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\% A BRIDAL TRIP In an Airship that Proved Fatal to Bride and Groom. FELL INTO ,THE SEA. How the Bridal Baloon Collapsed In MidAir and the Count Nazzarl Lost His Bride of a Night in the Angry Waters of the Adiiatic. Sad Honeymoon. The most pitiful tragedy that ever icnuivcu HUUi 1/liO I'lUliUUH ATI/ UI aerial navigation has just thrown the leading noble families of Milan, Italy, Into deep mourning. A fair young bride of only a day lost her life in this threat tragedy cf the upper air. Count Naz/.arl, the youthful head of an ancient and wealthy family of Milan, was like that other young millionaire, M. Santos Dumont, passionately devoted to aeronautics, lie was perpetually experimenting with new devices for solving the great problem of aerial navigation. It was his constant occupation, and he spent almost his entire income upon It. He has been the owner of twentyfive balloons and airBhips. He made ascents in them continually. He had a great many accidents, but alway came baok alive after getting into the most perilous situations. He escaped being smashed to pieces once by grabbing at a window sill as his balloon fell to the ground, and on another occasion by olutchlng at the branches of a tall tree, ne got out of so many troubles so luckily that his friends said he had a charmed life. Count Nazzarl became engaged to a lovely girl, who took the greatest in tcrest in his favorite amubfcment. They were both reckless, daring, original and full of high spirits. They decided that they would have ? honeymoon qulto different from anythai had ever been heard of. They would spend their honeymoon In the air. Instead of sneaking off mysleri ously to pome unknown place, as wedded ceuples arc wont to do, they would rise triumphantly Into the air before their assembled friends and slowly fade away into the blue j heavens. Count. Nazzari prepared his latest atr6bip for the journey?a Riant cigar-' shaped vessel with two fan shaped attachments for fteering. She was named the Retina Helena, or Queen Helena, In honor of the present beautiful Queen of Italy. She was fitted with every luxury that a bride who was willing to take an aerial voyage could expect. A little boudoir was constructed for the bride, finished with green and gold cushions and curtains, and supplied with many accessories of the toilet. The airship was provisioned for two weeks, with dozens of cold chickens, pigeons, hams, sausages and bottles of old Chlautl, while an alcohol stove enabled them to do light cooking. The airship was moored In an open space outside the churoh, where the wedding was celebrated In the most brilliant fashion before a great gathering of the nobility and fashionable nf Mllin ~ wuwva/ v> ?? UbU 1U TT M UVt!I the proud bridegroom, with his radiant, black-eyed bride upon his arm, marched down the aisle to the great west door, while the organ played the glorious Wedding March from "Lohengrin." There was a short al fresco breakfast in the place where the airship was moored. Toasts were freely drunk. The women friends of the bride embraced her and wept over her. At 2 o'clock the depart uie for the skies tock place. Count Nazzarl carried with him besides his bride one friend?Signor Usuelle, a fearless, experienced and enthusiastic aeronaut, Count Nazaari needed seme one he could rely on to handle the airship while he was giving the necessary attention to the bride. As the balloon rose from the earth It was surrounded by the merry, excitable crowd of Italian wedding guests cheering, laughing and weeping. They declaring it was the loveliest wedding they had ever dreamed of. They stood there fascinated, with feet rooted to the ground and faces upturned, as the great airship rose higher and higher into the air and sped away to the southeast, until it was only a speck In the dark blue Italian sky. At last It vaan?i|'|?tlilVU SUVV^bVlibli JL 11C ^UCSUl said It was just like going to heaven for a bcneymoon. Within the snuggly fitted oar all was happiness for a few hours. If she shuddered a little as she peeped over at the earth immeasurably beneath her she was reassured by the warm pressure ol her husband's arms. Grave trouble soon menaced the party. About sunset a storm sprung up with the suddenness characteristic of the Italian climate. The balloon was driven rapidly over Adriatic Sea. All night long she was driven over the water. The steering apparatus proved utterly useless against this terrific hurrloane. In the morning the balloon was Sighted over the Adriatic Sea in the vicinity of Ancona. Finding that the wind was at last blowing him n?