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SIX MEN DEAD' As the Result of a Terrille Explosion in a Coal Mine THREE FATALLY HURT The Mine Caught Fir? at One? aud IaxW Buuday N ight the Flame* Were Bhootlug Up From the Shaft Nearly One Hundred Feet in the Open Air. Near Roslyn, Wash., Sunday night, at least men were killed and three perhaps fatally injured in a gas explosion in coal mine No. 4, of the Northwestern Improvement Company. When the explosion occurred, a column of lire was thrown hundreds of feet into the air, igniting the shaft plant and adjoining buildings. Under the intense heat the hoist of the shaft crumbled and fell. Cinders wore blown in till directions, several I buildings in parts of the little mining town taking tiro. The citizens were unable to extinguish the tires and the Roslyn lire department was called out. The mine in tlio neighborhood of tho ahaft was burning fiercely late Sunday night, llames shooting lip from the shaft nearly one huudred feet into the air. The electric pumps, which supply he town of Koslyn with water, wore cut off and the water in the city was very nearly exhausted. It was reported that the shaft was caving in and that other explosions might occur at any moment. ? Rescue partis will be sejil into the mine from the slope connecting with the shaft as soon as it is safe for men to approach. * MULE KILLED BY TRAIN. With Buggy it Hud Been Loft to Wander ut Will. A Newberry dispatch to The State says the down freight on the Columbia, Newberry & Laurens railroad, which passes Newberry about 8:36 every evening on its way to Columbia, struck a mule and buggy at the crossing on the street leading to ITolpnn tho novf rrriKHlii" ulwivo th<> fatal Clive street crossing, whore so many accidents have occurred heretofore, Saturday night, killing the mule and demolishing tne Muggy. It seems that the train was running very slowly, about six miles an hour, and the mule with the buggy was unattended. The mule had been left unhitched by its owner, L?ee Rutherford, colored, in town, nearly a mile from where tin? accident occurred, and had walked off with the buggy, going in the direction of its home. The mule was of average \ value and is the second that Rutherford baa lost this year. * SAMIKLS RKSKiNS. Sends His Resignation to a Ilig Mass Meeting. A Chester dispatch to The State says at a mass meeting of citizens at the court house Friday night Mayor Ilenrv Runinola unlimiii.,.! i<iu ...... W ? -? ? M ^ ??V ?W UUWiU4V(.l/U U 1Q ICO" ignatlon to take effect Immediately. Mr. J. L. Glenn of the local bar read the resignation, which was accompanied by a request that the meeting adopt no denunciatory reso' lutions. Messrs. M. S. Lewis, T. H. White and L. D. Childs made remarks, calling upon the press, pulpit and citizens generally to accept the resignation and drop all further adverse comment. The resignation and the accompanying suggestions wore unanimously adopted and the big audience present went home with the outlook clear for a bigger and better Chester. * Another Newberry Murder. I As a resutl of a negro barbecue Saturday Newberry county has another murder to her credit. The negroes In the lower section of the county, about seven miles below Prosperity, had a barbecue on Mr. Iiurr Stockman's plantation. From the facts gathered by the coroner, it seems that John Whoeler walked up with J a double-barreled shotgun and with j little or no provocation shot Payton ' Itawl. * , _ . r Shoots the Shi'rllT. ? Sheriff H. J. Pope of Taylor county, Ga., lies in a hospital dangerously wounded, having been shot three times in attempting to arrest J. R. ^ li'-own at Butler, Ga., late Sunday f night. The surgeons entertain little a hope for his recovery. The officer j. Is too seriously injured to make any t! statement about the shooting and as a there were no eye witnesses details ri of the affair are meager. U r '* SUB SCI (jlf ?*0^ 1 ; ff (* UTICA CRIME SOLVED THEODOKK RIZZO HKL1) FOlt MIKDKH OF 2 CHlLDltKN. Lured Thm? Children to Lonoljr 1 lavine for Purpose of Assault, and Then Shot Two I>ead. After puzzling over the case since September 12, tho authorities of Utica, N. Y., have finally solved the m votnru t\t tli.. rr*v ui;ovm ; vi I no Uilll Ut'I U1 1 UUI UHil I Procopio, seven years old, and Fer-1 dinando Infusiuo, two and a halt* years old, and the shooting of the lutter's six-year-old sister, Fanny, the crimes which were committed in an isolated ravine on the outskirts of Utica, and which, for several weeks, threatened to always remain a mystery. The police have not only cleared up the case, but in the arrest of Theodore Kiz/.o, who has been arraigned and held for court on a charge of first degree murder, they have the brute who butchered the children. So complete was the chain of evidence which Chief of Police Hrophy wove around' the prisoner that the latter broke down and confessed to the crime when told of the evidence against him. lti/./,o's confession has not yet been made