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JMd in fire j 'VK Raging FIuks Swctp Ftor Minne*? ^jr; waU Towas tff ike Map . k R fRAINS ARE BLOCKED Hm II *e?fy-liv? H?JU\s of SeltlfM lx>c?tp Ml?.1>h?Uj List May Total Tbfe* kl 11^- * t I 'vnuwii'oii.?uuier towns in ^ Dg||H>titm?r.-4(?n (-in/ifd by Loss of Kauilly mq<1 Property. Beaudttte, Spooner, Hltt and Oraceton, Minn., have been wiped off the m<*p by a forest lire. The bodies of 7 5 eettlers have been located and It le thought the death list among 'the < settlers will?total upwards of '300. ;?/ Wagon loads of human bodies are !j,j V being brought into the railway sta.i, tion at Reaudette. ?j . J[t ib reported that many settlers, , Mavft/* urith arlot1 ? f th? InsiM of their i,, M?vv r?? , families and property, are roaming the woods, and searching parties are $> constantly looking for the Injured. \ the dead and the demented. One r? family of nine, one of seven and one of fiv<w wore destroyed on Friday night. it 'At S:::0 o'clock Saturday evening J a tornado of fire struck Beaudecte , and S.Tooner, and within three minutes alter the first alarm all the buildings were ablaze, and within an hour were heaps of ashes. The people of these two towns had just sufficient time to escape from their homo.-. They were loaded outo a passer,aer train that was standing at the depot aud taken to Rainy River, < >ntaro. The whole country east of there J.. ~ ? i> ? OnAoA.'nW tiurift W i 1 I f :i ,n X is fJll i.LIT, nwori^iv, * t ... 'iiid Cedar Spur are in great danger. -All the women and children are being rapidly removed to -places oi l safety. Th.e Canadian Northern has stationed trains at every station at 1 Ue service of the people and is doing everything in its power to relieve the situation. The people of Heaudette and Spencer and the settlers all through the north-central part of the State have lost everything. Five thousand are homeless and the greater part of them absolutely destitute. Substan- | tial help must reach them in the next J day or two. The greater part of | them are half clad. | It will be impossible to get details and names of the dead and the ini..-..a and some of the dead will not be found until next spring "The wind has shifted and is carrying the homes away from Roo.sevolt. Unless the wind changes again "the town will be saved. Canadian Northern Railway trains have been stalled here, a freigni Main went through a bridge near Pitt. The crew was saved, and the 'Conductor waJked into Heaudeite. which town lie reported as destroyed, only the water tank, the schooi house waits and the depot standing, lie says he walked over human beings on the way, but could not say how many. Many settlers took to the woods and have not been heard from since. A mother and five children ai? known to have been burned. The flames are still raging and the smoke is dense. Men from War Koad helped to save Roosevelt. Calls are coming in to help settlers iwcivc miles south. Wires are down and news obtainable only as rei'ugee.i come in. Rainy River, Out., was on tire from the international bridge to Sixth streets, a distance of a half mile. Included in tho burned area arc Hie Rat Portage I.umber Company's mill and lumber yard, containing lO.OOO,POO Ceef of lumber, the Western (,'auada Flouring Mills Company and surrounding buildings. Fifty uousos were destroyed and scores of people are homeless. Fire is raging in the woods as can be j %<?eii along the south bank of Rainy River Most of the women and children of people of these towns have been taken away on special trains, and many more are on steamers redely to leave should tbe wind change and the tire spread. The tire, driven by a furious northwest wind, is beyond control and must b*?rn Itself out. Tbe known dead are: Six unidentified resident of Pitt, tM in. Unknown woman and boy, near TiiO M I tV? Two entire families, one of eight members and one of seven, residents ten miles east of l'ftt, recently arrived from Grafton, N. D. John Tulley and five members of his family, recently arrived from Fullerton, Neb., burned to death west Of Spooner. One servant of Albert Iter#, of Spooner. b'our land spectators from Davenport, la., receut arrivals at Heaudette, calight by flames while out for homesteads on south side of Reaudette River. John Simmons, of Red Oak. la., timber and ranger, caught by flames j on railroad track while trying to escape to Rainy River. Mattison