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| FEARFUL CRASH s Probably Thirty People Killed in Montreal Disaster. HRE ADDED TO HORROR ? Supports of Sprinkler System Tank ^ on Koof of Herald Building <?ive (jt Way, Precipitating Mass f Metal S. and Water, Weighing 35 Tons, to st Basement. 0* Between twenty and thirty people lost their lives Monday when the sup- at norts of the sprinkler system tank, j E on the roof of the Herald building, P* Y\ at Montreal, Canada, gave way, and j?r the great mass of metal and water, <>a weighing thirty-five ton6, went crashing to the basement. so Fire broke out immediately, addan Ing its horrors to the disaster. The ^ firemen displayed splendid heroism WJ tn rescuing scores of people from lei perilous positions in the tottering tu ,, de walls. ag Some of the walls had to come down before the work of recovering wj the bodies could be safely attempted, and it was not until six o'clock VT in the evening that the first body. pa charred and mangled beyond recognition, was brought out. All of those who escaped agree w( that the first warning of the impend- tw ing disaster passed almost unnoticed. There was a slight creaking, fI| then a little more, somewhat more je] pronounced, but it was not until the S(1( ceiling plaster began to fall that a , rush for the stairway began. Before anyone reached it there occurred a final deafening crash, and p then chaos. Some survivors tell of ' falling one and two floors before ( awful crash died away, and then they found themselves able to crawl ^ through the dense dust to a place of al1 safety. The majority sought safety jjj by rushing to the front of the build- r(? ing. of Fortunately all of the floors held eg for about thirty feet lack from the *y front wall, and to this is. due the pl fact that the death list does not run into the hundreds, for there were sj, nearly three hundred people in the yy hniiHine' at the time. When the first hook and ladder m company reached the scene the firemen found the windows of the upper floors crowded with people, and the crowd on the sidewalk urging them not to jump. Not one did ^ jump. Ladders were quickly placed in position and those in danger were brought to the ground. One ladder was hoisted, reaching fr to the fourth floor, on which the qj bindery was located. It came, be- e(i tween two windows. From one of these a little girl crept along the cop- m ing until she could reach the ladder. ag Grasping a ring with one hand and placing a foot on another, she lent to< a helping hand to eight other girls 1)V twice her size. When all the girls ()^ had reached the ladder and nad been je( brought down to safety she came ^ down alone. By this time the fire no had started and smoke was pouring un from the front windows. The little girl tainted wmin sue reai-neu bottom of the ladder. A dozen injured people were carried from the ruins by the firemen, many of them with broken limbs. Of the rescued that of Bred Vidal, a stereotyper, was the most daring. Half an hour after the firemen reached the building Vidal was heard raj groaning, and was located under a girder, from which he could not be . j dislodged. Despite the fact that the flames were creaping near three fire- ^ men began to cut away and stuck to , their task. In the crowd outside was ' Father Martin. . When he heard of the fight against . death, he went into the building. ^ and administered the last rites of ^ the church to the semi-conscious ' . ed. man. Finally, however, the beam was cut through and Vidal released, not a moment too soon. Both his legs and some of his ribs were broken. Sti PKIiliAGKA VICTIM SI ICIDKK. lleranged Woman .lumps Into Mill bu thK I'ond After Taking Poison. }u) Becoming deranged as an effect of ,QI pellagra, Mrs. J. K. Pilgrim, aged 65 years, committed suicide Wed- sl] uesday morning by drinking lauda- su num and umping into a pond at the Pendleton cotton mills. A week ago it M/ra Pilgrim inquired of her hus- stu bard where the pond was do pest as 1 ol'? ? ?