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% LIVES ARE LOST J And Property Damaged in Various Section of Country > V BY A HEAVY STORM ' I 1 Several Cities Arc DnmnKod l>y a ( High Wind That Swept the Middle Western States, Which Crip- j : pled the Telegraph Service and ! Wrecked Houses and Schools. Detroit, Mich., April 7.?At least eight persons lost their lives in tho i storm that visited Detroit and Mtchi- 1 gan last night and today. Anthony 1 Kaup, a saloonkeeper, Joe Kadicli, a barber, and Adam Felin, all of Wy- ( andotte, attempted to cross the l)e- < emu i iver in a row noai ironi \\ yan- i dotte to Canada this afternoon in a fifty-miles gale to settle a wager and till three were drowned when their . boat capsized. Kadich bet Katip five < dollars tluit he would not dare to cross in the small boat and Felin was the stakeholder. At Jennings, in Missaukee county, three young men, Bernard Carlson, Charles Jackson and John Torrey, were killed by being caught under a wall that was blown down by the wind at the Mitchell Brothers mill. Eight year old Benjamin Hellmer was killed by lightning near Irona last night and Ray Miller was killed at Brightwood today when he was struck by a roof that had been blown off. Many Killed. Chicago, April 7.?Reports of last night's storm damage received here today are that ten persons Jire known to have been killed in Mississippi and at least 15 were injured. At the Terrell plantation, east of West Point, Miss., a number of negroes were killed. Reports from western Tennessee state that the storm wrecked many small buildings. At Wabash, Ind., Mrs. Jas. A. Hayes and four children were pinned down beneath the wreckage of their home, which caught on Are. The mother was badly burned, being rescued, and will die. The children were seriously hurt. The high wind was followed by a cloud burst. Many bridges are washed away. A dozen houses were demolished in Wabash. The damage will reach several thousand dollars. At Perua, Ind., four factories and several school buildings, many small structures, were wrecked by the wind. Several Men Missing. Cleveland, Ohio., April 7.?The fishing tug George Floyd, with seven men aboard, and the sand sucker Mary II., with nine men are missing, and the barge Norman Kelley, with a crew of four persons, was rescued tonight after a desperate fight, as a result of a fierce windstorm which raged on Lake Erie today. The wind blew a sixty-mile gale throughout the day. Life savers have been unable to do effective work. The steel barge Kelley's crew, three men and a woman, were picked up after floating fifteen miles from Kelley's Island, when the boat broke away and /drifted to soa. There was neither an engine nor an oar .on the barge, so the crew was at the mercv of the wnves. Several small buildings wore wrecked and buggies overturned in Cleveland. Two men were blown from the shore of the Lake into the water. Loth were rescued. Injured in New York. New York, April 7.'?The high gale that prevailed to the west and north of New York city today, causing havoc with telegraph and telephone lines, attained its full force here at 7:45 o'clock tonight, when the wind reached a velocity of 60 miles an hour. Several persons were hurt and much damage and discomfort resulted. Two persons, an elderly woman and a child, were badly hurt by being blown off their feet and dashed against objects in the street. At Rochester John Veith was killed this afternoon during a 51 mile an hour wind storm, and a 12-year-old child sustained a fractured skull from a wMnd blown chimney. At isuiraio rrom three o clock until five this afternoon the wind tore through the streets of Buffalo at the rate of 7 2 miles an hour. One man was killed and many people were Injured by parts of buildings detached by the force of the wind and hurled through the alK Great Damage at Toledo. Toledo, April 7.?Hundreds of men out of work, thousands of dollars damago done and many persons slightly injured as the results of a hurricane that visited Toledo and vicin'ty 'today. The wind attained a velocity of f?9 miles an hour in this city. The roof of the plant of the Massilon Bridge Company, 180 by 4 0 feet was ripped off, and hurled into a field and 300 men were thrown out of A vU THESE THREE THINGS s"o Woman Should Marry Without Knowing Well. A doctor was telling a short time ?go of a farm mother who gave her ive-months'-old child bacon, cabuige, sweet potatoes and corn bread 'or dinner. And yet when the child lies?as it probably will?the l>reaelier will probably speak of it is "an inscrutable dispensation of Providence," instead of a "murderours result of ignorance." All of which reminds us of an address by Seaman A. Knapp, of the United States Department of Agriculture, delivered before the General Assembly of North Carolina a few weeks ngo. From the newspaper report of the speech we quote: "Our women are being trained for the piano and society and not for their job, he declared. They maiuly tlo the purchasing for the families, and their ignorance of what to purchase annually costs the