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t'i iw#; ft ' v -v- ' >? :kV '.y V ' - &> ^ v. *>, V /:f O- v<^ ?$ Q j& S 2$?? w>,< ?#?; . flWvVs, *r> **" - V '; iv ' '> i '" ill v I ypsHM * I \ | "| ; ?X AWFUL TRAGEDY, ?. J Six Girls and Two Boys Drown When Their Boat Springs a Leak. , HERO'S VAIN EFFORT One of Two liouta Used by Party of ^ Students During >0011 nprung ? i ] leak and in Kmleavoring to Trans- ; 1 . for to Safe float all Were ^luown ! into Water. 1 t Eight hign school students, six 3 girls and two boys lost their lives! v Thursday while boating on what Is ' ^ known as the Old Paper Mill dam, ^ at Huntington Mills, Pa. The dead (j are: Ig Maud Sutcllffe, aged 17 yearB; a Carolyn Koonz, aged 16; lluth Bonham, aged 18; Iris Davenj>ort, aged 11 16; Madeline Godd, aged 17; Robert 1 Minnich, aged 17; Ray Dodeon, aged 8 17- t Twelve students of t,he Huntington High School obtained two boats 1 nt 1 he* noon hour and started for a (} row about the dam. The dam is " nearly half a mile in width, and when the two crafts had reached the centre I of the body of water it was noticed , that one of them had sprung a leak. ' fl'he two boats were then pulled " together by the young men in the party and an effort was being made to transfer the girls from the leaky , boat to the safe craft. The last one a of the party had successfully set foot * in tiie boat when it began to sink under the weight of the party. 11 The girls were helpless to save themselves and the boys of the party, with the exception of Dodson, j' being expert s\jji miners, struck *r out for tiie shore, which all reached in safety. Minnich, in the excite- a ment, it is presumed, thought that all the young women had succeeded | in roac.hing land. He had no sooner ; p1 gained the bank than Tie noticed the ^ girls hanging to the rapidly sinking boat. The boy dashed into the water and swam swiftly to tne water-filled lf craft. Only two of the girls were n clinging to tho boat, the others hav- Sf ing gone down for the last time. u' Seizing Miss Davenport, Min- m nich again started for the shore, but w the exertion was too much for the I j" gallant lad and the two went down J together, when thoy were within a ! Kl stone's throw of the Dank. All the * bodies have been recovered. wl STRICKEN DITIUNG SERVICES. ,!< wi * w< linkup for an Oneration for j)fi J 1 II 1 M -.w-.x. Appendicitis. At Pad ilea, Ky., Rev. M. E. Dodd, pastor of the First Baptist church, while in his pulpit, on Sunday morn- ho in# was stricken with appendicitis, i He was hurried to .his home, where an operation was performed in the se" afternoon. Rev. Dodd, while 011 his CI way to church recently was attacked 011 the street and knocked down by 1 llOfftllSP .llO a promiiM-nL ... declined to allow the wife of the lat- M< ter, who previously had been divorc- ne ed, to sin#? in the Baptist choir. br ? Ar Surrender is :i '?oessary principle Mi to Christian activity. an , ;V' V " ' <?' .*V '"V. _ . ' . < -.x , \ ~V .fS* '*' H V- -.?r. 0 --J* v.;/-; .-: *'? #% -vr*1; ?'.\4* . %v *? %?>- * h*y%\ " "e.: &"& ?$ Bi l&cst ^ entitle Authority s demonstrated that ot two ^ ivcs of bread, one raised w !h Royal Baklnfj Powder, d the other with alum bal> I powder, f/io /?c?ya/ raised ?p* i f is 32 gter ccntm ttnoro VGSilhlc titan Iho olfoos9* Avoid Alum ^ r-ys7C wmmmmmmmmmmnmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmarnmmmmmmmmmmm Tells about a fall OF SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET IN A WRECKED IIALLOON. One of the Men Say* Ho Gould Not Describe il?? Sensation of tlie Terrible Fall. The the flight for a world's disance record from Quincy, 111., by Holland Forbes, h?lder of the L,ahm cup, and James Carrington fates, the astronomer, both of New fork, which began at Quincy on donday evening, terminated late on fuesday in a disastrous tumble to he earth from a height of perhaps 00 feet near Center, Ky., was not without its compensations