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THE SLUSH FUND
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BARGAIN FOR IflMMER
On the Stufd, nt Bribery Enquiry,
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Some One in Springfield to
Spare No Expense to Get Lorimer
Elected Senator.
At Springfield, 111., C. F. Wiche,
brothers-in-law of Edward Hines, of
Chicago, a lumberman Tuesday admitted
before the senate bribery investigation
committee that Hines sent
him on a midnight mission to the
Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago in an
effort to have W. H. Cook and# William
O'Brien, Minnesota lumbermen,
evade Cook county process servers at
the time the charges that bribery was
used in the election of William Lorimer
to the United States senate were
first published in May, 1910.
Wleho's statement roliowea me iestlmony
of VVilto Cook of Duluth who,
it was brought out, had written a
threatening letter to Mines. Wiehe
corroborated some of Cook's statements,
but denied the pungent part
of his charge.
Cook declared that ho was in a
room at the Grand Pacific hotel,
May 26, 1 909, with William O'Brien
and Edward Hinee when Mines telegraphed
to some one called "Governor"
at Springfield. During this
telephone conversation by Mines,
Cook said that Mines declared that
he was ready to take the next train
to Springfield with all the money necessary
to effect William Lorimer's
p election to the senate. Lorimer's
election occurred later that same
day 1
^ * H P?nn Invnallirntnl' for tVlf*
*11 # If, V/ VJ A II ) HIT VVf * A w ?/..?committee
testified that he interviewed
William O'Brien in Duluth
within the last week and that O'Brien
told ahout the same story as Cook
only differ!iik that O'Brien got the
impression that Former Gov. Richard
Yates was on the. Springfield end of
the telephone.
Following the recital of Cook before
the investigating committee Gov.
Chas. S. Deneen issued a statement
in which ho declared that he had
neve at anytime held such a conversation
with Mines.
Former Gov. nines also denied that
ho ever had any such conversation
with llines as that related by Cook.
Wiehe stated to the committee that
ho. alth'oueh not in the room when
Hines got the Springfield call, believed
that Hines talked to William Lorimer.
Wieho testified that on May 2 0,
1909, Hines set out for Chicago from
Washington to 8:30 a. m. Hines
said he had "put in" several telephone
calls to Springfield on that
day but did not know whom Hines
was calling. Hines at a previous
Hearing testified that he talked with
Gov. Deneen on that morning from
the Continental and Commercial National
bank.
Cook declared that he answered
the telephone in his room at the
Grand Pacific when the call came for
Hines.
"I understood the central girl to
say, 'Here's Governor' or 'The governor
of Springfield for Hines.' " He
then related the conversation as he
remembered it as follows:
"Ilines took down the receiver out
of my hand and he spoke in the
phone. He asked: 'Hello, hello, hel
lo, is this you, governor? Well, I just
loft President Taft and Senator Alclrich
last night in Washington. Now
they tell me that under 110 consideration
shall Hopkins he returned to the
senate. Now, I will he down on the
next train. Don't leave anything undone.
I will he down on the next
train prepared to furnish all the money
required. Now, don't stop at anyl
thing; don't leave anything undone;
I will he down on the next train. Or <
words to that effect, repeated over ?
three or four times."
Cook was specific regarding the
matter of money being mentioned
and on cross examination repeated
this part of the conversation. On 1
this point of the Grand Pacific hotel 1
conversation by Hines Wiehe testi- '
fled; 1
"Why, the conversation was sub- '
stantially or practically as follows: <
4T Imim lnof fall/A/l nrWli fhft crr\\rfliMW\r
1 lia W JUDA. I.UIIW14 ? ?l<?* V"V nw * VI IIVI
in the long distance telephone and 1
he assures me he will do what you i
ask. You know what the admlnistra- j
(Jon wants. Now, leave no etone un- 1
turned to he elected. I will get 1
down to Springfield if necessary in t
the morning.' 1
"And when he got through talking ^
he turned to the people in the room 1
and said: (
" 'I have just been talking to 1
"Senator" Lorimer.' " >
Weihe stated that he, O'Brien, Cook, t
Isaac Baker and Ilines were present i
at the time. \
Weihe asked to be allowed to ques- \
tion Cook and was allowed to do so. ?
Ho charged Cook with trying to t
blackmail HJnes and the Weyhauser \
lumber interest.
Cook admitted that ho had sent c
a letter to F. E. Wyerhauser and
also to Wiehe in which he threatened r
to tell what he knew of the Lorimer I
SUN ECLIPSE OS FRIDAY.