Rerg and Ave members of REACHES OUR SHORES SECOXl) OHO IJK It A CASK TUItXS VP IN NEW YOltK. One of the of the Steamer Moltke Stricken With the Diseaw> on Sunday. A case of cholera developed In the steerage of the Hamburg-American liner'.Vfoltke, which has been lyI? . .. .. n .... W ... W.lr nd l% IUJ4 ttl if Uii x tfiii mr 1/11 4irn i VI n uo a possible cholera carrier since Monday week. \I)r. A. H. Doty, health officer 01' rhe jK>rt, reported the case on Sunday night with additional infornuttion and another cholera patient from the Moltke is uuder treatment at Swinburne Island. ThLs makes three cases of cholera which have actually reached New ! York. Sunday's victim is Givonnf Falciglia, aged kG, who cauie from Naples In the steerage of the Moltke. lie Is critically ill at Swinburne island, as is the other patient, ltudolph Sellltch, a coal trimmer, who w.is regarded as a "suspicious case," and was responsible for rhe Moltke's detention. Although he has been at Swinburn island nearly a week, he is fighting the disease and was still alive Sunday. Falcilgia was stricken at noon Sunday after a drunken debauch which kept the 988 steerage passen gerx held with him. awake until dawn. At I he close oi* his celebration ho became violently Ul and an examination showed his ailment to be an undoubted case of cholera. "This case shows all the features of the (lornianla ease." said Dr. Doty Sunday night, "and is undoubtedly of the kind kuowu as cholera carrier." The Molt Ice left Naples September 21st and it was about 17 days later that this man became ill. All the steerage passengers and part of the crew will'be removed to Hoffman island. * AVIATOR DANHKD TO DIOATH. >lMi?ieri<-lj Kails 2,4.">2 Feet at St. Petersburg. At St. Petersburg Oapt Macievieh. the Russian military aviator, was killed Friday in a fall from a Volson biplane. The accident occurred during an altitude competition, whim was won by Lieut. .Matyovich, who reached a height of 3.9:?8 feet. Macievicli had risen 2,920 fee', but decided to descend. When at a height of leei jus niucnih" suddenly stopped and the aviafci was thrown out. Ho came down lii:#* a plumntef, reaching the ground before the biplane. 10 very bone in his body was broken. It is the belief the physicians that he died of be in failure before reaching the ground. The fall of the aviator through space caused a panic among the spectators. Women shrieked and fa fired and the wife of Macievich became delirious and it is feared, she will be permanently insane. * Smith Ileal llrown. Georgia Democrats Wednesday rallied 'o the support of the party's nominee, lloke Smith, and elected him Governor by an overwhelming majority over Watson's independent i candidate, Joseph VI. llrown. It is estimated that Smith will receive 95.000 votes over the state, while the Watson candidate is expected io roll up to total of between la.Ouo and 20.000 votes. his family, burned to death on outskirts of Spooner when his house was destroyed. They attempted to weather the sen of Haipes in a big stone \ cellar and were suffocated. t?..IS.. .....I ,.f ui?l,? I | .iwiiu huiiM ii IIU mnu?,> wi ^ , from Pitt. Severf llagen. (Jeo. Wciiver, ('-has. J Hiiker and Patrick Oiueru ,of Arlington, Minn. The missing include some 2,000 j residents of Beaudette. Spooner and j I*i11. some of whom arc dead, hut. ; the most of whom are safe in Rainy j River and the adjacent towns on the ! Canadian side of the line. The most, serious aspect of the missing includes the ho m est coders and funnel's in the bush for a distance of 100 miles j east and 20 miles south, of whom ( absolutely nothing can be learned tor j some time as searching parties don't dare penetrate the still smoking for i ests. While ii wind is sweeping a sea of j tire eastward on the north side of ; the Rainy River at a velocity of .*?