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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
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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
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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
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ORDER SERVED
On the Dispensary Commission
by Judge Pochard In
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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NIGHT OF TERROR
Seven Persons Shot to Death and
Many Wounded in
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THE CITY OF LISBON
Dispute Regarding Counting of Votes i
in Municipal Flections Starts Riot '
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in Cliurcii, from Which Guards
Fire on lleseiging Mob for Throe y
Hours Until Aid Arrives.?(Jrent
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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
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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 ~
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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. |
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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
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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
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A SA1) ANMV10KSAKY.
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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
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PHI KMT COMMITS SUICIDE. i
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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
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AX OLD imiDKGICOOM.
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Iowa Anti-Saloon Loader Weds Mrs.
Nellie fngulls at l>etriot.
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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