was indented by a statement made by Mr. Forbes Thursday night. TJie baloon broke the ascent record, it is eclared, and some valuable photoraphs of the comet were secured at n elevation of 1 8,000 feet. VOn Tuesday morning after measrement, Messrs. Forties and Yates, n the Viking, passed through a snow torm, at 11.40 o'clock, at an elevaion of 16,000 feet. An hour later tiey passed through the second flurv at a height of 16,400 feet. At 2 'clock on Tuesday afternoon the alloon reached the extreme alti11 de of 20,600 foet, which is 2,000 >et higher than any authorized recrd ever made in America. Mr. 'orhes thus describes their experuiC't's after reaching the greatest eigh t: "In descending from the gr^at eleation we had very little sand left, nd as the gas contracted, the ballon bag became extremely flabby, verything, however, went well until e were a few hundred feet above ie ground when the appendix line roke loose from the ring supporting ie basket. There was so little gas i the bag at the time that the rig ing collapsed and, with the basket ttaohed, naturally dropped. This lused the rip cord, which is at- ; iched to the riging, to rip open the 1 alloon at the height of 3 00 feet ' om the ground. "I cannot describe the sensation i ' that 3 00-foot fall to the ground. ' came so suddenly. 1 have a faint < 'collection of seeing men below me f a ploughed fl^ld and of subcon- 1 iously trying, it seemed, to tilt 1 ) t.he basket that 'Mr. Yates and I < ight spring free from the rigging hen close to the ground. Localise e basket did not tilt as it would ive done under ordinary circuri- * ances was the cause of our injury, believe the only thing that p.reinted the breaking of our bu.ncs lion the basket fell bottom squarely iwn iphI'Or the weight of thj hair j is the i c air mattress wn? ih r* had pi iLO.i in the bottom <f i;:e g sket that v* e might oe comrovt?b e {| lien we wanted to lie down." ? + r Ciood Mail Ciioiie. f 'Prof. J. S. Newman, one of the e st known educators and practical rnvers in South Carolina, died at s homo at Walhalla recently. For veral years he was a professor at p emson College . * ]( ? ? v Politeness Won Bequests. iThe devotion of Miss Mollie K. ' f< ilsaacs, here nurse, and the polite- a ss of Otto Zerrhan, a bank clerk, ought them bequests from Mrs. inte Preston Lincoln, of Boston, I iss. The nurse .'eceived $50,000 p d the clerk $10,000. je v froyal -i iking Powder 11 renders the 1 ? * V&j1 looa more digestible i and j|| wholesome || ll lUitiMei >oWD?hJ Sisolutcly _J0SM tire ^0* (H O t.l,, r*S'r?* 'j$f' tyr&'^%!&'& ??v V\*vr 4'^. '*** /''' -^->< - > ,. TlX SOLDIERS SHuT SHOOTING WAS ltKSUI/T OP ROV WITH XKGROFS Two of tlie Soldiers Are Seriously Wounded While the Other Four Are Slightly Hurt. A special dispatch from Beau'orl, S. C., to the Augusta Chronicle 8'\> t * Six soldiers of the 125th company, coast artillery, stationed at Fort Fremont, on St. Helena island, have been shot by negroes, just outside of the reservation lines between nine o'clock Monday night and one o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Two of the men, Private Quigley and McNally, are seriously, but not fatally wounded, while Privates McCarthy, Callahan, Stansberry and Sleder are less badly shot. The negrooe who did the shooting have left the neighborhood, and have not been arrested up to tnis time. About a wet'k ago, Isaac Potter and and soldier from the fort, had a fight on the road near Cusper City, on St. Helena Island, which resulted in Potter being cut by the soldier. It is said that at this time and afterwards the two Potters threatened to shoot the first soldier caught off the reservation after that night. On Monday night, Privates Callahan, McCarthy, Stransberry and Sled'Cr were shot from the bushes , while walking along a road a short , distance from the reservation lines. The weapons used were shotguns and the smallness of the shot was all that prevented