<) ! f miles an hour, the great body of j flames passed revealing a calamity that already reaches the proportion of an international disaster. Sixty blackened corpses have been found in the path of the flames and a vast. ; area is yet to be searched for dead, while towns of Spooner, Hcnudettc , and Pitt, with a loss that cannot be I rtn Ion lei t 4 + A i tin. u i?i 11 11 n i jn rot-in , ? ^ ^ ? If a congressman does not lose his stan intr in the party when he ' i votes in direct opposition to the platform on which he was elected, why i should a private individual lose his standing in the party l?y refusing to vote for a candidate of his party j who docs not represent his views? | START OUT WELL fte Republic of Portugese Has Bees Safely Laaded aad THE POPLE WILL RULE Quiet Now Kpi^iui in Ilwbou and the New Itepubllcan GovPiniiH'iit in Now iu Complete Control.?The involution me uuicome 01 i'dijo. soptiienl filcNN, Says the IVsJthMu. The establishment of a Republic la Portugal is an accomplished fact. For a city that has just passed thro' the throes of a bloody revolution and sustained a bombardment, Lisbon is now in cloudless sunshine and wears a remarkably smiling aspect. The Republican flag tlulters on nearly every building and from every vehicle; tho streets are thronged with promenaders, shops and oflices have been re-opened and busincas generally has been resumed. The only evidence of the recent perturbation are small bodies of troops stationed in the principal open spaces of the city and the passage now and theu of Red Cross am balances. ' The noticeable outward signs of dhe new regime are the presence everywhere of the green and red flag of the Republic and the complPo disappearance of King Manual's por trait from puouc exninitiou. in tact not a vestige Is now seen of the picture post card portraits of the King or ot' any other member of the ro^al family. These have given way to picture^ of members of the Government and photographic records of the revolution in the shape of groups of armed leaders and companies of insurg'ut troops, not in action, but posing for the camera. The damage done to the city by (he bombardment was surprisingly slight. On the journey down to Lisbon one heard at each stopping of the train blood curdling recitals of thousands of persons having been killed, and whole quarters of the city having been devastated or wiped out. The total number of killed b is not yet been definitely ascertained, but it probably does not exceed It00. A couple of hotels near the station bear truces of having been struck by shells and of bullet marks. The streets wear a busy aspect. There is no unusual excitement. The recent events which startled the world are discussed by all classes with > LI ?t*? 111 .1 I II (til III. The most intersting man in Portugal at the present moment is I innew President, Theophile Hragj, who may be said without exaggeration to be the father not only of this revolution, but of that in Hra/.il. having by his standing as a prolessor of history and Philosophy prepared the Government for both movements. Hraga received the correspondent >f the Associated Press. II e particularly desires it to he understood that the revolution had no military or personal aim, hut like those in Brazil and Turkey, was purely the outcome of philosophically ideas. The Bragazns dynasty failed to keep abreast of modern progress, he said, and had done nothing to render the people masters of their own destines. This revolution of civil life tint ramnieled by prejudices of clerical domination. Senior hraga added that he had was aimed to complete realization every con tied nee in national resources, and was convinced that an honest administration would sullire o put tlie forces of the country pi a satisfactory footing and acinose the rnorai and philosophical iiu provemenr the nation so much need' ed. The Government is about to order a revision of the voting lists preliminary to holding elections for a constituent chamber. The Provisional Government will not remain in office beyond three months.. The chief points in the Government's program are: First, the development ?.?! public instruction and national defences on land and sea. Second, administrative decentralization. Third, colonial autonomy. Fourth, to guarantee Federal liberties by judicial power. Fifth, expulsion of monks and nuns. Sixth, obligatory civil resist ra(Ion. Seventh, lay instruction. Klglith, separation of church and state. Ninth, the st ron g then ins: of the eredlal and finances of tho country/' Tttjlar for (iovcrnoc. The regular Democratic Convention, which met in Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday, nominated United States Senator Itobt. Taylor for Co\ornor. No other name was mentioned for the place in the convention. Senator Taylor was given an ovation when he appeared in the hall to accept the nomination. CALL FOR HELP Mea Mare Impartial thaa Resaarces, Sajs Prcsideat Barrett WANTS BETTER SCHOOLS Govemnieut Shoukl Spend from KIN ty to Oue Hundred