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pr- ' ; *. ! . -.( : i- ' HANKOW BURNED Tw+Tkiidf if (he City Ddlnyil Dariff Fiiktiag far Scttral Days MANY MADE DESTITUTE Horrible Stories of Brutality And ^ Cruelty on the Part of Both Chinese Rebels and Regular Troops? Hundreds of Half Burned Bodies Lie Among the Ruins. Two-thirds of the city of Hankow, China, has been destroyed by fire durIng the last ten days, following flghtlng between revolutionists and loyal troops. The lowest estimate ?f the loes is $50,000,000. Four hundred thousand persons are destitute. Hundreds of half burned bodies lie among the ruins. Many of them are the bodies of women and children. The customs house, the post-office and the American missions have been spared. The city has been looted, the imperialists taking a hand in the pillage. Imperialists officers tried to check this work and executed a numf ber of the soldiers. Refugees were deprived of their loot on entering the Rritish concession, cart loads of valuable furs, silk and jewelry being jp seized. It is suggested that the Red Cross receive the proceeds. On Friday afternoon of the last week the consuls appealed to the iinTinriii 1 iwt m tn r?:isn hiirniner the town. A proclamation, which was issued lmn ediately, declared that the rebels were responsible for the fires and ordered that these bo checked. The following day now fires started in various quarters. The David Hill Memorial school for the blind, connected with the Wesleyan mission, has been looted, while, In contrast, all the property in Wu Chang, which is held by the rebels, has been protected. On November 3 there was considerable artillery firing b?ginning before daylight. The imperialist batery behind Hankow moved to the southwest in belatj ed fulfillment of the promise to shift .> the line of fire from the concessions. 4 'ibis battery and another stationed on the plains engaged in a heavy duel with Han Yang Hill. The Wu Chang forts joined occasionally in the defense of Han Yang. A few hundred of the revolutionists are still in Hankow. Riflemen on opposite of the Han river fought all day and there has been similar flght^ ing Sunday, but steadily decreasing. Th?ro fu niii^h rviion rpvnl 11 Hnnnrv talk among tho imperialists. Foreigners are hearing horrifying stories of brutality. The imperialists have hanged men, and falling to strangle them, tortured them to death by prodding with bayonets or crushing with stones. The outrages against women can not be told. Red Cross bearers have been killed or wounded. Soldiers on both sides have killed their wounded enemies. It was ascertained that Yuan Shi Kai, the premier desinate, is in this neighborhood, but he is keeping his presence hidden. It is suspected that he went aboard a British gunboat, and it is reported that he has been interviewing Republican ministers se"^cretly. A t housand revolutionary soiaiers i from Hu Nan reached Wu Chang. At | I-Chang and other river ports the republicans are collecting the custom dues. Consular reports from I-Chang >4 say refugees from Chung Chang, in Sze-Chuan privnce, are bound thither. Secret societies, it is reported, are gathering control in Sze-Chuan. The niobs at Kiu Klang are violent. MOST UNUSUAIj FKEAK. Cow in Greenville County Has Thirtyone Horns. The Greenville Daily Piedmont acys the most unusual freak of nature k'hat that county has probably ever produced is a cow that belongs to Mr. H. R. Scalf, who lives near the Conastee Mill, which animal has a multitude of horns growing over her / back and hips. iMr. Scalf says the * cow has thirty-one horns, though he tells people that there are seventeen so they will not be disappointed when they see the animal. There are seventeen prominent horns. Some of them are very small, says the owner, but there are in all thirty one. rne cow is oignt years or age and the horns started to grow two years ago. Mr. Scalf has had the cow examined by a veterinarian and he says that the animal will in time be cohered with horns. The horns ^ growth. The lonesgt of the horns are the v/c natural ones at the cow's < these being some four inches in length. The others range from an % inch and a quarter to very short lengths. The cow gives milk and is good animal. Mr. Scalf says he thinks he will sell her to some carni-, val company. Ijarge Fire at Laurens. At Laurens a fire which started In the hardware and paint store of J. H. and M. L. Ash caused a total loss of damage to