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Absolutely SPREAD TERROR ? I Nine Elephants Rush Through the Streets of Danville, Illinois DESTROYING PROPERTY ? Several Persons Were ullrt and Several Buildings and Trees Overthrown by the Huge Animals After they Escupcd from the Circus and Before They Were Penned. -At Danville, Illinois, on Wednesday several persons were injured and much property was damaged by nine| elephants that stampeded just after they .had been unloaded from a car after several hours ride from Chicago. A large elephant made a break Cor liberty bowling over the keeper and escaping. The animal was followed by seven other bulls, which ran bellowing through the streets and across the fields. Later, while the entire force of trainers an keepers were engaged in the usual sport of hunting elephants in automobiles, a female elephant escaped. For several hours the elephants were at large, .hunted by all the attaches of the circus, the city police- < men and tl/e more venturesome cit- ] Izens. The elephants at first moved < in a bunch, then seperated They stopped for nothing except brick and < stone buildings. Such small frame \ structures as coal sheds, fences, and ' trees as came in their path were ] pushed over, trodden down, uprooted \ and thrown to one side. < At the home of William Miller three elephants found sufficient room ( to pass between the summer kitchen \ and house, so they pushed the kit- < chen aside, frightening the persons r inside from the table, but injuring c no one. J At the home of Joseph Peebles, af? | ( ter overturning a shed and Killing, j a .horse, one of the animals attacked l< Peebles and hurled him against the I f side of the house. Peebles is in a ( critical condition. . Barney O'Neal, a liveryman, was ] thrown from his wagon by the ele- j phants as they dashed down a side ( street in front of .his team. F. K. v Rabbe, one of the keepers, while {is- ( sisting in stabling three of the bulls after their capture, was hurled sud- f denly against the side of a barn and e injured. Several other persons were t slightly injured, mostly because of ] horses frig.htened by the pachyderms e or through their own fright during j * IV the siampeue. L More than 100 homes were damaged to some extent by the elephants, c but the total loss probably will not t exceed $10,000. Several truck gar- j dens and orchards were partly ruin-J e ed in the outskirts of the city, while p many shade trees were broken, or c uprooted. p * * 8 BRYAN IS AN ELDER. ? Elected to Church Office and Nn.-iicd as Delegate. d W. J. Bryan was Sunday ordained m as an elder in the Westm.ulpr* Pree- o byterian Church, of Lincoln. Neb., q **and following his ordination was se- ^ lected as a delegate at large to the tc Ecumenical Council of the Presbyterian church to be held at tSJ.ilburgh, Scotland, in June. The m ceremony of installing Mr. Bryan as f an elder occupied the entire service m at the church. He made an ex- w tended address, accepting the place w to which he had been promoted by 0] the church trustees during bin ab- a] sence In South America. See Oomet and l>ie. Waking her husband, a well known ff farmer residing several miles from p Ellisville, Miss , iMrs. John Scarbor- fo, ouph hysterically declared, "I have 0i aeen the comet." Efforts of her hus- tl band to calm her were unavailing. a Ten minutes later she died. n ( elicious, heaSi^-4^^8 the most valuable ingre, tht active principle, to (OYALl iking Powder snFM whAlMAme and elf clous food for every > day in every home JR ALUM FIEND CAUGHT HE ADMITS HIS GUILT AND WILL BE HUNG SOON. Several Persons Are Fatally Bayoneted by the Troops Guarding the Fiend Before Trial. After narrowly escaping death at the hands of infuriated crowds, that were kept from securing the prisoner by a company of militia which wounded four men with bayonets to npnto/it fiioir r?.h.'jr*-p Howard Harris. a negro confessed to assaulting Mrs. Kflie McMillan Dutton at Thomasvllle, Ga., Thursday, and was sen- I tenced by Judge Mitchell to be hang-I ed on May 20. J The jury was out only one minute. I No defense was made either by Har- j ris or the lawyers appointed by the 11 court to represent him. As soon as I' the verdict was announced the