> a miuun/l t'rf.ln hnllii' u<{ Hnu W I1C4J one n no 111 IWUVU ? t a search was made and hor body was ad found in the spot declared to be all the deepest. On the bank of the ha pond was found an empty bottle that shj had contained laudanum. Mrs. Pil- is i grim is survived by her husband and fol several children. Youngest Yegg Under Arrest. Post office inspectors in Denver, eld Col., have taken charge*# a 12-year- aui old Mexican youth who broke a safe Yo in Paltmrlee. N. M. He is the young- obt est safe-cracker ever arrested in Re: America. ^ E I HOT DOWN ON STREET 3MESTIC COMPLICATIONS WAS CAUSE OF TJtACEDY. iotim Had Just I*?ft Court House* When Met by llis Assailant, Who Opened Fire Without Warning. Two minutes after leaving the jurt House, where he had been conicting a case in the Criminal Court, D. Hursey, an attourney, of the lllon Bar, was shot and almost inantly killed by R. S. Davis, at six clock Tuesday afternoon. There as a large crowd of people on the reets, and the shooting was done the corner, where is located the van's Pharmacy, one of the busiest irts of town. Three bullets entered 10 body, either of which would have oduced death. A magazine pistol, rrying steel bullets, was used. Air. Davis was engaged in the inranoe business in Dillon, being the nior member of the Dillon insurice Agency. His wife conducts the | mtral Hotel, at which Mr. Hursey | is a boarder. The shooting ia al- i ?ed to be the outcome of unfornate domestic complications, which veloped at the .hotel some months o. Upon leaving the Court House, lere Dillon's first term of Criminal urt was in session, Mr. Hursey ilked across the street, and was ssing in front of Evans' Pharmacy, len he was met by Mr. Davis. Eyetness?s to the affair say that 110 mis were exchanged, but when the o met, Davis pulling a gun from s pocket and began shooting at ursey at close range. The lirsi bult entered the right side and the i-ond shot entered the forehead. As e victim of the tragedy whirled and ;i upon the pavement, it is stated at Davis fired at him again, sliootg him through the back of the ad. The affair is deeply regretted everybody. Young Hursey was a graduate of e University 01 .Norm ^.uwnna, id was admitted to tlie North Carola Bar, about four years ago. Quite cently he came into an inheritance $15,000 from his grandfather's tate, and it was his purpose to go Vst and establish himself in some osperous city. Davis surrendered himself to the ieriff immediately after the tragedy, 'hen seen at the city guard house ? said that he had 110 statement to ake. QUIETLY LYNCHED. rkansas Mob Overpowered Officers and Took Prisoner. Will Hunter, a negro, was taken om the officers by a mob at Star Ity, Ark., Tuesday night and lynchI. The negro had just been arrested r entering tlhe room of a white woan, near Garnet!, Ark., a few days ;o. Overpowering th^ officers, the mob ok the negro to a dense wood near, and after hanging him to a limb a tree, riddled his body with bul.s, after which it dispersed. So ietly did the mob do its work that thing was known of the lynching til tne body of the negro was found 11 hanging to the tree Wednesday. FOUGHT WITH GAM BLEBS. o Negroes Are Dying as Besnlt of Battle in the Dark. As a result of a Sunday night d on an alleged gambling house ir Waycross, Ga., two negroes are ing. five are in Jail and Deputy Priff John P. Cason is seriously un ded. Surrounding the house, officers re able to approach without much ul)le. W-hen they went inside the use an inmate kicked the light out, er which the negroes began firing, re than fifty shots were exchangThe wounded cannot recover. MtltDKHKIt IN CAVK. (iration Decided Vpon as Safest Way to Take Him. With three revolvers and a fierce lldog at his command, John Marks > fugitive, whom officers have been unding sinoe the murder ot' three eigners at Shaw Mine, near Midy Pa., last February, has been iced to a cave near McDonald, a hurb ef Pittsburg, which has been rrounded. Unless he can be caught unawares, is the intention of the officers to irve out the man. Marks is known a good sJiot, and every precaution 11 iin t-iirnn to nrovent him from ding another name to the list of eged victims. He is thought to ve returned to his home to claim a are of .his father's property, which ro be sold. He was recognized and lowed. To Death Itather Than Altar. \ Miss Minnie Wentz committed suie In a coal bin in the home of her it, Mrs. Annie Genzer, in New < rk city, on th?;* day sJie was to have ained her license to wed Hud wig I Ichold. TJie cause for <?ct is ; nysterv. ] i AM NOT GUILTY" MeNAVGHTON DECLARES HE IS ST INNOCENT. Declaims He Did Not Poison Fed In Flanders, and Says "Mrs. Flanders is a (iood Woman." Fear that he. wouM he ynchcil drove Dr. W. J. McNaughton from ti Emanuel County, Georgia, to Angus- w ta, where he was placed under ar- , (l * ?? ne i,* \ ; rest cnargeci wim me uiumci ?i ? . Flander, of that county. This statt%* j(, rnent was made Thursday