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* pjMll. PSWDER Absolutely Pure Tho only baking powder mado front Royal Grape Ore am of Tartar No Alum, No Lime Phosphate " STORE WRECKED Explosion of Ga* Occurs in a Fve and Ten Cent Store Thursday. *> * w'ri ? v., n ii if ? r? .**. i > * ILfcKKS m, fiU&MMi The Walls Collapsed and Fell in tlie Street, I'titying People Under Them?Keseueis Hampered by the Dan^ei' From the Live Fleclric Wires?Cause Not Known. McCrory's live and ten cent, store at North Pittsburg and Apple streets, Connellsville, Pa., was wrecked by a gas explosion Thursday and the flames which followed communicated to adjoining structures. Three young women clerks are missing, two clerks and the assistant manager and a carpenter are in the hospital dangerously burned and injured, while a dozen or more employees are at their homes suffering from injuries, more or less serious. Tly noon the flames were under control, and the property loss had been placed at $75,000. It can not be determined whether the list of missing will be increased until the debris from the collapsed walls have been gone over. There were customers In the store wnen me explosion occurred, but the exact number is not known, nor have their names been learned. The known missing are: Ohristobal Smith, /Nellie Mitchell and Mary Wagner, all clerks. There were about twenty customers in the store when the explosion took place. The front wall was thrown into the street and in falling carried with it a large number of electric wires. These were tangled in a mass and prevented, for a time, any thought of rescue for those imprisoned in the wrecked building. The cause of t.ho disaster lies in the removal of a meter, it is stated, and according to Manager Poff, workmen neglected to make the proper connections, tins escaping from the pipes filled the store and probably the hank building. This was ignited in some manner and the explosion followed. Ada iVl 1 IA' IIC11, IMC* MIMI- JIIUIIW Jlltl.v^ or, who was sitting at the piano,, was carried with the instrument from the back of the building through its entiro length and into Apple street. Four carpenters were at work in the cellar. Three escaped with slight burns. The fourth probably will die. Fire appeared to break out in all parts of the building at the same time and within a few minutes other walls began to fall. The walls of adjoining buildings began to go down, but a party of rescuers had been organized, and, clearing away the wires, forced a passage into the flvo and ten cent store. Here they located some of the stricken employees and customers and asv each was found he was carried out. Ambulances had been summoned and those of the injured who could not be cared for by physocians on the ground were hurried away to hospitals. TTniontown responded to tho call for nelp and sent nre apparatus ana a largo force of mon. These aided the Connellsville department In completing the work of rescue and In lighting the fire, which was gaining rapidly. Witn the flames subdued, it Is hoped to recover the bodies of those believed to be In the ruins before night. Later It. developed that there had been two explosions, one in the Citizens' National Bank, whose front was also blown out. Civil Service Exams. Civil service examinations for the departmental service will be held on the following dates in South Carolina: Anderson, March 15; Charleston, April 18, January 24, March 8, April 12; Columbia, April 20, January 24, March 8, April 12; Greenville, April 23, March "8, April 12; Spartanburg, January 24; Sumter, January 24. # cave up-fift SACRIFICE ON THE ALT AH OF LOVE HE LIVES DYING. Gave Her Up to Her Former Sweetheart niiii He Goes to the Hospital to Die. His great act of self-sacrifice acI comulished bv giving ui> the English wife he loved to the man she loved, Kunisan Inomata, the son of a wealthy Japanese of Tokyo, is dying In the charity hospital at Vlcksburg, Miss., of a broken heart and a wasting disease, while his former wife and the man she married are, by tender attention, trying to make his last hours easier. Witli the stoicism of the oriental, he suffere and says nothing, but bohind his suffering lies a strange romance. Almost a decade ago Helen A. Hunt, wh^se father was mayor of a small town near Eondon, England, and well-to-do, loved a young Englishman named James Gibson. A quarrel with her sweetheart caused the girl to come to America. Eight years ago she found herself in Boston penniless. While working in the store of M. Yamataro there she met Inomata. The Japanese loved her and his