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< SWEPT BY FIRE J Fearful Damage Done by Fire in City of Chelsea. " OVER A SQUARE MILE Of the Masschusctts Town Devastated?Property Loss Ten Million Dollars?Twelve Persons Dead and Many Injured?Ten Thousand Are Homeless?Kleven Hours lle<|u iced to CJet Plames Vnder Control. Fire devasted more than one square mile of the manufacturing business and tenement district of Chelsea, Mass., Sunday, entailing a loss estimated at fully $10,000,000. The fire started at 10.40 a.m. near the Boston Blacking Company's works on West Third street, near the Everett city line, and crossed the city, a distance of one mile and a quarter, to Marginal, opposite the East Boston shore. Late Sunday night four dead bodies had been recovered from the ruins. Half a hundred persons were injured, several fatally. Ten thousand persons left homeless. Among the building burned were thirteen churches, the Frost Hospital, the Children's Hospital, the City Hall, the Fitz Public Library, five school houses, dozen or more factories and about 300 tenements and dwellings. The residential section of tile city, where the wealthier classes reside, escaped the flntnes. In the retail section, through which the. fire passed, were twenty business blocks, which were destroyed. The United States marine buildings were not. damaged. At 0 o'clock Sunday night the flames were under control. TILLMAN IMPROVING I The Senior Senator Says He Is Feeling Considerably Stronger. A special from Atlanta to The State says "reports from the sanitarium indicate that Senator Tillman is improving even more rapidly than expected when he cam,e here. To a friend who saw him for a few minutes he said he was feeling considerably stronger, but realized his danger and expressed his purpose to avoid all forms of mental excitement for some time to come. He walks around the sanitarium, but lias not yet ventured to the city. He proposes to lead au absolutely quiet existence for the next six weeks ',r two months, sailing for Europe aa soon as he feels he is strong enough to stand the trip." * NEGHOKS NOT WANTED. Negro Hand Causes Trouble in NewYork State. The managers of the Wntertown (N. Y.,) Chamber of Commerce are embarrassed by the refusal of the :19th company of the state militia to ularch on Friday in honor of Govern. or Hughes if it is led by the negro band of the 24th United States Infantry. The latter regiment is just back from the Phillipines and two battalions of it are quartered at Madison baracks, adjacent to Watertown. Watertown exerted considerable efforts to have tho negroes sent to some other barracks, but in vain. The committee is now trying to engage a' band of white musicians. * NEGRO KIDNAPS DEPUTY. Officer Captured by Man He Tried * to Arrest. At Anniston, Ala., Acting Deputy Sheriff J. C. West, who was kidnapped by a negro named Cunningham while he was attempting to arrest the negro, returned to that city the ne*\ day minus his revolver, money and badge. West says the negro ' marched him to Riverside. There the negro made him get into an empty freight car, which he then closed up and made his escape. West fl-nally succeeded in getting out of the car and returned. Officers are still searching for the negro. STARVED TO DEATH. At the End of the Thirty-First Day Man Dies. At St. Paul, Minn., Knute Ohnstead died at 195 Grove street early Saturday, having literally starved himself to death in an attempt to fast for forty days in order to demonstrrle his theory that the mind control the hody and that mind if mightier than matter. Ohnstead'f fast lasted 31 days, according tc those in th6 house., 4 SCBSCt I y*:M/ J ORDER SERVED On the Dispensary Commission by Judge Pochard In V ' I COLUMBIA ON FRIDAY. Commission Given Five Days to Pe" cido as to What They Will Do? It Is Said They Will Hold the Fort and Go to Jail Rather Than Obey Judge Frit chard's Recent Order. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says the order of .Judge Fritehard granting a supersedeas on conditions was not served until Friday when it was received through the mail by Chairman Murray, of the disnensnrv windinv.nn I THEY ARE SCARED. THE REPUBLICANS FEAR THKY WILL BE BEATEN. Troubles -Without and Within the Party Cause Alarm?Many Think Roosevelt Will Be the Nominee. A Washington letter to the Charleston Post says Republican leaders In Congress make no-pretense of concealing their anxiety over the outcome of the national elections next November. It is a common thing to hear Republican members of the House admit that the chances are against the election of a Republican majority in the House next fall. Some Republicans entertain very grave doubts over the Presidential election, but console themselves