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No Alum, No Lime Phosphate
" STORE WRECKED
Explosion of Ga* Occurs in a Fve and
Ten Cent Store Thursday.
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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.
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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. *
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Til 10 V HAD NAKHOW KSCAPE.
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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. *
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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
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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. *
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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
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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.
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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
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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'
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Has largest capital and surplus of a
than the combined capital and surpl
CAPITAL STOCK
SURPLUS
LIABILITIES OF STOCK
SECURITY OF DEPOSIT!
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f?nh*?rt. TV Snarhoroucrh.
fl. L. Buck,
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President.
We continue to pay 5 pei
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R. G. Collins, H. L. I1
M. Burroughs, C. P. Qur
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ili Horry County, and a pioneer
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/% Republic. Racked by the <
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A . II. A. SPIVKY,
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PROFESSIONAL CARPS.
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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.
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Orange* Mass.
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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,
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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
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\V. A. John on,
Will A. Freeman.
:>mmoclation which their accounts
solicit vour business.
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Vice President. C as hike
r cent, on yearly deposits.
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$25,000.00 ^
2,500.0:0 /f>
125,000.00 /ft
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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.
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PAID FOR HIS SEAT
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SENATOR STEPHENSON IS ACCUSED
OF CORRUPTION.
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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
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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.
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& 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.