fatal results, as t.he men were fired 011 from close range. Considerable excitement and much feeling was apparent among some of the men after the shooting. On the next day a party of six soldiers are said to have gone *0 the Potter ( house carrying two shotguns along t with them, to see the Potters and find out whether or not they had anything to do with the shooting of t.heir comrades 011 the previous -evening. It is said that the soldiers began shooting up the house as soon as they came up. As the soldiers entered the home of the negroes one of he Potters retreated upstairs, firing into the soldiers as he went, the first volley striking down Quigley ind McNally. ISIiOWN TO ATOMS. ? Meets Death by the Kxplosion of Ni< tro-Olyoerine. (The explosion of a large quantity >f nitro-glycerine in a magazine at lurgettstown, Pa., caused the death s >f Frank McCu)loug.h, an oil well v ihooter, who was literally blown to a ltorns. A team of horse was also 0 down to hits. The force of the ex- N dosion was felt in many surround- s ng cities. People who handle these d xplosives should be very careful. 11 ? a Saw the Comet. b In order that all wno And trouble ' n waking early enough to ?ee Hal- 0 ey's comet, which is now so plainly isible in the eastern .heavens, the layor of Dalton, Ga., gave orders or the blowing of the Are whistle o t three a. m. T ? tl If Brer Taft continues to read the b nsurgents out of the party, the Re- a tihlicans will soon become a very 0 xclusive cet. [ ti BIG CHURCH ROW ? LiKAl>S TO TWO WOMEN MAKING ATTACK ON MINISTER. lfightly Sensational Affair Follows Acceptance of Resignation of J. II. Wilson Growing Out of Chnrgf. A special dispatch to the Augusta Chronicle from Savannah says a few )\nf/\i%n t <? oaii nnll /\ f K ^ I ? #!* i i * r \ i i ?n UV^&UI V I V.U II UV'l I \M I 11 v" I 4 11 I 1 1 " eran Churcvh of the Ascenrdon accepted his resignation. Hev. I)r. J. H. Wilson was soundly cow hided by Mrs. C. 11. Monsees Monday at the door of his study in the church building. Her daughter, Miss Mota, who it was charged .had been wronged, accompanied her and when her mother, worn out with h r exertions with the whip swooned, the daughter was begging her to hand the whip to her in oidei that the belaboring might con tinue. J)r. Wilson made no attempt to defend .himself, merely saying, "I will not resist you." The pastor's resignation and the cow hiding were the result of an aflidaviV made by Miss Mota Monsees before Attorney Albert II. Propper, and which caused a split in the church of whie.h Dr. Wilson was pastor. The father and In-other of Miss Mouse s a few weeks ago were driven from the of lice of the attorney a t !he point of a pistol, all because of t.'iis affidavit. Statements made by Dr. Wilson, as alleged, about the affidavit caused the sensational scene on Monday. Attorney Albert II. Propper's dis ' barment is asked in proceedings in, stituted Monday in superior court. Tliese proceedings, however, have nothing to do with the horsewhipping, but they show that Propper is charged with unbecoming conduct in some way as a lawyer. PRAISES BRYAN'S SPEECH. Before the Meeting of the Farmer's Union at St. Ix>uis. A dispatch from Atlanta to The Augusta Chronicle says President [ Charles S. Barrett, of the Farmers' i Union, back from the meeting at St. Louis, talked enthusiastically oi the session there Friday. "The meeting was a great success and we started a movement which will be felt throughout the country,' said 'Mr. Barrett. "Tvnere was one of the largest crowds in attendance yet seen at a convention of the union. Representatives of the various labor organizations of the country were in attendance. "We have not yet made any alliance with the labor organizations. A resolution was passed to the effect that the Farmers' Union and the American Federation of Labor would stand together on matters that were to their mutual interests." ',Mr. Barrett was loud in his