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MASS OFJIUINS. Kingston, Jamaica, Destroyed by Terrible Earthquake. HAVOC AN1) HORROR. ^ Conseasos of Report is to the Effect That the Death List is Enormous, and That Flames Added to Devastating Work of Srismic Shake. The city of Kingston on the Island of Jamaica, which nail a population of about fifty thousand people, one half of whom were colored, was devastated oo Monday morning of last weak by a terrible eortt.ql ike, which was followed by a destructive tire, in which scores of people were roasted alive. A dispatch Bays one terrific shock that sent buildings tumbling into piles of blaziug ruins, crushing men, women aud children to death, coming without an instant's warning, destroyed a great part of the city of Kingston, Jamaica. From 100 to 1,000 persons, according to varylDg reports, are dead In the ruins. Scores, trapped In the debris, were roasted to death in the damos that swept over the ruined oity. Four more shocks quiokly followed the first, and then came a trembling of the earth that gradually subsided, but the great destruction had been caused by the fir shook. Panic came off the heels of the earthquake crash. Mobs, frenzied by fear, rushed through the shaking streets for the suburbs, unheeding the orles of angulnh and appeals for help from those crushed and dylDg in the blazing ruins. The military hospital was among the buildings that went down with a crash. More than thirty soldiers were burled in the ruins and ware roasted to death in the fire that was soon spreading through the city. The greatest destruction oocurred in the business section of the city, the central part where business houses and dwellings alike fell into piles. Ab the greater part of the buildingB cf the city were wooden, the tire spread with incredible rapidity. The Are department was demoralized and for a time useless. In a short time bands of robbers were at work, and, with the dames roaring around them, ' began pillaging wrecked buildings and homes from which the occupants had fled. The negro population added to the wildness of the scene, as thev seemed orazed with fear and rushed to and fro, soreamlng frantically and hindering thosb who had recovered their wits and sought to aid the injured. Many had died in the orush of the fcnmhllniv mil* nana, auu umu/ UUUOIB T?13IC killed by being caught in the taDgle of live electric wires. A dibpa?oh from Kingston on Wednesday said the cifcy was still a smouldering lire. Everywhere the wounded are lying in agony. The estimates of the dead are varying and as high as 1,000. In the frenzy that followed the horror, the survivors wore orazad with fear. The soldiers had to beat the delirious mobs v^ith the butts of their guns to restore a semblance of order. Thieves organized into large bands and In looting the orinolpal residences, resisted the polloe and troops. Groups of marauders were shot down by vol IY leys from the military. Many aots of \ thrilling heroism marked the rescues. Scores of women and children were I , < dragged from burning timbers under whlon they were pinned. Tne Henah is described as awful. There is no fodder for animals and famine is imminent. Money ia useless. The banks have been burned, but the vaults are supposed to be safe. The misery on all sides is lode aorible. Rich and poor alike are <g2u>mal6ss. Provisions of all kinds are urgently needed. It Is impossible to nmj wuoic muy uuu y uau utJ iuuuu. Sir James Ferguson, vice chairman of the Royal Mall Steamship Company, Is among the killed. The loss of life Is very great, but the exact numbers are not yet known. The dead are burled under the smouldering ruins. The mercantile oommunlty suffered most severely, warehouses falling upon them. Many professional men are dead or injured. The negroes are looting. Ghastly scenes are being witnessed. All the shops have been destroyed, and all the buildings in and around Klngstou are in ruins. Vary few of them are safe to live in. i. _ j Do?iti of Or. WotHlrow. Dr. James Woodrow, solentist, educator, theologlolan, publicist, bank er and businessman, diedJn Columbia Thursday morning aftena lingering illness. He was born in Carlisle, England, on May 30, 1828, being a son of a Scotch clergyman. His parents oame to Canada In 1836 and to the United States In 1837. Chicago's health commissioner avers that if the provisions of the pure food v ^ / law are rigorously carried out boiled ^ dee will be the only food that can be J| Vll}\ ^ BAR ASSOCIATION Had Interesting Meeting In Columbia