with the hope that the Democrats may "do the wrong thing at the right time" and tints compensate for existing disadvantages tinder which the Republic/1, party is said to be laboring. It is admitted that this is somewhat of a new role for the Republican party to be*playing?prospective beneficiary of the mistakes of its opponents. It is pointed out that heretofore the Republicans have won upon a policy of action, agression and progress. The great victories on the money question, the tariff question, the Phillipines question and other Issues were gained in this way. Two main causes contribute to the anxiety of the Republicans at this time. They are, first the widespread industrial depression, the resulting hard times, a fertile and prolific field for Democratic growth. Second, the factional troubles within the Republican party in a great many States. Some Republicans in Congress are of the opinion' that conditions are rapidly growing more favorable to a possible stampede for Roosevelt. They say that unless Secretary Taft is nominated on the first ballot the way will he open for a contest in the convention which will make Roosevelt's renomination unavoid anie. nioy liuiik mar coiiunious are working rapidly to this end. It is a fact that the average run of Republicans entertain the opinion that President Roosevelt's renoinination will he the outcome of the present muss in which the party finds itself. Opinions vary whether in that event the Republicans would win or lose. Some think that President Roosevelt is so strong with the common people that he would override all opposition. Others believe that the third term question could be raised against him with effect. Still others say it would all depend upon the Democratic nominee, and on that side of the question as to whether Rryau or Johnson would be the stronger man there are as many opinions as there are facets to a diamond. PRANKS OP CUPID. An Old Man and Oid Woman Ran Away. 1 Mrs. Carrie Emmons, GS years of age, who left Plymouth, Pa , recently, saying that she was going "to visit friends in Scranton. went instead to Dover, N. ,T., and was there married to John P .Johnson, who is 75 years r?bl Thev met several months atio and were infatuated with each other, but while their friends knew this, they did not expect they would he married. Johnson is a widower with four children and Mrs. Emmons, who is divorced. has three children. Together they have 2 8 grandchildren. They will live in Morristown, N. Y. BLOODY MYSTERY. Woman Lying in Pool of Blood and Her Husband Shot. , Mrs. Emma Reiss, aged 3 2 years, wife of William P. Reiss, proprietor j of Old Economy hotel, at Economy , station, near Pttshurg, Pa., was . found dead in a pool of blood in a bed at her home, having been shot . through the heart. On the floor near i the bed lay her husband, with a dangerous pistol shot wound through his temple. Considerable mystery surrounds the affair. PICKED UP AT HKA. Thrilling llescue of Twenty-Eight Men by n Steamship. A thrilling rescue of 2 8 shipwreck l ed men was made during the trip of : the steamship Voturno, which picked up the men floating near the al most dismantled schooner Chapgne, i which had been hit by a hurricane, i Th rescue was made February 27th. > The steamship reached New York on ' j Friday. tlBE NO' l\>s ' * v # 4 * f - " "O 1 ' j commission, and (ho other members ot' the commission, as well as by Attorney General Lyon from the office of the clerk of the Federal Court, in Cha rleston. The order Is dated April 8 and requires compliance within tive days from date of order, not five days from service. The commission will not give the heavy bond required, by Judge Pritcliard, and will not surrender the collateral, whicli requires to he surrendered, so that the commission will he in contempt in refusing to obey the order to deposit tlie collateral with the Federal Court. As a matter of fact the collateral is not in the possession of the commission, but is with the State Treasurer, and has been in his posession for a long time, even before the books and records of tlie dispensary were placd in the Treasurer's vaults. So that the commission can make answer that the collateral is not in its posession at all, and they cannot comply with the primary and most important condition of Judge Pritchard's order. Of course, if Judge Pritchard can get hold of the collateral he has the case in his hand absolutely, and, of course, the State is not going to surrender tlie collateral. Judge Pritchard may serve an order on State Treasurer Jennings, but it happens that Capt. Jennings is in Mississippi and not at this time in the jurisdiction of Judge Pritcliard's order. He is having a pleasant visit out there and is doubtless