The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 03, 1906, Image 3
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BURIED ALIVE
Three
Weeks in a Mine and Finally
Rescued
j OIVEN UP AS DEAD.
Thirteen Miners Came Out of the Earth
Like Ghosts, Entombed Men Ate
Bark, Hay, Oats and Pieces
of Decomposed Horse
Flesh.
Thirteen men were brought up
alive on M&roh 29 from the Oourrlers
coal mines, in France in which twen
i,y u?vb previous a terrible explosion
of gases entombed and destroyed nearly
1,200 miners. Five days later
anotLer, who had betn alone in bis
underground captivity came out.
For twenly days the thirteen endured
horrible bufferings, supporting
life by gnawing the baric from timber
supports, eating bits of food that
bad been left by their dead comrades,
nay, oat* and the partially decomposed
c-rrcass of a horse. From the lack
of water they were rKlaced to shock- J
Irnr r wtrumltro rf>l ^ 1 ? * ?
i> ^ (Auicujiii n j ijc intense c jio
ded to their so IT rings.
They came to the surface haggard,
eyes sunken, terribly exhausted, bare
ly able to walk and with hardly
enough strength left to describe their
experiences, yet with the exception of
one in turprlslngly good health. Groy-0
in# in the dark day after day, stumb
ling over bodies of their fellow work
men, never giving up hope and supporting
their courage by the belief
that tne mine authorities were working
ft r their rescue, they made their
way linally to an open shaft in a remote
part of pit No. 2
A salvage party was at work in pit
2 when the thirteen men broKe
through a distant gallery and stag
gered toward them, Tne superstlt
ious mineis, believing it impossible
that the thirteen could be ilve men,
were terribly frightened. Some of
them threw down their tools and ran.
Others recovering their nerve, went
quickly to the he p of the thirteen,
Who were weenli u anrl lauirhlm* fr< m
, r, -?"r>
the j >y of their thcape.
FK11CND8 WILD W1TII JOY.
The reacuert men were brought to
the surface in the elevator. It was
d.tlljult for the mine authorities even
wHn the assistance of the gendarmes
that had been summoned to help in
preserving order to restrain the crowd
which rushed for the rescued men
and attempted to embrace them and
force fojd and drink into their mouth.
The men's eyes had been so long ac
customed to the gloom of the mines
that they were blinded temporarily
by the glare of the sunlight. They
were eager to tilk, and every one of
the survivors had his own story to
tell of the sufferings they endured.
They all declared that they owed
their lives to one of their Dartv. a
miner named Nemy, who from the
hrsl tot k cbaige of the party. Nemy
toid the story of the twenty days imprisonment
modestly.
When the explosion occurred he
said, lie sought refuge In No. 3 gallery,
beMtv'Ing tnat he would have a
fair chance there of escaping the gas-'
en. He whs without a light and often
stumbled ov?.r corpses as he groped
his way to the gallery. Once he remt
rubers be scran b ed thrrugh at
lessb tifty bodies. F nally he reached
the end of the working and hearo
voices. lie went in the direction of
the voices and came upon a party of
his comrades that were sheltered in a
remote niche. There weie twenty
of them..at the time. Later on sev
en wandered c IT, and nothing more
was heard from them.
thkY find a dead house.
Nemy, from mere force of character
tock the leadership. He got the tag
ty tiua ly to a sort of stable where*isef
mults of the mine had been kept.
Wnile th? y were making their way to
that stable they had nothing to eat
save me ary uara mey lore rrom me
timber supports m the galleries.
When they reaohed the stable they
found a quantity of oats, a measure
of carrots and portions of food that
had been Intended for the lunches of
mule men who had perished in the
explosion. There were thirteen
mouthB to feed and even the resourceful
Nemy found it difficult to restrain
his famished followers. The decom
posing body of a horse was found near
tho stable, and it was cut to plecea
Some of the men ate it. Others Ot^id
nit. '
There were times when some of the
party became nearly insane from suffering,but
In every case, the men
said, Nemy cnlmed them, encouraged
them and infused into them something
of his own dauntless spirit.