Lisst Week. The Bar Association bad a moot la teres turn ssMticg in Columbia last weak, la was decided to recommend that tne ?! *? of the chief justice of the supreme court be made 16,000 a year ana tne salaries of the associate justices ne mane 96.600. There was j much disouss'on on the resolution and j It was generally agreed that the present salaries are entirely out of keep lng with the dignity of the ofboeB. THE OFFICERS. The following is the liBt of oflloers looted: President?J. H. Hudson. Vice presidents, one from each Judicial circuit: First T. M. Utysor; seo ond, Gao. H. Bates; third, T. G. MoLeod; fourth, J. II. Coggeshall; tlftb, N. G. Evans; sixth, A. L Gaston; seventh, C. P. Sanders; eight, Walter II. nuot; ulnth, B H- Itutledge, Jr., tenth, R. T. Jaynes. Secretary?John J. Earie. Tre&auier -W. S. Nelson. . First District ?T. M. Rayaor, L S. Weeks and Robert Llde. Seoond District?Geo. H. Bates, II. S. Dowllng, J. S. DivU. Third district?T. G. MoLeod, Hugh Hayoesworbh, J. B. McLaughlin. Fourth district?J. R Coggeshall, Henry Buok. T. W. Bouohier. Fifth district?N. G. Evans. W. H. Sharpe, J. W. Thomas. Sixth district?A. L. Gaston. J. L. Glenn, J. H. Foster. Seventh district?O. P. Sanders, V. E. DePass, II. L Bomar. Eighth district?Walter II, Hunt, 1C W Ahlf>B .1 !<' WraBor Ninth district?B U Rutledge, Jr.. B, A. Hagood, J E. Plnckney. Tenth district?R. T. Jaynes, T. J. Mauldin, J. S. McSwaln Exeoutive oommittes?F. Tomp kins, P. A. Wilocx, J. B. Wlngard, John J. Earle, W. S. Nelson. IKNKIUL COUNCIL One from o&oh judicial circuit, Darned in order: D. O. Herbert, T. G. Croft, Charlton DuRant, W. P. Pollock. M. L. Smith, T. G. McLeod, W. S Hall, Jr., D. A. G. Outzj, W. B. Gruber, E. M. Ruoker. The president and secretary are also members. itobort K. Leo. Born Westmoreland county, Virginia, January, 1807. Son of *'Light Horse Harry" Lee. revolutionary leader. Entered West Point 1825, appointed by Gen. Andrew Jackson. Graduated 1829, seoond in his class. Second lieutenant In engineering corps till 1134. Married 1831, Mary Randolph Custls. granddaughter of Martha Washington. Promoted to oaptaln and staff of chief engineer. At tattles of Vera Cruz, Cerro UV1UU| UUV1UUUOUU MUU ULUIIJUirai'OU lo Mexican war, earning promotions. Appointed superintendent of West Point, 1852. Lieutenant oolonel of cavalry In Texas Indian campaigns. Suppress ed John Brown's raid in 1859, Rejected command of United States army In 1161. Became brigadier general in Confederate army, 1861. Given direction of the Confederate military operations In March, 1862. Surrendered with his army to General Grant at Appomattox April 9, 1865. Installed as president of Washington college, Lexington, Y*., 1865. Died October 12, 1870. A Human mounter. Reports from Selouan, south of Me1111a, where the Moroccan pretender has his oamp, Indicate that his follow ers, since the appearance of the Sultan's troops at Tangier, are growing lukewarm, and that an energetio movement probably would soon ilnlsh the rebellion whloh the pretender has oeen conducting for several years. Stories of cruelties with which he terrorized the Inhabitants are almost incredible. Thoee even suspected of disloyalty have been dragged to Selouan in chains and subjected to tortures. Sometime ago a Kebdana suspect was bound at the mouth of a cannon and blown to pieces. Another, who had been obliged to give hospitality to a soouting party of B1 Guebbas troops was tied to a horse and rider and at full speed dragged through the oamp and villages as a warning. Arrested Murderers. Mike Smith and his son Charles, 17 years old, have been arrested ,an1 will be tried for murder next week at Troy, N. 0., on the oharge of killing Milton Bunnell, a Oojfederate veteran, for his money last week. Bunnell called at the homo of the Smiths and exhibited some gold ooins. When he i started nome ine smiths, according to t ie sod's story, planned to kill and rob him. They followed Bunnell and when they caught up with hlm.Obar* les Smith struck him with an aie. They then riflad Bunnell's pooketsand plaoed the body an the railroad track, where a train ran oyer it. Mike Smith denies participation in the crime. Gov; Ansel will assume the high office to which he has been called this week, and it is the duty of every citizen of the state to hold up his hands and help him make his administration a grand sucoess.. WHO IS FOE? Unknown Person Has Attempted to Kill Mother and Son. M IRKED FOR DEATH Pol?oo, Dynamite and Fire Have Been Usid In Attempts to Annihilate a