The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 25, 1906, Image 5
MANY DEAD.
Tea Thousand Die in Hong
Kong by the Typhoon.
MANYSHIPS ARE LOST
They Ran Down One Another in Trying
to Escape, and Bodies of Seaman
Battered Against Stone
Walls Within Sight of
the Shore.
A diBpatch from Victoria, B. C.,
says tea thousand lives were blotted
out, seventeen steamers and sailing
vessels were wrecked or badly damaged,
a thousand Junks were swamped,
t.nrnoH nvnrk n * ?-> ?!' "? -
.u>uvu uiuir w* uatvoiou UU |Ut
against the stone walls of Praya, 80
per cent of the lighters, lauaohb?
yachts, houseboats and small native
craft entirely destroyed, many
wharves wrecked and many damaged,
was the result of a typhoon lasting
but two hours at Hong Kong ou September
18, according to advices
brought by the steamer Empress of
Japan, one of few vessels to esoape
the disaster, which arrived Thursday.
Kowloou sustained the heaviestloss,
bat all sections of Ilong Kong
and Hinterland suffered. There were
24 Europeans among the killed, the
others were Chinese mostly and junk
population.-' O i the approach of the
typhoon juukmen skurrled for shelter,
colliding with each other, cutting
down yachts, houseboats, etc., striving
through the driving rain to reach
the Causeway bay. Thousands were
aoon thrown into the sea, lashed to a
fury, with waves 20 and HO feet high.
The wind blew the junks around
and sent them swirliDg and twisting
to be dashed to pleoes against the
Praya, where hundreds of juoks were
dashed to matca wood ana the mangled
bodies of the crews battered
against the stone walls within sight
of those on shore powerless to lend
aid. The storm ceased as quickly as
It began. The sun shone then on
scene or unparaueci destruction lu
[long Kong. This typhoon exoeeded
all others experienced there lu severity.
Ato His Wife.
Mall advices from Indo-China
brought another and more revolting
story of the doings of King ThanhThai,
of Anman, showing he went to
the extent of oannlbr.ll m. After
killing one of his wives he caused the
body to be cooked and served up for
dinner forcing his entire en courage to
eat it under pain of death. Some of
the king's were bound and burn
ed with bii*wng oil, and subjected to
other cruelty, wnile naked women
were thrown iato the cages of wild
beasts where they were devoured before
the eyes of the king. Finally
the French authorities stepped in and
cuade a prisoner of Thanh-Thai who
has been adjudged insane. The Royal
Guard has been disbanded, the palace
placed unner protection of native
soldiers and the terror stricken Inmates
of the p&laoe rescued from further|sufferlng.
The majority of the latter
were women who bore marks of
revolting tortues. Some wora terribly
mutilated, their faoes being slashed
and tongues out out. while others had
been appended by plnohees, attached
to the 38hy parts or their legs, to lncrease
their agonies.
XhrillloK Trip.
Edward Lewis, of Wllllamsporv,
Pa., had a thrilling experience while
hanging to the veslibuled platform of
a fast Pennsylvania train out of that
city. He reached the train as it was
pulling out, and clung to the haudrail
of true last car. While passing the
yard aispatcher's office the dispatcher
saw him and telegraphed to Alen's
tower, two miles out of the city, to
have the train stopped there. Before
that point is reached trains pass
throngh a covered bridge. When the
train stopped It was found that Lewis's
clothes had b?.en torn from him as
be oame in contact with the boards
of the bridge, but he was unnurt.
Had nob the dispatcher caught sight
of Lewis he would have been carried
to ftunhury, forty miles away, the
first regular stop.
Killed Her 11 unhand.
At Ohioago in the presence of her
a M . m i _ a _ a i
a&uj,nr.o.r ana a pariy 01 onnaren
Mrs. Sarah Aioopashot and killed her
husband, John L Aioopa, last week at
their homo. The shots were flred to
save her own life. Aioopa was chasing
her with a butoher knife and she
ran into her bed-room, took a revolver
from the dresiar and iitred two
shots, one striking the man In the
left temple and the other in tho long.