Ttey had only a little water at the
very first, and the little was soon exhausted.
It was the lack of water
that so Intensified their sulTerlnge. To
relieve their thirst they were compelled
to resort to measures which cannot
be described. They had plenty
of matohes but curiously enough they
did not attempt to make a light
and endured the darkness a'Y the
while.
KB8CUKD AT LAST,
Nemy said that ha was oonfldent
all the time that effort* were being
made to rescue them, but they1 were
doing all they oould for themselves.
Nemy had a general idea where they
were and gradually led the party to a
gallery, near pit No. 2- They broke
through this gallery, aod it was Nemy
himself who first appeared to the astonished
salvage men in the pit, shouting,
"I am bringing twelve with
me!"
Nemy was taken to the hospital,
and his wife came to the bed where
he was lying. Rhe was dressed in deep
mourning, having giv?n him up for
<}ead for two weeks. Nemy looked at
her a long time before he spoke.
Then he pointed to her black gown.
"For whom are you in mourning?"
said he. "Not 1, your husband, that
is certain."
Nemy will it is said be rewarded
for his coolness and cmiaage v,itfc the
cross of the L?glon of Honor.
Five davs after the appearance of
Nemy and his tweWe companions a
rescue corps was workirg in pit 4
when one was touched on the shoul
der by a man, thin and black, as
if his skeleton was framed with
coal.
' I AM SAVED,"
It was Augusta Berton, who said
faintly:
"I am saved, thank God'."
Berton was ratsfd to the pit's
-ath and hurried to the hospital
Ills wis who greeted him as one risevf
from the dead, was permitted to be
with him for a short time.
Berton was in better condition than ;
the thirteen other miners rescued
March 26. Strange toj^ay he thought
he had been in his living tomb only
eight days.
He thus described his frightful ex
perlences, which he had sought to end
by killing himself.
"I was working with my cousin
when an explosion occurred, and we
became separated. Alope I groped
about in the dark, tryj.:4' to find an
outlet. I found a dead horse, bur
cculd not eat its tlesh. Then I found
some lunc'u bag* which had bslong(d
ifr
; j men wno were killed, and 1 liven
'fln the food I found In them and
drank frtm toddles. 1 sifferid from
the cold and took clothing and shies
from the dead. I also found three !
watches ana 24 sous.
"At oue time I gave up hope and j
tried to commit su clde hy opening a
vein, hut it didn't bleed much. I slept
ten times and tried to count the days
estimating that eight days had passed
since the explosion "
DESTRUCTION OF SAN JOSE.
An Kai'lhquako Disaster That lias
linen Overlooked.
O l the mornlnof i < F\v
clsco eartl quake the city of Sao Jose
was practically destroyed in the busi
ncss coitere. and more than one-half
of tbe homes In the residence section
was so damaged or destroyed that re
pairing will be beyond question. Fif
teen lives were lost and the property
loss is more than $8 000,000. Five i
thousand persons were rendered home- !
less and destitute, and many rich and 1
prosperous mercantile tirms were re- |
duoed to beggary.
Toe handsome and massive brick
building of the R >man Catholic
Church of St. Patricks, costing more
than $150 000 situated at Santa Clara
and O^n streets, was a ruin. Two
bUcas away the San Jose High School
a iive story building of brick and
stone rected at a cost of $90,000, was
a pile of debris.
It was along 1st, 21, 31, Maiket,
Santa Clara and San Fernandlno
streets that the greatest ruin was
wrought. Here building after bullding
had oome tumbling to the gri uad
and three, four and live story structures
of brick, stone and Iron, that
bad been the pride of San J se, lay ;
; jumbled piles c f debris.
Tne greatest 1 irs of life was at the
! State Insane A sylum, situated at Ag ,
new's three mi es north of San Jose, j
where 117 patients, outined in tbe |
wards, and nine i fillers and atten
dants were crushed to deaMi beneath
the falling walls ,walls and tioors?the j
entire main bulldlag and both wings
having collapsed at the tirst shock.