mob I dispersed and all evidences of disor- 1 der passed away. Orders Tor two I * additional companies of militia, sent 1 earlier in the day were countermand- 1 ed. I 1 The trial was held while the troops I picketed all approaches to the court- I 1 house. No one was allowed near the M building except those directly con- J 1 nected with the case. I ' The arrest of Harris Wednesday in I * Florida caused large crowds to gath- I ' sr on the streets that night and trou- I ( bio was feared. The Thomasvillo M 3nards were ordered out at the time I * ind sent to Valdosta to meet the I * Mhcers who were bringing Harris M back for trial. The prisoner arrived I 1 Thursday morning shortly beforel1 noon accompanied by Sheriff Single-I 1 :ary and the escort of T.homasville I ' 3uards. . I' An immense crowd gathered at the I *lepot on arrival of the train, but I t was stopped at the Broad street I 1 crossing and the prisoner taken off. I ^ The crowd made a rush for Broad I t Jtreet when they found it out. I s The prisoner was marched down I he street accompanied by the sher- I * fif and military. At the intersection I 1 )f Broad and Jackson the mob made n in attempt to take Harris but was ^ lriven back by the soldiers. The mob followed to the court 9 rouse, trying to get the prisoner. ? jut failed. Messrs. J. H. Merrill, W. ^ 3. Snodgrass and Fondren Mitchell n vere appointed by Judge Mitchell to 11 lefend the negro. In the clash between the soldiers 11 md mob four men in all, were injur- 11 'd by the militiamen when they at- ? empted to seize the prisoner. Curtis r' ^alinds and Alex Parrymore receiv- a d serious wounds the latter being ? )ierced through the stomach by a *' ayonet. There was no s.hooting. After the sheriff and soldiers sue- P ceded In getting Harris safely to s< he court room, the trial proceeded ? n an orderly manner. The prison* r was identified by his victim, and mmediately after confessed to tho s< rime. No defense was made and ^ he court at once passed the deatJi a entence. C] A liose Lives in Flames. Three persons were burned to eath and several injured in a fire g, t Cornwall, Ont., early Saturday. y< he Rossmore Hotel and a number f stores were destroyed and the Col- w uhoun block considerably demaged. a, oss $250,000. It is now said that ai m people lost their lives. * in ? ? I,, 1?\ Crazed With Booze. ^ lAt Welch, W. Va., John Morris, a of tiner, maddened by drink, late on or hursday night shot and killed two ten, wounded several other and a oman, and later met his death hile trying to escape into Virginia 5( n a freight train. He lost his balnee and fell under the wheels. 0f * . In Found in Itiver. e\ The body of Wiley Thigpen, a rrmer, was found in Pearl river at Icaynne, Miss., Thursday. Three ullet wounds through the body and jn ther evidences lead to the belief g( lat the man was murdered. A pair spectacles on the bank of the river tn jsulted in the discovery. r TAKE ONE MORE MARCH OLD HEROES CHEEKED IN MORILE KY THRONGS. While Twenty Rands Clayed "Dixie/' Fifteen Thousand Veterans Paraded With Rattle Scarred Flags. Thursday was a great day for Mobile, when with halting steps and trembling limbs, gray-beared and feeble, with eyes in which the tire of youth has been dimmed by the none too gentle passing years, but with hearts full of pride and joy, fifteen thousand veteran soldiers of the Confederacy marched beneath the battle-scarred flags which they followed in the sixties. Shoulder to shoulder, with comrades who endured together the hardships of war, to the soft strains of "Dixie" played by two score bands, encouraged by the eheers of the biggest crowd Mobile has ever entertained, the ^nnual parade of the Veterans passed into his:ory. The weather was perfect. The sun was bright and warm, but a breeze !rom the Gulf tempered its rays and nade ideal marching conditions. The ine of march was elaborately decorited with bunting and streamers, luge arches carried words of wel:ome to the Veterans and from every milding the Stars and Bars and the 5tars and Stripes swung together, lapping lazily in the breeze. Major ten. George Harrison, commander of he Alabama division, was the grand marshal of the parade. To simplify he parade formation, a map of the ine of march had been prited show- 1 ng the exact spot at which each of he twentv-six divisions was to form. The preliminary arrangements for ! he parade were so perfect that the lead of the column was set in motion * liree minutes before the time for tarting, 1 0 o'clock. 