-&r l&ni Ccunt N?zz-*ri made a desjk "ate tfforb to descend. ln*bis b*ste he opened the gas valve too wide and tt im, soiing u gather with a sudden quo.11 upset the equilibrium of the dfiat-shapea vessel so completely that the oar was turnad upaida down. Tha bride fall Into the stormy sea. but the two men he in on to tha balloon by ro pes. Within a faw momenta this fall Into the watar. The hutband plung ad Into the ocean In search of his bride but his companion remained on the wreckage of the balloon, believing wisely that ha could be more useful In keeping a lookout from that position. Torpedo boats and fishing boats came out from Anoona to the rescue of the party. After a long search they found the floating wreokage with Slgnor Usuelll on It. He thought that both the others were drowned but a search was made and Count Nazzari, a very powerful man, was found still buffeting tha angry waves In the hope of finding his lost bride. He was pull* ed on board a torpedo boat In a state of dellrim. A watch was kept on the waters In this vicinity for some hours, but nothing could be seen of the young bride There was no doubt that she was drowned and her body washed far away. CONVlCIS KILL OTABD. Mutiny and Murder at trie (tiarkk ton County Htockado. The Charleston Evening Tost says Heiman G. Stello, a chain gang guard at tne seven mite stockade, was | killed Thursday afternoon at about 2:30 o'olock by three convicts, Alonzo Goodwin, Hammond Wilson and George Kenny, who made their eaoape, and are now in the woods on Charleston neck, with Deputy Sheriff PculDot at the head of a posse on their heels. The murder occurred at the stockade camp. Stello's throat was out open. lie was asked by the three men who played sick Thursday and were left behind at camp shut up in a house with two trusties, to bring them a buoket of water. The trusties they looked up In the kitchen. When Stello approohed the men, they rushed upon him, overpowered him and out his throat. The convicts overpowered the trus ties or cowed them, made their etoape easily. The Imprisoned trusties cut their way from the kitchen and ran to the store of Mr. Hettinger at Seven Mile House. lie immediately telephoned the news of the murder and escape to Sheriff Martlr. The PherliT at once ordered a pease to ko to the scene of the tragedy. Deputy Sher.ff Pculnot, with special deputies, Messrs. G'orge Douglas, It. L. Knox and Drisco 1, end Rural Policemeu Burton ar d Kelly, hastened up the road by the t.vr.llau Una 1 4- <? ?U....?U4 4U.4 i-I- . va wiib/ 1j1jo. iU 19 bUILI/ escaped convicts arc armed. They arc still in the woods. Every effort will be made to oatch them. liioodhounds will bo put on their tracks. Mr. Stello was a man of over 50 years of age and married. lie lived at No. .'10 Inspection street. Stell< was the only guard at the stockade, the others having gone out with the gang which Is working on the drains. THK LO&T OF LIVING, Especially in All Food Supplies .Steadily lnoro?no8. Figures prepared by the Department of Labor show beyond doubt that retail prices of food are on the ascendency and that year by year tbe American housekeeper tinds himself called upon to draw more largely on his bank acoouut to keep up his establishment. Statistics that are in every particular reliable have been seoured by the department from retail merchants in Charleston, Norfolk and other cities from whioh the department tigures out that the retail prices of food iu 1905 were at the highest point during the sixteen year period covered by tbe investigation. The average prices of the twenty-three of the thirty artloles included in this compilation of prices were higher in 1905 than in 1904, and the price of every article In oluded, except. otiYee and prunes, was higher in 1905 than In 1890, the year of lowest prices during the last sixteen years. The advance In bacon since 1896 has been 43.5 per cent; Irish potatoes, 43.1 per cent; eggs 41 8 per cent; dry or pickled pork 31.0 per cent; fresh pork 30 per cent; Hour 29.8 per cent; corn meal 28 0 per cent. The advance In food when each of the thirty articles are given a weight according to Its consumption In the family of the workingman, has been 0.6 percent slnoe 1904; 17.7 per cent sluce 1896 and 12.4 percent compared *ith the average for the 10 year period, 1890 to 1899. Killed the Wrong M?n. R. E. Wlshart, of Ooala, Fla., was killed at San Antonio, Pasco county, Friday mornlDg by a turpentine man named Burton. Wlshart operated a tu < >?