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AWFUL STORY V- ?'? Tkt Plague aid Faaine Kills Tbaasaads in Ciioa Every Day. i ^ i DETAILS ARE FEARFUL No Hpiclomic I;ike Hague Has Vis\ ited China Sine? the Middle Ages and It is Predicted That On? Million Persons Will l)i? llefore Anotlii>p Oni?. Both famine and plague Ih sweeping China, says a dispatch from Peking, the capital of that stricken country. The known deaths from the plague number 30,000, and official statistics ehow a dally death rate averaging 200. But the officials hare little knowledge of conditions in the Interlor, or if they have they are not permitting the facts to get out. There are few or no foreigners in the Interior, and therefore conditions there are not attracting much public attention. It is impossible even to estimate the number of deaths from lack of food. People die by the thousand every nay. nr. Hamuei coon ran, an American, engaged in the work of relief, writes: "One million people will die hefore the first crop is harvested. This will he scanty, because the people have not the strength to till the soil and no animals remain for ploughing." The Chinese are directing their efforts to control the plague chleflv along the railways and frontier fir political reasons. Since the recent Russian request for permission to cross the border and quarantine Chinese towns along the Amur China has been trying to check the nlaeue pion0' that border, hut tho Russian legation eavs the work has been done ^n effectively, because no doc+ors tl"?ro are familiar with modern methods of sanitation. Tn former enidemics the local anIhorities. including the police and soldiers, left the people to die; now tl-ey do not care or do not know how to maintain adequate sanitary measvrea. Although the central government has Issued numerous explicit, orders, both supplies and funds are tacking. Japanese and Russians have "both offered assistance, hut only in a few places have these offers been accented, the Chinese not liking to receive Tavors from foreigners whose political motives they distrust. Physicians combating the disease think warm weather will kill the perms, although there may he onlv n temporary respite. Tf the plague v^re of the bubonic typo, summer heat would augment it, bubonic being conveyed by fleas, rats and other vormin which thrive in warm atmos phoric conditions. But the pnonTnoTiIc tyno Is transmitted through the resniratory apparatus, and when the Chinese emerge from their winter quarters into the open air they will escape much contamination. Medical authorities say that such an epidemic as the present one, which is entirely pneumonic, has not visited the world since the Middle A "os. Owing to the political questions involved and the presence of for-eigners along the railways the ' plague in Manchuria is receiving greater attention than the famine, tout the death rate from the famine js -many times greater /than that from the plague. The famine is the result of the destruction of the crops by a fall of sixteen Inches of rain in two days last August in a district where the people ordinarily live from hand to mouth. As soon as the first pangs of hunger were felt the people left their * 1 x ? M Ai. Homes, uui many uuum nut uuyond the borders of the devastation. I They returned and took up the death v ?(niggle beside tlielr homesteads. A relief committee composed of foreigners at Shanghai is collecting money. Japan and America are the only foreign countries that have contributed so far to aid tho sufferers. Hut even the extensive assistance from the United States is entirely inadequate. It. is estimated that 2,000,000 people are without food and are existW.* ' Ing on roots, grasses or anything y. tliat agords the slightest possibility of nourishment. Those possessing grain guard it night and day. * | ? They Sond llolp. The Chinese of San Francisco have eent more than $20,000 to their countrymen In the famine districts. Friday's donations, sent by cable, consisted of $10,000 from the Chinese Six Companies, a benevolent association, and $1,600 from the Young China Newspaper, which raised the money by arranging Chinese entertainments in the city. ? ? Illow Open Vault. At Windfall, Ind., robbers early Friday morning blew open the outer vault of the local bank and secured $450. They failed to gain entrance to the inner vault, which contained | $10,000 In cash. The "robbers escaped. V WILL BUY NEW CARS A1SO NEW ENGINES FOR USE ON THE SOUTHERN. The Charleston