He ^'d in&tHntly. Alcopa was a oi
gar maker, 38 years old. Ills wife ia
39 and there are two ohildren. Jealousy
of John Mlnerin), a roomer at
the nousa,. is said to have caused the
shooting. Mrs. Aioopa was arrested.
Z=5r=1
It oertalnly is rather awkward for
President Roosevelt that the $9,000,000
steal should be exposed just when
he is dedicating the Oapltol of Pennslyvania
for public use. But politicians
who mingle with Penrose gang
must expeot to be defiled.
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LIQUOR FIGURES.
IP SO-OAIjL?KD PROHIBITION
RBUiLY PROHIBITS.
The Statistics Gathered by the Census
Officials Does Hot Show
It.
Bulletlu 45 Is just out of the census
bureau. It oontains statistics of olties
with from 8,000 to 25,000 inhabitants.
Bulletin 45 Is a continuation
of bulletin 20, published a little while
ago and containing statistics of oitles
of over 25,000 Inhabitants. Among
other things these bulletins show the
number of licensed saloons and the
number of arrests for various oauses
in the year 1903.
An official of the census bureau,
who has a special predlleotion for examining
and oomparlng statistical
tigures for all sorts of purposes, has
made careful computations and comparisons,
to tlnd out how, judging
from the number of arrests, the larger
or smaller number of salmons affect
druukeuess. lie has discovered the
startling fact that a reduction of the
number of saloons hes not, as is generally
supposed, the < il'eot of deoreaslug,
but rather that of increasing, drunke
ii ess.
hi ins compute uons ne takes the
arrests for druukeness and disturb
ance of the peace together, for in
police stations drunkards are fre
quently slated for disturbance cf the
peace and not for drunkeness and
disturbers of the peace are as a rule
drunk.
He says the number of arrer.ts is
not an absolutely safe guide in all
cases for the geuaral state of soberness
or inebriety, for in one city the
police may be carclesH or lenient in
such cases, while in another it may be
more watchful and Htrlct.
It may be also considered, he says,
that the number of saloons is not the
only inlluenoing factor. It makes a
ditTerence whether a place is an inland
town, or a seaport, or a river-town, or
situated on a lake; whether it Is a
commercial or an industrial town;
whether It has much of a foreign population
or not, and if It ha3, which it
Is, or which is predominating,
These differences, he says, probably
account for the deviations from the
rule, whloh otherwise show, however,
that thu larger the number of licensed
saloons the smaller the number of
arrests for drunkenness and disturb
ance of the poaoo, and the smaller the
number of the former, the larger the
number of the latter.
So, for instance, of the 21 o'tlos of
8,000 Inhabitants, Rookl&iui, Maine,
boads the list without any Baloons,
but shows 385 arrests, and Watertown,
Wis., closes the list with 58
saloons, but only 91 arrets.
Of tho 13 olties with 25,000 inhabitants,
Q llncv, Mass., heads the list
with no saloons, but 531 arrests, and
Hamilton, O., with 155 Haioors, but
only atnut the same number of ar
rents (596) closes it; IToboken, N J.,
lias only 255 arrests, although 138 saloons.
Of the 12 cities of between 50,000
and 60,000 inhabitants, Portland,
Maine, heads the lint with no licensed
saloons and 2 189 arrests, and
Elizabeth, N. J., closes it with 237
saloons, but only 1.127 arrests; Yonicers,
N. Y., with 187 saloons, had only
699 arrests, but Charleston, S. C.,
with Its state dispensary had 1,608,
and lUrrisburg, Pa., with saloons,
had 1,786 arrests.
The list of the ten cities with about
100,000 Inhabitants opens with Fall
River, Mass., without saloons, but 2,663
arrests from drunkenness and disturbance
of the peace; next comes
Lowell, Mass., with 91 saloons and 2,684
arrests; It closes with Memphis,
Tenn., having 504 saloons, but only
1,967 arrests.