>? ?* Wt?? ?-? ?"* * - | m vio u?lu y aw i'juiou kuu wivi1 1118 i wo [daughters went to S&n Antonio to have dental work*done lor one. While the young lady was In the dentist's obair and Wishart wae waiting in the office, Burton, who had a grievance against the dentist, whose name Is Nichols, oame to the door and asked il tfiohols was in. Wishart replied that he was and Burton, thinking it was Nichols who spoke, fired a load Irom a shotgun into Wishart's heart, killing him instantly. As Burton fired be called out: "Niohols, you have ruined my wile." Wishart oame to Florida from Lumberton, N. 0., eight years ago and owned considerable property on the west coast. When a man starts after something be usually finds it ooming to meet him. If he waits fcr it he usually sees it lading away. Firmness is hot buliheadedness. Easy won poorly kept. SOME PLAIN FACTS ABOUT THE WHISKEY QUESTION PLAINLY STATED. A Prohibitionists Whom the High Lioense or Barroom Adyoc&tes Can't Fool. Editor Columbia Reoord: To bear some people talk and to read the comments of the different editors sbout over the state upon the dispensary, one would naturally oon olude that South Carolina bad been, prior to the enactment of the dispensary law, inhabited by pure, sweet aDgelio people oud not by mortal, mean wicked men. That these antidispensary fellows were the soul of honor and the embodiment of every virtue; that in them was no guile 0r graft and, like George Washington, had Dever told a lie. That vice, ras callty and crime were unknown in the laud until a big devil carr.e up domewhere out of the woods, with the dis pens&ry (n his pocket, and turned 11 loose among these lambs. Hut all this edltoriallng and preach log and speech making about the virtue and Godliness of South Carolina, before Ben Tillman and the dispensary appeared upon the scene, fools nobody. No, Indeed, South Carolina has never been an unspoiled Eden, and I fear It will be the l*st place the millennium will strike. Reverse your think box for a few moments and take a retrospective view and you will be reminded that South Carolina has been dead drunk and full or rascals for two centuries. Every one knows, or should know, that a very high per cent of her people, of all classes, were drunkards, murderers, liars, grafters and robbers lrom the very start. The tlrst boat that landed here brought the germs of all these villainies with them from Europe. And It seems to me to be dlslugenious and unworthy to write and talk and try to make people believe the dispensary created the germs, and hatched out the tirst brood of these villains ever seen hereabouts. No, siree, some of us know better. Under the old barroom system the state was as much in the whiskey business as she is today. Yes, she legalized the trallo and farmed out the Iniquity of selling whiskey to her citizens, and put the niOtiov In her treasury and used It tor all purpose**. Chaplain, who offered prayers to heaven etc* morning for divine wisdom to guide and direct our general assembly, were paid with this same toaihoakecl money. And yet we hear people Insisting that the state was never In the rum business before auri that the blowing of a palmettto tree iu a glass bottle put her in this nefarious business, disgraced her fair and spotless name and made liars and rogues of her oltizens. May the fool killer spare thcBe idiots and hypocrites. South Carolina was not only In this hell-horn tratllc as a state but many of ber honored and respected citizens, standing high In the community and church, were silent mouey partners in Illicit distilleries and barroom-hells. Under the dispensary regime many of this same class have made the rural districts drunk and disorderly by furnishing dirty, lazy, worthless niggers whiskey to sell, thereby jeopardizing the lives and property or the community. Rapid-lire talking-tubes of every