Millions Katb Year to Check the Ti-eud From the ? ? <1 /til- L. .. r Kriu iu nit* viijr wjr i iw?nnnn Good Country Schools. At Atlanta, Ga., in sober, business phrases nearly four score delegates, appointed by sixteen Southern Governors, Friday foretold an amazing growth In wealth aud population fo** the South within the next ten years. RepresentIng the .agriculture an 1 business Interests of every section ot" Dixie, these delegates gathered lo assist the executive committee of the Southern Commercial Congress work out a non-political and disinterested plan for promoting development of the South's millions of unoccupied acres and its vast uuused wut^rj powers, the enlargement of its bi>?- j luess and industry, both by Its own 1 inhabitants and through judicious advertising of its resources throughout America and Kurope. As the representative of more than two million farmers, Charles 1 S. Barrett, president of the Farmers f vn Son ot i*AL'u,k/l til n I t o r\ * \ n _ v, ii tuu, ni i u ? u i uc tj \j L twu serving men first, rather than the resources of the soil. "If you conserve the nation's raw resources anil neglect the nation's men, you will meet disaster and ultimate defeat in your undertaking," he said. "The nation has not been conserving the farmer, the man who is a greater asset than all your powers, coal lands forest* or gold mines." "A eorterie of really patriotic Americans in trying to head off th^ efforts of tho Morgan-Gubbenhehn interests to bottle up, or 'hog' the coal and gold of Alaska. They have ^succeeded in rousing a nation to their assistance. We have had the menace of Ballingerism placarded from cue end of America to the other. We have been warned in trumpet tones, of the encroaching water power interests which may, in the long run, absorb all the water power of the country and in the <.tiU f li t* If i n r? r?f :?11 Hie of 1\#m* trusts. We have been told of the penalty of giving over our forests to greedy timber interests. We have been shown what will happen if we do not checkmate the money lust of the coal, the gold and the timber ba rons. "This is all worthy, this is all | admirable. Hut while we battle I against these foes of the Republic, we leave to his own devices the 111 111 whose vital function it Is to feed and largely to clothe this nation, tinman whose combined product yield a greater annual value than our mines or forests or water powe-s, the man whose problems will be I more than ever the nation's problems when the earth shall have been stripped of its coal and gold. He said the (Jove.rnment should spend tlfty to one hundred million dollars annually to check the trend front the farm to the city bv imnroving common school and scienti../..iiinimi t-.i1;? ; . in ?i f; i M u 11 u i ?i i rii in ti i MMIII i i<i" iii? i ? .i) very country, In easy reach of the ''armors' children. lie would provide against "the contamination of the corrupt alien strains that sow seeds of unrest and disreputation that may ripen unto :\ ruiaous harvest." Mr. ItarreM stressed the necessity of keeping a perpetual watch upon our national and State Legislators. "The oat tie for conservation is not here in this auditorium. It cone s a the el* ctions of November. It comes after that in the halls of ('on.'ress. h comes two years hence, in the selection of a president and a Congress that arc committed to Che public and not the private welfa *e. And then it comes year a Per ye*ti\ for conservation is so big a war th it it. probably will not he eiuWl unil your children and mine stand in our places." Mr. Harrett paid a warm tribute to Clifford Pinchot to whoe.s "un.e>lllsh public spirit, patience under humiliation and unfiling zeal," I e. attributed the present advanrelent to tlie sause of nonservatIon. " 1 am confident," he said, "that when the verdiet of history is written his name will stand high among the names of the men who have wrougnt for the salvation of our common country." * ? . .,. Lovo 1'Vrtst hlnits Cight. IMlTerenews existing between Colonel \V. Bennett iiiul Jasper Wylding. which created such a sensation at Waycross, (la., Kriday, were amicably settled at a love feast of the iiiembers of the First Baptist church and the Central Baptist tabernacle. Apoligios were extended and accepted and hand-shaking followed. * ? Cholera Still Ita^ing. Official reports show that the cholera in Russia is still raging, with almost unabated fury. The total