station at 4 o'clock Friday morning and is in a perilous position. Life savers are taking the crew otT in a breeches buoy. The coast storm continues this afternoon and the government life savers are having great diillculty in saving the crew from the Anclgoon. Thus far only tive of the rew have been rescued. It is supposed that fifteen or sixteen ltvos yet on the ship are in great danger. Fire V IctlniH. The mixing house, or upper "punching" department, of the Dupont powder mills, located eight miles north of Birmingham, Ala., blew up Wednesday morning and tive men met a horrible death. The explosion was heard fnr IK mllnu Th n mAn u. mn wr\ lr 4 11 VTA ? 1/ JUM<tva? A I*u uuvu nnv; n^lO Elil* ed were employed In the mixing department, and while in has been the rule not to allow much powder or dynamite in these seperate rooms, there was enough to blow the building into smlthereenes. Parts of the bodies were found in tree tops a quarter of a mile away from the scene of the explosion. C'Ol. Win, tuakrt, The Columbia Record says Mr. W. G. Smith, of Orangeburg, formerly a lieutenant colonel on the start of Governor Iiey ward, has been promoted to positon of commissary general to till the place made vacant by the death of Hon. Altamont Moses. Mr. William Hanks, of Columbia has been appointed lieutenant colonel In Mr. Smith's place. DonorioU Wivoh. It is said there are 14,000 deserted wives in Chicago. This does not lnelude the divorced ones?their number being muoh greater.