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\ "FULL OF LIES." i 1 i ^ That Js What Senator Tillman Says About Statements READ IN THE SENATE i I About the Charleston Navy Yard. i The Senator Was Aroused, and He | Gave Senator Dixon, of Montana, Some Old Time Thrusts in I)c- ' I fondinj; the Charleston Navy Yard. 1 I p. Washington, Feb. 1G.?When the Senate today took up the naval appropriation bill. Senator Dixon, of Montana, 'was the first to take the floor, and he continued his attacks on navy yards by reading a magazine article, which criticised very . severely the Charleston navy yard. lie continued his strictures of the plan of having many navy yards on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, instead of three or four great naval bases which, he insisted, was the course that would be pursued by any great jtomtnercial establishment. He doCcla.'ed that millions of dollars are nually wasted by the scattering of | the work through many navy yards. Senator Tillman taunted the Senator from Montana with being a "Senator from the Kocky Mountains who has come here to tell us how to build a navy. "It is," he continued, "easier to sit on a mountain peak out in Idaho and read magazine criticisms of the navy than to run the navy." He declared that the magazine article from which Mr. Dixon read was "full of lies." "Whether or not it is full of lies," replied Mr. Dixon, "is Just what I am endeavoring to find out." He re lerrecl to a statement in tne magazine to the effect that the improvements at Charleston, S. C., yard, were advised by the experts, but when Mr. Tillman said this was not the case, he expressed himself as satisfied. Mr. Dixon Insisted that the naval committee of the Senate was composed almost entirely of Senators who have navy yards in their States. He wanted to know what would he thought of having the committee on reclamation of arid lands composed of Senators from the States in which such lands are located. Mr. Hale replied that such was the case, and Mr. Tillman added that as n!*rtlar condition exists in the ^ " Indian and the public lands committees. Mr. Dixon was again reading from the magazine from which he had quoted when Senator Tillman interrupted to say that if he was "going to bring muck-raking into the Senate" the bill would be there a long time. "If this is the only muck-raking brought into the Senate it would interfere very little with the dispatch of work," retorted Mr. Dixon. Mr. Tillman returned to the sub ject of the Charleston Navy Yard on whose advantages ho elaborated. "You," he declared, pointing his finger at Mr. Dixon, "simply are prejudiced against the Southern yards and you want to get that out of your head." Mr. Dixon replied that ho was a Southern man, and had 110 such prejudices; so far as he knew Charleston might be the best place for a great naval station. "If I am mistaken," Mr. Tillman replied, "then I beg the Senator's pardon. Dut there are some people who think nothing is good lr it is in the-,5^uth. The President himself realizes this condition and has in his sspeches appealed for a different treatment for that section. Mr. Tillman declared that there was a "clique" in the navy department who wanted to break up the Charleston Navy Yard. "I am not speaking in the interest of any navy yard,' said Mr. Dixon, "I am only in favor of construction." ''If I stood indicted in this article," said Senator Dixon, referring to the magazine criticism, "I would answer 1 It. I think that it is a matter of seH&V uect that the Senate and Cong.Qlfs and the administration should answer tliese charges, which are made openly. The people of the country believe these articles whether we do or not." TORNADO DEVASTS TOWN. Cedar Bluff I'ract ically Destroyed by Heavy Winds. Greenville, Miss., Feb. 3 5.?Reports roceived here today from Cedar Bluff, Miss., state that that town was practically destroyed by a tornado late yesterday afternoon. Five houses were completely blown away and timber ?*11 in all directions. The ' storm cnlfie from the Northeast, was accompanied by very heavy hail and mowed a path about 200 yards wide. Wires are down and tracks blocked with debris. Miss Mary Ellis was killed outright; Alfred and Frank Ellis were injured and Miss Jane Stevens was injured internally. Will Aaron had a leg broken. ( NKItVE MADDENED RUSSIANS. Tired of Living* Seek Death in Heudish Torture. London, Feb. 17.?The Daily Mail's St. Petersburg correspondent declares that neurasthenia is claiming an ever-dncreaslng number of victims in all sections of St. Petersburg society. A surprising number of people, tired of life, seek death by various methods. Persons of fashionable society journey to Finland and fling themselves into the romantic Imatra rapids. Strange clubs and societies are in existance. one of these is stvled "tiger and hunter." Two members draw lots to decide who will be the tiger and who will be hunter. A silver bell is hung around the tiger's neck and the hunter