nation more than two billion dollars. Few women know how to select the proper kind of food. Many a baby, he said, has gone into the other world prematurely because the mother did not know how properly to care for it. There are three things, Dr. Knapp said, a girl ouKht to know: "1. What food to purchase and how to cook it. "2. To make her own clothes and those of the family. "3. To nurse and doctor the family. KILLS TWO MO It 10. Smallpox at York Mill Seems to be Virulent Type. Yorkvillo, April 5.?There have been two more deaths from smallpox here during the twenty-four hours ending last night at 10 o'clock, making a total of six in all. The latest victims are a child of Kirby Pugh, the first person to die of the disease, and with whom it originated here, and a negro woman, who died in the outskirts of town and near the York Cotton Mill village yesterday morning. Her case was tlrst reported to the hoard of health on last Friday night. There have been ten cases in all reported so far, and six of them have resulted fatally. Seven of the ten cases developed in the mill village and the other three, are traceable directly to the same source. There have been no new cases during the past week, except that of the colored woman who died today. The local physicians have been almost overwhelmed during the past week by persons seeking to be vaccinated, and it is believed that at this time there are verv few who Iiavp nut m.wi cm. virus applied. WHAT CAN UK DONE lly Devoting a Utile While Each l)ny to Studying. "Roys and girls think of this and act on it. One hour a day withdrawn from frivolous pursuits, and profitably employed, would enable any man of ordinary capacity to master a complete science. One hour a day would make an ignorant man a well informed man in ten years. One hour a day would earn enough to pay for two daily and two weekly papers, two leadings magazines and a dozen good hooks. In an hour a day a boy or girl could read twenty pages thoughtfully?over several thousand pages or eighteen large volumes in a year. An hour a day might make all the difference between bare existance and useful, happy living. An hour a day might make?nay, has made an unknown man a famous one, a useless one ft benefactor to his race. Consider, then, the mighty possibilities of two, four, yes, six hours a day that are, on the average, thrown away by some of our young men and women in their desire for fun and diversion. IIow is your carpet-sweper? Sometimes all this is neded to make a sweeper (that you think is worn out) do good work is to have the springs put in proper shape, or some new ones in place of the old ones. employment until the damage can be repaired. l i - - - * r-tJuvsirHiiis were injured ny falling signs, parts of roof, chimneys and limbs of trees and many women were Mowed over by the wind. In small towns near Toledo considerable damage was done. Many houses were struck by lightning and the occupants stunned, but there were no reports of fatalities. Six Injured. T.ondon, Out., April 7.?Six persons were Injured, one fatally, and a financial loss of full fifty thousand dollars was entailed by a northwest hurricane which pased over this city today. At the Aberdeen public school, a tall chimney crashed j h mil h f )'AA f ?\rloAnlnr* OAA v.. . w.?ni? v ?* \ ? \/vi ? nii|fi tnwiiiu^ u vu pupils, and creating a panic. Mary Laburitis, aged 0 years, was fatally injured, and four other pupils were severerly hurt. The fire department worked rapidly and succeeded In quieting the children, who were removed by means of ladders. STATE MONEY HANKS NOW HAVING THE IMS- PKNSAHY FUNDS. Half Million Dollars Involved, All of Whirl) Derision of United States Supreme Court Ketenses. Columbia, April G.?The monoy which had been tied up hy tlte order of Jttdge Pritehard has been deposited in a number of banks throughout the State and the State treasurer has securities for the various amounts. 'I his money will now be turned over to the commission for distribution as it may see tit just as soon as tlie formal order of the supreme court is secured. It will he recelled that some time ago .Judge Pritehard ordered about 22 per cent of the money released for the use of the commission to pay contingent expenses. The remainder is now divided among the various hanks as follows: Hank of Timmonsville .. $7,777.78 Columbia Savings Hank and Trust Co 3 4,875.00 Hank of Orangeburg .. 10,885.00 National Exchange of Chester 3.880.35 Hank of Aiken 27,21 2..r>0 Commercial Hank of Camden 3.SS7.50 City National Hank of Creonvillo 15,550.00 Lexington Savings Hank 3,887.50 People's National Hank of Charleston 11.C62.50 People's Hank of Greenville 15.550.00 Norwood National Hank of Greenville 19,412.50 Hank of Camden 15,550.00 National Loan and Exchange of Columbia (from the expense fund) 2,564.1 4 Merchants' and Farmers' Hank of Gheraw .... 1 8,344.59 Enterprise Hank of Charleston 7,775.00 clia. ...- . .nog mfwyyy Hank of Charleston .... 15,550.00 Merchants' and Farmers' Hank of Spartanburg. 