not in a hurry to return, unless he is requested to come home by Governor Ansel. The Governor will not, however, ask the treasurer to come back to Rive up the collateral, and he will not instruct any one to Rive it up, because the State is going to keep its hands on the collateral. These collaterals wore deposited as security for the* deposits of the dispensary money with the various banks of the State, and the banks will not pay out the morrf'y without getting their securities back. This point is the milk in the cocoanut, and ths State holds the cocoanut. May Iteview Case. The State says an appeal to the United States circuit court of appeals on some ground is absolutely certain and when this court meets it will be presided over by Chief Justice Puller of the United States supreme court. It is believed that the chief justice will temporarily, at least, hold off drastic action until he can hear the arguments, the appeal having already been perfected. A dispatch from Asheville to The News and Courier says Judge Pritchard Friday receivel a letter from Justice Fuller in reference to the case, but stated, as it was a private letter, he would not refer to Its contents. While the Chief Justice is considering t he idea of a special session, it is quite probable that no move will be made in the case here or in South Carolina by tho receivers. * FIVE GREATEST MEN, (11 Private Life fnvited to Attend a Conference. Who are the five greatest men in the Unlthed States?not in public life? According to President Roosevelt, they are Qrover Cleveland, Andrew Carnegie, John Mitchell, William J. Rryan and J&ines J. Hill. The President has invited these five to attend the big conference at the White House during the week of May 14 to discuss conservation of the natural resources of the country. Kvery Governor of a State, Cabinet officers, members of the United States Supreme Court and membors of the Inland Waterways Commission are to attend officially, but these five men are singled out from the whole United Statee as five individuals to be invited. They are all . Democrats. W TO ' 'vtA '? , . . ; v.vo?,*/ . ) \ ! NIGHT OF TERROR Seven Persons Shot to Death and Many Wounded in It ' THE CITY OF LISBON Dispute Regarding Counting of Votes i in Municipal Flections Starts Riot ' i in Cliurcii, from Which Guards Fire on lleseiging Mob for Throe y Hours Until Aid Arrives.?(Jrent < Kxcitomcnt Prevailed. At Lisbon, Portugal, seven persons ' were shot to death and fifty others wounded by soldiers affe rtlie voting in the elections in that city had ended. The rioting was widespread and such was the confusion during the violent conjlict between the populace and the municipal guard that the guardsmen, mistaking infantrymen who nau ueen called out lor members 1 of the mob, tired a volley into their * ranks, seriously wouuding three of ' the soldiers. The night was one of terror for Lisbon, seemed suddenly aflame with seething revolt. Hands of men ran wildly through the streets, brandish- 1 ing weapons, while the sharp crack of rifles was heard in various sections ] ofjthe city. Thousands of the most peaceable citizens fled to their homes just, as they did on the night after ( assassination of King Carlos and the ' Crown Hrtnce. The principal rioting was the result of a dispute between the Republicans and the Monarchists regarding the counting of votes. The Repuimcans, who feared fraud at the various Lisbon polling places, made a determined stand for their rignts at St. Dominiqucs Church, which is in the centre of the city, the district that is practically the stronghold of Republicans. Both the Republicans and Monarchists kept a sharp watch throughout the day. The voters, following the ancient custom of voting in the churcluts, they tiled steadily, but slowly, into the historic Dominiqucs and deposited their ballots in the otlleial voting boxes. When the polls closed the Monarchist election il(>clnri>(t it wiisa tnn lnO? count the votes and proposed to keep the list in the church and count them the next day. Tho Republicans tel- < lers refused to assent to tliis, insisting; upon an immediate count, followed by the sealing; of the boxes. The difference between the olllcers ( spread to tho crowd that were in the ( church, and in a moment blows were struck and then a general light followed. Suddenly the municipal guard arrived and cleared the edifice of the struggling combatants at the point ' of the bayonet. in tbe meantime the crowd outside of the church had been greatly augmented and the guardsmen's appearance at the doors after they had forced the people into the streets was tho signal for a shower of stones, under which they were forced to retreat. As they retired they fired a volley from