is given a loaded revolver. Hoth enter large darkened rooms, and the spectators take refuge in safe corners. The hunter begins, the hunter's eyes are bound, he is allowed six shots, guided by the sound of the bell. If he fails to hit the tiger, the roles are reversed and the hunter becomes the tiger. This continues until blood flows. Another society has "champagne evenings" where one among twenty bottles is drugged with morphine. Sonio time in a single night there are numerous secret suicides, for which there is no plausible explanation, giving rise, says the Mail's correspondent, to the snsnicinii tlu?t the victims belong to the same league of self destruction. IMMENSE DAMAGE WKOUG1IT. Many People and Thousands of Cattle Are Hilled. Ileheran, Persia, Feb. 17.?News was received here showing that the violent earthquake recorded on January 23, at almost every scientific observatory in the world, has its location in the province of Lauristan in Western Persia. Sixty villages in this district were wholly or partly destroyed and the resultant loss of life is placed between 5,000 and 6,000. The district of Jurnjurd and Selahor in Imristan province were the center of the greatest violence and here the heaviest casualties occurred. Several villages are reported completely engulfed. The peasantry lost practically all their herds and it is estimated that from 10,000 to 12,nnn wvw uvau v/l Vydinv perisnea. JKWRIJtY STOLEN. Robbers Take Many Free-ions Stones and Other Booty. Richmond, Va., Feb. 17.?From one end of the country to the other police, detectives and agents are today searching for jewelry taken from the Southern Express office in Pinehurst, N. C., the value of which cannot be computed. The robbery occurred on the night of Tuesday, February 9, and this is the first word of it given the public, though a large reward has been offered for the capture of the burglar or burglars, and notices have been sent to the authorities of all the cities in the United States and practically all pawn brokers and others, under whose eyes the valuables might come. The jewels were not tbo nniu things taken, but their value alone amounts to $20,000. The last of the articles stolen is estimated at a greater amount., although the letter sent out by the express company says that it may not be complete. THROWN FROM IIORSF. Young Roy Supposed to be Fatally Injured. Greenwood, Feb. IS.?Little William Henry Moore, while out riding horseback this afternoon, was thrown from his horse and sustained injuries that in all probability will prove fatal. The accident occurred this afternoon at 5 o'clock on lower Main street., near the little fellow's home, and it seems that he and one of his boy companions were racing, when little William's horse became frightened at a passing freight train and hurled him against a tree, fracturing his skull and breaking his left leg. The little fellow was immediately carried to the ofllce of Dr. Epting, where he, with Drs. Neel and Swygert, dressed the wounds. The fracture is a bad one, and thero is not much hope of recovery. COST HIM HIS LIFE. Went to Mescnc a WoniRn nnd Fell In. "Richmond, Va., Feb. 15.?Mrs. Robert Skipwlth, an aged woman, belonging to a prominent family, and a man named Johnson, were burned to death in a fire, which destroyed an old mansion near Clayville, Powhattan county, last night. Johnson and his wife wero tenants In the house, which was the property ol Mrs. Skipwlth. Johnson returned tc rescue Mrs. Skipwlth when the roof . fell in. 1 KILLED IN TAXICAB BY A YOUNG MAN ON THE STREET. The Crime Committed by a Ix?ver of the Murdered Girl, Who Also Killed Himself. Reading. Pa., Feb. 17.?A case that has all the ear marks of a murder, followed by suicide, took place in a taxicab on North Front street at 1:30 o'clock this morning. The woman who was murdered bv her companion, is Stella Itoukstashed, of 647 North Front street, and the man Is George H. Knaut, 219 North Front street. At one o'clock this morning a young man came to the Arcade hotel, 12 North Front street, and asked Raymond \V. Christensen, son of the proprietor, to telephone for a taxicah. He said he had a woman outside and asking permission to bring her inside to wait until the taxicab arrived. Christensen recognized the young man but bad never seen the woman before. He called tne taxicab of Lewis Rocker a chauffeur who boarded at the hotel. The couple, who were irrentlv n*. cited, entered the cab and ordered the chauffeur to proceed to t>4 7 North Front stret, the homo of the girl. During the trip the report of a pistol was heard, and Knaut ordered the cab to be driven to a hospital, but a few minutes later, a second shot was heard. When the cab reached the Heading hospital both were found inside dead. Knaut was a telephone inspector. The couple were young people, who had been quite intimate. Miss Houkstashed's parents state that they did not approve of Knaut and that it was their daughter's intention to break up with him. This, the police believe, precipitated the quarrel leading to the tragedy. DRATII DEALING STOltM. Two 1> - " - - > vi.wim ju'imru-u 1YIIICU 1111(1 Seven Badly Injured. Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 14.?Information has just been received in Birmingham that two were killed and seven badly injured at West Point, Miss., this afternoon as the result of a heavy windstorm which passed over that section of the State. The information comes here through Meridian and wire connection failed before details could be procured. It is stated that one of the dead is the mother of a Western Union Telegraph operator at Meridian. The wind and rain appears to have been general over Mississippi and northern Alabama this afternoon and tonight. An unconfirmed report here is that one person was killed at York, Ala. A NOBLE CHARITY. America Gives Big Sum for Earthquake Orphans Home. Home, Feb. 17.?Ambassador Griscom was received in audience by Queen Helena, to whom he formally presented the gift of the Red Gross Agricultural colony for earthquake orphans to be established in Calabria with $250,000 of the money sent from America for the relief of the earthquake sufferers. The queen said she was unable to find words to express sufficient thanks for the gift and the spirit in which it was given. She added: "The Americans acted like brothers toward the Italians." WRECK ON COAST IJNE. Two Men Killed and Several Others Badly Hurt. Waycross, Ga., Feb. 17.?Flagman 0 D. Francis, of Luvorene, Ala., and Marshall Gates, a colored fireman, were Instantly killed and Engineer S. B. Henderson was seriously injured while several other trainment were slightly hurt in a head-on collission between Atlantic Coast Line freight trains 212 and 300, between Ty Ty and Tifton last night. . FIFTY-TWO BO HIES Recovered From the Wrecked Steam er Penguin on Tuesday. Wellington, N. Z., Feb. 14.?Fiftytwo bodies have been recovered from the wrecked steamer Penguin of the Union Steamship Company, of Wellington, which went on the rocks Friday night off Capo Terawhitl. Six of those aboard the Penguin aro unacounted for. In all, the passengers aim wow II lllll Ut'IUa UDUlll 0116 Hundred. Mail's Itody Found. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 15.?The body of George A. Stockley, a prominent citizen of Norfolk, who had been missing since the night of December 19, was last evening found floating in the eastern branch of the Elizabeth river. SHERMAN'S BUMMERS DKSTHOYKI) COLl'MIIIA FOHTYFOl'H Y FA IIS AGO. The Act of Vandalism Recalled by The Columbia Record on Wednesday. Columbia, Feb. 1C.?The Record says on the 16th day of February, 1867, Gen. Win. T. Sherman planted his batteries just across the river where the beautiful little town of New Ilrookland now stands, and shelled the women and children of tin* city of Columbia. During that whole day shells were falling all over this city and prints of the shells are now to be seen on the west end of the State House. On the morning of the 17th. the city was surrendered to General Sherman by Mayor Goodwin, when Sherman promised him that nothing would be molested, provided he was not interfered with by Hampton's calvary. Sherman's headquarters on the night of the 17th was in the home now occupied by Mr. ,lno. L. Mimnaugh on Gervais street. General 1/ogan's hieadquarters were at the Preston mansion, now the College for Women. The northern soldiers took great delight in hurdling the city, carrying torches from house to house and had instructions to burn the Preston mansion, but the order was countermanded early the next morning by a Colonel lowing. Colonel Ewing was instructed to countermand the mansion order because General Sherman had given property to the nuns who had taught his daughter, Miss Minnie Sherman, several years before at Brownsville, Ohio. Their property, where Tapp'a store now stands, had been burned and the nuns were compelled to spend the night in the Catholic cemetery on the night of the 17th during the burning of Columbia. Butler's cavalry was encamped at Killlan's mill, eleven miles away and the light was so bright from the conflagration of this city that a pin could almost he picked up from the reflection. Butler's cavalry was engaged in battle every day after the burning of Columbia until the close of the war. CAN'T PUBLISH NAMES. Of the Victims of Fiends in the News papers. Columbia, Feb. 19.?The Semite and House have passed a rather curious bill. The Senate passed the bill and it today received its second rending in the House. Mr. Ayer opposed the bill, but it was unavailing. The bill provides: Section 1. That whoever publishes or causes to be published the name of any woman, maid or woman-child, upon whom the crime of rape or an assault with intent to ravish, has been committed or alleged to have been committed, in tliis State in any newspaper, magazine, or other publication, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisonment of not more than three years. Provided, the provisions of this Act shall not apply to publications made by order of the Court. I/VXrillV/2 IV winuini - .. m ii * i iFrii Kiond Identified and Mob Swings 1 f i in Up. Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 13.?Jake Wades, the negro who was arrested yesterday in Gainesville, Fla., ac sused of being the assailant of Mist Irma Newell, at Lakeland, Fla., last Tuesday, was lynched today imnie- i diately following his identification by the young woman. A posse ol twenty-five men took him from the train and carried him to the Newell home. Miss Newell said that there was no doubt that he wa? her assailant. He was hanged to a tret and his body riddled with bullets. TAKEN FROM Id VINO TO.MIIS. Several More Miners Rescued Out of English Colliery. Newcastle, England, Feb. 17.? After the rescue work had progressed all night In the shaft of the Colliery at West Stanley, where a dlsllKt rmm pynlrttinn r*r>r?n rrn<l ? ?, entombing nearly 3 00 men, the mine was cleared as far as the second level, where thirty-two men were found alive this morning, most of them, however, severely injured. The force of the explosion was so terrific that, although the upper level where 1L occurred is S4 0 feet deep, the flames leaped fltty feet above the pit mouth on the surface. Killed Himself. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 17.? Frederick R. Haight, city editor of the Register, committed suicide this morning by cutting his throat on the Tale campus. He was graduated from Yale In the class of 1901. WHOM; ML LA OK MISSING. Fartliquuko in Persia Destroyed at Ii4'?st Fifty Hamlets. Tehoran. Feb. 18.?The Governor of Burujurd, a town in Southwestern Persia, has sent out agents to investigate the damage wrought by the earthquake of January 23. The center of intensity apparently was two days' Journey from Burujurd. Up to the present time only meager reports have eomo into Teheran. The devastation was particularly severe in the iiioniilnlnnuu ""'mi between lturujurd and Luristan province. It has been already established that fifteen villages were wholly or partially destroyed, and It is estimated that the total number will undoubtedly be more than fifty. Only a small proportion of the inhabitants of area, where the shocks were most severe escaped. Some vil- , lages disappeared completely, and , no trace can be found of the hamlets ! of Hahren and I,eben. It appears that not a single soul belonging to these communities was left alive. A severe quake was felt at lshpahan, one hundred miles away, the morning of January 23. MA11DI OKAS I.N XMW OltbKAXS. The Annual Carnival Was I'sliered in Thursday New Orleans, ha., Feb. IS.?The annual Mardi (Iras carnival was ushered in today with the gorgeous street parade, tableaux and ball of the Knights of Mom lis. The festivities W'lll I'YfoiwI fivol' !i unrln/l ,>f ulv I (lays, reaching their climax next Tuesday with the arrival of Rex, followed by grand tableaux in the evening and the spectacular parade of the Mystic Krewe of Com us. The automobile races and numerous other sporting events on the calendar for the week are expected to result in a record-breaking attendance at the carnival this year. Already the leading hotels are tilled to their capacity, while each arriving train ik adding hundreds to the number of visitors in the city. Streets and buildings are lavishly decorated and the entire city presents a festal appearance. IJKFT HIS <mir. Containing Seventy-five Thousand Dollars Worth of llomla. Newark. Feb. 10.? A man as n priest walked into police headquarters and said that he had been robbed of securities worth $7 5,000. He presented a card on which was inscribed "Kov. Charles Policsek, director of St. John's Kneipp sanltorium, Alpha, N. J." He said he lost the missing securities in a satchel in a restaurant. Detectives were sent to the restaurant and found the satchel with the securities in it. The proprietor said the man came in the restaurant, took a seat at a table at which two young women and a man were already seated, and after eat ing, walked away, leaving his satchel. WILL DINK TAIT. Tlie President to Attend Ilanqiict of (icorgia Students. Washington, February 19.?After being inaugurated President the first banquet that Judge Taft will attend will be one to 1 e given in this city on the evening of March 1. at the Arlington Hotel, by the cadets of the Georgia Military Academy and of the Donald Fra/.ier School, both Georgia institutions. Mr. Taft has promised the cadets that, although he will be a busy man on March*!, he will drop in on the banquet for an hour or so, and give them a litle talk. About 250 cadets from the two schools will march in the inaugural day parade. TOOK IIFK OWN IjIFK. Ho<ly of Young Woman Pound Floating in Pond. Spartanburg, Feb. 16.?Mrs. Pert Wright was drowned in Wlngo's mill i></1 vi nuiii iniiiitii, Homii time between I midnight last night and 3 o'clock this morning. She was missed from her room shortly after midnight