1 Gen. Clement A. Evans, who was o .have commanded the parade, was 00 weak and ill to review it, and the ew Commander-in-Chief, Gen. Geo. | V. Gordon, surrounded by his staff, eplaced him. Gen. Gordon expressd deep regret that the white-haired Id commander could not round out is office by directing the closing i lovement of the troops of t.he Re- ( nion. 1 The parade followed the line of t larch assigned to it, and counterlarched through historic Bienville quare, where Gen. LaFayette once f eviewed the Continental troops. In i huge reviewing stand t.he general t fflcers and guests of honor watched 1 he parade pass in review. a One of the prettiest features of the t arade was the march of the spoil- s ers and maids of honor of the Sons t f Veterans. Mobile has a total of \ 6 public carriages?not enough to arry all the maids and sponsors? 1 the sponsors and maids of the eterans were given the carriages v nd the pretty young women who c ime with the Sons marched at the Q ead of the various camps to which t ley were attached. a There were some curious features t i the parade. A number of old ne- 0 ro soldiers were in line, among them a sfferson Shields, who claims to have a sen Stonwall Jackson's cook. Jeff p as covered with Reunion badges r, id carried a live chicken under his t 'm. When asked what he was do- t< g with the chicken, he replied that p 5 was just carrying his lunch. In f( ie Virginian division were a group w ' old soldiers carrying wasp nests ^ i the end of canes. w a Slain by Turks. t( A epeeial from Salonikl says that e1 )0 Albanians, chiefly women and e1 illdren, are reported as having been ai Godauntz by the Turkish forces the effort to dislodge Albian reb* s< ? n Goes Up in Price. ^ A New Orleans dispatch says freez- v< g weather in many parts of the tl )\ith has sent cotton up $1.75 a tl lie on the opening in the local fu- h ires market. The entire crop is a (ported killed in many places. ti TALKS OF POOL PROBE GOES FOR W1CKERSHAM WITH GLOVES OFF. Gov. Cromer, of Alabama, Charge* the Attorney-General With tendering to the Beat's. In his address of welcome at the opening of the Confederate reunion at Mobile Tuesday Governor B. 13. Cromer of Alabama, in addition to greeting the old soldiers in a cordial way, took a fall out of Attorney General Wickersham for his prosecution of the men who tried to break up the cotton pool holdings. He said "And now we .have the remarkable spectacle of an attorney general of the United States instituting legal process for the arrest of citizens who are trying to break the power of speculative cliques which through the New York exchange .have fattened by using millions of money to force the price of cotton up and down, and without regard to the effect on the grower, the consumer or the manufacturer. I say we have an attorney general of the United States instituting processes of the court for the arrest of business men who are trying to establish regularity in the price of cotton, founded on supply and demand." The governor asserted that the attorney general failed to show that it is the purpose to prevent speculative sales of cotton whenever it suits the speculators to press down tJie price of the staple. He charges that when the speculators are caught short and are forced to deliver the thousands of bales they never even saw, they call on t.he federal government, and in helping them the attorney general forgets the interests of the toiling masses of the South, the poorest paid labor in America. He was astonished at any i liUli lilirrf) 31 ."A If, \ ? < (Sites a Young Man, Several Dogs and ' i Several Mules. s A day or two ago a shepherd dog ^ >wned by Mrs. Ruth Archer of Anlerson ran amuck and hit young Her- r jort Archer, several dogs and one or * wo mules. The dog was killed by * i member of the local police force, ( md its head was sent to the Pasteur j nstitllto ill fVdiimhin fnr Avnminn. A ion. Young Archer left immediate- i y after being bit for the