Division Will be Very Much lleneflted by the Proposed Purchases. We learn from tho News and Cour- , ier that advices have been recieved In Charleston to the effect that the Southern Hallway Is In the market for extensive purchases in equip ment. The increase in business is assigned as the reason for this increase in equipment. The purchases will include fifty-fivo big locomotives for both freight and passenger service on the lines of the Southern. It is understood that the Charles- ( ton division of the Southern will be , only in directly benefited by these new purchases, and that a majority , of the new rolling stock will be used on the main lines of the road. That the Charleston division will re- , ceivo a portion of the main line rolling stock now in use on the main line, is the opinion of many of the railroad men in the city. The Southis at present operating very heavy trains out of this city, notably the rt 11 b 1 - I _ .1 4 V, ,, A iwrncln V/cirUIIIlli ail (J inv nu^uaiu trains, and tho engines now in use, while powerful for their size, will soon have to be replaced by heavier typo locomotives. Fifty-five locomotives are to bo purchased by the Southern in the j near future, as follows: Twentyfive of the Mikado tpye, for fgreight traffic purposes; fifteen of the Pacific tpye, for passenger traflic, and fifteen standard switching engines. The locomotives will be of the heaviest. fpye. designed for the most efficient and economical service. It is believed that they would prove too heavy for the roadbed of the Charleston division, even were the Southern disposed to place them on any other but tho main line. Cha rlesepytxekqetaoinshrdlucm fwypj The Carolina Special trains of the Southern, operating between Charleston, Ohio, will bo among the first trains to bo benefited by the pur chase of the rolling stock. Powerful engines of the "1,100" type, now in use on the main line, will haul the trains between Asheville and Columbia and Columbia ana Charleston. The Southern has also placed orders recently for new passenger equipment, Including thirty-five firstclass coaches, twenty full postal cars, ton combination paesenger and baggage care and four dining coaches. This equipment will consist of rolling stock of the latest designs. Orders have also been placed for 2 7,200 tons of 85-pound steel rails, which will be used in track betterment. Of this amount 22,400 tons will he furnished by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway Company, 1,800 by the Illinois Street Company and 2.000 tons by the '.Maryland Steel Company. Important track improvements are to be made by the Southern in the near future between Asheville, N. C., and Morristown, Tenn., part of the route traversed by the Carolina Special trains on their trips between Charleston and Cincinnati; and also between Knoxville and Cleveland, Tenn., by the building of eight or ton passing tracks. The latter will greatly increase the capacity of these lines. ? ? OLD VAULT OPKXED. +. Body of Woman Who Died One Hundred Years Ago Found. The Augusta Chronicle says: Dead a hundred years hut unchanged bypassing years, the body of a woman encased in a strong metal casket has been found on Shad Island near Sairnnnnli In nn rvl/1 vmilf In n'1il/>li a lark T (111 11(111 A 14 11 11 \/IU T (lUlt AU M UIUU UiOV were other caskets. The finding of the body recalls the old Shad family, the last of whose members is said to have died more than ?S0 years ago. Every indication about the old vault hears out the belief that the unknown woman whose face is as fair and whose hair is carefully parted over her smooth brow as it was when she was laid to rest long before Commodore Peary ' fought the British on the Great Lakes, has lain in her coffin for a century. J In the little, forgotten colony of the dead are said to he eight caskets 1 all containing members of this ex- '< tinct family. The other caskets will he examined later and it is probable ' L o f n ? /-? if i 1 1 La 4 n b AM a f 4 Ka 1 mat nwiuu tai u win ?