7,775.00 First National Hank of Spartanburg 3,887.00 Central National Hank of Spartanburg 3,887.50 Hank of Dillon 7,775.00 Merchants' and Planters' Hank, Gaffney 7,775.00 Farmers' and Merchants' of Anderson 3,887.50 Farmers' and Merchants' Hank of Walterboro . 1,943.75 Commercial and Savings Hank of Florence . . . 8,000.00 Hank of Hartsville . . . . 7,775.00 National Loan and Exchange Hank of Columbia 1 4 5,678.33 The State Hank of Coin ni klo n ? r\ p- /v /v i una u/icv 5,5 /?).()() Palmetto National Hank of Columbia 4 6,650.00 People's Rank of Union. 7,775.00 People's Loan and Exchange of Laurens... 3,887.50 The State treasurer has on deposit $85,481.7 1, claims paid the dispensary by the various counties since the matter has been turned over to tne State treasurer. The total amount in banks is about $513,832. KILLED HIMSELF. Hovers? of Fortune Caused the Awful Dead. New York, April 5.?Leaving a letter addresed to his wife in which he explained his act by saying that reverse of fortune had cut down his competence until not enough of it was left for two, Chambers M. Cral,*, a retired captain of the United States army, tonight committed suicide in his apartments by shooting. "The time has now arrived," said Capt. Craig in his letter, "when there must come tho inevitable smash which always follows living beyond one's means. If the hard time had not not put an end to my opportunities, I would have gone on for a year or more. I have made a little money and left a little for you. I wish you the greatest happiness, and I wish I could remain with you; and I am confident that matters will lie all right with you. But there Is not enough for two. You will realize $75 a month some times and other times there is $25 a month. Cant. Crate wns? a nothm nf ni**~ , n .. ..U U immo Ul X 1 I IS" burg and at one time owned considerable real estate in Atlanta, CJa., and this city. A brother, living in Keswick, Albermarlo county, Va., is a retired major, U. S. A. IlKOKER KILLED. E. M. Gregg Meets With Peculiar Accident, and Dentil. Wilmington, N. C., April 5.?E. M. Gregg, a leading merchandise broker of Wilmington, and a member of a prominent South Carolina family was instantly killed on the streets here today by the collapse of a pile of brick and other building material, against which he was standing while talking with a friend. lie was 52 ANOTHER TORNADO AHEHDEEX,' MISS., 11ADLY DAMAGED DY ONE. ] rive Persons Met Death Under Ruins of Hallway Station and Several Were Injured. ? Aberdeen, Miss., April C.?Fivo persons are known to have been kill- ( ed, four others injured ,and still , others are buried under the debris of the Illinois Central depot, which was demolished by a tornado which swept through the city of Abberdeen tonight. The dead: W. C. .McMillan, president of the Hank of Aberdeen. T. C. McMillan, cotton buyer. Three negroes unidentified. Those known to have been injured art;: George Franklin, telegraph operator in the employ of the Illinois Central Railroad, and Messrs. Ray, King and Wieburn, aiso railroad employees. The storm, while of short duration, was of great velocity, and besides demolishing the depot, damaged a number of other buildings. Immediately .after the storm passed n'uci panics were nasmy formed and the search among the wreckage of the depot begun. At midnight five bodies of those killed had been recovered and four of the injured. Several Hurt in Illinois. Marion, 111., April G.?Many persons were hurt and considerable property was damaged by a tornado, which struck this city and vicinity today. The storm came-from the southwest, and was preceded and followed by heavy rains. The monetary loss is $ir?o.noo. The Marion State and Trust Hank, a number ,of offices, were partly blown down. The African Methodist church was also wrecked. At Pittsburg, the Methodist church was blown down. NKCjSHO GIVEN IA)XG TERM For the Outrageous Treatment of a Wliito Woman. Philadelphia, Pa., April G.?Twenty-five years' Imprisonment in the Eastern penitentiary and a $2,000 fine was the sentence imposed by Judge Harratt here today when (leorge Washington, a negro, was convicted of holding Mrs. Ella Curtin, white, a prisoner in his room and ill treating nnd robbing her. Mrs. Cutin went to the negro's home to make arrangements to have her trunks moved to a storage house. She alleged that Washington kept her a prisoner in his room from March 2.r> to 29. She was rescued by the police who had been notified of the matter by another negro roomer in the house. The woman, hospital physicians testified today, is ?? payment wrecK as the result of her experience. Several times while testifying today to the revolting nature of her experiences she collapsed on the stand. The jury quickly convicted Washington and he was given the full penalty of the law. PRIZES FOR NEAT YARDS. Oraniteville Manufacturing Company Offers Tliem. Aiken, April f>.?What is attracting no little comment and pleasant discussion in this city is the action of the Oraniteville Manufacturing Company in offering three prizes for the best kept yards in the little city. The first prize is $1.r>, the