Interesting Phenomenon Will Be Observed
During Afternoon.
A total eclipse of the sun will take
place Friday afternoon which will
prove an Interesting phenomenon occurring
at an hour when with fair
weather conditions, it will be generally
seen. Occurring as it does just
before sundown, the whole progress
of the eclipse can not be watched
fnom this section of the United
State, because of the setting of the
sun before the shadow passes off;
but there win be ampie time i <> set;
the effect of the total shutting off of
the sun's light.
There will be a greater degree of
darkness probabl> than at any other
time of the day because of the nearness
of the sun to the horizon, and
the consequent lessening of the sun's
rays in the air. The refraction will
not be so great, and it will be night
time in the day. The chickens will
go to roost early and they will have
a long night.
The eclipse will be visible in a
large portion of the United States.
The sun will set eclipsed east of a
line drawn from Pittsburg to Matagorda
Bay, Texas. Washiri&Qn ia at
the northern Atlantic boundary of the
area of visibility. The eclipse will
be invisible north of a line drawn
from Portland, Ore., through Milwaukee
and Pittsburg to Washington.
The eclipse will be very small in the
Western and Middle States. At San
Diego less than one-half of the sun's
face will be obscured, while at Chicago
less than one-sixteenth will be
eclipsed.
NEGROES HOVCOTT WHITES.
Women Driven Off for Washing for
White People.
Spartanburg letter to The State
says according to a story told Magistrate
R. J. Gantt certain negroes in
the county, angered because they declare
Gary Gist's crime of attempted
criminal assault was not sufficiently
heinous to warrant the death penalty,
and because they think sufficient effort
has not been made to apprehend
Sam Davis, a white man, accused
of having assaulted a little
negro girl, have organized themselves
into a society to prevent the negro
women from laboring in white
famlilies. The story was told by a
negro woman, who claims she was
driven from her home, near Glendale,
because she washed for white
people. She gave the names of the
negro men who threatened her, and
three of the six, she said, were in
the mob, were arrested and lodged
in jail.
"CAESAR HEAD" TURNED.
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Famous Peak of RIuo Ridge Suffers
from Earthquake.
4 * ? - _ a _i. c A . t -.111^ XT /-*
a ciispai.cn irom Asueviuu, vv.,
says belated reports from the mountain
section of Transylvania County
state that "Caesar's Mead," a famous
peak of the Mine Ridge, about twenty
miles from Brevard, had been overturned
by the earthquake shocks
which is said to have been felt in
various sections of Western North
Carolina Friday night. "Caesar's
Mead" has been one of the show
places of Western North Carolina
since this country was first developed,
and it would be greatly missed by
visitors if tho earthquake has really
destroyed it.
matter unless they agreed to settle a
fight among the stockholders of the ,
Virginia and Rainey Lake Lumber
company. These letters were produced
by Cook, who also testified
mnr. rjciwaru nines numoer company
held ? 130,000 of Cook's notes and
mortgages.
Oook also testified that he and
Henry Turrish of Duluth met Mr.
Hines going through the hotel looby
in May, 19 09, shortly before the
election of Lorimer. "Mr. Turrish
asked him," said Cook, "how he was
getting on down in Washington. 'Oh,'
he said, 'I am having a hell of a
old Stephenson. After I elected him,
old Spethenson. After I elected him,
he has gone down to Washington and
started working there for free lumber.
I had a terrible time getting
aim lined up." Then he went on and
told about what a time he had with
the Southern Democrats. He said he
would have them all fixed up today
and tomorrow they would flop and he
would have to go and fix them all
aver again.
"Mr. Turrish asked him how they
were getting along with the senatorial
deadlock. 'Well/ he said, 'it is
all fixed. I will tell you confidentially
Lorimer will be the next Senator.
Wo had Boutell fixed for the senaorship.
He had promised to work to s
. Hi A # O f n 1.1 fY All 1 11 111 V\ 11 f ^
tut? ?p u i en HI uu i 11111 ut;i , uui,
vixen the lumber schedule came up ,T
xefore the house ways and means ^
jommittee, he was working for free (
umber. I immediately took It. up *
vitli Senator Aldrich, and so decided
hat we had to have another man, a ?
nan whom we could depend on. It 7
vas decided that I should have a talk
vith Lorimer I did. Lorimer has 11
igreed to stand pat. He vill listen 11
o reason. I have got it all fixed; he
vill be the next senator from Illinois.