eases up to date number 205,1 IX with 05,9G3 deaths. * SPLIT IN THE PARTY THAT IS WHAT TUT. CALL OK CAPKKS SI KKLV MUAXS Ar? Asked for Anotlu'i of (he Republicans of This Stale. The passing of the negro from Republican politics in this State and the upbuilding of the personnel of j the party, as has been mentioned in The State, would seem to be true as the result of the circular issued and published several days ago by John 0. Capers, national committeeman from South Carolina. The white members of the party have been called to meet in all of the counties of the State on October 2?J and elect delegates to the State convention or "party reclamation meeting." to be held on the following day in Columbia. The negro Republican convention was held in Columbia several weeks ago and after much discussion elected J. W. Tolbert to the State Chairmanship. The negro, Kd, I)eas, was ousted. Now it seems that the national Republican party will refuse to recognize the negro Republican convention and that the convention was held all in vain, according ?. John Capers. At the time of the negro convention there was a strict let-alone policy adopted by the white Republicans of the State. Only three white men attended the convention and one of these was elected chairman. The negroes in several districts of the State have declared that th?*v will put a ticket in the Held Ct congressional honors. This means that there will be a black Republ; can, a white Republican and a Democrat all seeking the same office. 1?. has been stated that W. L. Richardson, a negro, of Sumter will oppose A. K. Lever from this district. Nov* ennws the white oomvention and a candidate will very likely be placed In the field against Lever and Richardson. Just what the issues between the white candidate and the negro candidate will be is not known. <\uJl Issued. The call issued by Capers says in part: l "There tore, as the members of the national Republican committee for our State, 1 write you to say that after full consultation with personal friends aud duo notice you will please cause to be assembled at your county seat at 1 - o'clock Wednesday. October liG. a meeting of men in sympathy with the policies of the national Republican party, and from such a meeting elect ( blank ) delegates, and an equal number of alternates, (the iiiinilj'r allowed county by law), said delegates to meet in convention at the opera house in the city of Columbia at 11 o'clock Thursday morning, O tober 27, for the purpose of party reorganizat ion. "Those in your county who have participated recently in the Demo cratic. primaries, the candidates beI ^ A*,... I -. O * .. 4 . All lllj? MM |IUiriJ IIJIMI l>l Dlill.U lIHIM'h, are entirely eligible to come as caniidal.es to tne convention herein nieetione<l, if they are in sympathy w'rn the Kepu.bliean party and its a litreistration and national affairs, ail which are of vital interest to the whole country, and particularly at j this time to the South." * < OX VKXT STOliM Kit. \e\v (iovt'i'umrnt of Portugese Op- ! posed to Foments. ! A dispatch front Lisbon says the authorities sent a force to sie/.e the j convent at Cirac.a and arrest the Friars. On arriving there they found ! the doors barricaded. The soldiers tnd members of the populace tired j several volleys into t building, whereupon the KTlars returned the attack, their bullets striking the roadway and adjacent buildings. The j atlaikers then withdrew for ronsultation. Soon they returned to the attack assailing the heavy doors of the convent with battering rains. When the doors yielded the soldiers' and people risked in and searched | every nook and corner of the diti le. but not a Kriar was !<? be found. U is surmised that lliey made their escape by underground passages, where they are now in hiding. OflVis Itig Kevvnnl. More than a quarter of a million! dollars in reward will he offered for: ! the arrest of the dynamiters of The [Times building, when more than ascore were killed. Merchants of Los Xngeles will post a reward of $2ul),000, according; to plans under way, while $ 18,r?00 already lias been of-j fered. * j Damage to Clop. CI/\/\ilc / > 11 wrt/l lii> t 11,1 i*,i i i .< ,if tli.. ' i i o * ii un\ ii ij * i m i ? i ii.