tneir rllles, bringing down several of the rioters. Tlie mob steadily increased and shouts and imprecations and cries of anger were heard on everyside. The rioters armed themselves anew and soon the edifice was literally surrounded and boseiged by a maddened mob. The guardsmen fired intermittently through the doorways, but tbe volleys were feeble and ineffectual. Eventually, the commanding officer placed a detail on the balcony over tho main portal, from which point of vantage the guardsmen fired repeatedly into the surging populace, and wounded a large number. Still the mob did not give way, but only attacked the church the more furiously. Several of the guardsmen were wounded, but. they were replaced on the balcony by others and for three hours the fight continued. Then three companies of infantry and a troop of cavalry, with one battery appeared, driving all before them. WAS AFUAII) OF BANKS. So Bid His Money in Wall of His House. < Lacking faith In banks as places of deposit for his savings, William H. Wllkins, of Whltestono, L. I., who died recently at the agfc of eight-flve, devisor! ft nninno Hrrumxflmnnt * u ~ ? ? > IUI tilt? safekeeping of his money. He caused a sort of repository to be built in the wall back of his kitchen door facing. After it was oflce sealed he had no way of opening his home made bank and he dropped money through a slot from time to time.- From the day he had the place built up to the time of the death lie never disturbed his hole in the wall savings I bank, in which was found $7,G82. | % THE1 .. . ' ' , \ t S . i <*M .' V ' ? ,>r. -,' mi ' * 'JkAwm . MAY GO IN ARMY MAJOR MHWH JKNKINS >IAV UKT j PROMOTION. His Present Oflire Is Wanted for a Man Who Will Hustle for Tuft Votes. Zach McOee. Washington corespondent of The State, says Maj. 1 Hicah Jenkins, collector of Internal evenue, Is about to get involved in ho administration's tight for delegates to the Republican convention, >ut by the now popular process of [diminution. The following "hand out" attests: It is uuderst ood that the seeroary.of war, at the request of Coin- ' nissioner of Internal Revenue Caputs, contemplates the restoration In ho army of Maj. Mlcah J. Jenkins, low collector of internal revenue at Jolumlda, S. C., In such a way as to )e not only congenial to tho major, nit to operate as a distinct compliment and promotion. This would necessarily vacate the ofllee of tho collector of internal revenue at Coliimbia, now held by Maj. Jenkins, ind it is also understood that Maj. [j. w. C. Blalock and U. R. Tojbert would be appointed, according to the recommendation made in that connection by Capt Capers." It will be remembered that Major I. ...1.1.... ? r--'? " 1 iviiiMim is <i [ivi hUlliU 1 111*11(1 OL OUO ' 1\ It., having been closely associated J with him in the Spanish war, he- ^ L-ause of which friendship he was ap- < pointed to his present position. lie has performed the duties of in- I lernal revenue collector acceptably t t.o his chief until now when, being a f Democrat, he is unable to perform lhe principal duty of that olilce c which is to corral Republican dele- 1 ;ates. i lit! can serve his country hotter in he army. Now one it. It. Tolbert is si in ideal man for collector of internal evotiue, his especial qualification he- i ng that at this moment lie is going f ip and down in the State of South a Carolina trying to oust Capt. Capers r rom the high and potent job of ua- li ional committeeman, fbr the express mrpose of sending an anti-admin- q stratum delgeation to Chicago. Hut t VIr. Tolbert would, of course, rather t ie collector of internal revenue. * a I A SA1) ANMV10KSAKY. ? jon. Lee Surrendered at Appomattox 'j1 4:1 Years Ago Thursday. i; Forty-three years ago last Thurs- \ lay Gen. Uobt. 10. Lee surrendered to the federal officers at Appomattox, y Col. U. it. Brooks, whose memory j serves him as well as his patriotism \ and bravery served the "Lost Cause," : suiys The Stalo, called attenlioii on last. Thursday night to the fact that this is the anniversary of that occasion when the South's proud and beloved commanding general passed i iiis sword over to Grant and gave up, for the Confederates the g>.oat struggle against overwhelming odds. "Ho surrendered 9,000 men and ? muskets that day," says Col. 11 rooks, i "to a well fed, well equipped army < of 200,000. It was useless to con- j tinue the battle longer." v \ i PHI KMT COMMITS SUICIDE. i !, i Hector of Catholic Chfirch Shoots Himself Through Head. The Rev. Father Joseph A. Graham, rector of the Roman Catholic Church of the Blessed Sacrament, in Albany, N. Y., shot himself twice in the heart Friday afternoon In his study. lie died almost Instantly. In the opinion of Dr. Burke, who was called soon after