real estate estimated from figures furnished by the owners and real estate dealers at M7.M0. . | y PRAISE THE IiOKD. For His Many Mercies and Blessings to Us. President Taft on Monday issued his annual Thanksgiving proclamation. /calling upon citizens of the United States to celebrate Thursday, the 30th day of November, next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer. The proclamation reads as follows: "The people of this land, having by long sanction and practice set apart, toward the close of each passing year, a day on which to cease from their labors and assemble for the purpose of giving praise to Ilim who is the author of the blessings they have enjoyed, it is my duty as chtof executive to designate at this time the day for the fulfillment of this devout purpose. lllessinirs. "Our country has beeu signally favored in many ways. The round of the seasons has brought rich harvest. Our industries have thriven far beyond our domestic needs, the products of our labor are daily finding enlarged markets abroad. We have been free from the curses of pestilence, of famine and of war. Our national counsels have furthered the cause of peace in other lands and the spirit of benevolence has brought us into closer touch with other peoples, to the strengthening of the bonds of fellowship and good will that link us to the comrades in the universal brotherhood of nations. Strong in the sense of our own right and inspired by as strong a sense of the rights of others, we live in peace and harmony with the world. Rich in the priceless possessions and abundant resources wherewith the unstinted bounty of God has endowed us, we are unselfishly glad when other peoples pass onward to prosperity and peace. That the great privilege we enjoy may continue and that each coming year may see our country more firmly established in the regard and esteem of our fellow nations is the prayer that should arise in every thankful heart. "Wherefore, I, William Howard Taft, president of the United States of America, designate Thursday, the 3 0th of November, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer and I earnestly call upon my countrymen and upon all that dwell under the flag of our beloved country then to meet in their accustomed places of worship to join in offering praise to Almighty God and devout thanks for the loving mercies he has given to us." KILLED BY CONVICT GUARD. John II. Gaynor Shot Down in Street in Saannali. At Savannah, Ga., J. H. Gaynor, cousin of John F. Gaynor, who was recently released from the Atlanta Davis was drinking and the men had penitentiary, where he was punished for his connection with the Savannah harbor frauds, was shot to death on the street Monday night by Joe Davis, a convict guard. Davis and Gaynor were not acquainted but met a few minutes before the killing in a near-beer saloon. Dais was drinking and the men had o uHcrY^f /Hon rrrn 01 V* ?rn P.a vnnr a uioaf)i imn VJUJ uv/i , with two friends walked from the saloon, and after going probably 100 feet, turning a corner into another street, stopped and was talking to his friends. Davis walked up to them and without a word pressed a pistol to Gaynor's breast and fired twice. One ball went through Gaynor's heart. Davis was arrested at once. Gaynor was about forty years of age and leaves a f 8 mily. ? ? FINDS SAFETY IN TKUNK. A Child In Waynesville Kescued From Burning House. Displaying unusual presence of mind Edgar Applegate, the 4-yearold son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Applegate, saved himself from burning to death by hiding in his mother's trunk when a fire, which ho started while playing with matches gutted his home at Waynesville, N. C., early Monday evening. The older McCraken of Waynesville, rushing into the house, seized the trunk and rushed through the door with it to the yard. The lid of the trunk was lifted and the boy was found inside, badly frightened but uninjured. ? ? llnclo 8am is Hands Off. Despite the plea received from the Turkish government asking for intervention to stop the alleged atrocities being committed by Italian troops in Tripoli, the general opinion in diplomatic cincles at Washington is that the United States will, like England, maintain a policy of "hands off." ? Beast Butler One? More. There is a widespread and violent opposition in Massachusetts to the movement for a statu? in memory of the late General Benjamin Butler. All kinds of charges against the lawyer, soldier and governor have been faked up, from treachery to labor to admiration for Jefferson Davis. It is rather significant for a Republican state like Kansas to send a lie tariff reform Bemocrat to Congress in pla.ee of a dead standpat Republican. President Taft should make a note of tfcia. # WORK OF FIEND Aa Opea Switch C<atd Wreck at P?