#*> t<i ivcu in tiiu old vault. A heavy glass covers the i face of the young woman whose body was the first to be found. Through it ' her face is plainly seen. She looks as if she had just died. There are no ruins of a house visible on Shad plat yet it is said the family resided 011 the island for many years, probably before and during the war of the revolution. Breaks Iteno's Hecord. A record was established by the superior court at Macon, Ga., Thursday afternoon when one jury, without removing from its seats, granted eight divorces in 25 minutes, hearing all of the evidence and signing the verdicts in that time, an average of one divorce for every three min-* utee. WILL BE SHOT ? F#rfy-Fiff Supporters of Zebyt ia Nicoraugua to be Executed. ARE AGAINST ASTRADA These Men Are Charged With Having Conspired to Overthrow the Present Niottrn,guuii Government and Itecall Zelaya, Who Fled to Europe a Few Months Ago. According to cable advices received here from Costa Rica, Dr. Rudolph Espinosa, well known throughout Cbntral America, and forty-four other? are to be shot by the Estrada government of Nicaragua for alleged complicity in the plot against the administration. No ofllcial announcement of the executions has been made and friends of the condemned men fear that official announcement will be delayed until after the executions are accomplished. As that is generally the way they do things down in South America. The United States ministers to Costa Rica, it is said, has been aekod to make ofllcial request of President Es trada for definite information of liin intentions towards the prisoners and cablegrams will be sent to President Taft and Secretary of State Knox seeking their assistance. The forty-five members of the Liberal party in Nicaragua who have been condemned to death for participation in the plot to kill President Estrada and overthrow the government, include many who were prominent in Nicaraguan political affairs during the reign of Jose Santos Zelaya. Mail advices received at New Orleans say that the men are now in chains in various penitentiaries in Nicaragua. The dato of execution is being kept secret. I)r. Radolfo Espinosa is accused of being the leader in the plot and with directing the destruction of the ammunition barracks at Managua recently. Many of the men under death sentence are Masons, and the Masonic Grand Lodge at San Jose is using every means to prevent the executions Others of the forty-five condemned men are Dr. Octavio Gomez, Adam Espinosa, Dr. Lucian Gomez, Felix Pedro Zelaya, Dr. Manuel Maldonado, Dr. Hildebrand Castellon, Dr. Benjamin Zeledona, Jose Maria Lessage, Telemaco Lara, Dr. Solomon Delgado, Dr. Rostran, Jose iMaria Zelaya, Antonio Fonzca, Jose Santos Ramire, Gen. Fernando Rivas and Dr. Jose Dolorez Gomez. Dr. J. Basillo, a German, is also said to be under sentence of death for complicity in the plot. He is in tho penitentiary at Greneda. * STANDS 15V HIS FRIENDS. HIease Appoints Commissi oners Wlio Voted for Him. Hon. J. M. Lengnick, chairman of he Reaufort legislative delegation, states, in reference to the local county appointments, that the nominees of the primary were all endorsed hv the delegation and appointed by the governor. The delegation recommended township commissioners, as required by law, but the governor did not appoint, as required by law. Instead ho appointed commissioners recommended by Mr. Thomas Talbird, representing a faction which opposed tlio present delegation in the last primary and supported Candidate Rleaso. The delegation's recommendations for township commission ors were by custom based on the recommendations of the several clubs. The Talbird recommendations disregard the clubs where they do not favor his faction. * OAU8KI) SMALL PANIC. - rinds His Wife With Another Man and How Ensues. Frightened guests fled from a fashionable Atlanta restaurant Thursday night when a quiet litt supper party was suddenly converted into the scene of a duel with knives. The supper party consisted of a man and another man's wife. The participants were two well known Atlantans, A. L. Hendricks, a real estate man, and C. K. Burnham, auditor of the Southern Bell Telephone company. The fight lob - - * - * f 1. lowen a quarrel over mrs. mirmmiu, the husband accusing Hendricks of paying too much attention to his wife. When the fight, was at its height Mrs. Hum ham rushed in between tiio two men and tried to stop them. Tier deeve and waist were cut and ripped by the knives of the combatants. Dther guests finally interforred and Hendricks and Burnham and his wife were sent to a police station where charges against all three were entered." Killed by Boiler. At Niagara, N. Y., a boiler exploded in the plant of the Ontario Power company Friday morning, killing three men, fatally injuring another and mere or less seriously injuring six to ten others. * | DESERVED LYNCHING MANY CRIMES TRACED TO THE HAND OP ARTHUR YOUNG. Mulatto Who Shot Policeman