publit', as tlie 18,000 Italian residents of Utica are in an inflamed state of illilid over the atrocious deed, hence fears for the prisoner's life are entertained. Kizzo's confession is complete and binding, he having told the police the full details of the crime. lie admits that lie luted the three Italian children to the lonely ravine for the purpose of criminal attacking cither the I'rocopio or the Infusino girl, and then when they resisted and declared their intention of toiling on him he shot all three of iheiu to seal their lips. When he left tin4 ravino h thought till the children were dead. The I'rocopio girl and little Kerdinando Infusino were, but Fanny Infusino, though sorely wounded, soon regained consciousness. She saw the body of her brother lying in the ntud at 'ho bottom of the ravine and she dragged it out among the goidenlod that fringed the side of the ecn'-c and then kept watch over it until a neighboring woman discovered them the next morning. Fanny Infusino was taken to a hospital, where she recovered, ami ine police immediately set to v ek la the case. They made but si > .v progress, as clews were very few but the fact that Kizzo was seen comillir from the ritvine Keen aft the crime occurred gave them something to work on. They built up n strong case against the Italian, hut it threatened to fall Hat when the Infusino girl failed to identify him. . She said, however, he looked something lik?> the man aside from the fact that her assailant had long hair, whereas Kiz/.o's was cropped close to his head. The police soon discovered that he had had his hair cut like this on the day after the murder, andN when he was fitted out with a v.ig the girl identified lylm. lie was 'immediately taken into custody, and his confession followed. * ? OONVKTKU OF M ANSLAl UHTFK. Homicide Trial at Aiken Results in Verdict of Guilty. The first of the Quintette of white men of Horse Creek Valley to be tried at Aiken for murder was Thomas Rogers, charged with the murder of Paul Jones. The case was concluded Friday afternoon, and resulted in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. The killing occurred at Johnstown, about seven weeks ago, this being the first of the homicides to occur there recently. It appears that the men had previously quarreled, and when Jones was killed Rogers was under the influence of whiskey. Jones was cut with a knife ! which disembowelled him, and he ( ilied some time later. * < ? I After Many Years. A Charleston man who lost his jjold rim spectacles in Cuba about the line of the Spanish war lias been i nade happy by the receipt of th" glasses a few days ago through the ^nib. * nan*. 11 nus neon a long wait, >ut there in satisfaction at last in j setting back bis spectacles. The eather had almost nil rotted off the ^ netal case which had been found in f , trench around Santiago, but still s he glasses are in good condition. * i (I llcoke Ilia Xcck. \\ Elsin Yawn, a farmer living be- { ween Helena and Chauncoy, was h on n d dead, lying beside a road d bout dusk Sunday. He was return- () ng from Chauncey, when he was j< brown by a mule, breaking his neck i tnd bruising /his skull against a u ock as he fell to the ground. He (| javes a wife and several children. * ti mm fiffS V*1 ^ LAID TO REST Last Rites Held Over Body of Ex-Governor Miles B. McSweeney END CAME WEDNESDAY Had IWn In 111 Health for n Your or More and Several Mont lis Apo He Wum Taken to llultiinoro for Treatment?I tody lathi to Host in llain|Uou Wcdncttdajr Afternoon. A dispatch from Hampton says the body of ex-Governor MeSwoeney reached there at 5 o'clock p in. Thursday. The funeral services were held Immediately thereafter at Hampton coineterj. The body was accompanied by Mrs. MeSwoeney and two of his sons. The funeral services wore conducted by Kev. J. W. 101k ins, pastor of the Methodist church, assisted by Hevs. VV. 11. Howling and G. 10. Spruill. Hampton lodge, No. 73, Knights of Pythias, then took charge and the ex-governor was laid to rest with Pythian honors. The active pallbearers were: .1. S. Polk, Pamberg; VV. C. Manldin. W. S. Smith, 10. M. Peoples, J. C. I.ightsev, K. J. Watson, Columbia; G. I). Howling, 10. 11. Anil, Newberry. The honorary pallbearers were: Mayor 10. F. Warren, Gen. Jas. VV. Moore, \V. F. Cuminings, Dr. J. L. Folk. Former Governor MeSwoeney died Wednesday morning in Baltimore. The news was received here and caused widespread sorrow among the many personal iriends of .Mr. Mci Sweeney throughout t State. CJovornor McSweeney had boon in ill health for a year or more and several months ago he was taken to Ba'.t imoro for treatment. Since that time he had boon under treatment in a private sanitarium in that city. His condition became critical a week or more ago and Mrs. McSweeney was summoned to his bedside. The end came Wednesday morning at 1:30 o'clock. <;<>Y KKNOli McKWHHNHY. Short Sketch ot 21 is Life That Ix Wry Interesting. Miles Benjamin McSweeney was l>orn in Cliarleston April