* scagcr Traia at Swaaua ENGINEER WAS KILLED Train Wrecker Causes Passenger To Crash Into Box Cars, Causing the Engine to Turn Overr Crushing the IJfe of the Engineer and Hurting Others. (Lawrence Robinson, colored ,was arrested Monday, charged with the breaking of the switch which caused th?* wr?nk of Seaboard Dassenger train No. 43, at Swansea, early Monday morning, when Engineer W. Edward Pritchard lost his life and Fireman Prince Davis, Express Messenger H. G. Freeman, and uMail Clerk T. W. Moore were injured. No. 43 ran into an open switch and crashed Into eight empty box cars standing on the siding, overturning the engine, express and mail cars, and tearing up the track for a considerable distance. Evidence showed that the switch had been tampered with and bloodhounds of Penitentiary Guard John llobbins were put on the trail and followed it to the house of Lawrence Robinson, colored in the town of Swansea. Robinson was away from 1-. - -v /\r? n Ttr n rrr? n i f\ r% 1 U < 1111,', JIUV lll(^ on a n Ii^un LU U mill. The officers soon found him and put him under arrest. He was carried hack to Columbia and taken this afternoon to Lexington and lodged in jail. Robinson denies the charge and protests his innocence. He admitted, however, that he had served a three years' sentence 011 the Lexington chain gang, beginning in 11)03, for attempting to tamper with a switch at Dixianna, on this same read, pleading guilty on the charge when arraigned in Court. Ho is a negro of medium height and the only distinguishing mark about him is his lips, which are all covered with sores. Constable Tod Martin, of Swansea, took him to Lexington and turned him over to Sheriff Miller. Engineer Pritchard was pinned under the engine and killed before he could be rescued. Fireman Prince Davis, colored, escaped, although he was badly bruised and shaken up. Express Messenger Freeman received 0 deep cut in the back of his head, eight inches long, and his right shoulder sprained. iSeveral of the )t..*sengers were shaken up, but fortunately the day coaches and the sleepers stuck to the rails. Mr. Ed Pritchard, the engineer, who was killed in the wreck was a resident of Savannah, Ca., and his body was shipped there. He leaves a wife who resides there. The wreck occurred between 1 and 2 o'clock Monday morning. A freight conductor, who went to the scene of the wreck and who talked to the Columbia representative of the News and Courier, said it was plainly seen that some miscreant had broken the lock of the switch and caused the wreck of the train. The switch lock showed that some heavy instrument had been used in battering it lose, and this gentleman said he found the switch lock all broken and hammered up, about ten feet away in the weeds. Bloodhounds were taken from Columbia by officers, in an attempt to follow the trail of the miscreant, who is thought to be responsible for the wreck. The man in describing the wreck, said that one box car was thrown icross the main track by the force of \he contact. He said that the hotel keeper at Swansea stated that the hotel shook from the effects of the contact of the train with the stationary box cars. He said that the box cars, thrown upon the embankment by the force of the contact, caused some lumber nearby to be thrown over the main track, thereby adding to the A fiAnoMnra liln ani/Minf nf UVL/1 lUi A V \.v;iik7i\?vt u wiv \?it v w m. damage resulted from the wreck, although the wrecking crew soon cleared the main line and allowed the trains to get through. Mr. Pritchard had been in the employ of the Seaboard for some time and was highly esteemed by the officials and men. As stated, Engineer Pritchard was pinned under the engine at the time of the wreck. A leg was cut off and there was a severe cut on the chin, besides other bruises on the body. Express Messenger Freeman, who was injured by a gash in the head and his right shoulder sprained, is a new man on this run, this being the second time he made it. lie is a native of Jacksonville, Fla. The colored fireman, Prince Davis, also resides at Savannah, and has been on this run for