. Late on Wednesday afternoon martial
law was declared. Directly ail of
the saloons closed, and two hundred
spocial policemen and deputy sheriffs
were sworn In to a^sl9t the regular
police and military in preserving law
and order.
Killed Herself.
At Harlem, Qa., Mrs. Tom II.
Dunaway committed suicide late
Thursday night by taking str>chnlne.
She was at home with the family, and
went in the next room, and returned
in a few moments and dimly said:
"I have taken the dose I've wanted
to for some time." I a less than
twenty minutes she was dead. She
was fifty-five years of age and had
been in bad health for two or three
years, which is thought to be tbe
cause 01 nor rasn act. She had on
several occasions threatened to kill
herself, but they thought she was
joking She is survived by a devoted
husband, eight daughters and rhree
sons. She will be bnried at the Uaton
baptist ohurci cemetery Saturday
morning at 10.30.
Shot ftillKl
A sprc al from Grosbeck, Texas
savs: White being oouveyed to jail In
tbe custody of two officers, a negro
whom it is alleged assaulted tbe
daughter of J. A. Etstland, a farmer
of Delta, at an early hour this morning,
was taken from the cttljers by a
posse of oitlzjnsand held until the arrival
of tbe girl's father. When Eastland
rode up he ordered the crowd u
stand back, and emptied both barrel"
of his shotgun loaded with buoksho
into the negro, killing him Instantly
There la no excitement.
DARK SECRETS
;k I
Of Chinatown Revealed by the
Late Earthquake
WAS HOME OF CRIME.
The Place Was Furrowed With Numbers
of Underground Tunnelo, Which had
Bern Seen bv Ftw White Men.
Many Prisoners Were
held or Murdered.
Not until the earthquake shook the
rickety houses to the earth to be de
stroyed by tire did the authorities of
Sao Francisco realize what manner of
place was the much advertised Chinatown,
the mecoa of all tourists in California,
the spot In which 25,000 Chinese
lived like so m&uy prairie dogs,
Says the New York Herald.
When the high winds which came
after the tire blew the ashes away, the
yawning mouths of tunnels w.itch the
police had long suspected, were re-!
veaied. Entrances to-, these passages
was so caieiully hidden teat only the
leaders of tne tongs, who used the
lamp dung'ous for plac. s of meeting.
vji uw jjiuu iiii? ueacn or a vicuna?the
same room often aciug as the execution
dungeou once the market man
w&h taken below tne level of the
street?knew.
One i f San Francisco's alert detectives,
said to be the best-posted man
on Chinatown, stood at the corner of
BarMett alley and declared:
* For years 1 have been try In# to
reacn the tuuuels, which 1 knew to
exist under this Chinese city. What
goes on down there one cm only c in
jeclure, but It Is a thousand tlmeb
worse than the sms and vices which are
pracUc-'d by these Mongolians In the (
streets and gambling houses you cm
see from thisoorner. Girls In the bloom
of youth are smuggled over the Cana- j
clan border, brought here In the night,
and ool.lined in dungeons, pifuaps
never to look upon the light of the sun
again, although they may live for
years ."
Very few white men have visited the
underground passages, certainly none i
~ m 1 < - ?*
u> oAii ciauuiHuuM ponce rorce, ror
every mau In the department was wat
died wtien he entered (J llnatown and
the surveillance did not cease while
he remained there. Secretary Tain#,
a prominent member of the Chinese
aristocracy, stationed for political reasons
in the Chinese legation at the
capital of Peru, was a member in high
standing in a society of considerable
political Influence in China, with a
powerful branch in Sail Francisco, i
lie took two white men to the theatre
n Chinatown and boastfully declared
that the real srcret of Cninatown had
never been revealed, lie conducted
the men to the rear of the stage, slid
a secret door back, and motioned for
the men to follow him
For one hour, stooping until their
backs were strained, the men silently
follow* d a guide, to look upon a complete
new Cninatown, the tunnel leading
past scores of doors to dungeons,
against the bars of which some unfortunates
pressed their faces, to jump
back from the dare of a dickering
miner's light which Tsing carried.