At the head of the list of the live
olties with about 200,000 inhabitants
stands Minneapolis, with only 381 ta
loons and 2 876 arrests, and at Its foot
stands Jersey City with 1,031 saloons
and 3,402 arrests.
Figuring out some percentages, be
found that In all the olties, with a
population from 8,000 to 25,000, contained
In Bulletin 45, taken together
in the three prohibition states, Iowa,
Kansas and Maine, the number of ar"<$sts
for the two causes mentioned
was for each one thousand inhabitant
32 60; 22.25; 25 71 respeoiively,
while tbe figures for Illinois, Indiana
and Now Jersey, three license states,
were respectivly 25-83, 19.30 and 13.34.
Asked for the reasons that produced
these astonishing effects, quite contrary
to popular opinion, the official
said that he has not particularly iu
vestlgated them, but he thought that
there is probably more home-tlppllnu
where there is a want of convenient
drinking places, and that bllad tigers,
drugghts and boot-!eggers in prohibition
localities hid it less dangeroui
and more profitable to sell whiskey
than beer or wine.
Four Killed.
Four persons are d3ai and several
others are missing as the result of a
, gasoline explosion in the Molnerdlng
Hard-ware store at Fort Recovery,
i Olio. The explosion set fire to the
i buildings and the injured were imprisoned
under the ruins.
All Amerloan oitizens are entitled
' to equality before the law, or aa the
1 Constitution expresses it, "the equal
' protection of the laws". They have
. never had this under the Republican
regime.
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TWO SOCIETIES
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Organized to Help the Farmers
Have Fallen Out And
ABUSE EACH OTHER.
Cotton Farmers Advised to Pay No Attention
to Harvey Jordan's Literature
Beating on the Cotton
Crop or Telling them
What to Do.
It seems that the Farmers Union
and the Southern Cotton Association,
both good societies organized to aid
the farmer in getting an honest price
for his cotton, has fallen out and are
abusing each Instead of pulling together
as they should, whloh is to be
regretted. A special dispatch from
Atlanta to the Augusta Chronicle
says the meeting of the Georgia
lirauch of tho Farmers Union made It
pretty pla n that there is a tight to
the death going on between that organization
and the Southern Cotton
Association.
At tho ??
? ? w IU IV tiauua ULi
Thursday night of the Farmers' Union
there was quite & little discussion
along the lino of the interview with
President Barrett, iu which he said
that Mr. Jordan and the Southern
Cotton Association had not done rl ht
in not endorsing and urging the minimum
price of cotton at 11 oents. Mr.
Barrett believes that the crop will be
a short one, a1 d contends that there
is every reason for holding to 11 cents
as the low mark for marketing the
orop.
A resolution was passed by the
Union advising all farmers partloularly
in Georgia, but generally throughout
the cotton belt, to pay no further attention
t j President Harvey Jordan
of the Southern Cotton Association in
the matter of advice issued by him on
the cotton situation. The resolutions
make it plain that Mr. Jordan is not
popular in his ideas on the cotton sit
uatlon with the new organization,
and there is little or no room left to
doubt the fact that the Union and
the (Southern Cotton Association are
no longer to pull together, but rather
that the Union will mike a determined
tlTirt to break up the Southern
Cotton Association.
jordan hit back.
The Atlanta Journal says President
Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Asso
elation, replied to certain criticisms
made about him and the Association
by President C. S. Barrett of the
Farmers Union. President Barrett
criticised tno Association for iixing
the minimum price at 10 cents, when
the Union lixed it at 11 cents, and for
raising the price last December to 12
cents. lie also criticised a purported
interview with Jordan in which the
latter was quoted as declaring that
the storm dumage on the gulf coast
was exaggerating.