praises of t-he speech made by Mr. Bryan before the convention. He said: "The speech which created the most enthusiasm of miy made was that of Willjiam J. Bryan. His speech greatly overshadowed that of Mr. Taft, although the president, was < well received. Bryan completely ujiLivjiit'ci i.no audience, anc ir was i evident that they were with him from i beginning to end." 1 i YOINO MAN SIICIDFS. J . t Left a Note lint Failed to (Jive ( C Koason for Hash Act. ( William Clippard committed sni- ^ ide by shooting himself through 1 he heart. No cause for the rash 1 ict can he ascertained. Saturday he ' it tended the circus at. Newton and ost $75 on some of the games conlected with it, but in a note left to lis parents he stated that it was not { he loss of the money that caused (' lini to take his life, but other trou- ' >les that no one would ever know le was the son of Mr. Andrew Chip- r lard and was about twenty-seven j ears of age. He was unmarried and ' ived at home with his parents in S Jncoln, N. C. li ? h 11101It TO HALF MILLION. r ? t tfter Six Year's Search Aunt's Heir I1 is Is Tx>cated. il \N .George W. Lipscomb, for whom a t-( earoh has been made for six years, p ^as found at Douglas, (la., Tuesday, c< nd notified Uiat a fortune of $500,- s '00 is awaiting him at Jackson, c< lich., as a legacy from an aunt. A s< lory ni a local newspaper several a ays ago, tolling of the search, fur- 0 ishod the clue to Lipscomb's where- tl bouts, and a telegram from his tl rotber in Michigan reac.hed' him. p lis aunt was Mrs. Mary C. Lipscomb p. f Jackson, Mich. Ik ? A Dies from Starvation. m Tj. TC. Rader, at one time a member ti f the Washington fgislature died hursday at Seattle after fasting for liirty-nine days.. Mr. Rader had een suffering from stomach trouble s< nd upon advice of a woman pnysi- t< Ian decided to take t.he "star/aiion tl *eatment." st HANK Oh Con wa t CAPITAL STOCK surplus LIABILITY of stockholders. SECUItl I Y to depositors I) IK IX Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, Weiontimie to j ay 5 ]>< r cent intern I it youruccount I aOBKtiT B. BOAHBOROl'GH, H J HKMDF.NT. ^ -?g? "**p -<"?*" ?? W*?- *vT <v -?si'. j*j S ^ jr +>' *y ?r -*>' < >' + - >T f FIRST NATIC I fCAI'ITAI, STOCK tSUUPLPS PKOKITS TOTAL ASSKSTS I iAfc. I >1 IIK< "I /ft J. A. iMoHermott. John C ^ P. (J. Collins, II. L. P ay M. burroughs, C. P. Qua M Successor to the Panic of Horry County, and a pioneer ly allied with the recent (lev /ft Republic. Hacked l?v die t yli Pnib d States Ponds, we are p I ja turners any reasonable accoini m ?i. \. SPIVHV, $ Cashier. The Product ion of Circuit .Men. Some nations are singularly deficient in great men. They ha/* territory, population, vast natural resources and many other advantages, yet they bring forth few or o?? gr? at . men to benefit the world by their f genius. Looking beneath the sur-J face of material things the reason for this dearth may be found partly in racial characteristics but chiefly in the existence of causes that re press instead of stimulate thought and action. These causes ma> be found in government oppression am in the repression of education where by ignorance with all its accompanying evils is fostered. On the other hand nations upoi which nature has not bestowed so lavish a hand in the shape of natural resources, but to which, on the con trary, it seems to have behaved to niggardly as to compel its peop<e to work hard and live economically, have been singularly fortunate in I the matter of distinguished men. The student who marks the great influence which climate and soil have upon national character and habits will credit the fact with the production of individual genius. Put unques tionbly the character of the government and other institutions, and their relation to the people have at least an equal influence. ? We are reminded of all tlm by . .1 / wiMi KT , v ? I 11 U 1 refill II it i II U 1 I ?J1/1 H ou II* JMIIway, like