South Georgia Family by Some Secret Enemy or Enemies. Marked for death by an unknown foe, Mrs. Alice Futoh and her son. Allen Futoh, are momentarily expecting assise!nation In their home Id the lower part of Tnomas county, Ga., says a dispatch to the Atlanta Journal. Nine times the hidden hand of mysterious death has been raised against mother and son, poison, dynamite and tire falling in each Instance to aocomplish its fiendish execution. Secrot service ofiloers, county oftlolais, private detectives and the comblned efforts of the law, augmented by sympathetic and zealous friends, have bsen foiled lo their strenuous efforts to deteot the man and the motive and todav the terror-Btrioken and sole Inhabitants of the old Futoh homeate&Ji are calmly awaiting what they fear mav be complete annihilation. Recounting their terrible experience, young Allen Futoh, the son, twenty-cne years of age, dramatically .J uAuiniiiiQu iiuuMjr: "It la the prcteotlou of the Lord that has saved me and my mother from death!" "Yes, it's providenoe alone," the mother Interposed. And to those who have watched the plot thicken, It seems apparent that more than human agencies have been brought to their asslstanoe to counteract the execution of nine diabolical attempts to take their lives. "Another attempt will be made upon the lives of these lnnooent people," said Hon. Fondren Mitchell, member of the Georgia legislature, who has been employed as special counsel to aid the solicitor of Thomas oounty in running the assassin to oover. For Beven months a veritable terror reign has ruled over the Futoh home. When the two members of the family were away, poison wo aid be plaoed In their food, in the milk and even In the well; when they were at home they were targets for dynamite bomb6 and the assassin's bullets. Go or stay, their lives have been In peril slnoe early in last June. What violous motive has driven an enemy to such extremes? Ask the trembling woman, and she only shakes her head. Ask the young son who remains constantly by her side and he o&nnnt annwp.r "They haven't an enemy in the world, made so by an aot of their own," declares Attorney Mitchell. "It's all mystery, deep, weird and up to the present impenetrable. I am moving heaven arid earth to tind the guilty man. Others are doing the same thing. We all have theories, but the faots are still beyond our reach." The population of the lowe>- half of Thomas county Is busily engaged in speculating upon this strange case, and gossip has oonnected many per sons with the crime, in which Romanoe, Love and Jealousy figure In sensational human Interest, but the evidence is lacking. On June 4th, last year, Mrs. Futch and Allen were suddenly seized with desperate illness. That they were spared seemed almost miraculous. It was believed their illness was due to acute indigestion. As a matter of fact they were poisoned,but it was not unt l the third attempt had been made that they realized a fiendish plot had been laid for their assassination. The first attempt was made by putting either arsenio or rough on rata in the water bucket and ooffee pot. On June 10th a second attempt was maae, ana inn time the mother and son were again In the shadow of death. On July 5th the chloken at the noon meal was saturated with poison, and mother and son again were desperately ill. July 10th the assassin returned and poisoned Mrs. Futoh. The condition of Mrs. Futoh grew constantly more orttloal, and on July i:nh Dr. Taylor, the family pbysioian, Ret. T. A. White, the pastor of the First Baptist church at Metcalf, and other friends and relatives were summoned. There were twenty-one persons in uuu iiuutte uu bum u?y sua nous were spared by the unknown hand that sprinkled poison wholesale In the supper. 11 twenty-one wete poisoned. The physlolan, called to safe Mrs. jfutoh, almost lost his own life, and the minister was for hours at the point of death. 3fc . .1 r Others, including friends and servants, were desperately ill, but all recovered. David Graham Phillips declares | that one per cent of the people of the United States control 99 per cent of the wealth. And the one per cent seems to think Its membershi^^^ a vested right In the 99 per cen' r*.'