institute, r ind it now receiving treatment there. ( V. telegram was receive from the in- 1 ititute saying that an examination t >f the dog's head shows that the dog c vas In the first stages of rabies. I ? n Stay With It. 1 "Stay with it" was the sage ad- ^ ice that a leader gave to a party of e colonists that was getting disheartned at some unexpected difficulties a hat arose. Most of them took his d dvice and stayed and the result jus- t ified the wisdom of his advice and R f their decision. The truth is there re many people in this world who re too ready to give up when dif- v culties appear, and that is one main t? eason for their non-success in life. R 'hey do not understand that the e ?sting which obstacles impose real/ make for success and for the unMding of certain needful qualities v rhen that testing is met with grim t.1 etermininatlon not. to give up. "Stay tc ith it" is an injunction which many P young man embarking in some en- tl >rprise will do well to heed. Keen oi verlastingly at your calling what- a' ver it may be and success will come H t last. Every man who aspires to repre?nt the people in Congress as a r< emocrat should he made to pledge a< imself not to help the trusts t>y b< oting for a protective duty on any- ol ling. If any man wants to help d le trusts oppress the people after te e gets in Congress he should not be y< llowed to sneak in as a represents- tl ve of the masses. h BANK Ol Con wa CAPITAL STOCK 8URPLUS LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDER SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS. I DIRE' Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We continue to } ay 5 per cent inter it youraccount robert b. scarborough, i President. i | FIRST NATK i A (X)NUV t CAPITA I, STOCK SURPL/US PROFITS TOTAL ASSESTS tniRKi J. A. iMc.Dernvott, John P. G. Collins, II. L. W M. Burroughs, C. P. Qi M Successor to the Bank < Ik Horry County, and a pionee W* l.v allied with the recent <lc Ay Republic. Backed by t he iK Unit' d States Bonds, we are turners any reasonable accon <ls til. A. SPIVEV, officer thus attempting to injure the citizens of the South for the benefit of the specultors in the South's great product. "We of the South," he said, after condemning the Aldrich tariff bill, "have never asked for a tariff which would enrich us by levying a tax on t.he public for our benefit. We have never treated our patriotism, our citizen&hip, as a commodity; we have never commercialized our vote." In another place the governor says the South occupies an abnormal position with regard to the rest of the country?that of an unloved stepchild. "I think it is time for the South to cease to be a province," he said, "and that we should take our rightful position in the national house and be treated Uke the rest the national governmentejrpxzfiflfiiff of the family." He commended the national government for the loan of tents. To the old men of arms the governor said: "Nothing could surpass your heroism in those four years' service, in the 4 5 years since, in the 1 C ,1 ^ ? 1 S |ltl' I ilv" II I <1 I StM 1 -11 ti II 1M 1 ftIIU\WI 111 <1 thousand hardships in the patriotic discharge of duty. We pray God that your like will be perpetuated in . the boys and girls of the South." y V ?l^l I H'l "disaster recalled DESTRUCTION OF THE LARGE STEAMEIt SULTANA. When Two Thousand Federal Soldiers Were Drowned Recalled by the Reunion of Survivors. The society of the survivors of the famous Sultana disaster held its annual reunion Wednesday in the town of Prospect, a short distance from Knoxville, Tenn. The day was the 45th anniversary of the burning and sinking of the steamboat on the Mississippi and the handful of survivors who miraculously escaped death met to exchange reminiscences of the liianfity of sugar was unloaded. 