the other Scandinavian nations, cannot compare with some countries i n population, climate, richness of soil, and extent of territory, but it has been unusaully rich in men, for Bjornson was but the latest of a long roll that includes the names of Tullin, Wergeland, Welliaven and Ibsen. Genius is somoimes limited to one line of action >r to one quality, but that of Hjorn?on was versatile in the extreme, lie i dionc with equal brilliance and pow- I ?r in prose, poetry and the drama, 1 vhile as a social reformer he was ' icr.haps, without a peer. Not only Norway, but the entire world is the >oorer by his death. ? ? .lust llow It Is Done. The Herald, of Rochester, N. Y., litotes the following for an artile written by a Mr. Mills, who is a tepublican in politics: "I went with certain data to the nan most responsible of all for the iresent tariff situation. Said he: Tl Do you think we don't know? Take Senator , for instance. He , ield up the Dingley bill till we gave dm and his pals ;i wholly unwar- i anted tariff on borax, worth to hem over $5,000,000 In money. We ad to have his vote!' And so it * that Nevada borax, the most easly mined and the best deposit in the orld, is 'protected' against inferior ureign deposits, and that the retail rice of borax in Kngland is 2 1-2 I'' out a pound, while in the United tatcs it is 2 1-2 cents plus the 5 cuts duty, or 7 1-2 cents. This 9iiator quickly sold the mines to nr crlioYi c\'n foi* *? 1 ') Dtlli . vf II 1*11^11011 IIVIIV UiV i v/I l M \J \r ? t 00. W.hat he sold was incidentally do ie mines, and in the principal part id, le rig.ht to tax the American peo- fa le, by an act of Congress, B cents |$r er pound, or 200 per cent on its tin orax over and above a fair price." ha nd there you have it. One of the T.V lost concise and clean cut. illustra- bo ons of how this country is exploit- on 1 by the interests. Tt must keep Major Hemphill and de >iue other so-called Democratic cdi- Ki >rs, quite busy these days to keep Pn ie crooked trail of Brer Taft ro .raight. po 1 HORRY, y. S, C. $ 50 OOf 10 (XX 50 001 110 00* * I / \ 1U' /1UK5 W. A. Johnson, V ill A Freeman. t on yenrh dejosits, m>< wt t-olie1 BUCK, WILL A. FKFEMAW k'lCK J I!KSI1>I NT. C ASHIKB , . ">**. '"X. . "JRJ AT' ?** ' +JU-+- wttm 'W 'J*' -0* 'u vl )NAL BANK * ' s-( - V $25,000.00 2.500.00 flj 1 25,000.00 /ft 4> roKh- /ft . Spixey, I). T. McNeill, uek, \V. K. Lewis, I). ttlebaum, I). A. Spivey. rP C nwiiy, t.'ie eldest Lank in f|V in Kast' rn Carolina. Close- 2^ nlopinont of thn Independent Jnvern meat and seen red by repared to extend to our ens- "Rl nodal ions. It. (.. COLLINS, ^ ('resident. /jj PROFESSIONAL ( AH()8. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councilor At Law. CON WAV, H. O. R. B. SCAHBUOrOH CONWAY, 8. C Attorney at I>aw. H. H. BliKROlXiHg Physician and Sur^eoa CONWAY, 8. C. B. WOFKOIID WAIT. Attorney at IjA> . Itank of llorry Building. CONWAY, 8. ?. HE WORLDS 6REATEST SEWIN6 MACHINE you wantelthera Vibrating Shuttle, Rotary fchuttlo or u Kinglo Thread [ Chain <SliU h\ Sowing Machine write to U NEW HOME SEWINO MACHINE COMPANY Orange, Mass. any sewing machines arc made to sell regardless d quality, but the New Home is made to weso, Our guaranty never runs out lold by nuthorixed dealers only*' FOR SAl.lt BY BURROUGHS ? OOLUNS CO., Conway, 8. O. CYCIiONK IN SAMPSON. Winer's House Demolished and His Wife Badly Hurt. A cyclone passed through Taylors idgo township, Sampson county, late Tuesday afternoon and I considerable damage. T.he res[Mice of Preston Hryant, a worthy rnier, was# demolished and Mrs yant seriously hurt. The top of p house was carried bodily nearly If a mib away and left in a swamp, ier<j were eight, children in the use and these had barely gotten t when the crash came. One of the most distressing inctII ts connected with the death of ng Kdward is that it will cause >et Laure. ? \,istin to inllict the ynl fam y \\ h much memorial etry. ii