and search was instituted at once. About 7 o'clock this morning her dead body was found floating in the pond. She had been in bad health for some time, and it is believed that she took her own life. TOO FAT FOR ALLKY. Attorney Makes Novel 1'lea for a New Trial. Lawyers In the case of William Green, convicted on a charge of highway robbery in Ossining, N. Y., have entered a plea for a new trial. They produced drawings and maps showing that the alley in which the robbery is alleged to have occurred is only a few inches wide. As Green is a man of 200 pounds, or better, it is declared witnessed testified to a physical impossibility and on this evidence is based tho argument for a new trial. PROHIBITION BILL Passes the House by a Good Working Majority. WILL BE STATE WIDE In Its Provisions Should It I'ns* tiio Senate, Hut tlio Probability Is That It Will IIuiik Fire in That llotly I'ntil Next Session Comes Around. Columbia, Feb. 17.?By a vote of r?8 to 40, the House of Ke|)r?'Hon tatives or the State Lcgislature tonight passed Ihe State-wide prohibition bill, which thus marks the close of a filibuster that had lasted for several days. This was accomplished after the adoption at the morning session of a compromise agreement between the leaders of the opposing forces. Under the terms of the agreement, the general supply bill was rushed through in half an hour. It was simple and easy to rush through the bill. Then the remaining third reading bills were rushed through, oh, so easily. The agreement to take up tho "State-wide" prohibition bill was adhered to In every detail, and as soon as it was taken up Mr. K. P. Smith moved to table the bill. This brought forth the first test. vote. It was lanon without delay. There was no delay. The vote stood -15 to t>2. At one o'clock the State-wide prohibition bill was taken up. and pushed on to a vote. An elfort was made to huve Charleston. Richland and Georgetown counties exempted from the provisions of the hill, hut it failed. The following is the vote by which the bill was passed: Yea?To pass the bill: J . W. Ashley, llodie, Rowers, Rrice, W. D. Bryan, Bunch, Cantrell, Carey, Carrigan, Coley, Clary, Daniel, Dingle, Edwards, Casque, J. I*. Gibson, W. P. Gibson, Graham, Green. Greer, Hall, Humor, Harmon, W. C. Harrison, Horger, Kibler, League, l^ce, McEachern, McKeown, Mann, Mauhlin, Mobley, Moseley, Nesbitt, Niver, Richards, Rldgell, G. M. Riley, Robertson, Roessler, Sanders, O. I*. Sanders, Scarborough, B. A. Shuler, C. T. Shuler, C. A. Smith, Spears, Stanley, J. D. Sullivan, P. P. Sullivan, Utsey, Vaughan, Way, Whatley, Wingo, Wyce?Total 58. Nay?-To kill the bill: Whaley, Amick, M. J. Ashley, Ayer, Bowman, Bovd Ilrowiilnp V vi ^ v a a?A ill J <111 j I) UOIij Carwilo, Coker, Cothran, Dick, I)i*on, I)oar, Duvall, I. Kdwards, Foster, Faultz, Garrls, Glasscock, Griffin, Harris, J. H. Harrison, Hydrich, Irby, Jackson, McMahan, Nunnery, Patterson, Paulling, Sawyer, Simkins, Singleton, Vander, Horst, Wade, Wells, Wiggins, Willliams, W. II. Wilson?Total 4 0. Pairs?Suydani and T.cland, Drown and K. P. Smitn, Nicholson and Wright, McColl and Frasor, Lawson and Mars, W. L. Riley and Hughes, Hincs and Tobias, M. L. Smith and Kuekor, Carter and Selbols. Absent and Not Voting?Berg, Cosgrove, Lan, Lengnick, Todd. In tliis vote the pairs are given with the first name stated being in favor of the bill and the last opposed to It. The companion bill providing for State prohibition was then adopted without a vote of discussion. One of the bills provides for closing tho county dispensaries and the second provides for State-wide prohibition. There was absolutely no friction, debate or discussion and the two prohibition bills went merrily on to their third reading. Microbes in Everything. This is surely an age of microbes. They seem to be in nearly everything you eat an<l drink. They say if you eat and drink microbes you will surely die, and if you don't eat and drink you will still more surely die. Hound to surely die in any event, you had better pay no more attention to microbes than your granddad ies did. They ate and drank everything they wanted and they lived long and prospered. What did Methuselah know about microbes in his time? Eat and drink everything you want, microbes and all, and you will live until you die and that it what old Methuselah did?he lived until he died. Take Time to Walk. The hurried movement incident to modern commercial life interefero in more ways than one with hygenlc living. The urban resident who holts his breakfast and hurries off to his indoor business or professional engagement deprives himself of ono of the most important elements In the maintenace of his vital energy and mental activity. Vigorous walking is a good form of body exercise. It tends to increase thn nnrmni tivlty of every organ and function of the body. Were it more generally and actively engaged in by both sexes the necessity for gymnasia and other official substitutes would not be apparent.