... j\ *' * ' ' Ox July 23 another attempt wan made and Mrs Futoh, Allen end John were victims. With the arrest of Laura and Ollle Cunningham, negroes employed on the Vutoh estate, the attempts ceased until January 7th, when the assassin grew more hold and discarded poison and resorted to dynamite Sunday night, January 7th, the en amy crawled under the house, bored holes through the floor under the bed in which Allen Futoh was Bleeping, oblseled out a hole with a sharp In itrument and pushed a dynamite bomb Into the room, lighted the fuse and fled. Tracks were found in the b&ok yard leading to the woods In the rear of the house. The bomb exploded, but again super human hands seemed to Interpose and the assassin was foiled. T.ie boomb shook the house from cellar to garret, hurled Allen Futch 'rum bis bid and set the house atire. 'I rushed Into Allen's room," said Mrs. Futoh, "and was blinded by the light aod flames. I expeoted to see my boy torn Into fragments, but he was unhurt. Wo threw water on the tUmea anu saved the house and thon I was so thankful that we had been spared, that 1 threw my arms around Allon aud orled: "Tnank God; Thank God 1 " 1c is taken for grautod by all that the attempts are too ounnlng to be planned by a negro. "It la the work of a white man," says Allen. "Why, when I got myself together from the shock of the iyna mite bomb, I rushed out of the house, shooting, to give the alarm to the negroes who were sleeping In the quarters. "To mv astonishment, the dogs wore gone! "Wo have three dogs whloh we keep In the yard for added proteotlon. One of the negroes came running up about this time and I told him to hurry to the barn and saddle my horse, as I wanted to go to Thomasvills to get the sheriff and bloodhounds. "My horse was gone. "The horse returned about two hours later and with him camu the dogs." The theory advanoed is that the assassin first went to tho barn and mounted Alien s horse, knowing the dogs would follow the horse. "My dogs will follow that horse day or night, without question or suspicion " Allen says. The horse was ridden about a quarter of a mile away, tied and left behind, and with him, It Is believed, the dogs waited out In the woods. The assassin, and the traoks In the newly plowed ground olearly establishes this, returned to the house, orept under the building out his hole through the lloor and put the dynamite bomb into the room, lighted the fuse and fled. The bomb exploded at 11.23 o'olook Sunday night and within ten minutes the negro servants and tenants on the plaoe had bsen thoroughly aroused and were at the home. "When 1 found the horse and dogs gone," says Allen, "1 ordered one of the negroes to hurry to a house a quarter of a mile away, for more assistance "In a few minutes the negro oame running back, badly frightened. He told me he had Just seen a man on my horc riding through the woods. "This man was, beyond queitlon, the assawin, who had hurried to the woods where he had left my horse, mounted it and was escaping. Tracks the next day showed the negro's statement to bp true. The horse re turned alone, with reins gone, In about two hours. "Everything oonneoted with this awful o&se Indicates the work to bs that of a ounning white man who is thoroughly familiar with the place; so familiar, in faot, that he oould lrcate the exact position of my bed, though he was under the house." The ninth attempt was made last Sunday night, and but for the alert ncss of Night Guard Judson Fewell, might have been successful. I KIIIKD TO KILL 1IIM. Guard Fewell went on duty last Sunday night at dark. Mrs. Futoh and Allen were In the house, with shotguns and revolvers In reach. "1 had a presentment," saysJMrs. Futoh, "that there would be trouble, and I told Judson to watoh everything and Investigate the least noise. I told him not to shoot anyone coming in at the front gate, as John might be oomlng home." Shortly after ? o'clock Fewell heard a noise. He was in the rear of the house at the time, but quickly orawled over the deep sand on his all fours, to the front. He heard the latoh of the gate drop into its socket and then was silhouetted the form of a man, whether white or black Powell did not know, la the darkness. 