IS, lRf>f>. Four years later his father die I of yellow fever, and the orphaned hoy was left to make his own way through the world. At the age of 10 he was selling newspapers. Later he clerked in a bookstore and at the same Lime attended night school. He served an apprenticeship as u job printer and worked for newspapers la Charleston and Columbia. I le won the Washington and Leo university scholarship offered to members of the Charleston Typographical union, but owing to lack of means ills college career was restricted to a very short term. in 1X7 7 Mr. McSweeney moved to .Mnt'ty-cix, w no re 110 published the Ninoty-Six Guardian until 1879, whi'ii ho roinoved. to- Hampton and began the publication of The Hampton County Guardian, which ho continued until within a few months of his dealh. For eight years Mr, McSweoney was president of the South Carolina Press association. In addition to his journalistic pursuits Mr. McSweeaey played a prominent part in South Carolina politics. For 10 years?from 1881 to 189 1?ho was chairman of the Hampton county Democratic executive committee. In 189 1 he was elected to the State legislature and in 1S9G became lieutenant governor, which place he filled until 1899, when he succeeded to the governorship on the death of Gov. W. II. Rllerbee. In 190 1 he was elected governor. At the expiration of his term he retired from politics and devoted himself to the interests of The Guariian. For several years Mr. Mc"><veeney was a member of the State Democratic executive committee. * ^ ^ < INSISTS llK IS INN OCR NT. 1 I , dan Accused of Killing Wife Sub- f mils to Interview. f At Spartanburg Dock Foster, who f s held in the county jail under sus- y in-1on oi naving murdered his wife, f lartha Fester, and burled her niu- n Hated body in a woodland on the uburhs of the city, submitted to an ntorview, but would answer few uestions. "God knows I am an ^ nnocent man," he repeated time and Ime again. He has not explained 1 is movements on Tuesday and Tues- a ay night, nor has he produced any { no other than himself who saw Mrs. r "oster in a hack with a negro and s white man Tuesday evening. Fos- (>i >r was last seen with his wife Tues- 'I ay afternoon In the woods where tl ie body was found. * p i m WAS A GOOD MAN A 1>KSK11YKI> TKIIIUTK TO TUB LATE GOV. McSWEKNEY. A State Ofllcial, Who Know the I>ato Governor Well, S|>eak.s of Iliin as lie Wu?. A State official, who know ox-Oovornor McSwoeney intimately, said of him u few days ago: "When Gov. Kllerbee died Miles H. .-vicaweeney canto to Columbia quietly and assumed the ofllco of governor Ills personal modesty, which was ever a strong characteristic of the man, made a pronounced impression on every one with whom ho came in contact during those lirst days. I "If McSweoney had a pronounced t fault it was one that more men might well have to their material advantage?die op human sympathy. lie simply could not harbor a grudge against any man; ho could not turn his back upon those who would injure him; he could not say nay to those in distress, particularly women and children; his hand was ever on his pocket hook ready to aid those who were in need. "He was a man devoted to his family and his children and his friends. "McSwecney came to the olheo of governor of the State a safe and sound business man, one who had made a success of his own business, lie applied business methods to his administration from tho lirst day and sot out to give the State a business administration, shaped upon lines conservatism and designed to foster and encourage Industrial and all material development. How he succeeded those who watched contemporaneous events and th.w. ? came after him in ollicial harness knew best. lie made but few of what could bo justly termed mistakes lines of conservatism and designed to State and sincerely strove to better conditions. His .administration marked a distinct period of advance in the history of the State. "A 11 newspaper men who came in daily contact wtih him were personally devoted to him; he reposed full confidence in them and that confidence was never abused. "One of the most beautiful incidents of the governor's career as Chief executive of the State was illustrative of that predominating characteristic, which made him recognize the humblest being and value his friendship. It occurred in New York city. The governor with the members of his staff was on 'newspaper row,' near the New York World building the day before the great Dewey celebration, just as the newshoys screaming 'Wuxtry* were issuing from the building. Tile staff of ihits could not restrain him whe.i lie saw the hoys who wore* what he had once been, and in a moment or two lie had made his own career known to them. In a few moments more he "was the centre of a cheering mass of newsboys and it took not only all the staff otllcres could , <1?, hut Ujv USSitfiiUiSQ ui' the police, to rescue him and his big armful of csarp daxnrrbspf shrdlshd ludrlurh papers from the enthusiastic