hy the p,; accused physician, as handcuffed he 0j was brought to the Chatham county jail at Savannah, for safe keeping un- nl til time for his trial at Swainsboro, Ga. T "I am not guilty of killing Fed f( Flanders," he said. "Mrs. Flanders is a good woman, and 1 am pj not to blame for anythingthey charge p m.e with." j r He refused to go in details about his relationship with the ^ Flanders family, but it is stipulated fc that he will not be taken back to aj Swainsboro until his trial comes off. He is a large man and apparently regards his imprisonment coolly, lie surprised the officers who had him in charge by taking his wrists from the handcuffs here and informed the officer that the cull's "were not worth a cent." Before bringing the prisoner to Savannah Sheriff Fields telephoned te Swainsboro that he was being taken there, in order to avoid any trouble between Augusta and Savannah. ? ( * Hl\(J BY HIS TEETH. J i:l h Carnival Performer iu Deadly Peril Over Niagara's Gorge. ' The first international carnival at in Niagara Falls came near producing ai another tragedy in the gorge bvlow o <i the falls. Oscar Williams, a steeple- p] jack, essayed a trip across tlie gorge gi on a wire hung at the base of the cat- a' aract, sustaining his weight by liis j teeth. Troul)le began w.hen he left the American side and when he started np the incline toward tlie Canadian shore he came to a stop and I) swung hack to the middle of the wire, w.hich cleared the water by 125 . feet. There he hung for 45 minutes . or until firemen rigged up a pulley and sent it out. Hand over hand the man descended to the Maid of the 61 Mist, which had taken its position under .him. During the day an unidentified man jumped into the rapids above Luna falls and was swept over the falls. Luna falls never gives up her dead. MINISTER'S NOSE PUNCHED. w lie Called a Man a Liar and Cot the ^ Worse of an Argument. w hi "If a minister says you are a liar. st punch him on the nose," was the fc advice that Municipal Judge (Jem- tj, mill, of Chicago, 111., gave to Michael ^ Weiss and then discharged the prisoruer who had been arrested on a charge of disturbing an open air ar religious meeting. The Rev. Perry (.p (Jim, his probiscis swollen and red. ra appeared as the prosecutor and com- wj plained that Weiss had crowded his face with fists w.hile the evangelist an was exorting him to lead a better I J .nc-. "He called me a liar," pleaded Wf Weiss. S() "Any preacher that calls a man a su liar isn't lit to preach the Gospel,' ruled the court. "He did just right in punching you, Mr. (Jim, anil he is discharged." PPTAII, DISTLRBANCKS. u Trouble Between Catholics mid Buptists in Rome Discussed. In st i Details of the escape of a party wj of American Baptists clergymen from "ti the hands of a superstitious mob at s0' Avellina, says a dispatch from Rome, ng were laid before Premier Luzaatti on Oi Thursday by James P. Stuart, of St. ?d Louis, who was sent by the American Kr board of Baptist missions to Italy to th investigate the Baptist mission in this l^t country and who returned a few th days ago from the privileges of Avel- l'1 lino. , cu Mr. Stuart reported to the prom- th ier that l.he situation in the distrift was very serious owing to the struggle between the Catholics and Baptists. \a On the night of the earthquake he D< and his companions, he said, were ly brutally attacked. The popuuncc gi seemed to attribute the earthquake lir to the presence of the Baptists and he a crowd numbering into the thous- th ands set upon the Americans with lo the avowvd intention of hanging P. them. er ? JM .Minister Elopes. sp The Rev. Joseph Walsh, pastor of the Washin/ionville Methodist church near Poughkeepsi'e, N. Y., eloped with Miss Maggie Harness, daughter vi< of John Burnett, of Wappinger's at Palls, N. Y., last week. They made :ie their run in an automobile while the L'fi mung woman's father was away from sei homo. .hit FOUND MURDERED riUXGKK SLAIN IX HIS HOOM IX HOTEL. istiint Death from Bullet, but Xo Revolver Found?Supposed Brother Has Vanished. A man, whose name Is given by le police as Frank Stickett, and ho is believed to have come from altimore. was found murdered T uesay in a Bowery hotel. A revolver bullet -had entered hit ft temple, causing instant death, iiysicians said, but there is no tract f the revolver. The victim registered with another ian at the Jiot^l early Tuesday as John Stickett and brother, Frank." he supposed brother was not to be >und