Gunnels at Greenville and Who Was Lynched for Killing a Conductor. The last chapter In the checkered life of Arthur Young has been written with the sending of his body from (Greemville to Fountain Inn, whore the remains will be interred by his family, says the Greenville correspondent of The State. The correspondent goes on to say: Wdthin the last seven days the shooting of Policeman Gunnels, the robbery of the pOvStofllce at Easley, the robbery of the depot and a number of stores at Williamston, and numerous other crimes in the Piedmont neighborhood have been traced to this mulatto and the guilt finally and positively fastened upon him by a most unusual chain of circumstances. Two weeks ago when the Pinkerton detective reached Greenville to ferret out the murderer of Policeman Gunnels, lie mado brief examination of the probable clues found in this city, and then made a short trip to Wllliamston and later went to ISasley, where ho secured sufficient evidence to lead him to the belief that the man wanted for the killing of the Greenville officer was none other than a bright mulatto named Arthur Young, alias W. R. Ross?the latter being the name under which the negro had ordered his make-up materials and his yegg outfit. The evidence leading to these conclusions was gathered piece-meal and when finally collected under the guid ance of the local officials dovetailed so closely and well that it was decided (o start the hunt at once for Arthur Young. Officer Rector of the I local force, who had arrested Young on several previous occasions, was dispatched on the hunt, finally locating his man in Augusta. On the night the officer reached the Georgia city, however, he heard of the lynching of a bright mulatto in Warren county, Oa., ho having shot without provocation a conductor on the Georgia railroad. He left Augusta at once for the ecene of the lynching. On his arrival, however, he found that the body had been sold to a medical college in Atlanta. Going to that city ho had little diffi-cuity in identifying the negro, though his body was considerably mutilated. Officer Rector immediately made arrangements to bring the body of the lynched negro to Greenville. After its arrival In this city the body was identified by a number of citizens, oy tne i^asiey postmaster, by Williamston people and the final result is that another mystery lias been cleared. * JH KMC1> Til KM ALIVE. Some Awful Scenes Being Enacted in Clilneso Tow'ns. (Made desperate by hunger, bands of hundreds of starving refugees are roving through the famine area of China plundering and killing, and a reign of terror prevails, according lo persons who have just arrived hero from the Orient. At Kuoshan, a walled village fifty miles from Shangai, (he villagers, after a raid in which stores were looted and many killed, meted out punishment peculiarly Chinese in its callousness to the raiding refugees. A band of more than 5 00 are reported to have l>een surrounded in a compound and burned to death. The refugees had taken possession of Kunshan and for two days ransacked the stores of everything eatable, killing or wounding all wno resisted. Many villagers were ?lain and others wore taken prisoners and held for ransom. When the raiders moved on to plunder the next village the Kunshan people held a council of war and offered to purue the fugitives. They came up with them in a small village and surrounded the houses. The Kates were locked and the houses fired. The refugees took five prisoners into the compound In view of the besiegers and threatened to kill them unless the siege was raised. On the villagers pressing them hack to the burning buildings, they slowly hacked the five men to dea'h. Three other prisoners were tied to stakes in the burning building and burned with their captors. * ? ? llurns Two Horses. A a/\1 t? a?a t a r\ n t\l ii ?