caliber and press-batteries of all sizes have been trained upon the dispensary, and for what reason? llow many of them ever took a shot at Mr. Barroom? Certainly he was a bad man. Yes, he was a bold, wick ed man, who murdered more honor and killed more men and undermined their character and destroyed the prospec to of morQ boys, and heart b.oke more women, In one year tban the dispensary has since it was establish ed. Mr. High License is the same old Mr. Barroom dressed in anew suit of constitutionals, and would certain* ly prove just as bad. Did you ever think how funny It sounds to hear people damning the dispensary and cussing the labes and X's on the bottles and swearing ai Hub Evans' beaver bat, who never in all their pious and righteous lives ever raised their voices against the whiskey demon? Funny, Isn't it? You must please excuse me If I get mixed as to whether they are lighting whiskey as an evil or the disnen. sary for the same other reason. Were drunkb and crime of the barroom brand any better than those of the dispensary label? Were hear; broken widows and poor orphan children of barroom manufacture less helpless and pltlble than those of the dispensary stamp? Some people think so. Now let us be honest and consistent and go to lighting whiskey as the-great enemy of pure manhood and womanhood, and stop this hypocritical scolding and railing at the dispensary simply to gratify some seitish prejudice. Whiskey has been one of the great crime breeders and man destroyers from the beginning and its manutaciure and sale should not be tolerated under any arrangement whatsoever, and would not be if we were Just one quarter as Qod serving and neighbor loving as we pretend to Kn T t fh/MiA ?V>A a v. ? ?-31 - M wwi j.i VUV90 wuu uvunui vuo breua or events had fought half as hard to banish whiskey from the state as one half of them have fought to destroy the dispensary and the other half to preserve that Institution, there would not be enough whiskey In South Carolina today to make a mint julep. . Admit the dispensary management to be oorrupt and then ask yourself Is there any other management or business or system or anything In South Carolina or anywhere else in these United States today clean of graft, In Juatioe and raaoallty, and not more or leu corrupt? If, aa many honeat, fair and unprejudload mlnda believe, the dispensary Is the beat Bolutlon of the whiskey problem, it will be exceedingly unwise to destroy it because some of the graft has developed in the system. I think It very wonderful that it has not been very muoh worse in view of the way the enemies of the dispensary have acted towards that institution. Cleanse the management as far as possible and let the system stand or enaot a prohibition law. In spite of everything that has been said or oan be said, high license simply means a return to the open, attractive, luring and iniqultlous barroom system. The devil has been smiling with satisfaction since the day prohibition lost and the dispensary became the law of a great state, but don't lot him win another victory by fooling you to trade off the dispensary for high license. The dispensary is a part of the government and if it be true that a part of the government is corrupt and cannot be cleansed, then the whole must become putrid and rotten. This would be an awful and horrible fact. I do not believe it, aud think tho dispensary oan be kept as clean as any other department of the government. The dispensary is today every bit as clean as the power that controls it? that power is the government or state. If the dispensary, and not the government of state, is to blame, then >ou have a clear case of the tall wagging the dog. If the state allows the dispensary, her own dear son, to stay out at night and go to the ball, what makes you think she will love high license, who is only her step-son, any better and keep a closer watch on his golDg and coming. Men of South Carolina, if you love the little boys and girls, and have any thought or care for their future, never vote for a law carpenter wuu says i>nat witn my little saw and hatchet I will build a barroom. I)o what you please with the dispensary? kick It down, tear It down, burn it down, but In God's name never, never by your vote htlp build up a barroom ?and that Is what you will do If you vote to send