3arly in t.he morning of the next (lay .'he l)oat left Memphis. About four >'clock p. m., occurred the terrific exiloftion which destroyed the boat ind sent hundreds of soirts to death. The explosion occurred near Hen and thicken Island, one of the four boil I rs of the boat bursting. The vessel caught fire and it was | t, once evident that the vessel wax loomed and with it hie majority of ho?e on board. Hundreds of pasengers jumped from the burning oat to the water, only to be swalowed up by the current. A few rere saved by clinging to pieces of he wreckage. Others managed to wim for miles, only to perish from xhaustion. Seven boats were hurriedly sent rem Memphis to pick up the surivors who could be found. Some of < lese were taken to Memphis others ( > St. Txiuis and Cairo. They were laced in military hospitals, where | ley remained until they had recov- j red from their injuries. Hut nearly j II of the 2,200 persons on board the l.ftifnil r?rr?ft >1 r> rt norishnd ? ?. I Warm Up North. , While it is freezing: in the South ( icord breaking temperatures ha\e I jcompanied a hot wave tha? has i pen experienced on the west tcast i f Newfoundland for t.he past few i ays. At points where the usual < ?mperature at this season of the < par would be below freezing, the i lermometers have register?'! as I igh as 85 degrees in the shade. 1 F HOHKY, \y. 8, C. I I fiooor I 10 000 1 3 60 0QI I 110 0(X | CI0RS W. R. Lewis, j W. A. Johnson, J ill A Freeman, et-t on yearh deposits, m.vt- solici l buck, will a. frf em AW Vice 1'resident. Cabiiieb ' ONAL BANKi w w $25,000.00 2,500.00 <P 125,000.00 PTOR8: , ^ C. Spivey, D. T. McNeill jfo Buck, W. R. Lewis, 1). jfiL lattlebaum, D. A. i^pivey. 5K jf Conway, t.ho Oldest Bank in A|k r in 10a shorn Carolina. Closeivelopment of tlie Independent Government and secured by J&k prepared to extend to our cus- jLi ltmodations. W It. (J. COLLINS, A President. ? 1 1 1 111 > PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councelor At Law. (iisasrer, wnicn was one or me most appalling in the nation's history. T.he steamboat Sultana was built at Cincinnati 1 803, and was a regular packet running between New Orleans and St. Louis. During the war the boat did considerable business for the government of the United States in transporting troops along the Mississippi river. On the illfated trip that marked the end of her career the Sultana left New Orleans April 21, 1803, find arrived at Vicksburg April 24, remaining t.here 2 0 hours. At Vicksburg 1,965 soldiers, or two full regiments, and 35 federal afllcers who had been paroled, having been in the Confederate prisons it. Andersonville, Macon and Cahaoa, ind also two companies of infantry, tvere taken on board, making nice ban 2,200 persons on the boat. The .homes of the soldiers were in rennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Michgan, Oilio, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas and West Virginia. Every available foot of space was iccupied by the soldiers and the regular passengers. In fact, the boat vas greatly overcrowded. On the oorning of April 2 6 the Sultana cached Memphis, where a large CONWAY, 8. C. " ' ' ' 11 ' i i i , . . n ,,n w H. B. 8CAHBHOUGH CONWAY, 8. C, Attorney at Law. 11 ???? ?? B. H. BURROUGHS Physician and Surgeoa. CONWAY, 8. O. B. WOFFORI) WAIT. Attorney at I>a>, Iwtnk of Horry Building CONWAY, S. O. K THE WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE k JJGHT RUNNING f- 'wv"" 10 ron want el Itaer a Vibrating Hhuttle.RotAry fchuttlc or a Single Thirad [CAam &i/cAj Sowing Machine write to THE NEW HOME SEWINO MACHINE COMPANY Orange, Muso. AC?ny sewing machines arc made to sell regardless cf quality, but the New Home is made to wcaa. Our guaranty never runs out. Mold by authorised denlertt !)%' , FOR SALS IV * , BURROUGHS & COLLINS CO., (\)tiway, 8. O. * I Queer Advic^. Apparently some people are going to make financial gain out of the comet. Such seems to be the intent of the clereynian who urges unmarried people to get married at once, because, so he says, the comet's tail is going to sweep everybody off tho race of t.he earth some time in May. The strange thing about it is that many people believe him and are following his advice; which goes to show that not only is superstition not lead, hut that some people seem to Jlfmiil tn orr\ o ?K/, *??? ? .-v w pi\> uiunv iiiiu im* uui c" *fter. But the thought occur?, has inyone a moral right, especially when the motive is selfish, to scare others >ut of their wita by alarmist prophecies about a harmless comet? It strikes us very queer advice, even if the cornet was going to do alt the dreadful things attributed to if*