when the body was discovered, The clothing of the dead man aparently was purchased in Baltimore, he name of that city on his clothig and the card of a New York elec ical concern in the coat pocket were le only clues left to aid a search >r the man's antecedants. He war ;)parently an Englishman about venty-three years old. FIGHT NOT ALLOWED 'Aries-Johnson ('ontest Under Ban of California's Executive. Stirred to action by insistent proofs from all parts of the State and ountry, Gov. James N. Gillett Wedpsday took streps to prevent the lftcpionship tight between Janves Jethries and Jack Johnson, sched* ? t r i l/* led 10 ue neui m nun r iitnt-isuu v?u 11 y 4. In a letter to Attorney Gen'eral L\ Webb, the governor expressed hi* i-sproval of prize fighting in uneasured terms and directed that the d of the courts he invoked to pre;nt the match. He concluded wit.h positive order that, in case th lea for a restraining order he not ranted and the fight he held, I he itorney general proc? ed to gat-hei ridence and prosecute the prince tls and those interested in the tight ?r violation of the penal code ol te State. The governor declares that t.he suremo court of California has nevei efined a prize fight and suggest.4 lat an opportunity be given it U o so. This is taken by those inter3ted to indicate the governor's inmtion to press .his opposition to th. ad. GIRL'S P1T1FIL PLIGHT. Iciitally t'nballaiiced Is Found Wan dering in Woods. While making a search in th< oods near Greenville Tuesday for t eg.o wanted on a triW.l charge herifif Poole came ujien a young hite girl about 16 years old, who id almost gone back to '.he primal ate. The girl was asleep when nind lying on a bank of moss near le river bank, and when accosted r the officer she declared that for -veral weeks she had made her line in the woods, living en berries id sleeping in the open. The girl's ithing was wet by the continued ins and she appeared in a somelat exhausted condition. The sheriff took the girl in custody id placed her in charge of the anorities at the emergency hospital the Salvation Army citadel. She is later identified as Leonie Andern, and physicians say she has been ffering from temporary mental ablation. ? ^ m AX'TO IXTKHKIPTS SIIAVK. Leaps Through a Window and Struck a Lathered .Mail. While getting a shave in Muncie, d., Conroy Delancy felt a sharp, nging sensation in his knee and ten he came out from under thinner cloth" 4te was startled to e an automobile resting heavily ainst that part of his anatomy, le of the big lamps had just grazthe sitter's face and the wheel azed his leg. TJie driver paid for e window and went away without iving his name. The shop was in e basement of a Main street buildg and the auto had run over the Thing across tJie sidewalk and then rough a double window. Elections Confirmed. The election of Representatives jgare, Patterson and Lever, all jmocrats, presenting, respective, the first, second and seventh eonessional districts in Sout^i Carola, was Thursday confirmed by the >use election committee number ree. The committee's action folws hearing of the contests of A. Prioleau, a negro, Isaac C. Mys and R. H. Richardson, all Reiblicans, for the three seats reectively. ? ? Henry Lyles, a negro, was counted in the general sessions court Lexington Thursday for the mur-^ r of his wife, Si 1 la Uyles, on the :h of January, this year, and \^is atenced to serve the reinainder^f j life in the penitentiary. m^7, % FIRST NATIC 1 CONWA1 3? CAPITAL STOCK IBs SURPLUS PROFITS /ft TOTAL ASSKSTS 3? IHKECl J. A. MeDermott, John C JU B. O. CoJIins, H. L. B1 Jr M. Burroughs, C. P. Qua /ft Successor to the Hank of i !?! Horry County, and a pioneer fX* ly allied with the recent deve D/sm,U)l(% Uiu-kod liv the (i I f|X - ^ jk United States Bonds, we are pi tomers any reasonable aceomn; J AS H. A. SPIVKY, $ Cashier. BANK OF Coil wii; CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS. SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS DIREC Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We continue to j ay 5 per cent interei it youraccount robert b. scarborough, D, Pr em pent. ^ PROFESSIONAL CAR[>8. I ti'/v/mii' m, m% w* xi. it. miuim Attorney and Couucelor At La* CON WAV, 8. C. R. B. 8CAKBKOUGH CONWAY, S* C. > Attorney at Law. H. H. BIRROLOHS Physician and Surjzeoa, CONWAY, 8. O. B. WOFFORD WAIT. i Attorney at La>.. Rank of Horry RiiiUlin^. CONWAY, 8. O. THE WORLDS 6REATEST SEWING MACHINE MteuuniiC Ifyou wantelthern