gentle ways won Miss Hunt. They were married and went to New Orleans. The girl fell ill and Inomata worked night and day to make! ermugn iiiuriuy to pay mn:iurs uinaj and hospital foes. His own ho,,Mi| became undermined and he became! despondent. Some months ago, while Inomata and his wife were in Jackson, Miss., on business, she met Gibson, he, too, having come to America. On sight of him the girl declared she still loved him and Gibson swore that he had loved her always. After days of silent anguish, Mrs. Inomata confessed to her husband that she loved Gibson. The Japanese listened with stoical silence to the j story and abruptly left his wife to think it dver. On his return to their boarding house in New Orleans, Inomata said to his wife: T am failing in health. You go to Jackson, bring suit for divorce and I will not. oppose it. I will say nothing. Then go and marry this Englishman you love." The girl followed his advice. On December b, accompanied by the man who had been her husband, and the man who had been her by-gone sweetheart, the woman came to Vickshurg. Here sho and Gibson were married. That night Inomata, tne uusKin 01 .japan, wont to tne hospital to die. * ? ? Til 10 V HAD NAKHOW KSCAPE. ? Two Farmers Tried to Shoot Balloonists in Passing. J. Cowan Hulbert and Paul J. McCul lough, the aeronauts of St. Louis, whose flight from that city last Sunday terminated when the ballooij landed near Scooba, Miss., on Monday, after being fired at twice, arrived tin New Orleans Wednesday morning. They will take a ship from here to New York. "High winds drifted us southward," said Mr. Hulbert, "and instead of landing in New York we had to come down in Mississippi to av?hi being blown out over the gulf. "After leaving St. Louis a strong wind got us and wo were blown across Illinois. Near Mount Vernon, when less than S00 feet high, we heard a shot, and a bullet whistled through the basket, barely missing us. In Kentucky another farmer fired at us, but we were out of range." "We passed over the Wabash river into Indiana' and were blown to the cnntlioncf nr>i*r\p:c TC nnf nnl?'u fiiiil Tiin. nessee, into Alabama, passing near Birmingham." * Hold Posse at Hay. Armed with revolvers and firing scores of shots, two boys, Charles and Henry Roberts, 18 years o>d, who escaped from the Tennessee industrial schools on the Murfreesboro pike, held at bay a posso of more than 100 men yesterday afternoon. After a miniature battle lasting a good portion of the afternoon they made good their escape. * lfave Had Teeth. Eighty-five per cent of the school children in Louisville, Ky? are said to have diseased teeth or gums. Dr. W. E. Grant has just completed the examination of the mouths of 6,000 pupils in the schools and this is the result. - * Brothers Wed Three Sisters. Three brothers, John, Henry and Pert Peck, and three sisters, Nellie, Zoo and Amie Walker, were the bridegrooms and brides at a triple wedding, which took place at (ho home of the bride's parents, at Araapahow, Okla, this week. * ? . Liquor Caused Killings. Liquor caused 258 out of 63 0 homicides in- Alabama during the Inst, two years, according to the report of the attorney general this week. During the previous two years liquor had caused 348 out of 656 killing?. SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLAKS. Profit Made by the Peaiteatlarjr the Poet Year. The State penitentiary in the fiscal year turned into the State treasury $70,000 in cash, representing the profits of that year. The State penitentiary was established as a prison and for years was not even self-nstaining. Today it is a producer of revenue. Under former superintendents its scope developed gradually, and today It stands clear of debt and has $70,000 in bank with which start the year on a cash basis. The totai income of tho institution last year as shown in the repoi t of the superintendent, Capt. D. J. Griffith, was $137,28S.16. The op orating expenses were $75,805.07, permanent improvements $8,447.19, leaving a net balance of $61,4 83.09, to which is to be added the account due for convict hire from responsible persons, $6,5 00. The grand total of profit for the year is therefore $67,983.09, or within a few dollars of $6S,000. When he was elected superintendlent 12 years ago, Capt. Griffith re reived, as the cash assets of the institution, $S3, and along with this was a floating indebtedness of several thousand dollars, money due on notes to the Carolina National bank. Since that time?in addition to many physical improvements made, in addition to paying into the State treasury $160,000, in addition to paying off all floating debts?the institution i hr.s ended the year with $7 6,000 cash j on hand with which to begin the op- I lerntions of this year on a cash basis. ! Despite the destruction wrought by two freshets, each of which was al-1 most without precedent, Capt. Griffith's administration has earned in cash $236,000 and has made $125,000 in permanent improvements, approximately $3 60,0 00, or $30,000 per annum. * TAKES 1SSI E WITH HIM. Prof. Wilcox's Baby Declaration Stirs Up a How. Prof. Walter F. Wilcox, of Cornell, who predicted the other day that there would be no more babies after 2015, has awakened a rather stirring sociological discussion among New York's club women. Mrs. Clarence Burns, president of "The Little Mothers' Association," an organization supported by society women, which provides for the care of the small children of poor families, the mother of which is obliged to tvork, takes issue with tlie pedagogue and figuratively says ho is a blithering, blooming romancer. "It is evident that Prof. Wilcox is not familiar with fho conditions among American families on the East Side," said Mrs. Burns. "You see, the average family has froir. five to eleven children. But T must say that 1 believe that nowadays the average ft > 4 l/\/\lm f r\ ono 1 5 1 ir h /\i? t li n 11 jmiCJllt IUUIVO quciiitj i (itnui uum quantity. There was a time, say about twenty or thirty years ago, when the mother of the poor class thought nothing of having from thirteen to fourteen children. They do not. have quite as many now, however. "I must take exception to the learned professor's statement and say that T do not believe that there will be a dearth of children in 2015 ( although I have never gone into the matter from a mathematical standpoint. It is a very simple matter to prove almost anything, however, by j statistics, and 1 do not doubt but from that angle Prof. Wilcox is right." According to Prof. Wilcox there! will be no halves left in the United J States after 201 ft. and if we want any we will have to bring them from abroad, the same as we now import Parisian gowns and other finery. * ? +* ^ Something Unusual. One of the worst of English railroad accidents happened in that country a week or two ago resulting in the loss of about thirty lives. The singular thing about it Is the fact that the railroad company voluntarily assumed responsibility for the accident. It seems almost like a miracle that any large corporation or trust should take the blame to itself. Usually, it is the other way and the best legal talent is employed and every subterfuge resorted to in the effort to show that an accident is the fault of others, an act of divine providence, or something else, and that the corporation is as innocent as an ! infant child. Firemen Fatally Injured. One fireman fatally injured, another seriously injured and a property loss estimated at $100,000 is! the result of a fire starting on the | fourth floor of the five-stiry S. B. J Hudbard Hardware Company short- j fy after noon Wednesday at Jacksonville, Fla. J. TT. Smith, the inpured fireman, was on top of a high ladder with a line of hose when the oil fumes rendered him unconscious. Killed in Riot. At Bombay, India, eighteen persons were killed and 24 others wounded during yesterday's rioting. As usual, the occasion of the Muharram festival brought about a clash between Sunnoites and the Shiahs. Troops called out to restore order fired several volleys into the mob. * ADVICE TO THE GIRLS. How to Capture and Hold Men After They Are Captured. If I were a girl, says a writer in an exchange, desirous of getting married, I would not trouble about my looks further than to keep neatly > and becomingly dressed. Hut I should set resolutely to work to take an interest in men generally; study them as one studies geology, botany, entomology, or any other ology that appeals to the taste, and I should seek to become forgetful of self. So many ci>>ii< cMwiil i hoir n'Minnna In' hohnviriir as it it were a man's duty to study them. Of course, they may be the interesting creatures they think themselves to be, but their nttitiua repels investigation of their merits. A girl is never so charming as when she has forgotten self and appears sincerely interested in some one else; sympathy is a valuable asset, and meh like to be thought interesting. Their lives and individual natures, not their hearts, should be the direct objects of interest, and nothing ought to be easier than to check any signs of giddiness on the part of the young man, at the outset; one should