'I cried to him to 'Halt!' but he turned and sprang behind a tree," says Fewell. ''The next .moment he started to run, and 1 tired point blank and I tired to kill, but missed the man as It was dark. He got away, but we followed hlstraoks into the woods for some distance." Sinoe Sunday night the house has been oonstantly guarded, day and night. Thk "trust-busting" goes on but we haven't heard of any trust retiring from business. They seem to have the nine lives of a cat and when you think you have the "critter" killed it V 1 . ^ fMif, I \? r KL1CT1D OFFICERS. And the Work Will Now Bo 1'unhcd to Completion. The South Carolina Publlo Servioe | corporation has advanced another stop in its progress towards beginning work; in the development of ltB great enterprise. The preliminary meeting required by the statute to be held for tbe purpose of obtaining subscriptions to tbe stock and for the eleotlon of the board of dlreotors and officers was held on Wednesday of last week at the Kdlsto building, where the offices of ths l company have been loosted. Ths meeting was attended b> a large number of gentlemen interested In the enterprise, and the necessary subscription of 1275,000. required as a preliminary to the granting of the o artor, was promptly made, and the necessary cash payments given to the treasurer. The following officers wore elected: H President, Joseph J. Tlmmes; vloa . president and general manager, Charles It Vau Etten; secretary'the treas 1 urer, John P. Honney. The following directors of the corporation were elected: Joseph J. Tim mes, O. R Van Ktten, John P. Honcey, Joseph Hernial, Lawrence M. Plckney, John 0. Lott, Dow S. Smith Frederick W. Sohroeder and Robert H. Jennings. The tinal step in incorporating and perfecting the company's plan for bo ginning business will be taken Jan. 18, when the formal papers will bo tiled on the expiration of the satutorv i notice, and fchn iPC.rntArv nf atufcn ?HU be naked to issue tho oharier, acoord- i lng to law. All tbe directors except Messrs. Plnokney and Jennings are from New York, and represent tbe capitalists of tbat city who are interested In tbe i enterprise. Mr. Plnokney Is from Charleston and Mr. Jennings Is from this city, Tbe company Is now fully organized and ready lo enter upon the building of tbe net work of railways they have in view. l-iiuorHon Found Guilty. At Anderson last week tbe jury In the ease of tbe state vs. Allen Emerson, oharged with tbe murder of T. F Drake, returned a verdict of guilty of murder with recommendation to mercy Friday night, after deliberating about one hour. The defendant displayed little If any emjtion when | the verdict was read. Thomas Allen of oouosel for tbe defense gave notice of intention to apply for a new trial Emerson, who was a guard on the county chalngang, killed T. F. Drake j In tbe borne of tbe latter on the night of tbe 11th of last August. Emerson was in tbe room with one of Drake's ] daughters, and Drake oame In tbe ( room on tbem with his pistol in his hand. He fired one shot at Emerson, j who fired two shots, the latter killing . Drake lnBtantly. The plea was self- , defense. Emerson and the woman had h*Otl Infirm* t-o fn? n?nA?*l J uwuli lumvono 1U1 DDVD1A1 /OAIB) SIIU Drake bad forbidden Emerson to come to the bouse. Nino Victims. A dispatch from Noafolk, Va., nays 1 nine victims?seven ohildren and two policemen?bitten Saturday by a supposed mad dog, whose brain, after a miscropic examination, has been pronounced by the government medical experts at Washington to have Bhown signs of rabies, are now in Rlohmond for Pasteur treatment, having been sent lience at a cost of 91,200 which will be defrayed by publlo subscription now being raised in Norfolk. The last six victims, children ranging from four to eleven years, were sent to Richmond this morning, the other ohildren having gone on before as a precaution. Found l)oad on Itallroad Track, Thursday a force of section hands found the body of a dead negro man at Saxon, a small station this side of Charleston on the Northeastern road. The dead man was lying near the trink and hart a lari/n crash in hl? hat/i and bis left leg was pretty badly mangled. He wii well dressed but there was nothing found about bis clothes i by wbiob be could be identified, and it is not known whether be was killed hy the train or is the victim of foul play. Hick Man Murdered. News reaches Charlotte, N. 0., of the atrooious murder of John Stamper by his stepson, Clinton Weaver, in the Muddy Creek seotion of Ashe County, N. C., the most remote vllage of the State. Weaver, while lntoxloated, entered Stamper's room, where the latter lay seriously 111, and cut Stamper's throat from ear to ear, WIIKn.. WI ? ? m.iiiiuK uiui iuB??ubijr. rveaver wu arrested. The orlme was unprovoked. For Free Distribution. So much interost has been shown < in the Williamson method of (trow* < log oorn that the E'Jwan Fertilizer < oompany of Charleston has gotten up ] a booklet, Riving the method in de i tail, and is seudlnR this V merchants | for distributions, and will be glad to i send a copy to anyone who may care for It and will drop a postal. Itoslfcnutlon Accepted. < Governor Ansel