I corrected that interview Wednes
day," said Mr. Jordan. "What I
did say wiA that there would be & depression
in the prioe of cotton if it
was rushed upon the market. 1 said
also that exporters in T$xas and the
southwest had done all in their now
ar to boost their own prices by saying
that the orop had been almost
annihilated in the Atlantio states.
"Ho far from saying that the damage
has been over estimated, 1 will say
that since August rains, trophic&l
raius, tropical storms, the boll weevil
and other causes have reduced the
orop fully 1,000,000 bales. As for
the minimum price of 10 cents llxed
by the Association, 1 would say this,
that the Association at that time was
not as thoroughly posted on the orop
as it was later, and that it fixed then
what is known as a bread and meat
Hue, or a permanent minimum price.
The Uaion in fixing 11 cents establlsheh
a fair price.
"As for the other statement about
the 15 cent price fixed by the assooia
tton last Deoomber, I cannot see why
President Barrett should revive that
anolent history. As a matter of fact,
the Uulon, through E. A. Calvin, its,
president, agreed with the association
oo pledge its members to hold for a
price ranging from 12 1 2 to 15 cents
and I have letters from Mr. Calvin
making that agreement.
" That they did not hold for 15
cents," said Mr. Jordan, "was due to
the faot that members of the Union
released their cotton at 12 1-2 cents.
President Barrett, however, says that
the Union held out for a price of 11
cents, when as a matter of fact, the
correspondence shown that they
agreed on a scale ranging from 12 12
to 15 cents.
"1 wlsn to repeat that the salvation
cf the farmer consists In marketing
his cotton slowly. If any unusual
i cause should depress the market, 1
would advise the farmers not to sell
at all. For the indications now point
I to the fact that there will be no bum
per orop in Georgia this year, nor ic
the south as a whole. The most con
I Tiik Cabinet is to be reorganized bj
i the resignation of Moody an J Shaw,
1 The public can spare both 'of them,
i though, of oourse, the President wil
say how sorry he is to lose their valuable
aervtoee.
gervattve estimate cannot go above
11,500.000 bales, and 12 500,000 has
been the conservative estimate of the
yield ncooessary to supply the demand."
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B18H0F ON BACE PROBLEM.
Writes liOtter to Atlanta Goueitutlon
Making Wise Huggoattons.
Bishop W. W. Duncan of Spartanburg
has written the following letter
to the Atlanta Constitution. Late
experiences make it imperative that
I say juBt a word on the subject of
mob law:
First, I think we have been indis- 1
creet in our utterances and publloa- <
tlons about eduoational and soolal
questions affecting the negro. We
have said and written too much until
our people as well as the negro 1
have become lrrltat d and excited i
beyoi d the point of control. The
negro I think, ie naturally disposed <
to be peaceable, docile and ready to i
keep in mind his proper plaoe among ,
his white friends. Generally, he is
not resentful when kiudly and patiently
dealt with. We too often i
forget his changed relations from i
the days of 1865.
Secondly, the bettor class of white
people and negroes have the solution
in their own hands. There must be
a proper regard for the rights of both
classes 1 fell assureed that the wiseand
thoughtful negroes under the influence
of the better class of whites,
will restrain the passions and evil dispositions
of the formor and secure
that judicious treatment of all classes
so much desired. 1 deprecate very
much any species of conduct which
appeals to brute force, as a remedy
for all the evils growing out of racial
differences.
Thirdly, moral consideration should
control the superior raoe and those
pruicssing *0 De miiuenoea ana guided
by the spirit of Christ, so the better
elans of negroes must bo felt In their
Influence over the lower olass of negroes,
who are guilty of crimes so
abhorrent to the whites.
Your editorial on ' The Past as a
Problem Solver," 1 regard as admlra
ble in most respects. I trust ?that
the ot uusels of our law-abiding people
and Chrsstian men and women
may secure peace and quiet, and give
to us that Christian civilization so
greatly to be deolred among all classes.
Will *'lght It Out.