second $10 and the third prize $5. Oraniteville is everywhere recognized as being the prettiest, best kept and neatest mill town in the State, and the fact is a pride to the stockholders of the Oraniteville mill, best endeavors are ever directed toward keeping the undesirable class of people away. People with bad character ean never find employment in the Oraniteville mill. The prizes will be offered at the regular meeting of the stockholders in a few days. The Man That Wilis. Poys, do you know the kind of fellow who's just to the world's mind? The kind the world can't lose? The kind that folks enthuse over and take off their hats to? Why, it's the man-who-does. lie's the follow! Not the fellow whose grandpa got there; not the fellow who would if he could; not the gentleman who's going to some day; but the man-whodoes, now, today. No sitting around waiting, about him; no expecting something to turn up. No sir! He calls the turn and turns 'em; he takes off his coat and doesn't care if he starts a little sweat; he doesn't need a big, brass-buttoned copper to tell him to move on; he koeps the procession humping to keep up with with him; ho is hustle from his feet up and from his head down; he is not only in the push, but he is the push?the whole thing; and say, the way he makes things come and business hum is a caution; the way the world takes that fellow up and is good to him makes your heart glad; he's all right, he is; he greases the wheels of progress and keeps the world spinning round. TOYING TO KILIi OPIUM TRADE. New Law Prohibits Importation and Use of Drug. Washington, April 7.? One of the most important bills passed at the last session of Congress, and which became effective on April 1, was that prohibiting both the Importation and use of opium in the United States for any purpose whatever, except for strictly medicinal purposes. In recent years the smuggling of opium into this country has ben one of the serious curses of the time, and all of the larger cities have experienced untold trouble from such traiHc, especially among the Chinese, as the records of the police tsations and Criminal Courts abundantly show. Under the new law, if any persou shall fraudulen'ly or knowingly import or bring into the United States, or assist in so doing, any opium or any preparation or derivatives or shall receive, conceal, buy or sel\ or in any manner facilitate the transportation or concealment of sale of any such opium products after their importation, knowing them to have I een imported contray to law, such goods shall be forfeited and destroyed, and the offender shall be vned in any sum not e seeding $5,000, nor less than or by imprisonment for any time not exceding two years, or both. The treasury department had gone over the new law carefully, and in a statement just issued by Secretary MaeVeagh, is is made plain hereafter there shall be no trallic in this product if it is posible to stop it. In issuing full directions to collectors at the different ports, these oflicers are cautioned to guard closelv against fraudulent importations hereafter. In addition to this, the State and municipal oflicers have been sent copies of the new law by the treasury department with fill directions for carrying it out. and with instructions also for making arrests and pushing prosecutions when such arrests are deemed necessary. Although more smuggling of opium is done perhaps in San Francisco than in any other city in the United States, because o the very large number of Orientals there, the traffic in the drug has grown to enormous proportions in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Hoston and elsewhere in the East during the last five years. Not only this, but in some instances negroes, too., have been known to become steady and regular users of the drug, so that now the Chinese immigrant is not the only person to feel its harmful effects. Many murders among the Chinese in different parts of the country have been directly traceable to the illegal use of this drug, and it is believed by those who have made a caerful study of the mater that the new law wil be most beneficial in its effects when its provisions become generally known* and its mandates are carried out. LYNCHED FOK MURDER. Strung Up and Body Then Riddled With Bullets. . Pensacola, Fla., April 5.?Dave Alexander, a negro, was lynched hero this morning for the murder of Policemai Canton, whom the negro liceman Canton, whom the negro sisting arrest. While the nnii/?o oto_ tion was comparatively deserted, a crowd of 25 men, at the point of revolvers, took the black man from his cell and hanged him from an electric light pole, a half block from the jail. As the body swayed in the air, 4 0 bullets were fired into it by the mob. ST AI JUS Ills WJFR Drunken Negro Tries to Kill All llis Family. Rock Hill, April 7.?This evening at 8 o'clock Lawrence Uoyd, a well known negro cook, while drunk, run amuck on Ratterree hill and succeeded in almost murdering his wife, Louisa, stabbing her deeply in the shoulder. He started for their child of three