"That was the substance of the
:onversation." v
Cook said he "inferred it was Ste- s;
ihenson from Winconsin" to whom n
lines alluded. r<
OUTLOOK FOR COTTON
FORTY-TWO MILLION BALES REQUIRED
TO CLOTHE
All the People of the World When
They Become Civilized and Wear
Clothes..
"To clothe the whole of humanity
would require 42,000,000 bales of
cotton each year." This statement
was made by President Hobbs of the
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xxuiiunm ABButiHiiuu ji v/vuuii *?i mufacturers,
at its recent annual meeting
in Boston. Mr. Hobbs said that,
of the 1,500,000,000 inhabitant*; of
the world only 500,000,000 are completely
clothed, while 750,000,000
are only partially clothed and 250,000,000
are practically not clothed
at all.
As civilization advance, the proportion
of the partially clothed and the
unclothed will decrease, and this
with the increase of the population
in civilized countries, will call
for an increased supply of cot'on.
The cotton belt of the United States
now furnishes fully two-thirds of the
world supply of cotton, and, as the
demand increases will be be called
upon greatly to increase its annual
prod uction.
In speaking of the cotton situation
President I-lobbs says: "From the
present acreage the production could
be doubled if proper methods were
used." There must be improved
methods of cultivation, a better
method of pcking a "general improvement
in every step and process
between the planting of the seed and
the delivery of the cotton to the
mill." "We have drifted too long,"
he said, and "the time is now ripe
for concerted and determined action
if we are to maintain our commanding
position."
I While the rest of the world is
"actively trying to find means to increase
the production of cotton," we
"continue in the old ways of producing
and handling," and little improvement
has been made in many
years. It is estimated that only
about one-third of the available area
is cultivated, and if scientific knowledge
were applied to natural conditions
of soil and climate, "we can
well raise 50,000,000 bales" of cotton
a year and clothe all mankind.
It is a clear understanding of this
condition that has led the Southern
Railway company to organize a Cotton
Culture Department to work in
co-operation with the United States
agricultural denartment and the a2ri
cultural authorities of the Southern
states, to keep the cotton production
of the South abreast of the demand
by bringing about the daption of
those cultural methods which will result
in larger average yields per acre,
thus increasing the profitableness of
cotton growing and leaving surplus
lands to be devoted to other crops
and the growing of live stock.
It is clearly more profitable to a
farmer to produce fifty bales of cotton
on fifty acres than to produce
the same amount on one hundred
acres, for he will receive the same
amount for his cotton and will have
fifty acres for other uses. Under
ordinary circumstances, every increase
yield of cotton per acre reduces
the cost of production per
pound and yields the farmer a larger
margin of profit between the cost
of growing his crop and the selling
price.
NORTH AND SOUTH JOINED.
Senator Tillman's Daughter Marries
a New Jersey Man.
A Trenton, S. C., dispatch says
many guests from out of town attended
the wedding there Wednesday
of Miss TiOiia Tillman, daughter of
United States Senator and Mrs. Ben- 1
jamin R. Tillman, and Charles Sum- 1
tier Moore, a prominent lawyer of
Atlantic City, N. .T. The ceremony \
ivas performed in the Church op our |
Savior. Miss Sallie May Tillman,
youngest sister of the bride was the .
naid of honor, and the wife of her ,
mother, Mrs. Henry Gumming Till- (
nan of Greenwood was a matorn of (
lonor. Mr. Arthur Pringle Hume of .
Philadelphia acted as best man and \
he groomsmen were Henry Wise j
lughes of Trenton, Errington Burn- j
ey Hume of Charleston, Erving Fen- f
10 Chapin of San Christobol, Cubo, f
ind Nelson Burr Gaskill, of Trenton, A
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Pullman Car Burned. 1
The Pullman car Yucca, attached 1
o the Palmetto Limited, of the At- t
antic Coast Line, was destroyed by s
Ire Thursday morning, while the i
rain was standing at the station at i
cocay Mount, i\. v;., ana m. j. rrou- r
tein, a traveling salesman, of New r
rork, was suffocated, and Flagman /
. C. Russ and Mail Transfer Clerk p
V. F. Ireland were badly burned. S
!a? from a leaking tank under the b
'ullinan was ignited by the flagman's
intern. Ten passengers were asleep
n the ear, four of them ladies,
'hey saved only a part of their be- o
mglngs. Probstetn was a young e
lan and had only been married four
lonths. "
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Five to Hang.