A dispatch from Columbia says It
seems that the state dispensary will
go before the next legislature heavily
Indicted by the summer primaries,
but whether a pro dlsponsary senate
will be able to save its life in spite of
another auti.dispensary house remains
to be seen. Still it Is confidently
calculated among the friends
of the dispensary that even If the
legislature does repeal the present law
aud pass something In the nature of
the Morgan local option lav/ all >rding
the counties choice between prohibition
and county dispensary, with
high Docrise for Charleston, the state
will remain alive fur at least two
years, and possibly forever. The dispatch
intimates that the matter will
be taken up In courts and fought out
there over the constitutionality of establishing
county dispensaries and
giving Charleston the rluht to open
bar rooms.
Cannot Carry i'mokajcne*
Complaint is made to the Department
that rural carrier at the request
of patrons of their routes, oail
at express ctlloers for packages of
mailable matter and deliver same
outside of the mails to the patrons
and receive small fees for the servloe.
and the following prohibitory order
has been issued: "Postmasters at
rural delivery ollloeB are directed to
inform rural carriers that they must
not carry, as express matter, for hire,
or as a favor any artlole weighing
four pounds or under, which is mailable,
and carriers will inform their patrons
that such paokages can only be
delivered by them after the required
postage has been atHxed.to such packages."
Hoiifv Storm.
A dispatch from Fort Pierce, Fla.,
says the conductor on train No. 98
just in from Miami reports terrible
destruction there by the hurricane
Thursday. Fully 100 houses were
blown down and the city Is in a demoralized
condition. Tha handsome
churches of the Episcopal and Meth
oaist denominations were both blown
down. The concrete jail was leaning
with danger of turning over and the
1 prisoners had to be removed. The
car sheds are down and the top was
blown off the peninsula and Oooidcntal
steamer sheds. A two-story brick
building, as a saloon completely col
lapsed.
A ilftHoally I'reaoher.
Charged with using the (Jnlted
States ma Is in furthering a scheme
to defraul; It .v, A. M. Kolley, promother
of the Beulah religious seti
tlement, in Dickson oounty, Tenu.,
was arrested Wednesday, oarrled to
i Nashville, taken before a United
! States ocnmiisloner and held In $l,?
I 000 bond which he gave. K jlley went
! to Tennesoe about t *o years ago from
I Illinois. He Is Is said to have induei
ed a number of families to settle Id
' Dickson county through false repret
suitatlons. Many of his alleged vie*
tims are from the North.
' Thky say that Senator Beveridg*
wept when he heard that Taft waf
fl: ing the Uuban flag over the Cuban
> publlo buildings. When the inoperl
ialistlo bug gets into a Bepublloac
politician's > head of the Beverldgc
' caliber, he is pretty near a candidate
for the "bug.houaa",
HUNtt IN HORRY.
JOHNSON KXKCU rttl> AT CON WAY
ON FltlDAY
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For Murdering the Bev. Harmon
Granger, A Baptist Preacher,
Last Fall.
Commander Johnson, a white man,
wag hung at Conway on last Friday
for the murder of the Rev. Harmon
Grainger, a Baptist preacher, last
Fall. The ezeoution took pl&oe at one
o'clock in the presenoe of the witnesses
alowed by law. Johnson died with
the oomforts of the faith of the Baptist
ohuroh, the Rev. Mr. Finch, of
the Rev. Grainger's Baptist association,
administering to him.
The local military company guarded
the jail, as a matter of precaution, q
on acoount of threats on the part *of b
Johnson's relatives, and bicruso of
the intense feeling over the case, but ^
there appeared to bo no need of their tl
services. There was not the slightest g
evidence of any disturbance. John- ^
son's frlonds said they were going to .
prevent the execution but they did not
try It. Johnson's father was lu Conwav
to take charge of the body. r
Efforts were made on Thursday to
get Gov. Hey ward to respite Johnson, j
but the Governor declined to interfere
and the law was allowed to take its ^
course. The case has been one of the
most notorious in the State in some \
years. Johnson was tried aud conviot- s
ed upon circumstantial evidenco of
the murder of Rev. Harmon L. Grain 1
ger. Grainger was shot down in his c
ticld from ambush while ho was plow- t
i in/
To tin majority of the people thero
is no doubt as to Johnson's guilt.