\ i )i t I rt n /\ uuiuumi i rim*! wu mr imdiii anuu of C. B. Dunbar, near Mlllettsvllle, Barnwell county, was plowing in a broom sedge Held and becoming thirsty went off in search of water, ilrst setting fire to the sedge. Mo left his two horses hitched to a plow and when he returned in a short while both horses were burned to death, still hitched to the plow. ? . Five Die in Fire. Supposed to have boon caused by the explosion of a lamp, fire during the night burned two houses at Oneida, Pa., occupied by Gabriel Gerotsky and Michael Slovak, Hungarians. Five members of the Gerotsky family lost their lives in the flames. \ DWELL IN CAVES i A Steamer Boarded by Strange Tribe in the Magellian Straits. ARE KNOWN AS ALACUFS Wears No Clothing and l<ive on Raw pish?Do Not Know How to Make a Fire?A Hint to Civilized Mothers Whoso llabies Arc Given to i Crying. j Tho British steamer Strathesk, ; which is discharging a cargo of fertilizer at the foot of Columbus street, * had a most interesting voyage between Iquique and Charleston, and j she encountered many strange pco- ( pics, says The News and Courier. | But the strangest of these was the ' tribe of Alacufs, met by the vessel ' in tho Straits of Magellan. This 1 tribe came out to meet the ship from ' the north shore of the straits, while 1 tho vessol was lying at anchor. The officers wore thus enabled to learn many of their customs, and to exchange gifts with them. It was at a lato hour of the night that it was reported to the captain of the vessol that a party of strange looking natives were approaching the ship in "dug-outs," uttering loud cries and gesticulating wildly. Their actions were easily described by the watch, because of the fullness of the moon. All hands were called on dock, and they prepared for trouble. However, the natives came alongside, and showed signs of wishing to have friendly intercourse with the men on the vessel, and they were accordingly allowed to come aboard. The men only came on hoard, leaving the women in the boats. All that any of the natives wore was a very serene smile. The men on the Sratliesk began a search for old clothes to give to the natives, hut when the garments were finally distributed, the natives were ignorant of their proper use, and many ludicrous situations resulted. For instance, when the second officer presented ono man with a pair of old sea hoots, he immediately took them to tlio spouse and the latter held them up for a short inspection and then placed her baby in ono of them. One tall, swarthy fellow drew a stiff hat from the pile of clothing, and went away with the hat on his head and a very satisfied look on hds face. The officers did not state whether or not he had anything on the rest of his body. These natives were most primitive in their mode of living, and appeared to bo little removed from monkeys. They dwell in caves, and, as has boon in out irmod hofore. wore no clothlnir whatever. The men of the Strathesk are not sure whether or not the natives have yet acquired the art of making a fire. At least, they did not see any fires from the ship, and they did see that the people never cooked their food. They appeared to livo chiefly on raw fish, which they caught by diving into tlie water, and their principal beverage was a kind of tea brewed from herbs, which they called mati. Their inventive or creative art appeared to be at its highest in the carving of -ude mati cups from grounds. These were the only things besides raw fish, which they had to offer the men of the Srathesk. The latter noted many queer customs among these primitive people, one of the most singular of which was tho ( action taken by a mother to stop the crying of her baby. When tho inf<int tr? cnii'il! tho mnf li?r tm mersed it up to its nock in the icy water along tho shore, and this treatment would hush the cries at once. * (SCHOOL 11AUS CHILI) WIFE. "I Like My Teacher," Pleads Little Mrs. Stump, Aged 12. "I want to go to school; I like my teacher," pleaded little Carmelia Altimari Stump, twelve years old, who was denied the privilege Friday of attending tho baby grade at the Jackson Public School in Cincinnati, ( Ohio, because she is married. Her short dress did not nearly reach her shoe tops as she bent over the table to show how well she could 1 write. The girl had been married ; with the consent of her parents in ; Kentucky to Frank Stump, nineteen ! years old. i DMIMAIixa 1 HA/vnn A11 ^ 4 1. ^ T ~ ^1. I 11 III'I |><ll vi I 'if ll 111" I I III lilt* ?J ell' IV ? son school holds thftt because she is married she cannot attend school, i Hut the child wife wants to continue her studies, and the matter has been < brought to the attention of the sup- i orintendent of schools. * 1 Tliey Fight for Food. According to dispatches twenty- 1 one persons were trampled to death at Shah-Yang, Huapeh province, Frl- ' day when a horde of starving Chinese fought for the food which missionaries were attempting to distribute. A great many were injured. * ? ? t Nearly Four Thousand. Tho population of Darlington, S. C., in 1910 was 3,789, against 3,082 in 1900, according to the statistics of the 