At Oklahoma City five negroes t<
mre sentenced to hang from the
ame scaffold on June 21, for the a
niredr of W. H. Archie, who was n
obbed and killed March 9, a
I SLAIN BY REBELS
LIEUTENANT AND TWENTYEIGHT
SOLDIERS KILLED.
Refusing to Surrender, Mexican Roy
Officer and Handful of Men Are
Slaughtered.
Refusing to surrender or to leave
the train on wmcn ne ana nis command
of thirty soldiers were being
carried to the >City of Mexico, a
second lieutenant, little more than
a boy, yet engaged in a battle with
a force of four hundred rebels at
Cajones, Oillerro. At the conclusion
of the brief encounter the leutenant
and twenty-eight of the soldiers were
dead and the remaning two were
made prisoners. Ono of the lieutenant's
arms was shot away.
The rebels were under command
of Prudencio Figuro. Learning that
troops were being carried on the
Cuernavoca division of the National
railway, the rebel leader marched to
Cajones, some distance from Cuernavaca.
When the train stopped he sent
forward a messenger to demand the
surrender of the troops and request,
if they would not surrender, to
abandon the train in order that the
lives of the passengers be not endangered.
Fresh from Aspirantes, a military
training school, the boyish ofllcer
sent DacK worn tnai ne nan ins orders
to continue on train. Little
time was lost in beginning the fight.
The rebels poured down the embankment
on either side of the train and
the shooting was begun by both
sides.
Passengers who had been imploring
the young oilicer to yield were in
a panic. The cries of women and
children were heard in the rattle of
the rifles and the shots from the rebels
raked the sides of the train. Many
bullets entered the coaches occupied
by passengers. Only one, however,
did any damage. That one killed
Luis Bustamente, a civil engineer,
on his way to the capital to be
married.
With the blood of their companions
running from the doorways of
the little second class coach, the men
coolly fired into the ranks of their
assailants until only two remained.
IIOHHKI) AN OLD FARM Kit.
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Two Atlanta Plugs Put "Knock Out"
Drops in His Whiskey.
Charles Johns and Charles Stewart
of Atlanta, both white men of
rather unsavory reputations, are
about to pay the penalty for drugging
and robbing a farmer named S.
A. Kent, from the neghborhood of
Columbus, whom they got into their
toils a few weeks ago when he came
to Atlanta on business.
Kent came to Atlanta with about
$4 00 in a roll 011 his person. Johns
and Stewart found it out and made
friends with the farmer. Under color
of hospitality they lured him to
the home of Johns where they plied
him with whiskey, put some knockout
drops in one of the glasses, rendered
the old man helpless and took
his money.
It seems, however, that while the
whiskey and the dope prevented the
old man from making any outcry he
was able to near an tnat went on.
He appeared in court and told how
the two men first took the whole
$4 00 and how then Johns said, "Oh,
H?1, we can't take all he's got. It
would bo a shame." So the two 1
thieves magnanimously gave back, <
put into the old man's pocket, half
of what they had stolen from him.
Save the llircls.
"There are many reasons why the
lives of birds should be protected," 1
says the Washington Herald . 1
"They delight the eye and the ear, 1
they destroy the seeds of noxious
weeds, and they wage war upon the (
insects which destroy grain and '
fruit. These considerations have led [
Alabama to sot apart the 4th of May '
mcl 'bird day.' This date is the an- *
niversary of the birth of John J. An- (
iubon, the famous bird lover, and is (
:o be observed by a study of birds 1
ind bird life. Appropriate exercises
lave been arranged in every school v
n the state, so that the children may 51
)0 brought close to the forests, fields, 1
md streams. A part of the plan is t
o take the little ones through the n
voods and meadows that they may <
ttudy nature and the birds, their s
labits, and the necessity of their v
>reservation. "The position taken by e
he state of Alabama is that the con- d
ervation of birds should be the bus- h
ness of the state; that the restrainng
hand of the law should be laid
leavily on those who wantonly and t
ecklessly destroy bird life. In this tl
Alabama is setting a notable exam- 1'
ile to other states." And we hope h
iouth Carolina will be one to follow n
ier example. I)
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A Fifty-Cent Word. c<
A little boy had got into the habit n
f saying "Darn," of which his moth- A
r naturally did not approve. ti
"Dear," she said to the little boy, n
here is ten cents: it is yours if you
romise me not to say 'Darn' again." 11
aii rigni, moiner, no sain, as no ?