^ i in* I last two days have damaged the) cotton to the extent of nearly $ 1 000,000 in the M Ississi npi Valley. KlYorts are being made to drain the plantations and prevent further dam-j i age. * The Cmvritteii I.mw. Menlo Moore, a theatreal man of Vineennes, lnd., shot and killed Kdward (Jihson, a millionaire. Moor i charged (Jihson with undue intimacy with his wife. SHUT IN MINE Fif(>-Two lea Are Eatoabrd by a Fearful Eiplosioa of Dam# A BATTLE WITH FUMES The Companion* of tl^ Iiu|>Hmhi<*4I Meu Make ? Brave Ki^ht for Tlteiv Il?*?cue.?They Kilter Black Funa Infested Bepths In Hope** Some of the Men Are Still Alive. Kn torn bed by an explosion in lh? Starkville mine of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company near Starkville, Col., at least 52 men are the objects ot'heroic efforts of rescuers who worked throughout Sunday trying to peneuuie Ulf DlilCU depths ??l fh* hope thai some or probably all of I he imprisoned miners might be rescued alive. The presence of damp black made the work of rescuers extremely ha/.ardous. Time and again Sunday the members of parties were overcome, necessitating returning: to the open air. Iatte that afternoon those superintending the work of rescue decided that none should enter the miue until a portable t'uu was installed. The fan reached the mine at four o'clock and was mounted upon an electric motor car and gradually cur ried forward into the new slop", working as ti went, driving the kua ahead and as was hoped, to an air shaft thousands of feet inside rh?* mine where it might escape. The greatest caution possible was exercised that the motor earning the fan should not be advanced too rapidly, and a sudden rush of gas. or kick back, over whelm the men operating the machine and snuff out their lives. A touching feature of the rscue .work was th'' setf-?ncrlt?ee and devotion to duty of James Wilsou. superintendent, who left a sick bed to lead the men who volunteered to form rescue parties, lie finally succumed to the exertion and, almost overcome by the gasses, was forced to return to his bed. According to a statement given out officially by the coroner, there are known to be in the mine 28 poles. J Russians. 10 Americans, 4 Mexicans and 1 Servian. The coroner, however. believes six more are entombed who are not on the list. At six o'clock word reached the caiup that a two inch hole had been bored through a wall and a test of the air showed it to be surorisinalv Rood. Orders wore immediately Riven o enlarge the opening and if the air was pure, the m< u were to go on through the en Is of the Slarkville mine as far as safety permits. This information was followed by news that the inen who had been installing the portable fan had been overcome and barely escaped to the entrance of the west portal with their li\es. They had penetrated too feet when they were suddenly enveloped in black damp. The helmet men assisted their unprotected companions out of the mint and resuscitated them. SKVKKKIjV WHIITKI). And Then Told to l.eavc the Stale for Insulting a Lady. Sheriff Hunter made a hurried trip to Heath Springs from Laurens Sun day in response to a telegram advisi 11 g to "ronie at oner to save trouble, negro has insulted lady." On his arrival the sheriff found that the negro in question had been taken ! > Kershaw county and soverly whipped and then ordered to leave l h* State. It is said that the negro \v use name is Kich Thompson, about iiii years old. went to (he home of l'?? widow in the Heath Springs section Sunday night and Unoeked at the door. The summons was answered toy her child who went banc an I reported to its mottber ill i a man wanted to see her. On her going to the door she indignantly ordered him off and >pi'tt the door, the uegro disappearing in i he darkness. She lost no time 'n notifying her people of what ha I happened, who raptured the negro and tinnlly disposed of him as stated, doing so under the impression vh?t having made no assault he wouiu not bo punished under the law. The Columbia News. (Jeorge ft Koester. representing those interested in the News Pub lishinu Company, com missioned wi;h $."?0,000 capital to publish a n*?*v morning daily new spa pe r in Colutnbin, says he hopes to have his iirst isstie out by January 1. Mr. KoesPer and Mr. I). VV. Kobinson, a Columbia attorney, are the corporators. SI tori 11' and Negroes Killed. In a fight between a deputy sheri IT, Charles Stamper, and a crowd of negro Ramblers, whom he tried to arrest at Dawson, Okla., Sund iy. Stamper was killed and three negroes were shot, and, it is said, will die. Five arrests were made that afternoon. #