1-3tli census. This Is a gain of 709, or 22.9 per cent, in tho past ten years. * ? CIVIL WAR STORY ABOUT TWO JUDGES THAT READS DIKE PURE FICTION. It Tolls How Judge Harlan. Federal, Banged Away at Judge Burton, Confederate, Fifty Years Ago. Gen. John H. Morgan, the raider, along about 1863, swooped down upon the Federal garrison at Hartsvlllo, Tenn. Morgan had only about 1,200 men, while the Union forces numbered about 2,000. Still, Morgan usually knew what he was about?result: Several hundred Federals killed and the rest captured. Ah soon as the battle was over, 3ays tho Chicago Inter-Ocean, the Confederates recrossed the Cumberland River. Among the rear guard was Private Lurton, of tho 3d Kentucky cavalry. He was the last man to recross the river and just ahead of him was the last Confederate wagon, loaded with Federal muskets, and other captured articles. In tho meantime the sound of Morgan's guns had disturbed the slumbers of another Kentuckian. This one was a Union soldier, llarlan by name, and he was colonel of the 10th Kentucky infantry, at Castalian Springs, six miles from Hartsville. lie immediately started with his regiment to the relief of the garrison at llartsville. Harlan and his regiment reached (he (op of a bluff back from the river just as Hurt on and the last wagon of (be Confederates was in the middle of the Cumberland. Harlan had a field piece along, and he pointed it at the Confederate cavalryman and banged away. He didn't hit the cavalryman; so he tried again and kept trying. Nevertheless, Harlan's shells hit the river in the immediate vicinity of cavalryman and wagon, and they made a mighty splash. The driver cut loose his mules and made record time to the shore. If Lurton tarried, there is no record of it. Today, in black robes, the colonel behind the cannon and the private on the horse sit side by side on the bench of the most august tribunal of the world. For the Federal was John Marshall Harlan and the Con federate was Horace Harmon Lurton ?-and both are Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. This United States of ours is a great country?and it is just such things as this Harlan-Lurton affair that make us sure of it/ When one of these Iventuckians banged away at the other our country was in the throes of the fiercest and bloodiest civil wars of all history. And that was just about half a century ago. Tn these 5 0 years we have grown to be the wealthiest and most powerful nation of earth. Hut, better still, we have outgrown the things that set Union soldier against Confederate until the presence of these two fighting men of the civil war side by side upon the Supreme Court bench is truly typical of a sectional strife forgotten and a country reunited. It takes a great country and % great people to make such things not only possible, but actual realities. KILLED HY A NEGKO. ? Cireat Excitement Caused by Tragedy in Newberry. Through a dispatch to The State we learn -of a bloody tragedy which took place Friday at Jno. C. Hipp's Old Town plantation, 12 miles west of Newberry, in which James S. Gilliam, a white man, cut a negro woman, Maybell Rook, on the neck and jaw and her mother, Clayton Roozer, on the hand with a knife. Gilliam himself was shot and killed by Sara Roozer, the husband and father of the women. Gilliam lived on Mr. Tlipp's place, as did the negroes. This morning Roozer and several other negro men on the place came to Newberry and were in the store of Goo. C. Hipp getting plantation supplies when John Hipp got a phono message that Gil liam had cut a negro woman's throat and telling him to come at once. He and the negro men left on the 2:4S Southern train Friday afternoon and it was shortly after they reached the place that the shooting occurred. A large crowd has gathered and there is much excitement. The sheriff and coroner have just gone to the scene. Mr. Gilliam was 43 years old and leaves a wife and four children. The difheiiltv started hv Mr. Gilliam refusing to lot the woman wash at tho well. lie Is said to have been drinking. Witnesses say that Gilliam put his hand behind him as if to draw a pistol, but ho had no pistol. Boozer made his eseapo. Given Longer Holiday. Through an amendment to the postofflco appropriation bill, offered by Senator SwansonT of Virginia, Friday and adopted, rural letter carriers throughout the oountry wilt hereafter be entitled to thirty day* leave of absence each year, with full pay. At present they are entitled to bat fifteen days. *