hitfh license or local option men to the legislature. Fkancis Elk in Villi ams. TIRED OF NEGRO TROOPS. Petition War Department HokkIiik that Thoy l>o Kcniovod. Senator Bailey a.id Representative Garner and several other memiiers of the Texas delegation In Congress, have joined In a protest which was r? celvid at the war department Thur> day ag&luat the presence of negro troops In Texas. The protest was sent by wire and was prompted by tbe reoent trouble in Brownsville, where the colored soldiers, tilled up with liquor, weut on a rampage, killing oue citizen, wounding the chief of pllice kuu unun in; uieaui)g 8UCI1 a 018 turbanoe that there was some talk of having the Governor call out the militia to quell the disorder. The telegram from Texans points out that the presence of the colored troops Is a menace, and that trouble similar to that which disturbed Brownsville Is likely to happen at any time owing to the prejudice agalnBt them. Three oompanics of the 25th infantry, which is colored, have been for some time at Fort Bliss, yTexas. and the remaining companies of the regiment have been recently ordered to different p dirs in that State from Fort Niebrara, Nebraska and Fort Washakie, Wyoming. All of them have arrived there except one company, and it was the memoers of one of the companies of this regiment which caused the riot at Brownsville. The war department replied to the protest by stating that nothing could be chne in the matter at the present time, as the Brownsville incident is being thoroughly luvestl gated. Tnus far, however, the Instigators of the riot have not been detected. Throe Autolete Killed. I Three automoblllsts were killed and another fatally Injured at Allaire orosslng on the Pennsylvania railroad near Asbury Park, N. J., Saturday night, when an express train crashed Into the automobile of J. George Laffargue, a piano manufacturer of New York. Mr. Laffargue, bis wife and Mr. and Mm. Gh*ri?? T.nroh war* Instantly killed. Mr. Lurch, tne only other oooupant of the car, was jmconscious when picked up and is In a preoaiious condition. Mr. Latlar gue handled the car himself and as the party approached the crossing the oar was going at a good Bpeed. as it swept upon the tracks a train crashed into it and the occupants were thrown into the air. The car was hurled 30 feet and wrecked against the Allaire station. When assistance arrived Mr. and Mrs. Laffargue and Mrs. Lurch wore dead, and Mr. Lurch barely alive. No hope of his reooveiy is held out. Attacked by a Panther. The llentige, Texas, News says last Friday a panther attacked the little son of Mr. Bud May, a few miles north of town. The little fellow was a short distanoe from the house when the beaBt attacked hi a. His cries of terror attracted an older sister who bravely went to the aid of the little fellow, snatching him from the olutohes of the enraged brute. As she ran to the house with the boy in her arms, the animal made several attemps to take him from her, Jumping over her shoulders in its frantio efforts. She succeeded in reaching the house and shutting the door in i the face of the beast. 11 tried to foroe its wav Into the house and 1 failing, gave vent to the mOst awful screams and cries. The child was i scratched, but not severely. i SHE WOBKKD MEN. HANDSOME WOMAN ON HUNT FOll HUSBAND. Her Letters Brought Dupes?Then She "Fulled Their Legs" Good and Proper?In Jail. At New York a handsome young woman, olalmlngtobe Mrs. Hamilton, of 320 West Eighty -seoond street, has been oommltted for trial by United States Commissioner Shield*, on a oharge of mailing letters in which, under a pretense of matrimony, she is alleged to have oon ducted a scheme to defraud. The complainant was James B. McClelland a business man of Philadelphia, who avers hlB acquaintance with the young woman cost him $800. In possession of Assistant United States District Attorney Carmondy are seveial score of letters, all of unusual warmth, but It la charged that a sordid motive was really responsible for the youDg woman's apparent affeotion. According to MoOlelland's story, he saw an advertisement in a Philadelphia paper which stated that a "young widow, engaging, of liberal income and beautiful home, desired meeting a young gentleman of character, business, and position." lie sent an answer to "Sincerity," and was