several years. He was able to walk off the train when brought back this morning, with the assistance of those attending him. He is at a local hospital. Swansea is a little over twenty-one miles from Columbia, and the wreck occurred Just fiv<. hundred yards from that place. Whoever it was that tampered with the switch and broke the lock did his work well. The body of engineer Pritchard will be taken from Savannah to the home of his mother, at Augusta, 'Mrs. B E. Pritchard. The dead Engineer stated that the engineer who was killed in the wreck was taking the run MEN, WOMEN AND BOYS ?HOT DOWN BY THE ITALIAN 1 SOLD IK HS AT TRIPOLI. Hut the Army lis Pressed by the Arabs While Cholera is Staging Within Its Ranks. "Annanias in his palmiest days never wrote half as many falsehoods 1 and misrepresentations as have appeared in the Italian press and in the official statements issued by the Ital- j ian government," telegraphs the cor- < respondent of Reutar's Telegram Co., Ltd., at Tripoli, who arrived at Malta on 'Monday. He said the Italians hold, with nearly twice as many men, half the ground that they held three weeks i ago. They have lost in killed and wounded, not counting the sick, well over 1,000 men. 9 4 Many Arabs have been killed and vast numbers were shot in cold blood. Now twenty-five thousand soldiers find themselves with their backs to the sea, cramped and confined, with an active enemy within a few yards of them and with cholera raging, for despite official efforts to conceal the nntli t)iara Viquo hnnn m u n v r> f Is ft U kit tiu ( V Kf \^V 1A 111(411 J jV/4*WVM W ? cholera among the troops and the civ1 population is suffering so much that whole streets in Tripoli have been closed by armed sentries. There has been no disgrace. On the contrary the Italian troops have fought with great bravery and their officers set a noble example. However the Arabs have advanced their artillery and are shelling the Italians. One shell dropped into General Caneva's headquarters. The foreign mi?. itary attaches have been kept aboard a boat and not permitted to land, the explanation being given that it would be too dangerous for them to go on shore. The Turks and Arabs, the correspondent says, hold the oasis, 15 miles long and from two to five miles deep, where they can subsist on dates and olives until April, meanwhile harassing the Italians by nightly raids. There are no signs of the Italians preparing to advance. The correspondent describes the spirits of the invading army as demoralized. The men expected a short and sharp campaign. Instead they are lying in the trenches with sand storms blowing over or rains soaking them with continual night alarms. They are disgusted with the war and hate the country. They long to return home. For four days after the engagement of October 23, the Italian soldiers engaged in indiscriminate slaughtering of the Arab population under General Caneva's sanction, who first issued a general order to shoot all Arabs found with arms, but only when caught by troops in charge ot ofTicers. The troops complained that numbers of Arabs had hidden their arms and resumed their work as husbandmen. Thereupon General Caneva issued another order to shoot all Arabs who could reasonably be suspected of having borne arms. The blood of the men was up naturally, as they had seen their comrades shot from behind and, it is reported, even mutilated, though of this it is impossible to ascertain the truth. With their excitable temperament and highly developed imagination, the Italians suspected every living soul of guilt, and for four days gangs of soldiers, often withovt officers shot every one they encountered. Previous to October 23, the Italians treated the Arabs with ctmost kindness and it is only fair to say that many Italian officers who looked at the affair calmly afterwards, deplored it. The troops made a clean sweep of that portion of the oasis in which they were fired upon from the rear, although there is no certain proof that any Arab in the west end of that section took part in the rising and there were vast numbers of women and boys who were perfectly mnoent. Of these nearly all the men and even the boys above a certain age, were shot, and it is undoubted but that a great many women perished. GAFFNKY PKKArilKK AKKHSTHI). - + Ho Ik Accused of Writing: Letter to a Young Lady. A diepatph from Atlanta says Itev. W. C. Ferrell, a 'Methodist minister wlic went there recently from