Under this Chinese city wore hun]J
dreds of women and childred. Tneir
voices mtuglod in glad refrain or
echoed the gleomy murmers of some
who were suffering. Huddled In group
a K/\n t n n i-w? 1 I -~ ??- - J ? 1 1 * "
nuuuu a nuic*Il Ult3| Jli'dlUti I TO XI DrlllS Ul |
coal dust winch Cmuse prepare, were j
merchants who had returned from
their shops on the street level to these j
holes in toe wall to plot and Invent.
The oder of opium was nauseating.
The revulsion of feeling was overpowering.
When the street was reached
after climbing a (light of stairs to the
kitchen of the chop KUiy "joint," the
hreath of foul air even in this hole
was refreshing.
Hundreds of men went to their
deattis each year lu Chinatown with
out an inkling cf the tragedies being
known to the police. It was easy to
oury the dead under the tunnels, 100
feet deep in Chinatown. Members oi
tongs marked for death left friends
behiud, men who refused to complain
to the local authorities, but who, Instead
sought revenge themselves In
l Ha uama ^~- ?-i??- -1 - * '
>,WV Oiauia uouuiau Luauuor lUiib Ul'dltl
had been meted out to their fellow
members.
Fjr years battle waged. Ssores and
scores were killed, eveu in the streets
until the citizens of San Francisco
threatened to organize a vigilance
committee and wipe (Jninatown from
the face of 'Frlsoo. This had its effect.
The war was carried below the
streets, where dying men could
scream In agony and uot be heard.
The slave trattlo has enroaed many
Chinese, suave merchants who led
simple lives above the street, but who
retired to the subterranean passages
and their slave marts to put upon the
block the newest arrivals from the
slave market in Canton.
Gambling has always existed there.
The gamblers composed the bad element.
Tney fought for one another's
gold, committed murder to obtain
i means with which to enter games of
I fantan and other Chinese devious of
ohance, and slept away their daylight
hours in a bunk somewhere down below
the street, steeped in the lumes
of opium, a sordid mass of humanity
until nature awoke the brain to
life.
There never will be suoh a China
town In San Francisco again. These
people will be sect to a district far
from the heart of the new city, where
thev will be under suoh o'oae surveillance
that praottoes of the past will
be stopped when they begin. Provls
ion will be made to suppress the tongs
for all time, if this can be accomplished.
No one will ever know how many
llvjs were lost in Chinatown. It is a
moral certainty that men overcame
with opium, the slave women in their
dungeons and many a helpless wretch
unconscious from morphine were killed
when the tremor of the earth toppled
the buildings down to be consumed
in a short time by the lire.
Citizens who have visited the remains
of this plague spot were astonished
at the catacombs which lay exposed.
It is Improbable that any attempt
will be made to reach the
b >dles of Chinese vlotims. Earth will
be thrown into the gaping abyss,
burying for all time the victims of
the disaster and blotting out forever
the sites of these dens of vice and
horrible chambers of sin.
APL'*K fILLM&JNS SCALP.
Said lUilroadH Will Try Co Didoat
Htm for Sonato.
A letter from Washington to the
Columbia Record sayH the tDst gunshot
of opposition to Senator Tillman's
renominatlon to the senate came Wednesday
In a letter from Detroit, In
which it Is stated that the railroads
are understood to be preparing to de
feat, him fnr rpoloi?.Mnn unrt
. v>v>. WWI W?1 (?ll v* UU 11/ LV /
send Home man to Washing ton that
they can manage.
While there has been speculation as
to whether or not there was any one
in South Oirollna who cared to meet
the senator on the Htump during the
prebcnt summer to ontcst his seat In
the senate, and wntle several local
men have been suggested from time
to time as possessing the necessary
requirements, eic , the railroads have
been watching him, and keeping track
of the tight he has oeen making for
oetier rates since the senate bill was
tufned over to him to manage. To is
has not suited the railroads of the
country. These gigantic corporations,
looking ahead in the future, see that
he is making trouble for them. They
have agreed that they cannot stand
for this, and he has been notified,
througu people In the far West, that
he may look fcr defeat if it Is in their
power to carry out their plans.