the suicide was discovered. hather Graham was not In his right mind. He was a native of Albany and a brother of National Bank Examiner Edward J. Graham. Father Graham was about 45 years old and was re- < iru r/ht/l n ci rtno rtf t hn mnoi l\rl1 llonf i f^l%l l?i> V??V V/l. VIIV ftllVSOl# l/l III IU11 L nien in the Albany diocese. He had been poor in health and despqnd- i ent. i AX OLD imiDKGICOOM. . i Iowa Anti-Saloon Loader Weds Mrs. Nellie fngulls at l>etriot. I A dispatch from Fort Dodge, Iowa, says: L. S. Coffin, founder of Hope Hall and former president of the Anti-Saloon League of Iowa, wds married Friday to Mrs. Nellie Ing&lls, of Detriot. Mr. Coffin will celebrate his elghty-flfth birth day today, and upon his arrival at his country homo will be given a reception by friends. Ten Miners are KiAIed. A special dispatch to Bath, England, says ten miners lost their lives in the Norton Hill colliery in Somersetshire, Monday as a result of coal gas. . IORRY HI <. 1 . ) B "l I TOOK THE SHIP. Pirate Crew Capture Vessel and Murder All the Officers. IN THE SOUTH SEAS. Nio Captain anil the Mate Are Driven Into the S?'rt With Tomahawks by the Seamen, Who Are Afterward* Captured on llouril a Derelict Vpk* Hel in <ailtx*t*t Island?They Will De Dealt With hy the Authorities. News has boon brought to Victoria, I.. C., by the steamship Marotmt, rhich arrived <ftie day last week of i remarkable piracy and murder In ho South Seas. The Captain ami nato of a Callao schooner were atacked with a tomahawk .and forced o Jjimp overboard by Joseph MorImer, a Belgian; J. Taylor of Manchester, and G. Jackson of London, a ho then stole the schooner, the s'euvte Tigre, of Callao, and started 'or Australia. The vessel was wreckid in the Gilbert Islands, where she vas found by Captain Marshall, of .ho trading schooner Laurel, who re>orted the piracy and murder to the luthoritins at Suva, where the men voro mndo prisoners. Jackson later :oufossed. He said: "The schooner sailed tinder tho [talian tiag, being owned by the naster and mate, hotli of whom were 'orceil to jump overboard. "The schooner sailed out of Callao arly In November h\st, having on >onrd a crew of five, tho captain and nate, the cook (a Belgian) Joseph tlor timer and myself as cabin boy, md J. Taylor. * "The vessel had only got about I I nlles off the coast and the first day rotti Callao when tho cook mado an ittuck 011 the mate and captain. Ho ulised at the mate first and struck dm in the head with a tomahawk. Ho was felled by tho blow but inickly recovered himself and took o the rigging. The captain, hearing he sculllo, came out of the cabin ,nd ho was immediately felled by a low. "Immediately afterward the cook I,lu f " 11 - ?* ,WV mo aim iuin;u 111HI II1R IllUlO lid thou the skipper, to jump over>ourd. The mate sank, but the skip>er struck out for the shore, distant ourteen miles, and Jackson threw iim a plank. The cook threatened Jackson, who agreed to assist in working the schooner. The cargo wns ettisoued and they started for Ausralia. The vessel finally went ashore a the Gilbert group." ' GOT OFF LIGHT. Jlei'k .Accused of Improper Conduct Toward Two Young Girls. At Savannah, Ga., B. Rhett Wever. i clerk in a slioe store was lined $50 by the recorder last week for having written two notes for young girls asking the principal of the school Lhey attended to excuse them for tho day as they were unwell. Ho signed Hi names of the girls' parents to tho notes. The recorder looked upon tho matter as a very serious one and fined Wever $50. He was unable to pay it for several hours and had to spend about half the day in jail before he secured the desired amount. One of the young girls told her fatner some very bad stories of Wever's conduct toward her. ON LAST LKG OF JOUUNKY. ClmW Mnifilikl<>>ni Ilitv fin* Par onndt in Four Divisions. The Atlantic fleet of 16 battleships began Sunday the last leg of itn originally planned cruise from Hampton Roads to the Golden Gate. The four divisions of the fleet weighed anchor at 4 o'clock that afternoon, * and three-quarters of an hours later were threading their way out of Magdalena Bay in the wake of the flagship Conneticut. WILL PUT IT BACK. Certain Words to be Restored to tho Jackson Monument. A dispatch from Memphis, Tenn.. says the words "The Union Must Bo Preserved," are to be restored to the monument of Andrew Jackson iii court house square. "During the civil n/n > a 1 _ . , nui c? nn;ui vuuitHlUruiO pUU'lOt COOK a chisel and removevd the words from the monument," said Col. Galloway, a member of the park commission. "Now that the civil war Is Ions past, and we are all so proud of the union, it seems to me that It would be only proper to put the language back." ERALD. ** ? , Y