simply lessen the force of her sympathetic Interest in him. While studying the specimen, the girl should expect nothing from the man?not even candy. We know that men have a hard time, the.se days; but women do not find the buttle of life u play-ground. Instead, however, of mentioning one's own struggles, the girl shou! 1 encourage the specimens to show their ability to fight it out against all odds. If a girl wants to especially please her specimen, she should ask for bis advice. Men have advice to give away, and they are always more than willing to bestow it liberally on their women friends. It, pleases tliem for a woman to depend on tliem, even to show them her new gowns and hats and ask if they like them. A man likes his sweetheart to recognize the correctness of his taste and judgment. So, if you wish to put your specimen in a good humor, ask his advice. It remains with you to do as you please with it, after it is given. NO TAN JOS ON MANY ACHES. ?, The Legislature Urged to Take Action in the Matter. "Over a million acres of land in this State escape taxation because they are no! shown on the tax duplicates and can not be put there until definitely located in some particular tax district,'* Comptroller Genera! Jones will say in a vigorous report to the General Assembly. Mo will complain that person: owning property in adjacent school districts often return it all in tint district, having the lowest tax or none and they in laying off schoo districts in some counties have been so gerrymandered as to create districts of most absurd and inconvenient. shapes.' Mr. Jones urges that "an accurate survey of district line, road and water would more than pay for itself" in the revenue increase that would follow. No such survey has been made since that of Mills, in 1 825. CIV MICCIVW . MAW I V I I * I > I I 4?1 U , 1 1U <!'. Property '.oss Nearly a Million >hi Cincinnati Fire. A recapitulation Wednesday night of the losses of life ami limb, in the firo that wiped out the Chamber oJ Commerce building in Cincinnati shows that six men are missing and fully three score persons are injured. The property damaged is about $75 0,000, covered by insurance. Tne fire is still smouldering, preventing a search for the missing men. The sixth name was added to the list of missing and probably dead tonight, when it became known that no traces had been found of George Hayman, a reporter on the Cincinnati Enquirer, who entered the building after the Ore started. Hayman was on reportonal duty. His associates are convinced that ho was trapped tn the place. liost in Houuli Sen. News has been received of the drowning January 3 of Jarpes Kenneth Baxley who was washed from the deck of the battleship Virginia in a rough sea. Baxley was a coxswain aboard the ship, was 2 1 years old, and was a native of Hephzibah, Ga. His body wn not. recovered. * Trees to he Felled. The axe was laid to the first of fifty thousanl peach trees Friday in (ho ttagley Ray orchards, near Americus, Oa. The land will be puint^d in cotton. This is done because hundreds of tons of fine peaches could not he handled from hero last season and were destroyed. * Battle With Bandits. Three robbers attempted to rob the postofllce at Utica, Ohio, early Friday and as a result a pistol battle was fought, one of the robbers was wounded in the breast and one of their horses was shot. The robbers seized a mail wagon and two horsee And picking up the wounded man escaped towards Newark. BANK OF Conwa' ? Has largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and surpl CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSIT! I) IR i:c f?nh*?rt. TV Snarhoroucrh. fl. L. Buck, tcor^c J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc< ; will justify, and we i tOBEUT it. SCAKBOlUU Gl?, D President. We continue to pay 5 pei f]FIRST NATK $ A\ CON WA jF CAPITAL STOCK ? SURPLUS PROFITS ,/k TOTAL ASSESTS jk 1)1 RFC J. A. McDermott, John C R. G. Collins, H. L. I1 M. Burroughs, C. P. Qur 'P 'ft Successor to the Rank of ili Horry County, and a pioneer ' ' ? * I ? ?IH if i t U tli a rnjiont d t?V '.?/ 1%> (I 1 I 11/11 Willi 111^7 IU' vu? v?v,? /% Republic. Racked by the < ill United States Bonds, we are p - tomers any reasonable accomi ft A . II. A. SPIVKY, ^ Cash tor. PROFESSIONAL CARPS. ? H. 11. WOODWARD attorney and Councelor At La* CONWAY, 8. C. K. li. 8CAKHUOUGH CONWAY, 8. C Attorney at Law. il. 11. BURROUGHS Physician arid Suri{(MjK CONWAY, 8. O. B. WOFFOUP WAIT. Adornry at L?t a Bank of Horry Building. CONWAY, 8. C. !HE WORLDS GREATEST SEWING MACHINE RUNN^^ ffSon TOint? 