He has been asked the point blank
question whether he proposes to c jutinue
to wage war agaiust the railroads
and corporate Interest, and the
people who have Inaugurated the
movement say that they demand of
him a categorical answer 10 many
questions that they will shortly put to
him.
While the roads are playing S?natof
Tillman, they are at ihe same time
making others d;?nce to the music, one
of these belug Representative Charles
E. Tnwnsend, of Michigan, author of
Kli'.il-'PnvunuonH ruto 1,111 Tim
IUUV U1 lit A, lie
South Carolina man in ready for any
light the roads may make In their efforts
to unseat him.
JBIG JBUitN AT BAMBARG.
Several Buildings Destroyed Before
The Fire Stopped.
Bamberg was vlHlted early Thursday
morning by one of the most
destructive tires In its history. The
lcs^s and insurances are as follows:
The Bamberg Cotton Mill Co., lost
one mill which, with its contents, is
estimated at $17,000. Tho insurance
amounted to $13,100.
Mr. G. B B i.mberg lost three buildings.
Mr. Bamberg deals in horses,
wagoDS and mules, etc , and succeed
ed in saving hi*1 live stock. The loss
in his case is $15,000, and the lusurinee
$13 200.
Mr. J. P. Ott suffered the loss of
his dwelling, valutd at $1,250. Insurance
$050.
Mr. George F. i I air lost his dwelling,
a cottage and stabl ; a loss of
$1,500. Insurance $1 200.
Mr. G. A. Green lost a cottage, val
u^d at 8700.
Mr. li. J. Belk lost a grist mill and
wagon works, valued at 15,000. In- j
surance 81,500.
Mr. J li. Folk lost a small dwelling,
valued at 8100.
Mr. J. B. Jennings loses property
valued at 8150, no insurant.
Mr. G. W. Wilson, L. B. Fowler, J.
L. Murphy, D. J. Hart/.jg, Mrs.
Saunders and several other clti/.irs
sustained small losses from hurried
moving, eto. Their losses were not
covered by insurance.
It Is not known how the fire originated.
The watchman at the mill
first discovered the bla/.j, but there
was no meaDS of cheoklng the (Um< s.
owing to the fact that the mill tire
engine had blown out a cylinder head
the day before. This unfortunate
occurrence forced the property owners
to allow the tire to burn itself out
with only slight resistance.
Anoitior Snaku.
A dlspach from San Francisco says
at three o'clock Wednesday afternoon
a shock of earthquake was felt. It
lasted nearly a minute and caused
considerable alarm. A number of
walls of burned buildings wnicn were
standing were thrown down and frail
buildings were considerably snaken
up but the damage done was slight.
The shock caused the death of Mrs
Annie Whitaker, aged 25 years. Mrs.
Whlttaker was at work in the kltonen
of her home on Shotwell street In the
Mission district, when the shock
came. The ohlmney which had been
left In a tottering condition by the
heavy earthquake crashed through
the roof on the woman and fracture 1
her aoull.
&ERIOUS CHARGE.
THE IjKGIHIJATIVK INVKHTIOATINQ
t'OUUITTE OHITtOIHKl).
It it Atierted That It It a Political
Machine to Defeat 8enator
Tillman.
Mr W. W. Price, the Washington
correspondent or the Columbia
cord, sendH the following to that
paper:
"The legislative committee appointed
to investigate dispensary affairs Is
fast developing Into a mere adjunct
of the machine In South Carolina
that Is trying to defeat Senator Tillman,"
was the Important statement
made here Wednesday by a prominent
man from that state. "It Is too apparent
for even the most opaque mind
to remain In Ignorance, and there Is
much feeling In the state among the
senator's friends."