Dok the money, "T promise."
As he lovingly fingered the money
hopeful look came into his eye3, oc
nd he said: "Say, mother, 1 know Oi
word that's worth fifty cents." a*
SAYS THBIIE IS NO DAXUEIt.
Of a War Between the United States
the Japanese.
"Japan and the United State* are
friends and will continue to be
friends, the Homer Leas and sympathizers,
to the contrary notwithstanding,"
declared Representative
Sulzer, chairman of the house committee
on foreign relations, responding
to the toast "peace, friendship
and good will between Japan and
the United States at the banquet of
the American-Asiatic association at
New York Tuesday night.
In the interest of peace and of
progress and of civilization he said,
Japan and the United States must
ever be friends and war between
these two countries Is preposperous
and unthinkable." Those who make
the wish father to the thought are
not In sympathy with the spirit of
the times.
"Japan wants peace to work out
her domestic problems and to achieve
her greater destiny in the orient," he
said.
"The United State abhors war with
all the horrors and responsibilities
that war entails and we also have
domestic problems of our own to
work out for the general welfare of
the American people."
Representative Sulzer said he believed
he voiced the sentiments of
the patriotic people of the United
States when he declared that American
sympathizers with Japan in the
great work that wonderful country
is doing in the orient for progress
and civilization.
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Tom Johnson's 1'nique Record.
The political record of Tom L.
Johnson was one of tin4 most unique
in American history, principally because
when he had attained wealth
and power he relinquished the chase
for more money and gave his best
years to hard and ceaseless work in
the service of the plain people.
Tom Johnson's battle was a fight
to give the masses of the people so
square a deal that they would need
no charity or philanthropy, lie had
the clear and honest comprehension
that what the community, the city,
could do to make life cheerful and
pleasant for its people was simply
the fulfillment of an obligation. lie
saw that the wealth accufnulating in
varying* degrees of possession was in
chief part the product of the thrift
and toil of all the people, and that to
conserve for the public use the
wealth which the public indisputably
created was not paternalism, but
plain honesty.
It may have been the very fact
that in the first period of his busy
life he was a beneficiary of special
privlige which made him the more
clearly see and feel the injustices
of privilege. Benefits received do
not often have the effect. They are
usually "benefits for effect." It
adds luster to the character and the
work of Tom Johnson that his own
experiences were utilized for the
common good, that no sneering suspicion
of his integrity could serve
him from obedience to his beliefs and
service he proved that moral ideals,
UUSCU Oil IIUIIIUU 1U11UW snip, <1 1
as potent for getting mankind along
as any material incentives.
In the future histories of the Amer
ican people, it seems probable now
that largest credit for the raising of
American municipalities to the plane
they must occupy in American affairs
will he accorded to this truly great
mayor of Cleveland. In the adjustment
of the manifold intimate relations
of a city's life Mayor Johnson
developed a field of usefullness as
great a-nd as honorable as any ser- 1
vice reserved to the large state or
nation. 1
In that field lie labored incessantly. '
fhe more spectacular of his efforts '
?those for street railway regulation
i n d municipal ownership ? gained 1
widest attention, for they hit at the '
oot of the evil of special privilege, j
Vet his less dramatic insistence up- '
in just taxation, upon humanely sen- 1
able correction of delinquents, upon
he development of civic beauty as a c
landmaiden to civic helpfulness to !
ill the people?this stout struggle for
filial opportunity stirred and en- '
onraged a vital civic consciousness N
hroughout ail the American cities. *
( 11 ?i\r1 o ii /I olio ro/1 Tnm Tnh nuAti '
VIV v VMIIIM QI1U1 V/VI 1 \/ 111 II VII IIUUII
vith all its sister municipalities. Not ^
mother city entered a franchise *
ight, or planned an extension of ao- :
ivitv for the general well being of ''
ctivity a square deal in any form s
hat it did not receive help and in- *
piration from Cleveland's public serant.
If there was no other aid givn
there was the splendid example of
auntless courage and supreme good t1
umor and good cheer in the fight- 1(
ig. n
And so Tom Johnson, mayor, and (i
hen just private citizen, o fone of 6
lie lesser of the big American cities, d
ived his public life, and closed all
is earthly life, filling a place in the
ational sense of public affairs as
ig and hopeful and controlling as b
lie place filled by one whose direct C
oncern had been the national busi- v
ess. lie leaves thus for all the a
merican people a heritage of many w
lings accomplished and, more than p<
11, of high ideals of manhood and
itizenship brought closer to fulflilicnt
by his life.?-Spartanburg Joural.