years old and cut at it. Ills wife's sister grabbed at him and prevented him from cutting the baby, but received a nasty cut on the arm herself. Uoyd then tied and has not been caught. Two Killed by Train. Philadelphia, April 6.?Two unidentified men were struck and killed today by a train on the New York division of the Pennsylvania railroad. The name "Jas. C. Wills," and the inscription, "Horn in Richmond, Virginia, December 7, 1 876," were tatooed on the right arm of one of the men. finest of Honor. i\ew York, April 7.?United States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman will be the guest of honor and one of the speakers at the annual dinner of the South Carolinians in this city April 22. Members of other Southern States societies and of the Southern society have been invited to attend the dinner. Inspect the cellar of en, and never allow nny animal or vegetable matter to decay there. a.l?ti2?,!K ' * < BADLY BROKEN Democratic Patty Lines Are Out Of Alinement PROTECTIVE TARIFF ? V Votwl for by Some Democrats in the House Messrs. Lever ami Ellerbc Favor Duties oil Lumber. Other South Carolina Members Vote Against Schedule. Washington, April 6.?Zack McGee writes as follows to The State: * To take the tariff off lumber so as * to cheapen it for the consumers was not made a party light today and tho situation is so peculiar with the duties already in the bill on what tho I j lumberman buys, as well as on what all the rest of us buy, that there is 110 special significance in the votes I in the house 011 tho various ameiul; meats to the lumber schedules. A large number of Southern Demflf'VJ) t S Vftlofl !I iru inct llm . ? . ii.tv uic lUiit'iUlllU IIL I to make rough lumber free and to reduce the tariff on all other grades of lumber. Messrs. Hard wick, Howard, Hughes, and llartlett of Georgia stood out for free lumber. The South Georgians, Edwards, Brantley and Griggs, together with Col. Livingston and Judge Adamson, voted straight through for protection oil lumber. Of the South Carolinians, Messrs. Johnston and Aiken voted out and out for free lumber. Messrs. Finley and Lever voted on the rising vote, Finley for free lumber, Lever against it, but neither voted at all when tellers were called for. Mr. Ellerbe voted straight through against free lumber. Messrs. Patterson and Legare were absent. Mr. Patterson has not been well for several weeks. The North Carolinians, except Mr. Kitchen, voted straight for protection on lumber. The other Southern States were similarly divided, practicaly every man who had any lumber interests in his district, regardless of party, ' voted in the interests of the producer rather than the consumer. This, of course, delighted the Re- ^ publicans, who like to have the op portunity to taunt Democrats with voting for protection of the producer. Mr: Clark of Florida, who yesterday boldly announced that he was for protection on what his district produced and would vote for the Payne bill if he got that regardless of what else the bill contained, felt that he was vindicated today by the act of other Democrats on the lumber schedule and he taunted some of those who yesterday taunted him. Champ Clark, the minority leader, voted straight through for free lum- M ber in accordance with the Denver platform. BLACK HAND SCHEME. Just ji Frwil VfiHon eun./>.i ' in ? - ..... X'li vuunvu uy l/IUlU Novel Heading. Atlanta, Ga., April 7.?"It was just a fool notion I got from reading dime novels," said Daniel \V. Johnson, Jr., the 18-year-old boy who was jailed here last night for having m ! attempted to extort $35,000 from j Asa G. Candler, prominent banker I and Georgia's wealthiest citizen, through Black Hand methods. The young man at first told the police that he had been forced by three strangers to write letters to Mr. Candler, demanding the money. He now admits that the scheme was of his own concoction. Johnson wrote the second letter Sunday, repeating his throats of death to Mr. Candler in case of his non-compliance, and then went to church and took his regular place in Mr. Candler's Sunday school class. THOUSAND CHICKSXS BURNEI). Flames Devour Fat Fowls?Negroes Want to Rescue. New York, April 6.?Harlem negroes are sad today after witnessing the wanton destruction of 1,000 fat chickens that were roasted to a rich brown and then burned to a crisp ^ in a fire which destroyed property at the foot of East 124 th street last night. The chickens were the property of IT. L?. Goldberg, and wero . confined in his poultry yard. Several negroes in the crowd excitedly > volunteered to rescue the fowls he-' fore death came, but they , were held back by the police re- 4 serves. M ,1Km't Mix Them. Florists that flowers when made into bouquets together will wilt in a very short time. RojggQH es and mignonette, for example, afro T' so destructive to each other thnVuioy will not last through a dinner. It is possible that the sweet scent of flowers was once a deadly odor which killed other plants likely to grow in the same soil, and thus pro- ^B [ tected the plant giving it out. m