Then the South Carolinian, who
has been an Intimate friend of Senator
Tillman for years, went on to say:
"1 suppose the leaders of the outtlt
have come to the conclusion that nobody
In the state has sense enough
to see what all this means. 1 do not
know a worse example of apparent intentional
desire to Involve Senator
Tillman In trouble than has recently
been shown. It is getting so open
that It begins to look as if the whole
Object of the committee was to tind
something that would hurt the South
Carolina senator. Of course thev
can't do this, as thero Is nothing to
tind. Why doesn't this committee
handle the important and knotty
affairs they have In hand?the Illegal
puicbases of bupplles for the Institution
for the last two yearsV 1 do not
believe that a drop of whiskey has
beeu legally bought for the dispensary
In two years. Yet 1 don't see any
profound effort to get busy on tills
subj ct. If this committee was appointed
to make an impartial Investigation
and leave personal and political
bias out of It there Is plenty of
room for a complete change of p;0
K i niu.
"While this new outfit that is trying
to oome into p >wer in the state is
bitterly hostile to the dispensary its
whole game is to Involve Senator Tillman
If possible, no matter whether it
lias to Vie done by dirty insinuations
about piano purchases or any other
way. Well, 1 imagine that before
the senator and his friends get
through with some of these chaps
there will be something doing.
"The game the people of South
Carolina want to watch now is the
little one of how we are going to settle
up the question of these Illegal
payments. This is full of more possibilities
than all the trips to Cincinnati
and elsewhere to tind whether
Senator Tillman returned rebates
thirteen years ago. It's funny how
earnestly some of these people are
digging after matters thirteen years
old, yet with what ponderous slowness
latter day utliirs are being gone
into. Isn't it strange?
"The next hglslature, if it represents
the voice of the people, as I believe
it will, may take a new tack at
the investigating business. 1 do not
wish to go Into details now, but 1
should not be opposed to a blanket
In Vfmt.il/ilMnn t.ttl/On.r lr? nuaiftiKrwrl ..
? n^w..^U| tti j uua/
and everything right on down to the
present moment That might bring
out some Interesting things."
The statement is made that Senator
Tillman's friends in South Carolina
and out are writing him letters
Indicating that there Is getting to be
disgust lu many quarters with some
of the present metuods and that there
Is not the confidence there was some
Lime oack.
1 do not know any thing about these
matters except what 1 hear. 1 do
<oow, though, that people cjmlng up
from the state, both friends and opponents
of S -nator Tillman, rather
agree in the idea the prime object in
some directions seems to be to hunt
die earth over for matter that may
injure Senator Tillman, no mattei
what the expense or how it is done.
Tne purification of the dispensary, it
is d? clared, is simply a secondary af
rtir. "Anything to get Tillman lo
trouble," was the way another South
Carolina man put It.
Murderer Wanted.
The Columbia State bays: Mr. D,
L. Bjtzir of Chester was here Thursday
to consult with Gov. II ay ward re
lativj to having additional effort m\dt
10 oapture Will Perry, coiton m ll op
erative, who shot Lingley Booz t, th(
son of Mr. Roczsr, at Wylie's mnl, it
Chester, about a year ago. The governor
has already olTared a heavy re
ward and will try to do all that he car
to locate the fugitive. To the $00(1
already otTjred, Mr. Boozer has addec
$400 on ins own acoount, but he say*
tie Is willing to give all of the $1,00C
himself if the murderer can becaptur
A A ~ ? A- -
cu, ucau ui anvtj. no lilts stillb 'J 11 0 circulars
with a description and photograph
of Perry.
l)e?Uly (^ahoIoiu.
Near Savannah on Thursday mom
log while the scnooner Jennie Thomai
was putting to sea, en route to Balti
more, an explosion occurred on board
Gasoline was curled as fuel for e
Hoisting engine on the sohooner. On<
man, a sailor, whose name Is not
known, was Instantly killed, and an
other so badly Injured that he li
dying. The scnooner caught tire fron
the explosion and it required a har<
tight to extinguish the tl smes. Th
schooner is now putting back to th
city and will arrive during the after
noon. Two tugs are towing her. Th
Thomas was lumber laden. She 1
owned largely by Savannah parties.
I HARD TO KILL
ft
V
, Dr. Dean on Recent Slaughter
II
of the Dajas
~~~~~~~~
IN THE PHILIPPINES
The Doctor Missed Being at the Scene a
Day or Two and Talks interesting*
ly of the Fanatical Natives
Who He Says Will Never
Yield.