mob of cheering lads, How much poorer he was when it was alT pver none who were with lilin ever knew. "McSweenoy's life was devoted to the cause of progress. It w?? m,,i will ever be an (inspiration to the ambitious poor boy. It has not been lived in vain. Passing through the severe hardships he encountered in boyhood and young manhood, he then passed through the ever changing trials of public life without losing those distinctly human characteristics that at once made him lovable to hiss friends and kept him from making enemies*. Ho was a type of man South Carolina Can not well afford to lose. His public spirit was shown in his every act and public utterance and he wrought much good that the general public knew not of. The Impress of his life and his life work upon the future citizenship of hi* beloved State will live long." * Killed in Kiinaway. Miss Ida Harrol, the fourteen-year'?ld daughter of Mr. M. J. Ilarrel, a prominent farmer, living three miles , from Quitman, Oa.. was instantly ' tilled Monday afternoon by being jiujvvii iroin a uuggy. Miss Harroll md Iter cousin wore driving home roni school, when the horse became rightened and ran away. The other filing lady succeeded in stopping the rightened horse after he had ran ' iearly a mile. Trolley Wreck. At Pittsburg, Pa., two men were illod and eight other passengers se- (j iously injured, three of them probbly fatally, Sunday night In a street ^ ar accident there. While a car was r minding a corner at a fair rate of ( peed one of the axles broke. The H eir swerved around and upset, the y ead and injured being caught in n tie wreckage. All the victims were a assengers. u THE HQ EATS HIS CHILD . Driven by Hanger, Arctic Hunter Commits Fearful Crime TO PRESERVE HIS LIFE The Miin's Fishing und Hunting i Season Had IWtu a Fuilure and Driven Mud by Hunger, He Killed uno or Ills Children and A to tin* lattlo Victim. A Sunday's dispatch from St. John's, N. F., snys tragedy in the far North formed the burden of the news brought to port today by the Hudson Hay Company's steamer Adventure which arrived with the crow of the lost Dundee whaler Paradox, and the story of an lOskitno, who driven to cannibalism by starvation, ate his child. The Paradox, one of the fleet of whalers, met the fate of her companion ship, Snowdrop, when she was crunched in the ice floes off Hatha Land, early in August a year ago. The crow, with scanty provisions, made their way over the broken ice towards the mainland, and were picked up this fall by the steamer, j The Hudson Hay mounted police I report, through dispatches brought by the Adventure, the canniahlism of the starving Hskimo. The man's i fishing and hunting season had been a failure and driven mad by hunger, he cut the throat-of one of his children and then ate the little victim. When the man's neighbors learned of the horrible crime, they attacked him according to the primitive law of their race. The outcast beat on ;ui assaults, shot down several of the attacking party and escaped into the wilderness. His fate is unk nown. M ASSACKIO ClIAKGLI) TO LITTIiK. Mrs. Little in AilUlavit DeclarcN Ho Wore Illoody Clothes. A dispatch from Minefield, W. Va., says the wife of Howard Little, whq , was arrested about a week charged with .the murder of "Aunt Betsy" Justice, Geo. A. Meadows and wife and three children, confessed a few days ago that she washed his bloody clothing the day after the murder and in her allidavit she says also that he left their home about dark on the night of the murder and returned the next morning with his clothes all bloody and torn and said that he would kill her if she told anything about his condition, lie borrowed a 32-calibre revolver a few days before the crime was committed returned it on the following Wednesday with two chambers empty. The body of George Meadows was exhumed and two billets taken from it by Doctors Kichrdson and White were almost identical in weight .with the halls taken from shells belonging .to tlie weapon Little had borrowed. * c..? \ Little's wife iilso turned over tliVli lantern that ho fiTQUJtht hf?tm? I ^ ? v. ...v. rr i til him that night which showed file marks as if some one had tried to cut off the bloodstains. He was seen in the barn next morning folding papers across his knee apparently counting money and he gave twenty dollars to a woman with whom hj had planned to start for the west a few days after the murder was committed, with which to buy clothing Hjul prepare for the train. Having done this she returned one dollar and eighty cents to kittle at which time she swears he threatened her lift? If she revealed any part of their secret. Requisition papers have been applied for and as soon as they can be , secured Little will bo removed to < Lebanon to await his trial. Threats of lynching are freely made. ' ( IviIl?