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The Lunibor Trust buncoes the \\
msumers of lumber out of $.">9,- tl
00,000 per year, and not $.".,000,000 st
i we stated a few days ago. R<
MINERS KILLED
Eiplisin ia Call Miie Briags Death It
Uodergroaad Workers
TWENTY THREE IN MINE
Disaster Occurs at Elk Garden, W.
VaM and Cause so Far Unascertained.?Kescuers
Begin Work at
Once with no Hope of Finding Any
of the Victims Alive.
At Elk Garden, W. Va., twenty
three miners are entombed in Ott
mine, No. 20, of the Davis Coal and!
Coke Company, as the result of
of debris that has thus far deterred
the progress of the rescuers. It cannot
be learned yet whether the explosion
was caused by dust or gas. Officials
of the company say they have
never known tnelr mines to he gaseous.
As soon as the accident became
known, Superintendent Robert Grant
organized a rescue corps of the miners
off duty, and these attempted to
enter the mine after notifying the offl/'iji
1? r?f thf* rn:il rnninnnv ft t Cum
berland, Md.
The rescue parties had not advanced
for into the workings before they
discovered it would take several days
to dig through the heaps of roof coal
and slate that had been loosened by
the explosion. It was then decided
to effect an entrance nearer the probably
point of the explosion by cutting
through the wall of an adjoining
mine owned by the same company.
Late Manday afternoon the rescuers
had penetrated to No. 20 mine,
at a point about 4,000 form the outside
entry. They still remained about
the same distance to go before reaching
the miners. The Ott mine, No.
3 0, is almost directly under the town
of Elk Garden, which is on a hill.
The mouth of the mine is about half
a mile from the town.
In striking contrast to the usual
mine explosions, the victims in this
case, with one exception are Americans.
The mine, usually employs
200 men on the day shift, and about
the same number at night. A temporary
suspension of work, however,
required fewer men in the mines,
else the casualities might have been
greater.
After penetrating about a mile
down the main entry, the rescuers
found the body of a man not yet
identifier]. It was crushed beneath
a fall of slate, as though the roof
had crumbled as he was running
out of the mine. The discovery of
this body leads (be rescue party to
believe that none of the others are
alive.
Several yards beyond, the passage
was completely blocked by the collapse
of the roof. Behind and under
this fall, it is believed, the bodies
of the miners lay. Havoc which
was wrought in the mine would indicate
that the explosion was terrific.
For a square mile or more the slato
and coal was slit, and props were
splintered, letting the roof fall in
large portions.
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BOAT SINKS, FOUR DROWW.
Florida Storm Sends Vessel and Cargo
to Bottom. ,
Loaded to capacity with a five
thousand barrel cargo of naval
stores, the river steamer Belle, from
Vernon, Fla., to Pensacola, sank in,
!i severe fifty mile gale late Thursday,
in the Chotaw Kivcr and four
lives were lost.
Capt. Fred Burliston, of Pensacola;
Engineer M. nolle, of Verlon,
and two children, names unknown,
were drowned with the sinkng
steamer. All of the bodies were
ecovered. Several ineinhers of the
Tew and two passengers barely es\aped
the fate of tlie unfortunate
our.
The vessel and her cargo will
>robal)ly he a total loss. The Belle
vas one of the largest steamers in
lie local river traffic and was vaL
icd at $ IS,000. She was built at
'onion in 1903. and had a gross
onnage of 7 4. This is the only
Jyident 'of any consequence that
ias been reported as a result o! the
evere storm which swept the Gulf
'oast Thursday.
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Took Fatal Jump.
At San Jose, Cal., Pat Teeling, a
rusted inmate of the state hospital
or the insane at Agnew, adopted a
ovel means of killing himself Tuesay.
He climbed to the top of a
,r)-foot smokestack and jumped
own inside the stack.
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lturned to Death.
At Philadelphia two men were
urned to death in a tire, destroying
has. Dewe's building. The victims
fere Andrew jHarrigan, aged 55;
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ere lodgers, and asleep on the uper
floors.
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Dragged by Train.
Tuesday night Mr. S. H. George,
f Augusta, was painfully injured at
lontmorenei by falling from a train,
'hile his injuries are very painful
ley are not thought to bo of a
rious nature. His body was drag3d
for some distance.