Dr. F. W. S. Dean, a young Greenvllllan,
who has a commission in the
army, and who has seen a deal of
tlghting In the Palllppiues the past
few years, was lc Columbia a few
days ago on his way home from the
islands. Dr. Dean talked in au interesting
way to the representative of
The Record oonorning the muchtalked
of battle of the crater of Jolo,
where some 000 native men aud wo
; men were surrounded by Unole Sidq'h
men and shot to death by direction of
Roosevelt's pet, General Wood.
"1 had just left Jolo at the time of
the battle," said Dr. Dean, "but I
know something ahjut that so called
outrage. Yes; the women were klllod
along with the meu. as they should
have been killed. Those people wore
a band of thieves and robbers, who
collected themselves In that crater
and sent word to Governor Soott de<
fylng him and telling him that if he
wanted anything of them that he
knew where they were.
"It was a case of killing them or
having our men killed. These people
are Mohammedans ard tight to the
death. Tnere Is no conquering them,
and the women tight the same as the
men. A native will not hesitate when
he Is pushed to it to throw himself on
a bunch of American soldiers with the
certainty of death before him. lie
does not hope to get out alive, but he
thinks that if he can kill one Christian
he will go straight to glory. Those
people don't surrender.
"The only way to pacify the Islands
is to exterminate the malcontents
thoroughly. Things will never be
straightened out down there unions
there Is a decided change in the attitude
of^the people of the States. It Is
as with the negro In tola country, one
section of the country pulling one way
and the other the other way. There Is
too much politics In this Filipino business.
And the strangest thing to me
is to see Southern people talcing sides
with the natives. Tne Philippines
should be sold or taken out of politics
in some way.
, "Our sentries are shot from ambush
whenever there Is an opportunity pre,
sen ted to these wild fools. It has been
difficult recently to get guns to them
here of late, but even now they come
in and are bought uppromptly. A rllle
is worth 8200 In gold In that section
now, but even at that price the natives
got hold of them,
IVmitM Another t^uooii.
i Tne Now York American says when
Adele Lt'icile, of the "Social Whirl,"
at the Casino, was confronted Thursday
night with an offer of marriage
from a real live Prince, she confessed
i afterwards that s le felt decidedly
i "flustered." It really mads herdizz/
whea she learned that tills scion i f
royalty had actually falleu in love
i with ner picture in faraway Stngi,
poro. Hut when she heard from L ?w
Celt Seug, the emissary sent to ask
MImH Rif.fthlp fri 1'Haalifn #\/? U1"
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honorably humble master," that the
lovelorn Prlnco wan one Sarong Tebek
of Slam, and that he already has a
i harem containing sixty wives, the aoi.
tress saw her visions of priuoely glory
fading. Sue reserved her decision.
Killed HIm Brother.
A dispatch from Homer says there
was a sad tragedy at Gaddys' mill, a
, place about six miles east of there,
Thursday morning. Two brothers,
, about 10 and 12 years of age, beoame
j Involved in a quarrel, and the younger
securing a shotgun tired on hts
brother at close range, tne load tak!
Ing effect in his back ranging upward
, and coming out just above the collar
I bohe. Tne boy died two hours later.
k They are sons of Bryant, the man
l that killed Prevatt at that place several
years ago, and after being placed
in the penitentiary under a life sentence
committed suicide by opening
the jugular veins Lj his neck with a
pair of scissors.
Hum mi to haatii.
j Three children were burned to
deatd in the destruction bv tire Sat..
~ s 4.U- r* ? *
uuiity ui|(iib ui iiiio rresoyLenaa Mis*
*lon school at Lvwson, Kilelgh oouu*
ty, W. Va. Tae sohool accomodated
t both boarding and day pupils. The
victims were two sisters named Mj
Glnniss.
j A liurnotl City.
1 A map just publlshedof tte b irned
dlstrlot of San Franolsoo shows an area
e covering 453 city blocks, III of whtoa
are south of Market street and 342 at '
e the north end. It Is estimated that
s the buildings destroyed will be In the
neighborhood of alzty thousand.
i