Theri have been, howover, dot rmln
ei eiT >rts to have the man pardoned
or his sentence oommuted. The courts
were appealed to but the Supreme
court upheld the circuit oourt. The
pardoning hoard was appealed to without
avail and llnally the governor.
There was a petition presented to
the executive otlleer some time ago
and many of Its signatures provod to
ho f orgeries. Several stated afterwards
t.iat they had been frightened
into signing the petition. The general
opinion In Ilorry Is that the man deswrval
death and that the Governor
did the right thing In refusing to Interfere.
Governor Hoyward ordered Oapt.
BJpps, of tho Conway Hussars, to hold
hisocm iauy In readiness and to await
orde>s from Slier 1 IT Sessions in case
there Is any disorder. This was a
precautionary measure on the part of
the Governor, it proved to be unneo3ssary
as there was no demonstration
for or against the condemned man.
The fact that the aged minister was
shot ai d killed from ambush made
the murder a very atrcclous one.
Johnson Is one of the few white
men that have been executed In this
State for murder since the war. Hub
the juri s of recent years have been
doing better in regard to convicting
criminals regardless of thoir color
.vhlch iu a hopeful sign. As was said
above Johnson was convicted purely
on oiroum8tantial ehldence, but it was
very strong and there is no doubt bv
tho.se who heard the ease but that he
was gulltv, and that the awful penalty
meted out to him was just what '
he deserved.
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HANGING OK A FIKND.
Richard Dargan, found guilty on
Ootober 8 of criminally assaulting ,
Mrs. Luoy Ann Patterson, was hanged
at four minutes after noon on Friday
at Bennettsvllle. Standing on
the Boaffold, Dargan said that he was
guilty and wanted forgiveness of the
people. "God has pardoned my sins,"
he said, "and I am going to glory."
"I want this to be a warning to people
of my color," he continued. "If I
had listened to my wife that Sunday
and gone home with her, as she told
me, 1 would not be here now. Instead
of doing as she told me, I went out
and drank whiskey with others and
got into this trouble."
Hteamor Has Bailed,
Mr. Herbert, of the State immigration
department Thursday night received
a cablegram announcing the
sailing of the Wittekind, with nearly
500 imigrants. The cablegram follows:
"Broment, Ootober 18.?Herbert,
Columbia, S. 0. Sailed successfully
noon. One hundred and sixty-eight
Belgians. Four hundred and eightytwo
altogether, Including Austrians,
Germans and others. Watson."
It Is presumed that Mr. Watson Is
coming on a faster vessel and will be
here in time to receive the Wittekind
In Charleston's broad waters on November
3.
Killed by Auto*
At Waltham, Mass., by the overturning
of an automobile at the foot
of a long hill between Wayland and
Sudbury Oouter Thursday. M s. Fred
N. Dllllon. of Fitehhuror. ?iu kilierl
and Mrs. George P. Grant, Jr\ also of
1 Fitohburg, sustained a fracture of
> two ribs, and other injuries. George
i P. Grant, Jr., who was operating the
maohino, escaped praotloally uni
harmed. The machine shot over a
four-footed embankment, and landed
in a meadow upside down with its
occupants beneath it.
i Two Norweigan sailors were fined
i in Charleston Monday for dressing as
{ women and disporting themselves in
. publio.
> President Palms is any way saved
> the tioubla of working for a third
term.
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SENEGA BURNED
:or Lack of Means to Fight the
Fire Fiend.
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STORIES SENT OUT
hat the Fire Was Set by Negroes la
Revenge for the Partial Destruction
of a Negro School
House Seems to Be
Unfounded.