invited to call on Mrs. Hamilton at No. 320 West Eightysecond street. He did so, and met, he says, a butler at the door of the apartment, who said Mrs. Hamilton would see him. ' McClelland was much Impressed, and says the woman told him her husband had been dead two years. She was lonely and wished to marry She said, the complainant alleges, that she erj iyed an income of 810,000 a year, which she received from a brother, a mine owner in Mexioo. McClelland said, in telling his story today, that lie made several trips to this city, and dually became engaged, and that the engagement ring the woman picked out e st 8000. Next, he says he received the following letter, being a part of the complaint: "D. arest Sweetheart: Your lovely loiter readied me this morning, and 1 could hardly wait to get it. You are a dear sweetheart, and I love you more than I thought it possible to love a man. Yes, 1 feel sure we shall hA f tt.rfiiriijln ? ? A- ? nup^jr tut 1H IlObll lug to compare with true love and companionship." After asking Mo Cleiland to call later In the week, the letter coiiw aet: 'I wish you would call me up by 'phone, for I want the happiness ol hearing your voice. J ust as soon as possible 1 will get a photograph for you, and, speaking of pictures, 1 nave your dear picture before me, and always want it where 1 can look at it and show it to my friends. "Wnen I was at Asheville, N. 0., 1 was a most beautiful turquoise locket and chain, solid Oriental turquoises and l always thought if 1 bad any one I could love sullicleutly 1 would want that loeaet aud chain, so 1 could voar this picture around my neck. Yours is the one I want in it and I sent for it today, for I know you would be glad to give it to me for my birth day, which Is next Thursday. ' It will only be $200, and It is the one kind I have not in my collection of jewels, and I dearly love turquoises, for biue lias forever represented pure love. Can't you have a little mlnia cure taken about an inch tquare ho I oan have it ready for the locketV I can cut this one out and use it, but wouin like to keep this one also." McClelland says he promptly forwarded the check for the 9200 and upon his next visit he uays he saw the tucket. II.* mndn J " ummuv n iu n i Al/Ti 1 V 1211 LH ttDQ 1'IIGIrece ived a long teW gram from the woman, statin# her brother had suddenly arrived from M"xc>, and was furious about her proposed marriage to him, and had by legal Injunction, out ctT her $10,000 income. She wished to visit Provk.enoe, R I., at once, and retain a lawyer acquainted with her family affairs and light the writ. McClelland sa'd he was never afterward able to tiad Mrs. Hamilton, although he called repeatedly. Finally he disguised himself and watoued her uouse, and when he saw her enter it caused ner arrest. The woman was held in $1,000 ball for trial. It is alleged that Mrs. Hamilton scoured $2,800 in all from MoCielland. Denounced tho Judge. KaTle Fletcher, colored, who was hanged at Birmingham, Ala., on Friday, for the murder of Bob Paine, a fellow convlot at Eiat Top mines, created a scene by denouncing Judge S. L. Weaver from ti e scaffold just before the drop fell. Fletcher declared that tht judge had granted a habeas corpus to John WilHams, a white man, and saved Williams neck. But when it came to his (Fletcher1*) case i the onurr. floVii? " - ?*VU V UQU1 Kg. neicnor said that ' going fishing" was given as an I excuse for the judge to avoid grantting a habeas corpus. ' " 1 1 ? Tried to Rill All. In a fit of insanity, Emil Berner, a mecbanio of Batavla, Illinois, murdered his brother-in-law, Ernest Franzen. by cutting bis throat with a razor, slashed Mrs. Berner so severely that she will die, then out bis throat and died within a few moments. The tragedy was enacted at the Berner home, Berner had been ill for three weeks, and at times delirious, but no symptoms of violent Insanity bad been previously noticed. 