VlhrntlngShuttle, Rotary | shuttle or a Single Thread (C'/?am Stitchl Sewing Machine write to TNI NEW NOME SEWINI MACHINE COMPANY I Orange, Mass. Many sewing machines are made to sell recardless of Quality, but the New Home is made to we**. Our guaranty never runs out. loM by Authorised dealers lf? FOR SALE IV mritnouGHs & oolmns oo? Conway, ft, O. Toddy, Jr. it is given out will wear a cutaway coat at his wedding. Some people IIn(I news n kp i >i s mure < thrilling than the fateful informa- > tion of war or peace between I'eru and Equador. ? # ? I Mr. Taft depreciates much-raking, ( but from the general attitude of the I higher-ups the past year, t.he only s improvement we can suggest is to j substitute a steam shovel for the | hand implement. < ( kit is somewhat of a novelty for < ngland to be accused of soft heart- 1 Hiess in her dealing with inferior \ races. In fact it is so novel t.hat the ? English have not. yet got over lloose- n velr's accusation and rather resent it. ? 9'W9 yJln >NAL BANK* en 's?^J^g ', S. C, ra \ $25,000.00 ? 2,500.00 JjPk 125,000.00 ilk OJRS: JE , Spivey, D. T. McNeill, nji lick, W. R. Lewis, 1j. ttiebaum, D. A. Spivey. wr Conway, the oldest Hank in I in Eastern Carolina. Close- jL^ dopment of the Independent ^ rovernnient and secured by epared to extend to our cub- 2si lodations. ^ 11. G. COI>L(XS, A President. $ HORRY, .... y. S, C. $ 5000r 10 OCX 50 00( 110 004 10KS D. V. Richardson, W. A. Johnson, Will A. Preen)an. it on yearly deposits, and we solicH Di/.n i DTicnvi ?i: i , fDpruik fice Phehidekt. Cashier KILLED IN WHK(rK. Two Moil I.<ono Their IJvtrw in Derailment of Freight Train. Two men were killed and two seriously injured when a freight train of the New Orleans Terminal com- , pany was derailed at Metairie crossing at New Orleans Saturday. The dead: Joseph Gibson, brakeman; G. J. Saullen, conductor. The wounded: Frank Calogue, engineer, severely scalped: Kdward Guilheau, brakeman, badly bruised and possibly internally injured While t.he cause of the accident has not been definitely established, it is believed that a broken flange or a cattle guard was responsible for the derailment. ?r False Business Economy. In business there is sometimes a closeness which goes by tihe name of economy, but w.hich in its practical workings is nothing but extravagence. To spend a dollar for a certain purpose and get nothing in return means a dollar wasted, but two dollars spent for the same purpose bringing in many dollars as a return is economy and also wealth. How often this truth is seen n advertising. One merchant grudgingly spends but a few dollars a year for advertising his business because, src .be says, h-e "can't afford to pay more," and naturally he get but poor returns. Another merchant advertises liberally and judiciously and as a result his business grows apace. The one merchant shows false economy with t.he inevitable result, the oth^r ^ shows true economy because it puts money in his pocket. Xo one realizes the truth of nil this more than the great money order .houses. lOach of them spends yearly a kings ransom in advertising because experience tells fhem it pays. Many a retail merchant could with profit follow their example by a proportionate expenditure for the same object. They, too, would find it pay. Too >li?cb Stooping Over. ^ Kvery once in awhile some prom- / inent Southern man, of whom we should expect better things, goes up North and slops over, we suniiose to curry favor with the people who inhabit that region. As the Charlotte Observer says we would prefer to say nothing at all about t.he attack which ex-Governor Glenn made in Cleveland, O., upon the South's educational treatment of tlve negro. Unless reports are wrong, he was ^ very far from doing this section justice. Even if he felt moved to censure .he'would much better have delivered himself at home. Under the circumstances he only angered the South and gratified ani-Southern prejudices wnich should not be fed with fresh fuel but removed. In lecturing around the country Governor Glenn make a good many wild utterances and incurs a good deal of dinging criticism. The advertising ?iven North Carolina, upon whose oublic honors .his occupation rest, is listinctly bad. Hut we recall no other occasion upon which he acpiited himself so unfortunately as le did at Cleveland. Thoae who feel cindly towards .him and wish to regard Ivis activity in the most t'arorible light have more cause for refret than any one else.