11 her a VI brat In RHhut t le. Rotai? Shuttle or a Single Thread fChain citUch\ Sewing Machine write to PUICW HOME 8EWIN0 MACHINE COMPAH Orange* Mass. Manysewfair machines ore mode to?e1trerar41e?s4| but the New Home {9 made to weal Our guaranty never runs out. i?M bf authorized stealers silly. Sua SALS BV BUKUiittdlh ^ iOljlJNtt CO.. (Xttnvay, O. I11 taking a general view of the events of last year the conclusion is reached that it was a period of advance for the peoples of the world. In almost every part there was an increasing consciousness of power and a well defined purpose to use it. Tin's bodes ill for vested interests, whether, as in this country, it is the corporations that have defied law and usurped power, or, as in Great Britain, the house of lords which has blocked the path of progress. To some extent also the samo growing power and influence was seen in Russia, China nvd other nations. President Taft offers tht> olive branch to the insurgents, but those hungry patriots want the whole tree. HORRY, >' S, C. ny bank in Horry county. More lus of all other banks in the county. $50,000 12,500 HOLDERS .. .. 50,000 DRS 112,500 ;! 0RS i). V. Richardson, \V. A. John on, Will A. Freeman. :>mmoclation which their accounts solicit vour business. J . V. Richardson, vmll a. jb'mkemab Vice President. C as hike r cent, on yearly deposits. )NAL BANK I Y, S. C. M $25,000.00 ^ 2,500.0:0 /f> 125,000.00 /ft rOKS: JL ). Spivey, D. T. McNeill, % luck. W. R. Lewis, 0. /ft ittlebaum, D. a. Spivey. 'Jh ' Conwny, t.he oldest Hank In ift in lOasO'in Carolina. Close- 11 elopment of the Independent ?1? Government and secured hy m irepared to extend to our cu?- /I nodations. h. G. collin'S, Jk Pivsidrnt, g PAID FOR HIS SEAT ? SENATOR STEPHENSON IS ACCUSED OF CORRUPTION. ? Two Republicans an<l One Democrat, Member of State Senate Committee, Unite in Report. "The nomination in the primary and the election to the United States senate by the legislature of Isaao Stephenson are null and void, on account of attempted briberies and corrupt practice by himself and his campaign leaders, agents and workers and of violations of the laws of Wisconsin defining and punishing offenses against the elective franchise." This is the gist of the findings of a special senatorial investigating, committee in its report submitted to Gov. Francis IS. > cGovern, of Wisconsin, at Madison Wednesday. The report is 3igned by Lieut. Gov. Thomas Morris and Senator Spencer W. Mnrsh, Republicans, and Senator Paul Husting, Democrat. Early in the legislative session of 1 A A 1 t to AVA in ??Arl V CO" I ?* | I if V v J i uiiuna ? c; i vj nui wm ?v vtt ? both houses calling for an investigation of the senatorial primary election. The resolutions were partic' nlarly pointed at United States Senator Isaac Stephenson, who, according to his report filed with the secretary of state, expended $107,000 dur: ing tho campaign. ' Mr. Bancroft, speaker of the assembly, named a committee com i posed or a majority oi tne stalwart ; Republicans ami Lieut. (lov. John Strange, who then preside 1 over the i senate, named Senators Marsh, Morris and IIlisting. The committees met fin joint session for several weeks. Then the assembly branch of the committee decided to go no further. The assembly members of the committee rendered a report, recommending the enactment of a law regulating campaign expenditures and stating that there was no evidence of corruption on the part of Senator Stephenson. Following this, a special resolution was adopted by the senate mal ng the three senators named a special investigating committee to probe further into (lie primary election. The report and findings are the result of that special committee's work. Ttifi ooonmKltF ^ f f >, Inlnf & nv5 uc*rviu ?.n j 'iiv mu< i o v/i invr jvuiw Investigating committee are scored by the senate committee for their alleged failure to assist in a thorough, investigation of the Stephenson nomination and election. The election committee's report on this point is as follows: "Throughout the investigation various members of the assembly personally endeavored to prevent the investigation of Isaac Stephenson." The committee recommends that a copy of the resolution ho certified t? the United States senate by the governor and Mie legislature with the request that that body investigate the manner in which Sephenson procured his election. There is nothing truer than that men are "members one of another.** The social instinct and mutual love teach us that we were born for the good of the whole and not to live the selfish separate life.