GafTr.ey, S. C., has been arrested and put in jail as a result of his having written to a young woman of that city a loiter in which ho asked to make her acquaintance with a view to "commit matrimony." When given a hearing in the police court the minister admitted the auA f thn lnttrtp hut tihfi maA 111VI DUip V * V?tv vv VV? f ^ V* v v?.xy was dismissed, the judge saying he knew of no law which the minister had violated. The arrest was made by detectives, who accompanied the young woman to the place designated in the letter as the place of meeting. The minister described himself in the letter as an "English gentleman romantically irclined," but he told the court he had never lived in England. of another man, and the engineer whose run he took was in charge of the engine which was pulling the train that carried the remains back to Savannah. THIRTY DAYS ADRIFT I BLOWN OUT TO SKA IN A SMALL OPEN ROWBOAT. Was Nearly Dead and Despairing of Rescue When lie Was Picked Up by a Steamer. Blown out to sea in a rowboat from the coast of South America, Arango Rodriguez, a Spaniard, formerly employed on the Panama canal as a laabout for thirty days and was nearly aeaa ana aespairmg ui reBcue wucu the British steamer Ikaria pipked him up. The Ikaria reached New York last week from Buenos Aires bringing the castaway. The Ikaria when two days out of Trinid^l sighted a small boat with a 1 nondescript sail off the port bow. ab she bore down the craft was found to be a rowboat with a broomstick shipped as a mast and a tattered shirt set as a sail. Rodriguez, on the verge of collapse, was taken on the steamer. When he had repovered somewhat he explained that he had been employed on the Panama caanl as a laborer and later went to Caracas. There he hired a small boat to go fishing and was blown off shore by a storm. , Ho had on board a demijohn of drinking water, but for food had to depend upon fish he was able to catch. After the demijohn of water was exhautsed he managed to trap enough rain water to assuage his thirst. As the days went by and grew into a month Rodriguez despaired of rescue and was almost too weak to sit up when after 3 1 days from land the Ikaria sighted him, took him on board and cared for him. The boat was set adrift. FATliElt AM) MOTHEH KILLED. And Tlire.e Children Hurt in Trying to Escape Fire. Two members of the Shapiro family father and mother, were killed nna throo nf fhoir four children were badly hurt Saturday when they jumped from windows on the second lloor to escape the llaines that destroyed a Brooklyn tenement house. When flames trapped the Shapiros, a policeman climbed 011 the cornice over the first story and told Julius Shapiro, the father, to hand down his four children, aged from 15 months to 16 years. The baby went first and the policeman caught it. Then Shapiro tried to hand out nine-year-old Aaron. The boy's weight proved more than he could manage, and he fell froan the window with his son in his arms. The father's brains were dashed out 011 the pavement, while the boy escaped with a broken ankle. This calamity seemed to unnerve other members of the family and although they could have been rescued had they waited, one by one, they leaped from the windows. BROKEN KAIL CAUSES WRECK. Two Persons Were Killed and Several Others Hurt. Southern railway ofilcals stated that the wreck of train No. 14, from Cinnatti to Jacksonville, at Chattahoochee, six miles north of Atlanta, in which two persons were killed and several more or less seriously in jured, was caused by a. broken rail. The breaking of the rail is said to have been duo to a "pipe" or concealed defect. The colored coach, baggage and express cars left the track. The killed were O. P. Bryon, baggagemaster, Atlanta, and Ben Briggs negro passenger, Cleveland. Tenn. S. P. Whitaker of Knoxville, Tenn., lost his purse containing $600 in the wreck. Tho most seriously injured were removed to hospitals after their arrival in this city. MONEY LOST IN THE MAILS. Twenty Thousand Dollar Package Disappeared in Transit. A registered package containing $20,000 is said to have disappeared from tho mails last Friday night between Bluefleld and Charlottesville, Va. The pouch containing the remittance came to Lynchburg Friday night over the Norfolk and Western railroad and was handled through tho mail transfer to the Southern railway. Soon after leaving Lynchburg the clerk on the Washington train telegraphed a report that he was sliort the