*?l the Itigfit Follow. i Kn raged at his wife because 1 breakfast was not ready on time, 1 Wdward F. Mtiller, a special detective iving iit New York, shot at her with i revolver Sunday and when he saw ier fall, turned the weapon against ? Jimself and blew out his brains. f lis wife was not even scratched by 8 he bullet She had fa'nted from ' ure frihUi Muller died almn-.t in- 8 tantly. * " ^ v Fiends Convicted. w At Laurens George Davis and John w fa nee, colored, were a few days go convicted of rapo on the peron of a white woman in the Gray 'ourt section of the county, with ecommendation to mercy. Under he new Wharton law Judge Shlpp entenced the two negroes to twenty ^ ears in the penitentiary, it being u ow left in the court's discretion ^ s to the penalty under a recomlendation. * j i> IRRY HEI . * -"? SEMMES AND THE SUMTER I ? S()\tK INTERESTING GLIMPSES OP out STATE HISTORY. Th? Brave South Carolina Soldier After Whom the Southern C'rubMT Was Named. Id speaking of the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Admiral Raphael Sotntnes, the Indianapolis News says: Throughout the South yesterday the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Raphael Se.ntr.es, who bore the title of admiral ?n the Confe?l orate navy, was generally observed. That ho was a man of talent and a skillful seaman Is without question. as is also the fact that he, as commander of the Alabama, which was finally pounded to plecos ofT Cherbourg, France, by the old Kearsarge, did greater havoc to Northern shipping than any other man that ever sailed a privateer. The name of Sumter, that of his first vessel, was as familiar to the North perhaps as was that of the famous privateer, the Bonne Homme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, of Revolutionary memory, but most readers probably thought the name Sumter was given to the Koinmns vessel in recognition of Fort Sumter, in Charleston, S. C., harbor, the llrst United States stronghold to fall into the hands of the Confederates. The name of Sumter, however, is that of a Revolutionary hero, who, with Francis Marion, may be named as the most distinguished sons of South Carolina in that strug km\ lit the North tho name of the Hrst-named In to is comparatively an unfamiliar one, while the name of Million has boon given to counties, cities and towns in many States, North tis well as South. Thomas Sumter called "the Carolina Came Cock," as Francis Marion was called, "the Carolina Swamps Fox," was born in South Carolina in 1734 and died June 1, 1832, having lived to the extreme age of 98 years, outliving by ton years stout old Frig. Gen. John Stark, of New Hampshire, who died May 8, 1 822, at the age of 9 4 years. Stark won great honor by defeating lUitlVn, who COin^r manded a forcg 0f Hessians, oh August, a R, 1 777, at Bennington, and flTlorward defeated a force under Hreymnn, victorious which led to tho surrender of Butgoyno at Saratoga, which in turn brought Franco to the aid of the colonies as an ally. Thomas Sumter, after the capture of Charleston, S. C., by the British in 17 8(1, took tho Held as a brigadier geherol at the head of a body of light horse and immediately became one of the most active and able partisan leaders of the South. His bravery, endurance and unvarying cheerfulness and determination caused him to he adored by his followers 'rm. war over, political honors awn I ted htm. He was repeatedly elected to Congress, was minister to Brazil and several terms in the United States Senate. And this was the hero whose name was given to the fort In Charleston harbor, where the Hag was fired upon, rousing the North to action, and this the name of the commerce destroyer commanded by the Confederate admiral whom the I South remembered yesterday. HAD A CLOSK CALL. ' IUuiis Train Two Men in Auto Ttinr Have Wonderful Ivs<U|m1. As a train bound for Mantatton was pulling out of the Twenty-second avenue station, Bath Beach, a few days ago, an automobile In which were two men dashed down the avenue toward the bay. The chauffeur put on tho brakes, but struck the rear car of tho train, and to the passengers It looked as though the two men had been killed. The driver escaped with a bad shaking up. His companions was hurled In the air and landed on his side. When he got up ho brushed iiis clothes, and I)r. Do Mound, who examined him, said that his escape had been nothing less than a miracle. Not a hone was broken. Both men went homo without giving their UlIIM'H. * Disabled by Hoes. While engaged In recovering a louse at Clifton No. 2, Spartanburg ountv, II. B. Hughes, a carpenter, tirred up a bumble boo nest, and icforo he could retreat to a place of afety, the bees applied their busiicKs end to his hands and legs. Ho /as forced to quit work and had to e carried homo in a i".""- ' * . ... .. , ana ne nis so badly stung that ho could not - alk. lA'ft Their llaby. H. A. Sack and wife of Savannah, la., were arrested In Columbia on londay for deserting their baby in partanburg, which they left in the nion depot. They claimed to have orgotten the little one. Sack is onnected with the express company i Savannah. RALD r\ i ' {