transmitted to the senate the resignation of Judge R. O. Purdy on Wednesday and asked that provision be made for the election of ' his successor in the Joint assembly. i i Thk Kentucky farmer who bought! a man at public auction and paid a' t dollar for his services for Ave mq'v 7N i will probably wish befor ; j through with AM1 WENTTOSTEAL Lead Pipe But Met Death in a Water Cistern. THE COKPSE POUND. The Negro Evidently Intended to Stent Lend Pipe, Lout His Balance in the Darkness nnd Was Drowned. Woman Pled When Body Appenred. The Charleston Post tells of a grualOrne tind In that city. It says the jody of William Campbell, a negro 'orty-tive years of age, a wnttewasher ind thief by occupation, ws.s fouud In iho olstern of an empty honse, No. 539 ICtat liav street. Wodoeaday morning by W. H M irray, an old colored man. Indications are that Campbell was ?oiog down Into the cistern to steal lead pips, found the water of a greater aepth than he thought, lost his head, and was drowned In the terrible darkness of the death trap. The water Id the olstern wu ov';: feet In depth. Campbell's height was not much more than this. There Is no suspicion of foul play in the death of trie negro. Old ?nan Murray, who ha* worked thirty days for Mr. T. G. Main, the owner of the houH? where Campbell name to hiB miserable end, was in charge of whitewash? and cleaners putting this house into condition for renting. IIo found the door leading into the piazza of the house open, and later discovered that the oistero cover was off. He nearly fell into the hole hlmsolf, as the room where the cistern is, was dark. Murray only saved himself by olluping on to the door knob which he held by a luoky chance. Of oourse the old man was lnate over the carelessness as he thought of the women or men under him In leaving the door open, and the cistern cover off. They all denied knowledge of it. Then he took the depth of the water with an eve to cleaning the cistern out. Down went the piece of goard he used, lie came in contact with something soft. The thing fell like a body. Old man Murray was frightened he pulled the board out of the water, drove a nail into one ond, and pushed down again. He bold the excited women about him to stand baok, while he pulled heavy thing up. A woolv head appeared, and further exertion showed the body of William Campbell. The women Had screaming. Old Murray shook like a leaf, and called for help. The And was reported to the coroner and the police. Deputy Coroner Oonnelley with Policeman Duncan and /. )aly pulled the body out of the cistern, and It was sent to the hospital. Joseph Perry, who was seen with Campbell Wednesday at the houso was arrested as a witness. From what oould be learned It was evident that Campbell was trying to steal the lead of the cistern pump. He had already made way with the outside pnrt of the pine. Murray said, and yesterday the pump and /.Ino about the chimney of the house were stolen. Campbell must have returned to the house Wednesday night, and making his way through the room leading to the passage way between the front part of the house and the kitchen, tried to get Into the olstern. In the darkness he lifted the pieces of board and heavy stone from over the cistern, squeezed through the narrow hole, and dropped into ohllly water almost over his head. The Inquest Into his death was held thii afternoon at three o'olook at Roper Hospital. The lead for which the negro gave hlS life Wftllld h?.VA Vi*nnnrV??-. ? _ ?>% uiwu^u* uiui iaw cents from a lunk dealer. Tried Him Twioe. At Danville. Va., In the Corporation oourt Monday tiettle L. Bos well was granted an absolute dlvoroe from her husband, John L. Bos well, on the grounds of oruel treatment and unfaithfulness. This makes the seoood time Mrs. Bos well was granted a divorce. Several years after the first deoree she married Boewell upon his promise to do better, but after a few months It was the same old story again, she alleged. Ansel's First Appointment* The first appointment made by ur jvornor martin ? . Ansel was that of John S. Latimer, of Greenville, as jhlef ojnstable of the State oonstabuary to succeed U. B. Hamraett, who resigned some time ago to accept a position in the internal revenue serrloe. Over Hundred LWea Lost, The islands of Leyte and Samar, were swept by a typhoon on January 10. One hundred lives were lost in Leyte. Barracks and quarters at East Pas Samar were destroyed. The storm was the worst ever known. No damage to shipping. The ^ see vhinlc 5? 7V3 3H .-. . WOHl? HCI Vl.TY,