package. Four or five postal inspectors are at worn on the case. Killed Rabbit Hunting. The Rev. Ilenly Brooks, a prominent minister of East Tennessee, was killed at Cedar F"ork, in Claiborne County, Tuesday while rabbit hunting. His gun was accidentally discharged with fatal effect. Brer Taft Was Dumb. President Taft, who was at Cincinnati, where he voted and where his party had been routed, had no comment to mahe in the various States. SWEPT TO DEATH ? Ihitf Officer aid Tera Ilea cf ikt Stealer M*bii Carried lilt Sea* ' BY A HUGE TIDAL VAVE \\ hi eh Swept the Deck of the Dig ^ - **? a mi steamsnip as nnc i'iougf<i iiiruu^u the Ocean Off the Coast of Florida on Friday Afternoon of Last Week. The chief officer and two men of the Morgan line steamer Momus were bwept from the deck of the vessel by a tremendous wave 011 the voyago f.om New Orleans, completed at New York, and drowned. The victims are: T. Deesch, <chief officer; J. P. Serge, boatswain, and R. Nordberg, seaman. The unusual tragedy occurred Friday afternoon of last week off the coast of Florida, but it was not reported by Captain John S. Poyce until the Mourns arrived at New York 011 Wednesday with her flags at halfmast. The great swell, described as one of tidal wave proportions, swept over he Momus with a deluge like Niagara and carried the three men overboard as if they had been corks. Defore the lifeboat could be lowered the victims disappeared. There were twenty-five passengers aboard the ship and through the cabin windows many of them saw the men carried away. A gale was blowing and the three men were working on the forward part of the deck when, without warning, a tilad wave rose above the vessel and .crashed thunderously down ui)on the deck. Chief Officer Deesch saw Nordberg rushed across the deck and sprang to his assistance. Doth went over the side together. Serge, the boatswain, was also caught in the torrent and, impelled by a lurch of the ship, shot overboard after his companions. Orders to man the lifeboats were issued at onpe and as the Momus rolled and pitched the boat was loweve d. Until darkness set in the little boat risked the mercy of the increasing gale and sea in the hope of recovering the bodies of the doomed men, but without avail. Two of the crew were injured while lowering the lifeboat. A GRAND OBJECT IvESSON. What a One-Horse Farmer Showed at the Augusta Fair. The Augusta Chroncile says one of the most attractive displays at the Georgia-Carolina fair, demonstrating possibilities on a small farm, is the individual exhibit of S. T. Adams, of South Carolina, who is a small farmer. The explanations accompanying the display furnish a lesson that could well be studies by any visitor who is interested in modern farming. The exhibit is made entirely from Mr. Adams' small farm, which makes it more worthy of note, in the estimation of visitors. In it are found corn, hay, sweet and Irish potatoes, meal, flour, hams, bacon, panned goods of all kinds, domestic ioods of all kinds, the exhibit being complete in every way. It shows that the small farm possibilities around Augusta are great and there is really no limit to what may be accomplished. 'Mr. Adams' friends are congratulating him upon the award of second premium for this exhibit. Mr. Adams was awarded the first prize on baled cotton, lie only raised two bales of cotton and entered one and got the blue ribbon. KIN I>N 10SS WROUGHT DEATH. A Man Wilfully Killed For Offering Money to Strangers. Willingness to give up his money to prevent trouble among others was tho cause of Alexander Digiaccoma, a tailor, losing his life Monday night at Chicago. He had visited an Archer Avenue restaurant, where he heard three men quarreling with tho proprietor. Thinking they were with out money to pay tneir Dins, uigiacconia offered to settle the amount. His offer was promptly resented by the trio, who left the restaurant immediately. They waited until the man came from the place, when one of the men shot him five times, killing hini instantly. The throe escarped. ? ? ? Southern States Quarantined. : Fourteen States in the South arid Southwest today were placed under cattle quarantine by Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. The prevalence of Texas fever among the cattle is tho cause. The states quarantined are Georgia, Alabama, Florida, North and South Carolina, Virginia. Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Tekas, Oklahoma and California. i