1 Thank Thee Lord. I thank Thee, Lord, because I live, With loving heart and patient mind: Because I have the gift to give, Of sympathy to all my kiud. I thank Thee, too, because my ears Along earth's barren waste have lain, And for the sweet and human, tears, Thereon dissolved like summer rain. I thank Thee for each sad mistake That seemed to wreck some cherished dream; Nor would I mend the piteous break Twixt Then and Now, or hide the seam, 1 know, O Lord, Thy gentle hands Have led me safe through sun and cold; Because my soul now understands The peace within the Shepard's fold. Therefore I thank Thee, Lord, because Thou dids't not leave me to tho blast; But with the gentle love that draws Led me to Thy dear feet at last. H?r(l to Kill. ^ At Hatttesburg, Miss., after receiving one bullet straight through the heart and another entirely through the head, Charles Williams, a negro has survived three days and will prohably recover. The wounds were indicted bv a .'18 oalibre revolver tired at short range. Williams fell over as though dead. The undertaker was telephoned for but the surgeon arrived in the meantime and when the undertaker's wagon arrived the wounded negro was able to sit up. Since then he has been eating heartily and the physioians venture the opinion that he will recover if no complications arise. K<llc(t Near iladham. * N John Brown, a negro employed at the brick works cf the Dorchester Lumber Company, was klhed and his body horribly mutilated by an eastbound Southern train passing Badham Friday night about 9 o'clock. It is said he came into Badham frnm Sum. merville riding ou blind end of baggage oar In an intoxicated condition, and expressed his Intention of returning Friday night to Summervllle In ohe aame manner. Ills wangled body found at daylight Saturday morning, a few feet beyond the depot, shows that he had attempted to carry out the Intention. hiK Sheep liAiioii. The Sabinal, Texas, Seutlnal says .Inhll A uuiit. rflfinrt.u tint >? 1. - - .f , ^ v m?a<u unnu LIU 11IW bUC* cessfully brought through the soason 1(300 lambs which are lu line condition and that his spring olip of wool amounted to 17,009 pouuds whioh he expects to get 22 cents for. lie has now about four thousand bead of old sheep which with his lambs make a dock of 5,(300 and ho is doing a nice business with them. This shows what a mau oan do who wants to wcrk and is willing to get at it. Mr. Avant watches hi8 sheep closely and has four Mexican helpers. Found * Motoorito, On Tuesday evening of last week, while Mrs. A. L McLmdon was sitting on the veranda of her home, stvs the Live Oak (Texas) Democrat, she saw a v.vid Hash and heard a noise like a stone striking the fence directly iu front of her. She was within a few feet of it and rushing out, picked up the stoue. It proved to be a meteorite about the size of a bmall egg and was hot when picked up. The stone looks like the common variety of iron stone, is of a brown color and is heavy. It Is on exhibition. Liives Lost in Fire. At Buffalo, N. Y., Capt. Rxbioson, a veteran Lake Master, was burned to death, B. J. Johnson, sailor, was fatally burned and a score of persons had a narrow escape in & tire in a building occupied by tbe Buffalo Chandlery, supposed to have been caused by explosion. Tae Are "Dread to the St. Charles Hotel, the A .mes rolled high and much damage was done. Loss Is 8750,000. To Fx plot t Cuban baii'ls. The Cuban Invescing Corporation of New York, which will conduct a general agricultural and manufacturing business iu Cuba, has been incorporated with a capital of 83,000.000. The directors of record include E O. TT* I ** ? " ? I roauurgn, M.Kerr, L. W. Stiuioon, | 0. H. Kayler, W. W. Day, Jr., Norfolk, V-i.; R. J. Camp, Franklin, V*.; and 0. T. Ladson, Atlanta. Ga. Blind Tlffori and Sunday. D. S. Hammond, Darltutf ton correspondent of the lUrtsvllle Meweug3r, writing of tbe whiskey situation In Darlington says: "Blind tigers and Sunday sellers art having more visitors on Sunday than the ohurohes. Darlington is one of the oountles that nag voted out the dispensary, but it BOTiua i.uaL pronioition falls to forbid it there. An Old Man. James Webb, of Peters, San Joaquin county, Oal., celebrated oq Jqly 27 bis one hundredth birthday. He was born in Kentucky. He had thirteen ohildren, seven of whom survive, the eldest being eighty. He ' has fifty-one grandchildren, about 160 great-grandchildren and twenty great-great-grandchildren. One hundred of his descendants attended the celebration. t Helped Catch Htm. It is said Mr. Ragsdale, candidate for attorney general, deserted the campaign p arty at Greenwood Wednesday and joined the posie searching the swamps frr the negro, Bob Davis. Q Rusting cut it not xsstirg. _