A dispatch from Greenville to the
harleston Post says following the
lowing up of a negro school house at
eneoa, S. C., on Friday, October 12,
h&t little town was burned to the
round on Tuesday night of last week
y an Inoendlary tire, said to have
oen set by negroos In revenge for
he blowing up of the school. liaroil
College, as the negro school blown
p was oallod, was presided over by
tov. J. F. Williams and Is supported
?y Northern white people.
It seems that Williams had made
llmself very objectionable to the
vhtto people, by advising the negroes
tot to work and preaching other Incendiary
doctrines. A letter was sent
o him several weeks ago advising him
o leave, but to this he pa.d no atontlon.
Oa Friday night, Oitober
2, some parties, whother white or
)<ack, is not itno#n, placid dynamite
lartldges under each corner of the
sollege building, and touched the
vhole business off at the stroko of
nidnlght.
Since the dynamiting of this oolege,
negroes have besa In aa ugly
nooa and meetings have b39n bald
lightly lu negro lodge ropms and
iall8. Oa Tuesday night of last
vesk, It see mi, mUtois ware brought
.o a bead for at 1 o'clock an alarm of
ire was sounded from :ov3r*l puts of
;be town, which has a p ipulaolon of
1,000 or more. The tire burned furl)us)y
and fast, consuming structure
ifter structure, until It occurred to
lome one to use dynamite to break
die path of tho tlames. This was not
loue, however, until tbe greater part
)f tbe town bad been destroyed.
Tbe town was without tire apparatus
and citizens oould do nothing but
itand Idly by and watch their property
go up in smoke. Advices from
Seneca Fay that among tho buildings
ourned are both hotels, Mrs. William
Joleman's rosldence two stores admitting
a hotel. A clothing store,
irug store, grocery and one hardwaro %
nore were badly damagod. Tbe tire
oroke out in tbe basement of the
Dooneo Inn, which was loft unlocked
ast night, atTording access In iucenltarles.
No casualties are reported,
is tho oocup&uts of the hotels had
implo time to get out. Tho property
loss Is In the neighborhood of
1150,000, with some insurance.
There seems to have been no ground
Tor tbe above sensational dispatch, as
the negroes In tbe town of Seneca
assisted tbe white people In lighting
the tire. The Post's correspondent at
Anderson says he was Informed by
Mr. J. M. Hollman, cashier of tbe
bank at Seneca on Wednesday morn*
lng that there was no foundation for
tnis report an I that the people of
Seneca do not believe the negroes
had anything to do with the tire.
There was a quantity of paints and
oil* stored in the basement of the
building in which the tire started.
A Bold llobbor.
An unique and daring robbery was
committed at Coepenlck, Germany,
one day last week. The robber, in
the uniform of a captain of the
guards met a detachment of twelve
men on a street In Berlin who were
returning from target practloe. He
produced a forged cabinet order authorizing
him to take command. The
men reoognlzed his authority, and he
then ordered<them to march to Coepenlck.
Upon arrival there they proceeded
to the town hail, arrested the
burgomaster and the treasurer and
took possession of the cash?$1 OOP.
Tne robber detached seven of his
mon to oonduct the prisoners to
headquarters in Bsrltn aud ordered
the remainder to hold possession of
the town hall for half an hour. Ha
then rode off alone la the direction of
Berlin with the money. The burgomaster
and treasurer were greatly
mystiiiad at the meaning of their arrest.
Upon their arrival in custody
at headquarters in Berlin they learned
the ostensible oaptaln was a fraud
and wore Immediately discharged.
TIio Mmuo (Jang.
Members of the Grand Army of the
Bepubllo are protesting against the
state of Alabama's placing a statue of
the late J. L. M. Carry iu Statuary
Hall in Washington' It is the same
gang that protested against the statue
of Robert E. L^,e there, and for
tvio ime reason?that he was a Confederate.
A former mayor of Dublin, Ga., and
vloe president of the bank waa shot
in a hotel at Vidalla by a lumber
man, Will T. Gilpin, whose wife had
made an appointment to meet MoDonald
at the hotel. )